rpminspect-2.1 released
rpminspect 2.1 is now available. The last release was on September 5, 2024. That was 511 days ago, so a bit longer than I really wanted to make it. Similar to the previous release, this release of rpminspect marks the first post on my blog for 2026. My plan …
more ...Proposed Changes to Aids to Navigation in the Northeast
The United States Coast Guard is seeking public comments on proposed changes to Aids to Navigation in the Northeast. Comments are being accepted until November 15, 2025. The ONLY way to submit comments is by email to D01-SMB-DPWPublicComments@uscg.mil. When you email you need to include the …
more ...Chat Is Not Email
A small PSA…
At work we went from having personal email accounts with project and team mailing lists as well as IRC for internal chat to moving mailing lists to Google Groups or doing away with them forever and moving chat to three distinct and incompatible systems. Where we used …
more ...Boating in Boston Harbor
I only made one blog post last year, so I guess I am back in to failure mode for maintaining the blog. I am going to pick this back up with things that I am currently working on both at work and at home. To start 2025, I am going …
more ...rpminspect-2.0 released
rpminspect 2.0 is now available. The last release was in October of 2023. That was twelve months ago, or a year! In fact, this blog post is my first post of 2024. Ooops, guess I failed to do more of that this year. This release includes a lot of …
more ...rpminspect-1.12.1 released
rpminspect 1.12.1 is now available. The last release was in March of 2023. That was eight months ago! This release is trying to compete with 1.11 for largest release of the project so far, but did not quite make it. There were 147 closed issues in this …
more ...Flock Ireland
The annual Fedora Contributor Conference, Flock to Fedora, has come and gone. Our last conference was actually in 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. Then when the pandemic hit we discontinued in person events. We held Fedora Nest online events during those years. While those were successful, I miss being able to …
more ...Security Checks in rpminspect
Summary
Some changes have been made to how rpminspect honors settings in local configuration files. With rpminspect you can modify a local rpminspect configuration file to control how individual inspections run. The change is that any check that would produce a Security waiver authorization is now something that the local …
rpminspect-1.11 released
rpminspect 1.11 is now available. The last release was in June of 2022. This release is definitely the largest so far. There are 258 closed issues in this release across 211 pull requests in 354 different commits.
This release saw a lot of continued fixes in specific inspections, such …
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