Messinet Secure Services has upgraded from Fedora 42 to Fedora 43 using dnf system-upgrade and dnf5 offline reboot, which simplified the upgrade process on all of our workstations, servers, and systemd-nspawn containers.
Fedora bug #2345874 libdecor and dependency reduction for headless operation persists with no apparent interest for a resolution upstream.
Our Forgejo Runners now make use of rootless Podman containers.
Congratulations on your completion of the Chicago Marathon, Marci!
Messinet Secure Services has transitioned our local Git and RPM repositories to Forgejo. Modernizing our internal infrastructure, we’ve retired our Koji, Trac, and Apache / dist-git / git-http-backend services, used since Fedora 14.
There was certainly more to do after Winding Down, and Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo provided the motivation to begin. The following among Forgejo’s integrated features underpinned the transition.
While you’re reading, keep an eye on Fedora’s Forgejo Instance.
Messinet Secure Services has upgraded from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 using the DNF system-upgrade plugin, which simplified the upgrade process on all of our workstations, servers, and systemd-nspawn containers.
A few minor issues are reported and await resolution:
Some Nextcloud components need to resolve the PHP 8.4 Implicitly marking
parameter $path as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must
be used instead deprecation warning, to name a few:
Messinet Secure Services has upgraded from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41 using the DNF system-upgrade plugin, which simplified the upgrade process on all of our workstations, servers, and systemd-nspawn containers.
Messinet Secure Services has upgraded from Fedora 39 to Fedora 40 and have decommissioned our public Fedora Linux RPM Repository and our Copr Fedora community build services.
We used the DNF system-upgrade plugin, which simplified the upgrade process on all of our workstations, servers, and systemd-nspawn containers.
Unfortunately, a long-standing issue still prevents the MACVLAN interface of a systemd-nspawn container from coming up when the container is restarted. This issue can be worked around by restarting the entire system hosting the container.
After 23 years, Messinet Secure Services will begin winding down a number of services.
With the upcoming upgrade to Fedora 40, we will no longer release Fedora RPMs and will decommission our Fedora Linux RPM Repository and our Copr Fedora community build services.
Messinet Secure Services has upgraded from Fedora 38 to Fedora 39 and we’re no longer building Fedora 38 RPMs in our Fedora Linux RPM Repository. Please check out our builds in the Copr Fedora community build service.
We used the DNF system-upgrade plugin, which simplified the upgrade process on all of our workstations, servers, and systemd-nspawn containers.
Messinet Secure Services has upgraded from Fedora 37 to Fedora 38 and we’re no longer building Fedora 37 RPMs in our Fedora Linux RPM Repository. Please check out our builds in the Copr Fedora community build service.
We used the DNF system-upgrade plugin, which simplified the upgrade process on all of our workstations, servers, and systemd-nspawn containers.
Messinet Secure Services has upgraded from Fedora 36 to Fedora 37 and we’re no longer building Fedora 36 RPMs in our Fedora Linux RPM Repository. Please check out our builds in the Copr Fedora community build service.
We used the DNF system-upgrade plugin, which simplified the upgrade process on all of our workstations, servers, and systemd-nspawn containers.