User:Rathann

Contact info

Email: dominik AT greysector DOT net
IRC : Rathann, channels: #fedora-pl, #fedora-devel, #fedora-science
JID: rathann at jabber dot org

About me

I'm a professional sysadmin. I like to keep things neat and tidy, so whenever I come across some software that I (or someone I know) need and that is missing from Fedora, I package it.

Fedora Contributions

Packages

The list of packages maintained by me can be found here.

The list of package reviews done by me is here.

Packages I'm currently working on are listed here

A nice interface to all my packages in all Fedora and EPEL branches.

Packager Sponsorship

I'm a sponsor and I'm always happy to sponsor people who show the necessary skill in creating packages. Contact me if you'd like me to help you become a Fedora Packager.

Here's a list of people I've sponsored so far and their packages. If they screw up, tell me.

• Sussi Lehtola packages
• Charles R. Anderson packages
• Daniel Haley packages
• Brennan Ashton packages
• Radosław Lisowski packages
• Michał Simon packages

Special Interest Groups and Committee membership

• Scientific and Technical
• x86-64
• Packaging Committee
• Fedora Mini
• Fedora Server

Community

• #fedora-pl IRC channel founder
• x86-64 SIG founder
• Fedora Ambassador

Useful links

• Package Maintainers Reference
• Packaging Committee
• Bodhi
• Registered Desktop file Categories
• How to deal with undefined non-weak symbols
• Some Mono applications won't build under rpmbuild
• Markdown syntax for bodhi update descriptions
• RPM spec scriptlet snippets
• Porting to newer automake

Dealing with TEXTRELs

• HOWTO Locate and Fix .text Relocations (TEXTRELs)
• shlib-with-non-pic-code: have inline assembly and PIC mix well
• U. Drepper's page about textrels

SELinux

• SELinux tips
• SELinux notes

pkg-config

• Guide to pkg-config
• Fixing .pc files in FFmpeg
• Requires.private in pkg-config

GIT in Fedora

• Using Fedora GIT
• Using git fast-forward merging
• Git cherry-picking

UEFI

• (Not) reinstalling the bootloader

HSM/SmartCard

• Getting started with the Nitrokey HSM