{"id":353,"date":"2005-11-06T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T22:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2005-11-08T06:38:27","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T11:38:27","slug":"livna-down-then-fedora-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/06\/livna-down-then-fedora-ambassadors","title":{"rendered":"Livna down, then Fedora Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Livna (rpm.livna.org) is down. It&#8217;ll probably only be back up this weekend. Machine was to be fsck&#8217;ed, but it never came back up alive again. AFAIK, mpackage should be down to. I know there&#8217;s a lot of folk asking questions about that, and its coming&#8230; If we set build system to be that of livna, that takes away a lot of our problems.<\/p>\n<p>However, all&#8217;s not lost. As root, do:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:20pt;\">rpm -Uvh livna-release.rpm<\/p>\n<p>Well, you can also use sudo (what I&#8217;d recommend, but isn&#8217;t setup by default). If you want, backup \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/livna.repo <strong>first<\/strong>. Download it from: <a href=\"http:\/\/livna.org\/~anvil\/livna-release.rpm\">http:\/\/livna.org\/~anvil\/livna-release.rpm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other interesting news, Alex Maier is clearly good at what she does, and she&#8217;s now Marketing lead. I&#8217;ve dropped down to co-Lead. The Community Marketing Contact theme from OpenOffice.org has been relaunched as the <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Marketing\/Ambassadors\">Fedora Ambassadors<\/a>. This is greatly good news for me, as attending meetings regularly, and giving good amounts of time for the success of this project, as a lead, I think I was holding the project back. I hope to do the tasks I&#8217;m assigned to, and feel <em>at ease<\/em> (well, more at ease) by being a co-Lead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Livna%20down%2C%20then%20Fedora%20Ambassadors&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2005%2F11%2F06%2Flivna-down-then-fedora-ambassadors&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I know there&#8217;s a lot of folk asking questions about that, and its coming&#8230; If we set build system to be that of livna, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Livna%20down%2C%20then%20Fedora%20Ambassadors&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2005%2F11%2F06%2Flivna-down-then-fedora-ambassadors&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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