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An updated gamin package is available for Fedora Core 3

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-151
2005-02-18
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : gamin
Version : 0.0.24
Release : 1.FC3
Summary : Library providing the FAM File Alteration Monitor API
Description :
This C library provides an API and ABI compatible file alteration monitor mechanism compatible with FAM but not dependent on a system wide daemon.



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Update Information:

This update fixes a number of annoying bugs in gamin especially the Desktop update problem in the GNOME environment that affected a number of users.

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* Fri Feb 18 2005 Daniel Veillard veillard@redhat.com 0.0.24-1.FC3

- more documentation
- lot of serious bug fixes including Gnome Desktop refresh bug #139116,
- extending the framework for more debug (configure --enable-debug-api)
- extending the python bindings for watching the same resource multiple times
and adding debug framework support
- growing the regression tests a lot based on python bindings
- inotify-0.19 patch from John McCutchan
- renamed python private module to _gamin to follow Python PEP 8

* Tue Feb 8 2005 Daniel Veillard veillard@redhat.com 0.0.23-1

- memory corruption fix from Mark on the client side
- extending the protocol and API to allow skipping Exists and EndExists events to avoid deadlock on reconnect or when they are not used.

* Mon Jan 31 2005 Daniel Veillard veillard@redhat.com 0.0.22-1

- bit of python bindings improvements, added test
- fixed 3 bugs

* Wed Jan 26 2005 Daniel Veillard veillard@redhat.com 0.0.21-1

- Added Python support
- Updated for inotify-0.18

* Thu Jan 6 2005 Daniel Veillard veillard@redhat.com 0.0.20-1

- Frederic Crozat seems to have found the GList corruption which may fix
- Frederic Crozat also fixed poll only mode

* Fri Dec 3 2004 Daniel Veillard veillard@redhat.com 0.0.19-1

- still chasing the loop bug, made another pass at checking GList,
added own copy with memory poisonning of GList implementation.
- fixed a compile issue when compiling without debug

* Fri Nov 26 2004 Daniel Veillard veillard@redhat.com 0.0.18-1

- still chasing the loop bug, checked and cleaned up all GList use
- patch from markmc to minimize load on busy apps


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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

ffd0df9c8bff3f10036cba370e8ed85c SRPMS/gamin-0.0.24-1.FC3.src.rpm
9a69d6f4a2e99f9ae67796245fb143a2 x86_64/gamin-0.0.24-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm
bfa42582b041469f6a8644c37f0e7d0e x86_64/gamin-devel-0.0.24-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm
2c7a736cfb0a104fd716c69ce5640d57 x86_64/gamin-python-0.0.24-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm
d55728a3d0b1d62d516e074ae1d943da x86_64/debug/gamin-debuginfo-0.0.24-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm
379517b5473ff7c2910fcbef413f81f9 x86_64/gamin-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm
379517b5473ff7c2910fcbef413f81f9 i386/gamin-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm
1819eb6f665451caa269e916740fd11d i386/gamin-devel-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm
488a040890085050630d06b57938ee0c i386/gamin-python-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm
c11f4c3cf9ff1c9dc30c2a713c9efccc i386/debug/gamin-debuginfo-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.