Re: Plasmashell: Alt+F2 not working

2021-08-19 Thread John Florian
On 8/18/21 12:37 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: El mié, 18 ago 2021 a las 12:24, Iñaki Ucar (>) escribió: On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 at 14:32, Sergio Belkin mailto:seb...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Since a few days ago, the keyboard shortcut

Re: Bodhi login error

2021-08-19 Thread John Florian
On 8/17/21 2:41 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:59:38AM -0400, John Florian wrote: I'm trying to report success on https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-ec4a4b2634 but cannot login.  When I attempt to do so, the page shows: 500 Internal Server Error Could

Bodhi login error

2021-08-17 Thread John Florian
I'm trying to report success on https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-ec4a4b2634 but cannot login.  When I attempt to do so, the page shows: 500 Internal Server Error Could not convert return value of the view callable function pyramid_fas_openid.view.verify_openid into a

Re: F35 Change: Drop the the "Allow SSH root login with password" option from the installer GUI (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-05-17 Thread John Florian
ved with NFS, LDAP and Kerberos -- things I don't want to try and achieve or replicate in a kickstart.  Sure, I could have a kickstart install/start Puppet, but it's MUCH easier to check this one box than it is to enter in a long URL where a kickstart can be reached. 

Re: Bacula 11.0.2-3 for Fedora 33?

2021-04-27 Thread John Florian
T JOIN Job USING (JobId) ORDER BY Filename, PathId, DeltaSeq, JobTDate DESC  ) AS T1 JOIN Path ON (Path.PathId = T1.PathId) WHERE FileIndex > 0 ORDER BY T1.JobTDate, FileIndex ASC: ERR=ERROR:  permission denied for table file However, once I ran /usr/libexec/bacul

Re: vim has lost it's damn mind

2020-08-06 Thread John Florian
On 2020-07-28 17:09, John Florian wrote: > > I also have seen some weirdness of late, but I'm still on F31.  I had > yaml files indented with sw=4 and my foldmethod=indent.  Now I have to > open the fold twice, once for the invisible fold that seems to be > implied as if sw=2 and

Re: vim has lost it's damn mind

2020-07-29 Thread John Florian
vim or whatever it'd be called.  There was MUCH to be liked however, I remember that much. John Florian ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: ht

Re: vim has lost it's damn mind

2020-07-28 Thread John Florian
for over a decade to un-highlight a search.  That no longer works in vim or gvim.  Until I'd found that I figured something in konsole had changed.  But once gvim revealed weird issues I figured it must be more of a vim thing. Now seeing this message, I'm becoming even more certain. John Florian

Re: Anyone using Tiled windows on Plasma out there ?

2020-07-16 Thread John Florian
On 2020-07-16 13:59, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > > El jue., 16 jul. 2020 a las 12:22, John Florian > (mailto:jflor...@doubledog.org>>) escribió: > > In any case, the few hassles I encounter are so much less time > demanding > than all the window management

Re: Anyone using Tiled windows on Plasma out there ?

2020-07-16 Thread John Florian
sles I encounter are so much less time demanding than all the window management I manually did before adopting kwin-tiling.  If I could only have "focus follows eyes", I'd be quite happy in the WM serving me rather than the other way around.  :-) John Florian

Re: Anyone using Tiled windows on Plasma out there ?

2020-07-14 Thread John Florian
On 2020-07-14 13:42, Sergio Belkin wrote: > What is the better option to to get tiled windows in Plasma? > > I've tried a few kwin scripts with no luck, for example: > > - Grid-Tiling > - Krohnkite > - Tiling Extension > > The best I've tried so far is the last one, but can be too unstable... > >

Re: kernel rpm split

2020-02-10 Thread John Florian
On 2020-02-07 09:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 09:28, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek mailto:zbys...@in.waw.pl>> wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 08:37:05AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 8:27 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek >

Re: epel8: BuildrootError: could not init mock buildroot

2020-02-06 Thread John Florian
On 2020-02-05 15:41, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 11:45:38AM -0500, John Florian wrote: On 2020-01-30 20:42, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I fear it's just bad timing + the external rhel8 repo we have only keeps the newest packages (epel7 repos keep the old packages around too). koji has

Re: epel8: BuildrootError: could not init mock buildroot

2020-02-03 Thread John Florian
On 2020-01-30 20:42, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I fear it's just bad timing + the external rhel8 repo we have only keeps the newest packages (epel7 repos keep the old packages around too). koji has no way to know that an external repo updated and needs regeneration, so it just regenerates it when the

Re: Git Forge Requirements: Please see the Community Blog

2020-01-24 Thread John Florian
On 2020-01-23 11:26, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:28:52 -0500,  Neal Gompa wrote: We don't need to. There are improvements that people would like, and that does take development effort. That's the piece that requires manpower to go faster. In my opinion, I think this is

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-08 Thread John Florian
On 1/7/20 10:28 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 03:22:45PM +0100, Iñaki Ucar wrote: For me, the main challenge Fedora faces is **positioning**. Let me explain: (I don't have numbers but) in my (limited) experience, when seasoned sysadmins need to launch a new system, they

No rich dependencies allowed for this type on *.desktop files

2019-12-30 Thread John Florian
I think I found a bug and am hoping someone here can point me in the right direction as to where to report it.  I think this is rpmbuild, but am not certain. Anyway, I have a private package that generates a bunch of desktop files for our users.  Both the filename and Name= values inside the

Re: Estimate the size of iso file based on a kickstart file

2019-09-19 Thread John Florian
t to see if the install will fit?  I vaguely recall (or imagine, with age it seems there's little difference sometimes) seeing such a message.  If so, that would handle all the dependency recursion and from there a statistical factor for the expected compressio

Re: BackupPC selinux help

2019-09-04 Thread John Florian
On 2019-09-04 10:40, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:36 AM John Florian <mailto:jflor...@doubledog.org>> wrote: On 2019-08-30 13:51, Richard Shaw wrote: > He's already tried restorecon, changed from a symlink to a bind mount > (for the backup root

Re: BackupPC selinux help

2019-09-04 Thread John Florian
On 2019-08-30 13:51, Richard Shaw wrote: He's already tried restorecon, changed from a symlink to a bind mount (for the backup root)... Maybe a dumb Q, but have you tried doing the same?  Maybe it's your host that's not per defaults. ___ devel

Re: Rolling out Phase I of rawhide package gating

2019-08-01 Thread John Florian
On 2019-07-31 21:35, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: "NG" == Neal Gompa writes: NG> You just set localpkg_gpgcheck=1 in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf NG> That said, you probably don't want to do that, since most downloaded NG> packages aren't signed... Cool!  I wasn't even aware of this setting.  Can we set

Re: Fedora 31 Self-Contained Change proposal: Qt Wayland By Default on Gnome

2019-07-08 Thread John Florian
On 2019-06-28 18:28, Kevin Kofler wrote: Quoting from the proposal: Qt Wayland plugin has been available for a long time, but it hasn't been in condition where it could be enabled by default. With Qt 5.12 the state of the Wayland plugin is much better and it's becoming more and more reliable.

Re: two Ceph updates for f28, f29, stuck in pending testing for six days

2019-05-20 Thread John Florian
On 3/22/19 3:07 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On 3/21/19 5:45 PM, Kaleb Keithley wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:18 AM Kevin Fenzi wrote: On 2/18/19 12:56 PM, Kaleb Keithley wrote: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1c53f1a6c8

Re: latest rubygem-puppet-lint for F29 is from F23???

2019-05-01 Thread John Florian
On 3/30/19 7:54 AM, Fabio Valentini wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 1:20 AM John Florian wrote: On 3/29/19 2:58 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 29. 03. 19 v 19:47 John Florian napsal(a): I know it's not unusual to carry builds over from prior releases. My understanding is that happens because

Re: Understanding Fedora's use of systemd presets and packaging requirements

2019-04-24 Thread John Florian
On 4/22/19 12:25 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 07:59 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 04:35:54PM -0400, John Florian wrote: I'm generally familiar with how systemd presets work but I'm at a bit of loss as to how part of all the magic works

Re: Understanding Fedora's use of systemd presets and packaging requirements

2019-04-24 Thread John Florian
On 4/22/19 12:31 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 09:25 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 07:59 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 04:35:54PM -0400, John Florian wrote: I'm generally familiar with how systemd presets work

Re: Understanding Fedora's use of systemd presets and packaging requirements

2019-04-22 Thread John Florian
On 4/20/19 3:59 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 04:35:54PM -0400, John Florian wrote: I'm generally familiar with how systemd presets work but I'm at a bit of loss as to how part of all the magic works.  To best explain my confusion, let me say that I make

Re: Basic graphics mode / 'nomodeset' testing request, round 2

2019-04-19 Thread John Florian
On 4/19/19 4:48 PM, John Florian wrote: Might this be related to why my console goes blank without 'nomodeset' for my custom F29 live spins when I run them in QEMU? The problem just turned up about 2 weeks ago.  I don't see that message in the journal and thus far have only seen the problem

Re: Basic graphics mode / 'nomodeset' testing request, round 2

2019-04-19 Thread John Florian
Might this be related to why my console goes blank without 'nomodeset' for my custom F29 live spins when I run them in QEMU? The problem just turned up about 2 weeks ago.  I don't see that message in the journal and thus far have only seen the problem when I run the images with QEMU. On

Understanding Fedora's use of systemd presets and packaging requirements

2019-04-19 Thread John Florian
I'm generally familiar with how systemd presets work but I'm at a bit of loss as to how part of all the magic works.  To best explain my confusion, let me say that I make a customized live spin of Fedora and I have a package we'll call "my-dist" which is similar in nature to the

Re: latest rubygem-puppet-lint for F29 is from F23???

2019-03-29 Thread John Florian
On 3/29/19 2:58 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 29. 03. 19 v 19:47 John Florian napsal(a): >> I know it's not unusual to carry builds over from prior releases.  My >> understanding is that happens because there was no mass rebuild.  >> However, when I look at the F29 repo I see &

latest rubygem-puppet-lint for F29 is from F23???

2019-03-29 Thread John Florian
understanding buggy or did this leak through somehow? -- John Florian ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html

Re: /etc/yum.repos.d -> /etc/distro.repos.d

2019-03-15 Thread John Florian
On 3/13/19 8:41 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: That said, I think if we want to move the repo files now, we should also consider making so package installed repo and GPG files are in /usr/share and that admin additions/overrides can be stored in /etc. Same goes for vars and other such stuff. That's more

Re: sqlite + django pains and serious bodhi confusion

2019-01-07 Thread John Florian
On 1/7/19 5:04 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>>>> "JF" == John Florian writes: > JF> I thought I'd start by consulting > JF> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=sqlite to see what > JF> changed but much to my surprise the newest b

sqlite + django pains and serious bodhi confusion

2019-01-07 Thread John Florian
After upgrading this morning I ran into some nasty issues with sqlite-3.26.0-1.fc29 which seems utterly broken now with python3-django-2.0.9-1.fc29 as described in this bug[0].  I thought I'd start by consulting https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=sqlite to see what changed but

Re: Proposal: delay F31 release to work out infrastructure and lifecycle challenges

2018-11-27 Thread John Florian
On 11/26/18 3:53 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: The one issue I see off hand is that koji tags are kind of expensive so we can't just tag everything the way we may want Can you please elaborate a bit on this?  What makes them expensive? ___ devel mailing

Re: Is Fedora 27 EOL?

2018-11-26 Thread John Florian
On 11/26/18 9:40 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: There has been no EOL announcement, my guess for the EOL data (2018-11-30) has not passed yet At the very least, I don't recall seeing the announcement that it will be EOL in ~30 days. ___ devel mailing

Re: Fedora Lifecycles: imagine longer-term possibilities

2018-11-15 Thread John Florian
On 11/14/18 7:54 PM, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 4:42 PM, John Florian wrote: I still don't understand what makes updating these for a *new* release significantly easier than an *existing* one. So let's just say GNOME (or whatever) comes out next month with a new major

Re: Fedora Lifecycles: imagine longer-term possibilities

2018-11-14 Thread John Florian
On 11/14/18 4:38 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:37:46PM -0500, John Florian wrote: On 11/14/18 10:36 AM, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: We need to rebase GNOME within about two months of the new upstream releases, or we'll lose our edge with the GNOME community

Re: Fedora Lifecycles: imagine longer-term possibilities

2018-11-14 Thread John Florian
I concur. This is effectively what I was trying to express with respect to the distinctions. On November 14, 2018 12:39:40 PM EST, Kevin Kofler wrote: >Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> This would be my proposal, also. I would simply extend the release >> cycles to 1 year and to return to the roots.

Re: Fedora Lifecycles: imagine longer-term possibilities

2018-11-14 Thread John Florian
On 11/14/18 10:36 AM, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: We need to rebase GNOME within about two months of the new upstream releases, or we'll lose our edge with the GNOME community. We'd be ceding our position as best GNOME distro to Ubuntu and Arch. It seems wrong that a DE, even if it's the

Re: Enabling powerline theme system wide by default

2018-11-02 Thread John Florian
On 11/2/18 9:41 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:10 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: On Thursday, 01 November 2018 at 01:13, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: It will be nice to enable powerline theme by default system and user wide. Simple reason is refresh the look of

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread John Florian
On 10/17/18 4:27 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:54:23PM -0400, John Florian wrote: With things like reddit or LWN, you get to read it over and over and over again if you really want to see whats new now. https://lwn.net/Comments/unread will show you comments posted

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread John Florian
On 2018-10-17 13:41, Gerald B. Cox wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:31 AM Jason L Tibbitts III mailto:ti...@math.uh.edu>> wrote: > "GBC" == Gerald B Cox mailto:gb...@bzb.us>> writes: GBC> People keep saying it isn't sufficient or it doesn't work.  I've GBC> been using it

Re: Fedora Packaging Guidelines on docs.fedoraproject.org

2018-10-01 Thread John Florian
On 2018-10-01 17:04, Björn Persson wrote: John Florian wrote: And conversely, shouldn't https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines be telling viewers they now need to go to docs.fp.o? Not until the conversion is finished, in my opinion. I would agree with that, but I read

Re: Fedora Packaging Guidelines on docs.fedoraproject.org

2018-10-01 Thread John Florian
On 2018-10-01 10:51, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: I think we instead should make sure that all docs under docs.fp.o contain good links to those pages on the wiki. And conversely, shouldn't https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines be telling viewers they now need to go to

Re: Orphaning clementine

2018-09-05 Thread John Florian
On 2018-09-05 14:22, John Florian wrote: I also prefer my "random" music pre-shuffled so I can see what's coming up and what's behind me.  (I honestly own so much music sometimes I don't know who just played.) And now that I've posted that, I see there's Edit/Randomize List vs.

Re: Orphaning clementine

2018-09-05 Thread John Florian
On 2018-09-05 13:41, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I would recommend you check out qmmp.  It's light weight, runs with qt5 and does what it sets out to do, which is be a flexible, lightweight music player that runs on qt5, supports skins, has many good plugins for extra features, supports tagged and

Re: Orphaning clementine

2018-09-05 Thread John Florian
Jan, as a longtime clementine user, I'm sorry to read this.  I had no idea upstream had gone dormant.  It works great for me, but I have no idea of what pain may have been involved in getting/keeping it in that form for users like me.  Unfortunately, I too am short on time (and I don't do C). 

Re: Fwd: [RELEASED] Python 3.4.9 and Python 3.5.6 are now available

2018-08-09 Thread John Florian
On 2018-08-09 08:23, Miro Hrončok wrote: On 8.8.2018 17:43, John Florian wrote: On 2018-08-08 10:47, Jason Tibbitts wrote: "JF" == John Florian writes: JF> How difficult would it be to provide modern Python (e.g. 35 or 36) JF> in EPEL? Obviously not that difficult, sin

Re: Fwd: [RELEASED] Python 3.4.9 and Python 3.5.6 are now available

2018-08-08 Thread John Florian
On 2018-08-08 10:47, Jason Tibbitts wrote: "JF" == John Florian writes: JF> How difficult would it be to provide modern Python (e.g. 35 or 36) JF> in EPEL? Obviously not that difficult, since it is already there. By that I assume you mean 34, right?  Or am I overl

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default

2018-06-18 Thread John Florian
On 2018-06-18 12:39, Chris Murphy wrote: kdump is enabled by default on RHEL (and maybe CentOS, not sure). I can confirm it is on CentOS. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: FESCo Elections - May 2018 : Results announcement

2018-06-14 Thread John Florian
On 2018-06-14 09:27, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Michael Cronenworth > wrote: On 06/14/2018 03:42 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: I know we never manage to motivate many people to vote, but 86 votes is really

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Strong crypto settings: phase 2

2018-06-09 Thread John Florian
On 06/08/2018 04:07 AM, Tomas Mraz wrote: > On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 16:13 -0400, John Florian wrote: >> On 06/07/2018 08:44 AM, Tomas Mraz wrote: >>> On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 16:34 -0400, John Florian wrote: >>>> On 06/05/2018 12:25 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote: >>&

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Strong crypto settings: phase 2

2018-06-07 Thread John Florian
On 06/07/2018 08:44 AM, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 16:34 -0400, John Florian wrote: On 06/05/2018 12:25 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 16:11 +, Christian Stadelmann wrote: "Fallback option" always smells like "protocol downgrade attack".

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Strong crypto settings: phase 2

2018-06-06 Thread John Florian
On 06/06/2018 08:05 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: On 2018-06-05, John Florian wrote: Makes sense, but what is the best way to deal with such old HW if you're stuck with it?  I don't want to compromise my workstation for all my normal needs just to deal with some ancient embedded https server

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Strong crypto settings: phase 2

2018-06-05 Thread John Florian
On 06/05/2018 12:25 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 16:11 +, Christian Stadelmann wrote: "Fallback option" always smells like "protocol downgrade attack". This would undermine the idea of a crypto policy. Anyway, implementing it seems way out of scope for the crypto policy.

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Strong crypto settings: phase 2

2018-06-05 Thread John Florian
On 06/05/2018 12:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I don't understand the motivation of departing from upstreams, which by their nature are on a knife's edge balancing security and practical use in the real world. Why second guess that effort and on what basis? Totally agree! Slightly off topic as an

Re: Release criteria proposal: drop kickstart package criterion

2018-06-05 Thread John Florian
On 06/05/2018 07:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 7:13 AM Josh Boyer > wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:13 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek mailto:zbys...@in.waw.pl>> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:26:25AM +0100,

Re: Hiding the grub menu by default on single OS installs

2018-06-02 Thread John Florian
dora Workstation (GNOME) only or all spins?  The proposal says Workstation but it doesn't explicitly exempt the others, unless I missed something.  If it's confined to the Workstation/GNOME install, I'm unaffected because that spin already has removed so much choice that I'll

Re: Hiding the grub menu by default on single OS installs

2018-06-02 Thread John Florian
s BEFORE imposing them.  Such feedback ideally would be built into and deployed as part of the OS and not require users to routinely go check if their opinion is needed.  Rather some client software would do this periodically and then request the user participate. -- John Florian ___

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread John Florian
On 05/31/2018 03:36 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: what we should be going for is a completely smooth transition between the BIOS logo and the login screen, with no flashing back to text mode. Should we? Yes, I get that looks nice, but it can be at the cost of functionality.  In the end, I sit

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread John Florian
On 05/31/2018 06:43 AM, Jan Kurik wrote: = Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu Owner(s): * Hans de Goede On systems with only a single OS installed, the grub menu does not offer any useful functionality, so we should

Re: Heads up: selinux-policy-3.14.1-25.fc28 breaks GDM

2018-05-24 Thread John Florian
On 2018-05-24 10:09, Jerry James wrote: The problem may be restricted to systems using the Nvidia proprietary driver. I have that driver and was also affected, though am using sddm rather than gdm.  My work around was the following local policy: ~~~ module local_sddm 1.0; require {    

Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH

2018-05-04 Thread John Florian
On 2018-05-04 12:25, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 05/04/2018 09:42 AM, John Florian wrote: On 2018-05-04 09:33, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I would do so for the following reasons: 1. Even though the security arguments are weak, they are going to be checkmarks on audits which can't be changed

Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH

2018-05-04 Thread John Florian
On 2018-05-04 09:33, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I would do so for the following reasons: 1. Even though the security arguments are weak, they are going to be checkmarks on audits which can't be changed for years. 2. When someone gets a "remove this and find out why the OS did this" it helps if

Re: Fedora 28 Final status is GO

2018-04-26 Thread John Florian
On 2018-04-26 16:02, Adam Williamson wrote: FC1 is the trickiest. I don't think any FC1 development schedule was ever really made public. So for that one I got creative. There's an article on LWN - written by Joe Brockmeier no less! - around the time of the release:

Re: script to run after hotspot authentication?

2018-04-26 Thread John Florian
On 2018-04-26 11:36, Paul Wouters wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Is there a way to run a custom command after hotspot authentication? You might be able to hook into dhclient. That happens when you obtain an IP address. There is no notification method that I know about

Re: starting services in fedora

2018-04-23 Thread John Florian
On 2018-04-17 16:31, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: My initial example with gpm is actually good here: do "sudo dnf install -y gpm", move mouse, voilà. unless your a lefty ;-) OT: Why is why I wish sddm was handedness-agnostic.  It's too simple to need anything more than click

Re: Orphaned Packages looking for a new point of contact

2018-02-19 Thread John Florian
On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 16:40 -0500, David Cantrell wrote: > On 02/16/2018 11:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > There's some packages that have been orphaned by FESCo and are > > seeking a > > new point of contact to stay in the collection. > > > > If you are interested in becoming

Re: Escaping macros in %changelog

2018-02-14 Thread John Florian
On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 12:07 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2018-02-12 at 11:59 -0500, David Cantrell wrote: > > The dist-git changelogs are mostly noise and I would prefer better > > organized information about impacts to users and developers. Like > > tell > > me what things changed in

Re: Escaping macros in %changelog

2018-02-14 Thread John Florian
On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 15:33 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > The point is, we have LOTS of places where change information or > discussion occurs. We should try and have a canonical location for > the *descriptive summary* of these changes/discussions. This hit home. Way back in the early 90s when

Re: F28 System Wide Change: Rename "nobody" user

2018-01-12 Thread John Florian
On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 10:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 10:19 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > "Upgrading the system multiple times through the upgrade process > > should give a result that is the same as an original install of > > Fedora > > Workstation." > >

Re: [Test-Announce] Call for testing: updates to address today's CPU/kernel vulnerability

2018-01-10 Thread John Florian
7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF kernel-4.14.11-300.fc27.x86_64 -- John Florian ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F28 System Wide Change: Make authselect default tool instead of authconfig

2018-01-05 Thread John Florian
On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 16:02 +0100, Pavel Březina wrote: > On 01/05/2018 03:14 PM, John Florian wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 14:50 +0100, Jan Kurik wrote: > > > The tool is packaged with a default > > > profile set that is fully supported. If an administrator has

Re: F28 System Wide Change: Make authselect default tool instead of authconfig

2018-01-05 Thread John Florian
On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 14:50 +0100, Jan Kurik wrote: > The tool is packaged with a default > profile set that is fully supported. If an administrator has > different > needs they can create a custom profile and make it accessible in > authselect by dropping it in the tool specific directory. How?

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-19 Thread John Florian
On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 11:16 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Well, not quite. I installed Firefox rather a long time ago on this > system. Again I can't prove it, but at that time I believe this > question and preference referred *only* to 'data collection'. However, > since then, a new

Re: Minor schedule procedure tweak (rain dates and such)

2017-11-02 Thread John Florian
Call me crazy, I don't mind, but what about scheduling the release dates in reverse, using whatever naming scheme? Then as the release is finalized, we either stick to the last release date if there were lots of "slips" or we select an earlier release date because things went really well. This

Re: Why is Fx 57 in Updates Testing?

2017-10-16 Thread John Florian
On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 15:03 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > On 16 October 2017 at 14:58, John Florian <j...@doubledog.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 2017-10-15 at 09:23 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > people are going to notice is the improved performance and > > >

Re: Why is Fx 57 in Updates Testing?

2017-10-16 Thread John Florian
On Sun, 2017-10-15 at 09:23 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > people are going to notice is the improved performance and cleaner > interface. Yes! Because of this thread's original message, I pulled 57 into F26 eager to try it out (on $dayjob workstation). Now I want it at $home workstation. Is

Re: GCL and SELinux: help requested

2017-10-16 Thread John Florian
> On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 14:53 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > I don't know. Others have expressed frustration with selinux policy > > maintainers of late as well. It's really hard to say what the trouble > > is... are there to few of them? Overtasked with other work? Workflow too > > difficult?

Re: Why is Fx 57 in Updates Testing?

2017-10-12 Thread John Florian
On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 19:54 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:05:33AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > It's true that a number of older extensions will not work. > > Well, looking at the most popular extensions: > >

self introduction

2017-07-18 Thread John Florian
Hi everyone, I've lurked around here for years and occasionally have chimed in but have never introduced myself. What can I say, I'm left-handed and generally backwards to most of society. :-)Better late than never, right? My first exposure to any computer was a VIC-20 in 1981 and was the

Re: fedorahosted.org sunset is next week!

2017-02-21 Thread John Florian
On Tue, 2017-02-21 at 10:22 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > As noted in: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RLL3LFUPLYMAUKGZ5B3O64XKJXBT24KZ/ >

Re: nfs-utils-2.1.1 Changes Everything!

2017-01-16 Thread John Florian
On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 15:11 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: Hello, The latest nfs-utils release drastically changes how the NFS servers are configured, for the good IMHO... All daemon configuration now goes through /etc/nfs.conf. See nfs.conf(5) for details. The command line interfaces in the

Re: future of official optical media support in Fedora

2016-12-19 Thread John Florian
On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 15:49 -0600, Pete Travis wrote: All the DRAC/iLO/BMC systems I play with these days mount a remote ISO and present it as optical media. The feature is basically only used for emergencies where regular networking won't do, My co-workers use iDRAC installs for non-emergency

Re: Un-retiring QCad

2016-12-13 Thread John Florian
On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 19:45 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Przemek Klosowski wrote: The reason why I'm asking is that I believe that in general FOSS projects should fork as little as possible, and merge as much as possible, to avoid duplication of effort. There are circumstances where the fork is

Re: failure of f24 to f25 upgrade

2016-12-01 Thread John Florian
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 13:32 -0800, Howard Howell wrote: On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 21:25 +, John Florian wrote: On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 12:55 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 12:35 -0800, Josh Stone wrote: Perhaps dnf thinks google-earth is now the authority on %{_bindir} ? So

Re: failure of f24 to f25 upgrade

2016-12-01 Thread John Florian
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 12:55 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 12:35 -0800, Josh Stone wrote: Perhaps dnf thinks google-earth is now the authority on %{_bindir} ? So removing it is tearing the rug out from under all those others? Well, I don't think so, as I'd expect that

Re: Announcement: Python 3 port of livecd-creator (was: Re: Announcement: DNF port of livecd-creator)

2016-11-14 Thread John Florian
On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 12:35 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:17 PM, John Florian <john.flor...@dart.biz<mailto:john.flor...@dart.biz>> wrote: On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 05:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Hi, FYI, Neal Gompa has now put up a Copr with the DNF + Pyth

Re: Announcement: Python 3 port of livecd-creator (was: Re: Announcement: DNF port of livecd-creator)

2016-11-14 Thread John Florian
On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 05:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Hi, FYI, Neal Gompa has now put up a Copr with the DNF + Python 3 version of the livecd-tools: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ngompa/livecd-creator/ This is interesting news for me. I'm a long time user (in an employed

Re: Installation validation test change proposal: merge USB tests into 'default boot and install', add more environment columns

2016-10-10 Thread John Florian
give me an excuse to use up that tower of blank discs. Thank goodness for in-place Fedora upgrades. -- John Florian <john.flor...@dart.biz<mailto:john.flor...@dart.biz>> ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: F26 proposal: Make Fedora Media Writer the officially supported USB install media creator

2016-10-10 Thread John Florian
On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 12:38 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 20:03 +, John Florian wrote: On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 12:07 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: If we do not 'support' livecd-iso-to-disk any more, we no longer support: 1) persistent storage (via overlays) 2) non

Re: F26 proposal: Make Fedora Media Writer the officially supported USB install media creator

2016-10-03 Thread John Florian
If so, do any improvements to lm-c (say to add persistence) automagically benefit the "spin-livemedia" method in Koji? -- John Florian <john.flor...@dart.biz<mailto:john.flor...@dart.biz>> ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.

Re: How to package a Git repository

2016-09-09 Thread John Florian
at works for me, but I hammered out a solution without as broad an understanding of how Fedora is built as I have now -- and I'm certain my current understanding is probably woefully lacking. Is rgo something that could be used with our private Koji setup? My quick glance at the code leads me it'

Re: How to package a Git repository

2016-09-09 Thread John Florian
p a spec file in the Git # repository, but we must build the tarball on the fly to resemble an upstream # published work. sources: git archive \ --output=${name}-${version}.tar.gz \ --prefix=${name}-${version}/ \ ${treeish} Hope this helps! -- Jo

Re: F25 System Wide Change: KillUserProcesses=yes by default

2016-07-29 Thread John Florian
on every exit.  It seemed to rarely have any benefit though and now I see why: I typically only use the reboot feature! -- John Florian <john.flor...@dart.biz> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: /var/run/reboot-required

2016-07-27 Thread John Florian
ant to write/own the file, etc. > > Also, I think "recommended" is really the appropriate terminology > here.  There is very little that _requires_ a reboot to be done after > it is installed. How can this metadata be leveraged with automation?  I have the dnf tracer plugin which I be

RE: Why GUI software update tool is broken for me

2016-06-16 Thread John Florian
> From: Jonathan Wakely [mailto:jwak...@fedoraproject.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 10:14 > To: Development discussions related to Fedora > Subject: Re: Why GUI software update tool is broken for me > > On 16/06/16 13:39 +, John Florian wrote: > >Oh cool an

RE: Why GUI software update tool is broken for me

2016-06-16 Thread John Florian
[y/N]: n Operation aborted. Why would that be? -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

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