Re: Loopy rpm subpackages dependencies

2019-03-28 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > Hi, > > Just found that on some minimal system it is not possible to remove some rpm > subpackages. > > * Current state > > # rpm -qa | grep rpm > rpm-libs-4.14.2.1-4.fc30.1.x86_64 > rpm-4.14.2.1-4.fc30.1.x86_64 >

Re: Anyone working on Xen on F29

2018-10-26 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get Xen working properly on rawhide / F29 Beta. > > I had one instillation on F29 that worked straight away with :- > >     sudo yum groupinstall 'Virtualization' sudo yum install xen > > I cannot seem to reproduce this now

Re: DNF and Modularity

2018-09-24 Thread M A Young
On Mon, 24 Sep 2018, Petr Šabata wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:02:39AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > Hi, > > I have to admit that I am a bit puzzled about DNF behavior with modularity. > > > > I have installed repo files with modularity repos, but all of them are > > disabled. I have

Re: Why is Fx 57 in Updates Testing?

2017-10-11 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, Martin Stransky wrote: > On 10/11/2017 03:46 PM, Mátyás Selmeci wrote: > > On 10/11/17 08:32, Martin Stransky wrote: > > > On 10/11/2017 03:17 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > Was this on purpose?  Fx 57 is BETA, and I was under the impression that > > > > BETA software was

Re: spice-xpi not working in Firefox 52+

2017-03-16 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Juan Orti Alcaine wrote: > Hi, it looks like the Spice XPI addon no longer works in Firefox 52. > > I guess this is going to be forever, as Firefox 52+ disables the NPAPI > plugins. Do you know any alternative? I manage a RHEV farm and this is going > to be a big deal. > >

Re: Can't upgrade, package system-python-libs not signed

2016-03-08 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016, Gregorio . wrote: > I'm new and I'm not an expert. I've Fedora 23 and I tried to upgrade my > system to Fedora 24. > > I used the following command: # dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 24 > > After this command the system downloads a lot of packages, but there is an >

Re: gnome-boxes downgrade in F-19

2013-10-08 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 08:42 -0600, Jerry James wrote: Do you remember when I ranted about lack of communication between provenpackagers and the maintainers of the packages they touch [1]? Here is another case of lack of communication between people

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Alexey I. Froloff wrote: How would /var/log/messages file help in case of a corrupted filesystem/disk? You stand a considerably better chance of reading a text file than a database when it has partial corruption. Of course if the file, filesystem or disk is completely

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Lennart Poettering wrote: cat /var/log/messages becomes journalctl tail -f /var/log/messages becomes journalctl -f tail -n100 /var/log/messages becomes journalctl -n100 grep foobar /var/log/messages becomes journalctl | grep foobar This isn't complex. You can grep/sed/awk

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: From: m.a.yo...@durham.ac.uk On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Lennart Poettering wrote: cat /var/log/messages becomes journalctl tail -f /var/log/messages becomes journalctl -f tail -n100 /var/log/messages becomes journalctl -n100 grep foobar

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Maybe we can give another shot of relevance by collecting a list of packages that depend on syslog (or are useless without /var/log/messages or other log files in /var/log) ? I've heard logwatch, logrotate and fail2ban mentioned. Are there

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Eric Smith wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Allowing editing of log files is a pure security risk... So is giving a sysadmin the root password, but we do it. I generally make a copy of a log file and edit the copy,

Re: Virtualization on ARM (was: Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture)

2013-07-10 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 11:32:46AM -0400, Jonathan Masters wrote: Excellent proposal. I of course think this would be just awesome! This proposal doesn't address virtualization! I think this is great, BUT I'd also like to see a widely available

Re: using rpms for non-root installs

2013-01-30 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Mátyás Selmeci wrote: This may be a long shot, but I am interested in repackaging some RPMs (for example, some of the Globus packages in EPEL, as well as grid software that my group builds) such that the software in them may be installed by unprivileged users, or into a

Re: Out of date (behind stable) build in testing

2013-01-15 Thread M A Young
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Dennis Gilmore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:55:16 -0600 Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to escribió: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:30:19 -0700, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: I'll untag it manually. If I had manually

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-23 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 23.10.2012 15:10, Matthew Miller napsal(a): On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:57:13PM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: Lets have puppet-3.x and puppet2 for whoever wants to use old version. But that doesn't help people running puppet 2.6 _now_, and just

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-19 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: pvgrub peeks into the guest disk so it needs to understand the partition table, the filesystem and the grub config file in the guest. Initially it didn't handle things like ext4, grub2 and EFI but AFAIK these should be fine now. I'm not sure

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Nikola Pajkovsky wrote: imo, kernel maintainers should have released 3.3.8 or 3.4.1, not 3.4.0 for f17 I believe the 3.4.0 kernel package was effectively 3.4.1 anyway. Michael Young -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [Repost] What is Error: Protected multilib versions

2012-04-05 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I still get this error several times a week, and I still have no idea what it means or how I'm supposed to respond to it (other than fiddling randomly with packages until it goes away). The latest one: # yum install /usr/sbin/libvirtd [... yum

Re: /tmp on tmpfs

2012-04-03 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Chris Adams wrote: Also, if some user has taken up lots of space in /tmp, you can LART the user and delete the files; that's no different than a user filling up a partition by writing to /tmp (no reboot necessary in either case). That assumes your system is still

Re: /tmp on tmpfs (was: Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-04-02))

2012-04-02 Thread M A Young
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 02.04.12 16:55, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: What about forensics? Any reboot erases information that might have been needed to see what happened during a break in. /tmp is already volatile and cleaned up in regular intervals.

Re: Torvalds:requiring root password for mundane things is moronic

2012-02-29 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, drago01 wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I think he's got a point http://www.osnews.com/story/25659/Torvalds_requiring_root_password_for_mundane_things_is_quot_moronic_quot_ Yeah but last time we tried this in fedora it got

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-12 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Sam Varshavchik wrote: For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by copying over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into menu.lst, and directing grub to load them. Up until F14 this worked fine. F15's pxeboot/vmlinuz made me stare at

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha TC2 Available Now!

2011-02-15 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Chris Adams wrote: Hmm, also what does this do to PXE booting. IIRC there is a (relatively low) limit on the size of the initrd loaded by pxelinux. Most tftp servers can cope with bigger sizes now, but not necessarily in consistent ways. pxelinux talking to linux tftp

Re: Viewing a scratch-build

2010-10-20 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Paul F. Johnson wrote: Hi, I've followed the instructions on the fedoraproject website to try and view a scratch-build result (go to tasks and select the scratch build), but it's not showing anything for rawhide scratch builds. Is there some sort of magic I need to

Re: upstart in rawhide

2010-10-14 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 17:13 +0200, Petr Lautrbach wrote: Hello, systemd will be default init system in Fedora 15 and scripts infrastructure will be adapted to it. There is a plan to leave upstart in Fedora as non-official alternative. Why? It

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-15 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, drago01 wrote: I think the main point here wasn't there are bugs #X, #Y and #Z that can't be fixed in time so we should revert but a we have a bad feeling / are nervous so lets revert ... the later isn't really a technical decision basis and can (and here it did) piss of

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-15 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, drago01 wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:27 PM, M A Young wrote: It isn't a matter of whether all the known bugs are fixed but whether we can be reasonably confident that there aren't any more critical bugs that haven't been reported yet or have been introduced

Re: If you cannot boot after installing systemd v8...

2010-08-26 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote: How about making the postinstall script in systemd-units detect this condition (default.target pointing to a nonexistent file) and fix it up automatically? Note that version 8-2 waiting in bodhi should now handle upgrades from the alpha without

Re: is it still possible to use upstart as the init-system in F-14?

2010-08-25 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Peter Lemenkov wrote: I would like to know before trying/upgrading F-14 is it still possible to use upstart instead of systemd in F-14? Yes, upstart still works. I tried systemd and couldn't get it to work, so I switched the machine back to upstart. You may need a rescue

Re: is it still possible to use upstart as the init-system in F-14?

2010-08-25 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/25/2010 05:35 PM, M A Young wrote: Yes, upstart still works. I tried systemd and couldn't get it to work, so I switched the machine back to upstart. You may need a rescue disk to make the switch if your computer doesn't boot with systemd. I

Re: Git question

2010-08-24 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Steve Dickson wrote: Also, the kernel that is currently being built from my pnfs-13 branch fails to install with the following error: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.34.5-43.pnfs_all_2.6.35_2010_08_19.fc13.x86_64-pnfs/modules.dep: No such file or directory

Re: Git question

2010-08-24 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Steve Dickson wrote: On 08/24/2010 10:46 AM, M A Young wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Steve Dickson wrote: Also, the kernel that is currently being built from my pnfs-13 branch fails to install with the following error: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.34.5-43

Re: Kernel 2.6.34 for F13?

2010-08-20 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Reindl Harald wrote: Will 2.6.34 pushed to stable? My question is because there were also some 2.6.30 builds for F11 which never rolled out and it could possible relax some things in combination with VMware / open-vm-tools

Re: 'make prep' breaks on private branches.

2010-08-19 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Roland McGrath wrote: Here is what I'm doing: fedpkg clone kernel fedpkg switch-branch f14 git checkout -b pnfs-all-2.6.35-2010-08-05 Make that 'git checkout --track -b pnfs-blah-blah origin/f14/master'. Or, equivalently, after the fact, do: git config

Re: Creating private branches under fedpkg/git

2010-08-18 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Jesse Keating wrote: However, since git allows you to create local branches at will without any restrictions, one has to ask if it is still necessary to have a remote branch for your work. I did end up creating a branch in the Fedora system because it was the only way I

Re: Upcoming Fedora 14 Linux Release

2010-08-16 Thread M A Young
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: ... So I'd suggest to use a currently supported Fedora release (12 or 13) with the unofficial Dom0 kernel RPMs out there (built for F12, I don't know if they work on F13). The kernel seems to work okay on F13 and even F14, though I haven't tested it

Re: Upcoming Fedora 14 Linux Release

2010-08-15 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore wrote: May I know whether the upcoming F14 release will include support for Xen pv-ops Dom0 kernel? No. The Fedora policy isn't to include dom0 support until it makes it into the upstream kernel. Some pieces have made it into

Re: abrt thoughts pre-rfe q?

2010-08-08 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Matt McCutchen wrote: Users should already be reading the existing information, because abrt provides the link after it makes its changes (adding the user to CC and adding a comment with the how to reproduce text, if it was nonempty). The proposal would just be to reverse

Re: Changelog for the latest Fedora kernel release/updates

2010-08-07 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Mathieu Bridon wrote: The Fedora packages histories are kept in git trees. You can get each one by running: $ fedpkg clone -B $package Note that in order to do so you probably need to be a Fedora Packager. In your case, that would be : $ fedpkg clone -B kernel You

Creating private branches under fedpkg/git

2010-08-04 Thread M A Young
What is the policy on creating private branches under fedpkg/git? Can it be done by anyone with acl commit or do you need special permissions? My interest is that I had a private branch of the kernel package under CVS which I used to build pvops enabled kernels so that the more adventurous

F14 mirror list still pointing at rawhide

2010-08-01 Thread M A Young
I was trying a yum update on F-14 (fedora-release-14-0.7) but was offered a few F-15 packages. I checked https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-14arch=x86_64 and the mirrors it points to are all rawhide rather than the F-14 branch. Michael Young -- devel mailing list

Re: Fedora 14 branching and dist-git roll out

2010-07-29 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Never mind, turns out this was me trying to use fedpkg 0.5.0 against a checkout made for 0.4.2 (against the test environment) Note that fedpkg 0.5.1 is out now. Michael Young -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read

2010-07-26 Thread M A Young
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Tom spot Callaway wrote: You're going to need to include all applicable license texts, sorry. I have commited a spec file that puts all the COPYING and LICENSE files into a new xen-licenses package (I don't what to include that many files twice). I haven't built it yet as

Re: Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read

2010-07-19 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Tom spot Callaway wrote: [xen-maint] xen: xen-doc-4.0.0-2.fc14.x86_64 xen-libs-4.0.0-2.fc14.x86_64 xen-hypervisor-4.0.0-2.fc14.x86_64 I am a co-maintainer of the xen package, and I am trying to work out what the best way to comply with these changes since xen is rather a

Re: Seeking new maintainer for iasl

2010-07-01 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Jon Ciesla wrote: repoquery --repoid=rawhide-source --archlist=src --whatrequires iasl returns nothing. It looks like we may not need it for anything else, though it may have value to developers for other things. For me it finds 3 packages, iasl-0:20090123-3.fc12.src

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Peter Lemenkov wrote: 2010/6/9 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com: Competing Obsoletes once again. The packager is playing with fire. Not in this case. It seems to me that this is using something that happens to work for yum (and maybe not for other utilities,

Re: Preupgrade F12-F13 error

2010-05-12 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Clovis Tristao wrote: How do I increase size the boot partition, with LVM? My partition: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 190M 39M 142M 22% /boot LVM won't help you with a physical partition like that. If the disk space

duplicate f13 package announcements

2010-03-04 Thread M A Young
I don't know if this has already been raised but I notice on the package-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org list that several Fedora 13 packages keep getting announced, for example, by checking the archives I see that fedora-release-13-0.6 has been announced 6 times in March and a further 7

Re: How about firefox 3.6 in Fedora 12 ?

2010-02-01 Thread M A Young
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:30 AM, M A Young m.a.yo...@durham.ac.uk wrote: That doesn't work as nicely as perhaps it should because yum downgrade firefox only downgrades firefox and not xulrunner, and as a result the downgraded firefox refuses to run. You

Re: How about firefox 3.6 in Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-31 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Wes Shull wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Wes Shull wrote: yum --enablerepo=rawhide update firefox NEVER do that!!! If you'd taken half a minute to check, you would have seen that it sucks in a grand total

Re: How about firefox 3.6 in Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-30 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Wes Shull wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Liu Yu Fei Eric hoveringnowi...@gmail.com wrote: So it doesn't have an official one? I've been running the f13 build out of rawhide for a week now, and it's worked fine for me...  not sure about Java though. yum