Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-06-22 Thread Roman Rakus
On 05/08/2012 08:15 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 18:55 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: I just wrote a new Feature proposal for shipping minimal debug info by default:

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-06-22 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 17:36 +0200, Roman Rakus wrote: On 05/08/2012 08:15 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote: See the feature page for detail on the space use. On my F17 desktop install with and 8 gigabytes /usr it would add 43 megabytes of data. What about to not install it by default but as

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-15 Thread Gerry Reno
On 05/14/2012 08:15 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 11:49 -0700, John Reiser wrote: On 05/12/2012 09:51 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:00:48AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: So the set of people we'd be inconveniencing is exactly the set of people with no

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 09:52 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: The most important issue in this thread is ability to boot from USB2.0. No, it isn't. mjg59 wrote: the inability to boot from anything larger than a CD and no USB ports that can be bootstrapped from a bootloader sitting on a CD or

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-15 Thread Gerry Reno
On 05/15/2012 12:21 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 09:52 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: The most important issue in this thread is ability to boot from USB2.0. No, it isn't. mjg59 wrote: the inability to boot from anything larger than a CD and no USB ports that can be

Re: Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/14/12 8:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, the desktop team has said for a while that the thing they'd really want to add to the desktop image if they had more room is LibreOffice, but that requires substantially more than a few dozen MB. Basically, they consider saving a small amount of

Re: Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-14 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 16:42 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2012, 11:57 -0400 schrieb Adam Jackson: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:45 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: The feature page lists

Re: Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-14 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2012, 11:57 -0400 schrieb Adam Jackson: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:45 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: The feature page lists some of the background and

Re: Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-14 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - This being said I am +1 for 1 GB, but please note that I only speak Another thing - we realized that targeting 1 GB is non sense when we have 700 MB, so we moved to 1.5 GB. There was a little difference and no way to put everything on it. With 1 GB target and no

Re: Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-14 Thread John Reiser
On 05/14/2012 01:40 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote: I understand that you want to ship isolated images for each of the desktops in this combination image, as that is what is tested, etc. However, there is gonna be a lot of duplicated bits in those images. Can't we use some form of image where

Re: Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: - Original Message - This being said I am +1 for 1 GB, but please note that I only speak Another thing - we realized that targeting 1 GB is non sense when we have 700 MB, so we moved to 1.5 GB. There was a little difference and no way

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-14 Thread John Reiser
On 05/12/2012 09:51 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:00:48AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: So the set of people we'd be inconveniencing is exactly the set of people with no bandwidth and the inability to boot from anything larger than a CD. Not only that - the people who

Re: Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 13:48 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: I'm still a bit baffled that a 3.5 MB increase on a 700MB live image is considered a complete showstopper. That's one git package, for example; I would hope that creative dependency trimming can find that space. (Or reorganization of

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
That doesn't seem to contradict me? If we went with this approach then we'd obviously want to include a CD-USB bootloader, but otherwise it sounds like there'd be no problem doing a USB install on that hardware. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list

Re: Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-14 Thread John Reiser
I'm still a bit baffled that a 3.5 MB increase on a 700MB live image is considered a complete showstopper. ... Another place to check is the raw filesystem size before adding payload and before compressing. The unused space squashes nicely because it was created as zero on purpose, but still

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 11:49 -0700, John Reiser wrote: On 05/12/2012 09:51 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:00:48AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: So the set of people we'd be inconveniencing is exactly the set of people with no bandwidth and the inability to boot from

Re: Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 14:50 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 13:48 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: I'm still a bit baffled that a 3.5 MB increase on a 700MB live image is considered a complete showstopper. That's one git package, for example; I would hope that creative

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-12 Thread Glen Turner
On 11/05/12 00:30, Adam Jackson wrote: So the set of people we'd be inconveniencing is exactly the set of people with no bandwidth and the inability to boot from anything larger than a CD. The way forward for those cheap machines on cheap networks is to let them boot from CD but to then pull

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:00:48AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: So the set of people we'd be inconveniencing is exactly the set of people with no bandwidth and the inability to boot from anything larger than a CD. Not only that - the people who have no bandwidth, the inability to boot from

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-11 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 05/10/12 17:00, Adam Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 09:16 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Jackson wrote: Even if all of your objections are true, and who knows, they might be: we already do provide alternatives. The Live media is not the only install media. The other alternatives

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-11 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 05/11/12 00:36, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Jackson wrote: Therefore I have difficulty evaluating just how much impact this would be. Do you have a link to the recipe for building such an image? I suspect the incremental cost of each additional desktop environment would be successively

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Sounds more useful to me to just have a single live image which has multiple desktop environments included, so you don't have the common bits multiple times at the dvd ... That sounds nice in theory, but is just not practical: * The per-desktop live images are what we

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Also, can the netinst.iso install from local media too? A usb key for example? So you can use netinst.iso @ CD and install-dvd @ usbkey to install if your box can boot from cd only ... Why do we have to complicate things so much instead of just stopping the creeping

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-11 Thread drago01
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Also, can the netinst.iso install from local media too?  A usb key for example?  So you can use netinst.iso @ CD and install-dvd @ usbkey to install if your box can boot from cd only ... Why do

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-11 Thread Kushal Das
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:56 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: Even without minidebug info we already don't have enough space. No office suite on the deskop spin; no translations on the kde spin   We complicate things by insisting that a CD is the upper limit. Which might have been

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-11 Thread drago01
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Kushal Das kushal...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:56 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: Even without minidebug info we already don't have enough space. No office suite on the deskop spin; no translations on the kde spin   We complicate

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-11 Thread Kushal Das
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:35 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Kushal Das kushal...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:56 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: Even without minidebug info we already don't have enough space. No office suite on the

Size of official media handouts (was Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo)

2012-05-11 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2012, 11:57 -0400 schrieb Adam Jackson: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:45 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also lists some

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 11, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Why do we have to complicate things so much instead of just stopping the creeping biggerism? This is a very old debate. How is it surprising that computers, year over year, for many years now, have faster CPUs, more RAM and disk capacity, and

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: We could easily drop some of less-than-half-complete translations to make room for a bit of minidebuginfo. Last time I looked, translations, fonts, etc made up upwards of 25% of the livecd. Or we could just drop the obsolescent cdrom size limitation... There are

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Jackson wrote: Even if all of your objections are true, and who knows, they might be: we already do provide alternatives. The Live media is not the only install media. The other alternatives are either already DVDs or netinstall CDs which require a fast Internet connection (which people

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Alexander Larsson wrote: Its not particularly hard to strip the debuginfo when constructing the live image, although then installation from it will not really work as the rpms checksums will be wrong. Indeed, that doesn't sound like a sane solution to me. I'd rather we just don't add yet

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-10 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:02 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: I'd rather we just don't add yet another size overhead to every package. Our packages keep growing and growing even without that. A few KiB here, a few KiB there,

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: Not really, you are restricting yourself by the artificial CD size limit. You don't have to use the full size of whatever bigger medium you choose (DVD, 1 or 2GB stick) but you are currently providing a poorer user experience because you insist on a medium from the last century.

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-10 Thread Troy Dawson
On 05/09/2012 03:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size barrier precisely so people can't burn things to CDs. If you must burn to optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD, the reduced seek time is entirely worth it. I'd like

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:08 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: drago01 wrote: Not really, you are restricting yourself by the artificial CD size limit. You don't have to use the full size of whatever bigger medium you choose (DVD, 1 or 2GB stick) but you are currently providing a poorer user

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 09:16 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Jackson wrote: Even if all of your objections are true, and who knows, they might be: we already do provide alternatives. The Live media is not the only install media. The other alternatives are either already DVDs or

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-10 Thread Johannes Lips
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 09:16 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Jackson wrote: Even if all of your objections are true, and who knows, they might be: we already do provide alternatives. The Live media is not the only

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Callaway
On 05/10/2012 10:56 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:08 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: drago01 wrote: Not really, you are restricting yourself by the artificial CD size limit. You don't have to use the full size of whatever bigger medium you choose (DVD, 1 or 2GB stick) but you

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 10, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: So the set of people we'd be inconveniencing is exactly the set of people with no bandwidth and the inability to boot from anything larger than a CD. Do we think that's a statistically significant number of people, or are we just arguing?

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Jackson wrote: Therefore I have difficulty evaluating just how much impact this would be. Do you have a link to the recipe for building such an image? I suspect the incremental cost of each additional desktop environment would be successively lower, but without data... The DVD is

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Murphy wrote: Isn't it also true the Live CD is English only? Most of the CDs carry translations, the KDE one does not though, due to how KDE translations work (they sit in huge kde-l10n-* packages). The idea is that you install from the live CD and then you install the translation for

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-10 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:07 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size barrier precisely so people can't burn things to CDs.  If you must burn to

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:03:28 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: Take this post for instance: https://plus.google.com/110933625728671692704/posts/iFXggK7Q8KJ + On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:10:28 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Wrong. From /me you don't get abrt reports at all, because abrt simply is a

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Wed, 09 May 2012 09:27:57 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: So, having at least some level of quality local backtraces will still be good even if ABRT becomes better. Some new option is always good. Questionable is what should be the default. IMO ABRT Retrace Server should be the default one

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Wed, 09 May 2012 09:27:57 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: So, having at least some level of quality local backtraces will still be good even if ABRT becomes better. Some new option is always good. Questionable is what should be the default. IMO ABRT

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 05/09/12 08:23, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:03:28 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: Take this post for instance: https://plus.google.com/110933625728671692704/posts/iFXggK7Q8KJ + On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:10:28 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Wrong. From /me you don't get abrt

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 03:07:20PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: I just wrote a new Feature proposal for shipping minimal debug info by default: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also lists some options

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Wed, 09 May 2012 10:35:16 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Server-based trace generation requires uploading a potentially large core file (which probably can be reduced using mozilla-like minidumps). mozilla-like minidumps would bring us unusable backtraces due to other reasons such as GDB Pretty

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Alexander Larsson wrote: The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also lists some options in how to implement this, which all have various different pros and cons. I'd like to hear what peoples opinions on these are. There is no room left on the KDE live image for

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Wed, 09 May 2012 13:32:08 +0200, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: As for the bandwidth limitations when using ABRT - I hope Lennart's core stripping library might help here. But this degrades backtrace quality again as I have shown in:

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Wed, 09 May 2012 13:33:29 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: That would means 43Mb larger I guess you mean 43MB and not 5MB. Jan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:32 +0200, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: Appart from that I see two questions here: 1. Whether to add the minidebuginfo in Fedora 2. Whether to use this stripped backtrace when reporting a bug. For 1: The decision to use it or not should be based on some real-life tests

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:44:03PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: I'm not proposing that we drop the existing backtraces with full debug info, but (appart from the other places where backtraces are also useful) I'd like it if ABRT could somehow catch all the cases where people abort a

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 05/09/2012 01:51 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:44:03PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: I'm not proposing that we drop the existing backtraces with full debug info, but (appart from the other places where backtraces are also useful) I'd like it if ABRT could somehow

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
kevin.kofler wrote: [...] There is no room left on the KDE live image for installing any sort of debugging information by default. [...] What are the live-image spins' plans as to management of future growth? At what point, if ever, do they intend to abandon the CD-ROM format limits? -

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: kevin.kofler wrote: [...] There is no room left on the KDE live image for installing any sort of debugging information by default. [...] What are the live-image spins' plans as to management of future growth? At what point, if ever, do they intend to abandon

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
notting wrote: [...] 2) It will also make it easier to do things like system wide profiling, userspace dynamic probes and causual debugging. However, the Scope: is only gdb and rpm. Wouldn't said tools also need changes? Would this be done in libdwarf, or similar? [...] Profiling

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also lists some options in how to implement this, which all have various different pros and cons. I'd like to hear what peoples opinions on these

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:45 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also lists some options in how to implement this, which all have various different

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread John Reiser
On 05/09/2012 08:57 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size barrier precisely so people can't burn things to CDs. If you must burn to optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD, the reduced seek time is entirely worth it. 1G fits on

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:20 -0700, John Reiser wrote: On 05/09/2012 08:57 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size barrier precisely so people can't burn things to CDs. If you must burn to optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD,

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 17:36:07 +0200, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com wrote: * There are privacy issues with sending the users coredumps to some server on the internet As whole Fedora is built by the Fedora Project and Retrace Server is also run by Fedora Project this is

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, John Reiser jrei...@bitwagon.com said: If so, then please acknowledge explicitly that Fedora would be discarding some 4% of running, otherwise-capable machines (especially old laptops) that can read only CD and not DVD, some 7% of working USB sticks that are 512MB or less,

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread John Reiser
On 05/09/2012 11:46 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:20 -0700, John Reiser wrote: If so, then please acknowledge explicitly that Fedora would be discarding some 4% of running, otherwise-capable machines (especially old laptops) that can read only CD and not DVD, some 7% of

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 12:00 -0700, John Reiser wrote: On 05/09/2012 11:46 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:20 -0700, John Reiser wrote: If so, then please acknowledge explicitly that Fedora would be discarding some 4% of running, otherwise-capable machines (especially old

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:20:43AM -0700, John Reiser wrote: 1G fits on both the smallest MiniDVD format and most extant USB sticks. Let's do it already. If so, then please acknowledge explicitly that Fedora would be discarding some 4% of running, otherwise-capable machines

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size barrier precisely so people can't burn things to CDs. If you must burn to optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD, the reduced seek time is entirely worth it. I'd like to break CD limit too but we should not forgot

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jon VanAlten
- Original Message - From: Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 3:02:33 PM Subject: Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 12:00 -0700, John Reiser wrote

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread drago01
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size barrier precisely so people can't burn things to CDs.  If you must burn to optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD, the reduced seek time is

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Gerry Reno
If you watch, you can get DVD burners for about $15 USD. eg: http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/62972/newegg-liteon-external-cddvd-burner-w-lightscribe-support Or used for about $5-$10 at any flea market. On 05/09/2012 04:33 PM, drago01 wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznik

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:23 -0400, Jon VanAlten wrote: Isn't there some hardware profile report thingo? Would it be possible to use that data to quantify the potential effect of growing live media beyond CD size limit? (I would support breaking the limit, but would prefer the decision be

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 9, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: I'd like to break CD limit too but we should not forgot there are users for which CD is top technology from dreams and we have a lot of these users among some countries... For me personally CD is history, even DVD, same 1 GB flash drive.

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:07 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size barrier precisely so people can't burn things to CDs. If you must burn to optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD, the reduced seek time is entirely worth

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:07 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size barrier precisely so people can't burn things to CDs. If you must burn to optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD, the

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:23 -0400, Jon VanAlten wrote: Isn't there some hardware profile report thingo? Would it be possible to use that data to quantify the potential effect of growing live media beyond CD size limit? (I would support breaking the limit,

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread John Reiser
On 05/09/2012 01:33 PM, drago01 wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: I'd like to break CD limit too but we should not forgot there are users for which CD is top technology from dreams and we have a lot of these users among some countries...

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also lists some options in how to implement this, which all have various different pros and cons. I'd like to hear what peoples opinions on these

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Gerry Reno
On 05/09/2012 05:34 PM, John Reiser wrote: On 05/09/2012 01:33 PM, drago01 wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: I'd like to break CD limit too but we should not forgot there are users for which CD is top technology from dreams and we have a lot of

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Michael Cronenworth
John Reiser wrote: My 700MHz PentiumIII with 384MB RAM If Fedora Live media is going to be held back due to your requirements then I'm going to find myself a new distro to contribute to. Yes, Fedora Live media should support a *reasonable* set of hardware. Your hardware is no longer

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 05/09/2012 05:34 PM, John Reiser wrote: On 05/09/2012 01:33 PM, drago01 wrote: A DVD burner costs ~12 € ... and any computer that old isn't really that capable of running fedora reasonably anyway. Such a claim is FALSE. My 700MHz PentiumIII with 384MB RAM runs Fedora 11 just fine.

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 15:17 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: But if it's almost trivial to have two Live Desktop builds: CD and DVD, then I'd suggest that route. I can tell you it's very unlikely they'd both get comprehensively QA'ed. And the more spins we have, the more likely some of them are to

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Matej Cepl
On 9.5.2012 20:56, Chris Adams wrote: Also: some 7% of working USB sticks that are 512MB or less - when have any of the standard Live images _ever_ fit on a 512M media? It of course depends on your definition of “standard”, but Tiny Core Linux is less than 12MB ...

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 07:19 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: On 9.5.2012 20:56, Chris Adams wrote: Also: some 7% of working USB sticks that are 512MB or less - when have any of the standard Live images _ever_ fit on a 512M media? It of course depends on your definition of “standard”, but Tiny Core

Re: default media size [Was: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo]

2012-05-09 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 9.5.2012 23:34, John Reiser napsal(a): On 05/09/2012 01:33 PM, drago01 wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznikjrez...@redhat.com wrote: I'd like to break CD limit too but we should not forgot there are users for which CD is top technology from dreams and we have a lot of

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 23:54 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2012 23:36:04 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: But anyway, I don't think it's worth continuing this discussion, this is a bit like a dialogue between two wet towels... I also do not think we can ever find an

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 18:55 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: I just wrote a new Feature proposal for shipping minimal debug info by default: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo The feature page lists

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 16:24 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Alexander Larsson (al...@redhat.com) said: I just wrote a new Feature proposal for shipping minimal debug info by default: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo The feature page lists some of the background and

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 22:44 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2012 22:24:15 +0200, Bill Nottingham wrote: 4) I disagree with the contention that this should all be done via the retrace server. For the retrace server to work, you have to have all of the following: - all

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:09:04AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: This is your opinion. I rarely need the full backtrace in a bug report, because it you can get one its generally something thats easily reproduced and I can just run it in gdb myself. When you need it is when something weird is

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 08:30 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:09:04AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: This is your opinion. I rarely need the full backtrace in a bug report, because it you can get one its generally something thats easily reproduced and I can just run it

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:34:57AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: Its true that that is all the information you need from the process/core. But you need to have the rest of the information availible *somewhere*, such as on a global retrace server or just having it Yes. locally in the

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 08 May 2012 08:34:57 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: Its true that that is all the information you need from the process/core. But you need to have the rest of the information availible *somewhere*, such as on a global retrace server or just having it locally in the minidebuginfo. The

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 07.05.12 23:02, Jan Kratochvil (jan.kratoch...@redhat.com) wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2012 22:16:02 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: I mean, just think of this: you have a pool of workstations to administer.

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 13:08 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: My take: 1) Developers of the software in question: Bluntly, the ~1-100 users in the whole world shouldn't matter in our discussion - if they are even running the RPM, they can and probably will install complete debuginfo, enable

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 05/08/12 13:08, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 07.05.12 23:02, Jan Kratochvil (jan.kratoch...@redhat.com) wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2012 22:16:02 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: I mean, just think of this: you have

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 15:07 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: I just wrote a new Feature proposal for shipping minimal debug info by default: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also lists some options in how

Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-07 Thread Alexander Larsson
I just wrote a new Feature proposal for shipping minimal debug info by default: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also lists some options in how to implement this, which all have various different pros and cons.

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-07 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Mon, 07 May 2012 15:07:20 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: I just wrote a new Feature proposal for shipping minimal debug info by default: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo The several choices is missing the primary possibility of no debug info needed at the client side

Re: Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-07 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 04:25:46PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2012 15:07:20 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: I just wrote a new Feature proposal for shipping minimal debug info by default: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo The several choices is

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