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5. People who want to use updates-testing will opt in to it explicitly.
Opting in is easier than opting out because it means upgrading packages
rather than downgrading them.
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feature there, aren't we?
Wasn't the main design concept behind systemd the observation that
everything can be parallelized most effectively by on-demand activation?
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Proposed: The user will get offered only update sets B and C as updates.
This would reduce the number of 0-day updates for Alpha/Beta releases
significantly.
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see how it speeds up scripts, but it's just confusing and useless in
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SELinux. It's your security stuff which is consuming a lot of memory.
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utility, something other distros aren't/weren't
doing either.
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retired due to having been orphaned (or failing to build) for too long. Rel-
eng will probably want to see the completed rereview before unblocking the
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them. They seem to have fun always doing
the exact opposite of Fedora policy.)
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rule in Fedora and not an
exception for Firefox alone!
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only because
upstream refuses to support using the system version, even though it would
work just fine. And so on…
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on the
MIDI ports of those old sound cards) also has to be modprobed manually.
And yes, I have all that stuff plugged on this machine. I barely ever use
it, but that doesn't mean I don't want it to work…
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Simo Sorce wrote:
It seem much more intelligent to add a package owners of floppies can
install, so that 99.9% of the others do not have to wait forever for no
reason.
This goes against the principle that Fedora should Just Work on any hardware
it encounters if at all possible.
Kevin
Chris Adams wrote:
Leaving known-working hardware unusable at install is just rude and
irritating when it is needed. There should be good justification, not
just a bunch of developers don't use it anymore, so we don't think
anybody else needs it.
+1
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unavailable all that soon. (And
unlike for those old lightbulbs, I don't think there's any reason for
politicians to ban floppies.)
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Björn Persson wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Users who don't have a floppy
drive and want to save some boot time can blacklist the driver manually.
s/Us/Hack/ to make that sentence true.
No. Users who want to tweak their system to the point of shaving a few
seconds off their boot times should
Adam Williamson wrote:
glibc maintainers / developers, if you don't want me to do this, please
start giving a crap about your bugs.
Speaking of critical glibc bugs, what about this one?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733462
IMHO, that's also a blocker.
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-6.fc17 has changed to:
License: MIT
Please note that the kde-settings-pulseaudio subpackage is still Public
Domain because it contains literally nothing to copyright and license. (It
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Frank Murphy wrote:
Is not rawhide the sanity check,
Yes.
even if used productively by many?
That's the problem then. Rawhide is explicitly labeled as NOT being intended
nor suitable for any sort of production use.
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be very useful
to test them more instead of just a mad version number chase.
That's exactly why we should go back to just untagging broken packages
instead of requiring pointless Epoch bumps in Rawhide. Then the breakage
will just get downgraded away before any release.
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Rawhide users for.
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should probably
use yum distro-sync rather than yum update.
I agree that abuse of Epoch sucks, and indeed, it isn't really needed in
Rawhide now that there is distro-sync.
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Richard of being incompatible with yum
when the incompatibilities that matter most to our users have been required
by yum developers, in particular:
* no writing to the yum database by default,
* no parsing yum.conf by default.
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from,
* inability to be loaded as a shared library into compiled programs like the
PackageKit daemon,
* relying on the deprecated Python 2 and slowing down Python 3 adoption.
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seth vidal wrote:
2. a satsolver is going to require changing around how we truck the
repodata around a good bit.
Yet zypp works fine with the same metadata format we use and using a SAT
solver…
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IMHO, Elad's proposal makes a lot of sense and I fully support it.
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as an example.
Richard Hughes is being receptive to other uses of zif than PackageKit, see
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and Javascript
in the future.
And Python too, I suppose?
/me starts cursorily looking in the general direction of Anaconda. ;-)
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that was
better than what we have now, which is almost unpredictable.)
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Matthew Garrett wrote:
Debian policy is that any virtual dependencies must also have an
explicit dependency. In your case it would be something like
Requires: phonon-backend-gstreamer | phonon-backend
Unfortunately, RPM does not support this idiom.
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Michael Schroeder wrote:
Sounds like you want weak dependencies (i.e. Suggests et al).
In this case, I think disjunctive dependencies (default | virtual), as
Matthew Garrett pointed out, are the right solution, not soft dependencies
(though those would also be nice).
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Matthew Garrett wrote:
The output of rpm -qf grub may be instructive.
I suppose you mean rpm -ql grub…
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you'll have little to no use for this particular subpackage. ;-)
Any issues with the repository itself should be reported to me, any issues
encountered with the actual software should be reported to Richard Hughes
(by filing a bug against zif at bugzilla.redhat.com).
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Kevin Kofler wrote:
I have put up a repository with an updated zif snapshot for Fedora 15 at:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kkofler/zif-backport/fedora-zif-backport.repo
So, I found several issues, mostly in zif or PackageKit-zif, but also one in
KPackageKit/Apper:
https
Kevin Kofler wrote:
I'm building a new snapshot of zif, which should fix #739980 (but I have
to test that), and will be pushing it to the repository (no matter whether
it actually fixes #739980 or not).
There's now zif-0.2.4-0.93.20110920git.fc15 in the repository, but you'll
probably have
Jef Spaleta wrote:
Kevin, were you able to reproduce my problem with the official adobe
repository?
To be honest, I haven't tried it, I've been busy enough filing the bugs for
the issues I found myself and retesting them with today's snapshot.
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FESCo.
(FWIW, IMHO, the whole critpath nonsense should be abolished, it only causes
problems and solves none.)
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the kernel from the list
of packages to update in the PackageKit GUI of choice (be it gnome-
packagekit, KPackageKit or Apper) if the kmod doesn't show up along with it.
It's not rocket science.
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Kevin Kofler wrote:
I have put up a repository with an updated zif snapshot for Fedora 15 at:
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backport.repo
There's once again a new snapshot today. (I haven't announced every new
snapshot in the repository
. (It has done so for years.)
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Daniel Drake wrote:
Summary: GNOME hardcodes DPI to 96 regardless of X configuration.
This is very broken.
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on the default ports (i.e. NNTPS on port 563 and unencrypted NNTP on port
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and the updates process and allow the
maintainer to decide again). It's the only thing that can possibly work for
all cases.
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it remotely.
You can use KDM instead. It does not support power management at all (at
this time), so you can be sure that it won't be suspending your computer,
ever.
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KDE translations have always been in a separate directory in SVN from the
actual code, so it is possible to maintain the code in git and the
translations in SVN.)
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that are a problem. An
update which enhances features without changing the normal user
experience is not against the policy.
But how is hiding http://; by default (with the preference to unbreak this
tucked away under about:config) in a Firefox security update not against
the policy?
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!= the software is Open Source.
Open Source is a term defined by the Open Source Initiative, which means
almost the same thing as Free Software.
The source code being merely available can be termed Shared Source (a term
coined by M$), source-available or whatever, but NOT Open Source.
Kevin
a better job than us of shipping an updated version of
OUR OWN FEATURE, we're failing very badly.
What happened to First in the 4 'F's?
Our objectives are NOT to deliver current software only 6+ months after the
competition.
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fingerprints? Iris scans? Will we only be able to log into Fedora
infrastructure in the presence of armed security guards? It's time to stop
the nonsense!
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issues. Both gnome-shell and KWin have their lists of known broken and/or
known working drivers.
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Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 10:03 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
The other problem with screenshot validation is that it's inherently
unsuited to some tests that are important to Fedora and that we have
more-or-less working *right now* in AutoQA
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says that you cannot migrate to systemd in an update and
pushed this update:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-13456
(which is already in the stable updates).
I'm starting to wonder whether that wouldn't be the best solution here.
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this decision
correctly, so we should let a human, the maintainer, take it. And if the
maintainer demonstrates incompetence at taking these decisions, the
offending maintainer needs to be replaced. No amount of software can fix
incompetence.
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will break much more stuff than
keeping the change.
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. So that problem will be gone then,
and the just push the systemd migration to all supported releases plan
would be sound then if only FESCo and/or FPC would approve it.
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of Subversion, which totally sucks for users
of shared home directories, but we can't do anything about that. :-( )
I also think this change might also require changes in various SVN GUI
frontends, not just kdesvn.
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URLs are not, which means the
ID is a lot more useful. E.g. when Bodhi posts a link in Bugzilla using
packagename-version format, that link stops working when the update is
edited.
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fit for PackageKit. See also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748790 .)
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features like this, without providing any kind of a replacement, is
a very unhelpful move from upstream.
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Ian Malone wrote:
If I filed every bug in the distro in upstream I'd have a dozen
different bugzilla accounts by now.
So what? Maintainers are not messengers, they have other work to do than
forwarding the bugs you're too lazy to file directly at the right place.
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Bojan,
Install xfce. You'll be happy w/that.
You should also give KDE Plasma Desktop a try.
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and the UK MET Office to be credited with a link, which is why that credit
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be applied in
many cases to get rid of unnecessary linkage bloat.
Why is this not the default in Fedora? Mandriva has been using that by
default for ages, and it shouldn't be any more invasive than the
-Wl,--no-add-needed (note: add != as) change done in Fedora 13.
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Reindl Harald wrote:
yes - because most maintainers are having bugzilla-accounts upstream
and reading the uptream-mailing-lists and are much more cooperative as
the KDE SIG, especially Kevin Kofler
Yes, we have Bugzilla accounts upstream. But as I explained, upstream wants
to talk
to show up as reported by the
original reporter in Fedora and/or with that original reporter CCed, without
them having to register for an upstream account first.)
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, want my computer to work the way I learned and interiorized a computer
works, any innovative interface destroys my automatisms and confuses me.
I'm using Plasma Desktop with the Classic menu (not the default fancy
Kickoff), only 1 virtual desktop and only the default activity.
Kevin
don't ship .la files in Fedora) which
add -lpng12 when you didn't ask for it.
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Chris Adams wrote:
Hmm, I didn't know that. Which does RPM use when generating
dependencies? It would appear that it is is using ldd; should that be
changed?
No, RPM does not pull in recursive soname dependencies, only direct ones.
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to. (There is a way, but 1. it's complicated and 2. it hurts performance.)
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Michał Piotrowski wrote:
Out of curiosity I wanted to ask, why do I need colord on my system?
Try yum remove colord and see what it wants to remove (and probably say
no if it's anything important to you), then you'll know what drags it in
(whether for good reasons or not).
Kevin
also:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35154
which is being ignored entirely by upstream.
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