Re: New covenant published

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Adams
/wiki/Mp3#Licensing_and_patent_issues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MP3#Patents -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: dist-git help wanted: write me a regex!

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Adams
is the delimiter, so you are saying search for /((Mon and replace it with Tues? and then Wed... are arguments. The regexp as sent (delimited with /) was just a match, not a search/replace. I don't know the code; what exactly are you trying to do here? Strip out date/email lines? -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: packages requiring me to reboot...

2009-12-16 Thread Chris Adams
be addressed). For example, in the nfs-utils case, what happened to having the %post scriptlet do service foo condrestart? Is it impossible to restart the daemons? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 1 complete

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Ville Skyttä ville.sky...@iki.fi said: The first two Google hits I get for fpkg are already two different tools that have something to do with software packaging, so I suggest not adding the third but coming up with some other name for this one. fedpak fpak -- Chris Adams

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
architectures. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
, that isn't a big deal). If you think otherwise, nobody is stopping you from doing the work to make it happen, and if it proves to work and be a benefit, I bet it would be accepted. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Adams
majority of applications you wouldn't be. Then you might as well run the native system architecture, which is 64 bit, rather than try to figure out which apps run better as 32 bit and maintain a full duplicate set of libraries! :-) -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-13 Thread Chris Adams
. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-13 Thread Chris Adams
everybody to a new architecture (Itanium), while AMD revised and extended i386 to 64 bits. After Itanium failed to catch on in the marketplace, Intel had to copy AMD's work. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Adams
? The only time I have to care about this is if I'm writing a kickstart file, but it is one extra line (and then I copy the same kickstart base over and over). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: [RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

2009-11-25 Thread Chris Adams
an issue of space. You don't want to present all of the i386 repo to x86_64 installs, as a lot of the packages would result in conflicts. Only a subset of i686 packages can coexist with x86_64 packages. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
is badgering other maintainers a good thing? If you don't want to maintain something, then the normal way is to orphan it and let someone else take the job, not badger everybody else using the thing you don't want to maintain anymore. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net said: Le Mar 24 novembre 2009 16:00, Chris Adams a écrit : Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net said: To repeat myself once again, core fonts are not free, they have a maintenance cost, What

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net said: Le Mar 24 novembre 2009 17:01, Chris Adams a écrit : That's not an answer. What is the real maintenance cost? I already explained yesterday : there are rotting Fedora Core packages to merge review, packaging guidelines

Re: livecds in the future

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
. When the bootloader is running, it can only see devices BIOS provides to it. Not true. See for example PXE-boot floppies. Google USB boot cd, and the first hit is how to boot an Ubuntu USB flash drive using a CD boot loader. There are also floppy images to boot from USB. -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: [RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
have a flag to force 32 bit That just needs an extra menu option for the 64 bit menu that loads the 32 bit kernel. Or, you just make the combined image for dual-layer DVDs, Blu-Ray, or USB flash drives only. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: [RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
yum (or at least anaconda) hackery. It would be neat and nice to have (simplify rescue images, netboot, etc.), but it is quite possible it is too painful to happen. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Adams
Core fonts are not going away, are they? Then why the hate for legacy packages using a legacy interface? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing

Re: Security testing: need for a security policy, and a security-critical package process

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Adams
to trigger events through dbus (I haven't looked down that path myself so I'm not sure of the details). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com said: 2009/11/19 Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net: Once upon a time, Ricky Zhou ri...@fedoraproject.org said: I might be wrong on this, but wouldn't the attacker need to trick yum/packagekit into using the malicious repo first?  I didn't

Re: Security policy oversight needed?

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
this is giving elevated access to those fingerprints). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com said: 2009/11/19 Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net: You keep saying that, but you are wrong.  Otherwise, why do we even bother with passwords (and checking password strength)? Authentication and authorisation are not the same problem at all

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com said: 2009/11/19 Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net: So there are no packages in releases/12/Everything that have privilege escalation bugs?  All I have to do is wait for one to be found, and I have a signed path to root.  Even if the package

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com said: That is incorrect, unless somehow your ssh tunneled VNC registers as local console login, which I doubt. In your case, none of your users would be allowed to install software/updates. VNC looks like a local console login. -- Chris

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
that is 32 bit only for example. It works perfectly fine, so I am in no hurry to replace it just because it is only 32 bit. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com said: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:54 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: I have a Thinkpad from early 2006 that is 32 bit only for example. It works perfectly fine, so I am in no hurry to replace it just because it is only 32 bit. see my 'oops

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
the settings in one of these files? None of them are marked config, so I guess I don't edit them. Are there other places such policy can be set? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org said: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: It seems the latest way of doing this is via PolicyKit.  IMHO all PolicyKit configuration should be secure by default, secure is an meaningless term without

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
, if necessary) about PolicyKit (or anything that can give regular users elevated access) rules and actions. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
be a guide of how all this fits together and when to change what (not just documentation of individual options or syntax), but I do also understand that developers don't always like writing documentation (hey, who does, other than tech writers!). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems

Security policy oversight needed?

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
in some common easy-to-find place in the wiki). Is this feasible? Who needs to look at this? I would like to see this discussion separate from discussion about the current issue with PackageKit. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I

Re: Security policy oversight needed?

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
is obviously not working. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
architectures. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Broken deps for rawhide the past few days

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Adams
point? If so, when? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Adams
the installer image (the real problem) somewhere else, like /? Why does it need to be in /boot? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Adams
maintenance issue? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: F13 Naming: Leonidas - Constantine - New Name?

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com said: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:45 +0100, Björn Persson wrote: After F12 comes Print Screen of course. ;-) My keyboard has F13 next... The One True Keyboard(tm) (IBM Model M) has Print Screen/SysRq there. -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: Ubuntu shows updates / security updates on shell logins

2009-11-04 Thread Chris Adams
the version. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Wodim trouble

2009-11-03 Thread Chris Adams
have refused to cite specific legal problems with cdrkit, so there are no known legal problems that anyone can see. The proper reporting method is bugzilla.redhat.com; can you point to where you reported them? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet

Re: Fedora with Universal Binaries?

2009-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
the image tools (both install and LiveCD) to support more than one image on a device (DVD or USB). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora

Re: Proposal: Python 3 in Fedora 13

2009-10-01 Thread Chris Adams
very much wish this sentence said I will not push this into F12 at all. Yeah, we seem to have too much churn going with some things as it is during a release. What possible reason would there be to push a major new component into an existing release? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems

Re: Proposal: Python 3 in Fedora 13

2009-10-01 Thread Chris Adams
that it will in no way interfere with python2 (including in the build root)? Major changes like that during a release are what get Fedora considered a rolling beta quality distribution. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Adams
PPC machines. Is there another big-endian platform that is on the upswing? IIRC ARM can be, but I think many (most?) ARM platforms that would support Fedora are little-endian. SPARC is big-endian but is not on the upswing. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Adams
is a (software) technic orientated project, or? Since rsync is used in the distribution of Fedora, removing it _would_ be a technical problem. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Adams
fine with other clients today) to export the root filesystem to everybody? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-24 Thread Chris Adams
those that are not as well connected. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: TeX Live 2009 for Fedora

2009-08-20 Thread Chris Adams
)? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Updates lacking descriptions

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
discussions get heated is not censorship. I strongly think Fedora would be better without ... That is far over the line for acceptable behavior. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: Lower Process Capabilities

2009-07-28 Thread Chris Adams
directly listen on a low-numbered port. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-27 Thread Chris Adams
year though (at most maybe once per quarter, but I don't remember it being that often). That was also because installing Sun recommended patch clusters was another kind of cluster. :-) -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-27 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jeff Garzik jgar...@pobox.com said: Chris Adams wrote: IIRC Sun only spun that a couple of times per year though (at most maybe once per quarter, but I don't remember it being that often). Incorrect, for our shop at least. They regenerated every month, and were dated

Re: Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
send another follow-up mail when it's done. Thanks, -Eric cmadams: ufiformat This uses libext2fs (for checking if a device is mounted), so no change is needed there. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at said: But why can't it say GNOME Desktop Edition? ISTR FESCo voted that down. How about moving on to something more productive? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
. Think before you download a huge ISO! A lot of users think they have a Dell CPU. The result of giving them one that doesn't work will be try something else before you download Fedora. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Adams
to upgrade? IIRC you have to do it on a repo by repo basis. At the selection screen, when the active repos are listed in the bottom half, you can click on a repo and configure proxy settings there (again IIRC). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Simon Andrews simon.andr...@bbsrc.ac.uk said: Can anaconda handle wireless network connections for upgrades? I think it can, for the NICs supported out-of-the-box. I haven't tried it, but I know my wireless NIC shows up on my notebook. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: rpm AutoRequires/AutoProvides and dsos not in linker path, do we care ?

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Adams
that extend the system directories list (e.g. by dropping something in /etc/ld.so.conf.d). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel

Re: rpm AutoRequires/AutoProvides and dsos not in linker path, do we care ?

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Adams
such objects that it supports. That breaks things, because a program in /usr/bin may require a module or library in a private directory. You have to search all directories for provides to satisfy internal requires. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: rpm AutoRequires/AutoProvides and dsos not in linker path, do we care ?

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Adams
(and a maintenance mess). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Adams
justification. It would seem to me that adding a few targeted Atom packages would be a better use of resources (e.g. similar to openssl.i686). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Adams
because of waiting on RAM) -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com said: Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) said: How does this affect multilib on x86_64? It doesn't. What I meant was what was the impact on running 32 bit binaries on the 64 bit OS (e.g. run your benchmarks there as well). -- Chris Adams

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Adams
. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Adams
of resources. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Adams
in service that are i686 but not apparently i686. How can I tell the difference? Maybe it should be called something other than i686? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Adams
space, etc. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Adams
, or something along those lines. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Adams
there was discussion about rebuilding for i686 (Pentium Pro). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Adams
drive either AFAIK. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Why a multilib wrapper for non-multilib architectures?!

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Adams
, i486, i586, and i686. On Alpha, you have (IIRC) ev4, ev5, ev6, ev67, etc. When the distro was i386 targeted, we still had a few packages (where it made a performance difference) that were built for i386, i586, and i686, all of which are %{ix86}. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems

Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

2009-06-12 Thread Chris Adams
turn off auditing with IIRC auditctl -e 0. I don't know if this has been addressed in newer versions. For benchmarking, you'd probably be better off with disabling it with chkconfig and doing a clean boot anyway. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Adams
) -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: export policy, was Re: Package Maintainers Flags policy

2009-05-26 Thread Chris Adams
the CLA. IIRC mirrors are not required to sign the CLA (I did, but that was because I was working towards being a packager as well). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble

Re: Anaconda: good work!

2006-03-22 Thread Chris Adams
of sodium lamps for street lighting in the UK). There's also blue/yellow colorblind (more rare). :-) -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

Re: Anaconda: good work!

2006-03-22 Thread Chris Adams
? Currently, hard disk installs are only supported from native ext2, ext3, or VFAT partitions; no software RAID and no LVM. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

Re: FC more FHS clashes (was: BIND and FHS)

2006-03-07 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com said: On 3/6/06, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Does FHS say /usr/lib/sendmail should just exist or that it should be used _instead of_ /usr/sbin/sendmail? Friendly advice.. it helps to read up on reference material before asking