Fedora 9 End Of Life (EOL)

2009-06-15 Thread Jon Stanley
With the release of Fedora 11 now past us, it's come time to remind folks that per the release policy, maintenance for the N-2 Fedora release ends one month after the Fedora N comes out. In this case, since Fedora 11 just came out, that means that the end of life for Fedora 9 will be 2009-07-10.

Announcing LXDE Fedora Remix 11

2009-06-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, I am pleased to announce the community remix of Fedora 11 with LXDE as the default desktop environment. It is available for download at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/remixes/LXDE/lxde-fedora-remix-11-i686-live.iso Release Notes: --- It is a Live CD with LXDE as

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-15 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:34:37 -0700, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 17:54 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: If Fedora Unity's motivation to continue a service to the community -at it's own expense, not yours- is holding you and the other teams hostage, call

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-15 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:20:09 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen kana...@kanarip.com wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:37:41 -0700, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 03:30 -0500, King InuYasha wrote: A script that takes the DVD image to produce the CD versions would basically

Re: ruby-sqlite3 conflicts with rubygem-sqlite3-ruby

2009-06-15 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:37:14 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka mtas...@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote, at 06/15/2009 03:52 AM +9:00: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/472621 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/472622 Reported in Nov 2008. Is it really that difficult to fix it? No, but I have

Re: Split Media - A use case

2009-06-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 15/06/09 08:15, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: I'm providing severl friends and relatives with CD install images via these genned iso's. So at least 5 more CD sets would have been fetched if I didn't do this. What was the underlying reason for the CDS' over DVD\LiveCD? Frank --

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 15/06/09 01:24, Guido Grazioli wrote: That said, I agree the wheel group should be enabled with sudo, though I disagree that the initial install user should be automatically added to it. But then again, I hate sudo :P I do most scripting that requires root access via

Re: No bluetooth for PulseAudio nonbelievers

2009-06-15 Thread Frank Murphy
Thanks Lennart, I really wish Skype would update their crap Did you contact them? Frank -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Matej Cepl
Charles Butterfield, Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:19:17 -0400: Okay, so I mostly love Fedora. However, here are 4 things that got by blood really, really boiling, so I thought I'd share my emotions. They are mostly policy issues, where I think you have gotten it very very wrong. DON'T FEED THE

Re: No bluetooth for PulseAudio nonbelievers

2009-06-15 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Did you contact them? I just submitted a Skype support request, asking they provide better support for PA, the current standard audio manager on fedora Linux. However, I am also unhappy that the fedora desktop is unusable if one chooses to remove PA. Not only did I loose the bluetooth applet

Re: Where do i file a bug against the kde-redhat repository?

2009-06-15 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
2009/6/14 Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu: Yaakov Nemoy wrote: Hey All, As the subject says, i'm looking to figure out where is the accountable place for filing bug reports.  For anyone who can apply a quick fix, the repo is missing repo closure, and i can't install the latest KDE beta

Re: No bluetooth for PulseAudio nonbelievers

2009-06-15 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com wrote: Did you contact them? I just submitted a Skype support request, asking they provide better support for PA, the current standard audio manager on fedora Linux. However, I am also unhappy that the fedora

Re: iptables/firewall brainstorming

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Woerner
Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:34:52 +0100 Matthew Garrett m...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 06:13:51PM +0200, Julian Aloofi wrote: So, solving this is pretty easy, even for newbies. But I agree that the error message will not help someone without advanced knowledge.

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-15 Thread Julian Sikorski
Jeremy Katz pisze: On Saturday, June 13 2009, Jussi Lehtola said: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 11:12 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 07:04:12PM +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: Hmm, I'd want netboot.img back, since I normally use a USB stick to start the network install (OK, there is

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Woerner
Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sun, 14.06.09 18:34, Matthew Garrett (m...@redhat.com) wrote: So, solving this is pretty easy, even for newbies. But I agree that the error message will not help someone without advanced knowledge. Although I think people running Samba generally will know where to

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Woerner
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 06:13:51PM +0200, Julian Aloofi wrote: So, solving this is pretty easy, even for newbies. But I agree that the error message will not help someone without advanced knowledge. Although I think people running Samba generally will know where to look

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 10:35 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 22:19 -0400, Charles Butterfield wrote: * Samba (outbound) browsing requires firewall mods I don't know how Samba works, so forgive me if I say obvious stupidity, but shouldn't *client* work even behind

No sound in rawhide

2009-06-15 Thread Paul
Hi, Prior to the big push to f12, my system had full audio. No problems. Lovely, lovely sounds. For some reason, alsa and pulseaudio are completely failing to pick up my sound card (either the onboard one or my soundblaster). This is despite them both being listed on lspci and lsmod. Any ideas

Re: bind-chroot in F11

2009-06-15 Thread Adam Tkac
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:21:11PM +0100, mike cloaked wrote: I checked the contents of the bind-chroot package in both F10 and f11 - as I was puzzled about running bind-chroot since things seemed rather different to previous behaviour. In F11 the contents contain /var/named/chroot and

Push?

2009-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
Not to nag, but it's been going on 2 weeks since the last push. I assume this is GA-related, which is fine, just curious. I saw some Bodhi mail for my updates which made me think one was impending, but haven't seen anything yet. Hoping the next push will resolve the dependency issues around

Updates since June 3rd/4th?

2009-06-15 Thread Axel Thimm
Hi, maybe I missed some announcement somewhere, but there haven't been any updates in F10/F11 updates since more than 10 days. Am I looking at the wrong mirrors (including mine), or is there just a small hiatus for fixing some issues? Thanks! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpUN52mucgOc.pgp

Re: mount shows dm-* instead og dev/mapper/*

2009-06-15 Thread Karel Zak
We need to backport commit 4271e23942bdc60e1fa6c0b26bc666a94a8b3e1d Author: Karel Zak k...@redhat.com Date: Mon Apr 27 15:00:57 2009 +0200 blkid: use /dev/mapper/name rather than /dev/dm-N upstream patch to Fedora. Karel On Sat, Jun 13, 2009

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 15.06.09 12:41, Thomas Woerner (twoer...@redhat.com) wrote: So, what should happen here? Should we leave the firewall enabled in these cases* by default and require admins to open them? If so, is there any way that we can make this easier in some Packagekit-oriented manner? If

Headsup: ABI changing ImageMagick coming to rawhide

2009-06-15 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, I've just build ImageMagick 6.5.3.7 for rawhide. This version introduces *silent* ABI breakage, as the ABI has changed without changing the soname (woohoo way to go upstream!) So I strongly urge anyone who maintains a package which uses the ImageMagick libraries to rebuild it. Regards,

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-15 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Sunday, June 14 2009, Chris Adams said: Once upon a time, Jeremy Katz ka...@redhat.com said: See the livecd-iso-to-pxeboot script, although it does place some (somewhat) different requirements on things. AFAIK livecd-iso-to-pxeboot is useless for 32 bit, at least for the standard

Re: Push?

2009-06-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:34:00AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Not to nag, but it's been going on 2 weeks since the last push. I *Sigh* assume this is GA-related, which is fine, just curious. I saw some Bodhi mail for my updates which made me think one was impending, but haven't seen

Re: Updates since June 3rd/4th?

2009-06-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 15:36:20 +0300, Axel Thimm axel.th...@atrpms.net wrote: Hi, maybe I missed some announcement somewhere, but there haven't been any updates in F10/F11 updates since more than 10 days. Am I looking at the wrong mirrors (including mine), or is there just a small hiatus

Re: Updates since June 3rd/4th?

2009-06-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:36:20PM +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: Hi, maybe I missed some announcement somewhere, but there haven't been any updates in F10/F11 updates since more than 10 days. Am I looking at the wrong mirrors (including mine), or is there just a small hiatus for fixing some issues?

Re: Push?

2009-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:34:00AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Not to nag, but it's been going on 2 weeks since the last push. I *Sigh* assume this is GA-related, which is fine, just curious. I saw some Bodhi mail for my updates which made me think one was

Re: Fedora 11 Retrospective Happens Tuesday June 16, 2009 at 14:00 UTC (10 AM EDT)

2009-06-15 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! On 12.06.2009 03:47, John Poelstra wrote: Have you ever wanted to give your perspective on how well the Fedora development and release process works, but weren't sure where to do it? Now you have the perfect opportunity! Nice intro, but... For Fedora 11 we are having a project

Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Florian Festi
Hi everyone! The Noarch Sub Package Feature continues in F12. I just updated the package lists and statistics on the Feature page[1]. I want to thank all the brave package maintainers that converted some of their sub packages in the short time frame before the F11 freeze and so gave us a test

Re: No sound in rawhide

2009-06-15 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:09:27 +0100, Paul wrote: Any ideas on getting this to work again? On my system all sound files (/dev/snd) were owned by root instead of the user logged into X. Don't know who's responsible for fixing that. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Florian Festiffe...@redhat.com wrote: The Noarch Sub Package Feature continues in F12. I just updated the package lists and statistics on the Feature page[1]. I want to thank all the brave package maintainers that converted some of their sub packages in the

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Florian Festi
Seth Vidal wrote: Other people's noarch subpackages? Shouldn't they have obsoletes in place, too? I know it's hard to grok but for all intents and purposes a arch change is A LOT like a package rename. I like to disagree. I really see no reason why an obsolete should be needed here. Sure

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Florian Festi wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: Other people's noarch subpackages? Shouldn't they have obsoletes in place, too? I know it's hard to grok but for all intents and purposes a arch change is A LOT like a package rename. I like to disagree. I really see no reason

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Jochen Schmitt
Am 15.06.2009 16:19, schrieb Florian Festi: Please check your packages[2] whether they can make use of this feature and add your changed packages to the list[3]. I have reread the list of the candidates for noarch sub packages on your list. I wan't to notifiy, that the creation of the

rawhide report: 20090615 changes

2009-06-15 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Mon Jun 15 06:15:04 UTC 2009 New package lazygal A static web gallery generator New package lcdf-typetools Tools for manipulating OpenType fonts New package perl-HTML-FillInForm Populates HTML Forms with data New package perl-Pod-Xhtml Generate

Re: Push?

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Weyl
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:34:00AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Not to nag, but it's been going on 2 weeks since the last push. I *Sigh* As a side note, is this impacting override tagging, as well? (I'm not sure if the two

Re: Split Media - A use case

2009-06-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 04:28 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: That's what they wanted to use :-) Sorry, I'm not seeing that as a valid use case. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On 06/15/2009 07:19 AM, Florian Festi wrote: There is one more thing left: Noarch sub packages should - most likely - be reflected in the Packaging and the Package Review Guidelines. I - as a RPM developer - really don't have a opinion how the Fedora Guidelines should look like and I also

Re: Split Media - A use case

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: That's what they wanted to use :-) besides it was quicker to gen them than to download the live CDs or DVDs. CDs will be much slower than a DVD in terms of read speed. You'll also have to swap disks out during install (hello 1998). Why do they want to use CDs? In

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:18 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote: boot.iso/netinst.iso What's the difference between these two by the way? There isn't one. However old virt-manager tools look for a boot.iso instead of a netinst.iso, so when we tried to rename this iso to match reality (it has

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 08:04 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Fedora Project decides to not ship split media anymore, will do it, regardless of how valuable you or anyone else outside Fedora Unity thinks it is. And this is what pisses me off, and why I say you're holding us hostage. Whether or

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: It's not just that ens1371 is shown as unrealistically popular, es1371 is what either QEMU or VMWare emulates. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

splitting a meta package in F-11

2009-06-15 Thread Simo Sorce
In F-11 the samba4 package provides subpackages for libtalloc and libtdb. In rawhide we have split these packages out on their own as these 2 packages are finally released independently also upstream. I'd like to split these out of the samba4 meta package in F-11 as well so that we can upgrade

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jeff Spaleta wrote: I wonder, Would there be a reliable way to separate out emulated hardware inside the smolt database reliably so we can get a better statistical survey of in-service physical hardware devices? QEMU inserts its name into the CPU string does it not? It could be sorted that

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Sunday 14 June 2009, Richard Fearn wrote: We have the wheel group which would fit the bill. Yeah, I always uncomment the %wheel line in sudoers and then add myself to that group. Ditto. See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462161 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Split Media - A use case

2009-06-15 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 06/15/2009 12:24 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: In fact, why are you wasting a DVD or CDs? That's not very green of you. Give them a USB stick with the DVD install ISO loaded on it so it can be reused for more useful things. On a machine with only a CD drive, it's not unreasonable to assume

REMINDER: End of life of Fedora 9

2009-06-15 Thread Jon Stanley
Hey folks - Just a reminder that the end of life date for F9 was set at 2009-07-10 at last week's FESCo meeting. This means that as of this date, no new builds will be allowed in koji, and no updates will be pushed. Due to the July 4 holiday in the US, however, we recommend getting any last F9

Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Way back when in February [1], FESCo decided that for Fedora 11, i586 would be the default architecture, and for Fedora 12, it would be some variant of i686. It's time to follow through on that action item. I've submitted https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support. It defines the

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

2009-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
Bill Nottingham wrote: Way back when in February [1], FESCo decided that for Fedora 11, i586 would be the default architecture, and for Fedora 12, it would be some variant of i686. It's time to follow through on that action item. I've submitted

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

2009-06-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Ciesla (l...@jcomserv.net) said: PLEASE do not do this. If we stop supporting Pentium II and Pentium III, I have to buy a whole lot of new hardware. Dead serious. Could we do i686 as a secondary arch, and swap with i386 further in the future? While I understand you may have a

Re: Porting amarok-1.4 to F11

2009-06-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 15/06/09 19:02, Ingvar Hagelund wrote: As one of many, I'm the semi-happy owner of an Apple iPhone. The iPhone and the iPod Touch's media player db is well supported under Linux, using tools like libgpod, and iFuse or sshfs for access. Until recently, one could use amarok as a front end to

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

2009-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
Bill Nottingham wrote: Jon Ciesla (l...@jcomserv.net) said: PLEASE do not do this. If we stop supporting Pentium II and Pentium III, I have to buy a whole lot of new hardware. Dead serious. Could we do i686 as a secondary arch, and swap with i386 further in the future? While

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

2009-06-15 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Bill Nottinghamnott...@redhat.com wrote: While I understand you may have a lot of older hardware, the point of a *seconday* architecture is that it's not the primary architecture target. Even if we didn't split off older CPUs, we're still primarily targeting

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

2009-06-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:53:13PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Way back when in February [1], FESCo decided that for Fedora 11, i586 would be the default architecture, and for Fedora 12, it would be some variant of i686. It's time to follow through on that action item. I've submitted

Re: Porting amarok-1.4 to F11

2009-06-15 Thread Ingvar Hagelund
* Ingvar Hagelund While waiting for amarok-2.x to support scripting or fuse mounts, I could use some advice on getting 1.4 to work. All the parts seems to be present, I just can't get them to play together. * Frank Murphy also check out http://www.rockbox.org/ Rockbox is a cool project,

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 09:57:56PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Mike McGrath wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 15.06.09 09:15, James Morris (jmor...@namei.org) wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote:

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

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Weyl
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.comwrote: A seconday arch could be done for these older CPUs, if someone is interested enough. Another option would be to retain the current i586 support, and add the i686+SSE2 as a new primary arch, with an eye towards

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

2009-06-15 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Chris Weyl wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: A seconday arch could be done for these older CPUs, if someone is interested enough. Another option would be to retain the current i586 support, and add the

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

2009-06-15 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jon Ciesla wrote: :) -sv Hey, I never suggested that I'm opposed to upgrading all my hardware. Who's buying? ;) I'd like to introduce you to EBAY :) -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

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

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com said: What CPUs do we lose that F11 supports? - Intel Pentium Pro - Intel Pentium II - Intel Pentium III - 32-bit AMD Athlon Really? So Fedora i686 won't really be i686? That sucks, and is confusing. I still have a number of boxes in

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

2009-06-15 Thread Jeremy Sanders
Bill Nottingham wrote: - Faster and more consistent FP math by using SSE2 registers - Allows for autovectorization by GCC where necessary - More clearly delineates our support set of targets, sticking true to forwards innovation, not necessarily legacy support Why not leave it be and

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 15.06.09 14:47, Dave Jones (da...@redhat.com) wrote: As already mentioned, smolt never heard of HDA. Either I am blind or there is no trace at all of HDA devices in this web UI. Maybe I'm

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
On 06/15/2009 03:04 PM, Robert Marcano wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Casey Dahlincdah...@redhat.com wrote: The problem that does arise is: just because apache is installed doesn't mean its running. Really, init scripts should open the firewall ports they need when their service

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread devzero2000
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/15/2009 07:19 AM, Florian Festi wrote: I've been thinking about proposing a Guideline that says header files should not be placed in noarch packages. Header files can contain architecture specific bits. We

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Casey Dahlin wrote: Really, init scripts should open the firewall ports they need when their service comes up (and I'll propose something for upstart 1.0 later today to make that make more sense.) How is that supposed to work when I only want to allow connections to a service on a whitelist

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Rex Dieter wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: It's not about the upgrade process. It is only about compare_providers. You have 3 pkgs providing 'foo' foo-1.1.noarch foo-1.0.x86_64 foo-1.0.i386 Which one do you pick on x86_64 or i686? We weight extra toward pkgs in the same

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

2009-06-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:45:08AM -0700, Chris Weyl wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.comwrote: A seconday arch could be done for these older CPUs, if someone is interested enough. Another option would be to retain the current i586 support, and add the

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Ben Boeckel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Rex Dieter wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: It's not about the upgrade process. It is only about compare_providers. You have 3 pkgs providing 'foo' foo-1.1.noarch foo-1.0.x86_64 foo-1.0.i386 Which one

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

2009-06-15 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: What CPUs do we lose that F11 supports? - Intel i586 (all) - Intel Pentium Pro - Intel Pentium II - Intel Pentium III - 32-bit AMD Athlon - AMD Geode - VIA C3 - Transmeta Crusoe Oh I didn't know my old `2001 PIII 128 MB laptop is that old.

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Ben Boeckel wrote: A special exemption for noarch in arch compares and version differences? If it's between some arch and noarch, defer to the version checker. Yes, as I explained on irc, it's doable - but where it gets implemented (and what else it breaks) is not as

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Mike McGrath
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 15.06.09 14:47, Dave Jones (da...@redhat.com) wrote: Are you speaking of the same smolt that lists es1371 as most popular sound card? i.e. a sound card that has been out of production since about 10 years now? Somehow I

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
On 06/14/2009 09:13 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 14:23 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Simo Sorcesso...@redhat.com wrote: I haven't done a graphical root login in the past 10 years probably and on multiple distribution. Graphical root login is

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

2009-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: What CPUs do we lose that F11 supports? - Intel i586 (all) - Intel Pentium Pro - Intel Pentium II - Intel Pentium III - 32-bit AMD Athlon - AMD Geode - VIA C3 - Transmeta Crusoe Oh I didn't know my old `2001 PIII

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Matthew Woehlke wrote: Configuration is fine, just as long as there /is/ configuration and not running a service always exposes it to the world with no way to prevent that. (Prevention by editing init-scripts doesn't count ;-).) That's terrible. Unfortunately, I noticed after hitting 'send'

Re: No bluetooth for PulseAudio nonbelievers

2009-06-15 Thread Ahmed Kamal
yum remove pulseaudio Not quite sure this is the right approach (because -- as you've already noticed -- some things unexpectedly depend on PA). What about `yum erase alsa-plugins-pulseaudio` instead? Thanks for the suggestion, however, I have gone a different route since Gnome desktop

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Casey Dahlincdah...@redhat.com wrote: The ability for nautilus to prompt for credentials when the user tries to do something outside his permission level has been missing for far too long. Its annoying to implement, but I'll owe a beer to whoever finally does

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

2009-06-15 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 20:01 +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: Bill Nottingham wrote: - Faster and more consistent FP math by using SSE2 registers - Allows for autovectorization by GCC where necessary - More clearly delineates our support set of targets, sticking true to forwards

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

2009-06-15 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jon Ciesla wrote: Also, I was wondering, myself aside, are the newer processors as prevalent all geographic locations? Forget geographic locations, I would be more worried about economic status. I worry that we're shutting out not only poorer /countries/, but poorer /people/ everywhere, e.g.

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

2009-06-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
On 06/15/2009 03:01 PM, Jeremy Sanders wrote: Why not leave it be and suggest people move to the less brain dead x86-64 instead? Innovation and legacy support. The slower x86 is, the more motivation there is to move to x86-64. Jeremy The 98% of the world that doesn't deal with assembly

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

2009-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jon Ciesla wrote: BTW are those new VIA netbooks SSE2-capable? Additionally, what will this do to RHEL? I can't imagine RHEL customers being too happy about this for RHEL7(?), and if i386 would still be in RHEL, it would worry me that it would only

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
On 06/15/2009 04:22 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Casey Dahlincdah...@redhat.com wrote: The ability for nautilus to prompt for credentials when the user tries to do something outside his permission level has been missing for far too long. Its annoying to

glxgears non-benchmarkiness (was Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance)

2009-06-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 21:49 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 05:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: and no, glxgears is not a benchmark! Indeed, glxgears really sucks as as a benchmark, Phoronix's benchmark suite (as imperfect as it is) is definitely more useful. I

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

2009-06-15 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jon Ciesla wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jon Ciesla wrote: BTW are those new VIA netbooks SSE2-capable? Additionally, what will this do to RHEL? I can't imagine RHEL customers being too happy about this for RHEL7(?), and if i386 would still be in

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

2009-06-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:31:17PM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jon Ciesla wrote: BTW are those new VIA netbooks SSE2-capable? Additionally, what will this do to RHEL? I can't imagine RHEL customers being too happy about this for RHEL7(?), and if

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

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jon Ciesla wrote: Additionally, what will this do to RHEL? I can't imagine RHEL customers being too happy about this for RHEL7(?), and if i386 would still be in RHEL, it would worry me that it would only be a secondary arch in Fedora. . . Can the myth of RH controls Fedora's direction

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

2009-06-15 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: ppc/ppc64 is supported in RHEL.  It is no longer a primary arch in Fedora. josh Really? I obviously missed something. /me will look at FESCo logs. Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Porting amarok-1.4 to F11

2009-06-15 Thread Ingvar Hagelund
* Rex Dieter amarok2 supports qtscript (which is why it currently has a dependency on qtscriptbindings) So, it should be possible to access a mounted iPod db in amarok-2.x using qtscript? Ingvar -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

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

2009-06-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:53:13PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: - AMD Geode I'm a little worried about this one. Although AMD stopped making the processors at the end of 2008, they were sort of popular for certain super-cheap, small (for want of a better description) Mac Mini clones that have

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

2009-06-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:01:09PM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: Bill Nottingham wrote: - Faster and more consistent FP math by using SSE2 registers - Allows for autovectorization by GCC where necessary - More clearly delineates our support set of targets, sticking true to forwards

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

2009-06-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Frank Murphy (frankl...@gmail.com) said: Hope I'm not sidetracking. Was there also talk of all 64bit cpu's getting a 64bit kernel? Even if install was 32bit? Given the work that's required to do that, it should be tracked separately. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

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

2009-06-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Bill Nottinghamnott...@redhat.com wrote: [snip] - Faster and more consistent FP math by using SSE2 registers I doubt having consistently lower FP precision is anything many users are asking for. The few that do can usually take care of themselves. - Allows for

Re: Push?

2009-06-15 Thread Peter Robinson
As a side note, is this impacting override tagging, as well?  (I'm not sure if the two functions are related.) They're unrelated. Is there a different problem with the override tagging then? Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Lennart Poetteringmzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Sun, 14.06.09 16:11, Jeff Spaleta (jspal...@gmail.com) wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Lennart Poetteringmzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Are you speaking of the same smolt that lists es1371 as most

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

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:22:12PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:31:17PM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: I'm not sure I understand why not. Are you saying that if RedHat decided that RHEL7 was to support Sparc , there'd be no interest in making that a primary

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

2009-06-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Ciesla (l...@jcomserv.net) said: Additionally, what will this do to RHEL? I can't imagine RHEL customers being too happy about this for RHEL7(?), and if i386 would still be in RHEL, it would worry me that it would only be a secondary arch in Fedora. . . Not that it matters for

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

2009-06-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Krzysztof Halasa (k...@pm.waw.pl) said: Oh I didn't know my old `2001 PIII 128 MB laptop is that old. Works fine with F11 BTW. It's old enough that the processor ceased production before Fedora even existed. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Casey Dahlincdah...@redhat.com wrote: Maybe we should just make the command line more friendly so users don't mind reaching for it. I vote we add clippy. yum install hotwire ;) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

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

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Bill Nottinghamnott...@redhat.com wrote: Not that it matters for Fedora, but I doubt many people are paying $whatever_the_price_of_RHEL_is to run on a 6, 7, 10-year old machine. And RHEL 5 only supports (base) i686 or greater already. You know, I haven't seen

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