Re: Wild and crazy times for the development tree

2006-03-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 19:43 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: Ian Pilcher wrote: Mike A. Harris wrote: All proprietary drivers? ;o) I can't help wondering... What do you guys do when you want decent 3D performance? Use the proprietary drivers ... :-) That'll likely vary

Re: Wild and crazy times for the development tree

2006-03-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:29 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: Paul F. Johnson wrote: Hi, But let's get a clear roadmap down this time, what features are essential for the next cycle? A *much* reduced core size (5 CDs + rescue is getting a bit much) and large reduction in the

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

2009-05-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 13:15 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Can we please not remove the Group tag, it is actually quite usefull. What we need to remove / loose is comps. Having all this info in a centralized database is stupid. The spec files should tell which group(s) the

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: On Miércoles 03 Junio 2009 05:09:49 Ralf Corsepius escribió: Kevin Kofler wrote: Steve Grubb wrote: I don't want to start a long thread, but just to ask a couple questions for my own clarification. Does a maintainer's responsibilities end with packaging bugs? IOW

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:06:45 +0200, Ralf wrote: I consider users (esp. bug reporters) not to be the dumb pigs eating the hog wash they get for free, or clueless comsumer masses aborbing anything they don't pay for with money, but them to be the foundation of your work

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Steven M. Parrish wrote: Many people have mentioned that it is not right to ask the users to file their bug reports upstream. I ask why not? Let me summarize what I already wrote elsewhere in this thread: * Users aren't necessarily developers. * Users aren't necessarily interested in

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Conrad Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 10:23:05 pm Ralf Corsepius wrote: Let me try an analogy: How do you handle defects/malfunctions with your car? Did a bunch of hobbyists from around the world build your car by communicating over the internet? Have you ever seen an open source

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Kevin Kofler wrote: Steve Grubb wrote: Not if its closed. How would I be notified that the fix is in Fedora? If the bug is severe enough, shouldn't the upstream commit be applied to Fedora's package and the package pushed out for testing? Is all this going to happen if the bug is closed?

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: I consider maintainers redirecting arbitrary reporters to upstreams to be rude and hostile, because they are presuming the reporter to be * interested in tracking down bugs If you don't care about your bug, why are you reporting it in the first place

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
David Tardon wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:05AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Steven M. Parrish wrote: Many people have mentioned that it is not right to ask the users to file their bug reports upstream. I ask why not? Let me summarize what I already wrote elsewhere in this thread

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: Signing up for an upstream Bugzilla account takes at most 5 minutes, ... when being interested in an upstream ... wasting much more time on investigating issues ... There are other packages and packagers (noteworthy many of the @RH) who exhibit

Re: Too eager?

2009-06-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Jon Ciesla wrote: I installed F-11 fedora-release* and did yum clean all ; yum update I got YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498720 This is a fully updated F-10 system. Manually filling in releasever and basearch in

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

2009-06-18 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Bill Nottingham wrote: Ralf Corsepius (rc040...@freenet.de) said: *That's* what I mean by we don't really support i586 in any meaningful manner. You seem to be speaking in terms of You == RH. No, period - I haven't seen anyone in the community say that they're testing it on i586-class

Re: [JANITOR] Duplicate directory ownership cleanups

2009-06-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Stephen Gallagher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/2009 06:07 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Tom spot Callaway wrote: Hi, I'm Scruffy, the Fedora Janitor. Today (and likely, over the next few days/weeks), I'll be going through and making minor changes to packages

Re: [JANITOR] Duplicate directory ownership cleanups

2009-06-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:42:57 +0200, Ralf wrote: be fixing cases where the duplicate directory ownership is acceptable, like much of the perl structure, so you don't have to worry about that. Well, ... he just has committed patches in which he does exactly the opposite.

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Jesse Keating wrote: On Jun 29, 2009, at 16:05, Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/29 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com: Focus on rawhide will mean the next release will see the improvements :) That means, that the next release will be untested, as usual. So why create

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: As much fun as it is to make up stats on the spot, I would ask you to show some proof that nobody uses rawhide. The shape of Fedora 11 speaks for itself. speaking of dramatic and negative. Yes, my Fedora 11 _desktop_

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-06-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Kevin Kofler wrote: Daniel P. Berrange wrote: This is seriously dubious for F9, since if it causes a problem there is next to no time in which to fix it before F9 updates are turned off. In general I struggle to believe that there is a compelling need to rebase automake versions in our stable

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Stepan Kasal wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:30:37AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: Some software may need the new version to build. Very unlikely. There are people using the new features, like Jim Mayering, the coreutils maintainer, and others. Building

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 12:50 +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 09:02 +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: Owen Taylor wrote: I was rather surprised to see: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-6661

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: a) it will cause some moderate stir-up to those packages whose upstreams are still abusing the autotools. s/ab// ;-) Why can't we just move to a better build system with higher focus on backwards compatibility? Because a) the autotools

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Jim Meyering wrote: I try to accommodate progressiveness, when the benefit appears to outweigh the risk. ACK. The risk of an automake-1.10-automake-1.11 upgrade on Fedora is close to zero and outweigh the effects of bug fixes having gone into automake-1.11. So far, I know of no

Re: ppc64 assistance

2009-07-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Peter Robinson wrote: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1449113 Unrelated to this issue, but please use make V=1 so we see the actual build command lines in the build.log (see the thread about the new automake). With V=1

Re: ppc64 assistance

2009-07-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Peter Robinson wrote: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1449113 Unrelated to this issue, but please use make V=1 so we see the actual build command lines in the build.log (see the thread about the new automake). With V=1

Re: readline update?

2009-07-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Miroslav Lichvar wrote: I'd like to update readline to the latest version 6.0. The problem is that the license was changed to GPLv3+ and we have some GPLv2 packages using readline. A possible replacement is the editline library which provides a compatible interface and is licensed under BSD,

Re: readline update?

2009-07-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Jussi Lehtola wrote: Quoting Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de: drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: Miroslav Lichvar wrote: A possible replacement is the editline library which provides a compatible interface and is licensed under BSD

Re: $HOME/bin

2009-07-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:08:55PM +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: Stefan Assmann wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why there's no $HOME/bin directory and $HOME/bin not mentioned in the $PATH variable. Any particular reason not to have that by default? $HOME/bin is not on

Re: $HOME/bin

2009-07-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Michal Hlavinka wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:08:55PM +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: Stefan Assmann wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why there's no $HOME/bin directory and $HOME/bin not mentioned in the $PATH variable. Any particular reason not to have that by default?

Re: $HOME/bin

2009-07-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Emmanuel Seyman wrote: * Ralf Corsepius [13/07/2009 15:50] : For ordinary users, prepending ~/bin to $PATH is the only approach e.g. to replace vendor-supplied applications, the security risks are almost non-existent. You can also use bash aliases to override binary calls. Sometimes

Re: NVR bugs in rawhide

2009-07-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:01:50 +0200, Ralf wrote: You don't need to drop %dist for koji build inheritance to work. It just looks much cleaner to inherit foo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm for all newer targets IFF current rpm is sufficiently compatible to the antique version of rpm a

Re: NVR bugs in rawhide

2009-07-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:54:10 +0200, Ralf wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:01:50 +0200, Ralf wrote: You don't need to drop %dist for koji build inheritance to work. It just looks much cleaner to inherit foo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm for all newer targets

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 08:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 21:42 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: On 07/25/2009 08:56 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 10:40 AM, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: It may be news to you, but a single negative result invalidates a whole series of positive tests ;) No, that means that they are bugs / problems but not that the feature is

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 09:34 PM, John Poelstra wrote: Ralf Corsepius said the following on 07/26/2009 11:35 AM Pacific Time: Are there bug numbers for these issues? I filed some BZs for which I couldn't find as already filed by others (some already were): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 07:33 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 11:26 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/27/2009 07:33 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 11:25 AM, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: all of my system has

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 03:39 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: * Ralf Corsepius [27/07/2009 13:49] : Your problem, if you are using a non-reboot persistant /tmp Although data stored in /tmp may be deleted in a site-specific manner, it is recommended that files and directories located in /tmp be deleted

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 10:21 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: Regenerating the images is expensive -- it requires effort on the part of the developers doing fixes, release engineering doing builds with the fixes, QA testing the fixes, infrastructure (mirrors) carrying a significant amount more bits[1], ... Not

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/28/2009 01:19 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:27:00PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: That means that you can take revisor, pungi or livecd-tools in your existing Fedora system None of these are what I am looking for. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/28/2009 01:43 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: On 07/28/2009 12:54 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/28/2009 12:27 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote: As it turns out, we ship all the tools to build the distribution the exact way we do! And as David said, he's been working with Jeroen for occasional

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/29/2009 12:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:43 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: With all due respect to fedoraunity and you. To me it is a serious Fedora management and rel-eng mistake causing major harm to fedora's and RH's reputation to not provide updated media, thus

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/29/2009 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 01:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/28/2009 01:19 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:27:00PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: That means that you can take revisor, pungi or livecd-tools in your existing

Re: F12 mass rebuild status

2009-07-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/30/2009 01:40 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: I've now generated the first of the mass rebuild status pages. http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/needed-f12-rebuilds.html corsepiu: OpenSceneGraph Seems as if you modified the *.spec (traces in CVS), but haven't launched any built (no traces

Re: An easy way to redefine configure?

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/04/2009 02:01 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 13:42 +0200, Mattias Ellert wrote: What's the correct way to do this? %global dconfigure %(rpm -E %%configure | sed 's!./configure!../configure!g') %dconfigure This works, but isn't it bad style to call rpm from within a

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 10:39 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status or their ability to tested during the Alpha is unclear based on the lack of information provided or percentage of

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 10:55 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/06/2009 02:14 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: IMO, this feature should be scratched, because the packages in question are of immature nature (... and of low packaging quality from my POV). Be specific. This is not enough information to influence

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 12:32 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/06/2009 10:39 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 02:10 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 13:39 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: On 08/06/2009 12:32 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/06/2009 10:39 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: After requesting status

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 02:18 PM, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: * IM (NSH) O, the packaging quality of the submitted packages is close to being inacceptable low. Can you be more verbose on that one? 3 Examples: 1. He is running the

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 05:20 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 16:20 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: On 08/06/2009 02:18 PM, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: * IM (NSH) O, the packaging quality of the submitted packages

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 05:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 16:14 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: On 08/06/2009 02:10 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: I asked you to write down the problems you found in bz and CC me, but so far I haven't received a mail. I haven't received any

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 09:33 PM, Till Maas wrote: Hiyas, currently upstream release monitoring[0] bug filing is opt-in, which means that it will be only performed for packages that have been activly added by probably a maintainer of the package. There is at least one maintainer that does not like having

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 09:12 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: Ralf Corsepius, Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:14:47 +0200: I turned away from supporting Mr. Robinson, ignored his reviews and left reviews to others So you lost your right to slander him now. Do you expect people to continue a review even when you'd have

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/07/2009 10:48 AM, Till Maas wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:35:14AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/06/2009 09:33 PM, Till Maas wrote: currently upstream release monitoring[0] bug filing is opt-in, which means that it will be only performed for packages that have been activly

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/07/2009 04:19 PM, Matěj Cepl wrote: Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de writes: On 08/06/2009 09:12 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: Do you expect people to continue a review even when you'd have to decide against the best of your knowledge and conciousness? Actually, yes, I do. Your job is not to

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/08/2009 07:25 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: lack of maintainer skills (e.g. running the autotools), You are insulting maintainers for having a different opinion, It's not a matter of opinions it's a matter of technical facts. It doesn't matter how many people deny

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/08/2009 07:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 05:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: IMHO, the proper way is to express opinion, and even when disagreement happens, approve review == switch off your brains, morals, knowledge Pardon, but you don't want how disgusting I find

Re: --target in %configure in rawhide i386

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/08/2009 08:58 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 18:34 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/08/2009 12:19 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: Hi, why does %configure still use --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i586-redhat-linux-gnu in rawhide i386, shouldn't

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/10/2009 05:17 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 08/07/2009 02:54 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Pointing it out on a review and restoring to calling the packages bad quality if people don't follow your controversial recommendation isn't going to scale at all. This is a good perspective, Ralf.

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/10/2009 08:48 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: I am applying this approach to several of my Fedora packages (some of which I know to suffer from such issues, e.g. Coin2), fixed some packages (owned by others) this way, which had failed during the F11-mass-rebuild, exactly

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/10/2009 09:01 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 08/10/2009 11:44 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: They are very easy to demonstrate. Commonly known cases are building gcc, binutils, gdb, firefox etc. Are these of the sort where a bug is reported, it's found that autotools made a bad decision

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/10/2009 11:56 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/10/2009 09:01 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: Are these of the sort where a bug is reported, it's found that autotools made a bad decision, and then patching autotools fixed

Re: Updates lacking descriptions

2009-08-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/12/2009 11:54 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote: If this is enforced (and it may be good to add it to the critical-path suggestion), updates will be reduced since when there's little to write about, there's less justification for an update in the first place. Correct, such a step will add a

Re: Updates lacking descriptions

2009-08-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2009 10:41 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: Correct, such a step will add a significant bureaucratic burdons to maintainers. As maintainers hate bureaucrazy and prefer investing time on dealing with technical issues (such as bug fixes), this will likely introduce

Re: Updates lacking descriptions

2009-08-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2009 06:55 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:32:24PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/13/2009 09:29 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:53:57 +0200, Kevin wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: With you folks demanding more explicit changelogs you

Re: Updates lacking descriptions

2009-08-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/14/2009 07:32 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 05:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: I strongly think Fedora would be better without Rahul and Kevin, two persons I have learned to be doing a good job on certain subjects, but to be a miscast on certain jobs and failure

yum update vs. blender

2009-09-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Hi, today's yum update came along with this: # yum update ... Updating : blender-2.49b 1.fc11.x86_64 16/57 Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown

Re: Howto handle multilib conflict?

2009-10-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/10/2009 01:48 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Freitag, den 09.10.2009, 18:56 -0400 schrieb Neal Becker: What if the generated docbook documents are different due to different ids? Do we need to separate the docs into a noarch

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/11/2009 11:29 AM, Tim Lauridsen wrote: On 10/11/2009 11:16 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: On 10/11/2009 04:54 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: It was ok to ship a beta release of thunderbird but updates shouldn't cause such issues. If the fixes were necessary to push as updates then it would have

Re: Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/14/2009 03:04 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! Imagine an application, which relies on a specific kernel module. This module is not a part of stock Fedora kernel (at least, yet), and we don't allow stand-alone kernel modules. Whether or not this package can be allowed? IMO: no.

Re: Updates-testing

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/14/2009 05:47 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: yum downgrade pkgname it works fine for the simple-ish cases. Is there a thunderbird-2.0 package for F11? For me, all thunderbird-3.*'s in FC11 were simply too bugged to be usable (The UI changes are not an issue for me - for me, TB3 is simply too

Re: Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/14/2009 06:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:29:13PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/14/2009 03:04 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! Imagine an application, which relies on a specific kernel module. This module is not a part of stock Fedora kernel

Re: Broken dependencies script at it again

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/14/2009 05:12 PM, Paul Howarth wrote: Please make it stop. +1 ... ... so far, I've received ca. 1200 of these mails and the figure is still growing by the minute. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Broken dependencies script at it again

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/14/2009 10:12 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Henrique Junior wrote: +1 Are people +1'ing getting rid of the broken dependencies script altogether? or +1'ing to predicting the future and stopping it before it breaks? No, it's raising hands to a) draw attention of

Re: A silly question about our FC tag

2009-11-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/17/2009 09:08 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Henrique Junior wrote on 16.11.2009 23:57: I have a question that may sound a little stupid, but that came as I write a short article about some Fedora's curiosities. Why are our packages still using the tag f*c*X, f*c*Y, f*c*W since Fedora does

Re: Broken deps for rawhide the past few days

2009-11-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/16/2009 08:22 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: Many of you received emails over the weekend and this morning regarding broken deps in rawhide. If these emails mentioned that the deps were broken on ppc or ppc64 they can be ignored. We are no longer producing ppc/ppc64 as a primary arch, however

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/19/2009 07:14 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit machines in general. The moblin desktop is addressing a completely different audience. Oh? That's not what I got from

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/20/2009 06:31 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/20/2009 08:22 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 11/19/2009 07:14 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit machines in general

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/20/2009 09:02 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: On 11/19/2009 08:14 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit machines in general. The moblin desktop is addressing a completely different

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/20/2009 11:58 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: IMO, they are targetting MID devices, competing with Android, Smart phones and similar. Not at the moment they're not/ Then please explain what they are targetting. So far, all of Moblin I have seen was them trying to turn a multi-user

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

2009-11-23 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/23/2009 09:00 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 13:48 -0600, Chris Adams a écrit : Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhotnicolas.mail...@laposte.net said: Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 09:51 -0700, Jerry James a écrit : 1) I'm going to nag you forever about a problem

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

2009-11-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/25/2009 01:13 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: On 11/25/2009 08:38 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: Instead of this I would pretty much like to have the normal install DVD being full (4GB, instead of 3.0-3.3GB as now), so when installing a computer I have more content on local media and less stuff to

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 03:39 PM, Matthew Booth wrote: The separate updates directory has been a pain for as long as I've been using RHL/Fedora Core/Fedora. It means you have two places to look when searching for packages manually, and twice as much to configure when you're configuring yum. It has never

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 06:01 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:06:22AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: However, other than 'browsing manually for packages', I'm not really sure what problem you are trying to solve by getting rid of the updates repository. It would seem like this has quite a

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 06:40 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 18:09 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: * It shifts costs from users to vendor and from mirrors to master. * It helps users who are using networked installs to spare bandwidth (avoids downloading obsolete packages from Everything

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 07:09 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: the merger of repos is already happening at the yum layer. On the client's side - With a combined Everything+updates, this would happen on the server side. It's one of the aspects which made me said a combined Everything+updates shifts costs from

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/03/2009 06:32 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/02/2009 07:09 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: the merger of repos is already happening at the yum layer. On the client's side - With a combined Everything+updates, this would happen on the server side. It's

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/03/2009 07:22 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 06:24 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: People doing network installs can either add the updates repo to their kickstart, or check the box in the anaconda UI, so that the updates repos are considered at install time. No download

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/05/2009 06:22 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On Fri, December 4, 2009 9:20 pm, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/03/2009 07:22 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 06:24 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Yes, for people who are doing full featured networked installs w/ custom kickstart

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2009 06:41 PM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Rallias UberNerd robinstar1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:16 -0600, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: Are you installing Fedora on the computer you're using now? [YES] [NO]

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2009 09:26 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote: On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: * More packages (rpms) to cope with. Only if you pollute your system with 32-bit multilibs. A pure x86_64 system doesn't have any more packages than a 32-bit one. Fedora

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2009 02:05 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:51:59 +0100, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: Seems to me, as if some people in Fedora's leadership don't want to understand that being able to deploy Linux on old or recycled hardware used to be one big

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2009 04:14 PM, James Antill wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:26 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: So, yeh, if _you_ want to support slower machines Well, I do not want to, I can't avoid to ... ... _you_ will have to do the work, you might get help from the community but just ranting

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2009 05:51 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/09/2009 04:14 PM, James Antill wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:26 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: So, yeh, if _you_ want to support slower machines Well, I do not want to, I can't avoid

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

2009-12-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/14/2009 10:27 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Dim 13 décembre 2009 22:35, Chris Adams a écrit : As for the RAM overhead of 64 bit code vs. 32 bit code, I don't see it much in the real world. The worst case I've seen reported is when the RAM overhead managed to annihilate register

Re: packages requiring me to reboot...

2009-12-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/16/2009 06:34 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, nodata wrote: Am 2009-12-16 18:21, schrieb Seth Vidal: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, nodata wrote: we're talking about the experienced user who is comfortable knowing what does and does not need a reboot. All I'm saying is - we've

Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/29/2009 11:52 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, OLPC's security system uses libtomcrypt / tomsfastmath, both at the Linux level and the firmware level. OLPC has previously had a specific version of tomcrypt/tommath profesionally audited for security reasons. So we obviously want to stick with

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