Re: rawhide report: 20100109 changes

2010-01-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:33:22PM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > cduce-0.5.3-3.fc13.i686 requires ocaml(runtime) = 0:3.11.1 Still not much happening upstream here. > why-2.23-1.fc13.i686 requires ocaml(Types) = > 0:c36604dc5d4202662cfca61be96c3303 I rebuilt this one today -- it sho

Re: soname changing parted heading for rawhide

2010-01-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:19:58PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > Today I've rebased parted to parted-2.1, this means that the libparted > soname has changed, and all libparted using packages need to be rebuild: > > [h...@localhost ~]$ sudo repoquery -q --whatrequires > 'libparted-1.9.so.

Re: Fixing broken deps - result of new dependency generator?

2010-01-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:04:41AM -0600, Alan Dunn wrote: [...] I'd not realized that all the Fedora mailing lists had moved ... > My first build of why in a while seems to have broken deps in Rawhide: > > why has broken dependencies in the development tree: > On x86_64: >why-2.23-1.fc1

rpms/ocaml-postgresql/devel ocaml-postgresql.spec,1.19,1.20

2010-01-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Author: rjones Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/ocaml-postgresql/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv31492 Modified Files: ocaml-postgresql.spec Log Message: * Mon Jan 11 2010 Richard W.M. Jones - 1.12.3-3 - Ignore bogus thread module Provides which the automatic

rpms/ocaml-gettext/devel ocaml-gettext.spec,1.14,1.15

2010-01-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
ichard W.M. Jones - 0.3.3-3 +- Remove BR ocaml-camlidl. No longer required to build this. + * Wed Dec 30 2009 Richard W.M. Jones - 0.3.3-2 - Rebuild for OCaml 3.11.2. ___ ocaml-devel mailing list ocaml-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org

'make lint' bug with noarch package

2010-01-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
$ make lint rpmlint mingw32-freetype-2.3.11-1.fc13.src.rpm x86_64/*-2.3.11-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm (none): E: error while reading x86_64/*-2.3.11-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm: 'x86_64/*-2.3.11-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm' 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings. This package is noarch, so it shouldn't be l

Re: Sources file audit - 2010-01-06

2010-01-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:06:11AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > rjones:BADURL:expat-2.0.1.tar.gz:mingw32-expat > rjones:BADURL:mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-src.tar.gz:mingw32-runtime > rjones:BADURL:PDCurses-3.4.tar.gz:mingw32-pdcurses > rjones:BADURL:w32api-3.13-mingw32-src.tar.gz:mingw32-w32api > rjones

Re: rawhide report: 20100113 changes

2010-01-13 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:04:16PM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > ocaml-camlimages-3.0.2-1.fc13.i686 requires ocaml(Image_intf) = > 0:f81d11976accf8db51fbce0ac90013cb A bug .. now fixed. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs let

Re: Sources file audit - 2010-01-06

2010-01-13 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 04:21:08PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:06:11AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > rjones:BADURL:expat-2.0.1.tar.gz:mingw32-expat > > > rjones:BA

Re: rawhide report: 20100114 changes

2010-01-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:26:11PM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > cduce-0.5.3-3.fc13.i686 requires ocaml(runtime) = 0:3.11.1 I just nudged upstream about this one again. > 1:libguestfs-1.0.81-1.fc13.i686 requires /usr/lib/libxtables.so.2 Unannounced soname bump ... I've kicked off a

Re: rawhide report: 20100115 changes

2010-01-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:59:47PM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > 1:libguestfs-1.0.81-2.fc13.i686 requires /usr/lib/libplybootsplash.so.2 Another unannounced soname bump (different from yesterday). Rebuilding again ... Even after rebuilding libguestfs will be uninstallable unless you manual

Re: rawhide report: 20100121 changes

2010-01-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:09:57PM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > 1:libguestfs-1.0.81-3.fc13.i686 requires /lib/libntfs-3g.so.71 Long story, but I've fixed this upstream now. It should be fixed in Rawhide by tomorrow (not today). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http

Re: RFC: Remove write permissions from executables

2010-01-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:19:49PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > Hello, > In Fedora 12 several daemons (e.g. dhclient) were modified to drop > unnecessary capabilities, most importantly the "dac_override" > capability, allowing the daemon to ignore file permission bits. This, > in combination wit

Multilib help?

2010-01-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Is there better documentation on how multilib works and how to resolve multilib problems than http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/MultilibTricks ? I understand that it uses various heuristics before it corrupts files, but those don't seem to be documented. I just spent half a day tracki

Re: Multilib help?

2010-01-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 02:08:10PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > - If the file in both packages is identical, installation is allowed > and the file is written > - If the file in both packages is an ELF binary, the file used is the > file in the package for the primary architecture > - If the

Re: Multilib help?

2010-01-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:35:19PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > ...except looking at libguestfs-1.0.75-1.fc12, it *has* been built with > internal dependency generator, and it gives: > > Preparing...### > [100%] > file /usr/bin/lib

Re: Multilib help?

2010-01-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:43:35PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Note that rpm < 4.6.0 did behave differently here: packages with > conflicting files were allowed to be installed in the same transaction but > not if installed separately, leading to strange situations. So if there's > a chance

Re: rawhide report: 20100128 changes

2010-01-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:18:33PM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > 1:libguestfs-1.0.81-5.fc13.i686 requires /usr/lib/libxtables.so.4 > 1:libguestfs-1.0.81-5.fc13.i686 requires /usr/lib/libip6tc.so.0 > 1:libguestfs-1.0.81-5.fc13.i686 requires /usr/lib/libip4tc.so.0 > 1:libgues

Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-08-03)

2010-08-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 04:52:28PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:10:13 +0100 > "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:58:56PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the

Re: rawhide report: 20100805 changes

2010-08-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:46:08AM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > 1:libguestfs-1.5.2-4.fc14.i686 requires /lib/libxtables.so.4 > 1:libguestfs-1.5.2-4.fc14.x86_64 requires /lib64/libxtables.so.4 Unfortunately qemu isn't installable at the moment so I can't rebuild this. The error is:

Re: Creating private branches under fedpkg/git

2010-08-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:01:45PM +0100, M A Young wrote: > What is the policy on creating private branches under fedpkg/git? Can it > be done by anyone with acl commit or do you need special permissions? > > My interest is that I had a private branch of the kernel package under CVS > which I u

Re: rawhide report: 20100805 changes

2010-08-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:14:05PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:21:00PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:46:08AM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > > > 1:libguestfs-1.5.2-4.fc14.i686 requires /lib/libxtables.so.4 > >

Re: Fedora 14 branching and dist-git roll out

2010-08-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:25:42AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > fedpkg push (this step could be skipped with "fedpkg commit -p") Is there any essential difference between 'fedpkg push' and plain 'git push'? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjone

Re: git branch help?

2010-08-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:39:02AM -0700, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:12 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > But I guess git > > will be storing a lot of redundant stuff and forcing extra pulls if you > > work > > that way. :-( > > It looks like the current implementation of "fe

Re: HEADS UP! Ohloh Fedora repositories

2010-08-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:16:52PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hello All! > > I'm currently in process of automatic enlisting of all ~10K Fedora Git > repos at Ohloh. Right now roughly 7% of repositories were added and > overall process will be finished in a 20-30 hours (it takes me about > 5-1

Re: More python 2.7 fun: deprecation of PyCObject API

2010-08-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 02:20:51PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > (Sorry about the length of this email) > > Python 2.7 deprecated the PyCObject API in favor of a new "capsule" API. > http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html#capsules > (b) try to fix the ones that are self-contained; send f

Re: More python 2.7 fun: deprecation of PyCObject API

2010-08-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Thanks for the tip. It's sort of annoying that this new API is not in Python < 2.7, necessitating a bunch of #ifdef's in the code. This is the patch I came up with: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-August/msg00053.html Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http:

not tagged as an update candidate [again]

2010-08-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Last year I had the same error: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-October/039845.html Now I'm getting it again: fedpkg update [...] Creating a new update for libguestfs-1.4.2-1.fc13 libguestfs-1.4.2-1.fc13 not tagged as an update candidate What does this error mea

Re: not tagged as an update candidate [again]

2010-08-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:01:06AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/17/10 10:48 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > Last year I had the same error: > > > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipe

Re: not tagged as an update candidate [again]

2010-08-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:05:18PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The working could be better ... 'wording' even. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live C

Re: Get rid of file requires outside of the primary paths

2010-08-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:10:29PM +0200, Adam Tkac wrote: > Fedora Engineering Services > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Services) received > request to get rid of file requires outside of the primary paths > (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/31). > >

Re: Get rid of file requires outside of the primary paths

2010-08-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:02:13AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > I am a libguestfs user and I'm complaining. It means I have to schlep > down a bunch of extra info on every update of libguestfs and that sucks > on my bandwidth. This is basically a hard problem to solve. We rely on copying files dire

Re: Get rid of file requires outside of the primary paths

2010-08-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:43:16PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie This one too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compi

Re: Get rid of file requires outside of the primary paths

2010-08-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:29:35PM -0700, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 22:43 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:02:13AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > I am a libguestfs user and I'm complaining. It means I have to schlep >

git rebase OK on Fedora git branches?

2010-08-24 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Is it OK to use 'git rebase -i' to compress my mistakes together into a single working Fedora git commit? (Provided I don't push things in between or otherwise try to rewrite public history) I'm a bit confused by whether 'fedpkg commit', 'fedpkg build', 'fedpkg push' etc are doing magic that will

Re: F-14 Branched report: 20100824 changes

2010-08-24 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 04:42:17PM +, Branched Report wrote: > 1:libguestfs-1.5.2-4.fc14.i686 requires /lib/libxtables.so.4 This seems to be a warning about an older version than what's currently in F14: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=190165 https://admin.fedorapro

Re: systemd or why will user fall away from fedora?

2010-08-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:20:52PM +0200, Christof Damian wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 23:06, Mike McGrath wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Till Maas wrote: > >> If they like a faster bootup, then yes, they will. And I as a > >> workstation user like it. > >> > > > > [citation needed] > > > > I

Re: systemd or why will user fall away from fedora?

2010-08-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:38:00PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Anyway, I've always read the boot time thing as just a bit of fun had by > those who probably notice it the most. I've yet to be convinced it > really matters to everyone else any more, libguestfs cares (and you'll care if you're waiti

man vs man-db less/lesspipe formatting in Rawhide

2010-09-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I just upgraded 'man' on one of my rawhide machines, and this has obsoleted the old man package and installed man-db. This appears to have changed how 'less' processes man page (nroff) files. Previously, doing: less foo.1 would automagically process the file through: (echo ".pl 11i"; cat f

Re: F-14 Branched report: 20100904 changes

2010-09-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 03:14:12PM +, Branched Report wrote: > 1:libguestfs-1.5.5-1.fc14.i686 requires febootstrap >= 0:2.8 > 1:libguestfs-1.5.5-1.fc14.x86_64 requires febootstrap >= 0:2.8 Yup, this is a cock-up. I pushed libguestfs and febootstrap on the same day to testing (libg

Re: How long is a week?

2010-09-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:25:29AM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Quote from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria: > > All other updates must either: > · reach the criteria laid out in the previous section OR > · reach the positive Bodhi karma threshold specifie

Re: git usage question

2010-09-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:24:58PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > I need to make a minor edit to one of the sources of a package. I want the > sources on my machine in a state so that emacs will recognize the files are > under git control and act accordingly, so I can do my edits and use emacs > v

Re: git usage question

2010-09-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:44:27AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > "Richard W.M. Jones" writes: > > > For libguestfs I'm doing it manually. I have my own git repo which is > > a clone of the upstream libguestfs git repo. In that git repo I have > > t

Re: rawhide report: 20100909 changes

2010-09-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:23:01PM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > mingw32-OpenSceneGraph-2.8.2-4.fc14.noarch requires > mingw32(libpng-3.dll) I've asked the maintainer about this, but no response so far. See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=51#c8 > mingw32-libvi

Re: -static packages

2010-09-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 06:11:21PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:06:20PM +0100, Robert Spanton wrote: > > I've recently had to link a fair amount of my work statically so that > > it'll run on a cluster of RHEL machines. Unfortunately, I am just a > > user of these machi

Re: -static packages

2010-09-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:32:20PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones píše v Čt 16. 09. 2010 v 17:19 +0100: > > There are times when static linking is a useful. Robert clearly > > describes one in his original post. > Static libraries solve the "unprivilege

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:51:03AM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > 2010/9/21 Toshio Kuratomi : > > As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and as > > users) grows, this interdependence will grow. > > Ok, so maybe it's time to setup Fedora "backports" repo for these th

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:58:53PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > 2010/9/20 Michał Piotrowski : > > 2010/9/21 Toshio Kuratomi : > >> As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and as > >> users) grows, this interdependence will grow. > > > > Ok, so maybe it's time to setu

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:07:24PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:24 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > This is reasonably easy to fix: we should do some testing and withhold > > packages from Rawhide if they don't pass some basic sanity check

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:06:12PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:58:53PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> 2010/9/20 Michał Piotrowski : > >> > 2010/9/21 Toshio Kuratomi

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I should add that whether this testing happens in Koji or in AutoQA isn't material. AutoQA is probably better. *Provided* that if the basic sanity tests fail they must prevent the packages from going into the Rawhide compose. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:22:21AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:24:38 +0100, > "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: > > > > I use Rawhide on my laptop and one of my servers, so I'll tell you the > > answer to this: because cri

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:22:45PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:13 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Jesse Keating wrote: > > > It isn't going to be perfect, but it'll definitely be better than what > > > we have now. > > > > I'm still not going to use rawhide. Ther

Re: F-14 Branched report: 20100923 changes

2010-09-24 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 07:01:16PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Is it really necessary to include entire package change logs in the > rpm changelog? What is wrong with referencing either the included > changelog or a URL to a changelog that people can go and reference. I > remember this being dis

Another bug that would have been caught if packages went through a boot/acceptance test

2010-09-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
If you've been following updates to F14 alpha/beta, you'll undoubtedly have been hit by: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638091 which makes everything segfault and is unrecoverable without a live CD and a lot of manual intervention. A simple "does it boot" test in fact wouldn't have

Re: Firewall settings unworkable

2010-10-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 02:00:46PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > In system-config-printer I try to get it to modify the firewall to allow > in the various network query responses that we expect, [...] I should note, although it's not your fault, that this breaks libvirt networking. libvirt needs to a

"Command not found" misfeature

2010-10-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
F14 seems to have acquired a misfeature where if you mistype a command or a command is not found, it prints "Command not found." then pauses for some time, then (sometimes, not always) displays some sort of error[1]. How do I permanently disable this behaviour? Rich. [1] I think it was a yum o

Re: Firewall settings unworkable

2010-10-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 02:17:49AM +0200, Dennis J. wrote: [...] I asked Dan Berrange to join this thread since he's most knowledgable about the exact problem and requirements from the libvirt side. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df l

Re: ssh agent issue

2010-10-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 01:04:40PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Mike McLean wrote: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626209 > > Reported against F13, but I've encountered it in F14 Beta. > > > > Seems like more folks ought to be impacted by this bug t

Re: "Command not found" misfeature

2010-10-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 11:40:50AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:51:31 +0100, Richard wrote: > > > > > F14 seems to have acquired a misfeature where if you mistype a command > > or a command is not found, it prints "Command not found." then pauses > > for some time, then

update-mime-database errors: /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:749: parser error - when updating Fedora 14 packages

2010-10-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
The errors below happen several times during the yum update. Assuming that they must be generated by RPM %post scripts, I had a look at the affected packages (control-center, evolution-data-server, cheese, seahorse) and I suspect it's a problem with the update-mime-database command. Rich. Upd

Re: update-mime-database errors: /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:749: parser error - when updating Fedora 14 packages

2010-10-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:54:55PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Montag, den 04.10.2010, 11:58 +0100 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: > > The errors below happen several times during the yum update. > > > > Assuming that they must be generated by RPM %post scripts, I

Re: Firewall settings unworkable

2010-10-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Seems quite complex. What's wrong with a directory: /etc/iptables.d/ where RPMs like libvirt just drop the required additional rules (in a separate chain if you like) and restart the iptables service? It's low-tech but simple and it's all that libvirt needs. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtual

Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I installed and played with Ubuntu 10.10 over the weekend (in a VM), and I have to say that their installer is very smooth indeed. It's starting to make anaconda look distinctly clunky. Some of the things it does which are IMHO better: - starts disk formatting / copying / installing in paralle

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:51:41AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > I would like to see you create a Fedora Remix spin with this change to > illustrate the benefits. That way we can evaluate feasibility and > overall value add before we dive head first into it across the whole > project. Proving what?

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:37:15AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > On 10/11/2010 10:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:51:41AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> I would like to see you create a Fedora Remix spin with this change to > >> illustrate

Yubikey OTP doesn't work on https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/

2010-10-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
As the subject says. The yubikey still works fine for logging to FAS at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ My regular FAS password works fine at https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ Is yubikey supposed to work on these other sites? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat ht

Re: Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:49:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > You can reproduce the bug like this: > curl -o iputils-20071127-10.fc13.x86_64.rpm --range 1384-1400 > ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/iputils-20071127-10.fc13

Re: handling env variables like JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME...

2010-10-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 04:21:11PM +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote: > How can Fedora work out of the box with apps requiring env variables like > JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME ? > > Today, even though fedora provides java & maven, one still has to manually > set these vars. Should Fedora java/maven packages se

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 04:50:43PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:40 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, James Antill said: > > > Putting my really old sysadmin hat on, one other reason for > > > having /tmp, /var and /usr as separate mount points was so that you

Re: More mono/koji problems

2010-10-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 07:24:05PM +0100, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still trying to get to the bottom as to why mono is failing to build > on koji as either a scratch build or as a live build and I've come > across this on the x86 build - can anyone shed any light on it as it's > about

Re: Mounting an encrypted volume presents the volume to all users on a machine

2010-10-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:28:55AM +0200, nodata wrote: > The default behaviour is that a user must know and supply a passphrase > in order to mount an encrypted volume. This is good: know the > passphrase, you get to mount the volume. > > What I am concerned about is that the volume is mounted

Re: packaging laby

2010-10-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
[Sorry for the late reply, best to CC me in] On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:21:18AM +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > I've recently been trying to package laby[1] > > In the middle of building it in mock, I come across this error: > > > DEBUG: + make -j2 > > DEBUG: ocamlfind: Package `lablgtk2' not found

Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-10-26) NEW TIME!

2010-10-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:44:52PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 10/28/2010 01:11 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > * #480 F15Feature - RemoveSETUID ( > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID ) (nirik, > 19:15:16) > * AGREED: the feature is approved. (nirik, 19:26:46) > > > Th

Re: -frecord-gcc-switches as default CFLAG?

2010-10-30 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:24:02AM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: > I noticed on my Fedora 13 box that in the RPM macro %__global_cflags > that -frecord-gcc-switches is missing, which is a nifty compiler > feature that will record the flags passed to gcc in a section in the > object file, thus aiding in

Re: rawhide report: 20101030 changes

2010-10-30 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:27:16AM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > collectd-snmp-4.10.0-2.fc15.x86_64 requires libnetsnmp.so.20()(64bit) I just started a new build, should be fixed tomorrow. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df list

Re: RemoveSETUID feature (Was: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-10-26) NEW TIME!)

2010-11-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:19:15PM +, Paul Howarth wrote: > Any suggestions? We've encountered some funny things about tmpfs before: It doesn't support O_DIRECT at all, for example, necessitating workarounds in libguestfs/qemu. Just speculating, but maybe it doesn't support extended attribute

No koji repo for F14 yet?

2010-11-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/static-repos/ is missing dist-f14-build-current ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rj

Prelink erases capabilities (was: Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-10-26) NEW TIME!)

2010-11-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Here's another problem: Prelink erases file-based capabilities. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456105 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 04:10:31PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > If the maintainer is not responding to reports or not acting as the link > to upstream ( that if he's not upstream himself ) for the component he's > responsable for in Fedora I ask you this why are those components in >

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:11:22AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Interesting move: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 > > Has anyone looked into bringing Wayland to Fedora? If not this might be the > right time getting involved in the discussion. > > http://wayland.freedesktop.

Re: rawhide report: 20101105 changes

2010-11-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:28:53AM +, Rawhide Report wrote: > Compose started at Fri Nov 5 08:15:13 UTC 2010 > > Broken deps for x86_64 > -- > 3Depict-0.0.2-3.fc14.x86_64 requires libxml2.so.2(LIBXML2_2.6.0)(64bit) etc. Is it saf

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:07:30PM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:57:56AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:11:22AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > > Interesting move: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/55

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones (rjo...@redhat.com) said: > > > Has anyone looked into bringing Wayland to Fedora? If not this might be > > > the > > > right time getting involved in the

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > >> Richard W.M. Jones (rjo...@redhat.com) said: > >>>> Has anyone looke

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:20:08AM +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows. > > I wonder if there will be someone saying (when all the apps are native > Wayland apps) "If I wanted to step back to the pre-stetic* era, I'd > run X" > > I get the

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 11:51:37AM +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > Is Fedora for developers or what? > > If it is exclusively for developers with the exclusion of general > purpose features such as web browsing, photo management, and > multimedia consumption then I'll have to find a more general p

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:51:32PM +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > I believe it is possible to do photo management, web browsing and > > watching video, even on the current version of Fedora. > > Indeed. It's not the point that it's possible or not. I could do much > of that on a Windows 3.11 mach

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:07:04PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 10:57 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > > Is Fedora for developers or what? > > > > We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of > >

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:14:57PM +, Pierre Carrier wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 13:51, Camilo Mesias wrote: > >> With virtualization I have more Linux machines than ever (about 50 in > >> active use at last count).  All on my local 1GB network.  Consequently > >> I use X to them and to ot

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:02PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 14:21 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > > > Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? > > Because those are just the examples I know where X11 has been bl

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:28:08PM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > First I think you should probably head over to the Wayland mailing list and > get involved there. That's something I also recommend to Richard because if > you want certain features to be present now is a good time to make y

Re: Fwd: rpm packaging: package configuration

2011-07-13 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:57:03AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote: > I create a new package. > At install, we need to ask for some quesitons to the user to > preconfigure the application. As others have said, this is a bad idea and not permitted for Fedora. Personally I think it's a misfeature of apt

Re: Fwd: rpm packaging: package configuration

2011-07-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:25:04PM -0500, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: > Calling it a misfeature is a mistake. Just because you don't want to use it > doesn't mean it shouldn't be there. I'm perfectly capable of configuring priorities and frontends in dpkg, thanks for your concerns. However it's n

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Good timing! I have a related BTRFS / Fedora 16 question. I have used the "btrfs" Anaconda option, and I get btrfs appearing as a choice in the menus. However if I just change the root filesystem to btrfs, then I would get: /boot /dev/sda2 PV VG

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 09:13:56AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > Well it should be more like > > /boot/dev/sda1 > swap/dev/sda2 > btrfs Maybe I don't understand this. Is btrfs on /dev/sda3, or are the swap and root filesystems somehow combined on /dev/sda2? And if the latter, how does one

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 03:06:33PM +0100, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 07/14/2011 03:03 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 09:13:56AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > >>Well it should be more like > >> > >>/boot/dev/sda1 > >>swap/d

Are their guidelines for packaging translated man pages?

2011-07-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I have a package that supplies translated man pages (only in Ukrainian strangely enough). They are installed by the upstream under: %{_mandir}/uk/man1/ %{_mandir}/uk/man3/ Maybe my Google-fu is failing me, but I can't find any guidelines on how to package these for Fedora. Should I create

Re: Are their guidelines for packaging translated man pages?

2011-07-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:09:21AM +0200, Andreas Bierfert wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 08:57 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I have a package that supplies translated man pages (only in Ukrainian > > strangely enough). They are installed by the upstream under: > >

Re: on /etc/sysconfig

2011-07-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:46:30PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > This article recommends ending /etc/sysconfig > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/on-etc-sysinit.html I'm sympathetic to Lennart's arguments, but really this should be discussed and decided in the context of a real, open forum, drawi

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