Re: F21 System Wide Change: Wayland

2014-04-29 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:04:56PM +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: This change is targeted at F21. For F20, we aim for having an experimental GNOME shell Wayland compositor available, without necessarily having all the surrounding desktop infrastructure ported. To avoid destabilizing the X

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:57:27AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:02 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the effort, and

Re: [RFC] plans for initscripts in F22

2014-04-24 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 05:55:29PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Hello, 2014-04-24 16:38 GMT+02:00 Lukáš Nykrýn lnyk...@redhat.com: We must keep initscripts support, but I can imagine a setup where every service uses a systemd unit, so this part does not have to be installed by default,

Re: dnf installs cron.hourly

2013-03-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:14:39PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: 1) Changing the mechanism would not resolve any of the questions discussed here. Systemd is a bit cleaner to admin, and turning the service off wouldn't make an oddity show up in rpm -qaV like moving a cron job aside would. 2)

Re: dnf installs cron.hourly

2013-03-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:44:58PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: There was a decision of not _migrating_ cronjobs to timer units yet. But I think we should ban _introducing_ new cronjobs. Instead, new periodic jobs should be introduced as timer units. That's assuming all cron jobs should

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-14 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:08:48AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: Well I believe Ubunto has been using this feature for years and maybe we should consider turning it on via systemd or a unit file. The breakage of AFD is not a legitimate reason for Fedora to turn it off. Why not add an LSM call,

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-14 Thread Casey Dahlin
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Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-14 Thread Casey Dahlin
Ok, apparently Mutt is a bit stupider than I thought. Let's try this again. On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:20:04PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: We already do, Good. but this protection does protect unconfined_t and for those who Maybe we're ready to except a confined user by default. Something

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:52:40PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: rescue system. (that's why safety jackets use flashy unfashionable colors) So we should make the boot loader use flashy unfashionable colors because it makes it more reliable? Ok that's silly, but it's also silly for safety

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:01:54AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: And the main lesson her is don't clutter the user interface with useless graphical eye candy. It makes the boot process require unnecessary system resources. The new Fedora installation setup is currently a *nightmare*. It

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-10 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:34:34AM +, Ian Malone wrote: Gnome 2 slowly returned to the old behaviour in many ways. Gnome 3 is starting to do this. As someone who, I presume, does not like Gnome 3, and as someone who, I will wildly guess, shares the notion that GNOME devs are doing

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Yum Groups as Objects

2013-01-28 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:26:01AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 16:52:18 +0100, Kamil Dudka kdu...@redhat.com wrote: I have been always wondering why yum needs a special set of commands to manipulate groups of packages. What would be the downside of using just

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 07:49:59PM +0100, Maros Zatko wrote: I've used gnome 2.x, when 3.x came out I had no other option than to (finally) switch to tiling since my beloved DE was gone and not going back. If you're the sort of person that wants a tiling window manager, then I think it's fair

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:20:34PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: are not worth paying support for. I suggested to RedHat that they provide a graceful switch-over to CENTOS in such case: it's possible manually anyway, so it would be a nice gesture to do it automatically for customers who let

Re: How to proceed with MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-24 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 09:28:16AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: I'm at a loss to how to proceed with the MiniDebugInfo work. I have patches to rpmbuild that creates the compressed minidebuginfo putting them in the main binaries, and I have patches to gdb that reads the compressed debuginfo

Re: How to proceed with MiniDebugInfo

2012-05-24 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 07:27:03PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:20:15 +0200, Casey Dahlin wrote: Just go do it. See who actually shows up to stop you. I am sure this is significant enough distro change to require FESCo decision. Still cuts his workload down from

Re: pyvnc2swf and vnc2flv

2011-11-28 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:18:01PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote: Hi, I was looking for a tool to record X/VNC session in a movie and found pyvnc2swf. But looking at the project's home page, http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/index.html, I see that the development has been superseded by its

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-04 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 04:17:08PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: For fedora users, as others have mentioned, perhaps a UI that lets users test a couple of possible dpi values might be useful (for those users so inclined). It does have to cross a good chunk of the stack to work well, and seems

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages in F-16 (final warning)

2011-07-20 Thread Casey Dahlin
Orphan rubygem-rcov Oh, missed that one. I'll definitely take that. --CJD -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages in F-16 (final warning)

2011-07-20 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 03:41:28PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: Orphan rubygem-rcov Oh, missed that one. I'll definitely take that. --CJD Never mind. It has been snatched up already. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages in F-16 (v3)

2011-07-14 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 03:39:13PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: *snip* Orphan userspace-rcu I'll take that one. --CJD -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Orphaning packages

2011-07-11 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 02:43:43PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:23:06AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: I no longer have a need/care for these packages, they are up for grabs: contacts inotail I'll take inotail. --CJD Someone pointed out

Re: Orphaning packages

2011-07-06 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:23:06AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: I no longer have a need/care for these packages, they are up for grabs: contacts inotail I'll take inotail. --CJD -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: what key between Ctrl Alt (was: GNOME3 and au revoir...)

2011-06-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:05:59AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: It can be named... it's called the Super key.  Well, at least mine is super, as it has a Fedora logo on it :-) That's a bad place for the Fedora

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:05:08PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: I think it fails on #1: Makes it easy for users to focus on their current task and reduces distraction and interruption First, this point assumes that there is *one* current task. That is not how I work. I have one main

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:12:54PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: One could do that, but that would be an idiotic thing to do. So one doesn't. Its what you said. You explicitly want to divide your attention between multiple tasks. GNOME shell is for people who don't want to do that. --CJD --

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:32:12PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: So Gnome Shell is not for a good many of the people who had been using Gnome before that. YES! I don't know why more people don't realize this: GNOME 2 was a mediocre interface for a lot of people. It COULD NOT be a good interface

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:33:19AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: Uh, and even much healthier than Upstart, which you seem to be a big fan of. Ohloh lists 3 patch authors. (But I figure that is out-of-date, it cannot be that low) I'm guessing its just ohloh having as much trouble operating

Re: Package Reviews Needed

2011-06-07 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:12:19PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Tom Callaway wrote: pyrit: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691894 SARCASMOh great, because a tool to parasite wireless connections which the owners went out of the way to secure with the best available protocol is

Re: UID_MIN GID_MIN changed

2011-05-26 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 08:52:34AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 07:39 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: ons 2011-05-25 klockan 12:37 -0500 skrev Dennis Gilmore: another issue that i thought of was existing ldap/nis systems that allocate regular users in the

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-11 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:23:00PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: That conclusion is based on the assumption that somebody pushes completely broken stuff into Rawhide _knowingly_. Or that they push unproven code into rawhide carelessly. --CJD -- devel mailing list

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:07:22PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: X being broken in rawhide was in who knows how many peoples' ways, and even though it's provenpackager+ and even though all it would have taken was a mass driver rebuild, nobody even tried. Where _are_ you people? Why do I bother

Re: wireless-tools/net-tools are DEPRECATED

2011-05-04 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:26:10PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 19:21 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:30:02PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Looking at the code, the 4-second delay is only used when the device is actually connected to something.

Re: rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

2011-04-12 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:48:19PM -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: With this approach, you have lost a critical feature: the ability for you to change your hardware (or move the software bits to a different computer) and have everything automatically work. Nathaniel You lose it for a

Re: rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

2011-04-12 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:01:26PM -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:57 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:48:19PM -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: With this approach, you have lost a critical feature: the ability for you to change your

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC1 Available Now!

2011-04-08 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 09:25:31PM +0100, mike cloaked wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On 4/8/11 12:14 PM, Christopher Aillon wrote: Its the way we do it. F13 is the earliest mention I can find mention of Beta RC on devel-list.  But that

Re: Services that can start by default policy feedback

2011-02-24 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:51:37PM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: On 02/24/2011 01:32 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: There are no essential services, which means any proposal that contains the phrase non-essential services is already unimplementable. HID services (keyboard/mouse) might

Re: Plans for BTRFS in Fedora

2011-02-23 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:54:58AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 2/23/11 11:42 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On 2/23/11 5:00 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: This would be a great thing in general since the default ext* image is shrunk down to be installed which creates a bad fs layout which has

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2010-12-25 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:11:46AM -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On 12/22/2010 12:56 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 07:16:21PM -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: This is from Paul Davis, the main architect of Jack (I forwarded him your post): this isn't

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2010-12-22 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 07:16:21PM -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: This is from Paul Davis, the main architect of Jack (I forwarded him your post): this isn't exactly correct. in /dev/shm on linux we have: (a) unix-domain sockets for non-RT communication with the server

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2010-12-16 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:27:34PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 07:21:25AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Jeez. Tha's just FUD. Of course we have discussed this openly with various folks. We haven't discussed this with you, Rich, personally, but well, I'll make

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2010-12-16 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:16:53PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Casey Dahlin píše v Čt 16. 12. 2010 v 11:19 -0500: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:27:34PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: What you don't understand is that you are throwing away the experience and knowledge of thousands of Unix

pdftk requires tomcat5?

2010-11-22 Thread Casey Dahlin
Sizewise this didn't end up being an awful cost for me, but why on earth would this happen? Installing: pdftk x86_64 1.41-27.fc14 fedora 76 k Installing for dependencies: bouncycastlex86_64 1.45-1.fc13fedora 3.3 M

Re: pdftk requires tomcat5?

2010-11-22 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:19:35PM -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: Sizewise this didn't end up being an awful cost for me, but why on earth would this happen? Installing:  pdftk                       x86_64     1.41-27.fc14

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:27:48AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:26:31PM -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:59:54 Matthew Garrett wrote: Pretty sure it doesn't point them out. It just breaks them. Using memcpy on overlapping ranges

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:26:27PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:15:38PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Well if you don't consider what Lennart mentioned [1] as a con against usage of lvm by default what pros do you see for having lvm by default for the

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:49:24PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28:33PM +0100, Karel Klic wrote: Dne 15.11.2010 22:31, Matthew Garrett napsal(a): Further, what's the licensing situation here? If I have an application that (at runtime) is a mixture of GPLed and

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:53:47PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 10.11.10 21:33, Bernie Innocenti (ber...@codewiz.org) wrote: Hello Petr, I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer

Re: nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-10 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:03:25AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:22:02PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, it seems like it performs OK

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: And where does that sit in the architecture? Looking over the architecture page (2nd figure) it looks like the only way to get the kind of network transparency that X has under Wayland is to put the network between the Wayland

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:28:10PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:24 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:14:32PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:05 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:03:38PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:43:06PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a modest amount of

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 10:57:27AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of tearing when scrolling in a browser window? [I do *not* see any of I actually read it as we want to ditch features that were groundbreaking in 1975 since

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-05 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:12:09AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 02:11 +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

Re: upstart in rawhide

2010-10-14 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:36:53AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 17:13 +0200, Petr Lautrbach wrote: Hello, systemd will be default init system in Fedora 15 and scripts infrastructure will be adapted to it. There is a plan to leave upstart in Fedora as

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-23 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:04:48PM -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 18:26, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.dewrote: Heya, I have just uploaded a new systemd and a new upstart package which make systemd the default init system for Rawhide. The scheme I followed

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-23 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:54:50PM -0500, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 7/23/2010 20:26, Lennart Poettering wrote: - You can boot into either of them by setting the init= kernel cmdline option according to your wishes. If you pass init=/bin/systemd you will boot into systemd, if you

Re: init script behaviour

2010-06-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:30:05PM +0300, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 06/15/2010 03:08 PM, Joe Orton wrote: *snip* Thoughts? Well, I'd say it depends on how we define the start part. fire and forget, start and make sure it was started or start and make sure it is running. I'd say fire

Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

2010-05-26 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:01:35PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:26:48PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: The problem we've found is that cgroups are too aggressive. They don't have a notion of sessions and count too much as being part of your service, so you

Re: s/redhat/system in package names

2010-05-10 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:10:18AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: hi, Long time ago, all *redhat* packages were renamed to system*. But three of them are still alive: redhat-lsb, redhat-menus and redhat-rpm-config Should they switch to system- ? -thanks- I think s/redhat/fedora/