Re: Marking zapped bugs

2011-09-02 Thread Matt McCutchen
-0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 09:38 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: The practical point is that F12 is about to go EOL which means the bug must be closed... Why? Obviously it needs to be clear that nothing further should be expected from the maintainer unless

Re: Marking zapped bugs

2011-09-02 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 12:29 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 14:01 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: What you're really saying is that most maintainers want to work from a list of unexpired bugs. But there are ways to achieve that other than marking all the expired bugs

Re: Marking zapped bugs

2011-09-02 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 13:54 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Hum, I didn't realize our resolutions were so customized, I thought they were the upstream ones; this is what I've been told when discussing custom resolutions in the past. It's certainly something you could propose as an enhancement by

Re: Marking zapped bugs

2011-09-02 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 15:43 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 18:33 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: We clearly want to bugs to be CLOSED, not open with a quasi-closed keyword or whiteboard field. I'm not sure who we is, but I disagree. The generally accepted

Karma of edited updates (Re: glib2/glibc problem on x86 building mono-2.10.1)

2011-03-13 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 16:06 -0800, Christopher Aillon wrote: On 03/12/2011 04:33 AM, Kalev Lember wrote: I believe it should be fixed with glibc-2.13.90-6, but the update is currently stuck in Bodhi with 7 karma and not getting pushed even to the requested updates-testing repo:

Re: fedpkg build version numbering discrepancy

2011-01-27 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 21:05 -0500, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote: Let be straight and simple (package name doesn't matter here) 1) Spec file say version: 1.2.3 2) sources file say tar file: 1.0.0 sources as included in git and generated by fedpkg

Re: rpmbuild: Bad Requireflags: qualifiers: Requires(posttrans)

2011-01-24 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 14:02 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: I believe folding any requirements for %posttrans scripts into 'Requires(post)' should be sufficient. I don't think so... IIUC, Requires(post) only applies until installation is complete, but a %posttrans script also runs following

Re: pkg-config, noarch, and rpmlint

2011-01-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 15:54 -0800, Brad Bell wrote: I have a case where a package is noarch and it provides pkg-config support. The problem is that pkg-config expects a noarch file corresponding to the package to be stored in ${_libdir}/pkgconfig and rpmlint complains that

Re: fedpkg switch-branch behavior

2011-01-13 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:42 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: There is the case that when we switch to the branch, your last used state is behind or ahead the local index (that is the cached metadata the repo has about the state of each branch upstream). Please call it the remote-tracking branch

Re: Security issues with abstract namespace sockets

2011-01-05 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 13:52 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 04.01.11 21:31, Matt McCutchen (m...@mattmccutchen.net) wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:11 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Of these being used, dbus is correctly implemented, since it randomizes the socket name. Same

Re: Security issues with abstract namespace sockets

2011-01-05 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 16:35 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 05.01.11 09:39, Matt McCutchen (m...@mattmccutchen.net) wrote: That's precisely what I want to tell people: don't use the abstract socket namespace, unless you really know what you do. The only cases where it really

Local system security

2011-01-05 Thread Matt McCutchen
An aside: On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:12 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: (And of course what we're doing here is protecting against a malicious attacker who already has enough privileges to run code on your system, which means you're pretty far into having already lost. Meh.) I've seen this

Re: Security issues with abstract namespace sockets

2011-01-05 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 15:25 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 13:38 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: The more significant DoS condition is another user taking the name you want, which can happen in the abstract namespace but not in a directory only you can write. I don't

Re: Local system security

2011-01-05 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 16:13 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:10 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:12 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: (And of course what we're doing here is protecting against a malicious attacker who already has enough privileges to run

Re: Security issues with abstract namespace sockets

2011-01-05 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 16:37 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: [XDG_RUNTIME_DIR] does not exist until after the User has logged in. X starts before the user logs in. Also multiple users need to be able to talk to same xserver. On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 16:47 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: atropine:~%

Security issues with abstract namespace sockets

2011-01-04 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:11 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Of these being used, dbus is correctly implemented, since it randomizes the socket name. Same for gdm. The relevant point is not randomness or unguessability, but that dbus chooses an available name and passes the actual name being

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2010-12-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 09:11 -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: (a) unix-domain sockets for non-RT communication with the server Perhaps these could become abstract

Re: [packager interface suggestion] Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 16:15 +, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 22:57 +0100, Henrik Nordström wrote: * implemented by only a change in yum dependency resolution to use fallback repositories (i.e. updates-testing). I don't think that would be a good change, as it's

Re: [packager interface suggestion] Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 16:45 +, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 11:24 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 16:15 +, Adam Williamson wrote: it would seem to make more sense, to me, to configure bodhi to re-try the build, with updates-testing repo enabled

Re: What drives RPM Provides for shared libraries?

2010-12-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 22:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: I'm fooling around with trying to update mysql from 5.1.x to 5.5.x. One of the things that's happened in that transition is that they've dropped the separate libmysqlclient_r.so library --- presumably everything in regular libmysqlclient.so is

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-20 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 18:38 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 13:20 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Chris Adams wrote: That makes the push process much more fragile/difficult. If you use

Re: [packager interface suggestion] Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-20 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 21:55 +0100, Henrik Nordström wrote: Suggestion on how to express this in the packaging process: BuildRequires with a version requirement pulling in from updates-testing if the required version can not be satisfied from the stable repository. I don't like this. I would

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-20 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 01:29 +0100, Henrik Nordström wrote: mån 2010-12-20 klockan 18:12 -0500 skrev Matt McCutchen: That will work, assuming the user has permission to do the tagging; it is essentially a buildroot override in reverse. So the question is just what we want to optimize

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 11:08 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Lets step back a bit here as I think this thread is drifting. What issue(s) is this proposed change trying to solve? * The OP talked about that we are not 'testing' the update entirely because it's not in the buildroot, so we aren't

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 18:32 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: * we are building packages against the known-to-be-broken package The old package is already in stable. We're not doing additional harm by building against it unless the breakage is a regression that affects the building of dependent

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 13:20 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Chris Adams wrote: That makes the push process much more fragile/difficult. If you use a updates-testing build of package A, and package B (that depends on package A) gets rebuilt, then you may have a

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:28 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:03:30 -0600 Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Stanislav Ochotnicky sochotni...@redhat.com said: Note that I am not saying things should go into buildroot as soon as they are built, but as

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:49 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2010 05:28 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:03:30 -0600 Chris Adamscmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Stanislav Ochotnickysochotni...@redhat.com said: Note that I am not saying things should go

Re: Orphaning system-auto-death

2010-12-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:33 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2010 06:26 PM, seth vidal wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:13 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Just a thought: How about equipping a repo's metadata with some sort of expiration/best before date, which yum etc. could use to warn

Re: Orphaning system-auto-death

2010-12-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:54 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2010 06:43 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:33 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2010 06:26 PM, seth vidal wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:13 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Just a thought: How about

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:11 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2010 06:00 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:49 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2010 05:28 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:03:30 -0600 Chris Adamscmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2010-12-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 20:16 +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 system

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:14 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: On 12/16/10 10:29 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: (BTW, it seems that a custom tag would generally be better than a buildroot override for the reasons we are discussing even if there's only one dependent package, unless that would put some

Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

2010-12-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:28 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: On 12/16/10 12:22 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: An alternative approach would be to mirror the semantics of tag inheritance by having builds use multiple yum repositories, possibly with priorities, instead of explicitly computing

Re: [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

2010-12-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 16:15 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:25 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: Files marked as documentation must not cause additional dependencies that aren't satisfied by the package itself or its dependency chain as it would be if none of its files

Re: Safest way to go from x86 to x86_64

2010-12-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:07 +, Paul Johnson wrote: Hi, My main box decided to snuff it last week (motherboard and processor decided to fry). My erstwhile friend in the computer shop I use has said that he has a nice 64 bit processor and motherboard going for a small amount of money.

Re: hosted reproducible package building with multiple developers?

2010-12-10 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 15:06 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Adding CLONE_NEWPID would be worthwhile to stop the mock process seeing any other PIDs on the machine. It's critical, or mock could ptrace some process running as root on the host and inject arbitrary code. -- Matt -- devel

Firewall

2010-12-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:54 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: On most desktop systems firewall is not needed. Many users do not even know how to configure it. In fact I disable it in most of my systems, because there is no real use for it. So I asked a simple question whether there is a need to

Re: Fedora default services (was: Re: F15 Feature - convert as many service init files as possible to the native SystemD services)

2010-12-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 00:38 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Cron - but should be activated only when cron files exist It seems to me that the list: - ssh - Dbus - syslog - iptables - ip6tables - auditd - restorecond is an absolute minimum to get working system. I don't agree that ssh

Re: Fedora default services (was: Re: F15 Feature - convert as many service init files as possible to the native SystemD services)

2010-12-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 01:07 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: 2010/12/7 Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net: On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 00:38 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Cron - but should be activated only when cron files exist It seems to me that the list: - ssh - Dbus - syslog

Re: Fedora default services (was: Re: F15 Feature - convert as many service init files as possible to the native SystemD services)

2010-12-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 17:57 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:54 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: There are no stupid questions :) On most desktop systems firewall is not needed. Many users do not even know how to configure it. In fact I disable it in most of my

Re: old_testing_critpath notifications

2010-12-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 14:17 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: [...] I think we need to be careful of the mindset that says 'we can't enforce any standards in Fedora because it's a volunteer project so we must just accept what people are willing to give us'. Even though packaging in Fedora is a

Proven tester signup process

2010-12-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:59 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm not sure I'd want to go quite that far unless the sign-up process can wave the proven testers instructions in your face quite prominently. They're short and easy to read and understand, but you can't infer them from first

Re: GCC bug 634757 F14 rebuild status

2010-12-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:29 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: libgnome-java failed to build http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2638084 I took a look out of curiosity, and this appears to be an intermittent problem that occurs when two instances of install(1) try to write to the same

Re: memcpy overlap: quickly detect, diagnose, work around

2010-11-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 15:13 -0800, John Reiser wrote: This patch (with .rpms for x86_64 and i686) enables glibc optionally to detect, diagnose, and work around overlap in memcpy/mempcpy: http://bitwagon.com/glibc-memlap/glibc-memlap.html What is the mass addition of commented curly braces

Re: memcpy overlap: quickly detect, diagnose, work around

2010-11-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 16:08 -0800, John Reiser wrote: On 11/29/2010 03:44 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: What is the mass addition of commented curly braces for? It is distracting from the substance of the patch. Those comments enable parenthesis matching in some text editors. The scoping

Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17)

2010-11-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 23:09 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: Oh, I forgot, Fedora no longer delivers the fix in a day but ... even not in a week. Because I usually create new build during the updates-testing week so the days start to count again.

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 16:32 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Dont we have an upstream mantra to uphold... Forward all Fedora users and otherwize that experience this to Adobe.. If we are going hack around this on our side where are we going to draw the line.. Are we planning to

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 14:07 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 10:38 -0800, John Reiser wrote: On 11/13/2010 03:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Anyway, I think LVM is jolly useful: [stated advantages snipped] One design error is that you cannot carve out

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (LVM issues)

2010-11-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 13:07 -0800, John Reiser wrote: When I created 14 partitions using a DOS partition label (3 primaries, plus extended containing 10 logical partitions) and gave 6 of the partitions to an LVM setup, then I could not remove one of the partitions from the clutches of the

Re: The new Update Acceptance Criteria are broken

2010-11-13 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 14:22 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:21:30AM +0100, Till Maas wrote: The documented issues do not seem to be as bad as a system being exploited. It is only about dependency breakage or services not working anymore. There is no major data

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 19:44 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: From a practical point of view, as a bug reporter, when I get mass notifications to update scores of bugs that were opened years ago, and that the people owning the component never bothered to respond on (even to confirm they were

Marking zapped bugs

2010-11-04 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 09:38 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: The practical point is that F12 is about to go EOL which means the bug must be closed... Why? Obviously it needs to be clear that nothing further should be expected from the maintainer unless/until the version is bumped. But the

Re: Default partitioning

2010-10-30 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 14:03 -0800, Javier Prats wrote: Where is this info kept on the install image and how would I go about modifying it locally to start playing? I'd like to learn whether some one else does this or not. It's in anaconda. The / and /home specifications are here (line

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 13:11 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: I tend to disagree, as including both Iceweasel and Icedove in addition to Firefox and Thunderbird gives users, admins and especially those that maintain a remix the option to easily chose the solution that suites their needs best.

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2010-10-05)

2010-10-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 23:45 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Firefox is NOT an essential package, the GNOME spin could just ship Epiphany (GNOME's default browser) instead, and other desktop spins ALREADY ship the respective desktop's default instead of Firefox! Epiphany is still not serious

Re: Packaging dwm

2010-10-13 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 01:48 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Petr Sabata wrote: I've been thinking about packaging dwm [1] since we already ship dmenu and dzen2. I wonder if anybody would be interested in this fine window manager (except for me). I think it's completely unreasonable to package

Re: ethtool not in default system anymore?

2010-10-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 19:37 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: I noticed that ethtool is not in the default install anymore [...] mii-tool. The mii-tool man page claims it is deprecated in favor of ethtool. In fact, neither

Re: docbook and glibc breakage [STILL BREAKING EVERYTHING]

2010-10-04 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 04:30 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: I've tagged docbook-utils-0.6.14-25.fc14 (the update reportedly fixing this) for the buildroot. Please try your builds now. f14-build should appear in the Tags line here, right? https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=197223

Re: Packaging Request: sigil

2010-09-30 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 08:13 +0530, A. Mani wrote: sigil is not available from yum http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ It is easy to install from source on F You can add it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList -- Matt -- devel mailing list

Re: koji.TagError

2010-09-24 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 14:48 -0430, Guillermo Gómez wrote: Why is this happening? rubygem-state_machine-0.9.4-3.fc12 unsuccessfully untagged from dist-f12-updates-testing-pending by bodhi Operation failed with the error: koji.TagError: build rubygem-state_machine-0.9.4-3.fc12 not in

Re: koji.TagError

2010-09-24 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 16:50 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 14:48 -0430, Guillermo Gómez wrote: Why is this happening? rubygem-state_machine-0.9.4-3.fc12 unsuccessfully untagged from dist-f12-updates-testing-pending by bodhi Operation failed with the error

Re: -static packages

2010-09-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:19 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: There are times when static linking is a useful. Robert clearly describes one in his original post. Only because we do not (yet) have a good per-user package manager to make installing the required dynamic libraries, or assembling a

Re: -static packages

2010-09-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 17:06 +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 machines, and so I don't have the power to get them to run Fedora or even to get the

Re: Inspecting/debugging a mock build

2010-09-05 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 23:57 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: Thanks. Now, how do I get fedpkg to preserve it? I see (when doing fedpkg mockbuild): INFO: Cleaning up build root ('clean_on_failure=True') So, where do I set clean_on_failure to False? In /etc/mock/site-defaults.cfg or

Re: Voting in bugzilla

2010-09-02 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 09:17 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:18:26 +0300 (EEST) Juha Tuomala juha.tuom...@iki.fi wrote: Has it been disabled recently? Short answer: Yes. It has. Longer answer: FESCo looked at trying to use voting data to give us an idea on 'hot' bugs

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-09-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 14:20 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:47 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:36 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: Perhaps local and so forth could be given a --dist=foo switch, and these sorts of errors could say can't figure out

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-09-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 10:06 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: On 9/1/10 9:01 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: Andreas Schwab wrote: Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net writes: I propose that fedpkg should consider a --dist option, a branch file, and the name of the current git branch

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-09-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 11:01 -0500, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: Andreas Schwab wrote: Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net writes: I propose that fedpkg should consider a --dist option, a branch file, and the name of the current git branch in that order. Or make it a branch config (eg

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:08 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Developers put new features in rawhide knowing that they will be in the next release of Fedora, which would be at the /most/ 6 months from the time they drop the feature. It's more like 9 months. A feature has to wait until the next

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while retaining the Firefox name due to a distribution partner agreement with Mozilla. Mozilla gets their money from Google. I don't think we *can* make it something

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says: If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox Start Page, please be prepared to provide a rationale for the change, and how it would benefit the

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:30 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400, Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote: Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use, not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes. Nor

Re: Creating a rawhide/f15 private kernel branch

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 22:14 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: When I do a: git push --dry-run origin origin/master:refs/heads/f15/user/steved/pnfs-f15 To ssh://ste...@pkgs.fedoraproject.org/kernel * [new branch] origin/master - f15/user/steved/pnfs-f15 which appears to do what I want.. but

Proprietary search engines (was: Fedora Notifications System.)

2010-08-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:13 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Manuel Escudero wrote: 3) We're already using a GOOGLE SEARCH BOX!! in http://start.fedoraproject.org/ ¿Do you have the code for this one? NO. And Fedora Project is using it. I'm sharing a Fedora Solution an

Re: Search Engine Proposal

2010-08-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 15:07 -0500, Manuel Escudero wrote: AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN... http://start.fedoraproject.org/ is using a Google Search Box... YOU DON'T HAVE THE CODE TO PLAY WITH IT OR ANYTHING... With Fedora's engine I'm giving you the chance of having something more opensource

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 02:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/30/2010 01:01 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: Interesting. I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary search engine on the Fedora start page, but if the idea is that Fedora users and contributors should be able to avoid

Re: systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-26 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:49 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Matt McCutchen wrote: I think that's precisely the concern. In the event that F14 goes back to upstart, the final release will use a configuration that may not have received much testing. Don't Do That Then. :-) It's just another

Re: 1 more git problem

2010-08-26 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:16 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: But, I hope this doesn't mean f12 is out of sync with f13, f14, master. They should all be identical. It looks like f12, f14, and rawhide are all the same, and f13 has one extra commit: $ git show-branch

Re: 1 more git problem

2010-08-26 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:56 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: $ git show-branch remotes/origin/{f12/,f13/,f14/,}master $ git diff refs/remotes/origin/{f12,f13}/master To avoid any possible confusion: the inconsistency in the arguments I used was just sloppy, it doesn't have a special meaning. git

Re: systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-24 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:23 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 12:14 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: The intent is not to do so in the final release, AIUI. We're only keeping it around during pre-release, so that if we decide we need to fall back to upstart for final

Re: systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-24 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:32 +0200, drago01 wrote: [...] In the event that F14 goes back to upstart, the final release will use a configuration that may not have received much testing. If we want to claim that it's safe to switch back to upstart after beta, we need to be testing that

Re: Why does X run as root?

2010-08-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 13:16 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 09:24:42PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 06:49:33PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: I think run X as user Xorg if you're on KMS would be a fine F15Feature to aim for. Ubuntu's been

Re: yum appmarket

2010-08-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 08:12 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Roberto Ragusa wrote: Some more tags for functionally comparable to and the name of some well known programs for Windows or Macintosh would let people cope with the original names of Linux apps. Nero - k3b, xcdroast Adobe

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

2010-08-19 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 07:41 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: 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

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

2010-08-18 Thread Matt McCutchen
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 down a bunch of extra info on every update of libguestfs and that sucks on my bandwidth. This is

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-18 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:31 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: Shipping a Firefox with no ability to use Javascript would be more or less equal to not shipping it, frankly. No-one would use the thing. What I suggest is just to use the same old JavaScript interpreter we have

Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 18:26 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: But the end effect is, we're allowing a web browser to disable memory protection, exposing all users to a severe security risk from merely browsing web sites. IMHO, the performance improvements in JavaScript aren't worth that risk. An

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 22:41 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 18:26 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: But the end effect is, we're allowing a web browser to disable memory protection, exposing all users

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 01:15 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Some web sites are indeed abusing JavaScript. A web site is not and should not be an application, an application is not and should not be a web site. Just because you said so? Web applications bring enormous practical benefits to

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 22:59 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote: Is the karma getting reset upon an edit? I don't have an answer to the question, but FYI, there is an open ticket about it: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/388 -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Staying close to upstream

2010-08-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 23:29 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: On 08/12/2010 10:59 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: That's why I'm so frustrated that Fedora seems to be committed to keeping the Mozilla trademarks, which moot any discussion of whether to deviate for those packages. But this is only my

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-13 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 07:56 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/13/2010 07:11 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: Let's try that again. Fedora has no obligation to you; nothing entitles you (or anyone for that matter) to push updates or even to post to this list. ... and people are free to have

Re: Where can I find the list of all Fedora Git repos?

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:59 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: Martin Gieseking martin.giesek...@uos.de writes: Am 12.08.2010 10:32, schrieb Jaroslav Reznik: But as you can see on [1]: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/ BROKEN (listing 10K+ packages does not work). Use e.g.

Re: Where can I find the list of all Fedora Git repos?

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:20 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net writes: I went to https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/ and it sat there Generating for 5 minutes before I ran out of patience. I wouldn't consider that working fine. Try http

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 03:33 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Chris Adams wrote: Why are you here? All you do is shout about how everything that is done is done wrong, and how you wanted to do it different but were out-voted. Why don't you go start your own distribution? If you are right, then

Staying close to upstream

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 22:26 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Do you have any sort of proof that it's a political reason? It would seem to me that our kernel maintainers do not wish to include code that hasn't been blessed by Linus in our packages. Doing so has burned us in the past, and perhaps

Re: Fedora's ssh known hosts file

2010-08-11 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 09:07 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 14:04, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 22:23 +0200, Till Maas wrote: Yes ssh is secure if used properly. To get the proper known_hosts entry, one has to download https

Re: Integrity protection of fetches

2010-08-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 11:34 -0700, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 11:29 -0500, Steve Bonneville wrote: i.g...@comcast.net wrote: Ideally (from this perspective), the host would validate the response itself

Re: abrt thoughts pre-rfe q?

2010-08-08 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 09:24 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: On 08/08/10 03:25, Matt McCutchen wrote: snip Would it be any benefit to the maintainers\bugzappers. If abrt opened the existing link, before it would report? And then what? Encourage the user not to add a comment unless they have

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