Re: Flock proposals now open for community voting

2013-06-04 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:16:22 -0400 Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: On 06/04/2013 10:02 AM, Tom Callaway wrote: On 06/04/2013 09:55 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: What's even weirder is that some folks are explicitly mentioned (such as Jon Masters) in the descriptions, so

Re: Differences between mock and koji?

2013-06-04 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:52:14 +0200 Simone Caronni negativ...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a package that builds fine in a fresh rawhide mock chroot and not in a koji build. Is there any difference between the two? Here is the error in Koji: + make -j5 LIBPATH=/usr/lib64 -f makefile

Re: Fedora Hosted Usability and Developer Experience

2013-06-02 Thread seth vidal
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 16:39:20 -0400 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Actually I was going to ask the opposite question: Do we still need FedoraHosted? It was created before there was GitHub or Gitorious but

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-29 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 29 May 2013 11:52:04 +0100 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: Also do we know how many mirrors support byte ranges? We could go all the way and have a relatively large uncompressed database stored on the mirrors, but have the client only access small byte ranges from it.

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-29 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 29 May 2013 11:48:14 +0100 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:51:21AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: I simply got tired of tilting at that particular windmill when confronted with some particularly egregious cases (see libguestfs sometime). $ rpm

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-28 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 28 May 2013 08:51:03 +0200 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: after a yum clean metadata yum update on a slow line you have to wait a very long time and even the download of the presto-metadata often is larger and takes longer as the packages which are updated in reality

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-28 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 28 May 2013 20:42:13 +0300 Alek Paunov a...@declera.com wrote: So, it seems that yum already have the filelists on demand optimization implemented. Why you are asking for removing a feature, which do not make the things worse ... ? I'm not. But when you download the filelists -

Re: Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

2013-04-15 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:03:34 -0500 Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.comwrote: If I remember, I tend to trim off changelog entries that are more than two years old once a year for packages that I own. Two years is

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-10 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:24:49 +0200 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: On 9. 4. 2013 at 12:25:56, seth vidal wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:18:54 -0500 Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 00:05:45 +0800, Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-10 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:47:38 -0500 Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:24:49 +0200, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: I'm not sure this solves the initial problem - downloading new metadata every 6 hours or so ... Does the metadata really need to be

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-10 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:53:25 -0400 john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: From: seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org The metadata doesn't get downloaded if it hasn't changed - the problem though is that the metadata DOES change often. Normally everyday. Is there anything that could be done

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-10 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:33:43 -0500 Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: The metadata starts in XML before being loaded into an SQLite DB file, and the XML is in the repodata directory with the DB. However, both are compressed, as they are large. For example, the current updates/18/x86_64

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-10 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:24:58 -0400 john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: I was thinking there had been some xz integration recently. Maybe that was with the delta rpm support. I don't follow that though since we have a local mirror, there's not much point in rsycing, storing, etc. the deltas.

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-09 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:18:54 -0500 Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 00:05:45 +0800, Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: The current behaviour would be obtained by setting it to 1, and setting it to 2 would already be a positive change as it would

Re: Smock successor?

2013-04-05 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 21:18:28 +0200 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: what does 'deterministic repositories' mean? smock uses ~/public_html/smock/$DISTRO/$ARCH by default and mockchain some random temp dir. mockchain uses a tempdir unless you specify -l If you want to add that to

Re: Smock successor?

2013-04-04 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:47:12 +0200 Johannes Lips johannes.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: Hi everyone, I have been using smock.pl regularly and since it was not developed recently. I wonder what everyone else is using, e.g.

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-04-04 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:29:26 +0200 Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com wrote: Dne 4.4.2013 16:20, Miloslav Trmač napsal(a): esthetics. May be I misunderstood the thread, but wasn't this the main point since the beginning? To prevent the naming-with-version exploit as is still stated in the

Re: Smock successor?

2013-04-04 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:25:56 +0200 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:50:43AM -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: On 04/04/2013 06:44 AM, Till Maas wrote: Hi everyone, I have been using smock.pl regularly and since it was not developed recently. I wonder

Re: Smock successor?

2013-04-04 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:25:56 +0200 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:50:43AM -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: On 04/04/2013 06:44 AM, Till Maas wrote: Hi everyone, I have been using smock.pl regularly and since it was not developed recently. I wonder

Re: Smock successor?

2013-04-04 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:30:02 +0200 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:34:22AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:47:12 +0200 Johannes Lips johannes.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-04-02 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:27:43 + (UTC) Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com wrote: On 2013-03-29, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: What's Architecture good for? To allow multilib. To install more instances of the same version. And yum ignores Architecture on purpose. But don't tell

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-04-02 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:02:46 + (UTC) Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com wrote: Or maybe there are APIs 3.8, 3.9, and 4.0 and we want to express (3.8 or 3.9), but poor RPM does not handle `or'? After reading these and other comments from you, Petr, it seems to me you are not interested in making

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-04-02 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:16:31 + (UTC) Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com wrote: On 2013-04-02, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:27:43 + (UTC) Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com wrote: Misusing names does not allow all of that. misusing? Is this, again

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-03-29 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:01:29 + (UTC) Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com wrote: What's Architecture good for? To allow multilib. To install more instances of the same version. And yum ignores Architecture on purpose. But don't tell anybody that. Otherwise he could not claim we do not implement

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-03-29 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:42:14 +0100 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: On 29. 3. 2013 at 13:22:40, Petr Pisar wrote: On 2013-03-29, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: In this case we proposed another solution which was turned down (I'm not sure exactly why): Each package

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-03-29 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:40:35 +0100 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: This is very valid concern. However I'm not sure it's something that can be solved just by the multiversion support in rpm/yum, there are more pieces here to be put together. My first impression of this is

Re: dnf installs cron.hourly

2013-03-15 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:33:24 + Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:16:27AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: I don't think users would expect that install of dnf would without asking (or control) automatically run dnf-makecache. Heh. That's one of the

Re: dnf installs cron.hourly

2013-03-15 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:11:28 + Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:55:57AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:33:24 + Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:16:27AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote

Re: dnf installs cron.hourly

2013-03-15 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:58:33 -0400 (EDT) Steve Gordon sgor...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:48:41 AM Subject: Re: dnf

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

2013-03-13 Thread seth vidal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:52:37 -0400 Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sysctl -a | grep protected fs.protected_hardlinks = 0 fs.protected_symlinks = 0 I apologize for the ignorance - but what

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:55:30 +0100 Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: Fine with me, but don't forget to have a hint to this key visible e. g., Press F1 to... in some corner. Current policy that user just should know the key is not that good IMHO. After all, this is the first screen

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:49:10 -0500 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 03/11/2013 02:41 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Yes, why not display the Grub menu? Because it's the year 2013. Not 1999. There's no need for this kind of sarcastic/snarky response. I don't think Bjorn was asking

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:07:32 +0100 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: I don't think we should generate any message. Nothing at all. My BIOS doesn't print a single line, and neither does the kernel if quiet is used (which is the default). I really don't see why Plymouth or the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:00:54 +0100 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals. Well, where do you get them from? Here's a hint: the Unix market is now all ours, so you can only get them from Windows. And on Windows 8 they don't have

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:05:31 -0400 Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Hi Seth, On 03/11/2013 04:20 PM, seth vidal wrote: I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals. We have to make the secret information discoverable if we want people to poke and prod around

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:18:33 -0500 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 03/11/2013 04:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: I want to encourage kids, teenagers, etc to explore the OS. We need them to be involved in CREATING and LEARNING. So I don't want to scare any of them off. My OLPC

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:24:28 -0600 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: If the bioses and systems years ago had been opaque we wouldn't have gotten this far. Please elaborate on this, and define this far. Apple has had fairly opaque booting for ~28 years, so I'm curious how

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:34:28 -0400 Ryan Lerch rle...@redhat.com wrote: I think the suggestion in this thread is to simply keep a key *pressed down* that way there are no issues with the user having to time a keypress. Having a key pressed down helps, also, with Accessibility for folks with

Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

2013-03-05 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:07:59 -0500 Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 12:44 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Well, in that case I suppose we'd need to add a new tag-set, something like rawhide-pending In other words, another layer. I'll only repeat this

Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

2013-03-05 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:28:58 -0500 Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:17 -0500, seth vidal wrote: If the issue was only 'newer is better' then rpm can easily get around it. Hell, so can yum, now. But koji, createrepo and such can't, right? createrepo

Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

2013-03-05 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:58:49 -0500 Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: seth vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:28:58 -0500 Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:17 -0500, seth vidal wrote: If the issue was only 'newer

Re: Orphaning PycURL

2013-02-23 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 03:17:57PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: it's not under my control anymore - but the idea of python-requests and its deps pulled into @core does not fill me with joy. Sooo $ rpm -qR python-requests|grep -v ^rpmlib\( ca

Re: Orphaning PycURL

2013-02-22 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 12:02 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/22/2013 10:02 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: Personally, I'd like to see Yum move away from PycURL but if someone wants to take over upstream development more power to them. I use pycurl

Re: Orphaning PycURL

2013-02-22 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Jon Ciesla wrote: I'm not familiar with it, nor is it in Fedora yet, but would curlish work? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/curlish/ It's calling out to curl via subprocess - that doesn't feel like a good idea -sv -- devel mailing list

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Honza Horak wrote: On 01/23/2013 01:04 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: On 01/22/2013 10:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Yes, that's the general idea --- any dependencies on mysql should result in installing mariadb, unless the user takes specific action to get mysql instead. Ideally

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Syslinux Option

2013-01-24 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/SyslinuxOption = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SyslinuxOption Feature owner(s): Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org This feature will make

Re: Something is killing my Koji build

2013-01-11 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:16:50 + Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On this theme, one other very useful thing we could improve in Koji for developer debug of failed builds, would be to capture the 'config.log' file from any autoconf

Re: comps' standard group spring cleaning?

2013-01-10 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 01:28:01PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:29:43AM -0600, Greg Swift wrote: maybe i'm weird too, but ya.. i use finger more than who I think alias in your bashrc is the answer here. :) finger and who

Re: comps' standard group spring cleaning?

2013-01-10 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:46:08PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: Fun fact™: I learned from this conversation that my default personal user environment still contains a .plan file. What was in your plan? I can't tell you. It's a Secret Plan. (That's

Re: Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

2013-01-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Kevin Fenzi wrote: One of the big questions to answer is distribution. I can see good arguments on the one hand distributing formulas via RPM and on the other having an official Git repository for them. Yep. I am torn here too. rpms get us a lot, but are also

Re: Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

2013-01-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Bill Nottingham wrote: Seth Vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) said: One of the big questions to answer is distribution. I can see good arguments on the one hand distributing formulas via RPM and on the other having an official Git repository for them. Yep. I am torn

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Jan Zelený wrote: Well, not exactly, you would still need to upgrade all packages that the new version of Libreoffice depends on and all packages these updated packages depend on and so on ... The only difference is that these updated packages would need to be a part of

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Jan Zelený wrote: The original use case for SCLs is to provide a way to deliver newer versions of SW in stable distributions like RHEL/CentOS than those available in the core system and make sure system packages and collection packages don't collide in any way (names,

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-05 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Jan Zelený wrote: Hi, I guess the main reason why SCL is not used in Fedora it requires a certain (potentially non-trivial) amount of work from package maintainer. However feel free to make your packages SCL enabled. You shouldn't have any issues with that. Just make

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-13 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:00:23PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: [list of packages] ntpdate chrony On EC2 (as in many virt environments) the hardware clock source is actually

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-12 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: Okay, cool -- there's a lot of enthusiasm for a SIG for the core package set. So, first up on the SIG goals: clarifying our target. It's been suggested before that there's so many possibilities that this is useless, but the point here is to *pick*

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-12 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:29:34AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: I think ssh has to be in the mix. Of ths systems I use/maintain/etc very few of them are ones I actually have a reliable console to. If ssh isn't there, I have to add it just to get

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-12 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 11:37 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:29:34AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: I think ssh has to be in the mix. Of ths systems I use/maintain/etc very few of them

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-12 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/12/2012 06:03 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 11:37 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:29:34AM -0500, Seth Vidal

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-12 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Petr Lautrbach wrote: scp is a ssh client. It connects to other host using a ssh connection and runs 'scp -t' or 'scp -f' commands on the remote side. From my point of view, it's same as any other program you can use via ssh and I believe that openssh-clients is the

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-12 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Petr Lautrbach wrote: which was, in fact, what I said. scp is something people expect to be able to use on servers to send files over. that it is not there makes the server install feel a touch awkward. that's all. A thin client would probably not want to install

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-12 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Jesse Keating wrote: On 11/12/2012 12:17 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:08:38PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: To be fair if we're talking about redefining what goes into @core (which cannot be deselected, and mandatory items cannot be deselected)

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-12 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Benny Amorsen wrote: Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org writes: fantastic. show me a deployment somewhere of a 'thin client' that doesn't use their own custom kickstart/pxe for instantiating the clients and that will be relevant to this discussion. Is kickstart

Re: livemedia-creator and the fedora build system [was Re: appliance-creator: how can I ...]

2012-11-12 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Dennis Gilmore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:12:20 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org escribió: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:25:35PM -0800, Brian C. Lane wrote: I think appliance-creator is pretty much unsupported

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-11 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Jesse Keating wrote: On Nov 10, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: Fedora is just one of the downstream users of Anaconda. It is incorrect to assume that the upstream Anaconda development can be dictated solely by Fedora, any more than

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-11 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Kevin Kofler wrote: Richard W.M. Jones wrote: - depends on Python stack +1, we really need to get Python out of the minimal installation. The focus should be on replacing the existing Python-based packages in the minimum set (e.g. yum) by native replacements (e.g.

Re: appliance-creator: how can I shorten the grub timeout in kickstart?

2012-11-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: This perplexing to me. In my %post section, I tried both writing GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 to /etc/default/grub and using sed to replace set timeout=5 in grub2.cfg. I even put a call to grub2-mkconfig to re-write the config file after doing those things. But

Re: appliance-creator: how can I shorten the grub timeout in kickstart?

2012-11-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:33:32PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: in your kickstart can you do: bootloader --timeout=1 Forgot to mention: this is already there and does not have any effect _either_. hmmm - seems to work for me using ami-creator. -sv

Re: appliance-creator: how can I shorten the grub timeout in kickstart?

2012-11-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:42:58PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: in your kickstart can you do: bootloader --timeout=1 Forgot to mention: this is already there and does not have any effect _either_. hmmm - seems to work for me using ami-creator. I'm

Re: appliance-creator: how can I shorten the grub timeout in kickstart?

2012-11-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:49:34PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: Not sure these two QUITE do the same thing - but they use the installer similarly, I think. here's what I've been using: https://github.com/eucalyptus/ami-creator I've got https

Re: Re: Deploying fedora infrastructure (koji) across clouds

2012-11-01 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Mo Morsi wrote: Cool thanks for the info Seth. Ansible looks interesting, its a configuration orchestration component akin to Puppet / Chef is it not? Does it do any provisioning in itself? Ansible is more like this: Combining puppet and chef in one item. Then making

Re: Re: Re: Deploying fedora infrastructure (koji) across clouds

2012-11-01 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Mo Morsi wrote: Hrm I was refering more to the repos necessary to bootstrap the cloud instance for the koji builder. I see - I thought you were referring to package repos. Which component imposes this limitation on koji, the hub or the builder? the hub. Would

Re: Re: Deploying fedora infrastructure (koji) across clouds

2012-11-01 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Michael Scherer wrote: Le jeudi 01 novembre 2012 à 08:32 -0400, Mo Morsi a écrit : On 10/31/2012 01:07 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: You can orchestrate all of these steps across/between multiple systems using ansible: http://ansible.cc - I've been documenting spinning up

Re: Deploying fedora infrastructure (koji) across clouds

2012-10-31 Thread Seth Vidal
// small wrapper script around deltacloud: $ wget https://raw.github.com/movitto/mycloud/master/mycloud.rb $ chmod +x mycloud.rb // template describing kojihub cloud deployment $ wget https://raw.github.com/aeolus-incubator/templates/master/fedora_infra/koji/fedora-17/koji_f17.xml //

Re: Re: Deploying fedora infrastructure (koji) across clouds

2012-10-31 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Mo Morsi wrote: #2: Could there be a way to take a (working) nightly build, build one's package against that nightly in a personal build of some sort, and somehow have a verification process that it built in that personal build before it goes into rawhide, etc? (or

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-10-30 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:45:02AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 19:32 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote: I don't know if it's impossible to revert to the F17 anaconda at this time, however it is clear that F18 is going to be

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-23 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Lukas Zapletal wrote: Fedora Infrastructure has begun using ansible for some system setup and other orchestration/automation tasks. Our (just beginning) public repos of it are here: http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ansible.git/ Just out of my curiosity,

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-22 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: There is a reason I want to move to a clientless configmgmt infrastructure. Could you explain what you mean by clientless, please? It seems to me that there always

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-22 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: ansibile is exactly what I've been looking at as a puppet replacement.  If anyone has experience with both, I'd greatly appreciate hearing of their experiences.  I don't relish the idea of making the conversion, but I really do get the

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-19 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Michael Stahnke wrote: Puppet in the Fedora/EPEL ecosystem is a bit wonky currently. I'd really like to fix it. Problems: * Fedora 17 (and higher) ships with Ruby 1.9.x and Puppet 2.7.x. 2.7.x is not 100% compatible with 1.9.3. The number of issues in this space

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-19 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Michael Stahnke wrote: I (we) completely realize this isn't totally awesome either. This is a problem when you have a distributed application that is trying to support the widest variety of host populations we can. This request was brought to us by community members,

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-19 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Michael Stahnke wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Michael Stahnke wrote: I (we) completely realize this isn't totally awesome either. This is a problem when you have a distributed application

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-19 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 07:31:57PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: There is a reason I want to move to a clientless configmgmt infrastructure. I do not want to be hogtied like this again. Yeah, but we're not going to make _you_ use Puppet. :) Damned

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-19 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Ken Dreyer wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Michael Stahnke stah...@puppetlabs.com wrote: My proposal would be the following: * Move EPEL 6, Fedora = 17 to use Puppet 3.0. * Move EPEL 5 to the latest 2.7.x branch. This is the last branch of Puppet that supports

Re: Taking over orphaned Func and Certmaster packages

2012-10-11 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Steve Salevan wrote: Hey guys, I'd like to put my name in to take over ownership of the orphaned Func and Certmaster packages as per the orphaned package takeover procedure.  I am the new project maintainer for these projects, and I'd like to add a few tuneups here and

Re: [Feature Suggestion] UsrMove continued

2012-10-10 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Matěj Cepl wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:11:12 +0300, Serge wrote: Turning /lib into /usr/lib was also incompatible with every other Linux distro, nevertheless it's already done. The fact that we've made one useless and harmful mistake doesn't mean that we should

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-10 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 09.10.12 22:30, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: logrotate has time based policies for very good reasons. Yeah, because Unix doesn't really allow much else... Oh come on, stop bashing unix, logrotate could certainly grow a size

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-10 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 10.10.12 14:16, Seth Vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: On Tue, 09.10.12 22:30, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: logrotate has time based policies for very good reasons. Yeah, because Unix doesn't really allow much else

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-10 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Kay Sievers wrote: So, in other words, all our existing log analysis tools have to be modified if they are to be of any use in Fedora 18? What part of Run the syslog daemon like you always did, if you need syslog files. did you not understand? Kay, This is not an

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote: Maybe the definition of the fedora base set needs a bit of updating, given that it considers rdisc, saslauthd, audit, dnsmasq, syslog, wpa supplicant and sendmail basic. For container setups I need nothing of that... (heck! for my

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:18:25PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: To build such an image I'd really would have preferred not installing the docs. It appears rpm once had a feature for that where you could add excludedocs in rpmrc. This feature

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote: --nodocs and tsflags=nodocs ends up with ugly ugly things when you want to do rpm -Va later. nodocs 'works' but not in a pretty way But shouldn't we make it possible to make it work in a pretty way? You'll need to get the packaging team on

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Panu Matilainen wrote: --nodocs and tsflags=nodocs ends up with ugly ugly things when you want to do rpm -Va later. Err, not. Rpm remembers files that were skipped on purpose and does not whine about them on verification: [root@turre ~]# rpm -U --excludedocs

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:18:27AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: You'll need to get the packaging team on board with it. I have to say it is pretty much non-existent as a priority to anyone I've spoken with. If we can save space in the minimal cloud

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote: Rotation happens in-line, i.e. each time before we are about to write an entry we check if rotation is necessary and execute it. This should make things a lot more robust, as this fixes a common issue with syslog where a lot of data generated in

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 09.10.12 20:20, Panu Matilainen (pmati...@laiskiainen.org) wrote: It's 28M of my 434M F18 container image. i.e. 6.5% of the disk space. /usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale are 148M of my 434M container image, i.e. 35%. I wonder if we

Re: Could not execute scratch_build: database outage

2012-08-28 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Neal Becker wrote: I assume this is a known (and temporary problem): fedpkg scratch-build Could not execute scratch_build: database outage yep - it is coming back in just a tick -sv -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Suggestion: Continuous mass rebuild

2012-07-30 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Jesse Keating wrote: On 07/29/2012 10:38 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Currently we're doing a mass rebuild about every couple of releases, ie. once a year. Since Dennis Gilmore has written this rebuild script already, why don't we run the script more or less

Re: Suggestion: Continuous mass rebuild

2012-07-29 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Tom Lane wrote: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com writes: Currently we're doing a mass rebuild about every couple of releases, ie. once a year. Since Dennis Gilmore has written this rebuild script already, why don't we run the script more or less continuously?

Re: Anyone noticed strange signals (segfaults?) delivered to processes in latest Rawhide in Koji?

2012-07-27 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843731 Always the same process (ocamlopt.opt) and always on 32 bit only. The thing is, it *didn't* happen just 3 days ago. Nothing has changed in the package, and ocamlopt.opt is the same as 3 days

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