Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:51:13PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Well, what's unfortunate is that HAL got deprecated long before replacements for all its parts were ready. KDE already waited for quite some time before implementing the replacements for HAL and was heavily criticized for that

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:32:26 +0100 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2010/11/12 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com: Any other exciting work in progress that might land in F15 that people are actively working on?

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 15:44 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore with any luck). Not without a pile of X changes, which themselves are blocking

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 15:44 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore with any luck).

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: It might not to work for proprietary drivers, but that's those drivers' problem. KDE basically requires XRandR since at least 4.0. this is a fairly new thing, AIUI: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/127103.html I

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 06:23:10PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Huh? KDE trunk (4.6) already uses XRandR backlight setting in PowerDevil: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/powerdevil/daemon/backends/upower/xrandrbrightness.cpp?revision=1194096view=markup and it appears to work

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 06:23:10PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Huh? KDE trunk (4.6) already uses XRandR backlight setting in PowerDevil: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/powerdevil/daemon/backends/upower/xrandrbrightness.cpp?revision=1194096view=markup

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 09:49:42PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 03:33:56AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Me. And I'm already angry at having to manually modprobe floppy in rc.local: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567533 If you're angry about a minor

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 15:44 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore with any luck). Not without a pile of X changes, which themselves are blocking on upstream kernel

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:23 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: On 11/15/2010 10:11 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:35 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore with any luck). Only 30 packages left requiring it,

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:39:29 -0500, Kyle McMartin k...@mcmartin.ca wrote: Hi Kevin, (and Bruno if you're watching) Please try this: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2614153 I've been running that kernel for a couple of days on one machine with floppies. (I am go to

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:39:29 -0500, Kyle McMartin k...@mcmartin.ca wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 09:49:42PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: And let me know what the output is on your machine (it uses ACPI to query the _FDE table in firmware, so hopefully we can only bind to it if a floppy

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:00:55PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2614153 I've been running that kernel for a couple of days on one machine with floppies. (I am go to switch to -62 tonight.) Two other machines I have with floppies are

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 21:24:41 -0500, Kyle McMartin k...@mcmartin.ca wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:00:55PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2614153 I've been running that kernel for a couple of days on one machine with floppies.

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 21:24:41 -0500, Kyle McMartin k...@mcmartin.ca wrote: (Yes, the messages would be in dmesg.) [2.691809] acpi_fde: failed to evaluate _FDE [2.692151] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M [2.724514] floppy: loaded /dev/fd0 was created. -- devel mailing list

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 21:16:40 -0600, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 21:24:41 -0500, Kyle McMartin k...@mcmartin.ca wrote: (Yes, the messages would be in dmesg.) [2.691809] acpi_fde: failed to evaluate _FDE [2.692151] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-22 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:32:09PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: [2.691809] acpi_fde: failed to evaluate _FDE [2.692151] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M [2.724514] floppy: loaded /dev/fd0 was created. Yeah, it falls back to the ordinary probing if anything fails. Can you

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Alasdair G Kergon wrote: An example of the way I see it working is like this: Say you have a Volume Group VG1 across two PVs, PV1 and PV2, containing Logical Volume LV1 containing the root filesystem. You have a trigger rule saying When you see the whole of VG1, activate LV1 inside it and

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-21 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:26:58 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote You still need a timeout to avoid waiting for ever for the root filesystem to appear when one of the PV has been disconnected from the system. If you cannot assemble the root file system, what is init supposed to do instead of

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Ralf Ertzinger wrote: Hi. On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:26:58 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote You still need a timeout to avoid waiting for ever for the root filesystem to appear when one of the PV has been disconnected from the system. If you cannot assemble the root file system, what is init

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 19 novembre 2010 à 21:46 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:23 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: libconcord-0:0.21-10.fc14.i686 libconcord-0:0.21-10.fc14.x86_64 I don't know exactly what that is, but I can't imagine it'd be terribly hard to port to udev

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 10:37 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le vendredi 19 novembre 2010 à 21:46 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:23 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: libconcord-0:0.21-10.fc14.i686 libconcord-0:0.21-10.fc14.x86_64 I don't know exactly what

Re: Meego and Navit ? Was Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 14:15 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: I realize that most people on this mailing list are focused on infrastructure and server/desktop usage. But some of us are looking forward to using future Fedora

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi, 2010/11/12 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com: Any other exciting work in progress that might land in F15 that people are actively working on? How about removing some old unix crud? (he said this and he saw that some people starts to gather firewood in the stack :)) Anyone uses gopher, uucp?

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 06:32:26PM +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: How about removing some old unix crud? (he said this and he saw that some people starts to gather firewood in the stack :)) Anyone uses gopher, uucp? sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync Someone at Red Hat asked me once what

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:50:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote /quote Interesting. But the short version of that means that all those users are useless in their current form, and could be removed? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 06:57:16PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: Interesting. But the short version of that means that all those users are useless in their current form, and could be removed? An administrator might decide to enable one of these accounts, but I'd say that would be pretty unwise.

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/11/20 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 06:57:16PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: Interesting. But the short version of that means that all those users are useless in their current form, and could be removed? An administrator might decide to enable one of these

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 07:53:40AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: biosdevname installed by default, used in the installer and at runtime to rename Dell and HP server onboard NICs from non-deterministic ethX to clearly labeled lomX matching the chassis silkscreen. But why ???lomX??? for

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:32:26 +0100 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2010/11/12 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com: Any other exciting work in progress that might land in F15 that people are actively working on? How about removing some old unix crud? (he said this and he saw that

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: On the positive side, it doesn't do anything terribly complicated, it just ships a single HAL rules file which does this: append key=info.capabilities type=strlistaccess_control/append merge key=access_control.file

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michał Piotrowski wrote: Anyone uses gopher, uucp? Me. gopher://www.calcforge.org/1/ Web version: http://www.calcforge.org:70/ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/kio_gopher (I don't use uucp though, but I see from Kevin Fenzi's reply that there's at least one person using that

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 03:33:56AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Me. And I'm already angry at having to manually modprobe floppy in rc.local: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567533 If you're angry about a minor inconvenience then I think you might want to seek counsel, but for what

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 03:19 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: On the positive side, it doesn't do anything terribly complicated, it just ships a single HAL rules file which does this: append key=info.capabilities type=strlistaccess_control/append merge

Re: Meego and Navit ? Was Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 14:15 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: I realize that most people on this mailing list are focused on infrastructure and server/desktop usage. But some of us are looking forward to using future Fedora releases on tablets in vehicular infotainment systems. To this end,

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:23 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: libconcord-0:0.21-10.fc14.i686 libconcord-0:0.21-10.fc14.x86_64 This one's a bit tricky, as it does something unique that you can't do any other way (it lets you program Logitech Harmony remote controls - Logitech only provide a tool

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org said: I've had a few off-list conversations with various community members about this. One thing that came up was that the alternative namespace is necessary, I'm not sold on this, but: but also that lom is a sub-optimal choice. One idea

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-18 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Monday, 15 November 2010 at 12:29, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [...] This is a silly straw-man. No one[1] formats external HDs with anything other than MS-DOS FAT. Fedora changing the default for the main hard disk will not make any difference to this case of your contrarian user giving

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-18 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 11/18/2010 8:09, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: On Monday, 15 November 2010 at 12:29, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [...] This is a silly straw-man. No one[1] formats external HDs with anything other than MS-DOS FAT. Fedora changing the default for the main hard disk will not make any

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (NM bridging !)

2010-11-18 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:35 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: * Will NM finally be able to do bridging? :drool: -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Meego and Navit ? Was Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-18 Thread Linuxguy123
I realize that most people on this mailing list are focused on infrastructure and server/desktop usage. But some of us are looking forward to using future Fedora releases on tablets in vehicular infotainment systems. To this end, what are the plans for releasing Meego as part of Fedora in F15

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:32:37AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: I've had a few off-list conversations with various community members about this. One thing that came up was that the alternative namespace is necessary, but also that lom is a sub-optimal choice. One idea that did come up was simply

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:48:09AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: In any case, is this going to be something that can be disabled easily? We have something like 18 years of Linux networking history that says ethernet devices are eth[0-9]+, and I'm not really interested in auditing all the tools and

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Matt Domsch matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:32:37AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: I've had a few off-list conversations with various community members about this. One thing that came up was that the alternative namespace is necessary, but

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:24:26AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: Also, I gotta say, it really shouldn't be LAN on Motherboard, since it's just an adapter, not actually a whole lan. It should clearly be NIC on Motherboard, or nom. And then you could silkscreen lolcats on to the servers, which I

Re: Meego and Navit ? Was Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-18 Thread Chen Lei
2010/11/19 Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com: I realize that most people on this mailing list are focused on infrastructure and server/desktop usage. But some of us are looking forward to using future Fedora releases on tablets in vehicular infotainment systems. To this end, what are the

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Matt Domsch
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:06:17PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Matt Domsch matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:32:37AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: I've had a few off-list conversations with various community members about this. One thing

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-17 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 09:24 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 07:53:40AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: biosdevname installed by default, used in the installer and at runtime to rename Dell and HP server onboard NICs from non-deterministic ethX to clearly labeled lomX

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 15 novembre 2010 23:51, Karel Klic a écrit : Dne 15.11.2010 23:04, Matthew Garrett napsal(a): On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:01:30PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matthew Garrettmj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Leaving the retracing at the user's end of things

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 16 novembre 2010 00:15, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson a écrit : On 11/15/2010 09:27 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Nobody has yet proven that LVM is a problem Well if you don't consider what Lennart mentioned [1] as a con against usage of lvm by default The con was the assumption that LVM

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-16 Thread Karel Klic
Dne 16.11.2010 11:04, Nicolas Mailhot napsal(a): Le Lun 15 novembre 2010 23:51, Karel Klic a écrit : Major advantage of the retrace server is that you can get a good backtraces even from unfresh coredumps. And why can't this be done with debuginfofs ? It's the same data. GDB pretty printers

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-16 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:57:19 +0100, Karel Klic wrote: Dne 16.11.2010 11:04, Nicolas Mailhot napsal(a): Le Lun 15 novembre 2010 23:51, Karel Klic a écrit : Major advantage of the retrace server is that you can get a good backtraces even from unfresh coredumps. And why can't this be done

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 02:41 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: LVM's a fantasically useful tool in a wide range of cases, but I don't think that in the*typical* laptop/desktop install any of that functionality ever gets used. That's the essence of what's being discussed here laptop/desktop/workstation

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:53:03AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/15/2010 02:41 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: LVM's a fantasically useful tool in a wide range of cases, but I don't think that in the*typical* laptop/desktop install any of that functionality ever gets used. That's

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Milan Broz
On 11/14/2010 12:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoDefaultLVM Info on this page is completely obsolete! | * Certain filesystem features (ext3 barriers) are unavailable when run | on top of LVM. No longer true, barriers (resp. flush) are fully

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 11:29 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: This is a silly straw-man. No one[1] formats external HDs with anything other than MS-DOS FAT. Fedora changing the default for the main hard disk will not make any difference to this case of your contrarian user giving away LVM-formatted USB

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:29:06AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: This is a silly straw-man. No one[1] formats external HDs with anything other than MS-DOS FAT. Fedora changing the default for the main hard disk will not make any difference to this case of your contrarian user giving away

Re: External HD fs was: Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 02:03 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 15/11/10 13:54, Richard Zidlicky wrote: snip there are very good reasons to use anything but DOS-FAT. For example F10 and F12 automount said filesystems with drastically different options by default (filename downcasing), using any other FS

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 02:15 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:53:03AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: That's the essence of what's being discussed here laptop/desktop/workstation installs default to ext4 and experienced users/sysadmins those that generally know what lvm is

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
On 11/15/2010 10:11 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:35 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore with any luck). Only 30 packages left requiring it, according to repoquery. smolt's probably the most interesting one to

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore with any luck). Not without a pile of X changes, which themselves are blocking on upstream kernel changes that I've submitted but which haven't been merged. --

Re: External HD fs was: Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 11/15/10 8:39 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: I assume that OS-X has not trouble with mounting various LinuxFS given that it is a *nix breed. Being unix-ish doesn't really help, you need an actual filesystem driver for the OS. There is an ext2/ext3 driver for osx (based on the bsd driver

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:15:20AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:14:18AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: LVM actually slows down boot considerably. Not primarily because its code was slow or anything, but simply because it isn't really written in the way that

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:11:52AM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: * Some kind of packaged wayland to play with, even if it doesn't do much? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652746 Which _really_ won't do much at the moment, since we can't build any of the demo clients yet. I'm

Re: External HD fs was: Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 02:03:03PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: On 15/11/10 13:54, Richard Zidlicky wrote: snip there are very good reasons to use anything but DOS-FAT. For example F10 and F12 automount said filesystems with drastically different options by default (filename downcasing),

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 05:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 03:03:28PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Strongly no to this. We need to have fewer choices during the installation and more flexibility later. LVM provides this. So we agree on disagreeing. Let's go the middle path

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (NoDefaultLVM)

2010-11-15 Thread Will Woods
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 13:02 +0100, Milan Broz wrote: On 11/14/2010 12:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoDefaultLVM Info on this page is completely obsolete! Yes. Note the prominent line reading: * Last updated: December 17, 2008 The

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Karel Klic
Dne 12.11.2010 17:35, Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): Any other exciting work in progress that might land in F15 that people are actively working on? ABRT with retrace server support, and a retrace server instance up and running. It will improve the quality of backtraces.

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:14:53PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/15/2010 05:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 03:03:28PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Strongly no to this. We need to have fewer choices during the installation and more flexibility later.

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Karel Klic
Dne 15.11.2010 22:13, Matthew Garrett napsal(a): On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:43:39PM +0100, Karel Klic wrote: ABRT with retrace server support, and a retrace server instance up and running. It will improve the quality of backtraces. How does the user verify that there are no passwords or other

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:43:39PM +0100, Karel Klic wrote: Dne 12.11.2010 17:35, Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): Any other exciting work in progress that might land in F15 that people are actively working on? ABRT with

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:43:39PM +0100, Karel Klic wrote: Dne 12.11.2010 17:35, Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): Any other exciting work in progress

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:01:30PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: How does the user verify that there are no passwords or other personal information in the core dump? I don't think it really works to ask the user to

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Karel Klic
Dne 15.11.2010 22:31, Matthew Garrett napsal(a): On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:43:39PM +0100, Karel Klic wrote: ABRT with retrace server support, and a retrace server instance up and running. It will improve the quality of backtraces. Further, what's the licensing situation here? If I have an

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Matthew Garrett píše v Po 15. 11. 2010 v 22:04 +: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:01:30PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: How does the user verify that there are no passwords or other personal information in the

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:07:11PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Don't we need the entirety of debuginfo in order to be able to include parameter and local variable values in the backtrace? The entirity of it needs to be available, but that's not the same as requiring the user install it on

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
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 GPL-incompatible code, does sending this coredump to a remote

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Karel Klic
Dne 15.11.2010 23:04, Matthew Garrett napsal(a): On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:01:30PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matthew Garrettmj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Leaving the retracing at the user's end of things means that the user at least has a choice in the matter

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 09:27 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Nobody has yet proven that LVM is a problem 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 novice end user? JBG 1.

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
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 novice end user? When the novice end user realizes that they made some

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:23:37AM -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: On 11/15/2010 10:11 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:35 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore with any luck). Only 30 packages left requiring

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: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:14:18AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: LVM actually slows down boot considerably. Not primarily because its code was slow or anything, but simply because it isn't really written in the way that things are expected to work these days. The LVM assembly at boot is

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-14 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:34:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Greetings. Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that Fedora 15 may be much more exciting. ;) biosdevname installed by default, used

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 14 novembre 2010 à 01:14 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Well, there's no doubt that LVM has its uses, but that doesn't mean we should install it by default on every Fedora installation. LVM actually slows down boot considerably. Not primarily because its code was slow or

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Liang Suilong
Return to GRUB2 topic, I wish that GRUB2 landed in Anaconda and become an option for user. Some Linux fans install two Linux distros, one is rpm-based distro, another is deb-based distro. Most of deb-based distros has moved to GRUB2. however, rpm-based distros still stays at GRUB legacy. I can

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Frank Murphy
On 14/11/10 12:18, Liang Suilong wrote: Return to GRUB2 topic, I wish that GRUB2 landed in Anaconda and become an option for user. Some Linux fans install two Linux distros, one is rpm-based distro, another is deb-based distro. Most of deb-based distros has moved to GRUB2. however, rpm-based

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-14 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:11:11PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: On 11/13/2010 06:34 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: biosdevname installed by default, used in the installer and at runtime to rename Dell and HP server onboard NICs from non-deterministic ethX to clearly labeled lomX matching the chassis

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-14 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:57:59AM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:34:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Greetings. Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that Fedora 15 may be

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 14.11.10 13:14, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mail...@laposte.net) wrote: Le dimanche 14 novembre 2010 à 01:14 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Well, there's no doubt that LVM has its uses, but that doesn't mean we should install it by default on every Fedora installation. LVM

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread drago01
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:26:48PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: *DE could consider switching the default to use EXT4 directly without LVM. [1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoDefaultLVM The

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 11/14/2010 10:42 AM, drago01 wrote: Yes unless something changed recently the filesystem's discard command never reaches the drive. Looks like I'm reformatting and dumping the LVM. Thanks. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 11:15 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: On 11/13/2010 10:45 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 18:07 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Kevin Fenzi writes: * gnome3 / gnome-shell default Does anyone happen to know how to mimic the equivalent of panel

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:44:06 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote Looks like I'm reformatting and dumping the LVM. Thanks. Discard aside, btrfs should include all (or most of) the features that LVM and raid0 were giving you, anyway. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans - BTRFS

2010-11-14 Thread Genes MailLists
btfrs providing raid0 functionality. Does BTRFS have the equivalent of raid 5 ? gene/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread John Reiser
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 an ordinary partition from an LVM. Once a portion of the drive is LVM, then that portion of the drive is LVM forever until the LVM is

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 an

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Matt McCutchen wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 14:07 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: Oops, that's not completely true: pvresize currently is not smart enough to move allocated data out of the area to be freed, according to its man page. But you have other options, e.g., you can attach another disk,

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/14/2010 05:44 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 11/14/2010 10:42 AM, drago01 wrote: Yes unless something changed recently the filesystem's discard command never reaches the drive. Looks like I'm reformatting and dumping the LVM. Thanks. You should also file a bug against the tool that

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