Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/2014 11:06 PM, Brendan Jones wrote: On 01/31/2014 12:28 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 30 January 2014 23:07, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: On

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/2014 11:07 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Stephen Gallagher wrote: Right now, the vision essentially looks like: Fedora Products: This *is* Fedora. It comes in three flavors. I don't like the hardcoded three there at all, because if KDE is

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Dan Mashal
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: This is the domain of Fedora Remixes, not Fedora Spins. Downstreams are permitted (naturally) to use Fedora packages for whatever distribution they want to create. The catch is that they have to follow the policies on

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:01:40AM +, Ian Malone wrote: Two thoughts: 1. Is there scope for a spin to be a particular sub-focus of a product? Desktop (all) . desktop gnome . desktop kde . desktop twm (maybe not) Server (all) . server web . server fileserver (or whatever might make

Re: libxnvctrl status?

2014-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/04/2014 04:58 AM, Christopher Meng wrote: Hi all, Can someone tell me why this library is still at a very old version packaged in Fedora? I've seen RFEs about updating it to the latest version, but maintainer Adam Jackson hasn't done neither any to this package still so far, nor response

Re: libxnvctrl status?

2014-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/04/2014 08:54 AM, Simone Caronni wrote: The source code comes from the nvidia-settings tarball; and following the same logic we should allow all the relevant open source components of the Nvidia driver [2] in Fedora, that is: Correct, we could - Similar things are being done at several

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread H . Guémar
I'm not fond of keeping spins around when we're focusing on products. That gives the message that they are second-class citizens in Fedora. I'd rather define a process that allows current spins to become either sub-products or full-featured products when they meet a set of requirements (that is

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2014 11:11 AM, H. Guémar wrote: I'm not fond of keeping spins around when we're focusing on products. That gives the message that they are second-class citizens in Fedora. To be fair, spins have always been second-class citizens (to a

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2014 10:34 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: This is the domain of Fedora Remixes, not Fedora Spins. Downstreams are permitted (naturally) to use Fedora packages for

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:16:16PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: If we decide the alternative desktops are a valuable part of Fedora - which seems to be a popular opinion - how do we fit them into a Product-based conception of Fedora? We can have a KDE Product, and an Xfce Product, and an

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Robert Mayr
2014-02-04 Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I won't speak for all of FESCo, but I'm leaning towards: Spins can continue just as they are, while being aware that they continue to be secondary to our primary deliverables. [snip] Yes, in my

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 02/04/2014 10:39 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:16:16PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: If we decide the alternative desktops are a valuable part of Fedora - which seems to be a popular opinion - how do we fit them into a Product-based conception of Fedora? We can have

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:51:31AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: What I mean to say is that Red Hat has a business motive to support the Fedora community, if supporting Fedora was a pure act of charity then I think organizations like the Red Cross or Unicef would have a much better chance

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.02.2014 11:57, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 02/04/2014 10:39 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:16:16PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: If we decide the alternative desktops are a valuable part of Fedora - which seems to be a popular opinion - how do we fit them into

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread H . Guémar
It's also a negative message to the 1.4 k active contributors in fedora. Or do you assume that most of them are paid by RH which is unlikely. Don't forget that fp.o has been founded with two stakeholders: RH and the community H. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Dan Mashal
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: I won't speak for all of FESCo, but I'm leaning towards: Spins can continue just as they are, while being aware that they continue to be secondary to our primary deliverables. (Yes, I'm aware of the

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Robert Mayr
2014-02-04 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:51:31AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: What I mean to say is that Red Hat has a business motive to support the Fedora community, if supporting Fedora was a pure act of charity then I think organizations like the

Re: libxnvctrl status?

2014-02-04 Thread Simone Caronni
On 4 February 2014 11:03, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: Correct, we could - Similar things are being done at several places in Fedora. Somewhat oversimplified, the basic requirement is all shipped binaries must be built from OSI-compiliant sources-code and no closed-sources be

Re: libxnvctrl status?

2014-02-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 February 2014 11:34, Simone Caronni negativ...@gmail.com wrote: but what is the benefit of having them in Fedora if they can't be used without the proprietary blobs? I've always wondered the same thing. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

File CPANPLUS-0.9148.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by ppisar

2014-02-04 Thread Petr Pisar
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-CPANPLUS: e135aab8af0f16e07ddf1fe096680a00 CPANPLUS-0.9148.tar.gz -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org

[Bug 1061113] New: perl-Text-Aligner-0.10 is available

2014-02-04 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061113 Bug ID: 1061113 Summary: perl-Text-Aligner-0.10 is available Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Component: perl-Text-Aligner Keywords: FutureFeature, Triaged Assignee:

[Bug 1061114] New: perl-URI-Find-Simple-1.04 is available

2014-02-04 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061114 Bug ID: 1061114 Summary: perl-URI-Find-Simple-1.04 is available Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Component: perl-URI-Find-Simple Keywords: FutureFeature, Triaged Assignee:

[Bug 1061115] New: perl-URI-Title-1.87 is available

2014-02-04 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061115 Bug ID: 1061115 Summary: perl-URI-Title-1.87 is available Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Component: perl-URI-Title Keywords: FutureFeature, Triaged Assignee:

[perl-CPANPLUS] 0.9148 bump

2014-02-04 Thread Petr Pisar
commit fadcaded4d1160b825aade2e7d55677fd2c5185e Author: Petr Písař ppi...@redhat.com Date: Tue Feb 4 12:59:09 2014 +0100 0.9148 bump .gitignore |1 + perl-CPANPLUS.spec |5 - sources|2 +- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- diff --git

Re: Meeting minutes Env-and-Stacks WG meeting (2014-01-28)

2014-02-04 Thread Bohuslav Kabrda
ACTION: bkabrda will write more about devassistant (mmaslano, 16:44:20) I tried to rewrite the DevAssistant part to be more high-level and to also include information on what we should do with DevAssistant. Hope it's enough. Slavek. -- devel mailing list

Re: Meeting minutes Env-and-Stacks WG meeting (2014-01-28)

2014-02-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 February 2014 12:02, Bohuslav Kabrda bkab...@redhat.com wrote: I tried to rewrite the DevAssistant part to be more high-level and to also include information on what we should do with DevAssistant. Hope it's enough. Should DevAssistant and gnome software work together? I think there are a

Re: Meeting minutes Env-and-Stacks WG meeting (2014-01-28)

2014-02-04 Thread Bohuslav Kabrda
- Original Message - On 4 February 2014 12:02, Bohuslav Kabrda bkab...@redhat.com wrote: I tried to rewrite the DevAssistant part to be more high-level and to also include information on what we should do with DevAssistant. Hope it's enough. Should DevAssistant and gnome software

[Bug 1061103] perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.065 is available

2014-02-04 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061103 Paul Howarth p...@city-fan.org changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |CLOSED Fixed In

Re: Introducing myself

2014-02-04 Thread bebo_sudo
Il 03/02/2014 14:09, Christopher Meng ha scritto: Please use your real name for the email address/Bugzilla account. I've just edited the name on bugzilla adding my last name. Thank you for the tip. Hope to find someone interested to my packages. Greetings, Alberto -- devel mailing list

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:57:51AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: For that matter, there could be a Fedora GNOME spin distinct from the Fedora Workstation product, if there were people really keen to work on it, perhap as a showcase of upstream technology without worrying about the

Problems running mock with rawhide build root

2014-02-04 Thread Sergio Pascual
Hi, I'm having problems running mock with a rawhide buildroot. I get the following error ERROR: Command failed. See logs for output. # /usr/bin/repoquery -c /tmp/tmpQ6Wu7m --installed -a --qf '%{nevra} %{buildtime} %{size} %{pkgid} %{yumdb_info.from_repo}'

Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of spins.

2014-02-04 Thread Timothy Ward
It would seem that splitting the products could loose some community support as one product has more support than the other, either way the Fedora 20 product is definately at the cutting edge but after installing it on several machines, it seems IMHO that cracks are starting to appear now that I

Re: libxnvctrl status?

2014-02-04 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 02/04/2014 12:56 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: On 4 February 2014 11:34, Simone Caronni negativ...@gmail.com wrote: but what is the benefit of having them in Fedora if they can't be used without the proprietary blobs? I've always wondered the same thing. IIRC libXNVCtrl was introduced

Re: [Base] Meeting canceled for today

2014-02-04 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - Apologies for the late notice everyone, but as i've been head of heels in tons of other work the past week and quite a few folks are either traveling or attending FOSDEM this weekend we're canceling the meeting today. Next week we'll have to see with a lot of

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 02/04/2014 12:38 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:57:51AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: For that matter, there could be a Fedora GNOME spin distinct from the Fedora Workstation product, if there were people really keen to work on it, perhap as a showcase of

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 01:34:09AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: So where do we currently stand with this? So, here's what *I'm* thinking. Spins clearly have enough popularity and importance that we either need to keep them or have some alternative that fills the same space and makes people at

Re: Issue with koji?

2014-02-04 Thread Dave Johansen
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 20:56:15 -0700 Dave Johansen davejohan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to do a build on koji and ran into an error during the mock buildroot setup (

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 12:56:04PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Yes but community products wont be considered primary products No. The initial plan calls for three primary *community* products. And we'll see where it goes from there. which means if things continues in the same manner as

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: I'd also like to see some of the restrictions on spins loosened a little bit. I think the spin/remix distinction (Fedora-only software vs. combined with other things) is good, but, for example, spins, maybe it

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I'd also like to see some of the restrictions on spins loosened a little bit. I think the spin/remix distinction (Fedora-only software vs. combined with other things) is good,

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:38:32PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: I'd also like to see some of the restrictions on spins loosened a little bit. I think the spin/remix distinction (Fedora-only software vs. combined with other things) is good, but, for example, spins, maybe it *would* be okay

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:38:32PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: I'd also like to see some of the restrictions on spins loosened a little bit. I think the spin/remix distinction (Fedora-only software vs. combined with other things) is good, but, for example,

Summary/Minutes from today's Env-and-Stacks WG Meeting (2014-02-04)

2014-02-04 Thread Bohuslav Kabrda
#fedora-meeting: Env and Stacks (2014-02-04) Meeting started by bkabrda at 13:03:24 UTC. The full logs are available at

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 08:48:12AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: I'd also like to see some of the restrictions on spins loosened a little bit. I think the spin/remix distinction (Fedora-only software vs. combined with other things) is good, but, for example, spins, maybe it *would* be okay

FESCo/FAMSCo voting is open

2014-02-04 Thread Josh Boyer
Hi All, I've yet to see an announcement email for this, but the polls for the FESCo and FAMSCo votes are open. Please go vote here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ josh -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora

Re: FESCo/FAMSCo voting is open

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:25:17AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: I've yet to see an announcement email for this, but the polls for the FESCo and FAMSCo votes are open. Please go vote here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ Also: more details on Fedora's voting process at

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Jochen Schmitt
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:14:06PM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: (This is a particular pain point for me -- my main development box was originally installed as BIOS, and I switched it to UEFI, and I'm sure I did it wrong because the boot process is impressively finicky.) If your hard disc

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Robert Mayr wrote: Why do you think only about KDE? The other desktops should be considered separate Products, too. It's time to stop treating them as second-class citizens that we won't even wait a few days for with our releases. This topic shouldn't turn into a DE war IMHO. The product for

[perl-indirect/epel7] Build for epel7 bootstrap done

2014-02-04 Thread Paul Howarth
Summary of changes: fc93f40... Build for epel7 bootstrap done (*) (*) This commit already existed in another branch; no separate mail sent -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 20:14:06 -0800 Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: that in the wiki. (This is a particular pain point for me -- my main development box was originally installed as BIOS, and I switched it to UEFI, and I'm sure I did it wrong because the boot process is impressively

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - It needs updates :). Any volunteer? I have updated it just to remove the obsolete content for now. Ideally, it needs a good rewrite Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Retiring/orphaning conglomerate

2014-02-04 Thread José Matos
I intend to orphan conglomerate (http://www.conglomerate.org/). The source code has not been updated for a long time and my interest in the package is gone. If no one is interested in maintaining it I will retire it from the distribuition in the next weeks. Regards, -- José Abílio Matos --

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:09:15 -0500 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - It needs updates :). Any volunteer? I have updated it just to remove the obsolete content for now. Ideally, it

FESCo announces acceptance of Fedora.next PRDs

2014-02-04 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recently, as part of the Fedora.next effort, FESCo has accepted the PRDs from the following Working Groups: - Workstation https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Workstation_PRD - Server https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Product_Requirements_Document - Cloud

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 02/04/2014 06:15 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: honestly going back to only a install DVD with a sane user-UI and dedicate all the time wasted for the spin/products/discrimination discussions for documentations, screenshots and howtos would have more benefit for Fedora there is nothing you can't

Re: libxnvctrl status?

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 12:34 +0100, Simone Caronni wrote: Well, the tools are totally opensource and can be built standalone, libXNVCtrl will interface with the Nvidia X.org driver; but what is the benefit of having them in Fedora if they can't be used without the proprietary blobs? Well,

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 04:42:23PM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:14:06PM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: (This is a particular pain point for me -- my main development box was originally installed as BIOS, and I switched it to UEFI, and I'm sure I did it wrong

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org said: …and configure the UEFI boot options, which you can't do because you're not running under UEFI and so have no access to UEFI runtime services. That's probably the biggest flaw in the whole UEFI setup - you can't access it unless you

What is the usage of an empty RPM ?

2014-02-04 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, What is the usage of an empty RPM ? What it is for ? For example, on Fedora 20: rpm -qpl libvirt-1.1.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm shows: (contains no files) Regards, Kevin Wilson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora

Re: What is the usage of an empty RPM ?

2014-02-04 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:30:16PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, What is the usage of an empty RPM ? What it is for ? For example, on Fedora 20: rpm -qpl libvirt-1.1.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm shows: (contains no files) It pulls in the various dependant packages that are required for a full

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org said: …and configure the UEFI boot options, which you can't do because you're not running under UEFI and so have no access to UEFI runtime services. That's probably the

Re: What is the usage of an empty RPM ?

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Kevin Wilson wkev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the usage of an empty RPM ? What it is for ? For example, on Fedora 20: rpm -qpl libvirt-1.1.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm shows: (contains no files) It's effectively a meta-package that pulls in dependencies.

Re: What is the usage of an empty RPM ?

2014-02-04 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, Thanks to Adam and Daniel for the quick answer. I am not an expert about RPMs. I just wonder where are these dependencies defined for libvirt (and in general for other RPMs), since the libvirt RPM file itself is an empty file ? Regards, Kevin On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Adam Miller

Re: What is the usage of an empty RPM ?

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Kevin Wilson wkev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks to Adam and Daniel for the quick answer. I am not an expert about RPMs. I just wonder where are these dependencies defined for libvirt (and in general for other RPMs), since the libvirt RPM file itself is an

Re: What is the usage of an empty RPM ?

2014-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/04/2014 06:46 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, Thanks to Adam and Daniel for the quick answer. I am not an expert about RPMs. I just wonder where are these dependencies defined for libvirt (and in general for other RPMs), since the libvirt RPM file itself is an empty file ? You need to have a

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
I've done conversions in both directions a few times although not very recently. But having done it, I'd say f it, just reinstall. Or f it, get drunk and sent to the hospital is even a better experience than converting. BIOS-UEFI - BIOS install won't have an EFI System partition, so you have to

Re: What is the usage of an empty RPM ?

2014-02-04 Thread Reindl Harald
example of how to build meta packages some obsoletes/provides are hacks to get rid of useless dependencies or workarounds for UsrMove-bugs the really relevant is Requires: they do not need to privide files they only ned to provide dependencies [builduser@buildserver:~]$ cat

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: I've done conversions in both directions a few times although not very recently. But having done it, I'd say f it, just reinstall. Or f it, get drunk and sent to the hospital is even a better experience than

Re: Packaging question about -Wformat-security on Rawhide

2014-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/04/2014 05:31 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 19:42 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: I'm not sure why the default -Wall is being dropped from that line (it is on other tests). It's explicitly dropped

Re: What is the usage of an empty RPM ?

2014-02-04 Thread Laurent Rineau
Le Tuesday 04 February 2014 19:30:16 Kevin Wilson a écrit : Hi, What is the usage of an empty RPM ? What it is for ? For example, on Fedora 20: rpm -qpl libvirt-1.1.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm shows: (contains no files) That package does not contain files, but it does contain other things:

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: I think that half the difficulty here is that UEFI is annoying and the other half is that both GRUB2 and efibootmgr are miserable. For single OS installs, you shouldn't have to interact with any of those things. shim.efi, or

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: I think that half the difficulty here is that UEFI is annoying and the other half is that both GRUB2 and efibootmgr are miserable. For single OS

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 4, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: This reminds me: I *always* install with a GPT partition table, an ESP partition, a BIOS Boot partition, and a smallish (1 or 2 GB) ext4 /boot near the beginning of the disk. All Linuxes seem perfectly happy to install this

[perl-Digest-JHash/f20] Upstream update.

2014-02-04 Thread corsepiu
Summary of changes: d09375f... Upstream update. (*) (*) This commit already existed in another branch; no separate mail sent -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org

[perl-Digest-JHash/f19] (3 commits) ...Upstream update.

2014-02-04 Thread corsepiu
Summary of changes: f640e95... Perl 5.18 rebuild (*) 2b3f8d5... - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass (*) d09375f... Upstream update. (*) (*) This commit already existed in another branch; no separate mail sent -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 4, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: I think that half the difficulty here is that UEFI is annoying and the other

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Les Howell
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:21 +0100, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 02/01/2014 11:07 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Stephen Gallagher wrote: Right now, the vision essentially looks like: Fedora Products: This *is* Fedora. It comes in three flavors. I don't like the hardcoded three there at all,

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: /boot is useful regardless of how you boot. The ESP doesn't need to be very large and doesn't cause any harm if booted via BIOS. The BIOS Boot

EPEL Fedora 6 updates-testing report

2014-02-04 Thread updates
The following Fedora EPEL 6 Security updates need testing: Age URL 653 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2012-5620/bugzilla-3.4.14-2.el6 83 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2013-12079/bip-0.8.9-1.el6 47

Re: Problems running mock with rawhide build root

2014-02-04 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 02/04/2014 02:44 PM, Sergio Pascual wrote: Hi, I'm having problems running mock with a rawhide buildroot. I get the following error ERROR: Command failed. See logs for output. # /usr/bin/repoquery -c /tmp/tmpQ6Wu7m --installed -a --qf '%{nevra} %{buildtime} %{size} %{pkgid}

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:03 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: This reminds me: I *always* install with a GPT partition table, an ESP partition, a BIOS Boot partition, and a smallish (1 or 2 GB) ext4 /boot near the beginning of the disk. All Linuxes seem perfectly happy to install this way

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 11:49 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: And in fact it's worse in that presently I can't create an ESP per disk because the installer is mountpoint centric not partition centric. So I can only create one ESP on one disk because I can have only one /boot/efi.

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 11:49 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: This reminds me: I *always* install with a GPT partition table, an ESP partition, a BIOS Boot partition, and a smallish (1 or 2 GB) ext4 /boot near the beginning of

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:03 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: This reminds me: I *always* install with a GPT partition table, an ESP partition, a BIOS Boot partition, and a smallish (1 or 2 GB) ext4 /boot near the

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 11:49 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:03 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: This reminds me: I *always* install with a GPT partition table, an ESP partition, a BIOS Boot

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: IMO in an ideal world, there would be one (or zero!) copy of the bootloader config, and the default configuration of the bootloader would populate the ESP (with the signed shim!), the BIOS Boot partition, and the (fake) MBR

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 11:49 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: And in fact it's worse in that presently I can't create an ESP per disk because the installer is mountpoint centric not partition centric. So I can only create one

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 12:26 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Your proposal like cmurf's involves us auto-creating the BIOS boot partition, so it doesn't have *that* problem, but it has another problem, the one I pointed out to cmurf - it's not actually all that easy to have custom part just

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:21 +0100, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 02/01/2014 11:07 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Stephen Gallagher wrote: Right now, the vision essentially looks like: Fedora Products: This *is* Fedora. It comes in three flavors. I don't like the hardcoded three there at all,

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 11:11 +0100, H. Guémar wrote: I'm not fond of keeping spins around when we're focusing on products. That gives the message that they are second-class citizens in Fedora. We already have about sixteen 'citizen classes' within the spin system, as I pointed out in another

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 11:49 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: This reminds me: I *always* install with a GPT partition table, an ESP partition, a BIOS Boot

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:30:58AM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: I think that half the difficulty here is that UEFI is annoying and the other

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:03 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: This reminds me: I *always* install with a GPT partition table, an ESP partition, a

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:49:06AM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: What failed? I'm guessing that userspace improvements since then have mostly fixed this. I've never seen any problem on F18 (IIRC) and up with GPT partition tables being BIOS-booted. It seems to Just Work (tm). Some

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 14:45 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: You of all people know the consequences of adding more complexity to the installer's partitioning codepaths. ;) Yeah what's complex is error checking whether an ESP is needed, and whether it's present, and the not present gripe code,

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:03 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: This reminds

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 11:27 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 02/04/2014 06:15 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: honestly going back to only a install DVD with a sane user-UI and dedicate all the time wasted for the spin/products/discrimination discussions for documentations, screenshots and

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 14:29 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: and my suggestion is now to just create both partitions when installing to GPT. Presumably if firmware can handle a GPT disk at all, it won't care whether it happens to contain an ESP unless it's actually trying to boot it using

Re: Problems running mock with rawhide build root

2014-02-04 Thread Sergio Pascual
Thank you for pointing me the bug report 2014-02-04 Panu Matilainen pmati...@laiskiainen.org: On 02/04/2014 02:44 PM, Sergio Pascual wrote: Hi, I'm having problems running mock with a rawhide buildroot. I get the following error ERROR: Command failed. See logs for output. #

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 14:29 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: and my suggestion is now to just create both partitions when installing to GPT. Presumably if firmware can handle a GPT disk at all, it won't care whether it

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