Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 01/18/2010 12:58 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Tony Nelsontonynel...@georgeanelson.com writes: On 10-01-17 12:32:17, Mail Lists wrote: Someone else asked this earlier - but why do users need the debug-info packages - only the debugger looking at the tracebacks needs this. So seems installing the

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:02 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: Having said that the things that can be done with a mere backtrace are limited. I would almost always need to look at the corefile too, and would be frustrated if it wasn't available. Perhaps the workflow that starts with ABRT providing

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 09:31 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:02 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: Having said that the things that can be done with a mere backtrace are limited. I would almost always need to look at the corefile too, and would be frustrated if it wasn't

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:06:13 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 01/17/2010 06:49 PM, Camilo Mesias wrote: This is a good point, the users shouldn't really have to install debuginfo for a one-off use. It would be better for a central server or service to have access to all the debuginfo files

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:18:11 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 01/17/2010 05:57 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: 5. Instead of hashes the missing debuginfo packages should be listed with n-v-r, so people can install them manually. This could be a problem. ABRT determines the required

Re: OT: writing gobject-based plugins

2010-01-18 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 15:03 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 03:22:32PM +0100, Christoph H?ger wrote: Hi, I am currently playing with gobject to learn some of this boilerplate stuff. For my small application I'd like to be able to write plugins that are derived

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:19:29 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 01/18/2010 11:17 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: Currently ABRT can at least run `rpm -qf MAIN_EXECUTABLE ALL_GDB_INFO_SHARED_DISPLAYED LIBRARIES FILENAMES' and report these nvrs in the Bugzilla bugreport before such build-id - nvr

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Nikola Pajkovsky
Dne 16.1.2010 22:25, Ola Thoresen napsal(a): Have a look at this bug for instance: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_activity.cgi?id=531343 It was closed two months ago as WORKSFORME, still ABRT adds more and more users to the Cc-list. Obviously something is not working for someone, but ABRT

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread David Tardon
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:11:25AM +0100, Radek Vokal wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Caolán McNamara caol...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 16:01 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: I know that APRT is still very young technology, but after 2 months it's time for a interim

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Thomas Moschny
2010/1/18 Jiri Moskovcak jmosk...@redhat.com: Plus abrt should run `rpm -V' on any rpm involved in the transaction (=if user does not have replaced the binary by some non-rpm make install). ABRT used to do this (and still can, it's just disabled), but rpm -V uses prelink to un-prelink the

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 01/18/2010 01:28 PM, Thomas Moschny wrote: 2010/1/18 Jiri Moskovcakjmosk...@redhat.com: Plus abrt should run `rpm -V' on any rpm involved in the transaction (=if user does not have replaced the binary by some non-rpm make install). ABRT used to do this (and still can, it's just disabled),

Re: Heads-Up: Beware of xmlCleanupParser() when your package links against libxml2

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 04:07:24PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de writes: There's something else that came to my mind: if libxml2 is loaded into memory indirectly because some dlopen'ed module wanted it, and then used, and then unloaded again because the

Re: Heads-Up: Beware of xmlCleanupParser() when your package links against libxml2

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 04:54:34PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:39:43 +0100 The dilemma is in broken libraries that use global variables instead of explicitly initialized memory contexts so that you can have multiple completely independent instances and also happen to help

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 01/18/2010 02:18 PM, James Antill wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 11:19 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: Currently ABRT can at least run `rpm -qf MAIN_EXECUTABLE ALL_GDB_INFO_SHARED_DISPLAYED LIBRARIES FILENAMES' and report these nvrs in the Bugzilla bugreport before such build-id - nvr server is

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Farkas Levente
On 01/18/2010 04:10 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Farkas Levente wrote: the real bottleneck is not the rpmbuild itself (with ccache it cab be very fast), but the mock surroundings. suppose there is build which takes about 2 minutes and in mock it takes about 5 minutes:-( most

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Farkas Levente wrote: the tar and gzip are mostly BUILDING the cache. no tar and gzip used unpacking root cache. How slow are your disks? You're not doing any of this to nfs are you? but have to run yum each time for the package specific depsolve and yum

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
Farkas, Don't email just to me offlist. Keep this onlist. How much of this is network access and how much is disk? B/c I doubt very much that you're cpu bound at all. everything is on the local mirror server which is on a gigabit lan. is there any way to banchmark mock and different

apt-fast

2010-01-18 Thread A. Mani
See http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=3t030sj3bgqk77dgetcvtueji1topic=66385.15 can it be packaged for Fedora? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Monday 18 January 2010, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Farkas Levente wrote: the real bottleneck is not the rpmbuild itself (with ccache it cab be very fast), but the mock surroundings. suppose there is build which takes about 2 minutes and in mock it takes about 5 minutes:-(

Re: apt-fast

2010-01-18 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Josephine Tannhäuser wrote: should be possible, we have an (old but we have one) apt unless I'm reading that forum thread wrong - it sure seems like apt-fast requires axel's repo? If that's true then I think it nixes any chance

License change for PySolFC and PySolFC-cardsets (GPLv2+ to GPLv3+)

2010-01-18 Thread Stewart Adam
PySolFC and PySolFC-cardsets 2.0 were announced recently [1] and as of this update the license has changed from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+. If nothing comes up, I'll update to 2.0 on F-11, F-12 and devel in a few days. Stewart [1] http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/ -- devel mailing list

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matt Domsch (matt_dom...@dell.com) said: With nobody handling the incoming bugzilla tickets. With some bug reports having been killed in an automated way at dist EOL. And worse if it turns out that packages which do build are unmaintained nevertheless, with the same symptoms in bugzilla

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this for packages that appear via some criteria (have not been built, have not been committed to, have lots of bugs

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this for packages that appear via some criteria

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Till Maas wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this for

Fedora Release Engineering meeting summary for 2010-01-18

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-01-18/fedora-releng.2010-01-18-18.02.html Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-01-18/fedora-releng.2010-01-18-18.02.txt Log:

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 12:25 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this for packages that appear via some criteria (have not

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tomas Mraz wrote: I think there should be at least two conditions which would have to be fulfilled for the nagging bug to be created - the package was not touched by the maintainer during recent x months and at least one bug is opened not closed in the bugzilla on the

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 14:04 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tomas Mraz wrote: I think there should be at least two conditions which would have to be fulfilled for the nagging bug to be created - the package was not touched by the maintainer during recent x months and at

Re: how to handle a gui- and non-gui-version of the same library/soname

2010-01-18 Thread Milos Jakubicek
On 18.1.2010 13:17, Stephen Gallagher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/17/2010 09:04 AM, Milos Jakubicek wrote: Hi all, is there any good way how to handle the situation described at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528524 ? I.e. you have a single

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 14:04 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tomas Mraz wrote: I think there should be at least two conditions which would have to be fulfilled for the nagging bug to be created - the package was not touched by the

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:04:14PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: I disagree about the bug being open. A lack of filed bugs could mean that no one CARES about the pkg at all. And if we have pkgs which are not being maintained AND no one cares enough to file a bug about then either they are:

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:32:10PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: I have another radical idea - we could whitelist all sorts of things which are unchanging and yet used. We could act like reasonable folks and realize that one extra bug report A YEAR that you have to close as 'fixed' is really

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 11:55 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the maintainer usually uses it, otherwise he would just drop it. If

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:55:13AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the maintainer usually uses it, otherwise he would just drop it. If

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:55:36PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: Yes, I believe the expression you're looking for is: Perfect is the enemy of the good What is being suggested is not perfect. It is, however, good. Here we disagree. As I explained I see little use in it, since there are other

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-18 11:34:44, Ville Skyttä wrote: ... So instead of modifying specfiles, one can do something like this in /etc/mock/site-defaults.cfg: config_opts['macros']['%_smp_mflags'] = '-j3' Unless `rpmbuild --showrc` shows a bad definition for _smp_mflags, you're probably better off

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Till Maas wrote: Often maintainers don't realize they have some of these packages, or the maintainers have left the project. Do maintainer really often forget, that they own a certain package? Ok, maybe if they are forced to do this from Red Hat, I do not know. But I

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Monday 18 January 2010, Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-01-18 11:34:44, Ville Skyttä wrote: ... So instead of modifying specfiles, one can do something like this in /etc/mock/site-defaults.cfg: config_opts['macros']['%_smp_mflags'] = '-j3' Unless `rpmbuild --showrc` shows a bad

Re: apt-fast

2010-01-18 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Monday 18 January 2010 08:07:44 am Josephine Tannhäuser wrote: should be possible, we have an (old but we have one) apt I thought apt-rpm was broken since the rpm 4.7.x (or is that the right version) changes? Regards, -- Conrad Meyer ceme...@u.washington.edu -- devel mailing list

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:22 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: I've not heard any other solutions which aren't oh just let it be. It might have been missed in the passing but: We have to reset our bugzilla password frequently We have to renew our Koji cert once a year We should be able to detect when

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:08 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:55:13AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 13:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: It might have been missed in the passing but: We have to reset our bugzilla password frequently We have to renew our Koji cert once a year We should be able to detect when either of those goes wrong, probably easiest to do the koji

Re: Can MMX be expected to be supported for F12+?

2010-01-18 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 1/18/2010 16:31, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 01/19/2010 12:18 AM, Till Maas wrote: now that F12+ is built for i686, can I expect that all Fedora x83 supported CPUs in F12+ support MMX? I have a package (john) that can then be made simpler. I'd say that you certainly can. Even Via Samuel is

Plan for tomorrow's (2010-01-19) FESCo meeting

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo meeting tomorrow at 20:00UTC (3pm EST) in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. Followups: #298 Revoke Paul Johnsons pacakger access and put him on probation. #291 Man pages Packaging Guideline #302 libssh2 - non-responsive

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 15:12 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: I doubt this very much. Many people don't report the bugs when the app crashes but later, many reports in a row. Most of my reports read I have no idea what I was doing when foo crashed, even if they submitted it straight after the

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 17:49 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: Someone else asked this earlier - but why do users need the debug-info packages - only the debugger looking at the tracebacks needs this. So seems installing the debug files on every desktop/server that has a problem is much less

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:10 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: So the first time you run it makes a cache. You aren't clearing out the cache each time, are you? That would definitely eat up a lot of time. Or running builds a long time apart, as the cache gets aged out. On my system (an overclocked

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 11:55 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the maintainer usually uses it, otherwise he would just drop it. If

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:30 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-01-18 11:34:44, Ville Skyttä wrote: ... So instead of modifying specfiles, one can do something like this in /etc/mock/site-defaults.cfg: config_opts['macros']['%_smp_mflags'] = '-j3' Unless `rpmbuild --showrc` shows a bad

[Bug 508194] RFE: split /usr/bin/padre into own subpackage

2010-01-18 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508194 Marcela Mašláňová mmasl...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 539150] FTBFS perl-Crypt-GPG-1.63-7.fc13

2010-01-18 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539150 Stepan Kasal ska...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added