Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Petr Pisar
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:33:26PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer released the package. Since you're clearly working on it, I think it would make sense to pass

Re: SWI Prolog is gone from F13 and F14

2010-11-11 Thread Petr Pisar
Acctually gemi still owns the package. He's on turn now. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

rawhide report: 20101111 changes

2010-11-11 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Thu Nov 11 08:15:03 UTC 2010 Broken deps for x86_64 -- apcupsd-3.14.8-3.fc15.x86_64 requires libnetsnmp.so.20()(64bit) balsa-2.4.7-2.fc14.x86_64 requires libnotify.so.1()(64bit)

Orphaning gedit-vala

2010-11-11 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Hi all, I'm orphaning gedit-vala (upstream name: vtg); a plugin for doing Vala development in gedit. It's in good shape on F-14, waiting for upstream fixes for Rawhide (since we're shipping gedit 2.9x.y there) and there are some problems on F-12 and F-13 that would need the Vala stack to be

Re: RPM: signing uncompressed data instead of signed data?

2010-11-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:41:13 +, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: The question was raised why RPMs sign their compressed data, rather than uncompressed. (One advantage would be to avoid deltarpm rebuild failures due to changes in compression such as the recent one

Re: Why does my mail client/web browser not appear in GNOME?

2010-11-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 12:14 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 19:21 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: Or why is my dingus click not working? Your web browsers and mail clients need to handle x-scheme-handler/http[1] and x-scheme-handler/mailto respectively to be listed in

RPM: signing uncompressed data instead of signed data?

2010-11-11 Thread Andre Robatino
Bruno Wolff III wrote: Uncompressing hostile data is generally not a good thing to be doing. From that aspect it makes more sense to sign the compressed payload. I was thinking that since the signature check usually passes, the data could be uncompressed into a cache, checked there, then

Re: RPM: signing uncompressed data instead of signed data?

2010-11-11 Thread James Antill
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 10:41 +, Andre Robatino wrote: I came across the following old post, which I'm not responding to in-thread due to its age. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-September/msg00517.html The question was raised why RPMs sign their compressed data,

Re: RPM: signing uncompressed data instead of signed data?

2010-11-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:29:54 -0500, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: Uncompressing hostile data is generally not a good thing to be doing. From that aspect it makes more sense to sign the compressed payload. I was thinking that since the

RPM: signing uncompressed data instead of signed data?

2010-11-11 Thread Andre Robatino
James Antill wrote: IMO, as has been said before, if you have a delta method that doesn't produce the exact same bits at the end ... you've probably failed. It might seem like a good idea, but even if you go to the extreme lengths needed to make it just for yum ... things like reposync won't

Re: RPM: signing uncompressed data instead of signed data?

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:17:57AM -0500, Andre Robatino wrote: I realize there's a lot of stuff sitting on top of RPM that depends on how it works currently, but in terms of correctness, it still seems to me to make more sense to sign the uncompressed data, since that's what actually gets

Re: RPM: signing uncompressed data instead of signed data?

2010-11-11 Thread John Reiser
On 11/11/2010 07:17 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: in an alternate universe where RPM was originally designed to sign the uncompressed data, and the higher-level tools were subsequently designed to work with that, is there any fundamental reason why things would be worse (or better) than they are

Re: SWI Prolog is gone from F13 and F14

2010-11-11 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:14:42 +, Joel wrote: Is anyone interested in resurrecting SWI Prolog? I just noticed that it was dropped from F13 and F14. The version in F12 was 5.7.11, the current version is 5.10.2 according to: http://www.swi-prolog.org/ The previous packager was Gerard

Re: RPM: signing uncompressed data instead of signed data?

2010-11-11 Thread James Antill
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 10:17 -0500, Andre Robatino wrote: James Antill wrote: IMO, as has been said before, if you have a delta method that doesn't produce the exact same bits at the end ... you've probably failed. It might seem like a good idea, but even if you go to the extreme lengths

Re: Non-responsive maintainer - Chris Ricker

2010-11-11 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Jaroslav Skarvada wrote: Hi, I was unsuccessful in all attempts to contact Chris Ricker (kaboom AT oobleck.net). He seems non-responsive for a long time, I did not receive any reply from him at least from February. Tracker bug:

Re: Orphaning gedit-vala

2010-11-11 Thread Patrick Dignan
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Hi all, I'm orphaning gedit-vala (upstream name: vtg); a plugin for doing Vala development in gedit. It's in good shape on F-14, waiting for upstream fixes for Rawhide (since we're shipping gedit 2.9x.y

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 10.11.10 21:33, Bernie Innocenti (ber...@codewiz.org) wrote: Hello Petr, I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer released the package. Do we really want to keep mingetty around? We discussed

still a 2TB limit in F14 Anaconda, for LVM PV size

2010-11-11 Thread Eric Smith
I just tried to install F14 on a new server with a 7.6 TB RAID (five Hitachi 2 TB drives on a 3ware 9750). I was pleased to see that the disk partitioning interface in Anaconda recognized the array and didn't have a problem with the size, reporting it as 7629352 MB. Unfortunately it won't

Re: Fedora - Cold Boot Attack

2010-11-11 Thread Roman Rakus
On 11/08/2010 03:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Here is the attack: Your system is running with nice secure encrypted drives, no console access (or a locked screen on a laptop). The attacker inserts a bootable USB key and hits the power switch. System reboots into the USB key, it retrieves

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:53:47PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 10.11.10 21:33, Bernie Innocenti (ber...@codewiz.org) wrote: Hello Petr, I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer

Re: still a 2TB limit in F14 Anaconda, for LVM PV size

2010-11-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:54:54AM -0800, Eric Smith wrote: I just tried to install F14 on a new server with a 7.6 TB RAID (five Hitachi 2 TB drives on a 3ware 9750). I was pleased to see that the disk partitioning interface in Anaconda recognized the array and didn't have a problem with

Re: still a 2TB limit in F14 Anaconda, for LVM PV size

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Eric Smith wrote: Is there any good reason to have this limit, or should I report it as a bug against Anaconda (or some other component)? Must be a new thing. I installed Fedora 11 on a server with an 8TB raid and it created a PV 2TB on its own. # pvscan PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00

Re: Fedora - Cold Boot Attack

2010-11-11 Thread Vaclav Mocek
I am not a kernel developer, but I do think it would be a step forward simply to erase a [substantial|critical] part of the physical memory before the system enters stages S4 or S5. An option in ACPI driver, implemented somewhere in acpi_os_stall() ?, I really don't know. Vaclav M. -- devel

Re: Fedora - Cold Boot Attack

2010-11-11 Thread Vaclav Mocek
On 11/11/2010 07:55 PM, Roman Rakus wrote: On 11/08/2010 03:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Here is the attack: Your system is running with nice secure encrypted drives, no console access (or a locked screen on a laptop). The attacker inserts a bootable USB key and hits the power

Re: Fedora - Cold Boot Attack

2010-11-11 Thread Vaclav Mocek
On 11/08/2010 10:18 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: So, after quick reading, this is not what I expected. This is just another kernel block cypher used by dmcrypt to (de)crypt block device data guartneeing encryption key does no leave CPU by storing the key in SSE register. The drawback is nobody can

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-11 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 10:57 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : Is Fedora for developers or what? We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of tearing when scrolling in a browser window? Well

Re: Fedora - Cold Boot Attack

2010-11-11 Thread John Reiser
It would be usefull to overwrite some parts of memory (keys etc.), before the computer is switched off. So, my question is: Is there already implemented and used some kind of protection? Boot Memory test from install media (DVD, LiveCD, LiveUSB, etc.) and let it run for a minute. Or,

Re: Why does my mail client/web browser not appear in GNOME?

2010-11-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 14:21 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: on the topic of the new control-center, any chance of making it work at all any time soon? :) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651510 2.91.2 was built 2 days ago. Though it might not be installable because we need a

Re: still a 2TB limit in F14 Anaconda, for LVM PV size

2010-11-11 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Hi, 2010-11-11 20:54 keltezéssel, Eric Smith írta: I just tried to install F14 on a new server with a 7.6 TB RAID (five Hitachi 2 TB drives on a 3ware 9750). I was pleased to see that the disk partitioning interface in Anaconda recognized the array and didn't have a problem with the size,

[Bug 652158] Use of :locked is deprecated

2010-11-11 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=652158 Jan ONDREJ ondr...@salstar.sk changed: What|Removed |Added