Re: help with dist-git

2011-01-04 Thread Roland McGrath
> But then that breaks simple things that (mostly) worked with the old > cvs/Makefile system. > >fedpkg prep >Traceback (most recent call last): > ... >git.errors.GitCommandError: 'git config --get branch.resurrect.merge' > returned exit status 1: Do something like: git

help with dist-git

2011-01-04 Thread Curtis Doty
I want to play with an orphaned package in order to see if it can be resurrected. Can anyone highlight the err in my ways? fedpkg clone --anonymous perl-Net-Libdnet cd perl-Net-Libdnet # find commit prior to deleted spec git checkout f56a7fd7 git branch resurrect git checkout re

Re: openjpeg-1.4, abi break

2011-01-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Callum Lerwick wrote: > Something thats been nagging at me, since we're talking about an ABI > break anyway. There may still be a dumb-assed patch (by me) in the > Fedora package that prevents fiddling with the "bool" type, the > original code has some preprocessor logic that aliases "bool" to "int

Security issues with abstract namespace sockets

2011-01-04 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:11 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Of these being used, dbus is correctly implemented, since it randomizes > the socket name. Same for gdm. The relevant point is not randomness or unguessability, but that dbus chooses an available name and passes the actual name being u

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2011-01-04 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > What sort of attack would this enable? > > Wait... any unprivileged process can create sockets in the abstract > namespace? Uh-oh. Any unprivileged process can prevent you from running X on a given display by using up the socket name that

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2011-01-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 00:59 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Well, OK, bad wording on my side. Replace "fixed" by "guessable". What sort of attack would this enable? Wait... any unprivileged process can create sockets in the abstract namespace? Uh-oh. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewi

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2011-01-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 04.01.11 17:36, Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:11 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > Misusing are ICE, X11, nspluginwrapper at least, since they do not use a > > random socket name but a fixed one, hence opening the door to DoS attacks. > > X's socke

Heads up: OCaml 3.12

2011-01-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OCaml3.12 Hopefully most packages will just rebuild. I'd welcome any PPs who want to help out. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2011-01-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:11 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Misusing are ICE, X11, nspluginwrapper at least, since they do not use a > random socket name but a fixed one, hence opening the door to DoS attacks. X's socket name isn't fixed. It's a function of whatever display name you asked for

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 08:49:05 -0500, "Gabriel L. Somlo" wrote: > I personally use > > setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps > > However, I believe the OP was asking about whether it's possible to > swap Control and CapsLock for the console, outside/before X, so that > the change is available syst

Re: openjpeg-1.4, abi break

2011-01-04 Thread Callum Lerwick
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > I plan on importing openjpeg-1.4 into rawhide soonish (say early next week), > which involves an abi break.  Affected packages that will require rebuilding > include: > > blender > blenderplayer > freeimage > gdcm > koffice > openslide > poppler

Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2011-01-05)

2011-01-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo meeting tomorrow at 17:30UTC (12:30pm EDT) in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. Note that we may not have quorum, so may adjourn early. Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/report/9 = Fo

Re: Rawhide F-14 build inheritance

2011-01-04 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:38:18 pm Ville Skyttä wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655601#c22 > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4224 > > Has F-14 build inheritance been disabled in Rawhide composes? If yes, I > have missed or forgotten about the announcement which

Rawhide F-14 build inheritance

2011-01-04 Thread Ville Skyttä
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655601#c22 https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4224 Has F-14 build inheritance been disabled in Rawhide composes? If yes, I have missed or forgotten about the announcement which the latter ticket refers to, and couldn't find it quickly browsing th

Re: Package-specific test case and critical path test case project: drafts for review

2011-01-04 Thread James Laska
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:57 +, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:52 -0500, James Laska wrote: > > > Agreed ... I think it makes sense to keep Category:Test_Cases as just a > > container for sub-categories if possible. Mainly for the reasons you > > note around *trying* to keep

File Test-Warn-0.22.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by spot

2011-01-04 Thread Tom Callaway
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-Test-Warn: bfff5f43097debdef0cbe9047bd38853 Test-Warn-0.22.tar.gz -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/l

Re: Package-specific test case and critical path test case project: drafts for review

2011-01-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:58 -0500, James Laska wrote: > > So, see: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_xorg-x11-drv-ati_test_cases > > > > and note that one of the test cases is also in: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Critical_path_test_cases > > Nice examp

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Todd Zullinger
Bernie Innocenti wrote: > In Debian & Ubuntu, this can be done by setting XKBOPTIONS=ctrl:nocaps > in /etc/default/console-setup. [...] > So, what's the moral equivalent of this in Fedora? I have something like this in my puppet configuration: zcat /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz | \

Re: Package-specific test case and critical path test case project: drafts for review

2011-01-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:52 -0500, James Laska wrote: > Agreed ... I think it makes sense to keep Category:Test_Cases as just a > container for sub-categories if possible. Mainly for the reasons you > note around *trying* to keep content organized. OK. I think I actually went ahead and changed t

Re: New contributed package available for review: ax_emergency_listen

2011-01-04 Thread Guido Trentalancia
Hi Dave, thanks for your interest in the package and thanks for referencing the URL to my Review Request 666763. Following suggestions from a couple of kind Fedora packagers and developers, I have now made available a third release (1.3.2-3) at the following URL: http://iz6rdb.trentalancia.com/en

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Keyboard layout definitions are hell to maintain. There are too many locales, and most of them are not finished yet unicode side (aside from the continuous monetary symbol churn, even "big" "simple" latin languages like German had changes in the recent years). Therefore, the only sustainable solut

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Gabriel L. Somlo
I personally use setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps However, I believe the OP was asking about whether it's possible to swap Control and CapsLock for the console, outside/before X, so that the change is available system-wide, regardless of which virtual console one happens to be using at th

rawhide report: 20110104 changes

2011-01-04 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Tue Jan 4 08:15:13 UTC 2011 Broken deps for x86_64 -- bacula-director-mysql-5.0.3-6.fc15.x86_64 requires libmysqlclient_r.so.16()(64bit) bacula-director-mysql-5.0.3-6.fc15.x86_64 requires libmysqlclient_r

Re: noexec on /dev/shm

2011-01-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 03.01.11 22:12, Bernie Innocenti (ber...@codewiz.org) wrote: > On my desktop, abstract namespace sockets are twice more popular than > the regular ones: > > ber...@giskard:~$ netstat -ax | grep @ | wc -l > 151 > ber...@giskard:~$ netstat -ax | grep -v @ | grep / | wc -l > 73 > > Mos

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 03:47:25PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > The gnome utility for keyboard can map Capslock to Control (as > god/Sun intended). Does this really work for anyone else? I tried fiddling with Keyboard Preferences -> Layouts -> Options -> {Caps Lock key behaviour, Ctrl key

Re: httpd and svn problems (rawhide)

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Howarth
On 03/01/11 17:04, darrell pfeifer wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 08:53, Paul F. Johnson > mailto:p...@all-the-johnsons.co.uk>> wrote: > > > First is httpd (apache). > > I can do /etc/init.d/httpd stop and the server stops, but when I try to > start the server I get > > Startin

Yap uprgade to 6.2.0 in F15 changes soname

2011-01-04 Thread Petr Pisar
Good news, I've upgraded `yap' package from 5.1.3 to 6.2.0 version. This is big change after one and half year. New features in perspective of Fedora include ODBC, MySQL, and zlib binding. MPI and Java support has not been enabled. Java will be added in future package releases. MPI will not becaus