Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 11:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: well, it would maybe a start to DROP packages which are still missing systemd-units

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/03/2012 08:17 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 11:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: well, it would maybe a start to DROP packages which are still missing systemd-units

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-03 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - From: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 9:20:05 PM Subject: Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process On 11/02/2012 06:27 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: Wrong. Do you know how

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Nikos Roussos
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 13:22 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I disagree with that. Fedora releases had some small regression introduced via updates from time but is is *very* usable as a stable operating system. I disagree. It's usable by the kind of people who use Fedora. Who like shiny

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:17:02 -0700 Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: ..snip... In my experience, in the last few years, Fedora stable releases have become much more stable. My stable boxes here at home I have not

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread drago01
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Henrique Junior henrique...@gmail.com wrote: It is difficult, for example, to understand why we have to wait until the next release to have LibreOffice 3.6, since this seems an non disruptive update that could bring major improvements in the productivity of

F-18 Branched report: 20121103 changes

2012-11-03 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Sat Nov 3 09:15:19 UTC 2012 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [dhcp-forwarder] dhcp-forwarder-upstart-0.10-1801.fc18.noarch requires /sbin/initctl [dnf] dnf-0.2.14-2.git4831982.fc18.noarch requires python-hawkey =

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 16:32:00 -0700, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:18 +0100, drago01 wrote: In a rolling release model, everyone deals with foo-1.0 to foo-2.0, then a week later they deal with bar-1.0 to bar-2.0, then a week later they deal with

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 12:35:08PM +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: I understand that regular users are not Fedora's main target, but it is a general-purpose operating system in the sense that it can be used by people who want to have a stable working environment with all the latest things from the

Any issue with fedpkg new-sources?

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Hans and I have been having a problem uploading the source for the new version of hegdewars to the lookaside cache. There is some initial network traffic, but then things hang. Has anybody successfully uploaded a new file to the lookaside cache in about the last 12 hours? -- devel mailing

Re: Any issue with fedpkg new-sources?

2012-11-03 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Bruno Wolff III [03/11/2012 15:30] : Has anybody successfully uploaded a new file to the lookaside cache in about the last 12 hours? Uploaded Queue-DBI-2.5.0.tar.gz just now. Emmanuel -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-03 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Jóhann B. Guðmundsson [02/11/2012 20:34] : That package would hardly be un-maintained if it has co-maintainers now does it... Absolutely. Hence my request that any process we put in place be package-focused rather than maintainer-focused. Emmanuel -- devel mailing list

Re: Any issue with fedpkg new-sources?

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 09:29:07 -0500, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: Hans and I have been having a problem uploading the source for the new version of hegdewars to the lookaside cache. There is some initial network traffic, but then things hang. Has anybody successfully uploaded a

Re: Any issue with fedpkg new-sources?

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 09:41:05 -0500, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 09:29:07 -0500, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: Hans and I have been having a problem uploading the source for the new version of hegdewars to the lookaside cache. There is some

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 10:52 +0100, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: My position is that the people who use Fedora and the kind of people we really _want_ to use Fedora can cope with it. Maybe the majority can maybe they can't. But

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 11:28 +, mike cloaked wrote: Others may wish to compare Fedora with other distributions also - but one thought I had was that in Archlinux there are only two repos to maintain - whilst in Fedora it is 5 repos! One might wonder whether there is less effort needed to

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 09:37 -0200, Henrique Junior wrote: The guys behind openSUSE created a good approach with Tumbleweed. By adding this repo users can opt-in to the (semi)rolling model. Tumbleweed is more like a pool where updated, stable, non disruptive software can be installed and I was

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.11.2012 01:09, schrieb Adam Williamson: On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 01:07 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.11.2012 00:58, schrieb Adam Williamson: Microsoft don't really expect you to upgrade Windows. They expect you to buy a computer with Windows X on it, use it for three years, then throw

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.11.2012 11:35, schrieb Nikos Roussos: In that sense, and from my point of view, if we had to rethink our release model and dedicate time and energy on a new approach, it would make more sense to have an extended support release (providing only security updates after 13 months)

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.11.2012 15:38, schrieb Emmanuel Seyman: * Jóhann B. Guðmundsson [02/11/2012 20:34] : That package would hardly be un-maintained if it has co-maintainers now does it... Absolutely. Hence my request that any process we put in place be package-focused rather than maintainer-focused

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:26:43 -0700 Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: I don't think rolling release and getting work done are incompatible. As I mentioned, I run Branched permanently on my desktop - so it rolls from 'pre-Alpha' state through to 'stable' state briefly and then back to

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Alek Paunov
On 03.11.2012 18:26, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 10:52 +0100, drago01 wrote: Eh? That's not what I said at all. What I said was that I think in a well-managed rolling release model, users would actually run into trouble only about as often as they already do anyway. I don't

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Alek Paunov
On 03.11.2012 19:17, Alek Paunov wrote: Adam, I think that the current rolling release discussion as many other high interest general ones in the recent months are pointless without some form of explicit definition and statistics of the current (and desired) distinct Fedora user profiles. Just

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 11:11:18 -0600, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: In any case, I think we do need to look at release cycle changes or at the very least Feature process revamp. And get comments from other than developers. Marketting might have serious concerns about the loss of

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 11:28 +, mike cloaked wrote: Others may wish to compare Fedora with other distributions also - but one thought I had was that in Archlinux there are only two repos to maintain - whilst in

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 07:46 -0500, Bruno Wolff III a écrit : I'd rather see us do a better job with rawhide so that more people use it and a better job at making upgrades go smoother so that people just trying to get stuff done with Fedora have a better experience. Then the question

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 00:26 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 07:46 -0500, Bruno Wolff III a écrit : I'd rather see us do a better job with rawhide so that more people use it and a better job at making upgrades go smoother so that people just trying to get

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Nikos Roussos
Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 09:37 -0200, Henrique Junior wrote: The guys behind openSUSE created a good approach with Tumbleweed. By adding this repo users can opt-in to the (semi)rolling model. Tumbleweed is more like a pool where updated, stable, non

Rawhide

2012-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
So, I have been thinking about rawhide. I agree identifying the problems/issues would be good, and I think there's something we can do to help with that: Get a nice group of at least 10 or so folks who are active on this list to agree to run it full time on their main machine. As we get

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 02:12 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 09:37 -0200, Henrique Junior wrote: The guys behind openSUSE created a good approach with Tumbleweed. By adding this repo users can opt-in to the (semi)rolling model.

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-03 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 06:12:02PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/02/2012 06:05 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: No, they might simply have had nothing to do. Sometimes applications are stable, have no releases, and have no bugs files against them. sigh Then those individuals would

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-03 Thread Sandro Mani
On 04.11.2012 01:32, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, I have been thinking about rawhide. I agree identifying the problems/issues would be good, and I think there's something we can do to help with that: Get a nice group of at least 10 or so folks who are active on this list to agree to run it full

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 00:26:08 +0100, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 07:46 -0500, Bruno Wolff III a écrit : I do not run it, so I cannot judge, but I think the first step to fix something is to know the exact problems to fix. If the issue is too much

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 18:32:20 -0600, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: Additionally, if some number of these folks who pledge to run rawhide full time were provenpackagers we could just go in and fix things as they hit (or soon after) instead of waiting a while for fixes to go out. I'm

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-03 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
I think we could, just for fun if you like, pursue making a good plan of how the transition would be and what changes should be done. Consider it objectively. What changes would have to be done the OS? What changes in infrastructure? What tools do we need? This could be a good exercise. The

Broken dependencies: perl-OpenOffice-UNO

2012-11-03 Thread buildsys
perl-OpenOffice-UNO has broken dependencies in the F-18 tree: On x86_64: perl-OpenOffice-UNO-0.07-3.fc17.x86_64 requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.14.2) On i386: perl-OpenOffice-UNO-0.07-3.fc17.i686 requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.14.2) perl-OpenOffice-UNO-0.07-3.fc17.i686

Broken dependencies: perl-OpenOffice-UNO

2012-11-03 Thread buildsys
perl-OpenOffice-UNO has broken dependencies in the rawhide tree: On x86_64: perl-OpenOffice-UNO-0.07-3.fc17.x86_64 requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.14.2) On i386: perl-OpenOffice-UNO-0.07-3.fc17.i686 requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.14.2)

File Queue-DBI-2.5.0.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by eseyman

2012-11-03 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-Queue-DBI: 69339069f20e465c16cd93df7c3af8c7 Queue-DBI-2.5.0.tar.gz -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Broken dependencies: perl-Authen-Simple

2012-11-03 Thread buildsys
perl-Authen-Simple has broken dependencies in the epel-6 tree: On ppc64: perl-Authen-Simple-0.4-5.el6.noarch requires perl(Crypt::PasswdMD5) Please resolve this as soon as possible. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list

Broken dependencies: perl-WWW-GoodData

2012-11-03 Thread buildsys
perl-WWW-GoodData has broken dependencies in the epel-5 tree: On ppc: perl-WWW-GoodData-1.6-1.el5.noarch requires perl(Getopt::Long) = 0:2.36 On i386: perl-WWW-GoodData-1.6-1.el5.noarch requires perl(Getopt::Long) = 0:2.36 Please resolve this as soon as possible. -- Fedora

Broken dependencies: perl-WWW-GoodData

2012-11-03 Thread buildsys
perl-WWW-GoodData has broken dependencies in the epel-5 tree: On ppc: perl-WWW-GoodData-1.6-1.el5.noarch requires perl(Getopt::Long) = 0:2.36 On i386: perl-WWW-GoodData-1.6-1.el5.noarch requires perl(Getopt::Long) = 0:2.36 Please resolve this as soon as possible. -- Fedora