Re: How to package a Git repository

2016-09-09 Thread Ben Rosser
cally checked out sources. Sets _builddir to current working directory. Skips handling of -n and untar in the %setup and the deletion of the buildSubdir." This might be helpful, if the current working directory is the root of the git repository. I think it's a relatively new option-- I seem to reme

Review swap for spasm-ng

2016-08-26 Thread Ben Rosser
Is anyone interested in a review swap? I think this is a relatively simple package, so I'd be willing to take something small in exchange. spasm-ng: A z80 assembler with extra features for TI calculators https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325378 Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Improvements of Fedora Sponsorship process

2016-08-06 Thread Ben Rosser
list and IRC, which didn't help. I looked at the Mageia how-to-become-a-packager process briefly a while ago (my laptop dual-boots Fedora and Mageia, although I am primarily a Fedora person), and I did notice how it seemed more hands on than ours. A dedicated place for new contributors to g

Re: Improvements of Fedora Sponsorship process

2016-08-06 Thread Ben Rosser
ith getting, say, Python or NodeJS packages, but it might help if we want to automatically catalog the queue. Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F25 System Wide Change: KillUserProcesses=yes by default

2016-07-09 Thread Ben Rosser
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Ben Rosser <rosser@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> > > wrote: > >> > >&g

Review swap?

2016-07-02 Thread Ben Rosser
. Thanks in advance, Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-17 Thread Ben Rosser
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 02:24:26PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > I think that once the full sandboxing / portal system is in place, > > > there _will_ be a tangible reason to prefer

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-16 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > ship pip, npm, etc? Where I become uncomfortable, and the reason I chimed > > in on this thread initially, is with th

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-16 Thread Ben Rosser
ftware that also has a flatpak available, I really think we should let them do so. We're not, as so far as I know, in the habit of telling the maintainers of leaf Python packages "please retire your package and let users install it using pip [2]", and I suspect that, too, would be a pretty cont

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-14 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 15:40 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > This is a slight tangent, but by "remove Fedora packages", do you > > mean > > actually remove them from the distrib

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-14 Thread Ben Rosser
f the upstream Flatpak? The latter makes sense to me, the former seems potentially controversial. Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: reviews swap [giac,crawl]

2016-06-07 Thread Ben Rosser
t; devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > I've taken crawl, any chance you could review elog ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302504) in return? Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-01 Thread Ben Rosser
functionality to *remove* that privilege from a user as necessary is a nice feature. But I would strongly be opposed to the distribution suddenly changing the status quo here without good reason. Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-05-27 Thread Ben Rosser
ke sense to deviate from upstream in any fedora products," in > addition to philosophical questions like what a "logout" really means > or should mean, before the change landed. > > Rich > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy > -- > I agree; just bec

Unretire python-sockjs-tornado

2016-05-10 Thread Ben Rosser
of these. Ben Rosser [1] https://github.com/mrjoes/sockjs-tornado [2] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page [3] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/seesaw -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Xulrunner - intent to remove from Fedora 24

2016-01-27 Thread Ben Rosser
illa upstream is planning to do as a result of Firefox deprecating XUL. Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

2015-09-15 Thread Ben Rosser
d into an argument about desktop environments, but it's sort of the extreme edge case of what I'm talking about). Now, like I said, we don't have the manpower to support multiple versions of KDE or GNOME ourselves, so I'm not seriously suggesting we do that, or that we should go against our principle

Re: Adobe CMap resources license change

2015-09-08 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Rex Dieter <rdie...@math.unl.edu> wrote: > Ben Rosser wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am not certain if any packages other than my python-pdfminer are > > currently using my packages of the Adobe CMap resources ( > >

Adobe CMap resources license change

2015-09-08 Thread Ben Rosser
will push updates for F23 also. Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Sponsor shortage

2015-07-11 Thread Ben Rosser
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:25:05 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: Speaking as someone who relatively recently went through the process though (and whose package(s) sat in the review tracker for two years): motivation

Re: Sponsor shortage

2015-07-10 Thread Ben Rosser
=986550 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1005518 Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Ben Rosser
wanting to chime in here, but this is exactly how I feel on the issue and you've said it better than I could have. Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga l...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: On 05/02/13 12:09 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: In the Gnome2 days you had choices between functionally similar DEs. Times have changed ... Gnome has been forked multiply (Gnome3, MATE, Cinammon), xfce/enlightenment

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-13 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Fernando Nasser fnas...@redhat.comwrote: What is the difficult on adding a file to yum.repo.d ? It is designed for that. Each initial page for an aditional repo would have instructions on how to activate it and provide a repo file to copy from. The

Re: still UsrMove problems and wrong PATH in openssh

2012-10-31 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote: this is WRONG behavior any upstream-script the next years will use #!/bin/perl and it would be idiotic to write patches for every application only becasue fdora decided to make UsrMove UsrMove is a

Re: [Feature Suggestion] UsrMove continued

2012-10-10 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: I cannot agree enough. Just b/c we've blundered down a bad route doesn't mean you cannot turn back. Instead of chiseling our way back, let's just revert and go. Not every decision a distribution makes is a good

Re: Bundled/embedded data in a package

2012-09-20 Thread Ben Rosser
Here's a preliminary cmap rpm review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859246 So far, the only package I've worked on making this compatible with is my own, pdfminer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679. So it will almost certainly require modifications to work

Re: Bundled/embedded data in a package

2012-09-14 Thread Ben Rosser
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Adobe CMAP is used by lots of font, ps and pdf related apps and IIRC packaging it is currently on the wishlist. You should unbundle it and create a separate package. I don't think CMAP has security

Bundled/embedded data in a package

2012-09-12 Thread Ben Rosser
So I've had a review ticket open on bugzilla for a while now for this package: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679 The software, pdfminer, bundles Adobe cmap data to process Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages in a pdf file. However, the question is: does this violate the

Submitting packages while awaiting sponsorship

2012-07-05 Thread Ben Rosser
Hello all, I'm still looking for someone to review my Python package ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679 ), and then hopefully sponsor me as a packager- if anyone would be interested in doing either that would be greatly appreciated, and I'd try to review one of your packages in

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-21 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: As I understood it, the latest version of the proposal involves having grubby simply call grub2-mkconfig when it is dealing with grub2. So the rest of the 'stack' doesn't change at all. Well, my proposal is basically

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-20 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: I think what's actually needed is a small patch to grubby to make it keep track of the bounding block the current default is in and add the new bounding block there, so that we don't accidentally change the cosmetic

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-19 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Garrett Holmstrom gho...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Like I mentioned two days ago, the only thing that matters for EC2 images is that the kernel post-install scripts continue to be capable of updating grub configuration files, which means that wholesale

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Rosser
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not willing to change the kernel spec file for this. The kernel calls 'new-kernel-pkg', which today is provided by grubby. Despite the similar name, grubby actually works with more than just grub and grub2. It also

Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-16 Thread Ben Rosser
In Fedora 17, when you install grub2 and generate a fresh config file, that config is produced by grub2-mkconfig. However, when you install a kernel update, the kernel's entry is added to the grub2 boot menu by grubby. This produces messy grub boot menus. The entries added by grubby read

Re: Review request

2012-05-29 Thread Ben Rosser
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Adrian Alves aal...@gmail.com wrote: We can trade reviews I can review ur package and u can review mines On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Ben Rosser rosser@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I'm still looking for someone to review my first package, PDFMiner

Review request

2012-05-27 Thread Ben Rosser
Hey all, I'm still looking for someone to review my first package, PDFMiner: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679 As I am looking for a sponser, I'm afraid I can't formally review any of your packages in return, but I'd be glad to do some unofficial reviews and help fix any

Self introduction

2012-05-21 Thread Ben Rosser
Hello all, I've been sitting silently in this mailing list for the past few weeks, but just this afternoon submitted my first package review request for pdfminer, a Python library for extracting plaintext, HTML, and images from a pdf file: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679 I

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