Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthias Clasen (mcla...@redhat.com) said: That is certainly a big part of the problem. Anaconda does a _ton_ of crap that only very few users care about. And keeping all these minority features from falling apart is leaving you no time to polish the user experience for the large majority of

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
Chris Lumens (clum...@redhat.com) said: - downloads updates in parallel too Package updates? 1) Given that it's using yum, downloading multiple things in parallel would need to be fixed there. 2) If it means downloading packages in the background while it does other tasks, given that

'milkymist' group in comps?

2010-10-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
1) When you added this to F14/F15/EL6, you added a typo; this broke the F-14 branched compose and the EPEL updates push. *Please* verify your changes before pushing. 2) Aside from that... how does this merit a separate group? - We already have the electronic lab group - If we add a group each

Re: 'milkymist' group in comps?

2010-10-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Chitlesh GOORAH (chitlesh.goo...@gmail.com) said: Milkymist community builds and enhance their own toolchain (currently not fully supported by Fedora). They have contributors who contribute for tools such as gcc, qemu, other libraries (too software for FEL goals). They have many patches that

Re: A comps group for the Design Suite

2010-10-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Ankur Sinha (sanjay.an...@gmail.com) said: Since the design team is using a design suite, would it be possible to please create a group in comps for the purpose? It would make installation of the design suite much easier for end users. The alternative is to create a meta package which

Re: 'milkymist' group in comps?

2010-10-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Chitlesh GOORAH (chitlesh.goo...@gmail.com) said: OK, that's clear. But I am worried that if we go down this road, we'll eventually have 20 or 30 groups for different SoCs for embedded use, and that seems like it will eventually be problematic. Is there some generic moniker that could be

Re: 'milkymist' group in comps?

2010-10-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
James Laska (jla...@redhat.com) said: 1) When you added this to F14/F15/EL6, you added a typo; this broke the F-14 branched compose and the EPEL updates push. *Please* verify your changes before pushing. How did the compose break? The comps file in git failed to parse, such that the

Re: 'milkymist' group in comps?

2010-10-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
James Laska (jla...@redhat.com) said: No, this is well before the tree gets to that state. It would need to be implemented as a check on git push. We attempt to validate comps in this test using the comps.rng in git (see results logs posted earlier). I'm not tremendously familiar with

Re: A comps group for the Design Suite

2010-10-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Nicu Buculei (nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro) said: There appears to be a lot of overlap here with the graphics group (and some with other groups). Perhaps it's best to just expand that group into a more full-fledged design suite? They are different things: the graphics group is the sum of all

Re: ethtool not in default system anymore?

2010-10-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@mattdm.org) said: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:06:50PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: It looks like up through F12, initscripts required ethtool (so it was definately installed by default). I see this in the RPM changelog: Still the case in RHEL5, FWIW. I'm assuming you

Re: ethtool not in default system anymore?

2010-10-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@mattdm.org) said: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:54:43AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: It looks like up through F12, initscripts required ethtool (so it was definately installed by default). I see this in the RPM changelog: Still the case in RHEL5, FWIW. I'm

Re: A comps group for the Design Suite

2010-10-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Nicu Buculei (nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro) said: Do you mean getting rid of the Graphics group and creating a new Design Suite group? Is there a procedure for this? I mean like filing a ticket some place? I'm confused about the whole conversation. What exactly are you talking about Bill

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
Peter Jones (pjo...@redhat.com) said: Because we haven't decided to merge those together. That's really the only reason - there's no over-arching technical reason they need to be separate. It's entirely a historical consideration. Somewhere in the recesses of my memory I remember a UNIX where

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
Cleaver, Japheth (jclea...@soe.sony.com) said: A ton of this work was already done in initscripts through the use of the /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root hooks. Isn't that already working well enough now for that purpose, future systemd changes aside? Given that it involves bind-mounting

experimental systemd + initscripts repo

2010-10-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
I've set up a repo on r.fp.org: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/notting/initscripts-systemd/ This repo includes updated initscripts and associated packages that test the conversion of various boot-time actions to systemd services. (Essentially, rc.sysinit is dead.) Before putting this in

Re: experimental systemd + initscripts repo

2010-10-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Yanko Kaneti (yan...@declera.com) said: On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 10:43 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: I've set up a repo on r.fp.org: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/notting/initscripts-systemd/ Didn't automount anything from fstab other than /, not even /home. Even when I logged

Re: experimental systemd + initscripts repo

2010-10-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Bill Nottingham (nott...@redhat.com) said: Yanko Kaneti (yan...@declera.com) said: On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 10:43 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: I've set up a repo on r.fp.org: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/notting/initscripts-systemd/ Didn't automount anything from fstab other

Re: experimental systemd + initscripts repo

2010-10-22 Thread Bill Nottingham
Yanko Kaneti (yan...@declera.com) said: Which seems to be caused by a missing /etc/crypttab I've never had this file apparently. # touch /etc/crypttab and the systems seem to boot as exected Fixed in git, thanks for the report. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: policycoreutils needs cairo.

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Nottingham
Colin Walters (walt...@verbum.org) said: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: Unfortunately we didn't notice this dependency until pretty late in F14...I'm not sure what can be done reasonably at this point, since all of these packages are critical

Re: HEADS UP: KDE/Qt update intentions in Fedora 13 (RFC)

2010-10-26 Thread Bill Nottingham
Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) said: Nokia managed to upgrade Qt to 4.7 in their Maemo distribution and it got pushed to all devices without causing any problems so far. Their standards for avoiding churn are pretty high and their update scheme is extremely conservative for

Re: experimental systemd + initscripts repo

2010-10-28 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: Fixed in git, thanks for the report. BTW: A nice way to make activation of services conditional based on existance of a file is the relatively new ConditionPathExists= setting in [Unit]. If the file listed there doesn't exist, then the unit

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Richard W.M. Jones (rjo...@redhat.com) said: Has anyone looked into bringing Wayland to Fedora? If not this might be the right time getting involved in the discussion. http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ What's the implication for people who absolutely need to use X applications

Re: [libxml2] Release of libxml2-2.7.8

2010-11-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) said: 2010/11/5 Marcela Mašláňová mmasl...@redhat.com: On 11/04/2010 08:32 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu,  4 Nov 2010 17:41:34 + (UTC), Daniel wrote:     Release of libxml2-2.7.8  libxml2.spec |   10 -- Seems to break the koji

Re: Packages in need of new maintainers

2012-10-03 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Ciesla (limburg...@gmail.com) said: As a result of FESCO ticket 952*, Lubomir Rintel's 200+ packages are in need of new maintainers. Under normal circumstances we'd simply orphan them all, but given the large number we want to handle this in a more orderly fashion. Please reply to the

Re: Questions about the new comps

2012-10-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Christoph Wickert (christoph.wick...@gmail.com) said: In order to reduce the size of the F18 Xfce spin, I wanted to edit comps - but decided to not do so until I fully understand what is going on. I seem to have missed a lot since since last our discussion at Blacksburg, so have a lot of

Re: Questions about the new comps

2012-10-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Christoph Wickert (christoph.wick...@gmail.com) said: one more question: How can one install something that is neither an 'environment' nor a minimal install install? Say I want openbox as window manager, how would I do that? openbox is in the group 'window-managers', but that group is not

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) said: is any current data available about how our minimal footprint got worse/better over time in both terms of packages and disk space, and which packages are to blame for it? If the libmicrohttpd dep really is problematic I am happy to split it off,

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Seth Vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) said: Maybe the definition of the fedora base set needs a bit of updating, given that it considers rdisc, saslauthd, audit, dnsmasq, syslog, wpa supplicant and sendmail basic. For container setups I need nothing of that... (heck! for my non-containerized

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: From the list of packages this minimal set still installs, that I'd really like to see gone: chkconfig Mostly obsolete requirements not removed in systemd migration; probably could stand to have some bugs filed. gamin glib2. info Already

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Toshio Kuratomi (a.bad...@gmail.com) said: in the past, anaconda's language settings were more about default localization, not about what locales should be installed. The package selection interface had separate packages for supporting some languages. So somewhere close to that screen might

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Konstantin Ryabitsev (i...@fedoraproject.org) said: Not sure I can parse this, but IIUC you are wondering whether logwatch is compatible with the journal. Not to my knowledge, no. But adding this should be fairly easy as the output of journalctl is a pixel-perfect copy of the original

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jesse Keating (jkeat...@j2solutions.net) said: Well, we do currently have the minimal environment, which boils down to @core + the couple things anaconda forces (authconfig, system-config-firewall-base, kernel, bootloader). You can get to that via kickstart with just: %packages @core

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 02:19:03PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: But hey, I don't need to install packages or want python! systemd+ util-linux + bash + initscripts + passwd: Install 6 Packages (+108 Dependent packages) Total download size

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kevin Fenzi (ke...@scrye.com) said: 122659574 kernel 117821428 glibc-common 35623360linux-firmware 14233540coreutils 13845828glibc I wonder... could we make linux-firmware optional? I would expect many virt env's don't need any firmware to

modules, firmware, kernel size (was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes)

2012-10-16 Thread Bill Nottingham
Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) said: I wonder... could we make linux-firmware optional? I would expect many virt env's don't need any firmware to work... (but of course I could be wrong). It use to be optional, I know on the olpc xo-1 it use to be optional and there should be

Re: modules, firmware, kernel size (was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes)

2012-10-17 Thread Bill Nottingham
Josh Boyer (jwbo...@gmail.com) said: However, if you go down that route, the kernel should be the same way, the firmware should be separate subpackages, and requires should be done at the module - firmware level by generating it from the MODULE_FIRMWARE tags. (Unless you're relying on

Re: What are reasonable blockers for making journald the default logger in F19?

2012-10-17 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: To end this bit of the discussion too, I have now added a README that is installed to /var/log/README and one that ends up in /etc/rc.d/init.d/README, and should help the user to find the new tool set. Should hit F18 soon. Given we default to

Re: modules, firmware, kernel size (was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes)

2012-10-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Josh Boyer (jwbo...@gmail.com) said: You'd want to do it something like that. kernel-minimal as you say but with a Provides: kernel, kernel-common as you say. I'd introduce a third metapackage just kernel that requires both of those and implicitly Provides: kernel. Most people

Re: libjpeg-turbo API/ABI bump in F19 (transition from jpeg6 to jpeg8 API/ABI)

2012-10-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Tkac (at...@redhat.com) said: I've just created https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo-jpeg8-ABI page which contains plan how to successfully move from current jpeg6 API/ABI to more recent jpeg8 API/ABI for Fedora 19. All packages which depends on libjpeg.so will have

Re: libjpeg-turbo API/ABI bump in F19 (transition from jpeg6 to jpeg8 API/ABI)

2012-10-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Tkac (at...@redhat.com) said: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:35:56AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Adam Tkac (at...@redhat.com) said: I've just created https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo-jpeg8-ABI page which contains plan how to successfully move from current

Re: comps for Fedora Security Lab

2012-10-22 Thread Bill Nottingham
Fabian Affolter (f...@fedoraproject.org) said: The Fedora Security Lab is an official spin since Fedora 13. So far all packages are handled direct in the kickstart file which is not very handy if you want to install the packages from a running Fedora installation. I would like to include

Re: HEADS-UP: Transition to guile-2.0.x and a new compat-guile1.8 package

2012-10-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: Well, I don't mind doing that, but I'd like to be sure there's a broad consensus that this is the way to go first. I don't think 'duelling drafts' is the best way to decide on what direction to go; I'd rather make sure we agree on the direction

Re: change of names of configuration files

2012-10-25 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: anaconda has been writing to vconsole.conf for some time now - at least Oct 4th: commit 4b98eab34f310c2704ec24b417bdf919c413fa1d Author: Vratislav Podzimek vpodz...@redhat.com Date: Thu Oct 4 12:37:24 2012 +0200 Work with VConsole keymap

Re: still UsrMove problems and wrong PATH in openssh

2012-11-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) said: Emmanuel Seyman wrote: From bug #871503 (and I apologize if I'm reading this wrong), it appears that the dependency on /bin/perl is being caused by the hardcoded $PATH in openssh. To fix the problem, I think we would not only need to provide

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

2012-11-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Michał Piotrowski (mkkp...@gmail.com) said: Do current anaconda problems will have an impact on preupgrade? preupgrade is not the current supported upgrade tool to upgrade to Fedora 18. So the simple answer to your question is 'yes', although not exactly for the reasons you expect.

Re: Coordinating libffi upgrade

2012-11-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Colin Walters (walt...@verbum.org) said: On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 16:04 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: It looks like libffi is emitted into the minimal buildroot (rpm-build - pkg-config - glib2 - libffi), so during the transition we'll need to build both sonames of libffi. It might be worth

Re: Attention, dependency fighters

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 07:56:30PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: long story short, it's firewalld. Its deps are pretty heavy for something that's supposed to be in minimal. I'm sure twoerner would welcome help in pruning the deps if it's

Re: Attention, dependency fighters

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: In case anyone noticed minimal install got rather bigger between Alpha and Beta - I did too. And I finally got around to figuring out why and filing a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874378 long story short, it's firewalld. Its

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Garrett (mj...@srcf.ucam.org) said: Patches that cleanly decouple Anaconda from the entire software stack that it runs on top of would probably be received with open arms, but nobody who works on it has any idea how to implement them. In fact, this is what has been done in anaconda

Re: Fedora Minimal Core SIG -- please join if you're interested

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Dan Horák (d...@danny.cz) said: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Minimal_Core Please comment and join if you're interested. This is intended to be a request for comments and input rather than a finish document. Note that Minimal Core isn't meant to necessarily imply minimal

Re: Attention, dependency fighters

2012-11-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson (johan...@gmail.com) said: The storage packages are going to be needed for the system to boot. Anaconda could probably add some smarts to remove authconfig if it wasn't pulled in by anything in the selected comps, but I'm not sure it'd be worth the special logic -- we

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:37:37PM +0100, Thomas Woerner wrote: That's not correct. You can modify the firewall just fine without restarting it. This is related to system-config-firewall/lokkit. You are right, if you are using iptables

Re: remove polkit from core?

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) said: A concrete action that we are going to take is to split the polkit daemon into its own subpackage. Then minimal / certifiable installs can contain clients that are using the polkit libraries, without pulling in the daemon. Polkit clients are already

Re: remove polkit from core?

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) said: So, converting JavaScript rules to pkla syntax won't do any good. What is worthwhile doing though, is to review all existing packages that ship such rules, and stop them from doing that, if possible. JavaScript rules are only meant for admin use, no

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:07:39PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: Yeah, that's a thing that probably could be done. Bug again I'd like some input from people who have made the switch to these packages being mandatory. Well, I think it's just

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) said: Andre Robatino wrote: *IMPORTANT*: Both TC8 install DVDs are oversized and will not fit on single-layer DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity for DVD size limits. See what damage MiniDebugInfo is doing? Nobody (other than me)

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:07:16PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: What makes rootfiles essential? That's just overriding the defaults from /etc/skel with annoying aliases. I think it should be at least default instead of mandatory. Consistency

Re: Using snapper for OfflineSystemUpdates

2012-11-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) said: In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates we've implemented doing the package updates at first-boot time. This makes a lot of the hard-to-fix problems a lot easier. The question then becomes, how do we make the OS Update process

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
, and I agree it seems like we have two broadly definable cases here rather than one. I think Bill Nottingham mentioned something similar too, although I don't want to put words into his mouth. What I had suggested at one point was we have an 'image-base' group that is *really* tiny

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: Well, it would be weird that the minimal installation is actually not minimal at all, but the container installation is. That would be weird. But fortunately, it's @core, not @minimal. So we could easily have @minimal, @core, and @standard,

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: So where's that put kickstart? Or is the assumption that anyone who wants a more-minimal target won't be going that route? Many of the outside-of-anaconda tools use kickstart too; they just don't necessarily have the same rules for pulling

Re: Fedora 18 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Thursday, November 22 @ 20:00 UTC (3pm Eastern, 12pm Pacific)

2012-11-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kaleb Keithley (kkeit...@redhat.com) said: Friday is a normal work day for most people (although some people will take it off to get a longer weekend :)) You know it's a Red Hat paid holiday, right? Sure, but even among those who may have the day off, I suspect they're more likely be

Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-04 Thread Bill Nottingham
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo meeting Wednesday at 17:00UTC (1:00pm EDT, 19:00 CEST) in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/report/9 = Followups = #topic #896 Refine Feature

Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
=== #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2012-12-05) === Meeting started by notting at 18:07:27 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-12-05/fesco.2012-12-05-18.07.log.html . Meeting summary

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

2012-12-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: Three things: 1) Fedora is big enough that we have concrete situations where one size doesn't fit all. Puppet being broken on F17 (and probably F18 as well) is a fine example of something within the distro itself. And, as a platform

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

2012-12-07 Thread Bill Nottingham
Marcela Mašláňová (mmasl...@redhat.com) said: You're using a Mac now, so good luck. But I'm pretty sure that software collections would not have helped you to upgrade Libreoffice. Which, by the way, is possible without upgrading everything: just compile the later SRPMs. In other words,

Re: prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18

2012-12-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mail...@laposte.net) said: If you really want to support console keyboard layouts in systemd, you need to start generating console layouts from xkb-config, not adopt the old anaconda mapping bandaid There's already a bug for this, but the runtime perl dependencies it

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

2012-12-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: it is simply wrong to place internal binaries in %{_libdir}. internal binaries should not be subject to multlib'ed dirs, the same way as binaries in bin/ are not... I would note I have seen cases where helper binaries actually needed to be

Re: rawhide report: 20121226 changes

2013-01-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Bruno Wolff III (br...@wolff.to) said: On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:08:31 +0100, Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com wrote: Hm, wondering why there are not automatically filled bugs about broken dependencies. Wouldn't it be easier for tracking such issues? The owners get warning messages

Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

2013-01-03 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: In addition to those bugs, we have fairly significant regressions in the completeness of anaconda translations between Fedora 16 and Fedora 18 (the numbers for F17 for some languages are weird - a lot of languages show 55% completion for F17 but

Re: Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

2013-01-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Seth Vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) said: One of the big questions to answer is distribution. I can see good arguments on the one hand distributing formulas via RPM and on the other having an official Git repository for them. Yep. I am torn here too. rpms get us a lot, but are also

Re: comps' standard group spring cleaning?

2013-01-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: On Thu, 10.01.13 09:55, Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) wrote: Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de said: I noticed that comps' standard group includes a lot of packages that were all the hotness in 1990s but aren't

Re: comps' standard group spring cleaning?

2013-01-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: Then remove the other one? With respect to the others... most could go. I honestly thought pcmciautils was gone already, but perhaps that was for something else. Most of the storage stuff can go too in favor of being brought in either at

Re: comps' standard group spring cleaning?

2013-01-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Seth Vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) said: Fun fact™: I learned from this conversation that my default personal user environment still contains a .plan file. What was in your plan? Why, the same thing we do every night, Pinky... In any case, attached is the initial diff I have. Some

Re: comps' standard group spring cleaning?

2013-01-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Tomasz Torcz (to...@pipebreaker.pl) said: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:08:21PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Seth Vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) said: Fun fact™: I learned from this conversation that my default personal user environment still contains a .plan file. What

Re: comps' standard group spring cleaning?

2013-01-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) said: Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com said: Some additional ideas, and reasons why I may have left things Iin that were suggested to remove... Okay, that's a starting point. However, what is the reasoning behind

Re: comps' standard group spring cleaning?

2013-01-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
(mashing together a few replies. Sorry about the delay.) Michael Scherer (m...@zarb.org) said: Le vendredi 11 janvier 2013 à 08:05 -0600, Chris Adams a écrit : Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com said: - packagereqed/packagereq I don't know how widely

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Erlyvideo - add Erlyvideo video streaming server to the Fedora repositories

2013-01-16 Thread Bill Nottingham
Josh Boyer (jwbo...@gmail.com) said: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list. FESCo votes on

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Ruby 2.0.0 - the latest stable version of Ruby, with major increases in speed and reliability

2013-01-16 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: Yet, it is source level backward compatible with Ruby 1.9.3, so your software will continue to work. The updated Ruby also provides better integration with Fedora, especially JRuby. But not only JRuby, it is also one step closer to be prepared

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: BIND10 - next generation of the popular BIND9 DNS server rewritten from scratch

2013-01-16 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list. FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement. = Features/BIND

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list. FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement. =

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Nottingham
Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: Yes, that's the general idea --- any dependencies on mysql should result in installing mariadb, unless the user takes specific action to get mysql instead. Ideally we'd just do the standard Provides/Obsoletes dance for replacing one package with another, but

Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-01-23)

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Nottingham
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo meeting Wednesday at 18:00UTC (1:00pm EST, 19:00 CET) in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/report/9 = Followups = #topic #896 Refine Feature

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) said: Default might not be the exactly correct word here. The main thing I'm expecting would be that the mysql database package group would actually give you mariadb, as would the anaconda checkbox. Will it be designed to work with the alternatives

Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-01-23)

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
=== #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2013-01-23) === Meeting started by notting at 18:01:20 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2013-01-23/fesco.2013-01-23-18.01.log.html . Meeting summary

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Guile2

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: = Features/Guile2 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Guile2 Feature owner(s): Jan Synacek jsyna...@redhat.com Update GNU Guile to version 2.0.x in Fedora 19. == Detailed description == Current guile package will be upgraded to 2.0.x.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Shared System Certificates

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: OpenSSL: p11-kit tool will extract trusted certificate PEM blocks from the PKCS#11 trust module. These extracted certificates will be placed in a location so that they can be consumed by OpenSSL by default.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: KScreen - KDE screen management

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: = Features/KScreen = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KScreen Feature owner(s): Dan Vrátil dvra...@redhat.com Replace current KDE screen management software by KScreen. == Detailed description == KScreen is a KDE screen management

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: First-Class Cloud Images

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: == Detailed description == * New images that can be used in other cloud deployments (such as OpenStack, CloudStack, or Eucalyptus) will be produced. They will be in a qcow2 format and lack the EC2-specific customization. Images for this feature

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: OpenStack Grizzly

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Michael Scherer (m...@zarb.org) said: While it may be harder to predict the feature that will land in Openstack at this point, would it be possible to have at least a idea of the new features and changes that such upgrade will bring ? It is hard to say if this is a good idea or not without

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:59:07PM +, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: The udevd service has a long history of providing predicatable names for block devices and others. For Fedora 19 we'd like to provide the same for network interfaces, following

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: JRuby 1.7 - JRuby is an alternative Ruby implementation

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Bohuslav Kabrda (bkab...@redhat.com) said: JRuby and Ruby won't share extensions. Extensions for Ruby will live in %{_libdir}/gems/ruby, while extensions for JRuby will in %{_datadir}/gems/jruby (although we decided not to actually ship any JRuby extension Gems for F19 as we want to take

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: First-Class Cloud Images

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:38:13PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: == Detailed description == * New images that can be used in other cloud deployments (such as OpenStack, CloudStack, or Eucalyptus) will be produced

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miroslav Suchý (msu...@redhat.com) said: On 01/23/2013 07:50 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: The thing is that doing on-line updates only works for stuff you can restart, and that doesn't mind that things are not atomically updated. However, much (most?) of our code isn't like that. Anybody who

Re: Start of systemd timers after install/update of a package

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Tomas Mraz (tm...@redhat.com) said: On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:03 +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: Hello, I have tried to migrating the cron jobs of the inn package to systemd timers. Unfortunately, I have got the following problem. After a install/update of the package the timer

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: MEMSTOMP

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: = Features/MEMSTOMP = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MEMSTOMP Feature owner(s): Jeff Law l...@redhat.com Include the MEMSTOMP DSOs in Fedora 19 to enable developers to more quickly detect certain library calls which result in undefined

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Orion Poplawski (or...@cora.nwra.com) said: I'm not trying to disparage this work, it seems reasonable (although I've been bitten by a lot of crappy software assuming network devices are named eth#, but it's able to be turned off, so meh). We went through most of the things we shipped back

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: MEMSTOMP

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) said: Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com said: Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: The MEMSTOMP code utilizes GPLV2+ and LGPL3 code. The GPLV2+ code is limited to the backtrace code which is not thread safe and may need

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: But I guess we simply have a different definition of a user here. Your definition is probably closer to what the page calls admins, which is covered by the next lines in the feature page, which you didn't paste: Right. For Fedora,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) said: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/SystemdPredictableNetworkInterfaceNames = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemdPredictableNetworkInterfaceNames Feature owner(s): Kay Sievers kay at

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