Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
um remove $(rpm -q --qf '%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' kernel | while read k; do [ $k = $(uname -r) ] || echo "kernel-$k"; done) Like I said, I never would have thought to just do "yum remove kernel" and expect yum to have magic undocumented behavior to save me.

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
ot:~]$ rm -rf / > rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/' > rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe I didn't know that was there (not in the habit of running "rm -rf /" just to see what happens). I really can't think of a situation where "rm

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
dora systems, the "rescue" kernel/initramfs are never removed (not owned by any RPM), so you should always be able to boot that. -- Chris Adams -- 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: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
another option, right there on the boot menu; if you actually removed all running kernels, it would be the _only_ Fedora option (and the only option at all on a system without multiple OSes installed, so booted by default). In any case, this is still a very minor side issue, and should not derail

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Chris Adams
-r), but that may not always work (it would have to handle things like kernel-PAE and such). -- Chris Adams -- 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: boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO)

2014-01-23 Thread Chris Adams
m with Github. It is SourceForge 2.0 as far as I can tell, and I'm sure something will come along eventually and replace it as the "new hotness". I can see putting projects that even might have some non-Fedora interest on non-Fedora-hosted platforms, if only to try to attract other i

Re: Fedora.next: I would like working configurations

2014-01-27 Thread Chris Adams
rvice on Windows before it does anything. How could a "default" install of a DHCP service possibly know what to do without configuration? -- Chris Adams -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: htt

Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Adams
w for a CPU vendor that I think helped write some of the UEFI spec - I need to bug him on that one. :) -- Chris Adams -- 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: introducing curl-minimal and libcurl-minimal RPM packages

2016-03-19 Thread Chris Adams
es in the distribution with the same soname but different functionality. Seems like it would be much better to have a different soname, and have rpm just use the minimalized version or change from linking against it to dlopen()ing it (and being able to choose the minimal or regular). -- Ch

dnf pulling in kernel-debug for L2TP

2016-11-06 Thread Chris Adams
s that dnf resolves dependencies differently from yum and refuses to change to the old well-known behavior. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: dnf pulling in kernel-debug for L2TP

2016-11-07 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Honza Silhan said: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > > I was trying to figure out why I had kernel-debug* packages installed, > > and tracked it to xl2tpd wanting "kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko)". That is provided > > by kernel-debug-m

Re: RFC (round 2): Change the default hostname for Fedora 26+

2016-11-11 Thread Chris Adams
other changes they'll probably be making, and they can set a non-default hostname in that process. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: RFC (round 2): Change the default hostname for Fedora 26+

2016-11-11 Thread Chris Adams
stname, enabling an option to not send it, etc. is not a big deal (or could even be part of a combined "anonymize me" checkbox). This is about the default hostname; that configuration should be at the same level as other default options. -- Chris Adams __

Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2016-12-09)

2016-12-09 Thread Chris Adams
this could be addressed? -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2016-12-09)

2016-12-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Josh Boyer said: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Adam Miller said: > >> Meeting started by maxamillion at 16:00:37 UTC. The full logs are > >> available at > >> https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/

Re: Are MP3 files now permitted in Fedora packages?

2016-12-11 Thread Chris Adams
. However, if they are generated during build from some other source, that won't be acceptable, as MP3 encoding is still not allowed in Fedora. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an ema

Re: future of official optical media support in Fedora

2016-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
s dependencies > than libsolv does. Is the current behavior documented? IIRC yum used the shortest package name, and then an alphabetic sort. For the particular case of the kernel vs. kernel-debug packages, shortest package name would solve the

Re: Proposal: Rethink Fedora multilib support

2017-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
#x27;d love to be running a pure open source system, but in the real world, I can't. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F26 Self Contained Change: Anaconda LVM RAID

2017-01-31 Thread Chris Adams
s, but I'm not aware of something like that for LVM RAID. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F26 Self Contained Change: Anaconda LVM RAID

2017-01-31 Thread Chris Adams
tion RAID 1? IIRC that didn't work with LVM RAID at one time. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F26 System Wide Change: Enable TRIM pass down to encrypted disks

2017-02-03 Thread Chris Adams
LVM passes discards through automatically, assuming the block device under the PV supports them. The issue_discards option tells LVM to issue discards itself when PV space is released (e.g. an LV is removed/reduced). I'm not sure why issue_discards=1 is not the default, but that's a separate i

Re: CPE Git Forge Decision

2020-04-03 Thread Chris Adams
that has to look up how to update my stuff every single time, I don't know many of the pieces or how they fit together. So the "self starter" aspect is difficult because I don't think I'd know where to start. -- Chris Adams _

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

2020-04-16 Thread Chris Adams
ork. Talking to servers the admin didn't configure could be an information leak and IMHO should not be on by default. You have no idea why there are no servers, so trying to second-guess it is a bad idea. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

2020-04-16 Thread Chris Adams
des implementing EDNS0, DNSSEC, etc. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

2020-04-17 Thread Chris Adams
lment gethostbyname/getaddrinfo/etc., is fine, but don't pretend to be an actual DNS server and go in /etc/resolv.conf. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedo

Block discard on more things

2020-04-28 Thread Chris Adams
don't know how much impact the "discard=pages" option might have (the man page says it is asynchronous, but it might make low-memory situations worse). - logical volumes: Set "issue_discards = 1" in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf so that rem

Re: Block discard on more things

2020-04-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, James Cassell said: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, at 6:51 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Now that Fedora 32 has fstrim.timer enabled by default... how about > > discards for the things that fstrim doesn't get? Two main things I know > > of: > > > >

Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2020-05-11)

2020-05-11 Thread Chris Adams
conf, then there needs to be a well-defined way for applications to discover the current DNS servers. resolv.conf has been the way to find DNS servers for decades; dropping it (and with no clear replacement) is a bad idea. -- Chris Adams _

Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2020-05-11)

2020-05-11 Thread Chris Adams
and worth considering). Even better would be a standard location (and maybe even defaulting it to be symlinked to /etc/resolv.conf if systemd-resolved is not in use), plus trying to get upstreams for common utilities like "dig" to learn about the alternate (at least with an easy-to-use op

Re: Old changelog entries removal

2019-10-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said: > I think rather than this, we should bite the bullet and remove changelogs > entirely from spec files. I find "rpm -q --changelog" useful (at least when maintainers put useful info there, which isn't always), so please do

Re: Old changelog entries removal

2019-10-03 Thread Chris Adams
ries, which is useful too. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of

Re: Old changelog entries removal

2019-10-03 Thread Chris Adams
ase 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 they tried a fix to a bug and reverted it - who cares in terms of RPMs?). -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Building eBPF programs

2019-10-18 Thread Chris Adams
or configuration option to clang to have it define the same common macros as gcc. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: Building eBPF programs

2019-10-18 Thread Chris Adams
-D__x86_64__ though, since that would (obviously) only be correct on x86_64. Fedora supports other architectures, so there should be a more generic way to get the correct architecture macros defined. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lis

Re: Please, IMHO, resolve in some way the Samba MIT kerberos problem.

2019-11-04 Thread Chris Adams
no use for AD and just want a good IdM. Never assume your use case is the only use case. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora C

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Build Python 3 to statically link with libpython3.8.a for better performance

2019-11-07 Thread Chris Adams
hould it be switched to /usr/bin/perl linking the core static? Alternately, is there some way to reduce the overhead of the dynamic library (that could help multiple languages)? -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

2019-11-26 Thread Chris Adams
n, but systemd apparently absorbed or wraps that functionality with its own thing, /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sulogin-shell, that doesn't appear to be documented (at least in the man pages). -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedora

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

2019-11-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Catanzaro said: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:03 am, Chris Adams wrote: > >How does that work with single-user mode, rescue mode, etc.? > > I assume single-user mode does not work. Rescue mode certainly does > not work. It asks for a root password, b

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

2019-11-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:36 AM Chris Adams wrote: > > > > Once upon a time, Michael Catanzaro said: > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:03 am, Chris Adams wrote: > > > >How does that work with single-user mode, rescue mod

Re: Is 50+ RPM Subpackages too extreme?

2019-11-27 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matej Grabovsky said: > Can you please explain what you mean? What are the alternatives if > there really are over 5000 packages in CTAN? Why does all of CTAN need to go into one source RPM? -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailin

Re: do not remove arpack package from Fedora

2019-11-29 Thread Chris Adams
; if that's all a package gets, that's not good. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/e

Issue with Fedora GeoIP service

2019-12-06 Thread Chris Adams
4). I also installed the Fedora 31 GeoIP packages and ran the geoipupdate, and that DB has the correct info. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedor

Re: Issue with Fedora GeoIP service

2019-12-07 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Fenzi said: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 04:49:15PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: > > On 06/12/2019 16:41, Martin Kolman wrote: > > > On Fri, 2019-12-06 at 08:38 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > > > > > > I also installed the Fedora 31

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
it, which IIRC was maybe early this year). If I try to use the drive and it doesn't work, I won't replace it. However, last time I tried to burn something (a couple of years ago?), all the blank media on my shelf was no longer any good, so I just gave som

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
al drive in the standard configurations. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
oesn't support USB under UEFI, it is perfectly fine to install in BIOS mode. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: ht

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
old R610s (DRAC6) Friday by booting from a virtual CD connected to an ISO image file, and they worked just fine. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedor

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, John M. Harris Jr said: > That would be affected by this change, as... that's a virtual CD. It'd have > to > be a valid, working CD image. This change is about only physical optical media, not the ISO imag

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
multiple issues, so I stuck with BIOS boot for a while longer. There's nothing in Fedora that requires UEFI boot. > Instead of trying to attack CD/DVD installs, why not keep what's working in > the state it's already in? Because i

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-17 Thread Chris Adams
I think it got thrown away when we moved offices early this year, because nobody actually had a drive to put it in. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedorap

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: x86-64 micro-architecture update

2019-07-22 Thread Chris Adams
X2]. There are still new systems being sold that don't support AVX, much less AVX2. I installed an Intel Atom C3758 system today, and it doesn't support AVX. With the end of i686 (which I think is reasonable), this would kill Fedora on a significant amount of h

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-19 Thread Chris Adams
ays of Linux where everybody just uploaded their programs to a few big FTP sites); it's supposed to be a system of things that are usable. Even if someone does try to work with Fedora on a broken application, who is going to get the bug reports? Who is going to respond? No response still

Re: Big change to free maxmind GeoLite2 databases, limiting distribution

2020-01-07 Thread Chris Adams
know the California law), so I guess that's that. IMHO if you want the right to be forgotten for your IP address' geographic location, the answer should be you don't get an Internet IP address anymore. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list

Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Additional buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update

2020-01-10 Thread Chris Adams
eople to run your packages instead of the main distribution? -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject

Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Additional buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update

2020-01-10 Thread Chris Adams
y be other interesting things this expanded infrastucture could be used for, but nobody is actually proposing that. What if doing it for the shadow architecture prevents it being done for anything else (because there aren't enough resources)? -- Chris Adams _

Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Additional buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update

2020-01-10 Thread Chris Adams
with such packages. It is only an > experimental test environment linked to the Fedora Rawhide state. The scope says there will be repositories generated. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Additional buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update

2020-01-10 Thread Chris Adams
. so what? Why go to all this effort to prove it? -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-

Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Additional buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update

2020-01-10 Thread Chris Adams
osal as written, which doesn't sound to me like what you are describing. What the proposal says is all about rebuilding Fedora with the rejected baseline change, and showing that it is better to get the community to accept the original change. It also uses the term "older machin

Re: Effort to remove libdb

2020-01-16 Thread Chris Adams
kaged as part of the distribution. BDB is kind of a part of the collective history of Unix systems and assumed to always be available. Is there nobody interested in maintaining the final license-compatible version in a pure bugfix mode? Does it get that many bugs? -- Chris Adams ___

Re: Change in perl-devel dependencies

2020-03-10 Thread Chris Adams
announcement here (not just perl-devel). -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/cod

Re: Future of MongoDB - Legal Issues with SSPLv1

2018-12-10 Thread Chris Adams
pect they have any interest in changing their new license (or they wouldn't have written it to begin with). -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org F

Re: F30: System-Wide Change proposal: DNF UUID

2019-01-07 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said: > Hmmm. We have fedora.pool.ntp.org, in fact. I'm not sure who actually runs > that! That's the public NTP pool, which is usually the best option if you don't want to (or have the resources for) operate your own NTP infrastruc

Re: F31 System-Wide Change proposal: BuildRequires Generators

2019-02-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Petr Viktorin said: > Yes, automagic generators don't work in the long run. Requirements > are always better listed explicitly. Perl has been using automatic generators for ages. They're not perfect, but they're really good and work fine in the most co

Re: More than 10% of all Fedora spec files are not POSIX sh compliant

2019-03-27 Thread Chris Adams
I don't see a compelling reason to switch /bin/sh to something other than bash, and it would just be confusing to run shell scriptlets with something other than /bin/sh. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski said: > Chrome doesn't require atd explicitly (nor is it pulled in by any of its > dependencies). That's incorrect. The Google Chrome RPM requires /usr/bin/lsb_release, which is from redhat-lsb-core, and that requir

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: Disable Root Password Login in SSH

2019-05-17 Thread Chris Adams
ing directives: --enablerootssh (for rootpw or maybe auth?) --sshkey (for both rootpw and user directives) No matter if this proposal is done, having an --sshkey option would be nice, especially for Ansible use. I think this OpenSSH change to foll

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: Disable Root Password Login in SSH

2019-05-17 Thread Chris Adams
Guess I will soon, with the pending release of CentOS 8. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-con

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: Disable Root Password Login in SSH

2019-05-17 Thread Chris Adams
#x27;m in favor of this because I've been making this change in my default install scripts since at least RHEL 3 and Fedora 1 (as far back as I have at hand). Even when I make root-only servers or VMs, I always drop an SSH key in during kickstart %post or

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: No More i686 Kernels

2019-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
th x86_64 kernel... is there any regular way to consume i686 applications? It seems like the only reason to continue building i686 RPMs would be for multilib (and their build dependencies), which is a small subset of the total RPMs. -- Chris Adams

Re: many legit devel@ emails marked as spam by gmail (dmarc reject)

2018-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
policy says to reject the email, so that's what Google does (as well as many other email hosters). A number of mailing lists switched to a version of Mailman that supports rewrting the sender when the original sending domain has a DMARC reject policy - probably the Fedora Project Mailman need

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, R P Herrold said: > This seems very tone deaf and lacking in introspection, Matt > > perhaps by reading the subject line you chose to start this > thread with Matt didn't choose that - that subject was set by Gerald B. Cox

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-20 Thread Chris Adams
, I'd have a bunch of different interfaces to deal with, sites to visit, functionality to learn, etc., instead of my single mail client that I can tweak to my personal use patterns and can bring it all together. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing li

Re: CVE-2018-14665 : Xorg X Server Vulnerabilities

2018-11-01 Thread Chris Adams
$ ls -l /usr/libexec/Xorg.wrap -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root 11376 Apr 12 2018 /usr/libexec/Xorg.wrap which is where the problem lies. I think SELinux should help (because it should stop writes to lots of things), but I haven't seen a bug or statement from Fedora about vulnerability. -- Chr

Re: CVE-2018-14665 : Xorg X Server Vulnerabilities

2018-11-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jiri Eischmann said: > I wonder if Fedora has even been affected. I was not able to reproduce > the exploit on Fedora 29 Workstation (with Xorg older than the one > fixing the issue). IIRC F29 Workstation uses Wayland, not X, right? -- Ch

Re: Proposal: Faster composes by eliminating deltarpms and using zchunked rpms instead

2018-11-17 Thread Chris Adams
ally paid attention to range requests in a long time; at one point IIRC mirrors would often disable them because of "download accelerators" that would open multiple connections to download parts of the same ISO in parallel (hogging serve

Re: CentOS8/RHEL8/Fedora: dependency control: make gcc-c++ provide g++,required for pulseaudio.

2023-03-26 Thread Chris Adams
g/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines This list is for development of Fedora releases, not bug reporting. If you don't want to follow the Fedora bug-reporting methods (such as making a Bugzilla account), this list is not a replacement for them. -- Chris Adams __

Re: F39 proposal: RPM 4.19 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-04-04 Thread Chris Adams
s like for podman or full things like Flatpaks. Before going too deep into multi-level architectures, that should be taken into account. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...

Re: F38 DNF/RPM install errors due to header signatures

2023-04-10 Thread Chris Adams
, but I'm not aware of any push to deprecate SHA-256. Even the alternative to RSA certs, ECDSA, is still signed with SHA-256. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.

Re: default bash history (non)preservation

2023-04-11 Thread Chris Adams
an NFS home would insta-hang at the slightest issue. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/e

Re: default bash history (non)preservation

2023-04-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Catanzaro said: > On Tue, Apr 11 2023 at 12:18:58 PM -0500, Chris Adams > wrote: > >I wouldn't do that part; that's additional disk I/O for every prompt. > >Especially when the system might be having issues, users (especially > >root

Re: default bash history (non)preservation

2023-04-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sérgio Basto said: > On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 12:18 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > This is already in the default /etc/bashrc, at least on Fedora 37 on > > CentOS 7 (systems at hand I checked). > > yes and Centos 7 means all Fedora since a long time ... Speci

Re: subarchitectures and RISC-V, was Re: F39 proposal: RPM 4.19 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-04-15 Thread Chris Adams
rry Pi). It's not a matter of "afford" so much as there are hobbyist hardware projects and such that fit the SBC form rather than desktop/server form, and x86 has proved too expensive for that market (and failed just about every time it is tri

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-20 Thread Chris Adams
nd then even if I do come back, now I'm pretty much too far behind to ever catch up. I guess you're hoping for enough overlap between email and web forum users to keep an active developer community... I wish you luck with that. -- Chris Adams __

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Chris Adams
copies and archive them. For example, I can in seconds tell you when my first post here was (January 2010 in the current incarnation, September 2003 on the @redhat.com version), or even my first post to any @redhat.com list (wow, June 1996!). -- Chris Adams ___

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 08:24:48PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > I have seen this > > done multiple times over the years, tried to follow a few times, and > > always dropped off fairly rapidly. I'm solidly in the "email

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Chris Adams
held on a server, the server owner has an editorial control that can be problematic. Fixing typos sounds nice, but... just don't make typos, or proofread. :) -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-21 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 11:07:16AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said: > > > * also, to fix typos :) > > > > So, I will say this is kind of a peeve of mine about server-based > > discu

Re: F39 proposal: Increase vm.max_map_count value (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-04-24 Thread Chris Adams
ly an embedded platform. If this is a good change with no downsides, then how about going "upstream first" and getting the change into the Linux kernel? If this is just for Steam games, then how about seeing if the RPMFusion Steam package can include this as a sysctl.d d

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-26 Thread Chris Adams
edora must migrate away, and to something where you'll be making more individual decisions. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fe

MATE Desktop support?

2023-04-29 Thread Chris Adams
y with other things, move on, etc.); this is more "is MATE a viable desktop to use with Fedora?" question. -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject

Re: MATE Desktop support?

2023-04-29 Thread Chris Adams
I can just figure out my particular issues with MATE... :) -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraprojec

Place to write something up

2023-05-03 Thread Chris Adams
sonal blog or such, and probably could use some review once I do write something... is there a good Fedora-provided place to do something like that? -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to dev

Build system clocks?

2023-05-07 Thread Chris Adams
ock is UTC but it accidentally is local time? That seems rather unlikely, but wondered if somebody might could check. For now, I just explicitly defined the date string to use, and that worked, but it's still weird. -- Chris Adams

Re: Build system clocks?

2023-05-07 Thread Chris Adams
it gets the date from the file... I'm wondering if something else is actually setting the "date" macro first (the Lua support code only sets it if is isn't already set), and using some different logic that may be missing UTC for example. -- Chris Adams _

Re: Build system clocks?

2023-05-07 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler said: > Chris Adams wrote: > > I updated the source of a package of mine last night. The upstream is > > on Github, and I use the %forgemeta macro for an easy spec file. When I > > tried to run "fedpkg build" though, it failed - th

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-09 Thread Chris Adams
of all the GPU firmware from the image? -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Daniel P. Berrangé said: > If the idea to allow a UKI to contain multiple alternate, signed, > cmdline line profiles gets accepted Are those of us who need boot-time kernel options (e.g. for hardware workarounds or such) just screwed in the signed command-line cases? --

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Adams
into GRUB2 filesystem support IMHO, not more. No more complex filesystems; keep /boot something simple like ext2 that GRUB2 can reasonably be expected to handle basically 100%, possibly mounted read-only during normal operation, mount with "sync", and with all updates a

Re: more distinct default bash prompt?

2023-05-22 Thread Chris Adams
he default Red Hat or Fedora prompt basically ever IIRC (and I started with Red Hat with RHL 3.0.3, long before RHEL or Fedora). -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedor

Re: more distinct default bash prompt?

2023-05-22 Thread Chris Adams
ot;echo $?" (which succeeded). Just reading the variable does not reset it. $ false $ echo $? $? 1 1 -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedorap

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