Re: Please use side tags for backwards-incompatible bumps of major packages, not buildroot overrides

2022-03-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 5:05 PM Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > Maybe BR overrides usage should be restricted only to users with special > needs (users in provenpackager or releng groups), while "normal" users > should be forced to take the side-tag way? As always, there are special cases. I

Re: error: argument unused during compilation: '-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1' [-Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument]

2022-03-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 7:54 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > Clang doesn't understand some options that gcc does, and a lot of it depends > on the version of clang IIRC. For a while Fedora maintainers would modify > clang to at least silently ignore these options but now it's much easier to >

Re: error: argument unused during compilation: '-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1' [-Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument]

2022-03-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 6:55 PM Ron Olson wrote: > > Hey all- > > I’m trying to build a new version of a package and got the aforementioned > error, but only under EPEL 8, all other builds (Rawhide, F35, F34, EPEL 9) > built fine. The failed build is at >

Re: Landing a larger-than-release change (distrusting SHA-1 signatures)

2022-03-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 6:40 PM Alexander Sosedkin wrote: > Good news is, RHEL-9 is gonna lead the way > and thus will take a lot of the hits first. > Fedora doesn't have to pioneer it. > Bad news is, Fedora has to follow suit someday anyway, > and this brings me to how does one land such a

Re: Orphaning deltarpm

2022-03-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 5:03 AM Gordon Messmer wrote: > I remember in the early days of deltarpm, it would frequently reduce the > download size on my systems by 70-90%. I know that some people disliked > that it made updates slower, but I always thought that reducing the > bandwidth costs at

Re: VERY late notification emails

2022-03-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 5:25 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > No, there's things we can do and are trying to do. ;) I seem to remember that one of the issues identified was (for those of us using gmail for the notifications) was that google could end up throttling emails. I have a vague recollection

Re: unsafe systemd setup in Fedora

2022-03-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 7:14 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > systemd-analyze security shows whether units use systemd hardening > features. Those units may well use other features, and may well be > very secure. My vague recollection from running systemd-analyze security from some time

Re: ABI incompatible change or not?

2022-03-03 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 1:45 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > In this instance, it's not clear to me whether sub-type changes are ABI > breaking or not... Looking only at the output of the compare, those are ABI breaking changes, and you will need to rebuild deps, but if those deps are actually using

Re: Chromium security bugs remain unfixed for > 1 month

2022-03-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 5:06 AM Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > What would it take to get tall of the users of QtWebEngine onto 6.2? I > don’t think Fedora should ship any version of QtWebEngine except the > latest, since only the latest version appears to get regular patches. Well, it is slightly

Re: Questions about new free-only FFMPEG in Fedora repos

2022-02-27 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 3:00 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > We do also have OpenH264 support enabled via dlopening the library, so > if the openh264 package is present on the system, it'll "just work" > and provide H.264 support. If it is not installed, it'll return the > correct error for applications

Re: Questions about new free-only FFMPEG in Fedora repos

2022-02-27 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 2:46 AM Ian McInerney via devel wrote: > 1) How are these removed codecs handled in the library? Can we link an > upstream application against FFMPEG in Fedora now and have it gracefully fail > when it tries to access a non-free codec that was removed, or does the >

Re: CPU does not support x86-64-v2?

2022-02-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 8:44 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Florian Weimer wrote: > > Fedora doesn't require this yet. > > … and will hopefully not do so any time soon! Just as with the elimination of 32-bit support (both x86, and the upcoming arm retirement) there will come a time for

Re: CPU does not support x86-64-v2?

2022-02-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 5:42 PM Ron Olson wrote: > I guess there was some CPU requirement change that I didn’t catch; https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-for-the-x86-64-v2-microarchitecture-level discussed the issue(s), and the x86_64 v2

Re: future of dual-boot on the desktop

2022-02-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 12:56 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > And my understanding is it's required for > Windows 11 preinstallations. Except if your country has required that TPM not be used, and as Microsoft did not want to prevent billions of people from using Windows 11 those locations are exempt

Re: Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 11:55 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek said: > > So this is the culprit. iscsi.service has Before=remote-fs-pre.target, > > After=network-online.target, which means that it'll delay the boot. > > If that's the problem, there's some

Re: Preventing account takeovers through expired domains

2022-02-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 7:17 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > OTP is absolutely free. FIDO2 requires the purchase of a special > hardware token. Not necessarily. Not only can some mobile devices present the needed credentials (as if they were an external hardware token), but as I recall

Re: Preventing account takeovers through expired domains

2022-02-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 9:54 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I don't think there's any way in IPA to require otp as a requirement for > group membership currently. (Please let me know if there is). > Which would leave us checking after the fact and removing people without > one set, which is a big pile

Re: Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 5:42 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > $ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service > [Unit] > Description=PackageKit Daemon > # PK doesn't know how to do anything on ostree-managed systems; > # currently the design is to have dedicated daemons like > # eos-updater and

Re: Is NetworkManager-wait-online.service necessary by default?

2022-02-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 5:43 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > No, no. dnf-makecache.timer is "asynchronous" — it is not part of > multi-user.target. It is reasonable to order it after network is up > because this way it can just do its thing without spurious noise about > failed

Re: Preventing account takeovers through expired domains

2022-02-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 8:35 AM Alexander Bokovoy wrote: > This is not ready for general consumption but we plan to have something > to submit to Rawhide in a month or so. Enrolling IPA users into this > would be similar to already existing RADIUS proxy authentication path in > FreeIPA.

Re: Preventing account takeovers through expired domains

2022-02-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 16:09 Adam Williamson wrote: > It used to support these, but the support was lost with the recent > rewrite. However, it supports Google Authenticator-style OTPs. Folks > with infra privileges on their accounts (like me) are already required > to use these. It works fine. I

Re: Preventing account takeovers through expired domains

2022-02-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 4:01 PM Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > I think we should also require security key-based 2fa for all > packagers. In a previous discussion on this topic that was suggested (and at least partially rejected(*)). Many (larger) orgs have decided that issuing hardware security

[EPEL-devel] Re: Does EPEL 9 maintain upgrade path from EPEL 8?

2022-02-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 8:21 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > Once I remove the Obsoletes line from Fedora, should I worry about merging > that > commit to the epel9 branch or not? Logic dictates that the Obsolete should > remain in EPEL 9 forever, but I wonder if there is a policy/rule of thumb. >

Re: Do we have any policy for disabling inactive users

2022-02-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:43 AM Ian McInerney via devel wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:39 AM Björn Persson wrote: >> >> Yes, that's a bad search. Till Maas told me eight years ago that the >> release monitoring tickets are supposed to remain open when the >> packages are upgraded. Thus

Re: Do we have any policy for disabling inactive users

2022-02-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 9:58 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > I have concerns with this approach. I would guess there's a long tail > of packagers that maintain relatively few packages. These packages > might not have frequent upstream releases or require new manual > builds. There are a lot of packages

Re: Do we have any policy for disabling inactive users

2022-02-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 5:05 PM Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > That is referring to provenpackagers only. I'd like this to be extended > to users in packagers group also. FWIW, the last time this came up, there was a vague idea to require a yearly resigning of the CLA (or something equivalent,

Re: Do we have any policy for disabling inactive users

2022-02-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 5:05 PM Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > That is referring to provenpackagers only. I'd like this to be extended > to users in packagers group also. Given that provenpackagers are group that can do the most potential damage, that process arguably covers the users in the

Re: Installing from updates-testing not working?

2022-02-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 9:04 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Well, it's not any specific timeframe we can promise here. Of course not. But it is clearly not "soon". > Take a look at: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/propagation > > You can see the two days recently we got rawhide

Re: Installing from updates-testing not working?

2022-02-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:32 AM Ian McInerney via devel wrote: > From a user experience perspective, the mirror lag time on it is very > annoying. When the update is pushed to testing, Bodhi posts a comment in the > associated Bugzilla saying that you should "soon" be able to install the >

[EPEL-devel] Re: State of EPEL mock chroots?

2022-02-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 2:05 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > So most of them work, but not EPEL. That specific example is being tracked in RHBZ #2049024 The discussion started back in November 2021

Re: Odd annobin output during mock build?

2022-02-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:27 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > > I just did a local mock build of the latest version of OpenImageIO which was > just released and saw this on every cpp line: > > annobin: /builddir/build/BUILD/oiio-2.3.12.0/src/libutil/errorhandler.cpp: > Warning: -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS not

[EPEL-devel] Re: Revisiting policy for limited arch packages?

2022-01-31 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 4:55 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > The limited arch policy we had for epel7 had a number of problems. > At first we just said 'rebuild the exact rhel version' and then we > switched to 'add a 0 to release so the rhel package always gets > installed in favor of it'. It

Re: Do I have a @fedoraproject.org e-mail address ?

2022-01-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 3:27 PM Vít Ondruch wrote: > Isn't it just the standard GMail deduplication? Likely. For better or worse, that is the way gmail works. One can see both the advantages and disadvantages of the gmail approach, but it does catch some of the people off-guard at least some

[EPEL-devel] Re: The incredibly shrinking RHEL

2022-01-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 6:29 PM Orion Poplawski wrote: > I don't buy any of these arguments, and it doesn't really address the > situation of "missing -devel" packages. The missing devel packages for shipped libraries are a clear pain point for those that just want build something for their EL

[EPEL-devel]Re: Libcec rebase for epel7 – incompatible upgrade?

2022-01-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 6:39 PM Andrew Bauer wrote: > I’ve read the EPEL documentation regarding incompatible upgrades, and I am > not entirely sure this falls under that category. Yes, it is a major version > upgrade, but it is unclear to me if that makes it “incompatible”. As I recall, v3

Re: Is it okay to use /usr/bin/python again?

2022-01-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 10:09 AM Florian Weimer wrote: > > Or is it still banned in Fedora? > > We have some scripts that are dual Python 2/Python 3, and Fedora tooling > forced us to carry a downstream-only patch to replace /usr/bin/python > with /usr/bin/python3. I'd like to remove this patch.

Re: How do we announce new packages?

2021-12-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 8:16 PM Fabio Valentini wrote: > (the community blog might be the right place for some of those, > but it is a higher barrier to actually write a blog post that gets > edited etc. instead of writing an e-mail to a mailing list). The Fedora Community Blog and the Fedora

Re: Package wishlist site?

2021-12-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 11:56 PM Jakub Kadlčík wrote: > TL;DR What about a place where people could ask for something to be > packaged in Fedora? There is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist ___ devel mailing list --

[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL 9 branch?

2021-12-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 4:09 AM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > yes, yesterday. > > See the announcement: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/5UJSW3FBGQMLXWWV7BGHWZTOFLH4NH3G/ *sigh*. Sorry, I missed it (I think I need to add yet another mail list

Re: EPEL 9 branch?

2021-12-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 4:09 AM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > yes, yesterday. > > See the announcement: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/5UJSW3FBGQMLXWWV7BGHWZTOFLH4NH3G/ *sigh*. Sorry, I missed it (I think I need to add yet another mail list

EPEL 9 branch?

2021-12-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
Now that CentOS Stream 9 is announced as available, is there a schedule for when EPEL-9 branches can be made, and when one can (start to) ask others to build for EPEL-9 (it would be nice if a number of the EPEL-9 packages were preliminarily ready at the time of the EL-9 formal release (just,

Re: Question for election candidates: do you support allowing Fedora src-git repositories to be hosted on a proprietary software git forge?

2021-11-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:05 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > I mean... that would have been a good way to make sure everyone at least > provided some answer, but I don't think we have (or should have) any rule > against asking FESCo or Council people questions at other times. I think asking FESCo or

Re: Question for election candidates: do you support allowing Fedora src-git repositories to be hosted on a proprietary software git forge?

2021-11-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 10:06 Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Hi, I have a question for the FESCo and Council candidates: do you > support allowing Fedora src-git repositories to be hosted on > gitlab.com, which a proprietary software git forge? > One should have proposed such a question during the

Re: [EPEL-devel] Mock/Copr default epel-8-* configuration to be changed

2021-11-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 8:05 AM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > I wrote down the possible options and their pros and cons and I done my best > to catch all the feedback here. Thanks. Another idea occurred to me, similar to "D" (use alternatives) and incorporates "A" (delete the current epel-8) for

Re: Mock/Copr default epel-8-* configuration to be changed

2021-11-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 2:01 PM Pavel Raiskup wrote: > First I don't feel comfortable announcing this, I'm not happy about the > situation and so I don't want to be the lightning rod :-). I do not believe anyone should blame you for bringing this up (although, it should be noted, killing the

Re: Non-responsive maintainer: sjenning

2021-11-18 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:10 PM Arthur Bols wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know if Seth Jennings (sjenning) is stil active in Fedora? I > sent him an email in June without response. > The package pam-u2f has been outdated for a while and I've created the > non-responsive maintainer bug [1].

Re: F37 Change: RetireARMv7 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-11-18 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 2:32 AM Josh Stone wrote: > > On 11/16/21 7:05 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Realistically, they will just stick to Fedora 36 forever and just stop > > updating the devices (or try updating them anyway and get no updates from > > the server, obviously). > > > >

Re: F37 Change: RetireARMv7 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-11-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 7:16 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetireARMv7 > I cannot recall the last time I tried to run a full armv7 desktop (which, I would guess, generate a significant percentage of the large app build failures since the "desktop" apps are,

Re: libnsl.so.2.0.1 updated to libnsl.so.3.0.0 without coordination, broke rawhide

2021-11-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:55 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > > Hello, > > Since this update: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libnsl2/c/d2e2fab5e3ab07228a34f35ab8ec1954581153d0?branch=rawhide > > Nothing in rawhide builds, because Python and hence dnf is not installable: > Is it possible to

Re: Firmware packages

2021-11-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 8:42 AM Aleksei Bavshin wrote: > A module can load a firmware binary with the `request_firmware` API at > any moment of it's lifetime. Usually, this happens when the module is > initialized or discovers a new supported device, but I don't believe > that is a strictly

Re: deltarpm usefulness?

2021-11-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 2:22 AM Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > I have almost always seen it *increase* download times, In my experience, while the download times may be (slightly) reduced, on a number of my (slower) systems, the rebuild of the rpm itself took longer then it would have taken to

Re: Fedora 35 security update of curl blocked for a month

2021-11-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 7:30 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > Further to this . Thanks for the report on your research. When there are enough fragile moving parts, sooner or later something goes sideways ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Orphaned packages

2021-10-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 11:08 PM Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 10:21 PM Peter Robinson wrote: > > > I was going to ask people if they > > were interested in them but I decided to straight up orphan them so > > they#ll can go through the usual garbag

Re: Orphaned packages

2021-10-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 12:21 AM Sérgio Basto wrote: > I wonder if kodi shouldn't use cec from kernel [1] instead libcec Perhaps, perhaps not. The recent libcec for Linux uses the kernel functionality, but (mostly) maintains the existing API. So for an application which is trying to be cross

Re: Orphaned packages

2021-10-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 10:21 PM Peter Robinson wrote: > I was going to ask people if they > were interested in them but I decided to straight up orphan them so > they#ll can go through the usual garbage collection process unless > someone claims them. > libcec > platform I'll volunteer to take

Re: Onboarding package

2021-10-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 8:58 AM Vít Ondruch wrote: > Thoughts? Anything that improves the onboarding process can only be a good thing. I would recommend that before going too deep into weeds that you need a small group of "non-packagers"(*) to see if this is the right approach from their

Re: [Heads-up] Introduction of OpenSSL 3.0.0 in F36

2021-09-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 9:40 PM Fabio Valentini wrote: > Thanks, that did the trick. > But of course somebody built stuff during the side-tag window and now > it can't be pushed. *le big sigh* This seems to happen every time there is a large(ish) side-tag. I do wish that (probably using a

Re: F35 Change: Restart User Services after Upgrade (very-very-very late System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-07-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 5:28 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 28/07/2021 15:07, Ben Cotton wrote: > > Updates of user services take effect immediately (if so configured in > > the providing packages). > > Restarting plasma-ksmserver.service, plasma-kwin_x11.service, etc. will > cause a

Re: Packager sponsors site

2021-07-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 12:54 AM Jakub Kadlcik wrote: > I am happy to announce that I deployed this little site > https://docs.pagure.org/fedora-sponsors/ Thank you for doing this. Anything that reduces the impedance for new people is overwhelming a good thing. It is easy for forget

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2021-07-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 8:23 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 06/07/2021 23:27, Christian Stadelmann wrote: > > In other words: I think it is too early to drop non-(U)EFI BIOS support. > > Btw, the upcoming Windows 11 will require full UEFI support, enabled > UEFI Secure Boot and TPM 2.0.

Re: building against epel8 modules

2021-07-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 8:58 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I can't find *anyone* who likes modularity. I like the concept of modules. But primarily only if someone else is doing the actual hard work that ends up being necessary to build them. ___

Re: Packager for hire - Was: Re: Additon to the repos - Kubectx + Kubens

2021-07-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 8:57 AM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Hmm, this should be easy to implement. Just one wiki page. I created: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packagers_for_hire > > Comments? Rather than a wiki for which people may not reliably curate (i.e. remove themselves) or respond to

Re: x86_64-v2 in Fedora

2021-06-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 9:55 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > Yeah, I think that proposal was not workable because of AVX2. The > x86_64-v2 subarch adds SSSE3, SSE4.2, POPCNT, and CMPXCHG16B to the > current x86_64 baseline. All of these instructions were present in the > first Intel Macs launched in

Re: IRC Announcement

2021-05-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 4:42 PM PGNet Dev wrote: > I'd bet $0.05 and a half-eaten donut that most folks *Most* folks are not the deciders. The deciders (for their particular projects) have decided, presumably based on what they believe is best for their community. In this case, for

Re: Packaging for EPEL8 with gcc-9+

2021-05-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:49 AM Евгений Пивнев wrote: > > Is there any real package .spec that use cc-toolset-9 as example? > SCL documentation is too extensive and mostly about creating new SCL, > I cannot find short description how simply to make one new package using > modern C++. > Not sure

Re: Intention to dropping the the "Allow SSH root login with password" option from the installer GUI

2021-04-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 5:18 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 30.04.2021 16:23, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Because distributing SSH keys to temporary VMs is hard? > > Kickstart + Ansible will fix all these issues. Or, perhaps, cloud-init, for those using that approach.

Re: F35 Change: CompilerPolicy Change (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-04-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 3:57 PM Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > This is quite a niche problem that's unlikely to cause issues > for most people, but its a illustration that swapping compilers > out can have unexpected consequences/complications. Presuming I am remembering my s390x history

Re: F35 Change: CompilerPolicy Change (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-04-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 3:38 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > To me, this sounds like an excuse to avoid doing the right thing and > leveraging the toolchain that offers the highest quality code > generation (performance, security, etc.). I am not in favor of switching the distro (or any package) to the

Re: F35 Change: CompilerPolicy Change (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-04-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 3:30 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > Or is it just a way of saying "we trust you to exercise good judgment"? If one does not trust the packagers good judgement you likely have a bigger issue to address. I doubt many packagers are going to change from the default compiler unless

Re: F35 Change: CompilerPolicy Change (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-04-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 3:19 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompilerPolicy > Ultimately, I think what the packaging guidelines should be if the proposal is accepted are essentially: For C/C++ projects: If the upstream has no stated preference for the

Re: F35 Change: Switching Cyrus Sasl from BerkeleyDB to GDBM (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-04-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 4:31 PM David Cantrell wrote: > 2) I'm curious why GDBM was chosen instead of something like sqlite. I believe sasldb only supports gdbm and ndbm as alternatives to bdb. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Display a message on the console while upgrading a package

2021-03-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:18 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > There is no good way to do this. This is one of those cases where I occasionally miss a mainframe fix update feature to prevent certain bad automated results. In SMP/E, there was the concept of HOLD's for a fix. There were a

Re: Fedora 35 Change proposal: POWER 4k page size (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-02-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 6:39 PM Dan Horák wrote: > The open question still is whether we should try to keep 64k as default > as it would allow to find the remaining bugs and offer 4k kernel variant > (COPR for ppc64le should be coming back soon), similar for the > installer (a new remix/spin).

Re: ELN SIG Launch

2021-02-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 1:10 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > And why would I want to do Red Hat's / IBM's work for free? > > > > Contributing to Fedora provides value to me because I use Fedora myself. > > In contrast, what would I gain from contributing to

Re: How to change FAS username and email

2021-01-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 5:37 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Soon. We have staging pretty close to all working, so I would expect > sometime in the next weeks. We will announce deployment plans as we make > them. Excellent news! Do let us know if/how we can help by testing (no change in AAA systems

Re: How to change FAS username and email

2021-01-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 9:54 AM Miro Hrončok wrote: > OTOH many Fedora systems use the FAS name as an identifier so even if the > account system supports this, it will confuse badges, etc. I do not recall the various related dependency status, but I am pretty sure the case of badges was

Re: How to change FAS username and email

2021-01-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:39 AM Andrew Toskin wrote: > > Is there a ballpark estimate on when we'll switch to the new account system? > When it is ready? (that is a joke, mostly). Late last February there was a post from the CPE AAA team with a status update on the project, which had a

Re: Delta RPMs in Fedora 34

2021-01-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:46 PM Florian Weimer wrote: > The metadata would also be much larger, and so would be the battery > usage to recompress the payload. 8-( And while the bandwidth reduction has value, cpu and wallclock time to rebuild the rpm is substantially increased for low end devices

Re: heads up: nss 3.59 breaks firefox add-ons

2020-12-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:45 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > I wrote in the update that in my opinion the solution for this bug > can't involve expecting add-ons to suddenly get re-signed en masse, or > users to change their local configuration. It needs to keep working as > it did before. If the

Re: Popularity contest for Fedora

2020-12-27 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 3:12 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > It's been talked about before but no one has done it. There was also smolt, which collected some system information (and could be extended to collect more) However, not only did the upstream die, follow-on proposals never took off, and

Re: Stale proven packagers

2020-12-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:43 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > I'm not in favor of that -- I think it's generally not the best policy Correct, that is what FIDO2 biometrics are designed to replace entirely. Passwords, in general, must die. > and doesn't address the issue directly. Agreed, as was

Re: Stale proven packagers

2020-12-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:49 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > Maybe Fedora should add 2FA support and require it for the most powerful > groups? > It does support it, but AFAIK does not require it. Arguably those with elevated access (provenpackagers(*)) should be required to use a

Re: auditd spamming of dmesg

2020-12-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 7:25 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > I would say so... > > $ dmesg | grep -c audit > 767 > > $ dmesg | grep -cv audit > 30 > You will likely have to share some of the audit entries. That last time I recall seeing so many audit entries in dmesg I had set selinux to be

Re: Reducing noise on devel list

2020-12-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 6:24 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I'm a bit torn by this. The rawhide report has actually triggered > conversation (less than 3 weeks ago) and I find it usefull to point out > things. I also find the rawhide reports (at least occasionally) useful, as being the early canaries

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2020-12-14 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:49 PM Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > # dnf swap pulseaudio pipewire-pulseaudio --allowerasing I needed to add --enablerepo=updates-testing Also, you may need to (as yourself) perform a $ systemctl --user enable pipewire pipewire-pulse In limited testing it

Re: Fedora 34 Change: GitRepos-master-to-main (Self-Contained Change)

2020-12-14 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:30 PM Christopher wrote: > > Even if people don't agree that "main" is better for other reasons, surely > people can agree that "rawhide" is much better than "master" I disagree, my opinion is that main is better than master, and master is better than rawhide. One

Re: End of CentOS Linux: What about Fedora?

2020-12-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 4:52 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > For some folks / maintenance styles this might still be an issue, but > it should work OK in quite a lot of cases. It's not like you're running > Rawhide. For those that want the equivalent of a point release, I would think they should be

Re: Fedora 34 Change: GitRepos-master-to-main (Self-Contained Change)

2020-12-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 9:24 PM DJ Delorie wrote: > But fedoras aren't made of sheets of main, they're made from sheets of > rawhide... Actually, fedoras can be made from many different source materials (straw, cotton, hemp, etc.) in addition to rawhide. There are some workflows such that I

Re: Mass spec file change: Adding BuildRequires: make

2020-12-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 12:55 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > For what's it worth I think that packages that only use make via cmake should > not have an explcit dependency on make. Packages that use make directly should > have an explicit dependency on make (even if they already BR cmake). Does that

Re: Mass spec file change: Adding BuildRequires: make

2020-12-03 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 3:39 PM Fabio Valentini wrote: > I still think a lot of those are "false positives". > CMake has a hard Requires on make, so if I BuildRequires cmake, adding > "BuildRequires: make" is just redundant. > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cmake/blob/master/f/cmake.spec#_185

Re: Fedora 34 Change: GitRepos-master-to-main (Self-Contained Change)

2020-12-03 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 3:08 PM Fabio Valentini wrote: > Is there a reason why "main" is proposed instead of "rawhide" on src.fp.o? Aligning as much as possible with what appears to be the industry consensus ("main") makes sense to me, as I will be able to (re)train my finger muscle memory in

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:05 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > But that said, I would like to backport all the packaging changes to > Fedora 33 too. It's not actually *hard* to do, it's just a matter of > getting everyone to agree to get it to happen. I think that being able to easily install/revert and

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Rename libusb packages and deprecated old API (Self-Contained Change)

2020-11-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:11 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > Rename `libusb` to `libusb-compat` It was my recollection that I thought lib-compat package naming was deprecated in favor of lib1 package naming (or lib_1 if the last X was a number) for a .1 soname example.

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (see note about xinetd)

2020-11-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 3:01 PM Chris Adams wrote: > Are there replacements for the old services built in to xinetd? Not that I know of as being integrated, although writing such servers (often in perl) can often be seen in training materials about network socket programming in a few dozen

Re: git -> cvs (was: Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (see note about xinetd))

2020-11-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 9:04 PM Sérgio Basto wrote: > Like tftp we may replace xinetd by systemd service files [1] , > if we replace cvs-inetd by a systemd service, the problem is solved. I am pretty sure cvs already ships systemd service files. The issue is that there is also a sub-package

Re: patch applied without package maintainers' approve

2020-11-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 3:15 PM Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > Well that's a packaging issue so it's not something that > would normally go upstream, or does upstream have a spec > file that you are using? For this package there are upstream (prototype) spec files in the repo. I don't know

Re: Fedora 34 Change proposal: Remove make from BuildRoot (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:44 PM Robbie Harwood wrote: > > Ben Cotton writes: > > > > The spec file updates will be automated and changes will be pushed > > directly to dist-git once they are ready. > > -1. I think you should use pull requests for this, and continue to > believe that mass-pushing

Re: Fedora 34 Change proposal: Remove make from BuildRoot (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 7:15 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > When did this happen? CMake should not be requiring Make at runtime, > especially now that the CMake macros let you trivially use either Make > or Ninja. rhbz#1862014 ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Fedora 34 Change proposal: Remove make from BuildRoot (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 6:50 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > > Is the expectation to explicitly BR: make? > > Or would pulling in autotools/automake/cmake suffice? The cmake package currently requires make. I do not believe the auto packages requires make, so you would need to add make explicitly

Re: HEADSUP: libsepol and libsemanage soname bump

2020-11-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 8:48 AM Petr Lautrbach wrote: > As none of packages which require either libsepol or libsemanage use dropped > symbols and in order not to break build root during soname bumps I've added > temporary > subpackages with original library versions - libsepol-compat with >

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