Re: Heads up: libpng bumped to 1.5.x in rawhide

2011-11-07 Thread John Ellson
On 11/07/2011 12:16 PM, Tim Waugh wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 13:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: twaugh ghostscript twaugh gutenprint I've rebuilt these two. Tim. */ (Apologies for replying to your reply, Tim, but I wasn't subscribed at the start of this thread.) I'm a graphviz upstream

Re: default DNS caching name server on Fedora ?

2012-06-20 Thread John Ellson
Simo, For the VPN scenario I've been happily using dnrd for some time. I use it to steer DNS requests for mycompany.com to the company's DNS servers, and all other DNS requests to the external servers. Unlike just adding the company DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf, this never uses the

Re: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin considered harmful

2012-06-22 Thread John Ellson
Having thought about it, I don't think it's unreasonable to do a which $PROG, and stick it into the hashbang. I think that's a perfectly reasonable approach, with portability being the goal. The problem I see here, is that Fedora's bash is compiled with the default PATH placing a symlink,

Re: Couldn't we enable 256 colors by default on TERM?

2012-06-26 Thread John Ellson
On 06/26/2012 08:50 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com said: The main caveat with per terminal settings is that it might be desired to provide config options per terminal. Though I suppose users can always override TERM in their startup files in the

Re: Couldn't we enable 256 colors by default on TERM?

2012-06-26 Thread John Ellson
On 06/26/2012 06:54 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: . The main caveat with per terminal settings is that it might be desired to provide config options per terminal. Though I suppose users can always override TERM in their startup files in the unlikely case they need to change back to 'xterm' for

Re: small tip regarding git branch bash prompt in F18/Rawhide

2012-08-23 Thread John Ellson
On 08/23/2012 08:45 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote: On 2012-08-23 15:12, Jon Ciesla wrote: things in %doc shouldn't be things that affect run-time operation True, but there are other considerations in favour of unversioned dirs such as bookmarkability and general referenceability, consistency with

Heads up: My FC18 i686 vhost was bricked by lastest updates.

2012-09-27 Thread John Ellson
Caution (it might just be me, but just in case...) I can no longer boot my Fedora 18, i686, virtual host this morning after yum update https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861130 I suspect, but can't verify quickly, either systemd or glibc. John -- devel mailing list

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-01-27 Thread John Ellson
On 01/27/2012 08:10 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote: Hello Testers and rawhide Users, Fedora 17 will locate the entire base operating system in /usr. The directories /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib64 will only be symlinks: /bin → /usr/bin /sbin → /usr/sbin /lib → /usr/lib /lib64 → /usr/lib64 Mostly

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-01-28 Thread John Ellson
On 01/28/2012 06:48 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:57 PM, John Ellsonjohn.ell...@comcast.net wrote: Another issue is that I have: /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [1.796642] Kernel

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-01-28 Thread John Ellson
On 01/27/2012 05:57 PM, John Ellson wrote: On 01/27/2012 08:10 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote: Hello Testers and rawhide Users, Fedora 17 will locate the entire base operating system in /usr. The directories /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib64 will only be symlinks: /bin → /usr/bin /sbin → /usr/sbin

This karma stuff is a pain!

2012-03-15 Thread John Ellson
Can we just generate karma from a comment in bugzilla please? Having to find some other weird place to indicate that a fix works for me is a real pain. John -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: This karma stuff is a pain!

2012-03-16 Thread John Ellson
On 03/16/2012 05:13 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: Le jeudi 15 mars 2012 à 12:49 -0400, John Ellson a écrit : Can we just generate karma from a comment in bugzilla please? Having to find some other weird place to indicate that a fix works for me is a real pain. Have you tried fedora-easy-karma

bug or feature? gdm logins not recorded in lastlog

2012-04-15 Thread John Ellson
Before I generate a bug report, could I get a second opinion on whether this is a bug or a feature? Console logins through gdm are not getting recorded in lastlog. (Fedora 16) John -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: bug or feature? gdm logins not recorded in lastlog

2012-04-16 Thread John Ellson
On 04/16/2012 03:16 AM, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 00:03 -0400, John Ellson wrote: Before I generate a bug report, could I get a second opinion on whether this is a bug or a feature? Console logins through gdm are not getting recorded in lastlog. (Fedora 16) I think it is a bug

Review request: nodebrain - a declarative rule-based language for state and event monitoring

2010-05-15 Thread John Ellson
, and stderr. A small set of plug-ins are distributed with NodeBrain to provide commonly needed features such as peer-to-peer communication, log monitoring, event caching, and a web browser interface for administrators. I will be pleased to return the favor, if I can. John Ellson -- devel mailing list

Re: RFD Unifying graphviz.spec with upstream

2017-07-20 Thread John Ellson
; On July 20, 2017 at 6:47 AM Michael Schwendt <mschwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:27:54 -0400 (EDT), John Ellson wrote: > > > Jaroslav Škarvada requested that i move the discussion from: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410366 >

RFD Unifying graphviz.spec with upstream

2017-07-19 Thread John Ellson
Jaroslav Škarvada mailto:jskar...@redhat.com requested that i move the discussion from: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410366 about unifying the graphviz .spec file with upstream, to this list. Perhaps the unification objective is not attainable because of different

Re: RFD Unifying graphviz.spec with upstream

2017-07-20 Thread John Ellson
source rpm is at http://graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/development/SRPMS/graphviz-2.41.20170720.1642-1.src.rpm > On July 20, 2017 at 9:36 AM John Ellson <john.ell...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Doubtful. It's a maintenance nightmare > OK, but I'm raising this issue to try