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

2019-12-06 Thread John M. Harris Jr
s actually the underlying vtty that handles input of the passphrase. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ 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: Disallow Empty Password By Default

2019-12-06 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Friday, December 6, 2019 7:50:35 AM MST Marius Schwarz wrote: > Am 05.12.19 um 21:21 schrieb Andreas Tunek: > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, 02:11 John M. Harris Jr, > > > <mailto:joh...@splentity.com>> wrote: > > Rebuild initramfs when the system-wide k

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

2019-12-06 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ve > fake-usb devices, but simply inserting something in an open port, would > not work anymore. The viability of that would depend heavily on the hubs in use. > I know that not all usb io hw supports it, but when, it should be done. ...as you pointed out. :) -- John M. Harris, Jr. Sple

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

2019-12-06 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Friday, December 6, 2019 1:02:04 AM MST Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Do, 05.12.19 16:33, John M. Harris Jr (joh...@splentity.com) wrote: > > > > > Locking down the OS itself and locking down the user's home are two > > > different things, because OS integr

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

2019-12-06 Thread John M. Harris Jr
's because it is supported. It works out of box, and several DEs even have a button for it. I don't know if GNOME does, but the GNOME Spin has always been a bit special. The only time it wouldn't work seems to be in one of those special UEFI + Secure Boot cases. -- John M. H

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Thursday, December 5, 2019 6:17:16 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 4:49 PM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, December 5, 2019 1:40:02 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > Hibernation is out of scope to rely on, let a

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
uldn't be so quick to assume that users wouldn't change the mount options, especially as there are guides online that suggest adding 'discard'. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
decrypt. That's it. The UI is limited to either: 1, without Plymouth: A line in a framebuffer asking you to enter a password 2, with Plymouth: A box in the center of your screen that shows circles as you enter keys, expecting you to enter a password for a key. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ation by default, and so it's not at all > likely it'll become supported by default. Blockers are dynamic. We can make new blockers if we need them. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Thursday, December 5, 2019 9:26:09 AM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > On 12/4/19 6:59 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:38:20 PM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel > > > > wrote: > >> - stolen/lost laptop: I think this is t

Re: Should we discontinue the Python Classroom Lab?

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Thursday, December 5, 2019 1:05:38 PM MST Daniel Walsh wrote: > On 12/5/19 9:55 AM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > On Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:44:50 AM MST Miro Hrončok wrote: > > > >> - Docker is broken > >> > >> - one of

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
e any device can claim to be whatever it wants to > be. (And yes, it would be great if we could be a bit more secure > there, but it's an orthogonal problem) Well, that's not entirely true. For example, while devices could easily give a false VID and PID, even j

Re: Should we discontinue the Python Classroom Lab?

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
idea how to fix it > - I know no way to upload to official dockerhub [5] What's wrong with the packaged version of Docker? -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe se

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
gue that it is not sufficient to use password authentication. Especially on shared wifi, for example guest wifi at most businesses. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
er: > > A tablet pc is booted directly into the desktop, as any other tablet > (android or ipad) will do. > > @Ben.Cotton > > Will that be still possible, when empty passwords are dismissed? Only if this configuration is modified by the end-user while setting up that kiosk

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:53:18 AM MST Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 9:24 PM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 6:02:07 PM MST Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > > > John M. Harris Jr wrote: &g

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:35:09 AM MST Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Do, 05.12.19 04:30, John M. Harris Jr (joh...@splentity.com) wrote: > > Well, you are, in that the average attacker have to break or steal a key > > to decrypt the drive first. Sure, it wouldn't

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
rocesses when people log out". That caused a lot of shock when it > was activated by default and started killing processes with no > logging. Let's not repeat a surprise like that and avoid killing SSH > key access by default. A bit off topic, but where is "kill dangin

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
that data. You don't need to "trust humans", other than those who do have access to the data. > That’s even the case in ultra-secure environments like the NSA. How do > you think wikileaks happened? No. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity __

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
fault to Azerty or the Russian > layout for a release. That would teach qwerty users what is hostile to > users of other layouts or not. There is no "default", there is only what the live images are built with. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
an attacker's fake "fake > shell"? This needs to be part of the protocol, not hacked onto it. The very same way that it already knows when it's talking to `ssh` on a remote server. You've already verified the fingerprint, either manually o

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

2019-12-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
most sense. I suppose that's a good *start*, where users wouldn't use encryption otherwise. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 6:02:07 PM MST Kevin Kofler wrote: > John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > Well, you could theoretically use ssh-agent (or equivalent), without > > changing the protocol in any way. > > > You need protocol support to do this securely. Otherw

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 6:08:31 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:44 PM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:41:13 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:56:39 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:38 PM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:28:17 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > You know what is a work around and not a

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:41:13 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:14 PM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:09:55 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ir keyboard layout to the one they use primarily.. Just like everyone else :) -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of C

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
e box. And therefore I'm not sure what your goal > posts are, what two things you're comparing. It may be the case that the GNOME Spin doesn't support that, but it is supported with the KDE Spin. I don't think it's likely that anything in the GNOME image would break t

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
quot;. Most of these "secure boot" solutions don't actually do anything that makes them inherently secure, vboot included. They're just trusting a vendor key, by default. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list --

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
Marius Agreed. One of the most common solutions to this is coreboot with a GRUB payload. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
for wanting to do something the traditional way. That is a workaround, not a solution. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org F

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
cally use ssh-agent (or equivalent), without changing the protocol in any way. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Co

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ever, if you're interested in network based keys for that purpose, that'd be a surprisingly simple project. I believe there was a blog post from a Red Hat engineer a few years ago about network based luks volume decryption. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
n definitely see how that would apply to most wireless users though. I definitely overlooked ssh'ing into systems that are primarily wireless. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
systemd user service runs, would that use a cached key to unlock their home directory? While some users might not be logged in constantly (either graphically, via SSH, a virtual terminal, screen/tmux session or whatever), it is much more common for users to have cron jobs or user units s

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

2019-12-03 Thread John M. Harris Jr
gins would be instant, but if > you SSH login otherwise then you'd get a prompt for the pw first. Is the key's passphrase always going to be based on the user's password with systed-homed? Is there a mechanism to use a separate password? -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity __

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

2019-12-02 Thread John M. Harris Jr
gt; home, now since deprecated in favor of LUKS) If we really wanted to, that's possible now, without systemd-homed. > 4. If based on any fscrypt implementation, exclude ~/.ssh/ from encryption That's a bad idea. That directory, by default, contains ssh private keys, as well as the l

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

2019-12-02 Thread John M. Harris Jr
en mounts ZFS mountpoints, swaps on a ZFS zdev. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ 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 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

2019-12-02 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Monday, December 2, 2019 11:16:43 AM MST Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > How often do you ssh *into* your laptop? Every time I'm on another system without access to my NFS server, or I need my GnuPG key when not using my laptop. -- John M. Harris, Jr. S

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

2019-12-02 Thread John M. Harris Jr
Basically, systemd-homed is useless for any power user, but might be useful for people just getting into GNU/Linux, who don't use ssh yet or don't have more than one system. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lis

Re: RFC: Modularity Simplified

2019-12-02 Thread John M. Harris Jr
care more for just "make it run", rather than "make it run properly on a stable, supported Perl". -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-

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

2019-11-26 Thread John M. Harris Jr
hat would not work in 99% of scenarios that require rescue, especially with most networks employing network authentication, which would not be available. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe s

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

2019-11-26 Thread John M. Harris Jr
> work. It asks for a root password, but root account is locked. > > Michael The easiest method is to just do `rw init=/bin/bash` and do what you need to do. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproj

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

2019-11-26 Thread John M. Harris Jr
d. I don't believe anyone should be using empty passwords. That said, I know that there's no way I can convince certain people to use a password, and those people would still like to be able to use Fedora without having to learn pam configuration. I don't believe that empty

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

2019-11-25 Thread John M. Harris Jr
o warn non-technical users when setting empty passwords, another entirely to prevent them. Many non-technical users just don't want a password set on their system. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- d

Re: pdf-stapler - Re: Python 2 exodus is happening now

2019-11-24 Thread John M. Harris Jr
his is precisely why we shouldn't be dropping python2 packages. It's not like `python2` doesn't work anymore. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-l

Re: Introducing Square 1

2019-11-21 Thread John M. Harris Jr
works, and continues to work, it generally won't see many changes by the people it works for. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-20 Thread John M. Harris Jr
re not containerized either. Before RHEL 8, which was essentially just released, nothing even recommended containerizing RHEL. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an emai

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-20 Thread John M. Harris Jr
y, without parallel installation, is all you want, I can show you how to do that with RPM right now, no Modularity required. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@list

Re: Introducing Square 1

2019-11-20 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 2:19:22 AM MST Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 20. 11. 19 v 0:52 John M. Harris Jr napsal(a): > > > > > > >> -- trimming functionality and/or moving functionality to sub-packages > >> or separate package. > > > > For what

Re: Modularity and all the things

2019-11-19 Thread John M. Harris Jr
n, never think about it again. That is an untenable situation. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://do

Re: Introducing Square 1

2019-11-19 Thread John M. Harris Jr
into the already-extant release monitoring software. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread John M. Harris Jr
that it should be done in Fedora. The current situation in Fedora, where maven and ant have been "moved" to modules has screwed over the Eclipse packagers, for example, and more are to follow. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel m

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ors. (See again the list > of goals.) In my opinion, there's nothing about Modularity that is more appealing to "newer-generation infra types and software developers" than traditional packages. Ultimately, these people just want something that works. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Sp

Re: What are the benefits of default modular streams over non-modular packages?

2019-11-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
#x27;s not the same, at all. Python 2 and Python 3 are inherently incompatible, and many programs WILL NOT be migrated to Python 3. In fact, we're simply dropping many packages, some were even explicitly denied an exception, that refused to "upgrade" to Pyt

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
n that is packaged > > as a non-modular package. > > > > > > If packager does not build Bugzilla for the modular Perl, then of course > the user has no choice. But talk about a case when the user and the > package wants to have a choice. It seems,

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
modules. The user would just `dnf install bugzilla`, and use the version that is packaged as a non-modular package. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: What are the benefits of default modular streams over non-modular packages?

2019-11-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
recisely Miro's point. If there are no inherent benefits to default modular streams, why should we have "default streams" instead of simply having non-modular packages? -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@li

Re: Python 2 exodus is happening now

2019-11-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Thursday, November 14, 2019 6:07:57 PM MST John M. Harris Jr wrote: > There are a *lot* of useful, working Python 2 packages here. The future of > Fedora will certainly be interesting. Looking through this list, it's really a shame that so many good, working packages are be

Re: Python 2 exodus is happening now

2019-11-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
There are a *lot* of useful, working Python 2 packages here. The future of Fedora will certainly be interesting. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
o replace SCLs? If so, surely the inability to install multiple versions invalidates that? For example, one of the issues I'm trying to resolve at work is providing both Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 on RHEL 6. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
tribution, and we wouldn't need to address the issues that come from modules overriding non-modular packages. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to dev

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
The > reality is that the world has gone in a different direction and Fedora > needs to adapt to that. Holding the line and refusing to budge just > means people will go around us and stop considering us relevant. This is simply not true. Debian is another clear example of this. -- J

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

2019-11-12 Thread John M. Harris Jr
something in one of the installer images used that python3-static package, which I admittedly did not consider. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-12 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ntinue to be viable option. With all it's weirdness so > far no one gave better solution working to that extend at least. I'm sorry, but I don't know the exact issue you're describing here. I'd be glad to give a go at solving this particular iss

Re: Modularity and all the things

2019-11-12 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7:24:16 AM MST Matthew Miller wrote: > We have a big company _investment_, but I don't think it's a divide. > That's the one I live in. This is clearly not the case, though I understand why, as the FPL, you would want to say such a thing. -

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

2019-11-12 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ines List > Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org If that software was to be packaged, in this case, you'd simply: Requires: python3 change the shebang to /path/to/my/python3 However, I believe there's a third op

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-12 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 9:02:07 AM MST Aleksandra Fedorova wrote: > Again, no one forces you or any other packager to use modularity > tooling right now. This is not actually the case. We have several major packages which are ONLY available as modules, for example. -- John M. Harr

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-12 Thread John M. Harris Jr
nal packages. 2) Have modules disabled by default, with the option to enable them if you wish, perhaps even transparently by installing package:moduleversion? -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

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

2019-11-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Friday, November 8, 2019 3:20:33 PM MST Daniel Walsh wrote: > On 11/8/19 5:16 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:09:55 PM MST Martin Kolman wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 19:41 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> > &

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr
icated hardware or dedicated VMs on hyperconverged infrastructure, NOT containers. It's possible that this is Red Hat's attempt to get in on that market? It is clear, at this point, that this is something that is only designed to benefit Red Hat, and not the Fedora community. -- John M.

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

2019-11-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.o > > rg > ___ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code

Re: List of Python 2 packages to be removed mid-November

2019-11-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:24:02 AM MST Miro Hrončok wrote: > Dear maintainers, > here is a list of packages that (transitively, at build or run time) require > Python 2 and have not yet got a FESCo exception to do so. > If you were bcced on this e-mail, it affects one or more of your package

Re: Modularity and all the things

2019-11-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr
7;s what we prefer to do as well! So, it's weird to me, as a Red Hat customer, that Red Hat wants to push "modules" and all that, which only make things more of a pain for us enterprise admins.. That said, while those corps may have "deep pockets", please keep in mind

Re: Modularity and all the things

2019-11-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ifferent versions of packages as X version of Y package will break package Z, generally not in the ebuild either. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lis

Re: Modularity and all the things

2019-11-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
from one to 4 hours to build the kernel I use, on the Asus C201P itself. It takes 40 minutes at most on my other laptop, a Core 2 Duo X200 Tablet @ 1.2GHz. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@list

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-21 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ds like a nightmare. Actually, I'm not even sure how I'd deploy modules in the environment that I support, because it doesn't have internet access. I usually just download the RHEL repo DVD and I'm good to go. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity __

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-17 Thread John M. Harris Jr
from a kickstart in RHEL 7 too.. Without modules. That's what I've deployed for the environments I support, for example. Using a module is not required there. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@list

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
fedora releases and branched. (In addition to whatever packagers would package as modules. To clarify, I am not attempting to suggest nothing should be done with Modularity except in Rawhide.) We're not saying this to discourage you, at least that is not my goal. My goal is to ensure the bes

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Modules in Non-Modular Buildroot

2019-10-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
great to have the option available, but to force it upon them is really unfortunate. Additionally, wouldn't a "default module" pulling in a "non-default module" cause mass breakage? I can only see that causing ABI breakage.. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
have existing installs with modules won't get their install fixed with the current code, but new installations would. That's a start. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
cially considering that's not even possible. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ 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

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 9:07:51 PM MST Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:05 AM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:26:31 PM MST Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > > > given that we're talking about the

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
package. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ 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-conduct/ List Gu

Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 8:59:18 PM MST Leigh Scott wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:44 AM, John M. Harris Jr > > > > > As previously mentioned in this thread, we already approved Steam for > > F28. > > > > > > This was also previou

Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:58:07 PM MST mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:44 AM, John M. Harris Jr > > wrote: > > Proprietary software is certainly a subset of third party software, > > however, > > please read the Workstation group&#

Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
;t point to that, but *can* point to *proprietary software* "in any official location", we're obviously doing something wrong. Protecting Fedora is not achieved by recommending proprietary software. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___

Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 12:16:06 PM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:42:33AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 11:39:20 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 05:05:51PM +0000, John M. Harris, Jr. wrote:

Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 11:39:20 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 05:05:51PM +0000, John M. Harris, Jr. wrote: > > There is a difference between ignoring proprietary software, and providing > > installation methods for it in the distro. It is against t

Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

2019-10-15 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
There is a difference between ignoring proprietary software, and providing installation methods for it in the distro. It is against the first of the Four Foundations, Freedom, to include these repositories. It's one thing if the user seeks out the software and installs it themselves, it's anothe

Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

2019-10-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Monday, October 14, 2019 6:12:18 AM MST mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:49 AM, John M. Harris Jr > > wrote: > > It's good that we can > > reference external repositories such as rpmfusion-free, in my opinion. > > We actually cannot d

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Modules in Non-Modular Buildroot

2019-10-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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-conduct/ List > Guidelines: https://fedorapro

Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

2019-10-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
party software policy. However, that policy does not include proprietary software. It's good that we can reference external repositories such as rpmfusion-free, in my opinion. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lis

RE: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

2019-10-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
is to see if it's actually alright to have this in Fedora? In my opinion, this presents a huge risk, especially as a package, and the third party software policy doesn't seem to apply to this use case. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Modules in Non-Modular Buildroot

2019-10-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, October 13, 2019 11:42:41 PM MST Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 9:00 AM John M. Harris Jr > > wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 1:46:52 PM MST Ben Cotton wrote: > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Modules_

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Modules in Non-Modular Buildroot

2019-10-13 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List > Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List > Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archi

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-08 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
We could simply stop doing projects that throw wildly different versions of software into a single installation, which causes this issue. On October 8, 2019 6:23:47 PM UTC, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 02:09:24PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel >wrote: >> Having said that,

Re: Impact of dropping QEMU emulation on 32-bit hosts ? (~Fedora 33)

2019-10-02 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:42:57 AM MST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 04:49:08PM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > Perhaps the same reason that many people still run i686 based hardware, > > and will be unable to use Fedora after the release of

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-10-01 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ave.] This is, most likely, still the case today as well. I don't know why some people think it's a good idea to move to GitHub, a platform owned by Microsoft. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@list

Re: Impact of dropping QEMU emulation on 32-bit hosts ? (~Fedora 33)

2019-09-28 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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