Re: Linux Presentation

2016-02-23 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
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Self Introduction: John M. Harris, Jr.

2016-02-14 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
I'm a developer, currently working on a project called OpenBlox. To that end, I have packaged a library used by both my project and a project which is already packaged in Fedora. You may find that review request at the link below: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308367 -- devel

Re: GPG2 as default /usr/bin/gpg

2016-02-17 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
Unless there are any issues with gpg, and to my knowledge there aren't, I can't see any important reason to default 'gpg' to 'gpg2', at least not for f24. I will say that if this is done, we need to be able to use the normal alternatives system (update-alternatives) to change what's used,

Re: 3D printing SIG

2016-03-18 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
t; Miro > I've created a wiki page here: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/3DPrinting > > Feel free to add yourselves and improve the page in any way. > As I see it, the logical next step is to create an article for the Community Blog. If you would like to coordinate on this, we

Re: 3D printing SIG

2016-03-20 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
doraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject. > org I'm definitely interested. I have added my information to the wiki page. -- John M. Harris, Jr. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists

Re: Is SELinux enforcing on the koji builders?

2019-03-24 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
What is the reason for builders running permissive, rather than with a tailored targeted policy? On March 24, 2019 11:25:14 PM EDT, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >On 3/24/19 6:57 PM, Jerry James wrote: >> I ask because the gcl build is failing on every architecture. The >gcl >> binary segfaults

Re: "Basic graphics mode" feature and criterion discussion

2019-03-26 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
I don't know what it's like with GNOME, but running KDE spin with the compositor set to use XRender APIs, I have had no issues with various Nvidia cards both without their nasty proprietary code thrown into an otherwise pristine system. On March 26, 2019 7:13:18 PM EDT, Wolfgang Ulbrich

Re: /etc/yum.repos.d -> /etc/distro.repos.d

2019-03-13 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
If anything of the like, /etc/dnf.repos.d makes more sense. These repos are not necessarily part of the distro. On March 13, 2019 11:46:12 AM EDT, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: >On 3/13/19 4:03 PM, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 7:50 AM, Kalev Lember >> wrote: >>> Please

Re: /etc/yum.repos.d -> /etc/distro.repos.d

2019-03-15 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
`rpm` does not care what repositories your system has available, it doesn't work with them directly. That name would make no sense. On March 15, 2019 6:31:40 AM EDT, "Samuel Rakitničan" wrote: >> If anything of the like, /etc/dnf.repos.d makes more sense. These >repos are not >> necessarily

Re: translucent gnome top bar gone in F31?

2019-09-11 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 8:57:37 AM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > On 9/11/19 2:18 AM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > Feel free to ignore any such wording that you disagree with. We don't need > > to agree in order to discuss such things, and it's alright

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Sunday, September 8, 2019 3:57:22 AM MST vvs vvs wrote: > I'm sorry, but where did you saw that I said something about i686 *kernel*? > I think that I explicitly mentioned *x86_64* kernel with i686 userland and > described why it could be beneficial for some users with limited memory. > As

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Saturday, September 7, 2019 11:44:59 AM MST Victor V. Shkamerda wrote: > I totally agree with that view. Making such decisions without public > discussion is not respecting user's freedom of choice. And this list > doesn't count as a public discussion. Nobody will know about it outside a > very

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Sunday, September 8, 2019 1:50:17 AM MST vvs vvs wrote: > That's nice to know Fedora's developers point of view on that subject. But > I'm not subscribing to that view. I'm with Richard Stallman. And now I > clearly see why he is opposed to OSS paradigm. Looks like I was in a wrong > place for

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Sunday, September 8, 2019 7:05:39 PM MST Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 7:00 AM vvs vvs wrote: > > > > > > > I'm sorry, but where did you saw that I said something about i686 > > *kernel*? I think that I explicitly mentioned *x86_64* kernel with i686 > > userland and

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 12:41:14 PM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > On 9/10/19 7:55 AM, vvs vvs wrote: > > > Did I? I thought that I've said that I'm using x86_64 kernel right now and > > that I have my memory stretched to the limits already. > > > > > > > But yes, I've

Re: translucent gnome top bar gone in F31?

2019-09-11 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:08:53 AM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/10/19 11:18 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > Feel free to ignore any such wording that you disagree with. We don't need > > to agree in order to discuss such things, and it's alright if we >

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositorieso

2019-09-10 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
Hi, I think we lost your message when you sent it. The only thing that came through was a quote of the previous few messages. - - John Harris ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: translucent gnome top bar gone in F31?

2019-09-11 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 6:35:39 PM MST Jared K. Smith wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 12:41 AM John M. Harris Jr. > > wrote: > > Further, nothing in that email is what I > > would describe as "uncivilized". I'm not asking people to necessarily > > a

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:28:31 AM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/10/19 11:01 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:54:50 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > >> Sure there are... from the change page: > >> > >>

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:54:50 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 9/9/19 9:34 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > There's no reason to drop x86 kernel builds either. > > Sure there are... from the change page: > > "The i686 kernel is of limited use as most x

Re: translucent gnome top bar gone in F31?

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 4:32:45 AM MST Ernestas Kulik wrote: > On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 04:26 -0700, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > On Monday, September 9, 2019 3:07:54 AM MST Felipe Borges wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:56 AM John M. Harris Jr. &

Re: translucent gnome top bar gone in F31?

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Sunday, September 8, 2019 9:59:03 PM MST Tomas Popela wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:06 PM Ernestas Kulik wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 14:26 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I upgraded to F31 recently, and I now I noticed that the gnome top > > > bar is

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Sunday, September 8, 2019 9:06:43 PM MST Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 11:44 PM John M. Harris Jr. > wrote: > > > > > > On Sunday, September 8, 2019 7:05:39 PM MST Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > > > On Sun

Re: translucent gnome top bar gone in F31?

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 3:07:54 AM MST Felipe Borges wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:56 AM John M. Harris Jr. > wrote: > > > > > > On Sunday, September 8, 2019 9:59:03 PM MST Tomas Popela wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:06 PM Ernestas Ku

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 4:43:18 AM MST Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 9/9/19 11:52 AM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > That's now how vulnerabilities work, and just being 64 bit doesn't solve > > any security issue. > > > ht

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 5:16:23 AM MST Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 9/9/19 1:47 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > ASLR has nothing to do with the wild claims made in that email, that > > having an x86 system will somehow taint or 'infect' other systems. >

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 12:09:49 PM MST vvs vvs wrote: > Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one of them then > I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame myself. Thanks > for explaining it to me. Please don't let the hostilities of this list get to

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 6:42:35 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 06:22:46AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > The system I'm sending this email from only has 4 GiB of memory in > > total. Does that mean that this system makes ASLR completely > >

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 10:29:23 AM MST Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 14:52:07 -, > vvs vvs wrote: > > >May be there are more interested people that we know, but they are not > >reading that list. There will just be just every man for himself and > >Fedora has

Re: translucent gnome top bar gone in F31?

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 8:51:48 AM MST Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 04:39:47AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > > > > > > > This is precisely the issue with GNOME entirely. It assumes the user > > > > shouldn't > >

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 8:36:45 AM MST vvs vvs wrote: > There is no either right or wrong stance here. We are discussing possible > alternatives to "just drop it" attitude. > What work should be done? Please, be more specific. Right now I'm running a > i686 userland and it works. If I would

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 11:58:08 AM MST vvs vvs wrote: > I would argue that it might be difficult to distinguish work needed to find > out if it was i686 specific when there already is similar bug on x86_64. > Also, it's difficult to rate bug importance for most users. As I've already > said

Re: [EXT] Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 1:00:51 PM MST Anderson, Charles R wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:57:20PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > > > Well, thanks for sharing. > > > > I'm not complaining that nobody wants to fix things for me. I'm > > complaining because there is no possibility to fix things

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 12:44:42 PM MST DJ Delorie wrote: > "vvs vvs" writes: > > > Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one of > > them then I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame > > myself. Thanks for explaining it to me. > > > I think you're

Re: systemd-sysusers versus containers

2019-09-16 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
Why exactly is systemd-sysusers needed here anyway? Do you not have a passwd and shadow file? On September 16, 2019 5:41:04 PM UTC, Lennart Poettering wrote: >On Mo, 16.09.19 09:45, Troy Dawson (tdaw...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> systemd-sysusers seeks to unify user creation[1]. It also has the

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-17 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
What architecture are you running? On September 17, 2019 8:19:03 PM UTC, sixpack13 wrote: >just upgraded from F30 to F31 Beta *WITHOUT* any errors ! > >neat ! > >thanks Fedora People !!! >___ >devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >To

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-17 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
that we have >been trying to solve ALL of it, and it might be better aimed at >pointing at a specific subset and getting the people there to join >together. It probably won't be in Fedora since the goals of the >distribution may not match. > >> On September 17, 2019 8:50:23 PM UTC,

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-17 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
and Firefox both build for i686 without issue. Further, I don't know software that requires more than 4 GiB of memory to compile. On September 17, 2019 11:15:56 PM UTC, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 17:28, John M. Harris, Jr. > wrote: >> >> These are generic serv

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-17 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
I do mean 32 bit. Contrary to what is published in the Magazine article, x86 systems are still produced to this day, and are not unpopular. I have 14 of such systems, 4 produced within the last year. On September 17, 2019 8:50:23 PM UTC, Samuel Sieb wrote: >On 9/17/19 1:48 PM, John M. Har

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-17 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
I have 14 systems that failed to update to F31 (predictably so). These are x86 systems, which previously had no major issues. I have reverted to a previous snapshot using a recovery disk. On September 17, 2019 2:04:37 PM UTC, Mohan Boddu wrote: >Fedora 31 Beta Released

Re: [EXT] Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-18 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
t;old" stuff in Fedora (i686), but now >you want to revert/remove "new" stuff (modules) too? I'm beginning to >think that Fedora just isn't a good fit for you. > >On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 06:22:52PM +, John M. Harris, Jr. wrote: >> Removing modules is a potenti

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-18 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
Removing modules is a potential solution to this, as it would simplify package management. On September 18, 2019 8:29:49 AM UTC, Petr Pisar wrote: >On 2019-09-18, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Error: >> Problem 1: package crypto-utils-2.5-4.fc29.x86_64 requires >> libperl.so.5.28()(64bit), but

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-18 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
Agreed, especially when there is little to no call for such a thing. For example, Python 2 and Python 3 can and do coexist. i686 builds can coexist with x86_64 builds. On September 18, 2019 9:56:49 AM UTC, Kevin Kofler wrote: >John M. Harris, Jr. wrote: >> These are generic serve

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-18 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
ew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" wrote: >On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:56:49AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> John M. Harris, Jr. wrote: >> > These are generic servers. I can provide a link to the vendor's >website >> > when I get home. It is not Dell, Lenovo or simila

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-18 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
Thank you for this link, looks like there's not a lot of issues, and most are closed. On September 18, 2019 4:59:33 PM UTC, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >On 9/17/19 7:01 PM, John M. Harris, Jr. wrote: >> The thing is, i686 still works. The kernel still builds as well, >without issue

Re: systemd-sysusers versus containers

2019-09-21 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 16, 2019 11:49:52 AM MST Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 06:45:09PM +0000, John M. Harris, Jr. wrote: > > > Why exactly is systemd-sysusers needed here anyway? Do you not have a > > passwd and shadow file? > > systemd-s

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-21 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Friday, September 13, 2019 1:57:05 AM MST Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 9/13/19 1:38 AM, vvs vvs wrote: > > > But there should be some reason for that lack of interested volunteers in > > Fedora. Right now I'm looking at stats for other distributions which are > > not going to drop i686 any time

Re: No More i686 Kernels, No i686 Repositories

2019-09-19 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
That wouldn't work, as the systems do not support 64 bit. On September 19, 2019 8:59:55 PM UTC, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 03:19:38PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 13:15:08 -0700, >> You can crossgrade using dnf. I wrote about it a few weeks ago.

Re: Fedora 31 Beta Release Announcement

2019-09-19 Thread John M. Harris, Jr.
We had Java in Fedora long before modules, but not having a Java module would certainly be the case in that scenario, and that'd be fine. We've been able to install multiple different Java versions on the same Fedora install for some time now, something which is not possible with modules. On

Re: RPM Fusion Bugzilla Bug 5307

2019-09-22 Thread John M. Harris Jr
dora. Fedora does not maintain RPMFusion. We literally cannot support nvidia's proprietary drivers, as.. they're proprietary. Have a good one. - - John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-10-01 Thread John M. Harris Jr
d > leave.] 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@lists.fedor

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: RPM Fusion Bugzilla Bug 5307

2019-09-22 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ased yet haven't been fixed. GRUB is Open Source, so I'd love to > hear the excuse for that. What errors or warnings are you talking about? - - John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: RPM Fusion Bugzilla Bug 5307

2019-09-22 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ediately > blamed for the bug despite this not being an issue on any other Linux > distro. It's an issue on several other distros. Basically, anything modern. Please file a bug report with nvidia. - - John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ dev

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

2019-09-28 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ange > |: :| https://libvirt.org -o- > |: https://fstop138.berrange.com :| https://entangle-photo.org-o- > |: https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| > ___ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsu

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___

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
__ > 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://fedoraproject.org/wi

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

Re: Modularity and all the things

2019-11-08 Thread John M. Harris Jr
e 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 that the IT de

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 and all the things

2019-11-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ns 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...@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Modularity and all the things

2019-11-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ld 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. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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 ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fe

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-14 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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 devel-le...@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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. Splentity __

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

2019-11-18 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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 mai

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: 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
t; 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 option here. It could be as

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
ckages. 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 unsubscribe

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-12 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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 issue, using traditional RPMs alone.

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. -- John M. Harr

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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, based on what you've said, that Modules

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@lists.f

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ust `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 devel-le...@lists.fedoraprojec

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

2019-11-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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 Python 3. -- John M.

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: 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 being r

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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 set up. -- 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
(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 Conduct: https://docs

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 s

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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

2019-12-02 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. Splent

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

2019-12-03 Thread John M. Harris Jr
t 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
nted 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 list of authorized keys. A better workaround would be similar to what is

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

2019-12-02 Thread John M. Harris Jr
points, 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.org/en-US/projec

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ctually 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 -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
t; 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
ng 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 Fedora Code of Conduct: htt

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

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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 that, but it's possible I suppose. -- J

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

2019-12-04 Thread John M. Harris Jr
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 Conduct: https://docs.fed

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 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 5:41:13 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

2019-12-06 Thread John M. Harris Jr
each their own. I still build my systems with 1*RAM, and set the swappiness as appropriate. It seems to work out well for me, and so I can only recommend that others give it a try, to see if it works for them. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___

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

2019-12-06 Thread John M. Harris Jr
op of having said you are unconcerned with GNOME and don't > care about the outcome. If you don't care, why are you still arguing? GNOME is not the only desktop environment in Fedora. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity ___ devel mailing list -- deve

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

2019-12-06 Thread John M. Harris Jr
ce. It's essentially a specialized storage device, that only stores keys, with a few extensions to use those keys. On many vendors, the TPM includes a key that CANNOT BE REMOVED, which belongs to Microsoft or an OEM. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity __

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 11:22:34 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 7:46 AM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, December 5, 2019 8:12:13 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > Using the word to be defined in the definitio

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