Re: rawhide report: 20110803 changes

2011-08-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
for secondary arches to just disable parts of the distribution because they won't build. This isn't platform-dependent code, and if your architecture won't build it then your architecture needs to make it build. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Intel HD 3000 video blank screen during install of F15

2011-08-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
and your panel turns off. It could be any number of other problems as well, of course, but these days most of the bugs like this are specific to a given chipset/bios/panel combination rather than just being the chipset. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Intel HD 3000 video blank screen during install of F15

2011-08-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
ignored. We're pretty much reached the point where we don't care about UMS for a variety of cases, with suspend/resume being the most obvious. We're still shipping the X drivers so I agree they shouldn't be entirely ignored, but they're really a vere low priority. -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Re: New hardened build support (coming) in F16

2011-08-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
some discussion about this on the FESCO request I submitted. I have some concerns about what was implemented. Are there bz filed for this or more discussion about it somewhere? We spent weeks discussing this. Where were you during the meetings? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: New hardened build support (coming) in F16

2011-08-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 08:47:16AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 07:51:07 AM Matthew Garrett wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 11:16:12PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: This list is woefully incomplete. I would advocate a much larger list. For example, sudo is a very

Re: New hardened build support (coming) in F16

2011-08-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 10:17:29AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 09:20:53 AM Matthew Garrett wrote: You can't bring a policy to FESCO, fail to turn up to any of the meetings I didn't fail to turn up to any of the meetings. I watched the issue and attended until

Re: Autodetecting insufficiently hardened builds (was: New hardened build support (coming) in F16)

2011-08-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 04:53:16PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: Unless the checking is part of autoqa this simply isn't sufficient. There's a huge benefit to implementing it in the way that's easiest for maintainers. The earlier a problem is detected, the cheaper

Re: [PATCH] macros: Globally add --disable-silent-rules to configure

2011-08-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
be much easier fixed before the compilation. Never, ever ship software with -Werror enabled. It's a development-only option. You have no idea what gcc will decide is a warning in future, so it's effectively a Please break my build in six months toggle. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: [PATCH] macros: Globally add --disable-silent-rules to configure

2011-08-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:34:48PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:16:54 +0200, Matthew Garrett wrote: It's a development-only option. You have no idea what gcc will decide is a warning in future, so it's effectively a Please break my build in six months toggle. I

Re: New hardened build support (coming) in F16

2011-08-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
that this is being discussed in fesco meetings, and Steve's Cc:ed on all of that. It's been on the posted agendas for months. Yet the last time he was in #fedora-meeting appears to have been in February. That's not an impressive amount of involvement in the Fedora process. -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Re: To Require or not to Require?

2011-08-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
it was linked against, which is the way Debian handle this in the absence of maintainer overrides. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: To Require or not to Require?

2011-08-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
- the problem isn't limited to subpackages. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: To Require or not to Require?

2011-08-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
. It is in this situation, but there are other situations where depending on the SONAME will cause breakage. If libfoo 1.1 adds a new symbol, anything built against it may fail to run against libfoo 1.0. But how will you know that in advance if all you have in your dependencies is the SONAME? -- Matthew

Re: To Require or not to Require?

2011-08-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:26:33AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 04:40:20PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Upstream can change the ABI as much as they want without bumping the SONAME providing that the old interfaces are also present. It's entirely possible to end

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
idea. You'd have the same problem with any init system that supports automatic service restarting. You can easily disable the service via systemctl. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
below the hard problems that impact a pretty large set of people. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:20:22PM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 13:41 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: ACPI turned out to be full of lies. The real problem is that machines will report a floppy controller even if they have no floppy drives attached, and the ACPI function

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:09:51AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:26:39 +0100, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Or just add floppy-support and analog-joystick-support packages that include appropriate modprobe.conf fragments, and have documentation

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
files to determine what to load, only what to do if it is loaded. So it may be that udev is really the correct place to do things. Or modules-load.d if you want to force load a module. Oops. Yes, that's what I meant. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:49:37AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Garrett (mj...@srcf.ucam.org) said: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 02:50:10PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: Or modules-load.d if you want to force load a module. Oops. Yes, that's what I meant. Is there a reason

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
dropped that rule in their trunk.) I don't know whether it makes any sense though. I presume this is just testing for the presence of a gameport without caring about what is connected, right? Right. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
be less than ideal if there's something other than a standard analog joystick connected. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
Work on any hardware it encounters if at all possible. There's plenty of hardware that Fedora could work on but doesn't because the maintainers aren't willing to make the tradeoffs. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
to the tools associated with it for no useful benefit. Just install the grub package in the guest, and chroot into the guest if you need to run grub-install there. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 03:36:55PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 03:31:49PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 03:27:16PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: So I propose that we drop this conflicts and fix grubby instead. No. It is not sane

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:21:36PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 03:59:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: We're talking about guest creation, aren't we? No, we're talking about fixing and resizing existing guests, where grub-install needs to be run to fix

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
. The only supportable bootloader for a specific guest is the bootloader that matches the installed OS. If you want to support grub2 on Ubuntu, for instance, you'll need Ubuntu's grub2 - not Fedora's. The binary interface may have changed between them. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:19:24AM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 09/15/2011 09:59 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: We're talking about guest creation, aren't we? Why would you ever need to run grub-install against a guest image that already exists? And if you do, you're already going to have

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 03:01:06PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: On 9/15/2011 12:01 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:56:43PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: The most obvious case where it can fail involves grub being effectively unmaintained, and so various vendors have

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
it. This works fine for package dependencies, but I'd imagine file-based dependencies would make things more awkward. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 01:00:35PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: Debian policy is that any virtual dependencies must also have an explicit dependency. In your case it would be something like Requires: phonon-backend-gstreamer | phonon-backend Unfortunately, RPM

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
), as Matthew Garrett pointed out, are the right solution, not soft dependencies (though those would also be nice). Kevin Kofler Functionally speaking, what is the difference between a soft dependency and a disjunctive dependency? How can you satisfy a soft dependency if you don't know

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
be safe. If you're not, it's not guaranteed to be safe. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
is already satisfied IMO. But, I didn't write any spec around that, so it may be implemented differently in the real (deb) world. It is. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
we've ever released, it is *not* guaranteed that that remains true, or even that it's true between us and any distribution that may be installed in a guest. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
queues. We're in the freeze for beta. It's not reasonable to push new sonames into the distribution at this point. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
of branching. That does seem like pretty fair criticism. We should probably discuss this for the F17 timeframe. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
into a distribution that's attempting to stabalise for release. Really. Don't do that. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:52:28PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 09/20/2011 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: What the maintainers could have done is not upload a package that breaks binary compatibility into a distribution that's attempting to stabalise for release. That's a way too

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:39:24PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 18:48 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Remember that the incompatibility isn't between libguestfs and the guest, it's between the host grub and the guest grub. Both of those can change without libguestfs's

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
is not designed to be compatible across arbitrary versions, and so using it with that expectation is inappropriate. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
incorrect. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:50:16PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 14:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: The grub maintainer is telling you that the way in which you're trying to use grub is broken. You *need* to use the grub files that are in guest, not the host

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:18:09PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 17:00 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: grub provides no mechanism for you to know that, which means you can't reliably know that. Which means relying on them being compatible is incorrect. You described

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
are worrying about grub and grub2? They don't both attempt to sit in the same few bytes. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 07:38:54PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:37:39PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: I described something that is, practically speaking, impossible. We allow you to inspect the guest to find the OS version, and even versions of individual

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
the argument is wrong. Above all people Matthew I thought you were aware of how strawmen work and would be against their use. Because it means additional complexity for any tools which have to interact with the bootloader and provides no benefit for any real usecases. -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:23:40PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 07:38:54PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:37:39PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: We allow you

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
the constraints that are being imposed, but this approach certainly isn't a solution. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
it, and you've been told that this is behaviour that you can't depend on. If you choose to do so then fine, but any bugs filed against grub are just going to be closed. You're trying to do something unsupported. Depending on unsupported and undefined behaviour is bad design. -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Agenda for FESCo meeting (2011-09-26)

2011-09-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: GNOME 3 - font point sizes now scaled?

2011-10-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
their monitors. Windows doesn't appear to be DPI-sensitive. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
the problem you're trying to solve, and then work out whether figuring out the real DPI would solve it. Unless your problem statement is unrealistically narrow, the answer is that it wouldn't. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
the decision to have gnome run at 96dpi regardless of the output is an entirely rational one and anyone who argues otherwise gets to explain how all the difficult bits would work. The end. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
of technical advances that nobody's even working on right now. It's worth thinking about. It's just not something that we're anywhere near being able to implement, and as such it's pretty unrelated to the original observation which is that trusting EDID right now will just get you burned. -- Matthew

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:11:38PM +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote: Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org writes: We have no technological solution for dealing with the fact that applications may move from one DPI to another at runtime, and may even be displaying on both displays at once

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 01:13:21PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mer 5 octobre 2011 23:35, Matthew Garrett a écrit : This... works badly. Really. Open gimp and add some text. Now double the size of the font. Save the image and open it in image viewer, and zoom out so the text is half

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
ask the typical user for information that's too cumbersome to use, oui? Like asking them to use a physical ruler to match up against. Like I said, that works fine right up until the point where you plug in a monitor with a different DPI. What do we do then? -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:30:50AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org said: Like I said, that works fine right up until the point where you plug in a monitor with a different DPI. What do we do then? I would wager that the majority of Fedora

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
of problems doesn't seem like a worthwhile way to spend time. The only people who are actively upset by the status quo are the ones who have the ability to fix it for their case, anyway. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
that Operating Systems can rely on? The specification provides everything needed to express this data accurately, and proves the worth of specifications by virtue of approximately nobody actually implementing it correctly. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 05:33:48PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Jeu 6 octobre 2011 17:18, Matthew Garrett a écrit : The heuristic isn't the problem. The problem is that we have no technology that allows us to handle the complicated case of multiple displays, and solving it purely

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
internal display would be a different size and possibly even in a different place. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:39:16AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 16:20 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: How about EDID as it exists today. Since you're able to so beautifully explain what the pitfalls are, I'd

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
that there should be an easy mechanism to globally change font size. But I don't think tying it to DPI is helpful. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:22:22PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 16:41 +0100, Matthew Garrett a écrit : What heuristic? The one you were writing about The heuristic I was writing about is the Trust the DPI we get from EDID if it's within some size range. We don't

Rethinking proventester and critpath

2011-11-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
not grossly misanalysing the data, it seems that we could drop the proventester requirement from critical path updates with a negligable change in the quality of the updates. Thoughts? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
use of bugzilla. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

2011-11-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
conversation that way. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Fesco membership policies

2011-11-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
inappropriate gets elected. Anyone have opinions on what we should be doing here? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Agenda for today's FESCo meeting (21st November, 2011)

2011-11-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
, file a new ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fesco, e-mail me directly, or bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
update. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Summary/Minutes from yesterday's FESCo meeting (2011-11-21 at 18UTC)

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
(20) * mmaslano (19) * ajax (11) * zodbot (9) * gholms (4) * lmacken (3) * nb (2) * abadger1999 (1) * pjones (0) -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:12:42AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:08:07PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: We don't support out of tree kernel modules at all, so they're not considered when making the determination about whether an update is appropriate for a stable

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
is notorious). The least we can do is helping third-party packagers to fix this issue, not slamming the door on their face. The supported way to provide a module for Fedora is to have it in the upstream kernel source. Anything else is explicitly not supported. -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:08:18AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 05:12:12PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: I don't know how much clearer I can make this. The update policy applies to the supported ABI of the package. For instance, if I have an application

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
other people to care as much as you or you need to come up with a proposal yourself. Does that governing body only exist to say yay or nay to others proposals? As a body, yes. As individuals, no. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:49:28AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:28:06PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Consuming the output of ls is a supported way to use ls. Building third party modules is not a supported way to use the kernel. That's not the criteria I see

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:44:59AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:57:30PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: So just to be clear on this, you believe that if a user is relying on byte 0x9e0 of /bin/ls to be 0xdf on x86_64, then that is something that would have

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:09:26PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 07:53:12PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: No. You're simply interpreting things incorrectly. *sigh* You miss the point. I'm perfectly willing to be interpreting it incorrectly. The problem

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:50:40PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:28:30PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: If you interpret The ABI as Any property of the binary that another package could conceivably depend on then your position makes sense. But since nobody would

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:44:26PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:53:33PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Really. Use common sense. You appear to be the only person who's strongly confused on this issue. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-November

Re: How can we make F17 be able to boot on Macs (with or without reFit)

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: How can we make F17 be able to boot on Macs (with or without reFit)

2011-12-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 06:19:27PM +0100, Andreas Tunek wrote: Yes, and the question becomes, can we make this easier in F17? Yes, we can do EFI installs. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Using plymouth during hibernation

2011-12-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
stops all userspace programs. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: How can we make F17 be able to boot on Macs (with or without reFit)

2011-12-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:49:39AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 17:54 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 06:19:27PM +0100, Andreas Tunek wrote: Yes, and the question becomes, can we make this easier in F17? Yes, we can do EFI installs. We

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
to maintain this code in Fedora then it's worth having a discussion about it, but otherwise there simply isn't enough manpower available to do a proper job of looking after the code. That's not politics. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
that there's a supportable version of the code available to use in the Fedora kernel, or alternatively take over enough of the existing kernel work that someone else gains enough time to take responsibility. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Staying close to upstream

2010-08-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
that broke things in the first place. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why does X run as root?

2010-08-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
the moment someone types in a root password, even if they're on a different terminal. I accept that this is a barrier, but the only real solution is to have each X session run as a different user - and that requires Linux to gain revoke() support. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
of two evils instead of no evils. The lesser of 2 evils is no solution. Only NO evil at all will keep the user's freedom. Users should NEVER use proprietary software, be it as JavaScript or using a proprietary protocol. How's your open x86 microcode coming along? -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
Install an MTA to the list of things they have to do is entirely reasonable. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
elsewhere but would default to popping up some sort of desktop notification. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:46:26AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: The long term fix would arguably be to provide a stub /usr/sbin/sendmail that ties into a more generic event reporting interface, which in turn could be configured to send mail elsewhere but would

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:53:13AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:43:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: There's certainly a set of people who want an MTA for this - in a server environment it's obviously far more straightforward to get mailed on failure

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
it with something that's actually useful. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
badly, it's probably worth thinking about writing code to fix the problem well. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
that we (as developers) wouldn't otherwise be able to get. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: systemd or why will user fall away from fedora?

2010-08-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
regularly. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Orphaned package: system-config-display

2010-08-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
with links. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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