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

2011-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
calls in packages where it's actually an issue (which is surely a small minority, unless Colin has got evidence to the contrary). regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fwd: [Fedora Update] [CRITPATH] [old_testing_critpath] mdadm-3.1.3-0.git20100804.3.fc14

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Lane
. Auto nagmail to proventesters might be of some value, but not to the package maintainer. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Attention: F16 packages needing rebuilds due to the trailing slash bug of rpm-4.9.1

2011-08-17 Thread Tom Lane
know I've got packages that were built several weeks ago and are still waiting in testing. When exactly was the busted rpm version present in the buildroots? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
to think about inventing non-connection-based protocols for testing database server status, but I doubt that either one will be receptive. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com writes: On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 17:28 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Yeah. Another way in which socket activation is not transparent is that code might try to determine whether the service is running by seeing whether a connection attempt succeeds. In such a case

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SysVtoSystemd

2011-09-03 Thread Tom Lane
you want to have happen after a routine yum update. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16

2011-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
would be prepared to push 9.1 into f16 on Monday if there were enough people willing to test and up-karma it before the freeze ... any volunteers out there? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16

2011-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Piotrowski?= mkkp...@gmail.com writes: 2011/9/11 Tom Lane t...@redhat.com: Yeah. I have done test packaging of 9.1rc1 already, so it's pretty much ready to go on my end. I would be prepared to push 9.1 into f16 on Monday if there were enough people willing to test

Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16

2011-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to writes: Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: Yeah. I have done test packaging of 9.1rc1 already, so it's pretty much ready to go on my end. I would be prepared to push 9.1 into f16 on Monday if there were enough people willing to test and up-karma it before

Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16

2011-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to writes: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:16:47 -0400, Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: OK, it's built and filed at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/postgresql-9.1.0-1.fc16 One thing I noticed is that service postgresql initdb and service postgresql help

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Piotrowski?= mkkp...@gmail.com writes: 2011/9/13 Tom Lane t...@redhat.com: (This isn't new with 9.1, btw --- the last version or so of 9.0 for F16 was the same, since we switched over to native systemd files.) I used this service file on F15 and it starts slower

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Piotrowski?= mkkp...@gmail.com writes: 2011/9/14 Tom Lane t...@redhat.com: Certainly postgresql.init was never exactly lean-and-mean, so it seems like it ought to have been doing more work than the unit file requires.  Are you sure you were comparing apples to apples

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
on me (as a package maintainer) in the service of an unproven piece of software that may yet go down the tubes. Take a look back at the list archives over the past few months, and ask yourself how happy people actually are with this experiment. regards, tom lane -- devel

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
it remarkable that the systemd advocates seem to have managed not to read them, let alone admit that they suggest something's seriously wrong. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
egregiously wrong with systemd's performance on this test. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F17 process change proposal

2011-09-20 Thread Tom Lane
with people getting branched by default at branch time. I don't really care which is the default; whichever it is, the need is to make it reasonably simple to choose the other. But locking rawhide down in pursuit of such a goal is the Wrong Thing. regards, tom lane

Dealing with circular BuildRequires?

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
did we get into such a situation, and what should I do about it? Neither specfile appears to have any provision for bootstrapping. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Dealing with circular BuildRequires?

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com writes: On 2011-10-05, Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: For example, cairo BuildRequires: librsvg2-devel, and librsvg2 BuildRequires: cairo-devel, so there is no order in which I can rebuild them. How the heck did we get into such a situation, and what should I do

Re: GDBM upgrade in F17

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
to be rebuilt. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
than rawhide where they belong. Surely, this is a matter to discuss with the Fedora maintainer(s) of glibc and nobody else. And yes, I think it's about time for FESCo to step in and lay down the law. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Systemd conversion versus updates in back Fedora branches

2011-10-23 Thread Tom Lane
, and instead have the triggerun script check to see whether the mysql sysv initscript file is present. I wonder whether anyone else has dealt with this and has working scriptlets? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Systemd conversion versus updates in back Fedora branches

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
maintenance seriously.) What I want is a packaging guideline that doesn't simply blow off the problem of upgrading packages in pre-systemd branches. It's not an acceptable restriction, and I'm astonished that anybody ever thought it would be. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing

Re: Systemd conversion versus updates in back Fedora branches

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
Honza Horak hho...@redhat.com writes: On 10/24/2011 05:52 AM, Tom Lane wrote: The idea I have at the moment is to ignore the advice to check package version, and instead have the triggerun script check to see whether the mysql sysv initscript file is present. I wonder whether anyone else has

Re: Systemd conversion versus updates in back Fedora branches

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at writes: Tom Lane wrote: FWIW, I'm totally on board with the idea of not switching to systemd in F15 --- and even if I wanted to do that, it's pure luck that the problem doesn't apply to F14-F15 upgrades as well, where such an option is certainly

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
speaking it is better for end users to use #!/usr/bin/env php/python/whatever in scripts. Why? This whole thing seems like make-work for packagers, and big compatibility problems for users, for negligible benefit to either. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Lane
away from Fedora and into distributions that have more respect for their users' time. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: UsrMove feature

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Lane
. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Another glibc change that nearly got pushed into F16

2011-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
variants of that. I assume this is another manifestation of the same bug being discussed here ... or have the glibc guys managed to break the world in two different ways in the same release? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Another glibc change that nearly got pushed into F16

2011-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com writes: On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:12 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:06:31AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:32:2: error: #error Only glib.h can be included directly. You are confusing glibc with glib here

Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
be possible to rebuild a package that has source-level dependencies on 1.2.x until those are fixed. I think this is enough to avoid needing a special build tag for staging the rebuilds. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
compiler warnings? I know I can't claim to spend any time on that, except with my upstream hat on. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net writes: Once upon a time, Tom Lane t...@redhat.com said: Any opinions on which way to jump? How hard is it to fix source that accesses the fields directly? Do all the fields that were previously exposed have direct accessor functions? AFAIK, they all do

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
that, I will proceed forward with 1.5, unless somebody thinks of a very good reason not to. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Heads up: libpng bumped to 1.5.x in rawhide

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Lane
to find patches. (Sorry for not being more verbose, but I've got to leave shortly. If you need help, ask me off-list.) regards, tom lane (orphan) amide (orphan) assogiate (orphan) emerald (orphan) gconf-cleaner (orphan) geda-gattrib (orphan) geda-gnetlist (orphan) geda

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

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Lane
to have to deal with. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Lane
. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Lane
... actually I did it on an F-14 box. My notes say I did repoquery --repoid=fedora-rawhide --whatrequires ... but I've had problems before with repoquery not doing what I thought it would. Can anyone elucidate on the proper incantation for this? regards, tom lane -- devel

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-09 Thread Tom Lane
Nils Philippsen n...@redhat.com writes: On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 13:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I plan to provide the 1.2.x libpng shared library (and only the library, not its devel support files) in a libpng-compat subpackage for the time being. Any reason why the compat package ships

Differences between koji and mock rawhide environments?

2011-11-09 Thread Tom Lane
exactly the same results? Can anyone suggest how I might reproduce the failure someplace where I can debug it? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Differences between koji and mock rawhide environments?

2011-11-09 Thread Tom Lane
Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com writes: On Nov 9, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Tom Lane wrote: postgresql is currently failing to rebuild in rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3499379 This seems quite repeatable, in koji, but the package builds fine on my workstation under

Re: Differences between koji and mock rawhide environments?

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Honza Horak hho...@redhat.com writes: On 11/09/2011 11:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote: That was the first thing I thought of, but the failure originally occurred yesterday in koji, and I still can't reproduce it today in mock. I don't know what has changed from yesterday (instead that I've upgraded

Re: Differences between koji and mock rawhide environments?

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
the timing even weirder, because AFAICS gcc was last built for rawhide on 2011-10-31. If the bug was injected then, how did it not propagate to mock's view of rawhide until today? Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Differences between koji and mock rawhide environments?

2011-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us writes: Tom Lane t...@redhat.com escribió: postgresql is currently failing to rebuild in rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3499379 so the builders are all rhel6 and the buildroots all have dns resolution disabled. we are all running

Re: Package segfaults when built with -O2 but not with -O0

2011-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
-aliasing might be your friend. -fwrapv is another good tool for keeping the compiler from breaking traditional understandings of C semantics. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
the buildroots. Well, I don't have any objection to doing it that way, but exactly what about this confuses the buildroots? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Why has fedpkg suddenly grown a dependency on MySQL-python?

2011-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
this dependency go away again. I have routine occasion to shuffle mysql packages in and out, and I don't want entirely-unnecessary dependencies getting in the way. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Why has fedpkg suddenly grown a dependency on MySQL-python?

2011-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:16:01AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: I was rather surprised to find a routine yum update on my F14 system suddenly wanting to pull in a lot of mysql stuff that I'd not had installed at the moment. Are you able to upgrade

Coping with unfinished upstream package split for unixODBC

2011-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
upstream project produces something we want to integrate, but not now, IMO. Any comments, or other ideas about what to do? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Coping with unfinished upstream package split for unixODBC

2011-12-03 Thread Tom Lane
Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com writes: Sounds like this is just going to occur for RawHide, right? With that in mind Right, no intention of changing unixODBC in released branches. On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 04:22:55PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: There are a couple of ways I could go about

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
seems like a good plan. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: application icon locations and cache update

2011-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
Jun 13 2008 Tom Lane t...@redhat.com 2.2.12-8 - Install icons in /usr/share/pixmaps, not /usr/share/icons as this package has historically done; the former is considered correct. Digging further, the reason I changed it is because Red Hat's rpmdiff tool whinged about the previous placement

fedoraproject.org certificate has expired

2010-07-31 Thread Tom Lane
Just in case you thought we weren't having enough infrastructure fun already ... My web browser is complaining that admin.fedoraproject.org is presenting an invalid SSL certificate: it expired July 31, 2010 8:17:52 AM ET, ie about three hours ago. regards, tom lane

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-09-01 Thread Tom Lane
said, this sort of difference shouldn't hurt the ability to merge or cherrypick diffs from one branch to another. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Please remember to update rawhide

2010-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
branches happens to execute first? What I think would be useful would be to extend the broken-dependency nagbot so that it also nags if you have a back-branch that's NVR-newer than any later branch. IOW: nag good, preventing people from doing their work bad. regards, tom

Re: Please remember to update rawhide

2010-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
the latest completed build. It's rawhide, after all. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Please remember to update rawhide

2010-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu writes: Tom Lane wrote: Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com writes: When you do an update in F-14 and rely on inheritance to get the package into rawhide, there is a problem. That package will not go to rawhide until it hits stable in F-14. ... um

Re: Inspecting/debugging a mock build

2010-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
I'm going to need. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb is not tracking updates?

2010-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
, and even the N days ago annotations in the shortlog view seem wonky, as if the server clock were stuck in early August. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: newer NVRs in older releases.

2010-09-07 Thread Tom Lane
. There was some discussion last week about teaching the broken-dependencies nagbot to also nag about NVR sequence discrepancies. Is that feasible or a reasonable response? Or is that subsumed under your mention of autoqa? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel

Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?

2010-09-20 Thread Tom Lane
--- see http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Arithmetic coding in Fedora libjpeg (bug #639531)

2010-10-02 Thread Tom Lane
the dead now is just an exercise in misplaced priorities. But having said that, it's not my decision to make; it's the libjpeg-turbo authors' decision whether to expend effort in that direction. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Package rebuilds for gcc bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634757

2010-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
are intending to rebuild? Or at least the exact dates where the bad gcc was in use? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: MariaDB: Packagers needed

2012-10-29 Thread Tom Lane
is that mysql is now open source in name only. /opinion regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
package, we'd be telling the maintainer to hold off till F19. The rest of us don't get to be doing major feature development post-beta-freeze. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
as possible. There is not a third option. (Brooks' _Mythical_Man-Month_ has useful things to say about this sort of scheduling trap --- anybody who hasn't read it should.) regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
per release cycle across the whole distro. Any significant extra burden is going to be insupportable. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
development cycle so feature owners and others working in the community are dealing with active and actively maintained packages. How exactly are you going to force maintainers who go missing to do so at a prescheduled time? Real life is seldom that convenient. regards, tom

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?B?IkrDs2hhbm4gQi4gR3XDsG11bmRzc29uIg==?= johan...@gmail.com writes: On 11/02/2012 04:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote: How exactly are you going to force maintainers who go missing to do so at a prescheduled time? Real life is seldom that convenient. bash script + a cron job should suffice

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
or the day after. (Anyone up for porting fedpkg to Ubuntu?) I've seen a whole lot of user demand for *more* stable versions of Fedora. I've seen none whatever for less stable versions. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com writes: On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 17:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I've seen a whole lot of user demand for *more* stable versions of Fedora. I've seen none whatever for less stable versions. Perhaps I ought to be more clear. I think we can maintain the level

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
you right back to the series-of-releases approach that we have now. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
creating a nasty feedback loop that further helps to drive away people whose main interest is not in helping to debug the system. Eventually the short-lived releases would just be rawhide-with-a-different-name. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Tom Lane
dangerous. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: yum upgrade from F17 to F18

2012-11-09 Thread Tom Lane
Juan Rodriguez nus...@fedoraproject.org writes: I did it on a live system, too. The only thing that failed during that time was postgres (Which managed to stay borked after it was done and f18 booted, the pg_upgrade method didn't work properly) BZ? regards, tom lane

Re: libjpeg-turbo API/ABI bump in F19 (transition from jpeg6 to jpeg8 API/ABI)

2012-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
-turbo-devel provide libjpeg-devel and not libjpeg-turbo-compat-devel? Only if jpeg8 is a drop-in (source code compatible) replacement. Otherwise you're only moving the point at which failures will occur. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: MariaDB: Packagers needed

2012-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
: mysql-devel, and no source changes are needed in other packages. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: MariaDB in Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Tom Lane
. Personally I'd like to dump mysql in time for F19, but we need validation that switching to maria doesn't break anything for anyone. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fwd: [Libjpeg-turbo-users] jpeg-9, API/ABI compatibility, and the future role of this project

2013-01-16 Thread Tom Lane
. regards, tom lane once organizer, Independent JPEG Group -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
expecting would be that the mysql database package group would actually give you mariadb, as would the anaconda checkbox. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
dropped? We could leave 'em as is, couldn't we? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: (If the compatibility testing goes *really* smoothly, maybe we could just drop the requirement for original mysql to still be available, in which case it reduces to the standard package-replacement problem. But I'm

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Lane
short-term benefit. mariadb really wants to plop down exactly where mysql was sitting: take over the executable names, the library sonames, the data directory, etc. Anything else will greatly complicate packaging and open the door to added bugs. regards, tom lane -- devel

Re: drop inheritance at f19 branch point?

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Lane
more work to do ... but it's work you'd have had to face up to soon anyway.) regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
the biggest issue involved with Oracle's handling of mysql vis-a-vis downstream packagers. But if there were to be an attempt to deal with the docs licensing problem in particular, that would be a good solution from my standpoint. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Lane
list all the libraries that *they* depend on, instead of being sloppy. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Heads-Up: Beware of xmlCleanupParser() when your package links against libxml2

2010-01-12 Thread Tom Lane
to fix? There's certainly nothing in their documentation suggesting that there's such a requirement. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
think: if you get multiple reports of the same backtrace then you start to think that it's a real bug rather than bad RAM. This still does nothing for the basic problem, though, which is that a backtrace alone isn't very useful for fixing the bug. regards, tom lane

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
that dumps would put on bugzilla, I think we can safely dismiss the idea. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Broken deps reports broken?

2010-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
I just got about half a dozen broken dependencies in devel emails that seem to be completely wacko, as neither the dependent nor the dependee have changed lately. Something messed up in the repo maybe? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Bodhi hash collision?

2010-02-19 Thread Tom Lane
Luke Macken lmac...@redhat.com writes: A large number of updates currently suffer from duplicate IDs, and I need to figure out a clever way to fix it. Would it be prudent to not push new updates until you've fixed it? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Read this if your package BuildRequires qt(4)-devel!!!

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Lane
of trouble. I guess I am wondering why such a change is being made in a stable branch in the first place. Why isn't this sort of thing strictly rawhide material? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at writes: Some situations where I and others have used direct stable pushes in the past and where I think they're really warranted and should be used: You forgot security fixes. The proposed policy is insane. regards, tom lane

Re: To semi-rolling or not to semi-rolling, that is the question...

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
the resources to make it happen. A mandate from FESCO is not worth diddly-squat unless FESCO is prepared to do the work. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Update testing policy: how to use Bodhi

2010-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
developer, I can hardly think of a quicker way to piss me off than if every distro were to start sending me such nagmail. I would not want such a thing turned on on *any* of my packages. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: The new Update Acceptance Criteria are broken

2010-11-12 Thread Tom Lane
Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@cox.net writes: On 11/12/2010 02:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: It's absolutely crystal clear to me that we don't have enough tester manpower to make the current policy workable; it's past time to stop denying that. I'd suggest narrowing the policy to a small number

Re: The new Update Acceptance Criteria are broken

2010-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
inefficient use of their time. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rawhide kernel image no longer readable

2010-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
is not a useful approach to security. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Updates Criteria Summary/Brainstorming

2010-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
not going to happen, most of the time for most packages. (And yeah, if we allow +1 autopush, we should definitely expect -1 is sufficient to unpush. Maybe bodhi should restrict the combination of those two settings, rather than either one alone?) regards, tom lane -- devel

Re: [HEADS-UP] Moving /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs in Rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Tom Lane
to set up these dirs once via RPM --- why shouldn't we make the tmpfs creation process responsible for cloning the directory structure from disk? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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