Re: sos's builds started to fail in Fedora rawhide

2017-08-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 08:31:12AM +0200, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: > Hi, just seen that sos package is starting to fail on rawhide with > following error: > > > Executing command: ['bash', '--login', '-c', '/usr/bin/rpmbuild -bb > --target noarch --nodeps /builddir/build/SPECS/sos.spec'] with env

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 11/04/2013 11:32 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > Just see how others does this. Linux Kernel is one example, Django is > another. This two projects from very different corners are able to > provide stable API/ABI for some longer time period. I really appreciate The kernel does not provide sta

Re: Fedora minimal install no tar tool?

2013-08-07 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/07/2013 04:12 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: >> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 17:23 -0400, Douglas Schilling Landgraf wrote: >>> I have installed Fedora 17/18/19 (selected Minimal installation) from >>> DVD and it completed successfully, however there is no

Re: Hard link to root-owned file now fails (since Fedora 19)

2013-07-16 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/16/2013 12:41 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 10:42 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> FWIW this change caused a segfault in OpenStack > > This phrase is very dramatic. I'd say "triggered a double free in an > untested libguestfs error path" is more accurate and less d

Re:

2013-01-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/29/2013 10:09 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > This is simply not true. > > There are hundreds of thousands of older desktops that are not > technically servers that have lots of older interfaces. Evidence is better than unsupported claims. Altho

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/29/2013 04:32 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: In a Fedora context, when you do this it's because the old motherboard failed unexpectedly, you bought a new one. It's a great relief to see plugging the old drive on the new mobo just works. There is no prep in advance and old and new mobo have seve

Re:

2013-01-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/29/2013 03:45 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: I guess it was in the short while I switched to Ubuntu, because from my memory I used to change hardware on my machines and always be extremely happy at how Linux was resilient to hardware changes between boots and automatically detected new hardware with

Re:

2013-01-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/29/2013 03:24 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: Wow this brings me back to Windows 95/XP antifeatures where changing hardware even a little bit strands you to not be able to boot and having to go to rescue mode. Actually this is how mkinitrd/nash worked by default for many years (pre-dracut, i.e. RH

Re: fltk

2012-12-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/2012 12:04 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 00:06 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Adam Williamson wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 18:30 +0100, Miloslav Trma? wrote: Probably http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature

Re: fltk

2012-12-19 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 19/12/12 21:35, Adrian wrote: > *From*: Bryn M. Reeves On 19/12/12 17:30, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> Probably http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking >>Mirek > So why does this bug not show itself on Suse, and any of the Debian based > bui

Re: fltk

2012-12-19 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 19/12/12 17:30, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> On Fedora the following command fails: >> >> g++ -I/usr/include/freetype2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE >> -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT -pipe -Wall -

Re: fltk

2012-12-19 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 19/12/12 15:12, Adrian wrote: > -Wl,-z,relro -lfltk Which is pretty close to what you get on current Ubuntu: root@u1210-vm1:~# grep PRETTY /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu quantal (12.10)" root@u1210-vm1:~# dpkg -s libfltk1.1 | head -2 Package: libfltk1.1 Status: install ok installed root

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/09/2012 03:19 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: > While "less" helpfully wraps your log lines at the edge of your terminal > journalctl unhelpfully truncates them or, if -a is used, makes you use > left/right cursor to scroll back and forth in an attempt to read the > lines. Especially since it fully

Re: prelink should not mess with running executables

2012-07-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/17/2012 12:42 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > … which can be used to reset the > application, so that it knows that it's been updated. Because that is a common need across many packages. Apparently being notified of a prelink is not such a common need. Even if such a thing did exist it coul

Re: prelink should not mess with running executables

2012-07-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/17/2012 12:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Andrew Haley writes: >> Yes, it's the pathname that started this process. Yes, that pathname >> may point to file that no longer exists. That's UNIX. > > No, that's Linux with prelink installed. And a number of other common configurations for e.g

Re: "security" repo

2012-07-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/17/2012 03:02 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Mike Manilone wrote: > >> I think we can create a new repo called "security" like Debian. Push all >> the security updates to it. > > Uhm, we have that. It is called RHEL Not quite although RHEL errata are also categorised as

Re: prelink should not mess with running executables

2012-07-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/17/2012 12:38 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jan Kratochvil writes: > >> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:42:00 +0200, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >>> And I wouldn't be so presumptions as to state authoritatively what >>> is or is not a bug, in something whose purpose is not known to me. >> >> Non-existing /

Re: Set bash's shell option nullglob by default?

2012-07-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/2012 01:31 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > I wouldn't back this change either but that's not the behaviour of > nullglob. If nothing matches the glob the word remains unchanged > (i.e. *.foo -> *.foo): Eh, nevermind.. no

Re: Set bash's shell option nullglob by default?

2012-07-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/2012 01:06 PM, Scott Schmit wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:56:29PM +0200, Roman Rakus wrote: >> Hi, I have a question about nullglob bash's shell option. I want >> to hear opinions. The behavior is nicely described in bash >> reference ma

Re: time to fix silly ssh bug

2012-06-19 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/2012 02:47 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 06/19/2012 02:01 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >>>> This is rediculous. I liked the idea of 775 when it was >>>> introduced, since it did solve an annoyance wi

Re: time to fix silly ssh bug

2012-06-19 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/2012 04:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: >> Jun 19 09:44:41 nbecker5 sshd[25418]: Authentication refused: >> bad ownership or modes for directory /home/nbecker > > Looks like a new change in OpenSSH then, which is IMHO a > regr

Re: time to fix silly ssh bug

2012-06-19 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/2012 02:01 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > This is rediculous. I liked the idea of 775 when it was > introduced, since it did solve an annoyance with the old unix > groups. But then we should make the default fedora install work by > setting the ss

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 06:53 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jon Ciesla wrote: >> For all available firmware vendors and models? > > For the ones that end users are actually likely to have, which > aren't that many. There are much fewer BIOS vendors than hardware >

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 01:51 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: >> Actually, with enough PCI USB port cards, USB hubs, and thumb >> drives, you could use MD RAID and possibly LVM to make a >> poor-person's SAN. Hot-swappable drives and all. And with LIO in the kernel you c

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 10:42 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 15:07 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > Yes, all these would currently support what I'm suggesting. >>> Actually, if you're willing to flip a lot of switches, you >>> could probably

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 08:03 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > I wasn't responding to MJG, I was responding to Peter— who said I > was wrong in the message where I was stating that a freedom is > being lost, and has subsequently spoken more clearly on the > position

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 07:21 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > Not yet. But HDD technology is changing rapidly. Just look at > hybrid drives, SSD. > > No reason they could not add this capability. Not really. Both of these have been in development for years and have

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-05-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 05:16 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > On 05/31/2012 12:13 PM, Miloslav Trma? wrote: >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Gerry Reno >> wrote: >>> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement >>> >>> >>> SecureBoot is not

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-05-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 03:23 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > I thought I'd pay him the respect of sleeping on it and giving > someone in support of this rather secretive move time to post about > it and discuss it, so that people wouldn't be learning about it > fr

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-05-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 02:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > From Fedora 18 on, Fedora will no longer include the freedom to for > a user to create a fork or respin which is the technological equal > of the Project's output. Instead, this freedom will be available

Re: Now that's a strange error message

2012-05-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/2012 07:20 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Try disabling it via /etc/profile.d/PackageKit.sh (and starting a > new login shell to ensure it's not inherited from your old > environment) to make sure it's PK and then file a bug.

Re: Now that's a strange error message

2012-05-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/2012 07:10 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > A bit of sloppy cut and paste gave me this insightful result: > > $ 0.e+00] bash: 0.e+00]: command not found... > Failed to search for file: > GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quar

Re: F17 TC1 DVD still no btrfs as install option?

2012-04-25 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 04/25/2012 06:22 PM, Chris wrote: > 2012/4/25 Josef Bacik : That's because Btrfs is way more stable than ext4, >>> >>> [citation needed] >>> >> >> https://twitter.com/#!/josefbacik/status/195190540529184768 > > Is this a joke? Btrfs more stable than ext4??? Not really??? I think the tongu

Re: Graphical Rescue Mode

2012-04-05 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/2012 01:43 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> Detecting and mounting the file systems is straightforward and >> that's what anaconda does. I read the request as wanting to also >> make the live e

Re: Graphical Rescue Mode

2012-04-05 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2012 06:14 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> On 04/04/2012 06:00 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> What I think would be really helpful would be a menu item (next >>> to the liveinst one) on the live

Re: Graphical Rescue Mode

2012-04-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2012 06:00 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> This should work as long as the rescue CD finds all your file >> systems and mounts them in the right place (inc. bind mounts for >> /proc, /sys, /dev). If not

Re: Graphical Rescue Mode

2012-04-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2012 12:13 PM, Mike Manilone wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 12:05 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: >> This can be done with install dvd, troublshoot > recsue installed >> system chmod /mnt/sysimage (iirc) startx > If there's a grub entry will be mor

Re: Graphical Rescue Mode

2012-04-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2012 12:06 PM, Mike Manilone wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 11:59 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> Maybe it would be an idea to extend livecd-tools to allow a live >> image to be installed to the hard disk and booted via gru

Re: Graphical Rescue Mode

2012-04-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2012 12:05 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 04/04/12 11:38, Mike Manilone wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I think if there's a "Graphical Rescue Mode" ("GRM"), > > This can be done with install dvd, troublshoot > recsue installed > system chmod /mnt/s

Re: Graphical Rescue Mode

2012-04-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2012 11:38 AM, Mike Manilone wrote: > I think if there's a "Graphical Rescue Mode" ("GRM"), that would > be great and friendly to end-users. I know many users who can't > rescue their systems from a shell. The work needs a lot of > knowledge a

Re: users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-03 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2012 04:56 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Good point. I don't visit those sites, and it's important for me > to mention that. No p0rn, period, and many of the moral reasons are > in There are a lot of perfectly family-friendly websites whose administ

Re: users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-03 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2012 01:15 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Bryn M. Reeves > wrote: >> You're allowing the local sandbox user to connect to the local X >> server so any process running in one of your s

Re: Question about commiting the sources

2012-03-16 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2012 02:33 PM, Jan Synacek wrote: > On 03/16/12 at 11:16am, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> Perhaps and stupid question: >> >> After upload new-sources to repo, it outputs: Uploaded and added >> to .gitignore: Source upload succeeded. Don't forget to

Re: Bundled part of code

2012-01-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/17/2012 04:01 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > No, it really should use the system version. If it's not in > Fedora, submit it as a review for a new package. > > -J > If I read correctly there is no system version since the code discussed is not a lib

Re: Fwd: Zif and SOS projects on Fedora Upstream

2011-10-24 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/24/2011 04:05 AM, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > There is a project named SOS in Fedora collection on Transifex. I'd > like to know if there is anyone maintaining it, because it seems like > it needs to be translated, but there is no maintainer assigned in Tx > and no translation team creation requ

Re: To Require or not to Require?

2011-08-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/12/2011 04:40 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:27:13AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> Rightly or wrongly, upstream libfoo-1.0 has some additional utilities that >> access the PrivateData. Because the utilities are built from the libfoo >> source, they can include

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/28/2011 03:50 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > My understanding of the history of /usr/local's nomenclature is that it > was intended to be "local" to the machine (and thus not NFS mounted). I always understood it to be site local rather than machine local - the FHS states that it may be used fo

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/28/2011 01:22 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:00:28 +0100 > "Bryn M. Reeves" wrote: > It is nevertheless an *added* avenue to do some phishing. And for what > benefit? No, it's not; at the very most it's making something very slightly le

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/28/2011 01:41 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 07/28/2011 07:53 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> On 07/28/2011 12:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >>> This is a good point. Especially when you start on a 64 bit box and >>> login to a 32 bit (or other arch) - bin n

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/28/2011 12:54 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:24:48 +0100 > "Bryn M. Reeves" wrote: >> There are already quite a few things that may place executables >> under . prefixed paths in home. Java web start (javaws) for instance >> will

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/28/2011 12:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 07/28/2011 06:17 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > >> >> However, I find ~/.local an odd name. To whom or what is it 'local'? If >> you have home directories mounted via NFS and log into two different remote >> hosts via SSH - the only base is "loc

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/27/2011 03:14 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:54:09 +0200 > Lennart Poettering wrote: >> If you don't hide ~/.local and ~/.config then users who are less savvy >> than us might wonder what thzat stuff is and delete it and nothing >> will stop them and then all their configur

Re: thanks for F15 mdadm systemd unit

2011-07-27 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/27/2011 11:43 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 07/27/2011 01:23 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 07:07 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: >>> We track autofs issues for fedora, upstream and RHEL and seems to work well >>> in >>> the field. >>> >>> What specifically does systemd do that

Re: thanks for F15 mdadm systemd unit

2011-07-21 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/20/2011 11:05 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > hopefully systemd will aslo live for 40 years as sysvinit > did or the next replacement will be finished BEFORE release > including the correspondending parts of the distribution Just to be clear as this has been mentioned several times in recent thre

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/14/2011 05:48 PM, JB wrote: > Good. Perhaps a weekly snapshot CD, with the latest BTRFS and related utils, > so that the testing would be more up-to-date and meaningful. > JB http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ Regards, Bryn. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/14/2011 05:26 PM, JB wrote: > Now just a loud thinking ... > Have you thought about first preparing a CD (even a live CD) with BTRFS and > some extra preinstalled software like VirtualBox etc just for testing ? What, you mean like the live and non-live Fedora ISOs that have had btrfs support

Re: BTRFS concerns

2011-06-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 06/02/2011 08:28 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Maybe I'm not understanding your question correctly, but a filesystem > is more general than LVM. You can create directories corresponding to > your current VGs and files for your LVs, with the advantage that you > can nest directories which you

Re: artificial limit, 1024 processes by user

2011-05-16 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/14/2011 08:35 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote: > lör 2011-05-14 klockan 19:33 +0200 skrev Xose Vazquez Perez: > >> default is 24010, but it was reduced to 1024 by >> user(included root) in: /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf >> to prevent accidental fork bombs(see rhbz #432903). >> >> Is it sti

Re: Interlinux waiting list

2011-05-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/10/2011 03:05 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 21:14 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> Sorry... Did I miss something? > > I'd imagine someone signed an interlinux address up to the list, and > that was an automated response. Right - that was my assumption too. I met the owner

Re: illegal instruction - create compile variants ?

2011-05-03 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/01/2011 11:46 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 01.05.2011 09:56, schrieb David Timms: > >> Should I be suggesting to upstream to attempt to detect CPU before >> running non-available instructions, eg as part of app startup ? >> Can that even be done (reliably)? > > ffmpeg has since years a

Re: Ext4 + barriers=1 + ssd + power loss while commiting to a git repo = broken repo?

2011-04-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 04/14/2011 04:38 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 09:15 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I experienced a small loss of power during commiting to a git repo. > > I can't resist...how does a 'small' loss of power differ from a 'large' > loss of power? :) Haha only-s

Re: Ext4 + barriers=1 + ssd + power loss while commiting to a git repo = broken repo?

2011-04-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 04/14/2011 04:38 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > 2011/4/14 Jason D. Clinton : >> 2011/4/14 Bruno Wolff III >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 16:53:00 +0200, >>> Michał Piotrowski wrote: "Fixed a rare condition that could cause the drive to reset and clear the data" I begin to

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 03/30/2011 02:08 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/30/2011 02:30 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Wed, 30.03.11 18:04, Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) wrote: >> > >> Also, can somebody point me to the place where the FHS would say "no >> other directories below / are allowed"? I can't fi

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 03/30/2011 01:11 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/30/2011 02:10 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> 2011/3/30 Ralf Corsepius: >>> On 03/30/2011 01:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Heya, I just uploaded a new version of systemd into F15, which establishes a directory /run in the

Re: new raid1 read balance working, please test it! kernel 2.6.37 based

2011-02-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 02/08/2011 02:22 AM, Roberto Spadim wrote: > hi guys, i made some changes to md raid1 software, could fedora test > it? for me it work very nice =) > the raid1 new code is based in kernel 2.6.37 > here is the new and old code: > www.spadim.com.br/raid1 > > just read_balance changed (4 modes: ne

Re: Mounting an encrypted volume presents the volume to all users on a machine

2010-10-27 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/26/2010 10:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 14:07:53 -0700, > Jesse Keating wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> >> That's only if you give root the right to disable or load new selinux >> policy. > > And the policy is tight enough. You need to not allow

Re: -static packages

2010-09-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/15/2010 05:06 PM, Robert Spanton wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently had to link a fair amount of my work statically so that > it'll run on a cluster of RHEL machines. Unfortunately, I am just a > user of these machines, and so I don't have the power to get them to run > Fedora or even to get th

Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

2010-07-26 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/2010 09:39 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:36 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:14:33AM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: Why is the systemd executable in /bin instead of /sbin? >>> Without looking t

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 19:11 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > > MultiGHz, Multicore CPUs consume magnitudes more power than HDs. > > Not always. A typical 3.5" harddrive consumes about (max): > 0.65A * 5V = 3.25W > 0.50A * 12V = 6.00W > which totals 9.25 Watts, and less when not transferri

Re: Not prepared for 4096 byte sector hard drives?

2010-02-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 02/14/2010 04:59 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Any truth here? > > http://www.osnews.com/story/22872/Linux_Not_Fully_Prepared_for_4096- > Byte_Sector_Hard_Drives > One-line-summary: googling common search terms for Linux help may lead you to some out-of-date HOWTOs. This passes as news these days

Re: Anyone using e2fsprogs static libs?

2010-02-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 23:16 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 02:59:37PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > I've finally been sufficiently pestered to fix this ;) > > > > Is anybody using any of these static libs from e2fsprogs? > > > > -%{_libdir}/libe2p.a > > -%{_libdir}/libext2

Re: Proposal: /lib/init/rw

2010-02-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:47 +0200, Slava Zanko wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > My bikeshedding opinion is /lib/init/state might be better. But if > > it's just to be temporary, why isn't /dev/.initramfs OK? > +1. > > After starting udev daemon old content of /dev catalog will be hidden > (/de

Re: best practice for packing programs that use strlcpy()?

2010-01-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 23:38 -0800, Eric Smith wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > You could probably package up libbsd for inclusion: > > http://libbsd.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > > > That's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to find. I've submitted a > package for review: > > https://bug

Re: '/usr/bin/[' (was RE: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*)

2010-01-25 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 17:44 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > "Bryn M. Reeves" writes: > > > [ may be a built in but then again (as its presence > > in /usr/bin implies) it may not be :). > > Like any other command. But unlike '[[' which is the point

Re: '/usr/bin/[' (was RE: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*)

2010-01-25 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:44 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Garrett Holmstrom writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > >> It's cute isn't it? I had the biggest grin the day I realised that '[' > >> was just anot

Re: '/usr/bin/[' (was RE: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*)

2010-01-25 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 08:41 -0800, Cleaver, Japheth wrote: > > Denis Leroy > > what about '/usr/bin/[', part of cureutils... had never > > noticed this one before. > > > > -denis > > > Isn't that simply what makes "if [ (blah) ]" work? It's cute isn't it? I had the biggest grin the day I reali