Intent to un-retire: uwsgi

2022-01-25 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi, following the process at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_Process/#claiming this is to declare my intent to un-retire uwsgi. I've filed a review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2045884

Re: building kernel - fedora 17: no success with insmod

2012-10-02 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 18:32:10 +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote Hello, I am running Fedora 17 on x86_64. I wanted to build bluetooth kernel module for f17 so I could use it under f17. May I ask what's wrong with, for example, this one?

Re: Firefox / Thunderbird 17 ESR for Fedora 16/17

2012-09-22 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:06:21 +0200, Heiko Adams wrote I guess that only the current fedora release will get the latest FF/TB versions while the previous version will stick on the latest ESR. How is that going to work? The current release will become the previous version at some time, and

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 -- BSD

2012-07-10 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:10:48 + (UTC), Petr Pisar wrote: How could they have changed the license without asking contributors? I have periodically translated the messages, I believe I have some patches there and nobody had asked me. I did get asked about some (rather trivial) functions

Re: intel ipw2100/ipw2200 firmware must be removed

2012-07-10 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 16:16:31 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#Binary_Firmware Question about that: The first requirement is that the file is non-executable. Does that mean that Fedora cannot ship firmware for hardware that has a

Re: intel ipw2100/ipw2200 firmware must be removed

2012-07-10 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:52:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote Do we have any such firmware at all? Let's stick to practical issues. Wei don't, as far as I am aware. But with Intel actually preparing to ship Xeon Phi hardware we might sooner than later. -- The creatures looked from pig to

Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)

2012-06-22 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:28:14 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: And instead of making the system adapt to system problems (inhibit reboot during updates) we're making the user adapt to system problems (add forced reboots were they were none before??) Inhibiting reboots? I cannot wait to see

Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:57:30 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote One of the most inportant advance of Linux over Windows is the fact, that there are only a few situations - like kernel updates - which requires a reboot of your system. Linux has, in principle, the same problem as Windows, that

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:13:49 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I hereby declare this thread officially dead. Is there a Godwin's Law equivalent that applies to the invocation of the 'GNU/ debate'? We could call it the 'RMS recurrence'. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Deltas not being generated against updates for F17

2012-06-12 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:20:51 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote See $subject. I'm assuming that this is because delta_dirs in the mash config doesn't include the updates repository, just the GA repository. I'm not sure I follow you. I do get deltas for my F17 updates. -- The Board views the

Re: another upgrade, another disaster

2012-06-02 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:42:30 -0400, Neal Becker wrote 1) Could I have actually recovered from this mess without a complete re-install? There is a way to recover from (almost) all upgrade messes, although it has several preconditions. The first precondition is having a root file system on

Re: SystemD: When to start service for file system kernel module

2012-05-30 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:23:30 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Short story: I'm working on creating kernel module packages for the ZFS file system from zfsonlinux.org to be hosted at RPM Fusion and will utilize the akmods utility to make sure that new modules are built on kernel update. As I

Re: SystemD: When to start service for file system kernel module

2012-05-30 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 30 May 2012 10:21:33 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote Thanks for the link! I did contact him. It looks like he's entirely relying on a custom script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d. Also, he forked zfsonlinux and has added/modified quite a bit. One change is a ZFS unit generator[1]. Even with

Re: x32 abi support?

2012-05-17 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:28:04 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote I was under the impression that it was to make Android work better on Intel. Scalable VMs are an interesting idea, but for a typical session how much RAM are we talking about? ... and also how does it compare to other

Re: GNS 3 http://www.gns3.net

2012-05-15 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 15 May 2012 08:25:48 +0930, Glen Turner wrote Note that Cisco is not the world's only networking vendor and some other vendors make their software available as a VM image for evaluation and learning. You might add the ready availability of learning platforms to the Request for

Re: GNS 3 http://www.gns3.net

2012-05-13 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:08:09 -0300, Adrian Alves wrote Anybody is working on GNS 3 http://www.gns3.net because if not i like to start working on it to build the rpm for it. I think that might run afoul of

Re: Primary Architectures: Another Proposal (RFC)

2012-04-08 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:35:01 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote Nobody will _run_ that, so no testing other that it builds. if I understand Kevin correctly nobody is supposed to run it. It's just used as a fast-fail check for compilability (if that's a word). It's exactly the same

Re: /tmp on tmpfs

2012-04-06 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:20:46 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote I have numbers to *dispute* these claims. (server with Apache, koji, LDAP)$ sudo du -sh /tmp 396K /tmp (work desktop)$ sudo du -sh /tmp 352K /tmp (server with Apache, bugzilla, wiki)$ sudo du -sh /tmp 312K /tmp

Re: /tmp on tmpfs

2012-04-06 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:41:08 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote So I need to invest a week or two setting up blktraces across multiple application loads and come back with a series of graphs and charts to show how little IO is done in /tmp? As I said, I think you're right in general wrt

Re: Notice: IPv6 breaking issues tentatively considered blocker for F17

2012-03-10 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:46:56 -0600, Chris Adams wrote DHCPv6 is not the only way to configure dynamic IPv6; my home network is using SLAAC. IMHO that will probably be more common in home and other small networks. The only thing I'd be missing for v6-only would be the ability to set an

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:58:16 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote Confirming: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -cdrom Fedora-17-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso -boot d -m 2048 -vga vmware fails to initialize X and falls back to text. It works with any of -vga cirrus/std/qxl. I have not found Anaconda Bug for it, if it

Re: Bundling?!

2012-02-19 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:26:20 +0100, Petr Machata wrote Please don't do this. The main reason being that header code from bundled boost is in general not binary compatible with the native code from system boost. It might maybe happen to work, but is likely to fail in obscure and hard

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-25 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:33:49 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote What's wrong with preupgrade? Every other release doubles the space needed in /boot for it to work? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-10 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:00:55 +0100, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote Not so fast, there was a point in time when the whole Linux development community was Linus Torvalds. Live and let live. Yes, there was. But it was a) rather short, and b) did not have a codebase even remotely comparable to the

Re: Wireshark-gnome not working on F16

2011-12-06 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:15:42 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote Couldn't run /usr/sbin/dumpcap in child process: Permission denied Are you a member of the 'wireshark' group? Try running 'usermod -a -G wireshark _your_username_' as root. Did you try, perhaps, running 'usermod -a -G

Re: policy-question: auto-restart of services on update

2011-12-04 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:24:00 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote some releases ago it was no problem to do a dist-upgrade with yum where all services wehre running without any interruption From the wiki: Version updates without using anaconda - such as the yum method described here - is

Re: policy-question: auto-restart of services on update

2011-12-03 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:38:11 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote is it really a good decision to restart services after update in the %post section? As far as I am aware this has always been done, at least for most server packages, this is not a new thing. -- devel mailing list

Re: Request update of shared-mime-info

2011-11-23 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:53:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote The following seems to clarify that UITS embedded metadata is going to be found on more than just Amazon.com. Google shows various media companies looking for hires to write code to embedded this too. http://uits.umusic.com/faq.htm

Re: cisco vpn because of ipsec over tcp

2011-11-14 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:34:04 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote It seems you have your layering wrong. IPSec operates on IP protocol, below UDP and TCP. Only IKE, the key exchange, protocol works on UDP. Maybe you thought about different technology? For VPN, OpenVPN provided in Fedora support

X clipboard behaviour/patch verification

2011-09-06 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. I'd be grateful if someone versed in the finer aspects of X clipboard handling could take a quick look at the patch attached to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667541 and tell me whether it looks sane. Thanks! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: The behaviour of systemctl.

2011-06-18 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:25:36 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote another way is deeply rooted in Linux heritage. Autopaging is just a small step forward in that area. And a very welcome one. Do you have anything to back that claim up? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Is F15 unbackuppable? (RemoveSETUID)

2011-06-05 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:39:02 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote - rsync -aFAILS! rsync supports -X (for xattr) and -A (for ACLs), both must be given explicitly. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Gnome Shell Extension manager/framework planned?

2011-06-03 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:19:12 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote one of the extensions to add the shutdown option, but believe Gnome3 needs more configurability so we can avoid all these corrections as extensions. I think you missed what Gnome is all about. -- devel mailing list

Re: 9base in Fedora?

2011-05-25 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 25 May 2011 13:18:20 -0400, seth vidal wrote I keep forgetting who fedora is for. It's not like the problem of having multiple implementations of basic UNIX command line tools has never come up before, though. Solaris has been doing that for quite a long time.

Re: Fedora 15 - biosdevname version updated to latest upstream

2011-05-02 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Mon, 2 May 2011 18:18:29 +0530, narendr...@dell.com wrote: Please rename the ifcfg-pciXpY files to ifcfg-pXpY and change the DEVICE= field from pciXpY to pXpY before reboot to avoid the issue. Out of sheer curiosity, why is this considered an improvement? -- devel mailing list

Re: manually fixing IPs

2011-03-27 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:48:14 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote NM supports static IPs these days. So I think that rather than hacking around NM, you should just fix the IP inside NM's configuration and have NM work FOR you rather than AGAINST you. I'm sorry, but by the time I have clicked through

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:16:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: We do have a rolling release, it's called rawhide. You are mixing up rolling release with development dump yard. I'm not yet conviced that there is a significant difference in the long term. -- devel mailing list

Re: Updating SSL keys on fedoraproject.org 2011-03-10

2011-03-11 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:22:55 +0100, Till Maas wrote I assume he meant since Januar 2011. This is at least the official statement for Germany: http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/QES/Veroeffentlichungen/Algorithmen/algorithmen_node.html

Re: ARM ? Was Re: KDE-SIG meeting report (09/2011)

2011-03-02 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:10:48 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote What is this about ? ARM is currently a secondary arch for fedora, and the people involved are working their way through F13 in order to get a complete build, the idea presumambly being that having started on F13 it's easier to finish

Re: Plans for BTRFS in Fedora

2011-02-23 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:38:05 -0600, Chris Adams wrote Define awful. I make use of it all the time on home and office desktops and even my notebook computer. It makes it easy to reassign disk space from purpose A to purpose B (it would be easier if there was a way to shrink a mounted

Re: really strange ext4 behavior

2011-02-15 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Moin. On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:07:18 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote Why isn't it the Fedora default? Rahul The simple answer is, usually, Fedora kernel doesn't fork upstream. How is changing mount options for a file system forking upstream? It's just a config file entry. And not even the

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 01:33:33 + (UTC), Ben Boeckel wrote: Why? FreeBSD (and other BSDs, I'm sure) have been naming network interfaces based on the manufacturer, at least, for a while now (I personally started with 7.x and am unsure of when that was new). I was always curious why eth*

Re: Building production machines out-of-place, regenerating certs when a machine's identity changes, etc.

2010-11-27 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:15:47 +0100, nodata wrote I don't agree. If you are replacing a production machine, you take the keys from the old machine and use them. If you don't want to do that, you buy new, probably stronger, certificates that are also valid. I think your case only covers

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-21 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:26:58 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote You still need a timeout to avoid waiting for ever for the root filesystem to appear when one of the PV has been disconnected from the system. If you cannot assemble the root file system, what is init supposed to do instead of

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:50:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote /quote Interesting. But the short version of that means that all those users are useless in their current form, and could be removed? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: updates-testing trainwreck.

2010-11-19 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:15:01 -0500, Dave Jones wrote Wtf happened in updates-testing ? gdm and a bunch of other stuff crashes on startup.. While this is certainly unfortunate, isn't that what u-t is for? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:44:06 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote Looks like I'm reformatting and dumping the LVM. Thanks. Discard aside, btrfs should include all (or most of) the features that LVM and raid0 were giving you, anyway. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-13 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:26:18 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote As you pointed out, different drives, can have more-or-less identical partition size, with different CHS in the partition table. I my experience the hard disk vendors have been astonishingly coordinated in how much sectors a drive of

Re: Fedora 14 Beta corrupts user data

2010-09-26 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:40:22 -0700, John Reiser wrote Compiled code for minimum(), maximum(), etc. suffers from a compiler bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634757-O1 wrong-code by cmove Unfortunately this bug can corrupt user data silently. Please forgive me for

Re: F14 youtube support?

2010-09-16 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:34:10 + (UTC), Petr Pisar wrote Adobe Flash Player is not produced for x86_64 architecture by vendor. (It used to be, however it containted serious security flaws). To use it by 64b Firefox, you need to install a wrapper that converts 64b NPAPI to 32b. However

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-29 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:50:46 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote As an aside it is important to remember that solaris was moribund - almost kaput- because most of the world had turned to linux in its stead and its customer base shrinking - some die hards or those that didn't want or weren't

Re: feature freeze?

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:08:32 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Even if the features eventually show up in the Free edition, that still means people are getting them later than they could. So you're basically complaining to someone that gave you $5 that he did not give you $10? -- devel mailing

Re: feature freeze?

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:03:32 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: No, I think more like someone who could have given him 10, gave him 5, with a promise of another 5, if he paid 10. That someone is under no obligation whatsoever to give him anything. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we

Re: The move to git!

2010-08-04 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:30:41 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote Clearly Linus stood out even in his youth =) He is a bit obsessed with the number 5, though. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: git branch help?

2010-08-03 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:40:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote No (we're basically all being forced to use Ethernet, it's everywhere), but Ethernet's design makes me feel extremely uncomfortable. Give it enough load and it WILL break down under the collisions. And yet it magically works to a

Re: Fedora 14 branching and dist-git roll out

2010-07-31 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:48:22 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote I got some info from McGrath and added it to the wiki. I don't think it's a good idea to save informations that are used to authenticate a connection in a wiki. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: libjpeg-turbo conflicts in rawhide

2010-06-30 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:21:37 +0800, Chen Lei wrote: libjpeg is split into libjpeg-turbo and libjpeg-turbo-utils, Obsoletes libjpeg is already added to libjpeg-turbo-utils. I assume that you cannot really install libjpeg-turbo-utils without pulling in libjpeg-turbo, so the the obsoletes

Re: packages using gsettings

2010-05-17 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 16 May 2010 22:09:11 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: %postun glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas ||: %posttrans glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas ||: I sure hope this is solved somewhat intelligently and does not compile each and every schema on every

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

2010-02-28 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:40:38 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote built against Qt 4.6 WILL NOT WORK AT ALL with Qt 4.5!!! (This is always the case, Qt is backwards- but not forwards- compatible.) And sometimes not even that. I rather suspect this bug is caused by the update from 4.5 to 4.6:

Re: creating file in koji allowed?

2010-02-26 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:29:21 +0100, Thomas Spura wrote: Here is the snipped, I intend to use: %{_mpich2_load} # create ~/.mpd.conf, if it does not yet exist if [ -e ~/.mpd.conf ]; then # working locally, don't delete ~/.mpd.conf DONT_DEL=TRUE else DONT_DEL=FALSE

Re: hdparm -B for netbooks

2010-02-24 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:09:39 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Either the drive set the initial value, or the BIOS did. We tend to assume that there was some reason for that... Well, the BIOS also sets the VGA resolution to 80x25. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Would you use a programming language with missing features?

2010-01-30 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:29:09 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote The first one is python. The GUI provided with python is called tkinter, which is based on tk, which, in turn, is based on tcl. Since threads are disabled in Fedora's tcl, as a consequence, one cannot use python+tkinter+threads.