Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On 26/01/12 01:19, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I would personally advise against this way forward. I'd like to suggest an alternative: * Gather folks interested in this (you should be able to see some from this thread). Perhaps announce that you are forming a group to look into this. * Get

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michał Piotrowski wrote: Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming Alpha - Developer Preview Beta - Consumer Preview Release Candidate - Enterprise (or Business) Preview Ugh, no thanks! I'd suggest going with the naming KDE, a leading Free Software project uses: Alpha → Beta

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote: i made several HUNDRET of dist-upgrades with yum since FC3 and upgrade via DVD/Preupgrade is simply UNACEPPTABLE +1 IMHO this is a showstopper and approval for UsrMove should be withdrawn and the feature reverted. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Greg wrote: i don't have any problems downloading a DvD, or a LiveCD Live CDs cannot be used to upgrade existing systems. As for the DVD, it does not include the updates repository when doing upgrades (you can only add additional repositories for fresh installations), which means the process

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: IMHO this is a showstopper and approval for UsrMove should be withdrawn and the feature reverted. PS: Oh, and I don't see why this cannot be fixed by a %pretrans scriptlet in filesystem rather than a script we have to run by hand. That's what %pretrans is for. (We successfully used

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Markus Mayer
On 01/26/2012 02:19 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:37:36 -0200 Henrique Juniorhenrique...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to see Fedora following the path of rolling release. openSUSE is doing a great job with the Tumbleweed, still keeping the same old system of releases and

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Ed Marshall
While I take issue with how Reindl is presenting his case, I'd just like to add a concurring voice to the original point: this will negatively affect a particular swath of users, of which I am one. Media-driven upgrades aren't a reasonable option for my (admittedly small) collection of machines,

Re: Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

2012-01-26 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 26.1.2012 02:05, Manuel Escudero napsal(a): I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but a user managed to port Ubuntu's Unity to OpenSUSE 12.1 as you can see here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_Ayatana And also I've been told this desktop is available for ArchLinux now as

Fwd: Korean default font change (un-core-*-fonts - nanum-*-fonts)

2012-01-26 Thread Daiki Ueno
Hi all, Forwarding this to get more attention from Korean users and developers. If no one objects, I'll start working on the transtion so that it can be tested with F17 Alpha. Regards, Start of forwarded message Message-ID:

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:48:27PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, So I saw a rpm update and a number of other builds today when dealing with various packaging bits. Checking the update [1] and reading the

Bumblebee on fedora

2012-01-26 Thread Mario Santagiuliana
Hi to all developers on Fedora, In this week, on Italian Fedora Community a user ask help about a problem with his external monitor [1]. He has an Nvidia card with Optimus tecnology. We see the Bumblebee project [2] that is not packaged for Fedora. What do you think about bumblebee? And what

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Reindl Harald wrote: i made several HUNDRET of dist-upgrades with yum since FC3 and upgrade via DVD/Preupgrade is simply UNACEPPTABLE +1 IMHO this is a showstopper and approval for UsrMove should be withdrawn and

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 01/26/2012 02:34 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:48:27PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, So I saw a rpm update and a number of other builds today when dealing with various packaging bits. Checking the update [1] and reading the attached bug [2] I was a little

Re: Bumblebee on fedora

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On 26/01/12 09:35, Mario Santagiuliana wrote: What do you think about bumblebee? And what do you think to package it in Fedora? If you are able to package it, go ahead. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers If not put in on a wishlist.

Re: Re: Bumblebee on fedora

2012-01-26 Thread Mario Santagiuliana
In data giovedì 26 gennaio 2012 09:33:22, Frank Murphy ha scritto: On 26/01/12 09:35, Mario Santagiuliana wrote: What do you think about bumblebee? And what do you think to package it in Fedora? If you are able to package it, go ahead.

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Greg
On 26/01/2012 7:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Live CDs cannot be used to upgrade existing systems. As for the DVD, it does not include the updates repository when doing upgrades (you can only add additional repositories for fresh installations), which means the process is completely broken due to

Re: Bumblebee on fedora

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Murphy
cc list. On 26/01/12 09:46, Mario Santagiuliana wrote: Thank you Frank, I am just a Fedora packager :) I would a feedback from you. I understand that bumblebee is just a temporary project. All the features should be integrate in kernel...but I am not a really expert of Linux kernel... Maybe

File Locale-SubCountry-1.47.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by ppisar

2012-01-26 Thread Petr Pisar
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[perl-Locale-SubCountry] 1.47 bump

2012-01-26 Thread Petr Pisar
commit 8b5fe33268b7e90565d244a780f8e4e0b58e0ea6 Author: Petr Písař ppi...@redhat.com Date: Thu Jan 26 10:49:25 2012 +0100 1.47 bump .gitignore |1 + perl-Locale-SubCountry.spec | 56 --- sources |2 +-

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.01.2012 10:42, schrieb Greg: if one doesnt like it then all i can suggest is move to a different Distro. just because it's gonna interupt people from using yum upgrade dist or whatever. this is the 21st century yanno. technology does improve or get better. where is the improvement

Re: Bumblebee on fedora

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On 26/01/12 09:46, Mario Santagiuliana wrote: Thank you Frank, I am just a Fedora packager :) I would a feedback from you. I understand that bumblebee is just a temporary project. All the features should be integrate in kernel...but I am not a really expert of Linux kernel... I've had a quick

Re: Bumblebee on fedora

2012-01-26 Thread Maxim Burgerhout
I looked into packaging it for Fedora a while back, but there are a couple of issues, iirc. First of all, you'll also need to package VirtualGL, which isn't part of Fedora at the moment either. Aside from that, Bumblebee(d) needs one of the vga_switcheroo, acpi_call or similar kernel modules to

File Statistics-Basic-1.6607.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by ppisar

2012-01-26 Thread Petr Pisar
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Re: gcc 4.7 changes binary behaviors ?

2012-01-26 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:12:43 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: /usr/bin/kmk_sed: file /builddir/build/BUILD/VirtualBox-4.1.8_OSE/src/VBox/Runtime/common/err/errmsg.sed line 31: Unmatched [ or [^ kmk: *** [/builddir/build/BUILD/VirtualBox-4.1.8_OSE/obj/obj/Runtime/errmsgdata.h] Error 1 kmk: ***

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Greg
On 26/01/2012 8:58 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: where is the improvement or does anything get better if things worked for years got damaged? you definition of improvement must have a bug! first thing. i agree that the Linux Filesystem needs to be cleaned up. by doing what redhat/Fedora is

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Henrique Junior
2012/1/26 Markus Mayer lotharl...@gmx.de: On 01/26/2012 02:19 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:37:36 -0200 Henrique Juniorhenrique...@gmail.com  wrote: I would like to see Fedora following the path of rolling release. openSUSE is doing a great job with the Tumbleweed, still

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.01.2012 12:29, schrieb Greg: On 26/01/2012 8:58 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: where is the improvement or does anything get better if things worked for years got damaged? you definition of improvement must have a bug! first thing. i agree that the Linux Filesystem needs to be cleaned up.

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Elder Marco
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: I would personally advise against this way forward. I'd like to suggest an alternative: * Gather folks interested in this (you should be able to see some from this thread). Perhaps announce that you are forming a group to

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On 26/01/12 11:37, Henrique Junior wrote: Did we have someone to lead this process? possibly the op -- Regards, Frank Murphy, friend of fedoraproject UTF_8 Encoded -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread David Tardon
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:42:15PM +1100, Greg wrote: On 26/01/2012 7:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Live CDs cannot be used to upgrade existing systems. As for the DVD, it does not include the updates repository when doing upgrades (you can only add additional repositories for fresh

Re: Re: Bumblebee on fedora

2012-01-26 Thread Mario Santagiuliana
In data giovedì 26 gennaio 2012 11:19:39, Maxim Burgerhout ha scritto: I looked into packaging it for Fedora a while back, but there are a couple of issues, iirc. First of all, you'll also need to package VirtualGL, which isn't part of Fedora at the moment either. Aside from that,

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Nils Philippsen
For the sake of completeness: On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 03:22 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: after a yum upgrade you can verify that the most important things are fine BEFORE reboot (bootloader-config, package-cleanup --problems, ), optimize/correct things you know are not fine after the upgrade

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.01.2012 14:08, schrieb Nils Philippsen: For the sake of completeness: On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 03:22 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: after a yum upgrade you can verify that the most important things are fine BEFORE reboot (bootloader-config, package-cleanup --problems, ),

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 14:19 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.01.2012 14:08, schrieb Nils Philippsen: For the sake of completeness: On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 03:22 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: after a yum upgrade you can verify that the most important things are fine BEFORE reboot

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 25.01.2012 23:48, schrieb Peter Robinson: Hi All, So I saw a rpm update and a number of other builds today when dealing with various packaging bits. Checking the update [1] and reading the attached bug [2] I was a little shocked to find that yum upgrade between releases would be

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.01.2012 15:07, schrieb Nils Philippsen: On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 14:19 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.01.2012 14:08, schrieb Nils Philippsen: For the sake of completeness: On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 03:22 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: after a yum upgrade you can verify that the most

[perl-XML-Stream] 1.23 bump and some cleanup

2012-01-26 Thread Petr Šabata
commit 1adb6bfaff3b08303a834b9c51d9146a6e7a9ce9 Author: Petr Šabata con...@redhat.com Date: Thu Jan 26 15:46:43 2012 +0100 1.23 bump and some cleanup .gitignore |1 + perl-XML-Stream.spec | 57 ++ sources |2

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On 26/01/12 14:43, Harald Hoyer wrote: Not really true. yum upgrade will be supported, but it needs a little help with a special initramfs and an additional kernel command line parameter, so that dracut can convert your filesystem. After this filesystem conversion, yum upgrade will work without

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com wrote: Am 25.01.2012 23:48, schrieb Peter Robinson: Hi All, So I saw a rpm update and a number of other builds today when dealing with various packaging bits. Checking the update [1] and reading the attached bug [2] I was a

[pkgdb] perl-Gtk2-Ex-Simple-List ownership changed

2012-01-26 Thread Fedora PackageDB
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[pkgdb] perl-Gtk2-Ex-Simple-List ownership changed

2012-01-26 Thread Fedora PackageDB
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[pkgdb] perl-Gtk2-Ex-Simple-List ownership changed

2012-01-26 Thread Fedora PackageDB
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Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.01.2012 15:51, schrieb Frank Murphy: On 26/01/12 14:43, Harald Hoyer wrote: Not really true. yum upgrade will be supported, but it needs a little help with a special initramfs and an additional kernel command line parameter, so that dracut can convert your filesystem. After this

[pkgdb] perl-IO-TieCombine ownership changed

2012-01-26 Thread Fedora PackageDB
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2012-01-26 Thread Fedora PackageDB
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[pkgdb] perl-IO-TieCombine ownership changed

2012-01-26 Thread Fedora PackageDB
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Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:25:31AM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC from the discussion in FPC meetings, there should be a way to make yum upgrades work but you'd first have to boot up specially and run an initial

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:40:33AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I wrote: IMHO this is a showstopper and approval for UsrMove should be withdrawn and the feature reverted. PS: Oh, and I don't see why this cannot be fixed by a %pretrans scriptlet in filesystem rather than a script we have to

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:25:31AM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC from the discussion in FPC meetings, there should be a way to make yum

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 03:26:01PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:25:31AM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC

Heads up: possible libOSMesa soname bump in rawhide

2012-01-26 Thread Adam Jackson
We're going to update Mesa to a pre-8.0 snapshot in anticipation of shipping 8.0 in F17. Typically the libOSMesa version number is bumped when this happens. However there's no real ABI change, so the rebuild should be trivial. Sorry for the late announcement, but this should be pretty low

[pkgdb] perl-GD-Barcode ownership changed

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Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Ed Marshall
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com wrote: Not really true. yum upgrade will be supported, but it needs a little help with a special initramfs and an additional kernel command line parameter, so that dracut can convert your filesystem. After this filesystem

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.01.2012 17:19, schrieb Ed Marshall: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com wrote: Not really true. yum upgrade will be supported, but it needs a little help with a special initramfs and an additional kernel command line parameter, so that dracut can convert your

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 00:22:28 -0500, Scott Schmit i.g...@comcast.net wrote: Except that this doesn't burn people often because Linus is also *very* strict about interface changes between the kernel userspace. Hardware specific regressions aren't that rare. I have run into them several

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
I just had a conversation which I believe sheds some light on the problem which a rolling release is trying to solve. The example is Ubuntu bu you could apply the same to Fedora/RHEL. My coworker wants to use Ubuntu LTS for development on Heroku. He wants the stability of an LTS, but he needs a

Re: Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

2012-01-26 Thread Lars Seipel
On Wednesday 25 January 2012 19:05:37 Manuel Escudero wrote: And also I've been told this desktop is available for ArchLinux now as well... As for this facts I was wondering how feasible is to port Unity to Fedora as well The last I heard from the Arch packaging efforts was that Unity won't be

Re: Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

2012-01-26 Thread Brendan Jones
On 01/26/2012 02:05 AM, Manuel Escudero wrote: I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but a user managed to port Ubuntu's Unity to OpenSUSE 12.1 as you can see here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_Ayatana And also I've been told this desktop is available for ArchLinux now as

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On 26/01/12 17:15, Mark Bidewell wrote: My coworker wants to use Ubuntu LTS for development on Heroku. He wants the stability of an LTS, but he needs a later version of Ruby to run the Heroku tools. He has found that there is not supported way to upgrade Ruby short of recompiling Ruby or

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: Hardware specific regressions aren't that rare. I have run into them several times. I have had problems with disk controllers, USB flash drives and video cards. Sometimes there are work arounds (e.g. using nomodeset or

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/26/2012 10:45 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: I just had a conversation which I believe sheds some light on the problem which a rolling release is trying to solve. The example is Ubuntu bu you could apply the same to Fedora/RHEL. My coworker wants to use Ubuntu LTS for development on Heroku.

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/01/12 17:15, Mark Bidewell wrote: My coworker wants to use Ubuntu LTS for development on Heroku.  He wants the stability of an LTS, but he needs a later version of Ruby to run the Heroku tools.  He has found that

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On 26/01/12 17:43, Mark Bidewell wrote: Since he was using Ubuntu I will say distro-supported, but if he was using Fedora it would be Fedora supported. Ruby does not maintain distro specific packages. Ubuntu has PPAs but these are somewhat spotty for some software. Sorry, I meant if he

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:15:01 -0500 Mark Bidewell mbide...@gmail.com wrote: I just had a conversation which I believe sheds some light on the problem which a rolling release is trying to solve. The example is Ubuntu bu you could apply the same to Fedora/RHEL. My coworker wants to use Ubuntu

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/01/12 17:43, Mark Bidewell wrote: Since he was using Ubuntu I will say distro-supported, but if he was using Fedora it would be Fedora supported.  Ruby does not maintain distro specific packages.  Ubuntu has PPAs

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:15:01 -0500 Mark Bidewell mbide...@gmail.com wrote: I just had a conversation which I believe sheds some light on the problem which a rolling release is trying to solve. The example is Ubuntu bu you

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread drago01
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mark Bidewell mbide...@gmail.com wrote: I just had a conversation which I believe sheds some light on the problem which a rolling release is trying to solve. You didn't state how a rolling release would solve that (it wouldn't). This is really a package

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:12 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mark Bidewell mbide...@gmail.com wrote: I just had a conversation which I believe sheds some light on the problem which a rolling release is trying to solve. You didn't state how a rolling

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/26/2012 11:47 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: A rolling or semi-rolling release would make the most recent packages available in some way. With careful updating a minimum Ruby upgrade could be accomplished. A rolling release addresses the dependencies problem by updating everything including

Re: Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

2012-01-26 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Lars Seipel lars.sei...@googlemail.com wrote: The last I heard from the Arch packaging efforts was that Unity won't be an officially supported package until it no longer depends on non-upstream patches to GTK+ and friends. The same seems to be true for

Unable to delete pkg 'blktool'?

2012-01-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
I am trying to retire package blktool. This is what dead.package says locally: Tool never really caught on with users, or kept up with the times. It is retired in the package database, but when trying to fedpkg push following fedpkg retire, I get the following error: [jgarzik@bd

[Test-Announce] 2012-01-27 @ 17:00 UTC - F17 Alpha Blocker Bug Review #1

2012-01-26 Thread Tim Flink
# F17 Alpha Blocker Review meeting #1 # Date: 2012-01-27 # Time: 17:00 UTC [1] (13:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) # Location: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net We're approaching the F17 alpha release and it's time for the first F17 blocker review meeting! I'm sure everyone's excited to get these

Re: Unable to delete pkg 'blktool'?

2012-01-26 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jeff Garzik jgar...@pobox.com wrote: I am trying to retire package blktool.  This is what dead.package says locally:  Tool never really caught on with users, or kept up with the times. It is retired in the package database, but when trying to fedpkg push

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/26/2012 06:51 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:15:01 -0500 Mark Bidewellmbide...@gmail.com wrote: I just had a conversation which I believe sheds some light on the problem which a rolling release is trying to solve. The example is Ubuntu bu you could apply the same to

[ACTION REQUIRED v3] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-26 Thread Bill Nottingham
Each release, before branching, we block currently orphaned packages. It's that time again for Fedora 17. New this go-round is that we are also blocking packages that have failed to build since before Fedora 15. The following packages are currently orphaned, or fail to build. If you have a need

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED v3] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-26 Thread Jon Ciesla
Took libmodelfile and sage. -J -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Test-Announce] 2012-01-27 @ 17:00 UTC - F17 Alpha Blocker Bug Review #1

2012-01-26 Thread Tim Flink
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:22:58 -0700 Tim Flink tfl...@redhat.com wrote: # F17 Alpha Blocker Review meeting #1 # Date: 2012-01-27 # Time: 17:00 UTC [1] (13:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) # Location: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net Correction on the time: 17:00 UTC, 12:00 EST, 09:00 PST Sorry for

Re: gcc 4.7 changes binary behaviors ?

2012-01-26 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:12:43AM +, Sérgio Basto wrote: Hi, hope that also could help Has package builder we also build kBuid http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=7356 , after use kBuid compile with gcc 4.7 I got this error on building virtuaBox

[kde, lxde, xfce] Removing ModemManager dep from NM, adding to comps instead

2012-01-26 Thread Dan Williams
Hi, It was recently brought to my attention that NM has an RPM dep on ModemManager. I believe we added it long ago to ensure that users did not lose 3G modem support when updating from NM 0.7.x (where NM had internal 3G support) to 0.8.x (where that support was split out into MM). These days

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED v3] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 14:58:59 -0500, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: If these packages are not claimed, they will be retired shortly before the mass branch for Fedora 17 on February 7th. Orphan xmms-pulse Since I actually use xmms, I'm taking xmms-pulse. -- devel mailing list

Re: Odd build failures in Koji

2012-01-26 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Jon Ciesla limburg...@gmail.com wrote: I've been updating ettercap, and I got a build working on my local f16.  Then I built it in local rawhide mock, and it was fine.  So I committed and built for rawhide, f16, and f15.  Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it

Re: Odd build failures in Koji

2012-01-26 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Jon Ciesla limburg...@gmail.com wrote: I've been updating ettercap, and I got a build working on my local f16.  Then I built it in local rawhide mock, and it was fine.  So I committed and built for rawhide, f16, and f15.  Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it

Re: Odd build failures in Koji

2012-01-26 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Jon Ciesla limburg...@gmail.com wrote: I've been updating ettercap, and I got a build working on my local f16.  Then I built it in local rawhide mock, and it was fine.  So I committed and

Re: Heads up: Rebuild for Ruby 1.9.3

2012-01-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/25/2012 02:10 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: 1) Always use Bundler provided by Fedora which will works as it should. 2) Force Ruby and RubyGems upstream to properly support FHS. I already provided patches [1] but I need your support. 3) Revert the customized behavior of RubyGems and break FHS.

Re: Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

2012-01-26 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 10:15 -0900, Jef Spaleta wrote: required patches to gtk and core gnome components that are not acceptable to upstream are basically a non-starter. It maybe possible to get some variant of Unity packaged and operational without those patches. But such a version might

Re: Unable to delete pkg 'blktool'?

2012-01-26 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 01:26:10PM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jeff Garzik jgar...@pobox.com wrote: I am trying to retire package blktool.  This is what dead.package says locally:  Tool never really caught on with users, or kept up with the times. It is

[389-devel] Please review: Ticket #161 - Review and address latest Coverity issues

2012-01-26 Thread Rich Megginson
https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/161 ds patches - https://fedorahosted.org/389/attachment/ticket/161/0001-Ticket-161-Review-and-address-latest-Coverity-issues.patch admin server -

Re: gcc 4.7 changes binary behaviors ?

2012-01-26 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 21:15 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:12:43AM +, Sérgio Basto wrote: Hi, hope that also could help Has package builder we also build kBuid http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=7356 , after use kBuid compile with

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2012-01-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:24:08PM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 12/09/2011 12:50 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 12/09/2011 03:50 AM, Eric Smith wrote: I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba.

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED v3] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:58:59PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Orphan techtalk-pse I have taken this. Currently it FTBFS because a critical dependency was dropped from Fedora, however I have patches upstream (not applied to git yet) which fix this. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization

Re: [kde, lxde, xfce] Removing ModemManager dep from NM, adding to comps instead

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Dan Williams wrote: People who don't have 3G modems and know they wont in the future have no need of installing or running MM. Thus I'd like to remove the RPM dep from NetworkManager, and instead add ModemManager to the default comps installs of all the major desktop environments instead.

Re: [kde, lxde, xfce] Removing ModemManager dep from NM, adding to comps instead

2012-01-26 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Donnerstag, den 26.01.2012, 14:54 -0600 schrieb Dan Williams: People who don't have 3G modems and know they wont in the future have no need of installing or running MM. Thus I'd like to remove the RPM dep from NetworkManager, and instead add ModemManager to the default comps installs of

Re: UsrMove feature breaking yum upgrade upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: As you've been pointing out, this is a recipe for alpha slippage (and since recently we've been slipping all later milestones, a slip in alpha means a slip to the release) but I don't think the feature owners are technically doing anything wrong under the current policy

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