Re: Plan for tomorrow's (20100108) FESCo meeting

2010-01-11 Thread Adam Williamson
from both before and after this one. Has it been overlooked? Thanks. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

2010-01-12 Thread Adam Williamson
underlinking issues, they always understood after being pointed to the Mandriva Wiki page. I believe Debian's checking scripts also note underlinking issues as a 'warning'-type thing (i.e. they notify the packager and suggest it should be fixed, but don't fail the build). IMB

Re: Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

2010-01-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 01:15 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > On Wednesday 13 January 2010, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 01:59 +0100, Milos Jakubicek wrote: > > > Also I have really doubts what concerns upstreamability of the necessary > > > changes in pa

Re: Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

2010-01-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 20:04 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 00:06 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > if so, Mandriva has been enforcing the fixing of this type of error for > > a couple of years now (by having --as-needed and --no-undefined in

Re: soname changing parted heading for rawhide

2010-01-14 Thread Adam Williamson
rebuilt. This also makes it basically impossible to update to Rawhide at present: Error: Missing Dependency: libparted-1.9.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package nash-6.0.93-1.fc12.x86_64 (installed) you can't exactly remove nash to let the update go through, since dracut and mkinitrd both depen

Re: Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 00:00 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > xqilla-2.1.3-0.6.fc11.src.rpm > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511425 This one also has a major policy breach issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555836 (it ships its own copy of xerces) -- Adam Will

Re: Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Williamson
of a > hurdle, > but removing files in cvs/devel is easy enough. synce-kde is replaced by synce-kpm. The maintainer seems somewhat erratic in his availability - I may ask to be made a co-maintainer for the synce stuff so I can take a shot at keeping it up to date (I really need to look into

Re: Desktop categories

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Williamson
gt; http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html Mandriva uses standard categories too, now (for a few years in fact); any use of the X-MandrivaLinux categories is now an error. Just for reference. I think most distros are happy with the standard fd.o categories now. -- Adam

Re: Desktop categories

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Williamson
for this. It already allows you to specify the type of app at a pretty fine level (there's categories for text editors and so on). Exactly how to construct the final system menus *from* the categories defined in the .desktop file is left up to the DE / distro to decide, so Fedora could c

Re: Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 17:24 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:12:14PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 00:00 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > > xqilla-2.1.3-0.6.fc11.src.rpm > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bu

Re: Desktop categories

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 01:45 +0100, Alain Portal wrote: > Le vendredi 15 janvier 2010 23:42:41, Adam Williamson a écrit : > > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 23:04 +0100, Alain Portal wrote: > > > A good initiative, but seems to be stillborn (stillbirth? In > french : > > > « mo

Re: Desktop categories

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Williamson
ee that kwrite could go into a 'Text Editors' submenu. kcalc and kbackup could both stand to have a standard subcategory beyond just 'utility' added to their .desktop files, I guess. The point is that the existing fd.o standard categories already have enough granularity to allow a distro to

Re: Desktop categories

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Williamson
I show you in my previous message with the "cat" command, these > (sub)categories exits in each desktop file in F-12, but there isn't > subsequent > submenu, as there are in FC-6 I never said anything different. I said 'currently'. FC6 was a long time ago, and

Call for Fedora 13 Test Days

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
o much, though, please feel free to just email the QA list (test@) or me personally, and we'll help guide you through the process. Just for reference, here's the ideas we have already for the F13 cycle: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:QA/Fedora_13_test_days Now dazzle us with your i

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
not, that's hardly abrt's fault. > * abrt is frustrating for users: Today I received my first "No > need for a reply...I will stop submitting tickets." > > Can somebody confirm my observations? Not really, no. Anything new will have _some_ negative eff

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
messing up the shelves and dirtying up the floors and asking stupid questions. In much the same way, it'd be ever so much easier to run a distribution really *efficiently* if no-one ever used it...:) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedorapr

Re: Navit: Re: Any takers for gpsdrive ?

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
d resources problem. Of course, if anyone feels like doing it for them and sending patches, that'd be great :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
terested I'm sure you can poke him on IRC and he'll give you all his thoughts / work on the idea. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
an overclocked Q6600, 4GB RAM) I can get through a trivial build in about 1:30 in mock if it uses a cached environment; minimum of 5 minutes if it doesn't. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net --

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
ed much TLC. I wouldn't want to be considered 'unresponsive' just because it hadn't needed touching for an arbitrary period. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassi

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
y the maintainer so the touch doesn't prove anything one way or another about the activeness or otherwise of the maintainer? I'm a bit lost. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: how to speed up mock?

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
_mflags'] = '-j3' > > Unless `rpmbuild --showrc` shows a bad definition for _smp_mflags, or, more easily: rpm --eval %_smp_mflags -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyass

Re: Plan for tomorrow's (2010-01-19) FESCo meeting

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
lowing week. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-19 Thread Adam Williamson
the time since f12 release (except when I was in the UK) so I had all the abrt test updates running here. The problem is that none of the apps I use really crash very much so I didn't give it much real-world testing even then :) need more unstable apps! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Commun

Re: gvfs causes hangs

2010-01-25 Thread Adam Williamson
attachment to bugzilla and > have to go > into my homedir, firefox hangs. I don't believe it was ever escalated as a blocker. I probably didn't consider promoting it as one at the time as FUSE isn't used for any normal native Linux mount. Probably the most common use of

Re: Disabling drm/ttm/radeon module loading for debugging

2010-01-25 Thread Adam Williamson
modprobe.d and either remove them from initrd (as you did) or use the rdblacklist kernel parameter to stop them being loaded from the initrd. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mail

Re: F12 to Rawhide upgrade

2010-01-25 Thread Adam Williamson
So far working > lot better, although my login name still doesn't show up at the > gdm/login screen. Still just the *other* login is there. That's a known bug already filed in Bugzilla IIRC. Everyone's getting it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | F

Re: gvfs causes hangs

2010-01-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 07:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > I don't believe it was ever escalated as a blocker. I probably > didn't > > consider promoting it as one at the time as FUSE isn't used for any > > normal native Linux mount.

Re: gnome-desktop bump

2010-01-26 Thread Adam Williamson
ython any more and block that too, or restore eel2. Thanks. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: gnome-desktop bump

2010-01-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 11:34 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 22:00 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > > > I'm going to build gnome-desktop 2.29.5 in rawhide, which bumps > the >

abrt not working in current Rawhide?

2010-01-27 Thread Adam Williamson
-1.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64 abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64 abrt-plugin-ticketuploader-1.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64 abrt-plugin-logger-1.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64 abrt-libs-1.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64 abrt-addon-python-1.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64 abrt-1.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64 let me know if anything seems to be missing. thanks.

Re: abrt not working in current Rawhide?

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:47 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: > > Just checking if I'm the only one - I can't find a bug report, though > > I'll probably file one. abrt doesn't seem to work in current Rawhide. > &g

Re: abrt not working in current Rawhide?

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Williamson
; Neil So, amusing as this is, I would say we definitely need to have abrt working for Alpha. (Actually, I might even propose we add that to the release criteria). Alpha is scheduled for March 2nd, freeing Feb 16th. Any chance you two could shelve the egos and fix this by then? Thanks. I'll

Re: Beware: Thunderbird (ver 3.0.1) CORRUPTS all email state

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Williamson
e > summary in us...@. There was a clear failure in this process, though, which was that the update was sent straight to updates and did not go through updates-testing. I can't see any reason why that should be acceptable for an update to a very popular package which manipulates data that i

Re: Purging the F13 orphans

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Williamson
ne, so it broke some time since then. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Purging the F13 orphans

2010-01-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 23:24 -0500, Patrick Dignan wrote: > On 01/28/2010 07:18 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 09:10 -0500, Patrick Dignan wrote: > > > > > >> I'll take nautilus-python. I spoke with upstream to confirm they had

Re: Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?

2010-01-29 Thread Adam Williamson
nd lsusb as static binaries? That would allow > us not to break the filesystem architecture and have usable tools. There's no need for that. Binaries in /bin or /sbin should have their libraries in /lib rather than /usr/lib . This is perfectly OK under FHS. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community

Re: Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks - install images

2010-01-29 Thread Adam Williamson
rted to test-list, so you can keep up with things there if you like. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Draft privilege escalation policy for comments

2010-01-29 Thread Adam Williamson
edoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_Fedora_privilege_escalation_policy -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Draft privilege escalation policy for comments

2010-01-29 Thread Adam Williamson
hat? Well, reboot is a one-time operation; if there's only one user logged in, they can only affect themselves by rebooting. Adjusting the clock or installing new software isn't the same. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproje

Re: Draft privilege escalation policy for comments

2010-01-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:52 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:27:13PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Please do provide any and all feedback on the proposed policy. if we can > > get it into a shape which most people on the list would find acceptable, >

Re: Draft privilege escalation policy for comments

2010-01-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 08:33 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > Please do provide any and all feedback on the proposed policy. if we can > > get it into a shape which most people on the list would find acceptable, > > my next step will be to take it back

Re: Draft privilege escalation policy for comments

2010-02-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:31 -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > Well, reboot is a one-time operation; if there's only one user logged > > in, they can only affect themselves by rebooting. Adjusting the clock or &

Re: Draft privilege escalation policy for comments

2010-02-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 08:55 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > I think it's sensible, yeah. It's not really much bureaucracy; I don't > > think it would ever be a good idea to introduce a new privilege > > escalation mechanism without FESc

Next privilege escalation policy draft

2010-02-01 Thread Adam Williamson
edoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_Fedora_privilege_escalation_policy -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Next privilege escalation policy draft

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Williamson
currently disabled. Right, good point, and it's not covered specifically under any existing point because you could do all of that without editing a config file or directly manipulating network traffic, if someone stuffed up the permissions model of ifconfig or NetworkManager. Will add. Tha

[Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha TC2 Is Uploading Now!

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
le shortly. Feel free to discuss any issue/problem/bug encountered on IRC/Test List and file it in bugzilla if it's a bug. Happy testing! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.ha

Re: Is PulseAudio dead?

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
sonable level of knowledge concerning Pulseaudio > though. > > Carl -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Is PulseAudio dead?

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
; now? You seem to be ignoring the fact that the hall monitors also sent Lennart a warning for his post. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.f

Re: Is PulseAudio dead?

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
ally doesn't reflect on the package maintainer, because triage is supposed to be done by Bugzappers (unless the package maintainer *wants* to do it). 2), Bugzappers has nowhere near enough personpower to cover anything more than a very small proportion of bugs ATM. Looking at the big picture, probab

Re: Is PulseAudio dead?

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
g on this against gnome-icon-theme, BTW. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Is PulseAudio dead?

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:44 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 00:10 +, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: > > > It always amazes me how the Red Hat employees are those that speak up > > against criticism of something like this. I stand by my mothersh

Re: Fedora 14 Alpha RC Compose is At Risk

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
me I've tried it out I've found it useless for the majority of sites, I either run without Flash or use Adobe, myself. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 14 Alpha RC Compose is At Risk

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
stable at that point. It was pushed earlier today. The bug can be closed now, if it isn't already. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: git branch help?

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
ge maintaining monkey needs to do, and hence everything is fine. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: git branch help?

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Williamson
tion into fedora-packager, or would it just confuse/surprise people? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: git branch help?

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:23 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:17:26PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Would it be nice to stick this customization into fedora-packager, or > > would it just confuse/surprise people? > > If it's there as somet

Re: git branch help?

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 00:13 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > >> http://blog.vagmim.com/2009/04/git-branch-on-command-prompt.html > > > > Would it be nice to stick this customization into fedora-packager, or > > would it just confuse/surpri

Re: local / scratch builds with fedpkg

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
27;fedpkg srpm' then 'mock -r fedora-14-i386 --rebuild foo.src.rpm' . You'll need mock 1.1.3 to do successful builds on / for F14, though. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=188082 -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedor

Re: The move to git!

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
my command center is 5 miles under-ground and totally encased in 5 meters of lead")." Clearly Linus stood out even in his youth =) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F14 TC2 x86_64b

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
omodset parameter from grub.conf > and all seems to be well so far. So, wait, it works with the radeon driver without 'nomodeset' after installing, but not during installation? Because that would be a rather odd bug and different from what we usually see... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA C

Re: Integrity protection of fetches (Re: The move to git!)

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
t or might not be. > > (I should have changed the subject two round trips ago. Oh well...) I suspect it might short-circuit the 'ahhh, but what about...' 'oooh, but then I can...' nature of the conversation if you just put together a proof-of-concept attack and document it so

Re: F14 gnome-control-panel appearance

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
sked Matthias the same question yesterday :>), you can do it in gconf. desktop/gnome/background , make the obvious changes to picture_filename (remember, f14's codename is laughlin). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedorapro

Re: local / scratch builds with fedpkg

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 17:31 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > On 04/08/10 17:28, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 15:06 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > >> I have a modified package locally and want to install and test it. Since > >> it's a biarch p

Re: local / scratch builds with fedpkg

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
documentation > for it? Okay, then, clearly, I should have said: "If you use the bundled mock configs and don't figure out your own workaround for SELinux bugs, you will need mock 1.1.3 to build for F14'. (/me looks around desperately for the email 'rolleyes' smiley). No i

Re: F14 gnome-control-panel appearance

2010-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
. > > > Means with Gnome3 we'll be stuck with whatever the default > gtk(3)-engine, mutter/metacity theme, notification-daemon engine, fonts, > cursors, backgrounds will be or we will have to resort to gconf (dconf?) > handywork? Seems like a huge step backwards to me... He di

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in F-14

2010-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
t's a good idea to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and change the 'resample-method' parameter. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Fedora 14 Alpha Can Still Ship on Time IF these bugs get attention TODAY

2010-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
er tooling, > or more blocker meetings aren't the solution--people communicating > proactively is. > > Are there any other things I can do to help make this go more smoothly? > > Are there any other people willing to formally step up and help me do this? Well, I can give

Re: Fedora 14 Alpha Can Still Ship on Time IF these bugs get attention TODAY

2010-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
> doesn't seem to do this. Is this a policy decision in Fedora's bug > workflow, or merely an RFE I need to file against Bodhi? IIRC, it sets ON_QA when the update is *pushed* to -testing - not when it's *submitted*. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: dbus not responding to a large number of things

2010-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
ice appreciated. Is dbus actually running? ps aux | grep bus Does it work if you boot with upstart? Edit your kernel params and add 'init=/sbin/upstart' What I'm betting is that you got systemd 5-2 on your upgrade, and that version has a known problem whereby systemctl segfaults w

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in F-14

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 11:21 +0100, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:46 +, Petr Pisar wrote: > > > >> PulseAudio is interresting project, but it's absolutely unusable on old > >&

Re: Integrity protection of fetches

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Williamson
solver and the > > name server, which isn't secured. > > Not to mention that one has to trust one's own nameserver, which is a > bad idea when using a public wireless access point. In order to achieve I believe that can be simplified to 'using a public wireless acces

Re: F14 update pushes

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Williamson
ably do the same for f14 - jesse has been away, and those who are doing the pushes at present weren't aware until today that we usually keep the -testing pushes going. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassass

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-10 Thread Adam Williamson
much testing as possible by then. Any help you all can give to fill out the install and desktop matrices would be greatly appreciated, focusing on the Alpha tests. The live images are not available yet, but coming soon. There will be live images for all four main desktops. -- Adam Williamson F

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
> This is the "Green Age" what are you doing wasting a CD? Mother earth > frowns on you. Be kind and reuse your ISO by installing via the network. > I'd recommend a USB drive but I think that is still broken. ? Not AFAIK. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: ad

Re: vesa-mode Anaconda install

2010-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
o anaconda. A short-hand for xdriver=vesa There's a fallback mode right on the menu - 'Basic video driver installation' or whatever. That uses vesa. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassass

[Test-Announce] Working F14 Alpha RC3 live images now available

2010-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Alpha_RC3_Desktop thanks a lot! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ test-announce mailing list test-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: vesa-mode Anaconda install

2010-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 14:05 -0700, Bob Arendt wrote: > On 08/11/10 10:03, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 08:20 -0700, Bob Arendt wrote: > >> . > >> Perhaps having a simple "vesa" arg to anaconda to force a vesa Xserver > >> wou

Re: 155 more python packages need to be rebuilt for Python 2.7

2010-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
rs, the other listing the affected packages each person owns > or comaintains. Provenpackagers can file updates for packages they don't own or co-maintain, if they did the build. (At least, it worked for me. :>) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora

Re: [HEADS-UP] adding missing systemd links in rawhide/F14 upgrades

2010-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
to happen in Rawhide FIRST. Frank's guess wasn't correct. Lennart simply pushed the changes to F14 first because we needed them in a hurry for the Alpha RC3 build. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassas

[Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-08-12 @ 12:00 UTC Recap

2010-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
be found here: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08-12-00.00.log.html Thanks to all for attending and providing input. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net signature.asc Description:

Re: [HEADS-UP] adding missing systemd links in rawhide/F14 upgrades

2010-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
or new features to include in it. In the past, when we hit feature freeze, if you wanted to work on some shiny new feature for future releases, you had to do it in some kind of side repository. Now, even though you can't do that in F14, you can do it in Rawhide and be nice and early for F15.

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
' module systemwide. Actually, it might be worth discussing dropping it from F14 or F15 entirely. I've just today adjusted spin-kickstarts not to use it any more. Anyone aware of other cases where it's used? Aside from the non-RandR 1.2 drivers, which cover a small minority of

[Test-Announce] Call for testing: F14 Alpha RC3/RC4 with Radeon graphics adapters

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
Please reply here, and if you observe the same problem as the reporters, add your details to the bug report (also test the 'basic graphics driver' choice, and report whether you used rc3 or rc4, and x86-64 or i386). Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora

Re: HEADS UP! Ohloh Fedora repositories

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
dora is 55% Emacs LISP ... > > http://www.ohloh.net/p/fedora-packages/analyses/latest It's only analyzed four files, so far (note the Licenses chart). I'd guess this analysis is run fairly infrequently, and it just happened to get run right after Peter started importing repos. --

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
on test suite every day. When more of it is automated we may be able to do something like this. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
forest of pre-generated Modelines to get around this, but that was just nasty. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 14:32 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/08/12 10:46 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > > > It's more or less dead. ajax technically maintains it, but it's right at > > the bottom of his priority list and we've been wanting to drop

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
letely breaks FTP install; then the anaconda team fixes that for RC#1, but we discover that the same FTP install path is broken at a later point. We couldn't have found that at TC#1 time, because it's hidden by the earlier breakage. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
ker bugs to be in those components. Kernel more than any of the others, but that is almost always down to the bits of graphics driver that live in the kernel these days. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
I don't believe we've slipped more than two weeks for any of at least the last three releases. Two weeks on a six month cycle really is not a terrible slip. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.n

Re: F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

2010-08-12 Thread Adam Williamson
; making sample applications beyond the server itself. > > I don't think I understand which we on whose behalf you speak. He was speaking on behalf of X.org at that point. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://ww

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Williamson
ing the release does not give a complete picture of why the release slipped. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Williamson
hatever you want to call it), in Bodhi. I think it's even already been reported and is planned to be addressed in future Bodhi. Luke? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list dev

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Williamson
outsiders, and how difficult it is to get stuff committed to them. I note that the common link between all these cases appears to be Kevin. Perhaps the problem isn't the projects, after all? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fed

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Williamson
ch anyone can join (or, alternatively, which can choose their membership based on any criteria at all) better qualified to run the project than a board, and committees, to which people are elected by vote of project members? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 18:49 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: > On Fri 13 August 2010 18:44:37 Adam Williamson wrote: > > Perhaps the problem isn't the projects, > > after all? > > The KDE Firefox integration patches were written by openSuSE developers, not > Kev. Kevin&#x

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-14 Thread Adam Williamson
> nothing... Same objection as 'nothing is worse than a broken package'; it's not true. They could have bad conflicts / obsoletes, or they could be set to run on startup after being installed and crash the system...there's various ways in which an entirely new package could stuf

Re: Mailing list guidelines and smartphones

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
stem or send a privat reply instead. > > Opinions? FWIW, I have a phone which can only top post and so I refrain from posting to lists with it. I think in general if it's not something really urgent you can just wait till later to write it, and if it's really urgent, reply off-list

Re: [Test-Announce] Call for testing: F14 Alpha RC3/RC4 with Radeon graphics adapters

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Williamson
ke a different bug. Not entirely sure what, though. We do have all the test results we need now, though, so you can stand down - thanks for trying! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailin

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