Would like to claim deprecated package brandy

2011-07-30 Thread Chris Tyler
I just found out about the package brandy and was saddened to realize that I missed the orphan-deprecation announcement. I'd like to take this one. Oddly, I see that the dead.package file states that: This package was retired on 2011-07-25 due to it being unable to build this

Re: Call for Test Days for Fedora 16

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 18:43 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 10:23 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: Hi Adam, On the week of Aug 7 David Shein and I will be at POSSE-RIT teaching professors how open source communities work. On the Wednesay afternoon and Thursday

ARM Architecture - Package Updates in git

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Tyler
The ARM Secondary Arch project[0] is working on an F15 release for the existing armv5tel architecture as well as the new armv7hl architecture (with hardfp ABI). This effort has been previously announced and is ongoing. A number of minor package changes are required as a result of this effort: (1)

Re: Using plymouth during hibernation

2011-12-04 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 16:53 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:36:40PM +0530, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote: Can Plymouth be modified so that it shows up during hibernation and wake-up too? In that case, can anyone guide me on how to do it? I am ready to do the coding, but

Re: Staying close to upstream

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 16:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: * This policy of sticking religiously to upstream means we are not shipping KDE integration for Firefox, despite patches from openSUSE existing. This makes Firefox suck under KDE. Our Firefox maintainers refuse to do anything about it.

Re: Staying close to upstream

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 17:49 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Chris Tyler wrote: If you (or whoever is interested) can't get those patches through the upstream review process for technical reasons, then perhaps they're ugly patches. If you can't get them through because of lack of time/energy

Re: IDLE state:High CPU utilization

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 18:47 +0530, magina antimage wrote: Hi, I have ported fedora for my target board, i am getting high CPU utilisation(30-35%) even when my system is idle (no gnome / X session). i used top command to see which process is consuming CPU,but couldn't find any. any

Re: How to filter posts on planet.fedoraproject.org?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 15:15 +0100, jonathan MERCIER wrote: Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 à 16:50 +0300, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) a écrit : 16.01.2011 16:21, jonathan MERCIER wrote: Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 à 16:10 +0300, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) a écrit : Hello.

Re: [Fwd: [fedora-arm] Activity Day June 10th - ARMv7 F15 hardfp bringup]

2011-06-04 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 20:53 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: [0] We're making a one time incompatible ABI switch in F-15 bringup to the hard float ABI defined in section 6 of the ARM AAPCS (commonly referred to as the ARM EABI - but that doesn't actually exist as a name). The procedure call standard

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 15 ARM hardfp Virtual FAD (Fedora Activity Day) - FRIDAY

2011-06-29 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 02:17 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Hi Folks, Join us on Friday to celebrate July with another in our series of VFADs! Hi Jon, Just a heads up that you won't have many Canadians joining you -- July 1 is Canada Day, a *big* party date on our calendar. -Chris -- devel

Re: Call for Test Days for Fedora 16

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 10:28 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Hi, folks. The Test Day cycle for Fedora 16 will open shortly, and we're putting out the call for anyone who has an idea for a Test Day. There are many open slots on the schedule - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_16_test_days -

Re: Packaging:ScriptletSnippets

2012-01-23 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 21:24 +, Sérgio Basto wrote: Hi, from here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Icon_Cache I see /usr/bin/update-desktop-database /dev/null || : what does mean this part of the code || : ? || is logical-OR with optimization (i.e., iff the

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 17:37 +0100, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: That said, I considera cross-building environment for secondary arch to be inevitable, which would at least help for the

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:21 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: drago01 píše v Út 20. 03. 2012 v 17:57 +0100: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:37 AM, drago01 wrote: I'm a big fan of cross compilation, but introducing it into Fedora in

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 05:04 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - just a side note - I was told by an OpenSUSE on ARM person that they use x86 boxes with the user-space qemu virtual machine. It works quite fast, but still needs some hacking eg. in test-suites

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 02:38 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: And finally, for our build speed issue, the practical consideration will be whether the parallelism will actually speed our builds up. Right now our builds are either serial or have portions parallelized with make -j, which assumes a

Re: Shell commands like to OS/2 shell (or MS PowerShell)

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 01:51 +0300, Slava Zanko wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folk, I want to propose new idea about names of command line utilites... For example, all present utilites have sence just for guru's (ls, rm, fsck etc), but for novies it's hard to

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 12:45 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 13:37:11 -0400, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 10:08 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I don't see how using Mozilla trademarks provides significant benefit to Fedora. It

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 00:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/26/2010 12:18 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: Let's not be brash. If we want to ship TB with one small patch, it's a simple matter of asking. If it was so simple, why haven't we done it already? We did, with Firefox and Pango

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 23:55 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: You mean compliance with Mozilla's own standards such as APNG which require a bundled hacked version of a system library to support? Kevin, you keep bringing up APNG, so let me address that one. I know the story because the Mozilla

Re: Scratch Builds

2013-07-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 23:42 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: Just in case, let's say we have the package foo-1.0 if I make a scratch build of package foo-1.1, that doesn't count at all, isn't it? I mean can I send an update foo-.1.1 completely different of the foo-1.1 sent as a scratch build,

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-15 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 10:07 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: Some requisite patches weren't upstream in time for Fedora 19's 3.9 GA kernel, but are in the 3.10 update. This means Arndale should be fully supportable in Fedora 20. Meanwhile, there is an F19 remix for Arndale using a later

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-15 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 10:28 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 07/15/2013 10:15 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: I think that's s/Arndale/Chromebook/ Same SoC, different peripherals sticking out. Right -- but also different boot processes. I was just noting that the image for which you provided