Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-22 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.dewrote: In fact, systemd offers quite a number security features to secure your services wich can be easily used to enhance local security. I'll probably blog about this soonishly, but there's a lot of nice stuff in there.

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-24 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Alexander Kurtakov akurt...@redhat.comwrote: I want to add one more POV - not every database is constantly-used. Example usage is Amarok using mysql database and I really want mysql to not be started until I start Amarok. Not that this is very common usage

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-24 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Jef Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Alexander Kurtakov akurt...@redhat.comwrote: I want to add one more POV - not every database is constantly-used. Example usage is Amarok using mysql database and I really want mysql

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: I feel your pain; a lot of perfectly good lab equipment has floppies too, but whenever practical, I'd recommend a USB floppy drive emulator from ipcas or http://www.rioc.us/ufr-usb-floppy-replacement.php or

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: They connect to the floppy cable and look like a floppy drive. Bah, I'd think you'd want to go the other way if you could get an external usb based floppy reader which is autodetected on the usb bus.

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Jef Spaleta
2011/8/30 Miloslav Trmač m...@volny.cz I hope no software is still doing this - that was idiotic 10 years ago, let alone now. (The purpose of the seek is to detect drives that can support only double density, i.e. 360K, 5.25 disks, not high density, i.e. 1.2M disks. It doesn't do anything

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Jef Spaleta
2011/8/30 Miloslav Trmač m...@volny.cz The seek is there to detect the double-density _drive_ that was last shipped in PC XT: PC AT already had a high-density drive. Wikipedia tells me that the seek is there to detect hardware that became obsolete in 1984. you take the fun out of

Re: Notice of intent: patching glibc

2011-09-06 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Well, yes, that parallel came up in my mind too, but really, the two aren't particularly similar. I don't think there's any intent to obfuscate in the case of the glibc spec, it's simply done the way that seemed

Re: What do rawhide testers want and expect?

2011-09-12 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.comwrote: In some cases, expectations may be off which means we need to market our deliverables better. In other cases, they may be looking for a better way to get attention to rawhide issues when everyone else is focused on

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: The kernel has undergone more updates than systemd ... all for very good reasons - making it better and solving problems. Sure the same would apply to systemd. We also go to some lengths to make sure that there is a

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-14 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: Michal's numbers look pretty damning, and I find it remarkable that the systemd advocates seem to have managed not to read them, let alone admit that they suggest something's seriously wrong. Michal's numbers look intriguing.

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-14 Thread Jef Spaleta
Michał Piotrowski wrote: Ok, I made four series of tests: - start/stop an old init script - start/stop an old init script with dropping caches - should simulate system booting - start/stop service file - start/stop service file with dropping caches Just to be clear. This is done on an F15

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-14 Thread Jef Spaleta
2011/9/14 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com Exactly. F15, PostgreSQL 9.0 and just service file from PostgreSQL 9.1. Root filesystem and database are on SSD and Ext4. Okay... brace yourself. I just ran this test on my non-SSD ext4 based F15 system and I get the opposite result on

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-16 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: See my above comment about cross-compilers. There are certainly use cases for having the tool install and live on the host. As for security, if you assume that the host is locked down tight with no running services

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-16 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.comwrote: That's nonsense, sorry. Zif is quite capable of using the same metadata as yum and performing the same function with the same set of packages. It's also capable of making different decisions? Isn't that your point?

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-16 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:10 AM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: As a point of fact we added a depsolving plugin hook for compare_providers over a year ago into the yum codebase. Specifically so anyone could do fun and exciting additions to compare_providers and/or request user

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-16 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.comwrote: This is what I've come up with already: https://github.com/hughsie/zif/tree/master/data/tests/transactions Okay just to make sure I understand what the manifest info is local: the package installed remote: the

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-16 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.comwrote: The transactions are all taken in spirit from real problems, but made as simple as possible. The repodata is all cut down to the bare minimum. Are you sure you didn't cut it down so much that you are hiding problems

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-16 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Jef Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.comwrote: The transactions are all taken in spirit from real problems, but made as simple as possible. The repodata is all cut down to the bare minimum

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-16 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.comwrote: The transactions are all taken in spirit from real problems, but made as simple as possible. The repodata is all cut down to the bare minimum. Uhm your repomd.xml in your repodata directory in git appears to have the

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-16 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.comwrote: I'm assuming you've done this already. are there particular test transactions where yum comes up with a different solution than zif using your cutdown repodata that you would like to draw my attention to? No, I've

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-17 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.comwrote: On 16 September 2011 20:46, Jef Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure you didn't cut it down so much that you are hiding problems that your depsolving rules don't solve well? Did you throw out someone's

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-17 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Jef Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: But putting that aside for a minute. I'm interested in asking zif a series of more complicated real world Fedora repository questions to get a better understanding how your chosen scoring rules currently work in practise

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.atwrote: Richard Hughes wrote: Naa, try the version of zif in F16, or grab the latest upstream SRPM and rebuild it for f15 from here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/fedora/15/SRPMS/ I submitted a Koji scratch

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: Like I said, not true. The grub package is designed to be updateable without requiring an mbr reinstall. What's more is I had a look at the stage1.[hS] files in the grub shipped in FC-1 and RHEL-5, and just like I

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: Can you open a ticket on Red Hat bugzilla please, component zif and attach the output of zif install paprefs -v I've not tested zif on F15 in a lng time and it's probably just a trivial bug. Thanks. Filed : Bug

Re: Zif backport repository for F15 available for testing

2011-09-20 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.atwrote: I hope we can get all the annoyances in zif sorted out soon. Kevin, were you able to reproduce my problem with the official adobe repository? I'm still not sure if my multiple issues with zif depsolving are a problem

Re: Zif backport repository for F15 available for testing

2011-09-20 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.atwrote: Jef Spaleta wrote: Kevin, were you able to reproduce my problem with the official adobe repository? To be honest, I haven't tried it, I've been busy enough filing the bugs for the issues I found myself

Re: Zif backport repository for F15 available for testing

2011-09-22 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.atwrote: (And besides, your example is about the worst you could pick, since if somebody is skilled enough with package management to remove the PackageKit frontend, surely he or she knows what to do if zif wants to pick the

Re: Zif backport repository for F15 available for testing

2011-09-22 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - I'm just trying to test how well zif handles the multple provider case and understand how it makes the judgment on what is installed. There's probably a pretty strong argument to be made

Re: GNOME 3 - font point sizes now scaled?

2011-09-30 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: Or http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-settings-daemon/branches/gnome-2-24/plugins/xsettings/gsd-xsettings-manager.c?view=markup#249 (line 249)? I'm not sure that's relevant for the current codebase. But even so if you

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Let me append The Blame Game. # systemd-analyze blame  32983ms livesys.service  22828ms NetworkManager.service That timing for NM is so vastly different than what I'm seeing on my installed F15 system. I am intrigued. -jef --

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote:  13837ms udev-settle.service  11392ms plymouth-start.service if you use the plot option instead of blame option and produce the svg of the service timing you get a better feel for what Lennart was talking about with regard to the

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: So essentially all that's going on here is 'wait for udev to be done', which is a fairly sensible prerequisite for all manner of other bits of boot. The reasons why udev takes a while to be 'done' are more interesting

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is. No..that's not it.. that is the starting point necessary to understand the udev differences between the two systems. It is not a dissection. To understand what is happening with udev across those systems you have to

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Kay Sievers kay.siev...@vrfy.org wrote: There is no general rule, but anything that calls 'udevadm settle' is suspicious and should be carefully checked if it does not rely on assumptions which just bet on luck and can't reliably work in hotplug setups. Kay,

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Obviously you embed radar in every projector. Quite possible to do with existing off the shelf ultrasonic or diode laser telemetry being used for DYI robotic range finding. In fact you can get ones that use i2c for data

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-14 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:43 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: There are people that use their keys for more than one machine. You people make it sound like it is so easy to change keys. It is *NOT* PERIOD. Well if fedora infrastructure asked us to use gpg keys for ssh auth, and we all

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-14 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: I've looked a little at monkeysphere this morning and it looks interesting.  It'd be nice if at least the FI folks could publish the host keys for the Fedora systems using monkeysphere.  I plan on giving monkeysphere a good

Re: Taking a two-week holiday

2011-10-14 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:19:19PM +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: Thanks Jussi.  For your and other contributors' reference, we have a [[Vacation]] wiki page where this information can be added as well.  I took the

Re: systemd - standard place to run stuff after the network is up?

2011-10-20 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: No, it's an attempt to explain a general concept and not to point the finger at anyone. Because as soon as you provide specifics, someone will feel offended, get defensive, and refuse to listen to the general

Re: systemd - standard place to run stuff after the network is up?

2011-10-20 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: On anything more complex a new connexion will usually be established in addition to the existing ones, and will have a specific pre-set configuration. For example, a port can be dedicated to guest systems, or

Re: systemd - standard place to run stuff after the network is up?

2011-10-20 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: The problem is mostly integration with networked apps, which are either of the 'network can be up or not, if it's up always do foo' kind, or the 'can manage multiple networks, but expects all of them to exist at

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Shipping bug-free software is the job of maintainers. It's reasonable to ask a reporter to take an issue upstream if you feel that that'll result in the bug being fixed faster, but there's no reason to mandate that and

Re: Review beg (netcdf libs)

2011-11-09 Thread Jef Spaleta
Yikes. I'll try real real hard to do this tonight after I get home if noone beats me to it. -jef On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: Not sure I have time to do a swap, but I need the following reviews done:

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Jef Spaleta
2011/11/22 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? I can't speak for anyone else. But for me I'm more than willing to see other contributors work with me to fix things in packages that I own. I'll even

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-28 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: that is not the point You are missing the point as well. Regardless of whether or not you have a valid gripe about rpmfusion's volunteer effort... this is absolutely not the place to voice your concerns. It is very

Re: Unresponsive maintainer Jef Spaleta - Unpushed security update for 91 days

2012-10-05 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: Ugh. Shall I unpush those from going stable then until this is figured? Sorry about that... I am a firm believer in the Pottery Barn rule. You break it you buy it. If you feel this is important enough of a security fix to

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-15 Thread Jef Spaleta
It seems there is a new upstream for revelation as of March this year. I'll poke at them a little bit to see what's going on. It's been a while since there has been an active upstream for this codebase. Here's a thought... what's Debian's policy concerning security issues is packages with a

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-15 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 10:56 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: It seems there is a new upstream for revelation as of March this year.  I'll poke at them a little bit to see what's going on.  It's been a while since there has

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-15 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Jef Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 10:56 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: It seems there is a new upstream for revelation as of March this year.  I'll poke at them

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-15 Thread Jef Spaleta
So yeah... revelation is back to being entirely noarch python again. Is bouncing a package from arch to noarch as an update going to cause problems? -jef On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 11:14 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: On Fri

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-15 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Well, not so much exit as shutdown. It seems to frequently throw an exception of some kind on shutdown, which seems to block up the shutdown process until you dismiss the error dialog. Maybe it's Just Me (TM)

Thoughts on Canonical's Quickly

2012-06-15 Thread Jef Spaleta
I poked a little bit and I got quickly up and running partially on an F16 system. I say partially because I can't use all the exposed commands in the ubuntu application template because some of the commands aimed at publication require a coherent debian system configuration to make a local .deb

Re: Default image target size [Was:Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)]

2012-06-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Again anything that gets handed out at various events should be considered release blockers since the quality of that product reflects back at us as a community thus if an relevant SIG cannot cover it's own release

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-06-20 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: Thats not true (and I've used tmpfs for tmp for years, so I'm speaking from experience)— tmpfs is backed by swap on demand. Just add the space that you would have used for /tmp to your swap. I am _very_ concerned about

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-06-20 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: Tmpfs volumes have a size set as a mount option. The default is half the physical ram (not physical ram plus swap). You can change the size with a remount. When its full, its full, like any other filesystem Okay that

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-24 Thread Jef Spaleta
at 12:17 PM, Tom London seli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Jef Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: Rawhide target scratch build of the upstream tree with the fix. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4191839 I have done a local build and test on an F16

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-24 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Jef Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: Users with existing revelation configurations can blow away .gconf/apps/revelation and relogin to avoid the errors and reconfig revelation in the process. But clearly that is not optimal.  If there is a packaging mechanism

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-24 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Tom London seli...@gmail.com wrote: Haven't checked the crypto changes, but I do notice this spew when I try 'Edit-Preferences': Okay I think I have the GConf scriptlets fixed: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4191873 On local testing.

Re: Revelation password manager issue

2012-06-25 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon pin...@pingoured.fr wrote: I had a number of problem with guake and its gconf schema, so after discussion here I added this to the spec file: %posttrans killall -HUP gconfd-2 /dev/null || : That pretty much forces gconf to reload. Uhm

Re: prelink should not mess with running executables

2012-07-15 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com wrote: That prelink is being run on battery I repeat is a bug of cron. I had a script to disable such jobs automatically, I do it by hand nowadays. Generally speaking do we have a cron-like service that knows how to

Re: prelink should not mess with running executables

2012-07-15 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: A means for authenticating a filesystem domain socket's peer. Receive the peer's credentials, then check /proc/pid/exe and /proc/self/exe. If they're same, the daemon is talking to another instance of itself. The

Re: prelink should not mess with running executables

2012-07-16 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Scott Schmit i.g...@comcast.net wrote: And what's the pathname of a deleted file? Like it or not, that's a real possibility (normal as opposed to the result of an error condition or a bug), even if it's possibly not typical. [details snipped] It gives you your

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jussi Lehtola jussileht...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:49:15 +0200 Antonio Trande anto.tra...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/7/19 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) ngomp...@gmail.com This morning, I woke up to the news that a group of developers have managed

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Nelson Marques nmo.marq...@gmail.com wrote: Are you ready to accept patches on GTK+ and potentially on Xorg that were declined from upstream? This should be your initial thoughts! Can you point me to the relevant discussion for any critical functionality

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Nelson Marques nmo.marq...@gmail.com wrote: I've asked Ken to provide me some additional info on this; I will mail tomorrow or during the weekend the links to this list. Let's get an accurate picture of what is actually left for vendor patches before we decide

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Nelson Marques nmo.marq...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not involved in this project anyway; If you can put me into direct contact with someone who is actively involved I'd be more than happy to discuss a potential roadmap towards a submittable set of packages, either

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Note for the record - I'm perfectly willing to give up my maintainership of the few packages I own from my old abortive effort to package Unity. I have bamf, libindicator and probably one or two others I forgot about.

Re: OBS Fedora

2012-07-28 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: He seems to be talking about a web interface that lets you edit specs and submit builds - some kind of basic text editor webapp hooked up to the spec repository, I guess. I don't know if we need a webapp. But some

Re: mock deletes logs on successful package build?

2011-12-06 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Weirdly I am seeing that mock (1.1.18 on a rhel 6 machine) is now deleting the logs if a package rebuilds successfully. The logs are not deleted if the package fails to complete building. I've looked at

Re: P2P Packaging/Koji Cloud

2011-12-07 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:12 AM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Bandwidth is the big concern for the end user here and then the other issue is  - is all of this worth it for building pkgs? I don't think it is, personally, pkg building is not that huge of a hit, afaict to getting

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: nonsense they HAD the manpower to do this rebuilds for so.114 to so.115 so WTF why they jumping to a outdated version instead so.119? doing such nonsense and after that whine about to few manpower is a little bit

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-24 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:13 AM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: So how did Arch Linux cope with that particular set of changes?  I suppose Arch Linux collapsed never to recover?  I think not! It would behoove the argument you are making if you could write up the summary of how Arch

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-25 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Nathanael Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: So far I've seen lots of discussion about can we do it, but no proposal nor any real set of why it would be better. Does it reduce packaging work? Does it do X Y Z? Why would I *want* a rolling release? So far I'm not

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: 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

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

2012-01-26 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Jef Spaleta wrote: required patches to gtk and core gnome components that are not acceptable to upstream are basically a non-starter. Well, we could do what openSUSE did and just ship this in an unofficial repo

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

2012-01-27 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: if you finally want have /bin as symlink forever this whole change is only wasted time and makes no sense at all If you haven't read the new summary write-up on the benefits of the /user feature that I think you would

Re: Rolling release Fedora - fantastic idea

2012-01-30 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Noah Hall noah.h...@fuduntu.org wrote: Fuduntu Dev here. One question for you with your Fuduntu Dev hat on. Is Fuduntu is still using a Gnome 2 derived desktop experience? Assuming that is true. And please correct me if it is not. Can you point me to any

Re: filesystem

2012-02-04 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:10 PM, darrell pfeifer darrel...@gmail.com wrote: If you continue to repeat the eating babies myth then it will become self-fulfilling. I would humbly suggest that use of future tense is that sentence is overly optimistic and is misleading. I think that sentence above

Re: /usrmove?

2012-02-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: The objectives of the Alpha release are to:    Publicly release installable media versions of a feature complete test release    Test accepted features of Fedora 17    Identify as many F17Beta blocker bugs as

Re: /usrmove?

2012-02-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 12:49 -0900, Jef Spaleta wrote: And in this scope. Inability to upgrade would be such a Beta blocker, methinks. Sure. But the above doesn't mean that beta and final blockers should be *fixed

Re: /usrmove?

2012-02-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: Personally, I think f16 was a very stable boring release. There were rough spots, but there always are. I'm still pretty sure we are doing better introducing subsystem transitions now than the pain of the initial udev transition

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-10 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: F15 was the first Linux i saw where reboot did not work until you typed kill 1 while praying! Can you point me to a bug report from you or anyone else that has been confirmed by at least one other person? I personally

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-10 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: In any case, badmouthing systemd for an upgrade bug where it actually works fine *when you're really running F15* doesn't seem right.  I wouldn't have had this problem if it'd installed off the Live CD or done a fresh

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-10 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: no i can not because it is a one-shot thing to do yum distro-sync and so i had no time for a bugrport while other more important things like mysqld were horrible broken Let me strongly suggest, that unfiled problems

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-10 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Jon Ciesla limburg...@gmail.com wrote: I've been yum upgrading since FC1.  I didn't see that.  I was also running a mysql server. Maybe you should file a bug report noting that yum upgrade worked for you. I personally think that is a bug. unsupported workflows

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-10 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Jon Ciesla limburg...@gmail.com wrote: Dammit.  I knew I was doing something wrong.  I'd better set those machines on fire. youtube video or it didnt happen. -jef -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-10 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 19:02 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote: On 02/10/2012 07:00 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: The one-time case - 'the first time you go from systemd X to systemd Y, the system won't shut down cleanly' -

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-10 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Scott Doty sc...@ponzo.net wrote: Sez who? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Server I don't see the word production on that page. I can imagine the existence of non-production servers which would not invalidate anything said on that page. -jefI'm not even

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-10 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: What is the exact symptoms encapsulated in not shutdown cleanly? can not connect to systembus or some connection refused somewhat in this direction apologizes to the list. I meant to ask Adam that in private email,

Re: User session printing

2012-03-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Tim Waugh (twa...@redhat.com) said: For a plain network printer, where the printer might not be able to accept the job while it's busy processing others, you might have to queue the job and retry it later.  So if you are

Re: User session printing

2012-03-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
2012/3/8 Miloslav Trmač m...@volny.cz: The lazy answer to both is fail, or not, the same way as cups currently fails, or not (in fact, could the session printing service simply be cups that treats the system instance as another remote server?). If we were looking for the lazy answer, we'd

Re: User session printing

2012-03-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
2012/3/8 Miloslav Trmač m...@volny.cz: Right... I just wanted to make sure that any potential work on user session printing is not discouraged by adding requirements that are not currently satisfied with the system daemon. Of course. That wasn't meant as stop energy. If those situations have a

Re: User session printing

2012-03-09 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com wrote: Yes, exactly, and that is what I'm suggesting.  For printing entirely in the user session it is a case of using an alternative to using CUPS running on the local machine, so that means: a) no filters or drivers; the job

Re: F16: last superblock write time in future

2012-03-26 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: i notice this since upgraded to Fedora 16 on mostly all virtual machines while i have never seeen this with F15 how to track down and for which component file a bugreport?

Re: F16: last superblock write time in future

2012-03-26 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Jef Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: i notice this since upgraded to Fedora 16 on mostly all virtual machines while i have never seeen this with F15 how to track down and for which

Re: F16: last superblock write time in future

2012-03-26 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: the document above is hughe outdated Oh well. Nevermind then. Good luck correcting your configs -jef -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-03 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Nathanael D. Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: How bout adding/changing the icon for installing? Can we not include some text in the icon? Install Fedora somehow?? Actually... would it make sense to force a notification event about the install option on live CD

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