Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-30 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 10:57 +0200, drago01 wrote: Well in gnome 3.2 (which should be out for F16) extensions will be like firefox extensions i.e you go to extensions.gnome.org and click install to install an extension. Distro packaged extensions are frowned upon upstream. So, just so I

Fedora 15 ARM hardfp Virtual FAD (Fedora Activity Day) - TODAY

2011-08-26 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, We are hosting another one of our regular Fedora 15 hardfp Virtual Fedora Activity Day today Friday August 26th 2011, at 14:00UTC (10:00 Eastern Daylight Time). The purpose of this session is to co-ordinate the continued bootstrap of F15 hardfp (hardware floating point). Previously, we

Re: Fedora 15 ARM hardfp Virtual FAD (Fedora Activity Day) - TODAY

2011-08-26 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 09:51 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: To participate, visit the following link: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedora-arm/f15hardfp/bootstrap/rootfs_stage4_20110825/ Follow the instructions contained within the readme file to extract the uboot, boot, and root archives

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

2011-08-28 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 09:51 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: To participate, visit the following link: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedora-arm/f15hardfp/bootstrap/rootfs_stage4_20110825/ Just a quick update that we've had mock builders running around the clock and that, at last count we had

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

2011-08-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:13 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Jon Masters j...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 09:51 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: To participate, visit the following link: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedora-arm/f15hardfp/bootstrap

Re: GNOME 3 - font point sizes now scaled?

2011-10-04 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 12:56 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: More to the point, your DPI numbers would be per-output anyway, so there's no picking a single point size preference, the same size in pixels would be different sizes in millimeters on each output. In fairness, for my dual head setup I

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 13:54 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 11:46 -0400, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: Grovelling around in the F15 xorg-server sources and reviewing the Xorg log file on my F15 box, I see, with _modern hardware_ at least, that we do have the monitor geometry

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 16:20 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: How about EDID as it exists today. Since you're able to so beautifully explain what the pitfalls are, I'd assume you've raised this with the VESA and asked

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 12:12 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 11:14 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 13:54 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: EDID does not reliably give you the size of the display. How about EDID as it exists today. Since you're able to so

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Architecture - Package Updates in git

2011-11-15 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 13:19 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: 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

Request update of shared-mime-info

2011-11-21 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, Can someone please push the update that I made (with permission) to shared-mime-info? I'm getting jcm does not have commit access when I try to make the F16 update. This fix is required to actually be able to play many MP3 files (including all purchased from Amazon.com) on F16. Tested

Re: Request update of shared-mime-info

2011-11-22 Thread Jon Masters
Hi Bastien, Thanks for your help with this. I'm glad a fix is in upstream now. On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 11:12 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 14:36 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: Folks, Can someone please push the update that I made (with permission) to shared-mime-info? I'm

Re: Request update of shared-mime-info

2011-11-22 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 15:37 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: I believe any MP3 file containing a uits tag will be affected. This is the Unique Identifier Technology Solution, which appears to be required by a number of media distributors. Therefore, I believe (but have not confirmed yet

Any interest in an or1ksim package?

2011-12-04 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, Anyone interested in an or1ksim package for Fedora? If so, I could throw something together based on upstream trunk. None of the current releases (even the RC) are able to run the orpsoc model correctly with the latest upstream kernel, due to the assumption of support for tap network

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-16 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 13:39 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: Would an 8[1] month cycle cause fewer slips per release? Fewer bugs? Personally, I'd like to see a 9-12 month cycle. Much as I'm sure everyone out there instantly upgrades every system the moment a new release comes out, and doesn't mind a

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-16 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 18:35 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 15:48:14 -0700, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Meanwhile, back in the real world, it is effectively impossible to use all sorts of useful websites without Javascript enabled. Even for Then

Re: is swf open format

2010-08-17 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 02:32 -0400, Naveen Kumar wrote: Can we use .swf files to develop open source applications? I strongly doubt that this is a good idea. There are non-Adobe runtimes, but to get most of the good stuff you need to lock into their one. It's much worse than trying to get a

Re: yum appmarket

2010-08-19 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 11:46 -0400, seth vidal wrote: I mentioned this on: http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/fedora-app-market-proof-of-concept/ Nice. This is cool. Perhaps one of the TG folks here can also whip out a prototype web page view of apps, with a logo having a screenshot a la

Re: yum appmarket

2010-08-19 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:06 -0400, seth vidal wrote: There is a web app store in PackageDB, which seems to have all of this: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ yes, I know. And you'll notice that the pkgdb can generate a sqlite db of tags and ranking info that yum can use if the

Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

2010-08-20 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 16:55 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 03:46:11AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: The lesser of 2 evils is no solution. Only NO evil at all will keep the user's freedom. Users should NEVER use proprietary software, be it as JavaScript or using a

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-23 Thread Jon Masters
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:10 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: I know its been discussed in the past but there's been reasons not to drop a default MTA but now that cronie (the last actual dependency)

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:54 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: Whatever we do please make it an option NOT to have any window splat on the screen anywhere - let it stay in the system tray and not interfere with my work. It gets worse. I frequently come back to a desktop on which my girlfriend

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-23 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 20:37 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:15:11PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: What's the benefit of having no default MTA at all? Is it that Desktop users don't care about MTAs being installed? what about those of us who care more about server

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:09 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:58:50AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Why are you complaining? If your package needs an MTA - put in a Requires! If we follow the general state of things: if a package might need something, toss it in as

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:36 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:19 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: My previous objection was based on the precedent it sets. I don't want a Desktop distribution in Fedora. I want a server-usable distribution. Sure, it's just a dep and one

Re: systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-24 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 15:16 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de said: On Tue, 24.08.10 15:55, Matthew Miller (mat...@mattdm.org) wrote: This is a very big change. chkconfig has worked for a long, long time. Its elegance and simplicity is one

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 17:54 -0400, seth vidal wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:52 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:43:49PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: that seems like a bit of odd logic. The logs are emitted to syslog with the same thought in mind - that someone

Re: systemd and changes

2010-08-24 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 02:44 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Isn't network needed for people who don't run NetworkManager? The idea is that everybody should run NM. :-) When it works reliably in all situations. I get a choice. Usually, I will have NetworkManager installed on a

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-25 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:23 +0100, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: I have an MTA installed because I expect to get emailed logs, and root@ does go somewhere. Now, there are a couple of things I should admit: 1). I

Re: systemd or why will user fall away from fedora?

2010-08-25 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 12:20 +0200, Christof Damian wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 23:06, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Till Maas wrote: If they like a faster bootup, then yes, they will. And I as a workstation user like it. [citation needed] I asked

Re: systemd or why will user fall away from fedora?

2010-08-25 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 17:06 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I reboot virtual machines all the time, certainly 100 times a day would not be unusual on a work day. Not an argument for or against systemd BTW, just an observation that how you use your computer is not how others use their

Re: systemd or why will user fall away from fedora?

2010-08-25 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 18:37 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:31:30AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: [...@constitution ~]$ uptime 09:28:22 up 24 days, 16:32, 9 users, load average: 1.17, 0.50, 0.37 So you're running an insecure kernel? Our security churn is bad

Re: systemd and changes

2010-08-26 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:08 +, Matej Cepl wrote: With the old network service it was still possible to manually use iwconfig and wpa-supplicant and therefore WPA. Or to create a OpenVPN tunnel, which I would prefer more than using WPA in terms of security. But with NetworkManager

Re: systemd and changes

2010-08-26 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 11:17 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: Great. It works fine on a laptop, in general. But on a desktop/server/workstation that is connected for weeks at a time (like mine), I don't want to have to do

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

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 19:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: My hunch is that a couple thousand a week are probably due to cable modems or laptops moving to addresses we simply haven't seen before. That's about how many new IPs appear for Fedora 7 or Rawhide each week.

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

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 17:54 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 16:37 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Ah yes, attack the symptom and not the disease. Yay. Let me let you in on a secret. Most people (and by which I mean, those not on this list) generally don't like re

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

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 15:23 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Again, I feel it is necessary to have a survey of Fedora users. Preferably annually. And listen to the feedback. If they say yep, we just love the churn, the number of updates and so forth, then fine. If they say actually we'd like less

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

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 15:47 -0700, Bob Arendt wrote: I think it would be much better for Fedora to decide what it *should* be, specifically what the Fedora userspace should be, and excel at that. Don't follow the market or worry about being the most popular distro (unless that's really a goal

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

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 18:39 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 15:23 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Again, I feel it is necessary to have a survey of Fedora users. Preferably annually. And listen to the feedback. If they say yep, we just love the churn, the number of updates

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

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 18:00 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Jon Masters wrote: But I feel it is design by committee now, just the Open Source version. A small group of people (f-d-l and similar) arbitrarily decide what the userbase wants without asking them, and based

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

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 17:00 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:52:30 -0400 Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: So I'm filing another FESCo ticket as I type this. They can decide to reject my proposal again, in which case I will bring it up with the Fedora Board

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

2010-08-30 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 09:03 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/28/2010 09:25 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: The cynic in me would expect that the people who want something different than the fire hose we have now are silently

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

2010-08-30 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 21:56 +0200, Sven Lankes wrote: As I've said, on systems not directly connected I just don't bother doing updates ever. I suspect before too long some effort will get formed to do a more stable version of Fedora Don't we already have that in F n-1? Even that isn't

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

2010-08-30 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 12:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: We had a distro that was pretty general purpose, worked for servers and desktops and even laptops. We had a predictable schedule. It's called Laissez-faire meets reality. Right now we have a lot of free market philosophy in Fedora that

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

2010-08-30 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 23:11 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Now, if we Fedora should be a distribution that developers enjoy using, there will be an updates firehose - and most developers won't mind too much. If Fedora should be a distribution that developers can install on their grandparents'

Re: rawhide rocks! [was Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)]

2010-08-30 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 19:52 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:30:44PM -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote: I've moved from being a rawhide junkie to a koji junkie. I've been in that mode for the last five or six years. My experience has been that rawhide is most unstable just

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

2010-08-30 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 18:58 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:11:06PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: What Fedora advertised is ..., Features, First - that's a developer's distro; Fedora was never M million happy users, growing X% annually. For what it's worth: the

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

2010-08-30 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 23:56 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:11:06 +0200, you wrote: A typical developer wants the dependencies of the software they are working on to be _very_ up to date -

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

2010-08-31 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:47 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:33 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Where do you see somebody proposing that no updates be issued? Where do you see somebody proposing a setup where fixing a graphics card can't be done in the stable release

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

2010-08-31 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 18:18 +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 17:39:11 Jesse Keating wrote: On 8/31/10 6:57 AM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in updates-testing An update that changes behavior for the end user would

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

2010-08-31 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 13:45 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:41 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Great stuff. And there's more in there too. So the current User_base in addition to being not very well linked and referenced could hardly be described as reflecting all of the views

Re: NM during install - howto setup on boot?

2010-09-07 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 16:57 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: I was participating in the Systemd Fedora Test Day and installed the latest Fedora 14 build. I found a few problems (I will file bugs) but before I file a bug about NetworkManager, can someone please tell me how I'm supposed to configure

Re: NM during install - howto setup on boot?

2010-09-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 12:55 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 17:00 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 16:57 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: I was participating in the Systemd Fedora Test Day and installed the latest Fedora 14 build. I found a few problems (I

something's up with auth in rawhide

2010-09-14 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, Just did an install of rawhide from today using mirrors.kernel.org and F14-Alpha installer media for the Anaconda runtime. 1). There is no default runlevel 2). I'm dropped into a confused shell on boot. 3). User accounts such as root are not recognized after init 3 4). init 5 starts gdm

Re: something's up with auth in rawhide

2010-09-14 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 16:23 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: 1). There is no default runlevel 2). I'm dropped into a confused shell on boot. 3). User accounts such as root are not recognized after init 3 4). init 5 starts gdm and I can then login as normal. It might just be broken deps

15 or rawhide?

2010-09-14 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, I was going to file an automated bug report, but it wants to file against 15, which doesn't exist, rather than Rawhide (which obviously does). I can email and ask for a version 15 to be added to Bugzilla, etc. but is that the solution, or should ABRT be always realizing to use rawhide and

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-15 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:09 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 22:33 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: I really don't see the point. A forced vote is not better than no vote (can easily be worse). As far as I know in most countries actual laws are passed by whoever is present in

Re: 15 or rawhide?

2010-09-15 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 14:04 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: Nils Philippsen said the following on 09/15/2010 03:28 AM Pacific Time: On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 17:13 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: Shouldn't ABRT be looking to a file like /etc/fedora-release to determine the release version?

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-15 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 21:54 -0500, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: btw, I think Kyle said earlier he's standing aside. So does that mean there now is a new FESCo election? No, FESCo has policies in place to deal with this situation

Re: Broadcom wifi drivers in F-14?

2010-09-16 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 12:41 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:20 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:05 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: The Broadcom position seems to be entirely crack-inspired, if it's based on the notion that a binary driver

Re: Broadcom wifi drivers in F-14?

2010-09-16 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:53 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 10:34 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.orgwrote: Well, the US law of the land

Re: 15 or rawhide?

2010-09-16 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 12:26 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: The question I have for the abrt folks, is there any code that would lead to a bug being filed for rawhide? If so, how is that code triggered? I believe they claimed it was through parsing for Rawhide in the release string value. I think

rawhide: upstart-sysvinit replacing systemd-sysvinit?

2010-09-16 Thread Jon Masters
Hello, I know, systemd got reverted for F-14. But unless I missed something, the plan is/was to keep it the default for F-15, and in rawhide. This means the package dependencies need to be different in rawhide please. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: rawhide: upstart-sysvinit replacing systemd-sysvinit?

2010-09-16 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 00:11 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: I know, systemd got reverted for F-14. But unless I missed something, the plan is/was to keep it the default for F-15, and in rawhide. This means the package dependencies need to be different in rawhide please. Obviously, I just added

Re: FYI: rawhide now requires systemd to boot by default

2010-09-17 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 14:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: While upstart is still in the repo, the initscripts package now pulls in systemd and systemd-sysvinit. Hey, thanks Bill. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 14:54 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: 2010/9/20 Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com: On 09/20/2010 01:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:56:56 +0200 Michał Piotrowski wrote: You can blacklist the firewall modules - it can be critical :) Actually, I

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 20:57 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: W dniu 20 września 2010 20:47 użytkownik drago01 drag...@gmail.com napisał: 2010/9/20 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com: W dniu 20 września 2010 20:03 użytkownik drago01 drag...@gmail.com napisał: Why? The file is obsolete

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-20 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 21:58 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: 2010/9/20 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com: 2010/9/21 Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com: As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and as users) grows, this interdependence will grow. Ok, so maybe

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-20 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 00:29 -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:58:53 -0400, you wrote: 2010/9/20 Micha? Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com: Ok, so maybe it's time to setup Fedora backports repo for these that wants new and shiny Firefox 4, PostgreSQL 9 or whatever with big

Re: Fedora backports repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-21 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 10:59 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/21/2010 07:20 AM, Brandon Lozza wrote: One thing I wanted to point out. Windows users get to install the latest Firefox, KDE, and other apps without having

GNOME notification icons?

2010-10-07 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, On current rawhide (perhaps caused by upgrade from F14 beta), I'm getting a few weirdly broken icons for notification applets. Those applets then crash when moused over or clicked on with a SEGV that looks to be caused by it not finding the correct icon (I did file an ABRT bug last night

systemd service timeout with kdump

2010-10-07 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, It would seem that systemd employs some kind of arbitrary timeout (30 seconds?) by default and will log operation timed out. Terminating if things take longer than this time to start up. I would like to know how to increase this timeout, or to (preferably) disable it entirely. Certain

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-11 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 17:39 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: Comparing the Ubuntu 10.04 DVD installer (which I use a couple of weeks ago) to Fedora 13 DVD installer is like comparing the Cessna to a Boeing 747. Sure, both can accomplish the same task. Read: transporting people from one airport to

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-11 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 12:51 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:44:49 -0500, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: I think that is a misfeature. I don't want anything irreversible to be done until I say go. You know that Fedora has done partitioning/mkfs

Re: upstart in rawhide

2010-10-15 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 16:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 01:13 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Petr Lautrbach wrote: systemd will be default init system in Fedora 15 and scripts infrastructure will be adapted to it. There is a plan to leave upstart in Fedora as

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 08:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Richard W.M. Jones (rjo...@redhat.com)

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:09 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/09/2010 10:05 AM, Jon Masters wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 08:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote

Re: MPI updates

2012-11-11 Thread Jon Masters
On 11/01/2012 11:08 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: - I built openmpi 1.6.3 in rawhide yesterday. This had an unexpected bump in the libmpi_f90.so soname. I know this affects hdf5 and netcdf-fortran, both my packages and I'll be rebuilding them later today (hopefully). On that, I've made a

Re: Fedora ARM status meeting 2012-12-05

2012-12-05 Thread Jon Masters
On 12/05/2012 02:39 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: I can't make the meeting. It conflicts with the Board meeting. Current items on the agenda: 1) Current Problem packages 2) F18 ARM VFAD - additional feedback, blockers? 3) Ownership of non-release blocking images (Beagleboard XM, etc) Who

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-05 Thread Jon Masters
On 12/05/2012 04:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: Three things: 1) Fedora is big enough that we have concrete situations where one size doesn't fit all. Puppet being broken on F17 (and probably F18 as well) is a fine example of something

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-07 Thread Jon Masters
On 12/06/2012 01:00 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 22:25 -0600, Michael Ekstrand wrote: On 12/05/2012 03:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: Three things: 1) Fedora is big enough that we have concrete situations where one size

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-07 Thread Jon Masters
On 12/07/2012 12:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 10:40:13AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: We could draw them between Core and Extras! :) Note that just because we got rid of Core doesn't mean that it was a bad idea. Ubuntu even adopted a Core of their own a while back. Maybe

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-09 Thread Jon Masters
On 12/06/2012 10:38 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: People are annoyed to go to different bugzilla to report bugs, people are annoyed to go to different shops to shop for stuff ( as seen by the success of amazon, or even itunes, etc ), so why would it make sense to have a different way depending

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-11 Thread Jon Masters
On 12/09/2012 03:32 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: snip Having one repo and refusing commercial software are 2 different issues. Really, they're not though. The problem is that stuff is shipped in-distro and builds deps on core packages, and those packages are revved in a symbiotic relationship

Fedora ARM status meeting 2012-12-12

2012-12-12 Thread Jon Masters
Hello, This week's Fedora ARM status will take place today (Wednesday, Dec 12th) in #fedora-meeting-1 on Freenode. I will run the meeting as Paul is out sick today. Please ping with additional topics on IRC also. Times in various time zones (please let us know if these do not work on an ongoing

Fedora ARM status meeting 2012-12-19

2012-12-19 Thread Jon Masters
Hello, This week's Fedora ARM status will take place today (Wednesday, Dec 12th) in #fedora-meeting-1 on Freenode. I will run the meeting with Brendan as Paul is on PTO today. Please ping us on #fedora-arm with additional topics on IRC also. I will be at the dentist soon, so Brendan may start the

Fedora ARM status meeting minutes for 2012-12-19

2012-12-21 Thread Jon Masters
Hi everyone, I would like to share the minutes from yesterday's Fedora ARM meeting. In particular, those on devel@ might be interested in our desire to discuss PA at FUDCon. At FUDCon, we will have a 24 node Calxeda EnergyCore (highbank) server that will demonstrate various capabilities of the

Re: [fedora-arm] FUDCon ARM related followup

2013-01-22 Thread Jon Masters
Always was done with yaboot. Do we know if OLPC will move to UEFI? -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse formatting and brevity. Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora

Re: Proposal: /lib/init/rw

2010-02-04 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 11:09 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: I would like to follow debian and add a tmpfs to /lib/init/rw , which would serve as a transition from initramfs to real root for files from daemons, which need to transition from initramfs, like mdmon, dmeventd, rpc.statd, etc. FYI,

Re: Name that Tree!

2010-02-16 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 16:45 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: As part of no frozen rawhide, we'll have a new tree on the mirrors, pub/fedora/linux/development/13 That's where we'll be putting things that are tagged for the release after they get through testing. We don't yet have a clever name for

gconf settings for gdm login

2010-02-22 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, What's up with the login screen on rawhide these days? It's defaulting to no longer listing available users. I can see security sensitive reasons for this, but it's a behavior change - is it intentional? Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: gconf settings for gdm login

2010-02-23 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 07:51 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le lundi 22 février 2010 à 19:05 -0800, John Reiser a écrit : On 02/22/2010 03:07 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: There is much worse - it does not let you set the keyboard layour anymore, so anyone in a non-qwerty locale will have a

debuginfo default install

2010-02-25 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, It seems most days now something breaks and I want to debug it, but then have to debuginfo-install. Is there a way to tell yum to always pull in the corresponding debuginfo packages whenever it installs something? Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

gnome-desktop meta package

2010-03-02 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, I just did a SPARC install (thanks to Dennis for the assistance too) and elected only for a very minimal install. I then decided to add GNOME bits just to see what worked for curiosity. I did an yum install gnome-desktop, thinking this would pull in nautilus, etc. I don't think this is a

Re: gnome-desktop meta package

2010-03-02 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 02:44 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: I just did a SPARC install (thanks to Dennis for the assistance too) and elected only for a very minimal install. I then decided to add GNOME bits just to see what worked for curiosity. I did an yum install gnome-desktop, thinking

Re: Worthless updates

2010-03-03 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 21:07 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Jesse Keating wrote: Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but here is the kicker. The perl in F11 is perl-5.10.0-82.fc11. So these functions aren't actually deprecated in F11. So... why

PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-08 Thread Jon Masters
Folks, I will propose this to FESCo through their normal channels. My proposal is that we create a Fedora User Survey and create a link on the fp.o website with a few very simple questions. One of those questions would be what users think about the current update policy, using plain (and as

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:26 -0500, Luke Macken wrote: I think a much better solution would be to require similar critical path policies, across *all* releases, not just pending ones, while still allowing non-critpath packages to go directly to stable. That is an acceptable fallback. But just

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 14:01 -0500, Luke Macken wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:48:42PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:26 -0500, Luke Macken wrote: I think a much better solution would be to require similar critical path policies, across *all* releases, not just

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:30 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Now, there's a reasonable argument that says that Fedora users without FAS accounts didn't vote for FESCo, so it's still legitimate to ask *those* users what they think. The impossibility of reaching such a group of users without

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