Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/29/2011 01:57 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: There does exit an [1] rpm and an srpm [2] here by the do we have guidelines on how to package additional extensions I guess official and unofficial ones? The only one we have is at

Re: abiword

2011-08-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/02/2011 11:09 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: If no one steps up to maintain it sure. Upstream is still very much alive as far as I can see. It's just the Fedora package thats lagging. You can ping uwog in #abiword in irc.gimp.net for any future discussions. I just had a quick chat with him and

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-08-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/09/2011 06:45 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: I've made the first WIP release of e2fsprogs 1.42. The primary purpose is for people to test the 64-bit functionality and be confident that we didn't introduce any 32-bit regressions. So in theory you can at least mfks mount a 16T fs and beyond, if

Re: Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/10/2011 07:32 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hello, I'm working on packaging conquest[1] for fedora which can be built against dbase,mysql, postgresql *and* mysql. Which one should I build it against? Should I build it against all of them and make different subpackages?? Did you talk to

RFC: Fedora 16 Alpha release announcement and notes

2011-08-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Feel free to edit the wiki directly or reply here for any additions or corrections https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_Alpha_release_announcement Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: wicd unuseable if NetworkManager still installed?

2011-08-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/13/2011 09:30 PM, Heiko Adams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, is it just me or is wicd unuseable due to several SELinux erors until NetworkManager gets remove completely from the system? What SELinux errors? Do you have a bug report? Rahul -- devel

Re: Ownership of the 'mrepo' package

2011-08-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/16/2011 08:34 PM, Zaniyah wrote: At the moment the mrepo package is deprecated in fedora-devel. I would like to take this package on. I have already got it building and functioning correctly for EPEL6, and was about to submit the fixes upstream when I discovered it was orphaned and

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/17/2011 07:59 PM, Tim Waugh wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble finding a policy on which systemd units may be enabled by default. The case I'm interested in particularly is cups.socket, cups.path, cups.service. What's the current policy, and where can I find it on the wiki?

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/17/2011 08:47 PM, Tim Waugh wrote: I'll leave cups.service out because that's only required for network-enabled configurations -- but perhaps that needs a release note? Tim. */ Yes. You can add it here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Printing_Beat Rahul -- devel mailing

Re: Self Introduction

2011-08-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/19/2011 06:02 AM, Steve Jenkins wrote: Hi - the purpose of this email is to introduce myself as a prospective new package maintainer for Fedora. My recently filed review request is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731898 Hello Steve Jenkins, welcome to Fedora.

Seamonkey status

2011-08-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Seamonkey hasn't been updated in a long time. Someone recently mentioned it in identi.ca and filed a bug report to update it. I was looking into it and the spec doesn't seem to be following the packaging guidelines. Source tarball seems to have created locally and doesn't point to a URL.

Re: Seamonkey status

2011-08-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/20/2011 03:57 PM, Matěj Cepl wrote: Putting Firefox maintainers on CC to have a definite word on this, but I suspect that Seamonkey is generally completely in the arms of community. I guess if anybody wants to take it over formally in pkgdb he would be welcome. Chris and Kai, am I

Re: Anaconda memory requirements

2011-08-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/21/2011 10:51 AM, Aditya Patawari wrote: Use the installer that is available on a Live spin, instead of using anaconda. Arun, lets use live installer. Anaconda won't help in schools. Live, anyway, has its advantages and kids/teachers can check it out before installation. Live installer

Re: pdfedit

2011-08-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/21/2011 09:34 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi, in F15 I could install pdfedit by yum. Anybody knows when this will be possible in F16? It has been orphaned https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/pdfedit So unless someone takes over, no Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/22/2011 05:24 AM, Steve Grubb wrote: Imagine an updated xinetd + upstart. Would that not solve the problems, cause less turmoil, and be more secure? -Steve How? Fedora has talked about moving to systemd much before the Fedora 14 release. It was postponed to Fedora 15, has become the

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/22/2011 06:04 AM, Steve Grubb wrote Sorry, I was very busy at the time. I am just beginning to look to the future and what might be coming my way for RHEL7 common criteria. It is ok to be busy but when you are busy, decisions will be made without your input. You can't complain about

Re: rawhide report: 20110823 changes

2011-08-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/23/2011 07:27 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: How do I get cloudfs out of rawhide/f17? I've retired the package. It's a dead.package in fedora-scm. It's obsoleted by hekafs. What else do I need to do. -- Kaleb File a ticket via https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ and ask rel eng team to

Re: gimp

2011-08-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/24/2011 01:57 AM, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Are there any plans to bring gimp 2.7.x - 2.8 into F16 ? Is there a specific reason to? The home page states that the whole 2.7.x series should be considered unstable. Alright, would then the 2.8.x series be in F16? That depends on when it is

Re: gimp

2011-08-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/24/2011 02:04 AM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: is this a good reason ? http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/23/1355225/The-GIMP-Now-Has-a-Working-Single-Window-Mode Not to push a unstable release without knowing when the stable release will be. Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/24/2011 06:05 AM, JB wrote: Lennart, we are not going to sacrify UNIX/Linux, SysVinit, even systemd (the product of you, your co-developers, and ... imported ideas from one song for one USD company) for your ego, which is larger than life. This type of personal attacks in this list is

Re: Seamonkey status

2011-08-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/22/2011 03:01 AM, Kai Engert wrote: On 20.08.2011 13:59, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/20/2011 03:57 PM, Matěj Cepl wrote: Putting Firefox maintainers on CC to have a definite word on this, but I suspect that Seamonkey is generally completely in the arms of community. I guess if anybody

Re: gimp

2011-08-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/24/2011 05:11 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: It is also utterly ridiculous and pointless if you consider the fact that the Firefox maintainers are allowed to push major (first digit! Not minor like 2.6 to 2.8) version increments as security updates… (Ironically, Firefox used to be one of those

Re: Seamonkey status

2011-08-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/24/2011 05:05 PM, Kai Engert wrote: I would appreciate contributions, reviews, specific proposals. I did note some of the prominent ones in my first mail https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-August/155758.html https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL

Re: gimp

2011-08-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/25/2011 04:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: If Firefox were following the update policy, they'd backport the security fixes, not push the new versions. That is just not true https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Security_fixes If upstream does not provide security fixes for a

Re: License

2011-08-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/26/2011 03:47 AM, Nathan O. wrote: I am looking at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines#License_Text . It sounds to me that upstream must provide the COPYING file. I am reviewing pipebench at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731219 The issue with the

Review swap: GNOME Schedule

2011-08-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Graphical interface to crontab and at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733572 Was retired in Fedora earlier due to dependency on applet. Latest upstream disables applet by default. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Memory requirements

2011-08-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/27/2011 12:17 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: 768 MB!!! When I want to stuff as many VMs onto a virtual machine as possible, RAM usage really matters. Particularly since RAM is currently cheap up to about 8 GB but becomes much more expensive above that (ie. up to about 6 VMs with all

Re: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide

2011-08-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/29/2011 05:24 PM, Karel Zak wrote: I'd like to remove: ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates command from rawhide (F17). IMHO this crazy command is used by very very small minority of Fedora users. Comments? IIRC, you are upstream for this and could do this

Re: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide

2011-08-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/29/2011 07:46 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Otherwise, make ddate a sub package and don't install it by default. Solved? As an upstream the willingness of distributions to strip out commands which I wanted to provide and don't

Re: Memory requirements

2011-08-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/31/2011 09:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Yes, both of those are true. I just get a bit irked that the issue keeps getting raised as if it's some stunning new discovery and the anaconda team has been hideously lax in not caring about it, because it's well-known and they _do_ care about

Ask Fedora - Feature wishlist

2011-08-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi As you might already be aware, I have been working on setting up Ask Fedora, a question and answer based forum based on http://askbot.org. Askbot uses the Django framework written in Python. To better integrate with Fedora and enhance the capabilities further, we have been working on

Transmission and Deluge sysv to systemd

2011-09-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi These two torrent packages includes init scripts for the daemons and need to be converted to systemd. I have been meaning to convert but could use some help. If someone can take a look a look and file a patch, I will be happy to role them in. Thanks Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: Transmission and Deluge sysv to systemd

2011-09-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/07/2011 08:20 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: (I would prefer dropping sysconfig file altogether, like Lennart suggested some time ago. And few other. It should work with only ExecStart= and User= in [Service]). I am fine with dropping the sysconfig file Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: Broken dependencies: pino

2011-09-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/08/2011 04:43 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: Given that several changes are needed, it's probably best for one of the Pino maintainers to make the update (I'd not feel comfortable doing anything more than just adjusting for the libgee changes) Upstream is struck in development stage

Re: Broken dependencies: pino

2011-09-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/08/2011 04:54 PM, Alex Hudson wrote: I would second this. I've got a number of critical bugs still open in Bugzilla about pino; these have been open since before F15 released IIRC and it has been totally unusable (for anyone, as far as I can tell) since then. It's a shame because I was a

Re: Kudos to Tom Spot Callaway

2011-09-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/10/2011 12:15 PM, drago01 wrote: Well it seems upstream isn't really interested in fixing this so if we want chromium in fedora we'd have to ask FESCo for an exception. I agree with that. If Spot is going to maintain it anyway, it might as well as be in the repository and more

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/11/2011 02:13 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: Is not rawhide the sanity check, even if used productively by many? Not many and I think the branch being less fragile would certainly help. If I know my system will still boot and I can access the network and my browser is enough for me to consider

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/12/2011 03:28 PM, Jan F. Chadima wrote: I have caused this affair. Sorry about that. Openssh version 5.9 I tested and I do not understand why the test passed. And my opinion of defective packages in rawhide? I used to regularly downgrade sensitive packages when they are in unstable

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/12/2011 03:39 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: Dne 12.9.2011 12:03, Rahul Sundaram napsal(a): If you maintain any of the critical path packages, it would be very useful to test them more instead of just a mad version number chase. Take a deep breath, count to ten, and then repeat to yourself “S..t

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/12/2011 04:03 PM, Kamil Paral wrote: I haven't read the whole thread, but I also feel the rate of AutoQA development is slow. Unfortunately I don't know how to improve that, since there are just a few people working on it and they are also participating in release validation testing,

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/14/2011 02:59 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: So Fedora guys what you are waiting for ? update systemd please , should I open a report in bugzilla ? I can explain each of your examples but since systemd upstream developer is also the Fedora maintainer, I think he is in a better position to

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/14/2011 05:43 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: Not sure what your point is above .. 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. Don't the updates look pretty sensible? The same

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/14/2011 06:47 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: Good points - up to a point - but lets go slow and think for a few minutes - unlike the kernel which is very hardware dependent and therefore may run on many machines but not all, systemd is no - or should not be for its core functionality. Its a

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/14/2011 10:14 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Really? To my mind, systemd is still on trial ... and it's failing. I think there's a significant probability we'll go to something else in a release or three. It is a small number of people repeating bringing up high risk and frankly silly ideas like

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/14/2011 05:13 PM, Genes MailLists wrote I realize, but that was indeed part of the point of my reply - lets avoid making up things (with or without hyperbole) - and best we can, stick to facts and real issues. You are ignoring the real issue. Since you don't seem to understand my point

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/14/2011 03:37 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: better position to judge is relative Not really. Noone is in a better position to judge the impact of updates more than the upstream developers who also maintain the component in Fedora. yes, updates may introduce new bugs / problems but nobody

Re: [RPM] for Jokosher 0.11.5 (F15 noarch)

2011-09-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/16/2011 02:10 AM, Manuel Escudero wrote: RPM - http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/xenodecdn/jokosher-0.11.5-0.fc15.noarch.rpm SRC.RPM - http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/xenodecdn/jokosher-0.11.5-0.fc15.src.rpm it's a noarch package so it can be installed in both 32 and 64

Re: [RPM] for Jokosher 0.11.5 (F15 noarch)

2011-09-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/16/2011 07:00 AM, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: There is *some* activity on the bug tracker, as well as this post on 2011-May-01: https://answers.launchpad.net/jokosher/+question/155290 Yeah. that is mildly hopeful. I am just worried about the bugs in the latest stable release. I am

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 01:02 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: SAT is pretty awesome, and there are some pretty clever guys who have got it to work really well with zypp. I can't say I understand all the subtle nuances, but it's clearly better than an iterative depsolver with random rules to steer things in

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

2011-09-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 06:33 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Were not? From: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd systemd System and Session Manager That page does answer your question. systemd can work as a session manager but it isn't part of Fedora yet and this particular discussion wasn't about

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 07:08 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ra Unfortunately, zypp has some design flaws of its own. In particular, it spawns the rpm command line as an external process for some operations instead of using librpm as it's supposed to (yet other operations use the library). Nothing that

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

2011-09-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 08:52 AM, Steve Clark wrote: On 09/16/2011 11:03 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 09/17/2011 06:33 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Were not? From: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd systemd System and Session Manager That page does answer your question. systemd can work

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 06:22 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: It's quite funny that you're accusing Richard of being incompatible with yum when the incompatibilities that matter most to our users have been required by yum developers, in particular: * no writing to the yum database by default, * no parsing

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 04:50 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: While I think Fedora would benefit from using zif throughout (mainly because it's in a compiled language, not in Python), I don't agree that this should be a requirement for using zif in PackageKit. PackageKit should use what is best suited for

Re: HEADS-UP libmemcached soname bump in rawhide

2011-09-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 01:08 PM, Remi Collet wrote: I've just upgrade libmemcached to 0.52 which provides libmemcached.so.8 Are you planning to rebuild the dependencies? Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 06:44 PM, Michael Schroeder wrote: libzypp is actually a library on top of libsatsolver (now renamed to libsolv). If you want a lightweight package dependency solver you should probably use libsolv directly. (It also contains python bindings and a simple python demo program which

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 07:53 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote: The near-flamefest on this thread over whose depsolver is the best is largely besides the point: in a perfect world there would be just one Grand Unified Depsolver (library) that everything including rpm itself would use. And in order for rpm to

Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/17/2011 01:02 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: On 16 September 2011 20:02, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: Is Zif a SAT solver? No, but I've been playing a few times with libsatsolver in the past year or so. Since Panu Matilainen has said that he is willing to merge in a depsolver

Askbot - Additional dependencies to be packaged

2011-09-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, The upcoming release of Askbot (used for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ask_fedora) has a number of additional dependencies. Django-registration is already in the repository and was packaged in advance of this but there are still quite a few ones left * akismet - Praveen Kumar has filed a

Re: Askbot - Additional dependencies to be packaged

2011-09-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/20/2011 11:41 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi, The upcoming release of Askbot (used for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ask_fedora) has a number of additional dependencies. Django-registration is already in the repository and was packaged in advance of this but there are still quite a few

Re: Askbot - Additional dependencies to be packaged

2011-09-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/20/2011 05:32 PM, Matthias Runge wrote: Hi, just a short status update: * multi-registry https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739904 * python-wordpress-xmlrpc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739908 * python-import-utils (already reviewed and approved) *

Re: Zif backport repository for F15 available for testing

2011-09-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/23/2011 01:39 AM, Doug Ledford wrote: - Original Message - I can understand in the case where you have some knowledge of what the various package chains do. Such cases do exist. The libibverbs package requires a libibverbs-driver in order to run. Which driver you want

Re: tcplay: BSD-licensed alternative to TrueCrypt

2011-10-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/08/2011 12:55 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Is there any reason to use TrueCrypt, over the whole disk encryption that Fedora already provides? LUKS just works afaict ... Does it? It is not easily accessible for a regular end user and is not cross platform. Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: F15: massive problems with USB3.0

2011-10-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/2011 08:53 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: hi i have two machines with the same USB3 card and massive problems with two different external disks - should this be a bugreport for the kernel? i am wondering about this troubles because AFAIK the

Re: Firefox on Fedora: No longer funny

2011-10-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/09/2011 10:59 PM, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote: I'd prefer a bit less bleeding edge over breaking crucial packages. Sometimes unavoidable due to security issues Rahul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: Firefox on Fedora: No longer funny

2011-10-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/10/2011 03:33 AM, Till Maas wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 11:10:12PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 10/09/2011 10:59 PM, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote: I'd prefer a bit less bleeding edge over breaking crucial packages. Sometimes unavoidable due to security issues Why was it unavoidable

Re: Firefox on Fedora: No longer funny

2011-10-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/10/2011 08:52 PM, Thomas Spura wrote: So there doesn't need to be more co-maintainers (which is welcomed anyway), but it would help to get such updates pushed to stable directly like it was without the forced period in updates-testing or a heads up before doing such an update. I think

Re: BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/20/2011 01:06 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 15:30 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: What did you downgrade to ? AFAIK Several people had to downgrade from -11 because of nsswitch issues ... seem glibc is not in good shape :-( You get to pick your breakage. If glibc

Re: Systemd unit file: Can/Should ExecStart and ExecStop run a script?

2011-10-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/20/2011 03:18 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: That will work for the user, however, I was also going to allow for additional options from the sysconfig file, but $OPTIONS wasn't being expand either. Don't use a sysconfig file. Let the user copy the service file from lib to etc or use the

Re: BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/20/2011 06:05 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: Except that Fedora _has_ been glibc's development platform for as long as I can remember. The Fedora project might not think so, but it's exactly what upstream glibc does. I am aware of this but our policies have changed and either they need to

Re: PDFCrack - empty debuginfo file

2011-10-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/22/2011 12:44 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 22:06 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: On 10/21/2011 07:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: If it's being stripped there's probably a good *reason* for it to be stripped I'd say its much more likely that they're just trying to save

Re: transmission-remote-cli package

2011-10-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/19/2011 03:52 AM, Ben Thompson wrote: I've taken an interest in the development of this project and would like to help maintain it. Therefore I'm looking for someone involved to sponsor/mentor me. I co-maintain this package and can help you get started. Drop me a mail offlist or get

Re: phoronix-test-suite stuck at review

2011-10-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/24/2011 03:17 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737263 FYI, this package looks like it has been stuck in review process for a few months. Do volunteer and help out. You can use a helper tool like https://github.com/timlau/FedoraReview to

Re: New bodhi bugfix release in production

2011-10-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/26/2011 05:27 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: Many CMS systems and the like work in that way. It's also what things like stackoverflow do, for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7901782/war-does-not-start-on-tomcat5-on-redhat-enterprise-server where only the question number really

Re: Vanilla builds guideline?

2011-11-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/01/2011 10:22 PM, Ondrej Vasik wrote: Hi, for better automation of our static analysis tools we would like to have some defined way how to get as close to vanilla as possible build from Fedora srpms If you want this change, you should file a request with FESCo

Re: FESCo Meeting Minutes for 2011-10-31

2011-11-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/02/2011 07:54 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Stephen Gallagher wrote: * #683 - Zif as default PackageKit backend for desktop users - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ZifByDefaultForDesktop (sgallagh, 17:03:32) * AGREED: ZifByDefaultForDesktop is refused as a Feature for Fedora 17

Re: Proposing Fedora Feature for private /tmp and /var/tmp for all systemd services in Fedora 17.

2011-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/08/2011 06:06 PM, Stijn Hoop wrote: Right, I assumed that this would be implemented for every user != root (basically). In other words, also for normal local users. Why is that not part of the proposal? Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Heads Up: FESCo is considering to block packages providing sysvinit services without systemd unit

2011-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/08/2011 07:53 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote: This is still very debatable as it means any update to the unit file in the package will not be reflected on the system anymore. Not if you use .include https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_customize_a_unit_file.2F_add_a_custom_unit_file.3F

Re: deja dup

2011-11-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/14/2011 01:12 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: Hi Gang: I just yesterday installed Fedora16 and have found that Deja Dup won't completely restore. I thought it was me, but installing a previous backup did not work either How long do you think it will be before we can get this working? Is it

Re: deja dup

2011-11-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't give me the option to do a bug report. I just get a box saying that Restore Failed and giving me Invalid data - SHA1 hash mismatch: Calculated hash: da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 16.

2011-11-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/08/2011 10:18 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Fedora 16 is not science fiction. It is here right now: http://get.fedoraproject.org Hmm, no jigdo downloads any more? Yes. Would be nice to have this back. It is not a big burden. Is it? Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/22/2011 04:51 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/21/2011 10:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: I understand this thread as a comment on improving the detection of inactive maintainers and unmaintained packages. It is indeed intended as such. I would recommend you stop this thread at

Re: Why has fedpkg suddenly grown a dependency on MySQL-python?

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/22/2011 09:02 PM, Tom Lane wrote: I do agree with the complainers in the BZ that this was something inappropriate to do in F14, but what's done is done. Even if you undid it, anyone who's done yum update recently on an F14 box will have all those unnecessary deps installed. Not

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/22/2011 05:27 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: First of all why do I need to come up with a concrete proposal to FESCO why dont they come up with something to try to improve the distribution. Does that governing body only exist to say yay or nay to others proposals? FESCo exists

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/22/2011 11:55 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: And still there have been self-nominations before. You could look up FESCo tickets of past nominations. I never thought about that, perhaps it should be added to the

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

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/22/2011 10:34 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: so complain rpmfusion why they are ALWAYS behind the fedora-kernel-packages and all their kmod and so on are making troubles days and weeks before they are push at fedora-stable repo, so the rpmfusion-maintainers should consider to use

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2011 04:33 AM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: I hope that some people from the relevant group will point me to the right place (perhaps starting from what happened to fedora-app-install...), and I hope you like the idea in general. Giovanni You want to start here

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2011 05:07 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.11.2011 00:28, schrieb Giovanni Campagna: Or you have any reason to say that this is idea is stupid? the biggest benefit of a linux-distribution is a consistent package-managment with straight dependencies and centralized repos, if you

Fwd: Ask Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Forwarding with permission for discussions Original Message Delivered-To: methe...@gmail.com Received: by 10.180.100.134 with SMTP id ey6cs329326wib;Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:22:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.62.75 with SMTP id w11mr547054ibh.6.1322259722787;

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 07:01 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: well, if people who not going to read any textes are the primary target of a operationg system this world is going down Welcome to the real world. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 08:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 27.11.2011 14:31, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: On 11/27/2011 07:01 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: well, if people who not going to read any textes are the primary target of a operationg system this world is going down Welcome to the real world. i

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 08:48 PM, Heiko Adams wrote: And a software center is IMHO walking in the wrong direction. The packagemanagement system is Linux biggest advantage for normal users. Do you understand that software centre is just a UI on top of the package manager + additional metadata like

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 09:20 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: I think this is going a little far. Saying that people are better off being able to read is not elitist. Yes it is. Because you are assuming that it is because people have trouble reading. I can read just fine but I would love to have screenshots

Re: Just Patched Kmess 2.0.6.1 :)

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 03:01 AM, Manuel Escudero wrote: Ok, Just reported the bug at bugzilla explaining everything about the problem and leaving a link to the patched RPM's in the description of the bug, also attached the patch I used to fix the problem into the filed bug so you guys can fix it

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2011 12:01 AM, Bernd Stramm wrote: Call me elitist then, I think it is better when more people can read, and when they actually do it. Unfortunately for someone talking about so much about the important of reading, you don't seem to be reading about the proposal much. Its not

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 04:47 PM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: I knew about that, and that's in fact what I'm starting from, although the big problem is obtaining the metadata, not showing it. So, the next logical question would be, how does openSUSE solve this? Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2011 01:39 AM, Bernd Stramm wrote: It is useful to point out that the space requirements are significant. You would want an implementation that does _not_ store all this information on installed systems. Separate the advertising part from the packaging part. Make the

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-12-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/01/2011 11:31 PM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: Seeing enough positive feedback on this (and seeing that after all, it works pretty well on my machine), I started an official Fedora 17 feature. You can find it at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SoftwareCenter Comments of course

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/30/2010 03:16 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: So I just created: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/ Anyone want to help me test the steps and process before we announce and deploy it? Anyone already got Firefox 4 built for F13 for example? Let me know or stop by #fedora-admin on

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/30/2010 08:55 PM, Remi Collet wrote: Of course I could push my firefox4 build on fedorapeople.org, but my backport repository is about 12Gio (mainly mozilla stuff, lamp stack and some experimental rpm like mysql-workbench) Could I just added something to be (a link) on the list ? I

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