Re: Desktop caterogies

2010-01-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Alain Portal wrote: > In order to improve the desktop file of a package I maintain, I should > want to know if there is a guideline for desktop file in Fedora. > google donẗ help me. Good references include: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Desktop_files http://standards.freedes

Re: Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

2010-01-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Milos Jakubicek wrote: > Also I have really doubts what concerns upstreamability of the necessary > changes in packages. These are absolutely upstreamable fixes. Using symbols from a library that you do not explicity link is a bug, plain and simple. -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fe

%cmake macro usage, dropping -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON

2010-01-14 Thread Rex Dieter
If you're the maintainer of a cmake-based package, and use the %cmake macro, be aware I just implemented a change in rawhide (to cmake-2.8.0-2) to drop the usage of -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON as previously discussed(1). If you want or need to continue with the old behavior, use %cmake %{?_cmake_

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

2010-01-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Adam Williamson wrote: > There was a clear failure in this process, though, which was that the > update was sent straight to updates and did not go through > updates-testing. I can't see any reason why that should be acceptable > for an update to a very popular package which manipulates data that

Re: How about firefox 3.6 in Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 14:48 +0800, Liu Yu Fei Eric wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I noticed firefox was stuck on 3.5.6 for a rather long time. >> What about 3.5.7 and the recently 3.6? They are even not in koji. > > xulrunner-1.9.2 breaks API compatibility with 1.9.1, so downstream

Re: Two FAS accounts for the same person - permitted?

2010-02-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Michael Schwendt wrote: > According to yesterday's reply, the person really wants to create a second > account. In general, my recollection is that is not permitted. I suppose there may be special circumstances where it may be permissible. -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproj

%cmake_kde4 macro usage, dropping -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON

2010-02-02 Thread Rex Dieter
If you're the maintainer of a kde/cmake-based package, and use the %cmake_kde4 macro, I just implemented changes in rawhide (to kde-filesystem-4-34 and kdelibs-4.3.98-3) to drop the usage of -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON as previously threatened(1). If you want or need to continue with the old behav

Re: haldaemon seems dead...

2010-08-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Paul Johnson wrote: >> I've installed F13 on my home box, updated and then moved it to >> > rawhide. Everything seems more or less happy now, but it looks like >> > haldaemon is dead. I can't burn to DVD, USB pens won't mount, the >> > printer is unrecognised and the SCSI scanner has gone. All wor

Re: haldaemon seems dead...

2010-08-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Paul Johnson wrote: > Hi, > >> k3b is >> moaning that haldaemon is dead and so can't work. If it's not hal, >> > any >> ideas what it is? Wonder if dbus is being silly... >> >> rpm -q k3b kdelibs >> > > [p...@pb3 ~]$ rpm -q k3b kdelibs > k3b-2.0.0-2.fc14.i686 > kdelibs-4.4.95-1.fc14.i686 > > >

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-22 Thread Rex Dieter
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) > has support for logging to system logs is there any reason to include > an MTA by default for F-14? A bit late to consider fo

dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices

2010-08-24 Thread Rex Dieter
You may have noticed notices landing in your mailbox today similar to: foo-1.0-2.fc14 successfully untagged from dist-f14-updates-testing by rdieter You should be able to safely ignore all those, as the mess I caused trying to clean up some koji tags got sorted out. My apologies. -- Rex _

Re: Please remember to update rawhide

2010-09-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Lane wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi writes: >> When you do an update in F-14 and rely on inheritance to get the package >> into rawhide, there is a problem. That package will not go to rawhide >> until it hits stable in F-14. > > ... um ... and why exactly is that the policy? I figure one reason

sip-4.11.x (and PyQt stack) coming to rawhide

2010-09-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Another sip, another abi bump, affected pkgs include: repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires 'sip-api(7)' PyKDE-0:3.16.6-4.fc14 PyKDE4-0:4.5.1-1.fc15 PyQt-0:3.18.1-7.fc14 PyQt4-0:4.7.4-2.fc14 PyQwt-0:5.2.0-8.fc14 avogadro-libs-0:1.0.1-6.fc15 qedje-python-0:0.4.0-7.fc14 qgis-python-0:1.5.0-3.fc1

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Brandon Lozza wrote: > It seems like the policy would kill the use of an upgraded KDE (4.5 to > 4.6) because KDE almost always makes UI changes. The kde-sig asked FESCo to consider up to 1 KDE version upgrade per release, and this was generally well-received during the last FESCo meeting, so no

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:17:23 +0200 > Dodji Seketeli wrote: > >> Brandon Lozza writes: >> > Most of us KDE users want deliberate visible changes to the user. >> > That's the point in having the latest version. >> >> Sorry if this has been already answered before, but what

openjpeg non-responsive maintainer

2010-10-01 Thread Rex Dieter
It's been since July, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492218 ( and recently, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579548#c12 ) and previously, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-September/msg01223.html where Callum suggested dropping his maintainer duties (

Re: Need proventester karma for firstboot-1.113-4.fc14 (was: Re: bodhi v0.7.9 deployed)

2010-10-01 Thread Rex Dieter
James Laska wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 12:36 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Adam Williamson wrote: >> > Again, you're extrapolating way too far from a single problem case. The >> > problem is simply that we have the xorg-x11-drivers metapackage which >> > requires every single X driver and is i

Re: docbook and glibc breakage [STILL BREAKING EVERYTHING]

2010-10-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Richard Hughes wrote: > On 27 September 2010 20:31, Richard Hughes wrote: >> Right, but you could argue it's a regression as the behavior changed. >> Could somebody please fix docbook-utils, otherwise all the GNOME koji >> builds are going to fail. > > All my F14 builds are still failing with: >

Re: docbook and glibc breakage [STILL BREAKING EVERYTHING]

2010-10-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 04:30 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: >> I've tagged docbook-utils-0.6.14-25.fc14 (the update reportedly fixing >> this) >> for the buildroot. Please try your builds now. > > "f14-build" should appear

Re: libgpod 0.8.0 in F13

2010-10-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > I've just tagged libgpod 0.8.0 for F13 updates-testing. This is the > first step to an updated Banshee (1.8.0) in F13 as well as better > iPhone/iPad support in the existing Rhythmbox. I'd really like to get > some testing on this, so please, if you are using updates-

Re: PyQt + python3?

2010-10-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > On 10/20/2010 02:38 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> Has anyone attempted a pyqt for python3? > > I did. It failed (not on Fedora though and I didn't investigate at the > time). I seem to remember some symbol problems with QString class that > was reported when I tried to i

Re: PyQt + python3?

2010-10-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Neal Becker wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: >> >>> On 10/20/2010 02:38 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >>>> Has anyone attempted a pyqt for python3? >>> >>> I did. It failed (not on Fedora though and I didn'

Re: libpoppler soname bump in rawhide

2010-11-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Marek Kasik wrote: > I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.15.1. There are some > API changes and 1 soname bump of libpoppler.so.8 to libpoppler.so.9. > API changes mostly involve addition of new functions (see below). OK, all rebuilds have been done or are still building. 2 notable f

Re: rpm builds failing with "Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found"

2011-07-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Panu Matilainen wrote: > > FYI, there appears to be a bug in the just-released rpm-4.9.1 which > causes legitimate specs to fail with "Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) > found" errors. This happens when recursively included directories in > %files are marked with trailing /, eg > > %{_included

Re: rpm builds failing with "Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found"

2011-07-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Panu Matilainen wrote: >> But since being rebuilt yesterday with the new 4.9.1, some of those >> directories are now listed with the trailing slash: >> >> /etc/httpd/ >> /etc/httpd/conf.d/ >> /etc/httpd/conf.d/README >> /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf >> /etc/httpd/conf/ >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.co

Re: Standard for packaging Gtk and Qt front ends

2011-07-23 Thread Rex Dieter
> I am packaging a program that has two front ends, one for Gtk and other for > Qt. > Is there a standard packaging structure to handle such packages? > I see two methods to do this : > > 1. Use an empty "meta" package that pulls in a default (gtk) front end. E.g > : > Pname (meta) -> Pname-common

Re: To Require or not to Require?

2011-08-11 Thread Rex Dieter
> I have a package (keyutils) that produces three RPMs: keyutils (programs), > keyutils-libs and keyutils-devel. The programs in the keyutils RPM depend on > the libraries in the keyutils-libs RPM and pick up implicit dependencies thus: > > warthog>rpm -qRp keyutils-1.5.1-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm

Re: KMyMoney in Rawhide

2011-08-18 Thread Rex Dieter
> Why does KMyMoney in Rawhide not have OFX input compiled? It is in Fedora 15. According to koji build logs the OFX plugin was built/included, http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kmymoney/4.5.3/1.fc16/data/logs/i686/build.l og -- rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject

Re: GStreamer FLAC to Ogg conversion corrupts audio data stream

2011-08-18 Thread Rex Dieter
> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 13:17 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> Who can help with moving forward here especially wrt fixing Fedora? > > So here's my way of maintaining the GStreamer packages in Fedora and the > way I decide if I need to do something. Arr matie, me hijackin yur thread I'd app

exiv2-0.22 coming to rawhide

2011-09-30 Thread Rex Dieter
I'll be introducing exiv2-0.22 to rawhide next week, testing of affected packages is underday, and so far, so good... so I don't anticipate problems. repoquery --repoid=rawhide-source --archlist=src \ --whatrequires exiv2-devel | sort darktable-0:0.9.2-1.fc17.src geeqie-0:1.0-11.fc17.src geg

Re: PA 1.0 for FC16?

2011-10-08 Thread Rex Dieter
> I might be completely off target on this one, but assuming that the > information I've gathered thus far is correct, read: assuming that > wine *requires* PA 1.0 to work reliably, will it possible to push PA > 1.0 as a post installation upgrade or alternatively, using a personal > repo? I can

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

2011-10-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> glibc-2.14.90-12.999, which has just made it to stable provokes a >> hard-to-diagnose (for me at least) problem. >> >> While most things work, and it fixed two problems that affected me, >> it caused me some frustration: >> >> https//bugzilla.redhat.c

Re: New bodhi bugfix release in production

2011-10-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 17:18 -0400, Luke Macken wrote: >> bodhi v0.8.3 >> >> >> Yesterday I pushed out a new bugfix release of bodhi into production. The >> bodhi-client is currently on it's way to updates-testing for all >> releases. > >> Server fixes >> ---

Re: incompatible KDE library errors

2011-04-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Phillip Lynn wrote: > All, > > After updating my system two days ago I have been having errors when > running vlc, system settings to name a couple. Below is some of what I > am seeing in my .xsession-errors file. I am not sure where to continue > looking to try and correct these errors. I h

Re: No sleep-on-lid-close with F-15 beta KDE?

2011-04-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Lane wrote: > 1. An F-15 bug (and if so, which component ought I file it against)? Something here. The expectation is the system to go to sleep (mine does). -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 15 Final Change Deadline, and Outstanding Blocker Bugs

2011-05-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike Chambers wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 04:34 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: >> This is your friendly reminder that we have reached the Final Change >> Deadline for Fedora 15. >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_deadlines > > Without having the F15 schedule handy at the moment, is thi

Re: File nauty24r2.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by rdieter

2011-05-27 Thread Rex Dieter
On 05/27/2011 10:47 AM, Jerry James wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> A file has been added to the lookaside cache for Macaulay2: >> >> 53f83420491a32e3fe9b03a44c559a89 nauty24r2.tar.gz ... > Given the name and version number, I presume you

Re: Revoking and deleting in Bodhi Web

2011-06-01 Thread Rex Dieter
Sergio Belkin wrote: > What does it occur when an update is revoked and is deleted? > I've done an updated version of package, made a build and when I write > the name in Package field I've found a bit odd that new build doesn't > appear in the combo box. I wonder if I did something wrong... My u

orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-10 Thread Rex Dieter
The labor of love that was maintaining xine-lib has passed, as it will no longer be a dependency in f16's kde stack in any form. As such, I'm orphaning it. Kevin Kofler has offered to take ownership, though I'd venture he'd welcome any comaintainer assistance offered. In a similar vein, phono

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Curious. I thought Dragon must use xine-lib, since both kdemultimedia and > kdebase-runtime require it in F15. It used xine-lib directly, only because phonon lacked support for DVD menus (until recently). kde-4.7 will (should!) fix that. -- Rex -- devel mailin

Re: Problem with strange debug package requirements being added to package & a self introduction

2011-06-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Veeti Paananen wrote: > Hi! > > My name is Veeti and I'm a student from Finland. (Studying, however, is > not one of my favourite pastimes). > > I'm currently packaging (or trying to package) a small application > called paco. paco is a simple tool for managing installations of source > packages

Re: libgcal new owner

2011-06-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Mario Santagiuliana wrote: > Hi to all, > I'm a new package mantainer. I package akonadi-googledata (now in the > updates-testing). This package needs libgcal library that is without > maintainer. > I contact thomasj, the previous package maintainer and I take the > ownership of this package for F

Re: Packages that will be orphaned

2011-06-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > qoauth > qjson > qwt > qwt-doc I'll take these. -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

virtuoso-6.1.0, impacts to nepomuk data

2010-02-04 Thread Rex Dieter
heads up for folks using rawhide/kde with nepomuk on their boxes, virtuoso-6.1.0 landed today, and it's data format is different than in the 5.x series. What this means, is that if you upgrade, your old nepomuk data will not be usable. We're in the process of working to package a data migratio

qt-4.6/kde-4.4 updates

2010-02-08 Thread Rex Dieter
the kde-sig is beginning work to prepare qt-4.6/kde-4.4 updates, which will be landing in f11 and f12 koji buildroots shortly. Maintainers of qt/kde packages, please be aware of this if doing builds yourself. If you have any concerns or questions, please drop by #fedora-kde on freenode/irc (or

Re: Read this if your package BuildRequires qt(4)-devel!!!

2010-02-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Lane wrote: > I guess I am wondering why such a change is being made in a "stable" > branch in the first place. Why isn't this sort of thing strictly > rawhide material? To be clear, it's a backward, but not forward compatible change in question, which similarly affects lots of newer softwa

Re: Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

2010-03-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Juha Tuomala wrote: > > > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> You mean the KDE stability proposal? As this is F11, i.e. "previous >> stable", KDE 4.4 would actually not have been pushed to F11 under that >> proposal. > > How i read it, you would still push *one* feature release in the

how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike McGrath wrote: > Alternatively, the KDE SIG could stop ignoring the problems that were > caused this week by the updates they released. Even an "I'm sorry I broke > your desktop" would go a long way. The update the busted my desktop > happened on a pretty vanilla install, I suspect lots of

Re: Bug 549051 - package config file not installed (.pc)

2010-03-09 Thread Rex Dieter
LinuxDonald wrote: > I need help here too. The problem ist here the cmake don´t compile the > .pc file (pkgconfig file) > And upstream don´t will fix that :(. Why not? -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bug 549051 - package config file not installed (.pc)

2010-03-09 Thread Rex Dieter
LinuxDonald wrote: > Am 10.03.2010 00:12, schrieb Rex Dieter: >> LinuxDonald wrote: >>> I need help here too. The problem ist here the cmake don´t compile the >>> .pc file (pkgconfig file) >>> And upstream don´t will fix that :(. >>> >&

Re: can automatic pushes be disabled?

2010-03-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Neal Becker wrote: > Still trying to sort out coordination of our 2 packages by 2 different > maintainers that must be kept in sync. Surprise, one was automatically > pushed to stable due to karma. > > Can that feature be selectively disabled? > yes. Make sure the "Enable karma automatism" op

Re: Adding two packages to comps

2010-03-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Hicham Haouari wrote: > I want to add two packages to comps in F-13 and devel: > - ueagle-atm4-firmware to hardware-support group as default > - linux-atm to dial-up group as default The justification(s) for this... are? -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > If Fedora is only usable for contributors and > contributors only, It's called focus (where have I heard that?). Some people(1) want *contributors* to be focus is all. -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/14/2010 10:20 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >>> So the right solution is to let you do your own disruptive changes in >>> stable so you don't have to deal with other people disruptive changes in >>> rawhide? >>> >> "My" changes, or reall

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > You cut off the portion where I already explained why such a policy is > inherently self defeating at large. OK, fair enough, you made that case sure. It's just that I don't agree with that generalization much (or generalizations in general, heh). I'm hopeful that th

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike McGrath wrote: > My last KDE update was disruptive as I mentioned earlier, in addition > though now my taskbar is freezing even after blowing my .kde dir away. > BZ on it's way soon as I can get some logs to send with it. If you don't see the problem(s) with the conclusions you're trying to

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 3/14/2010 10:50 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >>> So the right solution is to let you do your own disruptive changes in >>> stable so you don't have to deal with other people disruptive changes in >>> rawhide? >>> >> "My" changes, or rea

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:14:48PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> >> On Sat, March 13, 2010 4:58 pm, Peter Hutterer wrote: >> > Isn't there a mere RISK to lose 70-80% of our users if we do _not_ >> > implement >> > the changes as well? Especially given the chance that th

Re: Akonadi's unix sockets location

2010-03-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Juha Tuomala wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179006#c5 >> in the current version of Akonadi server you can specify a custom >> socket path by entering >> >> [Connection] >> SocketDirectory=/tmp/akonadi-myuser/ >> >> into $HOME/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc > > How about setting t

Re: Akonadi's unix sockets location

2010-03-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Juha Tuomala wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> How about setting that as default, away from $HOME that can be a NFS >>> filesystem? >> >> Indeed, a solution similar to kde's >> ~/.kde/socket- => /tmp/ksocket- >> symlink is lik

Re: Akonadi's unix sockets location

2010-03-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Juha Tuomala wrote: > > > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> How about setting that as default, away from $HOME that can be a NFS >>> filesystem? >> >> Indeed, a solution similar to kde's >> ~/.kde/socket- => /tmp/ksocket- >

Re: Desktop layout comparison

2010-03-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike Chambers wrote: > (Can KDM be installed with minimal deps and be used for that screen > instead?) Yes (depends only on kdelibs). -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Desktop layout comparison

2010-03-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike Chambers wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 18:54 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Mike Chambers wrote: >> >> > (Can KDM be installed with minimal deps and be used for that screen >> > instead?) >> >> Yes (depends only on kdelibs). > > Hrm, is it

Re: openal-soft .pc file compiling is broken i need help please

2010-04-01 Thread Rex Dieter
LinuxDonald wrote: > I found today that the .pc file compiling is broken in openal-soft. > > When i compile openal-soft i become this .pc file: > > prefix=/usr > exec_prefix=${prefix} > libdir=${exec_prefix}//usr/lib64 > includedir=${prefix}/include > > Name: OpenAL > Description: OpenAL is a c

Re: Reverting kaddressbook back to previous version?

2010-04-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Matt McCutchen wrote: > Please take the request seriously. If Tuju is right that most users > would be better off with the older version, then that's what Fedora > should ship. I appreciate the comment, but that oversimplifies things quite a bit. there are a lot of other packages and issues a

Re: Add mercurial to development group?

2010-04-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/28/2010 05:54 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> I noticed this post: >> >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=22 >> >> What would be the process to add mercurial to development group? >> >> How can I see what packages are in which groups? >> > > Refer to >

Re: primary arch and buildsys arch are not in sync

2010-04-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Farkas Levente wrote: > On 04/28/2010 07:58 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 06:54:14PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 04:54:18PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >>> now as ppc was removed from primary arch i try to build gstreamer-java as a noarch packa

Re: Unannounced ABI bump in Rawhide: libarchive

2011-11-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Adam Williamson wrote: > There appears to be a new libarchive package in Rawhide - > libarchive-3.0.0-0.1.a.fc17 - which does an ABI bump (from > libarchive.so.2 to libarchive.so.3). This was not announced ahead of > time to devel@, as is required by policy: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Pa

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Giovanni Campagna wrote: > Long long ago (march 2009), a package was proposed for inclusion, which > contained application data, in a format understood by software-center, > for fedora at that time. This package was initially rejected, then one > year later FESCo ruled that it did not actually bre

Re: Just Patched Kmess 2.0.6.1 :)

2011-11-30 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/23/2011 02:52 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > (Cross Posting both to the Developers and Users List, sent a copy to > Rex Dieter, who I believe is the maintainer for Kmess in the Fedora > Community) Manuel, you seem to have an interest in kmess, and I'd venture it's

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-12-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Looking at the pkgdb page, it looks like kdebase is only showing up for > the > "Terminal" app for F-12. Looking at that old package, there is a .desktop > that contains Name=Terminal there but it's not konsole: > > ./usr/share/kde4/apps/kappfinder/apps/System/Terminal

Re: fedora 16 koji broken

2011-12-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: > fedora 16 koji broken > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3596971 > > > DEBUG util.py:307: Executing command: ['/usr/bin/yum', > '--installroot', '/var/lib/mock/f16-build-1203861-192685/root/', > 'groupinstall', 'srpm-build'] > DEBUG util.py:257:

Re: broken dependencies for fawkes-plugin-player

2011-12-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:43:02 +0100, FD (Francesco) wrote: > >> fawkes-plugin-player.x86_64 require libgeos-3.3.0.so (64bit) but >> geos.x86_64 package provides libgeos-3.3.1.so > > It has been reported before and in the right place: > > http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Bill Nottingham wrote: > Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: >> So I submitted a routine bodhi request for updating mysql, and was >> astonished to find that it's marked as critpath. It was never that >> before. Who decided this, > > The dependency solver. It's not a manual process. > >> and woul

Re: Rebuild for GCC-4.7

2012-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Ville Skyttä wrote: > On 2012-01-05 19:18, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > >> ideally drop all the disttags prior to fc17 > > I hope I'm just having trouble parsing this correctly. Could you > rephrase? Rebuild all packages, so they end up with fc17 disttags, to help avoid the "why do I have a fc15 p

qt accessibility, anyone interested?

2012-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Being the avid package monkey I am, I whipped up some initial packaging for http://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi/ in my space at http://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/rpms/qt-at-spi/ Hoping someone with more interest in this area would be able to pick this up to maintain officially. Be happy to help with s

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 05.01.2012 20:22, schrieb Kevin Kofler: >> Akonadi ships its own default MySQL configuration, which is per user. It >> does not use or require the systemwide instance (by default; it can be >> configured to connect to a systemwide or even remote MySQL server, but >>

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: >> I'm of a mind to revisit this (again). > > NO, not again!!! > > Can we please stop this nonsense? > > Upstream defaults to MySQL for a reason, and strongly recommends NOT using > the SQLite backend by default. SQLi

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Dennis Gilmore wrote: > considering that mysql couldnt cope with my email and i had to stop > using kmail all together going to sqlite im sure would be worse. but > thats my 2c Flipping defaults doesn't mean other backends cannot be used. We've helped make sure that switching backends (to/from

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Stijn Hoop wrote: > Well it also took them two years to consider 'NFS mounted home' a valid > use case, during which the whole 'you really need MySQL!!!' was broken > for our site. It's easy to switch (maybe I should blog about it... ) per user: kcmshell4 akonadi per machine/site: create/edit

Re: cmake parallel make problem.

2012-01-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Richard Shaw wrote: > I've gone through the CMakeLists.txt and added "add_dependencies(..." > but I think that's redundant because target_link_libraries is getting > set properly. I'm not sure this is redundant, as I would imaging it would be hard to infer the origin of the target_link_library (

Re: qrencode in critical path?

2012-01-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Jackson wrote: >> kdebase pulls in the world, film at 11. > > IMHO we really need to remove kde* from critpath, it just doesn't scale. Agreed, we'll have to revisit it with fc17 (or f16+) with the finer-grained package splitting going on. -- rex -- devel mailing li

Re: How to send a package update

2012-01-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Julio Merino wrote: > Also, I cannot tell if three years ago I gained some privileges that I > have now lost due to the conversion of the packages repository from cvs > to git. For example, a "fedpkg clone" without the -a option fails due > to a permission denied (reason: publickey), although I h

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Adam Williamson wrote: > Would it make sense just to put the hicolor directory into filesystem? > It seems silly to have every single graphical app in the distro depend > on a package simply for the provision of the directory... I agree. -- rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Heads up: Rebuild for Ruby 1.9.3

2012-01-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Mo Morsi wrote: > On 01/24/2012 04:50 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: >> Hi, >> since we finally got our Ruby 1.9.3 feature page [1] approved, we are >> starting rebuild for Ruby 1.9.3. Everyone who owns a package that depends >> on Ruby or Rubygems should rebuild it in the special Koji target >> "f17-

Re: Rawhide build failure (Requires: /usr/sbin/ldconfig)

2012-01-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Roland Grunberg wrote: > I noticed that libselinux was just updated to have ldconfig in > /usr/sbin/ as per : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove. > > It seems glibc hasn't yet been update though and I'm getting the following > when attempting a scratch build in rawhide. Righto, move

Re: Random koji problems

2012-02-01 Thread Rex Dieter
Jerry James wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Tom Callaway > wrote: >> No, because xulrunner needs it to rebuild. Why is libvpx breaking >> package builds? Almost nothing should depend on it. The plan is for the >> libvpx update to go out at the same time as the xulrunner update. > > So

Re: @ Harald Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-02-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Frank Murphy wrote: > On 27/01/12 13:10, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> Hello Testers and rawhide Users, >> >> Fedora 17 will locate the entire base operating system in /usr. The >> directories /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib64 will only be symlinks: >> /bin → /usr/bin >> /sbin → /usr/sbin >> /lib → /usr/li

Re: F-17 Branched report: 20120211 changes

2012-02-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 19:57:33 -0600, > Dennis Gilmore wrote: >> >> looks like something in X packaging changed or didnt work as expected > > That was fixed this morning. I have already tried out the updates and > they seem to work fine. > > openjpeg's soname bump

Re: Add some information to Packaging cmake wiki

2012-02-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: >> I've noticed with several packages lately that frequently the wrong >> build flags are used or appened to the ones the cmake macro sets. >> Sometimes this can happen because the main cmake configuration file >> forces the type to "Release" (bad!) but no

Re: Qt compiler tool names

2012-03-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Aaron Faanes wrote: > I was wondering why Qt compiler tools (qmake, moc, uic, etc.) are > installed with each name suffixed with -qt4 (qmake-qt4, moc-qt4). This > diverges from how upstream names its tools (specifically, without qt4 > added), so it caused me a little confusion when these tools app

Re: Qt compiler tool names

2012-03-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Aaron Faanes wrote: >> We used the -qt4 postfix (which is a common practice among most distros >> these days) to allow for a parallel-installable qt3. >> > > Ah, I figured it was something like that. I couldn't find it using the > following: > > $ yum provides '*/bin/*-qt3' > Loaded plugins: aut

Re: What are differences between real and rpmbuild's environment?

2010-11-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Michal Hlavinka wrote: > I'm trying to find out what are differences between environment for local > rpm build and usual user's environment. You mean the difference between rpmbuild and... a manual "./configure; make"? For starters, see rpm's output from rpm --eval "%{configure}" which sets v

Re: Updates to static library packages

2010-11-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > Incidentally, does anyone know how to keep track of which package lists > something as a *build* requirement? repoquery has --whatrequires and > --tree-whatrequires, and has an --srpm option that seems promising, but > does not seem to do the trick. Thanks to http:

kde-4.5.80 (4.6beta1) coming to rawhide

2010-11-22 Thread Rex Dieter
the kde-sig imported kde-4.5.80 into rawhide today. enjoy, and let us know what breaks. -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F13 update issue..

2010-11-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:25:15 -0700, Nathanael wrote: > >> Hello, >> >>My aunt has F13 installed.. I got the following from her. Is this a >> known bug ?? I can't make heads or tails of the error message or what to >> tell her to do to resolve it. >> >> ERROR with r

libsigsegv-2.9 update, abi bump

2010-11-27 Thread Rex Dieter
I'm planning a libsigsegv-2.9 (rawhide) update relatively soon which includes an abi change. According to repquery, only the following packages should be affected: clisp gnu-smalltalk (I'll help take care of these requisite rebuilds) -- Rex ___ devel-a

exiv2 soname bump

2010-12-01 Thread Rex Dieter
exiv2-0.21 was released recently, and includes a soname bump. I plan on importing this into rawhide next week sometime, if all goes well. Here's a scratch build for testing, http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2636872 I've done a few test builds of the items below, and the only on

Re: exiv2 soname bump

2010-12-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: > exiv2-0.21 was released recently, and includes a soname bump. I plan on > importing this into rawhide next week sometime, if all goes well. > > Here's a scratch build for testing, > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2636872 > > I

Re: exiv2 soname bump

2010-12-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> exiv2-0.21 was released recently, and includes a soname bump. I plan on >> importing this into rawhide next week sometime, if all goes well. >> >> Here's a scratch build for testing, >> http://koji.fedor

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