Re: Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks - install images

2010-01-28 Thread Will Woods
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 12:52 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 09:40 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > > > How far away do we appear to be from having an installable rawhide? Any > > > help needed there? > > > > I created install DVDs for myself last Saturday through Tuesday (Jan.23-

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Will Woods
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 21:33 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > I want to mention one thing: on opensuse the "base" > system has a different schedule then the rest of the OS. i.e. the > kernel, gcc, glibc and the low-level tools freeze first, while > everything else may be hacked on a couple of wee

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Will Woods
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? For me, one of the guiding principles for Fedora QA's work on tools and policies has been this: time, by itself, doesn't fix anything. Making the schedules longer isn't

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-08 Thread Will Woods
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 20:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I will refrain from ranting, and just point out that something is > pretty darn broken about this process. Why are the nagmails going > to someone with no power to fix the problem? Shouldn't somebody > with approval power be paying more than z

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-03-01 Thread Will Woods
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 11:57 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 03/01/2010 11:52 AM, Peter Jones wrote: > > If you think this isn't the right way > > to provide a safety net for package maintainers - what is? > > With the understanding that you're not specifically asking me that > question, I'd

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-08 Thread Will Woods
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 13:15 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:04:31 -0800 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > ...snip... > > > What do people make of this? > > I'm no expert on polls/polling, but I suspect that many of the people > who are more interested in a 'stable/less updates' Fe

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (NoDefaultLVM)

2010-11-15 Thread Will Woods
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 13:02 +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > On 11/14/2010 12:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > >> 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoDefaultLVM > > Info on this page is completely obsolete! Yes. Note the prominent line reading: * Last updated: December 17, 2008 The info

Re: bash evaluation change...

2011-03-03 Thread Will Woods
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 22:55 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > I'd say, report this as a bug and see where it leads. It's certainly not > expected behaviour even if it is intentional. One-line reproducer: case x"" in x) echo matches x;; x?) echo matches x? but not x;; esac I notice the bash-4.2 C

Re: Bodhi 0.7.5 release

2010-06-30 Thread Will Woods
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 11:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I would be willing to accept *negative* karma from more than > one proventester as being an override. But it is utterly unacceptable > for inaction to represent a veto. I would argue that it's utterly unacceptable for untested code to be pushed

Re: Bodhi 0.7.5 release

2010-06-30 Thread Will Woods
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Adam Williamson writes: > > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 11:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> The proposed policy might be workable if we had a surplus of > >> proventester manpower available, but we obviously have not got that. > > > See above, you cann

Re: Bodhi 0.7.5 release

2010-06-30 Thread Will Woods
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Will Woods writes: > > Is it really so hard for you to find someone to test the thing? If so, > > maybe you could use the assistance of a co-maintainer? > > Huh? I don't need a co-maintainer, I need testers. I was s

measuring success [was Re: Bodhi 0.7.5 release]

2010-07-02 Thread Will Woods
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 06:33 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Fedora Legacy has shown how well this works… not! > > I completely agree with Ralf Corsepius and Tom Lane on this subject: this > policy is very unhelpful, and applying it to security updates is just > totally insane. We're going to see m

depcheck test (was Re: measuring success)

2010-07-06 Thread Will Woods
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 12:27 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > [About automating this during the push process, it is possible to have > a depchecker simulate a --skip-broken and exclude packages which break > dependencies. There are different strategies. However, the procedure > must be backed up by

Re: depcheck test (was Re: measuring success)

2010-07-06 Thread Will Woods
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 19:21 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:40:01AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On 7/6/10 8:52 AM, Till Maas wrote: > > > IMHO it should not be a +1 karma but some different flag that is set for > > > updates that passed the tests. > > > > Using karma is vi

Re: depcheck test (was Re: measuring success)

2010-07-07 Thread Will Woods
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 11:34 -0400, Will Woods wrote: > > > If there are any other questions, feel free to ask. > > > > -w > > Did you get to look at the nss-softokn situation (details of which I > se

Re: Dracut, dmsquash, and overlays

2014-07-28 Thread Will Woods
On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 09:37 -0500, Major Hayden wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm working with F20 and CentOS 7 to create some live booted images. > I'm not looking to do live USB/CD media, but rather boot a server over > the network with a kernel, initramfs, and squashfs. It's working well > so far,

Re: Dracut, dmsquash, and overlays

2014-07-29 Thread Will Woods
On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 21:26 -0500, Major Hayden wrote: > On Jul 28, 2014, at 17:11, Will Woods wrote: > > > Since your systems have lots of RAM, why not just use a regular ext4 > > filesystem image as your root filesystem? Then you don't need to worry > > about

fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Will Woods
[tl;dr: fedup is going away and should be re-implemented by the system packaging tools.] Hey all, F22 is the fifth release we've handled with fedup. A lot has changed since F17, and we've learned some valuable lessons about how upgrades work (and how they fail). We've come to the conclusion that

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-07 Thread Will Woods
On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 07:41 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us > from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not > live images)? I mean, yeah, it's nice that we can do upgrades online, > but what about when the system w

Re: To distro-sync or not distro-sync?

2015-10-30 Thread Will Woods
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 14:20 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > just behave like "yum --releasever=XX distro-sync" all the years > before > and just REFUSE to upgrade if there are conflicts This is, in fact, the default behavior in dnf system-upgrade 0.5.x and higher. -w -- devel mailing list devel@

Re: To distro-sync or not distro-sync?

2015-10-30 Thread Will Woods
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 15:00 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 29.10.2015 v 13:24 Honza Šilhan napsal(a): > > You can exclude the conflicting packages to proceed the system > > -upgrade i.e.: > > "dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23 --distro-sync -x > > rubygem-celluloid --allowerasing" > >

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-26 Thread Will Woods
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 21:04 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > All the actual logic of DNF is written in C, so I really don't see why > we should be stuck with that Python wrapper. ...it's not just a "wrapper". DNF have replaced yum's depsolver but ~90% of the code in yum *isn't* depsolving. To repla

Re: NM system-connection file created on fedup upgrade but not DVD install

2013-06-05 Thread Will Woods
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 11:15 -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: >So does fedup or anything in that chain create connection files? I > would imagine no since no one else is experiencing this issue but wanted > to make sure. Basically, no: all fedup does is install RPMs¹. The only fedup-specifi

Package Orphanarium: davfs2 and pybluez

2016-05-26 Thread Will Woods
Hello friends, The time has come for me to admit that I'm not maintaining these packages anymore, and either let someone else do it, or let them retire. I've handed davfs2 over to the EPEL maintainer, but they might not want to be primary maintainer, so feel free to get in touch if you'd be willi

Re: DNF replacing yum: fedup?

2015-01-26 Thread Will Woods
On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 13:26 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > I note the ReplaceYumWithDnf Change page: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceYumWithDNF > > says nothing about fedup. However, fedup uses yum: > > [adamw@adam fedup (master %)]$ grep -R yum * | wc -l > 74 > > Has this be

Re: [HEADS UP] Replacing %post/%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig

2018-02-14 Thread Will Woods
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > I'd be super-interested in benchmarks comparing before and after > install times. I guess since the plan is to do this _after_ the mass > rebuild, we'll need to wait until after the *next* rebuild to see how > much impact this has. I don't