Re: Question about dist-cvs make targets

2010-01-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 07:51 -1000, David Cantrell wrote: I was using 'unused-patches' until the packaging guidelines had us change Patch lines to use %{name} if that applied. The unused-patches target would be helpful if it could expand RPM macros. That's a guideline worth ignoring. If I'm

Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote: I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take keyboard focus away from that

Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: PGA. Here's the challenge. To reply to this mail, I hit control-shift-r in one evo window, and evo opened a new window for me to compose into. Get it? I typed into one window

Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com): On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: I'd go with don't let a different app steal focus. Windows for the same currently focused app are allowed to. This works pretty well

Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:35 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com): On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: There is no case where I want a new window or popup to take focus. Makes for an easy algorithm. (hitting r in mutt is not a problem

Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:27 -0500, Fulko Hew wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: There is no case where _you_ want this, sure. I'd say... only take focus if its a child/creation of the window currently in focus. creation of is not something

Re: Should we digg PI

2010-01-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:22 +0200, Adrian wrote: Hi, A news of a new calculation of PI is on the net. Should we digg (http://digg.com/d31EgvV) the article in order to promote the fact that the author used Fedora 10 for he's success ? This sounds like a question about Fedora advocacy, not

Re: FESCo election results December 2009

2009-12-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:19 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: Information: At close of voting there were: 216 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 864 votes (4*216). Results: 1. Adam Jackson (ajax) 1028

Re: Add extra generated RPM requires - how?

2009-12-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 20:26 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: For libguestfs [RHBZ#547496] I want to add some extra 'Requires' dependencies by running a shell script over a particular file that gets generated during the build. What's the best way, or a way, to do this? It's... not easy. You

Re: X on UEFI systems.

2009-12-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:14 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: On 12/11/2009 02:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:57 +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote: File a bug please, attaching your xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log and output of the dmesg command (all from inside of VB virtual machine, of

Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-12-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:01 +, Ikem Krueger wrote: Nope, Bryce doesn't get to work on upstream in any significant way as part of his Ubuntu work. I was chatting with Dave about this on IRC the other day. The most significant submission to upstream X.org that's ever come out of Ubuntu

Re: Notification of uploads to the lookaside cache

2009-12-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 19:34 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote: As part of our ever vigilant stance towards security around our packaging process, we have added a new feature to upload.cgi (which accepts file uploads into the lookaside cache) which will email the package owner

Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:01 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-X.org-Guru-Calls-for-Desktop-Help Let's see if I can summarize this article: - we're getting too many bugs - more testing will find more bugs - therefore we should test more so we have fewer

Re: [RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

2009-11-24 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:50 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: syslinux would need to be able to detect the arch to install and likely also have a flag to force 32 bit we could easily implement the 64 bit kernel and 32 bit userland idea that was put forward a few releases ago. pungi will need

Re: Right-click for wacom driver?

2009-11-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 15:25 -0800, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While working on Flash development in Windows XP TabletPC, I noticed the right-click is done by pressing the stylus for few second and icon will display the right-click mouse delay. I

Re: abrt + X Error = zillions of duplicate bug reports?

2009-11-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 19:21 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: So, since I've already received 3 separate bug reports caused by BadIDChoice X Error in subtitleeditor [1][2][3] (haven't had enough time to debug and try to fix it yet though) by abrt, I wonder if there is any room for duplicity

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-12 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:59 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net writes: Therefore, I'd like to identify remaining core font users, and remind them periodically their core font use is not good for their users or for Fedora. What's wrong with proving

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-12 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:00 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com writes: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:59 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net writes: Therefore, I'd like to identify remaining core font users, and remind them

Re: odd file requires

2009-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 11:58 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: Hey folks, I put together this list for things I'd like to work on for f13. It's a list of packages with a file-requires that falls outside of *bin/* and /etc/* and then the provider(s) for those files.

rpms/perl-Image-Info/devel perl-Image-Info.spec,1.25,1.26

2009-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
Author: ajax Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/perl-Image-Info/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv19121 Modified Files: perl-Image-Info.spec Log Message: * Mon Nov 09 2009 Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com 1.28-5 - Requires: rgb, not Requires: /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt Index

Re: A question about allow_unconfined_mmap_low in f11 amd selinux

2009-11-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 08:38 -0800, John Reiser wrote: I have three applications that fundamentally fail to work if mmap(0,PAGE_SIZE,,MAP_FIXED,,) is disallowed. Addressing memory at address 0 is fundamental to the way that they work. Using any other page would totally prevent two of the apps

Re: PPC not getting __WORDSIZE set

2009-11-03 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 23:34 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 05:15:50PM -0500, Bryan Kearney wrote: Word of warning.. I am no too familiar with C across platforms. I am trying to package ruby-ffi (spec file is at [1]) and when I do a scratch build in Koji [2] it runs

Re: A question about allow_unconfined_mmap_low in f11 amd selinux

2009-11-03 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:31 +, Mike Cloaked wrote: For people running wine or Crossover and using MS Office 2003 and related codes it is necessary to do: # setsebool -P allow_unconfined_mmap_low 1 To prevent AVC denials. However there is recent publicity at

Re: What to do with package that wants to use sse?

2009-11-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 09:25 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: 2009/10/31 Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to: I am working on packaging pagedgeometry and I noticed that when building on gcc it passes -msse which I am guessing says to use sse instructions. I think that even in F12 we can't assume

Re: What to do with package that wants to use sse?

2009-11-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 08:49 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:43:30 -0500, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: Strictly, this is not true. Newer binutils has a feature called indirect functions that lets you do (logically, this is not what the syntax actually

Re: Wodim trouble

2009-11-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 18:16 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote: Dne 2.11.2009 17:31, Kevin Kofler napsal: Ankur Sinha wrote: wodim is completely unmaintained since May 6th 2007, don't expect to see any fixes anytime soon as long as Redhat continues to distribute wodim instead of the original

Re: What requires libgcc, actually?

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 10:41 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: 2009/10/28 Linus Walleij linus.ml.wall...@gmail.com: Just a quick question for those who know: The shared libs from libgcc: /lib/libgcc*so* are not required by anything: [r...@localhost ~]# rpm -q --whatrequires

Re: RFC: proposed macro deffinitions for F-13

2009-10-27 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:40 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: Id like to get some feedback on the patches that i'm proposing for F-13. quite a few packages that need to deal with differences between 32bit/64bit or multilib arches have defines for the appropriate arches. sometimes

Re: Looking into LLVM

2009-10-26 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 20:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 10/26/2009 08:15 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 19:07 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 10/26/2009 07:03 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 21:05 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I meant performance, primarily

Re: Looking into LLVM

2009-10-26 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 20:21 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 10/26/2009 08:21 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: Which affects who? koji certainly seems to be keeping up with the load. What I'm trying to pry out of you is what you'd be hoping to accomplish by using it. The answer so far seems

On updates to stable releases

2009-10-21 Thread Adam Jackson
I don't really want to revive the thread about automake 1.11, but I do want to point out that it did break actual buildability: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1761549name=build.log Please, people. Don't update things in stable releases just for fun. Particularly if your

Re: On updates to stable releases

2009-10-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 16:30 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Adam Jackson wrote: I don't really want to revive the thread about automake 1.11, but I do want to point out that it did break actual buildability: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1761549name

Re: How about releasing an update of xorg-x11-drv-intel for Fedora 11

2009-10-13 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 23:56 -0400, James Antill wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:19 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: The thing with doing updates for F11 is the regression rate due to lack of QA, I put Mesa packages into updates-testing that fixed a lot of r300/r500 bugs back at the start of F11

Re: rpms/libXres/devel .cvsignore, 1.9, 1.10 libXres.spec, 1.26, 1.27 sources, 1.10, 1.11

2009-10-13 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:04 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote: -BuildRequires: pkgconfig -BuildRequires: libX11-devel -BuildRequires: libXext-devel +BuildRequires: pkgconfig(xext) %description X-Resource is an extension that allows a client to query @@ -21,7 +19,6 @@ the X server about

Re: rpms/libXt/devel .cvsignore, 1.11, 1.12 libXt.spec, 1.33, 1.34 sources, 1.12, 1.13

2009-10-13 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:18 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote: -# needed by xt.pc -Requires: xorg-x11-proto-devel -Requires: libX11-devel -Requires: libSM-devel - I am confused here. Why this is removed? I still see xt.pc needs those Requires. Because rpm is smart enough to figure that

Re: rpms/libXres/devel .cvsignore, 1.9, 1.10 libXres.spec, 1.26, 1.27 sources, 1.10, 1.11

2009-10-13 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 10:32 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: If all Fedora releases have the autoprovides but EL-5 is still affected, the draft can be as simple as: rpm detects pkgconfig dependencies in all Fedora releases, please move the pkgconfig requires from [LINK] to the EPEL specific

Re: How about releasing an update of xorg-x11-drv-intel for Fedora 11

2009-10-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 10:44 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:15:06PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: A new release of drm/mesa/xf86-video-ati/Xserver code for F11 based on the new 1.7 XServer and 7.6 mesa would be very useful. No, not really. I understand that changing

Re: Help with debuging Xserver / Goes in an infinite loop

2009-10-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 17:13 +0200, Joshua C. wrote: I have a problem with my xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.4-0.1.fc11.x86_64. I read the instructions here http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging but this didin't help. My Xserver goes in an infinite loop and starts consuming

Re: Help with debuging Xserver / Goes in an infinite loop

2009-10-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 19:19 +0200, Joshua C. wrote: (gdb) bt #0 0x003cc3cd70b3 in __select_nocancel () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x004e615a in WaitForSomething ( pClientsReady=value optimized out) at WaitFor.c:228 #2 0x00446ef2 in Dispatch () at dispatch.c:386 #3

Re: Anaconda/install question: Core packages but only for virtual machines

2009-09-24 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 09:46 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: In comps.xml there's a Core group which I think is a minimal set of packages that always get installed by Anaconda (maybe I'm wrong about that). Is there a group for packages that always get installed, but only inside virtual

Re: Intel graphics users: send me your VBIOS

2009-09-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 14:45 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: If you have a machine with an Intel graphics chip, I need your help. I'm trying to make LVDS connection detection actually reliable, and I think I have a solution that involves parsing BIOS data tables. But I need more testcases to raise

Re: Mouse pointer freezing in f12 and f11

2009-09-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:29 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: I've had a problem with X in f12 or some time that sees the mouse pointer freezing. I'm now having the same issue in f11. I'm happy to file a bug in bugzilla, but I'm hoping someone mught be able to point me in the right direction.

Re: status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

2009-09-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 13:44 +0200, Josephine Tannhäuser wrote: Hey, I googled for it and found Karims blogpost and Simon aka kassamedias answer (comment 3) http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/zsync-transfer-large-files-efficiently/ If we _really_ cared about doing this OAOO, we could

Default heuristics for variable-format displays

2009-09-15 Thread Adam Jackson
In attempting to document how displays are expected to work in F12 [1], I realized we still don't have a decent heuristic for some cases. Broadly, displays are either fixed-format or variable-format. FF means you have some set number of pixels, like an LCD. VF means you don't, like a CRT.

Re: Default heuristics for variable-format displays

2009-09-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:48 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I know that, in the dinosaur days of CRT, I could 'see' flicker (and get flicker-generated headaches) at anything under 80Hz, and I know there are even more sensitive people than that. So 72Hz may be a bit of a low 'safe refresh rate'

Re: Triggers just to avoid unowned directories?

2009-09-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 07:35 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: The packaging style in the nss-softokn package continues to bug me. There are RPM triggers being used to install/remove a prelink config file whenever the prelink package gets installed/removed. According to a comment in the spec

Re: rawhide report: 20090901 changes

2009-09-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 11:02 +, Rawhide Report wrote: redhat-lsb-3.2-5.fc12.i686 requires /usr/bin/[ This appears to be a bug in the report script? [ definitely exists in coreutils-7.5-3.fc12. - ajax signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part --

Re: Triggers just to avoid unowned directories?

2009-09-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 11:10 -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 09/01/2009 09:34 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: rpm could start refcounting directories any day now and that'd be just fine. Is there an open trac ticket on this issue with the RPM upstream? Not that I can see. I had assumed

Re: Need help with stack smash

2009-08-27 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 12:36 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: I'm trying to debug a stack smash in of the hdf test programs but am having a hard time tracking down exactly where the smash happens. Is there any way to watch the guard variable with gdb to find exactly when it happens? Something

Re: Policy on removing %changelog entries?

2009-08-27 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 13:36 -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 08/27/2009 01:21 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: What is the policy regarding deletion of individual entries in the middle of %changelog? A developer added a %changelog entry to each of my cloud daemons' packages, on the main

Re: Plan for tomorrow's (20090821) FESCo meeting

2009-08-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 15:39 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:10:59 -0400, you wrote: 238 Can libvdpau go in Fedora? As far I understand this package itself is open source but has a dependency to the properitary nVidia video driver which is provides by rpmfusion.org.

Re: Plan for tomorrow's (20090821) FESCo meeting

2009-08-21 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 16:26 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote: - From my point of view. This cases demostrate, that we need a clarification about the requirements which a package has to fullfill for inclusssion into Fedora. I don't disagree, but... Package which are only useable if you have

Re: pygtk2 and its numpy dependency

2009-08-11 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 07:12 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Adam Jackson wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 14:40 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Since pygtk2 does actually use numpy, isn't d) the best (albeit most annoying) option? Internally? Or just to implement that one entrypoint? I believe

Re: pygtk2 and its numpy dependency

2009-08-11 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 10:05 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Adam Jackson wrote: The question is only whether to keep the 'Requires: numpy' in pygtk2 or to push it out to apps that use get_pixels_array(). And I think the latter sounds just fine to me. That's fine with me, assuming there's a way

Re: pygtk2 and its numpy dependency

2009-08-11 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 12:05 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On 08/10/2009 12:36 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: pygtk2 implements a function called gtk.gdk.get_pixels_array(), which returns the pixel contents of a GDK pixbuf as a numpy array. Fine and dandy, but this means it links against numpy (7

pygtk2 and its numpy dependency

2009-08-10 Thread Adam Jackson
pygtk2 implements a function called gtk.gdk.get_pixels_array(), which returns the pixel contents of a GDK pixbuf as a numpy array. Fine and dandy, but this means it links against numpy (7 megs) which is itself linked against atlas (12 megs). Kind of a lot for a single function, especially on a

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:15 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayPort I updated this a few days ago. I guess it's still not good enough to be called a feature? I really don't know how much more testing instructions I need to provide, and it seems

Re: non root X

2009-08-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 05:04 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 01:36 -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote: Could permissions be raised temporarily? PolicyKit with (defaulted) auto-approve to load an appropriate driver? Maybe we could do something with SELinux, but I don't think we can do

Re: non root X

2009-08-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 14:50 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Dave Airlie (airl...@redhat.com): Maybe we could do something with SELinux, but I don't think we can do anything without getting revoke. or maybe some process capabilties if such things worked. The non-kms drivers could

Re: F12 Alpha Test install

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 21:51 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: 2 - My mouse was not detected at all during install. Or at least, I never saw the mouse arrow during it. Had to use keyboard the whole time. Pretty sure this is an anaconda glitch. X doesn't show a cursor until you define one. I'll

Re: X defaulting to side-by-side output on multiple displays: Anaconda implications?

2009-08-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 16:03 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I remember seeing a recent announcement from the X guys that henceforth, X will be defaulting to side-by-side mode on systems with multiple displays, rather than clone mode. I just realized this may have implications for anaconda. Is

Re: rawhide report: 20090729 changes

2009-08-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 14:19 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: Possibly off topic, I've had issues with certain apps (totem comes to mind) not going full-screen on the screen I want them to. Is this another outstanding issue? It's an app issue, but sure. - ajax signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: kde-4.3.0 coming to F-10, F-11

2009-08-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 13:55 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: The KDE SIG is now working on KDE-4.3.0-related builds for Fedora 10 and 11 candidate updates. As this requires some buildroot overrides, if your package uses KDE libraries, it may inadvertently build against KDE 4.3.0 libraries and may,

Re: rawhide report: 20090729 changes

2009-07-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 11:13 +, Rawhide Report wrote: xorg-x11-server-1.6.99-21.20090724.fc12 --- * Tue Jul 28 2009 Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com 1.6.99-19.20090724 - xserver-1.6.99-randr-error-debugging.patch: Dump RANDR protocol errors to the log

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:39 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/29/2009 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 01:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:27:00PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: That means that you can take revisor, pungi or livecd-tools in your

Re: Lower Process Capabilities

2009-07-27 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 19:25 +1000, James Morris wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Steve Grubb wrote: The basic idea goes something like this: We would like to do something to prevent priv escalation for processes running as root. For this example, lets take cupsd to be a good case in point.

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 09:56 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:24:24AM +0200, drago01 wrote: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/06/the-ecma-c-and-cli-standards.aspx Oh poo, and what's the difference? None. None whatsoever but more marketing. You can't

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:27 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: Not answering Ajax's question specifically, but this looks a bit iffy: If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in a patent infringement lawsuit against a Microsoft implementation of any Covered Specification, then this

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 16:06 +0200, Julian Aloofi wrote: Unfortunately the patent promise covers more things than just C# / CLI patents. And it seems like you're going to lose the whole promise when you just sue them over one specification in there, e.g. the XPS specification. Maybe that's

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 21:11 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:06:02PM +0200, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:52AM +0200, drago01 wrote: The promise makes quite sure to tell you you

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 18:50 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Richard W.M. Jones writes: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:45:46AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: What line number changes? You cut a patch against configure, and you're done. That's it. And you get a big patch containing line

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 14:22 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: How exactly would that violate the GPL? You aren't patching the actual source code. Assuming GPLv2, the term in the license that you're referring to is preferred form. There is clearly some difference of opinion

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, the choices are, once it's identified where configure goes wrong are: 1) Fix the configure script, with shellcode whose contents are well understood 2) Patch configure.ac, and feed it to a code generator that spits out a

Re: Missing libxklavier.so.12 dependency

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 15:02 -0400, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, For a few days now updating rawhide doesn't work, because it misses a dependency: kdebase-workspace-4.2.95-3.fc12.i586 from rawhide has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: libxklavier.so.12 is needed by package

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 11:51 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: yum install system-autodeath That just turns off networking (so then how do you preupgrade from there? And it lets people keep running their obsolete stuff forever in their

Re: RFC: Kernel changes that may affect desktops

2009-06-30 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 13:42 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: Fedora's deployment of that work, however, is another matter. Does Fedora offer a variety of environments with a set of common features and infrastructure, or is it one functional desktop and one use at your own risk desktop? Strictly,

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 23:48 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: 2009/6/29 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: Hey all, we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora

Re: GRUB 2 in Ubuntu 9.10

2009-06-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 11:07 -0500, King InuYasha wrote: Well, the existing GRUB used in distros was declared Legacy a long time ago. GRUB 2 is a rewrite that is supposed to include all the features the various vendors have been patching into GRUB Legacy, as well as being able to support EFI

Re: Make Fedora 11 use vx800 chipset correctly

2009-05-28 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 11:18 +, Kristaps Viesalgs wrote: Hi! Here is my problem: I am trying to Fedora LIVE USB boot properly X on vx800 chipset/Chrome9 integrated GPU on VED8900 netbook (VIA OpenBook reference design). Default driver \openchrome\ because of unsupported vx800 can\'t do

Re: Make Fedora 11 use vx800 chipset correctly

2009-05-28 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 10:48 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 11:18 +, Kristaps Viesalgs wrote: Hi! Here is my problem: I am trying to Fedora LIVE USB boot properly X on vx800 chipset/Chrome9 integrated GPU on VED8900 netbook (VIA OpenBook reference design). Default

Dead package notice: freetype1

2009-05-26 Thread Adam Jackson
freetype1 is gone from F12. Nobody's currently using it, and more importantly nobody ought to be, anywhere, ever. - ajax signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com