Recommendations on how to handle this package and its libraries

2010-01-06 Thread Adam Miller
I'm currently packaging lessfs and there are apparently a couple libraries that are a part of it that have become a cause for concern by the reviewer (rightfully so) and I'm hoping someone could offer a recommendation of how to go about packaging them. Review Request:

Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, nodata l...@nodata.co.uk 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

Re: packaging guide

2010-01-06 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: hey guys i'm hoping to package gerix-wifi-cracker-ng(1) for fedora and i'm looking for someone who i can look to for help if i need it, is there a list of names i can look to? or what is the reccomended path? tia phil

Re: Sources file audit - 2010-01-05

2010-01-06 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: SNIP maxamillion:BADURL:firestarter-1.0.3.tar.gz:firestarter SNIP This package has been retired. http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/firestarter/devel/ ... the other one I will be taking care of shortly :) -AdamM --

Re: Should we digg PI

2010-01-05 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Adrian adrian.jo...@fedoraproject.ro 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 ? Best regards, Adrian --

Re: Vala programs and compiling from source

2009-12-21 Thread Adam Miller
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I recently submitting Deja-dup, a backup program written in Vala for review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540761 Vala is described in more detail at http://live.gnome.org/Vala. Deja-dup like

Re: Offline Until the New Year!

2009-12-19 Thread Adam Miller
Safe travels! See you next year. :) -Adam (From Android - CM) On Dec 19, 2009 2:16 AM, Peter Gordon pe...@thecodergeek.com wrote: Hi, all. Sincerest apologies for the lack of recent activity and the short notice here, but I'm going to be vacationing with family for the next couple of weeks.

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 1 complete

2009-12-18 Thread Adam Miller
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: SNIP You guys do realize that there is really only 2 things the Make system handles on the CVS side for you?  Creating a tag (which we won't need in dist-git), and importing an srpm.  Other than that you've been using

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 1 complete

2009-12-18 Thread Adam Miller
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: SNIP It has been in the plans all along to hide most/all of git behind fedpkg calls, even more than cvs was hidden.  I just wanted to make the point that very very little of CVS was hidden.  The only added potentially

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 1 complete

2009-12-17 Thread Adam Miller
+1 to Adam W because I'm an ultra git neophyte (and a CVS one for that matter) but the current make file automation essentially removes that as an issue. I'm not saying I'm against learning git if need be, but I agree that it would be an unfortunate regression. -Adam (From Android - CM) On Dec

new webkitgtk incremental release for F12

2009-12-11 Thread Adam Miller
There is currently a new incremental release to webkitgtk (the current release in F12 is 1.1.15-3, latest is 1.1.15-4) and I wanted to shoot out to the list to find out if there is anything that would need a new build against webkitgtk if I were to build the latest as a potential stable update for

Re: new webkitgtk incremental release for F12

2009-12-11 Thread Adam Miller
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: snip Note that this update does not change ABI. It's a stable bugfix release only... kevin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list Sorry,

Re: new webkitgtk incremental release for F12

2009-12-11 Thread Adam Miller
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Peter Gordon pe...@thecodergeek.com wrote: SNIP From my own brief testing, Epiphany has no apparent problems with it either. I think it should be fine as an update; but like any other version bump, we'd want to have it in updates-testing for a reasonable

Re: PackageKit policy: background and plans

2009-11-19 Thread Adam Miller
Thank you greatly for the well worded and well thought out response/update on the situation. In a thread of what was essentially a flame war, it is nice to see something constructive and meaningful emerge from the ashes. -Adam (From Android - CM) On Nov 19, 2009 8:30 PM, Owen Taylor

test2 please disregard

2009-10-27 Thread Adam Miller
many apologies, just trying to sort out my list posting setup. -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com - () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- fedora-devel-list

Test please disregard

2009-10-26 Thread Adam Miller
Setup my fp.org email recently and now testing sending to the list from my myTouch. -Adam (From Android) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: The future of rawhide (was [Fwd: Re: What is the Fedora Project?])

2009-10-22 Thread Adam Miller
I think this is an awesome idea, and yes I think this version of the verbage is more clear. Kudos to Jesse (and all those involved in the development of the idea of the split rawhide) and I hope to see this come to fruition. -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com

Re: The future of rawhide (was [Fwd: Re: What is the Fedora Project?])

2009-10-22 Thread Adam Miller
I would also like to jump on the help train if there is anything I am able to lend a hand with. -Adam (From Android) On Oct 22, 2009 9:05 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Adam Miller wrote: I think this is an awesome idea, and yes I think this ve... I agree, how

Re: wmii window manager

2009-10-03 Thread Adam Miller
Doesn't it mention somewhere in the wmii documentation that wmii is not intended for packaging because many of the user configuration options are to be set in a header file pre compile? I could be wrong but seem to remember reading that about both wmii and ion. -Adam From Android On Oct 3, 2009

Re: Adding encrypted drive to encrypted system post installation

2009-09-26 Thread Adam Miller
I'm pretty sure LUKS handles that stuff, might poke around google for info on that. I'm unfortunately not extremely familiar with it but if I remember correctly that is what does it. -Adam From Android On Sep 26, 2009 9:41 AM, Ralf Ertzinger fed...@camperquake.de wrote: Hi. On Sat, 26 Sep 2009

Minitube - youtube for your desktop, still a little early in development

2009-09-03 Thread Adam Miller
Hey all, I packaged up this app I stumbled upon called minitube (http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube) but it seems a bit unstable and I don't really want to toss it up to a package review until its stable enough to be shipped but I wanted to mention it to see if anyone might find a use for it,

Re: Firefox addon for Fedora-pkgdb search

2009-08-29 Thread Adam Miller
: Dne 28.8.2009 23:33, Adam Miller napsal(a): On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Milos Jakubicekxja...@fi.muni.cz wrote: snip I'm ... Well, imo the point is that we should try to enable the users to get to the desired package info page (from which they can access builds/updates/sources/bugs

Re: Firefox addon for Fedora-pkgdb search

2009-08-28 Thread Adam Miller
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Milos Jakubicekxja...@fi.muni.cz wrote: snip I'm very very sorry for this as I'm sure that I've partially invalidated my/your/both work, which is just bad:( Could you try to merge my and your work somehow? I'd be glad if you would do this and keep an eye of

Re: fedora-pkgdb: make it discoverable on browser home page?

2009-08-24 Thread Adam Miller
I honestly threw that Firefox AddOn together in order to scratch an itch that I had, I released it for general consumption because I was hoping someone else could benefit. I honestly never sat down and thought of user vs. developer implications of use or $other. -Adam --

Re: Orphaning packages

2009-08-21 Thread Adam Miller
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Aurelien Bompardgau...@free.fr wrote: I'm orphaning a few packages I'm not using anymore, feel free to take over: snip - apachetop -- A top-like display of Apache log snip I'd like to take this one, I use it quite often. I'll be taking ownership in Fedora pkgdb

Re: Orphaning packages

2009-08-21 Thread Adam Miller
You might not have gotten around to it, but it appears you only orphaned the devel branch of apachetop, wasn't sure if you want to continue to maintain the stable branches but no longer beyond that or completely orphan? -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com

Re: source file audit - 2009-08-10

2009-08-10 Thread Adam Miller
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Kevin Fenzike...@scrye.com wrote: snip maxamillion:BADURL:dc3dd-6.12.3.tar.gz:dc3dd maxamillion:BADURL:oggvideotools-0.7b.tar.gz:oggvideotools maxamillion:BADURL:shed-1.15.tar.gz:shed maxamillion:BADURL:TPG-3.1.2.tar.gz:python-tpg snip Mine are fixed and

Firefox SELinux bug from Alpha Blockers meeting.

2009-08-07 Thread Adam Miller
Today in our F12Alpha Blocker meeting we discussed the status of the Firefox SELinux bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512845 And we were hoping to get in contact with caillon, stransky, jhorak for more information on the bug as well as send this to the developer list in order to

Re: Running a command in background inside spec file

2009-08-06 Thread Adam Miller
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Murilo Opsfelder Araujomopsfel...@gmail.com wrote: snip how can I run a command in background inside spec file? snip I have to ask because my curiosity is killing me what's the use case for that? -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-06 Thread Adam Miller
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Jesse Keatingjkeat...@redhat.com wrote: snip Right, aggressive between Fedora releases, conservative within a Fedora release.  I kind of wish everybody did that, and actually treated our stable releases as, you know, stable releases, otherwise what's the point

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Adam Williamsonawill...@redhat.com wrote: snip We've had this discussion before, but to re-state my opinion: the only sane way to handle this is multiple, discretionary update repositories. A repository for security and stable bugfix updates, and a repository

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Mark Bidewellmark.bidew...@alumni.clemson.edu wrote: snip +1 snip Would we want to consider putting together a proposal for something that is OpenSuSE Buildservice styled in order to satisfy this? -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com

Re: openssh-blacklist - careless waste of space.

2009-07-31 Thread Adam Miller
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Adam Williamsonawill...@redhat.com wrote: snip We ship rather a lot of applications which are fairly useless without an internet connection. If the data is downloaded from the internet when you run _the installed program_, I don't see any problem here. snip

Re: RFE: FireKit

2009-07-24 Thread Adam Miller
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Colin Walterswalt...@verbum.org wrote: SNIP Backing up a minute, in discussions among the desktop team and other people about this, one thing that came up as a specific problem with having no firewall at all was the public WiFi hotspot case.  If for example I

Re: Fail2ban + Shorewall Question

2009-07-13 Thread Adam Miller
I maintain fail2ban for EPEL, I can just take the Fedora package as well unless someone else has a relatively high interest in doing so (I purely maintain it for EPEL because we use it at work on our servers and Axel said he had no interest in packaging it for EPEL). I've needed to contact Axel in

Re: System-Config-Selinux package review

2009-07-13 Thread Adam Miller
[08:46:58][a...@turnip][src]+ rpmlint scselinux.spec scselinux.spec:91: E: hardcoded-library-path in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scselinux scselinux.spec:92: E: hardcoded-library-path in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scselinux/* scselinux.spec:93: E: hardcoded-library-path in

Re: prelink: is it worth it?

2009-07-09 Thread Adam Miller
I am curious as to this answer as well because prelink has been something that actually hurt my netbook in performance so I nuked it. -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com - () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\

Re: rawhide report: 20090702 changes

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Miller
+1 on the Books idea but I feel obligated to do something along the lines of: Insert snide remark about code vs. content here But I shall refrain. -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com - () ascii ribbon campaign - against html

Re: rawhide report: 20090702 changes

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:14 AM, drago01drag...@gmail.com wrote: If the content enhances the OS user experience, then the content is OK to be packaged in Fedora. This means, for example, that things like: fonts, themes, clipart, and wallpaper are OK. So does a programming book enhance the OS

Re: rawhide report: 20090702 changes

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Davidbouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: OK, but if the package payload doesn't interoperate with another package, I can't see the point. Fonts, artwork, sure, they are a system resource for other software. By that logic a book distributed in PDF is a system resource

Re: New maintainer needed: dumpasn1, freedroid, http_ping, id3v2, pscan, zzuf

2009-07-01 Thread Adam Miller
I would like to take http_ping and pscan. -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com - () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: RFC: Kernel changes that may affect desktops

2009-06-30 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Arjan van de Venar...@infradead.org wrote: how common are docking stations in practice? (as opposed to port extenders) -- Arjan van de Ven        Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-30 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: That said, Kubuntu and Xubuntu aren't really completely separate either, they're just marketed as such. They're really just spins from the same repository. The way they're marketed as separate is really silly. They are

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

2009-06-30 Thread Adam Miller
2009/6/30 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: On 06/30/2009 09:28 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: 梁穗隆 on 06/30/2009 10:51 AM wrote: So I really hope that solang will replace f-spot soon. And solang has more new features than f-spot. I don't see a package review request or any koji

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Miller
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Davidbouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: Re the discussion at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties: - it presents a neutral default - it presents a simple choice for newbie who

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Miller
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Mat Boothfed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote: Fedora Live Image  --- A link that downloads the Gnome or KDE image, picked at random by a script. SNIP Now its just getting silly... What a support nightmare that would be. user I need help fedora-member What desktop are

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Miller
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Michael Cronenworthm...@cchtml.com wrote: What if the Fedora version had a suffix? Fedora 11G - Gnome       11K - KDE       11X - XFCE       11S - no desktop (server?) Seems silly, too, yes, but just an idea. Somewhat silly, but the naming convention

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Miller
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Well, Ubuntu will have a problem at that point as well (see Kubuntu and Xubuntu). ;-) Maybe we should write a U Desktop Environment just to give them trouble. ^^ That's actually a little different, Kubutu and Xubuntu

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Miller
A lot of users think they have a Dell CPU.  The result of giving them one that doesn't work will be try something else before you download Fedora. I completely agree, I told my father on the phone just today to open his web browser as I was helping him deal with some wireless issues and he had

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-28 Thread Adam Miller
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Christopher Stonechris.st...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever desktop RH employees are paid to work on to satisfy their biggest RHEL customers needs.  Or what they *think* their biggest RHEL customers want. I think the question you need to ask is why they must force

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-28 Thread Adam Miller
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:29 AM, drago01drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Niels Haase wrote: GNOME KDE - official support from fedora (first class citizen) XFCE - spin only (second class citizen) LXDE - remix only (third class

Re: Streaming terminal output to a file

2009-06-28 Thread Adam Miller
Couldn't you use strace? -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com - () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-26 Thread Adam Miller
Just curious... Is the KDE liveCD considered a Spin or an official release image? -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com - () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments --

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-26 Thread Adam Miller
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Ian Welleri...@ianweller.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 05:18:52PM -0500, Adam Miller wrote: Just curious... Is the KDE liveCD considered a Spin or an official release image? KDE Live ISOs are official, last time I checked. If it is official, I think

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-26 Thread Adam Miller
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Matthew Woehlkemw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I too would like to see KDE treated as a first-class citizen, rather than blindly pushing Gnome to the ignorant masses. The problem with this is that you are now pushing two things blindly at ignorant masses,

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-26 Thread Adam Miller
On 6/26/09, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Adam Miller wrote: As I have brought up to Kevin Kofler in IRC, I think before we did something like that we would need to first look into having the KDE SIG spawn up documentation that matches the gnome-centric docs As I replied

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

2009-06-23 Thread Adam Miller
+1 For the i686 with atom optimizations. This seems like a solid suggestion and Gregory's argument seems logical. -Adam (From my G1) On Jun 23, 2009 11:49 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Clemens Eissererlinuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Optimizing

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-16 Thread Adam Miller
On 6/16/09, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: I honestly don't care whether or not it's influenced by what I think. I just wish you project put some thought and effort into discovering why people ask for or download split CDs other than just shutting off

Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

2009-06-12 Thread Adam Miller
I have read a lot of people voice their opinion on what they think to be a flaw in the benchmark. How about we as a group put together a documented benchmark process along with justification as to why those methods were chosen to reflect real world scenarios and from there send it to reviewers

system-config-firewall picking up slack where firestarter fell off

2009-06-12 Thread Adam Miller
I'm retired firestarter, I picked it up recently as it was orphaned but as we are moving towards PolicyKit and there's no upstream to assist with the port and after a discussion we had here on the list I decided it was time to retire it. Now, with that being said, I have some users on the

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Matthew Woehlke mw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Matt Domsch wrote: What about dropping hierarchical mirroring altogether? Why hasn't someone developed a distributed (i.e. bittorrent-like) system for mass mirroring? :-) -- Matthew Please do not quote

Re: gnaughty is a hot babe

2009-05-29 Thread Adam Miller
We had a really long debate about this package in #fedora-devel yesterday and it basically boils down to 1) Need fedora-legal to check the legality of the app not verifying user's age and legality of the URL of the site being in the C source. 2) If fedora-legal say it is legal, then its up to the

The future of firestarter

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Miller
I recently picked up the firestarter package because it was orphaned and I know a few people who still use it. There were only a couple of small bugs opened against it so I figured I would hack at them as soon as I was able. But this morning there was a bug filed against it to port it to PolicyKit

Re: The future of firestarter

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Miller
If upstream is dead and you are not going to do the work, just close the bug as WONTFIX. Yes, I filed the RFE in the first place but I wasn't aware that upstream is dead. So don't let that scare you from continuing to be the maintainer of it. Of course, if anyone is willing to do the work,

Re: The future of firestarter

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Cry cry_regar...@yahoo.com wrote: Any chance of filing a set of RFEs against system-config-firewall for the features that firestarter has that system-config-firewall is still missing? I like that idea, I've retired firestarter and will begin to file RFEs once