Re: Fedora Linux Format software review: January 2010

2009-12-31 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 12/29/2009 11:20 PM, Christopher Brown wrote: Hi folks, Linux Format is a popular magazine in the U.K but which ships all over the world. It regularly reviews interesting bits of software and I thought: a) It would be interesting to see how much of what they review is included in

Re: Name of the 'chess' package

2009-11-19 Thread Hans de Goede
On 11/18/2009 01:49 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:36:02 -0600, Bruno Wolff IIIbr...@wolff.to wrote: We currently have a 3d chess game packaged as chess. I want to ask for fedora hosted space for it sop that we can be upstream for some modernization (with regard to

Re: libsndfile status?

2009-11-13 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 11/13/2009 09:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/bugs/libsndfile What's up with libsndfile in Fedora and EPEL? There are open tickets

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Hans de Goede
On 11/11/2009 01:11 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi, It has been plain since 2003ยน our new font access standard would be fontconfig. Since then most users of the old core fonts X11 backend have migrated, but there are still a few stragglers. Unfortunately these stragglers matter. Core fonts were

Re: dracut, or should booting a LiveCD touch the hard disk?

2009-10-22 Thread Hans de Goede
On 10/06/2009 06:29 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:27 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Thanks for bringing this up. I'll create a patch for the scripts generating the livecd to add rd_NO_LUKS to the normal livecd syslinux.cfg entry. I already was planning on doing this, but I

Re: dracut, or should booting a LiveCD touch the hard disk?

2009-10-22 Thread Hans de Goede
On 10/22/2009 01:46 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: On 10/06/2009 06:29 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:27 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Thanks for bringing this up. I'll create a patch for the scripts generating the livecd to add rd_NO_LUKS to the normal livecd syslinux.cfg entry

Re: dracut, or should booting a LiveCD touch the hard disk?

2009-10-05 Thread Hans de Goede
On 10/04/2009 11:35 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: Dracut currently tries to find and activate all RAID, LVM, and LUKS partitions on the hard disks when booting the LiveCD. Several of my systems are made up of many RAID, LVM, and LUKS partitions in various combinations. Booting the LiveCD now goes

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-04 Thread Hans de Goede
On 09/03/2009 09:10 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 09/03/2009 02:20 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: Regeneration is as easy with dracut as it is with mkinitrd, actually they have the same cmdline syntax. The only extra step required with dracut when using pre-generated images is: yum install dracut

Re: static linking and LGPL libraries

2009-09-04 Thread Hans de Goede
On 09/03/2009 09:22 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 09/03/2009 02:25 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: Note that we have the same problem with any package which does static linking against an lgpl library (such as glibc). This is (one of the big reasons) why we only permit static linking with explicit

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-03 Thread Hans de Goede
On 09/02/2009 07:17 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 10:26 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: As one of the persons involved in dracut and in integrating dracut into the distribution I'm rather surprised to hear this. Where has this been discussed ? Were are the bugs for the situations

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-03 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 09/03/2009 03:36 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Hans de Goede (j.w.r.dego...@hhs.nl) said: The fact that it wasn't turned on at Alpha means it really shouldn't be on now, not without FESCo approval. That is interesting reasoning, first keep it out of Alpha even though it was ready as you

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-03 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 09/03/2009 06:00 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 09/03/2009 11:35 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: The kernel binary RPM contains this pre-built initrd. The kernel source RPM does not contain the sources necessary to make this pre-built initrd. This makes me rather uncomfortable from

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-03 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 09/03/2009 06:29 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Hans de Goede (j.w.r.dego...@hhs.nl) said: It really is like having to support gentoo, versus having to support a distro using pre build packages. And I would really like to move to the having to support a pre-build package model

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-02 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 08/26/2009 08:11 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 14:07 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:45 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: dracut using kernel come with a prebuild initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version, so if we fail to find /boot/initrd

Re: Audacious 2.1 coming - SONAME change

2009-08-21 Thread Hans de Goede
On 07/16/2009 02:30 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: Audacious 2.1 is going to land in Rawhide soon. src.rpm updates have been comitted to Fedora package cvs/devel already. Compared with 1.5.1 this new final release changes the SONAME version of essential libraries within the audacious-libs package.

Re: Headsup: ABI changing ImageMagick coming to rawhide

2009-06-16 Thread Hans de Goede
On 06/15/2009 10:04 PM, Joe Orton wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:21:40PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: I've just build ImageMagick 6.5.3.7 for rawhide. This version introduces *silent* ABI breakage, as the ABI has changed without changing the soname (woohoo way to go upstream!) Can you

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-16 Thread Hans de Goede
On 06/15/2009 07:53 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Way back when in February [1], FESCo decided that for Fedora 11, i586 would be the default architecture, and for Fedora 12, it would be some variant of i686. It's time to follow through on that action item. I've submitted

Headsup: ABI changing ImageMagick coming to rawhide

2009-06-15 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, I've just build ImageMagick 6.5.3.7 for rawhide. This version introduces *silent* ABI breakage, as the ABI has changed without changing the soname (woohoo way to go upstream!) So I strongly urge anyone who maintains a package which uses the ImageMagick libraries to rebuild it. Regards,

Re: Orphaning Packages: audacious and dependencies

2009-06-11 Thread Hans de Goede
On 06/11/2009 06:28 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:09:24 -0300, Paulo wrote: I would create a symbolic link audacious - audacious2, so the previous bin can still be called. AFAIK, this is not done in Debian/Ubuntu either. The .desktop file has been renamed, too, and

Re: Orphaning Packages: audacious and dependencies

2009-06-11 Thread Hans de Goede
On 06/04/2009 12:29 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:31:27 -0300, Paulo wrote: Hi. As I don't have the time to maintain audacious any more I'm orphaning the following packages: audacious audacious-plugins libmowgli mcs The last two are dependencies which, as far as I am

Re: System clock speedup with latest kernels

2006-03-10 Thread Hans de Goede
John Thacker wrote: Anyone else seeing this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184593 ? With the last two kernels, 2.6.15-1.2032_FC5 and 2.6.15-1.2038_FC5, the system clock starts running too fast for me. It gains about an hour per day. It runs so fast that NTP won't sync