Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: Well, I disagree: If they want to use their auditied version, they haven't understood how open source works. They qualify as jerks who prefer to use proprietary forks instead of paying back to upstream and the wider

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: If done right, the move to git can still service CVS requests in some capacity...  that may make the transition a little less abrupt and painful. Perhaps.  But git-cvsserver is a rather limited crutch

Re: Datacenter, git, and cvs

2009-12-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: branches AFAIK. (It's not that awkward, but for developers resisting change... ah, every changed comma is a slight :-) ... ). To be clear, I mean developers with better things to do with their time than dealing

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks! Got it working as follows:  1. extract ISO  2. copy in new ks file  3. add more RPMs to Packages/ (using creative use of yumdownloader to make sure that deps come with the new RPMs)  4. createrepo --database

Re: Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I then tried to create a F9 chroot using mock, with the intention of running revisor or pungi inside. This doesn't work, because mock creates a v9 berkeley DB inside the chroot, but the libraries/apps inside the chroot only

Re: Non-responsive maintainer process for kurzawa / Krzysztof Kurzawski

2009-09-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: The non-responsive packager procedure could have been started _several_ months earlier. Perhaps one year ago already. There have been dead silent bugzilla tickets that ought to have raised an alarm-bell. Is this

Re: Batteries and Suspend Test day summary

2009-07-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Richard Hugheshughsi...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/22 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: Amazingly, Richard fixed quite a few of the incoming bugs already, while the test day was still ongoing, and people were able to confirm that the fixes are working. Well

Re: Raising the bar

2009-07-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Matthias Clasenmcla...@redhat.com wrote: To achieve this, we will hold regular test days, each of which will focus on use cases in a certain area. A few ideas for test day topics Overall, an excellent idea and plan. We had some very good results with an OLPC

Re: update mechanism for new releases

2009-06-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Matthew Woehlkemw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: So... 60% smooth sailing rate isn't terrible, especially since I /was/ able to reassemble all the pieces I got to keep without too much trouble. ... The problem with preupgrade is that it needs user

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

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Bill Nottinghamnott...@redhat.com wrote: Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) said: I know of *no one* in the community who tests on i586 to ensure that it works. (If this drags them out of silence, so be it!) It is certainly not part of the QA matrix for

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

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Bill Nottinghamnott...@redhat.com wrote: +arch_compat: geode: i686 ... That should do the trick. :) Cool. Didn't know we had that compat mechanism available. Back to my humid cave then... m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Lennart Poetteringmzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Gah. Allowing packages to pierce the firewall just makes the firewall redundant. True A firewall is an extra layer of security that simply hides the actual problem. Um!? Layered security is a _good thing_. *All*

Looking for a ucspi-ipc style tool in Fedora

2009-06-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
In my neverending quest for the School Server, I am looking for a 'unix socket superserver', something akin to xinetd listening on oldstyle unix sockets. Connecting to the right socket triggers the superserver to spawn a (potentially memory-heavy, privileged) process to handle the connection, with