Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-08 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:02:24PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a system

Re: Question about dist-cvs make targets

2010-01-08 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:28:26AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: As I proceed to port our make system over into fedpkg, I've ran across a couple targets that are giving me pause. Is anybody out there making use of the following targets? patch I use this quite often to generate patches, but

Re: Question about dist-cvs make targets

2010-01-08 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:47:10PM +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote: Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underw...@gmail.com writes: I have used make patch quite a bit when developing patches. I guess it's just a wrapper around gendiff though, so it maybe redundant i.e. in my use case I could have been

Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-08 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:59:14PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: 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

Re: Sources file audit - 2010-01-05

2010-01-07 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:22:58PM +0100, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote: I thought the canonical URL for downloads from sourceforge.net has been http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/PROJECT/NAME-VERSION.tar.gz? It should be downloads... not prdownloads... according to the SourceURL

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-07 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:47:09PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I'd like to propose splitting out the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo file into a fedora-release-rawhide subpackage which is NOT installed by default or shipped on the live media. I wrote up this using the Feature template,

Re: Sources file audit - 2010-01-05

2010-01-06 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:38:20AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: till:BADURL:dsmidiwifi-v1.01a.tgz:dsmidiwifi this seems to be now on google, I'll have to fix it. till:BADURL:john-1.7.0.2.tar.bz2:john I'll work on that later, too. After an update the old version was removed afaics.

Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:24:17PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: 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

Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: On 01/06/2010 03:21 PM, Till Maas wrote: How about making the gnome-panel give away its focus to the newly created window? Within the gnome-panel, it should be pretty obvious which actions should give away the focus and which should

Re: Sources file audit - 2010-01-05

2010-01-06 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:29:22PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: Before.. Source0: http://download.sourceforge.net/usb-midi-fw/midisport-firmware-%{version}.tar.gz After Source0: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/usb-midi-fw/midisport-firmware/%{version}.tar.gz For 1.2 as

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:48:47AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: On the other hand, with the guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work to comply with it ... Isn't

Re: How did I end up as the package owner for emacs?

2010-01-04 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:53:26PM +0100, Karel Klic wrote: you became the owner in the pkgdb when Daniel Novotny and I agreed to transfer the package ownership to me. We discovered that the next person with commit access become the owner when a package is orphaned, and the package

Re: Help wanted with dist-cvs to git conversion

2009-12-18 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Debarshi Ray wrote: What happens now? Not much I guess, as the list archive obfuscates email [...] that give you a feeling of accomplishment? Just trying to point out the futility of trying to avoid publishing your Fedora ID. It took me less than

Re: Add extra generated RPM requires - how?

2009-12-18 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 03:54:53PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: 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.

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:18:28PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/18/2009 11:19 PM, nodata wrote: Thanks. I have changed the title to: All users get to install software on a machine they do not have the root password to .. if the packages are signed and from a signed repository.

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:36:27AM -0500, Ricky Zhou wrote: On 2009-11-19 10:23:53 AM, Till Maas wrote: So at least one major security protection measure is not in place and attackers can create their own repositories with signed packages that have well known security flaws, e.g. a package

Re: Missing links on Fedora CVS

2009-11-09 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:19:33AM +, Quentin Armitage wrote: I'm not sure where the correct place to report this is, so apologies if this is not the right place. The right place is here: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ Regards Till pgph1AOZytKWY.pgp Description: PGP

Re: source file audit - 2009-11-01

2009-11-08 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:23:08AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:38:38 -0600 Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: I tried grabbing http://dl.sf.net/glest/glest_data_3.2.1.zip and it seemed to work. The actual URL in the spec file has the %version macro. Is the

Re: source file audit - 2009-11-01

2009-11-06 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:33:48PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: On Thursday 05 November 2009, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: KF == Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com writes: KF Well, the script I am running uses 'spectool -g' and indeed, it KF doesn't handle self signed certs: Honestly, I find

Re: CVS daily checkout seeds

2009-11-04 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:51:27PM +, Quentin Armitage wrote: The CVS daily checkout seeds at http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/webfiles/ don't contain a checkout for F-12. Would it be possible for someone to add that? I have also noted that a checkout seed for F-9 is still included, which

Re: Fedora with Universal Binaries?

2009-10-24 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:14:39AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: On 10/23/2009 07:01 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: It was (mostly) ignored because it doubles the download size and makes the image no longer fit on a CD, for little benefit. Yes. It is a solution which adds costs in many, many places

Re: Simplify non-responsive maintainers policy Part 2

2009-10-22 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:10:22AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: * Should we expedite these requests in the future if the email address for the maintainer is no longer in existence? Yes, please. If the mail address of a maintainers do not work anymore, then their packages should be orphaned,

Re: Status of touchpad support in F12 for kdm?

2009-10-21 Thread Till Maas
On Mon October 19 2009, mcloaked wrote: Given the recent long thread concerning upstream decisions about defaults in Thunderbird 3.0beta4 it seems to me that just because upstream makes a specific decision does not always mean that is the best decision. What That discussion was not about

Re: [Fwd: Junior Jobs]

2009-10-20 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 08:32:56AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Původní zpráva Předmět: [opensuse-packaging] Junior Jobs Datum: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:46:58 +0200 Od: Michal Hrusecky mhruse...@suse.cz Komu: opensuse-packag...@opensuse.org lately we formulated concept of

Re: Eternal 'good file hashes' list

2009-10-20 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:20:17AM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote: What would this be good for? Actually for some files it would be a known bad file hashes because these files (binaries or scripts) would contain known vulnerabilities and so knowing that you have a file that was once included in

Re: Eternal 'good file hashes' list

2009-10-20 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:00:23AM +0200, nodata wrote: Am 2009-10-20 23:48, schrieb Till Maas: Having a hash list of well known files might also help in forensics analysis to find suspicious files. Also with determining the correct RPM NVR one could use the repo metadata to check wether

Re: Who do I send to get a package removed because of bad language.

2009-10-16 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:48:24AM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Please, disconnect yourself from the Internet asap, because it's full of obscene videos, jokes, sexism and so on. And that's great! Even if something is on the internet, this does not meant that it has a place within the Fedora

Re: Who do I send to get a package removed because of bad language.

2009-10-16 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:10:09PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: 2009/10/16 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: On 10/16/2009 02:29 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: You see, I personally prefer to live in the society with some level of aggressively thinking and speaking minorities, rather

Re: What to do if a deprecated license is used? nescc java files with intel license

2009-10-16 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:58:16AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 10/15/2009 10:02 AM, Till Maas wrote: Hiyas, I looked into packaging the nesc compiler (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nescc) and I noticed that it uses the deprecated intel license for some java files: http

Re: What to do if a deprecated license is used? nescc java files with intel license

2009-10-16 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 08:57:55PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Till Maas wrote: I looked into packaging the nesc compiler (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nescc) and I noticed that it uses the deprecated intel license for some java files: http://nescc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nescc

Re: Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?

2009-10-14 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 06:31:03PM +0200, Felix Kaechele wrote: From the opposite POV: Why should we make peoples' lives harder getting the tools they need? Example: Somebody without the DAHDI Kernel Modules would probably not try to use the DAHDI Tools since he probably won't even know

Re: wmii window manager

2009-10-03 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 10:12:04AM +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Do we have wmii (a window manager, http://wmii.suckless.org) packaged for Fedora? I packaged it a while ago for myself, but I am currently using xmonad. Maybe you can use my old SPECS / SRPMS:

Re: wmii window manager

2009-10-03 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 11:10:35PM +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Is it in line with rawhide? Did you ever pushed it into koji? Do you have a packaged p2p (plan9 on Unix)? I never submitted it into Fedora, I just created the SPEC for myself to test wmii. As you can see from the dates of the

Re: status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

2009-09-28 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Secondly, where would be the appropriate place to propose accepting zsync with the internal zlib? Is that something I should bring to the packaging committee? This proposal has already been declined by FESCo:

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

2009-09-26 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:24:01PM +0200, Rafał Psota wrote: 2009/9/25 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com The following packages have been orphaned: youtube-dl Also, I would be happy to take 'greyhounds'. Co-maintainers welcome. I'm a maintainer of metacafe-dl which is similar to

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:20:21AM -0400, James Antill wrote: ...but to me this is all a _problem_in_xz_, not presto/deltarpms. If nobody can fix xz before F12 GA then IMNSO we should revert the compression to something that works ... the minor savings in xz compression isn't worth as much as

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:58:23AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Till Maas wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:20:21AM -0400, James Antill wrote: ...but to me this is all a _problem_in_xz_, not presto/deltarpms. If nobody can fix xz before F12 GA then IMNSO we should revert

Where is Callum Lerwick / seg? (was: Re: Where is the openjpeg maintainer?)

2009-09-23 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:19:10PM -0400, Adam Goode wrote: In the bug report, the maintainer seems to suggest that having co-maintainers are ok: feel free to merge it, but never approves them. Can someone approve these co-maintainers? I will probably help to also mention the name and FAS

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:00:37AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:23 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: ...but to me this is all a _problem_in_xz_, not presto/deltarpms. If nobody can fix xz before F12 GA then IMNSO we should revert the compression to something that works ...

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:38:24PM -0400, Andre Robatino wrote: On 09/23/2009 07:17 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Andre Robatino (an...@bwh.harvard.edu) said: If I understand correctly what the problem is - that successfully xz-uncompressing a file requires being on the same endian arch as

Re: should file ncrack-services go to /etc?

2009-09-22 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:42:20AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On 09/22/2009 02:43 AM, Martin Gieseking wrote: Am 21.09.2009 23:24, Till Maas wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:58:32PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: On 09/21/2009 04:04 PM, Till Maas wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:47:24PM

Re: should file ncrack-services go to /etc?

2009-09-21 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:47:24PM +0200, Martin Gieseking wrote: during the review of ncrack (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523199) I noticed that the file ncrack-services is placed in /usr/share/ncrack by default. Since it is a kind of configuration file that contains

Re: should file ncrack-services go to /etc?

2009-09-21 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:58:32PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: On 09/21/2009 04:04 PM, Till Maas wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:47:24PM +0200, Martin Gieseking wrote: during the review of ncrack (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523199) I noticed that the file ncrack

Re: Xinetd resurrection

2009-09-18 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:31:49AM +0200, Jan Zeleny wrote: I already have one developer, who is willing to join me. I'd like to know your opinion of this project. And of course if there is anybody who would like to join, just let me know, I'd be happy to gather some more people to work on

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

2009-09-12 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:13:52AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: The single month you're willing to wait is not much of a problem. There is a more fundamental problem. The non-responsive packager procedure could have been started _several_ months earlier. Perhaps one year ago already. There

Re: rawhide report: 20090910 changes

2009-09-11 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:37:59AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: This was discussed a couple of days ago against another rawhide report. I would check out the list archives for the reasoning. I fail to find it. :-( The last report in the old format was 20090902 and I did not find any discussion

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

2009-09-11 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 08:10:03PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: Maybe something like people need to convince at least two FESCo members and have no FESCo member object to get this done: 1) Write a mail to fedora-devel with the problems of the package and a summary of communication attempts

Re: [Heads up] FUSE so-name bump is coming.

2009-09-08 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:41:58AM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: I'll plan to upgrade fuse in Rawhide (and, possibly, in F-11) up to ver. 2.8.0, and there will be so-name bump. I'll do it next week, if nobody have any objections. Also I'll try to test all (or as much as I can) FUSE-related

Re: rpms/nss-softokn/devel nss-softokn-3.12.3.99.3-stripped.tar.bz2, NONE, 1.1

2009-08-24 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 09:32:11PM -0700, Elio Maldonado wrote: You are right. By reading at Makefile.common it seems that make new-source nss-softokn-3.12.3.99.3-stripped.tar.bz2 would be the way to place them in the lookaside cache (after I do the cvs remove on them). You probably

Re: Broken dependencies in Fedora 11 - 2009-08-20

2009-08-21 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:07:47PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: Indeed. A single tomboy build obsoleted more than a dozen Mono packages and actually got marked stable sometimes later without anyone adding a comment. I'd blame the tomboy maintainer for the chaos

Re: naive live USB question

2009-08-13 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:12:35PM +0100, psmith wrote: jeez when i brought up the idea of fedora using hybrid iso's a few months back i was basically lambasted by most on this list, now all of a sudden it's a new F12 feature? wtf??? I am not sure, what the right word is, but there seem

Re: Cannot rely on /dev being present in %post scripts?

2009-08-12 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:18:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: According to bug #517013, %post scripts should not assume that /dev is available -- so we can't do anything that requires the existence of /dev/null, /dev/urandom, etc. Is this a known and expected packaging rule, or is it a

Re: 'IT Security' in comps?

2009-08-11 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:48:34AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: I considered IT might be redundant information, too, when I created the groups, but also both the terms Forensics or Wireless are not IT specific, therefore I put the IT-security

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:35:14AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/06/2009 09:33 PM, Till Maas wrote: currently upstream release monitoring[0] bug filing is opt-in, which means that it will be only performed for packages that have been activly added by probably a maintainer of the package

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:27:23PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Speaking just for myself, I'd be happy to have it automatic for my packages. But wow, who's going to key in all those regexps and keep it up to date? On source of normalized data is Oswatershed[0]. My long time vision would be to

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:56:03AM +0200, Pierre-Yves wrote: It remembers me a website made by Remi[1] which list for all the package available, for all the branch what version are in the repo. It also provides comparison between upstream and repo for some packages such as the PECL, PEAR and

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:21:20PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Rahul Sundaramsunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I would prefer the system to be opt-out. For completely new maintainers or anyone maintaining more than a few packages, it certainly is very

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 12:28:50PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/07/2009 10:48 AM, Till Maas wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:35:14AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/06/2009 09:33 PM, Till Maas wrote: currently upstream release monitoring[0] bug filing is opt-in, which means

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:33:06PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: Would it be ok, to do this and allow maintainers to add there package to a black list, so that no bugs will be filed or should it continue to be opt-in? Then the packags will still be checked, but only reported by other, non intrusive

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:56:10AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: - BZ seems the wrong place. It's the only push mechanism we have other than raw e-mail, though. Pushing messages to maintainers is not the only necessary feature. The maintainers also need to be able to easily coordinate who

Re: 'IT Security' in comps?

2009-08-06 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 01:24:24PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: The IT prefix is only used in the group id, which is afaik not visible to the used and not translated. No, it's not just in the description. These tools can be used to perform

Re: 'IT Security' in comps?

2009-08-06 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:24:18PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/06/2009 02:37 AM, Till Maas wrote: The IT prefix is only used in the group id, which is afaik not visible to the used and not translated. That's not true. yum -v grouplist will display them. I use them all

Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-06 Thread Till Maas
Hiyas, currently upstream release monitoring[0] bug filing is opt-in, which means that it will be only performed for packages that have been activly added by probably a maintainer of the package. There is at least one maintainer that does not like having these bugs filed for his packages, so he

Re: 'IT Security' in comps?

2009-08-06 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 03:21:41PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: The IT prefix is only used in the group id, which is afaik not visible to the used and not translated. No, it's not just in the description. These tools can be used

Re: New facility to request tagging actions

2009-08-05 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:35:28PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: This will function much like the 'update' target, it will prompt you to edit a file to fill in the target and a description of your change. It will use a cli tool (fedora-hosted) to file a ticket in the rel-eng trac for you, and

Re: 'IT Security' in comps?

2009-08-05 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:00:24AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Recently, you've added the following groups to comps: it-security-code-analysis it-security-forensics it-security-intrusion-detection it-security-reconnaissance it-security-wireless it-security-password-recovery You've

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-07-31

2009-08-01 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:44:52PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 00:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I don't think anybody is going to argue that extracting source from srpm or pulling tarball + patches from our package cvs is ideal. So I don't see why we should

Re: [RFE] Auto-approve watchcommits and watchbugzilla in Pkgdb (2nd try)

2009-07-29 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:54:20PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: It was in my post to the last thread:: Is someone in a position to verify whether setting security flags on a bug prevents someone who would be put in the CC list by the default cc attribute would or would not let people see

Re: [RFE] Auto-approve watchcommits and watchbugzilla in Pkgdb (2nd try)

2009-07-29 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:30:27AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Is the same thing true of watching a person? till, I'm now watching till-opensource.name, if you want to open a new security bug and see if I get CC'd. I created https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514518 According to

Re: [RFE] Auto-approve watchcommits and watchbugzilla in Pkgdb (2nd try)

2009-07-29 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:12:00AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On 07/29/2009 07:05 AM, Till Maas wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:30:27AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Is the same thing true of watching a person? till, I'm now watching till-opensource.name, if you want to open a new

Re: Orphaning glade2

2009-07-29 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:41:49PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: I'm going to orphan glade2. glade3 is the only actively maintained version of glade, and I don't see a reason to keep glade2 around any longer. You should probably retire glade2 if nobody rejects. For more information look at

Re: rpms/kmess/F-11 kmess.spec, NONE, 1.1 .cvsignore, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.1, 1.2

2009-07-29 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:36:42PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: SMP == Steven M Parrish tuxbr...@fedoraproject.org writes: SMP Summary: A MSN Messenger Clone Please don't build a package with this summary. Please explain why. Regards Till pgpkbPjcHnHO3.pgp Description: PGP

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-07-24

2009-07-24 Thread Till Maas
On Fri July 24 2009, Jon Stanley wrote: Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-07-24/fedora-meeting.2 009-07-24-16.59.log.html 17:01:18 jds2001 #topic No frozen rawhide proposal 17:01:22 jds2001 .fesco 224 17:01:25 * jwb is here 17:01:41 * nirik goes to look over the page

Re: Packages tracked by FEver that need to be updated

2009-07-18 Thread Till Maas
On Sat July 18 2009, Caolán McNamara wrote: FWIW I stuck my own dubious hacky little script I use to keep track of the latest versions of packages I maintain, which include a lot of painfully upstream sequenced packages at http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/latestpackages/ if it helps anyone.

Re: Packages tracked by FEver that need to be updated

2009-07-17 Thread Till Maas
On Fri July 17 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 07/16/2009 11:22 PM, Till Maas wrote: It would be useful to have a dynamically generated webpage that shows how close we are to upstream versions across different Fedora versions similar to the distrowatch packages page. A static webpage

Re: Packages tracked by FEver that need to be updated

2009-07-16 Thread Till Maas
On Saturday 11 July 2009 13:29:59 Rakesh Pandit wrote: Thanks for nice work. I too mailed other some time back .. but did not recieved any mail back. May you share the program ;) My current code is available at http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=till/public_git/cnucnu.git;a=summary But don't be

Re: epel-release in Fedora repos?

2009-07-14 Thread Till Maas
On Tue July 14 2009, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: JK == Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com writes: JK At 7000+ srpms there is no way I could evaluate each and every one JK for validity before submitting it for a rebuild. I think the point is that the package owner should have deleted it from

Re: epel-release in Fedora repos?

2009-07-14 Thread Till Maas
On Tue July 14 2009, Josh Boyer wrote: You have a valid point. I'm not sure if the cvs scripts or pkgdb can currently cope with that though. If you have the time to look into it, I'm sure it would be appreciated. Do you know which script parses the cvs requests and generates the module(?)?

Re: Packages tracked by FEver that need to be updated

2009-07-14 Thread Till Maas
On Sat July 11 2009, Jon Stanley wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Till Maasopensou...@till.name wrote: Probably and afaik the original author also planned to do so. Unluckily the code that handled the bugzilla tickets is afaik not publicly available, therefore this needs to be

Re: $HOME/bin

2009-07-13 Thread Till Maas
On Mon July 13 2009, Michal Hlavinka wrote: if su (instead of su -) is used, root will inherit user's environment including PATH. So why should a malicious user be able to change the contents of ~/bin, but not set the variable PATH to an arbitrary value? Regards Till signature.asc

Re: Packages tracked by FEver that need to be updated

2009-07-11 Thread Till Maas
On Sat July 11 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: Till Maas wrote: mingw32-nsis2.44 207b0 Hmmm, the regex is somehow picking up something broken. The current version is actually 2.45. I should probably make it read http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download instead. In 2005

Re: Packages tracked by FEver that need to be updated

2009-07-11 Thread Till Maas
On Sat July 11 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote: I wonder, can FEver become part of the Fedora infrastructure, so it's not quite so bus-sensitive? Probably and afaik the original author also planned to do so. Unluckily the code that handled the bugzilla tickets is afaik not publicly available,

Re: Packages tracked by FEver that need to be updated

2009-07-11 Thread Till Maas
On Sat July 11 2009, Rakesh Pandit wrote: Thanks for nice work. I too mailed other some time back .. but did not recieved any mail back. May you share the program ;) I'll share the program once I setup some repo for it, which will probably happen the next time I spend a reasonable amount of

Packages tracked by FEver that need to be updated

2009-07-10 Thread Till Maas
Aloas, some of you added your packages to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_FEver_to_track_upstream_changes Unfortunately seems the original author of fever not to be around anymore, e.g. his fedorapeople account is removed/backed-up. Therefore I started to write a new framework to replace

hall monitor / moderation policies (was: Re: an update to automake-1.11?)

2009-07-09 Thread Till Maas
On Thu July 9 2009, Tom spot Callaway wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear in my last post. You two need to take this offlist, or simply let this thread stop by agreeing to disagree. This is the last friendly warning I'm giving before triggering the hall monitor/moderation policies. Is the policy

Re: prelink: is it worth it?

2009-07-09 Thread Till Maas
On Thu July 9 2009, yersinia wrote: But something one have to pay a security prize on not disabling it : it render impossible to have a centralizzated security integrity management (e.g. rfc.sf.net for example) or one have to skip from check the prelink binary. Very bad i think. You pay a

Re: delaying an update

2009-07-08 Thread Till Maas
On Wed July 8 2009, Christoph Höger wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 08.07.2009, 17:41 +0300 schrieb Jussi Lehtola: On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 09:30 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Christoph Höger on 07/08/2009 09:21 AM wrote: how do I do that? Since you have not submitted it for stable I do

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Till Maas
On Tue July 7 2009, Jesse Keating wrote: See above, should be how we do things now, group related updates into a single bodhi submission, and attach the bugs/CVEs to that single submission. This may be disliked by upstream and others, because it creates bogus security update notification

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Till Maas
On Tue July 7 2009, Jesse Keating wrote: Why was this update marked as security, but not bundled with the package that actually had the security issue that you were rebuilding for? When It was bundled with the packagate that had the security issue:

Re: logistics list

2009-07-07 Thread Till Maas
On Fri July 3 2009, John Poelstra wrote: The logist...@lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list has been created to meet the requirements discussed here: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-July/msg0.htm l Imho announcement mails should not require someone to read some

Re: RFC: cronKit

2009-07-06 Thread Till Maas
On Mon July 6 2009, Christoph Höger wrote: since I sync my mail with the experimental gnome ui of offlineimap, I encounter a small problem: How do I tell cron to only invoke the job when I am logged in under gnome only? Since consolekit (correct me if I am wrong on that) does not Do you

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-05 Thread Till Maas
On Sun July 5 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: There's been lots of previous discussion of this silly idea of patching generated code. You end up carrying enormous patches containing just line number changes that often can't be applied upstream, and can't be carried forward to new upstream

Re: rawhide report: 20090702 changes

2009-07-02 Thread Till Maas
On Thu July 2 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: It's also a hard decision where to draw the line: will you accept a PDF of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (which is in the public domain) as well? What exact criteria make Dive into Python OK and Around the World in 80 Days not? Dive into

Re: How user could loose his CLA done status?

2009-06-28 Thread Till Maas
On Sun June 28 2009, Tom spot Callaway wrote: * Phone number is absent or obviously incorrect (e.g. 555-1212, , 0) Will I also loose my cla_done membership, once you notice that I removed my phone number from FAS after I quit the contract for the telephone connection? Or

Re: (Most) Results from the Candidate Questionnaire are available now

2009-06-05 Thread Till Maas
On Thu June 4 2009, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 03.06.2009 21:28, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fedora/answers-table.ods Both updated with the answers from Dglimore. He has been added twice to the ods table. Regards, Till signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Proposal (and yes, I'm willing to do stuff!): Must Use More Macros

2009-06-05 Thread Till Maas
On Fri June 5 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: For things that are replacing actions, there is a certain amount of obscuring being done. This is a barrier for entry for people who know how to build software from upstream but don't know how to package. It also can make debugging harder if

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Till Maas
On Wed June 3 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: And I don't think we can make bug reports any easier, the point is that the information is required, those complicated forms are there to request the information we need. I disagree: On https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora there are

Re: Fedora 11 Test Day survey

2009-06-04 Thread Till Maas
On Wed June 3 2009, James Laska wrote: 1. How did you find out about Fedora Test Days? devel mailing list 2. Was sufficient documentation available to help you participate in a Fedora Test Day? If not, what did you find missing or in need of improvement? Yes. 3. Did you encounter any

Re: (Most) Results from the Candidate Questionnaire are available now

2009-06-03 Thread Till Maas
On Wed June 3 2009, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: I had planed to put them in the wiki as a table was well, but ran out of time, sorry (²). I tried to add such a table[0], but I failed to enable the horizotnal scrollbar. I even enabled javascript for the wiki, but it still does not work. Is this

Re: Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

2009-05-29 Thread Till Maas
On Thu May 28 2009, Jon Stanley wrote: Well, I have nothing on the agenda for tomorrow's meeting at this point. Thus, the entire meeting taking place at 17:00UTC in #fedora-meeting will be an open floor, unless someone comes up with something to discuss between now and then :). There is a

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