Re: 'IT Security' in comps?

2009-08-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 the time as a shorter form of the full group names. Something like # yum in

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 23:05 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > The problem with that approach is that, in the conventional approach to > updates, the key factor is _continuity_. You don't change behaviour or > risk regressions. If an update fixes ten bugs but changes the behaviour > of some component

RE: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> From: awill...@redhat.com > To: fedora-devel-list@redhat.com > Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:27:32 -0700 > Subject: Re: rt2860 driver (fc11) > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:58 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: >> I know this is a staging and thus experimental dri

RE: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> From: ceme...@u.washington.edu > To: fedora-devel-list@redhat.com > Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:17:12 -0700 > Subject: Re: rt2860 driver (fc11) > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:58:44 pm Markus Kesaromous wrote: >> I know this is a staging and thus experi

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:58 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: > I know this is a staging and thus experimental driver. > I only wanted to point out that if you compile the kernl > without SMP support, then this driver module will have these > undefined symbols: > > spin_lock_bh > _per_cpu_offset >

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:58:44 pm Markus Kesaromous wrote: > I know this is a staging and thus experimental driver. > I only wanted to point out that if you compile the kernl > without SMP support, then this driver module will have these > undefined symbols: Which Fedora kernels are compiled

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 05:42 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > If we are - or _want to be_ - that kind of a distribution, we have to > > provide a stable update set so we can stop telling people who just want > > a distro to run Aunt Flo's desktop or their webserver or whatever

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 05:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > I probably couldn't do much justice to a comprehensive plan as I have > > insufficient knowledge of how the buildsystem works. I was acting at a > > higher level - just trying to point out that it's essentially doom

Re: non root X

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Boeckel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Airlie wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 15:08 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Hi >> >> A few days back I ran into >> >> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-July/001293.html >> >> I am wondering, since we are already using KMS in most pla

Re: non root X

2009-08-05 Thread Dave Airlie
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 15:08 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > A few days back I ran into > > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-July/001293.html > > I am wondering, since we are already using KMS in most places in Fedora, > how far are we from achieving this by default in a Fedora r

rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Markus Kesaromous
I know this is a staging and thus experimental driver. I only wanted to point out that if you compile the kernl without SMP support, then this driver module will have these undefined symbols: spin_lock_bh _per_cpu_offset synchronize_irq spin_unlock_irqrestore del_timer_sync spin_lock_irqsave I

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: > - It would pull along a good-sized portion of the 'plumbing' layer: new > udev, kernel, pulseaudio, X... Hmmm, that's interesting. KDE seems to be a lot more flexible there, you sure don't need to run the latest kernel to use the latest KDE. That said, some stuff like th

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > If we are - or _want to be_ - that kind of a distribution, we have to > provide a stable update set so we can stop telling people who just want > a distro to run Aunt Flo's desktop or their webserver or whatever on to > run CentOS or Ubuntu instead. If, however, we really d

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > I probably couldn't do much justice to a comprehensive plan as I have > insufficient knowledge of how the buildsystem works. I was acting at a > higher level - just trying to point out that it's essentially doomed to > try and please everyone with a single update repository

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > Mandriva has a /testing repository for /updates, but not for /backports, > on the basis that /backports is fundamentally unstable so you may as > well just do your testing in the repo. This works fine, so far. That's not going to work for KDE SIG. Updates like KDE 4.3.0 re

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Guido Grazioli
2009/8/6 Adam Williamson > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 17:23 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Adam Williamson > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > >> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > >> > > > >> > Well

Re: F12 Alpha Test install

2009-08-05 Thread Liam
On 08/05/2009 10:51 AM, 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. someone has filed a bug against this. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513879 3 - I used the

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 17:23 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> > > >> > Well, I think it's really the same issue. The

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On 08/05/2009 02:26 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:25 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> Sure. I'm just pointing out that you're trying to solve a different >> problem than either the original poster or Thorsten. (And now that I >> understand your problem better, perhaps your

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 00:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > I'll make sure one of the Desktop-y guys updates this (presumably > Matthias). > I've updated it recently and bumped it to 75%. It would seem disingenuous to bump it to 100% when GNOME 2.28 has not been released yet. It is fine for the

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Christopher Stone
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > >> > Well, I think it's really the same issue. The problem is one of >> > expectation: we have two similar components, G

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:34 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > That was the problem I initially thought of with this method, but then > > I > > thought - there's no actual reason we can't have different trains of > > updates in a single

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > Well, I think it's really the same issue. The problem is one of > > expectation: we have two similar components, GNOME and KDE, in the same > > distribution, following differ

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-05 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 00:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:15 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: > > Hi FESCo, > > > > After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature > > owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status or > > their abilit

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-05 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:15 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: > Hi FESCo, > > After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature > owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status or > their ability to tested during the Alpha is unclear based on the lack of > infor

Releng & Devel Calendar

2009-08-05 Thread John Poelstra
Tasks Beginning or Ending in the Next Two Weeks Name Start End Test 'Test Compose' (boot media testing) Wed 2009-07-29 Wed 2009-08-05 Compose Alpha CandidateThu 2009-08-06 Thu 2009-08-06 Test Alpha

Re: Mozvoikko doesn't build on F12, please help

2009-08-05 Thread Christopher Aillon
On 08/05/2009 01:31 PM, Christopher Aillon wrote: It's also the reason why firefox doesn't yet build. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1581586&name=build.log It's being worked on by Martin and Jan. They'll get the rebuilds for F12 ready too. In the interim, the F11 builds of X

Re: License change for ghostscript

2009-08-05 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Tom spot Callaway said: >> On 08/05/2009 02:38 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: >> >Apropos, what's the license in case a GPL package links against OpenSSL? >> >GPL with exceptions or what? Or is it even allowed? >> >> So, in this spec

Re: License change for ghostscript

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Tom spot Callaway said: > On 08/05/2009 02:38 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > >Apropos, what's the license in case a GPL package links against OpenSSL? > >GPL with exceptions or what? Or is it even allowed? > > So, in this specific case, I'm still arguing with Red Hat Legal, and we

Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-05 Thread John Poelstra
Hi FESCo, After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status or their ability to tested during the Alpha is unclear based on the lack of information provided or percentage of completion. https://fedoraprojec

Re: Lower Process Capabilities

2009-08-05 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 08/05/2009 08:02 AM, Paul Howarth wrote: > http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/27571.html This is really nice. To partially answer my own question, Dan keeps coming up with great stuff that seems essential for average admins to maintain an SELinux box. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread drago01
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 08/05/2009 04:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> The question is whether Fedora intends to be a distribution suitable for >> day-to-day general purpose use by people who are not necessarily that >> interested in Fedora per se - wheth

Re: crontab configuration

2009-08-05 Thread John J. McDonough
- Original Message - From: "Ricky Zhou" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:42 PM Subject: Re: crontab configuration these anacron/crontab changes should hopefully be mentioned the release notes somehow I have a bug on release notes for this, but I have not been able to validat

Re: crontab configuration

2009-08-05 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 2009-08-05 04:32:57 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Ok, in F11 it had /etc/anacrontab file that I could edit to get my > cron.daily time to be set. But I don't see that file and can't find > where the time is set that I want it ran from. I believe it was 4am > this morning when it ran but I don't k

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Well, I think it's really the same issue. The problem is one of > expectation: we have two similar components, GNOME and KDE, in the same > distribution, following different update polices - GNOME favours stable, > KDE favours adventuro

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > That was the problem I initially thought of with this method, but then > I > thought - there's no actual reason we can't have different trains of > updates in a single repository, is there? > > We could have: > > foo-1.0-2 (conservati

crontab configuration

2009-08-05 Thread Mike Chambers
Ok, in F11 it had /etc/anacrontab file that I could edit to get my cron.daily time to be set. But I don't see that file and can't find where the time is set that I want it ran from. I believe it was 4am this morning when it ran but I don't know where that time to run came from? Any enlightenment

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:03 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:58 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > It also would require multiple CVS branches, one for security, one for > > adventurous, as well as different buildroots to go along with those, > > since you wouldn't be able to bui

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:25 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Either way it's going to be some level of extra work for someone > > somewhere, I haven't denied that. Was just discussing the parameters of > > addressing (or not addressing) this issue. It's not possible to make all > > parties happy

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:14 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:04 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > An alternative would be to tag updates within a single repo in a way > > that yum and PackageKit understand and have appropriate configuration > > options to enable certain t

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 22:49 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > Do maintainers really push out updates for this? I've always considered > a reason to push out a build for rawhide but not to issue updates for > the stable releases. It's really hard to tell when so many updates pushers put 0 information

Re: 'IT Security' in comps?

2009-08-05 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 04:07:59PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: > > > You've also added a new toplevel category. This means this new nebulous > > > 'IT Securty' item is pushed at the toplevel, much as 'Desktops' or > > > 'Language Support'. That seems misp

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Orion Poplawski
On Wed, August 5, 2009 2:33 pm, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 16:18 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> Maintainers are pushing updates because they >> feel there is a reason, a bug fixed, a security hole closed, a >> significant feature enhancement that users want (or that they th

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Jesse Keating [05/08/2009 22:38] : > > A bug filed by FEVEr or it's replacement saying there is a bigger number > released somewhere. Do maintainers really push out updates for this? I've always considered a reason to push out a build for rawhide but not to issue updates for the stable releases.

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 16:18 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > Maintainers are pushing updates because they > feel there is a reason, a bug fixed, a security hole closed, a > significant feature enhancement that users want (or that they think > users want). A bug filed by FEVEr or it's replace

Re: Mozvoikko doesn't build on F12, please help

2009-08-05 Thread Christopher Aillon
On 08/05/2009 09:26 AM, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote: Hi, There was a recent xulrunner/Firefox security update and all the packages depending on the unstable xulrunner interface were rebuilt. For some reason the Firefox extension I maintain, mozvoikko, can't be built against xulrunner 1.9.1.2-1.fc12

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On 08/05/2009 01:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:44 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> Sure, this is comparable to the present situation. But it doesn't seem >> like it makes things much better. >> >> * It doesn't solve the original poster's issue (that the GNOME stack >>

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Tom "spot" Callaway
On 08/05/2009 04:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: The question is whether Fedora intends to be a distribution suitable for day-to-day general purpose use by people who are not necessarily that interested in Fedora per se - whether it's got an aim to be a general-purpose operating system like other d

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:04 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > An alternative would be to tag updates within a single repo in a way > that yum and PackageKit understand and have appropriate configuration > options to enable certain types of update, which would really be much > the same situation, j

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:49 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 08/05/2009 03:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > The missing bit of the argument from before is whether we actually want > > to care about people who only want 'stable' updates, and that tracks > > back to the question of what Fedora

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:04 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > An alternative would be to tag updates within a single repo in a way > that yum and PackageKit understand and have appropriate configuration > options to enable certain types of update, which would really be much > the same situation,

Re: 'IT Security' in comps?

2009-08-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) said: > > You've also added a new toplevel category. This means this new nebulous > > 'IT Securty' item is pushed at the toplevel, much as 'Desktops' or > > 'Language Support'. That seems misplaced to me. > > How can I bundle the groups, if not with a category? O

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:44 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Sure, this is comparable to the present situation. But it doesn't seem > like it makes things much better. > > * It doesn't solve the original poster's issue (that the GNOME stack > isn't going to be updated for F10 since the maintainer

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:58 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > It also would require multiple CVS branches, one for security, one for > adventurous, as well as different buildroots to go along with those, > since you wouldn't be able to build a security update for a gnome > package against the newer adv

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:44 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Sure, this is comparable to the present situation. But it doesn't seem > like it makes things much better. > > * It doesn't solve the original poster's issue (that the GNOME stack > isn't going to be updated for F10 since the maintain

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Tom "spot" Callaway
On 08/05/2009 03:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: The missing bit of the argument from before is whether we actually want to care about people who only want 'stable' updates, and that tracks back to the question of what Fedora actually is, which I don't believe the Board has settled yet. If we don't

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On 08/05/2009 12:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:58 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> Also, having the expectation that the other repository is for security >> updates doesn't address the problem of a security release breaking ABI. > > That's rather unlikely (well, except i

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:28 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > Care to write up a proposal on how this work-flow would look like? Without > some of the details, I'm confused how one would avoid all kinds of weirdness > from repo conflicts if you have multiple of these repos enabled. That, and > the > f

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 11:47:24AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 08:01 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> >I don't want to get between the lines here (there are good arguments and >> >against updating Gnome and KDE for older releases) and I hate buzz-words >> >like "Corporate iden

Re: License change for ghostscript

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:03 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 08/05/2009 02:38 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > Apropos, what's the license in case a GPL package links against OpenSSL? > > GPL with exceptions or what? Or is it even allowed? > > So, in this specific case, I'm still arguing with Re

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:58 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 08/05/2009 11:47 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > And maintainers can choose whether or not they > > want to take on the work of shipping updates in the adventurous > > repository. > > How does this work? It would seem that the adventur

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:58 -0500, Adam Miller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Mark > Bidewell wrote: > > > > > +1 > > > > > Would we want to consider putting together a proposal for something > that is OpenSuSE Buildservice "styled" in order to satisfy this? It doesn't really need tha

Re: License change for ghostscript

2009-08-05 Thread Tom "spot" Callaway
On 08/05/2009 02:38 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: Apropos, what's the license in case a GPL package links against OpenSSL? GPL with exceptions or what? Or is it even allowed? So, in this specific case, I'm still arguing with Red Hat Legal, and we have not determined our final stance. In the inter

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On 08/05/2009 11:47 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > And maintainers can choose whether or not they > want to take on the work of shipping updates in the adventurous > repository. How does this work? It would seem that the adventurous repository would be mandatory as something that changes ABI would

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > > +1 > 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: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 17:21 +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 14:06:43 Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:46 +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:08:28 Colin Walters wrote: > > > > Because a lot of GNOME works directly with (and de

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Adam Miller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> 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

Re: F12 Alpha Test install

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 09:33 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > 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

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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 > for other updates - ma

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 08:01 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > >I don't want to get between the lines here (there are good arguments and > >against updating Gnome and KDE for older releases) and I hate buzz-words > >like "Corporate identity", but I find it more and more odd that one > >doesn't know what t

Re: License change for ghostscript

2009-08-05 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:33 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 00:15 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > > > I should probably talk to Spot about that. > > > > So, the rule here is that we don't take outside linking into effect when > > marking the package's licensing. We go

Re: License change for ghostscript

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 00:15 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > I should probably talk to Spot about that. > > So, the rule here is that we don't take outside linking into effect when > marking the package's licensing. We go by what the source in the tarball > tells us. Otherwise, it would be

Re: Review

2009-08-05 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "JL" == Jussi Lehtola writes: JL> That's what I think, too, but JL> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join#Get_Sponsored JL> thinks otherwise: Actually it just says what I said more succinctly. An informal review can be done by anyone. The actual full review and approval

Re: Review

2009-08-05 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:17 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > "JL" == Jussi Lehtola writes: > > JL> (I'm not very sure, however, about the current policy of wanting > JL> sponsors to review first packages. IMHO anyone should be able to > JL> review them, just as long as a sponsor goes th

Re: Review

2009-08-05 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "JL" == Jussi Lehtola writes: JL> (I'm not very sure, however, about the current policy of wanting JL> sponsors to review first packages. IMHO anyone should be able to JL> review them, just as long as a sponsor goes through them and some JL> inofficial reviews by the submitter. It's less wo

Re: Mozvoikko doesn't build on F12, please help

2009-08-05 Thread Jerry James
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote: > `nsISupports::COMTypeInfo::kIID' referenced in section `.data.rel.ro' of > /usr/lib64/xulrunner-sdk-1.9.1/lib/libxpcomglue_s.a(nsGenericFactory.o): > defined in discarded section > `.rodata._ZN11nsISupports11COMTypeInfoIiE4kIIDE[nsISup

Re: Mozvoikko doesn't build on F12, please help

2009-08-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote: > results in > > `nsISupports::COMTypeInfo::kIID' referenced in section `.data.rel.ro' > of > /usr/lib64/xulrunner-sdk-1.9.1/lib/libxpcomglue_s.a(nsGenericFactory.o): > defined in discarded section > `.rodata._ZN11nsISupports11COMTypeInfoIiE4kIIDE[nsISupports::COMTypeIn

Re: New facility to request tagging actions

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:06 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > +# Description of your tag request\n\ > > +notes=Here is where you give a description of what you want to change,\n\ > > +rational for why the change is important enough to break the freeze,\n\ > > +impact of not accepting the change, and what

Mozvoikko doesn't build on F12, please help

2009-08-05 Thread Ville-Pekka Vainio
Hi, There was a recent xulrunner/Firefox security update and all the packages depending on the unstable xulrunner interface were rebuilt. For some reason the Firefox extension I maintain, mozvoikko, can't be built against xulrunner 1.9.1.2-1.fc12. The build has succeeded with all previous versions

Re: potential file-system bug, unison locking issue over ext4

2009-08-05 Thread Eric Sandeen
Ahmed Kamal wrote: > Hi, > I'm probably hitting some bug in F11. I've created the lcktest > directory, and "date > lcktest/date-file" to create a simple file > inside. Repeated this on a ext3 and a ext4 file-system. Now, this works > fine on ext3, but fails on ext4. I tried the same setup on anoth

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread drago01
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Further: The behavior changes to much IMHO -- one reason why I use > Fedora at home and work and suggested it to others were the major new > kernel versions that got delivered as regular update. But that doesn't > really work anymore sinc

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 14:06:43 Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:46 +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:08:28 Colin Walters wrote: > > > Because a lot of GNOME works directly with (and depends on) the core > > > OS., and we want a stable system. > >

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 > >

'IT Security' in comps? (was Re: comps comps-f12.xml.in,1.71,1.72

2009-08-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
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 also added a new toplevel category. This means this new nebulous 'IT Securty'

potential file-system bug, unison locking issue over ext4

2009-08-05 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi, I'm probably hitting some bug in F11. I've created the lcktest directory, and "date > lcktest/date-file" to create a simple file inside. Repeated this on a ext3 and a ext4 file-system. Now, this works fine on ext3, but fails on ext4. I tried the same setup on another F11 machine that was upgra

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Josephine Tannhäuser wrote: > KDE 4.3 will come to F11 and F10. It's a cool thing. > There aren't updates like this for Gnome. Why not? For the most part, those are hard decisions best left to the discretion of the maintainers in question. -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-deve

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: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:49 +0200, Josephine Tannhäuser wrote: > Hi all. > > KDE 4.3 will come to F11 and F10. It's a cool thing. > There aren't updates like this for Gnome. Why not? > F10 with Gnome 2.26 sounds fine to me. GNOME has stable bugfix updates, and we do bring all of those into releas

Re: Lower Process Capabilities

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Howarth
On 31/07/09 01:09, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: What's it going to take to make most people who shut off SELinux stop doing that? ...being able to install bleeding-edge devel KDE to /usr/local/my-kde-install and be able to use that as my primary desktop. I guess that would - a

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:23:12PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >On 05.08.2009 12:02, Richard Hughes wrote: >> 2009/8/5 Josephine Tannhäuser : >>> KDE 4.3 will come to F11 and F10. It's a cool thing. >>> There aren't updates like this for Gnome. Why not? >>> F10 with Gnome 2.26 sounds fine to me

Re: persistent clutter and ghc breakage

2009-08-05 Thread Alex Lancaster
>> 2009/8/5 Alex Lancaster : >> There was a mass rebuild, but unfortunately they failed because of >> some (presumably) transient problem with the build system, because the >> rebuild now. >> >> However once the deps failed there should have been regular nagmail >> from the rawhide broken dep ch

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:46 +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:08:28 Colin Walters wrote: > > Because a lot of GNOME works directly with (and depends on) the core > > OS., and we want a stable system. > > Does this mean, that every time I've installed my system and l

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:08:28 Colin Walters wrote: > Because a lot of GNOME works directly with (and depends on) the core > OS., and we want a stable system. Does this mean, that every time I've installed my system and left GNOME out, I made a broken system? Is there a list of those '

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

2009-08-05 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 12:04:21 Till Maas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:55:11PM -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 librarie

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 05.08.2009 12:02, Richard Hughes wrote: > 2009/8/5 Josephine Tannhäuser : >> KDE 4.3 will come to F11 and F10. It's a cool thing. >> There aren't updates like this for Gnome. Why not? >> F10 with Gnome 2.26 sounds fine to me. > Because I don't want to _support_ the latest and greatest GNOME on o

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Josephine Tannhäuser wrote: > Hi all. > > KDE 4.3 will come to F11 and F10. It's a cool thing. > There aren't updates like this for Gnome. Why not? > F10 with Gnome 2.26 sounds fine to me. Because a lot of GNOME works directly with (and depends on) the core OS., and

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

2009-08-05 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:55:11PM -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 > librar

rawhide report: 20090805 changes

2009-08-05 Thread Rawhide Report
ka - 1.19.6-1 - updated to 1.19.6 - don't display *_IN locale in /dev/tty/X it does not work (#511193) shortrpm-1.2-1.fc12 --- * Tue Aug 04 2009 Lubomir Rintel - 1.2-2 - New upstream release - Fix operation with more recent rpm config skkdic-20090805-1.T0306.fc12 -

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Richard Hughes
2009/8/5 Josephine Tannhäuser : > KDE 4.3 will come to F11 and F10. It's a cool thing. > There aren't updates like this for Gnome. Why not? > F10 with Gnome 2.26 sounds fine to me. Because I don't want to _support_ the latest and greatest GNOME on old versions. A lot of the GNOME stack would requi

KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Josephine Tannhäuser
Hi all. KDE 4.3 will come to F11 and F10. It's a cool thing. There aren't updates like this for Gnome. Why not? F10 with Gnome 2.26 sounds fine to me. -- Josephine "Fine" Tannhäuser 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mail

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