Re: End of days?

2010-01-06 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-06 17:54:10, Robert Relyea wrote: On 01/06/2010 01:43 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: [or...@orca fedora/devel]$ ls */dead.package | wc -l 666 We're ok. The original number may have been 616: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/beast616.htm No, that's merely the most common correction by

Re: Koji stuck?

2009-12-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-19 17:19:37, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: ... There is a -O2 flag issue that causes some builds to hang. Maybe those emacs hangs are related to this bug in gcc It happened to 2 of my packages. Removing -O2 makes things compile in my packages. (No I didn't do official builds without -O2

Re: acctcom for linux

2009-12-16 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-16 18:19:17, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 08:38 -0400, William W. Austin wrote: 05/01/2007 05:38:26 AM (Tue, 01 May 2007 08:38:26 -0400) Your date is still wrong. No, the date is correct. That's when the message was sent the first time around -- it's in the list

Re: abrt and bugzilla

2009-11-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-20 07:06:34, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 11/20/2009 12:24 PM, Matthew Booth wrote: ... 5. Can abrt give me a list of submitted BZs so I can browse them if I want to? This is in our TODO: ABRT should find possible duplicates and offer the reporter to browse them and manually mark

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-19 05:06:16, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 01:48 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-11-18 20:09:18, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:50 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: .. Fedora has always been this way. Have you tried to use sound or video

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-18 13:44:43, nodata wrote: Am 2009-11-18 19:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 17:45:26 +, Bastien Nocerabnoc...@redhat.com wrote: Once we get the new user management stuff into F13 [1], we'd probably tighten that rule so that only admins are given the

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-18 20:09:18, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:50 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: .. Fedora has always been this way. Have you tried to use sound or video in the past few releases? I think it's called creative destruction. And I'm sure the passive-aggressive in you

Re: Roopesh's Birthday Calendar

2009-11-13 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-13 16:13:20, Ikem Krueger wrote: Please click on the link below and enter your birthday for me.  I am creating a birthday calendar for myself.  Don't worry, it'll take less than a minute (and you don't have to enter your year of birth). Spam? o.O Phishing. --

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-11-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-02 13:07:09, Dan Williams wrote: oldworld topped out at 366MHz anyway right? (the 333 and 366 Beige G3 were only sold from 1998-08-12 - 1999-01-01 too) That's pretty much the minimum you'd need to run Fedora anyway these days... Not sure it's really worth it, you'll need at

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-29 08:18:30, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:25 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-10-28 18:24:49, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17:31PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: Sorry to bug developers, but I didn't get any bites from PPC users on fedora-list

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-29 16:41:57, King InuYasha wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:18 AM, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.orgwrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:25 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-10-28 18:24:49, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17:31PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: Sorry

Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-28 Thread Tony Nelson
Sorry to bug developers, but I didn't get any bites from PPC users on fedora-list. Does Fedora PPC work or install on oldworld PCI Macs, such as a beige G3 desktop? My impression is that no one has tried it on an oldworld Mac in the last few releases, and that getting it to boot at all would

Re: rpmnew files

2009-10-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-20 17:49:28, nodata wrote: Hi, What's with the extra rpmnew files on an upgrade? Some examples: # md5sum /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf.rpmnew /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf 7c8f8d809c5b618e1604207525161101 /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf.rpmnew 7c8f8d809c5b618e1604207525161101

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Exemption for bundling local copy of system library?

2009-09-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-29 15:37:10, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: I would argue no. The guidelines are written to apply to all libraries except with very limited exceptions to keep this from happening because security vulnerabilities are not limited to network facing code, suid code, or any other class that

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-26 08:32:45, Kevin Kofler wrote: ... Of course the root of the problem is ATLAS's lack of support for runtime CPU feature detection ... Presumably that could be added to the Fedora package as a patch. It's SMOP to check the CPU and load the proper library, if someone who knew how

Re: Default heuristics for variable-format displays

2009-09-15 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-15 12:06:54, Adam Jackson wrote: ... def mode_dpi_cmp(x, y): return cmp(abs(x.dpi - 96), abs(y.dpi - 96)) ... The names x and y suggest coordinates to me. I'd have read the code right the first time if the names had been a and b. def best_mode(modes, dpi_known = True):

Re: F12 to require i686, but which CPUs do not qualify?

2009-08-14 Thread Tony Nelson
already uses an Athlon-core processor on Rawhide did it. On 09-08-13 10:34:58, Peter Robinson wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: ... Is there a simple way for ordinary users to know if their CPU is expected to work on F12 (as an i686 according to GCC)?  Is there a tool to run that doesn't require

Re: F12 to require i686, but which CPUs do not qualify?

2009-08-14 Thread Tony Nelson
and similar processors. 2009/8/14 Tony Nelson That doesn't actually quite say about SSE2, but at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/F12X86Support: _Bill Nottingham_ Once a set has been decided on, this should be pretty trivial. With respect to the proposal, 'grep sse2

F12 to require i686, but which CPUs do not qualify?

2009-08-13 Thread Tony Nelson
I've noticed that F12 will require a CPU with i686 architecture, and that my Athlon 1.2GHz won't qualify. I accept that F11 is the last Fedora release that I'll be able to use. My concern is that many present Fedora users will be unpleasantly surprised that a new installation doesn't work,