Re: Common Lisp apps in Fedora

2010-01-08 Thread Jerry James
tell the Fedora Project Board that we are forming, and appoint someone to send them regular status reports. We should also tell the Packaging Committee that we have identified some problems with the current Lisp packaging guidelines and plan to submit revisions to those guidelines. -- Jerry James

Re: Common Lisp apps in Fedora

2010-01-06 Thread Jerry James
guidelines, and thus used common-lisp-controller which, as I mentioned, doesn't work for any CL engine currently available in Fedora. I think we have to fix that first. Are you (or is anyone else here) interested in founding a Common Lisp SIG? Yes, I think we need to do so. Count me in. -- Jerry

Re: Sources file audit - 2010-01-05

2010-01-06 Thread Jerry James
Microsystems Inc.) Thanks, upstream! I'll upload the new source jar. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Jerry James
building again. If the other guy hasn't fixed his package by Beta, how is dropping mine going to help? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Common Lisp apps in Fedora

2010-01-04 Thread Jerry James
] http://jjames.fedorapeople.org/cl-trivial-features/ [5] http://jjames.fedorapeople.org/cl-trivial-gray-streams/ [6] http://jjames.fedorapeople.org/cl-alexandria/ [7] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-December/msg00801.html -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora

Re: Common Lisp apps in Fedora

2010-01-04 Thread Jerry James
not support any other implementation. Is there anything I can do to help? If nothing else, I can review the package when you have it ready. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Orphaning jlint

2010-01-04 Thread Jerry James
anymore. If nobody tells me they want it by the end of this week, I will put the devel branch through the EOL process next Monday. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: rpm cpio error: prelink and SBCL

2009-12-21 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Jerry James loganje...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jakub Jelinek ja...@redhat.com wrote: You need to first prelink -u on a copy of the program, then run it and let it dump itself, then package it up. Ah, thanks. FWIW, this didn't work

Re: rpm cpio error: prelink and SBCL

2009-12-21 Thread Jerry James
of the other Common Lisps. Who approves changes to the Lisp packaging requirements page? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

rpm cpio error: prelink and SBCL

2009-12-17 Thread Jerry James
, because it somehow manages to break the rpm? Both? And how do I build an RPM that can be installed successfully? Thanks, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: rpm cpio error: prelink and SBCL

2009-12-17 Thread Jerry James
: -- So this is going to hit anybody who tries to package up an executable produced by SBCL. Perhaps this should be noted on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Lisp. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: rpm cpio error: prelink and SBCL

2009-12-17 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Jerry James loganje...@gmail.com wrote: So this is going to hit anybody who tries to package up an executable produced by SBCL.  Perhaps this should be noted on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Lisp. And it's even worse than I thought: prelink -u saved

Re: rpm cpio error: prelink and SBCL

2009-12-17 Thread Jerry James
into my application). Even with its faults, #1 seems best to me. Does anybody see another approach that will work better? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Spin commercial license

2009-12-11 Thread Jerry James
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Tom spot Callaway tcall...@redhat.com wrote: Nope. Non-free. ~spot Dang. I hoped that having a license at all would be an improvement over the days when there was no visible license for that tool... Thank you for checking. -- Jerry James http

[Fedora-legal-list] Spin commercial license

2009-12-08 Thread Jerry James
Is this license acceptable for Fedora (assuming a copy is provided with the package, as required by the license)? http://www.spinroot.com/spin/spin_license.html Thank you, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list

RPM installation order

2009-11-30 Thread Jerry James
you, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: RPM installation order

2009-11-30 Thread Jerry James
to have access to the policy without dragging gcl itself in. So all I need to do is move the fixfiles invocation to the main package's %post. Thank you! -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: RPM installation order

2009-11-30 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: I don't believe that would be correct. I think you need Requires(Post) or Requires(Pre) to make sure a package is installed when pre or post scripts are run. OK, will do. Thanks for the help. -- Jerry James http

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-27 Thread Jerry James
parasites (let's call things by their real name). I believe that you just described what every package user expects of a package maintainer. That doesn't warrant calling the package users parasites. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-23 Thread Jerry James
this application uses core fonts. It isn't going to change. Shut up, please. -- Jerry James, who thought he was doing the Fedora community a favor when he rescued gcl from the bit bin http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

brp-python-bytecompile

2009-11-20 Thread Jerry James
any of these: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python-config /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python2.6-config Regards, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Fedora rawhide rebuild in mock status 2009-11-18 x86_64

2009-11-19 Thread Jerry James
of the python modules broke badly because -I/usr/include/python2.6 is no longer helpful. I'll fix that one, too, as soon as I get that Rawhide VM going. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Bug zapper clears NEEDINFO

2009-11-18 Thread Jerry James
I received a couple of emails last night telling me that the NEEDINFO flag for two bugs assigned to me were cleared. Great, I though, finally I have the information I need to proceed on those bugs. Only there is no new information. The flag was cleared by Bug Zapper reminding the reporter that

Re: Bug zapper clears NEEDINFO

2009-11-18 Thread Jerry James
on the next comment by anyone if configured to do so when the flag is initially set. -jef D'oh! Now that I've bothered to go find the wiki page, I see that my mental model of the bug workflow fails to match reality in a couple of places. Sorry for the noise. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org

Re: rawhide report: 20091104 changes - excluding noarch packages

2009-11-04 Thread Jerry James
by noarch? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: help debugging segfault with alienarena 7.32

2009-11-03 Thread Jerry James
) $(REF_GL_OBJS) $(REF_GL_GLX_OBJS) $(GLXLDFLAGS) $(VORBISLDFLAGS) $(CURLLDFLAGS) $(JPEGLDFLAGS) $(BUILDDIR)/client/cl_ents.o :$(CLIENT_DIR)/cl_ents.c $(DO_CC) -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Re: misguided flash player warning?

2009-10-30 Thread Jerry James
getting it wrong? My wife got that on her Windows machine that already had the latest version of Adobe Flash installed. I got that on my Fedora machine with no version of Adobe Flash at all (although I do have swfdec installed). Perhaps Firefox is showing that page to everybody. -- Jerry James

Re: bitmap-fonts by default?

2009-09-29 Thread Jerry James
on arrival, of course. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: libc.so.6 horked?

2009-09-24 Thread Jerry James
. Otherwise, like Andy, I plan to blow the whole thing away and reinstall from scratch. (Mine's a virtual machine, rather than a partition, by the way.) -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: sed -i symlink behavior...

2009-09-02 Thread Jerry James
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Warren Togamiwtog...@redhat.com wrote: What is the correct behavior?  Is this a bug that it changed? Read up on the --follow-symlinks option to sed. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: Canon PIXMA MP190 drivers

2009-08-29 Thread Jerry James
can submit info from the CD to get them in? Thanks, Mike Chambers According to this: http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-Pixma_MP190 Canon supplies a driver that works. I don't know what license their driver has, though. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org

Re: Need help with stack smash

2009-08-27 Thread Jerry James
with a big execution slowdown, I run the code with valgrind --db-attach=yes. That doesn't always reveal the cause, but it does quite often. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Emacs packaging guidelines fix for XEmacs

2009-08-21 Thread Jerry James
Would someone who has editing rights to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Emacs please do a global search and replace: %{_datadir}/xemacs/site-packages to %{_datadir}/xemacs/site-packages/lisp In particular, be sure that %{_datadir}/xemacs/site-packages/site-start.d gets changed to

Re: Emacs packaging guidelines fix for XEmacs

2009-08-21 Thread Jerry James
to that, it used site-lisp like Emacs anyway Thanks, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Emacs packaging guidelines fix for XEmacs

2009-08-21 Thread Jerry James
it wrong. So forget the global search and replace. Could someone just do the search and replace on the spec file samples? Thanks, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Emacs packaging guidelines fix for XEmacs

2009-08-21 Thread Jerry James
that everything is correct. Yes, it looks correct now. Thanks, Jason! -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Isue on building blender agains system ftgl library

2009-08-10 Thread Jerry James
/usr/lib64, twice, which is unnecessary.) -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Ongoing effort to package JOSM

2009-08-10 Thread Jerry James
. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Ongoing effort to package JOSM

2009-08-08 Thread Jerry James
, this is a common problem. The commonest cause is a missing JAR. This is not a bug; it is a configuration problem ---8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8--- You need to BuildRequires ant-junit to get the necessary jar (namely, %{_javadir}/ant/ant-junit.jar). -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org

Re: (A)synchronous file operations xdg-open

2009-07-02 Thread Jerry James
and more of the opinion that xdg-open is simply the wrong tool for viewing/editing temporary files. It wasn't built for that use case, and the tools it invokes were not either. I think we need something different altogether. Should we go back to invoking $EDITOR, $VISUAL, etc.? -- Jerry James http

Re: (A)synchronous file operations xdg-open

2009-07-02 Thread Jerry James
would like to fix this upstream. We may have users on systems with xdg-open but without tmpreaper. I'll take that discussion to the upstream list, however. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Updates can't handle multiple bug #s?

2009-07-02 Thread Jerry James
, xxx,xxx, and #xxx,#xxx, but no joy. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

(A)synchronous file operations xdg-open

2009-06-25 Thread Jerry James
. We also need to figure out which tools it invokes that operate in mode 1 and find mode 2 equivalents for them. What do you think? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry James
to upgrade several of those by hand due to this bug on my shiny new F-11 install. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

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

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Bill Nottinghamnott...@redhat.com wrote: Not that it matters for Fedora, but I doubt many people are paying $whatever_the_price_of_RHEL_is to run on a 6, 7, 10-year old machine. And RHEL 5 only supports (base) i686 or greater already. You know, I haven't seen

Re: Packaging Survey - May 2009

2009-05-27 Thread Jerry James
is also in Fedora, is a fork of CMUCL. SBCL does work on 64-bit systems. The two are not entirely compatible, though. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] NIST license

2009-04-15 Thread Jerry James
AS TO ANY MATTER WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Incidentally, there's yet another of those broken AS IS clauses here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#Old_Style_with_legal_disclaimer_3 Regards, -- Jerry James http://loganjerry.googlepages.com

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] NIST license

2009-04-13 Thread Jerry James
? -- Jerry James http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/ ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list

[Fedora-legal-list] NIST license

2009-04-10 Thread Jerry James
, then use it. If not, don't use it! [Conversation then goes in circles for the next 5 minutes until me gives up.] -- Jerry James http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/ http://jjames.fedorapeople.org/ ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list