Re: Fedora Linux Format software review: January 2010

2009-12-31 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 12/29/2009 11:20 PM, Christopher Brown wrote: Hi folks, Linux Format is a popular magazine in the U.K but which ships all over the world. It regularly reviews interesting bits of software and I thought: a) It would be interesting to see how much of what they review is included in

Re: Name of the 'chess' package

2009-11-19 Thread Hans de Goede
On 11/18/2009 01:49 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:36:02 -0600, Bruno Wolff IIIbr...@wolff.to wrote: We currently have a 3d chess game packaged as chess. I want to ask for fedora hosted space for it sop that we can be upstream for some modernization (with regard to

Re: libsndfile status?

2009-11-13 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 11/13/2009 09:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/bugs/libsndfile What's up with libsndfile in Fedora and EPEL? There are open tickets

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Hans de Goede
On 11/11/2009 01:11 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi, It has been plain since 2003¹ our new font access standard would be fontconfig. Since then most users of the old core fonts X11 backend have migrated, but there are still a few stragglers. Unfortunately these stragglers matter. Core fonts were

Re: dracut, or should booting a LiveCD touch the hard disk?

2009-10-22 Thread Hans de Goede
On 10/06/2009 06:29 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:27 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Thanks for bringing this up. I'll create a patch for the scripts generating the livecd to add rd_NO_LUKS to the normal livecd syslinux.cfg entry. I already was planning on doing this, but I

Re: dracut, or should booting a LiveCD touch the hard disk?

2009-10-22 Thread Hans de Goede
On 10/22/2009 01:46 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: On 10/06/2009 06:29 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:27 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Thanks for bringing this up. I'll create a patch for the scripts generating the livecd to add rd_NO_LUKS to the normal livecd syslinux.cfg entry

Re: dracut, or should booting a LiveCD touch the hard disk?

2009-10-05 Thread Hans de Goede
On 10/04/2009 11:35 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: Dracut currently tries to find and activate all RAID, LVM, and LUKS partitions on the hard disks when booting the LiveCD. Several of my systems are made up of many RAID, LVM, and LUKS partitions in various combinations. Booting the LiveCD now goes

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-04 Thread Hans de Goede
On 09/03/2009 09:10 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 09/03/2009 02:20 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: Regeneration is as easy with dracut as it is with mkinitrd, actually they have the same cmdline syntax. The only extra step required with dracut when using pre-generated images is: yum install dracut

Re: static linking and LGPL libraries

2009-09-04 Thread Hans de Goede
On 09/03/2009 09:22 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 09/03/2009 02:25 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: Note that we have the same problem with any package which does static linking against an lgpl library (such as glibc). This is (one of the big reasons) why we only permit static linking with explicit

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-03 Thread Hans de Goede
On 09/02/2009 07:17 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 10:26 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: As one of the persons involved in dracut and in integrating dracut into the distribution I'm rather surprised to hear this. Where has this been discussed ? Were are the bugs for the situations

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-03 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 09/03/2009 03:36 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Hans de Goede (j.w.r.dego...@hhs.nl) said: The fact that it wasn't turned on at Alpha means it really shouldn't be on now, not without FESCo approval. That is interesting reasoning, first keep it out of Alpha even though it was ready as you

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-03 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 09/03/2009 06:00 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 09/03/2009 11:35 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: The kernel binary RPM contains this pre-built initrd. The kernel source RPM does not contain the sources necessary to make this pre-built initrd. This makes me rather uncomfortable from

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-03 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 09/03/2009 06:29 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Hans de Goede (j.w.r.dego...@hhs.nl) said: It really is like having to support gentoo, versus having to support a distro using pre build packages. And I would really like to move to the having to support a pre-build package model

Re: [PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version (#519185)

2009-09-02 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 08/26/2009 08:11 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 14:07 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:45 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: dracut using kernel come with a prebuild initrd-generic-version instead of initrd-version, so if we fail to find /boot/initrd

Re: Audacious 2.1 coming - SONAME change

2009-08-21 Thread Hans de Goede
On 07/16/2009 02:30 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: Audacious 2.1 is going to land in Rawhide soon. src.rpm updates have been comitted to Fedora package cvs/devel already. Compared with 1.5.1 this new final release changes the SONAME version of essential libraries within the audacious-libs package.

Re: Headsup: ABI changing ImageMagick coming to rawhide

2009-06-16 Thread Hans de Goede
On 06/15/2009 10:04 PM, Joe Orton wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:21:40PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: I've just build ImageMagick 6.5.3.7 for rawhide. This version introduces *silent* ABI breakage, as the ABI has changed without changing the soname (woohoo way to go upstream!) Can you

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

2009-06-16 Thread Hans de Goede
On 06/15/2009 07:53 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Way back when in February [1], FESCo decided that for Fedora 11, i586 would be the default architecture, and for Fedora 12, it would be some variant of i686. It's time to follow through on that action item. I've submitted

Headsup: ABI changing ImageMagick coming to rawhide

2009-06-15 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, I've just build ImageMagick 6.5.3.7 for rawhide. This version introduces *silent* ABI breakage, as the ABI has changed without changing the soname (woohoo way to go upstream!) So I strongly urge anyone who maintains a package which uses the ImageMagick libraries to rebuild it. Regards,

Re: Orphaning Packages: audacious and dependencies

2009-06-11 Thread Hans de Goede
On 06/11/2009 06:28 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:09:24 -0300, Paulo wrote: I would create a symbolic link audacious - audacious2, so the previous bin can still be called. AFAIK, this is not done in Debian/Ubuntu either. The .desktop file has been renamed, too, and

Re: Orphaning Packages: audacious and dependencies

2009-06-11 Thread Hans de Goede
On 06/04/2009 12:29 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:31:27 -0300, Paulo wrote: Hi. As I don't have the time to maintain audacious any more I'm orphaning the following packages: audacious audacious-plugins libmowgli mcs The last two are dependencies which, as far as I am

Re: [RFC] disable OSS sound support

2009-02-06 Thread Hans de Goede
drago01 wrote: Currently we have: CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE=y CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS=y CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y this cause the OSS compat modules to be loaded on every system (that has sound), even thought most people do not

Change set acpi_enforce_resources default to strict ?

2009-01-13 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi Dave, The ACPI subsystem has a kernelcmdline setting called acpi_enforce_resources which defaults to lax, I would like to propose to change this the default to strict in *rawhide*. As you may (not) know I'm an active contributor to the lm_sensors project both to the userspace tools as to

Re: Game graphics needed - Project: Starfighter

2008-09-17 Thread Hans de Goede
Nicu Buculei wrote: Erick Henrique wrote: Hi Hans Erick, AFAIK, Hans is not subscribed to out list, so you may need to add him to CC: (or just use the reply all button). Correct, I didn't see the original mail thanks for CC-ing me. Then, we need to redesign all the graphs of the game

Re: [Fedora-music-list] [Fwd: [Bug 440736] FTBFS qsynth-0.2.5-7.fc9]

2008-09-06 Thread Hans de Goede
Michel Salim wrote: I can take a look at it later today. Good, Let me know if you can't solve it then I'll take a look. Regards, Hans ___ Fedora-music-list mailing list Fedora-music-list@redhat.com

Re: [Fedora-music-list] ardour 2.4 was out

2008-04-10 Thread Hans de Goede
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 21:52 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 16:03 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: ZC Miao wrote: [quote] Ardour 2.4 released Submitted by paul on Mon, 2008-03-31 21:03. :: Articles Well, its over

Re: [Fedora-music-list] ardour 2.4 was out

2008-04-10 Thread Hans de Goede
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 02:49 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: Since there seems much demand for this I've just pushed a build of ardour-2.4 to the F-8 updates-testing repo (it will show up there with the next update of the update repositories). Please give this

Re: [New Driver]: usbvideo2 webcam core + pac207 driver using it.

2008-04-05 Thread Hans de Goede
Pete Zaitcev wrote: #define CLIP(color) (unsigned char)(((color)0xFF)?0xff:(((color)0)?0:(color))) Add a comment about what this is doing? Could you just do it as a static function instead? The macro itself is too trivial to be commented, IMHO, but I have to ask just what it is doing there.

Self Introduction: Hans de Goede

2008-03-28 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi All, I'm a Linux enthusiast / developer. Lately I'm mainly active doing development for Fedora and writing kernel drivers (and as my day job I'm a lecturer in Computer Science). Fedora has a policy of not shipping a heavily patched kernel, but instead tries to work with upstream to get

[New Driver]: usbvideo2 webcam core + pac207 driver using it.

2008-03-28 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi All, As explained in my introduction mail I've been working on a standalone v4l2 driver for pac207 based usb webcams. I've attached the hopefully pretty clean result to this mail. This is the promised split version of the pac207 driver I've been working on, I would like to ask everyone to

Re: [Spca50x-devs] Self Introduction: Hans de Goede

2008-03-28 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi Michel, Michel Xhaard wrote: Hans, I don't understand why you start this work without asking the gspca maintener ? As I wrote I wanted to have something to show before announcing my plans, I don't like doing hot air only announcements. Also these last few weeks have been very usefull

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Ardour 2.2 upgrade issue

2008-01-22 Thread Hans de Goede
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 23:32 -0800, Anthony Green wrote: Ok, I've kicked off a devel build of ardour 2.2 with the changes you described. It should show up in rawhide soon (assuming the build completes). Please have a look if you can. If it looks good, then I'll probably push it out to F8 as

IIDC camera's and the juju firewirestack

2008-01-10 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi All, In the thread I started about Fedora perhaps being to cutting edge, it was said that I shouldn't complain as there is only one problem left with the juju stack which is a bug with via vt6306 cards in OHCI 1.0 cards. Further analysis of the problem has learned that this is not true,

Looking for Fedora merchandise for Fedora promotion

2007-10-15 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi All, I guess / hope some of you now me. For those on this list who don't here is a short intro I'm an active Fedora contributer, maintaining over 150 packages. Currently I'm working on integrating all of the Planet CCRMA audio packages into Fedora. I'm also a lecturer in computer science for

Re: Looking for Fedora merchandise for Fedora promotion

2007-10-15 Thread Hans de Goede
Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote: On 10/15/07, Hans de Goede [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we do a lot with and somethings for Fedora we would also like to give Fedora a prominent place there, so I'm looking for things like T-shirts, but also things like maybe a big blue flag with the Fedora logo

Need to use i586 kernel and i386 glibc for via c7 epia system

2007-08-27 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi all, A bit offtopic for this list, but this is the best place I could think of to discuss this. A friend of mine had trouble with 2 different via c7 epia motherboards (mini itx boards with single chip chipset with unichrome integrated graphics) machines. They would freeze (hard) pretty

Re: Need to use i586 kernel and i386 glibc for via c7 epia system

2007-08-27 Thread Hans de Goede
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Lun 27 août 2007 12:07, Hans de Goede a écrit : Hi all, A bit offtopic for this list, but this is the best place I could think of to discuss this. ... So appearantly the via c7 isn't all that i686 compatible as via claims As Alan will likely repeat, the glibc

Re: Plan for tomorrows (20070726) FESCO meeting

2007-07-26 Thread Hans de Goede
David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:17 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: I tend to say that approach is fine for you, Hans and some other developers that are familiar with kernel-coding as those people have shown to be able to get code upstream and know how to work with upstream.

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-19 Thread Hans de Goede
Josh Boyer wrote: I'd like to just do a brief poll here just to see how many are yay or nay for kmods. And I'm not talking about their current implementation or the other various ways that the idea can be accomplished, but rather on the idea of having kernel modules as separate packages in

Chance of dynamic loading of alternate AML code getting in?

2007-03-29 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi all, AFAIK ubuntu includes a patch to allow dynamic loading of alternate AML code dumps, to work around bios ACPI bugs. I know BIOS's and the kernel ACPI code are getting betterm but for some laptops this is needed, any chance this could be included into the Fedora kernel? Also any

Re: System clock speedup with latest kernels

2006-03-10 Thread Hans de Goede
John Thacker wrote: Anyone else seeing this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184593 ? With the last two kernels, 2.6.15-1.2032_FC5 and 2.6.15-1.2038_FC5, the system clock starts running too fast for me. It gains about an hour per day. It runs so fast that NTP won't sync