Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-24 Thread Adam Huffman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:47 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com
 wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Till Maas  wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:43:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>
>>> The problem with delivering this to a user's mailbox via an MTA is that
>>> in the typical case it doesn't result in the user noticing anything
>>> until they've logged in as root and find out that the "you have new
>>> mail" message actually means "Your RAID is fucked" and not just "Here's
>>
>> In the typical case users do not use RAID.  And how does this change
>> with the new not MTA feauture? And in case a RAID is used, how is the
>> user notified when the RAID is broken?
>
> How are they notified now? By default the local mta delivers
> everything to root because there's no way to know what user is going
> to exisit. How many people check the local root users mail. So for
> desktop it should be a notification to the screen, for a server it
> would need to be configured anyway for smart relay hosts and real
> users to send it to. So its currently broken as it standard. This
> change is not going to make that any better or worse.
>

Not really related to the original discussion, but perhaps firstboot
could be amended to add an alias when the first user is created such
that they receive root's mail?



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Re: Dealing with circular BuildRequires?

2011-10-05 Thread Adam Huffman
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Tom Lane  wrote:
> Petr Pisar  writes:
>> On 2011-10-05, Tom Lane  wrote:
>>> For example, cairo BuildRequires: librsvg2-devel, and librsvg2
>>> BuildRequires: cairo-devel, so there is no order in which I can rebuild
>>> them.  How the heck did we get into such a situation, and what should
>>> I do about it?  Neither specfile appears to have any provision for
>>> bootstrapping.
>
>> We had similar problem when upgrading Perl to 5.14.
>
>> First, we choosed dependecy-ordered builds which stopped after
>> rebuilding about one thousand packages. Then we hit circular
>> dependencies blocking remaining eight hunderds packages.
>
> What exactly did you do for "dependency-ordered builds"?  What I could
> really use right now is a tool that would sort the package list into
> dependency order for me, and point to where there are circularities.
> I'd like to think that wheel has been invented already ...
>
>                        regards, tom lane

The nearest I can think of is smock.pl, which has a '--dryrun' option
providing the dependency order information.

There's some information about it here:

http://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/R-repo/setup_for_build


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Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] FTBFS Packages in rawhide (2015-07-11)

2015-07-13 Thread Adam Huffman
BEDToolsverdurin  60 weeks ago

This has an annoying 'shrank by one' debuginfo problem and further
problems on 32-bit with recent GCC, but it is building on x86_64 now.
A bug has been filed regarding the problems and I'm pursuing them
upstream.


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