Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:16:42PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: >> On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >> > 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except >> >    the vendor >> False.  In this particular c

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:20:57PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > On 11/17/2010 05:11 PM, nodata wrote: > > On 17/11/10 22:16, John Reiser wrote: > >> On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > >>> 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except > >>> the vendor >

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 15:21 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 08:57 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > >> This solution could be reverting the problem causing glibc change, or > >> maybe changing it to do forward memcpy's while

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:27:48AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:26:31PM -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:59:54 Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Pretty sure it doesn't point them out. It just breaks them. > > > > Using memcpy on overlappi

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:39:15PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Any normal person writing code is going to write a memcpy that copies > up, whether a simple C loop or optimized assembly, so I really doubt > you'll find lots of architectures that are widely used in the Unix world > where people use

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 23:30:00 Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett said: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:03:02PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > > However, I still think that changing memcpy away from years of "it just > > > works" is an ABI change that should not be taken

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett said: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:30:00PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > How is that relevant? If the behavior changes on only some > > architectures, then it is okay? > > If it's broken on non-x86 already then there haven't been "years of 'it > just works'".

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 23:27:48 Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:26:31PM -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:59:54 Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Pretty sure it doesn't point them out. It just breaks them. > > > > Using memcpy on overlapping

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik said: > POSIX specifies memcpy's ABI. Both the previous implementation and the > current glibc implementation of memcpy() is compliant with the defined ABI. No, POSIX doesn't specify ABIs, only APIs. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY In

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:30:00PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett said: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:03:02PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > > However, I still think that changing memcpy away from years of "it just > > > works" is an ABI change that should not be tak

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett said: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:03:02PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > However, I still think that changing memcpy away from years of "it just > > works" is an ABI change that should not be taken lightly and IMHO > > shouldn't be done in a "stable" release of gl

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:26:31PM -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:59:54 Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Pretty sure it doesn't point them out. It just breaks them. > > Using memcpy on overlapping ranges is undefined behavior; a crash is a pretty > good way of pointin

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:59:54 Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:42:56AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Because it's NOT a bug in glibc, because what glibc does is CORRECT, > > because it actually POINTS OUT bugs in applications which are > > portability issues and can hur

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 16:43:48 Magnus Glantz wrote: > On 11/17/2010 10:18 PM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > >> 2) Create a work-around for the end-users (as has been done by several > >> people in the BZ #638477-thread) > > > > This pretty much erases whatever incentive Adobe might have to act

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris Adams writes: Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik said: Fulko Hew writes: >I know the definition for memcpy (on Linux) says don't use overlapping >regions No, the definition for memcpy on Linux does not say that. What says that is the POSIX specification. Which is called a "standard".

Re: [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

2010-11-17 Thread पराग़
Hi, On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > Here are the list of this week's changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: > > The FPC has taken over evaluating exceptions to the Bundled Library > Guidelines.  A list of standard questions to be answered to give the FPC > infor

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:03:02PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > However, I still think that changing memcpy away from years of "it just > works" is an ABI change that should not be taken lightly and IMHO > shouldn't be done in a "stable" release of glibc. Is memcpy called > often enough (and on la

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:42:56AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Because it's NOT a bug in glibc, because what glibc does is CORRECT, because > it actually POINTS OUT bugs in applications which are portability issues and > can hurt future optimization opportunities (regardless of whether the > c

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Chris Adams wrote: [snip] > shouldn't be done in a "stable" release of glibc.  Is memcpy called > often enough (and on large enough blocks) that this change makes a real > performance difference (not just on a synthetic memcpy benchmark)? Most code is not perform

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread John Reiser
On 11/17/2010 03:13 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:16:42PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: >> On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >>> 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except >>>the vendor >> False. In this particular case, it is po

Re: bastion02.fedoraproject.org listed in sorbs.net DNSBL - can we get some better spam filtering so I don't end up blocking feodora's emails?

2010-11-17 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "MF" == Mike Fedyk writes: MF> Hopefully some better spam filtering can be implemented so that MF> fedora's mail servers don't end up in spam block lists anymore. Spam filtering will never prevent every spam from getting through. The host forwards lots of mail; people are going to falsely

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik said: > Fulko Hew writes: > >I know the definition for memcpy (on Linux) says don't use overlapping > >regions > > No, the definition for memcpy on Linux does not say that. What says that is > the POSIX specification. Which is called a "standard". Just for kick

bastion02.fedoraproject.org listed in sorbs.net DNSBL - can we get some better spam filtering so I don't end up blocking feodora's emails?

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
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Re: How to file bugs that might be systemd related

2010-11-17 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 17.11.10 20:00, Bruno Wolff III (br...@wolff.to) wrote: > I am using rawhide now and am seeing some issues that might be systemd > related, but am not completely sure. Should I file these against the package > that is having the problem (e.g. nut) and copy someone, or should I file > these

Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17)

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> * F12 critical path/update testing issues. (does it matter this close to >> EOL?) > > Now Fedora n-1 is F13 and we're already seeing the same sort of issues there > (e.g. the KDE 4.5.3 (non-critpath) bugfix update has ka

How to file bugs that might be systemd related

2010-11-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I am using rawhide now and am seeing some issues that might be systemd related, but am not completely sure. Should I file these against the package that is having the problem (e.g. nut) and copy someone, or should I file these against systemd? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org ht

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:58:52AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Magnus Glantz wrote: > > Because Adobe is not the one that pretty quickly risks loosing users. > > Ignoring flash content on the web is not done as easy as you can change > > between two Linux distributions. > > Uh, for me it's much e

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Fulko Hew writes: I know the definition for memcpy (on Linux) says don't use overlapping regions No, the definition for memcpy on Linux does not say that. What says that is the POSIX specification. Which is called a "standard". pgpoYWFweeBxG.pgp Description: PGP signature -- devel mailin

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:08:00PM -0500, Fulko Hew wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Jon Masters > > wrote: > > > Did anyone upstream look into a compatibility environment variable that > > > could be exported to change the dire

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > I know the definition for memcpy (on Linux) says don't use overlapping > regions but thats really a poor excuse for knowingly misbehaving when > it could certainly prevented.  Sorry, but using 'optimization' as a defense > is just plain poor engi

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Jon Masters > wrote: > > Did anyone upstream look into a compatibility environment variable that > > could be exported to change the direction of the memcpy? Yes, it's a > > hack, but it would allow affected

[Bug 643298] [abrt] bucardo-4.4.0-2.fc13: Process /usr/bin/perl was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)

2010-11-17 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643298 Itamar Reis Peixoto changed: What|Removed |Added ---

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Magnus Glantz wrote: > Because Adobe is not the one that pretty quickly risks loosing users. > Ignoring flash content on the web is not done as easy as you can change > between two Linux distributions. Uh, for me it's much easier. I've run for years without ANY Flash plugin. At the moment, I'm ru

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Josh Boyer wrote: > I will be very, very, disappointed if that gets added as a criteria > for a Fedora release. It would be no different than making sure the > nvidia driver works, and we certainly shouldn't be doing that either. +1 We should not support proprietary software, ever. Kevi

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > Dont we have an upstream mantra to uphold... > > Forward all Fedora users and otherwize that experience this to Adobe.. > > If we are going hack around this on our side where are we going to draw > the line.. > > Are we planning to start hacking around every ill wr

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Andrew Haley wrote: > So we should be able simply to patch glibc, right? Can't see any reason > not to. Because it's NOT a bug in glibc, because what glibc does is CORRECT, because it actually POINTS OUT bugs in applications which are portability issues and can hurt future optimization opportun

more updates discussion

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:38:38 +0100 François Cami wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Kevin Kofler > wrote: > > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> So, there are no folks in the KDE sig using F13 anymore? > >> > >> Perhaps call for testers in the users / kde lists? > > > > I think this issue goes far,

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:16:42PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except > >the vendor > False. In this particular case, it is possible to binary edit the plugin > libflashplayer.

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Benjamin Kreuter writes: In the grand scheme of things, this is a bug that Adobe could fix pretty quickly, if they feel like they have a good reason to do that. Why not put the burden on them? They are fixing it. There's no need to waste any more electrons on this. Linus's fix is a tempora

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 17:36:54 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > Breaking proprietary drivers has _never_ been a ship criteria while I've > been in charge. Remember F9, when we shipped an xserver 1.5 snapshot > before all the binary drivers were ported? I got a lot of shit for > that, that was

Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17)

2010-11-17 Thread François Cami
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> So, there are no folks in the KDE sig using F13 anymore? >> >> Perhaps call for testers in the users / kde lists? > > I think this issue goes far, far beyond just KDE. There are packages which > have few users even for F

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Peter Jones [17/11/2010 23:31] : > > To be fair, we're not packaging flash in Fedora anyway. >From the post that started this thread: "This solution could be reverting the problem causing glibc change, or maybe changing it to do forward memcpy's while still using the new SSE instructions,

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Gregory Maxwell said: > But is it only me who worries that lots of people are running code > exposed to the internet that has obviously never even been run under > valgrind? Yeah, people are acting like Adobe Flash is the only program in the world to make this (unfortunately qui

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 15:42 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:33:59 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > > On 11/17/2010 03:41 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 21:46:09 +0100, François > > > Cami wrote: > > >> IIRC broken proprietary drivers never stopped

Re: Updates to static library packages

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > I maintain LibRaw, which is only a static library -- upstream has > rejected the idea of maintaining dynamic libs since they would have to > take care of ABI compatibility across releases. > > I wanted to know if there are any other only-static libraries out > there and

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/17/2010 05:20 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > The original testing that went with the GLIBC patches also showed no > speedup on the hardware Linus uses, but it did show an impressive > (perhaps too impressive) speedup on other hardware: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/1

Re: Changes in Java packaging guidelines - RFC

2010-11-17 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Wednesday 17 November 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ville Skyttä wrote: > > I'd get rid of the versioned javadoc dir altogether, and simply install > > to %{_javadocdir}/%{name}. Unversioned is good for bookmarking and > > javadoc crosslinking. > > One thing you have to be careful of, no matter

Re: Adding patches in a SPEC

2010-11-17 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 07:39 -0500, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/17/2010 03:57 AM, Martin Sourada wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 17:17 -0500, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 >

Re: how to debug sound not working on macbook?

2010-11-17 Thread Marius Andreiana
2010/11/18 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > On 11/17/2010 09:09 PM, Marius Andreiana wrote: > > Does anybody have suggestions how an end user could debug this? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580703 > > Had you tried this already [1] > > JBG > > 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_de

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Jones
On 11/17/2010 05:11 PM, nodata wrote: > On 17/11/10 22:16, John Reiser wrote: >> On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >>> 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except >>> the vendor >> >> False. In this particular case, it is possible to binary edit the

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >  Lets also not forget that the motivation for changing memcpy was to > get some speedup - has anyone seen evidence of any significant benefit > of that glibc change? > >  The BZ ref'd in this thread has linus' (simple) tests which dont >

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* John Reiser [17/11/2010 22:30] : > > On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > > 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except > >the vendor > > False. In this particular case, FWIW, I was refering to the general case. >

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread nodata
On 17/11/10 22:16, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >> 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except >> the vendor > > False. In this particular case, it is possible to binary edit the plugin > libflashplayer.so so that all its cal

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Genes MailLists
Lets also not forget that the motivation for changing memcpy was to get some speedup - has anyone seen evidence of any significant benefit of that glibc change? The BZ ref'd in this thread has linus' (simple) tests which dont confirm any benefit of the change compared to his simpler version (

Re: how to debug sound not working on macbook?

2010-11-17 Thread fkoo...@tuxed.net
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Marius Andreiana wrote: > Does anybody have suggestions how an end user could debug this? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580703 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590907 Regards, François -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: how to debug sound not working on macbook?

2010-11-17 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/17/2010 09:09 PM, Marius Andreiana wrote: > Does anybody have suggestions how an end user could debug this? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580703 Had you tried this already [1] JBG 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_sound_problems -- devel mailing list devel@list

Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17)

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > So, there are no folks in the KDE sig using F13 anymore? > > Perhaps call for testers in the users / kde lists? I think this issue goes far, far beyond just KDE. There are packages which have few users even for Fedora n, let alone n-1. Yet another example of the update proc

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:33:59 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > On 11/17/2010 03:41 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 21:46:09 +0100, > >François Cami wrote: > >> > >> IIRC broken proprietary drivers never stopped us from shipping, but I > >> could be wrong. > > > > Offic

[Bug 652158] Use of :locked is deprecated

2010-11-17 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652158 --- Comment #2 from Fedora Update System 2010-11-17 16:46:58 EST --- perl-Net-SNMP-6.0.1-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Tom "spot" Callaway
On 11/17/2010 03:45 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > Just a thought - but for those users who use chrome/chromium as prime > browser where flash is part of the deal Flash is only bundled in Google's Chrome builds, not in the FOSS Chromium code. ~spot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 10:18 PM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: >> 2) Create a work-around for the end-users (as has been done by several >> people in the BZ #638477-thread) > This pretty much erases whatever incentive Adobe might have to actually fix > the bug. Instead of fixing their code, now what they can do

[perl-Net-SNMP/f14/master] update to 6.0.1, which removed all occurrences of the "locked" attribute, deprecated in perl 5.12.0

2010-11-17 Thread Tom Callaway
commit 78e76d0737f2985f6c00420034e2e1d2483a7f0a Author: Tom "spot" Callaway Date: Wed Nov 17 16:36:40 2010 -0500 update to 6.0.1, which removed all occurrences of the "locked" attribute, deprecated in perl 5.12.0 perl-Net-SNMP.spec | 22 ++ sources|2

[perl-Net-SNMP] update to 6.0.1, which removed all occurrences of the "locked" attribute, deprecated in perl 5.12.0

2010-11-17 Thread Tom Callaway
commit 493a74751626dab9e00fc77476b015b5c7b0220e Author: Tom "spot" Callaway Date: Wed Nov 17 16:36:18 2010 -0500 update to 6.0.1, which removed all occurrences of the "locked" attribute, deprecated in perl 5.12.0 .gitignore |1 + perl-Net-SNMP.spec | 22 ++--

File Net-SNMP-v6.0.1.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by spot

2010-11-17 Thread Tom Callaway
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-Net-SNMP: 6137f04f9942d703f66179f890e3d096 Net-SNMP-v6.0.1.tar.gz -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/l

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Jones
On 11/17/2010 03:41 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 21:46:09 +0100, >François Cami wrote: >> >> IIRC broken proprietary drivers never stopped us from shipping, but I >> could be wrong. > > Officially. Unofficially, it was probably a contributing factor. No, I don't think

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:41:15PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 21:46:09 +0100, > François Cami wrote: > > > > IIRC broken proprietary drivers never stopped us from shipping, but I > > could be wrong. > > Officially. Unofficially, it was probably a contributing facto

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:08:10PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Well it would be mightily nice to have an infrastructure that can handle > > keyboard extended keys (almost every new keyboard sold in the last > > decade has one or more of those) without barfing because the

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > Did anyone upstream look into a compatibility environment variable that > could be exported to change the direction of the memcpy? Yes, it's a > hack, but it would allow affected users to have an option. Could we make use of that sort of envir

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 15:58:28 Magnus Glantz wrote: > I'm not saying that a broken Adobe Flash would stop Fedora from shipping. > > But.. if we notice that it's broken, we can: > 1) Notify Adobe about it, so they -can- provide a fix. If they do not > know, they can't fix it.. The Adobe dev

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread John Reiser
On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except >the vendor False. In this particular case, it is possible to binary edit the plugin libflashplayer.so so that all its calls to memcpy become calls to memmove. The change

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 10:02 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/17/2010 08:58 PM, Magnus Glantz wrote: >> But.. if we notice that it's broken, we can: >> 1) Notify Adobe about it, so they -can- provide a fix. If they do not >> know, they can't fix it.. The Adobe developers I e-mailed with did say >>

how to debug sound not working on macbook?

2010-11-17 Thread Marius Andreiana
Does anybody have suggestions how an end user could debug this? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580703 Thanks! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Well it would be mightily nice to have an infrastructure that can handle > keyboard extended keys (almost every new keyboard sold in the last > decade has one or more of those) without barfing because the original > x11 protocol designers thought 8 bits would be enough for

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 15:21:55 Magnus Glantz wrote: > On 11/17/2010 09:09 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:57:20 +0100, > >> > >> Hans de Goede wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> For those who do not know i

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > 3. Spend that time working on open alternative and get rid of flash for > good Write a cross-platform IDE for HTML5-based technologies. Of course it would also require a fast Javascript JIT engine, which has been frowned upon[1], so I don't know if there is a

Re: does fedora maven eclipse plugin work?

2010-11-17 Thread Marius Andreiana
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Alexander Kurtakov wrote: > Are you interested in helping us getting m2eclipse packaged and available > on > Fedora? If yes please join #fedora-java on freenode.net or say so on this mailing > list > and I'll help as much as possible for this to become a reality.

[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

2010-11-17 Thread Tom "spot" Callaway
Here are the list of this week's changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: The FPC has taken over evaluating exceptions to the Bundled Library Guidelines. A list of standard questions to be answered to give the FPC information on whether to grant exceptions has been added to the Guidelines: ht

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/17/2010 08:58 PM, Magnus Glantz wrote: > But.. if we notice that it's broken, we can: > 1) Notify Adobe about it, so they -can- provide a fix. If they do not > know, they can't fix it.. The Adobe developers I e-mailed with did say > that they took the issue seriously, they want it to work on

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 09:46 PM, François Cami wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Magnus Glantz wrote: >> On 11/17/2010 09:09 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Wolff IIIwrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:57:20 +0100, Hans de Goedewrote: > For th

Re: [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Kurtakov
On 10:51:26 pm Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:23:49 -0500, > > "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" wrote: > > Here are the list of recent changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java > > Diff: > > https:

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 21:46:09 +0100, François Cami wrote: > > IIRC broken proprietary drivers never stopped us from shipping, but I > could be wrong. Officially. Unofficially, it was probably a contributing factor. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedorapro

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread François Cami
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Magnus Glantz wrote: > On 11/17/2010 09:09 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III  wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:57:20 +0100, >>>   Hans de Goede  wrote: For those who do not know it yet, recent Fedora glibc upda

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Magnus Glantz wrote: > For me it's natural that we should care about the end-user experience of > Fedora, even if that does include us caring about application outside of the > Fedora owned repositories. Just a thought - but for those users who use chrome/chromiu

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 09:30 PM, Ugis Fedora wrote: > From: jonat...@jonmasters.org > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:16:20 -0500 > Subject: Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility > CC: fedora-devel-l...@redhat.com > > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 08:57 +0100, Hans de Go

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Magnus Glantz [17/11/2010 21:33] : > > I really can't see why it would be a bad thing Fedora would do QA on a > proprietary software that is very important for a majority of the Fedora > users. 1) Time spent doing QA on proprietary software is time that will not be spent doing QA on free so

RE: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Ugis Fedora
> From: jonat...@jonmasters.org > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:16:20 -0500 > Subject: Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility > CC: fedora-devel-l...@redhat.com > > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 08:57 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > This solution could be re

Re: [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

2010-11-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:23:49 -0500, "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" wrote: > Here are the list of recent changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java > Diff: > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3AJava&diff=206526&oldid=154023 Sho

Re: NFS in rawhide

2010-11-17 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 11/17/2010 02:26 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:14 -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: >> > > Yes, thanks Ric, your reply to me was most helpful. > > Jon. What was the reply? TIA Regards, OldFart -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 08:57 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> This solution could be reverting the problem causing glibc change, or >> maybe changing it to do forward memcpy's while still using the new SSE >> instructions, or something more spec

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 09:09 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:57:20 +0100, >> Hans de Goede wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> For those who do not know it yet, recent Fedora glibc updates include >>> an optimized memcpy (which gets us

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 08:57 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > This solution could be reverting the problem causing glibc change, or > maybe changing it to do forward memcpy's while still using the new SSE > instructions, or something more specific to the flash plugin, as long > as it will automaticall

Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17)

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:13 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > * F12 critical path/update testing issues. (does it matter this > > close to EOL?) > > Now Fedora n-1 is F13 and we're already seeing the same sort of > issues there (e.g. the KDE 4.5.3 (non-critpath) bugfix update has

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:57:20 +0100, >  Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> For those who do not know it yet, recent Fedora glibc updates include >> an optimized memcpy (which gets used on some processors) which breaks the >> 64 bit a

Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17)

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
=== #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2010-11-17) === Meeting started by nirik at 18:30:00 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-11-17/fesco.2010-11-17-18.30.log.html Meeting summary -

Re: Review swap

2010-11-17 Thread Jiri Popelka
Both taken (thanks Jussi). Jiri On 11/17/2010 01:02 PM, Jiri Popelka wrote: > Hi, > > I have two easy python modules to review. > > python-cups - Python bindings for the CUPS API, known as pycups > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648986 > > python-smbc - Python bindings for the libsmb

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:57:20 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi all, > > For those who do not know it yet, recent Fedora glibc updates include > an optimized memcpy (which gets used on some processors) which breaks the > 64 bit adobe flash plugin. I saw memcpy / memmove issues affecting squa

Re: NFS in rawhide

2010-11-17 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:14 -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 11/17/2010 02:02 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:12 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > >>> Quick question. I always had NFS starting on startup on a particular > >>> rawhide box. Today it didn't, and I notice that /etc/rc2|3.d/

Re: does fedora maven eclipse plugin work?

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Kurtakov
On 09:20:18 pm Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Marius Andreiana wrote: > On Wed , Nov 17, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky < > > sochotni...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 11/17/2010 06:52 PM, Marius Andreiana wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Trying to clarify this here instead of bugzilla... > > > > >

Adobe fix on QA/QE: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
Hi guys, I just got an e-mail from Adobe that: 1) They have a fix 2) The fix has been send to QA/QE They say that they cannot commit to any dates, but that they are taking the issue seriously. I told them that if they want volunteers trying out their fix, we can help. Cheers, Magnus Glantz --

Re: NFS in rawhide

2010-11-17 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 11/17/2010 02:02 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:12 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: >>> Quick question. I always had NFS starting on startup on a particular >>> rawhide box. Today it didn't, and I notice that /etc/rc2|3.d/S390nfs was >>> missing aswell. Did something remove these lin

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