Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:42:02PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > We are however talking about a lot of different upses and while it is > not specifically fedora's problem we do need to have this handled > before rhel7, for example, is run on serious systems. If it's a functional requirement, it'll g

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 10:00 +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: > I say, local privilege escalations with publicly available exploits, and > remotely triggerable vulnerabilities. If such an issue is known before > Final, we should attempt to address it before releasing. Note, a release criterion would have

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 02:06 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > I am pretty sure we don't want to run Java programs at late boot, as > > > root. This would be really bad. > > > > You know, it's not like there is a choice for many mod

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:27:23PM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/18/2011 09:06 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > >> > >> You know, it's not like there is a choice for many models ... > > > > That's really not a given. For anything

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/18/2011 06:42 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:48 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 05/18/2011 04:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> Host requests power down from UPS in 30s. Host then continues shut >>> down. If the host now ends up taking more time then expected for >>> s

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/18/2011 09:06 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: >> >> You know, it's not like there is a choice for many models ... > > That's really not a given. For anything short of us having to send http > requests, there's no fundamental reason wh

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > I am pretty sure we don't want to run Java programs at late boot, as > > root. This would be really bad. > > You know, it's not like there is a choice for many models ... That's really not a given. For anything short of us having to

F-15 Branched report: 20110518 changes

2011-05-18 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Wed May 18 13:15:47 UTC 2011 Broken deps for x86_64 -- db4o-7.4-2.fc13.x86_64 requires mono(Mono.GetOptions) = 0:2.0.0.0 dh-make-0.55-3.fc15.noarch requires debhelper file-browser-applet-0.6.6-1.fc15

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:48 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 05/18/2011 04:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Host requests power down from UPS in 30s. Host then continues shut > > down. If the host now ends up taking more time then expected for > > shutting down it might still be busy at the ti

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 23:04 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:30, Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 18:59 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:32, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > > > when ups reci

Call for help: porting Sugar to NetworkManager 0.9 for Fedora 15

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
Hey, all. So, although the Fedora 15 final release has been signed off on, we gave ourselves a bit of wiggle room. The current Sugar implementation is known to have some significant issues, the major one of which is that networking is badly broken. We are aiming to try and fix these and do the Suga

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/18/2011 04:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Host requests power down from UPS in 30s. Host then continues shut > down. If the host now ends up taking more time then expected for > shutting down it might still be busy at the time of the power going > away. It's a race between "UPS powering o

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Jackson wrote: > On 5/18/11 4:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> The thing is, if we block the release for each and every known security >> issue, considering the time passing between notification and public >> availability of a fix, we will never be able to release anything. We have >> to draw th

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 16.05.11 14:30, Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com) wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 18:59 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:32, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > when ups recieves command for shutdown, it does not shutdown power > > > immediately, b

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
Simo Sorce wrote: > Is it unthinkable to respin the images with those fixes ? > Usually the patches are quite simple to backport, and we are talking > about a limited set of bugs (remote root exploit on install) after all. Then we'd need a second (or third, if the Features repo finally happens) u

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 22:49 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > The thing is, if we block the release for each and every known security > issue, considering the time passing between notification and public > availability of a fix, we will never be able to release anything. We have to > draw the line s

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tomas Mraz wrote: > Also note that targeting the heaps of poor users that are eager to try > the newly shipped Fedora release would be probably much more easy and > efficient than targeting one user installing the Fedora here or there a > few months later. Huh? The "heaps" of users do not install

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/18/11 4:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > The thing is, if we block the release for each and every known security > issue, considering the time passing between notification and public > availability of a fix, we will never be able to release anything. We have to > draw the line somewhere, and the b

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 15:43 -0500, dr johnson wrote: > > Few questions here: > > What does this scope include? Is it merely the LiveCD for GNOME and > KDE? Does it also include the DVD install selections for both of > these packages? (They are different) Well, that's part of the discussion I

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Jackson wrote: > It's a rationally argued position, but argued from an initial state that > does not reflect reality. > > I mean, the conclusion from that line of reasoning is that all releases > are futile: any sufficiently severe bug unknown at release time could be > discovered later, and

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread dr johnson
Few questions here: What does this scope include? Is it merely the LiveCD for GNOME and KDE? Does it also include the DVD install selections for both of these packages? (They are different) What about clearly vulnerable areas, like "Web Sever" that is push-button selectable on install? Do we ma

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Jackson wrote: > The difference between a known and an unknown security bug is that, if > _you_ know about it, it's virtually certain that someone malicious > already does too. > > We can't avoid unknown risk exposure. You're arguing for ignoring known > risk exposure entirely. Seems a touc

[Bug 701252] Upgrade to new upstream version

2011-05-18 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=701252 Fedora Update System changed: What|Removed |Added --

[Bug 701252] Upgrade to new upstream version

2011-05-18 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 701252] Upgrade to new upstream version

2011-05-18 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=701252 --- Comment #9 from Fedora Update System 2011-05-18 15:57:32 EDT --- perl-Directory-Queue-1.1-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedo

[Bug 701252] Upgrade to new upstream version

2011-05-18 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=701252 --- Comment #11 from Fedora Update System 2011-05-18 15:59:04 EDT --- perl-Directory-Queue-1.1-1.el4 has been pushed to the Fed

[Bug 701252] Upgrade to new upstream version

2011-05-18 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 701252] Upgrade to new upstream version

2011-05-18 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=701252 --- Comment #10 from Fedora Update System 2011-05-18 15:58:36 EDT --- perl-Directory-Queue-1.1-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fed

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 14:02 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On 5/18/11 1:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:37 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > >> On 5/18/11 1:22 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >>> Adam Williamson wrote: > # There must be no known remote code execution vulnerabili

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 14:40 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > Is it unthinkable to respin the images with those fixes ? > Usually the patches are quite simple to backport, and we are talking > about a limited set of bugs (remote root exploit on install) after all. Unthinkable, no, but there are various

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 10:44 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:37 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On 5/18/11 1:22 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > >> # There must be no known remote code execution vulnerability which could > > >> be exploited during inst

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 08:57 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, all. The topic of whether and which security issues should block > releases has come up several times before. While we haven't actually had > many really serious security issues to worry about since the > introduction of the current

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 19:22 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hey, all. The topic of whether and which security issues should block > > releases has come up several times before. > > Indeed it has. The decision was always that it's not a good idea. I don't > see how the situ

Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2011-05-18)

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin Fenzi
=== #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2011-05-18) === Meeting started by nirik at 17:30:01 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-18/fesco.2011-05-18-17.30.log.html Meeting summary -

Re: Special thanks to gnome3 and systemd developers

2011-05-18 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > While everyone that worked on the F15 release deserves thanks and > congrats, > I'd like to give a special thanks to the systemd and gnome3 developers > because > of the large amount of work needed to implement those features. By > working

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/18/11 1:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:37 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> On 5/18/11 1:22 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> Adam Williamson wrote: # There must be no known remote code execution vulnerability which could be exploited during installation or during use

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread cdahlin
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:44:16AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Well, I think his point is that it's almost certain that some 'unknown' > exposures will become 'known' during the life cycle of a release, at > which point the live images we release three months previously are > vulnerable to a kn

Re: systemd questions

2011-05-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 18:59 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 16.05.11 14:32, Michal Hlavinka (mhlav...@redhat.com) wrote: > > when ups recieves command for shutdown, it does not shutdown power > > immediately, but after 30 seconds. Given that this command should be > > executed > > af

[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

2011-05-18 Thread Tom Callaway
Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- A section has been added to the SysVInitScript guidelines covering the optional situation where a package that uses systemd unit files as the default also includes sysv initscripts in a subpackage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:37 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On 5/18/11 1:22 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Adam Williamson wrote: > >> # There must be no known remote code execution vulnerability which could > >> be exploited during installation or during use of a live image shipped > >> with the release

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/18/11 1:22 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> # There must be no known remote code execution vulnerability which could >> be exploited during installation or during use of a live image shipped >> with the release > > This is just completely and utterly moot considering that th

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/18/2011 05:18 PM, Adam Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:27:07PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 05/18/2011 09:58 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >>> On 05/18/2011 03:57 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Feedback please! Thanks:) >>> Given that we ship selinux on by default shoul

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, all. The topic of whether and which security issues should block > releases has come up several times before. Indeed it has. The decision was always that it's not a good idea. I don't see how the situation has changed to warrant beating that dead horse again. > # Th

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:27:07PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/18/2011 09:58 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > On 05/18/2011 03:57 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> Feedback please! Thanks:) > > Given that we ship selinux on by default should this proposal only be > > applicable to exp

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/18/11 11:57 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > # There must be no known remote code execution vulnerability which could > be exploited during installation or during use of a live image shipped > with the release Seems reasonable at first glance. One anecdotal experience: FC5 (wow) shipped with an

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:28 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 05/18/2011 03:57 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Feedback please! Thanks:) > > Given that we ship selinux on by default should this proposal only be > applicable to exploits/vulnerability that selinux cant catch and prevent >

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/18/2011 09:58 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 05/18/2011 03:57 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Feedback please! Thanks:) > Given that we ship selinux on by default should this proposal only be > applicable to exploits/vulnerability that selinux cant catch and prevent > which leaves us

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:57:17 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > # There must be no known remote code execution vulnerability which could > be exploited during installation or during use of a live image shipped > with the release > > Points to consider: I think there may be some remote expl

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/18/2011 03:57 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Feedback please! Thanks:) Given that we ship selinux on by default should this proposal only be applicable to exploits/vulnerability that selinux cant catch and prevent which leaves us with https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 08:57 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > # There must be no known remote code execution vulnerability which could > be exploited during installation or during use of a live image shipped > with the release > > Points to consider: One more 'point to consider' that I forgot: for

Security release criterion proposal

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Williamson
Hey, all. The topic of whether and which security issues should block releases has come up several times before. While we haven't actually had many really serious security issues to worry about since the introduction of the current release criteria system, I think it's certainly something we should

Re: glibc-2.13.90-12 needs testing - re-adds RPC API

2011-05-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jiri Skala (jsk...@redhat.com) said: > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:26 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Notably, this re-adds the RPC API to glibc's exported interface, so > > please test that rebuilding your applications still works, or works > > again. > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/upda

Re: Build failing - ld aborting

2011-05-18 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 05/18/2011 08:48 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 05/18/2011 03:47 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> collect2: ld terminated with signal 6 [Aborted] >> >> Any ideas what might cause this? > > A bug in collect2 or the OOM killer. > > Have a look at the output of dmesg. > > Andrew. That was my thought to

Re: Special thanks to gnome3 and systemd developers

2011-05-18 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 05/18/2011 10:20 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > While everyone that worked on the F15 release deserves thanks and congrats, > I'd like to give a special thanks to the systemd and gnome3 developers because > of the large amount of work needed to implement those features. By working > hard to get th

[Bug 704221] missing the Joystick.pm module

2011-05-18 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=704221 --- Comment #3 from Hans de Goede 2011-05-18 10:52:32 EDT --- (In reply to comment #2) > Upstream seems to have renamed the dis

Re: Build failing - ld aborting

2011-05-18 Thread Andrew Haley
On 05/18/2011 03:47 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > 2 for 2 now: > > libtool: link: g++ -fPIC -DPIC -shared -nostdlib > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.6.0/../../../crti.o > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.6.0/crtbeginS.o .libs/assocdata.o > .libs/basic_fun_cl.o .libs/basic_fun.o .libs/basic_f

Build failing - ld aborting

2011-05-18 Thread Orion Poplawski
2 for 2 now: libtool: link: g++ -fPIC -DPIC -shared -nostdlib /usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.6.0/../../../crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.6.0/crtbeginS.o .libs/assocdata.o .libs/basic_fun_cl.o .libs/basic_fun.o .libs/basic_fun_jmg.o .libs/basic_op.o .libs/basic_pro.o .libs/basic_pr

Re: F-15 Branched report: 20110515 changes

2011-05-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:33:35 -0400, Tom Callaway wrote: > Lately, I've been trying to resolve as many of these as reasonably > possible. Here's what I know: > > > sear-0.6.3-14.fc12.x86_64 requires liberis-1.3.so.15()(64bit) > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sear-0.6.3-18.fc1

[Bug 704221] missing the Joystick.pm module

2011-05-18 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=704221 Iain Arnell changed: What|Removed |Added ---

Special thanks to gnome3 and systemd developers

2011-05-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
While everyone that worked on the F15 release deserves thanks and congrats, I'd like to give a special thanks to the systemd and gnome3 developers because of the large amount of work needed to implement those features. By working hard to get these into F15, they helped meet Fedora's goal of being F

[Bug 704221] missing the Joystick.pm module

2011-05-18 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=704221 Hans de Goede changed: What|Removed |Added -

Re: F-15 Branched report: 20110517 changes

2011-05-18 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 08:46:15 PM Kevin Kofler wrote: > Branched Report wrote: > > Broken deps for x86_64 > > Are we going to get these uninstallable packages cleared up from the > Everything tree before sending the release to the mirrors? Otherwise, > they're going to come haunt us at each and

Re: How to build noarch package on only certain architectures?

2011-05-18 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:43:47 AM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:33:51AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > >> Is there some other way to add a noarch package that doesn't build on > > >> some architectures? > > > > > >

Re: glibc-2.13.90-12 needs testing - re-adds RPC API

2011-05-18 Thread Jiri Skala
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:26 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Notably, this re-adds the RPC API to glibc's exported interface, so > please test that rebuilding your applications still works, or works > again. > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.13.90-12 > there is number of headers

rawhide report: 20110518 changes

2011-05-18 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Wed May 18 08:15:03 UTC 2011 Broken deps for x86_64 -- R-Rsolid-0.9.31-2.fc15.x86_64 requires libhdf5.so.6()(64bit) acheck-0.5.1-4.fc15.noarch requires perl(Text::Aspell) almanah-0.7.3-10.fc15.x86_64

Retiring presto-utils

2011-05-18 Thread Jonathan Dieter
Presto-utils was originally created to generate the deltarpm metadata for yum-presto to use so it knew which deltarpms to download. This functionality was merged into createrepo a long time ago, and presto-utils has seen little love since then. If someone is still using presto-utils and wants to