Re: Subject: Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Rave it wrote: > > > > Rex Dieter wrote: > > > > I can understand your frustration, and that you and Dan had trouble > > communicating and working together. > > > > I do wish to thank you for the positive contributions you made, and in > > your future endeavors.

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Rave it wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > > I can understand your frustration, and that you and Dan had trouble > communicating and working together. > > I do wish to thank you for the positive contributions you made, and in > your future endeavors. > No mercy, no thanks. > > Why do you Mr. Rex Die

F17: DirectFB

2012-08-24 Thread Gerry Reno
I have had no success whatsoever getting DirectFB to run under F17 as a regular user on my HP laptop. # yum list DirectFB Installed Packages directfb.x86_64 1.5.3-7.fc17 @updates I have discussed the pr

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Rave it
Rex Dieter wrote: I can understand your frustration, and that you and Dan had trouble communicating and working together. I do wish to thank you for the positive contributions you made, and in your future endeavors. -- rex No mercy, no thanks. Why do you Mr. Rex Dieter as sponsor accept rude

Re: Subject: Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Rave it
> > Rex Dieter wrote: > > I can understand your frustration, and that you and Dan had trouble > communicating and working together. > > I do wish to thank you for the positive contributions you made, and in > your future endeavors. > > -- rex > No mercy, no thanks. Why do you Mr. Rex Dieter

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Rave it
Rex Dieter wrote: I can understand your frustration, and that you and Dan had trouble communicating and working together. I do wish to thank you for the positive contributions you made, and in your future endeavors. -- rex No mercy, no thanks. Why do you Mr. Rex Dieter as sponsor accept rude

Re: dkms and corruption of kernel-devel package

2012-08-24 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:34 AM, John Reiser wrote: >> the copy in /usr/src/kernels/ is >> world-readable and the one in /boot/ isn't, for example >> >> [root@compaq-pc ~]# ls -l /boot/System.map-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 >> /usr/src/kernels/3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64/System.map >> -rw---. 1 root root 24

Re: dkms and corruption of kernel-devel package

2012-08-24 Thread John Reiser
> the copy in /usr/src/kernels/ is > world-readable and the one in /boot/ isn't, for example > > [root@compaq-pc ~]# ls -l /boot/System.map-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 > /usr/src/kernels/3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64/System.map > -rw---. 1 root root 2468248 Aug 21 15:24 > /boot/System.map-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64

Re: dkms and corruption of kernel-devel package

2012-08-24 Thread Andre Robatino
Panu Matilainen laiskiainen.org> writes: > Dunno about the System.map (other than I've always relied on the ones in > /boot), but as for the timestamps, kernel-devel itself causes that as it > runs hardlink on itself at package post-installation. Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware there was a

Re: Moving pid files from /var/run/$name.pid to /var/run/$name/$name.pid

2012-08-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 10:31 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 13:58 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: > > > If Type=forking is set and PIDFile is unset, systemd will try to guess > > the PID of the main daemon process. I'm not sure what the guessing > > strategy is but specifying the

[perl-XML-Simple] Update dependencies

2012-08-24 Thread Jitka Plesnikova
commit a135193526baea411b2ab264a44e110f28558031 Author: Jitka Plesnikova Date: Fri Aug 24 16:32:27 2012 +0200 Update dependencies perl-XML-Simple.spec |9 +++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- diff --git a/perl-XML-Simple.spec b/perl-XML-Simple.spec index 4614

Re: Moving pid files from /var/run/$name.pid to /var/run/$name/$name.pid

2012-08-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 13:58 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: > If Type=forking is set and PIDFile is unset, systemd will try to guess > the PID of the main daemon process. I'm not sure what the guessing > strategy is but specifying the PIDFile explicitly is probably safer, > particularly for daemons

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Brendan Jones
On 08/23/2012 04:53 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Rave it wrote: For your information. I stoped working for the Mate-Desktop project for f18 because I can understand your frustration, and that you and Dan had trouble communicating and working together. I do wish to thank you for the positive contrib

Re: Moving pid files from /var/run/$name.pid to /var/run/$name/$name.pid

2012-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
Hans de Goede writes: > Today I received a bug report to mv sensorsd's pid file from > /var/run/sensorsd.pid to > /var/run/sensorsd/sensorsd.pid, see: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851428 The traditional argument for not creating pidfiles directly in /var/run is that a daemon tha

Re: Self Introduction

2012-08-24 Thread Olivier BONHOMME
Le 05/11/2011 23:50, Olivier BONHOMME a écrit : > Le 23/07/2011 18:40, Olivier BONHOMME a écrit : >> Hello everybody, >> >> I am Olivier from France. I work now as a System/Network Architect in >> the Spatial domain especially in Satellite telecommunications. I work >> every day on Linux Platform e

Re: ODE upgrade

2012-08-24 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 08/21/2012 12:00 AM, Jon Ciesla wrote: >>> >>> Hello, all. >>> >>> Hans, the ode maintainer, has asked me to implement and coordinate the >>> upgrade of ode to the current re

[perl] Remove perl-devel dependency from perl-Test-Harness and perl-Test-Simple

2012-08-24 Thread Petr Pisar
commit 105c5312337e3bc5816c21bf62cbbec842c9e757 Author: Petr Písař Date: Fri Aug 24 14:57:57 2012 +0200 Remove perl-devel dependency from perl-Test-Harness and perl-Test-Simple perl.spec |7 --- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spe

Re: Moving pid files from /var/run/$name.pid to /var/run/$name/$name.pid

2012-08-24 Thread Andrew Price
On 24/08/12 13:41, Colin Walters wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 10:08 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: /var/run/$name.pid is the standard pid file location for daemons and has been so for ages. A lot of distros depend on this, and we used to depend on it until we moved to systemd which no longer cares

Re: Moving pid files from /var/run/$name.pid to /var/run/$name/$name.pid

2012-08-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 10:08 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > /var/run/$name.pid is the standard pid file location for daemons and has been > so > for ages. A lot of distros depend on this, and we used to depend on it until > we > moved to systemd which no longer cares about pid files. Right, so wh

Re: small tip regarding git branch bash prompt in F18/Rawhide

2012-08-24 Thread Ville Skyttä
On 2012-08-24 13:08, Enrico Scholz wrote: > Please move the script to /usr/share/git or to /etc/bash_completion.d > where it can be requested by the user explicitly. +1, but /etc/bash_completion.d would be a bad choice as AFAIK this script has nothing to do with completion (and besides, everythin

Re: small tip regarding git branch bash prompt in F18/Rawhide

2012-08-24 Thread Enrico Scholz
Todd Zullinger writes: > I placed git-prompt.sh in /etc/profile.d where it should be sourced > for normal login shells. As I wrote in the update comment, please revert it. It pollutes the environment of every user with functions which are probably never be used. As these functions are useless

Moving pid files from /var/run/$name.pid to /var/run/$name/$name.pid

2012-08-24 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, Today I received a bug report to mv sensorsd's pid file from /var/run/sensorsd.pid to /var/run/sensorsd/sensorsd.pid, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851428 As discussed there, I think / guess that the same request has probably been made for other daemons and I'm not sure i

Re: small tip regarding git branch bash prompt in F18/Rawhide

2012-08-24 Thread Dodji Seketeli
Todd Zullinger a écrit: > I placed git-prompt.sh in /etc/profile.d where it should be sourced > for normal login shells. This should make the change transparent to > most users. > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/git-1.7.12-2.fc18 Great. Thank you for doing this. Do you think it woul