Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 07:43 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > lack of an upgrade mechanism. > > Yum is an upgrade mechanism. Now you may run into issues with SELinux this > time around, but that is just yet another example of how enabling SELinux by > default was a major mi

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 07:32 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > Let's look at the practical examples. anaconda used to have its own > > partition inspection code, its own loader stage, and its own network > > management code and UI. Over the last few years, all of those have ver

Re: No preupgrade for F17->F18?, [Bug 872876] WONTFIX

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 08:07 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > Prepupgrade should be probably taken out from F17 (as there's no newer > > Fedora that supports preupgrade). > > We can't really "take it out" from the shipped release, fedup will have to > Obsolete it when it's r

Unblocking packages: new review needed?

2012-11-08 Thread M . M .
OK, thanks for your answers. I've submitted a new request for each package: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874718 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874719 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874721 Regards, M.M. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org ht

Re: No preupgrade for F17->F18?, [Bug 872876] WONTFIX

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > Prepupgrade should be probably taken out from F17 (as there's no newer > Fedora that supports preupgrade). We can't really "take it out" from the shipped release, fedup will have to Obsolete it when it's ready. Until then, marking F18 as preupgrade-ok=False should fix th

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Peter Robinson wrote: > And with it will go Fedora's ability to support a lot of new hardware > moving forward and I don't believe that's good for anyone. The developers > have done a lot of work to make it easily handle a vast amount of use > cases and I think its great the work they've done. The

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 07:49 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > > The scope was not a surprise to us, we knew from the beginning when we > > started this that the delivery of all newui work would have to be staged > > across multiple Fedora releases. The key was getting groups lik

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
David Cantrell wrote: > The scope was not a surprise to us, we knew from the beginning when we > started this that the delivery of all newui work would have to be staged > across multiple Fedora releases. The key was getting groups like Fedora > QA and FESCo involved early so that they understood

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > lack of an upgrade mechanism. Yum is an upgrade mechanism. Now you may run into issues with SELinux this time around, but that is just yet another example of how enabling SELinux by default was a major mistake, and thankfully there are workarounds (doing the upgrade wit

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > Let's look at the practical examples. anaconda used to have its own > partition inspection code, its own loader stage, and its own network > management code and UI. Over the last few years, all of those have very > deliberately been killed and replaced with bits of the main

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 06:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:31:20AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> And Restricted Boot support just needs to go away! > > > > Sure, who wants new computers. > > Restricted Boot can and should be disabled by the

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:31:20AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> And Restricted Boot support just needs to go away! > > Sure, who wants new computers. Restricted Boot can and should be disabled by the user in the firmware. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list de

how do I allow a service on an arbitrary local interface the firewalld way?

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Miller
I'm making a crude fake EC2 environment on my test machine, and as part of that, I need a web server listening on 169.254.169.254. I've bound this address to lo:0. How do I use firewall-cmd to allow http through? It's blocked by default. I thought I could do it with the interface=lo:0 argument, b

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 15:19 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matthew Garrett (mj...@srcf.ucam.org) said: > > Patches that cleanly decouple Anaconda from the entire software stack > > that it runs on top of would probably be received with open arms, but > > nobody who works on it has any idea how

Re: Fedora Minimal Core SIG -- please join if you're interested

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:11:26AM +0800, Christopher Meng wrote: > OKAY,it sounds interesting,I'd like to join. All it takes is editing the wiki to add your name. If there's enough interest (it seems like there's actually a lot -- more than I anticipated!), it may be worth having our own mailing

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 16:39 -0700, Tim Flink wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:00:42 + > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:48:31PM -0700, Tim Flink wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 20:14:05 + > > > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > "we" are? I see approximately nobody offe

Re: Fedora Minimal Core SIG -- please join if you're interested

2012-11-08 Thread Christopher Meng
OKAY,it sounds interesting,I'd like to join. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora Minimal Core SIG -- please join if you're interested

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 08:18:37AM +0800, Christopher Meng wrote: > Is it similar to the minimal install media of some distribution? Theoretically it could be used to make a minimal spin, yes. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.

Fedora 19 release name voting

2012-11-08 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Voting for the release name of Fedora 19 has begun. The pool of names submitted by the community has been narrowed down to 8 possible names, one of which will become the release name for the successor to Fedora 18 ("Spherical Cow"). This vote began on November 9th, 2012, at 00:00 UTC, and wil

Re: Fedora Minimal Core SIG -- please join if you're interested

2012-11-08 Thread Christopher Meng
Is it similar to the minimal install media of some distribution? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Flink
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:00:42 + Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:48:31PM -0700, Tim Flink wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 20:14:05 + > > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > "we" are? I see approximately nobody offering assistance in that > > > respect. > > > > If it would make

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 01:52 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: > I know everyone is going to hate me for saying this, but wouldn't it make > sense > to just forget about F-18 and go for F-19 instead? After all, F-19 feature > submission deadline will probably be only a few weeks after F-18 release (as

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:48:31PM -0700, Tim Flink wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 20:14:05 + > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > "we" are? I see approximately nobody offering assistance in that > > respect. > > If it would make you feel better, I can stop building test images, > updating test repos,

[Bug 874846] New: perl-Net-HTTP-6.04 is available

2012-11-08 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874846 Bug ID: 874846 Keywords: FutureFeature, Triaged QA Contact: extras...@fedoraproject.org Severity: unspecified Version: rawhide Priority: unspecified CC: mmasl...@redhat.c

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:32 PM, drago01 wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, drago01 wrote: > This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't > practic

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Flink
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 20:14:05 + Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 11:31:18AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > we're still thrashing around trying to figure out how to build and > > ship the initramfs that fedup needs. > > "we" are? I see approximately nobody offering assistance

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:32 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, drago01 wrote: This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't practical. >>> >>> Well not practical maybe ... impossible no. >>

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 20:47 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/08/2012 08:40 PM, David Lehman wrote: > > No. It is an inevitable consequence of the feature set demanded of the > > Fedora OS installer. > > > > If thing A must be able to set up and configure thing B and thing B > > changes

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 09:26 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 8 November 2012 13:02, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 11/08/2012 07:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: or do you have any other installer you can point to that behaves like this? Pointing out how the installer currently works does not change

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, drago01 wrote: >>> This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't >>> practical. >> >> Well not practical maybe ... impossible no. >> In fact making an isolated image using F17 components

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, drago01 wrote: >> This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't >> practical. > > Well not practical maybe ... impossible no. > In fact making an isolated image using F17 components and installer to > use it to install F18 should work. SB wo

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 November 2012 13:02, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/08/2012 07:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >> or do you have any other installer you can point to that behaves like >> this? >> >> Pointing out how the installer currently works does not change my opinion >> on the fact that if an in

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matthew Garrett (mj...@srcf.ucam.org) said: >> Patches that cleanly decouple Anaconda from the entire software stack >> that it runs on top of would probably be received with open arms, but >> nobody who works on it has any idea how to imple

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 08:40 PM, David Lehman wrote: No. It is an inevitable consequence of the feature set demanded of the Fedora OS installer. If thing A must be able to set up and configure thing B and thing B changes in ways directly related to said configuration, how can you reasonably expect thing

[Bug 874701] Fedora 16's perl is greater than Fedora 17

2012-11-08 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874701 Paul Howarth changed: What|Removed |Added CC||p...@city-fan.org --- Comment #1 from Pau

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 17:20 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/08/2012 05:14 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On 8 November 2012 10:06, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > > wrote: > >> On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >>> On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, "Jóhann B. G

Re: Fedora Minimal Core SIG -- please join if you're interested

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Dan Horák (d...@danny.cz) said: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Minimal_Core > > > > Please comment and join if you're interested. This is intended to be a > > request for comments and input rather than a finish document. > > > > Note that "Minimal Core" isn't meant to necessarily imply

Re: Fedora Minimal Core SIG -- please join if you're interested

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Horák
Matthew Miller píše v Čt 08. 11. 2012 v 15:15 -0500: > So, here's a proposal for a semi-informal group linking different > stakeholders interested in curating the @core package selection: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Minimal_Core > > Please comment and join if you're interested. This

Re: Attention, dependency fighters

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:18:09PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > firewalld isn't in the minimal comps groups. However, it's pulled in > by anaconda, see pyanaconda/install.py: > # anaconda requires storage packages in order to make sure the target > # system is bootable and configurable,

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Garrett (mj...@srcf.ucam.org) said: > Patches that cleanly decouple Anaconda from the entire software stack > that it runs on top of would probably be received with open arms, but > nobody who works on it has any idea how to implement them. In fact, this is what has been done in anacond

Fedora Minimal Core SIG -- please join if you're interested

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Miller
So, here's a proposal for a semi-informal group linking different stakeholders interested in curating the @core package selection: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Minimal_Core Please comment and join if you're interested. This is intended to be a request for comments and input rather than a f

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 11:31:18AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > we're still thrashing around trying to figure out how to build and ship > the initramfs that fedup needs. "we" are? I see approximately nobody offering assistance in that respect. Anyway, it obviously gets built by Lorax, just lik

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:40:47PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Pointing out how the installer currently works does not change my > opinion on the fact that if an installer ( any installer ) cannot > run on his own bits isolated from the package set he is about > install is a design fla

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 07:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: or do you have any other installer you can point to that behaves like this? Pointing out how the installer currently works does not change my opinion on the fact that if an installer ( any installer ) cannot run on his own bits i

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:10 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > I assume you are only referring to anaconda here or do you have any > other installer you can point to that behaves like this? > > Pointing out how the installer currently works does not change my opinion > on the fact that if a

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 06:37 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:11 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" mailto:johan...@gmail.com>> wrote:Bro... "It should be sufficient to just tell/point the installer to use new packages while still retain the same functionality/support as it did for F17

Re: Announcing the rawhide kernel nodebug repository

2012-11-08 Thread Justin M. Forbes
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:30:53PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 11:02 -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > > It has been discussed in the past that we should have a repository of > > the rawhide kernels with debug turned off to encourage more users to run > > the latest upst

Re: Attention, dependency fighters

2012-11-08 Thread Thomas Woerner
On 11/08/2012 06:37 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 07:56:30PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: long story short, it's firewalld. Its deps are pretty heavy for something that's supposed to be in minimal. I'm sure twoerner would wel

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 11:07 -0500, David Cantrell wrote: > In both of these examples, we could argue either way that they are features > or not. It's a new upgrade tool, yes, but it's really just moving the > responsibility of upgrades to somewhere else. So what's the feature? If > upgrades are

Re: Announcing the rawhide kernel nodebug repository

2012-11-08 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > It has been discussed in the past that we should have a repository of > the rawhide kernels with debug turned off to encourage more users to run > the latest upstream snapshots. That repository now exists. You can > enable it by dropping

Re: Attention, dependency fighters

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: > In case anyone noticed minimal install got rather bigger between Alpha > and Beta - I did too. And I finally got around to figuring out why and > filing a bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874378 > > long story short, it's firewall

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:11 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:Bro... "It should be sufficient to just tell/point the installer to use new packages while still retain the same functionality/support as it did for F17 ( unless of course there is some serious fundamental design flaw in the installer

Change slf4j license from MIT to ASL 2.0 and MIT

2012-11-08 Thread Stanislav Ochotnicky
Two jars are implementing apache-commons-logging and log4j APIs and upstream decided to license them the same way to avoid any possible problems (I assume). In any case this shouldn't be a problem for projects using these since both licenses are liberal enough -- Stanislav Ochotnicky Software

Re: Announcing the rawhide kernel nodebug repository

2012-11-08 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 11:02 -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > It has been discussed in the past that we should have a repository of > the rawhide kernels with debug turned off to encourage more users to run > the latest upstream snapshots. That repository now exists. You can > enable it by droppin

Announcing the rawhide kernel nodebug repository

2012-11-08 Thread Justin M. Forbes
It has been discussed in the past that we should have a repository of the rawhide kernels with debug turned off to encourage more users to run the latest upstream snapshots. That repository now exists. You can enable it by dropping http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/rawhide-kernel-nodebug/fedor

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:48:52PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > No I assume everyone expected the Anaconda developers to handle that > if not they would have asked for assistance in that regard and > outlined the steps necessary to do so which I assume would have been > minimal if neces

tagsoup changed license to ASL 2.0 (mostly)

2012-11-08 Thread Stanislav Ochotnicky
Upstream relicensed when they upgraded from 1.1.3 to 1.2 but this was missed during update of our package However they have (likely) forgotten one file dual licensed old style GPLv2+ or AFL. I guess maintainer should get in touch with them. I have fixed license in the spec file for now -- Stani

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 06:42 -0600, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: > Regardless of all that, we need to be better about communicating that > we use a feature-based release scheme as opposed to a time-based > release scheme. There are trade-offs to both approaches, but at least > with clear communicati

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 05:30 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 8 November 2012 10:20, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Your problem is that you are assuming a lot of things without actually doing any legwork to find out what anaconda does. Anaconda does a lot of probing of hardware which changes when ke

Re: Attention, dependency fighters

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 07:56:30PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > long story short, it's firewalld. Its deps are pretty heavy for > > something that's supposed to be in minimal. I'm sure twoerner would > > welcome help in pruning the deps if it'

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 November 2012 10:20, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> Your problem is that you are assuming a lot of things without actually >> doing any legwork to find out what anaconda does. Anaconda does a lot >> of probing of hardware which changes when kernels change. Anaconda >> requires changes whe

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 05:14 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 8 November 2012 10:06, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Or if I rephrase why could not the community continue to use An

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 05:04 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > 1) highly user visible changes (beyond artwork or theme changes) * Possibly. I'm unclear as to precisely what has changed here. If it's just the default but the user can select custom partitioning and is able to use LVM there, th

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 November 2012 10:06, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> >>> Or if I rephrase why could not the community continue to use >>> Anaconda in it's form that it existed in

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Or if I rephrase why could not the community continue to use Anaconda in it's form that it existed in F17 until the "new installer" was *completly* done? Because nobody in th

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 11:07:08AM -0500, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:44:41AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > > But the new upgrade process - it should be standalone feature, > > we missed dracut feature, same for LVM in Anaconda (again, not > > UI), live medias etc. So mo

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 16:50:25 +0100, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: As I said SIGs don't have a leader. You can't force people to do the work if they don't wish to. You can ask them to communicate changes and make them more visible for other projects. That depends on the SIG. It can certainly

[Bug 874667] New: perl-XML-LibXML-2.0011 is available

2012-11-08 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874667 Bug ID: 874667 Keywords: FutureFeature, Triaged QA Contact: extras...@fedoraproject.org Severity: unspecified Version: rawhide Priority: unspecified CC: mmasl...@redhat.c

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Or if I rephrase why could not the community continue to use Anaconda in it's form that it existed in F17 until the "new installer" was *completly* done? Because nobody in th

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 03:58 PM, David Cantrell wrote: I completely agree! Which is why we were getting early test builds done during the F-17 cycle and working to get people testing the installer then. The main problem is that no one_wants_ to test the installer. It's a utility. A necessary step to g

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Or if I rephrase why could not the community continue to use > Anaconda in it's form that it existed in F17 until the "new > installer" was *completly* done? Because nobody in the community did the work to make the F17 Ana

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 03:58 PM, David Cantrell wrote: Not true. As with our other major changes, we new it would be absolutely impossible to deliver all functionality in a single release. What exactly prevented the Anaconda from implementing Anaconda 2.0 in a F19 or later when it was fully complete?

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:56:31AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:31:20AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > The new anaconda UI and related features are more or less entirely the > > > cause of the slip. > > > > This shows that those changes sh

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:55:19AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 05:44 -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > - Original Message - > > > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 06:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > The new anaconda UI and related feature

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:44:41AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > - Original Message - > > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 06:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > The new anaconda UI and related features are more or less > > > > entirely the > > > > cause of the slip. >

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:00 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:32:57PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:48:26PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > > On 11/08/2012 02:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > >What kind of structure would you imagin

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:32:57PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:48:26PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > On 11/08/2012 02:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > >What kind of structure would you imagine such a SIG having? > > > > Sorry not following? > > > > I as

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:58:59PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/08/2012 05:56 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >It turns out that software development is hard. It's especially hard > >when you have a hugely complicated system with no central management and > >no real incentive for most

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 11/08/2012 04:40 PM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Matthew Garrett mailto:mj...@srcf.ucam.org>> wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:48:26PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/08/2012 02:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >What kind of structur

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:31:20AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > The new anaconda UI and related features are more or less entirely the > > cause of the slip. > > This shows that those changes should not have been done, or at least not in > this way. We did that for a l

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:48:26PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > On 11/08/2012 02:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > >What kind of structure would you imagine such a SIG having? > > > > Sorry not following? > > > > I assume this

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:48:26PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/08/2012 02:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >What kind of structure would you imagine such a SIG having? > > Sorry not following? > > I assume this ( and related mailinglist ) would be the place where > they manage an

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 11/08/2012 03:48 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 11/08/2012 02:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:58:59PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Is it not just time to form a "CoreOS" SIG which include Anaconda, the storage developers, The kernel, Dracut,/Systemd/

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 02:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:58:59PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Is it not just time to form a "CoreOS" SIG which include Anaconda, the storage developers, The kernel, Dracut,/Systemd/Udev, and arguably selinux and the network guys as well

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:58:59PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Is it not just time to form a "CoreOS" SIG which include Anaconda, > the storage developers, The kernel, Dracut,/Systemd/Udev, and > arguably selinux and the network guys as well to ensure "proper" > communication of change

Re: yum upgrade from F17 to F18

2012-11-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 11/08/2012 02:41 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > You should file this as an RFE against yum since arguably this should be the > default behavior when users run "yum upgrade" but since the yum maintainers > have not done that already there has to be some gotcha- you are forgetting The pr

Re: yum upgrade from F17 to F18

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 01:10 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Hi, I'm upgrading Fedoras by yum [1] for some time. I know that is not supported method and can have some problems. But the truth is that it was always less error prone as compared to upgrade using Anaconda or preupgrade. Even with upgrade from F16

Re: Anything changed on rawhide builders recently? Can't build ladvd

2012-11-08 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:21 PM, David Howells wrote: > David Howells wrote: > >> A better way to do this might be to make the header installation discard the >> "_UAPI" prefix that got added. > > As the attached patch. > > David > --- > commit 75a88e14a97d239a47cbd0fc55fc23416007d733 > Author: D

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 12:42 PM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: The other problem is that it continues to make Fedora as a project look bad How Fedora looks is in the hands of the beholder. While you see the delayed release as a negative thing I see it as a positive and a strong thing since from where

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 09:21 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: time/feature based distribution Hmm interesting Actually feature based release cycle might work and should be something we should aim at. JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

yum upgrade from F17 to F18

2012-11-08 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Hi, I'm upgrading Fedoras by yum [1] for some time. I know that is not supported method and can have some problems. But the truth is that it was always less error prone as compared to upgrade using Anaconda or preupgrade. Even with upgrade from F16 to F17, which I originally thought would be i

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/08/2012 05:56 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: It turns out that software development is hard. It's especially hard when you have a hugely complicated system with no central management and no real incentive for most of the skilled workers to cooperate on sections of the project that influence eac

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Kévin Raymond
[snip] > > The other problem is that it continues to make Fedora as a project look > bad. I've talked to people who use Fedora (who aren't involved in the I disagree. It is far better to have the release slipped in order to fix blocker bugs. We have a nice QA and this improves the Fedora quality

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 05:44 -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > - Original Message - > > > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 06:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > The new anaconda UI and related features are mo

Re: Attention, dependency fighters

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:47:58AM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > > Maybe we could have a release criterion which states that the minimal > > install doesn't have anything which pulls in the X libraries (or Wayland)? > > That's not a _completely_ arbitrary line in the sand. Probably the issue > > h

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2012-11-08 Thread Richard Marko
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Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 05:44 -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > - Original Message - > > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 06:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > The new anaconda UI and related features are more or less > > > > entirely the > > > > cause of the slip. > > > >

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 11:42 +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky píše v St 07. 11. 2012 v 22:06 -0800: > > I've now done half a dozen F18 multi-boot installs and I must say it's > > a miracle I haven't over-written something I wanted to keep. The thing > > that would make it usable

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 06:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > The new anaconda UI and related features are more or less > > > entirely the > > > cause of the slip. > > > > This shows that those changes should not have been done, or at > > le

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Jiri Eischmann
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky píše v St 07. 11. 2012 v 22:06 -0800: > I've now done half a dozen F18 multi-boot installs and I must say it's > a miracle I haven't over-written something I wanted to keep. The thing > that would make it usable for me would be very simple - just put the > partition names on

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