Re: Grub installation. First potential Fedora killer

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 00:43 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 22:52 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 23:32 +0100, Jean François Martinez wrote: > >>> I have a nice booter setup and a nice _main_ Lin

Re: Grub installation. First potential Fedora killer

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 22:52 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 23:32 +0100, Jean François Martinez wrote: >>> I have a nice booter setup and a nice _main_ Linux installation. Last >>> thing I would want is a distribution

Re: Grub installation. First potential Fedora killer

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 5, 2014, at 11:27 PM, Jean François Martinez wrote: > This is not the problem. THe problem is: a user of another distribution > will not want to touch Fedora with a ten foot pole pnce he discovers Fedora > messe up with his booter setup. And the parttitionner is equally bad. These

[Test-Announce] 2014-01-06 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2014-01-06 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again soon! Still not an awful lot on the agenda that I can see, to be honest, I th

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 23:13 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > I don't see what needs elaborating. I'm not aware that the 11th > commandment is "Every Subcommand Must Be Documented, Even Ones You Just > Put In So People Still Using Syntax From The Old Tool You're Replacing > Won't Have A Problem". If

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 08:01 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 01/06/2014 12:46 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 19:24 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > ... > >> As I mentioned before I only auto completed yum, remove is not party of > >> the auto completed commands. If remo

Re: Grub installation. First potential Fedora killer

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 22:52 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 23:32 +0100, Jean François Martinez wrote: > > I have a nice booter setup and a nice _main_ Linux installation. Last > > thing I would want is a distribution I am _testing_, that is Fedora 20 > > forces on me it will

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/06/2014 12:46 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 19:24 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: ... As I mentioned before I only auto completed yum, remove is not party of the auto completed commands. If remove should be there, then this is a bug. I will file one. dnf has no auto c

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 11:53 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: where would it be useful to uninstall base-package and YUM/DNF itself bringing your system in a non-recoverable state? I already offered a couple of examples that you ignored (just a couple that came to mind, cer

Re: Grub installation. First potential Fedora killer

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 23:32 +0100, Jean François Martinez wrote: > I have a nice booter setup and a nice _main_ Linux installation. Last > thing I would want is a distribution I am _testing_, that is Fedora 20 > forces on me it will be my main installation and forces me to choose > between install

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 02:33 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 06.01.2014 02:12, schrieb Chris Adams: > > Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: > >> border cases where you can use --nodeps > > > > What does --nodeps have to do with this? > > border cases are not usual behavior? His point was t

Re: Grub installation. First potential Fedora killer

2014-01-05 Thread Jean François Martinez
This is not the problem. THe problem is: a user of another distribution will not want to touch Fedora with a ten foot pole pnce he discovers Fedora messe up with his booter setup. And the parttitionner is equally bad. These are two areas a distribution not only in the area of bugs but in the

Re: [pkgdb] python-boto ownership changed

2014-01-05 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 2014-01-02 16:38, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: [Third try to send this email. The Gmail Android app has a lovely UI to select the sender address, but it doesn't do anything :(.] On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:

Re: Updating hdf5 to 1.8.12

2014-01-05 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 01/05/2014 11:54 AM, Sergio Pascual wrote: > Orion, is it possible that you missed h5py? We are getting this > > >1. Warning! ***HDF5 library version mismatched error*** >2. The HDF5 header files used to compile this application do not match >3. the version used by the HDF5 library

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.01.2014 02:12, schrieb Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: >> border cases where you can use --nodeps > > What does --nodeps have to do with this? border cases are not usual behavior? >> this is *really* a border case where download and "rpm -Uvh --force" >> is the way

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: > border cases where you can use --nodeps What does --nodeps have to do with this? > this is *really* a border case where download and "rpm -Uvh --force" > is the way to go No, you should do it correctly. First, AFAIK rpm doesn't have the magic kernel beha

Self Introduction

2014-01-05 Thread Tom Hodder
Hi, I am Tom Hodder, long time fedora user, ex-RHCE, and "tolland" on IRC. I noticed that ghemical was listed as an orphaned package, and I had an email chat with the previous maintainer, and he suggested that there are some updates pending in upstream. However he was too busy to continue as main

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 19:24 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 01/05/2014 07:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > ... > >>> The running kernel should not be removed with a s

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 23:53, schrieb Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: >> where would it be useful to uninstall base-package and YUM/DNF itself >> bringing your system in a non-recoverable state? > > I already offered a couple of examples that you ignored (just a couple > that came t

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: > where would it be useful to uninstall base-package and YUM/DNF itself > bringing your system in a non-recoverable state? I already offered a couple of examples that you ignored (just a couple that came to mind, certainly not an exhaustive list): when you ha

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 23:33, schrieb Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: >> i say the same thing to the autopager and cutted output of >> systemctl and journalctl and the repsonse there is "we are >> not Unix, we are Linux" > > Yeah, I dislike that as well. If I want paged output, I'l

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: > i say the same thing to the autopager and cutted output of > systemctl and journalctl and the repsonse there is "we are > not Unix, we are Linux" Yeah, I dislike that as well. If I want paged output, I'll page it; if I want cut output, I'll cut it. The "h

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:06:16PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: > > http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel > > Frankly, that's a dumb "feature" to have the package manager know > "magic" things about s

Re: Self Introduction

2014-01-05 Thread Jan Tulak
Thank you :-) I'm also developing it (https://github.com/BroukPytlik/RdRand). ReadMe still needs to be filled with reasonable texts, I have to copy it from man pages (why write the same things twice). :-) About the security concerns... I have done some statistical testing of it (PractRand, Te

Re: enlightenment 0.18.1 etc...

2014-01-05 Thread Bob Richmond
I uploaded a new version of the efl srpm that patches configure directly to look for the correct tslib pkg-config and removes the call to autogen. Also corrects a cut & paste error I made that erroneously included libemotion in the ephysics package. http://www.lorez.org/enlightenment/efl-1.8.3

Re: Self Introduction

2014-01-05 Thread H . Guémar
Welcome in Fedora :) Out of curiosity, are you only packaging it or also developing it ? Anyway, it will be a useful library (no trolling about the rdrand instruction ;)) Best regards, H. Le 5 janv. 2014 21:14, "Jan Tulak" a écrit : > Hi all > > I'm an IT university student. With Fedora I have

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Steve Clark
On 01/04/2014 03:09 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 10:50 +0100, Mattia Verga wrote: This is the first time I heard of DNF. Looking at the page where differences between DNF and yum are explained (http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html) my question is: do we really need D

Self Introduction

2014-01-05 Thread Jan Tulak
Hi all I'm an IT university student. With Fedora I have a total experience about half a year, my primary distribution is Archlinux (about four or five years experience). Currently, I'm preparing a Fedora package as part of my bachelor thesis: A library for RdRand (the instruction used in Ivy B

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 20:06, schrieb Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: >> http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel > > Frankly, that's a dumb "feature" to have the package manager know > "magic" things about some names. Why is

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: > http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel Frankly, that's a dumb "feature" to have the package manager know "magic" things about some names. Why is it dumb? Because some people then depend on magic "

Re: Updating hdf5 to 1.8.12

2014-01-05 Thread Sergio Pascual
Orion, is it possible that you missed h5py? We are getting this 1. Warning! ***HDF5 library version mismatched error*** 2. The HDF5 header files used to compile this application do not match 3. the version used by the HDF5 library to which this application is linked. 4. Data corrup

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Alec Leamas
On 2014-01-05 19:24, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/05/2014 07:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: ... The running kernel should not be removed with a simple 'dnf erase kernel' (w

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Naheem Zaffar
A solution may be for someone to write a plugin that restores the protected packages feature. Fedora users are clearly used to such a feature and expect it while upstream doesnt want to add hand holding features, but provide a method to do the same. On 5 January 2014 18:32, Lars E. Pettersson wr

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 07:24 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: As I mentioned before I only auto completed yum, remove is not party of the auto completed commands. If remove should be there, then this is a bug. I will file one. Pressed send a bit too early. Should of course be 'erase' here, not 'remove'...

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 07:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: ... The running kernel should not be removed with a simple 'dnf erase kernel' (why did they change remove into erase?), They d

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 19:07, schrieb Adam Williamson: > On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: >>> On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: They really want to make dnf work this way. This is explained here: >

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > > On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: > > > They really want to make dnf work this way. > > > This is explained here: > > > http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.htm

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 12:34 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 05.01.2014 12:21, schrieb Frank Murphy: > > On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:16:36 +0100 > > "Lars E. Pettersson" wrote: > > > >> Ah, did not know that, if you try to auto complete yum only remove > >> shows up, but erase also works. So perhap

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: > > They really want to make dnf work this way. > > This is explained here: > > http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel > > Yes, I ha

Re: enlightenment 0.18.1 etc...

2014-01-05 Thread Bob Richmond
The autogen thing was because I patched configure.ac to look for the pkg-config name for tslib as tslib-0.0 (as shipped in Fedora). Which means configure needed to be regenerated. I guess an alternative would be to patch configure directly, but eh... :) On 01/05/2014 04:02 AM, Dan Mashal wrote

Re: enlightenment 0.18.1 etc...

2014-01-05 Thread Alek Paunov
On 05.01.2014 04:29, Bob Richmond wrote: I have no desire to become a package maintainer for Enlightenment, but I Even in this case, after the hard work already done by you, now it is possible binaries be delivered to the end users - Are you aware of the new COPR [1] service? After repo cre

Re: Grub installation. First potential Fedora killer

2014-01-05 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 01/02/2014 05:32 PM, Jean François Martinez wrote: I have a nice booter setup and a nice _main_ Linux installation. Last thing I would want is a distribution I am _testing_, that is Fedora 20 forces on me it will be my main installation and forces me to choose between installing Grub on th

Re: enlightenment 0.18.1 etc...

2014-01-05 Thread Dan Mashal
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Bob Richmond wrote: >> No, the EFL is distributed as one big tarball now. All the old releases >> could be found here: >> >> http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/ >> >> Starting with 1.8.0, they're distribut

rawhide report: 20140105 changes

2014-01-05 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
Compose started at Sun Jan 5 05:15:02 UTC 2014 Broken deps for i386 -- [OpenEXR_CTL] OpenEXR_CTL-1.0.1-16.fc20.i686 requires libImath.so.6 OpenEXR_CTL-1.0.1-16.fc20.i686 requires libIlmThread.so.6 OpenEXR_CTL-1.0.1-16

Re: enlightenment 0.18.1 etc...

2014-01-05 Thread Dan Mashal
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Bob Richmond wrote: > No, the EFL is distributed as one big tarball now. All the old releases > could be found here: > > http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/ > > Starting with 1.8.0, they're distributed in: > > http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 12:21, schrieb Frank Murphy: > On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:16:36 +0100 > "Lars E. Pettersson" wrote: > >> Ah, did not know that, if you try to auto complete yum only remove >> shows up, but erase also works. So perhaps erase was an afterthought, >> to mimic the rpm behavior. If rpm has

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:16:36 +0100 "Lars E. Pettersson" wrote: > Ah, did not know that, if you try to auto complete yum only remove > shows up, but erase also works. So perhaps erase was an afterthought, > to mimic the rpm behavior. If rpm has erase, and yum also can use > erase, perhaps erase is

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 12:02 PM, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: why did they change remove into erase? Yum actually offers both erase and remove for the same purpose. I don't know which is an alias of t

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: >> > why did they change remove into erase? Yum actually offers both erase and remove for the same purpose. I don't know which is an alias of the other, but rpm uses erase. From the man page:

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Mattia Verga
Il 05/01/2014 10:27, Lars E. Pettersson ha scritto: Yes, I have read that, but (strongly) disagree. I agree in your disagreement! ;-) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: They really want to make dnf work this way. This is explained here: http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel Yes, I have read that, but (strongly) disagree. The running kernel should not be rem

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 09:40, schrieb Reindl Harald: >> They really want to make dnf work this way. >> This is explained here: >> http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel > > and that is clearly a regression > > how likely is that somebody want to

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 09:23, schrieb Mattia Verga: > > Il 05/01/2014 00:13, Adam Williamson ha scritto: >> On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 21:41 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: >>> On 2014-01-04 21:31, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/04/2014 08:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > * yum remove kernel vs dnf remove k

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Mattia Verga
Il 05/01/2014 00:13, Adam Williamson ha scritto: On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 21:41 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: On 2014-01-04 21:31, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/04/2014 08:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: * yum remove kernel vs dnf remove kernel difference (unfiled? ) I found 976704, closed with 'Res