Re: [Base] Base Design WG agenda meeting 03 October 2014 15:00 UTC on #fedora-meeting

2014-10-02 Thread Václav Pavlín
Hi I will be traveling to Prague in the afternoon so I'd suggest to cancel this meeting as 2 members are not going to be there and I my bus might get delay. Vašek On 3.10.2014 02:57, Dennis Gilmore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:28:40 +0200 Phil K

Re: btrfs as default filesystem for F22?

2014-10-02 Thread Juan Orti Alcaine
El 2014-10-03 05:31, Andre Robatino escribió: openSUSE 13.2, scheduled for release in November, will have btrfs as the default filesystem. What are the chances that F22 will follow suit, assuming openSUSE has no major problems with it? https://news.opensuse.org/2014/09/22/ I've been using bt

Re: Idea: Ability to define dependencies between coprs (correctly)

2014-10-02 Thread Bohuslav Kabrda
- Original Message - > Hi all, > > I have a proposal that would change how dependencies are defined in copr: > > Problem: > Currently, copr allows to add a link to an arbitrary repo URL that is > available for installing dependencies during building in copr. Using > this dependent repo li

btrfs as default filesystem for F22?

2014-10-02 Thread Andre Robatino
openSUSE 13.2, scheduled for release in November, will have btrfs as the default filesystem. What are the chances that F22 will follow suit, assuming openSUSE has no major problems with it? https://news.opensuse.org/2014/09/22/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fe

Re: [Base] Base Design WG agenda meeting 03 October 2014 15:00 UTC on #fedora-meeting

2014-10-02 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:28:40 +0200 Phil Knirsch wrote: > Unfortunately tomorrow is a public holiday in Germany, but if someone > else from the WG would run the meeting i've put together a proposed > agenda for tomorrow to give a few updates: > > A

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > then that paragraph refer to Shellshock was not really appropriate without > make really clear that this is not a panic reaction in context of already > fixed bash bugs > I didn't think one would assume it is just a panic reaction if the

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2014 um 22:45 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > because the conclusion that dash is not vulerable for > other things is invalid > > > I am afraid there was no such conclusions. To acknowledge known bugs in bash > doesn't requi

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > because the conclusion that dash is not vulerable for > other things is invalid > I am afraid there was no such conclusions. To acknowledge known bugs in bash doesn't require anyone to conclude that dash doesn't have bugs. Rahul --

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 October 2014 13:59, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering said: > >> In general, I am pretty sure that except a couple of programming >> language or UNIX aficionades very few people can actually correctly >> separate bashisms from true bourneshellisms. > > It isn't that

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 October 2014 17:13, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 10/02/2014 03:07 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Chris Adams wrote: >> >> >> If that's the case, why do we have the /bin/sh symlink? Just remove >> it >> and make the bash dependency explicit (so

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: > You know, you could've simply replied to my original take on your > self-described opportunistic proposal with something like, "No, Tom, I'm > not just making this proposal because of Shellshock. I really think there > are some merits to d

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2014 um 19:08 schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 13:05:27 -0400, > Matthew Miller wrote: >> >> For the case of arbitrary variables (like USER_AGENT), the problem is >> closed, because now only variables prefixed BASH_FUNC_ and with a suffix of >> () in our current patch

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 13:05:27 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: For the case of arbitrary variables (like USER_AGENT), the problem is closed, because now only variables prefixed BASH_FUNC_ and with a suffix of () in our current patch or %% upstream are scanned for function definitions. Thanks

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:22:18AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I think the disconnect there was that people assumed that as long as > you controlled which environment variables (by name) were passed you > were OK. It was assumed that the values weren't processed outside of > what you explicitly

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:34:18AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I don't think anyone misunderstood that you have trouble disagreeing > without also being insulting. You are pushing off people who might > otherwise be sympathetic to your perspective by constantly engaging in a > discussion the w

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 2.10.2014 v 18:00 Haïkel napsal(a): 2014-10-02 17:56 GMT+02:00 Tomasz Torcz : Also it will reduce differences between Linux distribution. And take us closed to what majority (Ubuntu and Debian) does. I don't see the point, now that we use systemd ... Besides, even on Debian/Ubuntu, Ba

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: No. /bin/sh is supposed to be a POSIX-compatible shell. > Right. This is what I meant. We can't just remove /bin/sh completely and require users to always use dash or bash explicitly. Whether it is a symlink and what precisely it poin

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > which would be in fact more a reason to start realize that > people are different in how they express things and not all > is that insulting meant as it could be taken > https://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Please read the above l

[Base] Base Design WG agenda meeting 03 October 2014 15:00 UTC on #fedora-meeting

2014-10-02 Thread Phil Knirsch
Unfortunately tomorrow is a public holiday in Germany, but if someone else from the WG would run the meeting i've put together a proposed agenda for tomorrow to give a few updates: Agenda: - Update buildrequires cleanup work (davids) - Update Alpha base image - Open Floor Thanks & regards,

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:59:54 -0400, Miloslav Trmač wrote: As I said in the snipped part, anyone able to submit arbitrary input to a shell can already cause it to do arbitrary things. The parser bugs do not give the attacker anything they don’t already have, so they are not security-relev

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/02/2014 03:07 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Chris Adams wrote: If that's the case, why do we have the /bin/sh symlink? Just remove it and make the bash dependency explicit (so everything has to call /bin/bash). I understand this is a rherotic

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2014 um 18:04 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > i doubt that you people are that > hypersensitive about every single word in real life too > > People wouldn't say this if it was the first time you wrote > something like this w

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > i doubt that you people are that > hypersensitive about every single word in real life too > People wouldn't say this if it was the first time you wrote something like this. Also since you asked, I am usually *far* more curt generally

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 05:56:17PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > Also it will reduce differences between Linux distribution. And take us > closed to what majority (Ubuntu and Debian) does. We don't need to follow Ubuntu or Debian in every not-so-smart decision they make, we haven't followed them

Re: Go packaging

2014-10-02 Thread Vincent Batts
On 30/09/14 08:46 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: How does gccgo affect the packaging of libraries? The libraries may have support for one or more versions of the go API, or exclusively one version. Since the gccgo support is usually an API version or so behind, this compatibility would need t

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Haïkel
2014-10-02 17:56 GMT+02:00 Tomasz Torcz : > > Also it will reduce differences between Linux distribution. And take us > closed to what majority (Ubuntu and Debian) does. > I don't see the point, now that we use systemd ... Besides, even on Debian/Ubuntu, Bash is still the most popular script she

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Miloslav Trmač
> The expected security improvement is essentially nonexistent. In the current > case of importing functions from the environment (and we could have a looong > philosophical conversation about whether this is a vulnerability in bash or > in its callers, where the likely outcome is “not a vulnerabil

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/2/2014 11:13, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Sure but the rationale isn't just security as I have explained earlier. Do read the links and other mails fully. I have read the emails fully. Sure, I see where you said there were other reasons later in the discussion, but that's not what your origi

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2014 um 17:53 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > The expected security improvement is essentially nonexistent. In the > current case of importing functions from > the environment (and we could have a looong philosophical conversat

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:53:18AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > > > > OK, then; care to explicitly list the advantages you expect to see from > > such a switch, and why they outweigh the disadvantages and the migration > > costs

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Haïkel
I don't see any real benefit to move to dash since we get rid of sysV init, no security improvements, but a lot of breakages to fix (Debian spent a lot of time to fix bashisms in their packages ...) That doesn't mean that we shouldn't consider it -this is a sane to periodically re-assess our defaul

Re: Idea: Ability to define dependencies between coprs (correctly)

2014-10-02 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 05:48:20PM +0200, Honza Horak wrote: > On 10/02/2014 05:18 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 05:00:40PM +0200, Honza Horak wrote: > >>Problem: > >>Currently, copr allows to add a link to an arbitrary repo URL that is > >>available for installing depend

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > OK, then; care to explicitly list the advantages you expect to see from > such a switch, and why they outweigh the disadvantages and the migration > costs? > I don't have a predrawn conclusion that I am advocating strongly for here b

Re: Idea: Ability to define dependencies between coprs (correctly)

2014-10-02 Thread Honza Horak
On 10/02/2014 05:18 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 05:00:40PM +0200, Honza Horak wrote: Problem: Currently, copr allows to add a link to an arbitrary repo URL that is available for installing dependencies during building in copr. Using this dependent repo link we are able

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2014 um 17:34 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > you misunderstood me > > I don't think anyone misunderstood that you have trouble > disagreeing without also being insulting my god i brought an cynical example what upstream may writ

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Hello, > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: > > On 10/2/2014 09:58, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > > I didn't address it because it was not really relevant either. The > > > impetus > > > is > > > merely the backstory. > > > > > On the contrary, the rationale for your proposed

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > you misunderstood me > I don't think anyone misunderstood that you have trouble disagreeing without also being insulting. You are pushing off people who might otherwise be sympathetic to your perspective by constantly engaging in a di

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 10:39:04PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Is it worth considering using Dash as the default (non-interactive) shell > in Fedora? Other distributions including Ubuntu and Debian ( Thanks for bringing up the discussion. Just as we shouldn't change things for no reason, we

Re: Idea: Ability to define dependencies between coprs (correctly)

2014-10-02 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 05:00:40PM +0200, Honza Horak wrote: > Problem: > Currently, copr allows to add a link to an arbitrary repo URL that is > available for installing dependencies during building in copr. Using this > dependent repo link we are able to build packages in coprA with dependencies

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: > On 10/2/2014 09:58, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> I didn't address it because it was not really relevant either. The >> impetus is merely the backstory. >> > > On the contrary, the rationale for your proposed change is very relevant. > Sure b

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 2 October 2014 15:47, Reindl Harald wrote: > to make some distribution clown happy If you read the link, if you ship an AppData file the 5 year rule doesn't kick in. That's something useful that the packager *can* do to the otherwise perfect desktop application. Richard -- devel mailing list

[Bug 1139043] Review Request: perl-Array-Unique - Tie-able array that allows only unique values

2014-10-02 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139043 --- Comment #8 from Fedora Update System --- perl-Array-Unique-0.08-2.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Array-Unique-0.08-2.fc19 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are o

Idea: Ability to define dependencies between coprs (correctly)

2014-10-02 Thread Honza Horak
Hi all, I have a proposal that would change how dependencies are defined in copr: Problem: Currently, copr allows to add a link to an arbitrary repo URL that is available for installing dependencies during building in copr. Using this dependent repo link we are able to build packages in coprA

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2014 um 16:50 schrieb Pierre-Yves Chibon: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:47:08PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 02.10.2014 um 16:32 schrieb Richard Hughes: >>> On 2 October 2014 15:17, Tim Lauridsen wrote: I think that is a bad idea to exclude applications from a Software manager,

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:47:08PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 02.10.2014 um 16:32 schrieb Richard Hughes: > > On 2 October 2014 15:17, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > >> I think that is a bad idea to exclude applications from a Software manager, > >> because they don't live up to some visual quali

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/2/2014 09:58, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I didn't address it because it was not really relevant either. The impetus is merely the backstory. On the contrary, the rationale for your proposed change is very relevant. The reasons for undertaking a project of this magnitude should be substantia

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2014 um 16:32 schrieb Richard Hughes: > On 2 October 2014 15:17, Tim Lauridsen wrote: >> I think that is a bad idea to exclude applications from a Software manager, >> because they don't live up to some visual quality guidelines. > > There's actually a whole load of reasons why we'd bla

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Florian Weimer
On 10/02/2014 03:07 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones said: Changing the default /bin/sh is going to break the world. [citation needed] Just look for brace expansion in spec files. It's use is *extremely* common. And many of the failures are silent, e.g. argumen

File Array-Unique-0.08.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by dfateyev

2014-10-02 Thread Denis Fateyev
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-Array-Unique: e3fc4333a97c360348b8c7d0b6b94e83 Array-Unique-0.08.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/mai

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 2 October 2014 15:17, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > I think that is a bad idea to exclude applications from a Software manager, > because they don't live up to some visual quality guidelines. There's actually a whole load of reasons why we'd blacklist applications: https://github.com/hughsie/appstre

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > I am more concerned about code written by admins and users. I kinda > hope that we don't ship too massive shell programs in Fedora, (well, > except of course autoconf scripts...), but I am pretty sure that shell > is one of the m

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: > Designing an application for the lowest common denominator does not > give you a high-quality cohesive application that's easy to use and > nice on the eye. It gives you a miss-mash of ugly noise that's hard to > use. I think it's fine that

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > On 10/02/2014 04:39 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Is it worth considering using Dash as the default (non-interactive) shell >> in Fedora? >> > > Why starting with changing target of /bin/sh? > > Can we start with smaller step? > Like pu

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Miroslav Suchý said: > Like put in Packing Guidelines, that authors and maintainers of > non-interactive shell scripts should use > #!/usr/bin/dash > rather then > #!/bin/sh or > #!/usr/bin/bash No, /bin/sh is the standard-defined definitive place for the POSIX-compliant

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: > While I appreciate your technical correction on the scope of this proposed > switch, you conveniently failed to address the core argument I made which > is by far the larger issue: the impetus... > I didn't address it because it was not re

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 10/02/2014 04:39 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Is it worth considering using Dash as the default (non-interactive) shell in Fedora? Why starting with changing target of /bin/sh? Can we start with smaller step? Like put in Packing Guidelines, that authors and maintainers of non-interactive she

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > But the prompt for doing so is a security incident that has already > been fixed. If this was really a worthwhile endeavour, why hasn't it > come up before? > Our needs continue to evolve. We didn't consider size as much before but there i

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/2/2014 09:27, Rahul Sundaram wrote: That is a mischaracterization. Bash will remain the interactive shell. This discussion is limited to switching the system shell (/bin/sh) from Bash to potentially Dash. While I appreciate your technical correction on the scope of this proposed switc

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: >> >> So there's a vulnerability found in bash, it gets patched almost >> immediately, and all of a sudden there's a push to abandon it altogether? > > > That is a mischaracterization.

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:05:09AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering said: > > If you change /bin/sh to dash, then you'll have to map two shell > > binaries into memory (since the login shell is going to stay on bash), > > hence the resource usage grows. > > systemd

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-02 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 15:33 +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > On 09/24/2014 06:16 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > * Upgrades from Fedora 20 remain non-productized. They pick up > > fedora-release-standard and upgrade only their existing packages. > > Can you please explain to me, what is the di

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-02 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 09/24/2014 06:16 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: * Upgrades from Fedora 20 remain non-productized. They pick up fedora-release-standard and upgrade only their existing packages. Can you please explain to me, what is the difference between non-productized Fedora and productized Fedora? Do I

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: > So there's a vulnerability found in bash, it gets patched almost > immediately, and all of a sudden there's a push to abandon it altogether? > That is a mischaracterization. Bash will remain the interactive shell. This discussion is limited

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 02.10.14 14:12, Daniel P. Berrange (berra...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:07:14AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones said: > > > Changing the default /bin/sh is going to break the world. > > > > [citation needed] > > > > Anything that d

Re: Wallpapers in portrait orientation

2014-10-02 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 09/29/2014 09:57 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: Given that to generate them we would just crop the existing wallpapers, I'm not sure what the point is. The point is to ask photographers to take some photos in portrait orientation. -- Miroslav Suchy, RHCE, RHCDS Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Rivers
On 10/1/2014 22:39, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Since the recent Shellshock aka Bashdoor vulnerability, there have been some discussions about more distributions switching over... So there's a vulnerability found in bash, it gets patched almost immediately, and all of a sudden there's a push to ab

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:07:14AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones said: > > Changing the default /bin/sh is going to break the world. > > [citation needed] > > Anything that depends on bash as /bin/sh is already getting Fedora > specific. Debian/Ubuntu don't us

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > > If that's the case, why do we have the /bin/sh symlink? Just remove it > and make the bash dependency explicit (so everything has to call > /bin/bash). > I understand this is a rherotical argument but the symlink exists because it is re

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones said: > Changing the default /bin/sh is going to break the world. [citation needed] Anything that depends on bash as /bin/sh is already getting Fedora specific. Debian/Ubuntu don't use bash as /bin/sh for years, and none of the other major Unix-like systems

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering said: > If you change /bin/sh to dash, then you'll have to map two shell > binaries into memory (since the login shell is going to stay on bash), > hence the resource usage grows. systemd (as PID 1, not counting additional required processes) takes over 10 tim

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering said: > The shell is API. Yep, and that API is the POSIX shell language, an extended version of the Bourne shell. It is a Linux curiousity that came along to use bash as /bin/sh. > Currently, if people write shell (#!/bin/sh) scripts > on Fedora, they can be

Re: Intent to update libinfinity to 0.6.1 (soname bump)

2014-10-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: > Till Maas wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:14:24PM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: >> >>> It's now retired in both F21 and master. Feel free to go ahead with the >>> libinfinity builds. >> >> thank you. >> >> Rex, I prepared a new build for libqinfinity in the m

Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-10-02 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 10:46 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > == The Problem == > > It is very common for users to have systems with encrypted root > partitions (or even just /var and /etc). This may be due to a personal > concern for their data or a corporate policy mandating full-disk > encry

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Balint Szigeti
On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 12:07 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 10/02/2014 11:25 AM, Balint Szigeti wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 10:58 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 10/02/2014 10:32 AM, Balint Szigeti wrote: > >> > hello > >> > > >> > Don't we consider using zsh? > >> > >> I'd rather not.

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2014 um 09:14 schrieb Tomasz Torcz: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:33:23AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> since you have two packages to look after (Yes, by adding dash to the >> default stack you just put the extra burden on Fedora to quickly >> update two packages instead of just one

rawhide report: 20141002 changes

2014-10-02 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
Compose started at Thu Oct 2 05:15:04 UTC 2014 Broken deps for i386 -- [Agda] ghc-Agda-2.3.2.2-5.fc22.i686 requires libHSterminfo-0.3.2.5-ghc7.6.3.so ghc-Agda-2.3.2.2-5.fc22.i686 requires libHShaskeline-0.7.0.3-ghc7.6.3.so

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/02/2014 11:25 AM, Balint Szigeti wrote: On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 10:58 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/02/2014 10:32 AM, Balint Szigeti wrote: > hello > > Don't we consider using zsh? I'd rather not. Thoughout its history, zsh has had lots of issues originating from limitations, bugs and

F-21 Branched report: 20141002 changes

2014-10-02 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Thu Oct 2 07:15:02 UTC 2014 Broken deps for armhfp -- [PyQuante] PyQuante-libint-1.6.4-11.fc21.1.armv7hl requires libint(armv7hl-32) = 0:1.1.6-2.fc21 [audtty] audtty-0.1.12-9.fc20.armv7hl requires libaudcli

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/02/2014 11:04 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: Dne 2.10.2014 v 10:40 Ralf Corsepius napsal(a): On 10/02/2014 09:47 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: Dne 2.10.2014 v 08:33 Lennart Poettering napsal(a): It used to give significant boost for automake & libtool based software - however at some point lib

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Balint Szigeti
On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 10:58 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 10/02/2014 10:32 AM, Balint Szigeti wrote: > > hello > > > > Don't we consider using zsh? > > I'd rather not. Thoughout its history, zsh has had lots of issues > originating from limitations, bugs and incompatibilities. hm... Interes

Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px

2014-10-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 October 2014 17:15, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > Is it only me, that is thinking, that all there rules to make things looks > prettier in Gnome Software or you package will get excluded if you dont > live up to the rules It's probably not just you. > is a little hostile for packagers. Actually,

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 2.10.2014 v 10:40 Ralf Corsepius napsal(a): On 10/02/2014 09:47 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: Dne 2.10.2014 v 08:33 Lennart Poettering napsal(a): On the other hand - usage of dash significantly speeds up compilation of autoconf projects - it's pretty interesting to see the compilation with d

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/02/2014 10:32 AM, Balint Szigeti wrote: hello Don't we consider using zsh? I'd rather not. Thoughout its history, zsh has had lots of issues originating from limitations, bugs and incompatibilities. I don't know about the current situation, but e.g., the configure scripts I just post

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Timothée Ravier
On 2014-10-02 10:25, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> It doesn't even avoid Debian & Ubuntu having a security problem, since >> they still need to fix bash. > > Sure. Unless they stop shipping bash, they got to fix security problems. > That is no surprise. The real question is whether it reduced the imp

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/02/2014 09:47 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: Dne 2.10.2014 v 08:33 Lennart Poettering napsal(a): On the other hand - usage of dash significantly speeds up compilation of autoconf projects - it's pretty interesting to see the compilation with dash is then maybe even 50% faster in non optimize

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Balint Szigeti
hello Don't we consider using zsh? Balint On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 10:04 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 10/02/2014 09:14 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > >/bin/sh isn't supposed to "stay in memory". It's for one-off scripts, > > not for interactive use. > > It will stay in memory around comman

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 10:39:04PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > For Ubuntu the stated reason to follow Debian was pretty bogus[1] -- > Ubuntu didn't follow Debian here. It was the other way around. > > It doesn't even avoid Debi

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Florian Weimer
On 10/02/2014 09:14 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: /bin/sh isn't supposed to "stay in memory". It's for one-off scripts, not for interactive use. It will stay in memory around command invocations, and the executable code and mapped data will remain in the page cache (hopefully). Allegedly, dash

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 10:39:04PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > Is it worth considering using Dash as the default (non-interactive) shell > in Fedora? Other distributions including Ubuntu and Debian ( > https://lwn.net/Articles/343924/) have been using dash as the default shell > and And

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 2.10.2014 v 08:33 Lennart Poettering napsal(a): On Wed, 01.10.14 22:39, Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi Is it worth considering using Dash as the default (non-interactive) shell in Fedora? Other distributions including Ubuntu and Debian ( https://lwn.net/Articles/343924/) ha

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 October 2014 07:33, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 01.10.14 22:39, Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Is it worth considering using Dash as the default (non-interactive) shell >> in Fedora? Other distributions including Ubuntu and Debian ( >> https://lwn.net/Articl

Re: [Base] F21 Alpha Docker base image release

2014-10-02 Thread Václav Pavlín
On 2.10.2014 00:03, Dennis Gilmore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:56:32 +0200 Václav Pavlín wrote: Hi, Dennis, could you please build Alpha base image with updated bash? (And probably also prepare F20 and Rawhide images so that we can really call

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:33:23AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 01.10.14 22:39, Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Is it worth considering using Dash as the default (non-interactive) shell > > in Fedora? Other distributions including Ubuntu and Debian ( > >

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/02/2014 08:42 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 01.10.14 22:19, Chris Adams (li...@cmadams.net) wrote: One thing that might be a good topic for consideration: is there a reasonable way to allow different implementations to take the /bin/sh symlink? Could this be handled through the a