Re: release cycle thread (motivations, and... revisiting tick-tock?)

2016-12-20 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Ter, 2016-12-20 at 11:20 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > 2. I really want releases to come at a known time every year, +/- two >    weeks. Keeping to this with six month targets means that if > (when!) >    we slip, the next release may only have five or four months to > bake. This is a problem

Re: Packages FTBFS with Python 3.6

2016-12-20 Thread Pavel Raiskup
On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 12:18:47 AM CET Miro Hrončok wrote: > Hi all, > We've recently tried to rebuild all Python packages with Python 3.6. > However, we currently have bunch of packages that simply fail to build. > ... > Everything currently happens in a side tag. I will notify you when

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:25 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > I don't see any context missing in a direct quote which I responded to. > If you believe otherwise, feel free to summarize your position and include > any context you need to. > >

Re: Fedora Rawhide-20161219.n.0 compose check report

2016-12-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 15:46 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > * Installs or upgrades of any package set besides minimal seem to hang > during boot > > That second one is a doozy - it causes most of the failures - and I'm > going to look into it a bit more now. But it's at least the case that >

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I don't see any context missing in a direct quote which I responded to. > If you believe otherwise, feel free to summarize your position and include > any context you need to. > That's ok... I don't think you'd get the point - as I said th

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:59 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > " KDE folks by and large want the updates as fast as possible. If the > GNOME folks would like > their updates to age for six months, they can just keep them in > updates-testing." > > > Obviously you missed it. Again, you have to take tha

Fedora 23 End Of Life

2016-12-20 Thread Mohan Boddu
As of the 20th of December 2016, Fedora 23 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 23. A previous reminder was sent on 28th of November 2016 [0]. Fedora 24 will continue to receive updates until approximately

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > " KDE folks by and large want the updates as fast as possible. If the > GNOME folks would like > their updates to age for six months, they can just keep them in > updates-testing." > Obviously you missed it. Again, you have to take tha

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:33 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > Right. I understand that but the solution of letting things stay in > updates-testing for a long time isn't a great way to implement that. It an > abuse of updates-testing. > > > No one is doing that. You have to read the whole thread.

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Right. I understand that but the solution of letting things stay in > updates-testing for a long time isn't a great way to implement that. It an > abuse of updates-testing. > No one is doing that. You have to read the whole thread. __

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:26 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > I was just repeating what I thought was a good suggestion - which is based > upon what has > already been implemented using the current infrastructure. Reserve "new" > releases only for things > that absolutely require it and let everythin

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Well, it isn't some theoretical construct... it's being done now with KDE >> and has >> been working just fine. It stays in updates-testing until you decide to >> push it to stable. KDE >> folks by and large want the updates as fast as po

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:23 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > Well, it isn't some theoretical construct... it's being done now with KDE > and has > been working just fine. It stays in updates-testing until you decide to > push it to stable. KDE > folks by and large want the updates as fast as possible.

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Peter Robinson
>> The only way it reduces the risk of releasing a botched update is >> the >> the updates somehow get more testing just by staying in the testing >> channel longer. > > ...and actual QA, from the professionals and volunteers on the QA team, > who are very good at finding bugs pre-release but curre

Re: New sources format

2016-12-20 Thread Christopher
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 6:31 PM Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 20/12/16 22:28, Christopher wrote: > > What's with the new sources format? > > The old format, I could do `md5sum -c sources` > > Why not make the new format with SHA512 follow the same pattern, so I > could do: `shasum -c sources` or `sha

Re: New sources format

2016-12-20 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 20/12/16 22:28, Christopher wrote: > What's with the new sources format? > The old format, I could do `md5sum -c sources` > Why not make the new format with SHA512 follow the same pattern, so I could > do: `shasum -c sources` or `sha512sum -c sources`? > > Is there any standard command-line to

pkgdb: Could not save the request for branch: master, has it already been requested?

2016-12-20 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi I filed the request to unretire eigen2, but I accidentally specified only the rhbz ticket number instead of the full URL so it got denied with "Invalid review BZ". I now tried filing a new unretirement request with the full ticket url, but now I'm getting Could not save the request for br

New sources format

2016-12-20 Thread Christopher
What's with the new sources format? The old format, I could do `md5sum -c sources` Why not make the new format with SHA512 follow the same pattern, so I could do: `shasum -c sources` or `sha512sum -c sources`? Is there any standard command-line tool to parse this new format, or do I just gotta gre

Re: ssh using kerberos (was: Packagers - Flag day 2016 Important changes)

2016-12-20 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 12:45 +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > On Sun, 2016-12-11 at 18:34 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > Greetings.  > > > > As previously announced, releng has made a number of changes as > > part > > of > > it's 2016 "flag day".  > > > > All package maintainers will want

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:22:41AM -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > Well, it isn't some theoretical construct... it's being done now with > KDE and has been working just fine. It stays in updates-testing until > you decide to push it to stable. KDE folks by and large want the > updates as fast as poss

Re: release cycle thread (motivations, and... revisiting tick-tock?)

2016-12-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 20 December 2016 at 11:20, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 04:48:44PM +0100, Pavel Raiskup wrote: >> I probably lost the context ... what real-world problems are trying to fix? >> Everything which comes to my mind should be solved by better tooling for >> updates-testing testers

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:01:57AM -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > I'll repost this because I believe Kevin had a good point: > > > > I don't understand why we are trying to reinvent the wheel here. The > > infrastructure for Kevin's sugg

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Pavel Raiskup
Maybe a bit bit off topic WRT $Subject, sorry if it is the case. On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:23:12 AM CET Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Batched updates are something I really want to do regardless. > Of course having fixes available sooner is valuable, but you have to weigh > that against the cos

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:01:57AM -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > I'll repost this because I believe Kevin had a good point: > > I don't understand why we are trying to reinvent the wheel here. The > infrastructure for Kevin's suggestion > is in place now - KDE has been using it and it works. Thi

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 12/20/2016 09:34 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 08:48 -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote: Batched updates are valuable when testing happens with the whole. It sorts out complex interactions between multiple package updates by testing them all together. Of course, a corollary of

Re: release cycle thread (motivations, and... revisiting tick-tock?)

2016-12-20 Thread Pavel Raiskup
On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 12:11:32 PM CET Matthew Miller wrote: > First, I very frequently hear this: "Fedora should have an LTS — or be > a rolling release." These two things are very far apart in actual > implication, but they have one big thing in common, and when pressed, > it usually comes

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I'll repost this because I believe Kevin had a good point: I don't understand why we are trying to reinvent the wheel here. The infrastructure for Kevin's suggestion is in place now - KDE has been using it and it works. On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > However, I also do n

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Tom Hughes
On 20/12/16 17:40, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 17:15 +, Tom Hughes wrote: I didn't think updates-testing would be, it's just I don't think many people use it so I'm not sure having things there for longer will actually help. We do in fact have numbers on this. For instance

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 09:33 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > If we're talking about *weekly* batched > updates, no, it is not at all practical to assume we'll magically be > able to find the time to do release-validation level testing of each > update batch every week. Of course it wouldn't make se

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 17:15 +, Tom Hughes wrote: > I didn't think updates-testing would be, it's just I don't think many > people use it so I'm not sure having things there for longer will > actually help. We do in fact have numbers on this. For instance, since F25 came out, 218 people have

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 08:48 -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > Batched updates are valuable when testing happens with the whole.  It > sorts out complex interactions between multiple package updates by > testing them all together. Of course, a corollary of this is that you have to try and figure ou

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 10:48 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 14:27 +, Tom Hughes wrote: > > Surely it's more likely that it just delays the discovery of the > > botched  > > update? > > I don't think updates-testing should be batched. Testers should of > course still get

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 2:32 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Thursday, 08 December 2016 at 19:26, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > [...] >> I would like to see us stop pushing non security updates to updates from >> updates-testing entirely and do it in monthly batches instead. we would pus

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 2:32 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Thursday, 08 December 2016 at 19:26, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > [...] >> I would like to see us stop pushing non security updates to updates from >> updates-testing entirely and do it in monthly batches instead. we would pus

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Tom Hughes
On 20/12/16 16:48, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 14:27 +, Tom Hughes wrote: Surely it's more likely that it just delays the discovery of the botched update? I don't think updates-testing should be batched. Testers should of course still get all test updates ASAP. I didn'

Re: release cycle thread (motivations, and... revisiting tick-tock?)

2016-12-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 05:51:33PM +0100, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > I believe in both -- and I believe Fedora could have both -- "rolling > release" and "major releases" as a separate "products". > > There are people in the wild who will never use Fedora as the workstation > system because they seek

Re: release cycle thread (motivations, and... revisiting tick-tock?)

2016-12-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 12/20/2016 08:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 04:48:44PM +0100, Pavel Raiskup wrote: I probably lost the context ... what real-world problems are trying to fix? Everything which comes to my mind should be solved by better tooling for updates-testing testers. I've given

Re: release cycle thread (motivations, and... revisiting tick-tock?)

2016-12-20 Thread Pavel Raiskup
On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 11:20:49 AM CET Matthew Miller wrote: > 1. I believe in the value of releases, for the project and for end >users — as opposed to a "rolling release" system. But major releases >are a lot of work across the project — not just release engineering, >but marke

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 12/20/2016 06:27 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 20/12/16 14:23, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Batched updates are something I really want to do regardless. Of course having fixes available sooner is valuable, but you have to weigh that against the cost of releasing a *botched* update. The advantage of

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 14:27 +, Tom Hughes wrote: > Surely it's more likely that it just delays the discovery of the > botched  > update? I don't think updates-testing should be batched. Testers should of course still get all test updates ASAP. > The only way it reduces the risk of releasing a

Re: release cycle thread (motivations, and... revisiting tick-tock?)

2016-12-20 Thread Brian Exelbierd
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016, at 05:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 04:48:44PM +0100, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > I probably lost the context ... what real-world problems are trying to fix? > > Everything which comes to my mind should be solved by better tooling for > > updates-testing

Fwd: churchyard's python-breathe-4.2.0-5.fc26 failed to build

2016-12-20 Thread Dave Johansen
I updated python-breathe to 4.4.0 and it build successfully but it appears that happened right after the rebuild of 4.2.0 for Python 3.6 and it keeps retrying the failed build. Is there something I need to do to stop the retries? Thanks, Dave -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Tu

Re: Creating cores in f25

2016-12-20 Thread Steve Dickson
On 12/19/2016 12:38 PM, jfi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Please have a look at this email: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HQ4JFTYLPT5GRW6AD4M2MWGMRAPE7ITN/ Thanks for the pointer... > > systemd developers has decided to chan

release cycle thread (motivations, and... revisiting tick-tock?)

2016-12-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 04:48:44PM +0100, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > I probably lost the context ... what real-world problems are trying to fix? > Everything which comes to my mind should be solved by better tooling for > updates-testing testers. I've given this in several ways across the thread, but

Re: Creating cores in f25

2016-12-20 Thread Steve Dickson
On 12/18/2016 11:56 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 17:26:40 +0100, Steve Dickson wrote: >> How do I get f25 to create cores, these days? > > echo >/etc/sysctl.d/foo.conf "kernel.core_pattern=core"; reboot > > It gets broken by: > /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-coredump.conf > > $

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Pavel Raiskup
On Thursday, December 8, 2016 9:17:14 AM CET Matthew Miller wrote: > Trying to make this idea a little more concrete. Here's two suggestions > for how it might work. These are strawman ideas -- please provide > alternates, poke holes, etc. And particularly from a QA and rel-eng > point of view. Bot

Re: Making use of the new Fedora Container capabilities

2016-12-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 01:00:32PM +, James Hogarth wrote: > I see that we just need a Dockerfile in dist-git and fedpkg > container-build can work from the existing git repo but is this > intended to be supported or do we need to provide a fresh review > request and then only build from the di

Koji builders' specs

2016-12-20 Thread Pavel Raiskup
Hi all, where is documented what system/hw is used on (primary) Koji builders? I'm interested in memory, storage, filesystem, host operating system, guest operating system (if those are VMs), etc. The only thing I was able to find is version of mock in the log output. FWIW, I'd like to reproduce

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Tom Hughes
On 20/12/16 14:23, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Batched updates are something I really want to do regardless. Of course having fixes available sooner is valuable, but you have to weigh that against the cost of releasing a *botched* update. The advantage of batched updates is we reduce the risk of re

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 10:32 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > You gave just one disadvantage of this proposal and no advantages at > all. Why do you think the above is a good idea? I, for one, do not > like > waiting a month to get bug fixes that are not security-related. We > are > no

scanmem lincese changes from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ and LGPLv3+

2016-12-20 Thread Igor Gnatenko
Since 0.16 libscanmem is LGPLv3+ and the rest is GPLv3+. -- -Igor Gnatenko ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Making use of the new Fedora Container capabilities

2016-12-20 Thread James Hogarth
Hi all, So a couple of questions I'd like clarity on surrounding this... I see that we just need a Dockerfile in dist-git and fedpkg container-build can work from the existing git repo but is this intended to be supported or do we need to provide a fresh review request and then only build from th

Re: cross-compiler support?

2016-12-20 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Di, 2016-12-20 at 09:28 +, David Howells wrote: > Igor Gnatenko wrote: > > > > Well there is gcc-arm-linux-gnu for example but that's for kernels per > > > description > > Didn't see it before... But looks like it doesn't work either: > > /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find crt1.o: No s

Re: dnf error during upgrade that changes a directory into a symlink

2016-12-20 Thread Till Hofmann
On 20.12.2016 13:25, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: >> On 20/12/16 12:15, Till Hofmann wrote: >> >>> I have a package that contains a subdirectory which is changed to a >>> symlink in the next release. When I upgrade, I get the following error: >>> >>> Error

Re: dnf error during upgrade that changes a directory into a symlink

2016-12-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/20/2016 01:15 PM, Till Hofmann wrote: Hi all, I have a package that contains a subdirectory which is changed to a symlink in the next release. When I upgrade, I get the following error: Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/share/symlinktest/dir/subdir from install of symlinktest-1-

Re: dnf error during upgrade that changes a directory into a symlink

2016-12-20 Thread Till Hofmann
On 20.12.2016 13:20, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 20/12/16 12:15, Till Hofmann wrote: > >> I have a package that contains a subdirectory which is changed to a >> symlink in the next release. When I upgrade, I get the following error: >> >> Error: Transaction check error: >> file /usr/share/symlinktest

Re: dnf error during upgrade that changes a directory into a symlink

2016-12-20 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 20/12/16 12:15, Till Hofmann wrote: > >> I have a package that contains a subdirectory which is changed to a >> symlink in the next release. When I upgrade, I get the following error: >> >> Error: Transaction check error: >> file /usr/share

Re: dnf error during upgrade that changes a directory into a symlink

2016-12-20 Thread Tom Hughes
On 20/12/16 12:15, Till Hofmann wrote: I have a package that contains a subdirectory which is changed to a symlink in the next release. When I upgrade, I get the following error: Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/share/symlinktest/dir/subdir from install of symlinktest-1-2.fc25.x86_64

dnf error during upgrade that changes a directory into a symlink

2016-12-20 Thread Till Hofmann
Hi all, I have a package that contains a subdirectory which is changed to a symlink in the next release. When I upgrade, I get the following error: Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/share/symlinktest/dir/subdir from install of symlinktest-1-2.fc25.x86_64 conflicts with file from package

Re: cross-compiler support?

2016-12-20 Thread Kalev Lember
On 12/19/2016 11:59 PM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > Hi, > > I found only one cross-compiler in repos -- arm-none-eabi-gcc-cs There's also two mingw cross compilers: mingw32-gcc and mingw64-gcc. Not sure if that's what you were looking for :) -- Kalev ___ d

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2016-12-20 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Thursday, 08 December 2016 at 19:26, Dennis Gilmore wrote: [...] > I would like to see us stop pushing non security updates to updates from > updates-testing entirely and do it in monthly batches instead. we would push > daily security fixes and updates-testing. However this would make atomi

Re: cross-compiler support?

2016-12-20 Thread David Howells
Igor Gnatenko wrote: > > Well there is gcc-arm-linux-gnu for example but that's for kernels per > > description > Didn't see it before... But looks like it doesn't work either: > /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find crti

DNF 2.0.0 and DNF-PLUGINS-CORE 1.0.0 has been released

2016-12-20 Thread Michael Mraka
DNF 2.0.0 and DNF-PLUGINS-CORE 1.0.0 has been released. [1] This major version update of DNF brings many user experience improvements and underlying code changes. This release has been focused on improving yum compatibility and fixes over 60 bugs. Because this release is not fully compatible with