soname updates, license changes, and version updates, o my!

I would like to update a bunch of the numerical packages in the near future. I will do the updates for Rawhide only at first, although if everything seems stable I may update F-27 as well. Here is the proposed list of changes. Package maintainers and co-maintainers are CCed to this email. arb:

Re: A less "bloated" KDE spin

> I guess the OP and his friends could create a KDE-Lite spin or try LXQT The same could be said for GNOME to have a GNOME-Lite (Python Classroom is exactly that) I would happily promote LXQT and MATE Mutter as a lightweight alternative to KDE and GNOME respectively

Re: Requires for local install

On Sat, 2017-09-23 at 09:51 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 09:47:15PM -0400, David Muse wrote: > > But, when doing a yum localinstall or dnf install with a local > > path, > > the user has to either install all rpm's or manually resolve > > dependencies. no , dnf install lo

Re: Requires for local install

Or use Fedora Copr to create personal repos for your projects.  There is a lot of utility in doing that,esp.  when you start dealing with multiple boxes or vms.  Doing local installs directly from rpms doesnot scale and becomes tedious very quickly.  If you're writing or modifying the spec yours

Re: State of Sparkeshare in Fedora

On 22/09/17 12:09 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > > On 22 Sep 2017 4:46 am, "Luya Tshimbalanga" > wrote: > > On 21/09/17 08:02 AM, James Hogarth wrote: >> >> >> On 21 September 2017 at 07:17, Luya Tshimbalanga >> mailto:l...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: >> >>

Re: Rawhide SONAME change in audacious-libs package

On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 20:25:25 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Anything depending on Audacious libaudcore will need a rebuild due to a > SONAME change from libaudcore.so.4 to libaudcore.so.5 that has been > introduced with the upgrade to Audacious 3.9 in Rawhide. Same for F27 where the set of Fedor

Fedora 27-20170923.n.0 compose check report

Missing expected images: Workstation live i386 Server boot i386 Kde live i386 Failed openQA tests: 7/128 (x86_64), 2/18 (i386), 1/2 (arm) New failures (same test did not fail in 27-20170922.n.0): ID: 146379 Test: x86_64 Server-dvd-iso server_role_deploy_domain_controller URL: https://openq

Re: Broken perl-libwww-perl-6.27-1.fc28

On 09/23/2017 01:02 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:29:53AM +, Petr Pisar wrote: >> I accidentally build perl-libwww-perl-6.27-1.fc28 that cannot be >> installed because of broken dependencies. There is already >> perl-libwww-perl-6.27-2.fc28 that fixes, but it still

Re: Broken perl-libwww-perl-6.27-1.fc28

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:29:53AM +, Petr Pisar wrote: > I accidentally build perl-libwww-perl-6.27-1.fc28 that cannot be > installed because of broken dependencies. There is already > perl-libwww-perl-6.27-2.fc28 that fixes, but it still has not yet get > into f28-build target. > > Hopefully

Re: Kernel 4.13 rebase plans

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Fabio Valentini wrote: For what it's worth: I just installed the 4.13.2 kernel from the kernel-stabilization repo, and the nvidia akmod module (from negativo17 repo) failed to build (as expected). But after rebooting with the new kernel, the system uses the fal

Re: Improving Linux laptop battery life: Testers Wanted

This message may be useful to others having my similar problem. On a Thinkpad X220, after having booted the custom kernel, running [root@machine]# cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy I get max_performance instead of med_power_with_dipm Here some machine details [root

Re: Requires for local install

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 09:47:15PM -0400, David Muse wrote: > But, when doing a yum localinstall or dnf install with a local path, > the user has to either install all rpm's or manually resolve > dependencies. > > Is it common to specify inter-subpackage dependencies using Requires > to resolve th