Re: BIOS boot - an alternative approach

2022-04-20 Thread Alek Paunov
On 2022-04-18 18:25, Ian Pilcher wrote: ... Basically, I suggest that Fedora stop worrying about BIOS boot or other "weird" boot configurations.  Instead, provide a truly manual installation path where all boot and storage configuration is the responsibility of the user. ... I am using Fedor

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-20 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Tuesday, 19 April 2022 at 17:34, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > Looks like it's a common issue with USB stick booting on these old Dell > > XPS 15s: > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/611135/operation-system-not-found-during-usb-boot > > https://askub

Re: F37 Change: Legacy Xorg Driver Removal (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-20 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Adam Williamson wrote: > Right now it's not entirely clear whether this is considered part of > the Change scope or not. The paragraph about the `uvesafb` driver seems > kind of aspirational and doesn't seem to commit to anything. The > "Benefit to Fedora" section states "Verified modern supported

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dusty Mabe wrote: > Currently we use isohybrid [1] (also from syslinux package) to modify the > ISO to be able to be booted on a USB key. Would we be able to still get that > functionality without isohybrid from the syslinux package? Yes. The GRUB2 MBR code will get the equivalent treatment a

Re: F37 Change: Legacy Xorg Driver Removal (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2022-04-20 at 15:06 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > Apologies for the delay here, but I've updated the change proposal > page based on the feedback in this thread. Please let me know what you > think. To echo what Kamil and Kevin said earlier: I'm fine with this so long as we still have a via

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-20 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Tuesday, 19 April 2022 at 09:20, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Does the following bash hack "repair" the USB stick so that it boots on > > > the affected machine ? > > > echo $'\x80' | dd of=/dev/sdX conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=446 count=1 > > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote

Re: F37 Change: Legacy Xorg Driver Removal (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-20 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 03:06:33PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > I've updated the change proposal page based on the feedback in this > thread. Please let me know what you think. I love it. It's funny to read but very clear. One suggestion: collect the diagnostics commadn in a pastable string that

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-20 Thread Dusty Mabe
On 4/13/22 19:52, Brian C. Lane wrote: > A huge thanks to Thomas Schmitt for posting xorrisofs arguments :) > > Here is a lorax PR switching to grub2 for BIOS and changing the layout > of the iso as described in his post: Hey Brian, thanks for sharing. Is this an effort to drop the isolinux/sys

Re: F37 Change: Legacy Xorg Driver Removal (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-20 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:07 PM Adam Jackson wrote: > > Apologies for the delay here, but I've updated the change proposal > page based on the feedback in this thread. Please let me know what you > think. > You noted Parallels Desktop, which is actually a fair point I forgot about. Fortunately,

Re: F37 Change: Legacy Xorg Driver Removal (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-20 Thread Adam Jackson
Apologies for the delay here, but I've updated the change proposal page based on the feedback in this thread. Please let me know what you think. - ajax On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 4:10 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LegacyXorgDriverRemoval > > > == Summary == > > This

Fedora-36-20220420.n.0 compose check report

2022-04-20 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Failed openQA tests: 8/229 (x86_64), 12/161 (aarch64) New failures (same test not failed in Fedora-36-20220419.n.0): ID: 1231975 Test: x86_64 Workstation-live-iso release_identification URL: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/1231975 ID: 1232008 Test: x86_

Hardware without AES-NI: use xchacha12/Adiantum instead of AES-XTS

2022-04-20 Thread py0xc3
Good everning, I just experienced that, when setting up a new Fedora, Anaconda (both "Custom" and "Advanced Custom (Blivet-GUI)") always uses aes-xts-plain64 for disk encryption, even if the hardware does not support AES-NI. Does it make sense to use xchacha12,aes-adiantum-plain64 by default

[Test-Announce] Fedora Linux 36 Final is NO-GO

2022-04-20 Thread Ben Cotton
Due to outstanding blocker bugs[1], we do not have an F36 Final release candidate. As a result, F36 Final is NO-GO for target date #1 and tomorrow's Go/No-Go meeting is cancelled. The next Fedora Linux 36 Final Go/No-Go meeting[2] will be held at 1700 UTC on Thursday 28 April in #fedora-meeting. W

Fedora 36 compose report: 20220420.n.0 changes

2022-04-20 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
OLD: Fedora-36-20220419.n.0 NEW: Fedora-36-20220420.n.0 = SUMMARY = Added images:0 Dropped images: 1 Added packages: 0 Dropped packages:0 Upgraded packages: 11 Downgraded packages: 0 Size of added packages: 0 B Size of dropped packages:0 B Size of

Re: VERY late notification emails

2022-04-20 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 19. 04. 22 v 20:35 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 07:48:56PM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: I think this is broken again. Last notification I have received was at 03:50:49 UTC. Yep. Restarted it. Thank you. It works as of today. In other news, we now have the upstream pyt

Re: F38 Change: Major upgrade of Microdnf (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-04-20 Thread John Reiser
On 4/13/22 23:28, Gordon Messmer wrote: I've gotta ask... How much memory does the new dnf daemon take while idle? I know this comes up time to time... As it is, PackageKitd and gnome-software both, individually, take ~ 450MB of RAM without any user interaction (other than logging in to a des

Re: mingw-gcc-12.0.1 and mingw-binutils-2.38 coming to rawhide

2022-04-20 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 at 08:49, Sandro Mani wrote: > > > On 14.03.22 23:50, Sandro Mani wrote: > > Hi > > > > As per [1] I'll be landing mingw-gcc-12.0.1 and mingw-binutils-2.38 > > towards the end of the week. I've completed test-builds here [2]. > > Looks like there is an ABI incompatibility (std::

License correction: python-pyscaffold is (MIT and BSD0), not just MIT

2022-04-20 Thread Ben Beasley
The License field of python-pyscaffold has been corrected from MIT to (MIT and BSD0). The overall license is MIT, but the template files are BSD0. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.

Orphaning python-readthedocs-sphinx-ext

2022-04-20 Thread Karolina Surma
Hello, I've just orphaned python-readthedocs-sphinx-ext[1]. In the communication with the upstream we discovered this extension was used as an internal tool for the readthedocs builders. We concluded it shouldn't be needed in Fedora at all. Three packages in Fedora BR it, all of them received PRs

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-20 Thread Łukasz Posadowski
https://postimg.cc/bD87J8tF Tested on old Dell r720 with bios boot. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/p

Fedora-Cloud-34-20220420.0 compose check report

2022-04-20 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Soft failed openQA tests: 1/8 (x86_64), 1/8 (aarch64) (Tests completed, but using a workaround for a known bug) Old soft failures (same test soft failed in Fedora-Cloud-34-20220419.0): ID: 1231816 Test: x86_64 Cloud_Base-qcow2-qcow2 cloud_autocloud URL: https://op

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-20 Thread Łukasz Posadowski
https://postimg.cc/bD87J8tF Booted on the old Dell r710 via classic bios. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Re: Wine MinGW system libraries

2022-04-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 11:18:17PM -0500, Zebediah Figura wrote: > On 4/11/22 08:50, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >On 4/10/22 8:28 PM, Zebediah Figura wrote: > >>The first problem is that the location of runtime DLLs varies > >>wildly between distributions, and there's no common independent > >>way

Re: verifying signature for a package

2022-04-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 4/17/22 13:26, Maxwell G via devel wrote: Apr 16, 2022 8:01:27 PM Globe Trotter via devel : Source1:    %{source0}.sig Does this still fail if you use the full path? It looks like `%{source0}` isn't getting expanded properly. Macros are case-sensitive. It's %{SOURCE0}. - Panu -