[Fedora 37] Call for Test Days

2022-05-22 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hi Fedora users, developers, and friends! It's time to start thinking about Test Days for Fedora 37. For anyone who isn't aware, a Test Day is an event usually focused around IRC for interaction and a Wiki page for instructions and results, with the aim being to get a bunch of interested users an

Re: Announcing the Fedora BIOS boot SIG

2022-05-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 12:18 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi All, > > Now that FESCo has decided (1) that Fedora will keep supporting BIOS > booting, the people working on Fedora's bootloader stack will need > help from the Fedora community to keep Fedora booting on systems which > require Legacy

Re: Thoughts on updating to scotch-7.x

2022-05-22 Thread Stephen Smoogen
On Sun, 22 May 2022 at 15:18, Sandro Mani wrote: > (apparently the -ow...@fedoraproject.org mails don't work > anymore?) > > I believe it has been -maintain...@fedoraproject.org for a while, but I do not know how long. scotch-maintainers: d...@fedoraproject.org,sm...@fedoraproject.org scotch-mai

Thoughts on updating to scotch-7.x

2022-05-22 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi Some time ago I've started working on updating to scotch-7.x, with some initial test builds here [1]. To finalize the update, I'd like to gather some opinions (potentially affected maintainers in CC): - Should metis get retired? Scotch has a scotchmetis compatibility library which is adve

Re: Thoughts on updating to scotch-7.x

2022-05-22 Thread Sandro Mani
(apparently the -ow...@fedoraproject.org mails don't work anymore?) On 22.05.22 20:57, Sandro Mani wrote: Hi Some time ago I've started working on updating to scotch-7.x, with some initial test builds here [1]. To finalize the update, I'd like to gather some opinions (potentially affected mai

Re: Fedora 37: Add kernel parameters that help prevent local exploits

2022-05-22 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 5/22/22 01:58, Glorious Hellosway via devel wrote: > That will create a very big performance hit, and disabling SMT will half the > amount of threads. On the new CPUs with E and P cores, this can significantly > decrease performance. Speculative execution mitigations are table stakes if you w

Re: Heads up: openjpeg2-2.5.0 and gdal-3.5.0 coming to rawhide

2022-05-22 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi I've now merged the side tag. Remarks: - opencv failed to build due to noarch -doc subpackage building differently on different arches. This caused by the intel_va sample only being included on x86 arches. I've made the -doc subpackge arched to solve this. - python-PyMuPDF test fail due to

Fedora-Rawhide-20220522.n.0 compose check report

2022-05-22 Thread Fedora compose checker
Missing expected images: Minimal raw-xz armhfp Compose FAILS proposed Rawhide gating check! 4 of 43 required tests failed, 4 results missing openQA tests matching unsatisfied gating requirements shown with **GATING** below Failed openQA tests: 35/231 (x86_64), 18/161 (aarch64) New failures (sa

Re: What happened to umask?

2022-05-22 Thread Stephen Smoogen
On Sun, 22 May 2022 at 06:52, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 10:30:48AM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 21/05/2022 20:57, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > > > I think Fedora should go use an 0077 umask for this reason. > > > > Fedora is a general purpose dis

Re: What happened to umask?

2022-05-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 10:30:48AM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 21/05/2022 20:57, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > > I think Fedora should go use an 0077 umask for this reason. > > Fedora is a general purpose distribution, so umask 0077 will create more > problems than it solves. > > Al

Re: Fedora 37: Add kernel parameters that help prevent local exploits

2022-05-22 Thread Simon Farnsworth via devel
On Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:31:59 BST Glorious Hellosway via devel wrote: > For `slab_nomerge`, it can lead to very slight increase of kernel memory. > `init_on_alloc=1` has a almost no performance impact, it is under 1% and is > usually within standard error, but there is bug with zfs that can mak

Fedora-Cloud-34-20220522.0 compose check report

2022-05-22 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-34-20220521.0): ID: 1275696 Test: x86_64 Cloud_Base-qcow2-qcow2 cloud_autocloud URL: https://op

Re: What happened to umask?

2022-05-22 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 21/05/2022 03:00, Neal Gompa wrote: I think we should complete the transition to 0022 umask. +1 to 0022. -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: What happened to umask?

2022-05-22 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 21/05/2022 20:57, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: I think Fedora should go use an 0077 umask for this reason. Fedora is a general purpose distribution, so umask 0077 will create more problems than it solves. Also by default the /home directories have 0700 chmod so no one but the owner can acce

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-05-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > If test_oldlayout.iso does not boot, then i am quite clueless. Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > I'm afraid that this is the case. What a naughty machine. :)) I'll think about making a BIOS-only GRUB ISO, just for testing. (Am busy with finding out how to merge the two De