Re: Bug 618349 : Can I get some input please?

2010-12-08 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618349 >> >> The bug is blocking my ability, or at least my willingness to upgrade >> to F

Bug 618349 : Can I get some input please?

2010-12-07 Thread Arthur Pemberton
Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618349 The bug is blocking my ability, or at least my willingness to upgrade to F14. I would appreciate some assistance so that I can finally do the upgrade. -- Fedora 13 (www.pembo13.com) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-20 Thread Arthur Pemberton
I apologize for interrupting this tread. I shall take my leave. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-20 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:58:53 -0400, you wrote: > >>2010/9/20 Micha? Piotrowski : >>> Ok, so maybe it's time to setup Fedora "backports" repo for these that >>> wants new and shiny Firefox 4, PostgreSQL 9 or whatever with big >>> number. >

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-20 Thread Arthur Pemberton
2010/9/20 Michał Piotrowski : > 2010/9/21 Toshio Kuratomi : >> As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and as >> users) grows, this interdependence will grow. > > Ok, so maybe it's time to setup Fedora "backports" repo for these that > wants new and shiny Firefox 4, Post

Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?

2010-09-20 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:13:42 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> No, I'm not advocating PgSQL 9 for F14, however, it shouldn't be so >> far-fetched that Fedora could have any software at any time. > > A Fedora update policy is being

Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?

2010-09-20 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Michel Alexandre Salim writes: >> Note: I don't think Mark was proposing to do the packaging work himself. >>  But it'd be great if whoever picks this up (Michał, are you a packager?) >> could reply to this thread, thus avoiding duplication of wo

Re: Linux and application installing

2010-09-17 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:01 AM, FlorianFesti wrote: >  On 09/16/2010 09:05 PM, Colin Walters wrote: >> (I don't have a strong opinion on whether the data format is RPM or >> repodata myself; maybe just a slight preference for the latter; the >> most important thing in my mind is to come to rough

Re: Linux and application installing

2010-09-14 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:28 PM, James Antill wrote: >  Ubuntu recently got high praise from LWN for "Software Center" in 10.10 > betas. It doesn't use PackageKit at all AFAICS (no PackageKit packages > are installed in my VM). It integrates tightly with apt (you know, like > showing package histo

Re: Linux and application installing

2010-09-08 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 14:17 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > >> Sure, I understand where you're coming from. As you see from >> app-install schema version 1 it really was least common denominator. >> But version 2, which is in progress now, fe

Re: Linux and application installing

2010-09-07 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, James Antill wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 15:42 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: >> On 7 September 2010 15:23, James Antill wrote: >> >  Are you having any discussions about applications like postfix, or is >> > version 2 going to be just GUI stuff? >> >> Postfix is

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-09-01 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:03:17PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> > Where, keep in mind, "slow" is defined as twice a year, right? >> Yes. > > I think this is a remarkable definition of slow. Especial

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 15:56 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:26:27PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> > Maybe I was too long winded, or failed to communicate my point: a >> > stable

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:26:27PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> Maybe I was too long winded, or failed to communicate my point: a >> stable (bug fix only updates, slow feature release), strongly FOSS, >> strongly

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 09:58 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> On 08/30/2010 10:50 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> > The attention to freedom is not unique. The attention to upstream is >> > invisible to users. &g

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/30/10 9:50 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Jesse Keating >> wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/30/10 1:33 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> Is this still unique? > > I believe it is, particularly with our attention to freedom and upstream > relations

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/30/10 8:56 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Henriksen >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:11:06 +02

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Jon Masters wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 23:56 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Henriksen >> wrote: >> > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:11:06 +0200, you wrote: >> > >> >>A ty

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:11:06 +0200, you wrote: > >>A typical developer wants the dependencies of the software they are >>working on to be _very_ up to date - probably not the upstream >>development version, but the upstream maintenance ve

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Sven Lankes said: >> Also - and this is a question that I have asked myself and others a >> couple of times - if you could implement Fedora the way you want: What >> unique selling points are left for Fedora? "Fedora is Ubunt

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > "Thomas Janssen" wrote: > >>On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 08/28/2010 09:25 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: > The cynic in me

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 08/28/2010 09:25 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> Jesse Keating wrote: The cynic in me would expect that the people who want

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/28/2010 09:25 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Jesse Keating wrote: >>> The cynic in me would expect that the people who want something different >>> than the fire hose we have now are sile

Re: Search Engine Proposal

2010-08-29 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN... http://start.fedoraproject.org/ is using a > Google Search Box... YOU DON'T HAVE THE CODE TO PLAY WITH IT OR ANYTHING... > With "Fedora's engine" I'm giving you the chance of having something more > "opensource

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-27 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Ben Boeckel wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: >> sendmail has always worked out of the box for some things, including >> sending mail from local programs to remote email addresses > > I thought this was a speed trip to spamhaus' lists (the `localhost' > part I've found)

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-27 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:04 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 18:09 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: >> What more do you want an MTA to do at install?  It was decided a long >> time ago that the MTA shouldn't listen for remote SMTP connections by >> default.  Pretty much any other thing

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-26 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:31:58PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> > Useful information is being generated and then lost. That shouldn't happen. >> This is not a sudden realization, there are bugs open about this f

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-26 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:25:18PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> > We're going in circles. I already said that I think the best fix for >> > this is to replace sendmail with an MTA which works 'out of th

Re: Orphaned package: system-config-display

2010-08-26 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 03:59:06PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 19:59 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >> 1. Not everyone uses

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-26 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 16:00 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> > I think that makes sense if we're talking about adding a default, but >> > taking one out - especially something that's been default in al

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-26 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 01:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 08/27/2010 12:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > That wasn't the question. The question was what is the benefit of not >> > having one. Is it simply that it saves 1.6MB of disk

Re: Orphaned package: system-config-display

2010-08-26 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 19:59 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Adam Jackson wrote: >> > Static configuration should be something you can do from the dynamic >> > configuration tool.  gnome-display-properties should have a "set as >> > default" butt