Re: Stop the git abuse

2012-05-21 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 05/21/2012 01:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Technically, the major difference is git recording each and every detail, which an rpm's user hardly is interested in. The latter audience is not interested in seeing these details, they are interesting in "summaries". E.g. they are not interested in

Re: Packaging Guidelines - creating tarball from VCS with script

2012-05-14 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 05/14/2012 03:02 PM, Tomas Radej wrote: Hi, I was wondering if Packaging Guidelines could be amended so that even when creating tarball from VCS, using a standalone shell script would be mandatory (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Using_Revision_Control ). I believe th

Re: This "karma" stuff is a pain!

2012-03-16 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 03/15/2012 08:24 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: Luke Macken does Bodhi. It certainly sounds non-trivial to me, for a start, Bodhi uses FAS and Bugzilla does not. It would be trivial if these decisions would be made by a human who is CCed on both (i.e. the maintainer of the p

Re: Torvalds:requiring root password for mundane things is moronic

2012-02-29 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 02/29/2012 01:15 PM, drago01 wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Neal Becker wrote: I think he's got a point http://www.osnews.com/story/25659/Torvalds_requiring_root_password_for_mundane_things_is_quot_moronic_quot_ Yeah but last time we tried this in fedora it got "flamefested" so w

Re: service iptables save, systemctl, and unhelpful error messages

2012-02-15 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 02/16/2012 02:06 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 02/15/2012 11:09 PM, Emanuel Rietveld wrote: >>> >> >> I propose the following script in /etc/init.d/iptables > > I propose you file a BUG against IPTABLES and put your proposal into > that bug r

Re: service iptables save, systemctl, and unhelpful error messages

2012-02-15 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 02/15/2012 03:45 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> >> >> The service iptables save command is documented in a number of places >> and has been recommended to users for years. See, for example, the >> security guide: >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Security_Guide/sect-S

service iptables save, systemctl, and unhelpful error messages

2012-02-15 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
Currently, on Fedora 16, service iptables save prints the following: # service iptables save Redirecting to /bin/systemctl save iptables.service Unknown operation save The service iptables save command is documented in a number of places and has been recommended to users for years. See, for ex

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-02-01 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 02/01/2012 01:32 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote: To-be-installed files obviously have no on-disk fingerprints, so it wont work for initial installation. So yes, those "fake" compatibility provides are needed. Strictly speaking, compatibility provides would be needed for ALL the moved files, not j

Re: Usr Move - More, Please

2012-01-30 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 01/30/2012 03:38 PM, Mike Pinkerton wrote: You might not want to encourage the "app" model, but that boat already left the dock. For Linux distros to be players on portables and desktops, they need to recognize that there is an appetite among the user base for "app" type programs that are

Re: service and user-agent disclosure - please consider privacy

2012-01-11 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 01/11/2012 12:43 PM, Richard wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:53:52PM +0100, nodata wrote: Fonts are a bigger threat to privacy, see here: http://panopticlick.eff.org/ Maybe I am missing something, but isn't this only relevant if your IP is not visible to the web server? Otherwise, you

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-23 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
Hi. I'm interested in helping out (comaintainer?), but I'm a little scared - I don't know much about java yet, nor java packaging guidelines, or whatever relevant guidelines, and I might need a little handholding. Maybe you can give me something useful but not urgent that you need done, that is e

Re: Bug 750566 - qtparted won't install because it is from F15 and requires libparted.so.0, and F16 has libparted.so.1

2011-11-03 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
On 11/03/2011 07:34 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Tom Callaway wrote: >> I took a quick look at qtparted a few days ago, the problem is that >> qtparted depended on functionality (move, copy, resize) in parted that >> no longer exists in parted-3.0. > > > Removing features like this, without providing

Review Request & Need Sponsor: Ruby 2.3.12 in Fedora 15+

2011-08-02 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
first package for Fedora and I welcome any feedback. Thank you for your time. -Emanuel -- Forwarded message -- From: Mo Morsi Date: Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:24 PM Subject: Re: Rails 2 in F16 To: Emanuel Rietveld Hey Emanuel, appreciate the effort. Will look at it if I get the