Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired in February

2021-01-19 Thread Gary Gatling
Hi. VirtualGL is built in rawhide and in testing for f33/f32. Thanks. On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 8:24 AM Miro Hrončok wrote: > Dear maintainers. > > Based on the current fail to build from source policy, the following > packages > will be retired from Fedora 34 approximately one week before branchi

Re: Chromium C++ help needed

2019-03-12 Thread Gary Gatling
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 7:57 AM Christophe de Dinechin wrote: > > I tried to compile your preprocessed fragment with both clang or gcc. > Interestingly: > > 1) Without your command-line options, I don’t see the same error. > > 2) With your command-line options, I see the error with gcc, but not w

VirtualGL license changed

2018-05-29 Thread Gary Gatling
The license in VirtualGL has changed from wxWidgets in version 2.4 to wxWindows in version 2.5.2. Thanks, ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Kernel 4.13 rebase plans

2017-09-22 Thread Gary Gatling
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 9:41 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > >> > Pretty sure the last testing I did with the details form Hans's blog[0] > the behaviour was that if the nvidia driver failed then the nouveau driver > was a fallback (rather than the older instructions that totally blacklisted > it leav

Re: FC1 in archive missing a bunch of RPMs?

2015-10-23 Thread Gary Gatling
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > I happened to notice last night that: > > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/1/x86_64/os/Fedora/RPMS/ > > seems very incomplete - it's like it's truncated, it has everything > alphabetically up to 'beecrypt' and n

Re: Same comand names in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

2015-08-16 Thread Gary Gatling
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Eric Griffith wrote: > > Didn't Arch move /usr/sbin to just be a symlink to /usr/bin? > Looks like they did. [gsgatlin@arch64 ~]$ ls -al /usr/sbin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 15 16:57 /usr/sbin -> bin -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https:/

Re: Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

2015-08-11 Thread Gary Gatling
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > I realize we have our guidelines and we're not Debian, Suse or Ubuntu... > and that's a good thing. But, if we're making exceptions for Firefox > because of it's popularity shouldn't we do the same for Chromium. > > I agree with Gerald.

Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-03 Thread Gary Gatling
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Gary Gatling wrote: > > > Thanks a lot for the feedback. > > I have asked the developers for input. I opened a issue of the github > issue tracker here: > > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/568 > > After further

Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-03 Thread Gary Gatling
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > I think the goal _is_ to not add any devices, yes. Bumblebee is > basically a second X server to run on the nvidia gpu and pipe the pixels > off that to the integrated gpu. So input only ever happens on the > integrated gpu's server, so you

Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-02 Thread Gary Gatling
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > My plan is to retire these two xorg input drivers in rawhide in a week or > two. They are superseded by the evdev driver which is the default driver > for > input devices in Linux. > > Speak up now, or forever hold yada yada... > Hello P

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-02 Thread Gary Gatling
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:18 PM, poma wrote: > > > "Yum" has sentimental value and is practically a trademark, so > 1. yuma - Yellowdog Updater, Modified Again > 2. yum2 - Yellowdog Updater, Modified II > 3. yumrelo - Yellowdog Updater, Modified Reloaded > 6. yum-ng - Yellowdog Updater, Modified NG

Re: Unremovable packages due to scriptlet failures

2013-07-26 Thread Gary Gatling
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: > Hi, > > It happens from time to time that yum is unable to remove packages when > uninstall scriptlets fail. For experienced users, it is just a matter of > doing rpm -e --noscripts, but casual users will likely end up with yum > check complai

Re: Orphaning: mtpfs (FUSE filesystem for MTP devices like Android tablets)

2012-09-17 Thread Gary Gatling
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I've orphaned this package. There are various > reasons for this: > > (1) It's buggy: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugs/mtpfs > > (2) Upstream is not responsive. The weight of developer effort seems > to have moved to s

Re: upstream wants me to rename my package

2012-09-08 Thread Gary Gatling
Hey guys, I decided to ask if he would be willing to add an epoc tag as Ken suggested or be willing to become a maintainer or co-maintainer. I think he just continues to insist that rpm work in a way its not designed... (Have two versions of the same software thing on a box) Here is his response

Re: upstream wants me to rename my package

2012-09-07 Thread Gary Gatling
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote: > > Well, there are occasions when upstream's priorities are somewhat > antithetical to what we're doing in Fedora. And pissing off upstream > is never a great idea :) I think the goal is tread carefully, walking > the fine line of trying to chang

Re: upstream wants me to rename my package

2012-09-07 Thread Gary Gatling
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > > That's not usually something Fedora does. The package name takes the > name of the upstream project, because the package *is* the delivery > option for that software in Fedora. We do not care that much about > upstream RPMs that random pr

upstream wants me to rename my package

2012-09-07 Thread Gary Gatling
Hello, I am working on a package called VirtualGL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834127 After contacting the upstream on their mailing list, they seem obsessed with being able to install their own rprms and my package together at the same time. This seems odd / bad to me since only

Re: [Guidelines Change] Change to the Packaging Guidelines

2012-08-07 Thread Gary Gatling
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > > Note that a package doesn't necessarily have to be explicitly listed > on the wiki page to be enabled by default, the page starts with two > general rules, the first being the most general one: > > If a service does not require configura

Re: [Guidelines Change] Change to the Packaging Guidelines

2012-08-07 Thread Gary Gatling
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > To enable a service by default after package installation you need > permission from FESCO. See the last line of: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Starting_services_by_default > > If you have permission from FESCO then I will add it t

Re: [Guidelines Change] Change to the Packaging Guidelines

2012-08-07 Thread Gary Gatling
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > Ok, what about this: > > "If your package includes one or more systemd units that shall be > enabled by default on package installation, they need to be listed in > the default Fedora preset > policy. [[ > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org

Re: Mass rebuild for Fedora 18 Complete

2012-07-22 Thread Gary Gatling
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Please fix any packages you maintain that failed to rebuild. Hello, VirtualGL fails to build in rawhide due to bugzilla #839060. I can try to rebuild that package as soon as that bug is fixed. I just tried now and its still failing due

Re: Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-21 Thread Gary Gatling
ontinue working with the review request process until it gets rejected or accepted. Cheers, On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:28 AM, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Gary Gatling wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Simone Caronni > > wrot

Re: Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-21 Thread Gary Gatling
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Simone Caronni wrote: > There's a total different approach slated for inclusion into newer > xorg versions by Dave Airlie: > > http://airlied.livejournal.com/#item76078 > > That's something that relies on deep changes in the xorg stack. > It allows card switching,

Re: Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-20 Thread Gary Gatling
ary Gatling wrote: > > My name is Gary Gatling and I work at North Carolina State University > > supporting Linux in the college of engineering. I mainly work with Red > Hat > > Enterprise Linux. > > Hi Gary, > > I co-maintain one or two packages Jack Neely @ ncsu.e

Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-20 Thread Gary Gatling
Hello, As per the instructions at the web page at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers I wanted to give a brief introduction. My name is Gary Gatling and I work at North Carolina State University supporting Linux in the college of engineering. I mainly work with