Re: comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

2013-01-10 Thread Greg Swift
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:12 AM, wrote: > > From: Lennart Poettering > > > > Heya, > > > > I noticed that comps' "standard" group includes a lot of packages that > > were all the hotness in 1990s but aren't really that much anymore. For > > example, irda-tools, pcmciautils, finger, rsh, rdist, p

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-23 Thread Greg Swift
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:30:49AM -0700, Michael Stahnke wrote: >> I am still not in favor of a puppet3 package. This is largely due to >> overall compatibility. Puppet is a distributed system. Having the >> package be called puppet in so

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-23 Thread Greg Swift
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 23.10.2012 15:37, Matthew Miller napsal(a): > >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:22:27PM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: But that doesn't help people running puppet 2.6 _now_, and just introduces complication into the packaging. >>

Re: Packages in need of new maintainers UPDATED LIST

2012-10-05 Thread Greg Swift
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > pure-ftpd -- Lightweight, fast and secure FTP server i'll take that. fas = xaeth - greg -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Stop the git abuse

2012-05-22 Thread Greg Swift
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Greg Swift wrote: >> i'm not against cleaning up ifs related to end of life/support >> releases, but how far are you suggesting that go? > > All support for Fedora n should be dropped at Fedora n's end

Re: Stop the git abuse

2012-05-21 Thread Greg Swift
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > * put compatibility cludges for older releases on their respective > branches (this gets rid of many if's in spec) i'm not against cleaning up ifs related to end of life/support releases, but how far are you suggesting that go? I know th

Re: User switching is broken

2012-03-12 Thread Greg Swift
2012/3/12 Sérgio Basto > On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 23:04 +0100, nodata wrote: > > User switching between different users on X is broken. > > > > It's not just broken for me, everyone I have asked has experienced the > > same problem: > > > > Clicking "Switch user" will often or sometimes lead to a hu

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

2012-03-02 Thread Greg Swift
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 05:36, Nikos Roussos wrote: > Here is a weird example of how Fedora currenty handles some permission > procedures. I created a standard user account (no admin rights) and I'm > trying to install a package. When I press apply I'm prompted to enter a > password. Since I have

Re: Retire rubygem-mongrel

2012-01-20 Thread Greg Swift
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 09:27, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Hi, > > If nobody objects, I am going to retire *rubygem-mongrel* and its > associated gems rubygem-gem_plugin, rubygem-fastthread and > rubygem-mongrel_cluster. > > Mongrel is not maintained anymore [1]. It dos not support Ruby on Rails 3 > ava

Self-introduction

2011-10-06 Thread Greg Swift
My name is Greg, my handle these days is xaeth, which is effectively a shortened versin of a name I made up for accessing a MUD with strict name requirements the better part of a decade ago (I haven't played since around then either). @dayjob I am one of their lead linux engineers. I work with im