Re: Python libraries and backwards compat [was Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?]

2013-03-05 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 22:51 +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: (following up with more thoughts from the distutils-sig thread) > It started here: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-February/020030.html > > and now we're talking about Software Collectio

[Fwd: Python libraries and backwards compat [was Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?]]

2013-03-04 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Hey, Just forwarding it here so Python folks don't miss it on the main devel list. Thanks, Mark. Forwarded Message > From: Mark McLoughlin > Reply-to: Mark McLoughlin > To: Development discussions related to Fedora > > Subject: Python libraries and back

Python libraries and backwards compat [was Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?]

2013-03-04 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 07:06 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 15:30 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > IMHO use of software collections is a symptom of a badly run organisation > > not devoting enough cycles to maintain the software it uses, and hoping > > (as in wishful thinking

Re: glusterfs and hekafs release number for f16 and rawhide; systemd switch-over

2011-11-03 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 09:01 -0400, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > Up to now the glusterfs and hekafs versions and releases have been the > same for f16 and rawhide, i.e.: glusterfs-3.2.4-1.x86_64.fc16.rpm, > glusterfs-3.2.4-1.x86_64.fc17.rpm, hekafs-0.7-16.x86_64.fc16.rpm, and > hekafs-0.7-16.x86_64.

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 17:00 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:50:16PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 14:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > The grub maintainer is telling you that the way in which you're trying > >

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 14:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > Sigh. I was joking. Obviously, if maintainers went around inserting > > Conflicts with other packages because they don't like how the other

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-22 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:54 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > On 09/21/2011 03:39 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 18:48 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> Remember that the incompatibility isn't between libguestfs and the > >> guest, it's bet

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-21 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 18:48 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 06:30:58PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 20:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > The grub package (as provided in Fedora) is not designed for that. This > >

Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

2011-09-21 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 20:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > The grub package (as provided in Fedora) is not designed for that. This > would be a much easier discussion to have if you stopped describing > things that are manifestly true as "not true". And while it is the case > that grub *is* bin