Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > To answer the question someone posed earlier in the thread, when I was > doing a lot of testing of various F13 RC2 installs yesterday, none of > them - not the default desktop install from DVD, the desktop spin, the > KDE spin or the Xfce spin - had more than 12 updates ava

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Ralf Corsepius (rc040...@freenet.de) said: > > And right now the values used are scaled to the hardware we have at > > hand. So adjusting it wouldn't help Fedora one bit. > > Makes me wonder about your HW. > > Fact is, extending the limits to 200MB (the hard-coded limit is 100MB) I > having no

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 17:19 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Why does the large size of some game files matter? _Number_ of > updates matters (ie. 140 is a bit large) but on the other hand F13 has > been in limbo for such a long time I'm not surprised. It really hasn't. We accepted submissions

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 23:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > The reason is that it is *game* and it is not part of the default set. > Anyone who chooses to install it will get an updated game. I think the > focus here is misguided. We should be paying attention to updates of the > default package

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 07:33 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 05/11/2010 07:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: >>> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:23:35PM -0400, James Antill wrote: > It again goes to the point of "why bother making releases at all", if > they mean so little. And, trying to be less grumpy, maybe moving some > packages to "rawhide only" style of repos. would make everyone happy (we > could even call

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: > >>>As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for > >>> wesno

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 05/11/2010 07:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > >> On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/11/2010 10:31 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > I think the point is that if the release was done in > February, there's really no reason it should be a F-13 > *update* at GA. > The reason is that it is *game* and it is not part of the default set. Anyone who chooses to install it will get an

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:29 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: >> , and we now have >> deltarpms (and a huge thank to to all responsible there), so I really >> don't think it's that big of an issue. > > As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltar

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/11/2010 09:35 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > On 05/11/2010 01:12 AM, H. Guémar wrote: > >> And so what ? >> >> In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: >> * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 >> > Feb 2nd, 2010 - that's a long time ago. > Yep. The primary maintainer at that time recently

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 07:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote:

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: > >>>As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for > >>> wesno

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: >>>As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for >>> wesnoth-data due to it's size. >> Then fix this deficiency of your proce

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:27:30 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I don't think either wesnoth or openarena are on the desktop spin. > > They are probably only on the games spin. So the impact of those, > > really should not be that big. (Compared to say the effect

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: > > As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for > > wesnoth-data due to it's size. > Then fix this deficiency of your process and provide them. > > > Patches welcome. --

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
Xose Vazquez Perez (xose.vazq...@gmail.com) said: > On 05/11/2010 06:05 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > > > On 05/11/2010 01:12 AM, H. Guémar wrote: > >> And so what ? > >> > >> In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: > >> * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 > > > > Feb 2nd, 2010 - that's a long time a

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > It's unfortunate that these two big packages didn't make it into the > base repo, but such is life. ;( As this is the first time we've done the early branching... I certainly expect mistakes right around the time of the branch freeze and for

Deltarpm volunteers welcome (was Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster)

2010-05-11 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:23 -0400, James Antill wrote: > Within Fedora deltarpms have a limit of applying only to rpms less than > 100MB, so there are no deltarpms. Anyone who wants to blame rel-eng for > that is free to fix the delarpm code... On that subject, anyone who wants to fix this would

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 11 May 2010 17:19:41 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 02:14:58AM -0400, James Antill wrote: > > > > Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make > > anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates > > with a combined size

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: > As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for > wesnoth-data due to it's size. Then fix this deficiency of your process and provide them. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailma

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:14 PM, James Antill wrote: > 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm >  12M hanazono-fonts-20100222-2.fc13.noarch.rpm >  48M xmoto-0.5.3-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > 260M wesnoth-data-1.8.1-1.fc13.noarch.rpm > 318M openarena-0.8.5-1.fc13.noarch.rpm > > ...the last being particularly

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:29 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: > On 05/11/2010 01:14 AM, James Antill wrote: > > Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 10:30 +0200, H. Guémar wrote: > > It is not part of a default package set. > > Even if it were, blocking bugfixes in order to reduce updates size is > nothing but stupid. It wasn't bugfixes, it was a new upstream release, and yes size does matter. All mirrors, public and p

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
On 05/11/2010 06:05 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > On 05/11/2010 01:12 AM, H. Guémar wrote: >> And so what ? >> >> In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: >> * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 > > Feb 2nd, 2010 - that's a long time ago. You said that, because you haven't seen really the oldest packag

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 02:14:58AM -0400, James Antill wrote: > > Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: > > 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x8

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 05/11/2010 01:12 AM, H. Guémar wrote: > And so what ? > > In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: > * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 Feb 2nd, 2010 - that's a long time ago. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > On 05/11/2010 01:14 AM, James Antill wrote: >>   Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone >> think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a >> combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 a

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:18:23 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > * Richard Hughes [11/05/2010 11:05] : > > > > I wonder what the number is for packages on the desktop spin? I guess > > that's a bit more reasonable. > > I'm left wondering what problem we're trying to solve here. I'm gussing > it

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jon Ciesla
On 05/11/2010 01:14 AM, James Antill wrote: > Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: > > 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > 12M hana

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I don't think either wesnoth or openarena are on the desktop spin. > They are probably only on the games spin. So the impact of those, > really should not be that big. (Compared to say the effect an openoffice.org > would have.) ... and wesnoth multiplayer doesn't work on

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Michal Hlavinka
> Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: yeah, over 750 MB where 584 MB belongs to wesnoth and openarena. So without these two games it's

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Dienstag, den 11.05.2010, 02:14 -0400 schrieb James Antill: > Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, This number is kind of irrelevant as nobody will

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Richard Hughes [11/05/2010 11:05] : > > I wonder what the number is for packages on the desktop spin? I guess > that's a bit more reasonable. I'm left wondering what problem we're trying to solve here. I'm gussing it's one of : * there are too many updates (for whom? how is this a problem?) * t

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Hughes
On 11 May 2010 07:14, James Antill wrote: >  Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: I wonder what the number is for packages on the deskto

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/11/2010 02:00 PM, H. Guémar wrote: >> It is not part of a default package set. >> > Even if it were, blocking bugfixes in order to reduce updates size is > nothing but stupid. > We have presto/deltarpm for that (since these packages mostly contain > unchanged binary data like images, it

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread H . Guémar
> It is not part of a default package set. Even if it were, blocking bugfixes in order to reduce updates size is nothing but stupid. We have presto/deltarpm for that (since these packages mostly contain unchanged binary data like images, it should work pretty well). What's the point in having new

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Janssen wrote: > What was that for? To start another flamewar including the challenge > for a explicit person? Quite, a possibly valid point losing out to a flamebait codicil. -Cam -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:14 AM, James Antill wrote: >  Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: > > 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm >  

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/11/2010 11:44 AM, James Antill wrote: > Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: > > 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > 12M hanazo

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread H . Guémar
And so what ? In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 * 0.8.1: 10/31/2008 You can't blame OpenArena's maintainer for that, do you ? The same goes for Wesnoth, 1.8.1 maintenance release was issued 2 May so less than two weeks ago (1.8 was released 1st april !) Best reg

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 02:14:58 -0400, James Antill wrote: > > 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > 12M hanazono-fonts-20100222-2.fc13.noarch.rpm > 48M xmoto-0.5.3-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > 260M wesnoth-data-1.8.1-1.fc13.noarch.rpm > 318M openarena-0.8.5-1.fc13.noarch.rpm I don't think either w

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-10 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 02:14:58AM -0400, James Antill wrote: > > Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: > > 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x8

Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-10 Thread James Antill
Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm 12M hanazono-fonts-20100222-2.fc13.noarch.rpm 48M xmoto-0.5.3-1