Re: F12: lirc-0.8.6-4.fc12 missing from updates testing ?

2010-02-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 07:44 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: > Hi, > > In bugzilla 564095 there is mention of an lirc update, lirc-0.8.6-4.fc12, > that fixes an issue with lirc on 2.6.32 kernels that has been > submitted to updates-testing. > This package does not seem to exist there and the link to it

Re: F12: lirc-0.8.6-4.fc12 missing from updates testing ?

2010-02-28 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 28/02/10 08:02, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 07:44 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In bugzilla 564095 there is mention of an lirc update, lirc-0.8.6-4.fc12, >> that fixes an issue with lirc on 2.6.32 kernels that has been >> submitted to updates-testing. >> This packag

Re: F12: lirc-0.8.6-4.fc12 missing from updates testing ?

2010-02-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:10:33 +, Terry wrote: > On 28/02/10 08:02, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 07:44 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> In bugzilla 564095 there is mention of an lirc update, lirc-0.8.6-4.fc12, > >> that fixes an issue with lirc on 2.6.32 kernels

Re: FESCo wants a more sane updates policy (feedback requested)

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Hughes
On 27 February 2010 19:31, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > This sounds interesting, was this a plugin or configuration setting? > Could this be something people can opt-in to at first? in /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf, the idea was to set CheckTestingRepos to true. I'm not sure the code is actually

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Some situations where I and others have used direct stable pushes in > the > > past and where I think they're really warranted and should be used: > > You forgot security fixes. The proposed policy is insane. +1. I almost always push my p

Re: Heads up! Broken deps in Upgrade from 12 to 13

2010-02-28 Thread Tim Niemueller
On 21.02.2010 02:15, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Just for kicks, the current > > == > Broken packages in fedora-updates-12-x86_64: > > player-3.0.1-3.fc12.x86_64 requires libml.so.2()(64bit) > player-3.0.1-3.fc12.x86_64

Re: Heads up! Broken deps in Upgrade from 12 to 13

2010-02-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:16:27 +0100, Tim wrote: > On 21.02.2010 02:15, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Just for kicks, the current > > > > == > > Broken packages in fedora-updates-12-x86_64: > > > > player-3.0.1-3.fc12.x86_64 re

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 26 février 2010 à 21:17 +0100, Hans de Goede a écrit : > When I started working for Red Hat everyone told me that the most important > thing is that working for Red Hat should be fun, which I completely agree > with. > > I seriously believe we should also make that an explicit goal f

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Dodji Seketeli
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:23:21AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > Speaking as someone who is still on F11, I want the latest software as > long > as it doesn't break anything, because most often there are new useful features > in it. I think one of the problems is precisely that "

rawhide report: 20100228 changes

2010-02-28 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Sun Feb 28 08:15:09 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- blahtexml-0.6-5.fc12.i686 requires libxerces-c.so.28 easystroke-0.5.2-1.fc13.i686 requires libboost_serialization-mt.so.5 efreet-0.5.0.050-5.fc12.

Re: Why online recovery in pgpool is disabled?

2010-02-28 Thread Thomas Spura
Am Samstag, den 27.02.2010, 22:00 +0100 schrieb Michał Piotrowski: > W dniu 27 lutego 2010 21:51 użytkownik Michał Piotrowski > napisał: > > 2010/2/27 Toshio Kuratomi : > >> Could you please file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com to make sure trhe > >> maintainer sees the request? > > > > Done > > http

Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

2010-02-28 Thread Henrique Junior
Hi, gentlemen, For some time the inclusion of the software Scilab [1] in our repos has been barred by various dependencies, which were being resolved with time. Currently, the biggest reason we do not have this software in our repos is that it relies in a software called JOGL [2]. The big question

Re: Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

2010-02-28 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 02/28/2010 03:39 PM, Henrique Junior wrote: > Hi, gentlemen, > For some time the inclusion of the software Scilab [1] in our repos has > been barred by various dependencies, which were being resolved with > time. Currently, the biggest reason we do not have this software in our > repos is t

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 11:43 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > There are things only packagers can fix. Everything else should be > handled by tools so packagers can focus on the parts where they add real > value. If a process change puts more burden on all packagers because > it's easier to ask pack

Re: Read this if your package BuildRequires qt(4)-devel!!!

2010-02-28 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:40:38 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote > built against Qt 4.6 WILL NOT WORK AT ALL with Qt 4.5!!! (This is > always the case, Qt is backwards- but not forwards- compatible.) And sometimes not even that. I rather suspect this bug is caused by the update from 4.5 to 4.6: https

F-13 Branched report: 20100228 changes

2010-02-28 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Sun Feb 28 09:15:10 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- anaconda-13.32-1.fc13.i686 requires python-urlgrabber >= 0:3.9.1-5 balsa-2.4.6-3.fc13.i686 requires libgmime-2.4.so.2 blahtexml-0.6-5.fc12.i686 re

Re: FESCo wants a more sane updates policy (feedback requested)

2010-02-28 Thread James Antill
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 15:21 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 26 February 2010 22:54, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > - If stable pushes were more restricted, perhaps that would get us more > > testing? If someone required a newer version and could easier > > install/test from updates-testing and provide

Re: gconf settings for gdm login

2010-02-28 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 19:58 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 07:51 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le lundi 22 février 2010 à 19:05 -0800, John Reiser a écrit : > > > On 02/22/2010 03:07 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > There is much worse - it does not let you set the keyboard

Adding optional packages to comps.xml

2010-02-28 Thread alekcejk
Hi, I want to add to "Sound and Video" in comps.xml some optional packages which I not own. v4l2ucp in comps.xml for F11-F14, ucview for F11-F14, EL5 and gtk-v4l for F13-F14. Is there any objections to do this? Alexey Kurov -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fed

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:04:55AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler said: > > You clearly want to be able to push whatever, whenever (see massive KDE > updates in supposedly "stable" releases). Others have shown that > playing fast and loose with updates has consequence

Re: FESCo wants a more sane updates policy (feedback requested)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: > There has been a draft a while ago which did not result into much > discussion .. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UpdateExperience > > Which looks pretty sane to me. It looks very insane to me: * only critical bugfixes, security fixes and hardware enablemen

Re: FESCo wants a more sane updates policy (feedback requested)

2010-02-28 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/28/2010 06:25 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > drago01 wrote: >> There has been a draft a while ago which did not result into much >> discussion .. >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UpdateExperience >> >> Which looks pretty sane to me. > > It looks very insane to me: > * only

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > I want the latest software as long as it doesn't break anything, Right, that's exactly what stable releases should be like, and I don't see why the previous stable release should not get the same treatment as the current stable. It's still supported, so it

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mike McGrath wrote: > Then lets fix that. Rolling updating everything isn't the answer to any > problem. 1. I don't propose to rolling update "everything", but everything which doesn't break or disrupt things. That's a subtle, but important distinction (which you seem to be missing)! 2. You're

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mike McGrath wrote: > Bingo, in this world we'd basically not have F-11 right now. And as soon > as F13 comes out we'd no longer support F-12. We'd force users to upgrade > immediately and not give them any options to plan for updates, etc, etc. > > I think the divide in this discussion is along

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: > Where to start and where to stop with upgrade madness? What may be > feasible for Gtk, would be a much bigger task for GNOME and other > frameworks. So what? We can pull it off for KDE, why would it not be possible for GNOME? Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Till Maas wrote: > No, because there are updates that, e.g. require manual intervention, or > are more likely to break a lot of stuff. These would make the difference > between the releases. Right. (And thanks for your replies further up this subthread, you left me nothing more to add. ;-) ) > E

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Till Maas wrote: > My proposal: If it passes all AutoQA tests and matches the criteria by > Kevin Koffler[0], then the update is ok, except that critical path > packages should be inspected more carefully. > > [0] > [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-February/131570.html I think

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mike McGrath wrote: > So when Fedora 12 came out, we allowed users 7 months to upgrade because > the latest version of stuff is too unstable for them. At the same time > we're also forcing them to upgrade to the latest versions of those > packages in F-11 anyway? I hope you can at least acknowled

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
(Sorry, I reordered the replies a bit so I can reply to them without referring back and forth.) Frank Murphy wrote: > On 02/27/2010 04:30 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > an >> >> I do want updates. Kernel updates, for example, are very important - >> they carry many improvements - not just drivers but

Re: FESCo wants a more sane updates policy (feedback requested)

2010-02-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:25:01AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >drago01 wrote: >> There has been a draft a while ago which did not result into much >> discussion .. >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UpdateExperience >> >> Which looks pretty sane to me. > >It looks very insane

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > It seems like extra work for packagers, but in the end it kinda takes the > pressure off: you only *have* to ship the important fixes to /updates, > /backports is optional, That's already a bad thing, users can no longer expect anything, it depends on the maintainer being

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > Yeah, it's not perfect: there are cases where we have, say, a complex > kernel update which works fine for most people but causes a significant > regression for some particular bit of hardware. We wouldn't want to put > that update out, but it's easy for it to get five +1s

Re: Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points

2010-02-28 Thread Jens Petersen
- "Paul W. Frields" wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:06:09PM -0500, Jens Petersen wrote: > > Perhaps I missed it but I didn't see any clear indication that > > a Talking Point has to be a Feature. Is that the case? > > It doesn't. A Talking Point should be clearly advantageous to the > l

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ville Skyttä wrote: > Whether the "provided name" is existing or not is irrelevant, a dependency > on it can spring to life any time, including at a time when it causes the > package containing the name to be installed without being explicitly > asked. If the provided name did not exist before, no

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Paul Frields wrote: > Turns out my actual text was a bit less stark: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543278#c53 > "The sooner we receive feedback, the sooner we'll know whether we can > release > this update to the stable distribution. Thanks for participating." Wow, so you alread

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ralf Corsepius wrote: > * bugs being closed as "FIXED UPSTREAM/FIXED RAWHIDE" - This kind of > "resolution" means a bug is not being fixed in the distro. It means the > maintainer is refusing to fix a bug a reporter is facing. Reporters will > learn their lessons and leave this kind of maintainers

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:04:55AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler said: >> >> You clearly want to be able to push whatever, whenever (see massive KDE >> updates in supposedly "stable" releases). Others have shown that >> playing fast and loos

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Sunday, 28 February 2010 at 11:44, Dodji Seketeli wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:23:21AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > wrote: > > Speaking as someone who is still on F11, I want the latest software > > as long as it doesn't break anything, because most often there are > > new use

Re: Read this if your package BuildRequires qt(4)-devel!!!

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:40:38 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote > >> built against Qt 4.6 WILL NOT WORK AT ALL with Qt 4.5!!! (This is >> always the case, Qt is backwards- but not forwards- compatible.) > > And sometimes not even that. I rather suspect this bug is caused > by the u

Re: Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Hans de Goede wrote: > AFAIK we have had problems like this before with various bits of Xorg > (iirc) needing the sources of other bits to build. > > The "usual" solution for this, is to give a package a -source subpackage, > which contains the extracted sources (and installs them under > /usr/src

Re: FESCo wants a more sane updates policy (feedback requested)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Josh Boyer wrote: > We do target daily pushes. Then that's a good thing, and shouldn't be changed as that old proposed policy would be trying to do. ;-) > There are a lot of mitigating factors that sometimes prevent a push > getting done in 24 hours, [etc.] OK, got that. I'm not really complain

Re: FESCo wants a more sane updates policy (feedback requested)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mail Lists wrote: > Kernel should follow mainline stable - as reasonably soon after > release and our testing as possible. > > Core daemons - ditto. But that's quite different from what that proposed policy mandates. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re:Re: Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

2010-02-28 Thread Chen Lei
I think we need some more experienced java packager to accelerate packaging scilab, it can be a new feature for F14. Since scilab may be the best opensource numerical computational software, is there someone interseted in packaging scilab for fedora? Regard, Chen Lei 在2010-03-01?09:22:33,"K

Re: Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

2010-02-28 Thread Henrique Junior
> Still, this is a very evil workaround. Can JOGL really not be fixed to use > an installed gluegen? Why does it need the source? Well, the symbiotic relationship between JOGL and Gluegen is because the Gluegen project is developed by the JOGL project, in principle, to be used only by JOGL. By W

Re: Re: Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

2010-02-28 Thread Henrique Junior
2010/2/28 Chen Lei : > I think we need some more experienced java packager to accelerate packaging > scilab, it can be a new feature for F14.  Since scilab may be the best > opensource numerical computational software, is there someone interseted in > packaging scilab for fedora? > > Regard, > Chen

Re: Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Henrique Junior wrote: > Well, the symbiotic relationship between JOGL and Gluegen is because > the Gluegen project is developed by the JOGL project, in principle, > to be used only by JOGL. > > By Wikipedia: > It was originally developed for JOGL, a Java OpenGL library, although > the project ha

Re:Re: Re: Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

2010-02-28 Thread Chen Lei
在2010-03-01?11:00:59,"Henrique?Junior"??写道: >2010/2/28?Chen?Lei?: >>?I?think?we?need?some?more?experienced?java?packager?to?accelerate?packaging >>?scilab,?it?can?be?a?new?feature?for?F14.??Since?scilab?may?be?the?best >>?opensource?numerical?computational?software,?is?there?someone?interseted?

Re: Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

2010-02-28 Thread Alexander Kurtakov
> >Scilab?is,?in?fact,?in?advanced?packaging?stage,?waiting?for?JOGL. > > A lot of java packages need package from scratch or patch(this may be > difficult if you are not provenpackager, since some package maintainers > are non-responsive for a long while) for scliab5.2.1. > Please give us the f

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread John Poelstra
Kevin Kofler said the following on 02/28/2010 03:41 PM Pacific Time: > Till Maas wrote: >> My proposal: If it passes all AutoQA tests and matches the criteria by >> Kevin Koffler[0], then the update is ok, except that critical path >> packages should be inspected more carefully. >> >> [0] >> [http:

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread James Antill
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 00:58 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: > > So when Fedora 12 came out, we allowed users 7 months to upgrade because > > the latest version of stuff is too unstable for them. At the same time > > we're also forcing them to upgrade to the latest versions of thos

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/27/2010 05:27 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 10:57 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >>> Sorry, I was replying in haste. I should've made clear that I was >>> talking more in general, and don't have any specific direct knowledge of >>> the dnssec case. I know of multiple case

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Alexander Boström
lör 2010-02-27 klockan 15:26 +0200 skrev Ville Skyttä: > there are several ways new > installed packages can break existing systems, the combined results is that > it > is very much possible for newly introduced packages to "automatically break > existing systems". It could install a file in

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-28 Thread Jon Masters
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 21:30 -0800, John Poelstra wrote: > Kevin Kofler said the following on 02/28/2010 03:41 PM Pacific Time: > > Till Maas wrote: > >> My proposal: If it passes all AutoQA tests and matches the criteria by > >> Kevin Koffler[0], then the update is ok, except that critical path > >