Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread drago01
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le mercredi 22 septembre 2010 à 21:30 -0400, Gerald Henriksen a écrit : > >> After all Gnome 2.32 isn't released until later this month, and the >> beta releases have been included in Fedora 14 up to now. > > Is that a good example ? Gnome

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-23 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:21 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > >> This here sounds strange: >> | The update rate for any given release should drop off over time, >> | approaching zero near release end-of-life; since updates are primarily >> | bugfixes,

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-23 Thread Alex Hudson
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 03:42 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > I think Kevin's proposal is written fairly with the given information. > Still, I believe that the stable update guide needs to be relaxed for > software that doesn't affect anything other than itself. There are > single library packages tha

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread Richard Hughes
On 23 September 2010 08:37, drago01 wrote: > Well this cycle there was "on the way to gnome3 and back" situation, > which caused a lot of churn (even upstream). For what it's worth, the GNOME "will we, won't we" on a few different issues (GApplication, GTK3, etc) has cost a lot of developer time,

Re: bodhi v0.7.9 deployed

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:19:06 -0400 (EDT), Luke wrote: > A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a > number > of bugfixes and enhancements. > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates > - Email the proventesters about stale unapproved critical path updates But

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread drago01
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 23 September 2010 08:37, drago01 wrote: >> Well this cycle there was "on the way to gnome3 and back" situation, >> which caused a lot of churn (even upstream). > > For what it's worth, the GNOME "will we, won't we" on a few different > i

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 23 septembre 2010 à 08:59 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : > On 23 September 2010 08:37, drago01 wrote: > > Well this cycle there was "on the way to gnome3 and back" situation, > > which caused a lot of churn (even upstream). > > For what it's worth, the GNOME "will we, won't we" on a few

Re: bodhi v0.7.9 deployed

2010-09-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 10:10 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:19:06 -0400 (EDT), Luke wrote: > > > A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a > > number > > of bugfixes and enhancements. > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates > >

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-23 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 22.09.2010 22:45, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:21 +0200, Till Maas wrote: >> This here sounds strange: >> | The update rate for any given release should drop off over time, >> | approaching zero near release end-of-life; since updates are primarily >> | bugfixes, fewer and fewe

[Test-Announce] Fedora Virtualization Test Day -- Thursday September 23rd

2010-09-23 Thread James Laska
Greetings folks, This has been announced in several other forums already, but we missed test-annou...@l.fp.org. See below for additional details and information on how to participate. Hope to see you in #fedora-test-day! Thanks, James On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 15:35 -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:

Review request: Nice-to-have bug process documentation proposal

2010-09-23 Thread Adam Williamson
Hi, everyone. So we partly used the proposed new nice-to-have bug tracking system during the F14 Beta process, and it seemed to go well. In a quick burst of airport productivity, I've quickly written up a bunch of proposed new wiki pages and modifications to existing ones to document the nice-to-ha

rawhide report: 20100923 changes

2010-09-23 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Thu Sep 23 08:15:31 UTC 2010 Broken deps for x86_64 -- almanah-0.7.3-3.fc14.x86_64 requires libedataserverui-1.2.so.10()(64bit) antlr3-python-3.1.2-7.fc14.noarch requires python(abi) = 0:2.6 claws-ma

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/23/2010 06:18 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Right? > > No, because with rawhide you get alpha and beta code. But "updating > everything to the very latest thing all the time" would mean: User get > what those that know the software best (upstream developers) suggest > their users to use(¹)

Re: Fedora "backports" repo?

2010-09-23 Thread James Antill
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 01:29 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Michał Piotrowski wrote: > > 2010/9/21 Björn Persson : > > > How hard would it be to "cherry-pick" from this backports repository? To > > > install a newer Firefox from there for example, but keep the PostgreSQL > > > from the ordinary Fedor

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread Brandon Lozza
> Er, whut? I didn't post anything advocating people use Rawhide for > day-to-day purposes. I wouldn't suggest such a thing. All I said was > that I haven't noticed the speed difference between debug and non-debug > kernels, because I haven't. I know it's measurably present, but it > doesn't affect

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 08:39 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:45:30PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:21 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > > This here sounds strange: > > > | The update rate for any given release should drop off over time, > > > | approaching ze

Linux and application installing - a second perspective

2010-09-23 Thread FlorianFesti
Sorry, for showing up late at the party. This mail should have been part of Richard's thread with the same topic but things took a while until they were ready enough to be presented here. There is a long history of package installers in Fedora (and it's predecessors). It feels like roughly ever

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 12:18 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 22.09.2010 22:45, Adam Jackson wrote: > > Again: if we kept updating everything to the very latest thing all the > > time, why even bother doing releases. Everyone would just run rawhide. > > Right? > > No, because with rawhide you

Re: bodhi v0.7.9 deployed

2010-09-23 Thread Luke Macken
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:10:16AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:19:06 -0400 (EDT), Luke wrote: > > > A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a > > number > > of bugfixes and enhancements. > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/update

Re: REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

2010-09-23 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:45:30 pm Adam Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:21 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > This here sounds strange: > > | The update rate for any given release should drop off over time, > > | approaching zero near release end-of-life; since updates are primarily >

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:34:12 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote: > > Some people also pointed out another interesting tidbit and that is > proprietary video drivers. Some of us use them and want to be able to > use them. We wouldn't be using a rawhide kernel if it won't load the > modules. I assume

Re: Linux and application installing - a second perspective

2010-09-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 15:51:37 +0200, FlorianFesti wrote: > > 1) Comps groups. Not even used by PK to the full extend. Nevertheless > several groups are huge with over 100 packages (winner being "Games" > with over 300). Sorry, 100 packages in one list view doesn't work for me. Games have

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > The kmod rpms for rawhide are already provided by rpmfusion. I don't know > how often they do them nor how often new kernel releases just plain > break the proprietary drivers. But it sure likes look at least some of > the time you should be able to use them. Bruno, you ca

Re: Fedora "backports" repo?

2010-09-23 Thread Benny Amorsen
Bruno Wolff III writes: > Because it is more work. If one is managing lots of systems as part of a > job, you want to be efficient in how your time is used. Fedora systems > change to fast for that. On the other hand, Fedora saves a lot of time by not having to maintain reasonably new versions o

Re: F-14 Branched report: 20100923 changes

2010-09-23 Thread Peter Robinson
> anjuta-2.31.90.0-1.fc14 > --- > * Sun Aug 22 2010 Debarshi Ray - 1:2.31.90.0-1 > - Version bump to 2.31.90.0. >  * Initial support for Python plugins. >  * Language support for Vala got a major update. >  * Python is now fully supported. >  * Snippets plugin from Google Summe

Re: Url handler for telnet and ssh schemas

2010-09-23 Thread Eric Moret
Could you please review this email and answer questions listed below. Thanks, __ Eric On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Eric Moret wrote: > Hi fedora-devel, > > I would like to contribute a piece of bash code that handles url in > gnome for ssh and telnet schemas. The idea being that whenever a u

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:34:06 +0200, you wrote: >Le mercredi 22 septembre 2010 à 21:30 -0400, Gerald Henriksen a écrit : > >> After all Gnome 2.32 isn't released until later this month, and the >> beta releases have been included in Fedora 14 up to now. > >Is that a good example ? Gnome has been br

Re: Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

2010-09-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:23:25 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > The kmod rpms for rawhide are already provided by rpmfusion. I don't know > > how often they do them nor how often new kernel releases just plain > > break the proprietary drivers. But it sure likes l

Re: Passing arguments into LDFLAGS

2010-09-23 Thread Roland McGrath
As I said before, this is almost certainly the wrong fix. If you share your code already, you will get the help you need quickly. As long as you don't, and just ask over-specific questions rather than let people see the context to help you properly, you will get only frustration. Thanks, Roland

Re: Fedora "backports" repo?

2010-09-23 Thread Björn Persson
James Antill wrote: > There's: > > http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=blob_plain;f=plugins/priori > ties/README;hb=90ea69cc7589160735fc67f341db210403bc7f6f Why isn't that file in the package? It leaves many questions unanswered but it's better than nothing. Björn Persson signatu

kernel incantation needed - pata_it821x to noraid mode

2010-09-23 Thread Gregory Woodbury
In trying to help debug an issue with the ITE8212 controller I want to force the controller out of "smart mode" reading thrugh the source code seems to indicate that adding pata_821x=noraid to the kernel command line should do the trick, but I may be missing something. Would some kind kernel g

Rawhide x86_64: WiFi completely hosed, ditto GDM

2010-09-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
As of yesterday there simply is no way to get WiFi (iwlagn here) to work. Restarting NetworkManager, avahi-daemon, udevd, dbus has no effect. Restrarting nm-applet does nothing, no response to iwconfig ow iw. The configuration for the wired network (set up statically for work) doesn't work either,

Re: Rawhide x86_64: WiFi completely hosed, ditto GDM

2010-09-23 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 17:04, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > As of yesterday there simply is no way to get WiFi (iwlagn here) to > work. Restarting NetworkManager, avahi-daemon, udevd, dbus has no > effect. Restrarting nm-applet does nothing, no response to iwconfig ow iw. > > The configuration for

Re: kernel incantation needed - pata_it821x to noraid mode

2010-09-23 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:56:48PM -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > In trying to help debug an issue with the ITE8212 controller I want to force > the controller out of "smart mode" > > reading thrugh the source code seems to indicate that adding >pata_821x=noraid > > to the kernel command li

Re: kernel incantation needed - pata_it821x to noraid mode

2010-09-23 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:56:48PM -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > In trying to help debug an issue with the ITE8212 controller I want to > force > > the controller out of "smart mode" > > > > reading thrugh the source code seems to indic

Re: Linux and application installing - a second perspective

2010-09-23 Thread FlorianFesti
On 09/23/2010 06:09 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 15:51:37 +0200, >FlorianFesti wrote: >> 1) Comps groups. Not even used by PK to the full extend. Nevertheless >> several groups are huge with over 100 packages (winner being "Games" >> with over 300). Sorry, 100 package