Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:14:18AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > LVM actually slows down boot considerably. Not primarily because its > code was slow or anything, but simply because it isn't really written in > the way that things are expected to work these days. The LVM assembly at > boot is

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Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-14 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:34:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that > > Fedora 15 may be much more exciting. ;) > > biosdevname installed by defau

Review swap

2010-11-14 Thread Andrea Musuruane
Hi packagers, I've a re-review request for hatari: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=62 Would anyone want to swap one of their review tickets for this? Regards, Andrea. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Review swap

2010-11-14 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello! 2010/11/14 Andrea Musuruane : > Hi packagers, >    I've a re-review request for hatari: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=62 > > Would anyone want to swap one of their review tickets for this? I'll take it. Here is my review request: erlang-rpm-macros - Macros for simplify

Re: Review swap

2010-11-14 Thread Andrea Musuruane
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > I'll take it. > Here is my review request: > > erlang-rpm-macros - Macros for simplifying building of Erlang packages > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652544 Perfect. Thanks! Andrea. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorap

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 14 novembre 2010 à 01:14 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : > Well, there's no doubt that LVM has its uses, but that doesn't mean we > should install it by default on every Fedora installation. > > LVM actually slows down boot considerably. Not primarily because its > code was slow o

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Liang Suilong
Return to GRUB2 topic, I wish that GRUB2 landed in Anaconda and become an option for user. Some Linux fans install two Linux distros, one is rpm-based distro, another is deb-based distro. Most of deb-based distros has moved to GRUB2. however, rpm-based distros still stays at GRUB legacy. I can feel

Re: Updates to static library packages

2010-11-14 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:12:18 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Thanks to http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/RepoQuery > > If you need to figure out which srpms have a buildrequirement on a > particular pkgname run: > repoquery --archlist=src --repoid=some_repo_with_srpms \ > -q --whatrequires pkgname > Aha!

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Frank Murphy
On 14/11/10 12:18, Liang Suilong wrote: > Return to GRUB2 topic, I wish that GRUB2 landed in Anaconda and become > an option for user. Some Linux fans install two Linux distros, one is > rpm-based distro, another is deb-based distro. Most of deb-based distros > has moved to GRUB2. however, rpm-base

Re: The new Update Acceptance Criteria are broken

2010-11-14 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:22:42PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:21:30AM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > > The documented issues do not seem to be as bad as a system being > > exploited. It is only about dependency breakage or services not working > > anymore. There is no

Re: Confused with budhi: my package is pushed to stable, but resides in updates-testing!?!

2010-11-14 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, /*Kevin Fenzi */ wrote on 11/14/2010 2:49:34 AM +0350: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:50:07 +0330 Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: /*Hedayat Vatankhah*/ wrote on 11/13/2010 5:28:49 PM +0350: Hi all, According to [1], my updated simspark package has been pushed to stable; but it is not! The package is a

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-14 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:54:02 +, Pierre Carrier wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 18:01, Nicolas Mailhot > wrote: >> I despair of making *nix input people understand that LANGAGE ≠ INPUT >> Please stop trying to derive one from the other, they are *distinct* >> and one can (and often does) use

Re: RPM: signing uncompressed data instead of signed data?

2010-11-14 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:17:57 -0500, Andre Robatino wrote: > James Antill wrote: > >> IMO, as has been said before, if you have a delta method that doesn't >> produce the exact same bits at the end ... you've probably failed. It >> might seem like a good idea, but even if you go to the extreme len

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-14 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:11:11PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/13/2010 06:34 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > biosdevname installed by default, used in the installer and at runtime > > to rename Dell and HP server onboard NICs from non-deterministic > > "ethX" to clearly labeled "lomX" matching the

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-14 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:57:59AM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:34:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > Greetings. > > > > > > Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that > > > Fe

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 14.11.10 13:14, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mail...@laposte.net) wrote: > Le dimanche 14 novembre 2010 à 01:14 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : > > > Well, there's no doubt that LVM has its uses, but that doesn't mean we > > should install it by default on every Fedora installation. > >

Re: The new Update Acceptance Criteria are broken

2010-11-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 13:59:24 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > If there are no security updates, people can not apply them. So what is > worse? If people stop applying updates, then it is at least their > decision. If there are no updates, people can only choose not to use Many people are going

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread drago01
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:26:48PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> *DE could consider switching the default to use EXT4 directly without >> LVM. [1] >> 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoDefaultLVM > > The "Detailed De

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 11/14/2010 09:57 AM, drago01 wrote: > Something else to add to the list: Does not support discard (aka TRIM) > when using SSDs which hurts performance and lifetime of said drives. I have a btrfs file system inside of a LVM inside of a software RAID0 array on two Intel SSDs mounted with "discar

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread drago01
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 11/14/2010 09:57 AM, drago01 wrote: >> Something else to add to the list: Does not support discard (aka TRIM) >> when using SSDs which hurts performance and lifetime of said drives. > > I have a btrfs file system inside of a LVM insi

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 11/14/2010 10:42 AM, drago01 wrote: > Yes unless something changed recently the filesystem's discard command > never reaches the drive. Looks like I'm reformatting and dumping the LVM. Thanks. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 11:15 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 11/13/2010 10:45 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 18:07 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Kevin Fenzi writes: > >> > >>> * gnome3 / gnome-shell default > >> > > > Does anyone happen to know how to mimic the equivale

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:44:06 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote > Looks like I'm reformatting and dumping the LVM. Thanks. Discard aside, btrfs should include all (or most of) the features that LVM and raid0 were giving you, anyway. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://

Re: build rpm packages such as Redhat/Fedora

2010-11-14 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 11/13/2010 18:15, Christopher Stolzenberg wrote: > yum install mock > useradd mockbuild > usermod -G mock mockbuild Unless you want to ``su'' to a dedicated mockbuild account every time you want to build you should add your usual account to the mock group instead. > mock rebuild -r epel-6-x8

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/14/2010 12:15 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > Anything installing an application on the system (whether it's part of > Fedora or not) really should be installing a desktop file. If there's no > desktop file, there's no way for the user to launch the application. > > In GNOME 3, no desktop file

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans - BTRFS

2010-11-14 Thread Genes MailLists
> btfrs providing raid0 functionality. Does BTRFS have the equivalent of raid 5 ? gene/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread John Reiser
On 11/13/2010 03:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Anyway, I think LVM is jolly useful: [stated advantages snipped] One design error is that you cannot "carve out" an ordinary partition from an LVM. Once a portion of the drive is LVM, then that portion of the drive is LVM forever until the LVM

Re: Updates to static library packages

2010-11-14 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:38:50PM +, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > I'd say do try a rebuild of affected packages yourself, and notify the > maintainers only in case there is a breakage and coordinate on what to do > (otherwise they'd get an unpleasant FTBFS report). > That was helpful, th

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 10:38 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/13/2010 03:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Anyway, I think LVM is jolly useful: > [stated advantages snipped] > > One design error is that you cannot "carve out" an ordinary partition > from an LVM. Once a portion of the drive

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 14:07 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 10:38 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > > On 11/13/2010 03:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > Anyway, I think LVM is jolly useful: > > [stated advantages snipped] > > > > One design error is that you cannot "carve

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 14:07 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: > Oops, that's not completely true: pvresize currently is not smart enough > to move allocated data out of the area to be freed, according to its man > page. But you have other options, e.g., you can attach another di

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/14/2010 05:44 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 11/14/2010 10:42 AM, drago01 wrote: >> Yes unless something changed recently the filesystem's discard command >> never reaches the drive. > > Looks like I'm reformatting and dumping the LVM. Thanks. You should also file a bug against the tool

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread John Reiser
On 11/14/2010 11:07 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 10:38 -0800, John Reiser wrote: >> On 11/13/2010 03:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> >>> Anyway, I think LVM is jolly useful: >> [stated advantages snipped] >> >> One design error is that you cannot "carve out" an ordinary par

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans - BTRFS

2010-11-14 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/14/2010 07:03 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > >> btfrs providing raid0 functionality. > > Does BTRFS have the equivalent of raid 5 ? Apparently that's being worked on: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Raid5.2F6 Regards, Dennis -- devel mailing list devel@lis

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:41:00 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 11/14/2010 09:57 AM, drago01 wrote: > I have a btrfs file system inside of a LVM inside of a software RAID0 > array on two Intel SSDs mounted with "discard" enabled. Am I being lied > to about discard being enabled? You probably

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (LVM issues)

2010-11-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 13:07 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > When I created 14 partitions using a DOS partition label > (3 primaries, plus extended containing 10 logical partitions) > and gave 6 of the partitions to an LVM setup, > then I could not remove one of the partitions from the clutches > of the

Mysterious Heisenbug involving pdflatex on Koji's F-13 build servers

2010-11-14 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Rebuilding the same package without any change fixes the issue. Anyone has any idea what's going on here? Thanks, -- Michel -- Forwarded message -- From: Fedora Koji Build System Date: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:29 PM Subject: Package: pdfjam-2.07-1.fc13 Tag: dist-f13-updates-cand

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans - BTRFS

2010-11-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 13:03 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > btfrs providing raid0 functionality. > >Does BTRFS have the equivalent of raid 5 ? I implemented most of what's needed for RAID5 (and RAID6) a year or so ago. It's waiting on Chris to do the final bits in the upper layers whi

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Roberto Ragusa said: > I don't remember if pvmove can use the same PV as src and dest; > in that case you could avoid the need of an extra disk > when your PV is just "fragmented". You can; you have to specify manually the source and destination PEs, and IIRC there's an extra op

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:38:37AM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/13/2010 03:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Anyway, I think LVM is jolly useful: > [stated advantages snipped] > > One design error is that you cannot "carve out" an ordinary partition > from an LVM. Once a portion of the

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:07:28PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/14/2010 11:07 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 10:38 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > >> On 11/13/2010 03:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> > >>> Anyway, I think LVM is jolly useful: > >> [stated advantages snipp

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (LVM issues)

2010-11-14 Thread John Reiser
On 11/14/2010 01:13 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 13:07 -0800, John Reiser wrote: >> When I created 14 partitions using a DOS partition label >> (3 primaries, plus extended containing 10 logical partitions) >> and gave 6 of the partitions to an LVM setup, >> then I could not rem

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans - BTRFS

2010-11-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/14/2010 04:26 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: >> >>Does BTRFS have the equivalent of raid 5 ? > > I implemented most of what's needed for RAID5 (and RAID6) a year or so > ago. > > It's waiting on Chris to do the final bits in the upper layers which are > required to ensure we only ever write

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:14:18AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > We definitely should stop setting up LVM by default on Fedora, because > it allows us to disable these unnecessary enumeration delays that are > broken by design anyway. > > If we don't have LVM on default installs, we also don'

Re: Mysterious Heisenbug involving pdflatex on Koji's F-13 build servers

2010-11-14 Thread Pierre Carrier
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 21:23, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > Rebuilding the same package without any change fixes the issue. Anyone > has any idea what's going on here? No idea, but you might be on the way to an hexadecimal dollar! Regards, -- Pierre Carrier -- devel mailing list devel@lis

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (LVM issues)

2010-11-14 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/15/2010 12:00 AM, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/14/2010 01:13 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 13:07 -0800, John Reiser wrote: >>> When I created 14 partitions using a DOS partition label >>> (3 primaries, plus extended containing 10 logical partitions) >>> and gave 6 of the pa

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 07:48:36PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > LVM is important and useful for managing storage. If, in the future, we have > ZFS-like features in btrfs or whatever, okay, we can talk about getting rid > of it. But a few-second gain in boot time is really, really, really not > w

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:42:05PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > This is a problem of partitions themselves being very inflexible. > Have said that I don't really understand why you'd ever want to do > this. "In a consulting environment" you're much more likely to > encounter some other mech