Re: Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE - Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal

2020-07-05 Thread Alexey Avramov
>What software in the default image leads to low memory issues? Web browsers? For example, browsers, electron-based apps, blender, compilation, VM, openings files, opening file manager (once I came across this: when I opened the file manager, an uncontrolled leak occurred somewhere in the thumb

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
It would be great that the installer, Anaconda, enables sd-boot for users running on UEFI system. The method was done before with both LILO and Grub decades ago and it was very surprising very few thought of that process especially for a distribution aiming to use latest technology. The questi

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, July 5, 2020 1:03:34 AM MST Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: > It would be great that the installer, Anaconda, enables sd-boot for > users running on UEFI system. The method was done before with both LILO > and Grub decades ago and it was very surprising very few thought of that > process esp

Re: Help (or take over) hedgewars?

2020-07-05 Thread Artur Iwicki
Hedgewars is mostly Pascal, so with me maintaining FPC and Lazarus, I'd be willing to take it over. However, I don't know any Haskell, so some help from someone who does would be appreciated. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Fedora rawhide compose report: 20200704.n.1 changes

2020-07-05 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
OLD: Fedora-Rawhide-20200703.n.0 NEW: Fedora-Rawhide-20200704.n.1 = SUMMARY = Added images:6 Dropped images: 1 Added packages: 17 Dropped packages:0 Upgraded packages: 113 Downgraded packages: 0 Size of added packages: 14.99 MiB Size of dropped packages:0

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sa, 04.07.20 18:11, John M. Harris Jr (joh...@splentity.com) wrote: > That systemd throws some crap out doesn't make it a standard. There's no > reason for GRUB to adopt this, or for anyone else to use this. "bloat", "crap", … I am sorry, but you are apparently just a troll and this is the po

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sa, 04.07.20 12:49, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > Why do the security folks want POSIX and SELinux labels on the > contents of /boot? I've never really gotten a straight answer on this, > but I know it's considered important and a sticking point for why some > folks do not wan

Re: Self Introduction: Nikolay Nikolov

2020-07-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 8:48 PM wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Nikolay Nikolov. I'm a software developer and free/open > source enthusiast. I've been using Linux since Red Hat Linux 5.0. After > Red Hat Linux 9, I upgraded to Fedora Core 1 and I've used every Fedora > version since then. :) I'm a

Re: [Fedora-packaging] RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping - Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal

2020-07-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 01 juillet 2020 à 12:27 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit : > > > To get beautiful changelogs, you also need to add > > > > > > %buildsys_name Your name > > %buildsys_email Your email > > > > > > in ~/.rpmmacros > > What about having one macro called %buildsys_package

Strange rpmbuild begaveour

2020-07-05 Thread TI_Eugene
Two builds for tests: 1. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=46635276 2. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=46635342 The deferrence between them - libraries permissions. Problems are: 1. %{make_install} installs libraries with 0755 flags 2. After changing library

Re: Self Introduction: Nikolay Nikolov

2020-07-05 Thread nickysn
On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 07:09 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 8:48 PM wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My name is Nikolay Nikolov. I'm a software developer and free/open > > source enthusiast. I've been using Linux since Red Hat Linux 5.0. > > After > > Red Hat Linux 9, I upgraded to F

Re: Strange rpmbuild begaveour

2020-07-05 Thread Florian Festi
On 7/5/20 2:21 PM, TI_Eugene wrote: > Two builds for tests: > 1. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=46635276 > 2. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=46635342 > > The deferrence between them - libraries permissions. > > Problems are: > 1. %{make_install} installs

Re: Help (or take over) hedgewars?

2020-07-05 Thread Richard Shaw
Thanks for the offers everyone, and let me know if you just REALLY want to help maintain it, but I found a new contributor who's a core developer of Pascal, which is 90% of what hedgewars is written in, who is interested in the job. Thanks, Richard ___ d

Problem with auto CMake out-of-source builds?

2020-07-05 Thread Richard Shaw
I saw the change notification but didn't know it went in to "production". I was trying to build OpenImageIO in rawhide and it failed, because I was already doing an out of source build which it appended "%{_arch}-redhat-linux-gnu" or something like that to. So I looked up the guidelines for CMake

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 08:52:12AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > So you want to discuss Linux desktop deployments, excluding the only > sucessful mass Linux desktop deployment to date? Why? Because the raw data I had access to excludes chromebooks, only listing "traditional" PCs and s

Re: Problem with auto CMake out-of-source builds?

2020-07-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 9:16 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > > I saw the change notification but didn't know it went in to "production". I > was trying to build OpenImageIO in rawhide and it failed, because I was > already doing an out of source build which it appended > "%{_arch}-redhat-linux-gnu" or

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Sumit Bhardwaj
I don't know about how important EFI and reducing the bootloader technical debt is for the project, but at least for me personally, it will be a straight way out. My hard disk has a traditional MBR based structure with about a TB of very important data. I don't know of a 100% reliable way of con

Re: Problem with auto CMake out-of-source builds?

2020-07-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 8:20 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > Temporarily, we have %__cmake_in_source_build set, which forces back > the legacy behavior. You can switch to the upcoming out of source > default by adding the following to the top of your spec: > Ok, so during this transition period the curren

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 08:41:16AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > Those things are not meant to run ancient software. They are meant to > run a very long time. And yes at the end of this time the software is > ancient. Of course. > That does not mean it is ancient at the start of the

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 11:34, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 11:20 AM Lennart Poettering > wrote: > > > > On Mi, 01.07.20 21:06, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > The user-interactive portion of sd-boot is *awful*. I know our GRUB > > > looks ugly by default these day

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Markus Larsson
On 5 July 2020 16:27:07 CEST, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 11:34, Neal Gompa wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 11:20 AM Lennart Poettering >> wrote: >> > >> > On Mi, 01.07.20 21:06, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote: >> > >> > > The user-interactive portion of sd-b

Re: Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE - Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal

2020-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 12:46 AM John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > On Saturday, July 4, 2020 11:27:47 PM MST Alexey Avramov wrote: > > >Linux handles low memory situations just fine, but it's much better if you > > > > have an appropriately sized swap partition and let the kernel do its job > > > > No,

Can we do away with release and changelog bumping? (was: RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping - Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal)

2020-07-05 Thread Björn Persson
Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > So if you want to push Fedora release logic to its ultimate conclusion, > the thing that should be in charge of committing the new > release/changelog build state to package history in git is bodhi, not > koji. Why do build events need to be recorded in the Git h

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 11:23, Markus Larsson wrote: > > > > On 5 July 2020 16:27:07 CEST, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 11:34, Neal Gompa wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 11:20 AM Lennart Poettering > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > On Mi, 01.07.20 21:06, Neal Gompa (ngomp

Re: Can we do away with release and changelog bumping? (was: RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping - Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal)

2020-07-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le dimanche 05 juillet 2020 à 17:46 +0200, Björn Persson a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > So if you want to push Fedora release logic to its ultimate > > conclusion, > > the thing that should be in charge of committing the new > > release/changelog build state to package history in

Re: Can we do away with release and changelog bumping? (was: RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping - Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal)

2020-07-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le dimanche 05 juillet 2020 à 18:41 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > While timestamping would remove the need to pass the last build info > to the next one it would also break all the workflows where several > rebuilds are done in parallel for separate needs, and the latest > rebuild is not ne

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, July 5, 2020 6:18:50 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 08:52:12AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > So you want to discuss Linux desktop deployments, excluding the only > > sucessful mass Linux desktop deployment to date? Why? > > Because the raw data I ha

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, July 5, 2020 3:07:44 AM MST Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sa, 04.07.20 18:11, John M. Harris Jr (joh...@splentity.com) wrote: > > > > That systemd throws some crap out doesn't make it a standard. There's no > > reason for GRUB to adopt this, or for anyone else to use this. > > > "bl

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, July 5, 2020 8:12:33 AM MST Markus Larsson wrote: > I have no problem with GRUB2 or sd-boot. I have much more problems with > refind and their ilk. While things can look pretty, that's fine, as soon as > it gets in my way when I try to get things done it stops being fine. I don't think

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 11:26 AM John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > On Sunday, July 5, 2020 3:07:44 AM MST Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Sa, 04.07.20 18:11, John M. Harris Jr (joh...@splentity.com) wrote: > > > > > > > That systemd throws some crap out doesn't make it a standard. There's no > > > reas

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 10:20:01AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > Chromebook devices are neither UEFI nor BIOS. You can use GPT disk layout > while still booting BIOS, which they also don't do. Chromebook devices either > boot with uboot -> depthcharge or Coreboot -> uboot -> depthcharge. I do

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 6:27 PM Lennart Poettering wrote: [snip] > > Please submit additions to the spec as PRs to systemd github. We added > a number of new keys in the past that sd-boot itself doesn't make use > of (devicetree and such), and we'd be delighted to add more if they > make sense an

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le dimanche 05 juillet 2020 à 12:21 -0600, Chris Murphy a écrit : > > specification != standard I, for one, am very happy that the systemd project makes the effort of documenting its formats so others can write competing implementations or write software that interacts with the systemd implementa

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, July 5, 2020 11:31:41 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 10:20:01AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > Chromebook devices are neither UEFI nor BIOS. You can use GPT disk layout > > while still booting BIOS, which they also don't do. Chromebook devices > > either boot

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 12:41 PM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > Le dimanche 05 juillet 2020 à 12:21 -0600, Chris Murphy a écrit : > > > > specification != standard > > I, for one, am very happy that the systemd project makes the effort of > documenting its formats so others can write competin

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Tom Seewald
> BIOS-based systems make up a miniscule minority of the current market. > Pretending otherwise is delusional, and delusions are no basis for > technical decisions. > > - Solomon In terms of physical x86 systems, you are right that UEFI is the overwhelming majority. But as stated elsewhere i

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 09:51:30PM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > Many people on this very thread are still using BIOS boot systems, and one > person provided a source for a NEW system they're using which is BIOS boot, > while another provided factory-default BIOS configurations on hardware > su

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 07:18:47PM -, Tom Seewald wrote: > In terms of physical x86 systems, you are right that UEFI is the > overwhelming majority. But as stated elsewhere in this thread, a lot > of cloud providers and virtualization software default to using BIOS. > So I think Fedora shoul

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, July 5, 2020 12:18:46 PM MST Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 09:51:30PM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > Many people on this very thread are still using BIOS boot systems, and one > > person provided a source for a NEW system they're using which is BIOS > > boot, > > w

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-05 Thread nickysn
On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 11:50 -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > On Sunday, July 5, 2020 11:31:41 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 10:20:01AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > Chromebook devices are neither UEFI nor BIOS. You can use GPT > > > disk layout > > > while still

Re: Can we do away with release and changelog bumping? (was: RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping - Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal)

2020-07-05 Thread Dan Čermák
Nicolas Mailhot via devel writes: > Le dimanche 05 juillet 2020 à 17:46 +0200, Björn Persson a écrit : >> Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: >> > So if you want to push Fedora release logic to its ultimate >> > conclusion, >> > the thing that should be in charge of committing the new >> > release/c

CPE Weekly: 2020-07-05

2020-07-05 Thread Aoife Moloney
--- title: CPE Weekly status email tags: CPE Weekly, email --- # CPE Weekly: 2020-06-218 Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained, build

Re: Can we do away with release and changelog bumping?

2020-07-05 Thread Björn Persson
Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > Le dimanche 05 juillet 2020 à 17:46 +0200, Björn Persson a écrit : > > It seems that several problems would just disappear if a rebuild > > would generate a unique package ID without a Git commit. > > That’s exacly what the change does. No it's not. Your key/v

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Re: RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping - Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal

2020-07-05 Thread Dan Čermák
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Mailhot writes: >> How do I let rpm generate the changelog automatically? > > This feature is not changelog generation, just changelog bumping on > build events. You still need some other method to put non-build events > in the changelog. > > The detached changelog is just on

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 9:14 AM Josef Bacik wrote: > > On 7/3/20 9:37 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Does btrfsck really never attempt to salvage a metadata block with a bad > > CRC by > > validating its fields? > > No, I suppose we could, I'll add it to the list. Generally speaking if > there's >

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:40 PM Eric Sandeen wrote: > > On 7/3/20 1:41 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > SSDs can fail in weird ways. Some spew garbage as they're failing, > > some go read-only. I've seen both. I don't have stats on how common it > > is for an SSD to go read-only as it fails, but once it

Re: Can we do away with release and changelog bumping?

2020-07-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Björn Persson: > The macro could be defined like this for example: > > %buildtag .%(date +%%s) Using time for synchronization is always a bit iffy. > It would be used in each spec like this: > > Release: 1%{?dist}%{?buildtag} We could put the Koji task ID directly into the %dist tag. We