Re: Self Introduction: Jered Floyd

2022-04-05 Thread Peter Robinson
Welcome Jered, > Why I've joined the list: The Package Maintainers Howto says I should, and > also to say hello. Hello! I'm in the process of moving my personal > infrastructure from some slowly decaying servers at INAP Somerville into AWS > us-east-1, and in the process migrating from Debian

Re: F37 Change: Signed RPM Contents (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 04. 04. 22 v 10:29 Peter Robinson napsal(a): How will this key be distributed on the distro filesystem or on the web? The pub keys will be both, I've added a paragraph to the detailed description. Please add it as TYPE 61 DNS record as well: https://github.com/xsuchy/distribution-gpg-keys

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Peter Robinson
> >> Hi, creating a thread on this from: > >> https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/1650 > >> > >> Basically I'd propose that not just our default images have > >> y2038-compatible filesystem setups, we ensure that if e.g. XFS is > >> explicitly chosen for a Workstation installation

Re: Possible regression in GNOME in Fedora 36 Branched 20220401.n.0

2022-04-05 Thread Kamil Paral
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 6:14 AM Ian Laurie wrote: > I've done some playing and it looks like it is the first resize after > the first login after a boot causes it. After that it doesn't seem to > happen (or it is very infrequent if it does). > I'm quite certain it's this: https://ask.fedoraproje

Fedora Developer Portal update

2022-04-05 Thread Jarek Prokop
Hello, overdue update has just been pushed to release and will be available soon on the website. Most notable changes:   * Introduce Lua installation [0]   * Python FastAPI installation [1]   * Configuring RubyGems through .gemrc [2]   * Document usage of qemu sessions in Vagrant [3]   * Long ov

Re: F37 Change: Signed RPM Contents (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 04/04/2022 12:34, Fabio Valentini wrote: I wonder, does this have measurable effect on the time it takes to build a package? O(1) -> O(N), where N is the number of files in the RPM package. -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org) __

Re: Possible regression in GNOME in Fedora 36 Branched 20220401.n.0

2022-04-05 Thread Vít Ondruch
BTW, this happened to me on physical Rawhide first time yesterday, after I updated the system. I did the previous update on 2022-03-18 and all worked just fine up until yesterday. Therefore I am attaching the update log and one of the packages must make the difference. Vít Dne 05. 04. 22 v

Fedora-Cloud-35-20220405.0 compose check report

2022-04-05 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Soft failed openQA tests: 1/8 (aarch64), 1/8 (x86_64) (Tests completed, but using a workaround for a known bug) New soft failures (same test not soft failed in Fedora-Cloud-35-20220404.0): ID: 1211426 Test: aarch64 Cloud_Base-qcow2-qcow2 cloud_autocloud@uefi URL:

Fedora-Cloud-34-20220405.0 compose check report

2022-04-05 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Soft failed openQA tests: 1/8 (x86_64), 1/8 (aarch64) (Tests completed, but using a workaround for a known bug) Old soft failures (same test soft failed in Fedora-Cloud-34-20220404.0): ID: 1211543 Test: x86_64 Cloud_Base-qcow2-qcow2 cloud_autocloud URL: https://op

Self Introduction: Radka Brychtova

2022-04-05 Thread Radka Brychtova
Hi, I am Radka, I have been working in Red Hat Brno since 2014 as a RHEL Quality Engineer. A few years ago you might know me as Radka Skvarilova. I am interested in upstreaming our internal tests and helping our developers to feel more safe with releasing some changes in their packages. Have a nice

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Peter Robinson wrote: > Is ext4 actually a problem here? From the y2038 list [1] the ext4 with > "new inodes" which has the option of "34 bit seconds / 30-bit ns" has > a rollover date of 2582. The new extended i_ctime_extra [2] was added > in 2007 and apparently made the default in 2008 [3] so it

Re: Self Introduction: Radka Brychtova

2022-04-05 Thread Josef Řídký
Welcome Radka, glad to have you here :D Best regards Josef Ridky Senior Software Engineer Core Services Team Red Hat Czech, s.r.o. On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:16 PM Radka Brychtova wrote: > Hi, > I am Radka, I have been working in Red Hat Brno since 2014 as a RHEL > Quality Engineer. A few year

Re: Self Introduction: Radka Brychtova

2022-04-05 Thread František Šumšal
Welcome, Radka, and good luck! Frantisek On 4/5/22 12:06, Radka Brychtova wrote: Hi, I am Radka, I have been working in Red Hat Brno since 2014 as a RHEL Quality Engineer. A few years ago you might know me as Radka Skvarilova. I am interested in upstreaming our internal tests and helping our d

Re: F37 Change: Signed RPM Contents (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Ben Beasley
I have no idea whether or not this Change would add significantly to package build times in practice. It’s a good question. I think answering it would require benchmarks rather than asymptotic reasoning, though. There are plenty of things in an RPM build that already inherently take O(N) time i

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Rajeesh K V
> So I come to y'all to ask about this and give us some feedback on the > idea, how to do it, and what kinds of things you expect people to need > a recovery environment for. As somebody used to often get a knock on the door past midnight in the early 2000’s because some guy in the hostel borked t

Re: Fedora Developer Portal update

2022-04-05 Thread Ben Beasley
Thanks for updating these pages. I noticed that the Flask and Django pages have language like: Fedora includes a |python3-flask| package that you can install and import. However, unless you are developing or packaging an application for Fedora, it is more useful to install Flask as a

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Dusty Mabe
On 4/5/22 03:54, Peter Robinson wrote: > > Is ext4 actually a problem here? It would appear not. I was going off the info from the original email and just noticed that Justin's reply addressed the xfs concern and I was wondering about ext4. Thanks for the info. Dusty ___

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:48 AM Dusty Mabe wrote: > > > > On 4/5/22 03:54, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > Is ext4 actually a problem here? > > It would appear not. I was going off the info from the original email and > just noticed that Justin's > reply addressed the xfs concern and I was wondering

Re: F37 Change: Signed RPM Contents (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 05/04/2022 13:12, Ben Beasley wrote: There are plenty of things in an RPM build that already inherently take O(N) time in the number of files or the total size of the files, even ignoring %build and %install. Yes, but signing is an extremely slow process. Rebuilding the texlive package dur

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Neal Gompa said: > What about squashfs? We use that for the live media, is that affected? There's also vfat (for EFI system partition) and ISO9660 (base for all media). How do they handle dates? -- Chris Adams ___ devel mailing list

Re: [Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Prioritized bugs and issues

2022-04-05 Thread Ben Cotton
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 6:07 AM wrote: > > You are kindly invited to the meeting: >Prioritized bugs and issues on 2022-04-06 from 10:00:00 to 11:00:00 > America/Indiana/Indianapolis >At fedora-meetin...@irc.libera.chat We will review the following nominated bugs * flathub filtered repo s

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Marc Pervaz Boocha via devel
On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 17:38 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > Hey all, > > Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket > brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery environment[1]. > While we all agreed in principle that such a thing would be a very > good thing to have, we d

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:20 AM Marc Pervaz Boocha via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 17:38 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket > > brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery e

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Justin Forbes
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:10 AM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Neal Gompa said: > > What about squashfs? We use that for the live media, is that affected? > > There's also vfat (for EFI system partition) and ISO9660 (base for all > media). How do they handle dates? > -- FAT filesystems

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 2:10 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Neal Gompa said: > > What about squashfs? We use that for the live media, is that affected? > > There's also vfat (for EFI system partition) and ISO9660 (base for all > media). How do they handle dates? Did you look at this

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, at 3:51 PM, Justin Forbes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 11:47 AM Colin Walters wrote: >> >> Hi, creating a thread on this from: >> https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/1650 >> >> Basically I'd propose that not just our default images have y2038-compatible >

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:48 AM Colin Walters wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, at 3:51 PM, Justin Forbes wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 11:47 AM Colin Walters wrote: > >> > >> Hi, creating a thread on this from: > >> https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/1650 > >> > >> Basicall

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Justin Forbes
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:50 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:48 AM Colin Walters wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, at 3:51 PM, Justin Forbes wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 11:47 AM Colin Walters wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi, creating a thread on this from: > > >> https

Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2022-04-05)

2022-04-05 Thread Miro Hrončok
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo meeting Tuesday at 17:00UTC in #fedora-meeting on irc.libera.chat. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2022-04-05 17:00 UTC' Links to all issues to be d

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 02:51:52PM -0500, Justin Forbes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 11:47 AM Colin Walters wrote: > > > > Hi, creating a thread on this from: > > https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/1650 > > > > Basically I'd propose that not just our default images have > > y2

Re: Self Introduction: Jered Floyd

2022-04-05 Thread Clark Williams
Welcome Jered! If you need help packaging PoV, I'll help you find Peter Robinson... :) Clark On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 7:42 AM Peter Robinson wrote: > > Welcome Jered, > > > Why I've joined the list: The Package Maintainers Howto says I should, and > > also to say hello. Hello! I'm in the proces

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022, at 10:11 AM, Justin Forbes wrote: > > That list hasn't been edited in 5 years, but 256 bit inodes have been > the ext default for a very long time unless you specifically request > small. In current Fedora CoreOS we have 128 bit inodes for /boot, and this appears to be t

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:27 AM Colin Walters wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022, at 10:11 AM, Justin Forbes wrote: > > > > That list hasn't been edited in 5 years, but 256 bit inodes have been > > the ext default for a very long time unless you specifically request > > small. > > In current Fedor

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread stan via devel
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 15:58:14 -0500 Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > Of topic but related: I wish there was supported option to remove > > the current rescue kernel, > > Is echo "dracut_rescue_image=no" > /etc/dracut.conf.d/rescue.conf not > sufficient? That is an interesting option. It isn't do

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Colin Walters said: > Ah but with a 512M disk I do get 256 bit inodes, I bet that's the difference. It comes from /etc/mke2fs.conf... kind of. Below 512M, mke2fs chooses to use the "small" config from there, which includes the smaller inode_size. The thresholds are hard-coded

F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS == Summary == Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not removed, but new non-UEFI installation is not supported on those platforms. This is a first ste

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:54 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > == Summary == > Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not > removed, but new non-UEFI instal

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:47 AM stan via devel wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 15:58:14 -0500 > Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > > > Of topic but related: I wish there was supported option to remove > > > the current rescue kernel, > > > > Is echo "dracut_rescue_image=no" > /etc/dracut.conf.d/rescue.

[Test-Announce] Fedora 36 Branched 20220405.n.0 nightly compose nominated for testing

2022-04-05 Thread rawhide
Announcing the creation of a new nightly release validation test event for Fedora 36 Branched 20220405.n.0. Please help run some tests for this nightly compose if you have time. For more information on nightly release validation testing, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:09 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:54 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > > > == Summary == > > Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > > platforms that support it (x86_6

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Marc Pervaz Boocha via devel
On Tue, 2022-04-05 at 10:52 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > Important, relevant points from that thread (yes, I reread the entire > thread) that have informed this change: > > * Some machines are BIOS-only.  This change does not prevent th

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:26 AM Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:09 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:54 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > > > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > > > > > == Summary == > > > Make UEFI a hardware require

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Peter Robinson: > This is out of context here because you can disable Secure Boot but > still use UEFI to make that work. You're trying to link to different > problems together. I think there's firmware out there which enables Secure Boot unconditionally in UEFI mode, but still has CSM support.

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Robbie Harwood
Neal Gompa writes: > And we've still failed to get ARM and RISC-V broadly on board with > UEFI This statement is not correct. ARM in Fedora is UEFI-only, and we were both in the Plumbers conversation around RISC-V's booting. > We also lack solutions for dealing with the NVIDIA driver in > UEFI

Fedora 36 compose report: 20220405.n.0 changes

2022-04-05 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
OLD: Fedora-36-20220404.n.0 NEW: Fedora-36-20220405.n.0 = SUMMARY = Added images:1 Dropped images: 0 Added packages: 16 Dropped packages:1 Upgraded packages: 49 Downgraded packages: 0 Size of added packages: 37.83 MiB Size of dropped packages:9.07 MiB

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:47 AM stan via devel wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 15:58:14 -0500 > Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > > > Of topic but related: I wish there was supported option to remove > > > the current rescue kernel, > > > > Is echo "dracut_rescue_image=no" > /etc/dracut.conf.d/rescue.co

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, Apr 5 2022 at 11:56:07 AM -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote: Users wishing to use NVIDIA hardware have the following options: - Use nouveau (free, open source, cool) - Sign their own copy of the proprietary driver (involves messing with certificates, so not appropriate for all users) - Disa

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread David Duncan
> On Apr 5, 2022, at 8:08 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:54 AM Ben Cotton wrote: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS >> >> == Summary == >> Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on >> platforms that support it (x86_64)

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:40 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > The ticket mentions Boot Repair, which is the first thing that comes to > mind: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair Boot repair is obviously tricky because you have to have something bootable to initiate the repair. Practically sp

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Jared Dominguez
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 11:15 Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:54 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > > > == Summary == > > Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > > platforms that support it (x86_64).

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Marc Pervaz Boocha via devel
On Tue, 2022-04-05 at 09:33 -0700, David Duncan wrote: > > > > On Apr 5, 2022, at 8:08 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:54 AM Ben Cotton > > wrote: > > > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > > > > > == Summary == > > > Make UEFI a hardwa

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Robbie Harwood
Neal Gompa writes: > By virtue of how boot stuff is handled in Fedora, the community is > incapable of working on it. Not true. Not at all true. src.fedoraproject.org permits anyone, *anyone* to send PRs to fix issues in the boot stack, or any other package. Even without it, bugzilla doesn't

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Robbie Harwood
David Duncan writes: > For similar reasons, I agree with Neal. There are a number of Amazon > EC2 instance types that would be left out of the next generation. I > think it would be better to identify the usage in some way and create > a general awareness that it is being removed prior to outrigh

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Robbie Harwood said: > (Just to be clear here: this change is proposing a deprecation, not a > removal.) No, the change proposes making it impossible to install Fedora on BIOS. That's not a deprecation. -- Chris Adams ___ devel maili

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Ralf Corsépius
Am 05.04.22 um 16:52 schrieb Ben Cotton: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS == Summary == Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not removed, but new non-UEFI installation is not suppo

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Tom Hughes via devel
On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, just new installations. This is where I have a problem with this, the fact

Fedora-IoT-36-20220405.0 compose check report

2022-04-05 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Failed openQA tests: 2/15 (aarch64) New failures (same test not failed in Fedora-IoT-36-20220404.0): ID: 1212154 Test: aarch64 IoT-dvd_ostree-iso release_identification@uefi URL: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/1212154 Old failures (same test failed in Fed

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > > On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > > > * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - > > repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we > > don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, ju

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Tom Hughes via devel
On 05/04/2022 18:38, Neal Gompa wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel wrote: On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we don’t drop support for existing

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > > > * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - > > repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we > > don’t drop support for exis

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:39 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > Fedora Server users *must* fully reinstall, because there's no way to > make space for an ESP and reconfigure things. > I haven't done a "default" Fedora Server installation in a long time, so I'm not sure how they are laid out. But I seem to r

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 05.04.2022 um 16:52 schrieb Ben Cotton : > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > == Summary == > Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not > removed, but new non-UEFI installa

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:46 PM Tom Hughes wrote: > > On 05/04/2022 18:38, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel > > wrote: > >> > >> On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > >> > >>> * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - > >>> repartitioning

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:47 PM Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:39 PM Neal Gompa wrote: >> >> Fedora Server users *must* fully reinstall, because there's no way to >> make space for an ESP and reconfigure things. > > > I haven't done a "default" Fedora Server installation

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Robbie Harwood
Tom Hughes via devel writes: > On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > >> * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - >> repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we >> don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, just new >> installations. > > This

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Tom Hughes via devel
On 05/04/2022 18:51, Robbie Harwood wrote: Right, you need the EFI partition (EFI System Partition, or ESP). I don't remember what we default those to these days - I usually make about 600M, but I need it larger for testing stuff. The partition scheme also needs to be GPT, not MBR. Once that'

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Robbie Harwood
Peter Boy writes: > And I also don't understand why we should give up a hallmark of free > Linux, namely to support old, but still good usable hardware (unlike > commercial system, not only Windows but also e.g. RHEL). Developers are free to support whatever systems they like. If someone wants

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Robbie Harwood
Gregory Bartholomew writes: > But I seem to remember /boot being a separate partition for a long > time (it used to be required because some older BOISs couldn't read > beyond a certain sector on the disk). Could not /boot be converted to > the ESP (i.e. reformatted with FAT32) on such systems?

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 05.04.2022 um 19:38 schrieb Neal Gompa : > > Fedora Server is > screwed because they use XFS and you cannot shrink an XFS volume. Server is not screwed because of XFS, according to the change, an existing installation can still use bios boot. That is not a Problem. (And you could easily

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Robbie Harwood
Tom Hughes writes: > On 05/04/2022 18:51, Robbie Harwood wrote: > >> Right, you need the EFI partition (EFI System Partition, or ESP). I >> don't remember what we default those to these days - I usually make >> about 600M, but I need it larger for testing stuff. The partition >> scheme also nee

Fedora-36-20220405.n.0 compose check report

2022-04-05 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Failed openQA tests: 7/229 (x86_64), 11/161 (aarch64) New failures (same test not failed in Fedora-36-20220404.n.0): ID: 1211773 Test: x86_64 KDE-live-iso desktop_printing URL: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/1211773 ID: 1211779 Test: x86_64 KDE-live-is

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 05.04.2022 um 19:57 schrieb Robbie Harwood : > > Peter Boy writes: > >> And I also don't understand why we should give up a hallmark of free >> Linux, namely to support old, but still good usable hardware (unlike >> commercial system, not only Windows but also e.g. RHEL). > > Developers

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> Ben Cotton writes: > == Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > platforms that support it (x86_64). My problem here is that I have real, useful hardware which has always run Fedora that I would like to continue using. But it's just old enough (purchased in 2011)

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread PGNet Dev
So you've heard that we're overloaded, and you know that UEFI is the direction the world is heading. Well, so is (was?) 'IPv6' ... Your solution to this is... what, stick our heads in the sand and ignore that? Just do legacy? We already have UEFI-only platforms (see also: the mention of ARM

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:17 PM Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > For those who might be curious, the systems are Supermicro 6026TT-HTRF > machines with four nodes in 2U. I have three, so twelve machines in > total. The machines have X8DTT-HF+ motherboards. I actually have older > hardware than t

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Robbie Harwood
PGNet Dev writes: > Curious, has anyone from @redhat or @fedora though to actually > communicate with any of the 'big' hosting providers, to perhaps > coordinate/influence/compromise/plan? > > I'd bet AWS, DigitalOcean & Linode/Akamai -- among this biggest > hosting providers where 'new installs'

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread PGNet Dev
(Akamai is, to my knowledge, not a provider of VPSs.) https://www.linode.com/press-release/akamai-to-acquire-linode/ ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 2:36 PM Robbie Harwood wrote: > > PGNet Dev writes: > > > Curious, has anyone from @redhat or @fedora though to actually > > communicate with any of the 'big' hosting providers, to perhaps > > coordinate/influence/compromise/plan? > > > > I'd bet AWS, DigitalOcean & Linode/

Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2022-04-05)

2022-04-05 Thread Miro Hrončok
=== #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2022-04-05) === Meeting started by mhroncok at 17:00:17 UTC. The full logs are available at https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2022-04-05/fesco.2022-04-05-17.00.log.html . Meeting summary

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 4/5/22 12:29, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5 2022 at 11:56:07 AM -0400, Robbie Harwood > wrote: >> Users wishing to use NVIDIA hardware have the following options: >> >> - Use nouveau (free, open source, cool) >> - Sign their own copy of the proprietary driver (involves messing with

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread PGNet Dev
Akamai owns Linode, which is a prominent VPS that focuses on Linux (Linode is a contraction meaning "Linux Node"). +1 DigitalOcean similarly is Linux centric and so Windows doesn't matter. +1 Most web hosting providers and VPSes are Linux-centric and so Windows doesn't matter. +1 Ironi

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 4/5/22 13:38, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel > wrote: >> >> On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: >> >>> * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - >>> repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we >>> don’t drop suppor

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:06 PM Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > > On 4/5/22 13:38, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel > > wrote: > >> > >> On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > >> > >>> * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - > >>> repartition

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 4/5/22 15:09, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:06 PM Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> >> On 4/5/22 13:38, Neal Gompa wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel >>> wrote: On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > * There is no migration story fr

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:15 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > We also lack solutions for dealing with the NVIDIA driver in > UEFI+Secure Boot case. Are you planning to actually *fix* that now? > Because we still don't have a way to have kernel-only keyrings for > secure boot certificates to avoid importing

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:18 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > While this will eventually reduce workload for boot/installation > components (grub2 reduces surface area, syslinux goes away entirely, > anaconda reduces surface area), the reduction in support burden > extends much further into the stack - for

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Sebastian Crane
I frequently use BIOS-only machines which don't have a UEFI boot option - and one of those machines is indeed running Fedora! Certainly, I understand that there are better ways of booting systems now, but for the time being BIOS is still very important. If the installation media can not install on

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:38 PM Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:15 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > We also lack solutions for dealing with the NVIDIA driver in > > UEFI+Secure Boot case. Are you planning to actually *fix* that now? > > Because we still don't have a way to have kernel-o

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread David Airlie
On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 1:18 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > == Summary == > Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not > removed, but new non-UEFI install

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:01 PM Sebastian Crane wrote: > If the installation media can not install onto BIOS-only machines yet > all the bootloader stages support BIOS, then there will be an awkward > stage where some existing Fedora installations can be upgraded, but if > anything goes wrong it'd

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:54 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > Fedora already requires a 2GHz dual core CPU at minimum (and therefore > mandates that machines must have been made after 2006). Where do we require this? I see only one location for such minimums: https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Robbie Harwood
Chris Murphy writes: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:54 AM Ben Cotton wrote: > >> Fedora already requires a 2GHz dual core CPU at minimum (and therefore >> mandates that machines must have been made after 2006). > > Where do we require this? I see only one location for such minimums: > > https://getf

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:56 AM Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Peter Robinson: > > > This is out of context here because you can disable Secure Boot but > > still use UEFI to make that work. You're trying to link to different > > problems together. > > I think there's firmware out there which enables

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:28 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:56 AM Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > * Peter Robinson: > > > > > This is out of context here because you can disable Secure Boot but > > > still use UEFI to make that work. You're trying to link to different > > > prob

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:31 AM Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > > On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > > > * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - > > repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we > > don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, j

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:47 AM Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:39 PM Neal Gompa wrote: >> >> Fedora Server users *must* fully reinstall, because there's no way to >> make space for an ESP and reconfigure things. > > > I haven't done a "default" Fedora Server installation

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Jared Dominguez
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:10 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:38 PM Adam Jackson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:15 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > We also lack solutions for dealing with the NVIDIA driver in > > > UEFI+Secure Boot case. Are you planning to actually *fix* t

Re: newRepo is slow today

2022-04-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 07:05:24PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 10:16:01AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 06:10:03PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 10:07:39AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2022

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:51 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:47 AM Gregory Bartholomew > wrote: > > > I haven't done a "default" Fedora Server installation in a long time, so > I'm not sure how they are laid out. But I seem to remember /boot being a > separate partition for a l

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 5:46 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel > wrote: == >> Is it actually true though? You need to be able to find some space >> for an EFI partition but assuming that can be done is there some >> other reason you can't migrate from

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