Mirrorlist problems?

2010-01-19 Thread Andrew McNabb
yum and got the error: "Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again". Are there any known infrastructure problems right now? Thanks. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-24 Thread Andrew McNabb
Did you mean "systemctl list-units"? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew McNabb
e some complications associated with the change. For example, Windows can only support GPT on UEFI machines, so dual-booting appears to be unsupported (I could not find an option for MBR partition tables in the installer). Where should I look for more information? Thanks. -- Andrew McNabb ht

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew McNabb
art) anaconda will not destroy > your existing partition table. But if you first install Fedora to a clean disk, then it will never be possible to later install Windows, right? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 609

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew McNabb
ue documented in the Fedora 16 Release Notes. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: GNOME and Xfce terminal entries not distinguishable in menus

2011-09-19 Thread Andrew McNabb
he > "System" menu, you have to try (and remember) which one is the one you want. Additionally, once you start an XFCE terminal, GNOME Shell thinks that it's actually a GNOME terminal and gets the window ownership wrong: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656300 -- Andrew

Anaconda crashes during kickstart install in Fedora 15

2011-05-24 Thread Andrew McNabb
t have any problems installing Fedora 15 Beta with the same kickstart script. The bug report does not seem to have stirred up much activity--is there anything else I should be doing to help track this down? Is there anything I should try as a workaround? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/a

Re: Hard drive spec change

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew McNabb
is that they are still too slow, too small, too expensive, and too power-hungry. But I'm still missing the main point. Should Fedora avoid supporting 4KB sectors just because some users might not notice any improvement? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B5

Re: Firefox, Aspell, and GPL/LGPL

2010-11-19 Thread Andrew McNabb
bug.cgi?id=439598 Unfortunately, it hasn't gotten much attention. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Haskell packaging questions

2011-01-28 Thread Andrew McNabb
package request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662258 It looks like other Haskell libraries are packaged in a similar way, but it's enough different from most packages that the Package Review Guidelines don't seem to cleanly apply. I would appreciate advice on how to proceed. T

Re: Haskell packaging questions

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew McNabb
using a really complicated macro? As a reviewer, I feel like there is no way to tell what the spec file is doing. I can't even tell which packages it's going to create unless I actually run rpmbuild and look at what files show up. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP F

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew McNabb
efault could be reconsidered in the future. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

no mention of interface naming in Fedora 19 Release Notes

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew McNabb
here any reason that this isn't mentioned in the "Changes in Fedora for System Administrators" section of the Release Notes, and is it too late to add it there? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 686

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:28:48PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > (also: journalctl doesn't truncate lines when doing auto-paging) Could sane auto-paging be backported to systemctl? Things like this can make all the difference between a lovable and an unlovable tool. -- An

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew McNabb
you turn this off? Overriding user configuration can be extremely annoying to users, but if there's an easy well-documented way to turn off overriding, it's easier to deal with. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:09:19PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 16.07.13 12:49, Andrew McNabb (amcn...@mcnabbs.org) wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 01:56:44AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > > > We didn't override LESS initially, bu

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew McNabb
#x27;t do this truncation, which sounds like a huge improvement. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: no mention of interface naming in Fedora 19 Release Notes

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew McNabb
/etc/system/network-scripts/ instead of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. But most people who are using this information probably know the layout well enough to not get too confused. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 68

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew McNabb
is that there's no way to scroll or adjust the terminal size to get the full output. I would much rather have the description field completely omitted or at least extend off to the right (it's much less essential than the service name anyway). -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread Andrew McNabb
can design a better way to split available columns, go for it. The output of "systemctl list-unit-files" is very usable, with no truncation of the most important text. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread Andrew McNabb
tly depending > on how you use it. Maybe it is time to revisit this decision. Part of what I was trying to say is that the ellipsization is harmful on a tty, too. If the actual unit names are printed without truncation, then the output can be the same whether on a tty or not. -- Andrew McNa

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread Andrew McNabb
tion to truncate for the rare situations where I don't actually want to see log messages, but truncating by default is frustrating, particularly when resizing the window doesn't untruncate previously printed lines. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:14:40PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > journalctl -fl in sufficiently new versions. So that will be in Fedora 20, right? It doesn't seem to work in Fedora 19. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 687

Re: Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

2013-07-18 Thread Andrew McNabb
thout ambiguity until some long future date when python2 disappears? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: An even closer look: Obsolete but still included packages

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew McNabb
.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=3752616 > Obsoletes pexpect <= 2.3-9 I've bumped the obsoletes version number and submitted an update, but it would be nice if there a better way of specifying obsoletes that weren't nearly so brittle. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fing

What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew McNabb
e out what's going on. What's the right way to deal with this situation? Is it possible to block the noarch package from the ARM architecture? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mai

Re: What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew McNabb
econds for an operation that should only take a fraction of a second. I could be wrong, but I think it's a hang. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew McNabb
ecture? > > That's definitely not the right way. :) I suspected as much. :) -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:28:13PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On 08/20/2013 03:20 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote: > > What's the right way to deal with this situation? Is it possible > > to block the noarch package from the ARM architecture? > > Well, you *can* use the

Re: What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew McNabb
free to ask. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19/Installation#For_Versatile_Express_Emulation_with_QEMU That's very good to know about, and it makes tracking this down seem less hopeless. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 18

Re: What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:18:24PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > As it's noarch it can be built on any arch. Even with ExcludeArch? That's disappointing. :( I assume I have to get rid of noarch, then, right? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint

Re: What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew McNabb
orrow. Let me know if you see anything interesting. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Co

Re: What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:19:27PM -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:13:10PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > In terms of testing or debugging probably the easiest way is to spin up an > > image under qemu emulation, it's not the fastest but it

Re: What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew McNabb
grade that will allow us to seperate out that > traffic from all the other SOC's in that same chassis. That sounds like a fantastic resource for packagers. Thanks a lot for your help, which will hopefully make it possible to get this package working again. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew McNabb
"eth0" name is much less brittle, even on many multi-interface machines. I'm a little uncomfortable with the apparently prevalent idea that having complicated names for ethernet devices is better for all users in all situations. I'm sure that in some situations it's nice and h

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew McNabb
y attempt to figure out the name of the interface is an ugly brittle mess. ;) -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew McNabb
ming-related bugs to get excited about yet another attempt. On 90% of computers, eth0 is it, and all of this complicated stuff just makes it worse. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@lists