Re: rpmbuild signature check failure

2019-11-10 Thread Björn Persson
ays Bad signature from that person. Also > upstream didn't provide gpg keyring in his project. What should I do?  Please post URLs to the files so I can see what kind of signatures or checksums they actually contain. Björn Persson pgpPcix9X57Ps.pgp Description:

Re: rpmbuild signature check failure

2019-11-14 Thread Björn Persson
Björn Persson wrote: >Baxi wrote: >> Hi. I am trying to package a program. The upstream provided sha256sum.asc >> file. Verifying tarball with that signature says, Can't check signature: No >> public key. I found his public key in key directory by searching his email

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: x86-64 micro-architecture update

2019-07-22 Thread Björn Persson
e more cumbersome, which would reduce the likelihood that I'd get the work done. And no, I'm not going to dump a perfectly serviceable laptop in a landfill just to accommodate Fedora. Björn Persson pgpIk8JLCuoQ6.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur _

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: x86-64 micro-architecture update

2019-07-22 Thread Björn Persson
A survey among Steam's customers is presumably heavily biased towards beefy gaming machines with brand-new high-end processors. If as many as 11% lack even AVX1 in that dataset, then there must be a much higher percentage without the newer AVX2 among non-gaming desktops and laptops. Björn

Re: HEADS UP: Source File Verification

2019-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
ased, then obviously you can't verify it against upstream's signature. If you must remove something for legal reasons, and you still want to verify the tarball, then you can sign your modified tarball with your own key. Björn Persson pgpUvJ_dYrLQI.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: HEADS UP: Source File Verification

2019-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
onse to that I added the paragraph that explains that a signature by the upstream developers certifies that the source is identical to what they released, not just that the file is the one that the packager uploaded. Policies should come with justification, so thank you for pointing out tha

Re: HEADS UP: Source File Verification

2019-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
ckager can't neglect to verify the signature, then that might also work for Fedora's needs. You'll have to think hard about how the code will know which source file to verify against which signature in all possible situations. Björn Persson pgpML4B5QmuCm.pgp Description: OpenPGP d

Re: HEADS UP: Source File Verification

2019-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
ny key to a keyserver. That's the primary reason why upstream projects should publish their keys on their own websites. Björn Persson pgpyhDpME6z0U.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: HEADS UP: Source File Verification

2019-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
en not happen. No one else could know whether the signature had been verified or not. Having that functionality back could be a useful tool, but it would not replace verification during the build, which the packager can't just forget to do once they have added the on

Authentication in fedpkg

2019-07-31 Thread Björn Persson
nings that my API key (token, key, whatever) is about to expire and the sky is going to fall unless I get a new one. I'm not using that token in any "non-interrupted service". I'll get a new token next time I add a new package, which may be years from now, if that system is still in

Re: s390x rawhide issues?

2019-07-31 Thread Björn Persson
pagure.io/koji/issue/1418 The workaround seems to be to resubmit until it works. Björn Persson pgpoFArv5kPGy.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@

Re: Authentication in fedpkg

2019-07-31 Thread Björn Persson
vely, using a keyring that isn't tied to a single desktop. Björn Persson pgpziqBZjQ23X.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Authentication in fedpkg

2019-08-01 Thread Björn Persson
t components. Authenticating in advance with kinit would continue to work, so nobody's workflow would break. Björn Persson pgpkQhOJXkjw2.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: HEADS UP: Source File Verification

2019-08-08 Thread Björn Persson
epted is proof that this accusation is false. Björn Persson pgpFrWUDXWvVt.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Does anybody care about gettext?

2019-08-10 Thread Björn Persson
ftp.gnu.org over FTP, 230-we strongly encourage you to change them to use HTTPS instead. Björn Persson pgpwAji6ITSLs.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Does anybody care about gettext?

2019-08-10 Thread Björn Persson
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 8/10/19 4:12 AM, Björn Persson wrote: > > Rafal Luzynski wrote: > >> 9.08.2019 22:10 Jerry James wrote: > >>> Source: https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz > >> > >> Do we need to change ftp t

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-26 Thread Björn Persson
require the user to explicitly turn off security. These days there seem to be several VNC variants that support some form of encryption. I don't know what their defaults are, but maybe some of them are responsible enough to not communicate insecurely. Björn Persson pgpDFpPj_Lm6p.pgp Descripti

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Björn Persson
awman argument, and got knocked out by your own strawman. Björn Persson pgpM0Ahsf22lU.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Björn Persson
;re considering requiring permission even for outgoing connections – which would be unbearable to the user – the attack code would just make an API call (through Dbus or whatever) to grant itself permission to communicate. You need to present some much more detailed and thought-through scenarios if you

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Björn Persson
Second, a solution that works only for IPv4 is not a solution in the year 2019. You need to take IPv6 seriously, or you won't be taken seriously. Björn Persson pgpzv_jKg1L3F.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@l

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Björn Persson
John Harris wrote: >On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:36:20 AM MST Björn Persson wrote: >> Please elaborate. Where does the script come from, what exactly happens >> by accident, and how would a packet filter stop it? > >It could come from anywhere, that's not the point.

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Björn Persson
able falsehoods doesn't help your case. If you explicitly configure PostgreSQL to listen for external connections, and also configure no authentication, and blindly assume that there is a packet filter in place to keep you safe, then you won't get much sympathy from me. As for the rest, this exc

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-30 Thread Björn Persson
erface to listen only on that network, or maybe a localhost address to listen only on the loopback interface. The port and the network interface are specified together in a single sockaddr object passed to a single system call, so it's very much the same thing. Björn Persson pgpAOVug6y7hZ.pgp

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Restart services at end of rpm transaction

2020-01-02 Thread Björn Persson
onal until the permanent name has been decided and implemented. Other than that, the proposal sounds good to me. Björn Persson pgpXqbFJdnq32.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Update: AAA replacement login Initiative

2020-01-16 Thread Björn Persson
ng functionality in FAS is to be replaced with a new "login" that this group will develop? Is this perhaps about cleaning up the incoherent multitude of half- baked authentication methods that packagers have to wrestle with, so we'll only need to authenticate once to work o

Re: Turning off keys.fedoraproject.org

2020-02-08 Thread Björn Persson
e used for password resets, so just dropping that would be a decrease in security. Björn Persson pgp9pQ_cJOA3p.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to de

Re: Turning off keys.fedoraproject.org

2020-02-08 Thread Björn Persson
od for the Fedora Project's security, but it should run on hardware under the Fedora Project's control. Björn Persson pgpoTaSrUnwMW.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Turning off keys.fedoraproject.org

2020-02-12 Thread Björn Persson
han 21 years I've had PGP keys I have never once been able to validate a key through a chain of signatures. The attack on SKS is another nail in its coffin. Another certification method is needed, and WKD is one candidate. Björn Persson pgpfCRnITZdNm.pgp

Re: Turning off keys.fedoraproject.org

2020-02-12 Thread Björn Persson
A directory server integrated with FAS's successor wouldn't have to try to verify keys over insecure email. Users could upload their key to their account, and that would be sufficient proof that the key is theirs. Björn Persson pgpYI_8Vovag9.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur __

CAs and verification security (was: Turning off keys.fedoraproject.org)

2020-02-15 Thread Björn Persson
ting support for this: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8657 https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-caa-validationmethods-support/63125 Björn Persson pgpkBPUoEefP_.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedora

Re: How to deal with large number of bugs related to the, "multiple definition of..." issue

2020-02-18 Thread Björn Persson
>int y; /* definition */ >#endif > >Most c files would include "header.h" and main.c would do this instead > >#define MAIN >#include "header.h" After preprocessing that is exactly the same as this: header.h: extern int y; main.c: #include "he

Re: Turning off keys.fedoraproject.org

2020-02-24 Thread Björn Persson
Neal Gompa wrote: >We may want to replace it with a simple Web Key Directory server: For anyone who is interested, this possibility is being explored here: https://github.com/fedora-infra/securitas/issues/118 Björn Persson pgppK6uk4DhSr.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signa

Re: Should logrotate timer be enabled by default on all installations?

2020-03-18 Thread Björn Persson
prise in my opinion. I think logs should be rotated by default to avoid such surprises. Björn Persson pgpYQVtCF5Fzp.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: Fedora 30 System-Wide Change Proposal: GnuPG2 as default GPG implementation

2018-12-05 Thread Björn Persson
ge will keep that name, right? So if we tell packagers to write "BuildRequires: gnupg2" in their spec files, that dependency will remain valid forever? Björn Persson pgp9JizII5TyK.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel

Re: Organizing a "packager experience" objective and working group

2019-01-11 Thread Björn Persson
er leaves my workstation. But I don't want this at the cost of having my productivity hampered by Gnome 3. I have poked around trying to find some "Online Accounts" program or package, but I didn't find anything I could run from another desktop. Björn Persson pgpotUlyRQw

Re: Organizing a "packager experience" objective and working group

2019-01-11 Thread Björn Persson
nfrequent Fedora contributor I'll of course log in only when I actually access Fedora systems. But that doesn't matter to me as long as it's tied to Gnome 3. Björn Persson pgpMR_wlYQRiH.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: responding to CVEs

2019-01-14 Thread Björn Persson
causes why security holes are so abundant in most of the world's software. Go fix your buffer overflows! Pronto! Björn Persson pgpNRKQDwBMfz.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: how can i compile against zlib system library

2019-01-18 Thread Björn Persson
rary and the bundled JPEG library, so it looks like you need to do more to unbundle it completely. Björn Persson pgpD8y0gKmJsr.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: dxflib ABI changed yet nothing changed

2019-02-06 Thread Björn Persson
400fc9f92/tests.yml/mysql++-3.2.4-2.fc30.log dist.abicheck NEEDS_INSPECTION for mysql++-3.2.4-2.fc30 https://taskotron.fedoraproject.org/artifacts/all/f782031e-270c-11e9-9451-525400fc9f92/tests.yml/mysql++-3.2.4-2.fc30.log Björn Persson pgpmAcxcw_S7s.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: F31 System-Wide Change proposal: Enable Compiler Security hardening flags by default in G

2019-03-13 Thread Björn Persson
ically applied to the users' own, non-RPM-packaged software. Björn Persson pgplbai6ulY0K.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedora

Re: /etc/yum.repos.d -> /etc/distro.repos.d

2019-03-13 Thread Björn Persson
sake of renaming. Pointless changes cost time and money that could have been spent doing useful work instead. Björn Persson pgppnC3McAgG5.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: /etc/yum.repos.d -> /etc/distro.repos.d

2019-03-13 Thread Björn Persson
's Yum in RHEL 7 and (I hear) it will be Yum in RHEL 8. Presumably the reason for this is that the sysadmins who manage RHEL systems like continuity, dislike pointless renaming, and really hate having to remember to type "dnf" on some servers and "yum" on others for no

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Björn Persson
hy is rand or a simple serial number not good enough? I never heard that lack of a cryptographically secure invocation ID was a big security problem before SystemD. Björn Persson pgpbHdZeSq8DS.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-25 Thread Björn Persson
llation. Such values would of course be somewhat predictable, but according to what you've said in this thread, invocation IDs don't need to be unpredictable. You've only said that you want them unique. (Of course one needs to be aware that collisions are not impossible, on

Re: Enable dmarc mitigations

2019-05-01 Thread Björn Persson
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Kevin Fenzi writes: > > I guess I will enable the From field mitigation for this list, but I > > will not like it. ;) > > It's possible to do this only for domains that advertise p=reject. Yes please, don't break things more than w

Re: Writing C/C++ code to detect running desktop environment

2019-06-04 Thread Björn Persson
reasons, even though Boinc has a legitimate use case. Björn Persson pgpJQ1ATVgbCA.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Writing C/C++ code to detect running desktop environment

2019-06-04 Thread Björn Persson
Germano Massullo skrev: >Il giorno mar 4 giu 2019 alle ore 17:31 Björn Persson > ha scritto: >> Have you confirmed that you're able to query another user's desktop session >> once >> you know which desktop it is? > >I cannot read XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP of

Re: Langpacks and the packages needed to display/input a language

2019-06-15 Thread Björn Persson
guages. The latter would include GUI translations, documentation, dictionaries, a wider selection of fonts, et cetera. Björn Persson pgpa5CktNxUOr.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Fedora 31 Self-Contained Change proposal: DNF Make Best Mode the Default

2019-06-27 Thread Björn Persson
in automated >scripts Would it not be possible to program DNF to update what can be updated and then return a nonzero exit code? Björn Persson pgpbPyyK8eYL_.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedorapro

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: Python means Python3

2019-07-01 Thread Björn Persson
n folks are trying to completely replace one programming language with another, and it's no wonder that it's going slowly. There may be good arguments for why /usr/bin/python should survive the removal of Python 2, but this comparison to GCC isn't one. Björn Persson pgpQZYiMdGxc

Re: Making Fedora secure - Package exit policy for security

2018-08-02 Thread Björn Persson
ng as stable and mature software. It would be unfortunate if high-quality software would be kicked out just because it's not in constant flux. But if there are known security bugs and nobody is fixing them, then yes, dump that junk in a deep-sea trench! Björn Persson pgpULUbmNFVuJ.pgp Des

Re: lazy loading of filelists.xml to speed up dnf

2018-08-08 Thread Björn Persson
hus it seems to me that DNF must handle this situation regardless of whether lazy loading gets implemented or not. Björn Persson pgpvOPybS1_xk.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

languages in CWE (was: zram-generator)

2018-08-25 Thread Björn Persson
22 C# 83 C++ 73 Java 5 JavaScript 12 Perl 23 PHP 3 Python 3 Ruby 1 SQL 3 XML Obviously the classification is far from complete. Otherwise Objective-C would occur about as frequently as C and C++, for example. Björn Persson pgp9UPNhYwDQb.pgp

Re: fedora-tagger sunset - week post F29 beta freeze

2018-08-28 Thread Björn Persson
me up with a sentence that describes your package and includes the word you want, then perhaps that word isn't actually a good tag for that package? Björn Persson pgp4_sYGQi_UN.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- d

Re: Orphaned Packages in rawhide (2018-08-27) - js-jqeury1

2018-08-29 Thread Björn Persson
s week: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1935 You'd have to obtain some kind of exemption from that policy if you want to keep an insecure Jquery 1 around indefinitely. Björn Persson pgpa_dupqeveQ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel m

What does 141 mean?

2018-09-16 Thread Björn Persson
ccessfully. There is no error message from kinit, no indication that anything is wrong other than the exit code 141. I can't find any documentation of exit codes from kinit. Thus I have no hint at what the problem might be. Does anyone know what this code means? Björn Persson pgpdleNlN8j

Re: What does 141 mean?

2018-09-17 Thread Björn Persson
.se 1 10 377 501 -207us[ -176us] +/- 12ms ^+ static-5-103-128-88.ip.f> 1 10 377 305 +7123us[+7123us] +/- 25ms ^- 85.129.0.126 2 10 377 518 -2605us[-2574us] +/- 44ms ^+ 78.156.103.10 2 10 177 101 +7132us[+7132us] +/-

Re: What does 141 mean?

2018-09-17 Thread Björn Persson
gives me some ideas for things to experiment with after the tickets I currently have have expired. Björn Persson pgp2IafzJF_OC.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send a

Re: What does 141 mean?

2018-09-19 Thread Björn Persson
Björn Persson wrote: > Tony Nelson wrote: > > No, but googling "kinit 141" leads to > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1537866 > > which suggests trying the kinit command twice in a row. > > I would think I must have tried at least twice the fi

Re: What does 141 mean?

2018-09-19 Thread Björn Persson
Alexander Bokovoy wrote: > Can you provide output from > > export KRB5_TRACE=/dev/stderr > klist -A > kinit > fedpkg build > > ? The log is attached. I tried it twice as Tony Nelson suggested. The first attempt failed as usual, but the second attempt was successful.

Re: What does 141 mean?

2018-09-19 Thread Björn Persson
or the PIPE signal. For most signals there is a message: "Terminated", "Killed", "Segmentation fault", "Illegal instruction" and so on – but not for PIPE. So that suggests two bugs: Something that kinit communicates with crashes, and kinit is too naïve to cat

Re: What does 141 mean?

2018-09-22 Thread Björn Persson
t the KCM deamon > - attach the logs at /var/log/sssd/* Bug 1537866 looks very similar to what I see, so I added to that one. I also filed bug 1631998 against kinit. I think I've also found the difference between my two computers: sssd-kcm is not installed on the one where I don&

Re: Fedora Packaging Guidelines on docs.fedoraproject.org

2018-09-30 Thread Björn Persson
the way, the way that Pagure tries to syntax-highlight the .adoc files is very confusing. I don't know which language Pagure tries to syntax-highlight – or rather which two languages, because the way it sprinkles colors over the file in the "blame" view is entirely different from what i

Re: Fedora Packaging Guidelines on docs.fedoraproject.org

2018-10-01 Thread Björn Persson
view the result of my edits. "If I change the .adoc file like this, does it cause the desired change to the HTML code?" That was all I needed to know. It can hardly be necessary to mess with containers just to convert a document from one markup language to anoth

Re: Fedora Packaging Guidelines on docs.fedoraproject.org

2018-10-01 Thread Björn Persson
scape Navigator" feeling though. Not only are there several different badly designed document authoring languages, but they're apparently even splitting into tool-specific dialects. Björn Persson pgpdwRaF_UeOq.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur __

Re: Fedora Packaging Guidelines on docs.fedoraproject.org

2018-10-01 Thread Björn Persson
John Florian wrote: > And conversely, shouldn't > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines be telling viewers > they now need to go to docs.fp.o? Not until the conversion is finished, in my opinion. Björn Persson pgpChXjsJJFLd.pgp Description: OpenPGP di

Re: hibernation — does it work for you?

2018-10-03 Thread Björn Persson
ion is encrypted with the same passphrase as the filesystem. Björn Persson pgp8SEFZZVY0E.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Björn Persson
unchanged, so that sorting and filtering rules can recognize the list. But I'm sure many people select on the list address instead, so in practice you have to preserve both the list ID and the list address to make the transition smooth. Björn Persson pgp7Qc0xGMcag.pgp Descri

Re: resume= kernel cmdline arg by default on servers

2018-10-18 Thread Björn Persson
umb to reply to an email correctly? Your messages break the threading. Björn Persson pgpOx2CRUOqx1.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@list

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Björn Persson
g one of the better Mail User Agents. Humans will always misremember things, and not bother to check because they think they remember. No technology is going to help with that until we get direct neural interfaces. Björn Persson pgp8_Oolc_3BC.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur __

Re: Auto-assign packager sponsors to tickets?

2023-04-04 Thread Björn Persson
art with a single package. I had three myself, but they depended on each other so one specific package had to go first. A beginner with multiple independent packages, such that they can be reviewed and imported in arbitrary order, is probably an uncomm

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-23 Thread Björn Persson
ourse is not usable as a list server. Those who want to replace Mailman with Discourse should work on improving its email capabilities until it can be used as a list server. Björn Persson pgpUVt9_aKC4f.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ deve

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-23 Thread Björn Persson
a domain name. But if those new topics can't be sent to a mailing-list-equivalent, but just end up in some sort of "other" bucket, then it seems useless anyway. Björn Persson pgpcbyFcDPtSX.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-23 Thread Björn Persson
continuation line begins with whitespace, which it looks like it does. Folding is even recommended for lines longer than 78 characters. Programs that parse email are supposed to unfold folded lines. The complexities of text-based protocols provide for so much fun! Björn Persson

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-23 Thread Björn Persson
e Discourse developers like, as long as it's at most 64 bytes and adheres to the dot-atom-text syntax in RFC 5322. Björn Persson pgpWVzBgAke8P.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: It’s time to transform the Fedora devel list into something new

2023-04-24 Thread Björn Persson
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 11:21:58PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > We could probibly come up with some > > > better way to start new topics/discussions > > > > Yes I think I can come up with a better way.

Re: The new version of Fedora Messaging Notifications will arrive this week

2023-04-26 Thread Björn Persson
used to run it, then? Björn Persson pgpmhakqztAuR.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of C

Re: The new version of Fedora Messaging Notifications will arrive this week

2023-04-27 Thread Björn Persson
I have to figure out and remember when I have to start the browser for demanding Javascript programs and when I can use the browser with the stable and sensible user interface. Björn Persson pgpIB3pZw10sf.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur __

Re: The new version of Fedora Messaging Notifications will arrive this week

2023-05-01 Thread Björn Persson
to Seamonkey to keep the Web calm when the ability to stop GIF animations was removed from Firefox. That's still relevant in places, but these days the greatest advantage of Seamonkey is that I don't have to relearn how to do things each time Firefox's user interface gets reshuff

Re: The new version of Fedora Messaging Notifications will arrive this week

2023-05-04 Thread Björn Persson
Aurelien Bompard wrote: > do you mind opening a ticket on FMN's tracker please? Done: https://github.com/fedora-infra/fmn/issues/901 Björn Persson pgpwJ54yOnOQ8.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list

C-specific compiler parameters (was: Update on Changes/PortingToModernC)

2023-05-09 Thread Björn Persson
ecurity' is not valid for Ada” over and over. It doesn't break any builds but it's annoying noise in the build logs. It would be better if __global_compiler_flags would contain only language-independent parameters, and language-specific parameters were added in build_cflags and

Re: C-specific compiler parameters (was: Update on Changes/PortingToModernC)

2023-05-10 Thread Björn Persson
Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 12:09:10AM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > Florian Weimer wrote: > > > I am going to explore a way to land -Werror=implicit-int > > > -Werror=implicit-function-declaration among the default compiler flags. > > > T

Re: more distinct default bash prompt?

2023-05-26 Thread Björn Persson
re though, because GCC outputs filenames in uncolored bold text, so even a bold prompt would blend in among the compilation errors. Björn Persson pgpo0PYGOraT4.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: more distinct default bash prompt?

2023-05-26 Thread Björn Persson
the shell unusable minimal. Björn Persson pgpqIGrB30kK8.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduc

Re: more distinct default bash prompt?

2023-05-26 Thread Björn Persson
mpt is configured in a completely different place than the background, and separately on each server, the prompt must be readable by default on both light and dark backgrounds. Björn Persson pgprqT_maxZDz.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___

Re: Are we ready for ipv6-mostly networks?

2023-06-01 Thread Björn Persson
– and you're using IPv6 and NAT64, then you and your peer will both be unable to connect to each other. If globally routable IPv4 addresses are available on the network where you are, then you'll want one so that your peer can at least connect to you. Users of peer-to-peer programs will want

Re: How to deal with sysusers files inside the package

2023-06-30 Thread Björn Persson
about integrating sysusers support into RPM. That should allow an upstream sysusers file to work in all cases, if I understand correctly. If your package currently works, then I suggest waiting until the RPM integration is done before you change how user accounts are created

Re: more distinct default bash prompt?

2023-07-01 Thread Björn Persson
t; in the beginning. I think all prompts should begin with that to clear any attributes that may have been left behind by a broken program. (Try "echo -e '\e[8m'" and see if it hides your prompt.) Björn Persson pgp_JLupc3tON.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur _

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Björn Persson
Move away from using the kernel command line for configuration. I note that taking away the kernel command line is indeed a clearly stated goal, which will limit Fedora to simple, appliance-like uses. If any of what I wrote above misrepresents the change owner's intentions, then the change p

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-21 Thread Björn Persson
Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 08:42:14PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > > > Switching the whole distro over to unified kernels quickly is not > > > realistic though. Too many features are depending on the current > > > workflow with a host-specific in

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-21 Thread Björn Persson
. Probably never, because I have way too much to do already. Apparently there is no such tool and no plan to provide one, because surely that would have been mentioned under "User Experience". Björn Persson pgpMf3pOAD4my.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: F38 proposal: X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Björn Persson
d at least said "byte-swapped" it would probably have gotten me searching in the right direction, but if the X server wants to be helpful it should say "big/little-endian mismatch; the option AllowSwappedClients is off". Björn Persson pgptXffOuQJrN.pgp Description: OpenPGP digit

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-27 Thread Björn Persson
ork reliably. I see no big eye-catching warning that such-and-such must be smaller than x bytes. Björn Persson pgpHBtrq05hJe.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-28 Thread Björn Persson
le, is there some competition to produce the most textless user interface? Björn Persson pgpAmFa7dbrFg.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.

Re: F38 proposal: IPP-USB as a weak dependency of CUPS and sane-airscan (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-01-16 Thread Björn Persson
ring the attitude to security I've seen from CUPS before, I won't be surprised if they just assume that someone else will protect them from DNS rebinding attacks. Björn Persson pgpUOI2iQT6TU.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: GCC 13 broke 50 packages requiring libgnat-12.so() and libgnarl-12.so()

2023-01-17 Thread Björn Persson
ndency order, and that's not how the mass rebuild does it. I'd be willing to cooperate to do the rebuild in a side tag, but I can't promise to always be available at a moment's notice. Björn Persson pgpUnwuNn9UUD.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur __

Re: GCC 13 broke 50 packages requiring libgnat-12.so() and libgnarl-12.so()

2023-01-17 Thread Björn Persson
not set them aside and then tag them all in at the end. So as things stand, these rebuilds need to be done by a human who knows the dependency graph. Björn Persson pgp90fUD1Km8D.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel

Re: SPECfiles - conditionals with EOLed Fedora releases - any value in keeping them ?

2023-01-19 Thread Björn Persson
ntenance. It's not like something will break if the conditional isn't removed in time. Björn Persson pgpCf1F7Tm7T3.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: FYI... yubioath-desktop is slated to be removed from F38 repository

2023-01-19 Thread Björn Persson
-desktop-yubikey-manager-qt-will-no-longer-be-available-in-fedora-repository/45921/6 And that's such a fancy modern Javascript program that it can't even be scrolled in a browser with a stable user interface. Wonderful. Björn Persson pgpjS66OatxDZ.pgp

Re: Bootstrapping package with circular dependencies in koji

2023-01-24 Thread Björn Persson
alls it "Set tag extra option". I would not have guessed that an "extra option" would transform into an RPM macro, nor that a "_with_" prefix would need to be added. Björn Persson pgpCIAUkIr_UN.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur _

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