Spec file encoding (was: fedpkg: Failed to get repository name from Git url or pushurl)

2023-02-16 Thread Björn Persson
ing to cooperate with the rest of us in the Fedora project, then you'll need to handle UTF-8 in spec files. Sooner or later you'll encounter some non-ASCII characters. You may need to tell Emacs to read and write spec files as UTF-8, or you may need to fix your locale. Run &

Re: Feedback wanted for a proposed improvement to RPM's ELF dependency generator

2023-02-18 Thread Björn Persson
eve the ideal of reproducible builds? Yes I can find some of the answers elsewhere. I shouldn't need to go searching for answers. They should be available in the change proposal. Björn Persson pgpsKLzLivnaq.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: Feedback wanted for a proposed improvement to RPM's ELF dependency generator

2023-02-18 Thread Björn Persson
d any that hadn't. If they fail to do that correctly, will their package become uninstallable due to unsatisfiable dependencies, or will it just get normal unversioned dependencies on those libraries that don't provide a version number? That should also be explained in the chan

Re: Feedback wanted for a proposed improvement to RPM's ELF dependency generator

2023-02-19 Thread Björn Persson
has found the filename it gets the version number from, it would be easy to run rpm --query --provides --file | grep --quiet ^$ except that people keep saying that package builds shouldn't invoke RPM for some reason. Is there a way to do the above without actually invoking RPM? Björn Persson

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

2023-02-19 Thread Björn Persson
Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > On 1/16/23 12:31, Björn Persson wrote: > > Robert Marcano via devel wrote: > >> The admin can implement CUPS > >> authentication but an ipp://localhost:6 open port entirely open to > >> anyone on the local machine to submi

Re: HyperKitty broken References and In-Reply-To headers

2023-02-22 Thread Björn Persson
when Artur uses Hyperkitty to reply to Kenneth, Hyperkitty seems to think the line break is part of the message ID, which results in that invalid syntax. That's just one example of how difficult it is to write a correct email parser. It's even a rather simple case compared to

Re: Update on SPDX license id adoption in Fedora

2023-02-23 Thread Björn Persson
We have been implementing labels in the Fedora License Data repo to help > indicate what is needed next. Nothing notifies me about changes to labels, so they don't work as reminders that there's more work to do, but they have some value as confirmation that the next step in the procedure is w

Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

2023-02-23 Thread Björn Persson
ible to set a security flag on the update after the fact, but nobody will bother with that. I would therefore advise against using --security. If one can't install all the updates continuously, then one should use a more stable distribution than Fedora. Björn Persson pgp_GPr1Z148d.pgp Descr

Re: fedpkg: Failed to get repository name from Git url or pushurl -> %build

2023-03-08 Thread Björn Persson
lank line has no special meaning. A section continues until the next section begins. Björn Persson pgpmzB0onHLYx.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le..

Re: RFC: No koji builds during mass branching and updates-testing enablement

2023-03-09 Thread Björn Persson
What will packagers see? Will builds be queued, and get processed when the lock is released? Will build attempts be rejected with a clear explanation? "You can't build while we're branching. Please try again later." Or will packagers start asking why they get an incomp

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Opt-In Metrics for Fedora Workstation (system-wide)

2024-07-08 Thread Björn Persson
other metrics from the same system. All the metrics are now linked to Workstation, and the hypothetical separate set of metrics are linked to Plasma. Björn Persson pgpTRBq4iHMbe.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mailing list -- d

Re: Fedora Mass Rebuild 41 has completed

2024-07-22 Thread Björn Persson
d, but when I looked in the Koji web interface those builds were shown as completed. Apparently notifications aren't always sent, or some get lost somewhere along the way. Notifications are much less useful if they are unreliable. Björn Persson pgp0zMauooRsy.

Re: [Java related] packaging Italian ID card middleware

2024-07-23 Thread Björn Persson
r-neutral, and they believe that means they must buy incompatible proprietary services from all the vendors, instead of defining a standard that any vendor can implement. Everyone who isn't required to be vendor-neutral accepts only BankID and contributes to strengthening the Apple/Go

Re: FedoraWorkstation default firewall rules unsafe

2024-07-28 Thread Björn Persson
Arthur Bols via devel wrote: > I often run dev servers that I assume > are secure due to the default firewall settings This practice of blindly assuming that somebody else is protecting you from your own negligence is a common source of security breaches. Björn Persson pgpyeh70G06

Re: libatasmart broken by kernel 6.10

2024-08-13 Thread Björn Persson
arm -y /dev/sda /dev/sda: issuing standby command # hdparm -C /dev/sda /dev/sda: drive state is: standby Björn Persson pgpdp27U627fr.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Packaging Guidelines: "Source File Verification" docs incomplete?

2024-08-25 Thread Björn Persson
. It's better to be able to verify the key, but TOFU can at least build trust over time if the key is stable. What you absolutely *MUST NOT* do is repeat the above process for every release and replace the keyring. That way you'd just overwrite the real key with the attacker's key

Re: Packaging Guidelines: "Source File Verification" docs incomplete?

2024-08-25 Thread Björn Persson
ckager happens to know the author's phone number and recognize their voice. But with most other ways a fingerprint can be communicated, one can just as easily send the whole key, and then the keyserver wasn't needed after all. Björn Persson pgpcluYSh8wQs.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital sign

Re: F40 Change: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

2023-07-06 Thread Björn Persson
n is wrong, then the change proposal needs to be amended. Björn Persson pgpgswP8SfU23.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org F

Re: F40 Change: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

2023-07-07 Thread Björn Persson
3. :) I need some way to distinguish between the Gnome that once was and the very different thing that took over the name "Gnome". Björn Persson pgpdVGkitXcGu.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.

Re: F40 Change: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

2023-07-07 Thread Björn Persson
inking, and you intend to call that "consent". It's a popular tactic to make people "agree" to things without knowing it. Björn Persson pgpRT0A1SqC4E.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- d

Re: F40 Change: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

2023-07-07 Thread Björn Persson
Looking at the screenshot, I wonder what percentage of users will read "Privacy", see that all the switches are on, and click "Next" in the belief that all the privacy features are on. Björn Persson pgp2ZQzLUmMNa.pgp Description: Open

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

2023-07-18 Thread Björn Persson
Bob Mauchin wrote: > I'm currently assessing what is needed by our binaries packages and will > take packages needed that have been orphaned. Thank you! I was getting really worried that Restic would drop out and I'd have to design a new backup solution yet again

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Enable fwupd-refresh.timer by default on IoT, CoreOS & Server Editions (Self-Contained)

2023-07-26 Thread Björn Persson
would probably have been less than four years before I found out about those vulnerabilities. If the firmware files are properly authenticated, then I think notifications about firmware updates should be enabled on all installations. Björn Persson pgpR2_bpFfGGv.pgp Description: OpenPGP digita

Re: Potential (security) issue for beginners/non-experts when release is End Of Life: Fedora doesn’t consider the behavior of beginners/non-experts sufficiently

2023-08-13 Thread Björn Persson
longer receive security updates? Notifying the user only if they're a member of the wheel group seems like a reasonable default. Björn Persson pgpfQSwgSW2hh.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.f

Re: Adding Passim as a Fedora 40 feature?

2023-08-31 Thread Björn Persson
t deal reasonably with any and all attacks. Björn Persson pgpwa7vJgc1mo.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Intention to tighten RPM crypto-policy back

2023-09-26 Thread Björn Persson
ject malware into Fedora through your packages. It is your duty to take security seriously as long as you have commit privileges to any Fedora packages. Björn Persson pgpF1As1bgQjX.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel

Re: side-tag with GCC 14.0.1 snapshot for Fedora 40

2024-01-16 Thread Björn Persson
build (such as packages depending on Ada which like every year bumped > sonames of its shared libraries), please do so soon. Thanks for the side-tag. Most of the Ada packages – those that I have access to – are now rebuilt if I did everything right. The rebuild went smoothly this time. Björn P

Re: Mass rebuild: git push --no-verify

2024-01-18 Thread Björn Persson
ght have been reverted manually in the meantime. The mass-revert script would need to verify that it reverts only commits done by the defective mass-rebuild script. If that's nontrivial to get right, then it seems to me that there is value in a hook that validates changes made by a script. Björn

Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

2024-02-03 Thread Björn Persson
better user experience than X. For *their* usecases, not only for yours. Björn Persson pgpK3GbmW35Af.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists

Re: do we need CONFIG_UPROBES=y in our kernels?

2024-02-19 Thread Björn Persson
he protection, rendering the enclaves useless. The solution is to consider security before you rent other people's computers, and keep secrets and sensitive data on your own hardware. Björn Persson pgpojY8pw6hQR.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___

Re: Check out the Fedora Packager Dashboard!

2022-08-26 Thread Björn Persson
of those. It would be nice to have consistent terminology, but hey, we can always click on everything and explore. The gear icon is also misleading. It alludes to machinery in motion, so it suggests a menu of commands to do things, rather than options or settings. There is a wrench icon that would be

Re: Check out the Fedora Packager Dashboard!

2022-08-27 Thread Björn Persson
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > I think it > is important to remember that the page is _supposed_ to be "dense". > It is intended to pack a lot of information into a small area It leaves plenty of empty space on my screen. It seems to prioritize aesthetics over informat

Re: Check out the Fedora Packager Dashboard!

2022-09-01 Thread Björn Persson
this sucks" and more "here's how I'd fix it, > though"! Quoting myself, here's how I'd fix it: Björn Persson wrote: > Rather than hiding the intelligible words in mouseover boxes, it would > be better to write them directly on the screen instead of the

Re: Mesa in F37- vaapi support disabled for h264/h265/vc1

2022-09-30 Thread Björn Persson
Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Considering that we have been shipping these hardware codec interfaces for > years without any legal trouble, I find this absolutely ridiculous. The entire codec patent business is absolutely ridiculous. Such is the reality we must live in. Björn P

Re: Ridiculous new Red Hat Bugzilla password security requirements

2022-10-14 Thread Björn Persson
e no need to limit its length. Can't you find some actual problem to be angry over? Björn Persson pgpxgPVGDFVi5.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe se

Some help with creating a group in a scriptlet please?

2022-10-31 Thread Björn Persson
by running systemd-sysusers in a suitable scriptlet between the two packages? Björn Persson pgpnWcdiZTdIt.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email t

Re: Question about git signed tags

2022-11-29 Thread Björn Persson
e tarball was already malicious when the upstream developer signed it. With Git I don't know how we could avoid unpacking the repository archive before we verify the signed tag. As to why the builders lack Internet access, I wasn't around when that was decided but it helps ensure t

Re: Question about git signed tags

2022-11-29 Thread Björn Persson
an making the message slightly larger. I can't believe that Git wouldn't be 8-bit-clean. Björn Persson pgpo03OQ_8sm5.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: Non-responsive maintainer landgraf for package aunit.

2024-03-28 Thread Björn Persson
Pavel Zhukov wrote: > I see you have received review of the MR . Emails have been answered by > Bjorn too. If you don't have time to maintain Aunit, then please give me or Dennis access to the package so we can take care of it. Björn Persson pgpFCmfiDkSCT.pgp Description: Open

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-29 Thread Björn Persson
their secret OpenPGP key, their Github account, and probably all of their other credentials. Björn Persson pgpcAJciGABWI.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-29 Thread Björn Persson
blindly trust the Git repository or the Github-generated tarballs. Björn Persson pgp8nUs2fpGPZ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproje

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-06 Thread Björn Persson
those Gnome 3 programs that refuse to obey the theme. (And Firefox which just has to be different, but that has nothing to do with desktops or widget libraries as far as I can see.) Björn Persson pgp3XcsfmYYXs.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___

Re: "fedpkg local" builds fail for rust packages

2024-04-06 Thread Björn Persson
e so problematic. I'll just state my strong opinion that packages that aren't meant for software development should not have "-devel" in their names. Björn Persson pgp42QTPCqdJp.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mail

Re: mdadm Update in Rawhide

2024-05-09 Thread Björn Persson
package does that: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nginx/blob/8b7ceb13dd13cd18b9603872b2b5611be2d60029/f/nginx.spec#_253 This pull request would improve gpgverify to accept multiple key files, so you wouldn't need to concatenate them: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/p

Re: Mass Package Change: Turn deprecated %patchN syntax into %patch -PN

2024-05-13 Thread Björn Persson
nges appear in the package. I think removing that ability would be an improvement, but that's how it currently is. Any changes made by %check outside of %{buildroot} should not affect the binary package though. Björn Persson pgp_7oqqyGrq5.pgp Description: OpenP

Re: FAS login not possible

2024-05-27 Thread Björn Persson
in recent weeks. I got Gateway Timeout a few minutes ago when logging in to src.fedoraproject.org. I tried again and then it worked. Other times I've gotten errors when logging in, but when I tried again I was logged in without submitting the login form a second time. Björn Persson pgp

Re: FAS login not possible

2024-06-05 Thread Björn Persson
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/11962#comment-914072 In one case proxy36.fedoraproject.org is mentioned. Björn Persson pgphiMSbqa5OV.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: F41 Change Proposal: Make OpenSSL distrust SHA-1 signatures by default (system-wide)

2024-06-08 Thread Björn Persson
ot be trusted any more than an unsigned domain. To be able to distinguish between cases 2 and 3, the resolver must remain able to verify SHA-1 signatures. Björn Persson pgpX_oba2_qyt.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mailing l

Re: Guidance on individual packages requiring x86_64-v2 baseline ?

2024-06-13 Thread Björn Persson
containers are, who knows when some program I use will switch to being distributed only as a container, and thus become unusable on the -v1 box? Björn Persson pgpoJZtkUGgib.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lis

Re: Guidance on individual packages requiring x86_64-v2 baseline ?

2024-06-13 Thread Björn Persson
Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Björn Persson said: > > If this will affect containers, then I'm starting to worry that I might > > be affected. I thought I'd be fine as the computers I run virtual > > machines on are x86-64-v2 and -v3, but another computer t

Re: [SPDX] Mass license change GPLv3+ to GPL-3.0-or-later

2024-06-17 Thread Björn Persson
to review. It will get done eventually. You'd just make it necessary to rebase a bunch of commits yet again. Björn Persson pgp5OKpAU7ui7.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Guidance on individual packages requiring x86_64-v2 baseline ?

2024-06-20 Thread Björn Persson
it easiest to switch to Debian or some other distribution. There are probably rather few people with a great need to run Fedora and nothing else on their not-quite-high-end computers. Björn Persson pgpyDGKLdpeKv.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur -- ___

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Package naming question

2017-12-05 Thread Björn Persson
"Tomasz Torcz" wrote: > December 4, 2017 11:21 PM, "Björn Persson" wrote: > > Is your package meant to be parallel-installable with the parallel > > package? If so, what is the program called, since /usr/bin/parallel is > > taken? Or is it meant to c

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-18 Thread Björn Persson
t out of, or are these so-called studies only inflicted on speakers of certain languages? Or did the option get turned on automatically now that I started Firefox in the C locale, and remains enabled henceforth unless I explicitly disable it? Björn Perss

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-18 Thread Björn Persson
fox by default shares" does not match my understanding of what the word "ask" means. And if I actually notice the tab and read the page, I don't see anything about silently installing additional software. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sign

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-18 Thread Björn Persson
oing to go back into the bottle. But perhaps you meant "download and run without even trying to sandbox it"? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-18 Thread Björn Persson
te being visited, because as much as I would like to make Javascript optional there's no chance of that happening at this point). Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists

Re: Update Advisory mix-up

2017-12-27 Thread Björn Persson
s script considered 105998 a Fedora bug report? That's the problem with attempts to make programs "smart" by making assumptions: Sometimes the assumptions will be wrong. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: F28 Self Contained Change: Thunderbolt Enablement

2018-01-05 Thread Björn Persson
necessary to implement this in every desktop separately, or would a window-manager-agnostic solution be possible? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Package Wishlist

2018-01-30 Thread Björn Persson
ap, so it's packaged in RPM Fusion instead. Anyone who wants to package Ring will have to do it in RPM Fusion (or another add-on repository), unless Ring can function without FFMPEG. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

Re: Release notes vs. Changelogs

2018-02-14 Thread Björn Persson
;t expected to know about RPM macros, so presence of an RPM macro in the release notes would indicate that the packager has misunderstood what release notes should contain. Björn Persson ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [ACTION NEEDED] Missing BuildRequires: gcc/gcc-c++

2018-02-28 Thread Björn Persson
ly detect which programming languages are present in each -devel subpackage, and add dependencies accordingly? Björn Persson pgpMNj_KbQBL0.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: %{_lib} leads to dir not found, whereas lib works fine (firefox-pkcs11-loader)

2018-03-06 Thread Björn Persson
sn't possible, then you must remove "BuildArch: noarch" from firefox-pkcs11-loader.spec, allowing the package to differ between architectures, and use _libdir where applicable. Björn Persson pgp98uBNMslD_.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur _

Re: Self Introduction: Arsenick - René Jr Purcell

2018-03-20 Thread Björn Persson
ivacy and security have been around for years, so it would be easy to get the impression that yours is another of those. Björn Persson pgpCrzLrXdes8.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Important changes to software license information in Fedora packages (SPDX and more!)

2022-07-31 Thread Björn Persson
citly say how they may be combined? Are we supposed to write "GPL-3.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only" or do those still combine into GPL-3.0-only? Björn Persson pgpfYcfegWXWG.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur __

Re: Retiring ntp

2020-11-02 Thread Björn Persson
I see only two. > I'm not sure how many users of ntp are there. As a replacement, we > could package ntpsec. Judging only from their own website, it seems that switching to NTPsec would be a great improvement. I'll have to investigate whether I can migrate all my usec

Re: Fedora Security Team

2020-11-04 Thread Björn Persson
ese issues. Of course, the real solution would be decent code quality upstream, so that security fixes would be rare, not come in heaps. Björn Persson pgpNFhNBPaTcI.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Rawhide build failure on strange archs

2020-11-07 Thread Björn Persson
instead of overflow. Björn Persson pgpkFWYt_eIDv.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 Cond

Re: Package review sum-ump

2020-11-24 Thread Björn Persson
reviewer, it's probably best to close the older one as duplicate. Next time you write to the list, don't reply to a random unrelated message. Use the reply button only when you're actually replying to something. Björn Persson pgpvqQxcz9TqU.pgp Description:

Re: Fedora 34 Change: ntp replacement (Self-Contained Change)

2020-12-03 Thread Björn Persson
hould at worst refuse to run. If it does anything worse than that, then I think that's a serious defect that needs to be fixed. > == User Experience == > For most users of `ntp` the experience is not expected to change > significantly. Or rather: For most users their only experience w

Re: Nothing provides libgnat-10.so()(64bit)

2020-12-08 Thread Björn Persson
one of my packages is unbuildable (and it's not just because its dependencies haven't been rebuilt yet), notify me and I'll look into it. For that purpose a bug report in Bugzilla is appropriate. Björn Persson pgpBqSuNykGKA.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur __

Re: Nothing provides libgnat-10.so()(64bit)

2020-12-08 Thread Björn Persson
Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 12/8/20 10:26 AM, Björn Persson wrote: > > This time I got eight separate Bugzilla issues, which all essentially > > just served as notification that GCC has been upgraded, and each one > > needs to be closed manually. That's manageable as lon

Re: Stale proven packagers

2020-12-26 Thread Björn Persson
kens are better where security requirements are higher, like in two-factor authentication. Requiring biometrics is effectively the same as prohibiting stronger authentication methods, which is a stupid thing to do. Björn Persson pgpUh0Z_Vy5p9.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: Coin4 build failure

2020-08-07 Thread Björn Persson
interpretation is that they want you to choose a source of randomness by defining one of those macros, so can you get the build system to pass -DXML_DEV_URANDOM to g++? Björn Persson pgpPcZvc6LN8c.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-13 Thread Björn Persson
og. > Side question: Is it really useful to put "Rebuilt for > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_XX_Mass_Rebuild"; into changelogs? I don't see any use for those entries. There is already a build timestamp in the package metadata. Björn Persson pgpMsq9P1nJQE.p

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-16 Thread Björn Persson
way, one or more of the current parts of the Version and Release fields should be updated. For a rebuild, when the source code hasn't changed, the spec wouldn't need to change either, and only the buildtag would set the rebuilt package apart from the previous one. Björn Persson

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-18 Thread Björn Persson
st}%{?buildtag}" > > Can I ask why this wouldn't be: > > Release: 1%{?buildtag}%{?dist} > > ? Putting the buildtag after the disttag makes it possible to change how the buildtag is generated in a future Fedora release without breaking upgrade paths. B

Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

2020-08-23 Thread Björn Persson
p field always present, with the value 0 when not in use. Yet another option is to put the minorbump after the buildtag. I'd say this is technically manageable, but there is some risk that packagers would do minorbumps wrong by mistake. Björn Persson pgpFWv2VjPrhd.pgp Descripti

Re: The Future of the Java Stack (also regarding ELN and RHEL)

2020-09-09 Thread Björn Persson
program updates, and so on and so forth? And then manually check a bunch of individual upstream websites for updates to programs that aren't in those language-specific repositories either? No way! I run "yum update" and get *all* the updates for my system. Björn Persson pgpmHQ

Re: [Test-Announce] Re: Fedora 33 Beta Go/No-Go and Release Readiness meetings

2020-09-11 Thread Björn Persson
; Sounds like a good change, which should be made for DNS as well. So where is a global pool of volunteer-provided DNS resolvers similar to pool.ntp.org? I've never heard of one, and I suspect it's not advisable to do that with DNS. Björn Persson pgpOgqC0Qs2k_.pgp

Re: F33 update stuck for past 6 days in request for testing->stable

2020-09-12 Thread Björn Persson
ng list? Kevin's wording is perfect. It just needs to be visible in the web interface, with the words "Beta freeze" as a link. Björn Persson pgpfEuTuG6xiz.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedor

Re: btrfs / booting alternative OS versions from subvolumes

2020-09-19 Thread Björn Persson
des that it has been upgraded, and automatically converts the files to the new format. Then you reboot into another OS with an older version of the program, which doesn't understand the new format. Björn Persson pgpa6uCnwWouC.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: This is bad, was Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

2020-09-28 Thread Björn Persson
lly qualified domain name. Now people are saying in this thread that systemd-resolved treats both as local names and doesn't even try to look them up in DNS. So does systemd-resolved comply with this standard or not? Björn Persson pgpR1LBeVrXuG.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: This is bad, was Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

2020-09-28 Thread Björn Persson
I don't mind "losing" LLMNR, MDNS and synthetic records, which never existed in DNS to begin with. It would however be good to have the split DNS feature, and I see no reason why that wouldn't work with DNSsec. Of course, whether a DO query gets a useful response

Re: This is bad, was Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

2020-09-29 Thread Björn Persson
Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mo, 28.09.20 22:54, Björn Persson (Bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: > > > It can work in company-scope if the company has competent network > > admins. My local DNS server at home resolves local hostnames to private > > IPv4 addresses in the 192.

Re: This is bad, was Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

2020-09-30 Thread Björn Persson
Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 7:48 AM Björn Persson wrote: > > > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Mo, 28.09.20 22:54, Björn Persson (Bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: > > > > > > > It can work in company-scope if the company has c

Re: This is bad, was Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

2020-09-30 Thread Björn Persson
d.service > # mv /etc/resolv.conf.orig-with-nm /etc/resolv.conf > # systemctl restart NetworkManager.service So there's no need to revert any changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf? I've seen some discussion about that file in relation to systemd-resolved. It seemed far from easy to understand ho

Re: fedpkg push - traceback - and a PR created?

2020-10-04 Thread Björn Persson
e a pull-request", it would be better if it said "You can create a pull-request here:". Björn Persson pgpyFM46RxEdz.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: fedpkg push - traceback - and a PR created?

2020-10-04 Thread Björn Persson
Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Sun, 2020-10-04 at 21:39 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2020-10-04 at 12:31 +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > > > On 04.10.2020 12:04, Barry Scott wrote: > > > > > Why is a

Re: F34 Change proposal: DNS Over TLS (System-Wide Change)

2020-10-08 Thread Björn Persson
ould have chosen to "deal with" the problem then, if they cared about DNSsec. You Michael replied to Florian and called DNSsec-aware clients "a quite specialized use-case", so you can't claim that you were unaware of the issue. "It's too late" rings holl

Re: Finalizing Fedora's Switch to Python 3

2017-07-29 Thread Björn Persson
nctions, and with consideration for forward and backward compatibility. Providing an unversioned "python" serves only to lure incautious programmers into using it where they should use a versioned name. Björn Persson pgpMBgBWsKtiZ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur __

Re: Finalizing Fedora's Switch to Python 3

2017-07-30 Thread Björn Persson
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4864 18 aug 2016 /usr/bin/python2.6 $ rpm -q --file /usr/bin/python* python-2.6.6-66.el6_8.x86_64 python-2.6.6-66.el6_8.x86_64 python-2.6.6-66.el6_8.x86_64 Unless this is different in RHEL than in CentOS I don't see how /usr/bin/python2 could be missing if /us

Re: Finalizing Fedora's Switch to Python 3

2017-07-30 Thread Björn Persson
ot;python" and it works because > thats what upstream decided? If they don't care about the details of versions, then their code can't be expected to work on other versions than the one they have on their workstation, and their shebang line should be versioned to reflect this.

Re: [DRAFT] Mass package change proposal

2017-08-06 Thread Björn Persson
subpackage. I've already taken care of python-sphinxcontrib- adadomain, but I see some packages with Arabic translations that will have to be fixed up by hand unless the script becomes smarter. Björn Persson pgpWkFr2W6A9L.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: F28 System Wide Change: Switch libidn-using applications to IDNA2008

2017-08-25 Thread Björn Persson
ly. The existence of LibIDN2 indicates that Simon Josefsson is a rare responsible programmer who wants application authors to be able to rely on his libraries. I ask the breakage-loving majority to please respect his decision, and not force their own preferences on his work. Björn Persson pgpdXHtX

Translations in an RPM spec (was: Ye Cheng: Looking for a sponsor/reintroduce myself)

2017-08-25 Thread Björn Persson
ot;, where "xx" is the language code. Here's a spec you can use as an example: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-sphinxcontrib-adadomain/raw/master/f/python-sphinxcontrib-adadomain.spec Björn Persson pgpi1TB22GST4.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___

Re: F28 System Wide Change: Switch libidn-using applications to IDNA2008

2017-08-26 Thread Björn Persson
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Björn Persson wrote: > > IDNA2008 isn't fully compatible with IDNA2003, and therefore the > > switch should be done only after application authors have assessed > > the impact on their particular application. Parallel-installable > > libraries

Re: Translations in an RPM spec

2017-08-26 Thread Björn Persson
' proposal, please make it work together with translations in the spec, not replace them. Björn Persson pgpIJYIODKPdr.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Is it possible to upload new sources of a package from a URL?

2017-10-02 Thread Björn Persson
and verify that it matches the hash. Björn Persson pgpgg3jeDBRJz.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-packaging] Package naming question

2017-12-04 Thread Björn Persson
ad, then I guess it makes sense to have "rust" in the package name. Björn Persson pgpnoq3lwYxRL.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signatur ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

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