Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-02 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/2/20 12:55 AM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: Lennart, We don't need more systemd-bloat just to boot our systems. However your bootloader works, it doesn't really matter if it's not up to snuff with GRUB2. When it supports LUKS, LVM, LUKS+LVM, a recovery console and several filesystems, then

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-02 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/2/20 2:56 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: On Thursday, July 2, 2020 5:08:14 AM MST Brandon Nielsen wrote: On 7/2/20 12:55 AM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: Lennart, We don't need more systemd-bloat just to boot our systems. However your bootloader works, it doesn't really matter i

Re: booting successfully with read-only file system

2020-07-02 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/2/20 3:10 PM, Christopher Engelhard wrote: On 02.07.20 17:53, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: It would be great if we could fairly reliably boot with a read-only root file system, all the way to the graphical environment. Obviously, such a machine will not be fully functional, but for us

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-02 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/2/20 3:19 PM, Martin Jackson wrote: 5-10 years? A better estimate would be 15-20 years. People aren't going to throw away perfectly fine systems and jump to new "cloud" platforms just because the OS they were using dropped BIOS support. They'll just stop updating, and likely move to somet

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-02 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/2/20 3:42 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: GRUB2, which is a UEFI bootloader as well, is a far superior bootloader to systemd-bloat, and it supports usecases that are supported by Anaconda (the Fedora installer framework) that systemd-bloat doesn't, as addressed elsewhere in this thread by m

Swap on ZRAM thank you

2020-07-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
I have been playing with swap on ZRAM some in the past days, and more formally running it through it's paces during today's test day[0], and I just want to say thank you to everyone involved in getting it ready for release. It has made a marked difference in desktop responsiveness when doing me

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-08 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/8/20 10:47 AM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 3:17:16 AM MST Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 01:26:31PM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: Well, if that is your concern the answer is secure boot. That will not only prevent tampering with /boot files, but als

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

2020-07-09 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/9/20 12:24 PM, Alexey A. wrote: I agree. I think that 4GB cap is too small and 4 GB may be used quickly. Since the values being used seem to have been determined somewhat heuristically for both EarlyOOM and SwapOnZRAM, I was wondering if there was any prediction for how the values migh

Re: memory testing

2020-07-15 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/15/20 12:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Hi, While bad RAM is uncommon, it comes up with some regularity to cause folks a lot of grief. I'm wondering if there's a way to make it easier to get bad news :-\ In particular there are cases where RAM defects just don't show up with a few hours of memt

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

2020-07-18 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/18/20 5:09 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: On Saturday, July 18, 2020 3:25:35 AM MST Benjamin Berg wrote: But thrashing scenarios are exactly that, *technically* running but *practically* dead. Thrashing doesn't mean the system is unusable, or anything of the sort. It's only an issue if

Fedora 32 aarch64 build failures on copr

2020-07-28 Thread Brandon Nielsen
I've been seeing build failures for Fedora 32[0][1][2], always the same failure: "xgcc: fatal error: Killed signal terminated program cc1plus" I can't find any more detail than that. These builds succeed locally with mock. The copr failures are reproducible so I'm sure I'm doing something wron

Re: Help with reviewing a compiler toolchain

2020-07-28 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/28/20 3:46 PM, Andy Mender wrote: Dear Fedorians, I really need some help with a review of a GCC toolchain variant I've started recently: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350884 A Koji build of the most recent SRPM: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4803504

Re: Fedora 32 aarch64 build failures on copr

2020-07-29 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/28/20 4:39 PM, Jeff Law wrote: On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 15:29 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 2:01 pm, Jeff Law wrote: If this is a new failure (say in the last week), it could be an out of memory scenario. Try disabling LTO. The standard way to do that is %define

Re: Fedora 32 aarch64 build failures on copr

2020-07-29 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/29/20 4:40 PM, Jeff Law wrote: ACK. I don't see msp430-development-tools in the standard fedora repos. So I'll leave it to you to fix the package in whatever repo it lives in. Also note, you may ultimately be better off getting msp430 added to the cross- {binutils,gcc} packages rather th

Re: Fedora 32 aarch64 build failures on copr

2020-07-29 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 7/29/20 6:09 PM, Jeff Law wrote: On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 17:14 -0500, Brandon Nielsen wrote: On 7/29/20 4:40 PM, Jeff Law wrote: ACK. I don't see msp430-development-tools in the standard fedora repos. So I'll leave it to you to fix the package in whatever repo it lives in. Also

Self Introduction: Brandon Nielsen

2016-06-28 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Hi, my name is Brandon Nielsen and I've been a Fedora user since FC5. In a past career, I maintained a private yum repository for a Beowulf cluster running RHEL. I currently do some development on the TI MSP430 microcontrollers, mostly in a hobby capacity. Awhile ago I started packagin

Re: Orphaning msp430-binutils, msp430-gcc, msp430-libc, mp430mcu, and mspdebug

2016-07-05 Thread Brandon Nielsen
the new TI upstream MSP430 toolchain through package review under a new package name [1]. If someone is looking to adopt these packages, it would be great if we could work together to get them migrated to the new upstream. 1 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350884 Brandon Nielse

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Network Time Security

2020-04-07 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/6/20 4:08 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: [snip] It doesn't make much sense to me for this to default to on if we still "trust" the DNS servers provided over DHCP. Additionally, it's not clear to me from the proposal what it would take for an NTP server provided over DHCP to be "trusted", or wh

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Network Time Security

2020-04-08 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/8/20 3:42 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 01:41:48PM -0500, Brandon Nielsen wrote: It doesn't make much sense to me for this to default to on if we still "trust" the DNS servers provided over DHCP. What is the issue with using untrusted DNS servers here

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Network Time Security

2020-04-09 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/9/20 10:42 AM, Björn Persson wrote: [snip] Fedora's defaults should be chosen to keep users reasonably secure every way we can. If you as a sysadmin trust the DHCP server and every other device on the local network – including any device that may be connected in the future – then you should

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Network Time Security

2020-04-09 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/9/20 11:06 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 02:09:01PM -0500, Brandon Nielsen wrote: On 4/8/20 3:42 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: What is the issue with using untrusted DNS servers here? An NTS client is supposed to verify the certificates. Local MITM attackers shouldn&#

Re: Previous awesome background images

2020-04-20 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 4/20/20 11:54 AM, James Cassell wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, at 12:46 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On 17. 04. 20 16:07, Kamil Paral wrote: https://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2018/03/06/fedora-28s-desktop-background-design/ I am sad we haven't followed the pattern. (However I don't know the reasoning for

Re: Basic graphics mode / 'nomodeset' testing request, round 2

2019-04-12 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Desktop, UEFI, Z87 chipset, Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3, AMD R9 280X GPU - Fails, does not show the specified error instead journalctl shows: gnome-shell[1820]: Failed to create backend: No GPUs found with udev Which is likely caused by (from dmesg): [ 11.994228] [drm] VGACON disable radeon kerne

Re: F33 Workstation/btrfs: Can't reinstall while preserving /home

2020-10-09 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/9/20 12:02 PM, Christopher Engelhard wrote: Hi, I just tried to reinstall a Fedora 33 Workstation system that uses the F33 default btrfs partitioning (i.e. subvolumes for / and /home). I can't seem to find an option to install to / while preserving the /home subvolume, Anaconda insists on a

Re: Orphaned packages (including pdc-client) looking for new maintainers

2020-10-20 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/19/20 4:55 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote: The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you know for sure that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper reason: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_t

Re: Orphaned packages (including pdc-client) looking for new maintainers

2020-10-20 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/20/20 2:14 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 3:11 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: On 10/20/20 9:08 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: I would be interested in taking celt071 if nobody else wants it. I use Mumble regularly. See also https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2478#comment-695972 I

Re: GVim issues

2020-10-29 Thread Brandon Nielsen
I have been using it pretty much daily and haven't had any issues. Is this only with F33? I have only just updated my "work" machines. Possibly a misbehaving plugin? On 10/29/20 11:29 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Does anybody experience issues with GVim? It happens quite often, that it stops updatin

Mock needs more space

2020-11-19 Thread Brandon Nielsen
I'm attempting an armhfp build with mock and it insists it needs "At least 243MB more space needed on the / filesystem." I have 1.1 TB free on /, so I'm assuming there's some kind of limit set somehow, but I can't figure out how to adjust it. I don't see anything that looks promising in the co

Re: Mock needs more space

2020-11-20 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/20/20 2:03 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote: On Friday, November 20, 2020 2:42:08 AM CET Brandon Nielsen wrote: I'm attempting an armhfp build with mock and it insists it needs "At least 243MB more space needed on the / filesystem." This seems to be a bug in RPM: https://bugz

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-20 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/20/20 1:28 PM, Dominique Martinet wrote: Ben Cotton wrote on Fri, Nov 20, 2020: == How To Test == This change needs to be tested on as many different audio cards as possible. The same test plan applies here as with PulseAudio. To test, one needs to install the pipewire-pulse library (whic

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-20 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/20/20 4:31 PM, Naheem Zaffar wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 19:47, Brandon Nielsen <mailto:niels...@jetfuse.net>> wrote: On 11/20/20 1:28 PM, Dominique Martinet wrote: > Ben Cotton wrote on Fri, Nov 20, 2020: l the pipewire-pulse library (which >> remo

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-21 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/21/20 4:05 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 4:57 PM Tom Seewald wrote: So has this essentially been decided on by the working group? If not, what concerns would be listened to? Well, the idea would be for us to put it into Rawhide and do a series of test days/weeks to get

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-21 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/21/20 6:00 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: [Snip] I feel like for something as fundamental to the desktop experience as audio a few test days would really expose all of the pain points. At least personally my uses of audio vary quite a bit day to day and week to week, especially in the

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/23/20 10:30 AM, Andreas Tunek wrote: Den lör 21 nov. 2020 kl 15:31 skrev James Szinger <mailto:jszin...@gmail.com>>: On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:35:19 -0600 Brandon Nielsen mailto:niels...@jetfuse.net>> wrote: > If it has changed, it would be really great

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/23/20 11:48 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2020-11-23 at 18:20 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 06:01:18PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 11/20/20 5:26 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: The pulseaudio package will be uninstalled and pipewire-pulse will be installed. pipewire

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2020-11-25 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/25/20 8:18 AM, Wim Taymans wrote: So, the current sentiment is: * provide an easy way to test in f33, either copr or with regular packages. - rawhide is a not a good place to get good testing anyway * encourage people to test. Provide instructions on how to do this and how to leave

Advice for packaging a TI msp430 cross compiler

2020-08-13 Thread Brandon Nielsen
I have been working toward getting a "modern" cross compiling toolchain included in Fedora[0] ever since mspgcc stopped working[1] 4 years ago. Up until recently, my efforts have been almost entirely centered around packaging TI / Mitto Systems' somewhat bespoke branch of GCC[2]. It has been s

Re: Btrfs by default status updates, 2020-08-23

2020-08-24 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 8/23/20 10:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: [Snip] - Communication: + Fedora Magazine article "Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33" will be published Monday, 24 August. - Documentation: + A partial list of docs needing updates https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/158#comment-672898 https://l

Re: Btrfs by default status updates, 2020-08-23

2020-08-24 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 8/24/20 1:29 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: On 8/23/20 10:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: [Snip] - Communication: + Fedora Magazine article "Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33" will be published Monday, 24 August. - Documentation: + A partial list of docs needing updates https://pagure

Re: Fedora 33 blocker status , with CALL FOR TESTING on abrt/libreport

2020-09-12 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 9/11/20 3:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2020-09-11 at 15:50 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: Accepted blockers - 1. libreport — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1860616 — ON_QA abrt-server errors when processing zstd compressed core dumps produced by systemd-246~rc

Re: Fedora 33 blocker status , with CALL FOR TESTING on abrt/libreport

2020-09-12 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 9/12/20 5:10 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: This is pending for 3 days, so --advisory doesn't work since it's still not in u-t. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-fd3d0e6879 Instead I did bodi updates download --updateid=FEDORA-2020-fd3d0e6879 dnf update *rpm And it skips a bunch

Re: Thunderbird - Unpleasant Surprise

2020-10-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/6/20 2:22 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 06.10.2020 21:08, Gordon Messmer wrote: I definitely think this should be rolled back.  We're past the beta freeze, and IMO, this violates the updates policy which states "Package maintainers MUST:   Avoid Major version updates, ABI breaka

Re: Thunderbird - Unpleasant Surprise

2020-10-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/6/20 2:45 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 06.10.2020 21:24, Brandon Nielsen wrote: Sounds to me they don't expect 78.2.1 to be entirely compatible with profiles from the previous version. $ rpm -qa thunderbird thunderbird-78.3.1-1.fc32.x86_64 Version 78.3.1 is production

Re: Thunderbird - Unpleasant Surprise

2020-10-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/6/20 3:03 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 06.10.2020 21:48, Brandon Nielsen wrote: Yes, but they clearly don't expect updates to work given the changes mentioned later in this thread and the release notes, and Fedora has users that will be updating that need to be consi

Re: Thunderbird - Unpleasant Surprise

2020-10-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/6/20 3:11 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: On 10/6/20 3:03 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 06.10.2020 21:48, Brandon Nielsen wrote: Yes, but they clearly don't expect updates to work given the changes mentioned later in this thread and the release notes, and Fedora has users that

Re: Thunderbird - Unpleasant Surprise

2020-10-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 10/6/20 3:14 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 06.10.2020 22:11, Brandon Nielsen wrote: That link shows security fixes for 68.x from only a week ago. August 25, 2020 (68.12) vs. September 22, 2020 (78.3). But still, the last 68. release was 5 days ago[0], hardly seems unsupported

Re: HEADS UP: Update to tesseract-5.0.0 in rawhide

2021-12-16 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 12/15/21 4:11 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: Are you planning to bring these to F35, as well? Tesseract-5.0.0 appears to be mostly a bugfix release along with some other improvements, so I dunno (and haven't tested so far - the heads up was a few hours before the push). Sorry to pile on but

Re: HEADS UP: Update to tesseract-5.0.0 in rawhide

2021-12-17 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 12/17/21 11:22 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: On 17.12.21 16:55, Sandro Mani wrote: On 17.12.21 16:13, Michael J Gruber wrote: On 12/15/21 4:11 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: Sorry to pile on but I somehow lost the original e-mail. "/usr/share/tessconfigs" seems to be missing so output to PDF or tx

Re: F36 Change: Enable fs-verity in RPM (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-01-26 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 1/26/22 3:25 AM, Roberto Sassu via devel wrote: [Snip] - web servers or other kind of servers where you, as client, would like the guarantee that your data is processed only if the software running in the server is not compromised For what it's worth, I, and several people I work w

Re: CVE-2021-4034: why is pkexec still a thing?

2022-01-30 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 1/27/22 10:50 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 08:30 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 15:18 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: There are still over a dozen packages in the distro that require it: Hi, the gnome-software also calls pkexec is some occasions, o

Re: Looking for %{forgemeta} GitHub example

2022-02-22 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 2/22/22 1:19 AM, Mattia Verga via devel wrote: Il 21/02/22 22:09, Fabio Valentini ha scritto: Hi! I would recommend that you use the standard source handling as documented on the SourceURL page. The forge macros are no longer actively maintained or developed, the last fix / update they receiv

Re: Looking for %{forgemeta} GitHub example

2022-02-24 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 2/22/22 1:56 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: Brandon Nielsen writes: I would like to see the forge macros removed from the guidelines if development truly has ceased. I would like to get into them and at least see what needs to change but... the internal implementation is somewhat

Re: Linux Plumbers Conference - Open Printing Micro Conference

2021-09-23 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 9/22/21 12:54 AM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: On 9/21/21 1:21 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 5:36 AM Zdenek Dohnal wrote: - several other printer applications was implemented by Till Kamppeter[1][2][3][4] - Till makes it available as Snaps, I'm planning to package it into Fedora as

Re: Linux Plumbers Conference - Open Printing Micro Conference

2021-09-26 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 9/25/21 8:55 PM, Solomon Peachy wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 09:01:07PM -0500, Brandon Nielsen wrote: For anyone looking to play with these right now without a snap, I've started a copr[0]. I don't have the systemd service working yet, but you can start the printer app serve

Re: Linux Plumbers Conference - Open Printing Micro Conference

2021-09-26 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 9/23/21 9:01 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: [Snip] For anyone looking to play with these right now without a snap, I've started a copr[0]. I don't have the systemd service working yet, but you can start the printer app server manually. It gives you a good feel for where the projec

Re: Should fedora workstation incude cups by default

2021-10-26 Thread Brandon Nielsen
It has been included as far as I remember (just go to localhost:631 to check). It is still included in F35. As far as I know there are no plans to remove it for F36, so it still exists in Rawhide. On 10/25/21 2:52 AM, Felipe Borges wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 1:42 AM Reon Beon via devel wr

Re: F36 Change: Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI. (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-11-29 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/29/21 1:33 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Users_are_admins_by_default_in_Anaconda = Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI = == Summary == The Anaconda installer GUI will have the administrative rights checkbox on the User screen ticked by

Re: F36 Change: Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI. (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-12-01 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 11/29/21 1:33 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Users_are_admins_by_default_in_Anaconda = Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI = == Summary == The Anaconda installer GUI will have the administrative rights checkbox on the User screen ticked by

Re: New memory tester application potentially to replace memtest86+: PCMemTest

2021-02-08 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 2/8/21 2:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:46 AM Vít Ondruch wrote: Being devils advocate, but should we have the memtest86 or similar by default? I have certainly not used this feature in my 10+ yeas with Fedora. You mean get rid of it (from media and installations)? B

Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

2021-02-20 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 2/19/21 3:47 PM, Tom Seewald wrote: Well, the idea would be for us to put it into Rawhide and do a series of test days/weeks to get feedback and close any remaining gaps. If it doesn't manage to pull through by beta freeze, then we would revert and push it back to Fedora 35. Did these test d

Re: Building custom kernels

2021-03-01 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 2/28/21 12:00 PM, Julian Sikorski wrote: W dniu 27.02.2021 o 20:59, Julian Sikorski pisze: Hi, I am trying to test some Renoir s2idle patches [1]. It appears that Fedora kernel source is now maintained on gitlab as kernel-ark [2]. What I tried is adding the patches to the fedora-5.11 branc

Re: Fedora Account Migration & Production Deployment Update: COMPLETE!

2021-03-26 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/26/21 3:24 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:48:39PM -0400, Christopher wrote: [Snip] * In many places, including accounts.fedoraproject.org, in order to log in, you have to append the OTP to your password, so it doesn't really play nice with password managers. This is

Re: Fedora Account Migration & Production Deployment Update: COMPLETE!

2021-03-26 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/26/21 3:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 03:26:53PM -0500, Brandon Nielsen wrote: This is pretty common in my experience; it seems like password managers should support this pattern. I can't say I have ever appended an OTP to a regular password, and I us

Re: Fedora Account Migration & Production Deployment Update: COMPLETE!

2021-03-29 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/29/21 6:02 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 11:02:58PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: Kevin Fenzi wrote: I'd like us to add security query/respond pairs. Those can very easily weaken security, as the answers are often public and easy for an attacker to look up, especially when

Re: PWG virtual meetup 2021

2021-05-06 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 5/6/21 12:18 AM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: [Snip] More terminology and tricks here [1] and here [2]. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_printing_problems#Terminology_for_printing_and_scanning [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_printing_problems#Useful_tricks P.S. I kn

Re: PWG virtual meetup 2021

2021-05-07 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 5/7/21 12:01 AM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: On 5/6/21 9:36 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: Would you want to see that ported to a "How to debug printing problems" Quick Doc[0]? Probably under "Usage and customisation"? I could take a crack at a draft. [0] - https://docs.fedorapro

Re: Tenacity

2023-02-07 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 2/7/23 1:25 PM, Philip Rhoades via devel wrote: People, Has there been any discussion about getting a Tenacity RPM going for Fedora? - I would prefer that to having to use the AppImage version . . Thanks, Phil. I have a copr[0]. It has some issues and the current version is old. I have

Re: Tenacity

2023-02-08 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 2/8/23 10:59 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: stan via devel writes: As they say in the BUILDING.md file, though, fedora lacks wxWidgets 3.1.5 or greater. That stops the configuration, cmake -G Ninja -S . -B build when it errors out. That's odd; as far as I can see, F36 has 3.1.5 and F37

Re: Tenacity

2023-02-08 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 2/8/23 9:30 PM, Reon Beon via devel wrote: wxGTK should have that... It should, and they fixed it, but the fix never made it to the 3.1.X series as far as I can tell. 3.2.1 in F37 at least builds, but for some reason liblibnyquist.so is missing. F38 / Rawhide has some lisp issue with the

Re: OpenPrinting NEWS from Linux Plumbers 2022 AKA feel free to try driverless printing and printer applications in SNAPs

2022-09-16 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 9/15/22 12:01 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 15/09/2022 13:35, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: 1. install snapd No. Thanks. Please build regular RPMs. I maintain a copr[0]. Unfortunately a move and a new job have kept me from giving them as much love as I would like recently, but they at

Re: OpenPrinting NEWS from Linux Plumbers 2022 AKA feel free to try driverless printing and printer applications in SNAPs

2022-09-16 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 9/16/22 8:40 AM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: On 9/15/22 12:01 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 15/09/2022 13:35, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: 1. install snapd No. Thanks. Please build regular RPMs. I maintain a copr[0]. Unfortunately a move and a new job have kept me from giving them as

Re: News from printing world aka PWG May 2022 meetup

2022-06-02 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
maybe Brandon Nielsen - has them in copr) That would be me[1], though I haven't been giving them the attention they need lately. [Snip] [0] - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/1878 [1] - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nielsenb/pr

Re: F37 proposal: Mumble 1.4 (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-07-18 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 7/18/22 12:29 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mumble1.4 This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the F

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

2022-04-03 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 4/3/22 6:45 PM, Ian Laurie wrote: I noticed in VirtualBox with GNOME and 20220401.n.0 that if I resized the VM window when logged into GNOME it slammed me back to the  greeter, apparently without killing my login session. I still had a VM from a week ago based on the 1.2 cut, but it was ful

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-15 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 4/13/22 6:52 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: A huge thanks to Thomas Schmitt for posting xorrisofs arguments :) Here is a lorax PR switching to grub2 for BIOS and changing the layout of the iso as described in his post: https://github.com/weldr/lorax/pull/1226 And a Fedora 36 iso: https://bcl.fed

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 4/15/22 5:06 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Initial test with a CD-R and an HP Compaq 8510w are mixed. It boots to GRUB, but it spins a long time blinking the HDD light displaying nothing but "Welcome to GRUB". It eventually spits out "failure reading sector 0x4f838 from 'hd31'." 'hd31' loo