Re: "Staying close to upstream"

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 16:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > * This policy of sticking religiously to upstream means we are not shipping > KDE integration for Firefox, despite patches from openSUSE existing. This > makes Firefox suck under KDE. Our Firefox maintainers refuse to do anything > about i

Re: "Staying close to upstream"

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 17:49 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Chris Tyler wrote: > > If you (or whoever is interested) can't get those patches through the > > upstream review process for technical reasons, then perhaps they're ugly > > patches. If you can't get them

Re: Putting cross compilers into Fedora

2010-09-01 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 17:00 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 09/01/10 16:46, Andrew Haley wrote: > >>> rpm2cpio package | cpio -i - > >> > >> Isn't that easy, you'll have to do a bunch of fixups after doing so to > >> have things actually work. > > > > Usually not. Nine times out of ten, (probably

Re: Call for Test Days for Fedora 16

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 10:28 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hi, folks. The Test Day cycle for Fedora 16 will open shortly, and we're > putting out the call for anyone who has an idea for a Test Day. There > are many open slots on the schedule - > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_16_test_day

Would like to claim deprecated package "brandy"

2011-07-30 Thread Chris Tyler
I just found out about the package "brandy" and was saddened to realize that I missed the orphan-deprecation announcement. I'd like to take this one. Oddly, I see that the dead.package file states that: This package was retired on 2011-07-25 due to it being unable to build this pa

Re: Call for Test Days for Fedora 16

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 18:43 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 10:23 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: > > > Hi Adam, > > > > On the week of Aug 7 David Shein and I will be at POSSE-RIT teaching > > professors how open source communities work. On

Re: [Fwd: [fedora-arm] Activity Day June 10th - ARMv7 F15 hardfp bringup]

2011-06-04 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 20:53 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > [0] We're making a "one time" incompatible ABI switch in F-15 bringup to > the "hard float" ABI defined in section 6 of the ARM AAPCS (commonly > referred to as the ARM EABI - but that doesn't actually exist as a > name). The procedure call st

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 15 ARM hardfp Virtual FAD (Fedora Activity Day) - FRIDAY

2011-06-29 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 02:17 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Join us on Friday to celebrate July with another in our series of VFADs! Hi Jon, Just a heads up that you won't have many Canadians joining you -- July 1 is Canada Day, a *big* party date on our calendar. -Chris -- devel ma

Re: Shell commands like to OS/2 shell (or MS PowerShell)

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 01:51 +0300, Slava Zanko wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folk, > > I want to propose new idea about names of command line utilites... > > For example, all present utilites have sence just for guru's (ls, rm, > fsck etc), but for novies it's h

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 12:45 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 13:37:11 -0400, > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 10:08 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > > I don't see how using Mozilla trademarks provides significant benefit > > > to Fedora. It seems to

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 00:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/26/2010 12:18 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: > > > > Let's not be brash. If we want to ship TB with one small patch, it's a > > simple matter of asking. > > If it was so simple, why haven't we do

Re: Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 23:55 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > You mean "compliance" with Mozilla's own "standards" such as APNG which > require a bundled hacked version of a system library to support? Kevin, you keep bringing up APNG, so let me address that one. I know the story because the Mozilla im

ARM Architecture - Package Updates in git

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Tyler
The ARM Secondary Arch project[0] is working on an F15 release for the existing armv5tel architecture as well as the new armv7hl architecture (with hardfp ABI). This effort has been previously announced and is ongoing. A number of minor package changes are required as a result of this effort: (1)

Re: Using plymouth during hibernation

2011-12-04 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 16:53 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:36:40PM +0530, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote: > > > Can Plymouth be modified so that it shows up during hibernation and > > wake-up too? In that case, can anyone guide me on how to do it? I am > > ready to do the codi

Re: Packaging:ScriptletSnippets

2012-01-23 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 21:24 +, Sérgio Basto wrote: > Hi, > from here > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Icon_Cache > I see > /usr/bin/update-desktop-database &> /dev/null || : > > what does mean this part of the code "|| :" ? || is logical-OR with optimization (i.e

Re: How to filter posts on planet.fedoraproject.org?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 15:15 +0100, jonathan MERCIER wrote: > Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 à 16:50 +0300, Pavel Alexeev (aka > Pahan-Hubbitus) a écrit : > > 16.01.2011 16:21, jonathan MERCIER wrote: > > > Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 à 16:10 +0300, Pavel Alexeev (aka > > > Pahan-Hubbitus) a écrit : >

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 17:37 +0100, drago01 wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > > On 03/20/2012 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> > >> That said, I considera cross-building environment for secondary arch to > >> be inevitable, which would at least help for the clas

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:21 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: > drago01 píše v Út 20. 03. 2012 v 17:57 +0100: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > > > On 03/20/2012 09:37 AM, drago01 wrote: > > >>> > > >>> I'm a big fan of cross compilation, but introducing it into Fedora in > > >>

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 05:04 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > - Original Message - > > just a side note - I was told by an OpenSUSE on ARM person that they > > use > > x86 boxes with the user-space qemu virtual machine. It works quite > > fast, > > but still needs some hacking eg. in test-sui

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 02:38 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > And finally, for our build speed issue, the practical consideration will be > whether the parallelism will actually speed our builds up. Right now our > builds are either serial or have portions parallelized with "make -j", which > assumes

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 16:12 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: > > Despite the fact that this is pretty wild guess, I don't think that > Fedora should only care about what's happening on the developed > countries and ignore the rest of the world. I don't think this is necessarily a developed-vs-develop

Re: Updated Fedora ARM qemu images?

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 12:10 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: > I started looking at: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu > > VM starts okay in F16 with setsebool -P virt_use_execmem=on > > But the image is a Fedora 12 system. Any updated images out there? New yum-install

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-15 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 10:07 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > Some requisite patches weren't upstream in time for Fedora 19's 3.9 GA > kernel, but are in the 3.10 update. This means Arndale should be fully > supportable in Fedora 20. Meanwhile, there is an F19 remix for Arndale > using a later k

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-15 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 10:28 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > On 07/15/2013 10:15 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: > > I think that's s/Arndale/Chromebook/ > > Same SoC, different peripherals sticking out. Right -- but also different boot processes. I was just noting that the image fo

Re: Scratch Builds

2013-07-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 23:42 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Just in case, let's say we have the package foo-1.0 if I make a > scratch build of package foo-1.1, that doesn't count at all, isn't > it? > I mean can I send an update foo-.1.1 completely different of the > foo-1.1 sent as a scratch bui

Re: IDLE state:High CPU utilization

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 18:47 +0530, magina antimage wrote: > Hi, > I have ported fedora for my target board, >i am getting high CPU utilisation(30-35%) even when my system is > idle (no gnome / X session). > i used top command to see which process is consuming CPU,but couldn't > find any. >