Re: Why packages sources are NOT mirrored?

2015-09-17 Thread DJ Delorie
Stephen John Smoogen writes: > I would talk with the mirrors in your area and find out why they don't > mirror it. Do mirror sites have the option to not include sources? [*] If so, does letting them have this choice have GPL implications? I mean, if they're distributing binaries without makin

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread DJ Delorie
> What's the rationale here? I mean, we have so many dependencies, if > you want to minimize them, you have a lng way to go... When I bootstrapped Fedora for ARM way back when, I had to deal with these dependencies. A lot. Finding a minimal set of RPMs to cross-compile to get a bootable cor

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread DJ Delorie
> If I saw systemd-filesystem installed, then I would think that > something needs to be placed into the systemd folder structure, Perhaps the bug is this: that you need to install a whole other RPM just to make a directory exist so you can put a file in it. Why can't the RPM providing the file

Re: The coding in binary code and assembly are necessary currently?

2014-09-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> The coding in assembly is necessary currently? Yes, but only for limited cases where a higher level language is inappropriate or insufficient. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject

Re: The coding in binary code and assembly are necessary currently?

2014-09-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> that question makes no sense at all and it's the wrong mailing-list The question made sense to me, and where else would one discuss development besides a devel@ list? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Condu

Re: [systemd-devel] I wonder… why systemd provokes this amount of polarity and resistance

2014-09-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> For the journal you always keep all log history in it's original > state On low-bandwidth systems, like laptops or diskless nodes, it's a performance hit to generate the log entry in the first place. It's really important to be able to configure the system to *generate* a minimal amount of com

Re: FESCO request to revert password confirmation change in F22

2015-03-09 Thread DJ Delorie
> Why not? The user surely knows better what a good password is than the > software does. If the user picks a crappy password, there's probably a good > reason. You have an alarmingly naive understanding of our user base... (not that *I* want to give up control of my passwords, but I'm not an

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-07-01 Thread DJ Delorie
Neal Gompa writes: > Oh man, that takes me back! I started on DOS with the MS-DOS Editor, > then went onto the DOS port of Emacs and using DJGPP, then jumped to > Linux years later... Now *that* takes me back to the days when I wrote DJGPP ;-) And for anyone who thinks vi is hard to use, try the

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> Where is the hardware? -- development boards -- BeagleBoard PandaBoard (dual-core 1GHz, 1GB) PandaBoard ES (dual-core 1.2GHz, 1GB) You can buy the above at digikey, they've been shipping for a while. They come with Ubuntu Desktop, just add keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Raspberry Pi - slower,

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> From what I know about the Fedora on ARM, Please check your "what you know" against the current situtation, it's very easy to let obsolete impressions carry forth, but they're no longer applicable. > they use a rather scary looking pile of development boards with very > poor I/O. Buy a trimsl

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-23 Thread DJ Delorie
> always with the caveat that you can't just use "make -j 288" on them. Why not? Multi-CPU machines is very old technology. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-23 Thread DJ Delorie
> Glad it works for you, but I need a real system, like a Netwinder. So buy a trimslice and use the internal SSD or sata disk. The trimslice has everything the netwinder has (and more), and uses half the power. http://trimslice.com/web/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-23 Thread DJ Delorie
> So I see, thanks. DJ's original suggestion was too forceful in insisting > on iSCSI. Sorry, I'm a big fan of iSCSI on trimslices. The SATA interface is on USB but the gigE isn't, so network (iscsi) is about 3x faster than a local disk, if you have a big raid server on the other end. I have tw

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-23 Thread DJ Delorie
> i.e., by buying a Trimslice, you give money to The Enemy! What a horrible thing to say about a company that's put a lot of effort into supporting their products on Free Software platforms! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/deve

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-26 Thread DJ Delorie
> Any particular reason why you boot the thing via tftp? I'd expect > just having /boot on the sd card (which you need for boot anyway) is > easier, especially when it comes to kernel updates. I wanted the minimum on the sdcard (it just has the tftboot script) because our build farm only has one

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-26 Thread DJ Delorie
> Which leads me to a rant about ARM. G RANT!! I didn't think > I'd ever love the BIOS, but compared to the alternatives (UEFI and a > million different ARM bootloaders) it's simple and effective. This is getting way off-topic, but... most linux-capable ARM chips support a BIOS in the "pc"

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-26 Thread DJ Delorie
> Given that the "pc" sense of BIOS includes having arguments returned in > x86 registers, I really don't think that's true. ARM has registers too... My point is, the ARM chips *do* support an on-board flash bootloader, and there's no reason why that bootloader couldn't export a standard ABI th

Re: Feedback on secondary architecture promotion requirements draft

2012-04-03 Thread DJ Delorie
> The rules are, it has to be rack mountable hardware Hmmm... how many Raspberry Pis can we fit in a rack? And at $35 each, spares would be cheaper than a warranty ;-) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Feedback on secondary architecture promotion requirements draft

2012-04-03 Thread DJ Delorie
> I don't think those were ever targetted as the ARM builder hardware > that would go in PHX2. Jon mentioned "enterprise class" ARM servers > numerous times. I was assuming that meant rack mountable. It was a joke! Don't you people have a sense of humor? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedo

Re: Feedback on secondary architecture promotion requirements draft

2012-04-04 Thread DJ Delorie
Ok, giving money won't work, and the tax stuff is a mess. Let's ignore that for a second. What about equipment? Consider: if a box showed up at PHX, which contained hardware that met the technology requirements of PHX, with a note that said "here, yours, no strings attached" - what would happen

Re: Feedback on secondary architecture promotion requirements draft

2012-04-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> To be clear, it would be used but ownership still resides with whomever > purchased the hardware. Really? You can't donate hardware, you can only let Fedora borrow it? If you sponsor catering at a con, do you need to get the food back at some point too? Sounds like a silly distinction. -- de

Re: Feedback on secondary architecture promotion requirements draft

2012-04-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> Used. There is a process for donating hardware in place, and it's been > used before. Ok, so it sounds like there's a method in place for entities-with-cash to use that cash to benefit Fedora, as long as they are OK with not getting the tax break and they're willing to go through a little eff

Re: Feedback on secondary architecture promotion requirements draft

2012-04-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> Hardware is likely classified in tax code as an asset, where as food > at a conference is not. Well, it's an asset until you eat it :-) Ok, that explains things. Legal technicality, but still a workable process. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Fedora 18 Release name voting and Poll for whether to continue naming releases

2012-04-20 Thread DJ Delorie
> Seems that some people unhappy with the "Beefy Miracle" are trying > to make sure that we won't ever had any nice and fluffy codename. I voted against all the names that sounded like Ubuntu copy-cats. Ubuntu names have always been (intentionally) adjective-noun, Fedora names have always been a

Re: Like C++? Not afraid of quirky build systems? Seeking LLVM co-maintainers

2012-05-09 Thread DJ Delorie
> Is LLVMpipe needed on, say, ARM? (Does anyone have a screenshot of > GNOME Shell running on such a system?). Is this close enough? http://www.delorie.com/arm/f15-gnome-on-olpc.jpg -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Like C++? Not afraid of quirky build systems? Seeking LLVM co-maintainers

2012-05-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> > Is this close enough? > > > > http://www.delorie.com/arm/f15-gnome-on-olpc.jpg > > That's GDM, and so useless unto the purpose. It's not accelerated. I could log in and got the fallback shell, but it all worked sufficiently well. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora ARM VFAD - May 11th - 12pm (EDT)

2012-05-11 Thread DJ Delorie
> o Default web browser: A web browser is not installed in any image. > Suggestions for a suitable browser welcome. Todo. > o Desktop testing was minimal but breadth is incomplete (no web > browser). Todo. I did install and test firefox, it worked fine, including installing add-ons, downloading

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora ARM VFAD - May 11th - 12pm (EDT)

2012-05-11 Thread DJ Delorie
> Right- followup question: Is Firefox what we want in the X images? What's the default browser for x86 ? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Like C++? Not afraid of quirky build systems? Seeking LLVM co-maintainers

2012-05-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> Maybe we should draw more of a distinction between LLVM and clang, > and use ExclusiveArch: on the latter to whitelist only architectures > we feel comfortable supporting? That would only make it worse, for surely x86-32 and x86-64 would be whitelisted, so most developers would "just use clang

Re: Action required: Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie
I'm going to chime in once to add my thoughts... It's already way too late for me to influence the decision (first I heard of it is "it's decided") so my only recourse is to add it to the long list of things I have to "undo" after installing Fedora. > Sorry guys, this feature sucks. +1 on this

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

2012-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> The feature may be adopted/promoted on the basis of SSD writecycle > preservation, I'm about to put in an SSD boot disk, so I care about this argument, but I'm still not using tmpfs, for my reasons stated previously. > but tmpfs also offers considerable performance improvements for > workloads

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

2012-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> If they really aren't transient then /tmp is the wrong place for them. I will categorically disagree with any argument of the "the user shouldn't be doing that" type. Software exists to serve the user, not the other way around. Besides, I often don't realize that a file isn't transient until

Re: Action required: Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> I am not sure asking is the right thing, I think tmpfs in RAM should > be an *optional* supporte dfeature for those users that have a > workload that *will* benefit from this feature and therefore *will* > seek it. It could have been as easy as a checkbox in the disk partitioning screen of the

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

2012-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> Your quoting removed the fact that I was responding a statement that > ram was the "wrong place". I was simply extending the comment. If > you're willing to say that ram is the wrong place for something then > there is nothing user hostile to say tmp is too. "Wrong" in general has been used he

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

2012-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> it's a bad design to ask the end user about this kind of thing > during installation. IIRC, I suggested a checkbox in the disk partitioning page, where we're already asking the user all sorts of questions about the filesystem layout and mount points (including putting /tmp on a separate partiti

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

2012-06-20 Thread DJ Delorie
> Since you can look at it either way in that regard, it's completely > reasonable to have the option that's best for most users as the > default. As I see it, that's to enable tmpfs for /tmp . Given a choice between "works for everyone" and "works well for most, but fails in obscure ways for som

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

2012-06-21 Thread DJ Delorie
> Additionally, it's been turned on in rawhide. Rawhide nightlies have been failing, though, so how do we test this? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

2014-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> Why do we care about using the Firefox trademark? We should just > rename the package. Debian do that and it hasn't hurt them. Debian has different core values than Fedora does. The relevent Fedora value is this one: Friends We believe success comes from a strong community, made of peo

Re: advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

2014-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> A party who is molesting me with ads and tries to spy on me, hardly > is my friend. Those are strong words, and based mostly on here-say. Even the Fedora installer "molests you with ads" for various non-default packages. Should we ban the installer? Of course not. There are specific issues t

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-11 Thread DJ Delorie
Forcing the users to type a different command name to get exactly the same functionality only serves to annoy the user. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> Nothing will change for you, the yum command will still exist for a > few more Fedora releases, Which only postpones the problem. > just as the `service` command that was superseded by systemctl like > 5 releases of Fedora ago exists. Which is currently annoying me, for the same reason. -- d

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> Actually it is. The "pretty much" part is exactly the reason why to > change the name. If we didn't, a ton of users who are not reading > this conversation would start filing regression bugs. If we set > their expectations right, warning them that yum is no more, they are > far less likely to do

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> If you have any other suggestions other than keeping the name, we > will be open to consider them. My suggestion is to keep the name, but as you're not open to that option, there's no point in me bothering, is there? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: Bugzilla column width - only 80+1 characters!?

2014-06-27 Thread DJ Delorie
> Welcome to the 21st century! Do we have different eyes and brains than we did last century? Because otherwise, excessively wide paragraphs are just as hard to read now as they were then. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: DNF could improve messages about package auto-removal

2015-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> > 1) Some magic command to run after remove to remove the now unneeded > > cruft. > > The vast majority of users don't care about saving that $0.0001 of disk > space, so never need or want to run this and don't. One would hope (assume?) that there's something to keep dnf from thinking I no lo

Re: DNF could improve messages about package auto-removal

2015-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> If the package yumdb entry (now dnfdb) says it was installed as a > dependency This is the part I assumed was there. Is there a separate dnf command to list all installed-as-dependencies that nothing depends on any more? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedorapr

Self-Reintroduction: DJ Delorie

2016-01-28 Thread DJ Delorie
so do electronics, woodworking, and metalworking as hobbies, so I tend to show up in lots of forums... In my new role at Red Hat I'll be focusing more on glibc work, so expect to see me poking my nose around there too now :-) DJ Delorie work: d...@redhat.com personal: d...@delorie.com fedoraprojec

Re: Self-Reintroduction: DJ Delorie

2016-01-28 Thread DJ Delorie
> Hey D.J.! And not to point you out, but I should have clarified this... my first name really is DJ - it's not Dj or D.J. or DeeJay or any other variation (although my account names are always lower case dj). Yes, I have legal proof of this, and no, I won't share it ;-) DJ -- devel mailing lis

Re: Reverting tmp on tmpfs mis-feature

2012-08-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> 2012/8/22 Richard W.M. Jones : > > broken tmp on tmpfs > > Could you give a reason why you think so? Can we not repeat the VERY long thread on why this is/isn't a broken feature? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Feature Suggestion] UsrMove continued

2012-10-09 Thread DJ Delorie
> * /root was initially on a root partition because 'root' user should be > able to login even when all other FS (including /usr) are not mounted. > Since now it can't do anything without /usr anyway, /root dir don't have > to be in /. As an example of why this is a bad idea... I have a file ser

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> i will look at throwing together a script to give us some comparisons > between the build times on the different arches. I've already done this, last time it came up... http://www.delorie.com/arm/koji-compare-build-times.tar.gz -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> > http://www.delorie.com/arm/koji-compare-build-times.tar.gz > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden > 2013-07-12 08:53:13 ERROR 403: Forbidden. "wget" is blocked unless you're clueful enough to use the -U flag. Consider it a spot check for "smart enough to not recursively do

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> i will look at throwing together a script to give us some comparisons > between the build times on the different arches. > I've already done this, last time it came up... > http://www.delorie.com/arm/koji-compare-build-times.tar.gz Also, I'm running the script now, I'll post results when it fi

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> Also, I'm running the script now, I'll post results when it > finishes, let's not ALL hit the koji database at the same time ;-) Results here: http://www.delorie.com/arm/f19-times.html includes the raw time data from koji -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fed

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
I worry about the security implications of mail that would have gone to root@ being either silently discarded or unknowingly ignored. If there is no other way to send mail to local users, we should have a local MTA configured for such. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
I think this is a bad idea, at least for my setup. I really don't want my small expensive boot SSD being beaten to death trying to cache a multi-terabyte array, especially since I have plenty of RAM that already serves that purpose (the machine rarely reboots). At the very least, this feature sh

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
> But these core parts should work for 100 % users. In all cases, which > are in scenarios you can imagine. And in 90 % of scenarios you can not > imagine. Or in scenarios, which are anecdotal for you. +1 - anything which reduces the tools we have to repair systems or investigate security

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
> And the outputs of these files are the exact same text streams you are > used to. However, enhanced with a lot of niceties that make them more > user friendly. For example, you get colors based on the log level, or > there's a line drawn between reboots. You get the time zone corrected, > and yo

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
> it's not going to be shoved down your throat. I've found this to be untrue in Fedora. > > At the very least, this feature should be disabled if the > > SSD is the boot/root drive. When SSDs fail, they fail > > completely, and it's irresponsible to cause early failure > > on a drive that's cri

Re: Does your application depend on, or report, free disk space? Re: F20 Self Contained Change: OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning

2013-07-26 Thread DJ Delorie
> If your package reports disk space usage to users, and bases this on > filesystem free space, please consider whether it might need to take > LVM thin provisioning into account. Perhaps you could include a small code snippet explaining *how* to do this? Is there an lvm_thin_statfs() we can use

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> FWIW, if you log in to https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ and visit > your profile, I got "Internal Server Error" when I tried this... and now I'm on the home page, when what I really wanted was to make sure I had nothing to do with it :-P > you can opt out of all badge-stuff in one click ("De

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> Oh no! Sorry about that. I just tried it too but I couldn't > duplicate the error. It worked this time, must have been new-account-mess. > > > you can opt out of all badge-stuff in one click ("Deactivate > > > Account"). > >=20 > > Does this deactivate your FAS account, or just the badges? >

Re: Red Hat and Fedora Working Groups

2013-10-08 Thread DJ Delorie
> That said, please don't top-post: [1] Also, please trim irrelevant material [1] > [1] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#If_You_Are_Replying_to_a_Message -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Co

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-02 Thread DJ Delorie
I'm WAY out on the bell curve... I have two PCs. One of them, the one I sit in front of, has four monitors (on one Radeon HD card), video capture and playback, digital and analog audio (digital goes to a surround system receiver, analog to gaming headphones), an SSD plus a dual-3Tb raid1 all in

Re: Hardcoded TMPDIR - anywhere else?

2013-05-23 Thread DJ Delorie
> ## Use $MOZ_TMPDIR if set. Otherwise use /var/tmp instead of /tmp > ## because of 1GB /tmp limit in Fedora 18 and later. > > It is insane to hardcode /var/tmp. Considering the comment, they probably think it's insane to put /tmp in RAM, and since web browsers are often used to download huge

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread DJ Delorie
If at 9:50am on release morning, aliens threatened to blow up the world if we shipped, we'd certainly do something about it. But it would be insane to expect us to *document* that we'd do something about it. IMHO it's perfectly reasonable for documented policy to simply say "bugs after this poin

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread DJ Delorie
> So what you're saying is that you negotiate with terrorists? :-p "Anyone else want to negotiate?" (sorry, couldn't resist ;) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> Stack protector is not a new requirement in Fedora. It's been part of > the distribution for years. xterm has been part of the distribution for years also, but it's not a release requirement. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-05-31 Thread DJ Delorie
Lennart Poettering writes: > Sorry, but systemd is pretty exactly this: a process babysitter. It's becoming a user nanny instead. I wish it would stop trying to enforce its "my way or the highway" approach to system rules. I've been playing whack-a-mole trying to keep up with all the tweaks I

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-05-31 Thread DJ Delorie
Lennart Poettering writes: > Again, as mentioned before: key here is that permitting user processes > to stick around after all sessions of the user ended needs to be a > privilieged concept. It should not be allowed for user code to stick > around after logout, unless this is explicitly permitte

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie
Lennart Poettering writes: > Again, this isn't just work-arounds around broken programs. It's a > security thing. It's privileged code (logind, PID 1) that enforces a > clear life-cycle on unprivileged programs. You're making three invalid assumptions here: 1. You're assuming that such programs

ltrace FTBFS patch

2016-06-17 Thread DJ Delorie
Not sure where to send this, but... From 1280b78688baaf9a576af5a0a0a658fd0f0ea7e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DJ Delorie Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:27:55 -0400 Subject: Fix FTBFS due to gcc and glibc updates - comment out tautological asserts that gcc 6 complains about - replace readdir_r

Re: ltrace FTBFS patch

2016-06-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> How about > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&component=ltrace Done, BZ 1347879 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Packaging FPGA bitstreams

2016-07-29 Thread DJ Delorie
Nico Kadel-Garcia writes: > It's certainly a direct violation of the intent of the GPL licensed > tools that form so much of the base of Fedora's build environment. The GPL3 no longer requires us to provide tools used to compile such objects, as long as such tools are general-purpose and used unm

Re: Installation validation test change proposal: merge USB tests into 'default boot and install', add more environment columns

2016-10-11 Thread DJ Delorie
> U.S. rural areas? :-D I'm pretty rural, and even I have good internet. Maybe we need to redefine "rural" to be independent of physicality :-) > Based on feedback from Ambassadors, DVD images may still be useful > giveaways in regions with less access to bandwidth. I'm not sure what > to do ab

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-12 Thread DJ Delorie
> Hmm, we still have xmms in the repo? /me is very glad we still have xmms in the repo -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> Have you tried using Audacious ? Just did. No thanks. /me uninstalls those five RPMs... > You can set it to classic mode, at which point it user experience is > identical to xmms. No, it's not. It's close enough to fool someone who doesn't use xmms regularly, but it's different enough to r

Re: the need of "Offline Updates"

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> But, e.g. if openssl is updated for security issues, all dependent > services need to be restarted. If not, you're still e.g. vulnerable. > That can't be your wish. Ah, but if sshd is restarted in the middle of the update, and you ssh'd into the machine to do the update, it kills the install ha

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> and change my Firefox and emacs cursors. And now I have to restart my entire session to reset my gtk themes, because of one rogue app. Thanks. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> You have other serious system issues not affiliated with Audacious if > this is the case. If "I don't run gnome" is considered "other serious system issues", I suppose so. Restarting didn't help, I still had the wrong cursor in emacs and firefox, but only the emacs and firefox run remotely bac

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> Well, it looks like you aren't running ANY desktop environment, fvwm2, emacs, firefox, xterm. Plus a few other things as needed. This is for two computers running four monitors (one computer is the local one with the monitors, the other is strictly ssh and remote X, each computer has its own d

Pulseaudio and S/PDIF [was Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement]

2013-02-15 Thread DJ Delorie
(subject changed, please strip the [was...] when replying) > On 13/02/13 10:15 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: > > (well, more like crap, since I still haven't figured out how to > > get pulseaudio to use my digital audio outputs). > > Really? It's not that hard. It'

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread DJ Delorie
> We nowadays live in times where BIOS POST takes 500ms, HA! I wish mine was that fast. With all the different BIOS chips doing thier own thing for all the add-on cards and peripherals I have, it takes about 45 seconds just to get to GRUB at all. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

2014-11-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> That's also a questionable "feature". Such a text box should not send > anything before you confirm it. Perhaps as part of the firewall installation step, the user could be given a list of sites that their PC may "call home" to - including official repos - and let them opt-in or opt-out accord

Re: Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

2014-11-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> Ugh .. sorry but that's the worst suggestion so far. No image the user > goes to http://addons.mozilla.org/ to install addons ... it won't > work. (just one random example but you get the idea). I imagine the user would change the start page to about:blank, then open the firewall, then everythi

Re: Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

2014-11-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> Not every user understands the connection between "website does not > work" -> "firewall configuration" True, which means that we have to use words that they *do* understand. For extra coolness, a per-user firewall and some way of popping up a query dialog when they violate a firewall rule. "

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
> Next time, don't be 6 month late if you're going to be flippant. I, for one, am happy to welcome our new more-reasonable-less-paranoid overlords. I've been disabling my firewall for ages, as my machines are behind an enterprise firewall anyway. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
> > I, for one, am happy to welcome our new more-reasonable-less-paranoid > > overlords. I've been disabling my firewall for ages, as my machines > > are behind an enterprise firewall anyway > > that don't apply for a notebook, especially not if the enduser is=20 > connected to a public WLAN and

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
> So the target audience has shifted from developers to developers who > don't understand ports, don't like user prompts and are behind > enterprise firewalls. Certainly not. I've never assumed I was an "average user". There are many different reasons why people might want a more open firewall

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
> The best analogy would probably be a condom with a whopping 129024 > holes in it. That's a horrible analogy, and totally inappropriate for this mailing list. Could we please keep this civil and reasonable? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread DJ Delorie
> and developers deserve a better environment. No, developers deserve the environment they ask for, not what someone else thinks is "better". -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.or

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Set sshd(8) PermitRootLogin=no

2015-01-08 Thread DJ Delorie
> > So if we truly want to address this feature, we should also disallow > > non-root user password based ssh logins. > > Do I get this right? You want to disallow any remote logins (which > nowadays means using ssh)? No, he means that ssh connections should require a pre-shared key. My systems

Re: Fatal flaw in the udev paradigm?

2013-10-31 Thread DJ Delorie
Can you wildcard the greylist so that modemmanager *never* runs? I haven't used a modem in decades but MM keeps mucking with all my serial-connected toys. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fed

Re: Fatal flaw in the udev paradigm?

2013-10-31 Thread DJ Delorie
> But better yet, mind sharing which toys you have so we can update the > black/greylists as appropriate? I make them myself using FTDI chips, usually, and they talk plain RS-232 using terminal emulators and such: http://www.delorie.com/electronics/ I also get a lot of eval boards with usb-seri

Re: CVE-2015-7547 fix for Fedora 21

2016-02-19 Thread DJ Delorie
Igor Gnatenko writes: > Why do you want to build such packages for EOLed distro? Because he's a nicy guy and it's an important patch? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: 3D printing SIG

2016-03-19 Thread DJ Delorie
I'm in, at least for chatting and such. I've got a Rostock MAX V1 delta with a custom Repetier 0.92 firmware and a few hardware mods, and use OpenSCAD, slic3r (modified), and pronterface to drive it. http://www.delorie.com/photos/3d_prints/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org htt

Re: F25 System Wide Change: Use /etc/distro.repos.d as default reposdir

2016-05-12 Thread DJ Delorie
Tomasz Torcz writes: > Shouldn't that be /usr/lib/distro.repos.d (for distribution-provided -1 Having such a small amount of information spread all over the filesystem only makes things harder to manage. Keeping it in one place means the whole "where am I getting stuff" question can be answer

Re: F26 System Wide Change: Enable coredumpctl by default

2016-12-05 Thread DJ Delorie
Jan Kurik writes: > Note that coredumpctl is intended as a developer tool, As a developer, I remove abrt and anything else that redirects cores away from my development area. It's really hard to debug a core dump if you can't find the core file. Just sayin'

Re: F26 System Wide Change: Enable coredumpctl by default

2016-12-05 Thread DJ Delorie
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > You still can restore such behaviour pretty easily. Just set the > kernel.core_pattern sysctl. Yup, that's what I do. Just adding my two cents on Fedora trying to help me "be a developer" without doing what I need as a developer. But I typically uninstall

Re: Code of Conduct issue

2020-03-24 Thread DJ Delorie
"John M. Harris Jr" writes: > it is important that issues such as this can be talked about publicly, I disagree. It has nothing to do with Fedora development[*], and allowing EITHER side to continue this "discussion" allows either side to badger and bully the opposition until people comply jus

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