spin development: how to trust an iso built outside the fedora build sys

Hi there, I was wondering if there is any process that we (spin developers - music list) could use to confirm that a spin iso was 1. built with a particular kickstart file (or list of files when there is kickstart %include x directives). 2. hasn't been doctored on purpose eg by the person building

process to use when missed a patch addition

Hi, new to git, and while following the "conversion" guide [1], I missed the fact that I had added a new patch, but not added it to git. So the build failed. I have now: git add x.patch I'm not sure what is correct procedure to attempt rebuild with the included patch: 1. fedpkg commit -p 2. fedpk

Re: process to use when missed a patch addition

On 05/10/10 07:27, Jon Ciesla wrote: > In my experience, git add the patch, fedpkg commit -p, fedpkg build. > The tag is based on the git revision hash, so it's unique, no need to > bump the EVR. Cool, thanks, will do. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproj

illegal instruction - create compile variants ?

Hi, a user of rakarrack was getting startup exception SIGILL [1]. Seems the config/make/compile process for this app checks CPU capability of the machine it is being compiled on, and applies optimisations that are available on that processor. The user has a much older processor. Upstream sugge

Re: illegal instruction - create compile variants ?

On 01/05/11 16:47, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Rpm's and Fedora's philosophy is to let rpm specify/dictate CFLAGS, > which packages are supposed to respect. Yes, I still have VSs bug (514991) regarding opt flags still open. So, for the lesser CPU problem, does that mean I just suggest, rebuild srpm o

Re: illegal instruction - create compile variants ?

On 01/05/11 17:41, Hans de Goede wrote: > Erm, specifying a minimum support CPU in the package description is > not acceptable IMHO. The fix here is to patch the packages buildsystem, > so that it gets build for the minimum cpu level which is supported by > Fedora, and thus will work out of the box

adding manual to existing package - soft review ?

Hi, I'm adding a subpackage -manual to audacity to include the additional manual archive. It links from the help menu items if it is installed, or else points you to the in development online version. I already made a mistake and included manual files in both the main and sub package. The spec

Re: illegal instruction - create compile variants ?

On 02/05/11 06:31, Kevin Kofler wrote: > David Timms wrote: >> Should I be suggesting to upstream to attempt to detect CPU before >> running non-available instructions, eg as part of app startup ? Further, what can I run over an existing executable to detect what CPU it was bui

Re: [solved] illegal instruction - create compile variants ?

On 02/05/11 11:01, Reindl Harald wrote: > the application must cpu-runtime-detect itself what means taht for > performance-critical parts different code is included and at > the start the application checks what code-parts have to be used > > but this is nothing anybody can make generic by packagin

Re: Heads-up: Maven builds might be failing for some period

On 23/06/11 22:53, Alexander Kurtakov wrote: > maintainers of most of the stack are slightly moving it to maven 3 only. We Hey Alex, is that supposed to be slowly ? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

review request - pre-review done, needing actual reviewer

me :~). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522920 if interested. Cheers, David Timms -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

review request - pre-review done, needing actual reviewer

me :~). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522920 if interested. Cheers, David Timms -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: main problems of fedora?

On 18/03/10 05:32, Gergely Buday wrote: > if such list does not exist, can you name a few missing item from > fedora? Think of relatively small would-be software, without a GUI. Not sure if you mean you would like to work on gui interface to existing CLI ? Anyway, I think it would be nice for ana

Re: pyvnc2swf and vnc2flv

On 29/11/11 06:51, Casey Dahlin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:18:01PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote: >> I was looking for a tool to record X/VNC session in a movie and found >> pyvnc2swf. But looking at the project's home page, >> , I see that the >>

Audacity - audio editor - test request

feel like testing operate as expected. build: {rawhide}, also runs on F16 OK. i686: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3771416 x86_64: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3771415 Any crash/exceptions definitely report in bugzilla. Cheers, David Timms. ps. An ff

Re: Audacity - audio editor - test request

On 18/02/12 09:46, Richard Vickery wrote: Have you received an indication from anyone to do this? No, actually. Although I thought I sent it to the test list but see now I sent to devel. I would like to help test it; how am I to get it off the site using Google-Chrome? Looks like I built a s

Re: [dokuwiki/el5/master] - Upgrade to latest upstream - large patches in git

I guess anyone on the scm-commits list would have seen a few like this: On 18/01/11 08:59, topdog wrote: > dokuwiki-2010-11-07a.tgz | Bin 0 -> 2758654 bytes > dokuwiki-rm-bundled-libs.patch|54035 > + > dokuwiki-use-fedora-email-valid.patch

rpm -q --changelog listing items twice

Hi, with the recent libcurl/curl updates for F12 I tried a: rpm -q --changelog of each. While curl's changelog looks normal, the information is shown twice for libcurl. Is this normal for a subpackage ? Bug in rpm ? Bug in the package (while the .spec in cvs looks normal): http://cvs.fedoraproje

Re: rpm -q --changelog listing items twice

On 17/06/10 23:59, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 06/17/2010 03:51 PM, David Timms wrote: >> Hi, with the recent libcurl/curl updates for F12 I tried a: >> rpm -q --changelog of each. >> While curl's changelog looks normal, the information is shown twice for >> libcur

rfc: give koji diff capabilities

Probably thought of a million times, but was wondering whether it would be possible, and useful to give diff capabilities within the koji web interface. eg: x86_64 build ... Output build.log (tail) root.log (tail) state.log (tail) could become: Output build.log (tail) (dif

Re: rfc: give koji diff capabilities

On 21/06/10 09:38, Thomas Spura wrote: >> Any comments (other than 'show me the money/code') ? > > I don't see a benefit of that... When a build fails, it kills all > other current builds of other architectures, so you need to check that > architecture, that fails first and the diff would not conta

Re: Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

On 17/07/10 08:12, Christoph Wickert wrote: ... > It refers to "bugs" and thus *covers* all bugs. You should first try to > fix it yourself and upstream the fix if it's not Fedora specific. If you > cannot fix the problem yourself, ask upstream for help. Many packagers are not programmers, and even

source url when upstream disappears (geocities)

I vaguely remember something about this, but can't find it in wiki or list archives: My upstream hasn't updated in years, but the package (glglobe) still builds for fedora and epel. Late in 2009, it appears that the upstream hosting site was closed: http://www.geocities.com (now yahoo). However,

Re: jack2

On 21/07/10 02:54, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 10:04 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: For F-13 it may be a little late. So shall we make this an F-14 target

Re: Make pkgdb grant co-maintainer status automatically? (was Re: Non-responsive maintainer fast track procedure for libsndfile)

On 07/07/10 20:16, Thomas Spura wrote: > To get such a button, to apply for becoming real maintainership makes > this possible and is the easiest way, because it doesn't need e.g. a > fast track procedure or anyone agreeing from fesco or anyone to change > it manually in pkgdb. > > When you have a

music list maintainer/owner - how to get changes made

Over on mu...@lists.fp.org, we have some difficulty because by default a reply to a list message doesn't automatically get sent back to the list. I find it really limiting in a forum that is supposed to be enhancing communication and collaboration to end up with most people replying only to the or

fedpkg build error: Error running GIT command "git reset --hard ..

Hi, I'm trying to build an updated package, first in master, then in f21 and the command failed with the below. Google hasn't helped me so far. What happening here ? Dave. = $ fedpkg build Building tnef-1.4.11-1.20140826git0b35ad8.fc21 for f21-candidate Created task: 7494307 Task info: http://

Installer - how to get a shell ?

Hi, booted up a F21 alpha iso cd, and realized after the long wait that I didn't have networking configured during boot, and this probably led to: - no repository - no package selection possible. I thought I would Alt-F1,F2 etc to find the shell (and set up networking manually, rather than waiting

Re: Installer - how to get a shell ?

On 08/10/14 10:41, Mike Ruckman wrote: > The list of ttys you see along the bottom is from tmux [0]. From that screen > if you were to hit `ctrl-b 2` it would switch to the pane labelled 'shell' at > the bottom of the screen. Uh-hah, thankyou. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org ht

Re: Pushing the extra AppData files into Rawhide

On 27/03/15 04:48, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 05:40:29PM +, Richard Hughes wrote: >> So, the overwhelming amount of help I received (one person) meant I >> spent the whole of today fixing up 230 packages. Most of the packages > > Looks like about 22 hours since you asked f

Re: Pushing the extra AppData files into Rawhide

On 01/04/15 00:34, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 31 March 2015 at 14:07, David Timms wrote: >> I see my package was adjusted, but I can't get it to build: > > I only build the new-enough libappstream-glib into rawhide -- seeing > as most of the f23 builds have succeeded I

Re: Pushing the extra AppData files into Rawhide

On 01/04/15 12:54, Bill Nottingham wrote: > David Timms (dti...@iinet.net.au) said: ... > I thought about trying to reliably parse major/minor/subminor versions in > bash, and track it against where things were implemented. But then just went > the lazy route: > > if appstream-

Install Fedora by hand ... feeling brave :-)

Hi, I'm keen to install F22 on a laptop (shared with windows 7), but the installer bugs out due to problems in libparted when reading my disk (bz: 1223111): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223111 The machine boots and runs the live iso via usb, but also can't do install to the HD due

Re: [Fedora-packaging] build failure - Failed to create the file ./: Is a directory

trying on -devel On 25/06/15 02:06, David Timms wrote: > I haven't seen this one before. I'm fixing up my first mistake which was > that adding the new source file to look-aside dropped the > audacity-manual zip entry from sources. > > I've re-added that, but still g

copr - hung or out of control build .. ? infrastructure help

Hi, I submitted an audacity build f22,23,rawhide. Usually it finishes in 12-20 mins. 22/23 are done, but rawhide's been 80 minutes, so I think something has gone wrong... No logs yet for it. https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dtimms/audacity-git/build/139224/ Can I, should I kill the build and

Re: copr - hung or out of control build .. ? resolved by itself.

On 14/11/15 01:18, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Dne 13.11.2015 v 13:30 David Timms napsal(a): >> Hi, I submitted an audacity build f22,23,rawhide. Usually it finishes in >> 12-20 mins. 22/23 are done, but rawhide's been 80 minutes, so I think >> something has gone w

wxGTK3 - drop down fields - text misplaced (Audacity)

Hi any GTk3 or WxWidgets devs, In Audacity (next), upstream has moved to wxGTK3. The only visible issue I can see is with the placement of text within drop down fields. The text is too low, and if it's too wide, the combo box isn't resizing to fit the width. [1] Just wondered if this is a proble

Re: wxGTK3 - drop down fields - text misplaced (Audacity)

On 24/11/15 01:29, Scott Talbert wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015, David Timms wrote: > > When updating my code for wxGTK3, there were some places where I had to > add a Layout() call to my wxPanel after adding items to a wxChoice in > order to get it to size correctly. The same c

Re: F-18 Branched report: 20120907 changes

On 07/09/12 22:07, Fedora Branched Report wrote: > Compose started at Fri Sep 7 09:15:28 UTC 2012 > > Broken deps for x86_64 > -- Who would like to re-arrange this report to be more effective and useful ? 1. The broken dependency first, not

Re: F-18 Branched report: 20120907 changes

On 08/09/12 11:50, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Well, if you want to look, or anyone else wishes to take up the > gauntlet: > > http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/mash/tree/utils/spam-o-matic Thanks for the link. Anyone see merit in these ideas ? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https:/

how to build a scratch build of an older version of my package ?

In trying to track down when a bug began showing up, I'd like to build an earlier version of my package eg from 9 months ago (hence earlier upstream release and different spec/patches). How can that be achieved on the builder ? Does the build system keep the build logs of old packages, ie that sho

Re: difference between F18 and F19 ? was: how to build a scratch build of an older version of my package ?

On 18/09/13 20:45, Paul Howarth wrote: > On 17/09/13 20:30, David Timms wrote: ... > Note that old builds (source and binary RPMs, plus logs) can be found > at: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages// Thanks Richard, Mikolaj and Paul. These were all useful and helpful responses.

Re: amending the new package process

On 21/01/15 22:15, Matthias Runge wrote: > On 21/01/15 11:49, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > >> I don't have a solution to bring extra resources to reviewing (which >> will be the ideal), but I'd like to propose an amendment to allow >> bringing packages even if no reviewers are available (the t

Re: upgradepath FAILED for audacity-2.1.2-3.fc23

On 05/03/16 13:37, notificati...@fedoraproject.org wrote: > upgradepath FAILED for audacity-2.1.2-3.fc23 > > https://taskotron.fedoraproject.org/artifacts/all/119e1b68-e27b-11e5-a932-525400120b80/task_output/audacity-2.1.2-3.fc23.log Hi, I've received the above notification from the QA proc

Potential module for wxGTK3.1 unstable series / Audacity

Issue: Audacity development (git) requires linking against wxGTK3.1. The normal Fedora wxGTK3 package is at wxGTK3-3.04 in F29/30/31/devel. wxGTK3.1 is a development series which eventually leads to wxGTK3.2 release. Upstream is currently at 3.1.3 and expecting at least a 3.1.4 next year. Audacity

Re: Potential module for wxGTK3.1 unstable series / Audacity

On 12/11/19 12:39 am, Kevin Kofler wrote: David Timms wrote: Audacity development (git) requires linking against wxGTK3.1. Does it really? I cannot find this requirement in their git repository. see: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux or from the horse - (Mr Ed): https

Re: Potential module for wxGTK3.1 unstable series / Audacity

On 12/11/19 2:36 am, Christopher Engelhard wrote: On 11/11/2019 3:51 PM, Scott Talbert wrote: > Hi, one of the wxGTK maintainers here.  Where is the requirement to use > wxGTK 3.1 documented?  Like Kevin, I can't find that documented. And if > it is definitely required, *why* is it requi

Re: Potential module for wxGTK3.1 unstable series / Audacity

On 12/11/19 1:51 am, Scott Talbert wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, David Timms wrote: Issue: Audacity development (git) requires linking against wxGTK3.1. The normal Fedora wxGTK3 package is at wxGTK3-3.04 in F29/30/31/devel. wxGTK3.1 is a development series which eventually leads to wxGTK3.2

Re: Potential module for wxGTK3.1 unstable series / Audacity

On 12/11/19 1:33 am, Fabio Valentini wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2019, 15:09 Vít Ondruch <mailto:vondr...@redhat.com>> wrote: Dne 11. 11. 19 v 14:39 Kevin Kofler napsal(a): > David Timms wrote: >> I would like to be able to release the next Audacity (once teste

Re: Potential module for wxGTK3.1 unstable series / Audacity

On 12/11/19 8:05 am, David Timms wrote: Audacity support when my users crash because they aren't running the recommended library (there is other locally adjusted libs which Audacity uses). Not that this is different from the past - but I would like it to oops, dropped word this i

Re: Potential module for wxGTK3.1 unstable series / Audacity

On 12/11/19 8:46 am, Scott Talbert wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Scott Talbert wrote: Ouch.  So now you're talking about wanting to package a *fork* of a development release of wxGTK. No. (unless it was done by simply turning on a config item). Looking closer, building audacity requires an alre

Disabling build options for SSE on non-capable arches ?

Hi, (this is a 4th retry, now trying devel as first try to packaging a week ago says held by moderator, but doesn't seem to have been posted to the list, and I don't know why...) Audacity has had the following as part of rpm spec in the %configure section: %configure \ --disable-dynamic-loadi

Re: Disabling build options for SSE on non-capable arches ?

On 20/09/18 09:38, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 07:58 +1000, David Timms wrote: > The conditional is correct but [1] from the previous %endif you leave > two blanks lines which you can't, one blank line makes terminate the > ./configure command and so last option &

Re: package downgrades from f28 to f29

On 11/10/18 01:50, José Abílio Matos wrote: Even so the problem described seems to be related with packages that were not build for F29 by mistake (probably around the time that F29 was branched from rawhide August 14). If the same nvr exists in F28 and rawhide it is difficult to come with a reas