Re: Firecracker microVM manager

2023-04-21 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
olution? If not, then I don’t see why musl (which Fedora already ships!) would be a problem. If it does, could the lookups be moved to a separate process? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) OpenPGP_0xB288B55FFF9C22C1.asc Description: OpenPG

Re: Firecracker microVM manager

2023-04-22 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 4/22/23 10:13, David Michael wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 10:02 PM Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> On 4/21/23 11:13, David Michael wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Following up on this, Firecracker has been accepted and submitted to >>> Fedo

Re: Firecracker microVM manager

2023-04-24 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
glibc instead. Can they support glibc without either taking on a huge maintenance burden or weakening the sandbox? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-

Re: Firefox builds broken on F38/39

2023-04-30 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
kind of thing, but we can't all > follow the devil list :). If this turns out to be an issue in LLVM > itself, the bug can always be reassigned to the llvm package if > necessary. > > Fabio Why does the Rust package not use Rust’s own fork of LLVM? -- Sincerely, Demi Mari

Re: F39 Proposal: Make Toolbx a release-blocking deliverable and have release-blocking test criteria (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-08 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
ny newer either. >> >> Is this still true? I don't think we want to make the Fedora release >> process contingent on something that requires F33. >> >> ``` > $ sudo -i ssh osbs-aarch64-node01.iad2.fedoraproject.org cat > /etc/system-release > Fedor

Re: F39 Proposal: Make Toolbx a release-blocking deliverable and have release-blocking test criteria (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-08 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
rue? I don't think we want to make the Fedora release >>>> process contingent on something that requires F33. >>> >>> yes, it's still true. Note thats the aarch64 osbs cluster. >>> The x86_64 one is rhel7. >> >> Might it be possi

Re: F39 Proposal: Make Toolbx a release-blocking deliverable and have release-blocking test criteria (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-08 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 5/8/23 19:09, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 7:05 PM Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> >> On 5/8/23 18:49, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >>> On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 09:29:02PM +0100, Sebastian Crane wrote: >>>> Dear Kevin, >>>> >>&g

Re: F39 Proposal: Make Toolbx a release-blocking deliverable and have release-blocking test criteria (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-09 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 5/9/23 07:53, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 19:35, Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: > >> On 5/8/23 19:09, Neal Gompa wrote: >>> On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 7:05 PM Demi Marie Obenour >> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 5/8/23 18:49, Kevin Fenzi

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-09 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
le anyway. > > Zbyszek I don’t think putting more and more in the initramfs is a good idea. I would much rather have a dm-verity protected partition for early boot stuff, which then uses pivot_root() to switch to the main system. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) OpenPG

Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-05-20 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
-crypt. The kernel config used by the Qubes kernel package I use (6.1.28) is based on Fedora 37’s config, and Marek Marczykowski-Górecki (CCd) indicated that the same arguments apply to Fedora. Therefore, I am asking if Fedora should use full kernel preemption by default. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie

Re: Salt is broken in Fedora 38 - asking a python-savvy provenpackager to help

2023-05-22 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
r. But my $dayjob uses Salt > for some things, and if it doesn't start working again soon, I'm > afraid they'll revoke my permission to use Fedora at work. So, any > help to get this fixed would be greatly appreciated. Qubes OS also uses Salt. CCing Marek Marczycowski-Górecki

Re: Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-05-24 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 5/24/23 08:44, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Dne 20. 05. 23 v 22:43 Demi Marie Obenour napsal(a): >> I noticed that by default, Qubes OS has voluntary kernel preemption >> as opposed to full preemption. I found that enabling full preemption >> (preempt=full on kernel command l

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Build JDKs once, repack everywhere (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-31 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
Then we can get rid of any Oracle tests. > > Did you ever develop in Java? It doesn't sound like you are even minimally > familiar with Java. A little expertise would really be beneficial for devel > mailing list. Can you explain please? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (s

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Build JDKs once, repack everywhere (System-Wide Change)

2023-06-01 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
cation behaves much more like one that is written in a native language like C++, Rust, or Swift. Additionally, AOT-compiled applications are likely significantly harder to reverse engineer. That is a bad thing from my perspective, but in the corporate world it might be desirable. -- Sincer

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-01 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
Office Flatpak, but be aware that this is > a sizable block of packages and dependencies and a significant amount of work > to keep up with. > > Matthias Why is a Flatpak a better choice for LibreOffice? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-01 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 6/1/23 15:59, Christian Schaller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 2:36 PM Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> Why is a Flatpak a better choice for LibreOffice? > > There are a lot of ways to answer this, but from any upstream the advantage > of Flatpak is that it means package

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-05 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
efox, and OBS already have to deal with updating bundled dependencies. > Whatever is not in a rule-conforming rpm, is not correctly packaged, > in my opinion. Are you willing to do the packaging work? Asking upstream to create packages for every distribution is not reasonable. -- Sinc

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-05 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
t; The Flatpak sandbox does not attempt to guard against kernel bugs -- it > can't, because it has to allow access to all syscalls that applications > might reasonably want to use -- so if you don't trust the kernel to be > secure (including user namespaces), Flatp

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-05 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 6/5/23 15:01, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 19:51 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> On 6/5/23 19:13, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> >>> Are you willing to do the packaging work? Asking upstream to create >>> packages for every distribution is no

Re: U-Boot for x86 BIOS systems

2023-06-15 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
s the solution is a special driver that communicates with the trusted execution environment (TEE). This meets the “tamperproof” requirement (quotes because unless it is in a proper secure element it isn’t really tamperproof), but it means that the OS must use nonstandard methods to access th

Re: What is Fedora?

2023-06-24 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
, in the case of Chromium that does mean using a clang binary built from the same sources as the one Google provides. Every hour needed to ship a patch is one hour the attackers have to write and deploy an exploit. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) __

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Build JDKs once, repack everywhere (System-Wide) - Proposal Addendum

2023-06-28 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
ck == > > > == Benefit to Fedora == > > Java maintainers will finally have some free time... No kidding - > maintenance and *certification* of so much supported JDKs on so much > Fedora versions is brutal. By building once, and repack, we will > regain cycles to contin

Re: FF 107.0 scratch builds - just for fun

2022-12-04 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 12/3/22 22:41, Bojan Smojver via devel wrote: > 107.0.1 build for > F37/x86_64: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bojan/FF/ > > If you want/need or are obsessive about version numbers, like yours > truly. ;-) When will FF107 actually ship in Fedora? -- Sincerely, Dem

Re: Some reasons I really dislike buildroot overrides and would like us to get rid of them soon

2022-12-04 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
server-side >> automation for populating side-tags with updated builds against a >> package. > > But it is not practical given the performance concerns around side tags. Can those be fixed? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___

Re: F38 proposal: Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flags (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-07 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
w > about --call-graph=dwarf but it doesn't seem to work most of the time.) That is due to known limitations in perf, IIUC. Hence why at least I was pushing so heavily to improve perf to not require frame pointers. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) OpenPGP_0xB288B55FFF9C22C1.a

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-09 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
spiled in some way. Using a desktop toolkit would be far FAR better. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: Looking for advice - ffmpeg-free and wf-recorder

2022-12-17 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
ou still can't link against openh264 because Fedora can't ship it an > even have in Koji's buildroot, you can only use dlopen(). Could Fedora ship a shim library that exposed the same API and used dlopen() internally? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)

Re: Looking for advice - ffmpeg-free and wf-recorder

2022-12-17 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 12/18/22 00:19, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 12:18 AM Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> >> On 12/17/22 05:31, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: >>> On 17/12/2022 06:29, Bob Hepple wrote: >>>> Now that we have ffmpeg-free we have an oppo

Re: Looking for advice - ffmpeg-free and wf-recorder

2022-12-17 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 12/18/22 00:24, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 12:21 AM Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> >> On 12/18/22 00:19, Neal Gompa wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 12:18 AM Demi Marie Obenour >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 12/17/22 05:3

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
== Contingency Plan == > * Contingency mechanism: > ** Probably none (unified kernel images are opt-in for Phase 1). > ** In case we tried switching the cloud images to unified kernels: > revert the kickstart config changes. > * Contingency deadline: > * Blocks release? No > >

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-21 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 12/20/22 16:34, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 14:56 -0500, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> How do you plan to handle system recovery?  For VMs this is much >> less of a concern, but on bare metal there needs to be a way for >> a local, authenticated administrator t

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-21 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
my ideas here: > > https://0pointer.net/blog/linux-boot-partitions.html > > Lennart Does vfat support atomic rename? Is it possible to atomically upgrade a bootloader/UKI/etc? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-21 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 12/21/22 12:17, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 21.12.22 12:12, Demi Marie Obenour (demioben...@gmail.com) wrote: > >>> At least for the systemd stuff, we carefully made sure that our access >>> patterns to the ESP both from sd-boot/sd-stub and from userspace are &

Re: F38 proposal: X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-21 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
t; >> == Dependencies == >> No other RPMs depend on this change. >> >> >> == Contingency Plan == >> >> This change depends on whether upstream merges this new default >> behavior. If upstream does not merged the feature in time, this Change >>

Re: F38 proposal: X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
valuable to know if this, or something else, is needed. I will also > bring this to the attention of the Open Mainframe Project Linux > Distributions Working Group, since all of the distros use this > byte-swapped code. Fuzzing the X server’s byte-swapping and input validation routines wo

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
broken since the very beginning, and it was > broken by design in the PC world. > > Consumer PC equipment is even worse off because of how Microsoft's > Windows requirements influence how UEFI implementations work. IMO a much more realistic approach for bare hardware is measured b

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
hout support from buggy UEFI firmware. Furthermore, measured boot allows tying e.g. LUKS keys to a combination of the actual OS booted and a passphrase needed to unlock the TPM. This allows the TPM’s protection against brute-force attacks to be used. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie O

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
rocess is holding things > up, doing the best it can to flush. Databases and VM's do come to mind, in > particular because I routinely run VMs on my laptop with cache mode unsafe. > If the VM is forcibly quit, it's fine. But if the host is forcibly rebooted > befo

Re: F38 proposal: X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-29 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
ent-side. There is nothing in place right now to do this and >>>> while it's probably possible to automate this somewhat with xcb, you're >>>> still looking at a huge project. And once it all works, you need to >>>> ensure it works against malicious inpu

Re: F38 proposal: GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 13.0, binutils 2.39, glibc 2.37, gdb 12.1) (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-30 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
manual contains the documentation for the release and >> doesn't need any more additional work. >> >> The glibc manual contains the documentation for the release and >> doesn't need any more additional work. >> >> The gdb manual contains th

Re: F38 proposal: GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 13.0, binutils 2.39, glibc 2.37, gdb 12.1) (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-01-02 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
nary distribution of shared libraries highly impractical. That is > why I think this was a short-sighted design decision. Cargo features are supposed to be additive, so one can sometimes ship a single package with the union of all features used by its reverse dependencies. This must be handle

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-04 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
nd now. The optimizations enabled by profiling can be much larger than 3-10%. To be clear, I would prefer a means of profiling that does not cause a performance penalty for everyone else, but that will take much longer to create. -- Sincerely, Demi M

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-05 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
optimizations enabled by profiling can be much larger than 3-10%." As the one who made this statement: Profiling can result in very large gains. I cannot predict what the actual gains will be. > There needs to be substance behind such predictions if they are going > to be used as

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-09 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
s and techniques that do not > require frame pointer recompilation, but whatever.) Which ones? I would love for them to exist, and I believe there is work being done in that direction, but I am not aware of any yet. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-13 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
he entire world. > > Kevin Kofler Absolutely correct. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Co

Re: -fno-omit-frame-pointer does not work as advertised

2023-01-15 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
> unwinder into the kernel is one of the reasons for that and should be > addressed by a downstream kernel patch, not by pessimizing the entire > distribution). Would you be willing to write such a patch and send a PR to include it in Fedora’s kernel packages? -- Sincerely, Demi

Re: -fno-omit-frame-pointer does not work as advertised

2023-01-16 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
data (out of context, for that frame > alone). Or it could be spelt out that LBR has to be used to recover the > calling frame. This isn't really something that Fedora can implement in > a downstream change, though. What about the new SFrame unwind info? -- Sincerely, Demi

Re: Yet another unwinding approach

2023-01-16 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
moderate when it came to > unwinding. Could the vDSO do the unwinding? > [1] https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2018-03/msg00214.html -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Yet another unwinding approach

2023-01-16 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
libraries, and therefore provides complete compatibility with the in-kernel unwinder. It also allows supporting programs in languages such as Go that do not use any libc.-- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@li

Re: Yet another unwinding approach

2023-01-17 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
holes/missing functionality? > > Cheers, > > Mark > >> [1] >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/646XXHGEGOKO465LQKWCPPPAZBSW5NWO/ >> > > ___ > devel m

Re: When to close CVE's

2023-01-20 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
es sense but our tools don't really > help. > > Let's take the case of OpenImageIO[1][2], which is why I'm asking this > question, I only update Rawhide when SONAME is bumped, so if a CVE is only > fixed in the latest release, then onl

Re: When is dnf5 going to replace dnf4?

2023-01-28 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
p up-to-date, but they *work*, and that is important. They also *massively* reduce the test burden. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@list

When is it better to just use containers?

2023-01-28 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 1/28/23 18:43, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > On 1/28/23 18:06, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 8:31 PM Reon Beon via devel >> wrote: >>> >>> Are there still some outstanding bugs preventing this from happening? >> >> Is there any o

Re: -fno-omit-frame-pointer does not work as advertised

2023-01-30 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 1/30/23 02:17, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Demi Marie Obenour: > >> What about the new SFrame unwind info? > > It has the same limitation as DWARF: there's no mainline kernel > implementation for profiling or bpftrace. > > Thanks, > Florian Have you consid

Re: Retiring Bottles in favor of Flatpak provided by upstream

2023-02-08 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
mmon denominator: 1 :) -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/co

Re: Hoping to disable i686 and 32-bit arm for Podman and related tools for existing Fedora releases

2023-02-08 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
g else? > > Basically yes. Not sure if Debian supports armhfp, but in the long term the answer is going to be to find a distro that cross-compiles everything. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedo

Re: [reviewing akmod] request for reviewing intel-ipu6 akmod package

2023-02-10 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
illa.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6469 > > Could a reviewer who is familiar with akmod package take a look into it? > > Thank you This is great! That said, are you working on getting this driver upstreamed, with corresponding working, open userspace? -- Sincerely, De

Re: [reviewing akmod] request for reviewing intel-ipu6 akmod package

2023-02-12 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 2/12/23 22:06, Kate Hsuan wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 4:54 AM Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> >> On 2/10/23 04:24, Kate Hsuan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Recently, we are working on getting IPU6 MIPI camera to work for the >>>

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-13 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
hromium-based. And is kept up to date, unlike QtWebEngine. QtWebEngine is invariably behind on security patches. I blame Google for not making embedded Chromium a first-class citizen. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailin

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

2023-02-21 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
gt; > F39/F40 and beyond? > F38 and beyond? > X-date and all releases? F38+? Also maybe disable deltarpms in dnf.conf, to reduce attack surface. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

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

2023-02-21 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
> wouldn't leave the other options out of the question. Can we also disable deltarpms in the F38 repo files? It’s a 1-line change, trivially revertable, and it measurably reduces the attack surface of DNF. If no deltarpms are being generated, there is no point in DNF loo

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

2023-02-22 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
cus on those — and give DeltaRPMs a >> sad, fond farewell. > > Could we do this as a two-step approach? First change the default to > not use deltas but still allow people to opt-in to it. Then (assuming > we can track this, which maybe we can't) see how much they'r

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

2023-02-23 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
it sounds like "remove the step in the release SOP to turn them _on_ for > the branch at release time" would be the easiest way to go. And the default > config could be changed in DNF at any time for F38+. I would like to see the DNF config

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

2023-02-23 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
continuously, then one should use a more stable > distribution than Fedora. > > Björn Persson I actually use --security for the *opposite* purpose: to get security updates from updates-testing. Only problem I can remember having is broken syntax highlighting

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

2023-03-02 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
f upgrade" can safely skip it. > > Or Fedora could reverse it: Fedora would run a network service which clients > would send a list of installed packages and the service would return a list of > affected packages. At the end, ostree od debuginfod

Re: Firecracker microVM manager

2023-03-06 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
sses: a launcher that does all name lookups, and a sandboxed process that does everything else. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.f

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-07-02 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
with you, but I want to know *why* you believe this, especially since flatpaks consume additional memory and disk space compared to RPMs. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default (System-Wide)

2023-07-02 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
media. The adoption for the > other media later is planned too, but the exact date will be based on > feedback and our capacity allowance. What is the reason for using a web-based UI instead of continuing to use GTK? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) __

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default (System-Wide)

2023-07-02 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
mote installation is not a solution to the memory bloat. It only pushes the problem to whatever machine the browser runs on, and it has significant and negative security implications. A solution here would be ensuring that the web UI uses no more RAM than the GTK UI that preceded it.

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-02 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
execution exploits have been found very, _very_ quickly. There may well be times when attackers can write and use an exploit faster than Red Hat QA can process an update. For these vulnerabilities waiting on Red Hat QA is not an option. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-07-02 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/2/23 19:28, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Sun, Jul 2 2023 at 04:59:39 PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >>> >> Fedora Flatpaks are also a security disaster: they are shipped in OCI >> format instead of OSTree format, but they aren’t signed by anyone. >>

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default (System-Wide)

2023-07-03 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/3/23 03:18, Simon de Vlieger wrote: > On 7/2/23 23:56, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > >> Remote installation is not a solution to the memory bloat. It only >> pushes the problem to whatever machine the browser runs on, and it >> has significant and negative security i

Minified JS and CSS in Node packages

2023-07-03 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
. I suspect other packages in the Node ecosystem have the same problem. Would it be possible to ensure that Node packages contain only actual source code, as in “the preferred form for making modifications” (quote from GNU GPL, I forget which version)? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her

Re: Minified JS and CSS in Node packages

2023-07-03 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/3/23 11:59, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 03/07/2023 16:41, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > >> Would it be possible to ensure that Node packages contain only actual source >> code, as in “the preferred form for making modifications” (quote from GNU >> GPL, >> I forget w

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default (System-Wide)

2023-07-03 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
s that WebKitGTK+ tries quite hard to make this easy. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://

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

2023-07-04 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
u want to do that? Or would you like me or someone else >>> to do so? >> >> I would love someone else to do so, but if no one else wants to, I can. :) > > Well ... has anybody filed a change proposal yet, or should I do that? > > Fabio Do it! Also include deltar

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

2023-07-06 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
“Enable telemetry (y/n)?” be a mandatory question in the installer, which the user must answer. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedorap

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

2023-07-06 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/6/23 21:17, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Thu, Jul 6 2023 at 07:42:47 PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> Then make the metrics be neither opt-in nor opt-out. Have >> “Enable telemetry (y/n)?” be a mandatory question in the >> installer, >> which

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

2023-07-07 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/6/23 21:17, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Thu, Jul 6 2023 at 07:42:47 PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> Then make the metrics be neither opt-in nor opt-out. Have >> “Enable telemetry (y/n)?” be a mandatory question in the >> installer, >> which

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

2023-07-07 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/7/23 21:14, Naheem Zaffar wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2023, 01:08 Randy Barlow via devel, < > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> On 7/7/23 19:59, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >>> That is not consent. The GDPR explicitly states that consent must >>> be

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

2023-07-07 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
that the entire metrics set would need to be able to be represented as a 20-bit integer. In practice, I suspect one would need to fit the entire set in a 16-bit integer or less, and possibly _significantly_ less. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) __

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

2023-07-08 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
gt; products > from getting the bad reputation, despite some of them reportedly using > Differential Privacy (!). I 100% agree with this. Even if it can be done in a way that preserves user privacy, the risk to Fedora’s reputation is simply not worth it. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/

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

2023-07-09 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
ics to >> FESCO: >> https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/unofficial-poll-about-opt-out-metrics-proposal/85494 > > How is that going to help anything, when some of us are using browsers > from Fedora repos, that just gets this answer: Which browser? -- Sincerely, Demi Mar

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

2023-07-09 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/9/23 19:08, Allan via devel wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 18:54:18 -0400 > Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > >> On 7/9/23 18:53, Allan via devel wrote: >>> On Sun, 09 Jul 2023 06:59:11 + >>> Mattia Verga via devel wrote: >>> >>>> Il 08/07/2

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

2023-07-10 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/10/23 02:30, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 10/07/2023 02:49, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> QtWebEngine (used by Falkon) was a >> month or more behind upstream Chromium last I checked. > > Qt5QtWebEngine is an extremely vulnerable thing. It still uses Chromium &g

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

2023-07-11 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/11/23 15:45, Jeremy Linton wrote: > On 7/10/23 13:16, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> On 7/10/23 02:30, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: >>> On 10/07/2023 02:49, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >>>> QtWebEngine (used by Falkon) was a >>>> month or mo

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

2023-07-12 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/6/23 21:17, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Thu, Jul 6 2023 at 07:42:47 PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> Then make the metrics be neither opt-in nor opt-out. Have >> “Enable telemetry (y/n)?” be a mandatory question in the >> installer, >> which

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

2023-07-12 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
ect. Such a proof would probably be worthy of publication in a peer-reviewed research paper. Since this Change proposal comes from Red Hat, I have an alternative to propose: Red Hat can ask its paying corporate customers for this information, perhaps in exchange for a discount on their

Re: Flock CFP: Language SIGs discussion

2023-07-13 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
ading rebuilds is a good idea. That requirement comes from Haskell, OCaml, and Rust, not me, and so any complaints should be directed there. This subthread is strictly about changes to Fedora’s build system that make it easier to implement cascadin

Re: Flock CFP: Language SIGs discussion

2023-07-13 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/13/23 11:32, Fabio Valentini wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 5:25 PM Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> >> On 7/5/23 02:22, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote: >>> I have submitted a Flock proposal to have a common discussion session for >>> (modern) Language SIGs.

Re: Flock CFP: Language SIGs discussion

2023-07-13 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/13/23 11:52, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > On 7/13/23 11:32, Fabio Valentini wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 5:25 PM Demi Marie Obenour >> wrote: >>> >>> On 7/5/23 02:22, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote: >>>> I have submitted a Flock proposal to have

Re: btrfs loses 32-bit application compatibility after a while

2023-07-14 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
dy LFS compatible. I recommending that the entire distro be compiled with LFS. The non-LFS ABI is obsolete for exactly this reason. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe se

Re: btrfs loses 32-bit application compatibility after a while

2023-07-20 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
file creation, libcap, is not fully built > in LFS mode. Once we fix that, we know that we'll run into issues with > chkconfig and update-alternatives. It's a never-ending source of bugs. > It's not a good use of maintainer time. > > We can't change the overall dist

Re: btrfs loses 32-bit application compatibility after a while

2023-07-20 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/20/23 11:06, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Demi Marie Obenour: > >> On 7/17/23 09:51, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> * Daniel P. Berrangé: >>> >>>>> But that still raises the question - why does it look like this >>>>> started to happen pr

Re: Restricting automounting of uncommon filesystems?

2023-07-22 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
does and is the only solution that is decently secure. There are all sorts of other problems that need to be addressed as well, such as ensuring that only fuzzed and hardened USB drivers are used. But the mounting restrictions are the first step. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) __

Re: Restricting automounting of uncommon filesystems?

2023-07-23 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
ightmare. > > In the "usability vs security" tradeoff, usability/convenience *always* > wins unless you're at a place that has armed guards at the door with > instructions to shoot first. > > - Solomon Then the mount needs to be done in a sandbox, such as a KVM

Re: Restricting automounting of uncommon filesystems?

2023-07-23 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
support any effort to restrict (by default) > auto-mounting to a smaller set of filesystems that could reasonably be > expected to be found on removable media (isofs, fat, exfat ...) and shut > off all the rest to limit the attack surface here. Dis

Re: Restricting automounting of uncommon filesystems?

2023-07-24 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 7/24/23 08:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:18:45PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> On 7/23/23 12:10, Solomon Peachy via devel wrote: >>> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:25:12AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: >>>>> If the system administrator

Re: Restricting automounting of uncommon filesystems?

2023-07-24 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
fuzzer could never have reached (think: fuzzing metadata and > then fixing up the checksum so it passes initial validation on read.) > > And frankly that is some of my motivation to find an improvement here. A > small cadre of filesystem developers are near the breaking point tryi

Re: glibc 2.36 and DT_HASH (preserving it for F37+)

2022-08-21 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
a similar purpose. Similarly, Rust and Android can trim > "unused" zero entries from the end of &hash_array[nbucket], > even though buckets[] and hash_array[] should be parallel. Please report a bug at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues. -- Sincerely, Demi Mar

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