Re: Koji oops?

2020-06-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:42 PM TI_Eugene wrote: > > What's happened with koji? Koji has a scheduled outage due to the (well) documented datacenter move. At any single point the services will be in "interesting" operational modes. ___ devel mailing list

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: CMake to do out-of-source builds

2020-06-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:48 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > == Summary == > %cmake macro will be adjusted (-B parameter) > to use separate build folder (already standardized > %{_vpath_builddir} macro). While there is certainly no requirement for different distributions to work the same, as I recal

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Fedora-Retired-Packages

2020-06-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:48 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fedora-Retired-Packages > > == Summary == > All retired packages are obsoleted by `fedora-retired-packages`. > I am in favor of the intention that when you upgrade, those packages from previous releases a

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: CMake to do out-of-source builds

2020-06-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 5:41 AM Igor Raits wrote: > > %if (0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel}) <= 8 || (0%{?fedora} && 0%{?fedora} <= 32) > Yes, I have written such spec file lines, and while they are correct, they tend to be ugly to parse for humans. While I know it is personal preference, I tend to prefe

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-27 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 2:46 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault > A few claims (without justification): There is no "average" Fedora user. There is no "average" Fedora system. There is also no "average" workload on the (non) average system (some peop

Re: Using "rawhide" for the dist-git branch for Fedora Rawhide

2020-07-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:04 PM Till Maas wrote: > > Hi, > > in https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2410 I proposed to name the dist-git > branch for Fedora Rawhide "rawhide" to clarify the purpose of that > branch. There was also some feedback that Rawhide might not be the best > name and it could be re

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Drop mod_php

2020-07-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 1:50 AM John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > Why should I have to switch the system that's being used, and potentially > break these servers, just because a package isn't being compiled anymore? It > still works, and it works very well. It has less overhead than php-fpm, even! >

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Drop mod_php

2020-07-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 9:11 PM John M. Harris Jr wrote: > None of this is relevant ... (to) ... a package which is ... > widely used, however. You keep making that assertion. Please provide the audited numbers from a reputable source(*). (*) Preferably for sites that actually are more than

Re: Nvidia binary drivers fail to install on Fedora 32

2020-03-31 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 3:57 PM Kevin Kofler wrote: > But ideally You seem to have a lot of thoughts about changes and improvements to the process. When should the RPMFusion community expect you to complete those improvements? ___ devel mailing l

Re: Heads-up: RPM 4.16 alpha coming to rawhide

2020-03-31 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:43 AM Panu Matilainen wrote: > Based on rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz from this morning, there are thirtysome > packages relying on this behavior, which will need fixing to be > buildable with 4.16. Is there a list of those thirty something packages somewhere so that those pa

Re: v4l2loopback kernel module in Fedora?

2020-04-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:03 AM Leigh Scott wrote: > Aren't external kernel modules banned by fedora packaging rules? My recollection (from some time ago) was there was a process to request a (short term) exception to allow one to ship a kernel module if the kernel module developer (not the packa

Re: git-core deps under f32

2020-04-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:12 AM Todd Zullinger wrote: > Checking each of those deps, openssh-clients grew a dep on > libfido2, which in turn requires u2f-hidraw-policy that is > provided by systemd. That looks like the main chain which > leads to the additional packages installed in a mock chroo

Re: Proposal: Revise FESCo voting policy

2020-05-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 4:16 PM Alex Scheel wrote: > Abstaining is in two categories: There is (at least) one additional category, which is that the issue involves various levels of self interest. Technically that is really called a recusal, but the result is the same when it comes time to

Re: Proposal: Revise FESCo voting policy

2020-05-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 7:40 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > Bias is not the same thing as a conflict of interest. And it doesn't > inherently result in unfairness. Sometimes it is a matter avoiding even the appearance of impropriety that could be raised at a later date to question the process/motives/

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Enable fstrim.timer by default

2020-01-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 4:22 PM drago01 wrote: > What does windows do? Is it the equivalent of the discard mount option or is > it more like fstrim? Well, as I understand it(*), it's complicated, and there are a lot of various tuning knobs one can use to change behavior. But typically, with volu

Re: Fedora 32 system-wide change proposal: reduce installation media size by improving the compression ratio of SquashFS filesystem

2020-01-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 9:00 AM Kevin Kofler wrote: > I think increasing the size of the live images, also affecting the download > time and the time to write the image to media (even USB sticks are not > instant), to get a one-time installation speedup is a very bad tradeoff. While not exactly t

Re: Package uses Gradle (retired) to build: what to do?

2020-02-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 5:08 PM Sérgio Basto wrote: > and why gradle was retired ? is easy unretire it ? Announced here (with reasons): https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/BMJXGWKXXFOOBQON3XFYPFBOWEZMAKKU/

Re: swap-on-ZRAM by default

2020-02-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 5:10 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > A further possibility as it relates to hibernation, is having systemd > activate a swap partition (or even a swapfile) only at hibernation > time. That would block it from being used during normal usage, > preserving it (in effect) for just th

Re: Change in perl-devel dependencies

2020-03-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 3:07 AM Orion Poplawski wrote: > One notable change is that it appears that perl-devel -> > perl-interpreter no longer brings in the AutoLoader, blib, FindBin, > sigtrap, Tie::Scalar, and perhaps other modules. Is that intentional? The changelog certainly documents that

Re: Bugzilla signal/noise ratio

2020-03-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 3:20 PM Rob Crittenden wrote: > Closing a bug doesn't clear the needinfo. I consider that a mis-feature, but I have learned to live with it. > As a package owner I like the daily reminder. If it only happened > monthly then bad timing could make it so I miss a reminder f

Re: F39 proposal: SPDX License Phase 2 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-03-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 2:01 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Hmm, that'd mean thousands of pull requests… I think if we agree to > this, it would make sense to just push a fix directly. Each pull request > ticket is a few mails, and with 8096 expected pull requests, that is > quite a lot

Re: Orphaning despite having maintainers?

2023-04-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 9:04 AM Alexander Bokovoy wrote: > > Hi, > > This morning I woke up to find that packages I maintain were orphaned > out of blue. Nobody contacted the maintainers, nobody raised any tickets > to releng, as far as I can see. Yet, releng ran the orphaning from what > I saw in

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

2023-05-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 3:56 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > At least in the upstream kiwi project, we encountered problems making > bigger ESPs because not all UEFI implementations handle FAT32 (despite > it being part of the spec). In particular, there were a few server > boards and especially AWS EC2 t

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

2023-05-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:10 PM Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mi, 10.05.23 17:54, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > > > > Read-only drivers, which are the only drivers under discussion here, > > aren't a per se problem because they can't modify the file > > system. So they have no

Re: Heads up! Nforro's awscli2 is working. It's time to retire the awscli

2023-05-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 7:02 PM David Duncan wrote: > > Now that awscli2 is out and functional. Excellent! I will finally be able to stop installing a local version. > Gwyn and I are thinking it's time to retire the original > awscli package in favor of this one. We are thinking > that it will

Re: Election Status?

2023-05-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 7:23 PM Tom Stellard wrote: > What's the process for selecting a new Program Manager? From the words that have been shared at: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/fpgm/ the position itself has been eliminated. The important responsibilities will (presumably)

Re: Election Status?

2023-05-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 9:50 PM Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > Wait, what?? Someone at RH wakes up in the morning and decides to cut > one of the key roles (or better, THE) of Fedora community and this goes > completely unannounced, unnoticed and without any backup plan? I do understand why Red

Re: Election Status?

2023-05-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
; On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 9:34 PM Gary Buhrmaster >> wrote: >> > >> > I do understand why RedHat itself will not announce >> > who got laid off, but the Council members should have >> > been informed (I hope!) at the time, and should have >> > worked

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-05-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 2:20 PM Steve Grubb wrote: > > Hello, > > I was poking around a F38 system to look over the Secure Boot certificates and > found something that may warrant attention. > I *suspect* this is all wrapped into the issue that shims must now have/use NX support to be signed, and

Re: Election Status?

2023-05-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 3:28 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > RH's staff redundancies > > The position was clearly NOT redundant. The word (and all words are made up) is used by organizations to meet certain legal requirements (talk to *yo

Re: Plans for dhclient / ISC dhcp?

2023-05-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 10:57 AM Florian Weimer wrote: > systemd-networkd has an integrated DHCP client, hasn't it? Yes (and I have migrated a number of my systems to using systemd-networkd), but Richard said systemd is not an option. ___ devel mailing

Re: Plans for dhclient / ISC dhcp?

2023-05-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:08 AM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > We really need just a dhcp client, no baggage. Busybox distributes Udhcpc, a small dhcp client intended for embedded systems, and perhaps might be a longer term viable solution for minimal appliances. And while I never looked at them,

Re: Fedora Copr builders updated to Fedora 38

2023-06-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 4:36 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Considering that Fedora buildroots always get killed off within days of the > EOL, I do not see why you are keeping epel-6 buildroots active 2½ years (!) > after its EOL. Well, EL6 ELS support is still available for (around) another

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

2023-06-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 3:05 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > But in practice, we actually currently have a lot of desynced packages > where RHEL is ahead of CentOS Stream for various reasons. I believe > most such cases are mistakes that need to be corrected, not intentional > delays. E.g. if a par

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

2022-12-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 7:58 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Add_FORTIFY_SOURCE%3D3_to_distribution_build_flags > It is my vague recollection (I could easily be wrong, so correct me as appropriate) that _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 adds some runtime overhead that did not apply

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

2022-12-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 10:53 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > It has a similar impact that turning back on frame pointers would. > > Cf. > https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/09/17/gccs-new-fortification-level#the_gains_of_improved_security_coverage_outweigh_the_cost > That article explicitly sta

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

2022-12-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 12:47 PM Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > Overall even if there is a miniscule performance overhead, I > reckon the reward is much higher. I am curious how you can claim there is only a minuscule performance overhead without doing any benchmarks? I am not claiming the overhead

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

2022-12-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 3:16 PM Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > My full comment in that blog post is: > > "We need a proper study of performance and code size to understand the > magnitude of the impact created by _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 additional > runtime code generation. However the performance and code

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

2022-12-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 3:42 PM Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > I have added a performance note[1] in the proposal. Thank you. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

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

2022-12-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:04 PM Michael Catanzaro via devel wrote: > Red Hat's desktop performance engineer Since you bring up RH's performance engineer, have they done performance evaluation on _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3? And while I understand that until the eval is reviewed and reproduced no fina

Re: Policy on supporting old and external software packages and compat RPMS

2022-12-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 1:54 AM Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > I think that you are about to miss an important opportunity here. +3000 (well, I guess I am only allowed a +1). For non-niche requirements, I mostly find the primary maintainers are more than willing to add interested parties to the m

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:42 AM Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hi folks! Today I woke up and found > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151495 , which diverted me > down a bit of an "installer environment size" rabbit hole. Does the "new and improved" web based installer help this in any wa

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:31 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > IMHO, the web-based UI is a major mistake and should never be shipped in > Fedora. As I am sure you are aware, it seems a number of distros are experimenting with their next gen installer. OpenSUSE has their new web based D-install

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:58 PM Peter Robinson wrote: > I've done a few passes, dropping a bunch of older firmware upstream > that are no longer supported in any stable kernel release, also a > bunch of de-dupe and linking of files rather than shipping of multiple > copies of the same firmware. I

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 5:06 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > It already *is* compressed, which is why it doesn't get any smaller in > the compressed filesystem image, unlike the other things I mentioned. > Check for yourself - look under /lib/firmware and you'll see only > things ending in .xz. Right

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 5:29 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > It shouldn't be too hard to try this out - it's just one setting in > lorax somewhere, but I gave up on this alleyway before figuring out > exactly where to set it. Well, a *very* unscientific (a few random files) showed a mostly small diff

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

2022-12-18 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 3:29 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 18/12/2022 15:34, drago01 wrote: > > Why would they? The patents apply to the algorithm, not to any API. > > Help in circumventing patents. Your lawyer may vary in regards to the advice they provide as to an organization's exp

Re: Scripts to rebuild dependencies in copr

2022-12-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 4:46 AM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 09:15:10PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > I've been using an old review_pr.py script produced by the Fedora > > Stewardship SIG to rebuild the depedencies of a package in COPR to test > > changes/updates to packages.

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: SPDX Office hours

2023-01-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 10:19 PM David Woodhouse wrote: > The English word for that is 'fortnightly', FWIW. While that is Old English, and still commonly used in parts of the world and in some formal language usage, most people just use the words "every two weeks" rather than asking people to pu

Re: SPECfiles - conditionals with EOLed Fedora releases - any value in keeping them ?

2023-01-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:52 AM Michal Schorm wrote: > Would you see a value in e.g. some kind of a robot reminding > maintainers of such obsolete code? (e.g. new RPMinspect or ZUUL CI > check) "Reminding" is another term for nagging. Fedora should not be a nag when there may be reasons for th

Re: FYI... yubioath-desktop is slated to be removed from F38 repository

2023-01-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 3:53 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Why not just ship the legacy version in F38 proper rather than Copr? The new > stuff can be packaged when it is ready, probably as a F39 or F40 Self- > Contained Change. Is someone working on packaging the Dart and Flutter SDK (and

Re: When to close CVE's

2023-01-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 1:54 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > > So is it when a build is complete in Rawhide? Or must *ALL* active releases > get the "fix"? > I am not sure it is official policy/practice, but in theory I would think that the CVE is technically closed when all impacted Fedora releases ge

Re: When to close CVE's

2023-01-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 3:48 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > I think in practical terms that makes sense but our tools don't really help. I agree, and that seems to be an artifact of the single Fedora component in RHBZ, which treats Fedora as one thing. I supposed (in theory again) that there could be

Re: When to close CVE's

2023-01-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:53 PM Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Small clarification: where you wrote 'component' you meant 'product' :-) > BZ has both Products and Components, forming two levels. RHEL 7/8/9 are > Products, on the same level as Fedora. Thanks. I suppose I should have actually checked

Re: When to close CVE's

2023-01-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:47 PM Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > such as yourself are contentious about > doing the right thing). Obviously that word should have been conscientious (I hate autocorrect). ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Fedora 38 mass rebuild is finished

2023-01-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 7:29 AM Jeff Law wrote: > On 1/24/23 00:16, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > See > > https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/porting_to.html#header-dep-changes > > Some libstdc++ headers included in older versions > > as an implementation detail but no longer do. > > > > Including stdint.h

Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired in February​

2023-01-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 10:08 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > Some packagers do set the bugzillas to ASSIGNED to get rid of the reminders > and > then they forget to actually fix the FTBFS, cannot figure out how to fix it, > are blocked on externalities that never happen, etc. Perhaps ASSIGNED should

Re: Nonresponsive maintainers ( was Re: Red Hat Bugzilla mail FAS field is now handled correctly by Bugzilla sync scripts )

2023-01-27 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 1:10 AM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > jaltman I have sent an email to Jeff, and hopefully he will update his bugzilla email. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedor

Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired next week

2023-02-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:45 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > If you see a package that can be rebuilt, please do so. > tpm2-tss-engine mzavalavz I can fix this (up-lift to the current release), but I don't see a way to do so before retirement as the current maintai

Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired next week

2023-02-03 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:45 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > If you see a package that can be rebuilt, please do so. > tpm2-tss-engine mzavalavz No longer FTBFS. It can be removed from the to be retired list. Thanks! __

Re: Tenacity

2023-02-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 7:26 PM Philip Rhoades via devel wrote: > > People, > > Has there been any discussion about getting a Tenacity RPM going for > Fedora? - I would prefer that to having to use the AppImage version . . > As I recall, in the beginning, Tenacity (to perform most meaningful opera

Re: Should python-mysql be retired in Fedora and EPEL?

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 8:40 PM Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > Dear fellow Fedorans, > > It seems that python-mysqlclient will now transparently upgrade python- > mysql since 2.1.1-2 (for Fedora): > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-mysqlclient/c/1da9400c1c9c8eb8b044f6976e1a07f06226ed3e?

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

2023-02-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 8:48 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > What we're doing now — as has been the case for several years, already noted > in the previous discussion — has very little end-user value. While occasionally I have seen a small decrease in the size of the files transferred (which certainl

Re: Changes to Bugzilla API key requirements

2023-02-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 5:54 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > The "good news" is that Red Hat has announced a move away from Bugzilla for > future products. (They're going to Jira.) RH Bugzilla isn't officially shut > down, but its days are numbered. We need to come up with something else. "Good" is i

Re: Changes to Bugzilla API key requirements

2023-02-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 6:48 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > I have a survey prepared that will be opened once the F37 > retrospective survey is done. This will give us a basis for evaluating > our requirements as we look for possible replacements. Thanks for planning on the followup. ___

Re: Changes to Bugzilla API key requirements

2023-02-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 4:56 PM Solomon Peachy via devel wrote: > (I admit I'm surprised that "Free Software for Everything" Red Hat is > chosing to base something so fundamental to their business on a highly > proprietary tool. I suppose O365 is just a matter of time...) They probably also u

[HEADS UP] [SONAME BUMP] libcbor will be updated to 0.10.2 in rawhide with a soname bump

2023-03-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
libcbor will be updated to 0.10.2 in rawhide in the next week or so, which includes a soname bump. The list of affected packages in rawhide are: libfido2 fwupd I will rebuild libfido2. For fwupd, I will need the maintainers (CC'ed) or a proven packagers assistance. I have used the Mass Prebuil

Re: [HEADS UP] [SONAME BUMP] libcbor will be updated to 0.10.2 in rawhide with a soname bump

2023-03-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 4:32 PM Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:55 PM Gary Buhrmaster > wrote: > > I will rebuild libfido2. For fwupd, I will need the maintainers > > (CC'ed) or a proven packagers assistance. > > No problem at all, thanks for le

Re: [HEADS UP] [SONAME BUMP] libcbor will be updated to 0.10.2 in rawhide with a soname bump

2023-03-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 7:04 PM Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 4:55 PM Gary Buhrmaster > wrote: > > Let me know if you have any issues > > with the build. > > All done, thanks. Thank you. I have submitted the side-tag update: https://bodhi.fedoraproj

Re: Fedora rawhide (to be f41) and openssl engines

2024-07-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote: > So I wonder if it's worth changing the engine deprecation mechanism in > Fedora to the one we have in CentOS and if yes, what is the mechanism > for such a change. I think you are free to submit a (very) late change request, but changin

Re: Fedora rawhide (to be f41) and openssl engines

2024-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 8:55 AM Clemens Lang wrote: > However, we should still consider the effect this will have on developers > that build software on Fedora — they will also have to specify > -DOPENSSL_NO_ENGINE now or see failing builds, and we don’t really see that > impact until 41 relea

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:30 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > #3244 Change: Retire Python 2.7 > > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3244 > > APPROVED (+8, 0, 0) > > This is going to break the build of a whole bunch of compatibility packages, > which will in

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 12:23 AM Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > I believe qt5-qtwebkit uses python3 for builds > (I believe the qt4 variant does use python2, > but a quick repoquery indicates no fedora > package depends on qtwebkit-devel, although > I admit the query may have been wrong

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:38 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > And this one is yet another case of FESCo rubberstamping a change without > even any dissenting vote despite loads of negative mailing list feedback. How can one determine "loads"? Since the feedback itself is opt-in, no statistic

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 6:18 PM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > For what it's worth, I don't believe that this process will work well. > I'm all for democracy, but direct democracy without compulsory voting > inevitably leads to "grievance-based voting", where the majority of > folks ignore the discus

Re: Packaging Guidelines: "Source File Verification" docs incomplete?

2024-08-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 1:46 AM Frank R Dana Jr. wrote: > But a Seahorse-based graphical search and import isn't really > practical for packager workflows in general, and holy smokes > was the documentation almost no help at all in actually > guiding me to the finish line here. I would agree tha

Re: Packaging Guidelines: "Source File Verification" docs incomplete?

2024-08-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 8:26 AM Frank R Dana Jr. wrote: > I'd be happy to. (Believe me, the Edit button is _always_ > my first choice.) But the issue here is, unless we > want to tell packagers to use Seahorse to retrieve > upstream keys (and I'm assuming we don't), I don't > know what to tell th

Re: Packaging Guidelines: "Source File Verification" docs incomplete?

2024-08-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 8:36 AM Frank R Dana Jr. wrote: > > Also, a yea/nay on whether I've correctly understood this point: > > > So, does that mean that remote keyrings should be listed at their source > > URL, > > BUT the `gpgkey-` file at that URL should be manually downloaded and > > `git ad

[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL 10 status update

2024-09-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 10:42 PM Carl George wrote: > > Happy packaging! > I have noted that some dependencies for some of my packages are (apparently) no longer going to be shipped in EL10 (they were in EL9). Before I request the branches and builds in EPEL10, I would like to make sure those p

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F40 to F41

2024-09-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 10:21 AM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > In case you hit dependency issues, please report it against the appropriate > package. The only problem I get is: Error: Problem: package python3-fb-re2-1.0.7-18.fc41.x86_64 from fedora requires libre2.so.9()(64bit), but none of the prov

Re: No matching package to install: 'pkgconfig(xorg-macros) >= 1.8

2024-09-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 3:34 PM Petr Pisar wrote: > You want to contact xorg-x11-util-macros component owner. xorg-x11-util-macros was in CRB in EL9, but is no longer available in (future) EL10. The OP will need to open a bugzilla to request an EPEL10 branch and build for the package by the pac

Re: Email when build completes

2024-09-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM Ron Olson wrote: > > Hey all, I think I remember that I’d get an email when a build submitted to > koji completed, regardless of whether it was scratch or not. Am I remembering > that correctly and if so, is it still possible to get them? > > Thanks for any info!

Re: Unannounced soname bump: libotf

2023-07-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 1:56 PM Michal Schorm wrote: > > My apologies ! > I built the new version when cleaning old PRs and I failed to check > for the soname bump. > Thank you for cleaning up after me. I will try my best to remember to > check it next time. I have found that using something like

Re: RFC: PR to update exiv2 in Rawhide

2023-08-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 7:02 PM Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > Dear all, > > exiv2 has had a new release for a few months now - 0.28.0 - which causes > an soname bump. > > I've put up a PR for the update - > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/exiv2/pull-request/3 - would > appreciate people tak

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F38 to F39

2023-08-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 6:23 PM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > * this command found zero issues on my personal system - great work all > everybody! On my small handful of systems I found zero issues (well, one issue on two systems with a 3rd party repo (which was actually my own local repo, so hoiste

Re: An update on RHEL moving to issues.redhat.com

2023-09-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 1:05 AM Brendan Conoboy wrote: > RHEL making this change does not imply or require that Fedora do the same. I am neither suggesting Fedora should do so, or not do so, but just as a hypothetical, should Fedora choose to do so, do you know if RedHat would be amenable for suc

Re: An update on RHEL moving to issues.redhat.com

2023-09-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 3:27 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > IIRC it was a condition of that proposal that we wind up on a hosted > > version of the *open source* release of gitlab > > "hosted version" and "open source" is already a contradiction by itself. > https:

Re: An update on RHEL moving to issues.redhat.com

2023-09-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 8:23 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > I will also point out the last time we followed RHEL into something, > we got the modularity system. That itself is an indicator that > inverting the relationship for decision-making is a bad idea. In theory, I like the concept of modularity.

Re: Intention to tighten RPM crypto-policy back

2023-09-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 5:40 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > I am still opposed, because it is still a backwards-incompatible change that > breaks existing repositories (such as my Calcforge one) just so that someone > can tick a checkbox on some "security" checklist. Are you saying you need

Re: SPDX short name for "Redistributable, no modification permitted" (firmware)

2023-10-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 4:26 PM Jerry James wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 3:13 AM Robert-André Mauchin > wrote: > > I'm doing a MR on an old package that contains firmware data. > > > > I wanna convert to SPDX, what is the equivalent to "Redistributable, no > > modification > > permitted"

Re: Fedora Linux 39 Final blocker status summary #3

2023-10-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 9:35 AM Tomasz Torcz wrote: > We already have systemd-timesyncd. On startup, it syncs the time to > the mtime of: > - /var/lib/systemd/timesync/clock file; or > - /usr/lib/clock-epoch file; or > - a time derived from the source tree at build time > > timesyncd is mention

Re: Fedora Linux 39 Final blocker status summary #3

2023-10-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 4:08 PM Chris Adams wrote: > Certainly - I was just looking for a more general solution to non-RTC > systems going forward. Ideally, there could be something triggered by a > lack of an RTC, but it looks like systemd path units cannot work based > on a path (e.g. /dev/rtc

Re: Fedora Linux 39 Final blocker status summary #3

2023-10-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 16:56 Adam Williamson wrote: > We're still kinda kicking around ideas for "fixing" this, but I think > if push comes to shove, we'll wind up revoting or waiving it as not > practically fixable. How about something of the form of an ExecStartPre expression (or script) that t

Re: Making -Wmissing-include-dirs an error?

2023-11-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 5:16 PM Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > Typically, yes, I'd expect a failure. But it's possible for code to do: > > #if __has_include() > # include > // use features in that header > #else > // roll your own inferior version > #endif And in the particular case of the Qt priv

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 3:48 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > My pet peeve is provenpackagers or comaintainers who add unwanted automagic > (autorelease, autosetup, autochangelog) to my packages. I do not want any of > that in my packages, it just makes my work harder (or in practice, just > was

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 5:39 PM Sérgio Basto wrote: > Maybe we should have a flag in the src.fp.o package for the maintainer > to request a PR before committing to have a window for review, or like > me, the maintainer would like to not be bothered with things that > proven package can do by itse

Re: F40 Change Proposal: Wifi MAC Randomization (System Wide)

2023-12-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 2:49 PM Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > > On 21/12/2023 14:33, Steven A. Falco wrote: > > On 12/21/23 08:53 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 8:52 AM Leigh Scott > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm -1 for this change, it shouldn't be enabled by default as it will >

Re: F40 Change Proposal: Enable IPv4 Address Conflict Detection (Self-Contained)

2023-12-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 7:51 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Aoife Moloney said: > > Enable IPv4 Address Conflict Detection by default in NetworkManager. > > Huh, I didn't realize NM didn't already do this... ye olde > network-scripts did. > As I recall, depending on configuration(s

Re: F40 Change Proposal: Wifi MAC Randomization (System Wide)

2023-12-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 8:28 PM Christopher Klooz wrote: > Btw, does anyone know if this (in the practically-same manner) is really > already introduced in Windows, Mac, Android by default? There is a draft RFC for randomizing MAC addresses https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-madinas-m

Re: F40 Change Proposal: Optimized Binaries for the AMD64 Architecture (System-Wide)

2023-12-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 12:31 PM Neal Becker wrote: > > On a philosophical note, I once worked on Apollo workstations. These could > switch behavior between sysv and bsd unix. To do this, the kernel would > interpret e.g. /usr/bin/$arch, substituting the env variable arch. At least > that is

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