No Jigdo download available for F-14 Alpha

2010-09-06 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, While it is announced at [1] and also in the pre-release download page, there is no .jigdo file for F-14 Alpha. Good luck! Hedayat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Is this (broken keyboard layouts) a Fedora 14 Blocker bug?!

2010-10-01 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, I've tried testing Fedora 14 Beta (RC3, but updated), and soon I come across this bug[1]. I could discover the initial cause and propose a fix (which, after reporting to freedesktop bugzilla, I found that is already fixed in xkbconfig git (but still should be pushed to F14)). Then, I came

Re: Is this (broken keyboard layouts) a Fedora 14 Blocker bug?!

2010-10-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, /*Parag N(पराग़) */ wrote on 10/02/2010 11:59:03 AM +0350: Hi, On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: �Hi, I've tried testing Fedora 14 Beta (RC3, but updated), and soon I come across this bug[1]. I could discover the initial cause and propose a fix (which,

Re: Is this (broken keyboard layouts) a Fedora 14 Blocker bug?!

2010-10-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Nicolas Mailhot */ wrote on 10/02/2010 10:12:25 AM +0350: Le samedi 02 octobre 2010 à 01:52 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah a écrit : In brief, this bug will cause some keyboard layouts to be broken in F14, which IMHO should not go in Fedora 14 Final. I wonder if it can be qualified as a blocker

No response from festival-speechtools maintainer since 2009-6-24

2010-10-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, There has been no response from the maintainer since 2009-06-24 as is clear in [1]. Also, the package has not been updated since then. I wonder what should I do now (?) Thanks, Hedayat [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507966 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.

Does anybody know how to contact David Zeuthen (festival maintainer)?

2010-10-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
t On ۱۰/۱۰/۰۲ 08:37, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: > > > On ۱۰/۱۰/۰۲ 03:55, Chen Lei wrote: >> 2010/10/2 Hedayat Vatankhah: >>> Hi, >>> There has been no response from the maintainer since 2009-06-24 as is >>> clear in [1]. Also, the package has not been up

Re: Does anybody know how to contact David Zeuthen (festival maintainer)?

2010-10-03 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Matthias Clasen */ wrote on 10/03/2010 6:26:50 AM +0350: On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 20:45 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Hi, Considering the fact that the maintainer is not responsible for a long time, I'd like to ask if anybody knows how to contact David Zeuthen?! Festival seems

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-15 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, /*Luya Tshimbalanga */ wrote on 10/15/2010 6:06:10 AM +0350: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/10 03:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I installed and played with Ubuntu 10.10 over the weekend (in a VM), and I have to say that their installer is very smooth indeed. It

Review Request!

2011-04-21 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi all, I have 3 review requests waiting for someone to take over for about 2 months. Unfortunately, currently I cannot offer review swaps, but I hope some of you will take them :P These are the review requests: os-prober - Probes disks on the system for installed operating systems URL: https://b

Re: Review Request!

2011-04-22 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Thanks :) /*"lakshminaras2...@gmail.com" */ wrote on 04/22/2011 3:13:17 PM +0450: > I have taken starcal. > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah > mailto:hedayat@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi all, > I have 3 review requests waiting

Re: Review swaps

2011-04-29 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi Jerry, /*Jerry James */ wrote on 04/28/2011 10:19:39 PM +0450: > Hi all, > > I'd like to swap a couple of reviews. My packages: > > openfst: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681976 > This is the next chunk of a voice recognition stack (CMU Sphinx) I've > slowly been pushing into Fed

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 13 Final TC1 Available Now!

2010-04-30 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, It would be nice if Jigdo downloads could be also provided so that people with previous releases (e.g. Beta release) which have downloaded (and cached) updates could easily create new installation media without downloading much (which will be much less than delta isos). Good luck, Hedayat

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 13 Final TC1 Available Now!

2010-04-30 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
n the installation. A minimal installation will not have many rpms and so will not receive new versions of most rpms when updating. Thanks anyway, Hedayat /*Andre Robatino */ wrote on 04/30/2010 2:14:32 PM +0450: On 04/30/2010 04:46 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Hi, It would be nice if

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 13 Final TC1 Available Now!

2010-04-30 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Andre Robatino */ wrote on 04/30/2010 3:13:26 PM +0450: On 04/30/2010 06:25 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Well, I'm not going to insist on providing jigdo. However, the situation in my mind is this one: I've downloaded Fedora 13 Beta DVD iso previously and installed it on my sy

Review Swaps

2011-11-21 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi all, I'd like to swap these reviews with some other (not-so-complicated) ones: Saaghar[1]- A Cross-Platform Persian Poetry Software This is a Qt based application, and should not be complicated. jcal[2] - Unix cal-like interface to lib

Re: Review Swaps

2011-11-21 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:45:25PM +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: >> >> >> >> body >>p { margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; } >> >>> bidimailui-detected-decoding-type="UTF-8" bgcolor="#FF" >&g

Re: Review Swaps

2011-11-21 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۱/۱۱/۲۱ 03:06, Jiri Popelka wrote: > I've taken them. > > Here is mine (SpliX - Driver for QPDL/SPL2 printers) > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755069 > > Thanks, > > Jiri Thanks, I took yours. Hedayat > > On 11/21/2011 11:15 AM, He

Confused with budhi: my package is pushed to stable, but resides in updates-testing!?!

2010-11-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi all, According to [1], my updated simspark package has been pushed to stable; but it is not! The package is available in updates-testing. I wonder if it is expected considering the new updating criteria or it is a bug. Anyway, it is confusing. What's happening? Finally a question: this updat

Re: Confused with budhi: my package is pushed to stable, but resides in updates-testing!?!

2010-11-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Hedayat Vatankhah */ wrote on 11/13/2010 5:28:49 PM +0350: Hi all, According to [1], my updated simspark package has been pushed to stable; but it is not! The package is available in updates-testing. I wonder if it is expected considering the new updating criteria or it is a bug. Anyway

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Kevin Fenzi */ wrote on 11/12/2010 8:05:54 PM +0350: Greetings. Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that Fedora 15 may be much more exciting. ;) Things I know of so far: * systemd * gnome3 / gnome-shell default * removing a bunch of suid stuff in favor of capab

Re: Confused with budhi: my package is pushed to stable, but resides in updates-testing!?!

2010-11-14 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, /*Kevin Fenzi */ wrote on 11/14/2010 2:49:34 AM +0350: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:50:07 +0330 Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: /*Hedayat Vatankhah*/ wrote on 11/13/2010 5:28:49 PM +0350: Hi all, According to [1], my updated simspark package has been pushed to stable; but it is not! The package is

Re: Confused with budhi: my package is pushed to stable, but resides in updates-testing!?!

2010-11-16 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Kevin Fenzi */ wrote on 11/15/2010 8:22:04 PM +0350: On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:59:17 +0330 Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: As I've mentioned, this update is a simple rebuild and the current package in stable repositories is simply unusable as it crashes immediately. So, please push it to s

Re: Which fonts should be pulled in by desktop environments as dependencies?!

2011-02-27 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Kevin Kofler */ wrote on 02/22/2011 6:49:00 PM +0350: > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >> Le Lun 21 février 2011 22:27, Hedayat Vatankhah a écrit : >>> Thanks for the answer. I also thought that it is reasonable, but wanted >>> to make sure before calling others

How this bug can come out of its dead-end? Any suggestions?!

2010-05-08 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi all, There is a bug in Fedora package management since FC4 (except Fedora 8) that potentially affects ALL of the Fedora installation DVD users (people who are not annoyed by this bug will probably find other alternatives more suitable (e.g. Live CD install, Network install or the new BFO if

Re: How this bug can come out of its dead-end? Any suggestions?!

2010-05-08 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۰/۰۵/۰۸ 06:01, drago01 wrote: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Hi all, There is a bug in Fedora package management since FC4 (except Fedora 8) that potentially affects ALL of the Fedora installation DVD users (people who are not annoyed by this bug will

Re: How this bug can come out of its dead-end? Any suggestions?!

2010-05-08 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Frank Murphy */ wrote on 05/08/2010 10:51:42 PM +0450: On 08/05/10 19:15, Hedayat Vatnakhah wrote: Please have a look at the last comments of the bug. Most of the implementation is done, the only missing part is how to mount the CD/DVD in PackageKit! Thanks, Hedayat

Re: How this bug can come out of its dead-end? Any suggestions?!

2010-05-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۰/۰۵/۰۹ 11:41, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 09/05/10 07:52, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: > --snip-- >>> >> No, the problem is this: PackageKit does not know how to mount a >> removable media. > > It doesn't need to. > > --snip-- > > Mount DVD as no

Re: How this bug can come out of its dead-end? Any suggestions?!

2010-05-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۰/۰۵/۰۹ 11:43, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 11:22 +0430, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: > >> Frank Murphy wrote on 05/08/2010 10:51:42 PM >> +0450: >> >>> On 08/05/10 19:15, Hedayat Vatnakhah wrote: >>> >>> >

Re: How this bug can come out of its dead-end? Any suggestions?!

2010-05-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Frank Murphy */ wrote on 05/09/2010 4:20:15 PM +0450: On 09/05/10 12:34, Björn Persson wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: That *should not* be default for most users, as it will end up breaking quite a lot, if used with other repos. (updates,updates-tesing, 3rd party) If using th

Re: How this bug can come out of its dead-end? Any suggestions?!

2010-05-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Kevin Kofler */ wrote on 05/09/2010 9:24:04 PM +0450: Frank Murphy wrote: That *should not* be default for most users, as it will end up breaking quite a lot, if used with other repos. (updates,updates-tesing, 3rd party) as %requires may have changed quite a bit since DVD was released.

Re: F-13 yum in kvm or vmware guests

2010-05-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Seth Vidal */ wrote on 05/06/2010 11:47:39 PM +0450: On Thu, 6 May 2010, Hedayat Vatnakhah wrote: Hi, Warren Togami wrote on ‫پنجشنبه ۰۶ مه ۱۰، ۰۲:۱۰:۴۸‬:On ۱۰/۰۵/۰۶ 02:10, Warren Togami wrote: (10/12): samba-3.5.2-60.fc13.x86_64.rpm (71%) 73% [==

Re: How this bug can come out of its dead-end? Any suggestions?!

2010-05-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۰/۰۵/۰۹ 10:43, Alexander � wrote: > sön 2010-05-09 klockan 11:22 +0430 skrev Hedayat Vatankhah: > > >> No, the problem is this: PackageKit does not know how to mount a >> removable media. >> > Why do you even need to mount it? Removable media is of

Re: GCC & precompiled headers question

2010-05-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, On ۱۰/۰۵/۰۶ 03:34, Christoph � wrote: > Hi all, > > this is an off topic question, but since I know that some of you are > familiar with gcc, I am asking it here before signing up somewhere else. > > I have to source-compile one language (Modelica) to C++. Since Modelica > has a structural su

Re: DVD as repo

2010-05-10 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Frank Murphy */ wrote on 05/10/2010 5:11:13 PM +0450: On 10/05/10 13:28, Rahul Sundaram wrote: PackageKit developers disagree with you. Since they are the ones doing the work involved, their opinion has more weight. Besides a static repo file is less flexible than the ability for Pack

Re: Reasons for hall monitoring

2010-05-10 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Adam Williamson */ wrote on 05/10/2010 3:18:06 PM +0450: On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:33 +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote: Dne 10.5.2010 11:26, drago01 napsal(a): To have stuff just work. Go to http://senate.gov/ and ask your congressman to fix it. Otherwise (for example if you don't

Re: Reasons for hall monitoring

2010-05-10 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۰/۰۵/۱۰ 06:38, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 10/05/10 15:05, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: > --snipp-- > > http://omega.dgplug.org/ > Thanks, I thought that the project is dead (IIRC, it was not provided for F11 last time I checked, but apparently I'm wrong). I'll con

Re: DVD as repo

2010-05-10 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Matthias Clasen */ wrote on 05/10/2010 5:59:56 PM +0450: On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 17:58 +0430, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Anyway, thinking about the problem with DeviceKit system policies, I really feel that the current situation is flawed: a process running as root is able to mount a

Re: Fedora rawhide FTBFS status 2010-06-01 x86_64

2010-06-04 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Mamoru Tasaka */ wrote on 06/04/2010 12:00:50 PM +0450: Hedayat Vatankhah wrote, at 06/04/2010 03:07 PM +9:00: Hi, My packages (rcsslogplayer and rcssmonitor) are being failed because of the lack of Qt dependencies (QtNetwork requires ssl and crypto libraries from openssl-devel

Re: Add Gparted into Live's

2014-08-08 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Christopher Meng */ wrote on Fri, 1 Aug 2014 07:08:52 +0800: On Jul 31, 2014 7:44 PM, "Álvaro Castillo" > wrote: > > Dear Fedora Team, > > I pray to God. Could Fedora live have CD/DVD/USB Gparted by default? > > Could add Gparted please? You should provi

Re: Add Gparted into Live's

2014-08-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Michael Catanzaro */ wrote on Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:07:11 -0500: On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 02:33 +0430, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: GParted provides a number of essential features users might need, some of which are not provided even by any command line tools in Fedora repositories: resizing and

F21 downloads repository metadata in 3 places!

2014-12-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi! I noticed that F21 can potentially download repository metadata 3 times: 1. Yum cache 2. DNF cache 3. PackageKit cache! It really hurts to see how Fedora ignorance towards different kind of users is being increased as time passes. If Fedora is an international distro, it should try to cons

Re: F21 downloads repository metadata in 3 places!

2014-12-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Reindl Harald */ wrote on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:19:25 +0100: Am 13.12.2014 um 22:10 schrieb Hedayat Vatankhah: I noticed that F21 can potentially download repository metadata 3 times: 1. Yum cache 2. DNF cache 3. PackageKit cache! It really hurts to see how Fedora ignorance towards

Re: Poll: How users use DNF

2014-12-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Radek Holy */ wrote on Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:28:54 -0500 (EST): Dear users of YUM and DNF, I'm writing to you regarding a request for your feedback. I would be very grateful if you could send me a brief description of how you use YUM or DNF currently or how would you like to use it. I am pa

Re: F21 downloads repository metadata in 3 places!

2014-12-14 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Samuel Sieb */ wrote on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 23:32:23 -0800: On 12/13/2014 01:10 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Hi! I noticed that F21 can potentially download repository metadata 3 times: 1. Yum cache 2. DNF cache 3. PackageKit cache! It really hurts to see I'm not aware of the Packa

Re: F21 downloads repository metadata in 3 places!

2014-12-15 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Richard Hughes */ wrote on Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:37:27 +: On 13 December 2014 at 21:10, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Surprisingly, PackageKit uses its own separate cache. Not surprising at all, when you're familiar with how PackageKit works. PackageKit has to accept transactions

Re: F21 downloads repository metadata in 3 places!

2014-12-15 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Matthias Clasen*/ wrote on Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:38:54 -0500: On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 18:01 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Robert Marcano wrote: I don't know why the time to rebuild rpms is important, updates are now applied at boot time, so rpms can be rebuilt with smaller nice/ionice before the us

Re: F21 downloads repository metadata in 3 places!

2014-12-16 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Chris Murphy */ wrote on Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:09:47 -0700: Fresh installation of Fedora 21 Workstation, accepting defaults, I then reboot and notice the following contents of /var/cache, filtering out things not relevant for this discussion (which also happen to not change between the three s

Re: F21 downloads repository metadata in 3 places!

2014-12-16 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Colin Walters */ wrote on Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:32:09 -0500: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014, at 02:17 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: and then a 'systemctl mask ...' command to mask dnf makecache timer/service using sudo/su"; This one should help with that one: https://github.c

Re: F21 downloads repository metadata in 3 places!

2014-12-17 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Richard Hughes */ wrote on Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:14:38 +: On 17 December 2014 at 00:00, Michael Catanzaro wrote: This particular setting is frequently-requested and extremely important for users in the developing world and users who tether, so I think it would be good to provide it somew

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-01 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Michael Catanzaro */ wrote on Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:43:40 -0600: On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 17:12 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: Are CLI tools welcome in Gnome Software? No, we don't consider CLI tools to be "applications," and only applications should be displayed in GNOME Software. See also:

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

2015-01-01 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Michael Catanzaro */ wrote on Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:05:00 -0600: On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: Possibly. But isn't there quite a difference between the "novice user" and the Fedora Workstation target user i. e., developers? Not necessarily. I wrote: "Yes, Workstation

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Richard Hughes */ wrote on Fri, 2 Jan 2015 10:47:21 +: On 1 January 2015 at 22:25, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: it's just funny that something like gedit and Windows notepad can be considered 'applications' but GCC can't! We're using this definition here: h

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Richard Hughes */ wrote on Fri, 2 Jan 2015 13:48:51 +: On 2 January 2015 at 11:45, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Yes, I know. And I say that it might be OK for a "GNOME Application", but doesn't seem to be OK for Fedora application. There's no such thing as a "Fe

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

2015-01-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Luya Tshimbalanga*/ wrote on Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:25:49 -0800: On 01/01/15 04:21 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Well, I was really surprised that developers are considered a target audience here. GNOME Software *might* be considered good enough for normal users, but its far from usable

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

2015-01-03 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Alec Leamas */ wrote on Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:57:10 +0100: On 02/01/15 11:42, Richard Hughes wrote: <> That said, my gut feeling is that the balance between simplicity and functionality is quite different for a "novice user" and a developer and that this needs to be handled with differe

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

2015-01-03 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Luya Tshimbalanga*/ wrote on Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:29:14 -0800: On 02/01/15 01:15 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Probably true, but it already includes fonts and input sources. So, someone has felt that 'front-end applications only' is too narrow. Now, where you can draw the

Yet another frustration with Fedora package management

2015-01-03 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi! Summary: Try to prevent a package from being updated/installed from repositories regardless of the package management tool you use. As it seems, then only way you can do this is to exclude it from the repositories themselves inside their configuration file in /etc/yum.repos.d/, because the

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

2015-01-03 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Kevin Fenzi*/ wrote on Sat, 3 Jan 2015 14:09:11 -0700: On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 15:56:55 -0500 Gary Scarborough wrote: <...> Instead of hiding the CLI from new users, why not simply give them the option of avoiding it? Instead of only showing gui apps, why not show all with packages being tagged

Re: Yet another frustration with Fedora package management

2015-01-04 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Rex Dieter */ wrote on Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:58:32 -0600: Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: <...> Suggestion: Please add a single configuration file to configure common package manager options I think you answered your own question => modify the .repo files Thank you!!! Yes, I know that

Re: Yet another frustration with Fedora package management

2015-01-04 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Reindl Harald */ wrote on Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:11:01 +0100: Am 04.01.2015 um 19:02 schrieb Hedayat Vatankhah: /*Rex Dieter */ wrote on Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:58:32 -0600: Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: <...> Suggestion: Please add a single configuration file to configure common package m

Re: Yet another frustration with Fedora package management

2015-01-04 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Reindl Harald */ wrote on Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:19:20 +0100: Am 04.01.2015 um 19:13 schrieb Hedayat Vatankhah: <...> DNF is using "/etc/dnf/dnf.conf" which is one reason more to finally rename it back to YUM when it starts to replace it instead demand users all over

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

2015-01-04 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Aleksandar Kurtakov */ wrote on Sun, 4 Jan 2015 02:55:17 -0500 (EST): - Original Message - From: "Hedayat Vatankhah" To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 11:15:58 PM Subject: Re: Ramblings and questions regarding F

Re: Yet another frustration with Fedora package management

2015-01-05 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Radek Holy */ wrote on Mon, 5 Jan 2015 03:03:30 -0500 (EST): *From: *"Hedayat Vatankhah" *To: *"Development discussions related to Fedora" *Sent: *Saturday, January 3, 2015 9:4

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

2015-01-06 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Bill Nottingham */ wrote on Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:39:27 -0500: <...> - Even searching for -devel packages implies a "target == host" build sensibility that is relevant mostly to those developing Fedora, and not to most of those developers that I run into on a day-to-day basis (and likel

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

2015-01-06 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Michael Catanzaro */ wrote on Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:51:24 -0600: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: So you mean that Fedora target developers are either using dynamic languages, or they develop native software for RHEL/CentOS?! So you believe that "target

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

2015-01-07 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Bill Nottingham */ wrote on Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:56:31 -0500: Hedayat Vatankhah (hedayat@gmail.com) said: /*Bill Nottingham */ wrote on Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:39:27 -0500: <...> - Even searching for -devel packages implies a "target == host" build sensibility that is re

Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Dear all, I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I didn't find any. Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to have multiple versions of the same library in distro (by making it *naturally* possible) (and with minimal maintenance overhead), and for users/devel

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Jan Zelený */ wrote on Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:15:08 +0100: On 13. 2. 2015 at 08:03:18, Rex Dieter wrote: Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Proposal: let's make it possible to have multiple versions of the same library installed, as far as their .so version permits that It's already possible

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos */ wrote on Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:11:49 +0100: On Fri, 2015-02-13 at 15:21 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Dear all, I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I didn't find any. Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to hav

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Rex Dieter*/ wrote on Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:15:58 -0600: Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: 2. No reviews are required for new libfooX packages (as it is not required right now when you update your libfoo package I disagree with this point, reviews are important, arguably *more* important in special

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-13 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Kevin Fenzi*/ wrote on Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:36:47 -0700: On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:21:17 +0330 Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: <...> But the thing is, it's really difficult to get right details about the new package. Forget to change a name somewhere or a provides or obsoletes. People mess

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-20 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Ralf Corsepius */ wrote on Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:17:32 +0100: On 02/16/2015 05:10 PM, Martyn Foster wrote: On 16 February 2015 at 15:12, Kevin Kofler mailto:kevin.kof...@chello.at>> wrote: Christopher Meng wrote: > Maintaining several version of the same library is not easy as you

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java platform in Fedora

2015-02-24 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Kevin Kofler*/ wrote on Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:31:59 +0100: Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Proposed System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java platform in Fedora = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LegacyJDKsInFedora Change owner(s): Jiri Vanek IMHO, this is not implementable for a

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java platform in Fedora

2015-02-25 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Mikolaj Izdebski */ wrote on Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:07:28 +0100: On 02/25/2015 06:39 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: However, if there are JAR files which are useful for a developer, they can have a -legacy version too! There is no technical reason to suffix anything - you can put JARs that

Re: [RFC] delta-repository-metadata

2017-04-29 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi! I'm trying it under F25. First, thanks for working on it! It'd be a great feature. However: 1. I run it, and it was running for too long (probably 10 minutes!) with absolutely no log. I found that it is working on a 200M filelists.xml.gz.part file in DNF cache (which is apparently an un

Re: Modularity and packagers [was Re: PkgDB and the ArbitraryBranching Change]

2017-06-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Adam Samalik*/ wrote on Fri, 9 Jun 2017 08:50:58 +0200: On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Randy Barlow mailto:bowlofe...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 22:17 +0200, Adam Samalik wrote: > You add the package and other people start to use it. That's great > unt

Re: Tool for generating a rootfs for foreign arch (aarch64 on x86_64, for example)?

2017-06-23 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Adam Williamson*/ wrote on Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:45:07 -0700: On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 09:06 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: You have run into the purest form of open source, the "scratch your own itch" case. You want to be able to do things that cannot be done today, and nobody else is working on it.

Re: Issues with Recovery and Documentation

2017-07-07 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Gerald B. Cox*/ wrote on Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:04:23 -0700: <...> the process was able to find my installation and mount it under /mnt/sysimage Then it says: If you would like to make your system the root environment, run the command: chroot /mnt/sysimage I then get the response: chroot:

Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

2017-07-18 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Chris Murphy*/ wrote on Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:28:53 -0600: On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: ... "One size fits everyone" approach can be dangerous. It never does, in fact, fit everyone, and often sacrifices flexibility and resource usage for the convenie

os-prober updates are blocked by missing grub tool, but the maintainer doesn't respond

2019-05-03 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Dear Peter (which most likely won't read) and all, I've opened a but more than a year ago about missing grub tool in Fedora[1], and I've even emailed Peter directly, but there is no response. Upstream os-prober now requires grub2-mount to function, and therefore Fedora os-prober is effect

Re: [ACTION NEEDED] Missing BuildRequires: gcc/gcc-c++

2018-02-18 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, I've fixed all my packages except simspark & rcssserver3d, which seem to crash on i686 when generating docs using pdflatex, which will probably needs a fix in TeXLive. Regards, Hedayat /*Igor Gnatenko*/ wrote on Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:09:40 +0100: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SH

Re: F37 proposal: Enhance Persian Font Support (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-05-24 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۴۰۱/۳/۲ ۹:۰۲ بعدازظهر, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Mon, May 23 2022 at 11:54:30 AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: Default Persian font will be changed automatically on upgrades. Good, but how will you achieve this? We finally noticed that noto fonts don't get installed when upgrading F35 -> F

Re: F37 proposal: Enhance Persian Font Support (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-05-24 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۴۰۱/۳/۲ ۱۱:۵۵ بعدازظهر, Sebastian Crane wrote: As something of a typography enthusiast, I'm very much in support of this. For English, the consistent fonts on Fedora Workstation make a noticeable and positive effect on the general aesthetic, so anything that can widen that benefit would be a

Re: F37 proposal: Enhance Persian Font Support (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-05-25 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۴۰۱/۳/۴ ۳:۰۷ بعدازظهر, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote: I am also curious how the Vazirmatn font compares with Noto Naskh Arabic, and also the old Dejavu coverage? If you are referring to the coverage of unicode code points, I've no idea. Although the author claims to support 9 languages, all o

Re: F37 proposal: Enhance Persian Font Support (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-05-26 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۴۰۱/۳/۵ ۵:۲۹ بعدازظهر, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: Hi, the Scope can be split into parts: 1. packaging the font, 2. making it the default, 3. fixing integration issues, like with Firefox. I'd encourage you to do 1. as soon as possible. Until that's done, it's even hard to evaluate if

Re: F37 proposal: Enhance Persian Font Support (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-05-28 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۴۰۱/۳/۲ ۱۱:۵۵ بعدازظهر, Sebastian Crane wrote: ... I did notice that the 'How to Test' section of the proposal was empty; just as a suggestion, please could we have some screenshots of the main Persian fonts used in Fedora currently? I'm mostly just curious, but it might be useful for testin

Heads-up: ODE soname bump

2022-07-24 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi all, As part of building ODE 0.16, ode's soname has been bumped from libode.so.4/libode-double.so.4  to libode.so.8/libode-double.so.8. This package is now built as part of Fedora 37 Mass Rebuild, so we expect all dependent packages to be automatically built again during this process. W

Re: Heads-up: ODE soname bump

2022-07-26 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۴۰۱/۵/۲ ۸:۳۵ بعدازظهر, Kalev Lember wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 4:41 PM Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayat@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, As p

Re: Heads-up: ODE soname bump

2022-07-26 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
On ۱۴۰۱/۵/۳ ۴:۵۴ قبل‌ازظهر, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: On 7/24/22 16:40, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: <...> Use (Close: rhbz#1438205) instead of (rhbz#1438205) or Closes: rhbz#1438205, Fix: rhbz#1438205, Fixes: rhbz#1438205 to automatically close the related nug Thanks for the tip. O

Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

2017-07-20 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Richard Hughes*/ wrote on Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:24:10 +0100: On 20 July 2017 at 04:10, Kevin Kofler wrote: It's even required. There is no support for unbundling anything beyond the runtime at all, nor can runtimes share files without duplicating them. Sure they can. If you install the KDE ru

Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

2017-07-20 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Colin Walters*/ wrote on Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:43:12 -0400: On Tue, Jul 18, 2017, at 02:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: But if I've understood correctly, any changes to the base will be discarded when you update the base image. right? No; `rpm-ostree install` is persistent, and so are other change

Re: RFC: retiring yum

2017-09-01 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, /*Igor Gnatenko*/ wrote on Fri, 01 Sep 2017 19:01:49 +0200: <..> Do you still have some critical missing functionality in DNF? And let us know reasons why would you like to keep YUM available (hopefully there are no)! I've not tried 'dnf remove --duplicates' yet, but if it behaves similar

Re: Splitting AppStream data into Workstation/Server

2017-09-01 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Igor Gnatenko*/ wrote on Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:19:34 +0200: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 16:01 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: Neal Gompa writes: Implement your AppStream filter at the application level, rather than messing with appstream-data package.

Re: getting kernel-devel added

2017-09-15 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
 Hi, /*Ben Williams*/ wrote on Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:35:08 -0400: hello This is an issue i am seeing with new users: I was at a University installfest this weekend and this was the major issues for Endusers. case A) Students are using Fedora on windows in a VM (Vbox in this case) for a clas

Is it possible to upload new sources of a package from a URL?

2017-09-24 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Dear all, Currently, AFAIK, the suggested method to upload new sources for a package is using 'fedpkg new-sources' which uploads new sources from your local system. I wonder if there is a method to upload new sources from a URL rather than your local filesystem? It is specially useful for larg

Re: Is it possible to upload new sources of a package from a URL?

2017-09-25 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Pierre-yves Chibon*/ wrote on Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:38:39 +0200: On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:56:45AM +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Dear all, Currently, AFAIK, the suggested method to upload new sources for a package is using 'fedpkg new-sources' which uploads new sources from

Re: Is it possible to upload new sources of a package from a URL?

2017-09-25 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Richard W.m. Jones*/ wrote on Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:11:55 +0100: On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:56:45AM +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Dear all, Currently, AFAIK, the suggested method to upload new sources for a package is using 'fedpkg new-sources' which uploads new sources from

Re: Is it possible to upload new sources of a package from a URL?

2017-09-26 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Matthew Miller*/ wrote on Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:28:07 -0400: On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:38:07PM +, Tim Landscheidt wrote: If data volume is expensive or difficult for you, you could look into renting a (virtual) private server and then devel- oping there via ssh. Offers usually start at le

Re: Package add request

2017-09-26 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Samuel Rakitničan*/ wrote on Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:15:25 -: Here it is: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/srakitnican/default/build/607839/ Still not sure about naming issue, package wants to name files ZeGrapher, I called the package zegrapher, debian maintainers go a step further

Re: Package add request

2017-09-26 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Samuel Rakitničan*/ wrote on Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:15:25 -: Here it is: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/srakitnican/default/build/607839/ Still not sure about naming issue, package wants to name files ZeGrapher, I called the package zegrapher, debian maintainers go a step further

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