RE: [HEADS UP] dracut-live subpackage

2015-07-15 Thread John Florian
t; Subject: [HEADS UP] dracut-live subpackage > > dracut now has a new subpackage "dracut-live" which is needed to boot live > images with dmsquash. > > Please add this package to your dependencies. > Thanks for the advance notice. Where is this planned to land? W

RE: bugzilla search missing fields; can't find if F21 dracut bug filed lately

2015-10-01 Thread John Florian
sn't seem very usable to me. I didn't file a bug on BZ because I wasn't sure where exactly one does that. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

.treeinfo missing in mirrors

2014-07-16 Thread John Florian
e was "hidden" because I suspect many a mirror exclude all hidden files for the reason I had done so, namely to avoid pulling an upstream mirror's temporary files.) Anyway, we checked a few upstream mirrors (e.g., kernel.org) and the file isn't there. Did something happen at the

RE: .treeinfo missing in mirrors

2014-07-16 Thread John Florian
omething happen at the top? It's still there as far as I can see. http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/.treeinfo Sorry folks, there was a miscomm on our end. It was .treeinfo.signed he was missing and that was excluded by our mirroring script. -- John

Advice needed for packaging local SELinux policy

2014-07-22 Thread John Florian
olve the issue via my rpm directly. I've not been successful in finding any guidelines in how to best approach that task. Do I package a bit of SEL policy or is there a way to have my script run with the puppet_var_lib_t context? -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorapro

RE: Advice needed for packaging local SELinux policy

2014-07-23 Thread John Florian
resolve the issue via my rpm directly. I’ve not been successful in finding any guidelines in how to best approach that task. Do I package a bit of SEL policy or is there a way to have my script run with the puppet_var_lib_t context? -- John Florian Then you should add a custom policy

RE: Advice needed for packaging local SELinux policy

2014-07-23 Thread John Florian
Perfect! Thanks Christopher. -- John Florian -Original Message- From: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Meng Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 09:12 To: Development discussions related to Fedora Subject: Re

RE: Splitting & renaming of dhcp package

2014-07-30 Thread John Florian
h foo-server + foo-client. Whatever you do, please do so between Fedora releases so that those of us who use things like puppet can have a simple condition on the OS release number. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

RE: Dracut, dmsquash, and overlays

2014-07-30 Thread John Florian
ers a lot to me since my spin is relatively use-case agnostic; it's an generic Appliance OS and puppet makes each node into something specific at run-time though always starting from a common image. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproje

RE: Django-1.7 for Fedora 21

2014-10-16 Thread John Florian
will *definitely* have us kicking > ourselves in 6 months. And shipping 1.7 by default will make lots of Django > users/devs happy. > > Definitely bring it up to FESCo, but it's probably riskier to be shipping > something that will become unsupported within the release lifetime

Puppet 4

2015-06-04 Thread John Florian
cal, but we use Fedora almost exclusively.) [1] https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.0/reference/release_notes.html [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1068867 -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Puppet 4

2015-06-05 Thread John Florian
On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 23:21 +0200, Haïkel wrote: > 2015-06-04 20:21 GMT+02:00 John Florian : > > I’ve been curious how Fedora plans to tackle inclusion of Puppet 4, but > > haven’t heard even a peep on the subject. As described[1], they’ve moved to > > an all-in-one p

Re: Puppet 4

2015-06-05 Thread John Florian
On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 20:17 -0700, Michael Stahnke wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Haïkel > wrote: > 2015-06-04 20:21 GMT+02:00 John Florian > : > > I’ve been curious how Fedora plans to tackle inclusion of > Puppet 4, bu

Re: Puppet 4

2015-06-05 Thread John Florian
On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 01:12 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, John Florian wrote: > > I’ve been curious how Fedora plans to tackle inclusion of Puppet 4, but > > haven’t heard even a peep on the subject. As described[1], they’ve moved to &g

Re: Puppet 4

2015-06-05 Thread John Florian
rking on this.) > > Oh, and not to forget: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Limited_usage_of_.2Fopt.2C_.2Fetc.2Fopt.2C_and_.2Fvar.2Fopt > > -- > Matthew Miller > > Fedora Project Leader Thanks for that info. I've always referenced http://www.pathname.com/fhs

Re: Anyone using Tiled windows on Plasma out there ?

2020-07-14 Thread John Florian
On 2020-07-14 13:42, Sergio Belkin wrote: > What is the better option to to get tiled windows in Plasma? > > I've tried a few kwin scripts with no luck, for example: > > - Grid-Tiling > - Krohnkite > - Tiling Extension > > The best I've tried so far is the last one, but can be too unstable... > > W

Re: Anyone using Tiled windows on Plasma out there ?

2020-07-16 Thread John Florian
se, the few hassles I encounter are so much less time demanding than all the window management I manually did before adopting kwin-tiling.  If I could only have "focus follows eyes", I'd be quite happy in the WM serving me rather than the other way around.  :-) John Florian

Re: Anyone using Tiled windows on Plasma out there ?

2020-07-16 Thread John Florian
On 2020-07-16 13:59, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > > El jue., 16 jul. 2020 a las 12:22, John Florian > (mailto:jflor...@doubledog.org>>) escribió: > > In any case, the few hassles I encounter are so much less time > demanding > than all the window management

Re: vim has lost it's damn mind

2020-07-28 Thread John Florian
t I've used for over a decade to un-highlight a search.  That no longer works in vim or gvim.  Until I'd found that I figured something in konsole had changed.  But once gvim revealed weird issues I figured it must be more of a vim thing. Now seeing this message, I'm becoming even m

Re: vim has lost it's damn mind

2020-07-29 Thread John Florian
lack of gneovim or whatever it'd be called.  There was MUCH to be liked however, I remember that much. John Florian ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: python-django update to Django-1.6

2014-02-21 Thread John . Florian
ants to maintain company-private packages based on django, this affords more flexibility. I realize it may always mean more packaging work to keep several python-djangoXYs in the distro, but it makes for a less rigid coupling between the OS and what framework version you need to use. -- John

Re: python-django update to Django-1.6

2014-02-21 Thread John . Florian
sensible, yet it does lead the "jump when we say jump" syndrome. Still, I'd rather deal with the upgrade conflict you mention than to be pinned to an older Fedora release. It's always a fragile balancing act choosing between what needs to be new and what cannot yet

Re: python-django update to Django-1.6

2014-02-21 Thread John . Florian
some tests. If he can make this work, that would > > make our lives a lot easier. More to come, stay tuned... > > > > > > Ok, so it turns out that Python Eggs are a lot smarter than I gave > them credit for. If you turn your attention to > http://fedoraproj

Re: [Base] Fedora Base Design Working Group (2014-02-21) meeting minutes and logs

2014-02-21 Thread John . Florian
e home. (I did learn accidentally with btrfs I can just ignore it and I've not lost any space on /.) So yes, simplicity is good, unless it makes everything else harder later. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: [Base] Fedora Base Design Working Group (2014-02-21) meeting minutes and logs

2014-02-24 Thread John . Florian
the host I want/need LVM because in the physical world, LVM makes life way more easier. Yeah, I can live with it in all cases, but then I'm just as likely to do a complete reinstall of the VM as to resize the undersized file system. However, that's only practical because puppet is doin

Re: [Base] Fedora Base Design Working Group (2014-02-21) meeting minutes and logs

2014-02-24 Thread John . Florian
wedge so much capability and effort into a narrow > installer-only use case? Bootable raid6 and raid4?? > I actually like that idea of decoupling them. It would be good to see more of the *nix tradition here, do ONE thing and do it very well. Of course we'd need th

Re: [HEADS UP] Update to Django-1.6

2014-03-19 Thread John . Florian
thias > -- > Matthias Runge > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct I'd like to see 1.6 for F20. That would let me r

Python 3 and mod_wsgi

2014-04-14 Thread John . Florian
le -- as reversing the Python 3 is really undesirable at this point -- is there any reason Fedora couldn't have two mod_wsgi packages (one for Python2 and another for Python3)? -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Python 3 and mod_wsgi

2014-04-15 Thread John . Florian
to Jakub Dorňák (#1035876) - I guess > we could backport to f20 without any problems. That would be extremely helpful here, especially given that f21 is still a ways off. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Fedora 20 Puppet update and SELinux policy

2014-04-22 Thread John . Florian
- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Okay, count me in. Is there a BZ already in place for reporting issues or should such reports

RE: Bodhi front page after login

2015-12-10 Thread John Florian
t has happened through the use of some mirror probing. Such a 3rd message should be carefully worded to indicate that the package has started reaching *some* mirrors and that most should have it within another day. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lis

RE: Bodhi front page after login

2015-12-15 Thread John Florian
Ditto! That seems like a much simpler solution overall. -- John Florian > -Original Message- > From: Petr Spacek [mailto:pspa...@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 03:48 > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Bodhi front page after login > >

Re: F18 Slow (was: Broken dependencies from F17->F18 upgrade)

2012-08-21 Thread John . Florian
sing that kernel and report back my findings. Anyway, I was happy just to see it boot and appear mostly operational, especially since I was unable to do the same using F17 to build a F17 Live spin of the same sort. Great job so far everyone! -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fed

Re: Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org

2012-08-31 Thread John . Florian
te > and report on it there?" which I REALLY don't want to do. The updates > are a manual process, so it's already another step someone in > Infrastructure has to do when there is an outage. > > Lets keep it to sites that Fedora Infrastructure directly manages. >

Re: Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org

2012-08-31 Thread John . Florian
27;s status being out of sync a great deal more than services we > monitor and manage. ;) I'm not suggesting you monitor it at all, merely to have this page state that you don't. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org

2012-08-31 Thread John . Florian
t; Exactly! Great examples BTW and I really like the order they're presented in, starting with those everyone is likely to ask about first down to those that some will wonder about. -- John Florian-- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org

2012-08-31 Thread John . Florian
> From: Kevin Fenzi > I'd prefer to avoid a list... how about: > > "This site provides status only for services managed directly by Fedora > Infrastructure" That's short and simple and drives the point home clear enough, I think. -- John F

Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?

2012-09-18 Thread John . Florian
epressed. FWIW, I enabled tap-to-click -- did I just answer my own question? -- simply because my wife and I both found the mouse to be moving off target too often when tried using these "buttons". -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD

2012-09-18 Thread John . Florian
F18 Release == Gold > > ? > > My EUR 0.02, I don't really care that much about the color of the > bikeshed but this suggestion was the most interesting to me ;-) > > --Stijn > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel That's the simplest, easiest to understand (without referencing a wiki for definitions) option I've seen proposed yet. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?

2012-09-18 Thread John . Florian
> > Regards, > Florian > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Any ideas on the equivalent for KDM? -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?

2012-09-18 Thread John . Florian
gt; > Nicola Oh! Thanks for that info. Indeed we're running F17 on it (Samsung 5 series IIRC) without any issues at all. Fedora may work great on it, but this old dog isn't adapting so well to the new tricks of these touchy-clicky things. Oh well, praise be the new days where it a

Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?

2012-09-18 Thread John . Florian
ound yet -- this will save me much time. Thanks! > I have been doing this for several years with my laptops I'm relatively new to owning a laptop. Used them for years at work but those were bungled with Windoze. Win7 lived all of about 5m on my Samsung before something worthwhile (F17) was installed after which it immediately soared in value by a factor of nearly infinity. :-) -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

New Anaconda and Mouse Buttons

2012-09-18 Thread John . Florian
cks ever. (Oh and while I'm dreaming, might as well magically change all UI labels and documentation for mouse buttons to be 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. instead of "left", "right", "middle".) I've been adapting all my life, so I won't be

Re: New Anaconda and Mouse Buttons

2012-09-18 Thread John . Florian
installer is the one and only place where emulating a Fruity computer's single-button mouse makes sense. Since we can't reduce the number of physical buttons, I propose we reduce the logical number to just one. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: New Anaconda and Mouse Buttons

2012-09-18 Thread John . Florian
pond to the name John with one group of people, but Michael to everyone else ... it might not be that bad if nobody else shared those names. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?

2012-09-18 Thread John . Florian
n by default. > (I hereby include my permanent disclaimer that I'm just the idiot > monkey, and any time someone who's not an idiot monkey comes along and > contradicts me, you can confidently assume I'm wrong...so if ajax or > whot or someone shows up and says I'm

Re: New Anaconda and Mouse Buttons

2012-09-20 Thread John . Florian
File a RFE against Anaconda > > Done: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858843 Awesome! Thanks for handling that. I'd been meaning to get to it myself, but am playing firefighter at work today. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: dependency bug wodim/genisoimage

2012-09-27 Thread John . Florian
and click-through help text of BZ's Component field could better explain this. It might also be good to note how easy it is to grock the src.rpm name from a "suspect" file using rpm -qif /some/suspect/filename. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-08 Thread John . Florian
gainst-attacks-1671165.html -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread John . Florian
to boot, login and install more atop of that, but only as needed. Anything beyond this is some "use case", but minimal is minimal. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread John . Florian
as a minimal install > > and grow "just enough" to fit their role. I take "minimal" quite > > literally in that I believe it should be the absolute minimum to boot, > > login and install more atop of that, but only as needed. Anything beyond > > this

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread John . Florian
ed you with a dialog with the title > "Components to install". (I believe this even *predates anaconda*.) > > This is the list of those components. The "comps file". Oh yes, of course! I remember the days ... having started with RHL 4.0. Some acronyms are just more obvio

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-15 Thread John . Florian
size: 401 M Bill, thanks for that excellent report! It shows me that even if you strip away some of the "conveniences", you really don't save that much over our normal "minimal" install. Very enlightening. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: What are reasonable blockers for making journald the default logger in F19?

2012-10-17 Thread John . Florian
ary. Seems like -a should be automatic if a pipe is involved. # rpm -qf $(which journalctl) systemd-194-1.fc18.i686 -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: aha! I figured out why journalctl's auto-pager bugs me when git's doesn't (and possible solution)

2012-10-18 Thread John . Florian
see nothing wrong with an implied pager. I think git has nailed the perfect combo where it allows configs of "always", "never" and "auto" (turns off paging, color, etc. for non-tty stdout). -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-22 Thread John . Florian
#x27;ve had a difficult time keeping my puppet resources in shape for each Fedora release -- six months goes by all to fast when you have many other responsibilities -- puppet was supposed to reduce my workload, right? Right??? If 3.0 lands in F17, that's going to hurt my plans. At the same time, puppet in F17 "as is" is plagued with problems as already mentioned. Argh! "Hogtied" is a very apt description. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-22 Thread John . Florian
s a simple unavoidable fact that some systems just cannot stay as current as they ideally should and the dependencies may run very deep and well beyond the realm of software packages and OSes alone. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-22 Thread John . Florian
greatly appreciate hearing of their experiences. I don't relish the idea of making the conversion, but I really do get the impression life would be simpler with ansible once there. Or am I just falling for that greener grass on the other side of the fence? -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: tools to catch AttributeError and TypeError in python code?

2012-10-22 Thread John . Florian
darned good at catching all sorts of things prior to run-time. My python code has improved in reliability significantly thanks to PyCharm. I've never been much of an IDE person in the past, but this tool has convinced me that they do have their uses. I focus far more on the goal now. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-22 Thread John . Florian
n F17, that's going to hurt my plans. At the same time, puppet in F17 "as > > is" is plagued with problems as already mentioned. > > > > Argh! "Hogtied" is a very apt description. > > I'm sorry if your Puppet experience isn't completely awesome. Posting > on the Puppet users list might be more appropriate. Been there, done that since v0.24. If I'd jumped in with 3.0, my opinions might be different. I believe something like puppet is sorely needed and it solves big problems, but it's been a very bumpy ride when what was once "best practice" is now deprecated. > In this case I am looking for packaging options/opinions on Puppet > with regards to Fedora and EPEL. See my next to last paragraph beginning, "As for what should be done with Fedora and RHEL ...". Consider the rest as context. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

2012-10-23 Thread John . Florian
s a very nice compromise between (1) you should see this and (2) not being annoying about it. I would personally like to see the puppet folks adopt something like this as an ongoing policy for all deprecations/obsoletions with as much as advance notice as reasonably possible. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

2012-11-05 Thread John . Florian
gt; to support a lts release of Fedora instead since it does not take more > then a missing sysadmin or rhel business decision to more or less render > those community incapacitated +1 This is exactly why I've never adopted one of them. Like the concept, but fear such situat

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-14 Thread John . Florian
u can install it after your DB has gone poopsies. > I've seen that happen as well. I found this by hitting the pause button on the guest IIRC. I just always use NTP to avoid the worry, but I agree NTP (whether ntpd or chronyd) belongs in @standard not @core. -- John Florian --

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-14 Thread John . Florian
rr from the cron jobs just go to the syslog, but this may be systemd's journal magic that I've been seeing. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-15 Thread John . Florian
) I don't believe embedded is out of focus for Fedora, I already have several hundred such systems, soon likely to scale into the thousands. It works quite well for this and I don't see any reason @core can't work to their benefit as well. -- John Florian -- devel mai

Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set

2012-11-15 Thread John . Florian
d in those builds. Last time I checked, it did not appear to be so maybe this whole @core thing really is irrelevant to me. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-16 Thread John . Florian
t I see nothing but benefit in not having to add "| less" routinely to things that are UI in nature. These auto-pagers get out of the way immediately if you need a pipeline, so what's the harm? In fact, you can still "journalctl | less" or the l

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-16 Thread John . Florian
#x27;m not fond of the truncation method either, but I do appreciate knowing that I'm not seeing the whole line, nor do I much care for wrapped lines with semi-structured output. So until my pager grows a throbbing indicator per line to hint there's more I find it a reasonable approach. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
keep the > useful ones and throw away the useless ones. I used to do something like this with vim ":g/NOISE/d" until I could see the detail I wanted when the alternations for grep would have been tremendously long. With journalctl's built-in filtering capabilities I'm

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
IT. I realize if all the fields were thusly accessible it would result in option bloat quickly, but I'd think filtering on _COMM is quite routine -- it is for me at least. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
x27;d think > > filtering on _COMM is quite routine -- it is for me at least. > > You can provide binary path (_EXE=) by ”journalctl /usr/sbin/sshd”. Yes, but that's of little help with applications using interpreted languages (e.g., python). I want to match on the name of

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
> From: scl...@netwolves.com > This seems like such a specious argument. Maybe it made sense when > we were talking about disk drives > that were megabytes in size, but now we have 500 gigabyte drives > usually as a minimum. You don't ever work with embedded systems, do y

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
g., python). I want to match on the name of the python > > program, not python itself. > > journalctl _COMM= works for me on F19. > As it does for me, but somewhere it got clipped that what I was asking/wishing for was a convenient -C option (like ps) to do just this,

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
; The output is still authoritative, but you get more than just messages > originating from the unit. I just *knew* I was going to be corrected on that. Thanks for the explanation though. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
. But maybe it would be better to make > 'journalctl /path/to/program' smarter, so that it would look at _COMM when > program is not an executable. This way things would work automagically. That would be suitable too, if not more so. Also, for whatever reason, I&#x

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
#x27;t see that happen and feel no right in complaining without a BZ, so here we go :-) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985548 [RFE: improve journalctl filtering by _COMM] -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
> From: zbys...@in.waw.pl > It only does an extra stat on the file do termine its kind, and then > adds "_EXE=..." match. There shouldn't be any speed difference. Hmmm... I cannot reproduce it now. It must have been something else. Please disregard and my apologies

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
s way if the specified server exists and responds correctly, and > 'return false' if it doesn't. For now it is using ntpdate; I suppose we > could switch it to ntpd, but it would make an awful lot more sense if > chronyd could do this. I'm on the chrony mailing list if the

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd

2013-07-17 Thread John . Florian
o test for remote > ntp connectivity. I think you want to work with: chronyc tracking Also, this might be useful too: chronyc waitsync -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-18 Thread John . Florian
l extra info conveyed via color) that it's hard to grumble about much else. :-) I may have avoided these largely because I knew it would take time to learn the various names. But now I know I can "journalctl _ " and have an instant refresher. Thanks for such a well-done tool. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-18 Thread John . Florian
n? I'd always choose the former, regardless of the case or how convenient it was to me. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

2013-07-19 Thread John . Florian
do. After all "import this" says: Explicit is better than implicit. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

2013-07-19 Thread John . Florian
have to fix up a bunch shebang lines and learn that I need to get going on my migration pronto than the alternative of finding one day that python2 is just gone where one is left with either a hurried port or downloading python2 from external sources. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

2013-07-19 Thread John . Florian
et the very blunt "head's up" and be explicit too? I have no idea when py2 will truly go away, but I'm convinced it will eventually and I'd like to create my works in the best possible fashion. Thus far I've relied on the implicit py->py2 and explicit py3 invocations as that's the way I've seen Fedora set examples, but I think this should really be more detailed in the packaging guidelines. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Graphics driver support in F21+

2013-08-27 Thread John . Florian
Only if you want to drop VESA support. Please don't drop that. I have a large install base of SBCs using geode and some on savage and s3virge IIRC. I need at least the VESA fallback, although I suspect that may not suffice in some cases. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lis

Re: Orphaned meanwhile package

2013-03-28 Thread John . Florian
cent Fedora > releases, feel free to write me. I would like to hear what you've worked out. We had it going back as late as F15-16ish IIRC, but it got increasingly difficult and I lost interest, settling for an RDP session to a Windows client. -- John Florian -- devel mai

Re: Orphaned meanwhile package

2013-03-28 Thread John . Florian
Thanks Simone! -- John Florian From: Simone Caronni To: Development discussions related to Fedora Date: 03/28/2013 10:43 Subject:Re: Orphaned meanwhile package Sent by:devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Hello, I'm replying here as the question was posed

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-10 Thread John . Florian
ld only be used if the DB size exceeded some threshold. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Keeping old versions of packages

2013-04-10 Thread John . Florian
that too. I sure hope we didn't add the efficient method on top of the inefficient method, rather than replace it. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-04-15 Thread John . Florian
> From: les >Maybe I'm wrong, but given that I won't likely be around by the time > these newer languages have become senior, I won't see my statement > refuted. You needn't wait long. Ada has been around for three some decades already. ;-) -- John Flor

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-09 Thread John . Florian
7;s the point of reviving it? Sometimes, if you don't get your > $0.02 posted in time, it's best to just sit on it. Agreed. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Fedora-spins] Where are the remaining F19 spins?

2013-05-13 Thread John . Florian
las that Kevin proposed are the ideal replacement for spins. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_formulas -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Fedora-spins] Where are the remaining F19 spins?

2013-05-13 Thread John . Florian
ive spin with stateless Linux features enabled, plus puppet (considering switching to ansible), plus a little glue to make custom appliances where networked resources dictate the various roles those appliances play ranging from kiosks to firewalls. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-16 Thread John . Florian
ra Project URL : http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/livecd Summary : Python modules for building system images Description : Python modules that can be used for building images for things like live image or appliances. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: anaconda / initial-setup / gnome-initial-setup: can we do this better?

2013-05-20 Thread John . Florian
mmy account to proceed past some mandatory setup is irritating. I've raised this concern once before already. I don't mind hitting a skip button -- I certainly don't want to make it hard for others to set up their accounts manually if that's their cup o' tea. -- John Flo

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread John . Florian
tarballs just to feed rpmbuild. It always seems such a huge waste of time, especially for very large packages. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread John . Florian
sed and tarballed again. I'd like to see it behave more the way I expected it to when I naively first started rolling my own packages. Specifically, it would be nice if the %Source URI was processed intelligently to automatically retrieve the content via HTTP, FTP, GIT, FILE or whatever (within reason) happens to be specified there. -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread John . Florian
t an in-place upgrade just like that. (This is unbelievably useful if you have hundreds or more of nodes running such images in an embedded hardware.) Yeah, I forced a round peg into a very square hole, but it works beautifully. I'm both embarrassed and proud! :-) -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

RE: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-01 Thread John Florian
accessing is not my workstation, then it's almost always ssh (in an xterm). Given all this, it shouldn't be hard to imagine I'd prefer the proposed change but I have no qualms in changing the default to suit my purposes -- I've been a deviant ever since RHL switched bash fr

RE: Why GUI software update tool is broken for me

2016-06-16 Thread John Florian
s this ok [y/N]: n Operation aborted. Why would that be? -- John Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

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