Re: Firefox on Fedora: No longer funny

2011-10-11 Thread Michael Scherer
Or automate the installation of the addon ( like cobbler/pxe installation ) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-24 Thread Michael Scherer
ite sure that some people would be happy to get notification of bugs and changes on some packages, without being co-maintainer. This would permit to find co-maintainers more easily IMHO, and surely foster cooperation between various distributions and with upstream. This would also help by engaging testers, etc. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: This "karma" stuff is a pain!

2012-03-16 Thread Michael Scherer
ttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Easy_Karma -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-10-26 Thread Michael Scherer
forcing reboots on users wouldn't be very kind. Beyond cleaning crash reports and reducing them, there is also the perception of users. If we want to have the same reputation as some older windows with "this software crashed and I do not know why" from our users, then havin

Re: Intent to retire: mod_python

2012-03-26 Thread Michael Scherer
8.src.rpm > > I haven't checked whether these are simply to convert over to WSGI or > not. Does anybody want to maintain mod_python? If not, I'm going to > retire it. > > Regards, Joe -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: SELinuxDenyPtrace: Write, compile, run, but don't debug applications?

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Scherer
ttack is unable to > initiate ptrace or start a process that can ptrace, what real extra > security do we gain by disabling it by default? AFAIK, firefox is not running in a confined domain, and that's a valuable target of attack. The same could be said of some others applications ( lik

Re: node.js rpm and looking for an sponsor

2012-04-22 Thread Michael Scherer
undle openssl ( + various patches, of course, or this is not fun ), etc : https://github.com/joyent/node/tree/master/deps and this against the policy : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https:

Re: changelog in spec file, was Re: Stop the git abuse

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Scherer
fork ). - then we add '%changelog' + changelog in the spec, and build a srpm out of svn and mirrors for binary content. - then the srpm is rebuilt ( binary and src.rpm ) and then sent to mirrors. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: How can we make security updates faster?

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Scherer
not ask me again] ", something like fedora-easy-karma would be enough ) Taking only in account package in updates-testing indexes, this would remove the mirror lag issue. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-01 Thread Michael scherer
to include > the master key along site Microsoft's? The last attempt to do something similar I can think of would be cacert. Afaik, they are still being audited to be added to Firefox, and i think they would be happy to explain all the issues they faced on that road. -- Michael Scherer

Re: another upgrade, another disaster

2012-06-01 Thread Michael scherer
o break later in weird way, since users perception would be different. First, they would either ask for help and then someone could explain what is wrong. This would also reduce the number of failed upgrade and therefor the number of bugs that cannot be reproduced, thus making them likely easier to spot and fix. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-01 Thread Michael scherer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLwHKHqBitc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCfRWrCj3lc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gDWyayfBNs ( time spent to search that on youtube, around 30 seconds ) And there is also variation of the interface per vendor, just look on the various ASUS motherboard interfaces. -- Mich

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-02 Thread Michael scherer
e to paying 99$ to Verisign take care of the logistics. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-02 Thread Michael scherer
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:24:35AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Michael scherer wrote: > > For the record, UEFI based motherboard would likely have a graphical > > interface, so no blueish DOS-like commandline thing. > > Of course, that also permit endless graphical custo

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-02 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 02 juin 2012 à 09:46 +0100, phantomjinx a écrit : > Michael scherer wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:10:38AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > Documenting the procedure may be viable after all. Kevi

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Scherer
illed a complain yet against that ? Since there was news about secureboot since months, I think that you had plenty of time to do it. In fact, even now, since people have time to complain, they can spend time to do it. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
secure enable boot" on the SOC ( and by "blowing fuse", understand "irreversibly" ). Chances are high that you will find technical documentations that explain it. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)

2012-06-16 Thread Michael Scherer
from time to time due to upgrade. > This feature is inpractical of server systems where you want to > avoid reboots to minimizize downtimes. Then you can still use yum update to do it instead of doing it with packagekit and systemd. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Scherer
much that's quite a lot of money better spent elsewhere. Cause money spent buying laptop is not money spent writing code. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Scherer
mitted to not ship secureboot enabled ( https://plus.google.com/101839830409692150605/posts/4Mp24WusuQM ) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: advertisement in packaged software

2014-02-12 Thread Michael Scherer
ne is the default, there is no obvious patchs to enable or disable it in our packages and on Debian side. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Scherer
can't use Application > X. In fact, we do ( or rather, I do ). When I tell to people that Starcraft II and Eve Online do not run on Linux. When I tell that Office and Photoshop do not run on Linux. When I tell that their Iphone is not gonna work and I cannot be sure that the printer they

Re: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Scherer
a will > eventually be used only by the limited set of people that are > comfortable operating under strict restrictions on their behavior[1]. > > [1] Hmm... that sounds an awful lot like the way Apple behaves... > except they can afford marketing. And lawyers, lots of them :) And they

Re: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Scherer
ng them on the DVD we distribute. I am sure we can find lots of way, and that some of them have been already tried. And that seems perfectly aligned with Fedora mission and much closer to the way people convert users. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: [RFC] plans for initscripts in F22

2014-04-26 Thread Michael Scherer
ell say "we are gonna support that forever", but that will result into bitrot if no one really test. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-05-01 Thread Michael scherer
ora ), I also know not everybody is fluent in programming. So without any page that outline why it is a warning and that tell when it can be ignored, this will not be added to rpmlint. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-11 Thread Michael Scherer
o s/yum/dnf/ or to have to conditionally code for these > differences based on OS release or the presense of yum vs. dnf. Why > not just keep the command name the same with no nag message? I would expect puppet/chef to start using the library rather than direct access to the binary. And for ansible, I think the patch is quite simple, just add 2 lines. I guess we can start right now to get stuff merged. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
work better > > and moved on. > Yes but who is this better for? A few developers or the mass of people > and documentation that > are used to using "yum". > > With cars it was obviously better for me - dnf not so obvious. So far in this thread, I see no one steppin

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
ite of YUM justifies > re-naming > and re-training all users. Users don't care what you do with the source. And > of course, users will complain no matter what you do. Like they complained when up2date was replaced by yum ? when zipper replaced whatever they used to have on *sus

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:03 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 02:59, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 10:39 -0400, Steve Clark a écrit : > >> On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:10 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 03:04, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 15:07 +0200, Petr Spacek a écrit : > >> On 13.6.2014 14:58, Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> > >>> Am 13.06.2014 14:53,

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:20 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 03:10, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:03 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >> Am 14.06.2014 02:59, schrieb Michael Scherer: > >>> Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 10

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:33 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 03:24, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:10 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >> and that changes where much bigger than a fork of YUM renamed > >> for no good reas

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 04:00 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > Am 14.06.2014 03:42, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:33 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >>> So maybe you should propose to have dnf named yum 4.0, and then since > >>>

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > Am 14.06.2014 03:36, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Everybody I know who looked at the yum python api told me it was a bit > > horrible. So a cleanup was needed for that. There was demand from > > package

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
rors to the software that do the automation, since you can only transmit string without any formatting or translation. You are also mixing something mean for a user and something meant for a software. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 12:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 12:26, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 04:00 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >> Am 14.06.2014 03:42, schrieb Michael Scherer: > >>> Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:3

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 15:08 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 14:56, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 13:45 +0100, Jon Kent a écrit : > >> Concerns me greatly when someone thinks cli is the wrong way to > >> automate things. Ag

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 15:15 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > Am 14.06.2014 15:04, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 12:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >>> That's why the developers do ask "what is missing". That's also wh

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-20 Thread Michael scherer
should work without it. So I would suggest to get in touch with him, he is quite a helpful and open guy, and would be happy to see unity on more than Ubuntu. ( for example, he is waiting on someone to sponsor him for uploading packages to debian, and that's the reason why there is no p

Re: OBS Fedora

2012-07-28 Thread Michael Scherer
or some people that want to manage their applications for > multiple distributions is the *only* > logical (administrative-able) option, correct me if you have something > more encouraged by Fedora that has the same capabilities, > I will be happy to use it. But offering build for mu

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-27 Thread Michael Scherer
day, he also posted that about the issue : https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/issues/18#issuecomment-7251595 So he didn't seemed to have got over it (yet) at this moment. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: fedora-review command fails on package

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Scherer
.txt:46 (MESSAGE): > sqlite3 not found! > -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! > > sqlite and sqlite-devel are installed, a local rpmbuild works. Hi, There is no sqlite-devel in buildRequires in the spec, so mock cannot find it. -- Michael Scherer -- 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?

2012-09-11 Thread Michael Scherer
7;t, this is truly puzzling. I have seen this a few times from people who did not know it existed, so I suspect that's why gnome use this default setting. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Scherer
esystem is freezed and then the rest is freezed. Having packages on the critical path to be frozen sooner could make sense. Maybe having some kind of dependencies between feature could also be a idea. Anaconda requires dracut to not change, so we need a way to express this, and a way to avoid changes

Re: Re: Deploying fedora infrastructure (koji) across clouds

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Scherer
can also be used with playbook, to describe the state of a server and make sure it is compliant. For example, "make sure service is started", "restart if config was changed" ( using a notification system ). See http://ansible.cc/docs/playbooks.html -- Michael Scherer --

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

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Scherer
ystem, ceph, netcf-transaction or libvirt-guests are more complex initscripts, and I could understand why they were not migrated by now. -- Michael Scherer -- 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)))

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Scherer
groups ( as I have seen some people complain on others distributions that stable release are neglected because devs run "$dev_distro" and not the stable release ) -- Michael Scherer -- 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)))

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
ave no bug is thin. And I am doubting that changing the release model will suddenly make people do QA. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
le to identify the pain points. In my experience > with my test machine, rawhide has been pretty boring for the last two > cycles, if we can continue to make it so, perhaps the rolling release > folks might be able to find it usable. Not to mention people could just dual boot in case of issues. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
sysadmin tasks in some specific case ( like if we need to contact all users to make them change their password and check they did ). -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-05 Thread Michael scherer
know issue waiting to > be solved. Technically, that could be done by reusing bodhi and enough person to give -1 karma. Another solution could be a yum plugin that will get the blacklist from the wiki or somewhere, or that would pull it from fedora-people whatever. -- Michael Scherer

Re: Setting the default firewall configuration (was Re: Attention, dependency fighters)

2012-11-15 Thread Michael Scherer
d the whole firewall ( cause waiting 1 minutes to see if you crashed the whole network is not fun the 10 first time ). -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Setting the default firewall configuration (was Re: Attention, dependency fighters)

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 15 novembre 2012 à 09:06 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 14:48 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 15.11.2012 13:33, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > > Le jeudi 15 novembre 2012 à 03:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler a écrit : > > >> i

Re: remove polkit from core?

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Scherer
nd friends? When using > those systems, it's nice to do the programmatic config and that level, and > have easily-tweaked key value (or single value per file!) configuration. No, you can just use a template and hide it behind the proper abstraction. it make things worse for stuff like

Re: need help with a package

2012-11-27 Thread Michael scherer
and didn't ask many questions ), but he will try to guide them a bit. I am the one who asked to Alex to write here, following the procedure on the wiki, but since he is not a packager, I do not know exactly how to manage it. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F18 ARM Beta VFAD - 2012-12-03

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Scherer
with the F17 image, after having updated the boot loaader with a script ( https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/ ) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread Michael Scherer
ple are annoyed to go to different bugzilla to report bugs, people are annoyed to go to different shops to shop for stuff ( as seen by the success of amazon, or even itunes, etc ), so why would it make sense to have a different way depending on what you want to install ? -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 07 décembre 2012 à 18:22 +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon a écrit : > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:51:43PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > On 12/07/2012 04:46 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > >On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > > > wrote: > > >>>I am not sure why d

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Scherer
n't have > time for it. I do not know for you, but as a sysadmin, I do not care having to learn new things. For example, I am looking forward cleaning some cruft with systemd migration. I do not expect to live in a bubble unaffected by the fact that the rest of the world is moving. 15/20 years ago, we didn't have cloud/virtualisation, BYOD trend, hyper connected work force, etc. So sysadmins and IT has to adapt daily. And changes into systems are just part of the job. People are paid because they are able to adapt. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 09:32 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : > On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 17:31 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > > In my opinion the vision needs to be changed. It feels like Fedora has > > > turned into > > > Rawhide more than Fedora

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 19:31 +0100, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : > On 12/08/2012 05:31 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 05:12 -0800, Dan Mashal a écrit : > > > In fact, I never heard anyone complaining about "kde is dying" while the > &g

Re: Tools to mount and promote Fedora on cybers.

2013-07-14 Thread Michael Scherer
ement this. And usually, in a cyber cafe, you also want to be able to limit the time spent on the session by disconnecting after a time, and display that time to the customers. You also want to let people connect only if they paid :) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Ruby on Rails 4.0

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Scherer
t; * New additional gems will have to be packaged > >> * Some dependencies of the Rails stack will need update > > Does this work for users of Rails currently in Fedora, or will those > > packages need upgraded/ported as well? > > > > Bill > > There is plenty o

Re: Proposal: ReadOnlyDirectories /etc and /usr for network-services

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Scherer
usr" is fine Seems like a bug in the software. It would prevent to have it run from a livecd. > * mediathomb > refuses for whatever reason to start with read-only /etc > "ReadOnlyDirectories=/usr" is fine Same as above. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Scherer
is "how do we convince people who are not convinced yet of the added value of such rules ?" -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Scherer
by 1 single sponsor is a rather suboptimal situation. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Scherer
ecks.` So you assume that "administrative" mean "not fun", so "people will not do it for free" ? On one hand, i would agree, this is quite hard to find a good treasurer, motivated, etc. On the other hand, there is lots of group doing it around you. Having someone pa

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Scherer
ything. And that's what was done for Mageia before the association got a legal entity, using another partner association in France as a proxy for money. I think Debian also do something similar for debconf, with SPI. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Scherer
of either of these features. Unless Matthew > > takes them over alone I will will mark these feature pages as obsolete > > as they didn't get agreed on. > > Taking rsyslog out of @core is a one-line commit to comps which someone > could do in 30 seconds. It hardly need

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Scherer
a server is not dedicated to Fedora, far from it ), and everybody has better things to do that splitting usage by project, and querying the right folks to get the number to start with. RH is not yet a bureaucratic behemoth where everything is precisely counted. However, a rough estimate would be

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 26 juillet 2013 à 13:32 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" a écrit : > On 07/26/2013 01:07 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > > Working in IT @Red Hat, I concur, and I am pretty sure that no one has > > all the information to make that estimation. Network,

Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

2013-07-27 Thread Michael Scherer
jboss do work. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

2013-07-27 Thread Michael Scherer
f failing, twice the work to setup, and of course, they do not match on feature. Anyway, I think I contributed enough to this thread, so I will stop here. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: UML (user mode linux) for Fedora

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Scherer
separate spec/srpm from the kernel spec ? -- Michael Scherer -- 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: ExecStart line in systemd service files.

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Scherer
/mysoftware with ./configure --prefix=/opt/mysoftware it should also generate a systemd file that use the correct path after ./configure & make. For the exact way of doing that, you have to see autoconf manual, and I do not have a example ready to give. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing

Re: RFC: Old packages remain on the mirrors for one week

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Scherer
org/gitweb/?p=mirror/snapshot.debian.org.git;a=tree ( and it was based on pdumpfs before ) -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Bundled Flash

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Scherer
m to have it downgradable, that's a bit hard. Another issue is the %ghost, we cannot really check the symlink is still the same. Maybe there is some better syntax for that. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Unexpanded %post in updated rpm on F19

2013-08-24 Thread Michael Scherer
anual intervention. Could something be done with it so that doesn't spread to others packages, and those be fixed before too much people install them ? -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code

Re: Unexpanded %post in updated rpm on F19

2013-08-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 24 août 2013 à 15:57 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit : > Hi, > > I found 2 rpms ( nscd, acpid ) that were sent in updates with a bug that > didn't expand the systemd macro : > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000713 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Re: COPR

2013-09-03 Thread Michael scherer
un anything in chroot. I do have a patch but I was not able to make a policy for the transition ( or my patch is buggy ) and I didn't look at it since a few weeks. I can send it if someone want to take a look. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: COPR

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mardi 03 septembre 2013 à 15:37 -0400, Jay Greguske a écrit : > On 09/03/2013 01:54 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 09/03/2013 12:29 PM, Michael scherer wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:48:52A

Re: COPR

2013-09-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mardi 03 septembre 2013 à 15:37 -0400, Jay Greguske a écrit : > On 09/03/2013 12:29 PM, Michael scherer wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:48:52AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:10:32 -0400 > >> Jay Greguske wrote: > >> > >

Re: abrt Bugzilla summary

2013-09-20 Thread Michael Scherer
r user? > Possibly too much complexity... Assuming you filter your mail using something like maildrop that can filter the email and rewrite the Subject. If spamassassin can do it, why not do the same :) ( I use that to remove the [ml name] of some list, to reorder the subject for

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Scherer
nothing for you. See http://users.sosdg.org/~qiyong/lxr/source/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt#L160 for more information. Also, for the record, Debian also enable it for the next stable release : http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/whats-in-the-linux-kernel-for-debian-70-wheezy-part-1.htm

Re: nufw unresponsive maintainer & deprecation

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Scherer
he bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921158 > > This is the step 4 of the absent maintainer process so I am asking > whether anyone knows how to contact the maintainer. I know the maintainer, I will send him a sms ( we were both working for the company that wrote

Re: nufw unresponsive maintainer & deprecation

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 27 mars 2013 à 12:32 +0100, Michael Scherer a écrit : > Le mercredi 27 mars 2013 à 12:15 +0100, Tomas Mraz a écrit : > > The nufw package in fedora is currently FTBFS and broken due to missing > > dependencies. The package upstream is dead and replaced with a new U

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Scherer
t in the wild. But I am not sure if you are talking of that. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Scherer
ed method to find if > hardening criteria applies to a particular package. Ideas are welcome! You can take a look on http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/security/ , there is a script rpm-chksec to verify that. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Each Fedora release I do series of blog on New Security Feature coming in the next Fedora.

2013-04-10 Thread Michael Scherer
gt; > Things I have covered in the past in addition to SELinux advances, systemd > improvements, journald, kerberos moving the cache, FreeIPA integration with > ActiveDirectory, audit improvement, libvirt/containers ... Privacy in gnome 3.8 ? -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing

Re: rawhide report: 20130413 changes

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Scherer
id=951830 -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-04-14 Thread Michael Scherer
onvince any upstream directly to invest more time in stuff like seccomp-bpf as did by Chrome, vsftpd and others if you think that's the right approach to fix security issues. -- Michael Scherer !DSPAM:516a7a988771503385058! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: audacity

2013-04-28 Thread Michael Scherer
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/plf-discuss@zarb.org/msg01913.html -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Idea: "{Gnome,KDE,Xfce,...} Minimal Desktop" groups

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Scherer
ot;yum install session(gnome)" that would take what is needed to have "gnome" in *dm listed as a choice, and i think that would fit the definition of minimal. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
conda developers don't read the developer list? That's terrible! That's the whole point of having a separate list in the first place, so people are not forced to read a high volume list like fedora-devel. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org ht

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

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
;reduce visual clutter" and "have a explicit checkbox" ) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 05:51 -0400, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Hi > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in > favor of > the proposal : > h

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

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 15:22 -0700, Dan Mashal a écrit : > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in favor of > > the proposal : > > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the_proble

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

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 17:06 -0600, Chris Murphy a écrit : > > On May 4, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > > Or I could also speak of the small non standard keyboard such as macbook > > one where ~ or | are not printed and where using the wrong keyboard &

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

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Scherer
tp://lab.arc90.com/2009/07/08/halfmask-an-experiment-in-password-masking/ ( didn't work with firefox, only with epiphany ) ( as a side note, I suspect that the whole idea come from this article : http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/26/password-masking-hurt-signup-form/ ) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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