PDFCrack - empty debuginfo file

2011-10-21 Thread P J P
  Hi, I'm trying to package the PDFCrack tool for Fedora, Review request -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746754 Koji build -> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3446368 Somehow it is creating an empty DebugInfo package. Could someone tell why it is creating an

Re: PDFCrack - empty debuginfo file

2011-10-21 Thread P J P
- Original Message - > From: Josh Boyer > The %build section has: > strip pdfcrack   Ah okay, I'll patch the Makefile. Thank you. --- Regards -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Reviews done, approval pending

2011-10-28 Thread P J P
  Hi, Please see these review requests, PDFCrack -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746754 ndjbdns -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480724 Could someone approve these packages please? Thank you. --- Regards -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Reviews done, approval pending

2011-10-28 Thread P J P
   Hello Richard, - Original Message - > From: Richard Shaw > I've just made some comments for PFDCrack, I'll take it once you've > made the updates.   Ah cool, thanks. > As for ndjbdns, I'm not quite comfortable with that one. Although I > hate to mention it because it looks like so

Re: Reviews done, approval pending

2011-10-30 Thread P J P
  Hi, - Original Message - > From: Tomasz Torcz >   Additionaly, I believe daemontools feature are subset of systemd's one. > So daemontools shouldn't be needed at all.   Yes, that was removed in the very first release. Thank you. --- Regards -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel ma

About package review and mismatching md5sums

2011-06-29 Thread P J P
   Hi! :) One of the package review guideline says === MUST: The sources used to build the package must match the upstream source, as provided in the spec URL. Reviewers should use md5sum for this task. === Past couple of days, I've been reviewing the python grapefruit package   at - http

Re: About package review and mismatching md5sums

2011-06-29 Thread P J P
- Original Message - > From: Andreas Schwab > Make sure to disable the gzip timestamp.   ...how do you do that? I tried using - $ tar --atime-preserve - etc. but didn't help. Thanks. --- Regards -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://a

Re: About package review and mismatching md5sums

2011-06-29 Thread P J P
> >From: Aaron Faanes >>$ gzip --help >> -n, --no-name     do not save or restore the original name and time stamp >The -j in "tar -cjf" means to compress using bzip2, so I don't think gzip is >used, at least in his example.   Yep, gzip or even other compressions

Re: About package review and mismatching md5sums

2011-06-29 Thread P J P
> >From: Aaron Faanes > >My guess is that the ssh'd host uses a different username/group or uses a >different filesystem. You could compare the two using rsync:  Hmmn..strange. Nope, username/group are same, even the file system(ext4) is same. I checked it on 3-4(

Need package review

2012-02-24 Thread P J P
   Hi, It's been ages since I filed this pacakge review request.   -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480724 Could someone please review and approve it? Thank you. --- Regards -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Need package review

2012-02-24 Thread P J P
- Original Message - > From: Richard Shaw > To: P J P ; Development discussions related to Fedora > > > Not that it would have made a difference in this case but one problem > you have is you've assigned the review request to yourself. It should > be assign

Review request - mysqlenum

2012-03-03 Thread P J P
  Hi, Could someone please review this package -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798738   Thank you. --- Regards -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Login problem after yum update

2010-05-10 Thread P J P
Hi, After I did yum update today morning(May 10'Th), I'm facing a weird login problem. None of the authentications - gdm login, su - user, or ssh from a remote host etc. are being resolved. Even passwd(1) segfaluts while changing password. I just can't login to the machine, in any way. did

Re: Login problem after yum update

2010-05-10 Thread P J P
--- On Mon, 10/5/10, David Woodhouse wrote: > Downgrade this. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504949 Hey thanks, it worked. Thank you. --- Regards -Prasad PS: Please don't send me html/attachment/Fwd mails -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.

Re: what is the latest kernel in FC20?

2014-09-07 Thread P J P
Hello Pal, On Sunday, 7 September 2014 12:57 PM, "Pál, László" wrote: >A few weeks ago I had to upgrade my kernel due to some nvidia related issue. >Installed package kernel-headers-3.15.10-200.fc20.x86_64 (from updates) not >available. >Error: Nothing to do What was the yum command used h

Re: what is the latest kernel in FC20?

2014-09-08 Thread P J P
On Sunday, 7 September 2014 1:34 PM, "Pál, László" wrote: >Yes, it was yum but I have the same for dnf. The error message is installed >package is not available (both for kernel and headers). How much time needed >to able to install a package after pushed to stable? Well, once pushed to stable,

Systemd boot issue

2014-09-09 Thread P J P
Hello, I've been trying to boot into kernel-3.16.0 on a F19 machine. But it just stops after saying ... [OK] Reached target Initrd Default target System is not hung, but there is no activity/progress either. I did search about it, some say it's because of SELinux. But other kernels do boot

Re: Systemd boot issue

2014-09-09 Thread P J P
Hello Daniel, Chris, Thank you so much for sharing the links and the notes, much appreciate it. > On Wednesday, 10 September 2014 12:23 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > Did you try to boot with enforcing=0? > To see if it is an SELinux issue? Yes I tried with enforcing=0, it does not seem to

Re: Systemd boot issue

2014-09-09 Thread P J P
Hi, After removing 'rhgb quiet' and adding 'systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=console' it generates a huge pile of debug messages at halts at - Switching root. I tried booting the _same_ 3.16.0 kernel on another F20 machine, it stops at the same spot. :( --- Regards -Prasad http

Re: Systemd boot issue

2014-09-10 Thread P J P
Hi, > On Wednesday, 10 September 2014 12:28 PM, poma wrote: > dr. acut? Can't say for sure. I added "rdshell rd.debug" parameters to the boot command line, again it throws a long list of debug messages from - /lib/dracut-lib.sh@xxx. Messages are about trying to setup /etc/sysconfig/network-

Re: Systemd boot issue

2014-09-11 Thread P J P
Hello Chris, > On Wednesday, 10 September 2014 9:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Well I have no idea what's on the screen at the time of the hang. Maybe a > cell phone photo would be useful. Or maybe you should use the debug kernel > which > was one of Paul Wouters suggestions. Or you could go

Re: Unofficial Poll: Flock 2015 (North America) Bids

2014-09-21 Thread P J P
Hello, > On Sunday, 21 September 2014 9:18 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > * Salt Lake City, Utah, USA[1] > * Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA[2] > * Rochester, New York, USA[3] > * Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA[4] > > - -5: I would not want to attend Flock if it was held in this location. > 0: Th

Fedora Activity Day - 1st Nov 2014 - theme security

2014-10-05 Thread P J P
Hello all, See -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_Security_1 Date: Say, 1st Nov 2014 Venue: Red Hat Inc. Tower-10, Magarpatta City, Near Hadapsar, Pune, India. On 1st Nov 2014, we plan to host a Fedora Activity Day(FAD) geared towards triaging security bugs in Fedora. The day would s

Need to contact rubygem-activesupport EPEL branch maintainer

2015-04-19 Thread P J P
Hello, Please see: -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209124 Does anyone know where to contact Mr Michael Stahnke, the rubygem-activesupport EPEL branch maintainer. The package needs to be updated with few fixes. Thank you. --- Regards - P J P http://feedmug.

Re: Need to contact rubygem-activesupport EPEL branch maintainer

2015-04-20 Thread P J P
t him an email, let's see. Thank you. --- Regards -P J P http://feedmug.com -- 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: F23 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2015-06-09 Thread P J P
additional > configuration available for testing? As per F23 schedule, it's post 28 Jul 2015 -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule --- Regards -P J P http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: F23 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2015-06-10 Thread P J P
uration changes to indicate 'trusted' character of a resolver was proposed to upstream glibc, but that is yet to be resolved properly. -> https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00426.html --- Regards -P J P http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorapr

Re: dnssec-trigger + GNOME + NetworkManager integration

2015-06-24 Thread P J P
orkManager APIs, I wonder why is it separately conducting captive portal detection on its own? IMHO NetworkManager is best placed and best suited to conduct network probes and notify other applications via its APIs. NM could be our one solid system wide solution for everything that is network

Unresponsive upstream - mysqlenum

2012-04-28 Thread P J P
   Hi, I filed mysqlenum package for review more than a month ago. Review is stuck because the upstream is unresponsive about a licensing issue.  -> http://www.andreafabrizi.it/?mysqlenum  -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798738 What is a way out in such cases? I'm sure it must

PDF printing woes

2012-05-30 Thread P J P
  Hi, I'm facing a weird printing problem with cups-1.5.2 on F16. I can print a document from the browser; But when i try to print a PDF document, it prompts me for the cups server password. I've tried with epdfviewer and Adobe Reader both halt at the same point. === (epdfview:17565): Gtk-CRI

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-10 Thread P J P
   Hello Chuck, Thank you so much for brining this up. > On Thursday, 10 April 2014 8:12 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > I think this needs to be revisited. We need an independent, > system-wide DNS cache, and always point resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1 to > solve this fundamental design problem with how n

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
  Hello, > On Thursday, 10 April 2014 11:39 PM, P J P wrote: > I plan to file a feature/change request for this one. I got caught up with > other > work this past week so could not do it. Will start with it right away.   Please see ->  https://fedoraproject.o

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:28 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I think there should be something explicitly about how this is going to > work with captive portals that lie about dns in order to get people's > web browsers to go to their sign in page.   Sorry, I did not get the question. Could

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:40 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > It looks like your proposal is going to break things for people using > some wifi hotspots.   Why, how? --- Regards    -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
   Hello Dan, > On Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:51 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > NM has had local caching nameserver capability built-in since Fedora 12 > or something like that.  Set 'dns=dnsmasq' in the [main] section > of /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and NM will spawn dnsmasq in > a local

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
    Hi, > On Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:56 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > We want to make sure that any local caching nameserver that we do use > doesn't rely exclusively on file-based configuration, or if it does, > it's able to re-read that configuration file using SIGHUP or some > seamless reload fu

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
On Saturday, 12 April 2014 1:35 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >The goal is to have DNSSEC validation in a system-wide, dedicated code, >trusted for that purpose; i.e. unbound does DNSSEC validation for >every application, with a centralized configuration and cache, >so no application needs or should d

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 2:13 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:> > It's rude to bypass the global DNS caching infrastructure. That would > significantly load people's DNS servers with more queries. There is no > reason not to try and use ISP's DNS caches.   You mean let local resolver forward queries t

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
   Hello Kevin, Paul > On Saturday, 12 April 2014 2:16 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> I've been running this solution on fedora for about five years now. It >> works reasonably well, and anyone who is on this list surely has could >> try it out. Because of lack of NM integration I would not call it >>

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 3:55 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > I think there needs to be more emphasis on the /other/ benefit, the > whole reason I brought this up this time:   Sure; I tried to cover it in the detailed description as === ...Apart from trust, these name servers are often known to b

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 7:38 AM, Simo Sorce wrote: > Not true, in many networks you want it, for example in corporate > networks. You really want to be able to resolve the local resources and > they are only resolvable if you consult the local DNS as provided to you > by DHCP.   True. The loc

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 10:33 AM, P J P wrote: > >> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 2:13 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:> >> It's rude to bypass the global DNS caching infrastructure. That would >> significantly load people's DNS servers with more queries. There is

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:11 AM, William Brown wrote: > Say I have freshly installed my fedora system at home. I then boot it up > and start to use it. My laptop is caching DNS results all the while from > the "unreliable" ISP. > > I then go to work and suddenly things don't work. > > Havin

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:41 PM, William Brown wrote: > PS: The unreliable ISP I perceive as: > 1) They often return no query within an acceptable time period > 2) They return invalid or incorrect zone data > 3) They mess with TTLs or other zone data   Right. > Consider, I get home, and ope

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 4:55 PM, William Brown wrote: > This isn't how DNS works . You populate your cache from the ISP, who > queries above them and so on up to the root server. > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961401.aspx   Hmmn. There are two ways a local resolver can b

New configurations in /etc/resolv.conf

2014-04-13 Thread P J P
  Hello, Please see:   -> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dane/current/msg06469.html   -> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dane/current/msg06658.html These two threads are about handling of Authenticated Data(AD) bit by the stub resolvers. There two proposed solutions for this problem:

Re: default local DNS caching name server: test it right now and report bugs

2014-04-15 Thread P J P
   Hello Petr, > On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 4:02 PM, Petr Spacek wrote: > Instructions for testing on Fedora 20+ are available on: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Default_Local_DNS_Resolver#How_To_Test > > Please, run dnssec-trigger and let exclamations like "It can't possibly > work!"  

Re: default local DNS caching name server: test it right now and report bugs

2014-04-18 Thread P J P
   Hi, > On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 4:02 PM, Petr Spacek wrote: > We need real data. Please see -> https://www.piratepad.ca/p/dnssec-requisites-configurations I've collected the major functionalities people wish to have with a default DNS resolver along with couple of 'unbound' configurations th

Re: default local DNS failover solution needed, nscd?

2014-04-27 Thread P J P
   Hi, (sorry for the delayed response, I was away past few days) 2014-04-26 0:51 GMT+02:00 Chuck Anderson wrote: >> Main goal is to have local DNSSEC-validating resolver. > >I, as the OP, did not intend that as the goal, although I have no >problem with that as a different goal. My intent was t

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-29 Thread P J P
   Hello, On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 7:22 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >So what exactly happens on upgrade? Before the upgrade, >most resolv.conf files will not point to 127.0.0.1. >What will they point to after the upgrade, and if they will point to 127.0.0.1, >which package will actually do that, a

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-29 Thread P J P
> On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 7:56 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > Can the proposal owners clarify for me how this is intended to impact the > cloud products?   Cloud products is somewhat of a hazy area(at-least for me). It's unclear how things operate there. Any information about how we could/should a

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-29 Thread P J P
   Hi, > On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 8:59 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > If NetworkManager is being used, users already don't touch resolv.conf, > they edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files and use > DNS1/DNS2/DNS3 and SEARCHES to set DNS information.   Yes, true!   > If NetworkManager is n

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-29 Thread P J P
> On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 9:29 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: > Note that FreeBSD also picked unbound recently for the exact same task.  True! -> http://www.freebsdnews.net/2013/09/20/freebsd-10s-new-technologies-and-features/ --- Regards    -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@li

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-29 Thread P J P
  Hi, > On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 10:08 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: >>> but the container itself runs in a network namespace, so it gets its own >>> loopback device. This will mean 127.0.0.1:53 points to the container itself, >>> not the host, so dns resolving in the container will not work.  

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-29 Thread P J P
> On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 3:18 AM, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > On my home LAN, I run my own DNSSEC-enabled server using F20 & bind 9. > This local server also is my DHCP and Samba server. As usual, dynamic > clients receive the LAN local domain ID and DNS server ID > automatically. >  > How

Re: F24 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2015-11-30 Thread P J P
ange request. --- -P J P http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F24 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2015-12-01 Thread P J P
es to build a strong solution. [*] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Default_Local_DNS_Resolver Thank you. --- -P J P http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F24 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2015-12-01 Thread P J P
-> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Default_Local_DNS_Resolver#How_To_Test Please let us know if you face any difficulties. Thank you. --- -P J P http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F24 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2015-12-02 Thread P J P
masq > * howto get domainname set automatically from dhcp Dhcp configuration manual should help with that. --- -P J P http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

About F19 Firewall

2013-09-15 Thread P J P
     Hi, I upgraded to F19 recently. And I happened to look at the output of iptables(8) today.    $ iptables -nL It's baffling! It's crazy 4 pages long listing!! Why are there so many chains? Most are empty. Those which have rules, jump from one chain to another and that jumps to yet anothe

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-15 Thread P J P
   Hello Tomasz, - Original Message - > From: Tomasz Torcz > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall >   You seem to have missed this Fedora *18* feature: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/firewalld-default >   firewall-cmd is supposed to isolate user from all this chains.    Yep, true

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-16 Thread P J P
- Original Message - > From: P J P > Subject: About F19 Firewall > It doesn't have to be so complicated that even if one tries to understand it, > he/she can not. :(    This small script seems to work good. === #!/bin/sh # # fw.sh: a basic drop unless allowed firewa

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-17 Thread P J P
  Hi Mateusz, - Original Message - > From: Mateusz Marzantowicz > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall > > Wireless networks have unique "names" and are represented as different > connections on NetworkManager (network connection != interface). For > network named "MyHomeNet" one can associa

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-17 Thread P J P
    Hello, - Original Message - > From: Mateusz Marzantowicz > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall > > Maybe, true but I doubt that simpler set of rules, that never get > audited, written by inexperienced users are more secure than "complex" > rules in FirewallD which at last had chance to be

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-20 Thread P J P
   Hi, - Original Message - > From: Thomas Woerner > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall > 1) Separate zones. > NM connections, interfaces and source addresses or ranges can be bound > to zones. The initial default zone is public and all connections will be > bound to this zone. The user o

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-20 Thread P J P
  Hi, - Original Message - > From: Thomas Woerner > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall > If a static firewall configuration fits your needs, just disable > firewalld and use the ip*tables firewall services:    Static? Oh my...! Firewalld allows Applications, daemons and the user can reques

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-20 Thread P J P
   Hi, - Original Message - > From: P J P > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall > >    Static? Oh my...! Firewalld allows Applications, daemons and the user can > request to enable a firewall feature over D-BUS. It does not seem like a good > idea at all. What happens

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-24 Thread P J P
  Hello Thomas, - Original Message - > From: Thomas Woerner > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall > You have to make sure where you are adding new rules. Here is a simple > example where you want to drop everything from 192.168.1.18: > > If you do it wrong if could end up like this (output

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-24 Thread P J P
  Hi, - Original Message - > From: Thomas Woerner > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall > Applications or daemons can only request changes to the firewall if they > are authenticated.   Sure. But user authentication is function of the task an application performs and not of the firewall ru

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-24 Thread P J P
- Original Message - > From: Thomas Woerner > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall > O.k., then please provide a program that places (user supplied) rules at > the proper position in an (user supplied) rule set in that way that it > will always result in the (user) expected behaviour without

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-24 Thread P J P
- Original Message - > From: poma > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall >> Ex. Say I start virt-manager, it prompts me for authentication, I enter > password and click [Ok]. It starts libvirtd in the background, creates > interfaces, adds firewall rules etc. etc. > This must be a new featur

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-25 Thread P J P
    Hello Adam, - Original Message - > From: Adam Williamson > Subject: Re: About F19 Firewall > > That's ironic: just yesterday - without having yet read this discussion > - I used the firewalld on my laptop to lock down the 'public' zone to > allow nothing at all (not mdns or ssh), make

Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-12 Thread P J P
   Hello It is an often experience that I try to remove a package(ex: bluez, kernel, gnome-bluetooth) and yum(8) prompts me to remove nearly 200-300MB worth of critical packages, which has no connection(ex. kernel => Xchat  OR bluez => gedit  etc.) with the package I want to remove. Recently I

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-12 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 October 2013 10:19 PM, Reindl Harald > wrote: > that's why i get that mad if packagers careless add new deps because > they enable whatever function in a package instead split the new > ones in additional subpackages    I see. If it is a packaging error, how does DNF plan to ad

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-12 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 October 2013 10:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > If there's a bug, then this is it.  You should not be able to remove  bluez > because there are dependencies on it.   Well, remove_leaf_only=1 restricts dependency resolution to the leaf nodes only, that is why it allows removing blu

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-12 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 October 2013 10:43 PM, Reindl Harald > wrote: > *why* should it be addressed in yum or DNF? >  > if a package pulls un-needed dependencies the package has > to be fixed and *not* worked around it - period    Yes, agreed. But that might probably involve fixing the package review

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-12 Thread P J P
> On Saturday, 12 October 2013 11:23 PM, Reindl Harald > wrote: > if you want get a feeling in waht these ends type the follwoing as root > after you prepeared a rescue-disc because not rpm, nor yum nor even sshd > will work any longer and you need to copy the package files by hand > to their loc

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-12 Thread P J P
> On Sunday, 13 October 2013 12:04 AM, Reindl Harald > wrote: > and your "list possible affected packages but allow me to remove" ends  > *exactly* there    No, it does not. If yum is protecting users from un-installing a package which could render the whole system unusable or unresponsive, wha

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-12 Thread P J P
> On Sunday, 13 October 2013 12:50 AM, Reindl Harald > wrote: > there is no if and but if a package has a dependency than it has one - period    Sure, it has dependency. That does not make it an _absolutely_ requirement to have a functional system. Because the dependency relationship could be

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-12 Thread P J P
> On Sunday, 13 October 2013 1:46 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:  > Your example of removing kernel is even more esoteric. Fedora wouldn't  > work at all without it.    Well, kernel one works when there are multiple kernels installed. It happens when yum installs a new kernel update. Each kernel bri

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-12 Thread P J P
> On Sunday, 13 October 2013 1:47 AM, Reindl Harald > wrote: > *bullshit* you have no clue what the result of a specific broken dependency > would be nor have yum, dnf or even god    Well, when no-one has a clue, assuming the worst is just _one_ way of doing things. > says who? > in case of b

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-14 Thread P J P
> On Monday, 14 October 2013 8:05 PM, Eric H. Christensen > wrote: > I believe he is assuming that xchat has a direct relationship with bluez > which,  > I'm guessing here as I haven't checked, probably isn't the case.   > Because bluez affects something that xchat depends on xchat is getting th

Re: Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

2013-10-15 Thread P J P
> On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:51 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: > Even though yum might handle the resolution a little better (and dnf probably  > will do that, feel free to check it), the ultimate culprit here is a very > poor  > packaging and both dnf and yum have only a limited set of options what t

Gnome-shell-extension-weather woes

2013-05-18 Thread P J P
    Hi, So I thought let's get a weather extension to see current weather in my city. Should have been easy like slicing butter, right? It turned out to be crazy disaster!!. 0. I'm using GNOME Shell 3.4.1 on F17 (Beefy Miracle). 1. I do $ yum install gnome-shell-extension-weather. 2. It does

Re: Gnome-shell-extension-weather woes

2013-05-18 Thread P J P
   Hello Steven, > From: Steven Boswell II >Subject: Re: Gnome-shell-extension-weather woes >I don't have a gnome-shell-extension-weather package installed, but I see the >weather anyway. How do you see weather anyway? gnome-shell shows it?? --- Regards    -Prasa

Re: Gnome-shell-extension-weather woes

2013-05-18 Thread P J P
   Hey hi, - Original Message - > From: Rahul Sundaram > Subject: Re: Gnome-shell-extension-weather woes > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2017 > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2516 > Perhaps you can provide the info there.  However one quick route is to try

Re: Gnome-shell-extension-weather woes

2013-05-26 Thread P J P
> From: Steven Boswell II >Subject: Re: Gnome-shell-extension-weather woes >Maybe it's because I'm running GNOME3 in "fallback" mode. >I can't stand the new GNOME GUI. Heh...I see! --- Regards    -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedor

Re: Gnome-shell-extension-weather woes

2013-05-26 Thread P J P
- Original Message - > From: Rahul Sundaram > Subject: Re: Gnome-shell-extension-weather woes > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html. > By default, in  ~.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions Cool...thanks! :) --- Regards    -Prasad http://feedmug.com --

logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-27 Thread P J P
   Hi, Recently I've seen multiple issues related to new file creation by logrotate(8). A race condition described by [1], between creation of a new file and setting file permissions and acl(5).  Another I came across in ndjbdns [2], as it continued to write to an open, but rotated log file. Wo

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-27 Thread P J P
  Hello Jan, - Original Message - > From: Jan Kaluža > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > This is usually fixed by sending some signal to daemon in postscript > informing it that logs should be reopened. That way, no messages are > lost. The worst thing which can ha

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-27 Thread P J P
   Hello Jan, - Original Message - > From: Jan Kaluža > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > > I'm not sure right now if the benefits of the "copytruncate" usage are > strong enough in comparison with the possibility to lost the messages > during rotation.    I did

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-27 Thread P J P
   Hi, - Original Message - > From: Jan Kaluza > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > Right now, without locking, logrotate would loss more messages if the > logs are big, because copying takes more time. It would be interesting > to mention the file size in your tests t

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-27 Thread P J P
- Original Message - > From: Colin Walters > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > It's worth noting that all of these problems go away with the systemd > journal.   Oh, how does systemd rotate files? --- Regards    -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-27 Thread P J P
   Hello Miloslav, - Original Message - > From: Miloslav Trmač > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > > That's a possible argument for changing the ndjbdns logging/logrotate > configuration, AFAICS not an argument for changing the default.     Yes, 'ndjbdns' has alrea

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-27 Thread P J P
  Hello Mirek, - Original Message - > From: Miloslav Trmač > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > > * logrotate reads all contents of file until EOF > * application appends one more data line > * logrotate calls truncate()    I see. Thanks for these input, will conside

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-27 Thread P J P
   Hello Lennart, Colin, - Original Message - > From: Lennart Poettering > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > > The systemd-journald takes care of all of: receiving messages, writing > them to storage, and rotating the storage. > > We do synchronous rotation before e

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-27 Thread P J P
   Hello Jan, - Original Message - > From: Jan Kaluza > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > > I think difference between systemd and logrotate in this case is that > logrotate is not owner of the logs it rotates. It has no control of writing > to them. I haven't check

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-28 Thread P J P
   Hello Jan, - Original Message - > From: Jan Kaluza > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > > Right now, without locking, logrotate would loss more messages if the > logs are big, because copying takes more time. It would be interesting > to mention the file size in y

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-28 Thread P J P
  Hi, - Original Message - > From: Lennart Poettering > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > > journald is the only writer, it doesn't need locking. The changes it > does are done in a way so that concurrent readers will either see the > changes or not, but never half-w

Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

2013-06-29 Thread P J P
- Original Message - > From: Lennart Poettering > Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default > It will create a new file and rename the old one.     Right, thanks for confirming! Thank you! --- Regards    -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorapr

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