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

2020-06-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
conventional wisdom ("this is the way to set up a PHP site") that is rooted in the times when php-fpm *did not exist* - so it's much more of "this was the only possible way to set up a PHP site back then" than "this is the best way to set up a PHP site now". Yep

Re: A few questions about a package update / policy questions / GCC 9 error

2020-06-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
potentially string truncation occurred. > > You still want to zero the last available byte in that case and not the > N-1 available byte, so you set N-1 to 0, not N-2. > > N-1 is the Nth byte when you start counting from 0 and N is the size of > the array.

Re: booting successfully with read-only file system

2020-07-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
. OK, I know I wrote about making it read-only on purpose using a > kernel commandline option, so really we're just pretending it was > unexpected for testing purposes, but you get what I mean I hope. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpo

Re: [HEADS UP] Fedora 33 Python 3.9 rebuilds have started in a side tag

2020-05-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
Are you asking why python3.8 and python3.9 are separate packages? If so, I think that previous messages to this list mentioned that many people need to have more than one Python interpreter installed. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
ly depends on it, but will there also be a foo 3.0 module installed (since the user requested the default way back when, still in release N)? Of course, it is completely possible that this case is indeed handled in the proposal and I am the one at fault for not parsing it properly. Anyway,

Debian and Python 2 [Was: Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion]

2019-12-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
ing months. Yes, there are complications such as Calibre, but this is, for all intents and purposes, practically a release goal now. Sorry for contributing to the more-and-more-off-topic rant, but I just felt the need to point this out, since I've seen it mentioned a couple of times recently.

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
on 2 in the > distribution. Ubuntu has already decided to filter out all Python 2 > packages from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, so it's not going to be there either. > > And you know what? This was all made possible by Fedora's work over > the last several releases to port lots of so

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
ntain the software, or figure out a way to get people to develop a replacement, or keep using the unmaintained software on equally unmaintained older versions of operating systems that it will run on. Sorry for the bluntness, but, well... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debi

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
last time: the mailing list is not a requirement. People checked the mailing list *after* the bugs were not fixed. Fixing the bugs is the requirement. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.ke

Re: Minimization Objective report

2019-10-01 Thread Peter Pentchev
grad student fifteen years ago which happen to use `grep -P` > suddenly and mysteriously doing the wrong thing. Eh, seeing as the grep(1) manual page itself still declares the option as experimental, I think people using it *should* be aware of the possibility of slight changes in behavior.

Re: How to predict Python 3 SOABI naming scheme?!?

2019-05-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
EXCEPT for armv7hl in which it's evaluating to[3]: > > -DPYTHON_SUFFIX=.cpython-37m-armv7hl-linux-gnu I... honestly don't understand how this can happen. I don't understand why python3 -c 'sysconfig.get_config_var()' would output anything... G'lu

Re: `Unix-domain socket path "..." is too long (maximum 107 bytes)` can we change that?

2024-08-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
E_FS), so that it has its own current directory. This is a > bit iffy because glibc won't know about it, but it's already used by > some popular file servers, so it should be okay. I've posted a patch > that implements a proper NPTL facility for this, but it met with a &

Re: `Unix-domain socket path "..." is too long (maximum 107 bytes)` can we change that?

2024-08-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 10:09:56PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 05:06:53PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Lennart Poettering: > > > > > On Mi, 07.08.24 13:09, Vít Ondruch (vondr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > > >>

Re: `Unix-domain socket path "..." is too long (maximum 107 bytes)` can we change that?

2024-08-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 12:06:23PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Peter Pentchev: > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 05:06:53PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Lennart Poettering: > >> > You don't really have to live with such a limitation. In systemd we &

Self-Introduction: Peter Pentchev

2024-05-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
Hi, My name is Peter Pentchev. I am a software developer who has been wrangling computers since 1986 and free/libre-software OS's and distributions since 1997 (Slackware and RedHat (way before RHEL) at first, then a decade or two of FreeBSD, then a decade or two of Debian). I have maint

Re: Self-Introduction: Peter Pentchev

2024-05-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 09:35:52AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > Hello, Peter! > > On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 08:23, Peter Pentchev wrote: > [...] > > If my packager group application is accepted, > > Have you gone through th

Re: HEADS UP: openssl engine-related FTBFS and Boost

2024-07-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
it would be) to make the OpenSSL devel package conditionally define OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE if another package is not installed. I can think of at least two ways to do that: - alternatives (but maybe that's my Debian background talking) - #include_next games G'luck, Peter -- Peter P

Re: F34 Change proposal: Debug Info Standardization (from DWZ to -fdebug-types-section) (System-Wide Change proposal)

2020-09-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
ause I implemented > it. :) > > I do not know whether Debian has started using dwz by default because > I haven't dug into how the -dbgsym package generation works in detail. Most of the packages that use recent versions of debhelper (the tool that automates many steps

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Build non-RELRO ELF binaries with .plt.got isolation

2018-06-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
overflow exploits that overwrite the GOT and thus cause the attacker's code to be executed later? If so, then I apologize again, since it seems that this may be sufficient to prevent that type of attack indeed. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} p...

Re: Fedora Source-git SIG report #1 (June 2021)

2021-06-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
packages. Of course, it does have its own expectations about the structure of the Git repository, but those are mostly limited to "give me a branch to play in, I'll take care of the rest". G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:

Re: ABI change in ImageMagick

2024-11-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 09:17:48AM +0100, Remi Collet wrote: > Le 16/11/2024 à 22:46, Peter Pentchev a écrit : > > > Hm, ICBW, but, at least to me, this enum change looks like an actual > > breaking ABI (not API) change. If a program was compiled to call that > > function

Re: ABI change in ImageMagick

2024-11-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
evels. It's not a failure at > rpminspect level, only an 'info'. And failures at rpminspect level do > not gate updates unless the package opts into this in its package-level > gating.yaml config. Hm, ICBW, but, at least to me, this enum change looks like an actual breakin