Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/15/2010 08:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: >> The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open >> since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build. These >> are the oldest non-building packages in the

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/16/2010 03:50 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:13:32AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> With nobody handling the incoming bugzilla tickets. With some bug >> reports having been killed in an automated way at dist EOL. And >> worse if it turns out that packages which do bui

Re: apt-fast

2010-01-18 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/18/2010 10:36 PM, Conrad Meyer wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2010 08:07:44 am Josephine Tannhäuser wrote: >> should be possible, we have an (old but we have one) apt > > I thought apt-rpm was broken since the rpm 4.7.x (or is that the right > version) changes? It was broken for quite a while

Re: RFC: Remove write permissions from executables

2010-01-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/22/2010 12:19 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > Hello, > In Fedora 12 several daemons (e.g. dhclient) were modified to drop > unnecessary capabilities, most importantly the "dac_override" > capability, allowing the daemon to ignore file permission bits. This, > in combination with removing some pe

FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*

2010-01-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Hi, On FC12 I found this: # ls /usr/bin/.*.hmac /usr/bin/.fipscheck.hmac /usr/bin/.ssh.hmac # rpm -qf /usr/bin/.*.hmac fipscheck-1.2.0-4.fc12.x86_64 openssh-clients-5.2p1-31.fc12.x86_64 Could somebody provide some insight what these files are (I guess some checksums) and why they are being ins

Re: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*

2010-01-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/22/2010 01:22 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 12:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On FC12 I found this: >> >> # ls /usr/bin/.*.hmac >> /usr/bin/.fipscheck.hmac >> /usr/bin/.ssh.hmac >> >> # rpm -qf /usr/bin/.*

Re: FC12: Hidden files in /usr/bin/*

2010-01-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/22/2010 04:24 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 01/22/2010 07:53 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 01/22/2010 01:22 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote: > >>> These are checksums required by FIPS-140-2 integrity verification checks >>> of the fipscheck and ssh bin

Re: Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?

2010-01-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/27/2010 02:17 PM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > Hi all, > > in Fedora we have pciutils binaries (lspci and setpci) in /sbin, both of them > use pciutils-libs (/usr/lib/...) and afaik this is how it works for "ages". > I'd like to move them from /sbin to /usr/sbin to have them with the same > pref

Re: Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?

2010-01-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/28/2010 04:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius said: >> On 01/27/2010 02:17 PM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: >>> Do you think moving this is a bad idea? >> Yes. >> >> The pciutils are valuable tools when trying to recover from situati

Re: Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?

2010-01-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/29/2010 07:19 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Consider taking out /usr from your fstab and to check how far you can get. >> With /sbin/lspci you will be able to check your pci setup, with >> /usr/sbin/lspci, yo

Re: Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?

2010-02-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/01/2010 05:01 PM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2010 06:35:21 Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Should setpci be used somewhere in bootup scripts, you likely won't be >> able to boot up your system at all. > > and because libpci is in /usr for a long

Re: Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?

2010-02-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/01/2010 10:23 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:16:54AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius said: >>> IMO, you are facing a hen-and-egg problem: You've never seen such a >>> complaint, because using a separate

Re: Orphaning all my packages

2010-08-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/12/2010 03:34 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: >> Luckily Remi got a list: >> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-August/140708.html > > Unfortunately, Remi's list only covers php-*, I think there are other > affected packages too. He links to pkgdb for the ful

Re: Where can I find the list of all Fedora Git repos?

2010-08-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/12/2010 10:03 AM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hello All! > > It was easy to build whole list of upstream projects available in > Fedora - anyone could just look over the contents of this page: > > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/ > > Now it doesn't look that easy. I use https://admin.f

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2010 01:23 AM, Luke Macken wrote: > On 08/12/2010 07:12 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >>> - Minimum time-in-testing requirements >>> - Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been >>> in testing for

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2010 05:10 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>> I think, for packages that are modified during the testing period, >>>> this N should be calculated from the day the last push was made to >>>> testing. >> >> This wo

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2010 06:45 PM, Luke Macken wrote: > On 08/13/2010 01:57 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 08/13/2010 01:23 AM, Luke Macken wrote: >>> On 08/12/2010 07:12 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >>>>>

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/25/2010 09:08 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: >> How many users use "at" or "bc" (well, I use "dc" all the time)? > > Well, at least "at" is a nice command and some people use it, but… > >> What about "ed"? > > … it's time we drop such legacy junk! What you offend as "legacy jun

Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

2010-08-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/25/2010 03:05 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Ralf Corsepius writes: > >> On 08/25/2010 09:08 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> Chris Adams wrote: >>>> How many users use "at" or "bc" (well, I use "dc" all the time)? >>&g

Re: Question about sane usage of macroses in perl template

2010-08-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/27/2010 10:28 AM, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) wrote: > $ rpmdev-newspec -t perl > produce template where, inter alia we have such lines: > %{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor > OPTIMIZE="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" > > make %{?_smp_mflags} > > I'm wonder why there used mix of macros %{__per

Re: Putting cross compilers into Fedora

2010-09-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/01/2010 12:41 PM, David Howells wrote: > > Would it be worth our while putting into Fedora basic gcc and binutils rpms > for cross compilers for all the Linux arches? I keep finding the need to > compile kernels for arches other than the x86_64 boxes I normally use, and I > keep borrowing pr

Re: Putting cross compilers into Fedora

2010-09-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/01/2010 01:53 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 09/01/2010 12:48 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/01/2010 12:41 PM, David Howells wrote: >>> Would it be worth our while putting into Fedora basic gcc and binutils rpms >>> for cross compilers for all the Linux arche

Re: Putting cross compilers into Fedora

2010-09-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/01/2010 02:21 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 02:06:37PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>> - Fedora's rpm and some components the build-infrastructure have serious >>>> issues related to cross-building. >>>> >>>> -

Re: Putting cross compilers into Fedora

2010-09-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/01/2010 03:02 PM, Rich Mattes wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:46 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > >> >> There's a reason the 'crosstool' and similar scripts are so bloody sick. >> >> > Speaking of which, it looks like there's a stalled review of crosstool-ng in > the works [1]. Perhaps it'd b

Re: Putting cross compilers into Fedora

2010-09-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/01/2010 04:37 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> b) To equippe the rpm/yum/mock etc. infrastructure with a mechanism to >>> pull-in "foreign binaries" into a sys-root (E.g. to install Fedora >>> *.ppc.rpm rpms into /usr/ppc-redhat/sys-root). So far, such mechanism >>> doesn't exist. >> >> No need f

Re: Why is Coin3d version 3 and Pivy not in Fedora

2010-09-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/22/2010 08:32 AM, Prasad H. L. wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to find out why is coin3d version 3.1.3 (latest stable > version) and its python binding (pivy) not in fedora. All I managed to > get was a bugzilla thread > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=458975 > which

Re: Why is Coin3d version 3 and Pivy not in Fedora

2010-09-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/22/2010 10:38 AM, Prasad H. L. wrote: > On 22 September 2010 13:29, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/22/2010 08:32 AM, Prasad H. L. wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was trying to find out why is coin3d version 3.1.3 (latest stable >>> version) and i

Re: Why is Coin3d version 3 and Pivy not in Fedora

2010-09-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/22/2010 11:06 AM, Prasad H. L. wrote: > On 22 September 2010 14:24, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/22/2010 10:38 AM, Prasad H. L. wrote: >>> >>> On 22 September 2010 13:29, Ralf Corsepiuswrote: >>>> >>>> On 09/22/2010 08:32 AM, Pr

Re: Passing arguments into LDFLAGS

2010-09-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/22/2010 02:08 PM, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I know I can do the likes of > > export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -blah" and it will pass whatever CFLAGS is plus > the argument "-blah" to the compiler. > > How do I do this with LDFLAGS. Depends on a build-system's internals. > I'm trying to pass --

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/04/2010 02:52 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote: > >> >> >> However, Mozilla says that distributing a modified product with their >> name violates Trademark law. >> > > We have been through this before. If you take Fedora and modify it, you are

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/05/2010 12:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:08 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote: > >> That's what i've been saying all day. It's only free software if you >> change the name, in which case you may loose brand recognition. >> Imagine if Linus forbid people from calling their

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-10-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/06/2010 02:49 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: > Ralf Corsepius, Tue, 05 Oct 2010 06:01:09 +0200: >> Close source school of thinking - Trademarks exist to protect an >> enterprise's product and to close out "copyiers". FLOSS exists to enable >> people "to s

Re: trademarks [was: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs]

2010-10-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/06/2010 04:08 PM, Michal Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:26:59 +0200 Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 10/06/2010 02:49 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: >>> Nonsense, trademarks exists to protect users and to avoid living off >>> somebody else brand recognition. >> &g

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/12/2010 02:16 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 10/12/2010 10:28 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> Striving for usability and pleasantness for the untechnical users certainly >>> is >>> a good thing. It gets problematic when you choose to make things technically >>> inferior ju

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/12/2010 03:56 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 10/12/2010 02:52 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 10/12/2010 02:16 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >>> On 10/12/2010 10:28 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>> Striving

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/04/2010 03:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 22:12 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 21:02 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >>> Maybe it is time to discuss the usefulness of ABRT to Fedora. I thi

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/04/2010 07:15 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> I >> guess what I'm asking is what actual harm/damage are these reports >> causing, beyond the time it takes to look at the report and figure out >> whether you can fix it? Why is the fact that

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/04/2010 07:55 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 07:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > I'm not sure SNR is the be-all and end-all, really. When it comes to efficiency, it is. In other words, as far as I am concerned, abrt has reduced efficiency of bug-hunting

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/05/2010 05:41 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: > Orcan Ogetbil, Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:02:02 -0400: >> Maybe it is time to discuss the usefulness of ABRT to Fedora. I think >> that it is a great idea for commercial products such as RHEL, but it >> obviously did not fit Fedora as is. >> >> From what I have

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/05/2010 09:46 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:56:51 +0100, Ralf wrote: > >> ABRT > >> It doesn't tell the user that core dumps without reproducer are >> worthless in most cases but blindly sends out reports > > Parts of the Fedora user base "abuse" ABRT in that they refus

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/05/2010 08:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 17:49 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: >>> 2010/11/4 Orcan Ogetbil : Maybe it is time to discuss the usefulness of ABRT to Fedora. I think that it is a great idea for

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/05/2010 10:06 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:58:21 +, Jóhann wrote: > >> On behalf of all reporters that have never received a response from a >> maintainer on a component they have reported against I not only ask the >> ABRT maintainers to block any reports against

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2011 12:20 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 27/07/11 10:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:02:14PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote: >>> On 07/26/2011 09:49 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:45:11AM -0430, Robert Marcano wrote: > In /etc/skel/.ba

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/28/2011 03:07 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > The source of /usr/local was NFS-mounted /usr, with /usr/local being on > the local system. This only partially applies - The source of /usr/local was to override system programs and system libraries in /usr with locally installed files (below /usr/lo

Fedora 16 mirrorlist-URLs point to rawhide

2011-07-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Hi, Seems as if the f16 split wasn't reflected to the mirrorlists: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-16&arch=x86_64 returns references to "development/rawhide" instead of "development/16" Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: [PATCH] macros: Globally add --disable-silent-rules to configure

2011-08-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/09/2011 07:19 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:14:27 +0200, Adam Jackson wrote: >> If you're volunteering to fix and/or paper over all the spurious >> warnings gcc and glibc introduce with every phase of the moon, then >> sure. > > Yes, I do it for my component, GDB has -Wer

Re: [PATCH] macros: Globally add --disable-silent-rules to configure

2011-08-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2011 10:51 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Whether to invest in enabling -Werror for all packages in a mass rebuild > however is another question. Pardon, but this is not a question, this is beyond reason and foolish. > There will be many build failures, and > some will be unwarranted. Exact

Re: License

2011-08-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/26/2011 12:17 AM, Nathan O. wrote: > I am looking at > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines#License_Text . > > It sounds to me that upstream must provide the COPYING file. No, this is a misinterpretation and overinterpretation Upstreams need to license their works prop

Re: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide

2011-08-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/29/2011 05:00 PM, Karel Zak wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:47:40AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: >> That may be (both are human constructs, it's like say "hey, that's made up >> word!", but no, I don't. My point is simply that while it is extremely >> silly code, it is in fact code provided

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/14/2011 04:31 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 01:03:04AM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> 2011/9/13 Tom Lane: (This isn't new with 9.1, btw --- the last version or so of 9.0 for F16 was the sam

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/14/2011 06:23 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> My netbook boots up F14 in ca. 60 secs, while F15 boots up in 62 secs. >> I'd call this "below measurement accuracy". > > What kind of disk is that? It'

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/15/2011 11:03 AM, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Jan F. Chadima wrote: >> [...] >> . When watching the load of the virtual machine that starts with systemd it >> is clear to me that the total CPU consumption is significantly greater than >> in the case of upstart one. >

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/15/2011 09:42 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 09/15/2011 05:25 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> In general, there are other factors coming into play, such as parallel >> startup using more memory, parallelization not providing many advantages >> on sys

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/15/2011 06:11 PM, Michal Schmidt wrote: > On 09/15/2011 05:54 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/15/2011 09:42 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >>> On 09/15/2011 05:25 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>> Anyway, some more figures: On the same machine, boo

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/20/2011 03:01 PM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 13:53 +0200, Johannes Lips wrote: >> What's wrong with all that broken deps? Is this just a missing rebuild >> against opencv and other libs or what's the reason for all this >> "mess". I mean the release of F16 is not that far

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/20/2011 03:47 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 15:01:06 +0200, >Nils Philippsen wrote: >> >> I'd like to see a discussion about how we can ensure -- within >> reasonable limits -- that e.g. bumping a library's SONAME is followed by >> dependent components being rebuil

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/20/2011 04:03 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On 9/20/11 9:19 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >>> Currently >>> I only see mails of maintainers who plan updating the library, but the >>> rest of it pretty much depends on the maintainers of the depending >>>

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/20/2011 04:16 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:13:27PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/20/2011 04:03 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: >>> I'd like to see a rationale for jamming a soname-changing update into >>> the OS so close to a rel

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/20/2011 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> That said, a reasonable QA would cherry-pick such "solution >> candidates" from *-testing and integrate them. Simply flooding >> maintainers &

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/20/2011 05:52 PM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 15:19 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> When you have a closer look, you'll notice that such "mass rebuilts" >> were being delayed by QA's "delay queue" and now are stuck. &

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/20/2011 05:30 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: > - Original Message - >> I'd like to see a rationale for jamming a soname-changing update into >> the OS so close to a release. In the absence of a very good >> motivation, >> that's not good engineering practice, and it's not consistent with >>

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/20/2011 04:33 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > Of course, you had the option of not pulling the new OpenSceneGraph back > to F16, or simply not doing so yet. Correct. I could have opted to ship the "distro which embraces novelty" with outdated, upstream unmaintained and upstream dead packages, no

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/21/2011 01:25 PM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 22:25 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/20/2011 05:52 PM, Nils Philippsen wrote: >>> On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 15:19 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >>>> When you have a closer look, yo

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/21/2011 04:43 PM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/21/2011 01:25 PM, Nils Philippsen wrote: >>> On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 22:25 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>> On 09/20/2011 05:52 PM, Nils Philippsen wrot

Re: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/20/2011 01:12 PM, Branched Report wrote: > Compose started at Tue Sep 20 08:15:41 UTC 2011 > > Broken deps for x86_64 > -- This breakage is weird: > hosts3d-1.13-2.fc15.x86_64 requires libglfw.so.2.6()(64bit) In Fedora < 16, lib

Re: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/22/2011 11:31 AM, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 09/22/2011 12:05 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/20/2011 01:12 PM, Branched Report wrote: >>> Compose started at Tue Sep 20 08:15:41 UTC 2011 >>> >>> Broken deps for x86_64 >>>

Re: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/22/2011 01:11 PM, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 09/22/2011 12:52 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 09/22/2011 11:31 AM, Kalev Lember wrote: >>> Depends on how you want to resolve this. If you are going for >>> resurrecting the packages, then fix them up to build again

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/22/2011 05:58 PM, Till Maas wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:15:38AM +0200, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: > >> I hope you don't suggest for every rebuild of few dependent packages one >> FESCo ticket. > > This is what is currently required to ask FES for help. It is certainly > a lot better and

Re: GNOME 3 - font point sizes now scaled?

2011-10-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/03/2011 06:01 PM, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > On 10/03/2011 10:48 AM, Camilo Mesias wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A daft question perhaps, but I thought... >> >>> I'm not sure how we can make DPI magically be correct in gazillions of >>> broken displays' EDID. >> >> How do other OS' do it? > > I don't kn

Re: release number when upstream *only* has git hashes?

2011-10-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/04/2011 08:04 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > I wrote: >> What should I use for the release number in a spec when upstream does >> not have releases, and *only* has git hashes? It's not a prerelease >> since it is not clear that there will ever be any official release. > > I meant "version number",

Re: release number when upstream *only* has git hashes?

2011-10-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/04/2011 09:01 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 05:58:33PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: >> On 4.10.2011 16:38, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >>> The date should not go there >>> as you cannot tell if upstream will someday switch to an actual version >>> string (which will then need an

Re: release number when upstream *only* has git hashes?

2011-10-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/05/2011 04:35 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:53:50AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 10/04/2011 09:01 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> >>> Now do we want to put the git hash into the version >>> field too? >> Yes,

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/12/2011 09:59 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Henrik Nordström wrote: > >> ons 2011-10-12 klockan 13:04 -0500 skrev Mike McGrath: >> >>> Lots of people use and share keys across different projects. >> >> There is no security issue in sharing kes across different projects, >> ot

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/13/2011 11:13 AM, Tomas Mraz wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 10:59 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 10/12/2011 09:59 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: >>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Henrik Nordström wrote: >>> >>>> ons 2011-10-12 klockan 13:04 -0500 skrev Mike McG

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/25/2011 09:02 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > On 10/24/2011 08:05 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >>> === >>> #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2011-10-24) >>> === >>> * Discussion about https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove >>> (t8m,

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/25/2011 08:33 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > 2011/10/25 Chris Adams: >> Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski said: >>> I created feature page >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F18MorePortableInterpreters >> >> I strongly object to this "feature". /bin/sh is a Unix standard back to

Re: UsrMove feature

2011-10-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/26/2011 03:18 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > On 10/26/2011 03:07 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones said: >>> Having said that, the split between /sbin and /bin is not a truly >>> historical one, ie. it didn't exist in V7. I think it was added by >>> System V which d

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/26/2011 03:40 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > On 10/24/2011 08:05 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >>> === >>> #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2011-10-24) >>> === >>> * Discussion about https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove >>> (t8m,

Re: UsrMove feature

2011-10-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/27/2011 07:52 AM, David Tardon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 03:23:55PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> Besides this, one may have the opinion, that no binaries should be >> allowed in /usr/lib/. Fedora never enforced this rule, because RH has a >> traditio

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/25/2011 12:38 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2011, 14:48 -0700 schrieb Henrique Junior: > >> It may sound a little off-topic to this thread, but since we are >> talking about bring new stuff into F14 I would like to know the >> opinion of you, guys, about the new open

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/25/2011 05:07 PM, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:16:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >>> We do have a rolling release, it's called rawhide. >> >> You are mixing up "rolling release" with "development" dump

Re: disabling -Werror on a autotools based build

2011-03-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/27/2011 11:22 AM, gia...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm trying to rebuild a package with an autotools based toolchain and > it's failing because they use -Werror and gcc 4.6 spits out few new > warnings on the code. Packages adding -Werror by themselves are poorly designed. Contact their upstreams

Re: manually fixing IPs

2011-03-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/27/2011 05:27 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 03:58:06PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:48:14 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote >>> NM supports static IPs these days. So I think that rather than >>> hacking around NM, you should just fix the IP in

Re: disabling -Werror on a autotools based build

2011-03-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/28/2011 12:48 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Sergio Belkin wrote: > >> 2011/3/27 Ralf Corsepius: >>> Packages adding -Werror by themselves are poorly designed. >> >> Just to learn: Ralf, Why do you say that? :-) > > Using -Werror by default is a very bad id

Re: disabling -Werror on a autotools based build

2011-03-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/28/2011 04:58 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> In libguestfs we have some pretty complex autotools magic to deal with >> all this: >> >> http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=configure.ac;h=f1b56d2dbe9a118901f7426bcc176f624d841f63;hb=HEAD#l67 > > CHASM has si

Re: disabling -Werror on a autotools based build

2011-03-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/28/2011 07:40 PM, Conrad Meyer wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:08:33 +0200 > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 03/28/2011 04:58 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote: >>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>>> In libguestfs we have some pretty complex autotools magic to dea

Re: manually fixing IPs

2011-03-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/29/2011 07:35 AM, Jeff Raber wrote: > On 03/27/2011 10:57 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> And how to tweak /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* (and/or >> /etc/sysconfig/network) for static IPs such that NM sets >> hostname/domainname correctly? >> >> I have

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/30/2011 01:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Heya, > > I just uploaded a new version of systemd into F15, which establishes a > directory /run in the root directory. Most likely you'll sooner or later > stumble over it, so here's an explanation what this is and why this is. > > It's a fairly

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/30/2011 02:10 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > 2011/3/30 Ralf Corsepius: >> On 03/30/2011 01:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> Heya, >>> >>> I just uploaded a new version of systemd into F15, which establishes a >>> directory /run in the root

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/30/2011 02:42 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 03/30/2011 01:11 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 03/30/2011 02:10 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >>> 2011/3/30 Ralf Corsepius: >>>> On 03/30/2011 01:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>>>> Heya, >>

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:54:30PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> The actual code changes we needed to implement this scheme were trivial >> (basically, just bind mount /var/run and /var/lock instead of mounting two >> new tmpfs' to them.), which

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/30/2011 02:30 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 30.03.11 18:04, Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Also, can somebody point me to the place where the FHS would say "no > other directories below / are allowed"? I can't find that. And hence > this change is perfectly FHS comp

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/30/2011 03:20 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >>> It is outside of the FHS, >> It's a clear violation of the FHS. > > Indeed, but there really is

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/30/2011 03:21 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 30.03.11 15:08, Ralf Corsepius (rc040...@freenet.de) wrote: > >> >> On 03/30/2011 02:30 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> On Wed, 30.03.11 18:04, Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) wrote: >>> >&

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/30/2011 04:12 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 04:05:27 PM Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> On Wed, 30.03.11 15:08, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>> On 03/30/2011 02:30 PM, Lennart

Re: manually fixing IPs

2011-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/31/2011 07:28 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 17:57 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 03/27/2011 05:27 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 03:58:06PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: >>>> Hi. >>>> >>>>

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/31/2011 01:22 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 31.03.11 13:13, Ralf Corsepius (rc040...@freenet.de) wrote: > >>>> >>>> Applications must never create or require special files or >>>> subdirectories in the root directory. Other locations i

Re: Packages with libtool archives

2011-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/01/2011 03:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > Just a find on my Fedora 15 system for .la files, results in the > following. Do we run any routine tests for things like this? is AutoQA > meant to improve packaging? I sense a misunderstanding. Though it's right, in general *.la's should

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/19/2011 04:50 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > The clock is ticking. The days are counting down. The release of > Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock," is scheduled for release in late > May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating > system that continues to deliver innovative featur

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/21/2011 03:29 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/21/2011 05:36 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> I presume, I am supposed to love the broken deps, these anaconda dumps >> and this silly Win95-ish "Oh no!,..." screens of death? >> >> All three happe

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