Re: Suggestions (how to choose mirrors)

2010-01-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ors. Note that this is almost how P2P sharing works (just missing the sub-file granularity). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: even with gcc -g -O0

2010-02-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
part of the source. Many/most of the files are actually > compiled as shared objects, but everything is using -g -O0. Someone > on #gdb thinks this is a gcc bug. One thing I would try is adding a int *lenp=&len; somewhere, just to make optimization a little more difficult for

Re: yum appmarket

2010-08-22 Thread Roberto Ragusa
be added by the users, in a wiki like form. It is easy to build a good amount of useful information with a good specialized wiki, for example: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: yum appmarket

2010-08-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> Some more tags for "functionally comparable to" and the name of >> some well known programs for Windows or Macintosh would let >> people cope with the original names of Linux apps. >> >> Nero -> k3b, xcdr

Re: Arithmetic coding in Fedora libjpeg (bug #639531)

2010-10-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
you know that > all > recipients can handle arithmetic coding – but support both encodings when > decoding. > Well said. Adding decoding support can do no harm. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Changing default setting of bash's hash table?

2011-08-19 Thread Roberto Ragusa
is kind of issues. > RR Hey, I'm RR too. :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: How to debug X lockup (advice from gurus wanted)

2011-09-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 08/30/2011 09:24 PM, stan wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:06:29 +0200 > Roberto Ragusa wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> it sometimes happens to me that X completely locks up, while the >> machine is still alive on the network. >> >> This is on F14, untaint

Re: Notice of intent: patching glibc

2011-09-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Articles/432012/ In that case RedHat acknowledged that a single giant patch is more difficult to understand and it confirmed that this was considered a feature (for commercial reasons); someone even started to debate if that could be considered a GPL violation, on the "source in preferred form

Re: How to debug X lockup (advice from gurus wanted)

2011-09-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/06/2011 01:18 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 06.09.2011 13:10, schrieb Adam Jackson: >> On 9/1/11 5:05 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> >>> Hmmm, turning off SMP is not realistic, as this laptop has a Core 2 Duo. >> >> Sure it is. Boot with maxcpus=1

Re: How to debug X lockup (advice from gurus wanted)

2011-09-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/06/2011 11:14 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Anyway, the problem happened again one hour ago, so I just decided > to upgrade only the kernel to the one from F15 and hope for the best. > If it happens again, I will then upgrade Xorg and Mesa. Replying to myself in this old thread ju

Re: unison formal review

2011-09-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ingle executable would be great (like rsync), but that is an upstream issue. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-28 Thread Roberto Ragusa
usually go a step further: create a new user and install the tarball in his home directory. There is a ff3 user here, created some time ago. Time for a ff4 user... -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC1 Available Now!

2011-04-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
it's reasonable to worry about it. Just a data point. I usually read the list, but I'm not really involved. One minute ago I saw this thread and my first thought was "beta RC1? what's that?". ac{1,2,3}, bc{1,2}, rc1 is a lot better. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: wireless-tools/net-tools are DEPRECATED

2011-04-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
not to ask the user? ("wired carrier lost for xx seconds, switching to wifi in xx seconds: button, button") -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Upgrading from Fedora 14 to 15 -> some problems

2011-05-31 Thread Roberto Ragusa
an additional junk machine, try things around and after upgrading my real machines, I use the junk one as reference to replicate problems and diff configs. Used that recently for issues related to fonts and antialias settings (concluded that the new installation is bugged too). -- Roberto Ragusa

Is F15 unbackuppable? (RemoveSETUID)

2011-06-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
! Are these things fixed on F15? Am I right that every kind of remote backup solution based on tar or rsync has been broken for F15? (especially because the remote machine is not guaranteed to be F15 at all) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Is F15 unbackuppable? (RemoveSETUID)

2011-06-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/05/2011 12:32 PM, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:39:02 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote > >> - rsync -aFAILS! > > rsync supports -X (for xattr) and -A (for ACLs), both must be > given explicitly. Thanks, rsync -X actually wo

Re: Is F15 unbackuppable? (RemoveSETUID)

2011-06-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/09/2011 09:59 AM, Ondrej Vasik wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 13:50 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> On 06/05/2011 12:32 PM, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:39:02 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote >>> >>>> - rsyn

Re: Is F15 unbackuppable? (RemoveSETUID)

2011-06-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/08/2011 08:35 PM, nodata wrote: > On 05/06/11 13:50, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> Why is tar not working? ("getcap a" prints nothing) >> > > Have you got a bz#? No, I will try to describe how to reproduce the bug and open it (if noone is faster than me in do

Kdevelop kdelibs false conflict

2011-07-04 Thread Roberto Ragusa
y uses kdelibs3 instead). I suppose kdelibs should conflict with kdevelop >=4.0.0 and <4.1.80. (I'm not upgrading kdevelop as I prefer version 3). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Name that Tree!

2010-02-14 Thread Roberto Ragusa
> > Ok - how about 13-dev ... or 13-frontier .. or 13-alpha .. or even > > 13-not-yet-beta willbe13 becoming13 towards13 almost13 roadto13 ... -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Name that Tree!

2010-02-15 Thread Roberto Ragusa
;"13rc"<"13"). You could for example start alpha at -999, beta at -499, rc at -99 and have something like: 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.-999, 13.-998, 13.-499, 13.-498, 13.-497, 13.-99, 13.0 It also provides an exciting "count-down to launch" concept :-) -- Rob

Re: Fwd: Btrfs compression

2010-05-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
er) part of the disk. Or, BTW, is the btrfs defragmenter good enough to let it do he job later? P.S. You just taught me what GLOBIGNORE is for. Thanks. It is anyway useless. I often do things like: mkdir OLD; mv * OLD and it works, with just a "can't move OLD inside itself" warning. -

Re: Why should I ever bother filing another bug?

2010-11-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
> > Or 1 year ago: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523634 But... but... if one of these two is declared duplicate of the other, their CC lists will not be merged... :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https:/

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-14 Thread Roberto Ragusa
you do not need to move everything out of the PV, just the part you are going to truncate (PEs can be specified). I don't remember if pvmove can use the same PV as src and dest; in that case you could avoid the need of an extra disk when your PV is just "fragmented". -- Roberto R

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
> you see it'.) Nice. You still need a timeout to avoid waiting for ever for the root filesystem to appear when one of the PV has been disconnected from the system. But this "lost hope" timeout is a lot better than the current "wait in any case" one. -- Robe

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
t. Then the bug is ignored (one months passed, 12 months left until self destruction). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:26:58 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote > >> You still need a timeout to avoid waiting for ever for the root >> filesystem to appear when one of the PV has been disconnected from >> the system. > > If you

Re: Updates Criteria Summary/Brainstorming

2010-11-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
o stupid to update my presentation software a few minutes before the important meeting with the boss. I also trust the maintainers to not frequently push crap at me. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: SSD support in Anaconda/F14

2010-12-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
3080 1439423 718172 83 Linux /dev/sda6 1439480 11678687957673700 83 Linux /dev/sda7 116786936 129372767 6292916 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 129372824 29714731183887244 83 Linux /dev/sda9 297147368 500118191 101485412

Re: Fedora distribution build times

2011-01-15 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ge of 7680*60/2=23 coreminutes/package. And we get that on average one package takes 6 minutes on a 4 core machine. That makes sense. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora distribution build times

2011-01-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
kernel bug, I would say. Which filesystems support filecaps? Will the RemoveSUID feature reduce the number of filesystem usable in F15? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora distribution build times

2011-01-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 01/16/2011 07:57 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:14:33 +0100 > Roberto Ragusa wrote: > >> Which filesystems support filecaps? > > I don't know if there is a list anywhere... all the main ones do: ext*, > btrfs, xfs, etc. What about reiserfs?

Re: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
urs, Fedora will actually gain something. So, if your decision is both positive for you and positive for Fedora, there is nothing to be too sad about. Respectfully, -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Super accurate timing?

2010-05-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
=1773943 >> >> Is this code being developed for Fedora at all? If so would there be >> any interest from Fedora (or Redhat) users if it was available I >> wonder? > > Not from my POV but the source is there in your first link Mike so why > not package it up?

Re: Res: Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

2010-05-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
st add). Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: chrony as default NTP client?

2010-05-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
curate timing" thread a few days ago. Certainly much newer than the alternatives, so I suppose it is also more "immature". Still interesting, though. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: use MALLOC_PERTURB_ ... or lose

2010-05-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
admin overridden "a" in the config? Seems good. Something like debug={enabled,enabled_if_rawhide,disabled}. With enabled_if_rawhide as default option. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Font rendering in F13

2010-05-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
s is to have the bci where available and the autohinter where bci info is missing. Will there be an option to say "always use the autohinter?"? If not, I would miss it badly. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Font rendering in F13

2010-05-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
r me (with no recompilation). I don't want to find myself in the position of cursing the _expiration_ of a lame software patent. 8-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: libjpeg for F14

2010-05-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
not eager to force >> a recompile of everything that depends on it ... > > To be clear, this is fedora. > > RHEL is in the next door! Hmmm, isn't RHEL 5 actually many floors downstairs? ;-) RHEL 6 is not so far from here, ok, but the room appears to be still full of nois

Re: libjpeg for F14

2010-05-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ply the decompression of a big jpeg. And optimized IDCT code is not exactly something rare to find around. :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

2010-05-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
day everything got switched to compiled code and manageability approached zero. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

2010-05-29 Thread Roberto Ragusa
hich is failing to boot properly) I hope your smiley face means you are joking. :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

2010-05-29 Thread Roberto Ragusa
nt some output printed to /dev/tty1 during boot and I want some filesystems to be mounted with "mount &" because they take time but only contain data not needed to boot and ? This stuff can be trivially done by a competent sysadmin with shell-based init scripts and vi. Linux

Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

2010-05-29 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> I need to change firewalls rules and routing rules in the middle of the >> init scripts, because I have a multihomed internet connection and remote >> filesystems and I need the firewall closed and then opened in a way which >

Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

2010-06-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sat, 29.05.10 19:48, Roberto Ragusa (m...@robertoragusa.it) wrote: >> Well, I really do not want to flame anyone, but please consider that >> the guy proposing the change already gave us pulseaudio, which promised the >> "it will do anythi

Re: timevariant GUI elements (Re: systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories))

2010-06-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> In recent times some stupid (IMHO) ideas have been adopted in Linux >> just to copy what others do. Just as examples: the control of desktop >> widgets in KDE4 (functional GUI elements modified by a mouse-over???), > >

Re: move libusb from /usr/lib to /lib

2010-06-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
le option to move the command away from the final seconds and use a larger timeout? I mean, if the timeout is 5 minutes, the system has 5 minutes to shut down everything. It will probably do everything in 1 minute and poweroff. After additional 4 minutes the UPS will power down. I suppose these

Re: gcc-4.5-RH in F14

2010-07-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ut Java? (I mean: is the execution of the JIT-compiler part relevant enough to total speed?) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [HEADS-UP] The systemd unit files I'll post

2010-07-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
increase brightness). Another one is used to activate the screensaver/screenlock when walking away from the machine; maybe this one could have been done in a session context, but Fn-F1 is really well positioned to be reached by my fingers. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [HEADS-UP] The systemd unit files I'll post

2010-07-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 09:42:33PM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > >> I have a use case which does not involve power management. >> Some keys on my Thinkpad generate ACPI events which I can assign >> to scripts run by acpid. > > Keys also

Re: noarch vs. all, x86_64 vs. amd64, kernel vs. linux and PAE

2015-08-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
; and even rename package name "kernel" to "linux" IMHO kernel-PAE -> kernel is reasonable, if the nonPAE is suppressed x86_64 -> amd64 is a good idea, as the architecture was created by AMD; dropping an underscore is nice too -- Roberto Ragusamail at ro

Re: noarch vs. all, x86_64 vs. amd64, kernel vs. linux and PAE

2015-08-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
of change has got probably too high, so we will keep the current mix of AMD64 (used by BSD, Windows, Solaris, Java, Debian) and x86_64 (used by Linux, Fedora, SuSE, gcc). Regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-09-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
n" software is just breaking things which were perfectly solved decades ago. If applications would just use libraries correctly, the kernel would be able to let parts of deleted files be available for lazy loading. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@list

Re: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
iency could be acceptable if rpms became rsyncable) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: No more deltarpms by default

2014-10-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ressed). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-10-22 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ut making them fully persistent...) Hmmm, surrendering your encryption keys to the only software part which you do not have control on? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fe

Re: Supporting hibernation in Workstation ed., draft 1

2020-05-31 Thread Roberto Ragusa
. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
(mostly pictures of cats and random chats). Filesystem quality must be measured in other conditions: have a Postgres on it, financial transactions, random blackouts, etc. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it ___ devel mailing list -- devel

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 2020-06-27 10:47, Igor Raits wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 10:35 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 2020-06-26 22:13, Justin Forbes wrote: Saying production on millions of systems is a bit misleading here, when you are talking about millions of

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
b2, which has matured for years; we have finally started to understand it fully, we got the new blscfg thing too, and now... everything reinvented again? IMHO the firmware (BIOS/UEFI/something) should just be able to run a bootloader, everything else added is not an advantage. Regards. --

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-07-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ked to lose the data, as the remote versioned backup is also (resized) ext4, and the remote-remote backup is also (resized) ext4. I'm not complaining, but reiserfs really has a much worse reputation than actually deserved). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-07-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
(I'm here blaming xfs for not having this, while ext4 has). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Co

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-07-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 2020-07-01 23:04, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 11:01 pm, Roberto Ragusa wrote: The real solution would be to make wise usage of LVM, for example by not allocating 100% of the extents at the beginning (or even dm-thin) and/or using filesystems where a shrink is supported

Re: booting successfully with read-only file system

2020-07-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
any short-lived incoming ssh connections where the performance bottleneck was the constant regeneration of the motd on each login. Sabotaging that stuff brutally was the only way to get back to good performance. Regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at r

Re: urandom vs haveged

2012-03-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
rator, using some code from a research article. That was fast C code, when compiled for x86_64 with good gcc options the speed (>/dev/null) was 1.75GB/s (!!!). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [announce] yum: parallel downloading

2012-05-20 Thread Roberto Ragusa
(sigma=~100) vs - is_downloading_three_files probability p=(0.01/3) - number of users N=1,000,000 --> concurrent downloads: average=10,000 (sigma=~170) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: SSD drives

2012-05-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
r /tmp is also ok. I've been using SSD drives for a couple of years, and in my opinion concerns about logs and swap are exaggerated. And having swap on SSD is a GREAT thing if you use hibernation. :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@

Re: SSD drives

2012-05-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ed by disk activities. Cipher name:aes Cipher mode:cbc-essiv:sha256 Hash spec: sha256 -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: SSD drives

2012-05-28 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ock again. If you get all zeros, discard is really working; if not, it is probably not working. Thinking about it: maybe blktrace is able to show you the discard command in its output... -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F16: Sandy Bridge -> lags, missing effects, ui-crashes

2012-05-29 Thread Roberto Ragusa
uspend-to-ram; it seems to happen if I suspend on battery and resume with the AC power connected (ACPI interaction???). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-05-31 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ing small. For example "sort". -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-05-31 Thread Roberto Ragusa
aults that should have never been changed. But be prepared to more than "one or two" future bugs of the kind "Oracle can't be installed", "my backup program fails", "the machine slows down to a crawl and only a reboot fixes it", ... Best regards. --

Re: Action required: Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-06-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ing else is "special"? # strings /usr/bin/*|grep ^/tmp$|wc -l 361 -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-14 Thread Roberto Ragusa
r drivers > on the machine.) And do not forget the BIOS version, especially for suspend-related ACPI bugs. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F16: Sandy Bridge -> lags, missing effects, ui-crashes

2012-06-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
o be unstable No issues for a couple of weeks, after disabling VT-d in the BIOS, but there were kernel updates too, in the meantime. (And I now expect the problem to show up immediately after sending this mail) :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@li

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-06-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ize. Switching disk storage to RAM storage by default is simply wrong. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ting technology, now in some way reinvented many years later through Dalvik/ART. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: delta rpms - can we turn them off

2014-06-29 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ed semantics that way. This is way you keep an eye an any *.rpmsave, *.rpmnew and merge the differences (with a proper tool, like "meld"). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

Re: LibreOffice packaging is a messy dependency graph

2015-12-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
, good) - dnf remove foo (wow, why did it remove bar, I explicitly "installed" it yesterday!) Is dnf able to recognize that bar was "wanted" and not "accidental"? Regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-07-13 Thread Roberto Ragusa
v/shm. So we just had to patch the applications (if anyone cares). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-09-13 Thread Roberto Ragusa
p back to disk immediately after installation. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Firefox / Thunderbird 17 ESR for Fedora 16/17

2012-09-22 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ot;first" F) or RHEL loses the "tested in Fedora" advantage. Is anyone going to clarify the strategy? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Firefox / Thunderbird 17 ESR for Fedora 16/17

2012-09-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/22/2012 09:03 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:37:13PM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >>> Does it mean Fedora will stop shipping the latest FF/TB and stick to ESR >>> instead? Or is it for parallel-installation purposes? >> Assuming RHEL will ha

Re: yum upgrade from F17 to F18

2012-11-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
removing some external rpm in case of dep problems). Hmm, I now see there is a "set -e" at the beginning. Still a little scary. :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: yum upgrade from F17 to F18

2012-11-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 11/09/2012 10:19 AM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: >> On 11/08/2012 03:10 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >>> >>> Hmm, I now see there is a "set -e" at the beginning. >>> Still a little scary.:-) >> >&

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-14 Thread Roberto Ragusa
s user0m0.016s sys 0m0.010s Good improvement, but still quite slow. (OT: what a pity gcj is abandoned... great project) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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 Roberto Ragusa
sideration, the fixability of the issues is important. I can easily revert to a previous kernel, I can less easily throw away pulseaudio, and I can in no way fix GNOME 3. (my two cents, as someone using Red Hat / Fedora daily since RH5.1, and never stepping up as Fedora packager because too scare

Re: Dracut HostOnly or ConfigurationOnly?

2013-09-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
h wait, I forgot about prosciutto. > Install a prosciutto package, please. Using package installation as configuration is quite bizarre. Wasn't there a specific policy that installation and configuration are two different things? "You installed httpd, ok, so you have the stuff on your

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
linaro.org/pipermail/cross-distro/2013-March/000425.html -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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?

2013-05-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
aching Linux something about security practices. And this is not something to be proud of. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: FYI: F20 Feature: Migrate to Bluez5

2013-05-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
gt; respective maintainers. > > > Any analysis to what packages are affected, how many are yet to > support the new API and how hard it will be for them to be ported > over. > Impact on KDE? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
gt; user 0m0.003s ---> sys0m0.159s And 12 seconds (elapsed, with 0.159s system) means 12s/5000=2.4ms which could only be explained with the auditing system doing fsync calls on its log files. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-05-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
rs and other stuff. Now a problem is solved by adding a new problem. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-04 Thread Roberto Ragusa
es > browse to the wrong web sites, catch a browser exploit and suddenly > start runing spam bots under their user identity, without even > knowing. Do you really want to support a disruptive change in default behaviour with such a specific use case? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertor

Re: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE or any other graphical desktop on Fedora 24

2016-10-07 Thread Roberto Ragusa
a long history, so if you can't really see what dnf has done. (e.g. I visually search any rpmsave rpmorig rpmnew warning) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe s

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

2012-12-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 12/08/2012 07:52 PM, Rahul wrote: > On 12/08/2012 01:48 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> (my two cents, as someone using Red Hat / Fedora daily since RH5.1, and >> never stepping up as Fedora packager because too scared by the bureaucracy) > > Can you be more specific? Wha

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.20.16

2012-12-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
to me with psi, I fixed it with this patch, but my attempt to have it merged has been ignored completely... -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: fedora release name problem

2013-03-20 Thread Roberto Ragusa
head of everyone else. I still fight today with iso88591 and cp1252 and utf16 BOMs and stupid crazy things which Windows and Java spread around, while everything in Linux always works perfectly. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fe

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