Re: Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Lane
ist all the libraries that *they* depend on, instead of being sloppy. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bugzilla borked right now (2010-01-12)?

2010-01-12 Thread Tom Lane
James Ralston writes: > 1. Is Bugzilla having problems right now? Seems to be working for me ... regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Heads-Up: Beware of xmlCleanupParser() when your package links against libxml2

2010-01-12 Thread Tom Lane
fix? There's certainly nothing in their documentation suggesting that there's such a requirement. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Heads-Up: Beware of xmlCleanupParser() when your package links against libxml2

2010-01-13 Thread Tom Lane
to use xmlMemSetup() ... basically, you can't replace libxml's memory management, you just have to live with whatever it chooses to leak. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-16 Thread Tom Lane
e thing just stays in NEEDINFO state. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
y I think: if you get multiple reports of the same backtrace then you start to think that it's a real bug rather than bad RAM. This still does nothing for the basic problem, though, which is that a backtrace alone isn't very useful for fixing the bug. regards, tom

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
ther monstrous attachment load that dumps would put on bugzilla, I think we can safely dismiss the idea. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2010-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
ctive, since someone who could modify the file could change the checksum too. (I'm assuming it's just a checksum and not any sort of digital signature.) The separate /lib directory tree seems the way to go, to me. That way the checksum files could be named the same as what they check,

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

2010-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Langhoff writes: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> The separate /lib directory tree seems the way to go, to me.  That way > /usr/share instead of /lib seems more appropriate - Hardly. Checksums on executables are going to be platform-specific. Puttin

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-09-01 Thread Tom Lane
not doing the right thing. As Matt said, this sort of difference shouldn't hurt the ability to merge or cherrypick diffs from one branch to another. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-09-01 Thread Tom Lane
t I like that idea a lot better than "branch" files, and especially better than some complicated rule with multiple places to look for the information. > Magic inspection of the branch relationships is not a substitute for > real configuration. Amen to that.

Re: Please remember to update rawhide

2010-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
allel, and one of the back branches happens to execute first? What I think would be useful would be to extend the broken-dependency nagbot so that it also nags if you have a back-branch that's NVR-newer than any later branch. IOW: nag good, preventing people from doing their work bad.

Re: Please remember to update rawhide

2010-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
awhide should inherit the latest completed build. It's rawhide, after all. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Please remember to update rawhide

2010-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
Rex Dieter writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Toshio Kuratomi writes: >>> When you do an update in F-14 and rely on inheritance to get the package >>> into rawhide, there is a problem. That package will not go to rawhide >>> until it hits stable in F-14. >>

Re: Inspecting/debugging a mock build

2010-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
en I forget a package I'm going to need. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb is not tracking updates?

2010-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
, and even the "N days ago" annotations in the shortlog view seem wonky, as if the server clock were stuck in early August. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: newer NVRs in older releases.

2010-09-07 Thread Tom Lane
off that future day is atm. There was some discussion last week about teaching the broken-dependencies nagbot to also nag about NVR sequence discrepancies. Is that feasible or a reasonable response? Or is that subsumed under your mention of autoqa? regards, tom lane -- devel

Re: -static packages

2010-09-15 Thread Tom Lane
nst the policy isn't a helpful way to proceed. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?

2010-09-20 Thread Tom Lane
s soon as F-14 is stable --- see http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2010-10-02 Thread Tom Lane
ce because of patents. Resurrecting it from the dead now is just an exercise in misplaced priorities. But having said that, it's not my decision to make; it's the libjpeg-turbo authors' decision whether to expend effort in that direction.

Re: Package rebuilds for gcc bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634757

2010-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
rovide a list of the packages you are intending to rebuild? Or at least the exact dates where the bad gcc was in use? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.

2011-07-15 Thread Tom Lane
end, this has to be a case-by-case decision, not something to be mandated by distro-wide policy. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: on /etc/sysconfig

2011-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
ake them start keeping their configuration info someplace else than /etc/sysconfig. This proposal sounds more like "wait, systemd has not yet broken everything in sight, how can we solve that problem?" than like something that will actually improve matters for anyone.

Re: on /etc/sysconfig

2011-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Lennart Poettering writes: > On Mon, 18.07.11 15:34, Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) wrote: >> Well, if they didn't need fixed before, they'll certainly need fixed >> when you make them start keeping their configuration info someplace else >> than /etc/sysconfig. This

Systemd transition prevents updating older release branches??

2011-07-25 Thread Tom Lane
seeming like a better option is to bump the package's Epoch for the systemd-native release. Discuss. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Systemd transition prevents updating older release branches??

2011-07-25 Thread Tom Lane
Bill Nottingham writes: > Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: >> IOW, once I push a mysql update with native systemd support into >> rawhide, I'll be forbidden from ever rebasing mysql in F15 up to >> a newer upstream patch release. Considering that upstream issues >&g

Re: Systemd transition prevents updating older release branches??

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
base servers on F15 is already accustomed to pain. Michal Hlavinka's solution of explicitly testing for the old sysv init script seems like a win from here, since I don't intend to continue packaging that. Anyone have an objection to that approach? regards,

Re: Systemd transition prevents updating older release branches??

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
Toshio Kuratomi writes: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:37:43AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Michal Hlavinka's solution of explicitly testing for the old sysv init >> script seems like a win from here, since I don't intend to continue >> packaging that. Anyone hav

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

2011-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
on to the %configure calls in packages where it's actually an issue (which is surely a small minority, unless Colin has got evidence to the contrary). regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fwd: [Fedora Update] [CRITPATH] [old_testing_critpath] mdadm-3.1.3-0.git20100804.3.fc14

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Lane
re useless and not worthy of my time. Auto nagmail to proventesters might be of some value, but not to the package maintainer. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Attention: F16 packages needing rebuilds due to the trailing slash bug of rpm-4.9.1

2011-08-17 Thread Tom Lane
so I know I've got packages that were built several weeks ago and are still waiting in testing. When exactly was the busted rpm version present in the buildroots? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
to get the upstreams to think about inventing non-connection-based protocols for testing database server status, but I doubt that either one will be receptive. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Williamson writes: > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 17:28 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Yeah. Another way in which socket activation is not transparent is that >> code might try to determine whether the service is running by seeing >> whether a connection attempt succeeds. In su

Re: Default services enabled -> there is no problem with mysqld

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
Reindl Harald writes: > Am 23.08.2011 23:28, schrieb Tom Lane: >> there's no other way for "mysqladmin ping" to work, for example > and where is the problem? I'm not planning on repeating myself either, but: a database *monitoring* tool, as opposed to a vanilla c

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
activation of a database. I'd like to support the option ... the problem is to do so without breaking existing, expected behaviors. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SysVtoSystemd

2011-09-03 Thread Tom Lane
ikely break users' customizations of their service setups, which is not something you want to have happen after a routine "yum update". regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16

2011-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
on my end. I would be prepared to push 9.1 into f16 on Monday if there were enough people willing to test and up-karma it before the freeze ... any volunteers out there? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16

2011-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Piotrowski?= writes: > 2011/9/11 Tom Lane : >> Yeah. I have done test packaging of 9.1rc1 already, so it's pretty much >> ready to go on my end. I would be prepared to push 9.1 into f16 on >> Monday if there were enough people willing to test

Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16

2011-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Yeah. I have done test packaging of 9.1rc1 already, so it's pretty much >> ready to go on my end. I would be prepared to push 9.1 into f16 on >> Monday if there were enough people willing to test and up-karma it &g

Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16

2011-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:16:47 -0400, > Tom Lane wrote: >> OK, it's built and filed at >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/postgresql-9.1.0-1.fc16 > One thing I noticed is that service postgresql initdb and > service postgres

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

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Piotrowski?= writes: > 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 same, since we switched over to native systemd >> files.) > I used this service file on F15 and it starts slower

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

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Piotrowski?= writes: > 2011/9/14 Tom Lane : >> Certainly postgresql.init was never exactly lean-and-mean, so it >> seems like it ought to have been doing more work than the unit file >> requires.  Are you sure you were comparing apples to apples as f

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
d at the amount of work that has been forced on me (as a package maintainer) in the service of an unproven piece of software that may yet go down the tubes. Take a look back at the list archives over the past few months, and ask yourself how happy people actually are with this experiment.

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

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
cripting" so I didn't. Michal's numbers look pretty damning, and I find it remarkable that the systemd advocates seem to have managed not to read them, let alone admit that they suggest something's seriously wrong. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
x27;d expect pg_ctl to usually come back after the first sleep. So I'm not sure what's happening on Michal's machine, but from here I don't see anything egregiously wrong with systemd's performance on this test. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F17 process change proposal

2011-09-20 Thread Tom Lane
nfiguration for F17 Branched. > I don't particularly have a problem with people getting branched by > default at branch time. I don't really care which is the default; whichever it is, the need is to make it reasonably simple to choose the other. But locking rawhide down in pursuit

Dealing with circular BuildRequires?

2011-10-04 Thread Tom Lane
did we get into such a situation, and what should I do about it? Neither specfile appears to have any provision for bootstrapping. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Dealing with circular BuildRequires?

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
Petr Pisar writes: > On 2011-10-05, Tom Lane wrote: >> For example, cairo BuildRequires: librsvg2-devel, and librsvg2 >> BuildRequires: cairo-devel, so there is no order in which I can rebuild >> them. How the heck did we get into such a situation, and what should >&

Re: GDBM upgrade in F17

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
will need to be rebuilt. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
dora branches rather than rawhide where they belong. Surely, this is a matter to discuss with the Fedora maintainer(s) of glibc and nobody else. And yes, I think it's about time for FESCo to step in and lay down the law. regards, tom lane -- devel

Systemd conversion versus updates in back Fedora branches

2011-10-23 Thread Tom Lane
advice to check package version, and instead have the triggerun script check to see whether the mysql sysv initscript file is present. I wonder whether anyone else has dealt with this and has working scriptlets? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Systemd conversion versus updates in back Fedora branches

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
re up against similar issues, or will be if they take back-branch maintenance seriously.) What I want is a packaging guideline that doesn't simply blow off the problem of upgrading packages in pre-systemd branches. It's not an acceptable restriction, and I'm astonished that any

Re: Systemd conversion versus updates in back Fedora branches

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
Honza Horak writes: > On 10/24/2011 05:52 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> The idea I have at the moment is to ignore the advice to check package >> version, and instead have the triggerun script check to see whether the >> mysql sysv initscript file is present. I wonder whether any

Re: Systemd conversion versus updates in back Fedora branches

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Kofler writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> FWIW, I'm totally on board with the idea of not switching to systemd in >> F15 --- and even if I wanted to do that, it's pure luck that the problem >> doesn't apply to F14->F15 upgrades as well, where such an optio

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

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
it is better for end users to use > #!/usr/bin/env php/python/whatever in scripts. Why? This whole thing seems like make-work for packagers, and big compatibility problems for users, for negligible benefit to either. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists

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

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Lane
ple away from Fedora and into distributions that have more respect for their users' time. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: UsrMove feature

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Lane
ra for some time now, I believe. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Another glibc change that nearly got pushed into F16

2011-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
ded directly." or close variants of that. I assume this is another manifestation of the same bug being discussed here ... or have the glibc guys managed to break the world in two different ways in the same release? regards, tom lane -- devel ma

Re: Another glibc change that nearly got pushed into F16

2011-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
Matthias Clasen writes: > On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:12 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:06:31AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >>> /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:32:2: error: #error "Only can >>> be included directly." >> You ar

Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
time being. So existing programs that depend on 1.2.x will continue to work, but it won't be possible to rebuild a package that has source-level dependencies on 1.2.x until those are fixed. I think this is enough to avoid needing a special build tag for staging the rebuilds.

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
rs worry about fixing mere compiler warnings? I know I can't claim to spend any time on that, except with my upstream hat on. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Adams writes: > Once upon a time, Tom Lane said: >> Any opinions on which way to jump? > How hard is it to fix source that accesses the fields directly? Do all > the fields that were previously exposed have direct accessor functions? AFAIK, they all do, and it sho

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
hat, I will proceed forward with 1.5, unless somebody thinks of a very good reason not to. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Heads up: libpng bumped to 1.5.x in rawhide

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Lane
t where to find patches. (Sorry for not being more verbose, but I've got to leave shortly. If you need help, ask me off-list.) regards, tom lane (orphan) amide (orphan) assogiate (orphan) emerald (orphan) gconf-cleaner (orphan) geda-gattrib (orphan) geda-gnetlist

Re: Heads up: libpng bumped to 1.5.x in rawhide

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Lane
7;re going to have to deal with. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: libmysqlclient soname version bumped by upstream

2011-03-22 Thread Tom Lane
"Nathanael D. Noblet" writes: > On 03/22/2011 09:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> OK, I built mysql 5.5.10 in F-15, but I'm not too clear on the process >> for getting dependent packages rebuilt in that branch. Any advice what >> to do next? > So I just got a b

Re: libmysqlclient soname version bumped by upstream

2011-03-22 Thread Tom Lane
the ticket for updates. (Rawhide builds work for me, though.) regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: libmysqlclient soname version bumped by upstream

2011-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
s like somebody acted on the testing request without knowing about the bundled-update plans :-(. I think I can revoke the update request but I'm not sure whether that will make the mess even worse. Comments? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedora

Re: libtiff - update

2011-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
> libtiff also had the same issue and it has been updated today). This has > already been reported in > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678635 > How can I find out when this new libtiff update will be added to Fedora > 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libtif

Re: libmysqlclient soname version bumped by upstream

2011-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
We'll push them all at once once everything's rebuilt. Attached is a list of what Michael Schwendt's script says the dependencies are ... man, there are a lot ... regards, tom lane package: amarok-2.4.0-2.fc15.i686 from fedora-15-development-i386 package

Re: mass rebuild of mysql packages in F-15

2011-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
whide build. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: mass rebuild of mysql packages in F-15

2011-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
out --- perhaps it was expecting mysql to export such a function? We tightened up the exports list some time ago, so I'd have expected such a problem to be caught already. Did pure-ftpd get through the F15 mass rebuild successfully? regards, tom lan

Re: mass rebuild of mysql packages in F-15

2011-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Kofler writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> ser's problem is >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfl >> which looks to me to be a flex incompatibility unrelated to mysql. > Probably needs BR flex-static. Yup, you're right. It's been FTBFS for awhile: https://bug

Re: Shared library permissions in Debian-land and Red Hat-land

2011-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
about their policy in the first place ... regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: mass rebuild of mysql packages in F-15

2011-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
o we need to wait around for somebody to fix these stragglers, or can we go ahead and release dist-f15-mysql into the general f15-testing pool? If the latter, what's the procedure for that, pester rel-eng? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: mass rebuild of mysql packages in F-15

2011-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
re with "fedpkg build --target=dist-f15-mysql". But I think we've gotten everything that doesn't have pre-existing build problems. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: mass rebuild of mysql packages in F-15

2011-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: mass rebuild of mysql packages in F-15

2011-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-08 Thread Tom Lane
fix the problem? Shouldn't somebody with approval power be paying more than zero attention to older branches? regards, tom lane --- Forwarded Message Date:Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:43 + From:upda...@fedoraproject.org To: t...@redhat.com Subject: [Fedo

No sleep-on-lid-close with F-15 beta KDE?

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Lane
how to configure KDE? (I did look into the power management settings, which seem remarkably over-engineered and don't offer any clear "sleep" option...) regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: No sleep-on-lid-close with F-15 beta KDE?

2011-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Rajeesh K Nambiar writes: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Having been not terribly impressed with GNOME 3 in F-15 alpha, I thought >> I'd try installing the beta with KDE, just to see if the grass is any >> greener.  I'm still trying to

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
knows how many F15 packages are now going to ship in a FTBFS state? If I were running things around here, this change would get reverted for F15. Rawhide, it's fine in. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Williamson writes: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Well, if they think this is their beta test period, it still merits >> asking why the heck this type of change is going in now. I agree with >> Dave that this looks like development material,

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
. Done, but given that the glibc maintainers have already stated their intention to walk away from that update and file a new one so they can ignore the bad karma on it, I don't have a lot of faith that I wasn't wasting my time. regards, tom lane -- devel maili

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; uncompilable

2011-05-08 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Kofler writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> but it hasn't done anything for the problem that packages that actually >> need RPC functionality will now FTBFS for lack of a BuildRequires on >> libtirpc, if not need actual source patches (maybe they were assuming >> n

Re: informations about boot sequence (Re: F15 - mysql start problem)

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
certainly broken by this. Please send the info, I'll take care of those two. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: informations about boot sequence (Re: F15 - mysql start problem)

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
27;m less familiar with all of mysql's options but I wouldn't be surprised if there's comparable issues there. I'd be interested to know whether the OP was using a vanilla my.cnf or something custom, and exactly what failure mode he saw. regards, tom lan

Re: informations about boot sequence (Re: F15 - mysql start problem)

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Piotrowski?= writes: > 2011/5/9 Tom Lane : >> I'd be interested to know whether the OP was using a vanilla my.cnf or >> something custom, and exactly what failure mode he saw. > In my case > [mysqld] > datadir=/home/data/mysql > socket=

Re: informations about boot sequence (Re: F15 - mysql start problem)

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
. I grow weary of systemd apologists saying that services should be hacked to work around systemd's limitations. systemd exists to serve the daemons, not vice versa. If you can't fix these problems, people are going to decide that systemd is a failed experiment.

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Tom Lane
here the rest of us have to deal with it. Maybe this suggests that we need to work a little harder on supporting and/or encouraging use of "rawhide branches", so that multiple developers can work on a shared piece of instability without affecting all of Fedora-land.

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
they push code and then ignore bug reports for weeks, which is not an assumption but the actual facts on the ground in the case that started this thread. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: rpaths strike again, please add checker to koji/mock

2011-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
arge number of perl-dependent packages, since we still have libperl.so not being installed into /usr/lib. I don't think that having the build system enforce a prohibition would be a good idea at all. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16

2011-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
ng RPMs for F16 as soon as it's released. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.

2011-07-03 Thread Tom Lane
I used to run autoconf during the builds of both the postgresql and mysql packages for many years. That eventually became unnecessary in both cases, but I don't recall that autoconf changes ever caused me any trouble. (gcc, on the other hand, ...) regards, tom lane -- de

Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.

2011-07-03 Thread Tom Lane
bler code, instead of touching the C code. Or fixing a grammar problem by patching bison's output file instead of the input .y file. It just seems uselessly stone age. And it certainly does not yield a patch that you are going to be able to submit to upstream. regar

Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.

2011-07-03 Thread Tom Lane
ct Fedora packagers to do differently when they need to adjust the configure script. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: R: Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.

2011-07-03 Thread Tom Lane
) This seems to me to be an area best left to the judgment of the individual packager, based on what he's dealing with in a particular package. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.

2011-07-03 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Kofler writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> That sounds more like dogmatism than practical thinking. It's common to >> pre-generate some of the files in a distribution tarball, just so that >> users aren't required to have specific tools in order to build the code

Broken deps reports broken?

2010-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
I just got about half a dozen "broken dependencies in devel" emails that seem to be completely wacko, as neither the dependent nor the dependee have changed lately. Something messed up in the repo maybe? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing

Re: Bodhi hash collision?

2010-02-19 Thread Tom Lane
Luke Macken writes: > A large number of updates currently suffer from duplicate IDs, and I > need to figure out a clever way to fix it. Would it be prudent to not push new updates until you've fixed it? regards, tom lane -- devel mailing

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