Re: how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

2011-09-19 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Debian policy is that any virtual dependencies must also have an >> explicit dependency. In your case it would be something like >> >> Requires: phonon-backend-gstreamer | phonon-backend > > Unfortunately, RPM does no

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

2011-09-20 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
>> * What if there are two layers of users that need to be rebuilt? >> >> The delays just pile one upon another... > > You can update rawhide at any time and accomplish that work without > delays.  Then it shows up in the next Fedora version. > Yes, but then we have align the schedules, so have a

Re: Package review SIG dead?

2011-10-07 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > Excerpts from Richard Shaw's message of Thu Oct 06 22:17:51 +0200 2011: >> After some initial interest there doesn't appear to be any activity >> unless I'm missing something. >> >> I am still interested. Anyone else? > > Sorry for tak

Re: Package review SIG dead?

2011-10-08 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 17:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 10/07/2011 02:49 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: >> >> > I know a lot of people wanted to have a discussion about this first, >> > but since we had the opportunity to hack on thi

Re: Orphaned packages by leigh123linux

2011-04-04 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > The following have been orphaned by leigh123linux. Sending on his > behalf since his is not subscribed to this list > > libdesktop-agnostic, avant-window-navigator, awn-applets-extras, > gmixer, torium and html2text > > Rahul > --

Re: Orphaned packages by leigh123linux

2011-04-05 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:42 AM, tim.laurid...@gmail.com < tim.laurid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Hi >> >> The following have been orphaned by leigh123linux. Sending on his >> behal

Re: Fedora SPEC Review Tool

2011-04-07 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Jeffrey Ness wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As I'm new to the community and RPM Package Review (and development), I > figured a tool to assist with reviews would be a nice time saver. > > With that said I have a simple Python tool (still in early beta stages) > which

Re: Acer Aspire One, Wifi, and Fedora 15

2011-04-17 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 03:10:01PM -0400, Eric Mesa wrote: > > >I see. So what would I need to do to enable it? Recompile the > kernel? > > Drop a file somewhere? > > There may be a kmod for it in rpmfusion? If not you'll need to

Re: Suggests/Recommends proposal [Was: Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)]

2011-04-27 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: > Dne 26.4.2011 18:23, Florian Festi napsal(a): > > I think if anybody can come up with a exact description how they should > > look like and how they should work and can create some evidence that > > this is want we need and want implementing th

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-06-02 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Ron Yorston wrote: > > I'd prefer them to be in one package: they are intended to work > > together. > > Except the Shut Down menu extension directly conflicts with the > alternative-status-menu extension. Sub-packages are the safest be

Re: Gnome Shell Extension manager/framework planned?

2011-06-03 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > >> If this is under way, could extension makers be pointed towards it to > >> future-proof their extensions. > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by this. > > Searching around now, it lo

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > > Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change > in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ? > > I use Virtualbox on a laptop with Fedora 14 as host OS, I use for building and test installation of Windows applicati

Review Swaps

2011-06-15 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
Hi I have a number of packages under review, they should be very easy to review 712560 Review Request: gnome-shell-extension-theme-selector - extension for review & change gnome-shell themes 712561 Review Request: gnome-shell-theme-atolm - the atolm gnome-shell theme 712562 Review Request: gnome-

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > My only concern is that there be a command-line replacement available.  I > currently fetch my ISOs with bittorrent-curses and screen.  Can someone > with experience with any of them offer a recommendation?  Python, C and > C++ clients especiall

Re: Package Review Needed

2011-06-24 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:13 PM, He Rui wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 12:00 +, devel-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org > wrote: >> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:15:15 +0800 >> From: He Rui >> Subject: Package Review Needed >> To: devel >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> >> Greetings!

Orphan: avant-windows-navigator and friends

2012-01-15 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
With a little sadless I has to orhan avant-windows-navigator, awn-extras-applet and libdesktop-agnostic for fedora-devel (fedora-17) The avant-windows-navigator package don't build in rawhide because of changes in latest version of vala The awn-extras-applet has lot of problems with gnome 2.x depe

Re: Review swaps

2011-02-20 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working on packaging lcd4linux (to use together with the digital > picture frames I also wrote a libgphoto driver for a while ago). > > The packaging is complete and now I'm looking for reviewers for the > following 3 packa

Re: ARM is a dead end

2012-06-14 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Hi, > > I've been pointed to a news item about a (apparently the first) x86 (Atom) > based smartphone: > http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/14/orange-san-diego-review/ > > So even smartphones are going x86 now. It looks like x86 is going to defea

Re: ARM is a dead end

2012-06-18 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:15 AM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:42 AM, tim.laurid...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > Linux is about choices > > No it isn't: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-January/msg008

Re: DNF Any testing time-frame?

2012-06-20 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
Would it not be better to work with yum upstream to make the current yum depsolver more modular so you could plugin another libsolv based depsolver, instead of making a fork of yum and starts trashing the current API. There is a lot more to yum, that just solving dependencies. And making a fork the

Re: avant-window-navigator (awn) in Fedora 17

2012-07-26 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote: > Hello all, > > awn has been orphaned in F17 because latest bzr fails to build > (0.4.1-XXX), though latest stable (0.4.0) builds fine. see > > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=avant-window-navigator&project=home%3Adamianator%3

Re: Subject: Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Rave it wrote: > > > > Rex Dieter wrote: > > > > I can understand your frustration, and that you and Dan had trouble > > communicating and working together. > > > > I do wish to thank you for the positive contributions you made, and in > > your future endeavors.

Re: Building packages for EPEL6 when Fedora moved to systemd

2012-09-14 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Henrique Junior wrote: > Currently several packages in epel6 are facing the problem that Fedora is > now systemd based and therefore many RPMs can not be created for EL6 and > EL5. > Can a maintainer use, lets say, two spec files (one for Fedora and another > for E

Re: Any progress in Software Center in Fedora effort?

2012-10-07 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > Hi, > the possibility of Software Center in Fedora has already been discussed > several times, last time a few month ago. > I read an article about a successful Google Summer of Code project [1] > whose goal was to make Software Center a dis

Re: [Feature Suggestion] UsrMove continued

2012-10-09 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > So you make your system incompatible with every other Linux distro out > there, and with all existing documentation, but to what end? Tidyness? > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rj

Re: [SOLVED] kernel 2.6.x and Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (kmod-wl)

2012-10-23 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: > On this Asus EeePC seashell series Notebook: > http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_e9f34fbb-dd9d-4b7d-8c77-027292c81297 > > After kernel update to 3.6.[12] (plus relative kmod-wl* module) the WiFi > stop work > > I have found this article: >

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-10-31 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:58 PM, David Airlie wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Richard Hughes" > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" < > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, 31 October, 2012 6:35:14 AM > > Subject: Re: Anaconda is totally trashin

Re: Unblocking packages: new review needed?

2012-11-07 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
Sound very strange, it is not some kind orphan package, there have been out of Fedora and has to re-enter. It it an active maintained package in F17, there just have not worked with latest version for gnome-shell, because they change the way themes works in every release. It a waste of reviewers ti

Re: Unblocking packages: new review needed?

2012-11-07 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: > No top-posting in fedora-devel :) > > Sorry :) > Besides that, I can just agree with Tim. The oldest package was reviewed > less than a year ago, the two others last summer. Requiring a new review > is, well, somewhat formal. > > That said,

Re: A minimal subset of python (was Re: [@core] working definition for the minimal package set)

2012-11-13 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
Did a quick scan and removed internals random : ['import random : (cli.py)'] subprocess : ['from subprocess import Popen, PIPE : (yum/packages.py)'] gettext : ['import gettext : (output.py)'] fnmatch : ['import fnmatch : (completion-helper.py)'] te

Re: remove polkit from core?

2012-11-13 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 11/13/2012 09:50 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > > Yes, this was a misunderstanding. What is still supported is the .policy > files containing the default policy. And that is very good, since such > policy files are installed by pretty muc

Re: PKLA --> JavaScript

2012-11-15 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I've just reviewed those pages, and it's certainly not obvious to me > how I would go about "porting" a PKLA file. > > [libvirt Management Access] > Identity=unix-group:wheel > Action=org.libvirt.unix.manage > ResultAny=no > ResultIn

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-20 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > I was kinda hoping to just let that die a quiet death, but since this > thread has been thoroughly revived - I would've worded it differently if > I'd thought about it at all, and I'm sorry for that, it was a silly way > to put things. That

Re: The final push for the application installer in Fedora 20

2013-09-29 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
vlc is not part of fedora, cause of patent related stuff, not a legal expert, but I dont think fedora cant contain somethng there links to these kind of applications If you create a new kind of application metadata, would it not be a good idea to start using the information we allready have in the

Re: The final push for the application installer in Fedora 20

2013-09-30 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
AppData is focusing alot about application, what about content : icons, themes, backgrounds Tim On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:24:45 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > In GNOME Software, we show a list of applications for each category > > that

Re: dnf-0.4.2 released

2013-10-02 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
Hi Ales How is the state of the Python API, I want to make a DBus API around it to use with the nextgen Yumex Like the one i have made for yum[1] [1] : https://github.com/timlau/yum-daemon Tim On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > Hello, > > dnf-0.4.2 was released in Fed

Re: python-urlgrabber, yum: blatant disregard for packaging guidelines and common sense

2013-10-09 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
the original urlgrabber maintainer left long time ago, but the yum team adopted the code, because it was critical to yum, so this is cause why there has been no upstream release. yum shold make upstream releases in more frequently, instead of adding very large patches to latest git HEAD. yum-utils

Re: F21/F22 System Wide Change: Python 3 as the Default Implementation

2013-10-09 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
Is DNF ready for prime time, the is no API at the moment, so it is not possible to convert tool using the yum api to use a DNF api I am working on a Python 3 version af yumex, there is package manager for the XFCE spin, I have isolated all the yum actions in DBUS services, but they will require yum

PyQt5 in Fedora

2013-10-18 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
Is there some reason that PyQt5 is not in Fedora or has it just not been packaged yet ? Tim -- 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: PyQt5 in Fedora

2013-10-18 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
Thanks Rex Let me know if you need help for package reviews I will be glad to help Tim On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > tim.laurid...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Is there some reason that PyQt5 is not in Fedora or has it just not been > > packaged yet ? >

Re: F21/F22 System Wide Change: Python 3 as the Default Implementation

2013-10-23 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
You can use GDbus as a replacement for python-dbus You can see how I have done it in the yumdaemon python api. https://github.com/timlau/yum-daemon/blob/master/client/yumdaemon/__init__.py Same code is working unchanged in python 2 & 3 Tim On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote

Review Swap : yumdaemon - DBus API for yum

2013-10-23 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
I have made the first public release of yumdaemon a DBUS API for yum with python 2 & 3 client bindings It can be helpful for applications moving to python 3 but need to performing yum actions. future plans is to make the API work with dnf when there is an api to work with. API Docs : http://timlau

Re: Review Swap : yumdaemon - DBus API for yum

2013-10-23 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
Thanks On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Jerry James wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:05 AM, tim.laurid...@gmail.com > wrote: > > I have made the first public release of yumdaemon a DBUS API for yum with > > python 2 & 3 client bindings > > It can be helpfu

Re: pycairo

2013-10-24 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
python3-cairo is a separate package, it contains the latest upstream release 1.10.0 but it looks like the License is wrong in the .spec (License: MPLv1.1 or LGPLv2) https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/python3-cairo/sources/spec/ pycairo is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License

Re: Could someone help me with writing polkit rule?

2013-10-25 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
It is some time ago it was fighting with polkit, but as far is I remember you have to make a .policy file to get pkexec to work right Like this one I use in yumex. https://github.com/timlau/yumex/blob/master/misc/dk.yumex.backend.policy.in It should be installed in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/