Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 15:15, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Spe

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Max Pyziur wrote: > An example of a filename: > rsync: [receiver] mkstemp "/path/to/some/directory/WNYC's Leonard Lopate > Show/.wnyc_lopate.mp3?d=475.0atuCZ" failed: Invalid argument (22) > > It seems blanks and characters such as apostrophes, brackets, etc, cause > problems. ... > The HPFS/NTFS

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/27/23 15:15, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Specifically, when running a command such as

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Specifically, when running a command such as this: rsync -av /var/backup/machine1

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Specifically, when running a command such as this: rsync -av /var/backup/machine1/home/SomeUser /home I get a lot of messa

rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been using rsync to backup from my various desktops and laptops to an in-house networked server. A variant of the script is appended below. Located in /etc/cron.hourly, the script pings a machine to see if it is live; if so, it proceeds to do an incremental backup to a machine

Re: Request for recommendations on installing Viber and Signal

2023-05-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
> Ok, latest Viber rpm from the viber webpage gives the following info: > rpm -qif viber > Name: viber > Version : 18.2.0.2 > Release : 2 > Architecture: x86_64 > Install Date: Sun 30 Apr 2023 08:14:29 AM EDT > Group : Converted/non-free/net > Size: 506362005 > Licens

Re: Request for recommendations on installing Viber and Signal

2023-05-07 Thread Max Pyziur
On Thu, 4 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/30/23 05:55, Max Pyziur wrote: Per the subject line any recommendations on F38 would be helpful. I had both installed on my Dell XPS 13 L322 laptop, but bc the upgrade failed I've had to do a fresh install and restore my data. Viber does provide a

Re: Request for recommendations on installing Viber and Signal

2023-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/30/23 05:55, Max Pyziur wrote: Per the subject line any recommendations on F38 would be helpful. I had both installed on my Dell XPS 13 L322 laptop, but bc the upgrade failed I've had to do a fresh install and restore my data. Viber does provide an rpm: rpm can be found here https://www.

Request for recommendations on installing Viber and Signal

2023-04-30 Thread Max Pyziur
Per the subject line any recommendations on F38 would be helpful. I had both installed on my Dell XPS 13 L322 laptop, but bc the upgrade failed I've had to do a fresh install and restore my data. Viber does provide an rpm: rpm can be found here https://www.viber.com/en/download/ (look under t

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-17 Thread Charles Dennett
On 10/17/22 15:14, Richard Shaw wrote: If you can, please file an issue upstream and let me know what the URL is. Include as much info as you're able, especially any relevant log file entries. https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues Tha

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-17 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 2:12 PM Charles Dennett wrote: > > I've been testing f2b over the past few days and I can now make it fail > on demand. By that I mean the fail2ban-server process uses 100% of a > cpu and becomes unresponsive and will not respond to fail2ban-client or > process any other

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-17 Thread Charles Dennett
I've been testing f2b over the past few days and I can now make it fail on demand. By that I mean the fail2ban-server process uses 100% of a cpu and becomes unresponsive and will not respond to fail2ban-client or process any other log entries (apache, sshd, etc.) whenever it attempts to proc

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-15 Thread Charles Dennett
Version 1.0.1 now seems to be running. As I noted before, my problem had something to do with the dovecot jail. I did notice a few config files had .rpmnew versions after upgrading. I went through just to make sure there were no local mods. I do have .local files so I should not have made

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-14 Thread Charles Dennett
On 10/14/22 13:07, Richard Shaw wrote: Interestingly, I did not have any issues, but I'm only running a sshd jail, which is one of the reasons I wanted wider testing. I verified that fail2ban was restarted (systemctl status fail2ban) and then checked the status (fail2ban-client status sshd)

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-14 Thread Richard Shaw
Interestingly, I did not have any issues, but I'm only running a sshd jail, which is one of the reasons I wanted wider testing. I verified that fail2ban was restarted (systemctl status fail2ban) and then checked the status (fail2ban-client status sshd) and everything was fine. I also did a tail -

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-14 Thread crow
I saw a similar problem in my f36 system. 100% CPU usage for the fail2ban-server process after upgrading to 1.0.1-1. I also tried removing the sqlite database with no impact. fail2ban-server was so busy it would not receive connections from fail2ban-client. I enabled DEBUG logging, but that

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-14 Thread Charlie Dennett
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 9:55 AM Charlie Dennett wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 2:57 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > >> I have disabled auto-stable based on time for the updates: I have >> submitted updates for f36 and up and EPEL 9. >> >> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=fail2ban >>

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-14 Thread Charlie Dennett
On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 2:57 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > I have disabled auto-stable based on time for the updates: I have > submitted updates for f36 and up and EPEL 9. > > https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=fail2ban > > I would like some sort of confirmation on the update itself or by

Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

2022-10-03 Thread Richard Shaw
I have disabled auto-stable based on time for the updates: I have submitted updates for f36 and up and EPEL 9. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=fail2ban I would like some sort of confirmation on the update itself or by direct communication that everything appears to be working prop

Re: How does one request a new RPM package group?

2022-05-17 Thread Scott Beamer
> On May 17, 2022, at 10:20 AM, Ben Cotton wrote: > > On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 12:36 PM Scott Beamer > wrote: >> >> Thanks. Should I file an issue in both places? > > I'd take it to the KDE SIG. They can make the necessary comps changes. > Great. Thank you. _

Re: How does one request a new RPM package group?

2022-05-17 Thread Ben Cotton
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 12:36 PM Scott Beamer wrote: > > Thanks. Should I file an issue in both places? I'd take it to the KDE SIG. They can make the necessary comps changes. -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Fedora Program Manager Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis ___

Re: How does one request a new RPM package group?

2022-05-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
> > In this case, filing an issue with the KDE SIG is probably the best > > approach: > > https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/ > > > > In general, the groups are defined by fedora-comps. You can submit > > an > > issue or pull request at: > > https://

Re: How does one request a new RPM package group?

2022-05-17 Thread Scott Beamer
his case, filing an issue with the KDE SIG is probably the best approach: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/ In general, the groups are defined by fedora-comps. You can submit an issue or pull request at: https://pagure.io/fedora-comps Thanks.  Should I fil

Re: How does one request a new RPM package group?

2022-05-17 Thread Ben Cotton
t this? In this case, filing an issue with the KDE SIG is probably the best approach: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/ In general, the groups are defined by fedora-comps. You can submit an issue or pull request at: https://pagure.io/fedora-comps -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Fedo

How does one request a new RPM package group?

2022-05-17 Thread Scott Beamer
Greetings, I'd like to see an RPM package group added that would include all the KDE-specific games.  Something like the way the Debian/Ubuntu "kdegames" packages depends on all the official KDE games. They're not included with either of the current KDE package groups and it's a pain to  add

Re: Request help to install Fedora35 workstation on a new HP desktop

2022-05-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
Luck. On 5 May 2022 at 13:51, Elias Peiris wrote: Subject: Request help to install Fedora35 workstation on a new HP desktop From: "Elias Peiris" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date sent: Thu, 05 May 2022 13:51:47 -

Re: Request help to install Fedora35 workstation on a new HP desktop

2022-05-05 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 05 May 2022 13:51:47 - "Elias Peiris" wrote: > I am a user of Fedora 35 on an old computer. Because of low memory, > low disk space and performance reasons I would want to install Fedora > 35 workstation on to a new HP desktop. The computer had pre-installed > Windows 11 (UEFI BIOS).

Request help to install Fedora35 workstation on a new HP desktop

2022-05-05 Thread Elias Peiris
I am a user of Fedora 35 on an old computer. Because of low memory, low disk space and performance reasons I would want to install Fedora 35 workstation on to a new HP desktop. The computer had pre-installed Windows 11 (UEFI BIOS). I tried to install Fedora35 using a USB drive. In order to see t

Re: trying to login i get a "bad request"

2021-05-26 Thread Peter Boy
filling in name and password: >> https://id.fedoraproject.org/openidc/Continue?ipsilon_transaction_id=04 >> 400 - Bad Request >> User not authenticated at continue >> >> >> Any idea what is going wrong? > > There was a outage for about an hour 20 to

Re: trying to login i get a "bad request"

2021-05-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
re I get: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server > > If I try to login into wiki I get > https://id.fedoraproject.org/login/gssapi/negotiate?ipsilon_transaction_id=04… > > And after filling in name and password: > https://id.fedoraproject.org/openidc/Continue?ipsilon_transaction

trying to login i get a "bad request"

2021-05-26 Thread Peter Boy
https://id.fedoraproject.org/login/gssapi/negotiate?ipsilon_transaction_id=04… And after filling in name and password: https://id.fedoraproject.org/openidc/Continue?ipsilon_transaction_id=04 400 - Bad Request User not authenticated at continue Any idea what is going wrong? Thanks Peter

Re: workspace switcher : minor feature request

2020-02-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2020-02-23 at 16:54 +, Beartooth wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 21:59:38 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 13:43 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 2/22/20 1:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > > > I also upgrade every day, and reboot whenever there's a kernel

Re: workspace switcher : minor feature request

2020-02-23 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 21:59:38 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 13:43 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 2/22/20 1:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> >I also upgrade every day, and reboot whenever there's a kernel >> > change. I suppose I should close the canonical applets, but I o

Re: workspace switcher : minor feature request

2020-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 13:43 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/22/20 1:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > I also upgrade every day, and reboot whenever there's a kernel > > change. I suppose I should close the canonical applets, but I often > > don't. Then when the reboot finishes, they all show up on t

Re: workspace switcher : minor feature request

2020-02-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/22/20 1:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: I also upgrade every day, and reboot whenever there's a kernel change. I suppose I should close the canonical applets, but I often don't. Then when the reboot finishes, they all show up on the upper left space, and I have to rearrange them. IFF, and I

workspace switcher : minor feature request

2020-02-22 Thread Beartooth
This is a minor irritation, at least afaik: I'd fix it if I could AND saw an easy way to. I live by the Fedora workspace switcher -- probably the most valuable applet I have, because it's so easy to set and forget. I have canonical spaces for my terminal (with several tabs, my

Re: Error : fw_domains_get [i915] render: timed out waiting for forcewake ack request.

2020-02-03 Thread stan via users
:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control [ > 4.407341] [drm:fw_domains_get [i915]] *ERROR* render: timed out > waiting for forcewake ack request. [9.624620] printk: systemd: 23 > output lines suppressed due to ratelimiting [ 16.229888] > kauditd_p

Error : fw_domains_get [i915] render: timed out waiting for forcewake ack request.

2020-02-01 Thread Cătălin George Feștilă
15]] *ERROR* render: timed out waiting for forcewake ack request. [9.624620] printk: systemd: 23 output lines suppressed due to ratelimiting [ 16.229888] kauditd_printk_skb: 19 callbacks suppressed [ 18.448983] xfs filesystem being remounted at / supports timestamps until 2

kernel error: [drm:fw_domains_get [i915]] *ERROR* render: timed out waiting for forcewake ack request.

2019-09-14 Thread Cătălin George Feștilă
I got this error on cockpit and I want to fix it: 13:13 [drm:fw_domains_get [i915]] *ERROR* render: timed out waiting for forcewake ack request. kernel The content of this error is: [drm:fw_domains_get [i915]] *ERROR* render: timed out waiting for forcewake ack request. PRIORITY3

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-08-04 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 17:29, Robin Laing wrote: > On 01/08/2019 01:28, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 7/31/19 7:44 PM, Robin Laing wrote: > >> Still should be a Fedora package though. > > > > There are lots of packages that would be nice to have, but someone has > > to do the work. > > ___

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-08-03 Thread Tim via users
Samuel Sieb: >> There are lots of packages that would be nice to have, but someone >> has to do the work. Robin Laing: > So very true. > > One reason so many go to Ubuntu. Seems to have everything. I've looked at Ubuntu, over many years. I've noticed it's full of Windows breakaways, who don'

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-08-03 Thread Robin Laing
On 01/08/2019 01:28, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/31/19 7:44 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Still should be a Fedora package though. There are lots of packages that would be nice to have, but someone has to do the work. ___ So very true. One reason so many

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-08-03 Thread Robin Laing
ader addon for FreeCAD and it requires three python modules to install. xlrd, xlwt and xlutils xlrd and xlwt are available through DNF, xlutils isn't. I saw it mentioned in an old bug report but nothing more. I would like to request that this package be added. https://pypi.org/project/xlut

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-08-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/31/19 7:44 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Still should be a Fedora package though. There are lots of packages that would be nice to have, but someone has to do the work. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an ema

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-07-31 Thread Robin Laing
ree python modules to install. xlrd, xlwt and xlutils xlrd and xlwt are available through DNF, xlutils isn't. I saw it mentioned in an old bug report but nothing more. I would like to request that this package be added. https://pypi.org/

Re: How to request a new package.

2019-07-31 Thread Aristeidis Dimitriadis
s three python modules to install. > > xlrd, xlwt and xlutils > > xlrd and xlwt are available through DNF, xlutils isn't. > > I saw it mentioned in an old bug report but nothing more. > > I would like to request that this pac

How to request a new package.

2019-07-30 Thread Robin Laing
Hello, I was trying to install the InventorLoader addon for FreeCAD and it requires three python modules to install. xlrd, xlwt and xlutils xlrd and xlwt are available through DNF, xlutils isn't. I saw it mentioned in an old bug report but nothing more. I would like to request that

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request [solved]

2019-05-28 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 28 May 2019, Seth Kenlon wrote: Interesting. I haven't had to stop Pulse for my music work in years (but admittedly haven't worked on Fedora in a while, opting for the stability of Slackware and RHEL; maybe this apparent regression confirms my bias). Any way, glad you got it working! T

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request [solved]

2019-05-27 Thread Seth Kenlon
Interesting. I haven't had to stop Pulse for my music work in years (but admittedly haven't worked on Fedora in a while, opting for the stability of Slackware and RHEL; maybe this apparent regression confirms my bias). Any way, glad you got it working! On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 5:18 AM Max Pyziur w

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request [solved]

2019-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 25 May 2019, Seth Kenlon wrote: For a MIDI file to produce sound out of Rosegarden (and probably most DAWs) you do have to assign the MIDI file an instrument. If the MIDI file is composed for General MIDI, you have to assign General MIDI to the track containing the MIDI file you are try

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-24 Thread Seth Kenlon
For a MIDI file to produce sound out of Rosegarden (and probably most DAWs) you do have to assign the MIDI file an instrument. If the MIDI file is composed for General MIDI, you have to assign General MIDI to the track containing the MIDI file you are trying to play. I haven't used Timidity++ dire

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/24/19 6:32 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: I then began working through your Rosengarden item. I connected my USB MIDI controller ((Akai LPK25). Started jackd, then qjacktl, and then Rosengarden. I loaded a MIDI file, pushed "play," and I get no sound. That's where I get stuck. As I mentioned, I

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-24 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 24 May 2019, Andras Simon wrote: 2019-05-24 15:32 GMT+02:00, Max Pyziur : After reading some, I checked to see if I had the necessary software installed (I do). I then began working through your Rosengarden item. I connected my USB MIDI controller ((Akai LPK25). Started jackd, then q

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-24 Thread Andras Simon
2019-05-24 15:32 GMT+02:00, Max Pyziur : > After reading some, I checked to see if I had the necessary software > installed (I do). > > I then began working through your Rosengarden item. I connected my USB > MIDI controller ((Akai LPK25). > > Started jackd, then qjacktl, and then Rosengarden. > >

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-24 Thread Max Pyziur
ks that offer step-by-step instructions. I've tried to follow them. Other projects and distractions have gotten in the way. So my request is to this Fedora Community, that knowledgebase, not Google's, for some sort of authoritative guidance on implementing MIDI on a Fedora based system.

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-23 Thread Seth Kenlon
've googled for links that offer step-by-step instructions. I've tried to > follow them. Other projects and distractions have gotten in the way. > > So my request is to this Fedora Community, that knowledgebase, not > Google's, for some sort of authoritative guidance o

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-22 Thread Max Pyziur
t offer step-by-step instructions. I've tried to follow them. Other projects and distractions have gotten in the way. So my request is to this Fedora Community, that knowledgebase, not Google's, for some sort of authoritative guidance on implementing MIDI on a Fedora based system. My laptop

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/22/19 8:20 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: Are there any recommendations for canonical/authoritative guides for using MIDI on Fedora? That's a wide topic. Could you explain more specifically what you want to do? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fed

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-22 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2019-05-22 kl. 17:20, skrev Max Pyziur: > > Greetings, > > Are there any recommendations for canonical/authoritative guides for > using MIDI on Fedora? Found following while I googled "using MIDI on Fedora": https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Musicians_Guide/sect-Musicians_

Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-22 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Are there any recommendations for canonical/authoritative guides for using MIDI on Fedora? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.f

Re: Feature request : Vivaldi

2019-04-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/20/19 12:15 PM, Beartooth wrote: I tried installing Vivaldi from its own site, used it a few weeks, and liked it immensely. Then I happened to discover that it was not available via dnf. With copious bad memories of dependency hells, and despite great reluctance, I gave it up. I stil

Feature request : Vivaldi

2019-04-20 Thread Beartooth
I tried installing Vivaldi from its own site, used it a few weeks, and liked it immensely. Then I happened to discover that it was not available via dnf. With copious bad memories of dependency hells, and despite great reluctance, I gave it up. I still miss it. Couldn't it be added to

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/17/19 12:35 PM, Beartooth wrote: That's one of the tweaks I always do right away, yes. But aren't there individual things in /usr, /bin, /usr/bin, and other such places? Anything user related is in /home/ (or /root). System-wide configuration is in /etc. That should be it. If

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-19 Thread David Dusanic
Beartooth: That's one of the tweaks I always do right away, yes. But aren't there individual things in /usr, /bin, /usr/bin, and other such places? All user files are in the user's home directory. Now you could of course also look into /etc/, /var/ and maybe some more but for me the

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-18 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:21:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/16/19 9:08 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> Last week, for instance, I managed to so foo a brand new laptop >> that anything I did on the login screen killed it. (I'd've tried a >> repair if I'd been able to remember how to boot straight in

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 21:36 +, Beartooth wrote: > Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from > Union Pacific, but I do almost always stick to the same username. Yes, and no... (Anaconda picking the same UID.) It's the *numerical* user identification. Likewise, GID is the

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:07:24 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > Is there an advantage to doing this with a mount? I used a symlink for a while till various programs started refusing to work with /home a symlink because the security geeks had decided something dodgy must be going on. If the same prog

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17Apr2019 18:43, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:07:37 +1200 Seth Kenlon wrote: > > * reboot * rsync my backed-up home dir to my new home dir location. My technique is to have home on a separate disk and just change /home in the install partition to a bind mount of home from the

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 21:36 +, Beartooth wrote: > I didn't know yum still worked in Fedora. Is && a command?? Or > what? yum is now just a symbolic link to dnf. The old version of yum is still avaliable as yum-deprecated. '&&' is standard Shell syntax. 'foo && bar' means 'run bar if

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:07:37 +1200 Seth Kenlon wrote: > > > * reboot * rsync my backed-up home dir to my new home dir location. My technique is to have home on a separate disk and just change /home in the install partition to a bind mount of home from the other disk (rename the installed /home an

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Seth Kenlon
> > * install a fresh image * use the same user and UID as previous install > > Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from > Union Pacific, but I do almost always stick to the same username. > Yes, sorry - I was being explicit because it's possible that a user chooses

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:40:55 +1200, Seth Kenlon wrote: > Interesting that you say this. My experience is the opposite. Here's > what I do: > > * install a fresh image * use the same user and UID as previous install Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from Union Pac

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:38:51 +0200, David Dusanic wrote: > Richard England: >> On 4/16/19 8:53 AM, Beartooth wrote: >>> Profile?! What profile?? Where is it?? And HOW do you transfer >>> it >>> to the new device?? It sounds like the "better way" I'm looking for! >> >> The profile for Thun

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/16/19 9:08 AM, Beartooth wrote: Last week, for instance, I managed to so foo a brand new laptop that anything I did on the login screen killed it. (I'd've tried a repair if I'd been able to remember how to boot straight into single user, or find out again how. I spent a few days tryi

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread David Dusanic
Richard England: On 4/16/19 8:53 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:07:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that one!) and with all the calendars,

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread David Dusanic
Patrick O'Callaghan: This may not be the answer you're looking for, but (if this is all on the same machine of course) why are you reinstalling instead of updating? I for one can't remember the last time I did a fresh install. I've been updating version after version for at least the past 4 year

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Tim via users
(Re: *my* installing rather than upgrading) On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:46 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > It can take a while certainly, but any compatibility problems I've > had tend to be because of packages changing between versions, and > that's the same whether you upgrade or reinstall (I

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:22:29 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > This may not be the answer you're looking for, but (if this is all on > the same machine of course) why are you reinstalling instead of > updating? I tried to forestall that question by saying "But sometimes for instance I

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Richard England
On 4/16/19 8:53 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:07:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:07:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps > that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that > one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I just grab the > profile that was c

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread sixpack13
> > ...I haven't had any upgrade issues for a long time. +++1 yep, the "proven packager" did it very well since several Releases ! ;-) "Beta-Release-Day is *MY* Release-Day" ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 18:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:33:08 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > so are you flipping between two > > partitions on each new install > > Correct. I have a 64G SSD drive with two partitions for > two versions of fedora, and I flip between

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 12:48 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > why are you reinstalling instead of updating? > > I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it > spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating indi

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/15/19 8:18 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: why are you reinstalling instead of updating? I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating individual packages), and I

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > why are you reinstalling instead of updating? I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating individual packages), and I'd get compatibility problems (changes betw

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:33:08 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > so are you flipping between two > partitions on each new install Correct. I have a 64G SSD drive with two partitions for two versions of fedora, and I flip between them for each install (and can refer back to the old one if I find so

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:22:29 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I keep thinking that maybe I should reinstall just to get > > rid of random cruft, but can never be bothered to do it. > > I always reinstall for that very reason. Plus I'

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:22:29 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I keep thinking that maybe I should reinstall just to get > rid of random cruft, but can never be bothered to do it. I always reinstall for that very reason. Plus I've worked out a great way to do it: Install a virtual machine, guest

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Seth Kenlon
+1 Updating on Fedora is [surprisingly?] effective. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 7:23 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 17:07 +, Beartooth wrote: > > As an old retired fart blissfully unconcerned with production of > > anything, I can afford all this; but it's gawdawf

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 17:07 +, Beartooth wrote: > As an old retired fart blissfully unconcerned with production of > anything, I can afford all this; but it's gawdawful tedious. If there's a > better way that a non-technoid can use, somebody please clue me in! This may not be the an

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I just grab the profile that was created when I first installed and configured itand transfer it to

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread sixpack13
Urrrggghhh in 1. you need to generate the list via: dnf list installed | cut -d " " -f1 | sort -u >> rpm_to_delete.txt ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Cod

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread sixpack13
@ Seth Kenlon a separat and during install untouched (just mount it) /home partition could save the sync time too :-) @ Beartooth 1. after install: dnf list installed | sort -u >> rpm_to_delete.txt 2. edit rpm_to_delete.txt and clean it up so that only the rpm are left over you want to delet

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Seth Kenlon
Interesting that you say this. My experience is the opposite. Here's what I do: * install a fresh image * use the same user and UID as previous install * reboot * rsync my backed-up home dir to my new home dir location. This brings in all application-specific preferences so I don't have to arrange

Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Beartooth
Whenever I do a fresh install (preferably a net install or one from a live medium -- they're smaller), as soon as I reboot into it and update it, I launch dnfdragora and go through, first, all the apps I know I don't need, or hope I won't. (When in doubt, I hit Apply often and read thr

Re: How do you request a package in RPMFusion?

2019-04-13 Thread Ed Greshko
I think they want you to add it to the "Wishlist" https://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist as I've previously mentioned.  If you too the time to go to that page you'd see "Use this page to post a request for a packages that can't go to Fedora but would be nice to have in

Re: How do you request a package in RPMFusion?

2019-04-12 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/12/19 11:47 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 4/13/19 2:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Maybe I am just tied, but I can't find my own nose over there.  What mailing list? https://lists.rpmfusion.org/archives/ In particular https://lists.rpmfusion.org/archives/list/rpmfusion-us...@lists.rpmf

Re: How do you request a package in RPMFusion?

2019-04-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 4/13/19 2:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Maybe I am just tied, but I can't find my own nose over > there.  What mailing list? https://lists.rpmfusion.org/archives/ In particular https://lists.rpmfusion.org/archives/list/rpmfusion-us...@lists.rpmfusion.org/

Re: How do you request a package in RPMFusion?

2019-04-12 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
else's requests for packages in RPM Fusion, but I can't find the form to fill out for a new request. Have you read this entry in the RPM Fusion FAQ? https://rpmfusion.org/FAQ#I_would_like_to_see_an_RPM_for_package_X._What_should_I_do.3F If not, it should answer your question.  If you

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