Re: goal: booting with an empty /etc

2023-12-11 Thread DJ Delorie
Lennart Poettering writes: > Well, as you might be aware many distributions these days do more than > "files dns" for "hosts", and similar for the other databases, and > hence a built-in default in glibc is great, but most distributions and > image builders probably want to pick different

Re: goal: booting with an empty /etc

2023-12-09 Thread DJ Delorie
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > I'm not entirely sure if you're just doing Friday trolling or if > you're serious. Serious. I have many machines and VMs, and every time I do a Fedora install, I have a list of your choices I have to revert because they don't work for me. It's tiring. >>

Re: goal: booting with an empty /etc

2023-12-09 Thread DJ Delorie
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > That built-in would be enough only if it enabled all the modules > that we need it to support. It enables the ones that *glibc* needs to run at a minimum. Your case is different, which is why you modify /etc/nsswitch.conf. > I tried to figure out what the

Re: goal: booting with an empty /etc

2023-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Lennart Poettering writes: > That said, I would certainly enjoy more if glibc would natively > fallback to /usr/lib/glibc/nsswitch.conf or something like that if > /etc/nsswitch.conf does not exist. glibc has an internal default for nsswitch.conf if one isn't found. Putting a custom

Re: goal: booting with an empty /etc

2023-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > There is a long-term goal of moving packaged files out of /etc, I will note that I'm opposed to this goal as a goal per-se. If you want an empty directory, "mkdir /etc2" should work for you. I fear this will end like the /tmp fiasco where one /tmp became

Re: Update on DNF05 in Fedora

2023-07-27 Thread DJ Delorie
Samantha Bueno writes: > We've gone ahead and decided not to replace DNF with DNF05 in Fedora > 39 and, perhaps notably, Fedora 40 as well. For those of us who upgraded to DNF05 in rawhide to test it, is there a quick reference for our paths forward? Er, backward? I upgraded at the wrong time

Re: RFC: Roadmap for DNF5 in Fedora 39 / invoking the Contingency Mechanism

2023-07-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Fabio Valentini writes: > in Fedora 39 - whether the switch still looks doable for this release, > or whether it should be reverted for F39 and postponed to F40. I spent most of yesterday repairing a rawhide VM that had a bad upgrade, resulting in dnf segfaulting and making the machine difficult

Re: F39 Proposal: LIBFFI34 static trampolines (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-18 Thread DJ Delorie
Jens-Ulrik Petersen writes: > I have just now pushed fixes for all ghc*, so can you try to rebuild > them again in your repo? All succeeded :-) https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/djdelorie/libffi-3.4.4/builds/ ___ devel mailing list --

Re: F39 Proposal: LIBFFI34 static trampolines (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-10 Thread DJ Delorie
Jens-Ulrik Petersen writes: > I have just now pushed fixes for all ghc*, so can you try to rebuild > them again in your repo? That's a good question, to which I know not the answer. Fred? Can MPB be told to retest a specific set of packages? Or do I have to start from scratch and/or do them

Re: F39 Proposal: LIBFFI34 static trampolines (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-09 Thread DJ Delorie
Jarek Prokop writes: > Are the libffi/rebuilt packages available anywhere for us to > experiment with? MPB uses COPR, so.. "before" builds: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/djdelorie/libffi-3.4.4.checker/ "after" builds: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/djdelorie/libffi-3.4.4/

Re: F39 Proposal: LIBFFI34 static trampolines (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-09 Thread DJ Delorie
Jens-Ulrik Petersen writes: > According to mpb at least: > > mpb? Mass PreBuilder https://gitlab.com/fedora/packager-tools/mass-prebuild > The majority of those packages are maintained by me... so I can't say I > thrilled. > I thought ghc 9 was supposed to be okay with static trampolines?

Re: F39 Proposal: LIBFFI34 static trampolines (System-Wide Change)

2023-05-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > Sounds good. Can you post the list of affected packages here? According to mpb at least: 0ad Agda Io-language Macaulay2 ShellCheck alex bench brainfuck bustle cab cabal-install cabal-rpm chromium cjs cpphs darcs dhall dhall-json dl-fedora

[rpms/perl-Crypt-DES] PR #1: Fix C99 compatibility issue

2023-03-15 Thread DJ Delorie
djdelorie opened a new pull-request against the project: `perl-Crypt-DES` that you are following: `` Fix C99 compatibility issue `` To reply, visit the link below https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/perl-Crypt-DES/pull-request/1 ___ perl-devel mailing

Re: Thoughts welcome: interface between automated test gating and the "critical path"

2022-08-29 Thread DJ Delorie
It sounds to me like the problem is "how do we best use the available automated test resources?" so I'll answer accordingly. Ignore me if I misunderstood ;-) We currently have a small list of packages that are gated behind openQA, and insufficient openQA resources to expand this list to all

Re: Intention to dropping the the "Allow SSH root login with password" option from the installer GUI

2021-04-30 Thread DJ Delorie
I normally would complain about taking options away from users, but as I typically use ssh for root *anyway*, I felt this wasn't appropriate (although I have a friend who never uses ssh keys, always password-over-ssh). I would, however, ask that the config file have a commented out option that

Re: Retiring a set of old X utilities

2021-04-21 Thread DJ Delorie
Peter Hutterer writes: > xfd I use this a lot; what is the modern replacement for it? ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: F35 Change: "Fedora Linux" in /etc/os-release

2021-03-09 Thread DJ Delorie
Vitaly Zaitsev via devel writes: > Ofc we can use it, but only when we will get rid of all GNU libraries, > compiler and utilities. :-) Please don't start this tired old argument again. "Fedora Linux" is a name, not an ISO standard, we can call it whatever we want. We respect that you may

Re: Fedora 34 Change: GitRepos-master-to-main (Self-Contained Change)

2020-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
Daniel P. Berrangé writes: > Perhaps this is heresy, but we could stop calling our main development > stream "rawhide", and instead call it "main", then it will be trivially > aligned with the "main" git branch name :-) But fedoras aren't made of sheets of main, they're made from sheets of

Re: glibc troubles in rawhide?

2020-10-20 Thread DJ Delorie
Fabio Valentini writes: > ImportError: /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: lstat64, version > GLIBC_2.33 This looks like something was built against the new glibc, but tried to run against the old glibc... ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-07-01 Thread DJ Delorie
Neal Gompa writes: > Oh man, that takes me back! I started on DOS with the MS-DOS Editor, > then went onto the DOS port of Emacs and using DJGPP, then jumped to > Linux years later... Now *that* takes me back to the days when I wrote DJGPP ;-) And for anyone who thinks vi is hard to use, try

Re: Code of Conduct issue

2020-03-24 Thread DJ Delorie
"John M. Harris Jr" writes: > it is important that issues such as this can be talked about publicly, I disagree. It has nothing to do with Fedora development[*], and allowing EITHER side to continue this "discussion" allows either side to badger and bully the opposition until people comply

HEADS UP: make 4.3 coming to rawhide

2020-03-04 Thread DJ Delorie
In about a week I'll be building make 4.3 for rawhide. As part of this, I'll be cleaning up some old Fedora-specific patches that shouldn't be needed any more (ha!). In addition, please note any make 4.3-specific changes in its NEWS file: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/NEWS

make 4.3 - F32 or F33?

2020-01-21 Thread DJ Delorie
I've taken a look at the new make release, and updating Fedora's make won't be that tricky (aside from some noted backwards incompatibilities[1], who knows) but I see no reason to rush it into a last-minute update this close to branching F32. My current plan is to introduce it to rawhide just

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread DJ Delorie
"vvs vvs" writes: > Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one of > them then I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame > myself. Thanks for explaining it to me. I think you're overreacting a bit, but there is some truth in this. Fedora is created and

Re: i686 hw builders running out of ram in cpio?

2019-07-19 Thread DJ Delorie
John Reiser writes: > Very similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1729382 Ah, thanks. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

i686 hw builders running out of ram in cpio?

2019-07-18 Thread DJ Delorie
Anyone else seeing this? It seems to only happen on physical i686 machines, not vm's, but that's based on only three builds so far. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=36329825 BUILDSTDERR: create archive failed: cpio: write failed - Cannot allocate memory (this is after

Re: nsswitch.conf: list of module packages that enables themselves

2018-11-26 Thread DJ Delorie
Pavel B™ezina writes: > Do you know about any package that installs an nsswitch.conf module and > automatically enables it in /etc/nsswitch.conf? So far I have two > packages - nss-mdns and systemd. I don't know about enabling, but it's easy to ask the database what packages provide NSS

Re: Guideline change: glibc malloc as the C/C++/Rust allocator

2018-07-27 Thread DJ Delorie
Jan Kratochvil writes: > So why glibc greated an N+1 allocator (by DJ Delorie) instead of just > importing/using tcmalloc (which is license-compatible with glibc)? I didn't create an N+1 allocator. We're still using the Doug Lea allocator from ancient times. My recent work added a rela

Re: [X86] Fwd: F29 System Wide Change: i686 Is For x86-64

2018-06-07 Thread DJ Delorie
Michal Schorm writes: > Can someone explain me *real quick* what is the multilib good for? - or > more precisely, why whould anone run 32-bit software on x86_64 OS? Among other reasons, 32-bit code can be smaller and faster than 64-bit code for some applications. When trying to stuff many

Re: Hiding the grub menu by default on single OS installs

2018-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie
Hans de Goede writes: > 1) . . ., no way to get to the menu I think this steps over a line we should not cross. There's a huge difference between HIDING grub's functionality, and essentially DISABLING it. While I'm opposted to hiding the grub menu in general, as long as there's some obvious

Re: Hiding the grub menu by default on single OS installs

2018-05-31 Thread DJ Delorie
Chris Adams writes: > If I know I want the menu (say I need to boot single-user to fix > something), how would I do that in this setup? Ah, that reminds me of the good old days of looking up on the internet which of the many keys on the keyboard gets me into the BIOS setup menu...

malloc trace/playback for glibc 2.26 and rawhide...

2017-08-24 Thread DJ Delorie
With glibc 2.26 there's a new per-thread cache in malloc, which improves malloc performance in general, and hopefully, specifically for the apps which each of you are most concerned about. In the event that you feel it doesn't help, or if you have other concerns about malloc performance, there's

Re: F26 System Wide Change: Enable coredumpctl by default

2016-12-05 Thread DJ Delorie
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > You still can restore such behaviour pretty easily. Just set the > kernel.core_pattern sysctl. Yup, that's what I do. Just adding my two cents on Fedora trying to help me "be a developer" without doing what I need as a developer. But I

Re: F26 System Wide Change: Enable coredumpctl by default

2016-12-05 Thread DJ Delorie
Jan Kurik writes: > Note that coredumpctl is intended as a developer tool, As a developer, I remove abrt and anything else that redirects cores away from my development area. It's really hard to debug a core dump if you can't find the core file. Just sayin'

Re: Installation validation test change proposal: merge USB tests into 'default boot and install', add more environment columns

2016-10-11 Thread DJ Delorie
> U.S. rural areas? :-D I'm pretty rural, and even I have good internet. Maybe we need to redefine "rural" to be independent of physicality :-) > Based on feedback from Ambassadors, DVD images may still be useful > giveaways in regions with less access to bandwidth. I'm not sure what > to do

Re: Packaging FPGA bitstreams

2016-07-29 Thread DJ Delorie
Nico Kadel-Garcia writes: > It's certainly a direct violation of the intent of the GPL licensed > tools that form so much of the base of Fedora's build environment. The GPL3 no longer requires us to provide tools used to compile such objects, as long as such tools are

Re: ltrace FTBFS patch

2016-06-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> How about > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora=rawhide=ltrace Done, BZ 1347879 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

ltrace FTBFS patch

2016-06-17 Thread DJ Delorie
Not sure where to send this, but... From 1280b78688baaf9a576af5a0a0a658fd0f0ea7e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DJ Delorie <d...@rawhide.delorie.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:27:55 -0400 Subject: Fix FTBFS due to gcc and glibc updates - comment out tautological asserts that gcc 6 com

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie
Lennart Poettering writes: > Again, this isn't just work-arounds around broken programs. It's a > security thing. It's privileged code (logind, PID 1) that enforces a > clear life-cycle on unprivileged programs. You're making three invalid assumptions here: 1. You're

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-05-31 Thread DJ Delorie
Lennart Poettering writes: > Again, as mentioned before: key here is that permitting user processes > to stick around after all sessions of the user ended needs to be a > privilieged concept. It should not be allowed for user code to stick > around after logout, unless this

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-05-31 Thread DJ Delorie
Lennart Poettering writes: > Sorry, but systemd is pretty exactly this: a process babysitter. It's becoming a user nanny instead. I wish it would stop trying to enforce its "my way or the highway" approach to system rules. I've been playing whack-a-mole trying to keep up

Re: F25 System Wide Change: Use /etc/distro.repos.d as default reposdir

2016-05-12 Thread DJ Delorie
Tomasz Torcz writes: > Shouldn't that be /usr/lib/distro.repos.d (for distribution-provided -1 Having such a small amount of information spread all over the filesystem only makes things harder to manage. Keeping it in one place means the whole "where am I getting stuff"

Re: 3D printing SIG

2016-03-19 Thread DJ Delorie
I'm in, at least for chatting and such. I've got a Rostock MAX V1 delta with a custom Repetier 0.92 firmware and a few hardware mods, and use OpenSCAD, slic3r (modified), and pronterface to drive it. http://www.delorie.com/photos/3d_prints/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: CVE-2015-7547 fix for Fedora 21

2016-02-19 Thread DJ Delorie
Igor Gnatenko writes: > Why do you want to build such packages for EOLed distro? Because he's a nicy guy and it's an important patch? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Self-Reintroduction: DJ Delorie

2016-01-28 Thread DJ Delorie
, and metalworking as hobbies, so I tend to show up in lots of forums... In my new role at Red Hat I'll be focusing more on glibc work, so expect to see me poking my nose around there too now :-) DJ Delorie work: d...@redhat.com personal: d...@delorie.com fedoraproject: djdelorie -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Self-Reintroduction: DJ Delorie

2016-01-28 Thread DJ Delorie
> Hey D.J.! And not to point you out, but I should have clarified this... my first name really is DJ - it's not Dj or D.J. or DeeJay or any other variation (although my account names are always lower case dj). Yes, I have legal proof of this, and no, I won't share it ;-) DJ -- devel mailing

Re: DNF could improve messages about package auto-removal

2015-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> If the package yumdb entry (now dnfdb) says it was installed as a > dependency This is the part I assumed was there. Is there a separate dnf command to list all installed-as-dependencies that nothing depends on any more? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: DNF could improve messages about package auto-removal

2015-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> > 1) Some magic command to run after remove to remove the now unneeded > > cruft. > > The vast majority of users don't care about saving that $0.0001 of disk > space, so never need or want to run this and don't. One would hope (assume?) that there's something to keep dnf from thinking I no

Re: Why packages sources are NOT mirrored?

2015-09-17 Thread DJ Delorie
Stephen John Smoogen writes: > I would talk with the mirrors in your area and find out why they don't > mirror it. Do mirror sites have the option to not include sources? [*] If so, does letting them have this choice have GPL implications? I mean, if they're distributing

Re: FESCO request to revert password confirmation change in F22

2015-03-09 Thread DJ Delorie
Why not? The user surely knows better what a good password is than the software does. If the user picks a crappy password, there's probably a good reason. You have an alarmingly naive understanding of our user base... (not that *I* want to give up control of my passwords, but I'm not an

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Set sshd(8) PermitRootLogin=no

2015-01-08 Thread DJ Delorie
So if we truly want to address this feature, we should also disallow non-root user password based ssh logins. Do I get this right? You want to disallow any remote logins (which nowadays means using ssh)? No, he means that ssh connections should require a pre-shared key. My systems are

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread DJ Delorie
and developers deserve a better environment. No, developers deserve the environment they ask for, not what someone else thinks is better. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Next time, don't be 6 month late if you're going to be flippant. I, for one, am happy to welcome our new more-reasonable-less-paranoid overlords. I've been disabling my firewall for ages, as my machines are behind an enterprise firewall anyway. -- devel mailing list

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
I, for one, am happy to welcome our new more-reasonable-less-paranoid overlords. I've been disabling my firewall for ages, as my machines are behind an enterprise firewall anyway that don't apply for a notebook, especially not if the enduser is=20 connected to a public WLAN and if you

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
So the target audience has shifted from developers to developers who don't understand ports, don't like user prompts and are behind enterprise firewalls. Certainly not. I've never assumed I was an average user. There are many different reasons why people might want a more open firewall

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-08 Thread DJ Delorie
The best analogy would probably be a condom with a whopping 129024 holes in it. That's a horrible analogy, and totally inappropriate for this mailing list. Could we please keep this civil and reasonable? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

2014-11-17 Thread DJ Delorie
That's also a questionable feature. Such a text box should not send anything before you confirm it. Perhaps as part of the firewall installation step, the user could be given a list of sites that their PC may call home to - including official repos - and let them opt-in or opt-out

Re: Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

2014-11-17 Thread DJ Delorie
Not every user understands the connection between website does not work - firewall configuration True, which means that we have to use words that they *do* understand. For extra coolness, a per-user firewall and some way of popping up a query dialog when they violate a firewall rule. We

Re: [systemd-devel] I wonder… why systemd provokes this amount of polarity and resistance

2014-09-22 Thread DJ Delorie
For the journal you always keep all log history in it's original state On low-bandwidth systems, like laptops or diskless nodes, it's a performance hit to generate the log entry in the first place. It's really important to be able to configure the system to *generate* a minimal amount of

Re: The coding in binary code and assembly are necessary currently?

2014-09-10 Thread DJ Delorie
The coding in assembly is necessary currently? Yes, but only for limited cases where a higher level language is inappropriate or insufficient. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: The coding in binary code and assembly are necessary currently?

2014-09-10 Thread DJ Delorie
that question makes no sense at all and it's the wrong mailing-list The question made sense to me, and where else would one discuss development besides a devel@ list? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread DJ Delorie
What's the rationale here? I mean, we have so many dependencies, if you want to minimize them, you have a lng way to go... When I bootstrapped Fedora for ARM way back when, I had to deal with these dependencies. A lot. Finding a minimal set of RPMs to cross-compile to get a bootable core

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread DJ Delorie
If I saw systemd-filesystem installed, then I would think that something needs to be placed into the systemd folder structure, Perhaps the bug is this: that you need to install a whole other RPM just to make a directory exist so you can put a file in it. Why can't the RPM providing the file

Re: Bugzilla column width - only 80+1 characters!?

2014-06-27 Thread DJ Delorie
Welcome to the 21st century! Do we have different eyes and brains than we did last century? Because otherwise, excessively wide paragraphs are just as hard to read now as they were then. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread DJ Delorie
If you have any other suggestions other than keeping the name, we will be open to consider them. My suggestion is to keep the name, but as you're not open to that option, there's no point in me bothering, is there? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-12 Thread DJ Delorie
Nothing will change for you, the yum command will still exist for a few more Fedora releases, Which only postpones the problem. just as the `service` command that was superseded by systemctl like 5 releases of Fedora ago exists. Which is currently annoying me, for the same reason. --

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-12 Thread DJ Delorie
Actually it is. The pretty much part is exactly the reason why to change the name. If we didn't, a ton of users who are not reading this conversation would start filing regression bugs. If we set their expectations right, warning them that yum is no more, they are far less likely to do so.

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-11 Thread DJ Delorie
Forcing the users to type a different command name to get exactly the same functionality only serves to annoy the user. -- 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: advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

2014-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Why do we care about using the Firefox trademark? We should just rename the package. Debian do that and it hasn't hurt them. Debian has different core values than Fedora does. The relevent Fedora value is this one: Friends We believe success comes from a strong community, made of

Re: advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

2014-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
A party who is molesting me with ads and tries to spy on me, hardly is my friend. Those are strong words, and based mostly on here-say. Even the Fedora installer molests you with ads for various non-default packages. Should we ban the installer? Of course not. There are specific issues that

Re: Fatal flaw in the udev paradigm?

2013-10-31 Thread DJ Delorie
Can you wildcard the greylist so that modemmanager *never* runs? I haven't used a modem in decades but MM keeps mucking with all my serial-connected toys. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Fatal flaw in the udev paradigm?

2013-10-31 Thread DJ Delorie
But better yet, mind sharing which toys you have so we can update the black/greylists as appropriate? I make them myself using FTDI chips, usually, and they talk plain RS-232 using terminal emulators and such: http://www.delorie.com/electronics/ I also get a lot of eval boards with

Re: Red Hat and Fedora Working Groups

2013-10-08 Thread DJ Delorie
That said, please don't top-post: [1] Also, please trim irrelevant material [1] [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#If_You_Are_Replying_to_a_Message -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread DJ Delorie
FWIW, if you log in to https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ and visit your profile, I got Internal Server Error when I tried this... and now I'm on the home page, when what I really wanted was to make sure I had nothing to do with it :-P you can opt out of all badge-stuff in one click

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread DJ Delorie
Oh no! Sorry about that. I just tried it too but I couldn't duplicate the error. It worked this time, must have been new-account-mess. you can opt out of all badge-stuff in one click (Deactivate Account). =20 Does this deactivate your FAS account, or just the badges? Just the

Re: Does your application depend on, or report, free disk space? Re: F20 Self Contained Change: OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning

2013-07-26 Thread DJ Delorie
If your package reports disk space usage to users, and bases this on filesystem free space, please consider whether it might need to take LVM thin provisioning into account. Perhaps you could include a small code snippet explaining *how* to do this? Is there an lvm_thin_statfs() we can use?

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
I worry about the security implications of mail that would have gone to root@ being either silently discarded or unknowingly ignored. If there is no other way to send mail to local users, we should have a local MTA configured for such. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
I think this is a bad idea, at least for my setup. I really don't want my small expensive boot SSD being beaten to death trying to cache a multi-terabyte array, especially since I have plenty of RAM that already serves that purpose (the machine rarely reboots). At the very least, this feature

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
But these core parts should work for 100 % users. In all cases, which are in scenarios you can imagine. And in 90 % of scenarios you can not imagine. Or in scenarios, which are anecdotal for you. +1 - anything which reduces the tools we have to repair systems or investigate security

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
And the outputs of these files are the exact same text streams you are used to. However, enhanced with a lot of niceties that make them more user friendly. For example, you get colors based on the log level, or there's a line drawn between reboots. You get the time zone corrected, and you

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
it's not going to be shoved down your throat. I've found this to be untrue in Fedora. At the very least, this feature should be disabled if the SSD is the boot/root drive. When SSDs fail, they fail completely, and it's irresponsible to cause early failure on a drive that's critical

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
i will look at throwing together a script to give us some comparisons between the build times on the different arches. I've already done this, last time it came up... http://www.delorie.com/arm/koji-compare-build-times.tar.gz -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
http://www.delorie.com/arm/koji-compare-build-times.tar.gz HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 2013-07-12 08:53:13 ERROR 403: Forbidden. wget is blocked unless you're clueful enough to use the -U flag. Consider it a spot check for smart enough to not recursively download

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
i will look at throwing together a script to give us some comparisons between the build times on the different arches. I've already done this, last time it came up... http://www.delorie.com/arm/koji-compare-build-times.tar.gz Also, I'm running the script now, I'll post results when it

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
Also, I'm running the script now, I'll post results when it finishes, let's not ALL hit the koji database at the same time ;-) Results here: http://www.delorie.com/arm/f19-times.html includes the raw time data from koji -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-10 Thread DJ Delorie
Stack protector is not a new requirement in Fedora. It's been part of the distribution for years. xterm has been part of the distribution for years also, but it's not a release requirement. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread DJ Delorie
If at 9:50am on release morning, aliens threatened to blow up the world if we shipped, we'd certainly do something about it. But it would be insane to expect us to *document* that we'd do something about it. IMHO it's perfectly reasonable for documented policy to simply say bugs after this

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread DJ Delorie
So what you're saying is that you negotiate with terrorists? :-p Anyone else want to negotiate? (sorry, couldn't resist ;) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Hardcoded TMPDIR - anywhere else?

2013-05-23 Thread DJ Delorie
## Use $MOZ_TMPDIR if set. Otherwise use /var/tmp instead of /tmp ## because of 1GB /tmp limit in Fedora 18 and later. It is insane to hardcode /var/tmp. Considering the comment, they probably think it's insane to put /tmp in RAM, and since web browsers are often used to download huge

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-02 Thread DJ Delorie
I'm WAY out on the bell curve... I have two PCs. One of them, the one I sit in front of, has four monitors (on one Radeon HD card), video capture and playback, digital and analog audio (digital goes to a surround system receiver, analog to gaming headphones), an SSD plus a dual-3Tb raid1 all in

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread DJ Delorie
We nowadays live in times where BIOS POST takes 500ms, HA! I wish mine was that fast. With all the different BIOS chips doing thier own thing for all the add-on cards and peripherals I have, it takes about 45 seconds just to get to GRUB at all. -- devel mailing list

Pulseaudio and S/PDIF [was Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement]

2013-02-15 Thread DJ Delorie
(subject changed, please strip the [was...] when replying) On 13/02/13 10:15 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: (well, more like crap, since I still haven't figured out how to get pulseaudio to use my digital audio outputs). Really? It's not that hard. It's either a device or a profile right

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Have you tried using Audacious ? Just did. No thanks. /me uninstalls those five RPMs... You can set it to classic mode, at which point it user experience is identical to xmms. No, it's not. It's close enough to fool someone who doesn't use xmms regularly, but it's different enough to

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
But, e.g. if openssl is updated for security issues, all dependent services need to be restarted. If not, you're still e.g. vulnerable. That can't be your wish. Ah, but if sshd is restarted in the middle of the update, and you ssh'd into the machine to do the update, it kills the install

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
and change my Firefox and emacs cursors. And now I have to restart my entire session to reset my gtk themes, because of one rogue app. Thanks. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
You have other serious system issues not affiliated with Audacious if this is the case. If I don't run gnome is considered other serious system issues, I suppose so. Restarting didn't help, I still had the wrong cursor in emacs and firefox, but only the emacs and firefox run remotely back to

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Well, it looks like you aren't running ANY desktop environment, fvwm2, emacs, firefox, xterm. Plus a few other things as needed. This is for two computers running four monitors (one computer is the local one with the monitors, the other is strictly ssh and remote X, each computer has its own

Re: ConsoleKit and esound retirement

2013-02-12 Thread DJ Delorie
Hmm, we still have xmms in the repo? /me is very glad we still have xmms in the repo -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Feature Suggestion] UsrMove continued

2012-10-09 Thread DJ Delorie
* /root was initially on a root partition because 'root' user should be able to login even when all other FS (including /usr) are not mounted. Since now it can't do anything without /usr anyway, /root dir don't have to be in /. As an example of why this is a bad idea... I have a file server

Re: Reverting tmp on tmpfs mis-feature

2012-08-22 Thread DJ Delorie
2012/8/22 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com: broken tmp on tmpfs Could you give a reason why you think so? Can we not repeat the VERY long thread on why this is/isn't a broken feature? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

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