Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-11 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 10:10 AM Lennart Poettering wrote: > > (Moreover, read-only access doesn't cut it. If you want boot counting > you want write access.) > > Just interjecting a quick thought -- would it be possible to use FAT's reserved sectors for the boot counting? (You can find a

Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

2023-02-22 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:49 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > It does have advantages for sure. > > Pros: > * can dnf downgrade easily. > * can choose not to upgrade something thats a big change you aren't > ready for. > > I don't know enough about RPM packaging or DNF CoW to say either way, but I

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 10:59 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > I hadn't considered the container case at all, that containers running > systemd-journald would have their own journals and retention policy. I wonder > if the > container default should have volatile journals? Or forward the journals

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
> > What about modifying /etc/systemd/journald.conf: > > MaxFileSec=1week > MaxRetentionSec=5week > > This should result in at least 4 weeks of journal entries, i.e. it would > delete a journal > file once entries reach 5 weeks old, but since the journal files are rotated > weekly, it >

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
FWIW (probably not much), I have run into an issue with regard to the default journal size being too large on Fedora Server when running a bunch of systemd-nspawn containers each with sshd and fail2ban enabled. When I reboot a bunch of the containers at once (or the whole hypervisor), fail2ban

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-28 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 3:17 PM Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Do, 28.07.22 15:03, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > > > > Right. I'd like to use the ESP type code for the merged ESP+XBOOTLDR > so that the firmware will pick it up properly. The only problem is when > using the

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-28 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 1:34 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > Seems to me the only valid type code for a merged ESP+XBOOTLDR is ESP. > What am I missing? > Right. I'd like to use the ESP type code for the merged ESP+XBOOTLDR so that the firmware will pick it up properly. The only problem is when using

Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

2022-07-28 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 10:40 AM Lennart Poettering wrote: > ... > > But anyway, I am actually advocating for sticking to VFAT > everywhere. ext4 drivers in the boot loader only are necessary for the > upgrade path. > > I'd like to 2nd the motion to try to stick with VFAT in the boot path until

Spins keepalive

2022-07-06 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
FESco previously approved a requirement that Spin/Labs owners send a keepalive request in order to keep building the spin or lab. I have opened Pagure issues[1] for all Spins and Labs listed on the wiki[2]. If you are the owner of one of those spins and labs, please reply in the appropriate

Spins keepalive

2022-07-06 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
FESco previously approved a requirement that Spin/Labs owners send a keepalive request in order to keep building the spin or lab. I have opened Pagure issues[1] for all Spins and Labs listed on the wiki[2]. If you are the owner of one of those spins and labs, please reply in the appropriate

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-07 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 5:05 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 03:43:07PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Clover is described here: > > https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader > > This is interesting. Seems like considerable up-front work, but a much > cleaner

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:51 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:47 AM Gregory Bartholomew > wrote: > > > I haven't done a "default" Fedora Server installation in a long time, so > I'm not sure how they are laid out. But I seem to remember /boot

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:17 PM Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > For those who might be curious, the systems are Supermicro 6026TT-HTRF > machines with four nodes in 2U. I have three, so twelve machines in > total. The machines have X8DTT-HF+ motherboards. I actually have older > hardware than

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:39 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > Fedora Server users *must* fully reinstall, because there's no way to > make space for an ESP and reconfigure things. > I haven't done a "default" Fedora Server installation in a long time, so I'm not sure how they are laid out. But I seem to

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:40 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > The ticket mentions Boot Repair, which is the first thing that comes to > mind: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair Boot repair is obviously tricky because you have to have something bootable to initiate the repair. Practically

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:47 AM stan via devel wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 15:58:14 -0500 > Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > > > Of topic but related: I wish there was supported option to remove > > > the current rescue kernel, > > > > Is echo "

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-04 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:53 AM Robert Marcano via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > I am not sure about having a full graphics environment, but it would be > nice to have the functionality of the server installers rescue mode, > where the system try to create a system tree at

Re: How do we announce new packages?

2021-12-26 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 2:02 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > Fedora Magazine semi-regularly runs "cool new projects in Copr" articles > (https://fedoramagazine.org/?s=copr). It doesn't seem like too much of > stretch to occasionally also have "cool new packages in the distro" article > occasionally.