Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:57:14 +, Adam wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:16 -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: Well, I think a reasonable alternative would be to add those policies to the AutoQA infrastructure, and if the package fails the check, it doesn't get tagged and the packager gets

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-01-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:35:43 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 09:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/6 Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com: Is anyone else experiencing a problem booting ? Does this sound like a kernel problem or is my hard drive failing ? If your

Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
How much do we adhere to our Packaging Guidelines for static libraries? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries What had started with a few Yum queries for corner-cases (see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-December/msg00012.html )

Re: Top Crashers

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:12:18 +, Matthew wrote: Now we have abrt making it easier for lazy people to submit crash reports, do we have enough information for a 'Top Crashers' list? It would be good to highlight these centrally to provide an incentive to give them the attention they

Re: ABRT considered painful

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:53:28 +0100, Jiri wrote: ABRT 1.0.2 should fix the problems with installing the debug packages, the only problem I know about is when some of the enabled repositories is down - then the yum fails to download debuginfo even if it's in working directory and there is

Re: ABRT considered painful

2010-01-01 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:04:59 +0100, Kevin wrote: What's wrong with ABRT? My main beef with it is that it reports its crashes to the downstream bug tracker when really the right people to fix them are the upstream developers. KCrash/DrKonqi is much better there. Well, upstream would want

Re: rawhide report: 20091231 changes

2009-12-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:16:18 +, Richard wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:52:49PM +, Rawhide Report wrote: [...] I got half way through doing these yesterday, but a combination of being distracted and a mistake in my script means I forgot some. One annoying thing about Koji is I

Re: The Counter-Fedora People At #fedora

2009-12-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:48:43 -0500, Randy wrote: Why do the following people, time after time, insist on banning me for asking fedora questions on #fedora? VileGent Khaytsus (or however you speel his name) [R] Are all three misspelled? They are absolute pricks. If the Fedora

Re: The Counter-Fedora People At #fedora

2009-12-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:46:04 -0500, Randy wrote: [...] To claim that you got banned for asking fedora questions sounds unrealistic. It's a biased view, I think. So you're making a judgement call on missing information? Well, I have doubts. Either the banned for asking fedora questions

Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:52:54 +, Daniel wrote: Hi, OLPC's security system uses libtomcrypt / tomsfastmath, both at the Linux level and the firmware level. OLPC has previously had a specific version of tomcrypt/tommath profesionally audited for security reasons. So we obviously want to

ABRT considered painful

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
What's wrong with ABRT? Originally, with stock F-12, I had received a couple of good backtraces in bugzilla. Incredibly useful. A wonderful improvement over F-11 and older. And later? - Recently, in all the backtraces dozens of debuginfo packages are missing. :-( -- fedora-devel-list mailing

Re: Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:05:00 -0500, Marcel wrote: With regard to your crash of package-cleanup, it should be fairly easy to debug it as long as you can reproduce it. It's Python -- source code! -- you could print out the offending value that causes a type error and track down where it

Re: F12, GRUB, and dual booting irritation

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:55:06 -0500, Raymond wrote: Who was the genius that changed the GRUB config updating process? Up until now, whenever a new kernel update came a long, GRUB's configuration file would remain basically the same, which would mean I didn't have to go in and manually set

Re: Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:25:34 -0500, Marcel wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: (snip) I went to Rhythmbiox's site and learned that the minimum version of gstreamer needed is 0.10.14 . The latest versions of gstreamer are: GStreamer Good

Re: Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:49:34 -0500, Marcel wrote: The -devel in the name means that these are optional packages needed by software developers, including people who (re)compile/(re)build software packages from source code. Is that why I have: rpm -q

Re: Update broke my Quake 4 game ...

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:53:33 -0800, Suvayu wrote: On Monday 28 December 2009 03:43 PM, Dennis Mattingly wrote: I've been running Quake 4 from my Fedora 11 box for a while. And today, a system update broke the game. (It runs, but some models fail to load, and after a while it crashes).

Re: how to increase the number of cirtual desktops?

2009-12-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:20:06 -0500 (EST), Robert wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Ed Greshko wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm embarrassed to ask this, but how does one increase the number of virtual desktops in f12? used to be there were 4, but with f12, after a fresh install,

Re: Devel Packages dependency problems

2009-12-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:51:48 -0500, Jim wrote: FC12/KDE Trying to install Development Packages and having dependency problems. The devel packages I have installed are all 4.4.20-20 versions. ??? Do you mean packages from the gcc-4.4.2-20.fc12 build? I also ran these commands and it

Re: rpms/i3/devel .cvsignore, 1.2, 1.3 i3.spec, 1.1, 1.2 import.log, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.2, 1.3

2009-12-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:29:16 + (UTC), Simon wrote: Author: cassmodiah Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/i3/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv21345/devel Modified Files: .cvsignore i3.spec import.log sources Log Message: 3.d - 3.d-bf1 Name: i3

Re: Why no Samba updates?

2009-12-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:50:50 +, Frank wrote: On 24/12/09 09:43, KC8LDO wrote: Due to the continuing problems I'm having with Samba on my F11 box I looked to see if there are any updates, seems there are, but its not reflected in the official Fedora repo's. The latest version of

Re: rpm command problem

2009-12-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:56:18 +0530, sandeep wrote: hi everyone, i have problem in rpm command.when i was downloading the Adobe repository.it gave problem like this: [r...@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh

Re: Koji stuck?

2009-12-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:40:36 -0500, Orcan wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: The temporary work-around is to compile with  -fno-var-tracking-assignments and that also works for lv2-c++-tools in the review queue, btw. Thanks! Yes, with that flag I

Re: Koji stuck?

2009-12-19 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:19:37 -0500, Orcan wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:02:24 + Jonathan Underwood wrote: Hi, I kicked off a couple of builds last night which appear stuck on koji. I had checked they build locally with a make

Re: Electric Fence - still reliable?

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:07:04 +0100, I wrote: Fedora 12 with LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0 EF_ALLOW_MALLOC_0=1, what is more likely that these are false positives or real bugs? It's hard to find GNOME/GTK apps that don't crash. One that works fine in efence is gnome-about. Many non-GUI tools

Re: Electric Fence - still reliable?

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:18:30 +, Bastien wrote: $ eog Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens br...@perens.com Segmentation fault (core dumped) == in ORBit corba-any.c once more All the GNOME apps that use GConf or ORBit will fail because you need to

Re: Electric Fence - still reliable?

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:57:31 +, Bastien wrote: I'm not sure even trying to use ElectricFence is such a good idea anyway, when we have valgrind available. Yeah, likely. I examined some uninitialised variables with Valgrind yesterday. For a couple of other cases (including Audacious),

Re: Electric Fence - still reliable?

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:47:02 -0800, John wrote: [ElectricFence] triggering ABRT activity, whereas [Valgrind] requires increased effort to make sense of undetailed traces such as the following (which is bug 548711): ==13516== Invalid read of size 1 ==13516==at 0x400730E: strcmp

Re: Fedora update submission page broken for multiple packages

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:41:22 -0500, Tom wrote: Orcan Ogetbil writes: If there is a way to file an update (same version and release except the disttag) to multiple branches, please let me know. Usually it works: just add all the package NVRs to the same update submission. (That's what

Electric Fence - still reliable?

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
Fedora 12 with LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0 EF_ALLOW_MALLOC_0=1, what is more likely that these are false positives or real bugs? --- $ gnome-terminal Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens br...@perens.com Segmentation fault (core dumped) == in ORBit corba-any.c $ geeqie

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:15:13 -0500, Gene wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:29:21 -0500, Gene wrote: Your F10 grub2 is broken beyond repair also, and I needed it to work so I could try some other distro's that do use grub2 to boot with. You

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:16:08 -0500, Gene wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:04:29 -0500, Gene wrote: and can not deal with chainloading w/ grub. That I got figured out, what I was trying to chainload was an ext4, and old grub just throws

pinfo grub issues? (was: Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken)

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:21:31 -0500, Gene wrote: The GRUB manual: info grub But a pinfo grub has a lot of blank entries. Why are you overly brief when you could be a bit more verbose? Which platform? Which terminal/console? Which package release of pinfo? Compared with info grub (or other

Re: Posts getting ignored (was F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken)

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:16:38 +, Sam wrote: I don't speak for any kind of majority, but my contribution to making Fedora is pretty much zilch. I file the occasional bug, I help out other users where I can, but I'm not currently a Fedora Developer or Fedora Packager. Problem reports _are_

Re: Posts getting ignored (was F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken)

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:42:57 -0500, Gene wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009, Sam Sharpe wrote: Actually I quite like most of Gene's output - he's cranky and he likes guns - what's not to like? ;-) Thanks. I got the cranky part legit, I've earned it at 75. I've been keeping a tv

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:24:53 -0500, Gene wrote: I may not have had the syntax correct, but all I could get out of it was an error 13, invalid file format. Which you only get if you try to let GRUB mount a filesystem found on a partition. I have grub-0.97 (F10 32 bit) in the mbr of

Re: pinfo grub issues? (was: Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken)

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:57:29 -0500, Gene wrote: On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:21:31 -0500, Gene wrote: The GRUB manual: info grub But a pinfo grub has a lot of blank entries. I may have miss-typed, and meant a pinfo grub2 has lots of blank

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:00:06 +0530, Huzaifa wrote: Hi, So taking into consideration all the feed back , here are the changes done: - - bump soname in the code from 1.2.11 to 1.2.12 Please, with further comments on this package let's limit ourselves to one place only. _Eiter_ the review

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:04:19 -0500, Gene wrote: I did have F12 installed, 64 bit version, but it was (pick a number * 10) slower than the 32 bit F10 install. Based on what measurements? What tools did you use to determine that it was slower? click on a window close button, pick up

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:11:25 -0500, Gene wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:04:19 -0500, Gene wrote: I did have F12 installed, 64 bit version, but it was (pick a number * 10) slower than the 32 bit F10 install. Based on what measurements

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:29:21 -0500, Gene wrote: Your F10 grub2 is broken beyond repair also, and I needed it to work so I could try some other distro's that do use grub2 to boot with. You couldn't chainload those other dists with legacy GRUB? [Probably a rhetorical question, because in a

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:04:29 -0500, Gene wrote: and can not deal with chainloading w/ grub. That I got figured out, what I was trying to chainload was an ext4, and old grub just throws up its hands. Let me guess (taking into account the grub config mess in a recent thread), you did not

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:39:58 -0500, Gene wrote: Side-note about your Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub. thread. The partitioning details are confusing, contradictory, inaccurate and incomplete. First impression is that you misconfigured the grub.conf completely. The post is

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Please define effective license (for the love of consistency)

2009-12-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:45:11 -0800, Julius wrote: ps. My email is more of a personal tangential thought I'm having and not really relevant to Orcan's original questions since it doesn't have any implications for what to put in the RPM license tag! Still, what to put in the License: tag has

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:13:25 -0500, Gene wrote: I did have F12 installed, 64 bit version, but it was (pick a number * 10) slower than the 32 bit F10 install. Based on what measurements? What tools did you use to determine that it was slower? The only reason I loaded F12 in the first place

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:30:54 -0600, Bruno wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 13:08:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: So the Mint8 installers update-grub comes a heck of a lot closer to getting it right than the fedora grub2 version. Can this be fixed asap, before the plug on F10 is

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:07:29 +0530, Huzaifa wrote: I have forked libtar as libtar-ng, because the upstream does not have time to maintain it anymore. Here is the bz: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546169 Now the question is what is a private fork? Am i wrong in forking it

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:14:40 +0530, Rahul wrote: On 12/11/2009 03:56 PM, Florian Festi wrote: Without knowing the history: Best solution would be to ask former upstream for permission to continue the project under its original name That was already denied

Re: What is public/private fork? - Criteria packaging in fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:43:16 +0530, Rahul wrote: On 12/11/2009 04:38 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:14:40 +0530, Rahul wrote: On 12/11/2009 03:56 PM, Florian Festi wrote: Without knowing the history: Best solution would be to ask former upstream for permission

Re: Outage Notification - date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:59:46 -0600 (CST), Mike wrote: $ date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC' Thu Dec 10 20:00:00 CST 2009 To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d 'date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC''

Re: rpms/blacs/F-12 blacs.spec,1.35,1.36

2009-12-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:23 + (UTC), Deji wrote: Author: deji Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/blacs/F-12 - Fix broken dep issue on F-12 -Release: 34%{?dist}.1 +Release: 34%{?dist}.2 -Obsoletes: blacs-lam 1.1-33 +Obsoletes: blacs-lam = 1.1-33 This is a common pitfall due to %dist.

Re: Problem with windowws configuration inn F12

2009-12-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:26:12 -0600, Aaron wrote: I want to configure the Gnome windows so the Mouse cursor changes the focus of the window when it moves on top of it. This is normally done with: System-Preferences-Windows. On my F12 machine the screen is not high enough and the menu cuts off

Re: F12 Boot error message re mount of loop device

2009-12-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:00:37 +, Marko wrote: On Wednesday 09 December 2009 18:59:19 Bill Davidsen wrote: David wrote: During boot I want to mount an iso9660 file as a loop device. The iso file is on a ext3 partition labelled HUGE_01 which is mounted at /mnt/huge. FILE =

Re: abrt issue

2009-12-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:47:44 -0500, Neal wrote: I just got a crash in kde plasma. Traceback is not useful, because of missing debug pacakges. Seems to happen more frequently recently. The latest backtraces I've seen in bugzilla all were missing dozens of debuginfo packages. I'm told I can

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:05:07 +1100, Roger wrote: Do you have two disparate grub.conf files? I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots. I do not know if this the correct thing to do but in doing so I 've not had any problems. Roger /boot/grub/grub.conf is the

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:59:03 +1030, Tim wrote: /boot/grub/grub.conf is the configuration file /boot/grub/menu.lst is just a symlink for compatibility As I recall, that's a Red Hat-ism. True. The menu.lst file being the default GRUB file, as used by GRUB, Not true. The default

Re: System infected ?

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:38:20 +0100, Frank wrote: On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:32:50 +0100 Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, I launched a 'chkrootkit' on my mail server and it gave me the following error : Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 465) I think that isn't a problem because a

Re: Fedora 12 will not load

2009-12-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 07:16:05 +0100, Gunnar wrote: My system works up to the point when the sky-blue screen appears with the dark grey blob in the middle. Then nothing more happens. First thing you could try during a reboot is to hit a key early to make the GRUB boot loader menu appear, then

Re: Fedora 12 will not load

2009-12-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:41:10 +0100, Joachim wrote: On 12/06/2009 11:45 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 07:16:05 +0100, Gunnar wrote: My system works up to the point when the sky-blue screen appears with the dark grey blob in the middle. Then nothing more happens

Re: selinux disabled: what selinux related rpms can I safely remove?

2009-12-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:23:21 +0100, Jean-Luc wrote: Thanks, jlf At least: rpm -e selinux-policy policycoreutils-gui selinux-policy-targeted rpm -e checkpolicy policycoreutils policycoreutils-python setroubleshoot-server setroubleshoot-plugins Drop any that aren't present (or else rpm -e

Re: Terminator (Gnome)

2009-12-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:58:49 -0600, Chris wrote: Greetings, I love the above mentioned app - and in older versions I used to use, it never displayed a pop-up when ya close it. It just simply displays a black rectangle in the upper right hand corner of your screen with the unforgettable

Re: Problem with yum update and libxvidcore4.x86_64

2009-12-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:39:21 -0500, Charlie wrote: I have had a problem for the last 5 weeks or so whenever I run the yum update command on my F11 machine. No amount of research or reading up on yum and rpm have allowed me to correct my problem. So I am turning to the wizards here on the

Re: Pulseaudio in F12

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:38:15 +0100, Michal wrote: Dne Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:05:28 -0200 Paulo Cavalcanti napsal(a): Thanks for the explanation. At least 3 applications are not restoring the volumes: xmms, mplayer and audacious. Interesting. Maybe these programs try to be too clever

Re: Pulseaudio in F12

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:43:10 +, Bastien wrote: Notice that the documentation for pa_stream_connect_playback strongly recommends passing NULL as volume. This looks correct, you're never supposed to restore volume yourself when using PulseAudio. Which is exactly my fix that went into

Re: Bug in /etc/cron.d/mlocate.cron or am I crazy?

2009-11-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:51:58 -0500, Steven wrote: I am very interested in this question on multiple levels. Let's start at the first level: foo=$( fn bar) apparently is functionally equivalent to foo=$( bar fn ) True. File fn is opened for input on file descriptor 0 (stdin) in both

Re: license issue - combining gplv2 and lgpl sources in a single rpm

2009-11-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:25:27 -0800, Carl wrote: The rasmol source has a dual GPLv2/RASMOL license, so for Fedora we can consider that it is licensed gplv2. There are some libraries that are included that are licensed lgpl. This is covered by:

Re: Bug in /etc/cron.d/mlocate.cron or am I crazy?

2009-11-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:20:23 -0500, Matthew wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: I can't believe this is a real bug. I'm submit it to bugzilla. It's in F10, 11 and 12. I'd be curious to know just how old this bug is. Contents of mlocate.cron is:

Re: Improve the way rpm decides what is newer

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:59:20 -0500, Przemek wrote: Essentially, these proposals can be seen as attempts to introduce a 2-dimensional ordering: on one hand, classifying packages by their version number, and on the other hand by a distribution. Mathematically this is impossible---it's a

Re: Improve the way rpm decides what is newer

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:26:11 -0500, Orcan wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:31:27 -0500, Tony wrote: On 09-11-21 06:40:45, drago01 wrote:  ... You misunderstood me, I was not suggesting adding another epoch but simply bump

Re: rawhide report screwing up changelogs (was: Re: rawhide report: 20091123 changes)

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:39:28 +0100, Christoph wrote: When two builds of the same version are done on the same day, the rawhide report screws up the order of the changelog entries: Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 13:28 + schrieb Rawhide Report: nimbus-0.1.4-2.fc13 --- *

Re: rawhide report screwing up changelogs (was: Re: rawhide report: 20091123 changes)

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:04:49 +0100, Christoph wrote: Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 14:56 +0100 schrieb Michael Schwendt: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:39:28 +0100, Christoph wrote: When two builds of the same version are done on the same day, the rawhide report screws up the order

Re: rawhide report screwing up changelogs (was: Re: rawhide report: 20091123 changes)

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:56:58 -0500 (EST), Seth wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:04:49 +0100, Christoph wrote: Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 14:56 +0100 schrieb Michael Schwendt: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:39:28 +0100, Christoph wrote: When two

Re: F12 yum install of condor on x86_64: Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:37:00 -0800 (PST), Rob wrote: Installing : condor-7.2.4-1.fc12.x86_64 3/3 Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package condor-7.2.4-1.fc12.x86_64 warning: %post(condor-7.2.4-1.fc12.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 I

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Tester needed for Audacious

2009-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:20:29 -0500, Orcan wrote: My tests, with a few mpc files that I have, gave positive results on F-12 x86_64. No issues. Thanks for the test. Basically, the worst that could have happened is that the plugin failed to play anything on x86_64 _actually_ while it simply

Re: XV under x86_64

2009-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:18:49 -0700, Reg wrote: I use XV for everyting, and it worked fine till I went to 64bit Fc11 Is there an rpm out there with a good 64bit xv in it? Currently the 32bit version cant find a needed library, even tho its in /usr/lib64 The 32-bit build won't search in

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Tester needed for Audacious

2009-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:16:49 +1100, David wrote: Â Fedora 12: audacious-plugins-2.1-18.fc12 Â http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=141715 Works fine for me (i686). Great. Thanks for the testing. Â Fedora 10: audacious-plugins-1.5.1-18.fc10 Â

Re: Improve the way rpm decides what is newer

2009-11-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:38:35 +0100, drago01 wrote: We should just use release epochs, people might hate them for whatever reasons, but they would easily prevent such issues from happing. Vendor Epochs have been discussed years ago and have been rejected. The normal %{epoch} in RPM Version

Re: Improve the way rpm decides what is newer

2009-11-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:40:45 +0100, drago01 wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:38:35 +0100, drago01 wrote: We should just use release epochs, people might hate them for whatever reasons, but they would easily prevent such issues from happing. Vendor Epochs have been discussed years ago and

Re: Improve the way rpm decides what is newer

2009-11-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:31:27 -0500, Tony wrote: On 09-11-21 06:40:45, drago01 wrote: ... You misunderstood me, I was not suggesting adding another epoch but simply bump the %{epoch} for every release. If this were really important to do, just putting the release first in the version

Re: Improve the way rpm decides what is newer

2009-11-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:16:39 -0800, Adam wrote: I was going to suggest what seems an obvious alternative way to do what Christian wants, without changing anything in rpm. Instead of: foobar-1.0-1.fc12.x86-64 have: foobar-fc12-1.0-1.x86-64 Insufficient. Making %dist most-significant

Re: [Fedora-music-list] Tester needed for Audacious

2009-11-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:38:12 +1100, David wrote: I'm in search for somebody who can give me feedback about whether the following builds of the audacious-plugins package succeed or fail at playing Musepack (.mpc) audio files: How can I get/make a mpc file to test with ? Hmmm, very good

libmpcdec vs. Musepack SV8

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src http://files.musepack.net/source/musepack_src_r435.tar.gz It seems we only have the old libmpcdec 1.2.6 in Fedora, which can decode SV7 but not SV8. Is the new set of libs and tools (from March 2009) hidden somewhere? Or are there new legal problems? --

Re: abrt bugzilla reporting - does it work?

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:29:10 +0100, Denys wrote: Did anybody submit bugs successfully using this tool? Yes. Well, with F-12 and a segfault in Claws Mail, it created a bugzilla ticket for me, but I couldn't get it to upload/attach the backtrace. Not even when retrying multiple times to send

Re: Review request...

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:38:31 +0100, Martin wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537587 Hm... on a very quick first look, you obviously don't follow https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Package_Release The difference being that *you* point out a specific

Re: Review request...

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:44:50 -0200, Itamar wrote: may be, but sponsors or reviewers doesn't have entire day free time. True, but an entire day is not needed. And nobody forces you to become a reviewer [or a sponsor] and spend any time at all on reviewing or guiding [new] packagers. The

Re: A silly question about our FC tag

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:18:27 -0800, Jesse wrote: If we did a macro change in dist-f13 and a mass rebuild, and did a macro change on dist-f12 and dist-f11 at the same time (without a mass rebuild) this might work. Only with severe discipline by all packagers who push updates to multiple

Sudden keyboard layout changes

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
In F-10, F-11 and F-12, with a combination of GNOME, xterm, Emacs, Firefox, Claws Mail, ... ... all of a sudden my keyboard input layout changes from QWERTZ to QWERTY (or Germany to USA) and back again some time later. Inside Emacs, for example, while editing some text. I can open new xterms, and

Tester needed for Audacious

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
I'm in search for somebody who can give me feedback about whether the following builds of the audacious-plugins package succeed or fail at playing Musepack (.mpc) audio files: Fedora 12: audacious-plugins-2.1-18.fc12 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=141715 Fedora 11:

[Fedora-music-list] Tester needed for Audacious

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
I'm in search for somebody who can give me feedback about whether the following builds of the audacious-plugins package succeed or fail at playing Musepack (.mpc) audio files: Fedora 12: audacious-plugins-2.1-18.fc12 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=141715 Fedora 11:

Re: test

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:51:57 +1100, Roger wrote: On 11/17/2009 04:26 AM, Kevin Abbey wrote: test message to fedora-list Received loud and clear Roger Uhm, well, five minutes later he sent the real message which he ought to have sent as a test _instead_ of an empty test mail. Subject:

Re: rpmlint warnings...

2009-11-16 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:24:03 -0700, Nathanael wrote: libdspam.x86_64: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package /usr/lib64/libdspam.so [g...@iridium ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib64/libdspam.* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 175812 2009-11-15 13:54 /usr/lib64/libdspam.a -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root954 2009-11-15 13:54

Re: The tag mercurial-1_4-1_fc12 is already applied on a different branch

2009-11-16 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:02:01 -0500, Neal wrote: Seems I do this every time we have a new release. How about you avoid that mistake in the future? ;) In F12: cvs tag -F -c mercurial-1_4-1_fc12 ERROR: The tag mercurial-1_4-1_fc12 is already applied on a different branch ERROR: You can not

Re: The tag mercurial-1_4-1_fc12 is already applied on a different branch

2009-11-16 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:26:39 -0600, Dennis wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 04:02:01 pm Neal Becker wrote: Seems I do this every time we have a new release. In F12: cvs tag -F -c mercurial-1_4-1_fc12 ERROR: The tag mercurial-1_4-1_fc12 is already applied on a different branch

Re: Broken dependencies script at it again

2009-11-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:36:27 +0100, Steve wrote: $ repoclosure -r updates | grep '^ ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr | head 167 rtld(GNU_HASH) 130 /sbin/ldconfig 127 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) 127 libc.so.6()(64bit) 101 /bin/sh on the

Re: rpmlint warnings...

2009-11-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:30:44 +0100, Dominik wrote: On Sunday, 15 November 2009 at 21:59, Nathanael Noblet wrote: Hello, So I recently posted my first package and the review. While I waited I started cleaning up more issues I found after I realized you could run rpmlint on the actual

Re: rpm package conflict

2009-11-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:42:18 -0500, James wrote: All, In the latest set of system updates, I saw this package conflict: [r...@pc32 ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package

Re: rpm package conflict

2009-11-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:50:23 +0900, Mamoru wrote: Thu Nov 12 23:55:06 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-4.fc11 with dist-f11-updates [still active] Thu Nov 12 23:56:38 2009: Tagged gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-2.fc11 with dist-f11-updates [still active]

Re: Curious problem with yum

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:03:59 -0500, Kevin wrote: On 11/12/2009 10:32 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 11/11/2009 07:51 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:25:45PM -0800, Brian Mury wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 12:23 -0800, Brian Mury wrote: ipstate

Re: rpms/iptstate/devel iptstate.spec,1.22,1.23

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:30:43 + (UTC), Paul wrote: Author: stingray Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/iptstate/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv20114 Modified Files: iptstate.spec Log Message: iptstate-2.2.2-2 Please give make clog and cvs commit -F clog a

Re: rpms/iptstate/F-12 iptstate.spec,1.21,1.22

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:17:58 + (UTC), Paul wrote: Author: stingray Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/iptstate/F-12 %changelog +* Tue Nov 10 2009 Paul P. Komkoff Jr i...@stingr.net - 2.2.2-2 +- rebuild for libnetfilter_conntrack-0.0.100 + +* Tue Nov 10 2009 Thomas Woerner twoer...@redhat.com

Re: rpms/iptstate/F-12 iptstate.spec,1.21,1.22

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:53:35 +, Christopher wrote: Oops, too late! [ch...@yoda ~]$ sudo yum update Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package dhclient.x86_64 12:4.1.0p1-4.fc11 set to be updated

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