Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:27:56PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 12:16 +0530, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: And why the subdirectories in /var cannot be mountpoints for existing partitions ? There are a way lot of subdirectories, where partitions with existing data would

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 10:30 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:27:56PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 12:16 +0530, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: And why the subdirectories in /var cannot be mountpoints for existing partitions ? There are a way lot of

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread Remi Collet
Le 22/01/2015 22:36, Adam Williamson a écrit : There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an existing partition as /boot or /var (or any subdirectory of those except /var/www ) without reformatting it. i.e., you can't reuse an existing partition with those

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 10:07 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: On 01/22/2015 04:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an existing partition as /boot or

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 13:36 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an existing partition as /boot or /var (or any subdirectory of those except /var/www ) without reformatting it. i.e., you can't reuse an existing partition with

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread poma
On 22.01.2015 22:36, Adam Williamson wrote: There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an existing partition as /boot or /var (or any subdirectory of those except /var/www ) without reformatting it. i.e., you can't reuse an existing partition with those mountpoints.

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/22/2015 04:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an existing partition as /boot or /var (or any subdirectory of those except /var/www ) without

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread Chris Murphy
Historically /boot is owned by a particular OS installation whether its a separate volume or a directory. I think it's sloppy as hell to share /boot without a spec like bootloaderspec to define the exact location each OS installs its stuff into. It's completely sane the installer team wants to

Re: rawhide, no mouse arrow

2015-01-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 20:00 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Installation When I grab this boot.iso and boot it, the mouse/trackpad doesn't

Re: rawhide, no mouse arrow

2015-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 15:13 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 20:00 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Installation

Re: rawhide, no mouse arrow

2015-01-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 15:13 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 20:00 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:

[Test-Announce] 2015-01-26 @16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2015-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2015-01-26 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! We haven't met for a bit, so let's get together and check in on where we're all at. I'm expecting

[Test-Announce] 2015-01-26 @16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2015-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2015-01-26 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! We haven't met for a bit, so let's get together and check in on where we're all at. I'm expecting

Re: fedup F21 to Rawhide fails, couldn't get boot images

2015-01-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 20:23 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: So there's either a Btrfs or a separate /var problem with fedup. Separate /var *used* to not work, but was supposedly fixed by

rawhide report: 20150123 changes

2015-01-23 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
Compose started at Fri Jan 23 05:15:03 UTC 2015 New package: bats-0.4.0-1.20141016git3b33a5a.fc22 Bash Automated Testing System New package: perl-Dancer2-0.158000-1.fc22 Lightweight yet powerful web application framework New package: radamsa-0.4-2.fc22 Test

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread Felix Miata
Adam Williamson composed on 2015-01-23 02:25 (UTC-0500): On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 00:58 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: triggered someone's 'why do we let this happen in the first place' reflex. Let? This is after all Linux, not Windows. Traditional home of choices, within reason of course. Hard of

Re: Release criterion proposal: Package sets (Alpha and Beta)

2015-01-23 Thread Mike Ruckman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 04:20:48PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Hum, so thinking about it a bit further, I'd like to add one more thing to this proposal. On reflection I think we *should* require install of release blocking desktops and minimal package set to work with the frozen