Re: [Mageia-dev] Network issue with pm-suspend

2012-09-07 Thread Maarten Vanraes
 Hi,

 To move between my home and work I swith off my computer using
 pm-suspend.

 But when I wake up my laptop, the network is not reset so previous IP
 and route remain (on both ethernet and wifi card).

 Pluging and unpluging the ethernet cable has no action and even an
 ifconfig down / ifconfig up does not make the ethernet sending a dhcp
 request.

 Am I the only one to have sucj issue ? Any idea about this issue ?

on my worklaptop (mga2) i use suspend-to-disk, and after i have my
screensaver, it seems to hang and take quite a while before the
screensaver actually moves... (1min)?

by that time, the network is down and after a little while after i log in,
the wifi comes up with the new wifi connection...

or did you use suspend-to-memory? (i used that too, for smaller times, but
haven't switched locations in between suspends)


Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kernel-3.5.0-1.mga3

2012-07-30 Thread Maarten Vanraes
 On 28 July 2012 05:11, tmb buildsystem-dae...@mageia.org wrote:
 tmb tmb 3.5.0-1.mga3:
 + Revision: 275103
 - fix perf build with glibc-2.16
 - fix unionfs build with 3.5 series kernels
 - rediff mrproper patch
 - update defconfigs
 - drop merged patches
 - rediff unionfs patch
 - add include/memory/ to -devel and -source filelists
 - update to 3.5

 Could you enable fontswap  zcache please?
 Thx


also, not directly related, btrfs.fsck doesn't have a -a option, which
means it's not executed at boot time, if needed...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Packagers meeting

2012-06-27 Thread Maarten Vanraes
 On 27 June 2012 08:11, AL13N al...@rmail.be wrote:
 Our meeting will happen tomorrow evening at 19hUTC. Here are the
 proposed topics:

 - pending security updates
 - Mageia 3 features
 - Backports policy

 For the 2 last topics please read following links *before* meeting:

 https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-June/016819.html
 https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-June/016855.html

 Cheers

 can we have another talk of bug 2317? to find people willing to make a
 new
 patch that's quite more complex?

 ideally bug 2317 should be fixed before backports opens

 No, it's not related since you can't garanty that every user will get the
 update
 prior to use backports.
 So there's no need to rush...


QA team told me that it would increase their workload dramatically, so i
think there is need rush.


Re: [Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

2012-06-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
 21.06.2012 13:35, AL13N kirjutas:
 B. fetch dependencies only from enabled repositories
 Problems:
  - if backports are enabled, dependencies could come from backports
 instead of release.

 Solutions for this:
  - this can be prevented in various ways: even as simple as the backport
 packager to bump an update with stricter requires so that the backport
 wouldn't be fetched (_IF_ it indeed would be incompatible) AND the
 update
 could have stricter requires for that new dependency.
 I still can't see how are you going to solve this case:
 I have backports enabled. There are packages that are newer than the one
 in release. I
 haven't installed them. Now new update requires such package that is both
 in release and in
 backports. Update will pull package from enabled backports as they are
 newer - i didn't want
 that. And you can't just submit new backport that blocks it. Older
 backports are still
 there. So you can install those if new backport doesn't work for you (the
 same we have for
 updates at the moment).

IF the update cannot work with the backported new dependency, it should be
strict required in the update. in that case, the one from release will be
used.

if the update does work with the backport, then i don't see why you
wouldn't want that, since you enabled backports.
== this sounds like cherry-picking backports.

in other words, you're advanced enough to find out what you want, because
i don't think we can support all forms of cherry-picking backports.


[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: task-lamp

2012-05-09 Thread Maarten Vanraes
task-lamp requires mysql

I've changed it to mariadb instead (and added the mariadb-extra on task-lamp-
extra as well (there was no mysql-extra))


Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 LiveCD contents...

2012-05-05 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 05 mei 2012 07:37:12 schreef Mika Laitio:
 On 05/02/2012 12:28 AM, David Walser wrote:
  Pascal Terjan wrote:
  On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 19:42, John j...@neodoc.biz wrote:
  On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:59:13 +0200
  
  zezinho wrote:
  Em 30-04-2012 16:28, Thomas Backlund escreveu:
  
  tvtime can be removed, as analog tv is going away almost everywhere.
  
  Everywhere is exactly where?
  
  Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Finland, Andorra, Sweden, Switzerland,
  Belgium, Germany, the United States, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Latvia,
  Estonia, Slovenia, Israel, Austria, Monaco, UK, Cyprus, Japan, Malta,
  France, Czech Republic, Arab World, Serbia, Canada, Brazil.
  Australia is doing it region by region.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_television#Transition_to_digital_bro
  adcasts
  
  tvtime is used for more than analog broadcast TV, so this is irrelevant. 
  It probably doesn't need to be on the LiveCDs anyway, however.
 
 I agree, no need for being in livecd.
 But I for example need tvtime for being able to connect Wii to
 same display with my computer.
 
 My display does not have Wii compatible input connection, so I have
 connected my Wii to Technotrends dvb-t ff card on my computer
 and then I use tvtime for showing up the wii screen in my desktop.
 
 Mika

ok, but is this something you will do with a livecd? i think you will install 
it, if it comes to this...


[Mageia-dev] advisories for rpmdrake

2012-05-01 Thread Maarten Vanraes
this bug report has been lying around for too long:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2223
( rpmdrake doesn't show advisories)

apparently it's pretty easy and the descriptions file just needs to be modified 
by the people who push the update. (is this sysadmin?)

i think we just need to put this in the policy and have the people who push it 
put the advisory in this descriptions file on the mirrors.

the only question i have is how does this get onto the mirrors? is there an 
svn file we can just modify so that the advisories become available?

in any case, i'm planning on putting this in the policy once and for all, so 
that this minor bug is finally resolved.

any objections?


Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release btrfs-progs-0.19-1.20120328.1.mga2

2012-04-29 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 28 april 2012 20:16:53 schreef Thomas Backlund:
 27.04.2012 13:41, Thierry Vignaud skrev:
  On 22 April 2012 15:29, tmb buildsystem-dae...@mageia.org wrote:
  tmb tmb 0.19-1.20120328.1.mga2:
  + Revision: 232555
  - update to 2012-03-28 snapshot
  
   * switch back to master branch as dangerdonteveruse branch is now
   merged
  
  You should add btrfsck to:
  perl-install/install/share/list.xml
 
 added.
 
  rescue/list.xml
 
 already there
 
  Also we still miss something to set UUID on btrfs partitions (see
  fs/format.pm)
 
 I dont know yet how...

i noticed today that it tried to do fsck -a on the btrfs partition
but

btrfsck: -a option does not exist...

i donno if it actually checks the partition or not though...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Release blocker bugs

2012-04-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 26 april 2012 17:14:27 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
 On 26 April 2012 16:35, Guillaume Rousse guillomovi...@gmail.com wrote:
  Please quote only what's needed next time.
  
  I humbly apologize for pasting at least 5 perfectly useless lines.
  Ops, I did it again !
 
 Stop trolling.
 You quoted 52 lines for a 2 lines answer (which was only answering to the
 two last lines about spec-helper)

i saw an attached file, not quoted lines...


Re: [Mageia-dev] microcode needed by default

2012-04-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zondag 22 april 2012 07:01:04 schreef simple w8:
 Hi,
 
 when booting i alwas saw that systemd was complaning about not being
 able to start service microcode.service (Description: LSB: Update the
 Intel / AMD CPU microcode).
 
 I made a research with urpmq and found the package microcode, i
 installed it and now theres no complains in systemd regarding
 microcode.

perhaps it would be better to have the service in the packages itself... and 
get this to split off


Re: [Mageia-dev] RPM groups change: Productivity ?

2012-04-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 21 april 2012 07:33:23 schreef Remco Rijnders:
 Hi all,
 
 I've just submitted taskwarrior, a command line tool to organise,
 prioritise, and track tasks etc.
 
  From the Fedora spec which I adopted, they have it in the group
 Applications/Productivity. We have no such group available on
 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy . In the end I resorted to
 picking Text tools, but it just didn't feel right to me. As I have
 similar tools I'm thinking of packaging, as well as we have other tools
 in the distro such as taskcoach in Office, I think a Productivity
 category might be of use. What do you think?
 
 Remmy

Since our license policy is fedora based, i see no problem with this group 
policy change


Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: linux ha cluster stack

2012-04-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 20 april 2012 20:38:55 schreef Anne Nicolas:
 Le 20/04/2012 20:13, nicolas vigier a écrit :
[...]
  - cluster (including cman, rmanager) : obsoleted upstream, pacemaker
should be used instead :
https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage

cluster seems not to be deleted...

see http://check.mageia.org/cauldron/dependencies.html

[...]
  - openais : project seems dead (no website online anymore), and nothing
require this (except cman from cluster package which we are dropping)

ocfs2-tools seems to require openais-devel, and as such is now broken:

see http://check.mageia.org/cauldron/dependencies.html



[Mageia-dev] broken dependencies are growing again...

2012-04-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
plz look at: http://check.mageia.org/cauldron/dependencies.html

== wrong strict versioned requires? (or not enough rebuilt packages)
brasero

== needs dropping:
cluster

== rebuild without the dropped openais?
ocfs2-tools

== missing perl modules:
perl-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-OpenID
perl-JavaScript

== likely need rebuild due to newer dependant libs:
telepathy-qt4


Re: [Mageia-dev] broken dependencies are growing again...

2012-04-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 21 april 2012 21:42:23 schreef Pascal Terjan:
 On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 20:15, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
[...]
  == missing perl modules:
  perl-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-OpenID
  perl-JavaScript
 
 Yes and we can't do more about them, we should probably just remove
 them from mirrors
[...]

iinm identity uses perl-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-OpenID (or planned 
to at some point)

besides, it points to perl-Catalyst-Engine-HTTP not being there. which seems 
to me (a novice) a more important package (unless renames or stuff)


[Mageia-dev] mysql CVE's in mga1 = have it update to mariadb

2012-04-13 Thread Maarten Vanraes
regarding bug https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5260

after talking with mariadb people and some others, i'm proposing to update 
mysql 5.5.10 to mariadb-5.5.23 in mga1.

however, QA should extra-double-test the php-mysql dependency, as mariadb 
noted that php-mysql seems to have a very strict versioning scheme sometimes 
and having a new mysql provider without rebuilding php-mysql often fails...

in case of no objections, i'll go ahead with this.


Re: [Mageia-dev] mysql CVE's in mga1 = have it update to mariadb

2012-04-13 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 13 april 2012 13:12:08 schreef AL13N:
[]

i guess most packagers want option 2 here.

i don't think this is a good idea in general and i was of the opinion that the 
diff between migrating mysql 5.5.22 and mariadb 5.5.23 were quite the same...

nonetheless, the package naming difference could have effects on it on a stable 
version, so i concede to this solution.

however, i'll note that mariadb likely contains extra bugfixes, which this 
mysql 5.5.22 will not have.

i guess this is the step where this is more or less decided and some packager 
steps in and does the actual work. any volunteers? perhaps that person can 
also become maintainer of it?


Re: [Mageia-dev] mysql CVE's in mga1 = have it update to mariadb

2012-04-13 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 13 april 2012 18:19:14 schreef Thomas Backlund:
[...]
 I've started working on mysql-5.5.23 (as it contains another security
 fix), and will release it to updates_testing for Mageia 1 as soon as
 possible.

bye any chance do you have the CVE for the new one? i remember there was one 
in mariadb a few days ago, so i want to make sure this is the same one.


Re: [Mageia-dev] mysql CVE's in mga1 = have it update to mariadb

2012-04-13 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 13 april 2012 19:35:15 schreef Thomas Backlund:
 13.04.2012 19:30, Maarten Vanraes skrev:
[...]
  bye any chance do you have the CVE for the new one? i remember there was
  one in mariadb a few days ago, so i want to make sure this is the same
  one.
 
 Unfortunately no CVE yet... it only refers to a locked bug report:
 
 Security Fix: Bug #59533 was fixed.
 
 
 
 But as mariadb  5.5.23 is supposed to be based on mysql 5.5.23, it
 should be fixed.

I hate this...

oracle is really fucking things up here...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push mariadb 5.5 GA release

2012-04-11 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 11 april 2012 01:56:04 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
 Please push mariadb:
 
 This updates to the 5.5 GA release (it's not announced yet, but they are
 waiting for it to hit all the mirrors)

ping


Re: [Mageia-dev] bumblebee in mageia (and mentoring)

2012-04-10 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 10 april 2012 21:28:19 schreef simple w8:
[...]
  better to follow the policy.
 
 I dont know about mageia policies, but i will read about them so i can
 start using them from now on.

check https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Policies , you don't have to read all of 
them, but it's nice to look at what kind of policies exist, so that later you 
can look them up if required.

[...]
  you can afterwards make a kmod-bbswitch and kmod-acpi_call packages that
  make prebuilt modules for all available kernels.
 
 Yeap, i have seen those kind of packages and that way theres no need
 to use a dkms.

well, except to actually build the kmod package, since it requires the dkms 
package :-)

[...]
  perhaps filetriggers or the post and preun service helpers do all this
  automagically... i don't know, i usually just look at other packages.
  
  i think a provided existing service file is picked up by filetriggers
 
 I do see one systemd  filetrigger: systemd-daemon-reload.script
 
 but i would like to know hows processed, so far for what i have seen i
 dont see how that is possible, to put systemd running services without
 put them in the scripts.
 
 And to remember that bumblebee is provided with service files for
 systemd and sysvinit, i did had that caution, thats why i put in
 scripts both usage.
 
 Still i think it would be better to simply keep the ones for systemd,
 since its the one used by default.

well, if i was you, comment out the code and see if it actually does enable it 
by default. i'm definately not an expert, but for mariadb i didn't have to 
enable it, it worked like that...

since i have not seen any other packages where it effectively does that, i 
don't think it's required.

[...]
  iinm you can also add extra option to %cmake. if it's possible it'd be
  nice to have %cmake in it. if there would be systemwide changes at a
  later time, possibly due to changed newer cmake behavior, or whatever,
  it can be picked up without much effort.
  
  also it looks better to me, having all cmake packages using %cmake :-)
 
 Did you read what i wrote?

?

of course i did, why else would i take the effort to reply?

 i did tried to use %cmake but build fails, so its really need to use
 it explicitely like its currently, and the same goes for when i did
 not used %makeinstall_std in libbsd.

well as you already know, %cmake evaluates to cmake with some extra stuff, so 
if one of these things give you difficulty, either it points to a point that 
can 
be improved, or you can just override them for the ones you need. that way, 
you can still make it work with %cmake.

[...]


Re: [Mageia-dev] bumblebee in mageia (and mentoring)

2012-04-10 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 10 april 2012 21:53:57 schreef Guillaume Rousse:
 Le 10/04/2012 21:12, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
  if [ $1 -eq 1 ]; then
  
 # Initial set
 # Enable (but don't start) the unit by default
 /bin/systemctl enable bumblebeed.service
  
  fi
  
  I don't think this stuff is needed on Mageia, that is done by default.
  
  Really? I didnt knew about it, is there any page documenting that?
  Im quite curious about how is done :)
 
 just read the the add-service helper code, or alternatively the
 rpm-helper README file.
 
  perhaps filetriggers or the post and preun service helpers do all this
  automagically... i don't know, i usually just look at other packages.
  
  i think a provided existing service file is picked up by filetriggers
 
 No, that's handled by add-service helper here.

thanks for correcting me


[Mageia-dev] Freeze push mariadb 5.5 GA release

2012-04-10 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Please push mariadb:

This updates to the 5.5 GA release (it's not announced yet, but they are 
waiting for it to hit all the mirrors)


[Mageia-dev] alternatives policy

2012-04-10 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Hi,

from a question someone asked, i was reminded why an alternative file ( 
/var/lib/rpm/alternative/gl_conf ) was not owned.

I found out that alternative files are usually %ghost 'ed, but it seems not in 
this case.

I looked at the alternatives policy, but it was empty as it needs yet to be 
written.

so, is it true that alternative files should be %ghost 'ed? or not?


Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push

2012-04-07 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 07 april 2012 20:50:03 schreef Florian Hubold:
 Am 05.04.2012 14:19, schrieb Romain d'Alverny:
  On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 08:11, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
  Op woensdag 04 april 2012 22:59:30 schreef Florian Hubold:
  As there was no real objection, and no other comments
  or votes for iceape, i've dropped it from cauldron. FWIW i'm quite
  unhappy with this. Related, i've also not got any reply yet to my
  aforementioned inquiry about mozilla branding permissions.
  
  About the mozilla branding...
  
  Perhaps this should be a meeting point for packaging/council meeting...
  
  ie: someone assigned to this point so it's not forgotten.
  
  Would have been good to raise this point in Council way sooner. No
  other than the maintainers may answer both questions (about changes,
  and about contact/permissions from Mozilla). For Firefox it's dmorgan
  and for Thunderbird it's anssi.
 
 For thunderbird it's actually me, Anssi grabbed it on my behalf
 when i was still apprentice ;)

no offense, but if you're the thunderbird maintainer, why don't you ask mozilla 
about it? tell them if we're not getting this official permission we won't ship 
it and do the iceape thing instead...


[Mageia-dev] [systemd] keyboard shortcut to show jobs during boot

2012-04-07 Thread Maarten Vanraes
in order to investigate hangs or slow boots or whatever, it would be useful to 
have some kind of key combination that lists the current systemd jobs and 
where it's hanging/waiting or whatever

either that or detect a hang an spawn some kind of emergency login somewhere

actually, if i'm really pulling out my want-to-have book, howabout a tty that 
(until it can actually get a tty), shows an top like watch of current jobs in 
systemd, where you can force some kind of process, ie: killing it, or letting 
all the dependant ones go through.

perhaps that could be on the tty that would eventually always become a tty (as 
i remember we talked about)

let's say that tty12 gets the kernel logging, then tty11 could show first 
dracut/udev stuff, then proceed with systemd jobs, and when it can get a tty, 
to be reserved for tty. (all the others could be reserved for graphicals then)

that way, no matter what happens, you get some nice info/tty availability.


ok, give all this nice-to-have...

is there a way we can find out why a boot hangs? is there some logging we can 
check in a rescue or ...?


Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push

2012-04-07 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 07 april 2012 21:14:00 schreef Florian Hubold:
 Am 07.04.2012 20:59, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
  Op zaterdag 07 april 2012 20:50:03 schreef Florian Hubold:
  Am 05.04.2012 14:19, schrieb Romain d'Alverny:
  On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 08:11, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
  Op woensdag 04 april 2012 22:59:30 schreef Florian Hubold:
  As there was no real objection, and no other comments
  or votes for iceape, i've dropped it from cauldron. FWIW i'm quite
  unhappy with this. Related, i've also not got any reply yet to my
  aforementioned inquiry about mozilla branding permissions.
  
  About the mozilla branding...
  
  Perhaps this should be a meeting point for packaging/council
  meeting...
  
  ie: someone assigned to this point so it's not forgotten.
  
  Would have been good to raise this point in Council way sooner. No
  other than the maintainers may answer both questions (about changes,
  and about contact/permissions from Mozilla). For Firefox it's dmorgan
  and for Thunderbird it's anssi.
  
  For thunderbird it's actually me, Anssi grabbed it on my behalf
  when i was still apprentice ;)
  
  no offense, but if you're the thunderbird maintainer, why don't you ask
  mozilla about it? tell them if we're not getting this official
  permission we won't ship it and do the iceape thing instead...
 
 Did you read my previous mails? I've asked Kev Needham,
 mozilla distribution channel manager, about the approval
 process, sadly no answer yet.

ah, mea culpa, i must've missed a few

and too bad though...

you can ask a few more people and CC some of the important people (or ones 
having good connections) like annael, stewb or such...

otoh, silence is acceptance is one of my favourite sayings...


Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push

2012-04-07 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 07 april 2012 23:48:59 schreef Florian Hubold:
 Am 07.04.2012 21:25, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
[...]
  otoh, silence is acceptance is one of my favourite sayings...
 
 Well, when i pointed out those branding issues before,
 noone was interested either, here on this list ...

guilty as charged...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Release_blocker bugs

2012-04-06 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 06 april 2012 13:17:46 schreef Anne nicolas:
[...]
 Does not seem to be release_blocker
 ===
 4301  bugsq...@mageia.org Migration of module-init-tools to kmod lib in
 Mageia 2 - specifications
 = 4802
[...]

i may understand this wrong, but iinm, module-init-tools doesn't work with 
current kernel anymore, and kmod is now required = doublecheck with tmb


Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push

2012-04-05 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 04 april 2012 22:59:30 schreef Florian Hubold:
 Am 26.03.2012 19:46, schrieb Florian Hubold:
  Hi all,
  
  i've taken a look at iceape and locally updated it to 2.7.2¹ after
  talking with maintainer
  about it, with the intent to at least push this to Mageia 1, because
  since initial import
  it has not received any security updates (and there are countless
  security problem) I've also completed the rebrand to iceape as far as i
  saw fit (change URL to release
  notes, applied some more debian rebranding patches, removed updater files
  and updater menu item, and some more smaller fixes, current svn diff is
  attached) and did some cleaning of old and unused stuff.
  
  ¹: I've only updated it to 2.7.2 as 2.8 does require newer NSPR, and
  that's a no-go for Mageia 1, which is my primary target.
  
  
  
  The biggest problem is: current maintainer does not have enough time to
  maintain it properly, and i'm not planning on doing it either, as i
  don't use it or know it well.
  
  There are at least 3 good options on how to proceed, apart from mga1
  update:
  
  
  1.
  push latest version to cauldron, and hope somebody will maintain it
  afterwards (this is the worst IMHO, as we'll probably face the same
  situation with a de-facto umaintained package throughout Mageia 2
  lifetime, which i want to avoid)
  
  
  2.
  drop iceape, package as seamonkey again and sync with Fedora
  (this one would at least make maintenance easier, only need to follow
  Fedora)
  
  
  3.
  drop iceape completely
  (actually this has the advantage that users can have official upstream
  binaries, and take advantage of automatic updates. Current maintainer
  agrees with this, as it's simply too fragile for him to maintain it
  easily.
  If somebody is against this, please step up as maintainer or help the
  current maintainer)
  
  
  I'm currently in contact with some seamonkey developers, to maybe clear
  up why/if the
  rebrand is needed, if it's needed like it's currently done, and why
  Fedora can simply
  ship seamonkey without the need for a rebrand, but the dialog may take
  some time, this
  would be only relevant for option 2.
  
  
  If nobody responds, i'll push my current work as security update for
  Mageia 1, and drop iceape from cauldron so that we won't have an
  outdated package and a potential security risk for Mageia 2.
  
  
  Kind regards
 
 As there was no real objection, and no other comments
 or votes for iceape, i've dropped it from cauldron. FWIW i'm quite
 unhappy with this. Related, i've also not got any reply yet to my
 aforementioned inquiry about mozilla branding permissions.

About the mozilla branding...

Perhaps this should be a meeting point for packaging/council meeting...

ie: someone assigned to this point so it's not forgotten.


Re: [Mageia-dev] Please push fwbuilder

2012-04-02 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 02 april 2012 03:07:35 schreef Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz:
 Please kindly push fwbuilder, it fixes many iptables compillations issues
 and it reports itself that there is a new update. Complete changelog is
 here
 http://www.fwbuilder.org/4.0/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html#5.0
 
 Enviado desde mi teléfono Verizon Wireless

fwbuilder is irritating in the fact that if someone has edited with a newer 
version, the .fwb file is upgraded and you need that version or more to open it 
again...


Re: [Mageia-dev] noarch packages containing binaries should be rejected

2012-04-02 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 02 april 2012 12:35:49 schreef Guillaume Rousse:
 Le 02/04/2012 10:37, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
  Please make arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object a
  reason to reject
 
  packages at upload time:
 The rule need some subtle exceptions. For instance, some pentest tools
 such as metasploit are arch-independant, but contains native code to be
 executed on remote systems.

hmm, that's an interesting use case that i didn't think of...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push: pidgin-sipe

2012-04-02 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 02 april 2012 11:36:37 schreef Damien Lallement:
 Le 01/04/2012 20:06, Damien Lallement a écrit :
  Le 30/03/2012 10:31, Damien Lallement a écrit :
  Le 29/03/2012 11:46, Damien Lallement a écrit :
  Le 28/03/2012 13:22, Damien Lallement a écrit :
  Hi,
  
  Can you please push pidgin-sipe.
  The new version (1.13.0) is a bug fix version:
  - add TLS-DSK authentification scheme (mandatory for Office365)
  - add non-public Lync support
  - fix build vith latest glib2
  - refactored crypto code
  - remove kopete backend (telepathy now)
  
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sipe/files/sipe/pidgin-sipe-1.13.0/
  
  Thanks,
  
  ping ?
  
  ping ?
  
  ping?
 
 ping?

ping?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Problems with flash 11.2

2012-03-31 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 31 maart 2012 10:46:43 schreef JA Magallón:
 On 03/31/2012 08:43 AM, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote:
  Στις 31/03/2012 08:38:19 γράψατε:
  Στις 31/03/2012 02:38:24 JA Magallón γράψατε:
  And, btw, to get hw video decoding I had to write a file in
  /etc/adobe/mms.cfg with
  
  EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
  
  Thanks, this solved the problem for me
  
  i had to reverse to disable hw acceleration because the embedded youtube
  videos in konqueror are invisible (in youtube it is ok)
 
 Yep, and flash also behaves mch more unstable, I'm having hangs I
 has never seen before.
 
 Crappy flash...
 
 BTW, how can I check if html5 has hardware support ?

depending on the browser, but i think most browsers use native stuff, therefor 
if you have hw support, it's likely to be working in html5 as well


Re: [Mageia-dev] No time for maintainership

2012-03-30 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 30 maart 2012 04:13:50 schreef Remco Rijnders:
[...]
 fetchmail eandry
[...]
 Feel free to pick any that have your fancy. I imagine that we'll want to
 set to 'nobody' any packages that have not been adopted in say a week or
 two from now?

actually, i cannot grab one because they are still assigned. please someone 
set them to nobody.


Re: [Mageia-dev] dropping mysql-workbench

2012-03-30 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 30 maart 2012 10:11:34 schreef nicolas vigier:
 On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
  unfortunately, atm it doesn't work, so it needs to be rebuilt, but it
  doesn't rebuild at all... and since we're in version freeze, you can't
  just update to a new version. even more is that soon is release
  freeze...
 
 No, fixing a package that doesn't work can be a good reason for version
 freeze exception. So if a new version can help fix the problem, it
 should be considered.

ic, well in that case, i guess it can be done like this, but if there's no 
maintainer for it... personally, i have no problem with this being dropped.

which is not to say i'm trying to hurt people who use it... but if we can't 
maintain a package, maybe it's better if the people who want to use it, can 
get it from upstream themselves.

and since this is from oracle, i guess the maintainer should also doublecheck 
licensing to be on the safe side, since oracle has relicensed quite some code. 
who knows, maybe we can't even redistribute it anymore...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

2012-03-30 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 30 maart 2012 16:00:22 schreef nicolas vigier:
[...]
 I think an empty package is not a good idea, it would be better to
 obsolete it in task-obsolete :
  - it's more clear that the package is obsoleted and is not a regular
update. Users installing an empty package as update would only see that
it is removed but not updated when it's already removed.
  - package is really removed and no longer listed as installed in rpm
database
  - it's easy to add task-obsolete in urpmi skip.list for people who
don't want unmaintained packages to be automatically removed

wrt to task-obsolete, do the users get notified?

maybe a README.urpmi listing all the packages and reasons would be an option 
to get notified?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

2012-03-30 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 30 maart 2012 16:03:14 schreef Guillaume Rousse:
[...]
 Issuing a specific sun jdk security update package, containing only a
 README.urpmi file and a shell script inciting the user to read this file
 eventually, would be a fair compromise for me. And can be considered as
 a standard practice for semi-automatically removing
 very-dangerous-packages-we-cannot-afford-to-let-installed-anywhere-otherwis
 e-the-apocalypse-will-happen.

if at all possible, i'd like a similar solution, but with task-obsolete 
somehow, since it ties in nicely with all the related stuff (iiuc above)

but i think it is nice to have such a notification with such kind of 
packages...

ie: if we're proposing to delete something, i'd rather know why...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

2012-03-29 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 29 maart 2012 21:08:22 schreef David Walser:
 Guillaume Rousse guillomovitch@... writes:
  If I want to keep a proprietary JRE on my computers, because I trust it
  more to run crap proprietary applications (also called
  corporate-compliants), than marvelous free-licensed environment they
  have never been tested with, that is my choice, not yours.
 
 If they really want to keep Sun Java, shouldn't they just download the
 installer from Sun and install it themselves, rather than using some
 obsolete Mageia 1 package of it?


well, iinm the version that the people have, will still have the correct 
license and we are able to distribute it fine.

i would argue that if security bugs we could remove it, but i'm not too sure 
on this point... i mean, can we really remove it from them? otoh, people 
wanting to have the proprietary ones, likely know what they are doing...

perhaps we can obsolete it with one of those nonfree getters? (if security 
bug)

or, maybe a package that gives an README.urpmi ...

IMHO: i think obsoleting it is fine, but with a README.urpmi that says notifies 
that it's been obsoleted.

(unless someone wants to have and maintain a nonfree getter application that 
fetches the upstream releases)

we really shouldn't keep stuff we can't maintain...


Re: [Mageia-dev] RFT: xen support

2012-03-29 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 11 april 2011 10:33:30 schreef Thomas Backlund:
 Hi,
 
 xen-4.1.0-1.mga1 is now avaliable in the repos.
 
 And as of kernel-2.6.38.2-4.mga1 there has been some cleanups and addons
 for xen:
 
 There is now a kernel-xen-pvops that also should work as dom0.
 
 Now this is mostly upstream kenel.org code so its not as fully
 featured as the old kernel-xen. You can see the features listed here:
 http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps.
 
 There is one exception: our 2.6.38 kernel has xen-netback backend driver
 added.
 
 So those of you that have been using xen, please test atleast the
 following:
 
 - check that kernel-server still works as a xen guest
 - try to use kernel-xen-pvops as dom0 and see how it works
 (you can also try to use kernel-xen-pvops as a normal xen guest)
 
 Have fun...
 
 --
 Thomas

i don't know how much people have been testing, but...

dom0 xen didn't work with .xz kernels, i put in a patch for that, and now it 
works.

in a kvm guest, i've got a working xen dom0 host, but the libvirtd 
implementation seems unable to find the cpu architecture, and if i force to be 
the same as the host, i am unable to boot the dom0 anymore. (i think this is 
likely due to the nature of a KVM guest not really being suitable for a XEN 
dom0).

i've tried a physical server, but when i finally got to the point of libvirtd, 
it seemed to not bootup anymore (it was an old disk, which i thought got 
broken, seeing the IO errors)

I put in a new disk, only to note that the X2 suddenly only had 1 core, which 
i found very odd, and i noticed the IO errors before  (and also now) were 
really sata bus errors... (and if i remember correctly this machine had been 
used with a semi-exploding PowerSupply)... so i think this mobo/cpu is 
fried... now i need to find new hardware to restart testing again :-( .

note that allthough i can have everything running, i never tested with actual 
guests, let alone online migrations...

however, i did find out that this xenpvops has 2 different toolchains:

xm and xl. xl seems to do pretty much the same, but apparently doesn't require 
xend to be running (it reacts directly to the kernel/hypervisor?)

also the xencommons init script seems to start xenconsoled and xenstored on 
it's own.

i'm thinking of removing both those init scripts and having xend not start as 
default. (allthough i don't know about xendomains).

i'll keep you guys posted.


[Mageia-dev] dropping mysql-workbench

2012-03-29 Thread Maarten Vanraes
someone asked me to see about https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5146

it looks like it needed a rebuild, but the rebuild failed with automake errors 
of some kind...

tbh: i don't really care about this package, and have no idea if anyone 
(except reporter) actually uses this, is it even useful?

so, since it has no maintainer, and it doesn't work anymore, and it can't be 
rebuilt... perhaps we should drop it. if someone wants to have it, he can 
likely get it from upstream directly?

WDYT?


Re: [Mageia-dev] dropping mysql-workbench

2012-03-29 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 29 maart 2012 23:03:46 schreef Juan Luis Baptiste:
 On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
  someone asked me to see about
  https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5146
  
  it looks like it needed a rebuild, but the rebuild failed with automake
  errors of some kind...
  
  tbh: i don't really care about this package, and have no idea if anyone
  (except reporter) actually uses this, is it even useful?
 
 This program is REALLY useful for web developers and database admins,
 I use it, so I'll get maintainership of it and try to fix the errors
 as soon as I can (swamped with work lately). See what it's useful for:
 
 http://www.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

no offense meant, but i am in $dayjob both a webdev and sysadmin, and i don't 
use these kind of things, i don't even use phpmyadmin...

unfortunately, atm it doesn't work, so it needs to be rebuilt, but it doesn't 
rebuild at all... and since we're in version freeze, you can't just update to 
a new version. even more is that soon is release freeze...

i guess this means you have 1 week to get this fixed... otherwise i think we'll 
have no choice but to remove it...

good luck, (if you need any pointer or help, i can still try to help/answer 
you though)


[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: mariadb (rc)

2012-03-29 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Please push mariadb:

mariadb (and mysql) seem to have an odd method of increasing version number 
for each of there alpha/beta/rc/final versions.

This updates to the 5.5 RC release (it's not announced yet, but they are 
waiting for it to hit all the mirrors)

Normally, the final is expected to be released april 9th.


Re: [Mageia-dev] freez push clamav-0.97.4

2012-03-25 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zondag 25 maart 2012 00:21:36 schreef Colin Guthrie:
 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 24/03/12 22:49 did gyre and gimble:
  On Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:36:06 PM Sander Lepik wrote:
  On Mar 24, 2012 9:13 PM, Thomas Spuhler tho...@btspuhler.com wrote:
  please push clamav-0.97.4
  --
  Best regards
  Thomas Spuhler
  
  Why?
  
  --
  Sander
  
  it's an upgrade from 0.97.4
  We need to provide the newest version of the antivirus package
 
 This, by itself, is not a very good explanation.
 
 If this is purely a definitions update then that's fine.
 If this is a bugfix update that's probably fine too (depending on the bug)
 If it's a new feature update then that likely won't make it.
 
 People are all very busy. It only takes the person requesting the push a
 minute or two to describe things properly. Please give your busy
 colleagues the respect they deserve and provide good explanations to
 save them having to spend time discussing and asking further questions.
 
 We still don't really have enough information to decide on this one!
 
 So please state whether it's just definitions or bugfix (and if so what
 bugs) etc.
 
 Col

IIUC older clamav engines aren't supported, and stop working. but the reason 
given was indeed not enough.

keep in mind that new features for this often means a security fix :-D

i think this'll likely go through, but the original poster should check to see 
how things are, and report them accurately.


Re: [Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-23 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 23 maart 2012 02:08:26 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
 Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 00:30:53 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
 [...]
 
 in a chroot, i did a test with requiring plymouth or suggesting it (from
 dracut)
 
 the difference is:
 
 with plymouth: 301 packages/335MB
 without plymouth: 294 packages/294MB
 
 i'm gonna try a minimal install and see how much this'll differ


ok, i was a bit wrong:

i have a local dracut version overridden with urpmi-proxy so as not to 
required but suggest plymouth


testing with which packages would become requested with rpmsrate...

in a chroot, this becomes: 246 packages/299MB
but, with suggests, this becomes 337 packages/385MB

however, in an install i have 371 packages

but the / contains 731MB

so, where do all these extra packages come from?

these are the different packages between installing with suggests, or chrooted 
rpmsrate expansion with suggests...

acpi
acpid
bc
coreutils-doc
cpufreq
dhcp-client
dhcp-common
dmraid
dmraid-events
gpg-pubkey
hdparm
hexedit
ipset
iptables
kpartx
lib64dmraid1
lib64ip4tc0
lib64ip6tc0
lib64iptables7
lib64mnl0
lib64nfnetlink0
locales-en
lsof
mageia-gfxboot-theme
mandi
mandi-ifw
microcode
microcode_ctl
procmail
shorewall
strace
sudo
tree

for one, mageia-gfxboot-theme is here again... it didn't get selected in 
chrooted install from manually checked rpmsrate settings... where does this 
come from?

is there a part in the installer that hardcodes certain packages? clearly 
according to the ddebug.log file, this mageia-gfxboot-theme gets selected 
during the choosePackages step and not later on...

what am i missing here?

does anyone have an idea? i'd like to get to the bottom of this, so a pointer 
in a direction would help me alot...


Re: [Mageia-dev] rescue has mount.nfs, but no statd

2012-03-23 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 23 maart 2012 10:34:55 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
 On 22 March 2012 20:33, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
  nfs was available, so we wanted to mount
  
  but the mount failed, because nfs module wasn't modprobed, and drvinst
  didn't fix that (maybe it should modprobe nfs as well)
  
  or maybe mount.nfs should try to modprobe nfs if needed.
  
  however, statd wasn't there and it complained that it needed that for
  locking
  
  atm we're doing -o nolock and that works... but... statd would be quite
  usefull here...
  
  perhaps i should rephrase...
  
  can i fix this by adding statd on the rescue? or would this take too much
  space?
 
 it's simpler to use mount -o nolock instead...

it's what i did at the time, but would it be alot of work/space to include 
statd? when doing backup of files to somewhere else, you kind of want to know 
it's not gonna get mushed if someone just goes around opening some files or 
something...

would it just be running statd? or would it also require portmapper etc... 
etc... ?

if it's too much work, or too complex, it's not needed, but if it's not too 
much space and just having statd, then it's good


Re: [Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-23 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 23 maart 2012 10:42:40 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
 On 23 March 2012 08:32, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
  Op vrijdag 23 maart 2012 02:08:26 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
  Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 00:30:53 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
  [...]
  
  in a chroot, i did a test with requiring plymouth or suggesting it (from
  dracut)
  
  the difference is:
  
  with plymouth: 301 packages/335MB
  without plymouth: 294 packages/294MB
  
  i'm gonna try a minimal install and see how much this'll differ
  
  ok, i was a bit wrong:
  
  i have a local dracut version overridden with urpmi-proxy so as not to
  required but suggest plymouth
  
  
  testing with which packages would become requested with rpmsrate...
  
  in a chroot, this becomes: 246 packages/299MB
  but, with suggests, this becomes 337 packages/385MB
  
  however, in an install i have 371 packages
  
  but the / contains 731MB
  
  so, where do all these extra packages come from?
  
  these are the different packages between installing with suggests, or
  chrooted rpmsrate expansion with suggests...
  
  acpi
  acpid
  bc
  coreutils-doc
  cpufreq
  dhcp-client
  dhcp-common
  dmraid
  dmraid-events
  gpg-pubkey
  hdparm
  hexedit
  ipset
  iptables
  kpartx
  lib64dmraid1
  lib64ip4tc0
  lib64ip6tc0
  lib64iptables7
  lib64mnl0
  lib64nfnetlink0
  locales-en
  lsof
  mageia-gfxboot-theme
  mandi
  mandi-ifw
  microcode
  microcode_ctl
  procmail
  shorewall
  strace
  sudo
  tree
  
  for one, mageia-gfxboot-theme is here again... it didn't get selected in
  chrooted install from manually checked rpmsrate settings... where does
  this come from?
  
  is there a part in the installer that hardcodes certain packages? clearly
  according to the ddebug.log file, this mageia-gfxboot-theme gets selected
  during the choosePackages step and not later on...
  
  what am i missing here?
  
  does anyone have an idea? i'd like to get to the bottom of this, so a
  pointer in a direction would help me alot...
 
 acpi* mageia-gfxboot-them are pulled by the installer
 mandi* shorewall ( thus iptables*) too.
 I've asked previously if we want a firewall installed before summary, anne
  blino said it was OK
 microcode* is pulled b/c your CPU supports patching
 idem for cpufreq
 dhcp was selected b/c there was a network interface configured as DHCP
 dmraid ( thus kpartx) was selected b/c you've some fake raid
 (...)
 you always got gpg-pubkey, those are fake packages containing the keys
 used to verify packages


thanks for the explanations, i really appreciate this, it seems logical, 
somehow, except maybe what i'm coming back to:

mageia-gfxboot-theme is pulled by installer? how does that work?

is this really required? or is this something that's somehow done in the 
graphic installer?

i mean, i didn't select graphic grub, i chose text-grub specifically. and 
somehow during the choosePackages step, the mageia-gfxboot-theme is 
automatically selected...

this is the packages that's adding via extra dep and suggests, most of the 
stuff...

where can i find the code that is responsible for this, so i can try and fix it?



about firewall, perhaps it's possible to just include iptables, but set policy 
on DROP incoming? shorewall seems a bit over the top...

but, if summary isn't completed, you can't boot into it, wrt bootloader? so 
firewall seems useless for that...? what is the rationale behind this?


Re: [Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-23 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 23 maart 2012 17:38:05 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
[...]
 we preselect it here so that it got installed early:
 http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/any.pm?revis
 ion=3532view=markup
 
 because else it'll be automatically pulled later, adding a one package (or
 more) wait later:
 http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/bootloader.pm?revisi
 on=3581view=markup
 
 just look mageia-gfxboot-theme
 
 Of course, that's OK for 99% of our users but for those manually
 selecting text lilo.

text grub would still need this? hmm... i'll look into this more deeply...

 That's a trade off: enforcing waiting for packages installation after all
 the other package installation so that a couple users can not have
 the bootsplash installed and select lilo or having a couple users
 unhappy

yeah, i get that, and i agree with this, but there's no reason some advanced 
setting can be done to turn more stuff off, be it visible or even via kickstart 
or cmdline...

 BWe could not preselect

what is 'BWe' ?


well, i was thinking to disable the preselect and/or later part when CAT_X is 
disabled. that should be fairly easy to do...

  about firewall, perhaps it's possible to just include iptables, but set
  policy on DROP incoming? shorewall seems a bit over the top...
 
 we configure shorewall, not iptables.
 
  but, if summary isn't completed, you can't boot into it, wrt bootloader?
  so firewall seems useless for that...? what is the rationale behind
  this?
 
 In the old days we let poeple choose the security level early then we
 automatically install  set  up the firewall accordingly.
 Later the security choice was moved to the summary and security level
 number was reduced from to 3 (see msec or security::level)
 But since the default security level is 1 (standard), we automatically
 install the firewall anyway.
 For years.

sure, but i don't see the need to preselect it, again, it could be in rpmsrate 
and handled that way now that the security level is unused

otoh, i could just use defcfg (if i ever get it working) and set security to 0 
if i wanted to.


[Mageia-dev] MariaDB: problem: final estimated release date

2012-03-23 Thread Maarten Vanraes
( see https://mariadb.atlassian.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa , look at road map )

MariaDB RC 5.5.22   29/Mar/12
MariaDB GA 5.5.23   09/Apr/12

that means that the GA (final release) is 2 days after release freeze :-(
(not counting any possible extra delays)

however, i would like to have the final release and not the release candidate.

any thoughts on this?


Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: drakxtools and drakx-installer-stage2

2012-03-23 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 23 maart 2012 21:56:36 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
 Hi
 
 Please let in drakxtools  drakx-installer-stage2.
 
 A lot of messages were bogus after the cleaning (replacing Mdv by %s
 without providing
 any Mageia to actually sprintf in...).
 There might be similar issues in other tools cleaned.
 People can use perl_checker to find those (not enough parameters).
 
 Also, other bugs found by perl_checker and the support for
 splash/quiet in drakboot.
 
 Here's the detailed changelog:
 
 1) drakxtools
 - drakauth:
   o fix actually displaying Domain Windows for authentication
 - drakboot:
   o use splash on the kernel command line vs. splash=silent as per
 upstream code (e.g. plymouth, systemd and others)
   o support the quiet kernel command line argument to hide kernel text
 - drakbug, draksec, drakxhelp, logdrake:
   o fix displaying Mageia
 - harddrake:
   o fix detecting bluetooth devices
 
 2) drakx-installer-stage2
 - better bootloader message (mga#484)
 - fix displaying Mageia in some messages
 
 See you

does i18n need to be notified?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Please push

2012-03-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 05:36:47 schreef Thomas Spuhler:
 Please push php-apacheaccessor
 
 I upgraded it in svn to 0.1.1 in Dec. 2011, but it either didn't build or I
 forgot to submit it.

i'm pretty sure the requirements for freeze pushes are also at least that you 
must know it builds and works perfectly, on top of that it usually needs to be 
only bugfixes, or due to client/server changes that it is required...

plz add more info to this request


Re: [Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 08:40:14 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
[...]

ic your point, i too am interested in non-bloated install.

however, this mail is specifically on installing WITHOUT suggests, or X. and in 
this particular case, i'd like to get it really really small.

atm i'm looking at 670MB... which is way to bloated. at time of mga1, i had a 
similar install of around 450MB IIRC.
 
  thing is, without a full kickstart (which i don't want to, i'd like to
  keep doing partitioning manually, but kickstart seems not to do the
  interactive requests), i can't really make a minimal system to begin
  with...
 
 you can still do a semi automatic install.

kickstart=file didn't seem to honor the interactive steps, and gave error 
because no / was found.

defcfg=file seemed to have a little bit of default settings, but still i had to 
go through every step...

i haven't found a way to have the middle ground. (or it needs some love)


Re: [Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 17:57:29 schreef Thomas Backlund:
[...]
 Installer already have a option to select do not install suggests

and it does...

that's exactly what i stated in my original email...

PEOPLE ARE HIJACKING MY THREAD!!!


Re: [Mageia-dev] rescue has mount.nfs, but no statd

2012-03-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 10:14:27 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
 at $dayjob, we're testing out the rescue.
 
 so at first we're doing an rsync, but we need to do it on a network disk.
 
 cifs was not available, but that's not a big issue.
 
 nfs was available, so we wanted to mount
 
 but the mount failed, because nfs module wasn't modprobed, and drvinst
 didn't fix that (maybe it should modprobe nfs as well)
 
 or maybe mount.nfs should try to modprobe nfs if needed.
 
 however, statd wasn't there and it complained that it needed that for
 locking
 
 atm we're doing -o nolock and that works... but... statd would be quite
 usefull here...

perhaps i should rephrase...

can i fix this by adding statd on the rescue? or would this take too much 
space?

plz advise...


Re: [Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 00:30:53 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
 i did a network install
 
 and choose 'custom', then deselected everything, pressed next
 
 i got to the next menu of installation and left these to default:
 
  - no X
  - no suggestions
  - basic doc still on
  - truly minimal was off
 
 but, i ended up with x libraries, fonts, etc...
 
 so i dug a bit deeper as to why and looked at the ddebug.log file:

i looked once more, after the choose packages step:

these are the categories selected:

CAT_MINIMAL_DOCS
CAT_SYSTEM
CHARSETC
LOCALESen
LOCALES_
LOCALESen_US
META_CLASSdownload
TRUE
USB
UTF8

this should be:
man info man-pages eject ldetect harddrake sharutils locales iputils urpmi 
tmpwatch dmidecode ntfs-3g pm-utils numlock lftp mageia-release-Default


these should result in a selection of 235 packages (i tried to track these 
manually through the rpmsrate file

however, somehow other packages seem to be getting extra installed anyway 
(during the choosePackages step)!

first package being selected is:

- lib64drm_radeon1 ... even in rpmsrate radeon-firmware (the closest thing i 
can imagine), needs CAT_X 

next:
- lib64pam0
- bootsplash

am i missing something, i have the feeling there's another file that has effect 
to these stuff?



Re: [Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 23 maart 2012 00:44:09 schreef Pascal Terjan:
[...]
 next:
  - lib64pam0
  - bootsplash
  
  am i missing something, i have the feeling there's another file that has
  effect
  to these stuff?
 
 Well all the packages have plenty of dependencies...

bootsplash is a good thing to look for:

see the relevant part of ddebug.log: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/569781/

look for bootsplash, it gets selected, but never chosen nor required, but it's 
somehow there... and it should need CAT_X... to get selected...

also see that the lib64drm_radeon1 is the very first in the ddebug.log...? why 
first? somehow it's been preselected, but it's not even in rpmsrate...





Re: [Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 00:30:53 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
[...]

in a chroot, i did a test with requiring plymouth or suggesting it (from 
dracut)

the difference is:

with plymouth: 301 packages/335MB
without plymouth: 294 packages/294MB

i'm gonna try a minimal install and see how much this'll differ


Re: [Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 19:04:07 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
 Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 17:57:29 schreef Thomas Backlund:
 [...]
 
  Installer already have a option to select do not install suggests
 
 and it does...
 
 that's exactly what i stated in my original email...
 
 PEOPLE ARE HIJACKING MY THREAD!!!

of course, this was a joke at the time...

but i should've known better...

it appears the no suggests option is broken, since i did minimal install, 
with and without this, and i have exactly the same system...

both times i have messages in ddebug.log saying: ... as suggested by ...

:-(

can someone fix this one?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia ARM on Raspberry Pi (David Sj?lin)

2012-03-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 21 maart 2012 15:11:47 schreef brett:
 Sorry for the double post - n00b to the dev-list here!
 
 I am among those to receive one of the first batch or two of raspberry
 pi devices.
 I would be happy to help with testing as I would LOVE to be able to use
 Mageia on the device (as well as on a smartphone!)
 
 It seems that the ARM port has been rather inactive over the past year,
 though?

iinm we're actually still starting it up... contact rtp for more info 
regarding this.


[Mageia-dev] Freeze push request: urpmi-proxy-0.3.2

2012-03-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
plz push urpmi-proxy

It's a bugfix release with only one fix


[Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

2012-03-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
i did a network install

and choose 'custom', then deselected everything, pressed next

i got to the next menu of installation and left these to default:

 - no X
 - no suggestions
 - basic doc still on
 - truly minimal was off

but, i ended up with x libraries, fonts, etc...

so i dug a bit deeper as to why and looked at the ddebug.log file:

afaict dracut seems to require plymouth, and mageia-gfxboot-theme seems to be 
there no matter what option i choose from the summary, it seems it was already 
installed before the summary.


thing is, without a full kickstart (which i don't want to, i'd like to keep 
doing partitioning manually, but kickstart seems not to do the interactive 
requests), i can't really make a minimal system to begin with...

for this release, if at all possible, i'd still like to get a bit smaller for 
minimal setups, and like to present a nongraphic grub by default when X is 
unselected, and also have no need for gfxboot or plymouth when i don't have a 
graphic grub (even though this isn't the same)

furthermore, if i'm installing without X the default runlevel target seems to 
still be the graphic one, and not the multi-user one...

perhaps it's possible to have this as alternatives or something? which could 
be set by the CAT_X thingie? one installing one package and the other 
installing the other package?


Re: [Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

2012-03-16 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 16 maart 2012 08:57:45 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
[...]
 It's already the case. If you re-read Ennael's mail about version freeze,
 it says exactly that about exceptions.
 
 Samuel

i'm looking at this mail, but don't see the exact same exceptions?

https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-March/012533.html

which email are you looking at?


Re: [Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

2012-03-16 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 16 maart 2012 16:15:22 schreef Pascal Terjan:
 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 15:11, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
  Op vrijdag 16 maart 2012 08:57:45 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
  [...]
  
  It's already the case. If you re-read Ennael's mail about version
  freeze, it says exactly that about exceptions.
  
  Samuel
  
  i'm looking at this mail, but don't see the exact same exceptions?
  
  https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-March/012533.html
  
  which email are you looking at?
 
 Criteria for accepting updates
 --
 Since we aim for stability, the criteria would be near the ones of
 updates.

ah, like this...

i read this as near (ie: not exact) and then the next parts were 
clarifications on the criteria (and the client/server protocol ones weren't in 
there).

my bad, although in my defence, it could have been worded better, or a wiki 
policy with a link to it in this email.

imho, if this were clearer, then i would guess misc would on his original 
email likely ask questions regarding client/server protocol changes as well... 
so i can only conclude that it might not have been 100% clear for everyone. 
(and i wasn't the only one)


Re: [Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

2012-03-15 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 15 maart 2012 18:35:04 schreef Juan Luis Baptiste:
 On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Bertaux Xavier berta...@yahoo.fr wrote:
  If this is the case, then I say that xonotic should be allowed to be
  updated.
  
  I'm not about to be okay with that, a version Freeze only accepts
  updates on bug fixes and security warnings, so RC to Release is OK but
  not to revision's change, otherwise that would mean that if fate xonotic
  in version 0.7 just before the Release we should built.
  To me this should be pushed Backport, to limit the update after Release
 
 Backports are for new versions, not bug fixes. In this case even as
 this is a new version, the use of an older version of the game client
 with a new game server version could bring issues to users, so that
 makes this release more of a bug fix release, because we are trying
 to avoid any possible problem to our users, not because we want to
 have the latest version of the game. If we leave the current version
 and then a user reports a problem while playing the game, the 0.6 or
 0.7 or whatever version is available at the time would be pushed as an
 update, not as a backport.

well, the version policy is for updates.

my point here is that we should maybe equalize  simplify our policys by 
having the same kind of exceptions in both policies.

of course, there may be a good reason to now similar exceptions to both 
policies, it's just that atm, i don't see any.


[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: mariadb (beta)

2012-03-15 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Please push mariadb:

mariadb (and mysql) seem to have an odd method of increasing version number 
for each of there alpha/beta/rc/final versions.

This updates to the 5.5 Beta release (it's not announced yet, but they are 
waiting for it to hit all the mirrors)

Normally, the final is expected to released in about 2 weeks.


Re: [Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

2012-03-14 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 14 maart 2012 01:16:23 schreef Juan Luis Baptiste:
 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote:
  Le samedi 10 mars 2012 à 10:26 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
  Hi
  
  please let in xonotic-0.6.0
  It's just a game that impacts nothing else.
  
  Niet.
  
  That's bugfix or security fixes.
 
 Well I vote to be updated, why ? global game servers are currently
 running 0.6.0, and by personal experience over several years (omg how
 much time wasted on this) these FPS games need to have the same
 client/server version, in some cases different versions won't work at
 all (ie. Urban Terror 3.7 - 4.0 - 4.1, Warsow 0.5 - 0.8 etc).
 
 I just did the test of running a 0.5.0 client on a 0.6.0 server and it
 works, but a big and annoying yellow announce floats across the screen
 remaining you that a new version is available. I also talked with one
 dev over IRC and he told me that there could be issues when running
 different client/server versions.
 
 So just to be on the safe side this new version should be pushed. If
 not then probably we will need to do it later as an update if any
 problems arise. I commit my self to test the new version, I know very
 well how this game works.

IINM we have some kind of exception regarding games for their client/server 
relation regarding updates vs backports? if so, then perhaps we could have the 
same policy wrt updates to version freeze?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push: firefox, xulrunner

2012-03-14 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 14 maart 2012 03:02:57 schreef Funda Wang:
 Hello,
 
 Could somebody push firefox 10.0.3esr and xulrunner 10.0.3esr into
 cauldron? Thanks.

i thought the maintainer wanted to push _only_ the esr version? or has 
something changed?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push: firefox, xulrunner

2012-03-14 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 14 maart 2012 09:28:07 schreef D.Morgan:
 On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
  Op woensdag 14 maart 2012 03:02:57 schreef Funda Wang:
  Hello,
  
  Could somebody push firefox 10.0.3esr and xulrunner 10.0.3esr into
  cauldron? Thanks.
  
  i thought the maintainer wanted to push _only_ the esr version? or has
  something changed?
 
 funda told 10.0.3esr and xulrunner 10.0.3esr so what is wrong for you
 ?

well, i thought you said you were only gonna do esr... as such to me, it 
seemed unnecessary to add esr ... it seems to imply the other versions gonna 
get pushed later...

but then, maybe they will be backported or something...

if you're ok with it, it's fine, i just noticed it and found it odd...


Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: pidgin

2012-03-14 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 14 maart 2012 17:33:24 schreef Damien Lallement:
 Hi,
 
 pidgin 2.10.2 just landed!
 It builds on my laptop and I use it since a few hours now.
 All is working.
 Can we push it to cauldron?
 A lot of big improvements like:
 - GNOME3 better support
 - NM better support
 - fix crash
 - update MSN protocol to MSNP18
 
 http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
 
 Thanks,

the MSN protocol will likely be necessary for it to work?

can the crash fix and MSN patches be backported? or is it not doable?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Odd Window framing in curses part of install

2012-03-13 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 13 maart 2012 20:47:48 schreef Frank Griffin:
 On 03/13/2012 02:40 PM, Frank Griffin wrote:
  Just a small thing, but the curses windows which appear at the start
  of isolinux prompting for the type of install, server address and so
  forth have suddenly had their borders filled with characters - U at
  the left corner, A along the top, and an upside-down question mark
  at the right corner.
  
  I assume that curses is using ASCII extended graphics characters to
  draw the perimeter of the windows, but that the install itself is
  using UTF-8 or some other character set which doesn't have them.
 
 My bad.  This is bug 4894.  I just didn't guess it from the title.

my bad, if you find a better title, please do


Re: [Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

2012-03-12 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 12 maart 2012 07:53:38 schreef David W. Hodgins:
[...]
 My understanding was that Magea 1 supported updating from Mandriva
 2010.2 + Contrib + PLF-Free.
 
 There were several updates submitted to qa a few days ago, that are
 only available in backports in Mdv 2010.2.
[...]

IMHO backports could be supported under Mageia backports, not in regular 
media.

Keeping in mind our limited resources, nonetheless, several of these bugs 
which seemed to require workaround upon workaround, should get fixed sooner 
rather than later, because it seems to be getting more complicated or more 
discussed (and in generally too much resources being spent on it)

i'm thinking of:
 - backports
 - noarch linking
 - bug 2317
 - livemedia
 - or in general what we promise ( or rather to be careful what and how we 
promise):

if we say: there are no livemedia yet, but we're working on it to get it in 
the next few weeks ... some people become angry, but you can also say:
There's a major bug preventing us from making livemedia, but we're working on 
them and possibly even updating it when it becomes clear it'll be for the 
next release into This beta release doesn't have any livemedia, we're hoping 
to have the next beta release containing livemedia

Similar with backports: it's been promised this time without timelimit, but 
people seem to be convinced it'll never make it. 3rd party repositories 
popping up etc... It does not make us look good. and I'm getting to the point 
where the resources spent on discussing backports seem to be larger than the 
eventual losses in resources that would have been due to backports being open. 
But now of all times, backports shouldn't open, rather in the first week after 
release of mga2 would be a nice timing.

to get back on topic: perhaps it's not unreasonable to allow a timelimit 
exception, like for instance 3 or 4 days where i forgot it was freeze or 
didn't make it in time AND it's not likely to mess everything up kind of 
reason...

But i think the point is now becoming moot if temporary freeze of Beta2 is in 
effect... (not sure if it is, but i think i saw something regarding it)

(about communication: maybe it's more prudent to have a messagebox above 
http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ telling us about various freezes and upcoming 
soon freezes, even though as a packager it's my task to read meeting logs and 
keeping myself up2date)


Re: [Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

2012-03-12 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 12 maart 2012 10:56:57 schreef Michael Scherer:
 Le lundi 12 mars 2012 à 08:29 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
  to get back on topic: perhaps it's not unreasonable to allow a timelimit
  exception, like for instance 3 or 4 days where i forgot it was freeze or
  didn't make it in time AND it's not likely to mess everything up kind of
  reason...
 
 That was already discussed when we discussed the release cycle. And
 basically, that would just let's reduce the freeze by 3/4 days in a
 more inefficient way. You just move the bickering at the 3/4 days limit
 ( but it could have bene if I had submitted yesterday ) instead of the
 beggining of the freeze, and you take time to the people who are
 submitting, since they get message, have to warn packager about it
 doesn't work ( as it happened several time last freeze period ).
[...]
 So next time, maybe we should have a pure good faith based system,
[...]
 - everybody can do as he see fit

I'll take this suggestion as a cynic suggestions and ignore it for now

[...]
 Patch welcome, but frankly, I think there is a point where the duty of
 being informed must be on the packagers. It is rather depressing to
 realize that people do not read the announce you send ( and what is more
 depressing is the number of those that don't once you start to dig out
 ).
 
 If some people missed the announce, maybe we should ask them where do
 you read information about the project and where don't you read, so we
 can identify the communication channel that should be used and those
 that shouldn't, as i am not sure that hammering more is the solution.

I do understand both your pov, and i do remember that discussion.

IMHO: good strict policies are good, and exceptions are exceptions.

but we should also try to prevent irritation if it's possible... we're short 
on contributors and I don't like to decrease motivation... I guess that makes 
me more lax than others.


Re: [Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

2012-03-12 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 12 maart 2012 22:02:56 schreef Guillaume Rousse:
 Le 12/03/2012 21:27, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
  but we should also try to prevent irritation if it's possible... we're
  short on contributors and I don't like to decrease motivation... I guess
  that makes me more lax than others.
 
 OK, I want a new version of cowsay. Right now. Otherwise I'm leaving.
 Far away and forever.

ok, fine, your point is noted...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

2012-03-10 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 10 maart 2012 22:06:09 schreef Florian Hubold:
 Am 10.03.2012 14:15, schrieb eatdirt:
  On 10/03/12 10:12, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
  I have a pentium 66MHz (not MMX)
  
  With the turbo button 33 - 66 ? Man, that's a proper collector :)
 
 Normally turbo button was only effective for 468DX/586DX type
 of machines, not for pentium IIRC.

you likely mean 486/586 and alas 586 machines are called pentium

there's a difference between pentium and pentium MMX though, even though i 
recall there are even pentium MMX's who had a turbo button...

if it was really effective of not, that's another matter entirely...


Re: [Mageia-dev] deprecate text installer

2012-03-09 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 09 maart 2012 14:29:42 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
 On 9 March 2012 07:42, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
   If we deprecate and remove the abillity to use a text installer, we
   are effectlively blocking blind users from beeing able to install the
   system.
  
  I know how you guys feel, but the fact is that we're at beta1 and it's
  not working and it doesn't seem to be a simple problem...
  
  we're trying to fix it, but it doesn't seem good atm:
  https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4724
  
  and if it's not working, we shouldn't advertise it
 
 You lie.
 It's working perfectly.

ah, you fixed it? thanks alot, i'll go test immediately


Re: [Mageia-dev] deprecate text installer

2012-03-09 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 09 maart 2012 17:42:33 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
 On 9 March 2012 17:29, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
  ah, you fixed it? thanks alot, i'll go test immediately
 
 No, I mean you're all lyers :-)

you mean liars?

 More seriously, on x86_64 you 'll need the 48132096 bytes
 install/stage2/mdkinst.sqfs file from Mar  9 2012 13:22
 (different size on i586 of course)

yeah i already confirmed it slightly working, there's still a curses bug i 
presume see the bug report


Re: [Mageia-dev] deprecate text installer

2012-03-09 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 10 maart 2012 00:25:46 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
 On 9 March 2012 19:44, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote:
  yeah i already confirmed it slightly working, there's still a curses bug
  i presume see the bug report
 
 You shouldn't have mixed this with that bug report.
 (btw this looks like a virtuabl bios issue imho)

oh, sorry, i'll try it out on a real machine tomorrow.

allthough, the pictures i have from the text installer from mga1 didn't have 
this, and the vbox host and version is still the same...


Re: [Mageia-dev] deprecate text installer

2012-03-08 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 09 maart 2012 04:29:39 schreef Liam R E Quin:
 On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 04:11 +0100, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
  If we deprecate and remove the abillity to use a text installer, we
  are effectlively blocking blind users from beeing able to install the
  system.
[..]

I know how you guys feel, but the fact is that we're at beta1 and it's not 
working and it doesn't seem to be a simple problem...

we're trying to fix it, but it doesn't seem good atm: 
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4724

and if it's not working, we shouldn't advertise it


[Mageia-dev] deprecate text installer

2012-03-07 Thread Maarten Vanraes
considering https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4724 and that it's likely 
not working in cauldron for months, and also considering it's beyond our perl 
guru jq and our drakx-guru tv, and considering it looks like google didn't 
help... and considering there's 4 or 5 text-installer bugs i wanted to test 
out...

perhaps we should consider in fact that text installer does not work...
after all, if we get this fixed, there's still the other text-installer bugs...

maybe it's premature for me, but considering this is version freeze... we're 
getting closer to the end...


WDYT?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

2012-03-07 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 07 maart 2012 22:34:50 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
[...]
 I apparently missed a few meetings or e-mails where this was discussed, but
 wasn't the initial plan to keep sysvinit by default in mga2 and switch to
 systemd by default in mga3? Wasn't the switch to systemd by default in
 cauldron a temporary switch in order to get more testing?
 
 Samuel

that is what i originally thought too, but i guess i was mistaken


Re: [Mageia-dev] Missing noarch package from i586 repository

2012-03-06 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 15:39:53 schreef Pascal Terjan:
 On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 14:39, Pascal Terjan pter...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 14:29, Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com 
wrote:
  According to check.mageia.org, dmenu has a broken dependency, since
  terminus-font is missing from i586 repositories.
  According to svnweb, it was last commited 7 months ago as a noarch
  package by wally. And it was not shown as broken dependency this
  weekend so it must have been deleted from the mirrors in the last few
  days out of some reason unknown to me. Is this a general problem on
  noarch packages or just some isolated thing with this package?
  
  Hmm I restored it but I have no idea what happened and it is not in
  old/ (the place where we move things to be deleted so that they stay
  around for a few weeks)
 
 [schedbot@valstar ~]$ diff (find
 /distrib/bootstrap/distrib/cauldron/i586/ -name '*noarch.rpm' | xargs
 -n1 basename |sort) (find /distrib/bootstrap/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/
 -name '*noarch.rpm' | xargs -n1 basename | sort) | grep '^[]'
 
  audiokonverter-5.9.1-1.mga2.tainted.noarch.rpm
 
  bluez-firmware-1.2-6.mga1.noarch.rpm
 
  jgoodies-animation-javadoc-1.3.0-1.mga2.noarch.rpm
  xml-commons-apis-manual-1.4.01-6.mga2.noarch.rpm


maybe unrelated, i've rebuilt some packages these last few days because they 
were missing one of the subpackages


Re: [Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console

2012-03-06 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 14:28:38 schreef Colin Guthrie:
[...]
 Now I'm not sure on the logic inside the Xserver that is used to search
 for a free getty. it maybe starts from the current one and counts up. If
 so, this logic should (IMO) be changed to start searching from 1 that
 way it would relatively consistently start on vt1 even when restarted
 from tty2.
 
 Col

have you been successfull with 2 user sessions?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console

2012-03-06 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 20:50:11 schreef Colin Guthrie:
[...]
  Yeah. I would agree there has to be a limit. I'd say RC2 should be that
  limit. If I've not found a better way of doing things by then, I'll do
  whatever is needed to make a getty appear...
  
  There is no RC2 planned...
  
  Planned timetable is:
  
  beta2: March 15th
  rc: April 10th
  final: May 3rd
 
 OK, then I guess by the rc then :)
 
 Col

release freeze is April 7th...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console

2012-03-06 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 20:52:02 schreef Colin Guthrie:
 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 06/03/12 19:41 did gyre and gimble:
  Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 14:28:38 schreef Colin Guthrie:
  [...]
  
  Now I'm not sure on the logic inside the Xserver that is used to search
  for a free getty. it maybe starts from the current one and counts up. If
  so, this logic should (IMO) be changed to start searching from 1 that
  way it would relatively consistently start on vt1 even when restarted
  from tty2.
  
  Col
  
  have you been successfull with 2 user sessions?
 
 As in logging out and back in again or with fast user switching?
 
 The former has worked quite happily for me. Not tested the latter but I
 expect there to be some quirks.
 
 Col

err, no, i mean 2 X sessions.

often i have one KDE session running on vt8 and one for my wife on vt9 and 
sometimes on for my daughter at vt10...

the question is, with the prefdm only conflicting with the first getty, will 
several X sessions be possible?


Re: [Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console

2012-03-06 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 21:19:49 schreef Colin Guthrie:
 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 06/03/12 20:09 did gyre and gimble:
  Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 20:52:02 schreef Colin Guthrie:
  'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 06/03/12 19:41 did gyre and gimble:
  Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 14:28:38 schreef Colin Guthrie:
  [...]
  
  Now I'm not sure on the logic inside the Xserver that is used to
  search for a free getty. it maybe starts from the current one and
  counts up. If so, this logic should (IMO) be changed to start
  searching from 1 that way it would relatively consistently start on
  vt1 even when restarted from tty2.
  
  Col
  
  have you been successfull with 2 user sessions?
  
  As in logging out and back in again or with fast user switching?
  
  The former has worked quite happily for me. Not tested the latter but I
  expect there to be some quirks.
  
  Col
  
  err, no, i mean 2 X sessions.
  
  often i have one KDE session running on vt8 and one for my wife on vt9
  and sometimes on for my daughter at vt10...
 
 OK, so fast user switching then.
 
  the question is, with the prefdm only conflicting with the first getty,
  will several X sessions be possible?
 
 Yeah. They should, in theory at least, start on vt2 and vt3, tho' this
 may depend on the desktop itself. With GDM+Gnome the second session
 starts on tty2, the third on tty3 etc.
 
 There is a caveat however. If you have switched to tty2 before picking
 the Login as another user option, then autovt will have kicked in and
 started a getty there. It then hogs tty2 and prevents X from using it.
 
 Of course if I manage to get my idea working, switching to tty2 when in
 graphical.target will actually give you a graphical login prompt anyway,
 so pretty much the same thing as picking the Login as another user
 option from within the first graphical session.
 
 Col

ic...

i do hope we get some kind of vt that will always be tty? i do sometimes 
require that, when getting too much load and OOM'ing...

also, it'd be nice to have as possibility (in the dm) to start a tty session 
instead of a graphical session (as an alternative)


but i guess the important parts are all the other things...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Network lost with last update

2012-03-05 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 05 maart 2012 18:56:36 schreef Colin Guthrie:
[...]
 Of course those without internet access might have trouble reading the
 mailing list :p
 
 Col

/me facepalms


Re: [Mageia-dev] Versions freeze

2012-03-04 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zondag 04 maart 2012 11:38:08 schreef Michael Scherer:
[...]
 Why assume that we are late ?
 
 If there is no post we are late, then we are not.

Such a post would usually come late :-)


Re: [Mageia-dev] Versions freeze

2012-03-03 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 03 maart 2012 10:36:55 schreef Thomas Backlund:
 03.03.2012 11:24, Michael Scherer skrev:
  Le vendredi 02 mars 2012 à 20:53 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
  Op vrijdag 02 maart 2012 20:16:11 schreef Thomas Backlund:
  02.03.2012 21:08, Dimitri Jakov skrev:
  Besides... GNOME 3.4 is going to be released on March 28 - does that
  
  Yes we know...
  
  mean that we won't be able to ship it with Mageia 2?
  
  Nope, we have that as an exception to the freeze...
  (that's why we already run 3.3.x)
  
  we will have Gnome 3.4.x and KDE 4.8.x in Mageia 2
  
  also, I hope mariadb-5.5.x final (right now we have 5.5.20 which is the
  alpha version; beta will come quite soon, then the rc and finals follow
  pretty fast and these only contain bugfixes)
  
  Next time, maybe waiting for the beta would be better, cauldron is not
  mean to be a playground for testing upstream softwares when we do not
  have a strong assurance that the stable will end i the stable release.
 
 Actually in this case it is ok, since we've been tracking upstream 5.5.x
 branch with the target for 5.5.x final, so alpha in this case
 only means fully synced with mysql 5.5 and afaik all intended mariadb
 patches merged...

yes, and so far that haven't been any complaints yet, waiting for mikala, 
since he's the most likely person to have issues about it.

 They are only a bit late :/

yes :-(

allthough according to upstream, there seems to be a good chance it will be 
released as final quite quickly

  If everybody start to do that, we spend more time on upgrading to
  version that should have been stable than fixing others bugs.
  
  And if upstream could also try to be a little bit less original and
  follow some easy to grasp convetion about version number.

yes, it seems they will upgrade the version to +1 for beta and so forth.

but they consider the major versions 5.5 the real version. but still, took me 
a while to figure it out...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Versions freeze

2012-03-03 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 03 maart 2012 22:34:41 schreef Sander Lepik:
  Well, actually I'm sure it could. But why? All meeting logs are publicly
 
 available at https://meetbot.mageia.org/
 
 Why? Because now i know this link for some time and then i forget it again
 
 :) Sorry but Mageia isn't the only project where i'm contributing. I just
 
 can't remember everything. But thanks for the link.
 
 --
 Sander

maybe we could have the meetbot send it to another mailing list and the people 
who don't frequently are able to follow the meetings can subscribe to that.

i don't think it's a bad idea to read what has happened in the meetings as a 
packager team member...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Versions freeze

2012-03-02 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 02 maart 2012 20:16:11 schreef Thomas Backlund:
 02.03.2012 21:08, Dimitri Jakov skrev:
  Besides... GNOME 3.4 is going to be released on March 28 - does that
 
 Yes we know...
 
  mean that we won't be able to ship it with Mageia 2?
 
 Nope, we have that as an exception to the freeze...
 (that's why we already run 3.3.x)
 
 we will have Gnome 3.4.x and KDE 4.8.x in Mageia 2

also, I hope mariadb-5.5.x final (right now we have 5.5.20 which is the alpha 
version; beta will come quite soon, then the rc and finals follow pretty fast 
and these only contain bugfixes)


Re: [Mageia-dev] executable libraries

2012-03-02 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 02 maart 2012 21:29:05 schreef Anssi Hannula:
 02.03.2012 21:57, Maarten Vanraes kirjoitti:
  Op vrijdag 02 maart 2012 15:22:23 schreef Anssi Hannula:
  02.03.2012 00:17, Maarten Vanraes kirjoitti:
  Op donderdag 01 maart 2012 23:05:35 schreef Anssi Hannula:
  [...]
  
  does this mean debug info fails for these?
  
  I'm not immediately sure (I never remember how the debug/stripping
  stuff works exactly), but I think either a) debug symbols extraction
  and thus -debug packaging, b) stripping, or c) both will fail with
  non-executable shared libs.
  
  in that case i guess we would need a policy or bs check to make sure we
  don't fail some libraries debug and strip
  
  Possibly.
  
  Interestingly, Debian policy disallows executable permission on shared
  libs:
  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-
  ru ntime
  
  Shared libraries should not be installed executable, since the dynamic
  linker does not require this and trying to execute a shared library
  usually results in a core dump.
  
  which is sort of strange, since libc is actually executable by design.
  
  i see where they are coming from
  
  but i guess the first part of this is, why is there a find with
  executable restrictions for the code relating to stripped binaries and
  debug?
  
  is it because it's also used for real executables?
 
 I guess it is there just to speed up the process, otherwise it would
 have to run 'file' for every file in the package (and many packages have
 lots of files).

still, it seems kind of weird, there are rpmlint checks for unstripped 
libraries, but i do have 34 libraries not marked as executable, while the 
stripping+ debug seems to target only executables?

i wonder if we should make another check library unset as executable or even 
check what happened with these libraries not marked as executable?


[Mageia-dev] executable libraries

2012-03-01 Thread Maarten Vanraes
I noticed that on my system, some libraries are marked executable and others 
aren't.

I know that certain libraries are executable, like libc, but i figure that this 
is rather the exception rather than the rule.

I wonder if we should have some kind of policy about this?

I can be wrong, but i didn't think it's necessary to make libraries as 
executable?

I don't want any bikeshedding, but what do you think? is such a policy useful? 
or not?


Re: [Mageia-dev] executable libraries

2012-03-01 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 01 maart 2012 22:22:37 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
[...]

forgot to add my counts from my system:

[ ]$ find -L /lib /lib64 /usr/lib /usr/lib64 -iname *.so -executable | sort | 
uniq | wc -l
4113
[ ]$ find -L /lib /lib64 /usr/lib /usr/lib64 -iname *.so | sort | uniq | wc -
l
4147
[ ]$ find -L /lib /lib64 /usr/lib /usr/lib64 -iname *.so -not -executable | 
sort | uniq | wc -l
34


hmm, only 34 not marked as executable?


Re: [Mageia-dev] executable libraries

2012-03-01 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 01 maart 2012 22:36:08 schreef Pascal Terjan:
[...]
 I would say it doesn't matter and would not spend any time on it

ok, thanks for your pov


Re: [Mageia-dev] executable libraries

2012-03-01 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 01 maart 2012 22:54:59 schreef Anssi Hannula:
 01.03.2012 23:36, Pascal Terjan kirjoitti:
  I would say it doesn't matter and would not spend any time on it
 
 /usr/lib/rpm/mageia/find-debuginfo.sh:
 
 # Strip ELF binaries
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT ! -path ${debugdir}/*.debug -type f \
  \( -perm -0100 -or -perm -0010 -or -perm -0001 \) \
 ^
  -print |
 file -N -f - | sed -n -e 's/^\(.*\):[   ]*.*ELF.*, not stripped/\1/p' |
 xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c '%h %D_%i %n' |
 while read nlinks inum f; do
 
 
 Looks like debug packages and/or stripping won't work for non-executable
 shared libraries.

hmm, there's a '!' there, so isn't it reverse then?

but if this only works with executable libraries, (kind of weird imho), there 
are at least 34 libraries on my system not marked as executable...

does this mean debug info fails for these?


Re: [Mageia-dev] executable libraries

2012-03-01 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 01 maart 2012 23:05:35 schreef Anssi Hannula:
[...]
  does this mean debug info fails for these?
 
 I'm not immediately sure (I never remember how the debug/stripping stuff
 works exactly), but I think either a) debug symbols extraction and thus
 -debug packaging, b) stripping, or c) both will fail with non-executable
 shared libs.

in that case i guess we would need a policy or bs check to make sure we don't 
fail some libraries debug and strip


Re: [Mageia-dev] executable libraries

2012-03-01 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 01 maart 2012 23:37:02 schreef Per Øyvind Karlsen:
[...]
 rpmlint already has a check for unstripped files at least.. :)

does it also check only executable files?


Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release evolution-3.3.90-2.mga2

2012-02-28 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 29 februari 2012 00:10:47 schreef Olav Vitters:
 On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:19:46PM +0100, mitya wrote:
  mitya mitya 3.3.90-2.mga2:
  + Revision: 215887
  - bump release
  - Fix GNOME bug #669294 (will be merged upstream in 3.3.91+)
 
 If you forget to increase the release, you can do something like:
 SILENT: bump release
 
 anything with SILENT on the line is hidden.
 
 and no need to mention you're bumping the release; if you didn't, the
 buildsystem wouldn't allow you to submit

and you can also modify the svn commit log so that future changelog entries 
will look good


Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release dovecot-1.2.17-3.mga2

2012-02-27 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 27 februari 2012 09:20:17 schreef Guillaume Rousse:
 Le 27/02/2012 08:00, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
  Is it necessary to have these --with[out]* compile flags in the package
  description?
 
 maybe not necessary, but definitively useful.
 
  maybe it'd be better to just list whatever support it has been built
  with.
 
 It has been a standard practice for all our packages allowing
 conditional build options for quite a long time. Of course, this could
 be mentioned elsewhere as package description.

i have no problem it being in the spec file, but surely a better place rather 
than the description... it's not like users really need to know which compile 
flags there is or what you can do with rpmbuild...

i'm just saying this info should be moved out to comments in spec file, and 
change the description to state what exactly is compiled in...


Re: [Mageia-dev] Looking for a packaging mentor

2012-02-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zondag 26 februari 2012 17:55:42 schreef Jeff Robins:
[...]
 Awesome, thanks.  What's a good IRC client?  I've honestly never used it
 before.

there are several:
 - irssi
 - bitchX
 - XChat
 - pidgin has a IRC plugin
 - ...


Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release dovecot-1.2.17-3.mga2

2012-02-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Is it necessary to have these --with[out]* compile flags in the package 
description?

maybe it'd be better to just list whatever support it has been built with.

Op zondag 26 februari 2012 19:46:34 schreef colin:
 Name: dovecot  Relocations: (not relocatable)
[...]
 Description :
 Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written
 with security primarily in mind. Although it's written with C, it uses
 several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls.
 
 Dovecot can work with standard mbox and maildir formats and it's fully
 compatible with UW-IMAP and Courier IMAP servers as well as mail clients
 accessing the mailboxes directly.
 
 You can build dovecot with some conditional build swithes;
 
 (ie. use with rpm --rebuild):
 
 --with[out] gssapiGSSAPI support (enabled)
 --with[out] ldap  LDAP support (enabled)
 --with[out] luceneLucene support (enabled)
 --with[out] mysql MySQL support (enabled)
 --with[out] pgsql PostgreSQL support (enabled)
 --with[out] sqliteSQLite support (enabled)
 --with[out] sieve CMU Sieve support (enabled)
 --with[out] managesieve   MmanageSieve support (enabled)
 
[...]


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