Re: Starting Java SIG

2010-08-31 Thread Eric Deering
I don't have any packages currently that anybody actually uses. I'd love to join up and help a larger part of the community. -Eric -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

font dependency packaging question

2010-08-31 Thread Carl Byington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a package (ghemical) which requires a courier 12 font for use in its xwindow gui. I clearly need some dependency that will drag in xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi or xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi but those probably depend on the actual user's

Re: Nautilus misbehaving

2010-08-31 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:03, Tom London wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Paul F. Johnson > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After the recent rawhide to nautilus 2.90.1-1.fc15.i686, it's stopped > > working claiming that I don't have Settings schema > > 'org.gnome.desktop.lockdown' installed. >

Re: Creating a rawhide/f15 private kernel branch

2010-08-31 Thread Jesse Keating
"Matt McCutchen" wrote: >IIUC, the f15/ namespace will not exist until F15 is branched. You >should just push to refs/heads/user/steved/pnfs-f15 . > Or use -rawhide, since master always builds for rawhide. -- Sent from my Android phone. Please excuse my brevity. -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Creating a rawhide/f15 private kernel branch

2010-08-31 Thread Jesse Keating
"Steve Dickson" wrote: >$ git push origin origin/master:refs/heads/f15/user/steved/pnfs-f15Total 0 >(delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) >remote: C refs/heads/f15/user/steved/pnfs-f15 steved DENIED by >refs/heads/f[0-9][0-9] >remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/f15/user/steved/pnfs-f15

Re: Creating a rawhide/f15 private kernel branch

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 22:14 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > When I do a: > git push --dry-run origin origin/master:refs/heads/f15/user/steved/pnfs-f15 > To ssh://ste...@pkgs.fedoraproject.org/kernel > * [new branch] origin/master -> f15/user/steved/pnfs-f15 > > which appears to do what I want

Creating a rawhide/f15 private kernel branch

2010-08-31 Thread Steve Dickson
When I do a: git push --dry-run origin origin/master:refs/heads/f15/user/steved/pnfs-f15 To ssh://ste...@pkgs.fedoraproject.org/kernel * [new branch] origin/master -> f15/user/steved/pnfs-f15 which appears to do what I want.. but when I remove the --dry-run I get: $ git push origin origin/m

Re: Starting Java SIG

2010-08-31 Thread Adam Miller
I don't currently maintain any Java packages within Fedora but I did (somewhat) build the maven2 stack for EPEL[0] and I would be interested in seeing a Java SIG happen as well as would definitely join up. -AdamM [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MavenEPEL -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:36 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > Perhaps local and so forth could be given a --dist=foo switch, and these > sorts of errors could say "can't figure out your dist from git, use --dist > or fix your repo". Or a "branch" file... :D -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@lis

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-08-31 Thread Steve Dickson
On 08/31/2010 08:36 PM, Roland McGrath wrote: > Perhaps local and so forth could be given a --dist=foo switch, and these > sorts of errors could say "can't figure out your dist from git, use --dist > or fix your repo". Exactly Give us a way to supply the needed info so the tree can be create

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-08-31 Thread Roland McGrath
Perhaps local and so forth could be given a --dist=foo switch, and these sorts of errors could say "can't figure out your dist from git, use --dist or fix your repo". -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-08-31 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/31/10 5:16 PM, Steve Dickson wrote: > I guess I don't understand why all this state is needed to simply > lay down the tar ball and apply the current patches... The tar ball > and patches have nothing to do with the version of Fedora or > the sta

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-08-31 Thread Steve Dickson
On 08/31/2010 07:51 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/31/10 4:45 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On 8/31/10 3:48 PM, Steve Dickson wrote: >>> Just curious >> >>> Why does 'fedpkg prep' care that the repo is in an inconsistent state? >> >>> I just

Re: [kernel/f14/master] add in patch from lmacken to support more mac models with efifb

2010-08-31 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 05:58:49PM -0400, Luke Macken wrote: > Thanks for taking care of this, Kyle. > > Should I send this patch upstream? if so, 1 patch per hardware? > do/should I get sign-off's? > Ideally, yes, you'll want to email the maintainer something like: From: Luke ... Subject: [PA

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-08-31 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/31/10 4:45 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 8/31/10 3:48 PM, Steve Dickson wrote: >> Just curious > >> Why does 'fedpkg prep' care that the repo is in an inconsistent state? > >> I just did a rebase to the latest f14 code on a private branch.

Re: fedpkg prep

2010-08-31 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/31/10 3:48 PM, Steve Dickson wrote: > Just curious > > Why does 'fedpkg prep' care that the repo is in an inconsistent state? > > I just did a rebase to the latest f14 code on a private branch. > So yes he repo in an inconsistent but that i

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:20 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use, > not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes. > > This is Linux, not some Microsoft (or Apple) "we know what is best for > you" system. > Al > >

fedpkg prep

2010-08-31 Thread Steve Dickson
Just curious Why does 'fedpkg prep' care that the repo is in an inconsistent state? I just did a rebase to the latest f14 code on a private branch. So yes he repo in an inconsistent but that is ok. I'm going to make some changes to put it back in a consistent state but I can not do that wit

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/31/10 9:40 AM, Thomas Moschny wrote: > 2010/8/31 Jesse Keating : >> An update that changes behavior for the end user would never be >> acceptable as an update to a stable release. Only severe exceptions >> should be made to this rule, where the t

Re: [kernel/f14/master] add in patch from lmacken to support more mac models with efifb

2010-08-31 Thread Luke Macken
Thanks for taking care of this, Kyle. Should I send this patch upstream? if so, 1 patch per hardware? do/should I get sign-off's? Thanks, luke On 08/31/2010 05:23 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote: > commit 3c5d4de07ca16d799f1ca63454b56a03456191fe > Author: Kyle McMartin > Date: Tue Aug 31 17:23:33 20

Minutes/Summary of today's FESCo meeting (2010-08-31)

2010-08-31 Thread Kevin Fenzi
=== #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2010-08-31) === Meeting started by nirik at 19:30:01 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-31/fesco.2010-08-31-19.30.log.html Meeting summary -

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:46:53 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > The update page is remote. If you want to disable it, set > "startup.homepage_override_url" to the empty string. There is also > "startup.homepage_welcome_url" for the first run of the browser. Thanks! -- devel mailing list d

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:30 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400, > Al Dunsmuir wrote: > > > > Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use, > > not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes. > > Nor for Mozilla to

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 15:56 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:26:27PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> > Maybe I was too long winded, or failed to communicate my point: a >> > stable (bug fix only updates, slow fea

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > > Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use, > not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes. Nor for Mozilla to track its users. There shouldn't be a start page at all as it opens a c

Re: kernel maintainers - please review and commit patch in #528232

2010-08-31 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:50:01PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Marius Andreiana > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > There's a long standing bug which prevents FC14 to boot on most EFI systems > > : > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528232 > > > > Would a kn

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 4:59:27 PM, Matt wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says: >> >> "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox >> Start Page, please be prepared to provide

[perl-Set-Infinite/el5/master: 11/11] sync with devel

2010-08-31 Thread Xavier Bachelot
commit 8ba06820b461a5c800311c1aff83c66feceb2fb1 Merge: 7fca267 abcb68e Author: Xavier Bachelot Date: Tue Aug 31 22:58:39 2010 +0200 sync with devel perl-Set-Infinite.spec | 36 sources|2 +- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 de

[perl-Set-Infinite/el5/master] (11 commits) ...sync with devel

2010-08-31 Thread Xavier Bachelot
Summary of changes: 2d5e5a8... Use fixperms macro instead of our own chmod incantation. BR (*) 8fcf13e... - Adjust License-tag. - BR: perl(Test::More) (BZ 419631). (*) e278ad7... new perl (*) 92b56d0... Update to 0.63. (*) a30b372... - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:59 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says: > > > > "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox > > Start Page, please be prepared to

[perl-Set-Infinite/el4/master: 11/11] sync with devel

2010-08-31 Thread Xavier Bachelot
commit 694c62296cd62bc5de8295cd6317e142184df707 Merge: c6de05a abcb68e Author: Xavier Bachelot Date: Tue Aug 31 23:00:27 2010 +0200 sync with devel perl-Set-Infinite.spec | 36 sources|2 +- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 de

[perl-Set-Infinite/el4/master] (11 commits) ...sync with devel

2010-08-31 Thread Xavier Bachelot
Summary of changes: 2d5e5a8... Use fixperms macro instead of our own chmod incantation. BR (*) 8fcf13e... - Adjust License-tag. - BR: perl(Test::More) (BZ 419631). (*) e278ad7... new perl (*) 92b56d0... Update to 0.63. (*) a30b372... - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11

Re: Starting Java SIG

2010-08-31 Thread Mat Booth
On 30 August 2010 15:17, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There has been an effort few years back to start Java SIG but it didn't > work out in the end (no idea why). I decided it's time to try again :-) > > I would like to start Java SIG for a lot of reasons. Some of them: > >  * Pa

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says: > > "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox > Start Page, please be prepared to provide a rationale for the change, > and how it would benefit the

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/31/10 9:40 AM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Jesse Keating > wrote: >> An update that changes behavior for the end user would never be >> acceptable as an update to a stable release. Only severe exceptions >> should be

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 13:45 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:41 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > Great stuff. And there's more in there too. So the current User_base in > > addition to being not very well linked and referenced could hardly be > > described as reflecting all of the

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > It is not meant to be a complaint at you or a request for you to do more > work. It's a complaint at the state of the world. (Why not find the > biggest windmill of all to tilt at?) I didn't mean for you to think it was a complaint. If I

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 15:56 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:26:27PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > Maybe I was too long winded, or failed to communicate my point: a > > stable (bug fix only updates, slow feature release), strongly FOSS, > > strongly upstream seems to b

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:26:27PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> Maybe I was too long winded, or failed to communicate my point: a >> stable (bug fix only updates, slow feature release), strongly FOSS, >> strongly upstream seems to be wh

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:03 +0100, Piscium wrote: > Some people like everything up-to-date, while others are more > conservative. Fine. Isn't there a middle ground? > > Currently there are these repos: updates and updates_testing. > > Maybe two more repos could be added: updates_fixes and updates

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:26:27PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Maybe I was too long winded, or failed to communicate my point: a > stable (bug fix only updates, slow feature release), strongly FOSS, > strongly upstream seems to be what some (I am not going to make > assumptions about numbers)

Re: gnupg2 & evolution

2010-08-31 Thread Brian C. Lane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/31/2010 11:12 AM, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:04 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: >> Am Montag, den 30.08.2010, 10:08 -0400 schrieb seth vidal: >>> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:04 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, I canno

Re: clutter -> 1.3

2010-08-31 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:57 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com > wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Colin Walters wrote: >>> Heads up to Clutter consumers - I'm updating it in f15 to the 1.3 >>> (master) branch.  I've tested GNOME Shell and

Re: clutter -> 1.3

2010-08-31 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 19:57 +0100, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Colin Walters wrote: >> > Heads up to Clutter consumers - I'm updating it in f15 to the 1.3 >> > (master) branch.  I've tested GNOME Shell an

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Spaleta (jspal...@gmail.com) said: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > That's gross. (I realize you're blocked on the sites you rely on, but > > geez, can't you find sites with real APIs?) > > It is what it is. Though I do like being given credit for doing > deve

Re: clutter -> 1.3

2010-08-31 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:57 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Colin Walters wrote: >> Heads up to Clutter consumers - I'm updating it in f15 to the 1.3 >> (master) branch.  I've tested GNOME Shell and quadrapassel, feel free >> to CC me for other fallout. > > Thi

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Bill Nottingham [31/08/2010 21:01] : > > That's gross. Yup, no question about it. > (I realize you're blocked on the sites you rely on, but > geez, can't you find sites with real APIs?) For some of them, it is possible (DVDfr.com has a stable XML API and the webmaster has contrib

Re: clutter -> 1.3

2010-08-31 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 19:57 +0100, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > > Heads up to Clutter consumers - I'm updating it in f15 to the 1.3 > > (master) branch. I've tested GNOME Shell and quadrapassel, feel free > > to CC me for other fallout. >

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Piscium
Some people like everything up-to-date, while others are more conservative. Fine. Isn't there a middle ground? Currently there are these repos: updates and updates_testing. Maybe two more repos could be added: updates_fixes and updates_enhancements. After a package stays for a while in updates_t

Re: clutter -> 1.3

2010-08-31 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > Heads up to Clutter consumers - I'm updating it in f15 to the 1.3 > (master) branch.  I've tested GNOME Shell and quadrapassel, feel free > to CC me for other fallout. This will break meego. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorapr

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > That's gross. (I realize you're blocked on the sites you rely on, but > geez, can't you find sites with real APIs?) It is what it is. Though I do like being given credit for doing development work that I'm not actually responsible for. M

clutter -> 1.3

2010-08-31 Thread Colin Walters
Heads up to Clutter consumers - I'm updating it in f15 to the 1.3 (master) branch. I've tested GNOME Shell and quadrapassel, feel free to CC me for other fallout. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: gnupg2 & evolution

2010-08-31 Thread Christoph Höger
Am Dienstag, den 31.08.2010, 13:11 -0500 schrieb Michael Cronenworth: > Christoph Höger wrote: > > Seems like I should open up a bug report or something. > > Searching the mailing lists[1] is sometimes helpful as well. > > [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-July/138765.html

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Spaleta (jspal...@gmail.com) said: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Emmanuel Seyman > wrote: > > Same goes for programs that scrape web pages (I'm thinking of gcstar but > > I'm sure there are others). If the page layout changes, the page scraper > > needs to be updated and that usually in

Re: gnupg2 & evolution

2010-08-31 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:04 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: > Am Montag, den 30.08.2010, 10:08 -0400 schrieb seth vidal: > > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:04 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I cannot use gnupg2 from evolution anymore. Apparently somewhere in > > > evolution the command

Re: gnupg2 & evolution

2010-08-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Christoph Höger wrote: > Seems like I should open up a bug report or something. Searching the mailing lists[1] is sometimes helpful as well. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-July/138765.html -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: gnupg2 & evolution

2010-08-31 Thread Christoph Höger
Am Montag, den 30.08.2010, 10:08 -0400 schrieb seth vidal: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:04 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I cannot use gnupg2 from evolution anymore. Apparently somewhere in > > evolution the command "gpg" is hardwired, while whe only have gpg2 > > nowadays. > > > > A

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > Same goes for programs that scrape web pages (I'm thinking of gcstar but > I'm sure there are others). If the page layout changes, the page scraper > needs to be updated and that usually involves updating the package. Yep.. gourmet does th

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:41 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Great stuff. And there's more in there too. So the current User_base in > addition to being not very well linked and referenced could hardly be > described as reflecting all of the views in this particular thread. Should it really reflect al

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Bruno Wolff III [31/08/2010 19:25] : > > Packages that need to sync to external servers or peers such as multiplayer > games have similar issues. You need to be up to date to for the package > to be useful in some cases. Same goes for programs that scrape web pages (I'm thinking of gcstar but I'

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 18:08 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Again, I feel it is necessary to have a survey of Fedora users. That's users you've already got. It might make the users you already have happier, sure, and that's a fine thing to do. Iif you want to grow, though, you may be limiting yourself

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 09:58 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> On 08/30/2010 10:50 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> > The attention to freedom is not unique. The attention to upstream is >> > invisible to users. >> >> But it is why I want to *

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:51:27AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I would like to see some per package exceptions to this policy that don't > need to be revisited for every update. I think it's reasonable to put packages into different tiers. Or "lanes", if we don't want to think in terms of whic

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 09:58 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 08/30/2010 10:50 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > The attention to freedom is not unique. The attention to upstream is > > invisible to users. > > But it is why I want to *develop* for Fedora. You cut out the rest of Arthur's email, wh

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Jon Masters wrote: > Things like Firefox, and Thunderbird have large external teams > maintaining them who appear to have goals around ensuring a consistent > user experience, with testing, and so forth, over and above just getting > new features. They even do self

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 18:18 +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 17:39:11 Jesse Keating wrote: > > On 8/31/10 6:57 AM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > > > there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in updates-testing > > > > An update that changes behavior for the end us

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:40:29 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > I'm a package maintainer for one such application. I have yet to hear > from a single user...ever..that tracking releases from upstream has > been unwanted for this specific application regardless of the UI > tweaks that happen bet

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Thomas Moschny
2010/8/31 Jesse Keating : > An update that changes behavior for the end user would never be > acceptable as an update to a stable release.  Only severe exceptions > should be made to this rule, where the time/effort to backport the > important fixes from a new upstream release are cost prohibitive

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > An update that changes behavior for the end user would never be > acceptable as an update to a stable release.  Only severe exceptions > should be made to this rule, where the time/effort to backport the > important fixes from a new upstream

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/31/2010 12:26 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 07:05, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> It depends on whether Fedora is a platform for development. If it is, >> developers usually do not want many changes. >> > > It depends on the type of developer and what they are doing

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:08:09PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > > > > > there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in > > > > > updates-testing > > > > I hope you are kidding. > > > nope, I'm 100 % serious > > Unfortunately, then: this does not currently match reality. > that's not an

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 07:05, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >  On 08/31/2010 11:26 AM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> Strongly free and tracking upstream is something developers would >> appreciate, however bug fix only updates are often contrary to what >> developers want and outlier users like myself. > >

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Michal Hlavinka
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 17:39:11 Jesse Keating wrote: > On 8/31/10 6:57 AM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > > there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in updates-testing > > An update that changes behavior for the end user would never be > acceptable as an update to a stable release. On

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Michal Hlavinka
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 17:36:39 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 05:31:43PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > > > > > So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely > > > > > a bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release. > > > > > > > > th

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 08/30/2010 10:50 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > The attention to freedom is not unique. The attention to upstream is > invisible to users. But it is why I want to *develop* for Fedora. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 08/30/2010 10:48 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > So developers are going to put new features into rawhide knowing that > they will never make it to updates? I do it all the time because I know it will be out ~ 6 months, which is pretty quick. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/31/10 6:57 AM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in updates-testing An update that changes behavior for the end user would never be acceptable as an update to a stable release. Only severe exceptions

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 05:31:43PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > > > > So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely a > > > > bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release. > > > there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in updates-testing > > I

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:27:59AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says: > > "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox > Start Page, please be prepared to provide a rationale for the change, > and how it would benef

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Michal Hlavinka
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 16:14:39 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:57:47PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > > > So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely a > > > bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release. > > > > there's no reason

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:54 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:47 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:33 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > Where do you see somebody proposing that no updates be issued? Where do > > > you see somebody proposing a setup wh

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:39 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while > > retaining the Firefox name due to a distribution partner agreement with > > Mozilla. Mozilla gets th

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/31/10 5:33 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:08 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: >> Developers put new features in rawhide knowing that they will be in the >> next release of Fedora, which would be at the /most/ 6 months from the >>

F-14 Branched report: 20100831 changes

2010-08-31 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Tue Aug 31 13:15:27 UTC 2010 Broken deps for x86_64 -- PragmARC-20060427-6.fc13.i686 requires libgnarl-4.4.so PragmARC-20060427-6.fc13.i686 requires libgnat-4.4.so PragmARC-20060427-6.fc13.x86_64 req

Broken dependencies: perl-Pugs-Compiler-Rule

2010-08-31 Thread buildsys
perl-Pugs-Compiler-Rule has broken dependencies in the F-14 tree: On x86_64: perl-Pugs-Compiler-Rule-0.37-4.fc13.noarch requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.10.1) On i386: perl-Pugs-Compiler-Rule-0.37-4.fc13.noarch requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.10.1) Please resolve this as soon as po

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:57:47PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > > So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely a > > bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release. > there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in updates-testing I hope you are k

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Michal Hlavinka
... > So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely a > bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release. there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in updates-testing > >So, web developers want latest httpd/PHP/Rails/MySQL; GNOME developers > >want

Re: Orphaned package: system-config-display

2010-08-31 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:13 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > (Is it actually impossible for the vesa driver to work after > KMS has kicked in, btw, or is it just something that doesn't work at > present?) Right now, it may work or it may not. Typically the vesa bios assumes it's the only thing th

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 00:45:49 -0400, > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > > So far the only brokeness I have had in all of F13 is with `seabios-bin`. > > Wasn't there recently a packagekit problem where it stopped doing updates, > making it kind of ha

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 00:45:49 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > So far the only brokeness I have had in all of F13 is with `seabios-bin`. Wasn't there recently a packagekit problem where it stopped doing updates, making it kind of hard to get a fix unless you knew about yum? That's a prett

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/31/2010 11:26 AM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Strongly free and tracking upstream is something developers would > appreciate, however bug fix only updates are often contrary to what > developers want and outlier users like myself. It depends on whether Fedora is a platform for development. I

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:47 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:33 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > Where do you see somebody proposing that no updates be issued? Where do > > you see somebody proposing a setup where fixing a graphics card can't be > > done in the stable relea

Re: Orphaning a few packages

2010-08-31 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/30/2010 06:07 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: >> I've orphaned the following packages if anyone wants to pick them up. >> They are primarily dead upstream but some might still use the

Re: Orphaning a few packages

2010-08-31 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2010 06:07 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: > I've orphaned the following packages if anyone wants to pick them up. > They are primarily dead upstream but some might still use them. > > libmatchbox > matchbox-window-manager > twitter-glib > >

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while > retaining the Firefox name due to a distribution partner agreement with > Mozilla. Mozilla gets their money from Google. I don't think we *can* make > it something

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:08 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > Developers put new features in rawhide knowing that they will be in the > next release of Fedora, which would be at the /most/ 6 months from the > time they drop the feature. It's more like 9 months. A feature has to wait until the next br

LUKS open / mount order

2010-08-31 Thread Jos Vos
Hi, While experimenting using an USB stick with a keyfile for a LUKS filesystem (not one of the basic ones), I found out this actually seems to work, but I'm not sure of this "by design" or just accidentally. In rc.sysinit, the stick (in fstab with UUID) is mounted and later the luksOpen seems to

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:48:02AM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > New features hit rawhide all the time, with no waiting period. > So developers are going to put new features into rawhide knowing that > they will never make it to updates? That seems like an excellent model, yes. When the next

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Andrew Haley
On 08/31/2010 11:55 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > Andrew Haley píše v Út 31. 08. 2010 v 09:40 +0100: >> On 08/31/2010 05:42 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: >>> I'm saying that these changes were made in the face of extreme >>> resistance on Kevin's (and other's) parts. So whatever the outcome it's >>> alr

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:52:04PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Yeah, there really doesn't seem any particular reason for the search box > to be there, unless Google was paying us for it to be there or > something. Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while retai

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