Re: XFS rootfs required?

2012-03-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 23:52 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: It's not an option with Fedora-17-Beta-TC2-x86_64-DVD.iso. I don't see anything listed in alpha, beta, or final release criteria that requires it, but it's been a past option. Summary is that mkfs.xfs isn't present on the DVD media, at

It is time for another episode of: NAME THAT FEDORA RELEASE

2012-03-20 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Oh, Beefy Miracle, I have relished your name for months, but as your day for widespread consumption (release day) approaches, it is time for the community to choose the name of Fedora 18. This process begins with *you,* dear readers and contributors, as potential names are accepted for

Re: Evolution + bogofilter

2012-03-20 Thread Milan Crha
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 23:06 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: Does setting emails in your inbox folder to junk working automatically? It seem it doesn't do it automatically and I have to keep selecting them and manually marking them junk. On a fresh install (such as this one), I do a restore from

Re: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-20 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Josh Boyer wrote on 20.03.2012 02:26: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jon Ciesla limburg...@gmail.com wrote: * #830 F18 Feature: ARM as Primary Arch -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraARM (limburgher, 18:44:13) * LINK:

F17 versions of python-celery / django-celery

2012-03-20 Thread Jos Vos
Hi, I noticed that the versions of python-celery (2.2.8 vs. 2.5.1) and django-celery (2.2.7 vs. 2.5.1) in rawhide/F17 are both far behind the current version. Is there a technical reason for this? -- --Jos Vos j...@xos.nl --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 --

Heads up: rpm 4.10.0 alpha to hit rawhide shortly

2012-03-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
As http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.10 got accepted in yesterday's FESCo meeting, here come the bits. For details see http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.10.0, but the bottom line is that for business-as-usual operations you shouldn't really notice much anything at all. Well, apart

Re: F17 versions of python-celery / django-celery

2012-03-20 Thread 80
Hi, I filed a ticket 2 months ago, it requires a few dependencies to be updated too (besides some of them brings python3 support) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785607 best regards, H. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F17 versions of python-celery / django-celery

2012-03-20 Thread Jos Vos
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:54:41AM +0100, 80 wrote: I filed a ticket 2 months ago, it requires a few dependencies to be updated too (besides some of them brings python3 support) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785607 OK, I filed bugs too now (for python-celery, django-celery, and

Re: Heads up: rpm 4.10.0 alpha to hit rawhide shortly

2012-03-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 03/20/2012 11:52 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: As http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.10 got accepted in yesterday's FESCo meeting, here come the bits. For details see http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.10.0, but the bottom line is that for business-as-usual operations you shouldn't really

Re: Heads up: rpm 4.10.0 alpha to hit rawhide shortly

2012-03-20 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 13:08 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: So... first hickup that broke koji: the buildroot now requires deltarpm which needs rebuilding due to to the soname bump before we can proceed. I dont recall this being an issue before but I guess that's called progress :) Why does

Non responsive maintainer: lkundrak

2012-03-20 Thread Clément David
Hi, Does someone know how to contact lkundrak ? I have requested a jgraphx update (scilab dependency) for months. Account Name: lkundrak Full Name: Lubomir Rintel Email: lkund...@v3.sk IRC Nick: lkundrak Account Status: Active Bug: (open 2011-10-15, ping 2011-10-24,

Re: Evolution + bogofilter

2012-03-20 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 03/20/2012 01:06 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: Does setting emails in your inbox folder to junk working automatically? It seem it doesn't do it automatically and I have to keep selecting them and manually marking them junk. On a fresh install (such as this one), I do a restore from a backup file

Re: Non responsive maintainer: lkundrak

2012-03-20 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 13:37 +0100, Clément David wrote: Hi, Does someone know how to contact lkundrak ? $ ./fedora_active_user.py --user lkundrak --email lkund...@v3.sk Last login in FAS: lkundrak 2012-03-20 Last action on koji: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 package list entry created:

Re: Non responsive maintainer: lkundrak

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon pin...@pingoured.fr wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 13:37 +0100, Clément David wrote: Hi, Does someone know how to contact lkundrak ? $ ./fedora_active_user.py --user lkundrak --email lkund...@v3.sk Last login in FAS:   lkundrak 2012-03-20

Re: Non responsive maintainer: lkundrak

2012-03-20 Thread Clément David
Hi, Right, it was busy. I got the ACLs for co-maintaining jgraphx now. PS: that was just a gentle ACLs reminder :) Clément Le 20/03/2012 13:50, Jon Ciesla a écrit : On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon pin...@pingoured.fr wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 13:37 +0100, Clément

gsoc - Need a mentor - Integrate Proxy Settings and Network Connections(Locations)

2012-03-20 Thread Buddhike Kurera
Hello Folks, Students are starting inquiring about the GSOC project ideas we listed on the wiki[0]. But unfortunately some idea dont have a primary mentor. If any one is interested in following idea[1] which is dealing with networking, please take it. Please treat this request as urgent. The

Re: Slow shutdown with big file in /dev/shm

2012-03-20 Thread Adam Jackson
On 3/19/12 11:42 PM, Bojan Smojver wrote: Before I file a bug for this, I need to figure out which component may be doing this. If one creates a large file (several GB) in /dev/shm and shuts down, the system will take many minutes to shut down. Last message before hang is Disabling swap. Not

Re: Slow shutdown with big file in /dev/shm

2012-03-20 Thread Bojan Smojver
Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: Presumably because that file got paged out. Think about it. Disabling swap doesn't know that the file exists only on a RAM-based file system, and even if it did, doesn't know that we're about to shut down. So swapoff has to assume that any pages currently

Re: Slow shutdown with big file in /dev/shm

2012-03-20 Thread Michal Schmidt
Adam Jackson wrote: Now as to why we disable swap on shutdown, I'm not really sure. It certainly seems like useless work to me. We want to be sure we'll be able to stop/disassemble any block devices that are underneath it (RAID arrays etc.). Sure, if it's a simple partition, the work is

Re: Re: /etc/default in Fedora

2012-03-20 Thread Tomas Heinrich
On 03/19/2012 03:28 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 03/19/2012 10:36 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Daniel J Walsh wrote: We could put the info into systemd-journal. Back when sendmail and logwatch were part of the default install, it would have been nice to have SELinux activity reported in

Re: Heads up: rpm 4.10.0 alpha to hit rawhide shortly

2012-03-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 03/20/2012 01:49 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 13:08 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: So... first hickup that broke koji: the buildroot now requires deltarpm which needs rebuilding due to to the soname bump before we can proceed. I dont recall this being an issue before but I

Re: Slow shutdown with big file in /dev/shm

2012-03-20 Thread Adam Jackson
On 3/20/12 9:19 AM, Bojan Smojver wrote: Adam Jacksona...@redhat.com wrote: Now as to why we disable swap on shutdown, I'm not really sure. It certainly seems like useless work to me. Would it help if all memory based file systems got unmounted before swap gets disabled? That would kill

Re: gsoc - Need a mentor - Integrate Proxy Settings and Network Connections(Locations)

2012-03-20 Thread Dan Winship
I added myself as a mentor -- Dan On 03/20/2012 08:58 AM, Buddhike Kurera wrote: Hello Folks, Students are starting inquiring about the GSOC project ideas we listed on the wiki[0]. But unfortunately some idea dont have a primary mentor. If any one is interested in following idea[1]

pyside is now an official part of qt

2012-03-20 Thread Muayyad AlSadi
hi, after reading this http://www.pyside.org/2012/03/pyside-becomes-a-qt-add-on/ how is this going to affect fedora ? do we have PyQt4 apps in our repos ? are we going to patch them to be import PySide as PyQt4 or something like that -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:00:39AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Josh Boyer wrote: It's fairly disappointing this was discussed during this meeting without being on the agenda that was sent out. This is a rather large item that needs a lot of discussion among the various groups in Fedora, and

Re: pyside is now an official part of qt

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Muayyad AlSadi wrote: after reading this http://www.pyside.org/2012/03/pyside-becomes-a-qt-add-on/ how is this going to affect fedora ? Not at all. (Well, it does mean that PySide is no longer dead, which is good. But otherwise it doesn't really change anything.) do we have PyQt4 apps

Re: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: If you think ARM's a small niche, you may have some large surprising coming your way over the next few years... Then we can discuss making it a primary architecture in a few years. Now it just doesn't make sense. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list

Re: Heads up: rpm 4.10.0 alpha to hit rawhide shortly

2012-03-20 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 16:15 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: On 03/20/2012 01:49 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 13:08 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: So... first hickup that broke koji: the buildroot now requires deltarpm which needs rebuilding due to to the soname bump before

Re: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:05:07PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: However you are right that (a) ARM is slow and (b) making ARM a secondary arch Erm, s/secondary/PRIMARY/. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual

Re: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Well, speaking for myself only, I read this as pretty much a Lets begin discussions on it. There's no way a short bit at the end of a meeting is going to allow enough discussion. So, this is just to start the ball rolling and collect feedback from everyone. No need to feel bad about not being

Re: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:24:09 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis fed...@leemhuis.info wrote: Josh Boyer wrote on 20.03.2012 02:26: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jon Ciesla limburg...@gmail.com wrote: * #830 F18 Feature: ARM as Primary Arch -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraARM

Re: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-20 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 09:12 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Well, speaking for myself only, I read this as pretty much a Lets begin discussions on it. There's no way a short bit at the end of a meeting is going to allow enough discussion. So, this is just to start the ball rolling and collect

Re: Evolution + bogofilter

2012-03-20 Thread Mike Chambers
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 08:04 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 23:06 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: Does setting emails in your inbox folder to junk working automatically? It seem it doesn't do it automatically and I have to keep selecting them and manually marking them junk.

RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
This is very much a draft, but I'd like to start a discussion regarding what we expect from primary architectures. Feedback not only welcome, but actively desired. - Secondary architectures in Fedora are subject to looser

Re: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com said: Well, speaking for myself only, I read this as pretty much a Lets begin discussions on it. There's no way a short bit at the end of a meeting is going to allow enough discussion. So, this is just to start the ball rolling and collect

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:19:35PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: This is very much a draft, but I'd like to start a discussion regarding what we expect from primary architectures. Feedback not only welcome, but actively desired. I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:19 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: This is very much a draft, but I'd like to start a discussion regarding what we expect from primary architectures. Feedback not only welcome, but actively desired. In order to ensure that these expectations are met, secondary

Re: Heads up: rpm 4.10.0 alpha to hit rawhide shortly

2012-03-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 03/20/2012 05:10 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 16:15 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: On 03/20/2012 01:49 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 13:08 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: So... first hickup that broke koji: the buildroot now requires deltarpm which needs

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Tomas Mraz tm...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:19 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: This is very much a draft, but I'd like to start a discussion regarding what we expect from primary architectures. Feedback not only welcome, but actively desired.

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:19 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: 4) All supported platforms must have kernels built from the Fedora kernel SRPM and enabled by default in the spec file. Each kernel must be built in a timely manner for

ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Jones
Jon, Brendan, In yesterday's FESCo meeting I told you I'd make a list of specific issues I have with the current proposal for ARM as a primary archictecture. There are some places where I think the current proposal fails to deal with some necessary aspects of becoming a primary architecture, and

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: Jon, Brendan, In yesterday's FESCo meeting I told you I'd make a list of specific issues I have with the current proposal for ARM as a primary archictecture. There are some places where I think the current proposal fails

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:19 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: 4) All supported platforms must have kernels built from the Fedora kernel SRPM and enabled by

Rework package groups (was: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting...)

2012-03-20 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Montag, den 19.03.2012, 14:46 -0500 schrieb Jon Ciesla: * #824 F18 Feature: Rework Package Groups -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReworkPackageGroups (limburgher, 18:10:57) * AGREED: F18 Rework Package Groups is passed (+6,-:0,0:2) (limburgher, 18:12:42) Did FESCO

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:55:41AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Matthew, can you add your initial list to the ticket as well, so we have these starting places to refer to? I was planning to after we'd had some discussion here, just to make sure I wasn't proposing anything too unreasonable. --

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/20/2012 08:24 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, as all primary architectures are built synchronously. GCC on x86_64/i686 currently builds often in 2 hours, sometimes in 4 hours if a slower or more busy box is chosen, but

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:55:41AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Matthew, can you add your initial list to the ticket as well, so we have these starting places to refer to? I was planning to after we'd had some

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 08:24 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, as all primary architectures are built synchronously.  GCC on x86_64/i686 currently builds often

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 08:24 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, as all primary architectures are built synchronously.  GCC on x86_64/i686 currently builds often

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Masters
On 03/20/2012 11:52 AM, Peter Jones wrote: In yesterday's FESCo meeting I told you I'd make a list of specific issues I have with the current proposal for ARM as a primary archictecture. There are some places where I think the current proposal fails to deal with some necessary aspects of

Re: Rework package groups (was: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting...)

2012-03-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
Christoph Wickert (christoph.wick...@googlemail.com) said: Does anybody - except Notting and David Lehman actually know what this feature is and how it impacts package maintainers or the spins SIG? package maintainers: it won't, barring the creation of some new metadata for optional package

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:58:45AM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/20/2012 08:24 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, as all primary architectures are built synchronously. GCC on x86_64/i686 currently builds often in 2

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread David Airlie
- Original Message - From: Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Jakub Jelinek ja...@redhat.com, second...@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, 20 March, 2012 4:08:16 PM Subject: Re: RFC: Primary architecture

Re: Summary minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:21:01 -0500 Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com said: Well, speaking for myself only, I read this as pretty much a Lets begin discussions on it. There's no way a short bit at the end of a meeting is going to allow

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/20/2012 04:58 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/20/2012 08:24 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, as all primary architectures are built synchronously. GCC on x86_64/i686 currently builds often in 2 hours, sometimes in 4

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:09:22PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: On 03/20/2012 11:52 AM, Peter Jones wrote: In yesterday's FESCo meeting I told you I'd make a list of specific issues I have with the current proposal for ARM as a primary archictecture. There are some places where I think the

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 08:24 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, as all primary architectures are built synchronously.  GCC on x86_64/i686 currently builds often

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/20/2012 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: That said, I considera cross-building environment for secondary arch to be inevitable, which would at least help for the class of issues, I am referring to above. I'm a big fan of cross compilation, but introducing it into Fedora in order to

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jon Masters j...@redhat.com wrote: Hi again, I want to thank you, and everyone else in FESCo for talking with us yesterday, and for looking over the proposal. Bear in mind, it's a work in progress. We intend to have broader conversations over the coming

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: That said, I considera cross-building environment for secondary arch to be inevitable, which would at least help for the class of issues, I am referring to above. I'm a big

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/20/2012 08:47 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: There's nothing blocking ARM from building multiple kernels in that requirement. They just need to all be enabled in the SRPM that gets sent to koji for the build. We do this for 32-bit x86 already by building both the normal and PAE i686 variants.

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:58:45AM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/20/2012 08:24 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, as all primary architectures are built synchronously. GCC on x86_64/i686 currently builds often in 2

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:37:10PM +0100, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: That said, I considera cross-building environment for secondary arch to be inevitable, which would at least help

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/20/2012 09:37 AM, drago01 wrote: I'm a big fan of cross compilation, but introducing it into Fedora in order to support ARM seems unlikely to succeed for too many reasons to go into. The reasons are? Okay, why not? The ones off the top of my head, and this is by no means

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:37:10PM +0100, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: That said, I considera cross-building

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Masters
Hello, On 03/20/2012 12:37 PM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: That said, I considera cross-building environment for secondary arch to be inevitable, which would at least help for the class

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/20/2012 09:50 AM, drago01 wrote: I don't know about the details there but that does not sound like unfixable to be. I'd even say that fixing that is a prerequisite to allow secondary archs that run on slow hardware to become primary. Please, please, no. Cross compilation for Fedora

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Garrett wrote: This is very much a draft, but I'd like to start a discussion regarding what we expect from primary architectures. Feedback not only welcome, but actively desired. So, first of all, I disagree that there should be a process for promoting an architecture to primary in

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Masters
On 03/20/2012 12:56 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:50 AM, drago01 wrote: I don't know about the details there but that does not sound like unfixable to be. I'd even say that fixing that is a prerequisite to allow secondary archs that run on slow hardware to become primary.

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:37 AM, drago01 wrote: I'm a big fan of cross compilation, but introducing it into Fedora in order to support ARM seems unlikely to succeed for too many reasons to go into. The reasons are?

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jon Masters j...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 12:56 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:50 AM, drago01 wrote: I don't know about the details there but that does not sound like unfixable to be. I'd even say that fixing that is a prerequisite to allow

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jakub Jelinek wrote: I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, as all primary architectures are built synchronously. GCC on x86_64/i686 currently builds often in 2 hours, sometimes in 4 hours if a slower or more busy box is chosen, but on ARM it regularly

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jakub Jelinek wrote: Looking at last gcc build times (not unusual, though I really remember arm taking much longer than that, e.g. 4.7.0-0.11.fc17 took almost 17 hours on both arm architectures), from http://*koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/gcc/4.7.0/0.20.fc17/data/logs/*/state.log : i686

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Brendan Conoboy wrote: Our current build systems can turn GCC 4.7 around in about 24 hours. The enterprise hardware we anticipate using will take that down to about 12 hours. If speed of build hardware is a consideration, where do you draw the line? IMHO, at MOST 50% longer (factor 1.5)

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Kevin Kofler wrote: But IMHO ARM doesn't have the market share either. Kevin, you don't know what you are talking about. Every cell phone has an ARM cpu in it. Smart phone or otherwise. Almost every HDTV has an ARM cpu in it. Almost every tablet has an ARM cpu in it. What do people buy

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:08 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jakub Jelinek wrote: Looking at last gcc build times (not unusual, though I really remember arm taking much longer than that, e.g. 4.7.0-0.11.fc17 took almost 17 hours on both arm architectures), from

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tomas Mraz wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:19 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: 4) All supported platforms must have kernels built from the Fedora kernel SRPM and enabled by default in the spec file. Each kernel must be built in a timely manner for every SRPM upload. I do not like this

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Dan Horák
drago01 píše v Út 20. 03. 2012 v 17:57 +0100: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:37 AM, drago01 wrote: I'm a big fan of cross compilation, but introducing it into Fedora in order to support ARM seems unlikely to succeed for too many

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Brendan Conoboy wrote: Our current build systems can turn GCC 4.7 around in about 24 hours. The enterprise hardware we anticipate using will take that down to about 12 hours.  If speed of build hardware is a

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: I don't know about the details there but that does not sound like unfixable to be. In theory yes, in practice I don't think this will be fixed any time soon, yet… I'd even say that fixing that is a prerequisite to allow secondary archs that run on slow hardware to become

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Brendan Conoboy wrote: In couple years the hardware is going to be surprisingly comparable or exceed to what you're see on x86, especially as the number of cores skyrockets while the GHz continue to climb. Then let's rediscuss making ARM a primary architecture when that happens. Right now the

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: qemu? Should be still faster then doing the whole build on arm. LOL, no! qemu software emulation slows down by a factor of ~50! Right now ARM is slower only by a factor of ~12. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Heads up: rpm 4.10.0 alpha to hit rawhide shortly

2012-03-20 Thread Jesse Keating
On 3/20/12 8:10 AM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: Ok, in F16 (and I'm assuming this is also true in Rawhide; unfortunately I don't have a Rawhide tree here to test), fedpkg is in the srpm-build group, and it requires pyrpkg which requires mock which requires createrepo which requires deltarpm. I don't

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/20/2012 12:30 PM, Jon Masters wrote: Hi again, I want to thank you, and everyone else in FESCo for talking with us yesterday, and for looking over the proposal. Bear in mind, it's a work in progress. We intend to have broader conversations over the coming months and F18 is an

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Brendan Conoboy wrote: Please, please, no. Cross compilation for Fedora cannot and will not ever get a secondary arch to primary. We're talking man-decades of engineering time to solve all the problems. Decades. Possible. That just means ARM cannot become a primary architecture any time

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:54:36PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: The hardware is way slower ... so we can just build on faster hardware (x86_64). Which is the only sane way to do it. Trying to build on ARM directly is kind of a gimmick but nothing one can seriously use to build a whole

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:50 AM, drago01 wrote: I don't know about the details there but that does not sound like unfixable to be. I'd even say that fixing that is a prerequisite to allow secondary archs that run on slow hardware

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jon Masters wrote: On 03/20/2012 11:52 AM, Peter Jones wrote: 7) it can't be a serious maintenance burdon due to build related issues. We need a couple of groups to sign off that builds are fast enough, not just on a full distro rebuild (throughput) level, but also on a doesn't destroy my

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jon Masters wrote: Sure. Absolutely is a concern for us, as you can see from my other comments above about the kernel, for example, but not just that. Sorry, but I don't think this is fixable any time soon. Come back when (if

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Salter
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 09:50 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: 1. Fedora Policy (Which I imagine is based on the technical foundation of the following 5+ points and others I'm unaware of). 2. Many packages assume a native execution environment which will not exist. Incredible undertaking to

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Kevin, you don't know what you are talking about. Every cell phone has an ARM cpu in it. Smart phone or otherwise. Almost every HDTV has an ARM cpu in it. Almost every tablet has an ARM cpu in it. Several of those are not suitable devices to run a general purpose

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/20/2012 10:27 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Then let's rediscuss making ARM a primary architecture when that happens. Right now the speed is just not acceptable. Really? You're going to base your entire opinion on build time data on inappropriate hardware for one package without knowing even

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 06:29:13PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: drago01 wrote: qemu? Should be still faster then doing the whole build on arm. LOL, no! qemu software emulation slows down by a factor of ~50! Right now ARM is slower only by a factor of ~12. Meh, at least you got something

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Simo Sorce wrote: Can you define what market you refer to ? Anything which can be reasonably called a computer. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jon Ciesla wrote: Only if you assume that high clock speed workloads are the only important workloads. For highly parallellizable tasks, an ARM system with tons of slower cores is a powerhouse. Think a db server serving huge numbers of queries. Unfortunately, our builds are not that

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/20/2012 10:44 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Brendan Conoboyb...@redhat.com wrote: Please, please, no. Cross compilation for Fedora cannot and will not ever get a secondary arch to primary. We're talking man-decades of engineering time to solve all the problems.

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/20/2012 11:58 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/20/2012 08:24 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, as all primary architectures are built synchronously. GCC on x86_64/i686 currently builds often in 2 hours, sometimes in 4

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 09:50 AM, drago01 wrote: I don't know about the details there but that does not sound like unfixable to be. I'd even say that fixing that is a prerequisite to allow secondary archs that run

Re: ARM as a primary architecture

2012-03-20 Thread Jesse Keating
On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Jon Masters wrote: Hi again, I want to thank you, and everyone else in FESCo for talking with us yesterday, and for looking over the proposal. Bear in mind, it's a work in progress. We intend to have broader conversations over the coming months and F18 is an optimistic goal.

Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

2012-03-20 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2012 10:44 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Brendan Conoboyb...@redhat.com  wrote: Please, please, no.  Cross compilation for Fedora cannot and will not ever get a secondary arch to primary.

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