Target Display Mode in Fedora

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Rydalch
The iMac and HP Z1 have a bi-directional DisplayPort/Thunderbolt port, which lets them be used as a Display for another computer. Apple calls it Target Display Mode, though HP doesn't seem to have a special name for it. This is really quite useful, I've used an iMac hooked up to a Linux machine

Re: Yum dependency resolving remove_leaf_only

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Zelený
On 15. 10. 2013 at 04:33:08, P J P wrote: On Monday, 14 October 2013 8:05 PM, Eric H. Christensen spa...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I believe he is assuming that xchat has a direct relationship with bluez which, I'm guessing here as I haven't checked, probably isn't the case. Because bluez

Re: Target Display Mode in Fedora

2013-10-15 Thread David Airlie
The iMac and HP Z1 have a bi-directional DisplayPort/Thunderbolt port, which lets them be used as a Display for another computer. Apple calls it Target Display Mode, though HP doesn't seem to have a special name for it. This is really quite useful, I've used an iMac hooked up to a Linux

Re: Review Request: scap-security-guide - Security guidance and baselines in SCAP formats

2013-10-15 Thread Peter Vrabec
Hi Jan thnx. for the progress. see my question: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1018905#c5 Peter. On 10/14/2013 06:47 PM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote: Hello guys, have submitted review request for scap-security-guide rpm for Fedora: [1]

dnf-0.4.4 released

2013-10-15 Thread Ales Kozumplik
Morning, dnf-0.4.4 is built and out for testing in F20[1] and rawhide. There's initial Py3 support and a bugfix, see the full story on the DNF blog [2] and in the release notes [3]. Meanwhile in Anaconda, the DNF Payload is ready for early testing [4]. We'll be glad to hear some feedback.

Re: Review Request: scap-security-guide - Security guidance and baselines in SCAP formats

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Lieskovsky
Thanks Peter. Noticed replied. Will reply / deal with Zbigniew's comments (c#4) yet too. Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Technologies Team - Original Message - From: Peter Vrabec pvra...@redhat.com To: Jan Lieskovsky jlies...@redhat.com Cc:

Re: anaconda / initial-setup / gnome-initial-setup: can we do this better?

2013-10-15 Thread Vratislav Podzimek
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 13:51 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 22:26 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 05:18 -0400, Martin Sivak wrote: One thing that doesn't seem to have been covered in the discussion — what about third-party firstboot modules?

Re: Software management: Call for RFEs results!

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Zelený
On 13. 10. 2013 at 03:05:20, Alek Paunov wrote: On 04.10.2013 15:34, Jan Zelený wrote: If you have any other questions, comments or notes regarding the document, feel free to to use this list for the discussion. Where (list threads, wikis, sources) one should seek more details about the

Re: Software management: Call for RFEs results!

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Zelený
On 13. 10. 2013 at 22:19:16, Michael Stahnke wrote: On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: Hello everyone, as you might remember I issued a call for RFEs on this list during the spring. The participation was not bad at all, we have collected so many data that

Re: Yum dependency resolving remove_leaf_only

2013-10-15 Thread P J P
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:51 PM, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: Even though yum might handle the resolution a little better (and dnf probably  will do that, feel free to check it), the ultimate culprit here is a very poor  packaging and both dnf and yum have only a limited set of

[perl-MooseX-TrackDirty-Attributes/f20] This package does not work with Perl 5.18 (bug #992690).

2013-10-15 Thread Petr Pisar
commit a8d428edc619448e9e5ada497b5fbb755eed5cd0 Author: Petr Písař ppi...@redhat.com Date: Tue Oct 15 13:58:15 2013 +0200 This package does not work with Perl 5.18 (bug #992690). .gitignore |5 -- dead.package |1 +

prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Dhiru Kholia
Hi, During the development of unSPEC [1] benchmarking suite, I made some interesting observations regarding prelink. - Here are some measurements (for LibreOffice [2] loading time in seconds) done using the unSPEC benchmarking suite. These numbers are repeatable and you are encouraged to try

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Dhiru Kholia dhiru.kho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, During the development of unSPEC [1] benchmarking suite, I made some interesting observations regarding prelink. - Here are some measurements (for LibreOffice [2] loading time in seconds) done using the unSPEC

There used to be a way to minimize the address section on Thunderbird

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This seems to have gone a way from Fedora 20/21 thunderbird. rpm -q thunderbird thunderbird-24.0-3.fc21.x86_64 Is this intended? Is this a bug? Is there a setting where I can turn this back on? Wasting this screen real estate on a small screen

Automounting of the root partition in the initramfs

2013-10-15 Thread Juerg Haefliger
All, The (admittedly hacky) dracut-modules-growroot package installs a dracut script that runs in the pre-pivot stage. It unmounts the root partition, extends it to the maximum possible size and then tries to remount it. What I noticed in F20 is that as soon as the repartitioning finishes (its an

Re: There used to be a way to minimize the address section on Thunderbird

2013-10-15 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/2013 08:41 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: This seems to have gone a way from Fedora 20/21 thunderbird. rpm -q thunderbird thunderbird-24.0-3.fc21.x86_64 Is this intended? Is this a bug? Is there a setting where I can turn this back on?

Re: There used to be a way to minimize the address section on Thunderbird

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Hughes
On 15/10/13 13:41, Daniel J Walsh wrote: This seems to have gone a way from Fedora 20/21 thunderbird. rpm -q thunderbird thunderbird-24.0-3.fc21.x86_64 Is this intended? Is this a bug? Is there a setting where I can turn this back on? That went away ages ago IIRC. You can get it back

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Dhiru Kholia
On 10/15/13 at 05:30am, Josh Boyer wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Dhiru Kholia dhiru.kho...@gmail.com wrote: During the development of unSPEC [1] benchmarking suite, I made some interesting observations regarding prelink. ... - For building kernels (using the kernel-bench [3]

Alternative to Debian origins?

2013-10-15 Thread Miroslav Suchý
In Debian distributions exist file: /etc/dpkg/origins/default which is symlink to /etc/dpkg/origins/debian with content: Vendor: Debian Vendor-URL: http://www.debian.org/ Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org Do we have some alternative to this in Fedora world? The goal of this file is to

Re: Software management: Call for RFEs results!

2013-10-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:15:26PM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: Not to be only negative here, take a look at the COPR initiative, I expect it will solve the problem you are talking about by offering external repositories that will be easily reachable from Fedora but won't be a part of the Fedora

Re: Alternative to Debian origins?

2013-10-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/15/2013 03:19 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: In Debian distributions exist file: /etc/dpkg/origins/default which is symlink to /etc/dpkg/origins/debian with content: Vendor: Debian Vendor-URL: http://www.debian.org/ Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org Do we have some alternative to this

Re: Alternative to Debian origins?

2013-10-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:19:06PM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: In Debian distributions exist file: /etc/dpkg/origins/default which is symlink to /etc/dpkg/origins/debian with content: Vendor: Debian Vendor-URL: http://www.debian.org/ Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org Do we have

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Dhiru Kholia dhiru.kho...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/15/13 at 05:30am, Josh Boyer wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Dhiru Kholia dhiru.kho...@gmail.com wrote: During the development of unSPEC [1] benchmarking suite, I made some interesting observations

PackageKit service pack and catalog functionality

2013-10-15 Thread Richard Hughes
Does anyone actually use the PackageKit service pack or catalog functionality? If there are no users I'm intending to rip out the unused and unloved features from GNOME 3.12. Please say now, or forever hold your peace. Thanks. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Automounting of the root partition in the initramfs

2013-10-15 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 10/15/2013 02:47 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote: All, The (admittedly hacky) dracut-modules-growroot package installs a dracut script that runs in the pre-pivot stage. It unmounts the root partition, extends it to the maximum possible size and then tries to remount it. What I noticed in F20

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Dhiru Kholia wrote: In short, we could not distinguish the performance gains of prelink over the background noise in many (or even most) cases. So, I was wondering if you are aware of any use-cases where prelink provides measurable benefits. In would be awesome if you

Re: Alternative to Debian origins?

2013-10-15 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 10/15/2013 03:41 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: I think, you are mixing up things. /etc/dpkg is a package's (dpkg's) config-directory, which may contain whatever this package considers to be its configuration. It's not related to distinguishing OS vendors, at all. Since that bug 487437 it is

[Bug 914310] perl-Padre: FTBFS in rawhide

2013-10-15 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914310 Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |ASSIGNED

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:14:13AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Dhiru Kholia wrote: In short, we could not distinguish the performance gains of prelink over the background noise in many (or even most) cases. So, I was wondering if you are aware of any use-cases where

[Bug 914310] perl-Padre: FTBFS in rawhide

2013-10-15 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914310 --- Comment #6 from Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com --- Created attachment 812545 -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=812545action=edit Fix ported from upstream -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for

[perl-Padre] Fix compatibility with ORLite-1.98

2013-10-15 Thread Petr Pisar
commit 7a191d76edf3fe2678737b738371b74ac6f8a759 Author: Petr Písař ppi...@redhat.com Date: Tue Oct 15 16:20:21 2013 +0200 Fix compatibility with ORLite-1.98 ...o-the-delete_where-method-for-bulk-deleti.patch | 333 perl-Padre.spec|

Re: Automounting of the root partition in the initramfs

2013-10-15 Thread Juerg Haefliger
On 10/15/2013 02:47 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote: All, The (admittedly hacky) dracut-modules-growroot package installs a dracut script that runs in the pre-pivot stage. It unmounts the root partition, extends it to the maximum possible size and then tries to remount it. What I noticed in F20

[perl-Padre/f20] Fix compatibility with ORLite-1.98

2013-10-15 Thread Petr Pisar
Summary of changes: 7a191d7... Fix compatibility with ORLite-1.98 (*) (*) This commit already existed in another branch; no separate mail sent -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org

[perl-Padre/f19] Fix compatibility with ORLite-1.98

2013-10-15 Thread Petr Pisar
commit 310fcb80a0e23b133bf21ce6771585b3c939d7c3 Author: Petr Písař ppi...@redhat.com Date: Tue Oct 15 16:20:21 2013 +0200 Fix compatibility with ORLite-1.98 ...o-the-delete_where-method-for-bulk-deleti.patch | 333 perl-Padre.spec|

Re: Alternative to Debian origins?

2013-10-15 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:48:43AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: We have a number of _related_ things -- /etc/system-release, and the RPM vendor tag. From the given use case, in fact, I think that the vendor tag is pretty close. I'm not quite sure what they want to _do_ with it though, even

[Bug 914295] perl-MIME-Lite-HTML: FTBFS in rawhide

2013-10-15 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914295 Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added External Bug ID|CPAN 914295 |CPAN 86020 -- You are

[Bug 914310] perl-Padre: FTBFS in rawhide

2013-10-15 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914310 Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|ASSIGNED|MODIFIED Fixed In

[Bug 914310] perl-Padre: FTBFS in rawhide

2013-10-15 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 914310] perl-Padre: FTBFS in rawhide

2013-10-15 Thread bugzilla
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Re: Automounting of the root partition in the initramfs

2013-10-15 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 10/15/2013 04:23 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote: On 10/15/2013 02:47 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote: All, The (admittedly hacky) dracut-modules-growroot package installs a dracut script that runs in the pre-pivot stage. It unmounts the root partition, extends it to the maximum possible size and

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:21:01 +0200, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: To justify removing it, we just need to collect data to show that those performance benefits no longer exist, with current hardware and software combination in Fedora. That is what this email thread is seeking to confirm. There is

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:54:16PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: To justify removing it, we just need to collect data to show that those performance benefits no longer exist, with current hardware and software combination in Fedora. That is what this email thread is seeking to confirm. There

Bug 950189: Missing icon for qt-creator

2013-10-15 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, I apologize for escalating this to devel, but I think that after 6 months it is time this [1] finally got fixed: it is just a matter of changing the icon name in the desktop file of qt-creator to reflect the new icon name. This is one of those trivial to fix but very user-visible issues.

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:59:59 +0200, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: I wouldn't read that as saying that prelink is slowing down startup, rather that the benefit of prelink is so small as to be indistinguishable from the background noise. That's the problem we even disagree how to read the numbers.

Re: Alternative to Debian origins?

2013-10-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/15/2013 04:38 PM, Michael Schroeder wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:48:43AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: We have a number of _related_ things -- /etc/system-release, and the RPM vendor tag. From the given use case, in fact, I think that the vendor tag is pretty close. I'm not quite sure

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:04:05 +0200, Matthew Miller wrote: But, since prelink presents other problems on its own, Prelinked system is a good test for tools like GDB, elfutils and others they can properly handle the displacements of sections/segments. This is something that ELF does not forbid so

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:11:52PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:59:59 +0200, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: I wouldn't read that as saying that prelink is slowing down startup, rather that the benefit of prelink is so small as to be indistinguishable from the background

Re: Alternative to Debian origins?

2013-10-15 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Ter, 2013-10-15 at 15:19 +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: In Debian distributions exist file: /etc/dpkg/origins/default which is symlink to /etc/dpkg/origins/debian with content: Vendor: Debian Vendor-URL: http://www.debian.org/ Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org Do we have

Re: Code Hosting, Development Tools and Open Source

2013-10-15 Thread Kamil Paral
I've been kicking this idea around for a bit and have chatted a little with people on IRC but as we're looking to start up development on taskbot, I want to have a larger discussion on two issues: where do we host code and what do we want to use for dev support tools (issue tracking, code

Anyone else using and interested in co-maintaining sogo?

2013-10-15 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, Needing a calendar server for the company, I've ended up packaging the groupware server SOGo [1], which is a neat MS Exchange alternative. SRPM of sogo plus deps are here: http://smani.fedorapeople.org/review/sogo-2.0.7-1.fc21.src.rpm

Re: Target Display Mode in Fedora

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 15, 2013, at 2:15 AM, David Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: The iMac and HP Z1 have a bi-directional DisplayPort/Thunderbolt port, which lets them be used as a Display for another computer. Apple calls it Target Display Mode, though HP doesn't seem to have a special name for it.

[389-devel] please review: Ticket 47519 - memory leaks in access control

2013-10-15 Thread Mark Reynolds
https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/47519 https://fedorahosted.org/389/attachment/ticket/47519/0001-Ticket-47519-memory-leaks-in-access-control.patch -- Mark Reynolds 389 Development Team Red Hat, Inc mreyno...@redhat.com -- 389-devel mailing list 389-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:54:16PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:21:01 +0200, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: To justify removing it, we just need to collect data to show that those performance benefits no longer exist, with current hardware and software combination in

Fedora and ECDHE: now supported in OpenSSL

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
since OpenSSL in Fedora from now on supports ECDHE depending software needs to be rebuilt to make use of it as well as libraries like NSS/GNUTLS should do the same and depending packages like Firefox needs a rebuild against refreshed NSS to support it also on the client side i made some triage

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
the prelink default should be banned from the distribution because this is always the excuse not activate hardening-flags for packages because PIE binaries are not prelinked and people still insist it brings great performance gains which is mostly not true Am 15.10.2013 14:19, schrieb Dhiru

Re: Fedora and ECDHE: now supported in OpenSSL

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: since OpenSSL in Fedora from now on supports ECDHE depending software needs to be rebuilt to make use of it as well as libraries like NSS/GNUTLS should do the same and depending packages like Firefox needs a rebuild against refreshed NSS to support it

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Dhiru Kholia
On 10/15/13 at 05:11pm, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:59:59 +0200, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: I wouldn't read that as saying that prelink is slowing down startup, rather that the benefit of prelink is so small as to be indistinguishable from the background noise. That's the

Re: Target Display Mode in Fedora

2013-10-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:36:32AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Or maybe Intel would be forthcoming. It's their hardware. Not in this case. Target display mode is a vendor extension, and switching it will be vendor specific. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-10-15 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On 10/14/2013 10:55 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 01:39:21AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: Next steps: - Verify libssp works correctly on 32-bit ARM. - Look at enhancing the existing support in glibc. - Add TLS stack guard. - Add TLS pointer guard. - Add pointer

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-10-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:42:44PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On 10/14/2013 10:55 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: Did the arm32 portions of this end up being completed for F20? For 32-bit ARM on f20: - Stack guard: - Existing glibc support provides stack guard value in global

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:27:23 +0200, Dhiru Kholia wrote: In spite of this fact, I believe that they are enough to demonstrate that prelink is not resulting in any big gains anymore. Nobody says prelink brings _big_ gains. It is just a negligible performance and negligible battery optimization

Re: Anyone else using and interested in co-maintaining sogo?

2013-10-15 Thread Frankie Onuonga
Hi, sounds amazing. I could take it up but I can not promise to do so soon. I have some things on my hands that will need about a month to finish up. thanks, On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Sandro Mani manisan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Needing a calendar server for the company, I've ended

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 19:32, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:27:23 +0200, Dhiru Kholia wrote: In spite of this fact, I believe that they are enough to demonstrate that prelink is not resulting in any big gains anymore. Nobody says prelink brings _big_ gains. It is just a negligible

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:42:25 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: * look at the amount of updates and how they hit prelinked libraries until prelink ran again * look at the lsof | grep DEL | grep /usr output caused by prelink Sorry I do not see what disadvantage is it? * look at the wasted cycles

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 19:32 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:27:23 +0200, Dhiru Kholia wrote: In spite of this fact, I believe that they are enough to demonstrate that prelink is not resulting in any big gains anymore. Nobody says prelink brings _big_ gains. It is just

Re: sysctl behavior for docker-io

2013-10-15 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: This is the general problem that IP forwarding is no local setting, and that the global setting has no inherent concept of ownership or refcounting. The proper place for this seems to be firewalld, which should not

Re: Target Display Mode in Fedora

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:36:32AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Or maybe Intel would be forthcoming. It's their hardware. Not in this case. Target display mode is a vendor extension, and switching it will be vendor

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com said: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:42:25 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: * look at the amount of updates and how they hit prelinked libraries until prelink ran again * look at the lsof | grep DEL | grep /usr output caused by prelink

Re: sysctl behavior for docker-io

2013-10-15 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: Another way to look at it might be: Since a lot of people have libvirt installed (it's the default isn't it?) and hence forwarding has been on for many people for a long time, what harm is it causing? RFC 1812 2.2.8.1

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:50:44 +0200, Simo Sorce wrote: Many tools need to juggle the fact these binaries have been changed, and make checkers more complex and prone to faults. So let's build the whole system with -O0 and we can throw away most of compilers and half of debuggers, which are all

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:54:21 +0200, Chris Adams wrote: Now you are wasting a chunk of RAM, as it can't be shared between non-prelinked and prelinked bins/libs. OK, yes. I believe with RAM prices and therefore RAM sizes nowadays you will still have overall better system performance with

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:50:44 +0200, Simo Sorce wrote: Many tools need to juggle the fact these binaries have been changed, and make checkers more complex and prone to faults. So let's build the whole system with

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com wrote: Prelink does big disadvantages, otherwise nobody would care. One is about security, as it negates randomization of addresses, Most of the security benefit is, AFAICS, not negated by prelink (see

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:54:15 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: have fun in distinct between prelink caused needs-restarting or real This is a bug of update system it does not know if an updated service needs restarting or not. your notebooks are running 24 hours a day? really? OT: Yes, really. I

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 19:56 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:50:44 +0200, Simo Sorce wrote: Many tools need to juggle the fact these binaries have been changed, and make checkers more complex and prone to faults. So let's build the whole system with -O0 and we can throw

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-10-15 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On 10/15/2013 12:53 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:42:44PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On 10/14/2013 10:55 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: Did the arm32 portions of this end up being completed for F20? For 32-bit ARM on f20: - Stack guard: - Existing glibc support

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-10-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:16:28PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: Pointer mangling is useful, but we can roll that change into an update and it should not in my opinion block F20. I've filed: Bug 1019452 - [ARM] Backport pointer mangling support from upstream.

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Jan Kratochvil wrote: I just do not understand why to give up on that negligible optimization when it brings no disadvantages. Because you did not my previous email? - complexity - complicated prelink blacklists - complicated cron job exclusion with sysconfig - FIPS

[perl-DateTime-Set] Created tag perl-DateTime-Set-0.33-1.fc21

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Howarth
The lightweight tag 'perl-DateTime-Set-0.33-1.fc21' was created pointing to: 088a2fe... Update to 0.33 -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-10-15 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:16:28PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: There is no effective security difference between accessing the randomized stack guard value from a global variable or a value stored in the dynamic thread vector. It is only a performance optimization. The choice of a global

[perl-DateTime-Set] Created tag perl-DateTime-Set-0.33-1.fc20

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Howarth
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Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 20:04, schrieb Miloslav Trmač: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com wrote: Prelink does big disadvantages, otherwise nobody would care. One is about security, as it negates randomization of addresses, Most of the security benefit is, AFAICS, not negated

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 19:49, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:42:25 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: * look at the amount of updates and how they hit prelinked libraries until prelink ran again * look at the lsof | grep DEL | grep /usr output caused by prelink Sorry I do not see what

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 19:54, schrieb Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com said: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:42:25 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: * look at the amount of updates and how they hit prelinked libraries until prelink ran again * look at the lsof | grep DEL |

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 20:07, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:54:15 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: have fun in distinct between prelink caused needs-restarting or real This is a bug of update system it does not know if an updated service needs restarting or not. you can always point

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 19:56, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:50:44 +0200, Simo Sorce wrote: Many tools need to juggle the fact these binaries have been changed, and make checkers more complex and prone to faults. So let's build the whole system with -O0 and we can throw away most of

Re: Target Display Mode in Fedora

2013-10-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:52:41AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:36:32AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Or maybe Intel would be forthcoming. It's their hardware. Not in this case. Target

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-10-15 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On 10/15/2013 02:27 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:16:28PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: There is no effective security difference between accessing the randomized stack guard value from a global variable or a value stored in the dynamic thread vector. It is only a

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:24:06 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.10.2013 20:07, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: This is a bug of update system it does not know if an updated service needs restarting or not. you can always point with your finger somewhere else the better way is solve the root cause

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:25:10 +0200, Paul Wouters wrote: - complexity - complicated prelink blacklists - complicated cron job exclusion with sysconfig You can always make your software development life more simple by giving up on some useful feature. That -O2 vs. -O0 build is a good

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com said: You can always make your software development life more simple by giving up on some useful feature. That -O2 vs. -O0 build is a good comparison. Since you keep repeating this one: -O2 vs. -O0 has a significant performance gain.

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:54:06 +0200, Chris Adams wrote: Since you keep repeating this one: -O2 vs. -O0 has a significant performance gain. The message that started this thread indicates that prelink may not have a significant gain anymore. If that's the case, than _any_ effort is not worth

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com said: It depends, for example in this case prelink saves 33% of time (and battery): i=0;time while [ $i -lt 1000 ];do /usr/bin/gnome-open --help /dev/null;i=$[$i+1];done Do you really run gnome-open --help 1000 times per

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 20:40, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:24:06 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.10.2013 20:07, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: This is a bug of update system it does not know if an updated service needs restarting or not. you can always point with your finger somewhere

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 20:52, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:25:10 +0200, Paul Wouters wrote: - complexity - complicated prelink blacklists - complicated cron job exclusion with sysconfig You can always make your software development life more simple by giving up on some useful

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 20:54, schrieb Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com said: You can always make your software development life more simple by giving up on some useful feature. That -O2 vs. -O0 build is a good comparison. Since you keep repeating this one:

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.10.2013 21:05, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:54:06 +0200, Chris Adams wrote: Since you keep repeating this one: -O2 vs. -O0 has a significant performance gain. The message that started this thread indicates that prelink may not have a significant gain anymore. If

Re: Sunday 13th of October: SSD cache test day

2013-10-15 Thread Rolf Fokkens
On 10/14/2013 10:08 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: Is there a write-up somewhere documenting what strategies are implemented by bcache to keep the SSD and the hard disk contents in sync even in the event of a sudden power loss? This is good place to start: http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ -- devel

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:08:40 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.10.2013 21:05, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: It depends, for example in this case prelink saves 33% of time (and battery): i=0;time while [ $i -lt 1000 ];do /usr/bin/gnome-open --help /dev/null;i=$[$i+1];done where are the

Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-10-15)

2013-10-15 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo meeting Wednesday at 18:00UTC in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UTCHowto or run: date -d

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