Re: Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2020-01-16 17:00 UTC)

2020-01-15 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
What about the caret versioning guidelines [https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/908]. Fedora could really use this. Zbyszek On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:44:28PM -0500, James Antill wrote: > Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC > meeting Thursday at 2020

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Re: Mock build Fedora package on CentOS 7

2020-01-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:08 PM Ian Pilcher wrote: > > Is $SUBJECT possible these days? > > I've tried with both --bootstrap-chroot and --use-bootstrap-image, but > the build is failing with: > >ERROR: builddep command missing. >Please install package dnf-plugins-core. > > This happens ev

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/15/20 8:33 PM, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: On 1/7/20 11:14 AM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be so popular among less-experienced Linux users? I'm not sure, but I suspect

Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2020-01-16 17:00 UTC)

2020-01-15 Thread James Antill
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2020-01-16 17:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. uitime): = Day: Thursday == 2020-01-16 09:00 PST US/Pacific 2020-01-16

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal (late): Enable EarlyOOM

2020-01-15 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 6:40 PM John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:24:23 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > Looks like PSI based oom killing doesn't work without swap. Therefore > > oomd can't be considered a universal solution. Quite a lot of > > developers have workstation

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal (late): Enable EarlyOOM

2020-01-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:24:23 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > Looks like PSI based oom killing doesn't work without swap. Therefore > oomd can't be considered a universal solution. Quite a lot of > developers have workstations with quite a decent amount of RAM, > ~64GiB, and do not use swap a

Re: RFC: Python minimization in Fedora

2020-01-15 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 06:05:42PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > ### File types (and bytecode caches) > > The orthogonal dimension is the file type. Python standard library > contains directories with both "extension modules" (written in C > (usually) and compiled to `*.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.

Re: RFC: Python minimization in Fedora

2020-01-15 Thread Victor Stinner
> Solution 4: ZIP the entire standard library > (...) > Nevertheless, this might (in theory) **save 17.8 MiB / 47 %**. It's my favorite option. Almost 50% smaller is quite good! It would be very efficient to have such disk space gain! Using a ZIP file for the stdlib is commonly suggested solution

Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired in February

2020-01-15 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 20:59 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 11:44:31AM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > Also said in the e-mail, if you think those packages need to be exempted > > > from > > > the process, we can deal with that to, however there must be a valid > > > reaso

Re: Mock build Fedora package on CentOS 7

2020-01-15 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 1/15/20 1:26 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 12:08, Ian Pilcher wrote: Is $SUBJECT possible these days? I've tried with both --bootstrap-chroot and --use-bootstrap-image, but the build is failing with: ERROR: builddep command missing. Please install package

Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired in February

2020-01-15 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 11:44:31AM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > Also said in the e-mail, if you think those packages need to be exempted > > from > > the process, we can deal with that to, however there must be a valid > > reason. I > > don't think "the maintainer didn't actually maintain

Re: Mock build Fedora package on CentOS 7

2020-01-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 12:08, Ian Pilcher wrote: > > Is $SUBJECT possible these days? > > I've tried with both --bootstrap-chroot and --use-bootstrap-image, but > the build is failing with: > >ERROR: builddep command missing. >Please install package dnf-plugins-core. > > This happens even

Re: RFC: Python minimization in Fedora

2020-01-15 Thread Łukasz Posadowski
Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:05:42 +0100 Miro Hrončok : > Hello Fedora! > > In Python Maint, we sat down and we came up with several ideas how to > minimize the filesystem footprint of Python. Unfortunately, the > result is horribly long, sorry about that. It was delightfull to read. I have some better u

Re: What would it take to drop release and changelog from our spec files? (and do we want to?)

2020-01-15 Thread Randy Barlow
On Tue, 2020-01-14 at 00:30 +0100, David Kaufmann wrote: > The field for bodhi I usually copy from the changelog - but to be > honest I only fill it, because it's there - I don't even really know > what it is used for, except being shown on the update page. Users can read the update text with the

Re: RFC: Python minimization in Fedora

2020-01-15 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 1/15/20 12:56 PM, Chris wrote: That's an amazing amount of work! My only criticism would be: - the quest for reducing disk space is getting a bit over the top.  I mean to make comparisons to 3.5" floppy disks which haven't been around for 20 years? Why is ~100MB so much? If you scale up from

Re: RFC: Python minimization in Fedora

2020-01-15 Thread Chris
That's an amazing amount of work! My only criticism would be: - the quest for reducing disk space is getting a bit over the top. I mean to make comparisons to 3.5" floppy disks which haven't been around for 20 years? Why is ~100MB so much? If you scale up from floppy disks and even reference a 8GB

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 1/7/20 11:14 AM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be so popular among less-experienced Linux users? I'm not sure, but I suspect that good marketing has something to do with it. I can

[POC-change] Fedora packages point of contact updates

2020-01-15 Thread nobody
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RFC: Python minimization in Fedora

2020-01-15 Thread Miro Hrončok
Hello Fedora! In Python Maint, we sat down and we came up with several ideas how to minimize the filesystem footprint of Python. Unfortunately, the result is horribly long, sorry about that. Please, share your feedback, additional solutions, comments etc. Version with formatting and pictures

Mock build Fedora package on CentOS 7

2020-01-15 Thread Ian Pilcher
Is $SUBJECT possible these days? I've tried with both --bootstrap-chroot and --use-bootstrap-image, but the build is failing with: ERROR: builddep command missing. Please install package dnf-plugins-core. This happens even when the dnf-plugins-core package is installed (from EPEL) on the Ce

Re: Alternative buildroot as a development tool

2020-01-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 05:43:26PM +0100, Aleksandra Fedorova wrote: ...snip... > -- > Note: The naming is hard here, and while I tend to call it > “buildroot”, it actually needs to be called “alternative everything, > except the srpms”. > > I think we shouldn’t use the word “variant”, “spin”

Re: HELP: FreeCAD is still very broken on Fedora 30/31

2020-01-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:04 AM Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > Le mer. 15 janv. 2020 à 15:52, Richard Shaw a > écrit : > > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 8:50 AM Nicolas Chauvet > wrote: > >> > >> Le mer. 15 janv. 2020 à 15:36, Richard Shaw a > écrit : > >> > > >> > > >> > There is a mess between Coin3

Re: HELP: FreeCAD is still very broken on Fedora 30/31

2020-01-15 Thread Nicolas Chauvet
Le mer. 15 janv. 2020 à 15:52, Richard Shaw a écrit : > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 8:50 AM Nicolas Chauvet wrote: >> >> Le mer. 15 janv. 2020 à 15:36, Richard Shaw a écrit : >> > >> > >> > There is a mess between Coin3 and Coin4 (and their dependencies) which I >> > believe is causing most of th

Re: HELP: FreeCAD is still very broken on Fedora 30/31

2020-01-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 8:50 AM Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > Le mer. 15 janv. 2020 à 15:36, Richard Shaw a > écrit : > > > > > > There is a mess between Coin3 and Coin4 (and their dependencies) which I > believe is causing most of the problems. > > > > Some background here: > > > https://lists.fedor

Re: HELP: FreeCAD is still very broken on Fedora 30/31

2020-01-15 Thread Nicolas Chauvet
Le mer. 15 janv. 2020 à 15:36, Richard Shaw a écrit : > > > There is a mess between Coin3 and Coin4 (and their dependencies) which I > believe is causing most of the problems. > > Some background here: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/RMWY7KZIPW

HELP: FreeCAD is still very broken on Fedora 30/31

2020-01-15 Thread Richard Shaw
There is a mess between Coin3 and Coin4 (and their dependencies) which I believe is causing most of the problems. Some background here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/RMWY7KZIPWNOYPZE7ZOHEZGCN334T2BW/#RMWY7KZIPWNOYPZE7ZOHEZGCN334T2BW The main Co

Re: What would it take to drop release and changelog from our spec files? (and do we want to?)

2020-01-15 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 1/15/20 3:33 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 15. 01. 20 v 13:33 Panu Matilainen napsal(a): On 1/15/20 2:13 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Dne 13. 01. 20 v 14:05 Vít Ondruch napsal(a): %changelog %include changelog +1 As I pointed out in https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/942, %

Re: What would it take to drop release and changelog from our spec files? (and do we want to?)

2020-01-15 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 7:10 AM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > Dne 11. 01. 20 v 3:54 Neal Gompa napsal(a): > > * %{dist}.. > > -1 > Packages with commitish in release version are usually developers snapshot. > We already have few packages with such release in Fedora, but I would dislike > to make this

Re: What would it take to drop release and changelog from our spec files? (and do we want to?)

2020-01-15 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 15. 01. 20 v 13:33 Panu Matilainen napsal(a): > On 1/15/20 2:13 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: >> Dne 13. 01. 20 v 14:05 Vít Ondruch napsal(a): >>> %changelog >>> >>> %include changelog >> >> +1 >> > > As I pointed out in > https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/942, %include is > nasty

Re: Copr Build System - review of 2019 and vote for features in 2020

2020-01-15 Thread Sandro Bonazzola
> * something else - is something blocking you from using Copr? Please share > it with us. Right now, getting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1572596 fixed will unblock building java packages on CentOS Stream / EPEL 8. ___ devel mailing l

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 3:04 AM Benson Muite wrote: > Maybe am wrong about faces/fingerprints as passwords: > > https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/08/5 There was also the infamous "gummy fingerprint" article from 2002: https://cryptome.org/gummy.htm And the mythbusters tes

Re: What would it take to drop release and changelog from our spec files? (and do we want to?)

2020-01-15 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 1/15/20 2:13 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Dne 13. 01. 20 v 14:05 Vít Ondruch napsal(a): %changelog %include changelog +1 As I pointed out in https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/942, %include is nasty because it breaks the stand-alone attribute of specs. There are umphteen

Re: What would it take to drop release and changelog from our spec files? (and do we want to?)

2020-01-15 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 13. 01. 20 v 14:05 Vít Ondruch napsal(a): > %changelog > > %include changelog +1 -- Miroslav Suchy, RHCA Red Hat, Associate Manager ABRT/Copr, #brno, #fedora-buildsys ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an e

Re: What would it take to drop release and changelog from our spec files? (and do we want to?)

2020-01-15 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 11. 01. 20 v 3:54 Neal Gompa napsal(a): > * %{dist}.. -1 Packages with commitish in release version are usually developers snapshot. We already have few packages with such release in Fedora, but I would dislike to make this standard. -- Miroslav Suchy, RHCA Red Hat, Associate Manager ABRT/C

Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Provide OpenType Bitmap Fonts

2020-01-15 Thread Akira TAGOH
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 3:34 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > Just to be clear: the Fonts packaging guidelines that FPC has been > reviewing since last year mandates the conversion and forbids the > packaging of deprecated formats. Yes. we need to take some steps to move forward on it. as we

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Daniel Rusek
> I think, and this is my personal opinion, that Ubuntu is so popular, > because it is easy to use for everyone. You don't need to have much > technical knowledge to use Ubuntu for most thinks that non technical > user needs and it looks good. > > Every time I'm trying to use Fedora the same wa

Re: Alternative buildroot as a development tool

2020-01-15 Thread Adam Samalik
I really like this proposal. I feel like it's something we needed for a long time. More comments inline! On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:45 PM Aleksandra Fedorova wrote: > Hi, all, > > This topic goes along the lines of Matthew’s Operating System Factory > discussion[1], but with a slightly different

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Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Additional buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update

2020-01-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Friday, January 10, 2020 6:37:11 AM MST Chris Adams wrote: > AVX2 is not a reasonable requirement as a replacement for the current > Fedora x86_64, as there are CPUs still being made today that don't > support that. Relevant lines from /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae

Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Additional buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update

2020-01-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Friday, January 10, 2020 8:09:18 AM MST Aleksandra Fedorova wrote: > We are not proposing the new architecture. We are proposing a "staging > environment" for the current architecture. Which can be used for > experiments which currently can not be performed without disrupting > the release and u