Re: Architecture specific header files

2013-06-25 Thread Björn Persson
sr/lib64/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h -rw-r--r-- /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc -rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h -rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc $ pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include Björn Persson signature.as

Info in Konqueror

2013-05-30 Thread Björn Persson
iteria are no better than flipping a coin. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Build control-center in mock fail

2013-05-25 Thread Björn Persson
y > desirable. The requirement to build from source is already explicit: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Björn Persson
only to some users, or if it pulls in lots of additional stuff, then it should be suggested and get installed only on the user's explicit request. This minimizes bloat. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Björn Persson
s. In batch operations like Kickstart and Mock I'm thinking recommendations and suggestions would be ignored and only required packages would be pulled in. I don't know how Kickstart handles Comps groups but "default" sounds to me like it would be installed even in batch operations. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Björn Persson
the client, while the client might only suggest the server. A third example is graphical administration tools for some daemon that are in a separate package so that the daemon can be installed without pulling in half a desktop environment. In this case the daemon should suggest the tools, but perha

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Björn Persson
ls, so doing it with libraries can't be too difficult. There must be a better way to handle soname bumps like the one in LibPNG that is being discussed right now. If automatic cleanup of dependencies gets implemented, then an old version of a library should be removed when no installed packages r

Re: wired ethernet disabled between reboots

2013-05-21 Thread Björn Persson
quot;net", ATTR{address}=="00:1e:8c:cf:cd:e5", NAME:="gigabit" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="00:16:6f:a9:95:34", NAME:="wifi" As a bonus I got human-readable interface names, making it much easier to remember which interface is which, but my primary motivation was to make it possible to configure stuff. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Björn Persson
hat users would notice *before* they start typing. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-03 Thread Björn Persson
t; The admin won't know about this misfeature until he looks up from the keyboard and sees the password being displayed in the clear, right? Always close the door and the blinds when installing operating systems? That's easier said than done in an open plan office. Björn P

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-04-18 Thread Björn Persson
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:14:33AM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > [...] > > > Passing pointers to objects from one language to another is likely > > > *not* possible however. > > > > Ada imports and exports C pointers just fine, inc

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-04-17 Thread Björn Persson
another is likely > *not* possible however. Ada imports and exports C pointers just fine, including pointers to functions and records. Strings typically need to be converted though, as strings aren't null-terminated in Ada. Of course Ada can't prevent the C code from corrupting

Re: What to move to?

2013-04-17 Thread Björn Persson
t; objects. Of course there is always some overhead. Do you mean that they have a significantly larger overhead than garbage collectors have? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-04-15 Thread Björn Persson
e than other languages. Of course an infallible superhuman could write good code in any language, and a fool can write bad code in any language, but a normal human programmer will write better code in a well-designed language than in an ill-designed language. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: P

What to move to? (was: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages")

2013-04-15 Thread Björn Persson
at's not a problem with the language itself but a result of low popularity, and would change with time if more programmers would start using Ada. Help with packaging the libraries that do exist would be welcome. A free compiler? Yes, we have one in Fedora. Björn Persson s

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-04-11 Thread Björn Persson
estarts itself between each connection or at > least on a regular basis (ie. it's a forking or pre-forking server, or > the server is started on each connection by inetd/systemd)? Or it crashes and gets restarted every time the attacker fails to guess the addresses. Björn Persson s

Re: Why does _hardened_build use "-z,relro" and not "-z,relro,-z,now" ?

2013-04-11 Thread Björn Persson
Paul Wouters wrote: > Why does the _hardened_build macro for the spec file use "-z,relro" and not > "-z,relro,-z,now" ? Huh? As far as I can see _hardened_build adds -z now, not relro. -Wl,-z,relro is supposed to be included in LDFLAGS. Or has this change

Re: Prevent package builds on certain architectures

2013-04-04 Thread Björn Persson
Juerg Haefliger wrote: > BuildArch: noarch > > %if 0%{?rhel} > # Only build on x86_64 for EPEL because qemu-img only exists for that arch > ExclusiveArch: x86_64 > %endif [...] > error: Architecture is not included: noarch Try "ExclusiveArch: noarch x86_64".

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-03-29 Thread Björn Persson
e FESCo maintains a list, I suppose anyone can propose specific programs to be added to the list, but it seems pointless to explicitly list programs that are already covered by the first three criteria. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: When to publish the release key

2013-03-19 Thread Björn Persson
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:24:22 +0100 > Björn Persson wrote: > > > Is there a date in the release schedule when the new release key shall > > be added to <https://fedoraproject.org/keys>? It seems logical to me > > to publish the key as soo

When to publish the release key

2013-03-19 Thread Björn Persson
owing up on the mirrors, and on the keyservers there is a key that claims to be the Fedora 19 release key, generated on the first of December, but since the key isn't signed and isn't on the web page I have no way of verifying it. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -

Re: fedora release name problem

2013-03-19 Thread Björn Persson
nges left and right. As I understand it Fedora has release names because people like to see them displayed in various places. That means they are user-visible content. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedo

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-14 Thread Björn Persson
Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 03/11/2013 05:03 PM, Björn Persson wrote: > > >> Your TV (which likely has embedded Linux)? Your car? > >> Windows? OS X? > > > > I don't have any of those, and I doubt I'll ever buy a car when I want > > a genera

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-14 Thread Björn Persson
he disk encryption passphrase." Are there other messages that Plymouth may need to display? I would guess there aren't so many that the scalability of this approach would be a problem. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
be a significant problem. Could you explain why you think people are likely to press random keys by mistake during the boot? I don't think that has ever happened to me. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
it? Could there at least be some instructions displayed *after* I accidentally succeed the first time, so I'll know how to do it next time? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
e boot loader because the OS fails to boot. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 11.03.13 21:20, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: > > > Peter Robinson wrote: > > > It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured > > > or if the CTRL was held down. Having to press a particular key

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
whether and how I'll be able to revert if anything goes wrong. > Your TV (which likely has embedded Linux)? Your car? > Windows? OS X? I don't have any of those, and I doubt I'll ever buy a car when I want a general-purpose computer. Björn Persson signature.asc Description:

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
add some kernel parameter to get the system up enough to solve some boot problem? Detecting that the previous boot failed is nice and all, but that mechanism needs to be totally infallible if it's going to be the only way the Grub menu can be accessed. Björn Persson signature.asc Description:

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
that way. As I already wrote, if the Grub menu is simply displayed, then five seconds is enough. Much better. And if you want to save those five seconds you just need to press Enter. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
t before the BIOS > disappears. But how are users supposed to discover it? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
is made the harder it will be to understand. I estimate that at least 15 seconds would be needed. Adding "Press Enter to save a few seconds." would make it even more text to read and understand. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Ryan Lerch wrote: > Does the bootup screen require any keyboard other input at all other > than escape to bring up the details? It must be possible to enter a disk encryption password. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
ding the graphical screen will be a win in terms of reduced visual noise. What would there be instead? A text-mode boot menu? Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to press some key at the right moment? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel

Re: Fedora 16 EOL Bugzilla Closure - strange behavior?

2013-02-18 Thread Björn Persson
ript uses CSV generated from Bugzilla in one time but > as the script runs nearly for a day, conflicts can happen... I seem to recall that I've seen Bugzilla detect and warn about conflicting concurrent changes. It would seem like a good idea to have the script use that mech

Re: Another unannounced soname bump: libseccomp

2013-02-02 Thread Björn Persson
d do that, and retry the scratch build once a day, then it would eventually work its way through dependency chains. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Virtio RNG

2013-02-02 Thread Björn Persson
in the cryptographic language I'm used to. Ah, according to this: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/11/17/the-difference-between-rdrand-and-rdseed RDRAND doesn't output random numbers, only pseudorandom numbers. I suppose that's what you meant. Björn Persson signatu

Re: Fairly serious GCC 4.8 Ada regression

2013-02-02 Thread Björn Persson
plot. Wow, that's a weird compiler bug. Your test program works for me if I change the conversion to Integer(Long_Long_Integer(R1)). Perhaps you could patch PLplot with that workaround while we wait for a fix to GCC? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing lis

Re: rawhide report: 20130125 changes

2013-01-25 Thread Björn Persson
florist-2011-8.fc18.i686 requires libgnarl-4.7.so > > florist-2011-8.fc18.x86_64 requires libgnat-4.7.so()(64bit) > > florist-2011-8.fc18.x86_64 requires libgnarl-4.7.so()(64bit) Same thing as with zeromq-ada: "BuildRequires: gcc-gnat" is missing. Björn Per

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Björn Persson
s that upgrading by Yum isn't supported, as Fedora is said to be community-supported and the community seems to be supporting Yum upgrades about as well as any other aspect of Fedora. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Björn Persson
e to have. Then maybe "yum upgrade" > could require (or at least recommend) switching to that mode first. Isn't that essentially what Fedup does? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [rawhide] ideas to improve rawhide

2013-01-24 Thread Björn Persson
le it should be possible to do the rebuild entirely automatically, if we allow automated processes to push to Git. Even a client-side tool to do rebuilds in dependency order would help, but I haven't yet figured out how to write one. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature --

Re: [rawhide] ideas to improve rawhide

2013-01-24 Thread Björn Persson
o be manually started and monitored it will always take some time. I imagine that quite a few people would be annoyed if GCC would be delayed while we rebuild the Ada packages. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http

Re: Adding asynchronous name resolution to GlibC

2013-01-18 Thread Björn Persson
ronous name resolution without involvement of threads and > suchlike then your only option is to make NSS asynchronous in itself, > and you cannot do that without reworking glibc substantially. Thank you for presenting a valid argument instead of just ranting sarcastically. Björn Persson signat

Adding asynchronous name resolution to GlibC (was: Reproposed F19 Feature: Fix Network Name Resolution)

2013-01-18 Thread Björn Persson
u make them a separate, portable library, then they can be installed on all Unix-like systems, and maybe other operating systems too, and programs that use them will also be portable. Wouldn't that be better? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- dev

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Package Signature Checking During Installation

2013-01-10 Thread Björn Persson
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 10 January 2013 14:17, Björn Persson wrote: > > Adam Jackson wrote: > >> On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 17:56 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > >> > But why should anaconda not verify packages if secure boot is disabled? > >> > >> F

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Package Signature Checking During Installation

2013-01-10 Thread Björn Persson
k. Anaconda shouldn't proceed unless you tell it that you have checked the boot image manually and found it to be genuine. This could be done with a button that you have to clik on, labeled "Yes I checked the boot image." Or the fact that you booted the boot image could be taken

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Package Signature Checking During Installation

2013-01-08 Thread Björn Persson
Peter Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 05:46:04PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > > In my opinion, if Anaconda finds that it was booted without Secure > > Boot, then it should assume that the user has verified the checksum on > > the installation image and that the keys

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Package Signature Checking During Installation

2013-01-08 Thread Björn Persson
ys to verify any packages it downloads. It's enough to verify downloaded packages in that case. Packages included on the boot medium don't need to be checked if the boot medium is trusted, but of course it doesn't hurt to verify those too if it's easier to program that way.

Re: fedup: does not verify source

2012-12-17 Thread Björn Persson
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 02:05 +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > anyhow, the tricky thing here lies in somehow making it safe for > > > fedup to *automatically* import the correct key for the next > > >

Re: fedup: does not verify source

2012-12-17 Thread Björn Persson
k pair, and Fedup needs to verify that signature. Naturally the signature must be verified before the kernel/ramdisk pair is booted. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: fedup: does not verify source

2012-12-16 Thread Björn Persson
. As long as people are being discouraged from upgrading by Yum because it's "unsupported", removing the only "supported" and secure upgrade method is definitely a regression, and quite irresponsible. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Yum Package Remove Order

2012-12-04 Thread Björn Persson
kages depend on each other? What "Provides" and "Requires" fields are there in their spec files? What do you get if you run "rpm --query --provides" and "rpm --query --requires" on each package? Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: rssh (need a sponsor and package from database)

2012-11-28 Thread Björn Persson
maintainers in other distributions. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: "network" service fails to set wireless parameters.

2012-11-14 Thread Björn Persson
e SSID and the channel, if that's what you mean. You don't seem to think the problem is in my ifcfg file, so I filed a bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876786 Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-14 Thread Björn Persson
0m0.001s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

2012-11-07 Thread Björn Persson
t_edit_wars Also, mistakes on Wikipedia are unlikely to cause widespread breakage of users' work environments or insert backdoors into lots of computers all over the world. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: "network" service fails to set wireless parameters.

2012-11-06 Thread Björn Persson
Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 21:47 +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > > I have a Wifi card that is supposed to be managed by the "network" > > service. The interface's IP addresses, prefixes, routes and all that > > get assigned correctly on boot

"network" service fails to set wireless parameters.

2012-11-06 Thread Björn Persson
ore I file a bug report I wanted to ask: Does anyone see anything wrong with the ifcfg file below? Björn Persson DEVICE=wifi NAME="Wifi" HWADDR=00:16:6f:a9:95:34 NM_CONTROLLED=no BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Wireless IPADDR0=192.168.96.1 PREFIX0=24 DEFROUTE=no IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes IPV6

Re: still UsrMove problems and wrong PATH in openssh

2012-10-31 Thread Björn Persson
"/", and proceeds to look for files in /share, which doesn't exist and never has. We really need to get /bin and /sbin removed from PATH, or at least moved behind /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: What are reasonable blockers for making journald the default logger in F19?

2012-10-18 Thread Björn Persson
t perhaps "ctl" is short for "cutler" and alludes to Journalctl's ability to slice up logs in several different ways? In that case the name would be easier to remember if "cutler" were spelled out. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-10 Thread Björn Persson
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:00:41PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > So if my Fedora box won't boot, and I take the disk out and mount it > > in a CentOS box, I might not be able to read the log because > > journalctl in CentOS might be too

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-10 Thread Björn Persson
to read any previous version of the > binary file format. So if my Fedora box won't boot, and I take the disk out and mount it in a CentOS box, I might not be able to read the log because journalctl in CentOS might be too old? Not fun. Björn Persson -- devel mailing

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-10 Thread Björn Persson
l -D So the rescue system (which might not always be Fedora) must have journalctl installed. Is the file format stable, or can it break if the rescue system has a different version of journalctl? Is the format perchance even documented so that other tools for reading logs could be written? Björn

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD

2012-09-17 Thread Björn Persson
t the terms "alpha" and "beta"? Fedora 18 has been declared alpha. Before that it was pre-alpha. After some more testing and fixing it will reach beta status. Right? Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: What's the reason for not accepting karma from Bodhi submitter

2012-08-20 Thread Björn Persson
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > If I give negative karma, that's because I tested the update and > found it didn't work. Why would you do that instead of retracting the update? Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: What's the reason for not accepting karma from Bodhi submitter

2012-08-20 Thread Björn Persson
is. I'm just pointing out a logical consequence that officially allowing proxy karma would have. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F18, koji and IPv6

2012-08-10 Thread Björn Persson
kept waiting for everyone else, so here we are now with an Internet that has been split into an IPv4- only part and an IPv6-only part. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-07-23)

2012-08-01 Thread Björn Persson
mebody's idea of "good". As we found out in another branch of this thread, people can disagree on which rendering method makes a font look good. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: OBS Fedora

2012-07-29 Thread Björn Persson
Are you not even allowed to install Putty and log in by SSH from the laptop to your home PC? A Git implementation for Windows would probably make your work easier. A quick search indicates that such programs exist. Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.

Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-07-23)

2012-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
unfortunate, but they are an inevitable effect of limited screen resolution. I'll choose the thickness jumps over the blurry letters without hesitation. Should we hold a vote to determine how the majority of users like their fonts? Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Set bash's shell option nullglob by default?

2012-07-13 Thread Björn Persson
Changing a programming language under the programmers' feet it almost never a good idea. Shall I start setting all Bash options explicitly in every single shell script just so that I'll know how the language works even if someone changes the defaults on me? Björn Persson signature

Re: preventing known-damaging third-party to fedora/epel package upgrade?

2012-07-12 Thread Björn Persson
cases fall under "unsupported". That's no excuse for not doing the right thing (provided that there is an objectively right thing to do). Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: How do I check for a package in Rawhide?

2012-07-07 Thread Björn Persson
Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 19:50:41 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > When fedpkg chain-build fails with the message "Unsuccessfully waited > > 120:09 for GtkAda-2.24.2-1.fc18 to appear in the f18-build repo", how > > can I check later whether the pac

How do I check for a package in Rawhide?

2012-07-07 Thread Björn Persson
When fedpkg chain-build fails with the message "Unsuccessfully waited 120:09 for GtkAda-2.24.2-1.fc18 to appear in the f18-build repo", how can I check later whether the package has appeared yet so that I can build the next package in the dependency chain? Björn Persson sig

Re: Couldn't we enable 256 colors by default on TERM?

2012-06-26 Thread Björn Persson
have to translate "xterm-256color" to "xterm", "screen-256color" to "screen" et cetera. Simply setting TERM=xterm in all SSH sessions is probably not sufficient. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- de

Re: DNS handling

2012-06-23 Thread Björn Persson
Paul Wouters wrote: > Let me know how dnssec-trigger 0.11 works, with the additional > hotspot port 80 manglign detection. I'm afraid my laptop isn't all that usable right now – https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832723 – but I'll see what I can do. Björn Pe

Re: Self Introduction

2012-06-23 Thread Björn Persson
would like to see on > Fedora. Hi Julian, and welcome! We can certainly need another Ada packager. It will be great to have GPS in Fedora, but it's brave of you to do that as your first Fedora package. I haven't dared to tackle GPS myself yet. Björn Persson signature.asc Descript

Re: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin considered harmful

2012-06-23 Thread Björn Persson
cludes that the installation prefix is /, and looks for its data in /share instead of /usr/share, which of course fails because there is no /share. Working around this required a Fedora-specific patch to make GPRbuild resolve the symbolic link. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This

Re: DNS handling

2012-06-21 Thread Björn Persson
cache when even HTTPS is blocked. Perhaps dual-view setups like mine should simply use a short TTL to minimize the problem. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: (re)starting of a daemon after package update

2012-06-20 Thread Björn Persson
sure that the new library is in place. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Laptop screen stuck on very low brightness

2012-06-07 Thread Björn Persson
bar grows and shrinks, but the brightness is not affected. > Does `xbacklight` work? All xbacklight commands I try (except for "xbacklight -help") cause the screen to flash once and return zero. Even "xbacklight -get" causes a flash, prints nothing, and returns zero. Bjö

Laptop screen stuck on very low brightness

2012-06-07 Thread Björn Persson
brightness back up. Which package should I report this against? Linux? X? Plymouth? Or something else? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: another upgrade, another disaster

2012-06-04 Thread Björn Persson
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 19:56 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > I also won't install anything that I haven't checked the PGP signature > > on. That excludes netinst.iso and Preupgrade, and if I use Anaconda I > > have to be careful to not let

Re: another upgrade, another disaster

2012-06-04 Thread Björn Persson
just Sweden. Note 2: Yes there are reusable optical media, so user's don't need to buy new discs every time they upgrade Fedora. None the less, the more people use optical media, the more optical media will be sold in total, and the more money will flow to the copyright lobby. Björn Pe

Re: another upgrade, another disaster

2012-06-03 Thread Björn Persson
Josh Boyer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Björn Persson > wrote: > > Tomasz Torcz wrote: > >> You can write .iso image to USB key¹ and boot from it, you know. > > > > Even the installation DVD images? What I've heard is that that only works &g

Re: another upgrade, another disaster

2012-06-03 Thread Björn Persson
started doing that.) Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: another upgrade, another disaster

2012-06-03 Thread Björn Persson
ing that I haven't checked the PGP signature on. That excludes netinst.iso and Preupgrade, and if I use Anaconda I have to be careful to not let it download anything. Therefore I usually upgrade by Yum. That's also a laborious process, but I usually get a mostly working system in the

Re: SSH connection problem and possible buffer overflow

2012-05-11 Thread Björn Persson
SSH server, then I'd suspect the firewall. Many firewalls have a bad habit of mangling data and violating protocols. Is it possible for you to see what it looks like from the server side? For example, does the SSH server crash or does it also receive an RST packet? Björn Persson signatur

Re: Primary Architectures: Another Proposal (RFC)

2012-04-08 Thread Björn Persson
e build has completed, then the right solution is to change the user interface of Bodhi to allow that. An even better solution might be a combined interface where you could start a set of builds and submit the update information as a single operation. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: Th

Re: Question about commiting the sources

2012-03-19 Thread Björn Persson
atch > Will it allow me then build package? Yes. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Question about commiting the sources

2012-03-17 Thread Björn Persson
link to the one on the upstream website. To link to a patch you can use a URL similar to this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=erlang.git;a=blob_plain;f=otp-0002- Remove-rpath.patch;hb=5d2c8835ef0223b3939eb372189625c2a88692b4 Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: Review swap: logkeys - Linux keylogger

2012-03-05 Thread Björn Persson
Ankur Sinha wrote: > The package is required for Fedora videos[1] :) > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Video How does a keylogger help you upload videos to the Internet Archive? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- devel mailing l

Re: Rpmbuild unable to recognize used libs?

2012-02-11 Thread Björn Persson
ballz marked as executable after the %install step? I have found that RPMbuild doesn't pick up dependencies from shared libraries if they don't have the execute privilege bits set. Presumably that goes for executables too. It would be strange though if GCC doesn't mark the executabl

Re: UsrMove feature breaking "yum upgrade" upgrades from older releases to F17?

2012-01-26 Thread Björn Persson
ug 998 remains unfixed I hope it will at least be possible to make a fresh install from an ISO image, using only what is included in the image. Otherwise I don't see how Fedora could be installed securely. Upgrading securely is still possible with Yum, but installation requires Anaconda as f

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-25 Thread Björn Persson
ew Fedora release. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-20 Thread Björn Persson
c/). If that's not enough to justify a separate package, but it's undesirable to include these files even on a minimal server, then perhaps they could be added to some X package that all graphical programs depend on anyway? Just a thought. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-13 Thread Björn Persson
o build then yes: there is no choice but to remove it. Or if it has a security bug that nobody is trying to fix. And how will the project become aware of newly discovered security bugs in orphan packages? Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- d

Re: using a macro in ExclusiveArch

2012-01-05 Thread Björn Persson
> I'll try to get a macros.gnat-srpm into redhat-rpm- config. I have filed this request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772012 Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

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