Re: Chromium

2012-03-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/18/2012 02:39 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: Are you by chance using a proxy? If so there is a bug in google-chrome/chromium which happened when KDE proxy changed output to have white space separated port number - if so make just edit the file ~/.kde4/share/config/kioslaverc and make it

Re: Issues with yum

2012-02-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/27/2012 11:44 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: > will leave your system in a state where manual cleanup is likely >> required. > One scenario which I often hit is forgetting to change the proxy > settings in yum.conf and then trying to update. Yum will clearly fail to > download repodata, but it will

Re: Apple will use LLVM

2012-02-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/15/2012 10:38 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > We're already building at least one package (hfsplus-tools) with llvm > because it relies on non-standard C extensions that gcc doesn't support, > and I believe the current software rasteriser in mesa depends on it. In > terms of it being the gen

Re: service iptables save, systemctl, and unhelpful error messages

2012-02-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/15/2012 09:45 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Experienced admins dont use service iptables blah anyway ( they use > iptables commands directly ) so it hardly matters to them documentation > should however be updated for those that actually use service iptables > blah to point this out s

Re: Linux Questions Desktop Environment of the Year - interesting result

2012-02-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/13/2012 03:47 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Fedora DE vs KDE spin download ratio compared to past release ratios would be > more suggestive of a trend, if it exists. Not necessarily - I always used the standard DVD to install and use KDE and frankly never used the KDE spin - not once. gen

Re: Linux Questions Desktop Environment of the Year - interesting result

2012-02-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/12/2012 06:19 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-95/desktop-environment-of-the-year-919888/ > > Shows an interesting result in terms of DE popularity - though given > the many discussions not only on Fedora lists bu

Re: /usrmove?

2012-02-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/10/2012 07:07 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > That is the definition of a product. Fedora has never been a product. > Fedora is a community driven distribution and as such has no central > or overriding authority to tell people that volunteer their time to go do > some specific thing they don't fee

Re: /usrmove?

2012-02-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/08/2012 12:37 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> Note that this has not actually been implemented in anaconda yet, so if >> you do an anaconda upgrade at this time, it will explode horribly. The >> bug requesting this support be added to anaconda is >> http://bugzilla.redhat.

Re: Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

2012-02-02 Thread Genes MailLists
Let it go kevin ... I know there are a bunch of gnome happy users (and of course the devs), but there are probably less now than earlier ... A limited sample but everyone I know - all of whom were gnome users - no longer use gnome - they have all switched to either kde or xfce (each with its own

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-02-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/01/2012 09:41 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Emanuel Rietveld said: >> On 02/01/2012 01:32 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote: >>> To-be-installed files obviously have no on-disk fingerprints, so it >>> wont work for initial installation. So yes, those "fake" compatibility >>> provides

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-01-31 Thread Genes MailLists
What would be the pros/cons of a bind mount instead of a soft link for /bin et al? gene -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rolling release Fedora - fantastic idea

2012-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2012 05:17 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > The argument against rolling upgrades is that it's a wonderful idea > early on, but then you run into a morass as time goes on, because of: > > - difficulty of handling wanted vs. unwanted updates, which in turn > creates combinatorially growi

Re: Rolling release Fedora - fantastic idea

2012-01-28 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/28/2012 12:23 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:15:11 -0600 > Andrew Wyatt wrote: > > ...snip... > ... > > I think the way forward is the one I outlined in: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-January/161632.html > > Until those interested can organize

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

2012-01-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/27/2012 12:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > why in the world is a currently useless "feature" much more forced > than the change of the init-system? > perhaps this change is wanted/needed by the new init system for some reason that may not be apparent at the moment ... resource us

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/25/2012 10:01 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Bryan Quigley wrote: > > It's pretty simple, really. Basically, if we don't keep the kernel on at > least a somewhat recent release the amount of work required to support > that release grows beyond what we can realisti

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/25/2012 03:48 AM, drago01 wrote: > > Exactly releases have the advantage of being a well tested set of > updates where you have a window to decide whether you want to update > yet or not. > So I don't see what a rolling release gains really. If you always want > to run the latest and greate

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/24/2012 02:59 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > But a fully rolling release just cannot work (and this is also why all those > "just use Rawhide if you want the latest", "usable Rawhide" etc. suggestions > are fundamentally flawed). Yes, there are distros doing this, but they all > have one th

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/24/2012 09:08 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote: > On 01/24/2012 02:13 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>Fedora suffers an additional problem it seems - not only are there >> large changes as part of many releases, but lately some of them >> immediately stop being supported until

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/24/2012 07:13 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > How is rawhide not a rolling release? Or perhaps better asked, what > about rawhide makes it > unsuitable for use as a rolling Fedora release? Actually it is totally unsuitable for a stable rolling release. A rolling release, as most mean it th

Re: The question of rolling release?

2012-01-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/24/2012 07:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:23:14AM +, mike cloaked wrote: >> Fedora would appear to be out of line in not taking on board the >> potential user base for a rolling release version. For servers there >> would be huge advantages in management of

Re: service and user-agent disclosure - please consider privacy

2012-01-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/11/2012 10:11 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:03:39AM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: >> Odd as it is, IP6 reduces privacy - it was not designed with privacy >> in mind. > > http://ipv6int.net/systems/linux-ipv6.html#privacy > Good point

Re: service and user-agent disclosure - please consider privacy

2012-01-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/11/2012 09:21 AM, Emanuel Rietveld wrote: > On 01/11/2012 12:43 PM, Richard wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:53:52PM +0100, nodata wrote: >> >>> Fonts are a bigger threat to privacy, see here: >>> http://panopticlick.eff.org/ > > Maybe I am missing something, but isn't this only releva

Re: Kernel 3.1 being phased out, time for 3.2 in F-16?

2012-01-09 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/09/2012 09:38 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 01/09/2012 07:24 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> a concern over the debug opt > > Alternatively - just build it without debugging - download the source > rpm(s). > ... Of course (should go without saying ... but) the obvious

Re: Kernel 3.1 being phased out, time for 3.2 in F-16?

2012-01-09 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/09/2012 07:24 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > a concern over the debug opt Alternatively - just build it without debugging - download the source rpm(s). After installing/setting up the rpm tools, unpack (rpm -iv) the source rpm in ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS dir - then go to ~/rpmbuild/SPEC and do: rpmbuil

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/03/2012 09:16 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > # cat /proc/meminfo >/tmp/1; killall tracker-store; sleep 1; cat > /proc/meminfo >/tmp/2; cat /tmp/1 /tmp/2 | grep MemFree > MemFree: 1940372 kB > MemFree: 1963860 kB > > As you see, killing it on my machine freed over 23 megs worth

Re: Systemd and fstab

2011-12-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/14/2011 07:25 AM, Andrew Price wrote: > Hi, > > From the systemd.mount(5) man page: > > "Mount units may either be configured via unit files, or via /etc/fstab" > > This makes me wonder - to what extent will systemd replace fstab in > future Fedoras? Will fstab disappear in favour of syste

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/22/2011 12:13 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:00:43PM +0100, 80 wrote: > >> The failure is due to Fedora *non-upstream* versionning scheme, >> VirtualBox has *already* fixes the API/ABI issue upstream relying on >> the kernel version (since 3.2 RC). It has nothing to

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 16.

2011-11-16 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/16/2011 06:21 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 11/16/11 11:31, Mathieu Bridon wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:33 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> On 11/15/11 19:03, Genes MailLists wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Its easy enough to build an iso

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 16.

2011-11-15 Thread Genes MailLists
Its easy enough to build an iso using mock/pungi which will take advantage of all your local packages ... I really don't know that jigdo added anything to that - in fact using pungi you always get a fully updated build without waiting for a jigdo list. gene -- devel mailing list devel@lists.

Re: PackageKit vice shell

2011-10-17 Thread Genes MailLists
Also, FYI, you you can disable it (as alternative to deleting): unset -f command_not_found_handle in your .bashrc ... -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: PA 1.0 for FC16?

2011-10-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/08/2011 04:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > if there would be much more care by introducing new features/replacements > my understanding for the fear of update thmen after that would be much higher > > as long fedora is shooting out new features without any care if they are > really ready fdora

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-16 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/16/2011 05:05 AM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:32 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >>-- >> (i) Server. >>-- >> >> These run all the time - reboots are most often in maintenance >> window (

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-16 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/16/2011 05:01 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 05:17:43PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> True. As far as GNOME goes, though, whenever you suggest 'bulletproof >> session management', they say 'that's what suspend is for'... > > I'd like to see proper session management. Ho

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/15/2011 02:14 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:27:29 +0100 > > Many computers are booted very rarely, once a day or so, and then > sit idle for very long periods of time. This is very wasteful. The > reason people do this is because booting takes a long time compared to > st

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/14/2011 01:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> Honestly, if systemd updates has 5% of users failing on an update to >> the software - we should dump the thing immediately and go back to >> upstart. That is insanely high bug rate for core code which is (or >> should be) pretty simple. > > R

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/13/2011 09:48 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 09/14/2011 06:47 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> Good points - up to a point - but lets go slow and think for a few >> minutes - unlike the kernel which is very hardware dependent and >> therefore may run on many machines but n

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/13/2011 08:34 PM, Jef Spaleta wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Genes MailLists <mailto:li...@sapience.com>> wrote: > > The kernel has undergone more updates than systemd ... all for very > good reasons - making it better and solv

Re: [systemd-devel] question

2011-09-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/13/2011 05:58 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 09/14/2011 02:59 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: >> So Fedora guys what you are waiting for ? update systemd please , should >> I open a report in bugzilla ? > > I can explain each of your examples but since systemd upstream developer > is also the Fedor

Re: rpm changelog (was Re: Notice of intent: patching glibc)

2011-09-07 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/07/2011 01:50 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Rich Megginson on 09/07/2011 12:44 PM wrote: >> git log --oneline TAG-OF-PREVIOUS-RELEASE.. | cat >> >> the | cat (or | more) is needed because git log will truncate lines > > This is not what I meant. > > Upstream may have had 20-30 commits in

Re: Notice of intent: patching glibc

2011-09-07 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/07/2011 12:42 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > Unless of course you meant "have fedpkg automatically stick a > git-shortlog into the %changelog section of the spec file on commit" > or something. Then.. maybe. Yah I meant this one .. :-) > > And yes, this assumes in all cases that develo

Re: Notice of intent: patching glibc

2011-09-07 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/07/2011 09:57 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > %changelog isn't for developers. It's for users to see what the > developers changed in the package. > Would a git-shortlog suffice for %changelog ? Assuming appropriate comments are required for fedora's git repo. -- devel mailing list devel@l

Re: gimp

2011-08-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/25/2011 01:18 PM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > Side-by-side means into the same prefix. You can only have one gimp > version installed into the /usr prefix, you're free to install a > different one into /opt/gimp-x.y or somewhere into your home if you're > an ordinary user. > > Nils Ah tha

Re: gimp

2011-08-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/25/2011 12:00 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 08/25/2011 10:28 AM, Nils Philippsen wrote: >> >>> As well, installing both stable versions side-by-side isn't an option as >>> you can't insta

Re: gimp

2011-08-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/25/2011 10:28 AM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > As well, installing both stable versions side-by-side isn't an option as > you can't install them into the same prefix: the libraries have the same > SONAME, the new ones are expected to be ABI compatible. Therefore I > don't see a real alternative

Re: gimp

2011-08-24 Thread Genes MailLists
It could be built to be installed in parallel with 2.6 - which would allow those who want to test/play with it. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

gimp

2011-08-23 Thread Genes MailLists
Are there any plans to bring gimp 2.7.x -> 2.8 into F16 ? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/22/2011 07:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 17:09 -0400, Steve Clark wrote: > >>> -Steve >> Obviously a lot on this list value boot up speed over security! > > You're making a false assumption, which is that socket activation is > only about speed. It's also about resou

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/21/2011 05:09 PM, Steve Clark wrote: >>> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html >>> >>> Read the part about "Parallelizing Socket Services". It explains why >>> socket actviation is interesting, >> I find a secure OS interesting. Bootup speed does not matter much to me. >> >> -Steve >

Re: Need Little IT advice Here...

2011-08-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/11/2011 11:58 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > Hi, I was Wondering if there was a tool for Linux in general > that let me undo the system changes at reboot or something > like that, For example: > > I want to set a standard configuration in a machine and then > let that machine to be used by ma

Re: Btrfs status for F16

2011-08-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/08/2011 08:55 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Matej Cepl wrote: >> On 8.8.2011 14:44, Josef Bacik wrote: >>> I appreciate those who will continue to use it and report bugs, we are >>> working very hard on trying to get everything more stable and it is a >>> slow goin

Re: Power and brightness issue

2011-08-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/02/2011 02:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 15:37 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> I've read >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common#Laptop_screen_dims_when_switching_to_battery_power_or_idle_mode_but_never_brightens_again >> >> My system suffers the same symptoms but

Re: Fwd: Rapid DHCP

2011-07-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/31/2011 12:35 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:30:30PM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 07/30/2011 06:49 PM, Dan Williams wrote: >>> ... >>> So we could presumptuously configure the interface >>> with the previous address from

Re: Fwd: Rapid DHCP

2011-07-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/30/2011 06:49 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > NM already keeps DHCP information around based on the network you're > connecting to, so we don't need to ARP a bunch of servers just to > determine whether the DHCP server we wanted is still there. dhclient is Cool - so is NM already pretty opt

Re: koji: kernel-2.6.40-3.fc15

2011-07-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/30/2011 12:52 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 30.07.2011 04:29, schrieb Genes MailLists: >> wasn't there some kind of issue in vm's ? >> Maybe I'm not remembering correctly > > no - performance sucks if the VM is stored on a BTRFS formatted disk >

Re: Fwd: Rapid DHCP

2011-07-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/30/2011 10:37 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sat, 30.07.11 10:31, Genes MailLists (li...@sapience.com) wrote: > >>>> http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do >>> > > IIRC connman (i.e. NM's competition) can do the ARP magic, too. > > L

Re: Fwd: Rapid DHCP

2011-07-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/30/2011 04:48 AM, Ryan Rix wrote: ... > Reading the hackernews comments on it makes me wonder if this is a very good > idea. It may work for people in certain usecases, but in the case of Fedora > probably not so much > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756952 > http://news.ycombina

Re: koji: kernel-2.6.40-3.fc15

2011-07-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/29/2011 10:41 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:29:58PM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > wasn't there some kind of issue in vm's ? Maybe I'm not remembering > > correctly. > > too vague to comment. there are always 'issu

Re: koji: kernel-2.6.40-3.fc15

2011-07-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/29/2011 10:16 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 01:16:43AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > i have running 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP in my testing-virtual-machine > since > > some minutes, boot looked fine, after a minute a got a btrfs-stack-trace > > > > hope this hel

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/28/2011 12:36 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: >> > >> I don't follow your thought here - if you have a bin64/ and a bin/ >> etc and you have your shell initscripts decide (e.g. using uname -m) >> which of those to include in your PATH I think it does work ... provided >> you have (obviously) b

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/28/2011 10:35 AM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > Really, sharing of $HOME can (and does) happen among much *more* > disparate architectures than x86 and x86_64. We don't have to think > about this as much these days now that MIPS and SPARC have waned in > popularity; but the idea that we might st

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/28/2011 09:09 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 07/28/2011 01:41 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 07/28/2011 07:53 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >>> On 07/28/2011 12:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >>>> This is a good point. Especially when you start on a 6

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/28/2011 08:41 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 07/28/2011 07:53 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> On 07/28/2011 12:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >>> This is a good point. Especially when you start on a 64 bit box and >>> login to a 32 bit (or other arch) - bin n

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/28/2011 07:53 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 07/28/2011 12:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> This is a good point. Especially when you start on a 64 bit box and >> login to a 32 bit (or other arch) - bin now makes now sense at all. You >> need arch specific

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/28/2011 06:17 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > > However, I find ~/.local an odd name. To whom or what is it 'local'? If > you have home directories mounted via NFS and log into two different remote > hosts via SSH - the only base is "local" to, is the user. But if you start > a program whi

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/27/2011 05:00 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 7/27/11 1:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Depends on the PATH-Order >> >> if something is intended to be first in PATH and any attacker is able >> to write there his "ls" would win against "/bin/ls" > > So, the attacker can write a compromised ls in

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/27/2011 12:19 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 27.07.11 17:40, Roman Rakus (rra...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> from the discussion here, I'm tempted to revert the change. Any objections? > > Yes. I am for keeping it in, and have prepped a patch for XDG basedir to > make it

Re: thanks for F15 mdadm systemd unit

2011-07-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/27/2011 01:23 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> What specifically does systemd do that autofs does not do without it? > > I don't know if there is anything, but it's neat to get something like > this 'free' with systemd, without having to add any other package. Be a little wary. This i

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/26/2011 03:34 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > I don't think it makes a lot of sense to have a visible directory for > binaries. People will see that, and be annoyed. Perhaps, but hiding things annoys many people more ... not a huge deal as .config is not too hidden anyway ... > > Not

Re: User-level instance of /bin in PATH

2011-07-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/26/2011 09:34 AM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > * Genes MailLists [26/07/2011 15:32] : >> >> Mmm ok ... Can I assume root is excepted from this? > > You can. That is the case. > > Emmanuel > :-) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://a

Re: User-level instance of /bin in PATH

2011-07-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/26/2011 09:15 AM, Robert Marcano wrote: > In /etc/skel/.bash_profile they are added to the end and I think that is ok > > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin > > Never knew about ~/.local/bin my .bash_profile is really old from the > time where the default was only ~/bin Mmm ok ... Ca

Re: User-level instance of /bin in PATH

2011-07-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/26/2011 08:03 AM, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > 26.07.2011, 18:34, "Andrew Haley" : >> On 26/07/11 10:22, Misha Shnurapet wrote: >> >>> Since F15 ~/bin has been added to PATH, and commands that are >>> supposed to run user scripts will work without changing into that >>> directory. Meanwhile, ~

Re: F15: ugly behavior of "df"

2011-07-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/21/2011 07:09 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > Well what benefit(s) does the new 'df' provide, is it worth all the pain > it brings? > I concur - the current df behavior is well .. goofy :-) - however this may be tricky to fix in the new world - but should be fixed. If this behavior is someho

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/14/2011 11:12 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Something tells me if btrfs had been called "ext5" people would > just nod their heads and move on. ;) Heh ... like this ... Its not too late is it :-) How about ext5-btrfs - and high level user space tools can shorten it to ext5 :-) -- devel ma

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/14/2011 10:59 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: >> >> Another (Q) - once the format changes, will there be tools to change >> the online format of existing filesystems - or will we need to delete >> and start fresh ? >> > > All format changes happen automatically (usually with a mount option > so as

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/14/2011 10:17 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 07/14/2011 02:54 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>> >>> >>> I think RAID-5 support would be reasonably important to have too ... I >>> dont think w

Re: BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2011-07-14 Thread Genes MailLists
I think RAID-5 support would be reasonably important to have too ... I dont think we want to have raid on top of btrfs ... right? Ric - what is the current status of RAID-5 ? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/10/2011 09:39 PM, Steve Dickson wrote: > > Completely and having administrators add and to set these values manually in /etc/sysctl.conf as I mentioned in comment 30. >>>I don't agree with this approach actually. Doing it this way means >>> that we now have dependen

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/10/2011 07:31 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > Let's just aggree on disagreeing about this approach anyway the last > unit file I submitted does what Steve and you and perhaps many others > want's it to do afaik... > To be clear - I have as yet no views on systemd unit files et

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/10/2011 07:08 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: ell variables has always had a >> default value of the empty string.) > > It achieves afaict the behavior the maintainer wanted if it was up to me > I would have done this ( whole nfs ) completly differently > > Dropped > > ExecStartPr

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/08/2011 10:06 AM, JB wrote: > > This entry is passed to systemd for execution, as is ! > It is the responsibility of systemd to parse it, determine what entry it is > (you could put in there any garbage, perhaps a virus, rootkit, etc), then if > a valid executable entry then it should valid

Re: Lack of space on /

2011-07-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/08/2011 04:47 AM, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > Something strange has happened on my system. At the start of last > week, / was reporting that I had about 8Gb free. It now reports that / > is completely full. > .. > > Any ideas? > Probably should be users list not dev (unless you're

Re: [HEADS-UP] replacing report with libreport

2011-06-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/30/2011 10:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 22:04 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 06/30/2011 08:26 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >>> >>> Well, updates-testing is 'you get to keep both halves' territory. >> >&

Re: [HEADS-UP] replacing report with libreport

2011-06-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/30/2011 08:26 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Well, updates-testing is 'you get to keep both halves' territory. wasn't it stable that broke things (sealert stopped working for example after a stable update) - and then something from updates testing was supposed to fix it? But it never made

Re: [HEADS-UP] replacing report with libreport

2011-06-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/30/2011 12:16 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: >> - I was afraid, that it would be against some Fedora policy ;) Then just >> the rawhide.. > > > Okay if this isn't coming to F15, can you provide the sufficient > instructions on how to revert

Re: [HEADS-UP] replacing report with libreport

2011-06-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/30/2011 12:16 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: >> - I was afraid, that it would be against some Fedora policy ;) Then just >> the rawhide.. > > > Okay if this isn't coming to F15, can you provide the sufficient > instructions on how to revert

Re: i915 errors from 3.0 kernel

2011-06-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/29/2011 01:48 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 01:40:06PM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > I thought so - glad its benign ... I assume the messages will > > sometimes be useful to the kernel team ... > > > > so should I keep mention

Re: i915 errors from 3.0 kernel

2011-06-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/29/2011 01:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 12:58 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >> I am getting a lot of these in kernel 3.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc16.x86_64 >> testing on F15 - i915 - happens on wake from sleep I think. Is this >> advisory/beni

rcu_dereference_check errors from 3.0 kernel

2011-06-29 Thread Genes MailLists
I'm still seeing these kinds of rcu_dereference_check() messages from kernel 3.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc16.x86_64 Same problem on rc3 git5. Seems to happen when laptop is woken from sleep - I think. gene/ - Jun 28 08:49:59 lap3 kernel: [ 39.5

i915 errors from 3.0 kernel

2011-06-29 Thread Genes MailLists
I am getting a lot of these in kernel 3.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc16.x86_64 testing on F15 - i915 - happens on wake from sleep I think. Is this advisory/benign or a problem ? thanks gene/. -- /var/log/messages -- Jun 29 08:37:25 lap3 kernel: [72538.407

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/24/2011 04:07 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/24/2011 12:55 PM, JB wrote: >> JB gmail.com> writes: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing >> >> TC is controversial because it is technically possible not just to secure the >> hardware for its owner, but also to secure against

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/20/2011 01:22 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: ... > > gnome3 was not driven by user feedbak. It was driven by getting vendors > to install it on factory shipped netbooks. Perhaps, tho I suspect Android won that market already ... but perhaps its worth a shot, things can change. > > Again, I'

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/17/2011 11:36 PM, Evandro Giovanini wrote: those who are want to rewrite/modify GNOME3. > > No, I'm not. There are several working extensions *today*, I'm simply > suggesting that people not 100% satisfied with the default GNOME 3 > experience go out there and experiment with them. > > It'

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :) => vnc

2011-06-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/14/2011 02:32 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > On 06/14/2011 11:24 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > Its worked super well for me (though less well with GNOME3's effects > etc)... Can you point me to what you mean by the usual info into > xorg.conf? to be clear, I d

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/14/2011 12:27 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > On 06/14/2011 07:31 AM, seth vidal wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:25 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> I've installed XFCE. It was easy to install, and it works sanely >>> (unlike GNOME 3 / Unity). >> >> >> And you can add some interestin

Re: conclusion: F15 / systemd / user-experience

2011-06-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/13/2011 08:54 PM, Scott Schmit wrote: > Not addressing specifically the issue with the kernel updates, but at > least in part, the answer is simple: > * Within a release, updates should try very hard to avoid breaking > things. > * Between releases, upgrades can change a lot. These changes

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/13/2011 08:14 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Henrik Wejdmark wrote: >> I have been with this distro since RH4 and have had a great time doing so. >> Almost every upgrade has been really smooth with only a few minor setbacks >> like an odd broken dependency that was easily fixed, but F15 is the end

Re: SYSTEMD: Give us a option for upstart

2011-06-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/13/2011 11:39 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: . At this point I am > going to ask for someone from the Community Working Group to step in > and see how we can better get along here. If you have a problem with > that, I think it would be better if you took some time off and did > something els

Re: Fedora 14 and "Sandy Bridge" graphics => systemd

2011-06-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/13/2011 03:13 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: ... > > systemd surpasses Upstart in every way. It's not in an "early > state". Upstart is much more limited and hence in a much earlier state > feature-wise. > ... > > Lennart > Superior design - yes I like it - but in practice there are stil

Re: Fedora 14 and "Sandy Bridge" graphics

2011-06-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/12/2011 08:40 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 13.06.2011 02:29, schrieb Genes MailLists: >> Perhaps this is not the way for you if you find it confusing ... my >> suggestion then is deal with systemd and its bugs/quirks or perhaps >> install F15 and replace systemd with

Re: Fedora 14 and "Sandy Bridge" graphics

2011-06-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/12/2011 07:59 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > >>> >> I have done this and its working - I've used rawhide with 2.6.39 >> kernel and also F15. See my comments below. I'll describe what you need >> to do using subset of F15. > > this forces a GLIBC-Upgrade, see my others posts Yes - I sai

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