Re: Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

2013-07-27 Thread Matthew Garrett
to be using gmail at this point. Any solution needs to account for them as well. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

2013-07-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
that your behaviour is acceptable. If you're going to tell someone to leave a community, make sure that you're meeting that community's norms yourself. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: Enable kdump on secureboot machines

2013-07-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
at all. The short version of that is no, because kdump needs to build some code at runtime. Upstream have refused to revisit that design decision. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
completely up to date, sorry but the last couple of days have been some what hectic for me in other realms. For instance, it seems to be missing both the stack protector and llvmpipe issues. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:33:48PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 07/16/2013 07:16 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: For instance, it seems to be missing both the stack protector and llvmpipe issues. Finishing scope of stack protector issue- it'll be there in a day or so. Idea is to get

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:21:57PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: Would you run tuned on a server? It was written with that in mind. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
almost-but-not-quite Fedora to be treated as if it's Fedora, and I don't think that benefits the public perception of the project. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
means we don't make the same guarantees to users. From a practical point of view: how many of the proposed new features for F20 would be absent from the ARM release? How are we going to communicate that? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 04:01:15PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: That's the point. You don't get to be a primary architecture until you've demonstrated that doing so won't slow down the other architectures

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:02:27PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Promotion is supposed to benefit Fedora, not the architecture being promoted. Yes, but that is _net_ benefit (benefit - cost). Requiring zero cost

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:50:05AM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 07/11/2013 07:33 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: Promotion is supposed to benefit Fedora, not the architecture being promoted. And you think it would not benefit Fedora. On the contrary, I think a solid ARM port benefits Fedora

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:25:43AM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 07/11/2013 08:34 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: That's why I'd like to see all of these things fixed *before* promotion. Yes, you've been very consistent, it can be summarized in 3 points: 1. Provide a list of every ARM

Re: F20 System Wide Change: Enable kdump on secureboot machines

2013-07-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
drivers - they should be able to reconfigure the device. Or just pass the framebuffer offset, size, stride and pixel format to the kdump kernel and have it treat it as an unaccelerated linear framebuffer. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: Enable kdump on secureboot machines

2013-07-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
be a software versus hardware console and so data sent to it went through a lot of corruptible stacks :/. [Ah for a nice old x86 with UART.] There's USB debug cables, but last I heard they're currently impossible to get hold of. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
environments, but there's certainly arguments in favour of (say) dropping most of the 32-bit x86 package set and turning it into a specialised subset of the overall distribution. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
. If ARM merely wants to be able to produce something that's similar to Fedora then we should figure out what a spin-based PA would look like, but that's not what's currently being proposed. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
of the distribution for years. | Fedora | | | Your architecture must be at least this competent | | | stack protector | | | | m68k | | | | | --- elks | | | --- minix --- -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
of desktop environments, defaulting to the GNOME desktop environment. An OS that supports headless servers but not desktop environments might be based on Fedora, but it wouldn't be Fedora. As such, it wouldn't be suited to being a Fedora PA. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
a secondary architecture you get to take responsibility for making stuff work yourself. If a package maintainer is willing to volunteer time and effort to making things work then that's a bonus, but if they're not then someone who cares about ARM has to take responsibility. -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
involved, and I'd really like to hear what the plans are for (a) fixing the existing problems, and (b) ensuring that we don't end up in a situation where other architectures are held up because there's nobody who can fix ARM-specific bugs. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
architecture until you've demonstrated that doing so won't slow down the other architectures, and that requires you to fix all of these problems yourself first. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:53:39AM -0700, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Does the secureboot situation on arm mean that this primary architecture will eventually be un-bootable for people running a non-redhat signed kernel? That's unsupported hardware, in the same way that ipads are. -- Matthew

Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

2013-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:54:53PM -0400, Jonathan Masters wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: This doesn't make it seem like the ARM port currently has sufficient developer expertise involved, and I'd really like to hear what the plans are for (a) fixing the existing problems, and (b) ensuring

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!

2013-07-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:33:26AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: Fedora ARM has all the features of the primary architectures Is this really accurate? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!

2013-07-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:00:43PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 20:18:06 +0100 Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:33:26AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: Fedora ARM has all the features of the primary architectures Is this really accurate

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!

2013-07-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!

2013-07-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
, but the llvmpipe code that makes that possible segfaults on ARM. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!

2013-07-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:28:03PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: GNOME runs fine without hardware 3D support, but the llvmpipe code that makes that possible segfaults on ARM. gnome runs fine on ARM as well without

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!

2013-07-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
' responsibility to deal with it. I don't think it's excessive to say that you really need someone with the ability to maintain something that's such a system-critical component. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!

2013-07-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
mean it's likely to be you that gets to fix it. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
to be the kind of thing designed to turn any small slip into weeks. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
that that's true. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
this point the release will only be delayed if an issue is discovered that is deemed of exceptional importance is a perfectly reasonable thing to document. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
probably kind of make it work if you try hard enough'. Since F17 we've had a track record of It'll work fine, as long as you don't hit a kernel bug. Which is exactly where we are with every other platform. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Fedora 19 ARM GO/NO GO meeting minutes

2013-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
thanks to those who made this possible. Congratulations on getting this far! Is there documentation of the delta between ARM and primary architectures? I'm thinking things like no llvmpipe/clang or limited interactive Anaconda support. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:43:33AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: With all respect, the bug reports and blogs I've read would not lead me to support that assertion. With all respect, bug numbers. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: icedtea-web installed and enabled by default in Fedora 19

2013-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
figuring out whether we can integrate the Firefox plugin finder with Packagekit in some meaningful way. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: option to ignore flash memory device at USB1.1 full speed

2013-06-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 08:24:33AM -0700, John Reiser wrote: How can I force the system not to recognize a USB2.0 flash memory device at USB1.1 speed? You can't - it's negotiated at the host controller level, the OS isn't involved. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
for packages to flag that such accesses are genuine and uninteresting. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
to know for certain whether you're going to be able to open or unlink a file is to attempt to open or unlink that file, and we shouldn't encourage people to think otherwise. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
that works under all circumstances, not just the ones where we can add a stat() in front and call it done. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 09:53:39AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: No real difference between them. Make sure that you're testing this on a partition mounted with strictatime. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
in the first place or to provide a mechanism so that legitimate accesses don't generate audit records. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
by audit? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:38:56PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: So why not add a mechanism to permit applications to indicate that certain accesses they make should be ignored by audit? Because it would be primarily

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
rather than strict atime for years. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
was not privileged (CAP_FOWNER). -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 07:03:24PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 7 June 2013 12:29, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: So why not add a mechanism to permit applications to indicate that certain accesses they make should be ignored by audit? Just so people know, this is like

Re: Bad file access on the rise

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Flock proposals now open for community voting

2013-06-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
in the field they're talking about and able to communicate that competence. It's vital information for making a realistic judgement of whether a proposal should be in the final program or not. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
an actualy crash happens, so that by default nobody has to have this serice running. This specific one is scraping previous kernel crash reports out of pstore, so it should really only be doing something if there's anything there. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list

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

2013-05-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
of that application. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- 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 Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:53:35PM -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2013 05:32:18 +0100 Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: If you want to change a decision, it helps if you're discussing it in a forum that's read by the people who made that decision. This is a perfectly

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

2013-05-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:41:39PM -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: If you want to change a decision, it helps if you're discussing it in a forum that's read by the people who made that decision. Anaconda developers don't

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

2013-05-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 09:42:22AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 04:58 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: No, this isn't the most appropriate mailing list for the discussion - anaconda-devel-list is a better choice if you want to interact with the people who actually work

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

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
if I was crazy or stupid. I have reopened this. Clearly, this is a unprecedented decision and it should be reconsidered. It's unprecedented for maintainers to make UI decisions about the software they develop and maintain? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

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

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:36:51PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/03/2013 10:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: It's unprecedented for maintainers to make UI decisions about the software they develop and maintain? Is that a rhetorical question? I was referring to the decision to show

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

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:11:56PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/03/2013 10:59 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: Many UI decisions are unprecedented. That doesn't justify reopening bugs that the maintainer has closed. If you want to have a discussion about whether or not this is a reasonable UI

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

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:52:25PM -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: And if the maintainers feel more than justified in closing it again? Bugzilla isn't a discussion forum. If disagree with a deliberate policy decision

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

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:55:24PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/03/2013 11:51 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: And if the maintainers feel more than justified in closing it again? Hopefully, they will reconsider their decision before doing that. You seem to be claiming that once the maintainer

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

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:59:11PM -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: No, this isn't the most appropriate mailing list for the discussion anaconda-devel-list is a better choice if you want to interact with the people who

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

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:24:01PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 5/3/13 10:58 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: No, this isn't the most appropriate mailing list for the discussion - anaconda-devel-list is a better choice if you want to interact with the people who actually work on that code

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

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:11:21AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: On 2013-05-04 04:58 (GMT+0100) Matthew Garrett composed: this isn't the most appropriate mailing list for the discussion - anaconda-devel-list is a better choice if you want to interact with the people who actually work

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

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:07:30AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: I'm saying that if a bug report has been closed due to the change being a deliberate design decision, reopening the bug isn't going to change the fact

Re: Kernel functionality which replaced cpuspeed daemon thermal limits ?

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
to the thermal limits provided by the platform. If the platform doesn't provide any thermal limits then you can write a value to the passive file in the ACPI thermal zone and it'll limit the frequency when it reaches that temperature. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
. The code's available and you can attach patches in bugzilla. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
and then reboot. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 01:28:36PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org said: Worse than that, having grub check for a held key will significantly slow down the boot process even if there's no key being held. How long is significantly? How hard

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 02:52:23PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org said: How long is significantly? How hard is it to check for a keypress? On the order of a second or two. That doesn't seem all that significant to me; I guess we have

Re: f18-64: Video Resolution problem on a netbook ASUS 1225C-GRY015U

2013-03-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:03:24AM +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: Question: there is some way to resolve the high CPU usage of gnome-shell and change the video resolution when projector is connect? No. The gma500 devices have no worthwhile free driver support. -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
. Moving in this direction shouldn't happen until there's worthwhile support in the desktop UI for using the boot indicators spec. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Graphics (GMA3600, 400MHz) module for Atom D2500 issue

2013-02-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
for your hardware. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-02-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
maintainers aren't enthusiastic about removing their existing aliases, it's probably going to have to be resolved as a policy issue via FESCO. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Virtio RNG

2013-02-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Virtio RNG

2013-02-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 08:19:30PM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote: other than providing other sources of entropy, and long-term this is going to be fixed once everyone's moved to Ivy Bridge and has an unprivileged instruction to hand out entropy. uhm

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Virtio RNG

2013-02-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 08:17:26PM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: The guests can always run their own rngd type tool? Yeah, this just makes host randomness available to the guest - it doesn't directly feed it to /dev/random. The guest still gets to define its own policy. -- Matthew Garrett | mj

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:53:32AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: as legal has said we cannot pregenerate initramfses i think this should be a non-starter. We already ship several pre-generated initramfses. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
machines. Walk /sys/class/net, filter on type, filter out bridges, filter out wireless if you want to. sysfs should have all the information you need without name-based heuristics. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:13:37PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 06:11:19PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Walk /sys/class/net, filter on type, filter out bridges, filter out wireless if you want to. sysfs should have all the information you need without name-based

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

2013-01-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
- if my primary network connection is via a USB device there's a reasonable chance that it'll be called usb0 anyway. The name isn't providing extra information here. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:22:00PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:32:12 + Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:53:32AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: as legal has said we cannot pregenerate initramfses i think this should be a non

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
, if you prefer) as it currently does. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
before reboot, so presumably you're talking about some upgrade system other than the currently supported one? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
it as a first-class distribution upgrade mechanism is a bad idea. There's far too many corner cases, and we can't justify the effort it'd take to fix all of them. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
for that aren't properly aligned to make that happen... If you don't like what we produce, you're not obliged to use it. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Package Signature Checking During Installation

2013-01-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
have physical access to your system then I can just write my own keys directly into flash with an SPI programmer. That's never been the threat model. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Package Signature Checking During Installation

2013-01-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
on the installation media, and they will be installed. Yes, if you boot an installer that doesn't verify signatures, you won't verify signatures. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Package Signature Checking During Installation

2013-01-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:20:16PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 14:15 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Yes, if you boot an installer that doesn't verify signatures, you won't verify signatures. But then what's the difference from distrusting the contents

Re: mactel boot revisited, updating to grub2

2013-01-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:16:52PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: cp /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg Make sure that the config is using linuxefi and initrdefi, not linux and initrd. -- Matthew

Re: syslinux as an official bootloader option?

2013-01-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
into Fedora as well... Why? syslinux fits a specific niche, but gummiboot doesn't seem to. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: syslinux as an official bootloader option?

2013-01-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 03:08:29PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: What about making this an optional bootloader in F19 (in kickstart and via a hidden option)? I don't think there'd be any objection to that - it makes sense for appliance-type scenarios. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

2012-12-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
the guidelines force people to use libexec. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora ARM status meeting minutes for 2012-12-19

2012-12-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
have input on the best format for the PA discussions during the FUDCon event in January. Are you looking at F19 or F20 for PA? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

2012-12-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:37:59PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:22:47PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:49:19AM -0500, Don Dutile wrote: fyi: libexec has been critical to virtualization for quite some time... I think Don is referring

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

2012-12-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 05:09:00PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:55:09PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Is the path user visible in any way? If used, /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper is encoded directly in the libvirt XML. So is libvirt_lxc. (So is /usr/libexec

Re: Fedora ARM status meeting minutes for 2012-12-19

2012-12-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 09:06:07AM -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 12/21/2012 08:53 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: Are you looking at F19 or F20 for PA? This will be a very engaging topic at FUDCon next month. Current logistics make the following likely: F19: Transition to enterprise ARM

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

2012-12-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
though because it isn't a binary end users will ever directly invoke. That seems fine. libexec is a perfectly reasonable place for it to be on Fedora, and other distributions can stick them in lib/libvirt. Where they're this opaque there's no problem. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
doesn't exist on most other distributions, and systemd aims to offer consistent interfaces across distributions. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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