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

2012-12-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:49:19AM -0500, Don Dutile wrote: > On 12/20/2012 11:54 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >libexec doesn't exist in any published version of the FHS, and even the > >draft of 3.0 makes it clear that it's optional. Our use of libexec is > >non-sta

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

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
ns - if a package wouldn't require an exception to install binaries in libexec, it shouldn't need an exception install binaries in lib. -- 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)

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 07:16:12AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/21/2012 06:36 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >So? > > Next the FHS, it is one of the fundamental "standards", which define > the basis of all packaging works on Linux/GNU and thus also the FPG. No,

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

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 06:09:10AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/21/2012 05:54 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 05:38:17AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > >>I disagree. systemd simply hasn't taken libexecdir into account in > &

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

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
gs in lib makes sense, since there's absolutely no good reason for multilibing those components. > I'd love to see this changed/fixed down the road, but it's a lot of > documentation and moving around. The situation right now is that it's impossible to write good cross-distri

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

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
distro's demands. libexec doesn't exist in any published version of the FHS, and even the draft of 3.0 makes it clear that it's optional. Our use of libexec is non-standard, not systemd's use of lib. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel m

Re: systemd unit file location

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 07:05:52PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Shouldn't they be in /usr/share/systemd? The helper binaries? No. The unit files? They need to be in / rather than /usr, which obviously isn't a problem for Fedora but would be on some other distributions. -- Ma

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

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
not > > the de-facto standard they themselves made up, which is not a reason). > > > > There is no reason they could not use libexec for the helper binaries. Well, from a practical perspective, there is - it'd break existing user configurations. -- Matthew

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

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
). Because libexec 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

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

2012-12-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
problems. What benefit do you see in modifying systemd? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: fedup: does not verify source

2012-12-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
rades are --device. --iso is for local ISO files. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [RFC] - Disabling PIRQ table fallback in biosdevname

2012-12-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 12:02:52AM +0530, narendr...@dell.com wrote: > There is a request to disable to PIRQ (PCI Irq Routing Table) fallback in > upstream biosdevname. Why? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 07:25:16AM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 12/03/2012 05:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > It's part of the filesystem format, there's no way to change it. > > This may be true, but not a priori. extN has feature flags which can > be used to e

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
, there's no way to change it. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: LibRaw: possible license issues

2012-11-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
may care due to distributions with different policies, but I don't know that that's a discussion we need to have here. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
because it's clear that more developer contribution would be useful and because I actually want us to release Fedora 18. We're not obliged to sit here pointing at a sinking ship when we could do something to avoid that ship from sinking. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@src

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:48:31PM -0700, Tim Flink wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 20:14:05 + > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > "we" are? I see approximately nobody offering assistance in that > > respect. > > If it would make you feel better, I can stop building

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
built by Lorax, just like everything else under images. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
t; install is a design flaw and is something that should be corrected ( > from my pov ). Patches that cleanly decouple Anaconda from the entire software stack that it runs on top of would probably be received with open arms, but nobody who works on it has any idea how to implement them.

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
ly tied to various system components. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
unity did the work to make the F17 Anaconda work in F18? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:48:26PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/08/2012 02:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >What kind of structure would you imagine such a SIG having? > > Sorry not following? > > I assume this ( and related mailinglist ) would b

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
e "proper" > communication of changes between teams responsible for "core" ( > installation/boot/network handling ) functionality within the > project? What kind of structure would you imagine such a SIG having? Who would be taking overall responsibility? -- Matthew

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
ecure boot support is also not done yet (waiting on the signature for > > shim to get sorted out by legal), though I don't know whether FESCo yet > > absolutely decided that has to be in for Beta. > > And Restricted Boot support just needs to go away! Sure, who wants new com

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
's unfortunate, but talking about how undesirable release slips are does nothing to help improve that situation. We know they're undesirable, but so far nobody has proposed a workable solution that actually makes them less likely to happen in future without massively compromising other

Re: still UsrMove problems and wrong PATH in openssh

2012-10-31 Thread Matthew Garrett
/bin/env python), > long before UsrMove. Well, /bin/perl would immediately fail on Debian or Ubuntu, so it seems pretty unlikely that any upstream is doing it. There are reasons why using env can be a bad idea and I don't think it's universal, but /bin/perl is certainly wrong. --

Re: secure boot: how to disable this crap?

2012-10-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
t; cannot see any indication that those lockups occur only if secure boot is > set in the uefi firmware. They just lock out the user space regardless of > what the uefi says... The capability is only masked off if the firmware reports that secure boot is enabled. -- Matthew Garret

Re: Anyone know where to send iasl (Intel ACPI compiler) patches?

2012-10-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
/show_bug.cgi?id=856856 > > However I have absolutely no idea if iasl has an "upstream" as such, > or where else to send the patches ... https://acpica.org/bugzilla/ or de...@acpica.org . -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Plans for anaconda LVM/RAID support

2012-10-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
ren't failing to deal with installer issues because they're lazy, they're failing to deal with them because there aren't enough hours in the day for them to fix all of the issues that they're expected to handle. You're in a position to make things better, so why not do

Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?

2012-09-27 Thread Matthew Garrett
ll. The default isn't being changed, so this entire discussion is flawed. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rawhide boot problems

2012-09-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
> It's a balancing act I fear, nothing will make everyone happy. > > Inheriting from updates-testing means rawhide can and will 'go > backwards' as updates get unpushed/dropped. Dropping inheritance > entirely means more work for maintainers. Add a flag to bodhi

Re: Rawhide boot problems

2012-09-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 01:28:53AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Sure, and that's clearly the behaviour that Lennart wanted as well. But > instead there was a mass rebuild that bumped his rawhide nvr and now he > needs to do rawhide work manually. If development should b

Re: Rawhide boot problems

2012-09-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 02:42:20PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 09/07/2012 02:36 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >This makes sense, but it runs directly against the current > >auto-inheritence behaviour. It's unsurprising that people end up with > >different opinions of

Re: Rawhide boot problems

2012-09-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
ectly against the current auto-inheritence behaviour. It's unsurprising that people end up with different opinions of the right thing to do here. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Reverting tmp on tmpfs mis-feature

2012-08-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
ibe issues not previously discussed. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
l free to raise it with the Community Working Group at c...@lists.fedoraproject.org, or cwg-priv...@lists.fedoraproject.org if you'd prefer the discussion to be private. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproj

Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-08-20)

2012-08-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
We had one time we all said we could make it. 18:21:49 And it was? 18:22:39 Sorry, fetching. :) 18:22:54 1700 UTC. 18:22:59 On wednesdays 18:23:29 so that would be the day after all our deadlines instead of the day before... but sure. 18:23:38 So 1300 EDT? 18:23:44 yes 18:23:57 Well, okay.

Subject: Schedule for Today's FESCo Meeting (2012-08-20)

2012-08-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
-mail, file a new ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fesco, e-mail me directly, or bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Bad F17 install experiences: CentOS 6.3 vs. F17

2012-08-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
not triggering fallback. There's not really a lot that can be done to improve vesa, what with vesa having no features. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Bad F17 install experiences: CentOS 6.3 vs. F17

2012-08-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
What would a KMS vesafb even be? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

2012-08-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 05:54:46PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > "nomodeset" doesn't help or change anything unfortunately.. Try with noapic? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

2012-07-31 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:27:54PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > .. and it's stuck there. I need to press Reset button to continue. > It did read the CD for a while until it got frozen. Yeah, that's definitely a bug then. We'll see if we can reproduce it. --

Re: Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

2012-07-31 Thread Matthew Garrett
a workaround in grub. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

2012-07-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
> and then the display mode / resolution changes, and then there's just blank > screen and a cursor blinking.. If you see a resoution change then try booting with nomodeset. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- 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)

2012-07-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:34:04AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:38:00PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The feature was +1ed on the assumption that the feature owner, as a > > maintainer of relevant code, is in a better position to judge the imp

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

2012-07-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
le then that's something that should be discussed. If there's no more reasonable solution then it should be reverted. But at present procedure is working pretty much exactly as expected. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

2012-07-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
to you my precious butterfly. No, they are > not significant and this is all a waste of time. But Google are not permitted to redistribute that code. If a work is relicensed without the assent of all copyright holders then the work is undistributable, no matter how small any damages might be.

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

2012-07-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
ring is to tell you that it's dangerous to tell people things about copyright law when you don't appear to understand copyright law. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

2012-07-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:45:15PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:57:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Saying things like: > > > > "and arbitrary other people, who get their patch contributions merged, > > don't gain any

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

2012-07-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
s *before* a copyright holder wants to enforce rights. It boils down to copyright law. Nothing more. Nothing less. Project maintainers simply don't get to make that choice on behalf of others. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

2012-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 10:27:37PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:52:23 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Revision control or some sort of out-of-band tracking. It's the > > project's responsibility, not the copyright holder's. > > Tha

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

2012-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
is not credited for patches. Determining whether a work is sufficiently substantial to be copyrightable is not straightforward. Don't try it without competent legal advice. If you haven't received competent legal advice, you've probably made a mistake at some point. -- Matthew Ga

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

2012-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
me sort of out-of-band tracking. It's the project's responsibility, not the copyright holder's. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

2012-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:17:02PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > and arbitrary other people, who get their patch contributions merged, > don't gain any copyright protection on the file or the proper parts of it, I don't think this is true. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.uc

Re: swapping disk with UEFI hardware - a dead end?

2012-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
al behaviors. Yes, because HFS+ lets you put a pointer to a bootloader in the superblock and FAT doesn't. If you don't have a suggestion for how to make this work better with FAT then I don't think this thread is useful. Serialising nvram contents isn't an especially good sugge

Re: swapping disk with UEFI hardware - a dead end?

2012-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 03:03:55PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Jun 28, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > The only obvious thing for it to boot is EFI/BOOT/BOOT${ARCH}.efi. > An optional file in an optional vendor subdirectory is the obvious > choice? Maybe a

Re: swapping disk with UEFI hardware - a dead end?

2012-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
#x27;re not doing that. What do you actually want the firmware to do here? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: swapping disk with UEFI hardware - a dead end?

2012-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
FI executable you find on a drive is not a sensible thing to do. Even Apple don't do that. Install Linux (only) on a Mac, zap the PRAM, see what happens - it'll boot if there's a blessed bootloader on an HFS+ partition, not otherwise. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org --

Re: swapping disk with UEFI hardware - a dead end?

2012-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
ice, and the only spec-defined boot location is EFI/BOOT/BOOT(machine type).efi. It seems to conform to the spec perfectly. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: swapping disk with UEFI hardware - a dead end?

2012-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
d to find a way to co-exist with other operating systems that write the same file. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2012-06-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
can always override TERM in their > >startup files in the unlikely case they need to change > >back to 'xterm' for example. > > > > "Unlikely" Pffft!!What else do you resort to every time > gnome-terminal won't start because dbus has crashe

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

2012-06-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
> what happens if profile automagically turns xterm into xterm-256color? The proposal actually handles that by parsing the output of the who command, but I'm not sure I'm morally in favour of that. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@li

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
erview of authenticated variables. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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

2012-06-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
g things about the binaries that a user may have installed. It's a little more work, although not a great deal - by the looks of it vte sets this itself, so a single patch would handle most of the GTK cases. Thoughts? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lis

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
utes concurrently. We never said it would be impossible to get a key. It's just msasively unlikely that such a key will be useful for any length of time, and so it's not something that solves any of the problems we're interested in solving. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
UEFI > on its own trustworthy hardware, that hopefully will tell the truth to > the user about security for the owner of the device, and make > installing free operating systems non-scary. To the best of my knowledge, their UEFI implementation isn't free software. -- Matthew Garr

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
Which is a good reason for it not to be the default. We're only going to audit one set of code for secure boot purposes, and it's not going to be something that lacks required functionality like PXE support. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing lis

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
hese should be > fine now. I'm not sure what Amazons host systems use but hopefully they run > a relatively modern version of pvgrub. Ok, so we need to be able to write a grub config file. We don't need to ship grub, though, right? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.or

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 02:12:06PM -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > F18 is already using grub2 for EFI. I think we can remove grub-legacy > > now. > > What about the Fedora images for Amazon EC2? I seem to recall tha

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
into GRUB 2. > Red Hat has kept GRUB legacy on life support, and that plug is going to be > pulled sooner than later. F18 is already using grub2 for EFI. I think we can remove grub-legacy now. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org h

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
k out of the box. It's unclear to me which laws you think the vendors would be breaking, but I'm not a lawyer. Microsoft may have started this movement, but they're not the only relevant entity in favour of it. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
ertified ARM device be able to put their own signing key in? > What about the PK? No, Windows 8 ARM devices will not permit the user to install their own keys or disable secure boot. That's why we're not going to support them. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:14:04AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > So you want Fedora to boot on all hardware sold? > > I want Red Hat, Fedora, and the free software community to come to > terms with what they must

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:04:38AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Ok so what you mean is "I want a UEFI implementation that doesn't > > require a Microsoft signature to boot"? The options there are currently

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:43:27AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Like I said before, the existing UEFI implementations on the existing > > hardware will support "Disable Secure Boot or use your own chain of > >

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:26:23AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > You're still not making it clear what you want. Hardware without secure > > boot? Hardware with secure boot but a different default policy? Hardware &g

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
appened with ARM, Microsoft refuses to grant Fedora a special key?" As far as I can tell, Jay did say we currently cannot get an ARM key? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
that > you can disable Secure Boot or use your own chain of trust, it isn't a > platform we can or should support. To emphasise this point - Microsoft will sign EBC objects, so it's not obvious that there's any way they *could* block a bootloader for ARM devices. We&#x

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 08:45:07AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The features you wanted in a free software UEFI are present in existing > > UEFI implementations, so I'm not sure what you're asking for. >

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
hread, reconstructed in nested fashion above. A free > software UEFI would be on its own hardware. The features you wanted in a free software UEFI are present in existing UEFI implementations, so I'm not sure what you're asking for. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- dev

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:17:19AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:09:52AM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: > >> The game is now just about over.  What if one day, Microsoft > >> makes it ev

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:16:37AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The machine will have a functional UEFI implementation. Why would we > > want to replace it? > > > Um, because you're not asking permissio

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
ra a special key? Microsoft has not refused to grant Fedora a key for ARM. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:00:33AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:54:56AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: > > > >> But the best thing is that a free software UEFI would let anybody put > &

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:56:54AM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: > > We just need hardware we can install Fedora on, as once we did, > without asking Microsoft for permission. System76 have committed to providing hardware without pre-enabled secure boot. -- Matthew Gar

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
e. All UEFI implementations we're aware of will be shipping with support for replacing all the secure boot keys, including Pk. UEFI itself is also entirely free software, although specific implementations may not be. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel m

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
one motherboard. We need all of them. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
chines shipped with a Fedora key installed then our key security would be relevant to everyone, and we'd be a much more attractive target than we currently are. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
cost more than identical hardware with different firmware. Sales of Linux-specific PC hardware haven't been massively successful so far. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 06:49:43PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > You're asserting that dbus-daemon etc cannot be restarted, but without > saying why. Because designing an asynchronous messaging bus that can be restarted without losing any messages is a difficult problem.

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
These suggestions boil down to: 1) Do nothing 2) Become a hardware vendor 3) Use a Fedora key None of these solve the problem of getting Fedora onto arbitrary x86 hardware bought towards the end of this year. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ARM is a dead end

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
blems then please do point out the specifics. But if it's not, then why do you expect it to get any worse if it becomes a primary architecture? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 01:56:01PM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: > If Fedora appears to accept that Microsoft should have the > Hardware Root Key, our side's arguments, in several arenas, are > weakened. I don't think we've argued that they should, merely that they do.

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
#x27;t think this lets you draw any conclusions about their willingness to do anything that would have been useful for the wider community. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora ARM and SecureBoot

2012-06-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
rgets-pcs-takes-aim-intels-ultrabooks And you won't be able to run Fedora on them unless you can install your own keys. I think everything that could usefully be said in this thread has already been said. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list deve

Re: Fedora ARM and SecureBoot

2012-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
$99. Problem solved. We wouldn't even have to do that. But, as I said, I'm not in favour of doing something that results in a platform where the user is unable to run the software they choose. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Fedora ARM and SecureBoot

2012-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
ng it off. I guess the current Fedora/RedHat stance, > as explained by Matthew Garrett, is to obtain a MS certificate > covering x86 and presumably ARM kernels from Fedora, but this > doesn't help respins and mods and even custom kernels---more likely > on ARM because of the its rel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
even require that they be reverted, but we have the freedom to remove that restriction and therefore it's not an issue as far as free software is concerned. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-04)

2012-06-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
er to chair next meeting (mjg59, 17:52:05) Meeting ended at 17:52:16 UTC. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Schedule for Today's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-04)

2012-06-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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