Re: drop obsolete static uid/gid allocations

2017-01-17 Thread Michael Scherer
inked to a company RH acquired a long time ago and whose product served as the basis to Satellite/spacewalk. On RHEL, it is dynamically created, (cf https://access.redhat.com/solutions/222323 ), and I think spacewalk is not packaged in Fedora. -- Michael Scherer ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Improvements of Fedora Sponsorship process

2016-08-06 Thread Michael Scherer
gers ? (ie, do they get reassigned to a new sponsor ?) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [OT] Tim, Gil, et. al. (e-mail address settings)

2016-07-01 Thread Michael Scherer
ail tag that as spam, because Libero.it say to do so in explicit and standard respecting way. So either libero.it change the SPF record, or Gil start to to use libero.it SMTP, or use a different email in the 'from' header. We can't really ask to all providers (ie, more than g

Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-10-26 Thread Michael Scherer
forcing reboots on users wouldn't be very kind. Beyond cleaning crash reports and reducing them, there is also the perception of users. If we want to have the same reputation as some older windows with "this software crashed and I do not know why" from our users, then havin

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 15:15 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > Am 14.06.2014 15:04, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 12:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >>> That's why the developers do ask "what is missing". That's also wh

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 15:08 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 14:56, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 13:45 +0100, Jon Kent a écrit : > >> Concerns me greatly when someone thinks cli is the wrong way to > >> automate things. Ag

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 12:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 12:26, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 04:00 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >> Am 14.06.2014 03:42, schrieb Michael Scherer: > >>> Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:3

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
rors to the software that do the automation, since you can only transmit string without any formatting or translation. You are also mixing something mean for a user and something meant for a software. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > Am 14.06.2014 03:36, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Everybody I know who looked at the yum python api told me it was a bit > > horrible. So a cleanup was needed for that. There was demand from > > package

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 04:00 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > Am 14.06.2014 03:42, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:33 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >>> So maybe you should propose to have dnf named yum 4.0, and then since > >>>

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:33 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 03:24, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:10 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >> and that changes where much bigger than a fork of YUM renamed > >> for no good reas

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:20 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 03:10, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:03 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > >> Am 14.06.2014 02:59, schrieb Michael Scherer: > >>> Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 10

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:10 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 03:04, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 15:07 +0200, Petr Spacek a écrit : > >> On 13.6.2014 14:58, Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> > >>> Am 13.06.2014 14:53,

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:03 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : > Am 14.06.2014 02:59, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 10:39 -0400, Steve Clark a écrit : > >> On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
ite of YUM justifies > re-naming > and re-training all users. Users don't care what you do with the source. And > of course, users will complain no matter what you do. Like they complained when up2date was replaced by yum ? when zipper replaced whatever they used to have on *sus

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
work better > > and moved on. > Yes but who is this better for? A few developers or the mass of people > and documentation that > are used to using "yum". > > With cars it was obviously better for me - dnf not so obvious. So far in this thread, I see no one steppin

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-11 Thread Michael Scherer
o s/yum/dnf/ or to have to conditionally code for these > differences based on OS release or the presense of yum vs. dnf. Why > not just keep the command name the same with no nag message? I would expect puppet/chef to start using the library rather than direct access to the binary. And for ansible, I think the patch is quite simple, just add 2 lines. I guess we can start right now to get stuff merged. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-05-01 Thread Michael scherer
ora ), I also know not everybody is fluent in programming. So without any page that outline why it is a warning and that tell when it can be ignored, this will not be added to rpmlint. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: [RFC] plans for initscripts in F22

2014-04-26 Thread Michael Scherer
ell say "we are gonna support that forever", but that will result into bitrot if no one really test. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Scherer
ng them on the DVD we distribute. I am sure we can find lots of way, and that some of them have been already tried. And that seems perfectly aligned with Fedora mission and much closer to the way people convert users. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Scherer
a will > eventually be used only by the limited set of people that are > comfortable operating under strict restrictions on their behavior[1]. > > [1] Hmm... that sounds an awful lot like the way Apple behaves... > except they can afford marketing. And lawyers, lots of them :) And they

Re: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Scherer
can't use Application > X. In fact, we do ( or rather, I do ). When I tell to people that Starcraft II and Eve Online do not run on Linux. When I tell that Office and Photoshop do not run on Linux. When I tell that their Iphone is not gonna work and I cannot be sure that the printer they

Re: advertisement in packaged software

2014-02-12 Thread Michael Scherer
ne is the default, there is no obvious patchs to enable or disable it in our packages and on Debian side. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Michael Scherer
, ie, only board, fesco, all people in the packager group, all people with a FAS, anybody that come ? And for philosophical reasons like the simple fact that voting is divisive and that's going against the idea of building a consensus. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@li

Re: Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be listed in software center

2014-01-27 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 à 17:11 +0100, Andreas Tunek a écrit : > 2014-01-26 Michael Scherer : > > Le dimanche 26 janvier 2014 à 18:14 +0100, Heiko Adams a écrit : > >> Am Sonntag, den 26.01.2014, 12:01 -0500 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > >> > Hi > >> > >

Re: Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be listed in software center

2014-01-26 Thread Michael Scherer
eason not listed in > gnome-software, right? If yes, that's IMHO absolute bullshit! It would make more sense to install them directly from the tool that set the mouse cursors, or the theme. Why switch to a different tool ( ie, a software installer ) to install something that is not a software

Re: acceptability of updates-testing breakage vs. rawhide breakage

2014-01-11 Thread Michael Scherer
working on taskotron ( successor of autoqa ) and this will likely prevent this kind of issue in the future, I hope. If you feel that's important to make sure this doesn't happen, they will always accept any kind of help. But in the mean time, as this is IMHO the most beging type of brea

Re: Unresponsive maintainer: Mark Chappell

2014-01-10 Thread Michael Scherer
e-2.13-2.fc18 > Last actions performed according to fedmsg: > ERROR:active-user:'raw_messages' > > > Well, there's a comprehensible error message! Anyway, does anybody > have an alternate means of contacting Mark? Yep, I forward him the email -- Michael Scher

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 02 janvier 2014 à 16:45 -0500, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Hi > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > It could be implemented as a plugin and still installed by > default. > > > It could be but I doubt that is the propo

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-02 Thread Michael Scherer
it would be nice for > the developers involved to go through the release history and bugs and > find out why the current functionality was done the way it was before > deciding to change it. It could be implemented as a plugin and still installed by default. -- Michael Scherer -- dev

Re: Sshd getting 'dyntransition' AVC's in SElinux enforcing mode

2013-12-27 Thread Michael Scherer
his a known issue? I’m running: Can you make sure the label is correct on the fs ( ie, relabel the whole / ), as this seems to be a wrongly labeled sshd. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-12-18)

2013-12-20 Thread Michael Scherer
s on Cooker, etc, etc. It is all archived on ml, you can check. So claiming he had no history with the community is either a lie, or a myopic view of the community by restricting yourself to Fedora QA while ignoring the free software community at large for no good reasons. -- Michael Sche

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Michael scherer
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 07:40:36PM -0600, mrnuke wrote: > On 12/05/2013 11:38 AM, Michael scherer wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 08:25:54PM -0600, mrnuke wrote: > >> > >> This change is Sofa King stupid. Why couldn't we have just enabled the > >> warni

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-05 Thread Michael scherer
d Mageia when similar changes have been enforced and usually, most upstream are receptive, so i really fail to see why there is people complaining. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Workstation PRD summary and next steps

2013-11-08 Thread Michael Scherer
ct.org/pipermail/desktop/2013-November/thread.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/server/2013-November/thread.html ( and looking for the others is left as a exercise for the reader ) It was also posted on devel-announce : https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2013-Oc

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 08 novembre 2013 à 21:24 +0100, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Michael scherer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:55:12PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Lennart Poettering > >> wrote: &g

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-08 Thread Michael scherer
] https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1158 [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next/boardproposal [4] http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/board-meeting-topic-for-the-day-user-base-aka-target-audience/ -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-08 Thread Michael scherer
ll bring much gain. It will matter for people managing the low level format, ie few people. Reusing the manifests ( if it was doable ) would have yield much more gain. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Michael scherer
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 23:50 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: > > Le lundi 04 novembre 2013 à 21:02 +0100, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > > > > > Am 04.11.2013 20:56, schrieb drago01: > > > > On Mon

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
lly off topic, so I will stop here and now. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
d sysadmins alike ) were fully ok with using pip install, much to my dismay as a Fedora member. And those are people that write free softwares, people who contribute to the whole ecosystem, and people we want to help to write more free software. maybe you think they do not matters and we shou

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
e the value of doing so, and so would not do it. So if that's the problem, then the solution is to demonstrate the value of packaging and rpm rather than restricting all others alternatives. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
m gaining > access to latest builds in order to participate in project development. Developers are also interested into getting feedback and tests from users, and so if they can tell to people "use this version, see if the bug is fixed, or tell me what you think of the UI", this benefi

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
mented, it doesn't exist. And if people do not wish to use GPK or gnome-software to make updates because of the reboot, the old way still exist. People spoke of yumex among others, and the various scripts that were posted would still work, yum would still be here (or dnf). -- Michael Scherer

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le dimanche 03 novembre 2013 à 14:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler a écrit : > Michael Scherer wrote: > > When statistics cost you money, yeah, I think that's important to take > > them in account. Maybe your employer do not care about this, but I > > strongly suspect mine does, a

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 02 novembre 2013 à 22:35 +0100, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > Am 02.11.2013 22:29, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Ars technica summarize quite clearly the situation on this problem : > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/its-the-little-things-how-sma

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Scherer
rs, but with ~ 40 RHEL desktops in my office, I have seen it 4 times. I have spend ~ 2h to fix each of them. Now, take a bigger fleer of laptop, and count how much this is costing in time to a company. Time lost by users, time lost by having someone looking at it instead of focusing on others issu

Re: Packages have "proxy" word.

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Scherer
roper bug report, and so far, I do not see you doing that. > Is Fedora working for Freedom or not ?? Working for freedom yes, but that doesn't mean "working to fight all kind of freedom restriction irrespective of any others factors". -- Michael Scherer -

Re: abrt Bugzilla summary

2013-09-20 Thread Michael Scherer
r user? > Possibly too much complexity... Assuming you filter your mail using something like maildrop that can filter the email and rewrite the Subject. If spamassassin can do it, why not do the same :) ( I use that to remove the [ml name] of some list, to reorder the subject for

Re: COPR

2013-09-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mardi 03 septembre 2013 à 15:37 -0400, Jay Greguske a écrit : > On 09/03/2013 12:29 PM, Michael scherer wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:48:52AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:10:32 -0400 > >> Jay Greguske wrote: > >> > >

Re: COPR

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mardi 03 septembre 2013 à 15:37 -0400, Jay Greguske a écrit : > On 09/03/2013 01:54 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 09/03/2013 12:29 PM, Michael scherer wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:48:52A

Re: COPR

2013-09-03 Thread Michael scherer
un anything in chroot. I do have a patch but I was not able to make a policy for the transition ( or my patch is buggy ) and I didn't look at it since a few weeks. I can send it if someone want to take a look. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Unexpanded %post in updated rpm on F19

2013-08-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 24 août 2013 à 15:57 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit : > Hi, > > I found 2 rpms ( nscd, acpid ) that were sent in updates with a bug that > didn't expand the systemd macro : > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000713 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Unexpanded %post in updated rpm on F19

2013-08-24 Thread Michael Scherer
anual intervention. Could something be done with it so that doesn't spread to others packages, and those be fixed before too much people install them ? -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code

Re: Bundled Flash

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Scherer
m to have it downgradable, that's a bit hard. Another issue is the %ghost, we cannot really check the symlink is still the same. Maybe there is some better syntax for that. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: RFC: Old packages remain on the mirrors for one week

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Scherer
org/gitweb/?p=mirror/snapshot.debian.org.git;a=tree ( and it was based on pdumpfs before ) -- Michael Scherer -- 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: ExecStart line in systemd service files.

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Scherer
/mysoftware with ./configure --prefix=/opt/mysoftware it should also generate a systemd file that use the correct path after ./configure & make. For the exact way of doing that, you have to see autoconf manual, and I do not have a example ready to give. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing

Re: UML (user mode linux) for Fedora

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Scherer
separate spec/srpm from the kernel spec ? -- Michael Scherer -- 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

2013-07-27 Thread Michael Scherer
f failing, twice the work to setup, and of course, they do not match on feature. Anyway, I think I contributed enough to this thread, so I will stop here. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

2013-07-27 Thread Michael Scherer
jboss do work. -- Michael Scherer -- 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: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 26 juillet 2013 à 13:32 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" a écrit : > On 07/26/2013 01:07 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > > Working in IT @Red Hat, I concur, and I am pretty sure that no one has > > all the information to make that estimation. Network,

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Scherer
a server is not dedicated to Fedora, far from it ), and everybody has better things to do that splitting usage by project, and querying the right folks to get the number to start with. RH is not yet a bureaucratic behemoth where everything is precisely counted. However, a rough estimate would be

Re: Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Scherer
of either of these features. Unless Matthew > > takes them over alone I will will mark these feature pages as obsolete > > as they didn't get agreed on. > > Taking rsyslog out of @core is a one-line commit to comps which someone > could do in 30 seconds. It hardly need

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Scherer
ything. And that's what was done for Mageia before the association got a legal entity, using another partner association in France as a proxy for money. I think Debian also do something similar for debconf, with SPI. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Scherer
ecks.` So you assume that "administrative" mean "not fun", so "people will not do it for free" ? On one hand, i would agree, this is quite hard to find a good treasurer, motivated, etc. On the other hand, there is lots of group doing it around you. Having someone pa

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Scherer
by 1 single sponsor is a rather suboptimal situation. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Scherer
is "how do we convince people who are not convinced yet of the added value of such rules ?" -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposal: ReadOnlyDirectories /etc and /usr for network-services

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Scherer
usr" is fine Seems like a bug in the software. It would prevent to have it run from a livecd. > * mediathomb > refuses for whatever reason to start with read-only /etc > "ReadOnlyDirectories=/usr" is fine Same as above. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Ruby on Rails 4.0

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Scherer
t; * New additional gems will have to be packaged > >> * Some dependencies of the Rails stack will need update > > Does this work for users of Rails currently in Fedora, or will those > > packages need upgraded/ported as well? > > > > Bill > > There is plenty o

Re: Tools to mount and promote Fedora on cybers.

2013-07-14 Thread Michael Scherer
ement this. And usually, in a cyber cafe, you also want to be able to limit the time spent on the session by disconnecting after a time, and display that time to the customers. You also want to let people connect only if they paid :) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 03 juillet 2013 à 09:54 +0200, Johannes Lips a écrit : > > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le mercredi 03 juillet 2013 à 09:44 +0200, Johannes Lips a > écrit : > > > > > > >

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Scherer
ackage there is no > reason to > give it negative karma. > If it doesn't fix the bugs, the update should fix, it is appropriate > to give negative karma. Otherwise the bugs would be closed, when it > becomes stable, but won't be fixed. That's not what the

Re: bugzilla.redhat.com vs upstream bug trackers

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Scherer
or that : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:OpenID_Auth_Plugin So is there any reason to not offer it, or I can start filling bug to request it ? -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F19 locale issue?

2013-06-16 Thread Michael Scherer
" > LC_MEASUREMENT=\'\' > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" > LC_ALL= > > I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 on kernel cmdline and in /etc/locale.conf. Yep : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974778 In short, fix /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon-localeexec to remove "'", not ','. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Daily package ownership changes?

2013-05-29 Thread Michael Scherer
mp the spec on rawhide in mock, mail errors if any, and if not, just send it to koji. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-25 Thread Michael Scherer
is happens only on > > upgrades. > > yum remove > yum install > > should do what you want (backups of modified config files). But that's unfortunately not always convenient if you need to remove dependent packages for "yum remove" ? I guess yum-shell may help in that case ? -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Scherer
ill either get too much, or they will not get enough. And if you had suggest/recommend by default, you bloat the system, and if you don't, then that's useless. I am not against the idea, but that's not a technical issue. Technically, Suggest can be added to rpm quite fast, there is pa

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Scherer
me virtual provides that exist as fake packages in the db, and then have a package have a requires on it. So it cannot be installed if the hardware is not here. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Scherer
have that, and that greatly help to enforce a consistent policy and let packager focus on the others part rather than cut and paste the same stuff. And if we do have less %post script, we increase compatibility with other distributions if they do the same. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Default-installed MTA (was Re: MTA virtual provides craziness)

2013-05-20 Thread Michael Scherer
t; Sure, but do many users do? Or does it sit there until the end of time? I think it may not be rotated, so in the long run, with enough verbose cronjob, you will fill your hard drive. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-17 Thread Michael Scherer
> > Yes. 'rpm -qf /lib/systemd/system/foo.service'. > > I'd actually suggest doing: > > rpm -qif /lib/systemd/system/foo.service > > ... and noting the source rpm. For the sake of over optimisation : $ rpm --queryformat '%{SOURCERPM}\n' -q

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-17 Thread Michael Scherer
he size of the community at that time, that was ( and still is ) the only scalable model for Mageia project, and also the easiest to set up, as using a team system like Opensuse or Debian would have required more efforts, both on governance side and build system side, and since no one did the governance part, patches for build system didn't appear ( hard to code when there is no specification ) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: MTA virtual provides craziness

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Scherer
not the good way to express this dependency ). -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Reviewer needed for some packages?

2013-05-09 Thread Michael Scherer
> > There will occasionally be people who do reviews for the pleasure of > doing so. For the rest of us, there's debit mastercard. Umh, I mean > review swaps. Well, we could just decide to do 2 reviews for each review we receive and this would solve the issue nicely.

Re: Build control-center in mock fail

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Scherer
external entity such as a networked server. -- Michael Scherer -- 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?

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Scherer
tp://lab.arc90.com/2009/07/08/halfmask-an-experiment-in-password-masking/ ( didn't work with firefox, only with epiphany ) ( as a side note, I suspect that the whole idea come from this article : http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/26/password-masking-hurt-signup-form/ ) -- Michael Scherer -- 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 Michael Scherer
Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 17:06 -0600, Chris Murphy a écrit : > > On May 4, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > > Or I could also speak of the small non standard keyboard such as macbook > > one where ~ or | are not printed and where using the wrong keyboard &

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

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 15:22 -0700, Dan Mashal a écrit : > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in favor of > > the proposal : > > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the_proble

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

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 05:51 -0400, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Hi > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in > favor of > the proposal : > h

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

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
;reduce visual clutter" and "have a explicit checkbox" ) -- Michael Scherer -- 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 Michael Scherer
conda developers don't read the developer list? That's terrible! That's the whole point of having a separate list in the first place, so people are not forced to read a high volume list like fedora-devel. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org ht

Re: Idea: "{Gnome,KDE,Xfce,...} Minimal Desktop" groups

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Scherer
ot;yum install session(gnome)" that would take what is needed to have "gnome" in *dm listed as a choice, and i think that would fit the definition of minimal. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: audacity

2013-04-28 Thread Michael Scherer
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/plf-discuss@zarb.org/msg01913.html -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-04-14 Thread Michael Scherer
onvince any upstream directly to invest more time in stuff like seccomp-bpf as did by Chrome, vsftpd and others if you think that's the right approach to fix security issues. -- Michael Scherer !DSPAM:516a7a988771503385058! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: rawhide report: 20130413 changes

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Scherer
id=951830 -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Each Fedora release I do series of blog on New Security Feature coming in the next Fedora.

2013-04-10 Thread Michael Scherer
gt; > Things I have covered in the past in addition to SELinux advances, systemd > improvements, journald, kerberos moving the cache, FreeIPA integration with > ActiveDirectory, audit improvement, libvirt/containers ... Privacy in gnome 3.8 ? -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing

Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Scherer
ed method to find if > hardening criteria applies to a particular package. Ideas are welcome! You can take a look on http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/security/ , there is a script rpm-chksec to verify that. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Scherer
t in the wild. But I am not sure if you are talking of that. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: nufw unresponsive maintainer & deprecation

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 27 mars 2013 à 12:32 +0100, Michael Scherer a écrit : > Le mercredi 27 mars 2013 à 12:15 +0100, Tomas Mraz a écrit : > > The nufw package in fedora is currently FTBFS and broken due to missing > > dependencies. The package upstream is dead and replaced with a new U

Re: nufw unresponsive maintainer & deprecation

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Scherer
he bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921158 > > This is the step 4 of the absent maintainer process so I am asking > whether anyone knows how to contact the maintainer. I know the maintainer, I will send him a sms ( we were both working for the company that wrote

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