Re: What happened to umask?

2022-05-21 Thread Ron Yorston
Owen, Thanks for explaining the situation with umask. I'd noticed the discrepancy between login/non-login shells and wondered what was going on. >It seems like we need to do one of two things: > > - Go back to the old behavior, maybe by using the usergroups option to >pam_umask and removing the

Re: F37 Change: MinGW UCRT target (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-02-07 Thread Ron Yorston
Marc-André Lureau wrote: >FYI, UCRT can be installed on various Windows: >https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows-c0514201-7fe6-95a3-b0a5-287930f3560c Sure, it *can* be. But that doesn't mean I can rely on my end users to be able to do that. Currently

Re: F37 Change: MinGW UCRT target (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-01-31 Thread Ron Yorston
Tomasz Torcz wrote: >On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:17:29PM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: >> >> But yes, for Windows releases ≥ 95 OSR 2 and < 10 (and no, Windows version >> numbers are not anywhere near monotonic ;-) ), MSVCRT is included out of the >> box, UCRT is not. Is it really a good

Re: Proposal: Stewardship Group / SIG for taking care of otherwise "module-only" packages

2019-02-13 Thread Ron Yorston
Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >* Ron Yorston [13/02/2019 08:45] : >> If so, why would they do that? Why would they *not* want their package >> to be available as a regular package? It seems counterproductive for >> them to downgrade their package to this second-class status. >

Re: Proposal: Stewardship Group / SIG for taking care of otherwise "module-only" packages

2019-02-13 Thread Ron Yorston
Neal Gompa wrote: >Ron Yorston wrote: >> What is a "module-only" package? > >These are packages that move from the main Fedora distribution into >the addon "fedora-modular" repo that is enabled by default on Fedora >systems. What causes a package

Re: Proposal: Stewardship Group / SIG for taking care of otherwise "module-only" packages

2019-02-12 Thread Ron Yorston
Fabio Valentini wrote: >In the past few weeks, it has come up regularly that future >"module-only" packages are orphaned (and hence will soon be retired), >and nobody stepped up to fix this issue - especially for non-leaf >packages. I don't think fedora as a project has a solution for this >yet.

Re: Headsup: dbus 1.12.10-1.fc29 is missing systemd dbus.service file, breaking almost everything

2018-09-03 Thread Ron Yorston
Adam Williamson wrote: >On Sun, 2018-09-02 at 08:58 -0700, stan wrote: >> On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 09:33:39 +0200 >> Andreas Tunek wrote: >> >> > There is no root acoount on a default F29 installation. Also, you >> > can't see the boot menu and I haven't been able to trigger it. >> >> Whoa! I'm not

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

2018-02-19 Thread Ron Yorston
Rich, Thanks for packaging zerofree. It's been great to be able to install my own software without having to build it. Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >zerofree is a package that can take an ext2 (only?) filesystem, work >out what parts of the filesystem are not used, and either zero them or

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-06-01 Thread Ron Yorston
Hans de Goede wrote: I plan to use 1 subpackage per extension of the frippery extension collection, so that people can install only those which they want without automatically getting all of them. I'd prefer them to be in one package: they are intended to work together. I understand that