Re: systemd tmpfiles: ensuring directories exist after package installation

2013-10-23 Thread Sandro Mani
On 23.10.2013 19:40, Ville Skyttä wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: In cases where a package ships a .tmpfiles file which manages i.e. the /var/run/ directory, what is the best way to make sure that the directory exists after installing the package, without rebooting

systemd tmpfiles: ensuring directories exist after package installation

2013-10-23 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, In cases where a package ships a .tmpfiles file which manages i.e. the /var/run/ directory, what is the best way |to make sure that the directory exists after installing the package, without rebooting the system? - The directory should be installed by the package - %postinst||| should

Re: Anyone else using and interested in co-maintaining sogo?

2013-10-16 Thread Sandro Mani
On 16.10.2013 18:13, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: I'm using sogo on RHEL6 at work, and would gladly help maintaining it for Fedora. But, I've been expecting this would be a difficult job because I thought SOGo/inverse maintained their own patched gnustep, sope or something like that. Is that not th

Re: Bug 950189: Missing icon for qt-creator

2013-10-16 Thread Sandro Mani
On 16.10.2013 15:32, Rex Dieter wrote: Sandro Mani wrote: Thanks for your reply. Being a regular QtCreator user, I'm happy to help out if help is needed (i.e., comaintain and handle smaller issues like this one). Would that be appreciated? yes! :) Ok! acls requested. Sandro --

Re: Bug 950189: Missing icon for qt-creator

2013-10-16 Thread Sandro Mani
On 16.10.2013 14:51, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - Hi, I apologize for escalating this to devel, but I think that after 6 months it is time this [1] finally got fixed: it is just a matter of changing the icon name in the desktop file of qt-creator to reflect the new icon

Anyone else using and interested in co-maintaining sogo?

2013-10-15 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, Needing a calendar server for the company, I've ended up packaging the groupware server SOGo [1], which is a neat MS Exchange alternative. SRPM of sogo plus deps are here: http://smani.fedorapeople.org/review/sogo-2.0.7-1.fc21.src.rpm http://smani.fedorapeople.org/review/sope-2.0.7-1.fc21

Bug 950189: Missing icon for qt-creator

2013-10-15 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, I apologize for escalating this to devel, but I think that after 6 months it is time this [1] finally got fixed: it is just a matter of changing the icon name in the desktop file of qt-creator to reflect the new icon name. This is one of those trivial to fix but very user-visible issues.

Re: Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-10-09 Thread Sandro Mani
On 09.10.2013 18:56, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: Hi Sandro, Sorry for the delay, but I've been very busy at work for the past couple weeks. I've only read mails mentioning me, hence the very short answer on the BZ. I also got sick last friday, before the very weekend I wanted to work on fedora (yo

Re: Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-10-06 Thread Sandro Mani
On 07.10.2013 02:32, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Dom, 2013-10-06 at 11:46 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: we still doesn't have rpmdevtools-8.4 packaged for F21 ... I'll look into it as soon as it starts to look that devscripts will be approved. hav

Re: Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-10-06 Thread Sandro Mani
On 07.10.2013 02:26, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Seg, 2013-10-07 at 02:21 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: On 07.10.2013 02:17, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Dom, 2013-10-06 at 12:05 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: The *-keyring packages are not strictly dependencies (though they would probably be appropriate

Re: Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-10-06 Thread Sandro Mani
On 07.10.2013 02:17, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Dom, 2013-10-06 at 12:05 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: The *-keyring packages are not strictly dependencies (though they would probably be appropriate "Suggests:" if we had something similar), since pbuilder is not limited to building packages

Re: Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-10-06 Thread Sandro Mani
On 06.10.2013 06:27, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Seg, 2013-09-23 at 10:30 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: On 23.09.2013 02:01, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:14:29AM +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: On 20.09.2013 06:37, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at

Re: Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-10-06 Thread Sandro Mani
On 04.10.2013 20:49, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:30:11AM +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: On 23.09.2013 02:01, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:14:29AM +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: On 20.09.2013 06:37, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote

Re: Review swap: python-qpid_messaging

2013-09-25 Thread Sandro Mani
On 25.09.2013 18:25, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: I'm willing to do a review swap if someone will review python-qpid_messaging: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1012077 Hi, I'll do it for perl-Parse-DebControl [1]. Thanks, Sandro [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=100999

Re: Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-09-23 Thread Sandro Mani
On 23.09.2013 02:01, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:14:29AM +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: On 20.09.2013 06:37, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:41:03PM +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: Hi, In the hope to continue the effort of getting

Re: Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-09-22 Thread Sandro Mani
On 20.09.2013 06:37, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:41:03PM +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: Hi, In the hope to continue the effort of getting pbuilder (and hence an easy way to build deb packages from fedora) into the repos (review here: [1]), I've packaged devsc

Re: Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-09-20 Thread Sandro Mani
On 20.09.2013 13:33, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: Hi, In the hope to continue the effort of getting pbuilder (and hence an easy way to build deb packages from fedora) into the repos (review here: [1]), I've packaged devscripts, debian-ke

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-19 Thread Sandro Mani
We have no ability to rename a package in koji. im not opposed to reusing the name. Just need some way to ensure its very clear the old and new are different. Likely need to add a conflicts with the old one. hopefully versions allow for upgrade okay, if not an epoch will need to be added. Dennis

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-19 Thread Sandro Mani
> A few years ago, there would have been a helpful answer from the admins > who would/wouldn't process such requests. I don't know whether it's possible > to not only rename a git repo but also the stuff within pkgdb and koji. Cc'd Dennis to see if this can happen in koji. If it can't I woul

Review swaps: perl-Parse-DebControl, devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring, jetring + question: where to install keyrings?

2013-09-19 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, In the hope to continue the effort of getting pbuilder (and hence an easy way to build deb packages from fedora) into the repos (review here: [1]), I've packaged devscripts, debian-keyring, ubuntu-keyring and jetring. Reviews are here: - jetring: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-13 Thread Sandro Mani
On 13.09.2013 11:48, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:54:49 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircrafts package) [1], and the reviewer noticed that it

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-13 Thread Sandro Mani
On 13.09.2013 09:54, Florian Weimer wrote: On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircrafts package) [1], and the reviewer noticed that it conflicts with the retired avl package (the AVL tree manipulation

Review swaps: xfoil, xrotor, avl

2013-09-12 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, I've posted the following package review requests: - #1007539 - xfoil: Subsonic Airfoil Development System - #1007540 - rotor: Design and analysis tools for propellers and windmills - #1007541 - avl: Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircrafts They are all fortran/C applicatio

Review swap: xflr5

2013-09-12 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, One more airfoil package: #1007604 - xflr5: Analysis tool for airfoils, wings and planes C++/Qt code with simple qmake build and desktop file. Again, happy to review in exchange. Thanks, Sandro -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Packages requiring Xorg "BackingStore" "true"

2013-09-12 Thread Sandro Mani
On 12.09.2013 16:41, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 23:27 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: Well, yes, but it ought to work regardless of the xorg.conf setting, because that setting has been effectively hardwired to true for about six years now. I rewrote the backing store implementation

Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-12 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircrafts package) [1], and the reviewer noticed that it conflicts with the retired avl package (the AVL tree manipulation library). How should one proceed in such situations? Does the old repository need

Re: Review swaps: xfoil, xrotor, avl

2013-09-12 Thread Sandro Mani
On 12.09.2013 22:05, Brendan Jones wrote: On 09/12/2013 09:36 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: Okay. So I'll take those newly updated: avl and xrotor. Thanks Antonio, let me know if I can review anything in exchange. Btw, you will notice that they are all very similar, so if you manage thos

Re: Packages requiring Xorg "BackingStore" "true"

2013-09-12 Thread Sandro Mani
On 12.09.2013 21:30, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 09/11/2013 05:27 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: Well, yes, but it ought to work regardless of the xorg.conf setting, because that setting has been effectively hardwired to true for about six years now. I rewrote the backing store implementation to

Re: Review swaps: xfoil, xrotor, avl

2013-09-12 Thread Sandro Mani
Okay. So I'll take those newly updated: avl and xrotor. Thanks Antonio, let me know if I can review anything in exchange. Btw, you will notice that they are all very similar, so if you manage those two, xfoil should be just as easy ;) Sandro -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Review swaps: xfoil, xrotor, avl

2013-09-12 Thread Sandro Mani
On 12.09.2013 19:45, Antonio Trande wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/2013 07:37 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: Hi, I've posted the following package review requests: - #1007539 - xfoil: Subsonic Airfoil Development System - #1007540 - rotor: Design and analysis tool

Re: Packages requiring Xorg "BackingStore" "true"

2013-09-11 Thread Sandro Mani
Well, yes, but it ought to work regardless of the xorg.conf setting, because that setting has been effectively hardwired to true for about six years now. I rewrote the backing store implementation to use Composite internally, which is always available, so we just blindly ignore the config setti

Re: Packages requiring Xorg "BackingStore" "true"

2013-09-11 Thread Sandro Mani
On 11.09.2013 13:22, Florian Weimer wrote: On 09/11/2013 01:07 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: Thanks for you quick reply, unfortunately the replot function is defined nowhere. Oooh. Perhaps try calling GWXFLUSH(), then? That should restore the window contents from the stored pixmap. It won&#

Re: Packages requiring Xorg "BackingStore" "true"

2013-09-11 Thread Sandro Mani
On 11.09.2013 12:21, Florian Weimer wrote: On 09/11/2013 12:16 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: - Question for anyone with Xorg knowledge: how feasible is it to patch out of the plot window code the need for BackingStore? I.e. does it only require some minor changes to the Xlib calls? For reference

Packages requiring Xorg "BackingStore" "true"

2013-09-11 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello, Some time ago I've packaged Xfoil, Avl and Xrotor (which are popular codes for foil/fluid-dynamics related computations), but I never ended up posting a package review for one reason: the plot window of those programs needs "BackingStore" "true" set in xorg.conf, or otherwise the conte

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-08-07)

2013-08-07 Thread Sandro Mani
On 07.08.2013 14:01, Stephen Gallagher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo meeting Wednesday at 18:00UTC in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedo

Re: Orphaning shapelib

2013-08-05 Thread Sandro Mani
On 05.08.2013 18:53, Lucian Langa wrote: Since I do not use this anymore I've orphaned the package in pkgdb. I've taken this. Thanks, Sandro -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject

Non-responsive maintainer: Dave Ludlow (adsllc), package takeover request

2013-08-01 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, Since all attempts to contact the mingw-proj maintainer have failed, and it's been three weeks since filing bug #983759, I'd like to request to take over mingw-proj. For reference, here are the other packages maintained by adsllc: drehatlas-warender-bibliothek-fonts -- A Latin typeface t

Unremovable packages due to scriptlet failures

2013-07-26 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, It happens from time to time that yum is unable to remove packages when uninstall scriptlets fail. For experienced users, it is just a matter of doing rpm -e --noscripts, but casual users will likely end up with yum check complaining about duplicate packages etc. So - Might the damage not be s

Non-responsive maintainer: Dave Ludlow (adsllc)

2013-07-24 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, I've filed bug #983759 [1] concerning updating mingw-proj to the latest version and enabling the mingw64 package two weeks ago, but have received no response since. This is blocking my review request #984248 [2]. I've tried contacting adsllc directly via email, but have received no reply.

Re: Heads up: Upcoming python-pillow 2.2 breaks "import _imaging"

2013-07-05 Thread Sandro Mani
python-pillow 2.1.0 is now built for rawhide. - Sandro -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Heads up: Upcoming python-pillow 2.2 breaks "import _imaging"

2013-07-03 Thread Sandro Mani
On 03.07.2013 18:49, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 01:35:14 +0200 Sandro Mani wrote: Hello all, As described here [1], the upcoming python-pillow 2.2 will break "import _imaging", and "from PIL.Image import core as _imaging" should be used instead). This does

Re: Monitoring a mock build?

2013-07-02 Thread Sandro Mani
On 02.07.2013 20:22, Richard Shaw wrote: I'm wondering if there's a better method of monitoring a mock build other than: # mock -r --resultdir=/path/to/results ^Z # bg 1 # tail -f /path/to/build.log I guess I could use two terminals, but I'd rather just have the one up... Richard Wouldn

Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

2013-07-02 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, What about the following idea autogenerate update descriptions for most cases: * If %{release} is 1, it's an upstream version update. By storing the url to the upstream changelog (possibly appropriately parametrized with a %{version} placeholder), bodhi would generate a description such as "T

Re: Heads up: Upcoming python-pillow 2.2 breaks "import _imaging" -> should be python-pillow 2.1, not 2.2

2013-07-01 Thread Sandro Mani
Slight confusion on my part, the new version is python-pillow 2.1, not 2.2. Sandro -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Heads up: Upcoming python-pillow 2.2 breaks "import _imaging"

2013-06-30 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello all, As described here [1], the upcoming python-pillow 2.2 will break "import _imaging", and "from PIL.Image import core as _imaging" should be used instead). This does not break backwards compatibility with python-pillow < 2.2. Python-pillow-2.2 will probably land in rawhide some time

Re: Firefox in Rawhide is out of date

2013-06-27 Thread Sandro Mani
The issue seems to be that the minimum-required nspr version in xulrunner is determined by pkg-config --modversion nspr which returns 4.10.0, the package version however is 4.10 (without the trailing .0). This causes the builddep resolution to fail when building firefox. On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread Sandro Mani
On 23.05.2013 20:59, Panu Matilainen wrote: On 05/23/2013 09:51 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: and apparently also not at updates and also not by "yum reinstall" which leaves no clean way to get rid if it and additionally i am not sure if "tsflags=nodocs" also avoids /usr/share/m

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread Sandro Mani
and apparently also not at updates and also not by "yum reinstall" which leaves no clean way to get rid if it and additionally i am not sure if "tsflags=nodocs" also avoids /usr/share/man and not only /usr/share/doc No it does not avoid man, but you could mount a null-filesystem such as [1] to

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread Sandro Mani
Yum's tsflags=nodocs aka --excludedocs on rpm cli only applies to package installation. I fail to see how it could cause files to be left behind on erasure/update (reinstall might be a bit, uh, special though), but if it does then please file a bug on rpm with exact reproducer steps. -

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread Sandro Mani
> > or skip manpages/docfiles as default or at least > controlled by a option in "yum.conf" > tsflags=nodocs in yum.conf should do the job. Though apparently, if enabled after packages already installed files in doc, the files in doc won't be removed anymore when uninstalling the package. -- deve

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Sandro Mani
On 23.05.2013 00:55, Orion Poplawski wrote: I'll get more specific then: python-pyface can use two different graphics backends - either wxPython or pyQt4. In no way do these two packages provide the same thing in any meaningful way other than to pyface. So, while one could go the provides

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Sandro Mani
I'd definitely add a big +1 to "Dependency cleaner"! Thanks, Sandro On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: > Dear Fedora community, > several months ago, at the Developer conference in Brno, Software > Management > team received a whole bunch of proposals for new functionality in R

Rel-eng ticket: unblock mingw-openjpeg

2013-05-20 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, I've resurrected mingw-openjpeg and opened this rel-eng ticket [1] to unblock it a while ago. Any chance anyone with the needed privileges can quickly take care of it? Thanks! Sandro [1] https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5611 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http

QA Testscase: Installation with mountpoint inside future $HOME?

2013-05-20 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello, I've just hit a bug which causes $HOME to be owned by root if a mountpoint is created inside $HOME during install, see [1]. I recall in the past already occasionally hitting related problems, such as: - /etc/skel/* not being copied to $HOME - Files from /etc/skel/* being copied, but sti

Re: Review Swap with 3 packages

2013-05-15 Thread Sandro Mani
On 15.05.2013 17:24, Christopher Meng wrote: I've noticed it How to solve it? See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts#Library_Name_Conflicts -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

MinGW review party

2013-05-09 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi all, Need a review swap? Look no further, plenty of options here! :) All fairly simple and standard procedure https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916797 (mingw-glew - MinGW OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961402 (mingw-giflib - MinG

Re: Review swap (2 items)

2013-05-06 Thread Sandro Mani
On 06.05.2013 21:33, Eugene Pivnev wrote: 2 (two) trivial qt-based applicaions for sale: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957333 - QuiteRSS - RSS/Atom aggregator https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960194 - QTerminal - terminal emulator Welcome! I'll take qterminal in exc

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

2013-05-03 Thread Sandro Mani
On 03.05.2013 14:20, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mer 1 mai 2013 02:17, Sandro Mani a écrit : On 01.05.2013 02:08, Felix Miata wrote: On 2013-05-01 01:37 (GMT+0200) Sandro Mani composed: # yum install @critical-path-gnome The gnome one is close, the kde one not: critpath contains kdelibs and

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

2013-04-30 Thread Sandro Mani
On 01.05.2013 02:08, Felix Miata wrote: On 2013-05-01 01:37 (GMT+0200) Sandro Mani composed: # yum install @critical-path-gnome The gnome one is close, the kde one not: critpath contains kdelibs and kdm, but a minimal set would rather look like base + xorg + mesa + kdm kde-workspace dejavu

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

2013-04-30 Thread Sandro Mani
On 30.04.2013 11:38, Kalev Lember wrote: On 29/04/13 16:58, Sandro Mani wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Rich Mattes wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: So, what about creating groups for the various desktop environments which pull in basesystem + xorg + mesa

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

2013-04-29 Thread Sandro Mani
On 29.04.2013 20:10, Felix Miata wrote: On 2013-04-29 19:49 (GMT+0200) Sandro Mani composed: Michael Scherer wrote: minimal is not well defined. I would define minimal as the absolute minimal set of packages which allows the shell to load. This resulting setup is not meant to be usable

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

2013-04-29 Thread Sandro Mani
On 29.04.2013 20:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 07:49:23PM +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: I would define minimal as the absolute minimal set of packages which allows the shell to load. This resulting setup is not meant to be usable without the user installing additional

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

2013-04-29 Thread Sandro Mani
On 29.04.2013 19:21, Michael Scherer wrote: Le lundi 29 avril 2013 à 16:58 +0200, Sandro Mani a écrit : On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Rich Mattes wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: So, what about creating groups for

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

2013-04-29 Thread Sandro Mani
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/29/2013 10:55 AM, Rich Mattes wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Sandro Mani > <mailto:manisan...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >

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

2013-04-29 Thread Sandro Mani
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Rich Mattes wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: > >> So, what about creating groups for the various desktop environments which >> pull in basesystem + xorg + mesa drivers + displaymanager + bare desktop >>

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

2013-04-29 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, >From time to time, when setting up virtual machines for testing, I miss a fast way to install the minimal set of packages which allows me to boot into the desktop of a desktop environment. Currently, I do a minimal install, then install some core component, i.e. gnome-shell, and then hunt the

Review swap (GtkSpell C++ bindings)

2013-04-25 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello, I'd like to swap reviews for [1] (gtkspellmm30, i.e. the C++ bindings for GtkSpell3 - should be fairly quick and easy). Thanks, Sandro [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919260 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Re: Package-split upgrade path

2013-04-25 Thread Sandro Mani
On 25.04.2013 20:24, Rex Dieter wrote: Sandro Mani wrote: On 25.04.2013 18:43, Rex Dieter wrote: Sandro Mani wrote: On 19.04.2013 17:58, Rex Dieter wrote: Sandro Mani wrote: Hello, In python-pillow (the python imaging fork which replaced PIL in F19+), there is a module (ImageQt) which

Re: Package-split upgrade path

2013-04-25 Thread Sandro Mani
On 25.04.2013 18:43, Rex Dieter wrote: Sandro Mani wrote: On 19.04.2013 17:58, Rex Dieter wrote: Sandro Mani wrote: Hello, In python-pillow (the python imaging fork which replaced PIL in F19+), there is a module (ImageQt) which requires PyQt4, but that dependency is missing in python

Re: Package-split upgrade path

2013-04-19 Thread Sandro Mani
On 19.04.2013 17:58, Rex Dieter wrote: Sandro Mani wrote: Hello, In python-pillow (the python imaging fork which replaced PIL in F19+), there is a module (ImageQt) which requires PyQt4, but that dependency is missing in python-pillow (and in python-imaging before). I don't really like a

Package-split upgrade path

2013-04-18 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello, In python-pillow (the python imaging fork which replaced PIL in F19+), there is a module (ImageQt) which requires PyQt4, but that dependency is missing in python-pillow (and in python-imaging before). I don't really like adding PyQt4 as a dependency to the main package, since it pulls i

Re: Unhelpful update descriptions

2013-03-11 Thread Sandro Mani
On 11.03.2013 17:06, Jared K. Smith wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Perhaps the update policy should have a guideline on the minimum amount of information required in this description. E.g. "update to latest upstream version" might be a perfectly acceptable de

[HEADS UP] python-pillow (python-imaging replacement) will land in rawhide soon

2013-03-10 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello, python-pillow will hit rawhide soon. As described in the Pillow feature-page, see [1], python-pillow will replace python-imaging (PIL) in Fedora 19+. Pillow is a drop-in replacement for PIL, except for one small detail concerning the module import syntax, see [2]. Maintainers have a

Re: yum >= 3.4.3-70: yum check reports "X has installed obsoletes Y"

2013-03-07 Thread Sandro Mani
On 07.03.2013 22:03, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:36:12 +0100, Sandro Mani wrote: It started with yum-3.4.3-70.fc19. Is this a bug in yum >= 3.4.3-70, or is this a problem with my rpm db? Both yum erase and rpm -e tell me that the indicated package is not installed.

Re: yum >= 3.4.3-70: yum check reports "X has installed obsoletes Y"

2013-03-07 Thread Sandro Mani
On 07.03.2013 21:24, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:08:08 +0100, Sandro Mani wrote: Hi, Starting approx one week ago, yum check all returns messages such as fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch has installed obsoletes redhat-logos: fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch fedora-logos

yum >= 3.4.3-70: yum check reports "X has installed obsoletes Y"

2013-03-07 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, Starting approx one week ago, yum check all returns messages such as fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch has installed obsoletes redhat-logos: fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch has installed obsoletes gnome-logos: fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch fedora-rel

Re: Fedora 19 Feature/Branch Freeze coming in one week

2013-03-05 Thread Sandro Mani
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > Hi! > As time flows really fast, we are getting closer to another important > milestones for Fedora 19 [1] on 2013-03-12 (as agreed by FESCo): > * Feature Freeze -- Planning & Development Ends > * Branch Freeze -- Branch Fedora 19 from Rawh

Python 3 bug 889784 (Distutils: Incorrect shared library extension on linux)

2013-01-28 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, Before submitting a review request for Pillow (which is a F19 feature [1]), I'd like to see bug 889784 [2] fixed. There is a patch attached, so it would only be a matter of rebuilding python3 with the patch. Note that the find_library_file function of distutils is currently completely br

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Sandro Mani
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > > Could we make a web poll for preferred desktop and make the top one the > Fedora > default? (default = link "Download now!" on http://fedoraproject.org ) > > If it is Gnome 3 Shell then fine but AFAIK it won't be Gnome 3 Shell. > IMO su

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Sandro Mani
Can't we simply re-organize the fedoraproject website in such way that the download button points to something similar to the current "More options" page, maybe with a small description for each desktop like "easy to use" / "feature rich and customizable" / "based on the traditional desktop" / etc

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2012-01-16)

2013-01-16 Thread Sandro Mani
The Pillow feature should not be in the list, it was already approved by FESCO last time. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: > On 01/16/2013 08:36 AM, Marcela Maslanova wrote: > >> = Followups = >> >> #topic #986 F19 Feature: DualstackNetworking -https://fedoraproject.org

Re: Pillow, actively developed and (mostly) python3 compatible PIL (python-imaging)

2013-01-02 Thread Sandro Mani
On 02.01.2013 15:11, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 05:17:04PM +0100, Sandro Mani wrote: I've written a feature page for the PIL->Pillow switch here [1]. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Pillow Does the package dependency list change at all? I ask because cl

Re: Pillow, actively developed and (mostly) python3 compatible PIL (python-imaging)

2012-12-28 Thread Sandro Mani
On 28.12.2012 17:14, José Matos wrote: On 12/23/2012 02:45 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: Hello all, Working on a python project using PIL, and wanting to port it to python3, I got bitten by the absence of a python3 compatible PIL. Doing some research, there seems to be an actively developed PIL fork

Pillow, actively developed and (mostly) python3 compatible PIL (python-imaging)

2012-12-22 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello all, Working on a python project using PIL, and wanting to port it to python3, I got bitten by the absence of a python3 compatible PIL. Doing some research, there seems to be an actively developed PIL fork, called Pillow, which can be found here [1]. It describes itself as Pillow i

Self Introduction

2012-12-18 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello all, Having just been kindly sponsored by Kalev, I guess it's time for the obligatory Self Introduction :) First some background stuff: I'm from Switzerland, and have just received my degree in Computational Sciences and Engineering from ETH. I've been a Fedora user since F11, and have

Re: Rawhide

2012-11-03 Thread Sandro Mani
On 04.11.2012 01:32, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, I have been thinking about rawhide. I agree identifying the problems/issues would be good, and I think there's something we can do to help with that: Get a nice group of at least 10 or so folks who are active on this list to agree to run it full time

Re: rawhide: libudev version bump, merged into systemd, libudev user need rebuild

2012-06-06 Thread Sandro Mani
> > > We discussed it recently with Kay. We will split out a systemd-libs > subpackage to be more multilib-friendly. That said, we are not aware of any > specific issues with having both systemd.{x86_64,i686} installed. > > Just to elaborate: The issues I was referring to happened during a F16->raw

Re: rawhide: libudev version bump, merged into systemd, libudev user need rebuild

2012-06-05 Thread Sandro Mani
On 06/05/2012 03:52 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: Systemd includes libudev.so.1, while the old libudev.rpm provided libudev.so.0. Therefore, all packages using udev need to be rebuilt. Here is what's happening on my x86_64 rawhide install which has some i686 packages (in particular, mesa) installed

enable-languages=c++ in cross-gcc

2012-05-12 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, I'm trying to build brickOS (alternative OS for the LEGO Mindstorms RCX unit) on fedora (rawhide), which requires the c and c++ h8300 cross compilers. In fedora however, cross-gcc is build only with enable-languages=c. Is there a particular reason for this? Thanks! -- devel mailing list

Re: Issues with yum

2012-02-27 Thread Sandro Mani
On 02/27/2012 04:29 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 14:00:51 +, Frank Murphy wrote: On 27/02/12 13:52, elison.ni...@gmail.com wrote: 4) Quit on single CTRL-C. Users expect an application to quit on pressing CTRL-C. Reason to have this feature : Better user experienc

libtiff 4

2012-01-31 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, are there any plans to get libtiff4 (which was released as stable on Dec 22 2011) into f17? A notable feature is BigTIFF support, often needed when dealing with GIS stuff. Thanks -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: GNOME 3 Fallback Mode

2011-04-29 Thread Sandro Mani
Am I the only one having problems with entries in /etc/xdg/autostart not getting executed in the fallback session? This leads for example to the fact that policykit authentication does not work, since the authentication agent is not running. Thanks Sandro On 04/28/2011 05:55 PM, Bastien Nocera

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