Re: systemd 252 feature: SUPPORT_END in /etc/os-release

2022-11-01 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Matthew Miller writes: > See: > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-October/048519.html > >Systemd will set the taint flag 'support-ended' if it detects that >the OS image is past its end-of-support date. This date is declared >in a new /etc/os-release field

RE: Help packaging a "C" library written in Rust

2022-09-07 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Fabio Valentini writes: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 10:53 PM Stewart Smith via devel > wrote: >> >> For Amazon Linux, we take a different approach to Fedora (but similar to >> RHEL) for software written in Rust and Go, and instead bundle >> dependencies rather than hav

RE: Help packaging a "C" library written in Rust

2022-09-07 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
"Richard W.M. Jones" writes: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 10:05:55AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> >> https://gitlab.com/libblkio/libblkio >> >> This is a library that offers a C API. It happens to be implemented >> in Rust, but it's not a "Crate" or anything like that. >> >> I wrote a spec

Re: Retiring the pcre package from Fedora

2022-07-23 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Lukas Javorsky writes: > Hi, > > As from the pcre-8.45, the upstream stopped supporting this > library. The recommended procedure is to switch onto the new pcre2 > library that has full upstream support. [1] I was looking into doing this as much as possible for AL2022 and managed to dig a bit on

RE: F37 proposal: Deprecate openssl1.1 package (System-Wide Change)

2022-07-18 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Ben Beasley writes: > I support deprecating openssl1.1. We definitely shouldn’t be adding any > new packages that depend on it. > > However, dropping the -devel package is almost as drastic as simply > retiring the OpenSSL 1.1 package altogether. Grepping spec files for >

RE: proposal idea: EOL notifications

2022-07-07 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Adam Williamson writes: > On Thu, 2022-07-07 at 10:49 -0700, Stewart Smith via devel wrote: >> We actually have a skeleton design for such a thing (it says what >> updates and upgrades are available), but we've lagged on >> both posting to devel@ that it's something we've b

RE: proposal idea: EOL notifications

2022-07-07 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Josh Boyer writes: > I really don't think encoding lifecycle information in the > installation itself is the right approach, but it's perhaps the most > tenable one for Fedora. However, until Fedora definitively moves to > using independent lifecycles for their releases, this is a game of >

RE: proposal idea: EOL notifications

2022-07-07 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Kevin Kofler via devel writes: > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> In https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2803 Artem asked for a user-visible >> notification when a Fedora stops being supported. Various proposals >> for online checks were discussed in the bug, but I think we might make >> do with

Re: proposal idea: EOL notifications

2022-07-07 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > In https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2803 Artem asked for a user-visible > notification when a Fedora stops being supported. Various proposals > for online checks were discussed in the bug, but I think we might make > do with something much simpler. We've been

Re: Intent to retire containerd in EPEL 7 and co-maintainer request

2022-06-09 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Maxwell G via devel writes: > Hi everyone, > > I have been de-facto maintaining containerd in Fedora as a member of the go- > sig for a little while now, as the previous maintainer no longer has time to > do. In addition to the Fedora branches, this package also exists on EPEL 7. > That branch

RE: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-18 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Chris Adams writes: > Once upon a time, Jared Dominguez said: >> Looks like they are using vSphere, which supports UEFI VMs. The same is >> true for KVM, Xen and bhyve, so it's more about what feature set cloud >> providers using these hypervisors are choosing to turn on. > > In a way, this is

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-18 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Ben Cotton writes: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > == Summary == > Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not > removed, but new non-UEFI installation is not supported on those

RE: F37 Change: RetireARMv7 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-02-08 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Gary Buhrmaster writes: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 2:32 AM Josh Stone wrote: >> >> On 11/16/21 7:05 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: >> > Realistically, they will just stick to Fedora 36 forever and just stop >> > updating the devices (or try updating them anyway and get no updates from >> > the

Self Introduction: Stewart Smith

2022-01-20 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Hi there, I’m Stewart, a Principal Engineer at AWS working on Amazon Linux, and thanks to our new direction in basing Amazon Linux on Fedora, also Fedora. I have a (decently) long time Linux history, remembering Slackware 3.5 on floppies, RedHat (not RHEL) 5 from CD-ROM, MkLinux, and YellowDog

RE: Preventing supply chain attacks via rekor

2021-06-11 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Björn Persson writes: > I believe Yum has a feature to verify signed repository metadata. I > don't know why it's not used. If that verification would be turned on, > are there any attacks that would still be possible then, that Rekor > could prevent? There's still the classic downgrade attack: