Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: To answer the question someone posed earlier in the thread, when I was doing a lot of testing of various F13 RC2 installs yesterday, none of them - not the default desktop install from DVD, the desktop spin, the KDE spin or the Xfce spin - had more than 12 updates

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 23:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: The reason is that it is *game* and it is not part of the default set. Anyone who chooses to install it will get an updated game. I think the focus here is misguided. We should be paying attention to updates of the default package set

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 17:19 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Why does the large size of some game files matter? _Number_ of updates matters (ie. 140 is a bit large) but on the other hand F13 has been in limbo for such a long time I'm not surprised. It really hasn't. We accepted submissions

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Ralf Corsepius (rc040...@freenet.de) said: And right now the values used are scaled to the hardware we have at hand. So adjusting it wouldn't help Fedora one bit. Makes me wonder about your HW. Fact is, extending the limits to 200MB (the hard-coded limit is 100MB) I having no

Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread James Antill
Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm 12M hanazono-fonts-20100222-2.fc13.noarch.rpm 48M

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 02:14:58AM -0400, James Antill wrote: Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: 6.2M

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 02:14:58 -0400, James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org wrote: 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm 12M hanazono-fonts-20100222-2.fc13.noarch.rpm 48M xmoto-0.5.3-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm 260M wesnoth-data-1.8.1-1.fc13.noarch.rpm 318M openarena-0.8.5-1.fc13.noarch.rpm I

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread H . Guémar
And so what ? In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 * 0.8.1: 10/31/2008 You can't blame OpenArena's maintainer for that, do you ? The same goes for Wesnoth, 1.8.1 maintenance release was issued 2 May so less than two weeks ago (1.8 was released 1st april !) Best

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/11/2010 11:44 AM, James Antill wrote: Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm 12M

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:14 AM, James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org wrote:  Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: 6.2M

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: What was that for? To start another flamewar including the challenge for a explicit person? Quite, a possibly valid point losing out to a flamebait codicil. -Cam -- devel mailing list

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread H . Guémar
It is not part of a default package set. Even if it were, blocking bugfixes in order to reduce updates size is nothing but stupid. We have presto/deltarpm for that (since these packages mostly contain unchanged binary data like images, it should work pretty well). What's the point in having new

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/11/2010 02:00 PM, H. Guémar wrote: It is not part of a default package set. Even if it were, blocking bugfixes in order to reduce updates size is nothing but stupid. We have presto/deltarpm for that (since these packages mostly contain unchanged binary data like images, it should

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Hughes
On 11 May 2010 07:14, James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org wrote:  Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: I wonder what the number is for

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Richard Hughes [11/05/2010 11:05] : I wonder what the number is for packages on the desktop spin? I guess that's a bit more reasonable. I'm left wondering what problem we're trying to solve here. I'm gussing it's one of : * there are too many updates (for whom? how is this a problem?) * the

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Dienstag, den 11.05.2010, 02:14 -0400 schrieb James Antill: Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, This number is kind of irrelevant as nobody will

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Michal Hlavinka
Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: yeah, over 750 MB where 584 MB belongs to wesnoth and openarena. So without these two games it's

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Bruno Wolff III wrote: I don't think either wesnoth or openarena are on the desktop spin. They are probably only on the games spin. So the impact of those, really should not be that big. (Compared to say the effect an openoffice.org would have.) ... and wesnoth multiplayer doesn't work on

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jon Ciesla
On 05/11/2010 01:14 AM, James Antill wrote: Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm 12M

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:18:23 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman emmanuel.sey...@club-internet.fr wrote: * Richard Hughes [11/05/2010 11:05] : I wonder what the number is for packages on the desktop spin? I guess that's a bit more reasonable. I'm left wondering what problem we're trying to

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Janssen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: On 05/11/2010 01:14 AM, James Antill wrote:   Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64,

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 05/11/2010 01:12 AM, H. Guémar wrote: And so what ? In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 Feb 2nd, 2010 - that's a long time ago. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
On 05/11/2010 06:05 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: On 05/11/2010 01:12 AM, H. Guémar wrote: And so what ? In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 Feb 2nd, 2010 - that's a long time ago. You said that, because you haven't seen really the oldest packages in

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 10:30 +0200, H. Guémar wrote: It is not part of a default package set. Even if it were, blocking bugfixes in order to reduce updates size is nothing but stupid. It wasn't bugfixes, it was a new upstream release, and yes size does matter. All mirrors, public and

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:29 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: On 05/11/2010 01:14 AM, James Antill wrote: Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:14 PM, James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org wrote: 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm  12M hanazono-fonts-20100222-2.fc13.noarch.rpm  48M xmoto-0.5.3-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm 260M wesnoth-data-1.8.1-1.fc13.noarch.rpm 318M openarena-0.8.5-1.fc13.noarch.rpm ...the last

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for wesnoth-data due to it's size. Then fix this deficiency of your process and provide them. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 11 May 2010 17:19:41 +0100 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 02:14:58AM -0400, James Antill wrote: Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a

Deltarpm volunteers welcome (was Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster)

2010-05-11 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:23 -0400, James Antill wrote: Within Fedora deltarpms have a limit of applying only to rpms less than 100MB, so there are no deltarpms. Anyone who wants to blame rel-eng for that is free to fix the delarpm code... On that subject, anyone who wants to fix this would be

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: It's unfortunate that these two big packages didn't make it into the base repo, but such is life. ;( As this is the first time we've done the early branching... I certainly expect mistakes right around the time of the branch

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
Xose Vazquez Perez (xose.vazq...@gmail.com) said: On 05/11/2010 06:05 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: On 05/11/2010 01:12 AM, H. Guémar wrote: And so what ? In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 Feb 2nd, 2010 - that's a long time ago. You said

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for wesnoth-data due to it's size. Then fix this deficiency of your process and provide them. Patches welcome. -- Jesse

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:27:30 -0500, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: I don't think either wesnoth or openarena are on the desktop spin. They are probably only on the games spin. So the impact of those, really should not be that big. (Compared to say

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for wesnoth-data due to it's size. Then fix this deficiency of your process and

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for wesnoth-data due

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 07:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: As I said

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/11/2010 09:35 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: On 05/11/2010 01:12 AM, H. Guémar wrote: And so what ? In OpenArena's case, last stable releases were: * 0.8.5: 02/23/2010 Feb 2nd, 2010 - that's a long time ago. Yep. The primary maintainer at that time recently orphaned

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:29 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: , and we now have deltarpms (and a huge thank to to all responsible there), so I really don't think it's that big of an issue. As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/11/2010 10:31 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: I think the point is that if the release was done in February, there's really no reason it should be a F-13 *update* at GA. The reason is that it is *game* and it is not part of the default set. Anyone who chooses to install it will get an

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 07:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 06:27 PM, James Antill wrote: As I said in another reply, there are currently no deltarpms for wesnoth-data due

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:23:35PM -0400, James Antill wrote: It again goes to the point of why bother making releases at all, if they mean so little. And, trying to be less grumpy, maybe moving some packages to rawhide only style of repos. would make everyone happy (we could even call it

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/11/2010 07:33 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 07:12 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2010 07:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Ralf