Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-09 Thread Matthew Miller
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698237 and it's been this way for a while: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/147699 which just says Rawhide's X is going to be like that for a while. We have ABI version checks in place, but they only operate off the number

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On 09/05/11 13:49, Matthew Miller wrote: To answer the subject, for testing it is usefull. For deploying satellites, not so much. I have two rawhide vms' running But I find with rawhide. Keep rpm copies local with yum*local. for rawhide I keep 12 copes of all installed rpms. yum downgrade xor

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 08:49:28AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698237 > > and it's been this way for a while: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/147699 > > which just says > > Rawhide's X is going to be like that for a w

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 11:18 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > I'm about to rebuild and update the drivers, but my upstream link is > currently using pigeons, so it will take me a while. I tried that, but I couldn't stuff the squawking things into the HDMI port... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Commun

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:18:54AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > This is my fault, sorry. I updated the server but missed out on rebuilding > the drivers. And with one thing leading to another, Easter came, I forgot > about it and the above bug didn't show up on my radar until ajax pinged me > thi

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/9/11 9:18 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > The resources have been put in, there are ABI checks in the RPMs but as ajax > said, they don't work until the ABI is bumped upstream. I'm thinking about making the xserver package export ABI majors of md5sums of, well, something, whenever the build is

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:18:54 +1000 Peter Hutterer wrote: > This is my fault, sorry. I updated the server but missed out on rebuilding > the drivers. And with one thing leading to another, Easter came, I forgot > about it and the above bug didn't show up on my radar until ajax pinged me > this mor

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/10/11 11:34 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Things breaking in Rawhide are not a surprise; indeed, if it doesn't > occasionally bite the hand that's feeding it, somebody probably isn't > trying hard enough. But if it can remain this fundamentally broken for > weeks because the relevant develope

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread darrell pfeifer
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:04, Adam Jackson wrote: > On 5/10/11 11:34 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > Things breaking in Rawhide are not a surprise; indeed, if it doesn't > > occasionally bite the hand that's feeding it, somebody probably isn't > > trying hard enough. But if it can remain this

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 10 May 2011 09:34:34 -0600 Jonathan Corbet wrote: ...snip... > Rawhide used to be something we could run to see where the > distribution is going and, perhaps, help a little bit with the > quality assurance. More recently, I've been told a few times that I > should *not* be running Rawh

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 10 May 2011 12:04:22 -0400 Adam Jackson wrote: > > Things breaking in Rawhide are not a surprise; indeed, if it doesn't > > occasionally bite the hand that's feeding it, somebody probably isn't > > trying hard enough. But if it can remain this fundamentally broken for > > weeks because t

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Could it be that Fedora lacks the resources to maintain both Rawhide and > the next-release branch?  In retrospect, was No Frozen Rawhide as good an > idea as it seemed? I need to redo my tongue-n-cheek seasons of rawhide in the new No Fr

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/10/11 12:23 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > I'm not talking about this week. The X11 problem was reported three weeks > ago, and the "don't run Rawhide" advice given to me came rather before > that. Rawhide has been an unusually painful place to be for some time > now, and a lot of people, I b

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:07:22PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > X being broken in rawhide was in who knows how many peoples' ways, and > even though it's provenpackager+ and even though all it would have taken > was a mass driver rebuild, nobody even tried. Where _are_ you people? > Why do I bot

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/10/11 1:41 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:07:22PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> X being broken in rawhide was in who knows how many peoples' ways, and >> even though it's provenpackager+ and even though all it would have taken >> was a mass driver rebuild, nobody even tri

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:22:37AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > The resources have been put in, there are ABI checks in the RPMs but as ajax > > said, they don't work until the ABI is bumped upstream. > I'm thinking about making the xserver package export ABI majors of > md5sums of, well, someth

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 10 May 2011 13:07:22 -0400 Adam Jackson wrote: > All we had here was a case where one tool didn't catch a breakage because > the other bit of the tools weren't complete enough yet. I don't think > that's sufficient cause to question rawhide's existence. The breakage is fine, one expects

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 02:54:44PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > The breakage is fine, one expects that. A fundamental breakage that the > relevant developers don't even notice for weeks is another question; as I > said, that suggests that people running Rawhide are few and far between. I'm con

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/10/11 4:54 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011 13:07:22 -0400 > Adam Jackson wrote: >> If you need a usable system I recommend that you stay away from the >> rawhide train until it hits alpha which is sometime late August if >> memory serves me correct. > > (http://permalink.gman

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Jones
On 05/10/2011 11:34 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Rawhide used to be something we could run to see where the distribution is > going and, perhaps, help a little bit with the quality assurance. More > recently, I've been told a few times that I should *not* be running > Rawhide and that the F15 bra

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/10/2011 09:08 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On 5/10/11 4:54 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> On Tue, 10 May 2011 13:07:22 -0400 >> Adam Jackson wrote: >>> If you need a usable system I recommend that you stay away from the >>> rawhide train until it hits alpha which is sometime late August if >>>

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-10 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Jones writes: > It's fair to say that rawhide doesn't serve the same purpose any more - since > we're branching so much earlier, the thing that used to be rawhide is > essentially the branch. But the newer form of rawhide does have a feature - > it allows those of us working on multiple fea

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-11 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 10 May 2011 17:00:30 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 02:54:44PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > The breakage is fine, one expects that. A fundamental breakage > > that the relevant developers don't even notice for weeks is another > > question; as I said, that sug

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:23:08 -0600, JC wrote: > > In the week before F15 change freeze, are you really surprised that > > nobody's running the F16 dumping ground? > > I'm not talking about this week. The X11 problem was reported three weeks > ago, and the "don't run Rawhide" advice given to me

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:30:34 -0400, TL wrote: > Leaving rawhide busted is a discourtesy to your fellow developers. > Don't do it. If you've got code that doesn't work yet, play with it > in your own repo, but don't push it out where the rest of us have to > deal with it. That conclusion is based

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-11 Thread Frank Murphy
On 11/05/11 15:17, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Do you have any numbers? I don't believe that "a lot of people" run > Rawhide after it has been branched for the next release of Fedora. I just run Rawhide as virtual installs these days, 2 for pure rawhide. 2 for branched. Not enough boxes to spare t

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 10 mai 2011 18:04, Adam Jackson a écrit : > > On 5/10/11 11:34 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >> Things breaking in Rawhide are not a surprise; indeed, if it doesn't >> occasionally bite the hand that's feeding it, somebody probably isn't >> trying hard enough. But if it can remain this fun

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-11 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:23:00PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > That conclusion is based on the assumption that somebody pushes completely > broken stuff into Rawhide _knowingly_. Or that they push unproven code into rawhide carelessly. --CJD -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Casey Dahlin writes: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:23:00PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> That conclusion is based on the assumption that somebody pushes completely >> broken stuff into Rawhide _knowingly_. > Or that they push unproven code into rawhide carelessly. Or that they push code and t

Re: Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

2011-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 14:54:44 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011 13:07:22 -0400 > > Even then it occurred to me that, if people are being told to stay away for > six months at a time, all is not as well as it should be. Even just > waiting from the time of that message unti