Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-12-03 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:56:24 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 11/13/2012 10:23 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> Sometimes things aren't ideal for one group in favor of another. > > > > WHAT group is actually in favor of MiniDebugInfo? It has one single person > > as the feature

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-23 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/13/2012 10:23 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> Sometimes things aren't ideal for one group in favor of another. > > WHAT group is actually in favor of MiniDebugInfo? It has one single person > as the feature owner. ABRT developers consider it useless. Who actually > wants it

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill Nottingham wrote: > Not to let silly things like facts get in the way of a good rant, but the > images went over size because MATE & texlive are now getting pulled in via > deps when they weren't before, not because of incremental minidebuginfo > changes. MiniDebugInfo definitely DID increase

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-13 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:12:57 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > FESCo decided the benefit to always having mini-debuginfo > > available outweighed the downside of increased space. > > What benefit? ...snip... The problem here is that you are making the same arguments you made b

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Sometimes things aren't ideal for one group in favor of another. WHAT group is actually in favor of MiniDebugInfo? It has one single person as the feature owner. ABRT developers consider it useless. Who actually wants it? And are you sure those who think they want it realize

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > FESCo decided the benefit to always having mini-debuginfo > available outweighed the downside of increased space. What benefit? * MiniDebugInfo contains only basically the same information already present in the dynamic symbol table of shared objects! (GDB can already use the

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > On 11/12/2012 09:36 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> FESCo decided the benefit to always having mini-debuginfo >> available outweighed the downside of increased space. > > I see done to making abrt atleast somewhat usable The ABRT developers have said very clearly that th

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) said: > Andre Robatino wrote: > > *IMPORTANT*: Both TC8 install DVDs are oversized and will not fit on > > single-layer DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity for > > DVD size limits. > > See what damage "Mini"DebugInfo is doing? Nobody (other t

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-13 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:39:29 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > please no - O2 is a performance improvement while minidebuginfo is > the opposite, not only bloating the size, also bloadting the data > to laod from disk FYI minidebuginfo does not affect loading from disk (mostly) in any way. See 'readel

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/12/2012 09:36 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: FESCo decided the benefit to always having mini-debuginfo available outweighed the downside of increased space. I see done to making abrt atleast somewhat usable JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:12:21 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: > I *AM* a member of the KDE SIG and have de-facto maintained the KDE > spin kickstart ever since Sebastian Vahl (the official maintainer) > has stopped taking care of it. FESCo has clearly said that they don't > care about our size target an

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:09:42 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/12/2012 09:05 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > >> >Last time I checked the SIG's surrounding each of those spins they > >> >themselves where responsible for their own spins sizes so if they > >> >p

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > Fesco needs to provide the reasoning behind that decision to me it makes > no sense since the community surrounding their spins are the once that > actually decide what goes on them since they are the once doing their > own leg work... Their reasoning was simply that

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > They already aren't. Half the point of going to 1GB would be to include > them. There's no way LibreOffice is going to fit on the KDE spin with a 1 GiB target limit. We're already almost there no thanks to "Mini"DebugInfo. We'd need an even higher target size to fit Libr

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/12/2012 09:05 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: >Last time I checked the SIG's surrounding each of those spins they >themselves where responsible for their own spins sizes so if they pass >that they might just as well be doing so deliberately to deliver better >out of th

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > Last time I checked the SIG's surrounding each of those spins they > themselves where responsible for their own spins sizes so if they pass > that they might just as well be doing so deliberately to deliver better > out of the box experience for their target user base

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 11/12/2012 09:43 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: On 11/12/2012 08:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On 2012-11-11 22:02, Panu Matilainen wrote: Based on a quick grep, it doesn't seem to consider obsoletion at all, which explains what I see on the DVD and perhaps deserves looking at. I think the ba

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On 2012-11-11 23:43, Panu Matilainen wrote: On 11/12/2012 08:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On 2012-11-11 22:02, Panu Matilainen wrote: Based on a quick grep, it doesn't seem to consider obsoletion at all, which explains what I see on the DVD and perhaps deserves looking at. I think the bas

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 11/12/2012 08:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On 2012-11-11 22:02, Panu Matilainen wrote: Based on a quick grep, it doesn't seem to consider obsoletion at all, which explains what I see on the DVD and perhaps deserves looking at. I think the basic idea is that pungi isn't supposed to painful

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On 2012-11-11 22:02, Panu Matilainen wrote: Based on a quick grep, it doesn't seem to consider obsoletion at all, which explains what I see on the DVD and perhaps deserves looking at. I think the basic idea is that pungi isn't supposed to painfully re-implement yum. If packages are obsoleted,

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 11/11/2012 06:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On 2012-11-11 0:53, Panu Matilainen wrote: Reverting mini-debuginfo would require a mass-rebuild which is hardly going to happen at this point of F18 no matter what you think of the feature. For starters it would help if the DVD didn't contain pil

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On 2012-11-11 16:42, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Panu Matilainen wrote: Reverting mini-debuginfo would require a mass-rebuild which is hardly going to happen at this point of F18 no matter what you think of the feature. I've seen mass

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Panu Matilainen wrote: >> Reverting mini-debuginfo would require a mass-rebuild which is hardly >> going to happen at this point of F18 no matter what you think of the >> feature. > > I've seen mass rebuilds rushed through in less time than wh

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/11/2012 05:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: We need to get the live images back to CD size Last time I checked the SIG's surrounding each of those spins they themselves where responsible for their own spins sizes so if they pass that they might just as well be doing so deliberately to deliver

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.11.2012 18:31, schrieb Kevin Kofler: > Panu Matilainen wrote: >> Reverting mini-debuginfo would require a mass-rebuild which is hardly >> going to happen at this point of F18 no matter what you think of the >> feature. > > I really don't understand the cavalier approach to bloat around here

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > The other classic case is that when a dependency of a package in the > set of packages to be included in an image is satisfied by more than one > other package, pungi pulls *all* the satisfying packages into the > compose, not just one. This seems odd at first glance but no

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Panu Matilainen wrote: > Reverting mini-debuginfo would require a mass-rebuild which is hardly > going to happen at this point of F18 no matter what you think of the > feature. I've seen mass rebuilds rushed through in less time than what we have from now until the current F18 release target date

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On 2012-11-11 0:53, Panu Matilainen wrote: Reverting mini-debuginfo would require a mass-rebuild which is hardly going to happen at this point of F18 no matter what you think of the feature. For starters it would help if the DVD didn't contain piles of obsoleted, conflicting and in some cases (

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Andre Robatino
Panu Matilainen laiskiainen.org> writes: > Reverting mini-debuginfo would require a mass-rebuild which is hardly > going to happen at this point of F18 no matter what you think of the > feature. > > For starters it would help if the DVD didn't contain piles of obsoleted, > conflicting and in

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-11 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 11/10/2012 11:41 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Andre Robatino wrote: *IMPORTANT*: Both TC8 install DVDs are oversized and will not fit on single-layer DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity for DVD size limits. See what damage "Mini"DebugInfo is doing? Nobody (other than me) cared a

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-10 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:41:16PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Andre Robatino wrote: >> > *IMPORTANT*: Both TC8 install DVDs are oversized and will not fit on >> > single-layer DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity for >> > DV

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:41:16PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Andre Robatino wrote: >> > *IMPORTANT*: Both TC8 install DVDs are oversized and will not fit on >> > single-layer DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity for >> > DVD size limits. >> >> See what da

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-10 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:41:16PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Andre Robatino wrote: > > *IMPORTANT*: Both TC8 install DVDs are oversized and will not fit on > > single-layer DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity for > > DVD size limits. > > See what damage "Mini"DebugInfo is doing

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.11.2012 22:41, schrieb Kevin Kofler: > Andre Robatino wrote: >> *IMPORTANT*: Both TC8 install DVDs are oversized and will not fit on >> single-layer DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity for >> DVD size limits. > > See what damage "Mini"DebugInfo is doing? Nobody (other than

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-10 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I'm more concerned with getting sizes down to fix a cheap 4 GB USB drive than a 4.7 GB DVD. I don't think making install media over 4 GB is a viable option. I will test with the default desktop and the net installer before I'll erase one of my expensive 8 GB USB sticks! On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:4

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

2012-11-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Andre Robatino wrote: > *IMPORTANT*: Both TC8 install DVDs are oversized and will not fit on > single-layer DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity for > DVD size limits. See what damage "Mini"DebugInfo is doing? Nobody (other than me) cared about CD size for the live CDs, but surely