Re: PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

2009-08-25 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > 2009/8/25 Paul W. Frields : >> I might be wrong, but I could swear that PK acted like this in my >> Rawhide machine the other day when there was a particular deps problem >> at the mirror. > > PK already does skip-broken, but can't run if the

trouble building octave-forge: build system issues?

2009-08-25 Thread Alex Lancaster
I'm the maintainer of octave-forge and, I've been beating my head against the wall trying to build octave-forge against the new octave 3.2.2 in rawhide. It successfully completes the %build section, but at fails (different times) during the %install with errors like this: + make install TMPDIR=/v

fedora mini alpha testing

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Robinson
Arriving fashionably late, and mostly intact, to the "Constantine" Alpha party I'd like to announce that Moblin on Fedora has made it's initial debut for Fedora Mini :) Still a work in progress, Moblin is now in a mostly usable state on Fedora for testing. It has hence come well dressed for the al

Re: fedora-pkgdb: make it discoverable on browser home page?

2009-08-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 19:35 +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > [..] > >> Static? Doesn't scale (unless you would want to do it just for specific > >> apps) > > > > My initial idea was to make this a 'top 10 apps', ie be selective, > > instead of try

Re: PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

2009-08-25 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 21:43 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > PK already does skip-broken, but can't run if the transaction fails in > > the rpm transaction (file conflicts) rather than before the rpm > > transaction starts. I suspect yum update --skip-broken won't work > > either. > True. > Yes

Re: Potential PackageKit improvement???

2009-08-25 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:38 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > I wrote: > > > Fixing Bodhi to not make that flag "stick" in the way it currently does > > would probably be a good start, I'm going to file a bug in the Bodhi > > tracker for that. > > https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/352 > >

Re: Potential PackageKit improvement???

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: > Fixing Bodhi to not make that flag "stick" in the way it currently does > would probably be a good start, I'm going to file a bug in the Bodhi > tracker for that. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/352 Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redha

Re: Potential PackageKit improvement???

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Hughes wrote: > It depends. If the bodhi metadata says "restart-required" then > PackageKit honours this. That said, that flag is somehow "sticky" in Bodhi: if an update to a package XYZ had that flag set, any future update to that same package XYZ will get it set automatically. Particul

Re: PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:19:10 +0100, Richard wrote: > 2009/8/25 Paul W. Frields: > > I might be wrong, but I could swear that PK acted like this in my > > Rawhide machine the other day when there was a particular deps problem > > at the mirror. > > PK already does skip-broken, but can't run if the

Re: PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

2009-08-25 Thread Richard Hughes
2009/8/25 Paul W. Frields : > I might be wrong, but I could swear that PK acted like this in my > Rawhide machine the other day when there was a particular deps problem > at the mirror. PK already does skip-broken, but can't run if the transaction fails in the rpm transaction (file conflicts) rath

Re: PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

2009-08-25 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:28:21PM -0400, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > Would it be desirable to have a PK equivalent of yum --skip-broken? > Instead of being told that the current selection set canot be installed > because of dependency problems, a more useful message would be "some > selected p

2009-08-27 - Fedora test day - Dracut

2009-08-25 Thread James Laska
Fedora Test Day - Dracut Date: 2009-08-27 Time: All day Location: #fedora-test-day on irc.freenode.net Greetings folks, This week's Fedora Test Day will focus on exercising the Fedora 12 mkinitrd/nash replacement ... ... Dracut [1]. If you find yourself wondering, "what the heck is that?" The

Re: ktorrent adds kdm - Re: Orphaning packages

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:01:39 -0400, Ben wrote: > Oh dear, run for your lives. Last I used GDM, I didn't know > where to change the session type (I was looking). I haven't used > it in over a year since it's one of the first things to get > replaced on my systems. Looking at a screenshot with so

PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

2009-08-25 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Would it be desirable to have a PK equivalent of yum --skip-broken? Instead of being told that the current selection set canot be installed because of dependency problems, a more useful message would be "some selected packages have dependency problems -- here they are. they have been deselected, pr

Re: Potential PackageKit improvement???

2009-08-25 Thread Richard Hughes
2009/8/25 Nathanael D. Noblet : > Is this a legitimate request? Should I file a bug / feature request? It depends. If the bodhi metadata says "restart-required" then PackageKit honours this. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/l

Potential PackageKit improvement???

2009-08-25 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
Hi, before I file anything about this, just wanted to ask. Today I received a KDE update, I don't run the kde desktop. It wants to reboot my whole computer... Perhaps it could be smarter to know whether it needs a reboot, a logout / login, particularly if I'm running gnome vs KDE... Is this

KDE-SIG weekly report (35/2009)

2009-08-25 Thread Sebastian Vahl
This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply to this email or add it to the related meeting page. -- = Weekly KDE Summary

Re: gwenview - Re: Orphaning packages

2009-08-25 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Kevin Kofler wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: A quick way to actually check for such dependencies is to switch to another desktop environment, say Xfce, remove all the KDE packages and install one of the KDE apps. It usually reveals dependencies which are rather silly. I have seen kde-settings, back

Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha

2009-08-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Fedora 12 "Constantine" Alpha release is available! What's next for the free operating system that shows off the best new technology of tomorrow? You can see the future now at: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease What's an Alpha release? The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora

rawhide report: 20090825 changes

2009-08-25 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Tue Aug 25 06:15:08 UTC 2009 New package apbs Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver New package desktop-effects Switch GNOME window management and effects New package hunspell-ak Akan hunspell dictionaries New package moblin-panel-myzone Moblin Panel

Re: gwenview - Re: Orphaning packages

2009-08-25 Thread Michal Schmidt
Dne Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:01:39 -0400 Ben Boeckel napsal(a): > Oh dear, run for your lives. Last I used GDM, I didn't know > where to change the session type (I was looking). I haven't used > it in over a year since it's one of the first things to get > replaced on my systems. Looking at a screens

Re: gwenview - Re: Orphaning packages

2009-08-25 Thread Ben Boeckel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:07:48 +0200, Kevin wrote: > >> Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> > A quick way to actually check for such dependencies is to switch to >> > another desktop environment, say Xfce, remove all the KDE packages a

Re: issues with livecd-creator on F-11?

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Is anyone else having issues with livecd-creator? I'm seeing the issue >> below on a 2 F-11 boxes, and possible a rawhide one as well. > [snip] >> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or dire

Heads up: Extra diligence with bodhi updates required

2009-08-25 Thread Josh Boyer
Hi, Recently the mechansim bodhi uses to obsolete older updates was disabled due to it doing the wrong thing in certain cases. However, that means it won't obsolete the older updates for the cases it used to get right. This can lead to having multiple updates submitted for a single target at the

Re: issues with livecd-creator on F-11?

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Is anyone else having issues with livecd-creator? I'm seeing the issue >> below on a 2 F-11 boxes, and possible a rawhide one as well. > [snip] >> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or dire

Re: issues with livecd-creator on F-11?

2009-08-25 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > Is anyone else having issues with livecd-creator? I'm seeing the issue > below on a 2 F-11 boxes, and possible a rawhide one as well. [snip] > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > '/var/tmp/imgcreate-qZYEPV/install_root/boot/initr

Re: showing dependency trees

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:26:58 +0200, Björn wrote: > Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Björn Persson wrote: > > > I want to check whether a package drags in other packages > > > unnecessarily. > > > > define "unnecessarily"? > > When you're forced to install package A to be able to install

Re: gwenview - Re: Orphaning packages

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:07:48 +0200, Kevin wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > A quick way to actually check for such dependencies is to switch to > > another desktop environment, say Xfce, remove all the KDE packages and > > install one of the KDE apps. It usually reveals dependencies which > > are