Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Andrew Haley
On 01/06/2010 06:50 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 01:27:07PM -0500, Fulko Hew wrote: I'd say... only take focus if its a child/creation of the window currently in focus. You don't want ssh passphrase windows to take focus? Hell, no! :-) Andrew. --

Can't rebuild emacs RPM in F12

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Haley
I have installed emacs-23.1-10.fc12.src.rpm Then, when I run $ rpmbuild -ba emacs.spec I get ... + /usr/bin/make bootstrap (cd src; /usr/bin/make bootstrap-clean) make[1]: Entering directory `/home/aph/rpmbuild/BUILD/emacs-23.1/src' Makefile:103: *** commands commence before first

Re: Can't rebuild emacs RPM in F12

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/23/2009 12:21 AM, Karel Klic wrote: Andrew, this problem is already fixed in the latest version; please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540921 OK, ta. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Mike A. Harris wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 King InuYasha wrote: Except, that could be false advertising. In most cases, where CPU computation is not used heavily, 64-bit is actually SLOWER than the 32-bit counterpart. Optimizations are narrowing the gap, but it

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Andrew Haley
Kevin Kofler wrote: The absence of a GUI policy editor combined with lack of documentation for the config files makes bad defaults a big issue. This is a key issue. Do I take it that I have to edit the XML files directly to require authentication for package installs? So far I have: $

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Andrew Haley
Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, nodata wrote: -sv I do if it's in the default DVD install, or was pulled in in an upgrade. I've never intentionally installed it, and yes I do. Never imagined it would be a problem. I'll remove it. Maybe you and I have a different concept of

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS (in Rawhide) is about to happen

2009-10-27 Thread Andrew Haley
Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:06:45PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: On 10/26/2009 01:34 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: Steve Dickson ste...@redhat.com writes: On 10/26/2009 12:06 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: Unfortunately, this sounds like only. Is it out of the question to

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

2009-09-30 Thread Andrew Haley
Steve Dickson wrote: On 09/29/2009 10:10 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Steve Dickson ste...@redhat.com wrote: My main concern is with installer, installing from NFS shares from older servers, say RHEL5. How will anaconda handle mounting? Will there be odd errors

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

2009-09-30 Thread Andrew Haley
Steve Dickson wrote: On 09/30/2009 04:53 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: Steve Dickson wrote: On 09/29/2009 10:10 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Steve Dickson ste...@redhat.com wrote: My main concern is with installer, installing from NFS shares from older servers, say

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

2009-09-30 Thread Andrew Haley
Steve Dickson wrote: On 09/30/2009 06:18 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: Steve Dickson wrote: On 09/30/2009 04:53 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: Steve Dickson wrote: On 09/29/2009 10:10 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Steve Dickson ste...@redhat.com wrote: My main concern

Re: F12 to require i686, but which CPUs do not qualify?

2009-08-15 Thread Andrew Haley
Deji Akingunola wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Joachimjoachim.frie...@googlemail.com wrote: I think there's a valid case for making an exception to this: when a package is an accelerated version of a particular library. That is, when the basic functionality of a library is

Re: F12 to require i686, but which CPUs do not qualify?

2009-08-14 Thread Andrew Haley
Kevin Kofler wrote: Joachim wrote: I do not understand then, that there exist i686 packages which have higher requirements. Those packages need to be fixed. I know there are some audio production packages which are building with SSE enabled (and required, those packages don't do runtime

Re: F12 to require i686, but which CPUs do not qualify?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Haley
Joachim wrote: Quoting Bill Nottingham: Given the loud feedback, I've updated the proposal at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support The revised proposal: - Build all packages for i686 (this requires cmov) - Optimize for Atom I do not understand then, that there

Re: Raising the bar

2009-07-02 Thread Andrew Haley
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:45:19AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: In Ubuntu there's a Help button on the top menu bar that leads to a nice help application, yelp. We have that app too, but it doesn't seem to have the same contents, which are: New to Ubuntu? Adding

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew Haley
Matthias Clasen wrote: we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop. We want to identify the small (and sometimes large) roadblocks that make everyday

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-16 Thread Andrew Haley
Tom Lane wrote: Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: drago01 (drag...@gmail.com) said: Moving to i686 is fine, non i686 chips are mostly dead (but the perfomance gain from moving to i686 from i586 is questionable at best). ... how so? It's consistently 1-2% in reasonable benchmarks

Re: java-1.4.2-gcj-compat package problem

2006-03-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Dimi Paun writes: This package is giving me grief as well: [r...@dimi ~]# rpm -e java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_31rh.FC4.1.i386 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84077: line 8: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers: No such file or directory error:

Re: java-1.4.2-gcj-compat package problem

2006-03-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Dimi Paun writes: From: Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com [r...@dimi ~]# rpm -q jpackage-utils jpackage-utils-1.6.6-1jpp You have a bad version of jpackage-utils; remove it and get one from `yum install'. You need version 1jpp_2rh. Heh, 1jpp_2rh 1jpp, yum should update

Re: java-1.4.2-gcj-compat package problem

2006-03-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Dimi Paun writes: From: Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com Heh, 1jpp_2rh 1jpp, yum should update it, no? No. Why? Something is broken: my system got into this state without me doing anything wrong. Yes. Remove it with `rpm -e'. Install it with `yum install'. Still

Re: java-1.4.2-gcj-compat package problem

2006-03-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Dimi Paun writes: From: Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com I think you've got yum pointing at jpackage.org, not fedora. Yes. Get rid of whatever yum config you have pointing at jpackage.org, and you'll see this: Do we really need this sort of incompatibilities

Re: java-1.4.2-gcj-compat package problem

2006-03-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Dimi Paun writes: From: Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com My guess is your yum is pointed at FC4. Sorry I didn't mention it, it is indeed. It's just broken for FC4 :) People still use it, no? Well, this is fedora-devel-list. OK, so you've got a configuration problem, with a bleeding-edge