Re: Build Failure regarding Boost

2009-12-01 Thread Braden McDaniel
let you specify a suffix, the most expedient thing to do may be just to hack it on. But an upstream-worthy patch would add a means to specify an arbitrary suffix. Also, -mt is a saner default than no suffix at all. -- Braden McDaniel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Braden McDaniel
installed by default. If you want it, you know how to get it. And let's be frank: emacs is not something that a user who is unaware of it might stumble into and suddenly find himself blindingly productive. (Nor, for that matter, is vi.) -- Braden McDaniel -- fedora-devel-list mailing

Re: Head-up - new firefox in rawhide

2009-11-19 Thread Braden McDaniel
tinue Require -unstable which will > make it a heck of a lot easier to figure out what to rebuild... +1 Putting the unstable API in a separate package also makes it a bit harder for developers using Fedora as their development platform to naively rely on the unstable API. -- Braden McDa

Re: "make tag" failure doesn't fail right?

2009-11-15 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 10:35 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: > 2009/11/15 Braden McDaniel : [snip] > > Did my previous "make tag" actually succeed? > > But not for your spec file. You could increase the Release version in > your spec file, commit the changes, and r

"make tag" failure doesn't fail right?

2009-11-15 Thread Braden McDaniel
vel:braden:1258273475 cvs tag: Pre-tag check failed cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first! Uh oh. Did my previous "make tag" actually succeed? -- Braden McDaniel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/l

Re: Changes to openvrml.spec

2009-09-12 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 19:05 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 09/12/2009 05:45 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > ... it *does* work like I think it works. xulrunner and openjdk are > > broken. > > So, here's the deal. > > The only Provides which aut

Changes to openvrml.spec

2009-09-12 Thread Braden McDaniel
ey make the specfile less correct and openvrml is susceptible to the problem documented in the aforementioned fedora-devel thread. It would be better if xulrunner and openjdk were fixed instead (bugs 517665 and 517666, respectively). -- Braden McDaniel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-d

Re: xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages

2009-09-10 Thread Braden McDaniel
p ^gtk > gtk2 = 2.16.5-1.fc11 > gtk2(x86-32) = 2.16.5-1.fc11 > > but not for virtual ones. gecko-libs and gecko-devel are *still* only > virtual packages defined manually within the xulrunner.spec So is there a reason why that must be the case? It's been suggested (by Chr

Re: Build requirements for threaded code?

2009-08-19 Thread Braden McDaniel
#x27;s hard to be sure what's > > authoritative. > > Just -lpthread does the trick for me. The -pthread option is needed on other > platform, not Linux. >From "man 7 pthreads": On Linux, programs that use the Pthreads API should be compiled using cc

Re: xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages

2009-08-17 Thread Braden McDaniel
seems that the provider of gecko-libs needs to make it arch-specific as well. I've filed bug 517665 against xulrunner and bug 517666 against java-1.6.0-openjdk. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: -- fedora-devel-list mai

Re: Purging the F12 orphans

2009-07-24 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 23:26 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 07/23/2009 06:43 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 13:35 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > >> On 07/21/2009 12:06 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2009-0

Re: F12 Alpha Blocker Bug Meeting: Friday 2009-07-24

2009-07-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
e *server* is > running F12 alpha and clients are running something older. This > definitely doesn't fit into the alpha criteria :) The bug also impacts clients that have been upgraded (with or without upgrading the server). At least that's the case with F11. -- Braden McDaniel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Purging the F12 orphans

2009-07-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 13:35 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 07/21/2009 12:06 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 20:11 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> Orphan: pcmanx-gtk2 > >> gnash-plugin req

Re: xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages

2009-07-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
On 7/23/09 2:50 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Braden McDaniel wrote: But why does yum assume that a dependency of an x86_64 package can be satisfied by an i586 one? Why not? If something requires FOO and

Re: xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages

2009-07-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 11:59 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > > > Is the problem that the gecko-libs dependency is not arch-specific? > > Not necessarily. Well, there are a few more candidate dependencies; but that see

Re: xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages

2009-07-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 11:41 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 23:26 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> rel-eng team is now working on this: > >> https://fedora

Re: xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages

2009-07-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 23:26 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: [snip] > rel-eng team is now working on this: > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/2008 Er... So why did a missing update result in pulling down i586 packages rather than a dependency check failure? -- Braden McDaniel --

xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages

2009-07-22 Thread Braden McDaniel
) Remove 0 Package(s) -- Braden McDaniel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: NPAPI plug-in dependencies

2009-07-21 Thread Braden McDaniel
On 7/21/09 1:35 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: On 07/21/2009 12:06 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 20:11 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: [snip] Orphan: pcmanx-gtk2 gnash-plugin requires /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins gnome-chemistry-utils-mozplugin requires /usr/l

Re: Purging the F12 orphans

2009-07-21 Thread Braden McDaniel
t. The package already "Requires: xulrunner"; which requires mozilla-filesystem, which is what owns %{_libdir}/mozilla/plugins. (Not that owning this directory is reasonably even if it didn't already have this dependency.) -- Braden McDaniel -- fedora-devel-list mailing l

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 01:17 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 07/06/2009 08:09 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:36 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> On 07/06/2009 03:57 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > >>> On 7/6/09 6:10 PM, Toshio Kur

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:01 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Braden McDaniel wrote: > > Breaking compatibility with previous versions of automake, autoconf, or > > libtool has no impact on released tarballs made using those tools; they > > continue to work as intended because they

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-06 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 02:02 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Braden McDaniel wrote: > > The number of people chiming in on this thread to the effect, "I've > > regenerated configure/Makefile.in for years and I've never had a > > problem," is testament t

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-06 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:36 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 07/06/2009 03:57 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > On 7/6/09 6:10 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> Introducing side-effects is something to watch out for but > >> patch

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-06 Thread Braden McDaniel
asures. Regenerating the build system is the antithesis of providing surgical patches to solve a problem. More often than not in package maintenance, "nuke 'em from orbit" is *not* the *only* way to be sure. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <http://endoframe.co

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-06 Thread Braden McDaniel
indefinitely suggests broken maintainership somewhere along the line--either upstream, of the Fedora package in question, or elsewhere in Fedora's infrastructure. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: -- fedora-devel-list mailing list f

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-06-30 Thread Braden McDaniel
* for released versions of Fedora. Special circumstances that might prompt such a move can always be discussed, of course. But this sort of thing incurs way too much risk. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: -- fedora-devel-list m

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

2009-06-15 Thread Braden McDaniel
that's true and I'm not asserting that it is. But surely this argument should be framed in terms of the benefit and cost to Fedora users (and potential Fedora users). -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: -- fedo

Re: Breaking deps deliberately

2009-05-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: Muayyad AlSadi wrote: I filed a bug report about it, and devels added an option to make it works with libraries only And how do you define "library"? There's no reliable way to distinguish them from applications. This is part of the problem. It woul