Re: yum-presto and comps

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 04:44 -0500, Jens Petersen wrote: In F12 we shipped yum-presto in @gnome-desktop - a kind of a compromise I guess. Presto/deltarpm is very useful for machines with low net connectivity to mirrors but enough resources to rebuild rpms. But yum-presto is not a desktop

Re: yum-presto occasionally goes into eternal loop looking for deltas

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 20:44 +0200, Pekka Pietikainen wrote: Presto is one of the best things ever, but occasionally it ends up not finding the delta files from any of the mirrors in the mirror list and just loops through them without making any progress. --disablepresto works a-ok, I think

Re: yum-presto behaviour on arm

2009-12-16 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 14:06 +, Andy Green wrote: Hi - Is yum-presto known to work on arm? Today I changed our repo to use deltarpms and tested it out. I noticed... 1) On a package where I know the bulk of the unpacked data is some fonts inside an ELF executable that didn't change,

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-21 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 20:02 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at said: 1. Needs GRUB hackery to support transparently. (For the DVD, Anaconda can detect the architecture and install a kernel accordingly, but for a live CD, we don't have any

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-21 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 00:52 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 11/21/2009 03:52 AM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: FWIW, there is a syslinux module named ifcpu64 that will load different kernels/initrds based on whether the cpu is 64-bit. Cool, do syslinux modules work in isolinux? We could have

Re: Security policy oversight needed?

2009-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 11:45 +, Richard Hughes wrote: Surely if you're deploying a workstation (1000s of workstations?) you would just ship an extra package that set the PolicyKit policies according to the domain policy, so if I was a school, I would allow the active users to unplug

Package updates not replaced by newer package in -testing

2009-10-08 Thread Jonathan Dieter
A few days ago, I built deltarpm-3.4-18.fc11 which resplit off a subpackage that had accidentally been merged into the main package in deltarpm-3.4-17.fc11. I pushed -18 into -testing, and assumed (since it was newer than -17) that -17 wouldn't get pushed to stable automatically. Now I've just

Re: Package updates not replaced by newer package in -testing

2009-10-08 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 07:44 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: This is partially my fault -- my network connection hasn't been good for the last day so instead of clearing with you which Fedora releases had the new package, I just looked quickly at bodhi and didn't see any obsoletes so I requested

bodhi question

2009-10-05 Thread Jonathan Dieter
I've just built deltarpm-3.4-18.fc11 and pushed it to testing, because during the security fix in 3.4-17 (which is still in testing), we accidentally undid the split of drpmsync into a separate subpackage. I noticed that bodhi has an id (FEDORA-2009-10237) for 3.4-17. Is there some way to push

Re: bodhi question

2009-10-05 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 08:07 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: I noticed that bodhi has an id (FEDORA-2009-10237) for 3.4-17. Is there some way to push that to 3.4-18? 3.4-18 will get it's own update id when it is pushed. Ok, thanks. Jonathan signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 04:46 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: But we also need to reasonable, and unless someone volunteers to do the actual work *without* breaking the tool in the process, I think a policy like this need to be evaluated case by case and not just blindly and rigidly enforced. And, in

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:49 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Michal Schmidt mschm...@redhat.com wrote: Dne Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:04:23 +0300 Jonathan Dieter napsal(a): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524720 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524982

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 00:46 -0400, James Antill wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 17:22 +0200, Till Maas wrote: This is all under the assumption, that delta rpm creation from a xz compressed rpm to a gzip compressed rpm works. Yeh, I don't know the answer to that. I'd _guess_ that it would

Re: Deltarpm xz problem with PPC generated rpms?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 19:43 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: Deltarpm seems to be unable to generate correct rpms for deltarpms generated from noarch rpms.  The uncompressed payload is correct, but the compressed xz payload

Re: Deltarpm xz problem with PPC generated rpms?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:25 -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Airlie wrote: snip [airl...@pegasus ~]$ md5sum lm93_busted.o d7174fc439c4678927725d06de4f18a2 lm93_busted.o [airl...@pegasus ~]$ xz -z -c lm93_busted.o | md5sum

Re: Deltarpm xz problem with PPC generated rpms?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 12:30 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Andreas Schwab (sch...@redhat.com) said: 2. xz generates different compressed files when run on different architectures The problem is that the encoder uses different hash functions depending on the endianess. The hash

Re: Deltarpm xz problem with PPC generated rpms?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 12:30 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Andreas Schwab (sch...@redhat.com) said: 2. xz generates different compressed files when run on different architectures The problem is that the encoder uses different hash functions depending on the endianess. The hash

Re: Deltarpm xz problem with PPC generated rpms?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 20:25 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: Ok, I've just had a conversation on IRC with Lasse Collin, the maintainer of xz. He's now planning on changing xz so it will produce the same output independent of endianess. He hasn't committed to any timeframe, though. snip Sorry

Re: Deltarpm xz problem with PPC generated rpms?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 13:39 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Jonathan Dieter (jdie...@gmail.com) said: He did bring up some other very good points, though. Xz's compression output hasn't been set in sand, much less stone. The file format will stay the same, but the same command-line options

Re: Deltarpm xz problem with PPC generated rpms?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 14:34 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Jonathan Dieter (jdie...@gmail.com) said: ... in what way does he mean this? Obviously passing -1 ... -9 causes different output, much like it does in gzip/bzip2/etc. He means that the file generated using -5 in the future may

Re: Deltarpm xz problem with PPC generated rpms?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 15:43 -0400, James Antill wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 20:29 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 20:25 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: Ok, I've just had a conversation on IRC with Lasse Collin, the maintainer of xz. He's now planning on changing xz so

Re: Deltarpm xz problem with PPC generated rpms?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 22:25 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jonathan Dieter wrote: So, to summarize, architecture-specific deltarpms are working perfectly in rawhide right now, and, if you're running a PPC machine, all deltarpms are working perfectly. I don't know at what stage the deltarpms

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-07-31

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 14:17 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On 07/31/2009 01:48 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: We don't complain about no public source repo. See deltarpm. It's repo consists of the tarball we use already. It doesn't even have an easily findable project website. We're supposed

Re: Purging the F12 orphans

2009-07-15 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:58 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Unblocked orphan tremulous-data Shouldn't this be owned by whoever owns tremulous? It's the data files for the game. Jonathan signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: F11 deltarpms being built against rawhide base release

2009-06-20 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 08:04 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:49:14PM +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 14:08 +1000, Bradley Baetz wrote: Hi, Running F11 (x86_64), I've noticed that not all updates have deltarpms built for them. It looks like

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

2009-06-16 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:42 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) said: Removing support for still-functional hardware is a trademark of Microsoft, not Linux. I'd also argue that doing another full rebuild of the OS for a 1% performance gain on a single

Re: F11: install freezes on Thinkpad

2009-06-07 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 17:49 +0200, Jos Vos wrote: The laptop has 3 GB of memory, which should be ok, I hope. I see in /root/install.log on the installed / partition that the last line says *** FINISHED INSTALLING PACKAGES ***. I think I should redo the install and keep an eye on it...