Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/05/2010 05:48 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: On the other hand, with the guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work to comply with it ... Isn't that a chicken/egg proble

Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/30/2009 07:29 AM, Jon Masters wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 14:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/29/2009 11:52 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: OLPC has previously had a specific version of tomcrypt/tommath profesionally audited for security reasons. So we obviously want to stick with that

Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/29/2009 11:52 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, OLPC's security system uses libtomcrypt / tomsfastmath, both at the Linux level and the firmware level. OLPC has previously had a specific version of tomcrypt/tommath profesionally audited for security reasons. So we obviously want to stick with t

Re: packages requiring me to reboot...

2009-12-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/16/2009 06:34 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, nodata wrote: Am 2009-12-16 18:21, schrieb Seth Vidal: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, nodata wrote: we're talking about the experienced user who is comfortable knowing what does and does not need a reboot. All I'm saying is - we've n

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/14/2009 10:27 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Dim 13 décembre 2009 22:35, Chris Adams a écrit : As for the RAM overhead of 64 bit code vs. 32 bit code, I don't see it much in the real world. The worst case I've seen reported is when the RAM overhead managed to annihilate register improv

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2009 05:51 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/09/2009 04:14 PM, James Antill wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:26 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: So, yeh, if _you_ want to support slower machines Well, I do not want to, I can't avo

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2009 04:14 PM, James Antill wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:26 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: So, yeh, if _you_ want to support slower machines Well, I do not want to, I can't avoid to ... ... _you_ will have to do the work, you might get help from the community but just ra

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2009 02:05 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:51:59 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Seems to me, as if some people in Fedora's leadership don't want to understand that being able to deploy Linux on "old" or "recycled" hardware used

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2009 08:02 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: That's one side, the other side is: * Larger demands on RAM (x86_64 is more demanding on memory requirements). Even if it were a full doubling (which is the absolute worst case pos

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2009 09:26 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote: On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: * More packages (rpms) to cope with. Only if you pollute your system with 32-bit multilibs. A pure x86_64 system doesn't have any more packages than a 32-bit one. F

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2009 06:41 PM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Rallias UberNerd wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:16 -0600, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: "Are you installing Fedora on the computer you're using now?" [YES] [NO] YES -> is any sort of check even possibl

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/05/2009 06:22 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On Fri, December 4, 2009 9:20 pm, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/03/2009 07:22 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 06:24 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Yes, for people who are doing "full featured networked installs" w/ custom

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/03/2009 07:22 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 06:24 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: People doing network installs can either add the updates repo to their kickstart, or check the box in the anaconda UI, so that the updates repos are considered at install time. No download of

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/03/2009 06:32 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/02/2009 07:09 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: the merger of repos is already happening at the yum layer. On the client's side - With a combined Everything+updates, this would happen on the server side.

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 07:09 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: the merger of repos is already happening at the yum layer. On the client's side - With a combined Everything+updates, this would happen on the server side. It's one of the aspects which made me said "a combined Everything+updates shifts costs from

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 06:40 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 18:09 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: * It shifts "costs" from "users" to "vendor" and from "mirrors" to "master". * It helps users who are using networked installs to spare ba

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 06:01 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:06:22AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: However, other than 'browsing manually for packages', I'm not really sure what problem you are trying to solve by getting rid of the updates repository. It would seem like this has quite a

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 05:32 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:27:17 +0100 Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/02/2009 05:09 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Booth (mbo...@redhat.com) said: The separate updates directory has been a pain for as long as I've been using RHL/Fedora Core/Fedor

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 05:09 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Booth (mbo...@redhat.com) said: The separate updates directory has been a pain for as long as I've been using RHL/Fedora Core/Fedora. It means you have two places to look when searching for packages manually, and twice as much to configure w

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/02/2009 03:39 PM, Matthew Booth wrote: The separate updates directory has been a pain for as long as I've been using RHL/Fedora Core/Fedora. It means you have two places to look when searching for packages manually, and twice as much to configure when you're configuring yum. It has never be

Re: [RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

2009-11-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/25/2009 01:13 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: On 11/25/2009 08:38 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: Instead of this I would pretty much like to have the normal install DVD being full (>4GB, instead of 3.0-3.3GB as now), so when installing a computer I have more content on local media and less stuff to

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-23 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/23/2009 09:00 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 13:48 -0600, Chris Adams a écrit : Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot said: Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 09:51 -0700, Jerry James a écrit : 1) I'm going to nag you forever about a problem you can't fix. This is false

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/20/2009 11:58 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: IMO, they are targetting MID devices, competing with Android, Smart phones and similar. Not at the moment they're not/ Then please explain what they are targetting. So far, all of Moblin I have seen was them trying to turn a multi-user environme

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/20/2009 09:02 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: On 11/19/2009 08:14 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit machines in general. The moblin desktop is addressing a completely different

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/20/2009 07:23 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/20/2009 11:50 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 11/20/2009 06:54 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/20/2009 11:20 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: "Users of the Fedora Moblin Spin would have a much better user experience on their NetBook, NetTop and

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/20/2009 06:54 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/20/2009 11:20 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: "Users of the Fedora Moblin Spin would have a much better user experience on their NetBook, NetTop and other small devices" That's what the marketing department wants it to be. Me

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/20/2009 06:31 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/20/2009 08:22 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 11/19/2009 07:14 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit machines in general. The

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/19/2009 07:14 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit machines in general. The moblin desktop is addressing a completely different audience. Oh? That's not what I got

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-11-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/19/2009 05:56 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/19/2009 03:06 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: Regardless of your take on that, it is now a very very popular segment and many users are going to run Fedora on those systems

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/18/2009 06:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/18/2009 10:38 PM, nodata wrote: "PackageKit allows you to install signed content from signed repositories without a password by default. It only asks you to authenticate if anything is unsigned or the signatures are wrong" If you have a pro

Re: Broken deps for rawhide the past few days

2009-11-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/16/2009 08:22 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: Many of you received emails over the weekend and this morning regarding broken deps in rawhide. If these emails mentioned that the deps were broken on ppc or ppc64 they can be ignored. We are no longer producing ppc/ppc64 as a primary arch, however w

Re: A silly question about our "FC" tag

2009-11-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/17/2009 09:08 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Henrique Junior wrote on 16.11.2009 23:57: I have a question that may sound a little stupid, but that came as I write a short article about some Fedora's curiosities. Why are our packages still using the tag "f*c*X", "f*c*Y", "f*c*W" since Fedora

Re: Broken dependencies script at it again

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/14/2009 10:12 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Henrique Junior wrote: +1 Are people +1'ing getting rid of the broken dependencies script altogether? or +1'ing to predicting the future and stopping it before it breaks? No, it's raising hands to a) draw attention of those

Re: Broken dependencies script at it again

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/14/2009 05:12 PM, Paul Howarth wrote: Please make it stop. +1 ... ... so far, I've received ca. 1200 of these mails and the figure is still growing by the minute. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel

Re: Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/14/2009 06:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:29:13PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/14/2009 03:04 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! Imagine an application, which relies on a specific kernel module. This module is not a part of stock Fedora kernel (at

Re: Updates-testing

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/14/2009 05:47 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: yum downgrade pkgname it works fine for the simple-ish cases. Is there a thunderbird-2.0 package for F11? For me, all thunderbird-3.*'s in FC11 were simply too bugged to be usable (The UI changes are not an issue for me - for me, TB3 is simply too b

Re: Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/14/2009 03:04 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! Imagine an application, which relies on a specific kernel module. This module is not a part of stock Fedora kernel (at least, yet), and we don't allow stand-alone kernel modules. Whether or not this package can be allowed? IMO: no. Pac

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/11/2009 11:29 AM, Tim Lauridsen wrote: On 10/11/2009 11:16 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: On 10/11/2009 04:54 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: It was ok to ship a "beta" release of thunderbird but updates shouldn't cause such issues. If the fixes were necessary to push as updates then it would have prud

Re: Howto handle multilib conflict?

2009-10-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/10/2009 01:48 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Freitag, den 09.10.2009, 18:56 -0400 schrieb Neal Becker: What if the generated docbook documents are different due to different "id"s? Do we need to separate the docs into a noarch subpac

Re: yum update vs. blender

2009-09-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/30/2009 03:09 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Hi, today's yum update came along with this: # yum update ... Updating : blender-2.49b 1.fc11.x86_64 16/57 Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' What is this? Seems to me, as is

yum update vs. blender

2009-09-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Hi, today's yum update came along with this: # yum update ... Updating : blender-2.49b 1.fc11.x86_64 16/57 Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown me

Re: Updates lacking descriptions

2009-08-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/14/2009 07:32 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 05:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: I strongly think Fedora would be better without Rahul and Kevin, two persons I have learned to be doing a good job on certain subjects, but to be a miscast on certain jobs and failure of the

Re: Updates lacking descriptions

2009-08-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2009 06:55 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:32:24PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/13/2009 09:29 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:53:57 +0200, Kevin wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: With you folks demanding more explicit changelogs you are

Re: Updates lacking descriptions

2009-08-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2009 10:41 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: Correct, such a step will add a significant bureaucratic burdons to maintainers. As maintainers hate bureaucrazy and prefer investing time on dealing with technical issues (such as bug fixes), this will likely introduce a

Re: Updates lacking descriptions

2009-08-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/12/2009 11:54 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote: If this is enforced (and it may be good to add it to the critical-path suggestion), updates will be reduced since when there's little to write about, there's less justification for an update in the first place. Correct, such a step will add a signific

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/10/2009 11:56 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/10/2009 09:01 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: Are these of the sort where a bug is reported, it's found that autotools made a bad decision, and then patching autotools fixe

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/10/2009 09:01 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 08/10/2009 11:44 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: They are very easy to demonstrate. Commonly known cases are building gcc, binutils, gdb, firefox etc. Are these of the sort where a bug is reported, it's found that autotools made a bad decision

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/10/2009 08:48 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: I am applying this approach to several of my Fedora packages (some of which I know to suffer from such issues, e.g. Coin2), fixed some packages (owned by others) this way, which had failed during the F11-mass-rebuild, exactly

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-10 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/10/2009 05:17 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 08/07/2009 02:54 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Pointing it out on a review and restoring to calling the packages bad quality if people don't follow your controversial recommendation isn't going to scale at all. This is a good perspective, Ralf. Put

Re: --target in %configure in rawhide i386

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/08/2009 08:58 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 18:34 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/08/2009 12:19 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: Hi, why does %configure still use --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i586-redhat-linux-gnu in rawhide i386, shouldn&#

Re: --target in %configure in rawhide i386

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/08/2009 12:19 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: Hi, why does %configure still use --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i586-redhat-linux-gnu in rawhide i386, shouldn't the target be i686-redhat-linux-gnu? --target should not be set at all. It's meaningless for 99.9% of

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/08/2009 07:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 05:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: IMHO, the proper way is to express opinion, and even when disagreement happens, approve review == "switch off your brains, morals, knowledge" Pardon, but you don't want h

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/08/2009 07:25 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: lack of maintainer skills (e.g. running the autotools), You are insulting maintainers for having a different opinion, It's not a matter of opinions it's a matter of technical facts. It doesn't matter how many

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/07/2009 04:19 PM, Matěj Cepl wrote: Ralf Corsepius writes: On 08/06/2009 09:12 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: Do you expect people to continue a review even when you'd have to decide against the best of your knowledge and conciousness? Actually, yes, I do. Your job is not to make pac

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/07/2009 04:56 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Jesse Keating (jkeat...@redhat.com) said: Ralf, this entire service is informational only. Maintainers don't need to do anything with this information, particularly if it isn't being filed as bugs and only provided on a webpage. They can simply ig

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/07/2009 10:48 AM, Till Maas wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:35:14AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/06/2009 09:33 PM, Till Maas wrote: currently upstream release monitoring[0] bug filing is opt-in, which means that it will be only performed for packages that have been activly

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 09:12 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: Ralf Corsepius, Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:14:47 +0200: I turned away from supporting Mr. Robinson, ignored his reviews and left reviews to others So you lost your right to slander him now. Do you expect people to continue a review even when you'd ha

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/07/2009 12:07 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 18:08 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: On 08/06/2009 05:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: [snipped] Sorry, you didn't pick up any of the bugs, none was assigned to you. There is none assigned to me, because I t

Re: Make upstream release monitoring (the service formerly known as FEVer) opt-out?

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 09:33 PM, Till Maas wrote: Hiyas, currently upstream release monitoring[0] bug filing is opt-in, which means that it will be only performed for packages that have been activly added by probably a maintainer of the package. There is at least one maintainer that does not like having

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 05:20 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 16:20 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: On 08/06/2009 02:18 PM, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: * IM (NSH) O, the packaging quality of the submitted packages is close to being

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 05:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 16:14 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: On 08/06/2009 02:10 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: I asked you to write down the problems you found in bz and CC me, but so far I haven't received a mail. I haven't re

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 02:18 PM, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: * IM (NSH) O, the packaging quality of the submitted packages is close to being inacceptable low. Can you be more verbose on that one? 3 Examples: 1. He is running the autotools while building

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 02:10 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 13:39 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: On 08/06/2009 12:32 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/06/2009 10:39 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: After requesting status

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 12:32 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/06/2009 10:39 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status or their

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 10:55 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/06/2009 02:14 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: IMO, this feature should be scratched, because the packages in question are of immature nature (... and of low packaging quality from my POV). Be specific. This is not enough information to influence

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/06/2009 10:39 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status or their ability to tested during the Alpha is unclear based on the lack of information provided or percentage of c

Re: An easy way to redefine configure?

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/04/2009 02:01 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 13:42 +0200, Mattias Ellert wrote: What's the correct way to do this? %global dconfigure %(rpm -E %%configure | sed 's!./configure!../configure!g') %dconfigure This works, but isn't it bad style to call rpm from within a spec

Re: F12 mass rebuild status

2009-07-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/30/2009 01:40 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: I've now generated the first of the mass rebuild status pages. http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/needed-f12-rebuilds.html corsepiu: OpenSceneGraph Seems as if you modified the *.spec (traces in CVS), but haven't launched any built (no traces of

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/29/2009 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 01:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/28/2009 01:19 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:27:00PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: That means that you can take revisor, pungi or livecd-tools in your existing

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/29/2009 12:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:43 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: With all due respect to fedoraunity and you. To me it is a serious Fedora management and rel-eng mistake causing major harm to fedora's and RH's reputation to not provide updated m

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/28/2009 01:43 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: On 07/28/2009 12:54 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/28/2009 12:27 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote: As it turns out, we ship all the tools to build the distribution the exact way we do! And as David said, he's been working with Jeroen for occas

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/28/2009 01:19 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:27:00PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: That means that you can take revisor, pungi or livecd-tools in your existing Fedora system None of these are what I am looking for. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/28/2009 12:27 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote: On Tuesday, July 28 2009, Ralf Corsepius said: On 07/27/2009 10:21 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: Regenerating the images is expensive -- it requires effort on the part of the developers doing fixes, release engineering doing builds with the fixes, QA testing

Re: Updated Anaconda packages

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 10:21 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: Regenerating the images is expensive -- it requires effort on the part of the developers doing fixes, release engineering doing builds with the fixes, QA testing the fixes, infrastructure (mirrors) carrying a significant amount more bits[1], ... Not qu

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 03:39 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: * Ralf Corsepius [27/07/2009 13:49] : Your problem, if you are using a non-reboot persistant /tmp "Although data stored in /tmp may be deleted in a site-specific manner, it is recommended that files and directories located in /tmp be de

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 11:25 AM, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: "all of my system has a wrong openssl ve

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 11:26 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/27/2009 07:33 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/27/2009 07:33 AM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: "all of my system has a wrong openssl version&

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 09:34 PM, John Poelstra wrote: Ralf Corsepius said the following on 07/26/2009 11:35 AM Pacific Time: Are there bug numbers for these issues? I filed some BZs for which I couldn't find as already filed by others (some already were): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.c

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: "all of my system has a wrong openssl version" all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrad

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: "all of my system has a wrong openssl version" all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think pre

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 10:40 AM, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: It may be news to you, but a single negative result invalidates a whole series of "positive tests" ;) No, that means that they are bugs / problems but not that the feature is broken

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/26/2009 08:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 21:42 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: On 07/25/2009 08:56 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the c

Re: NVR bugs in rawhide

2009-07-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:54:10 +0200, Ralf wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:01:50 +0200, Ralf wrote: You don't need to drop %dist for koji build inheritance to work. It just looks much cleaner to inherit foo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm for all newer targets I

Re: NVR bugs in rawhide

2009-07-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:01:50 +0200, Ralf wrote: You don't need to drop %dist for koji build inheritance to work. It just looks much cleaner to inherit foo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm for all newer targets IFF "current rpm" is sufficiently compatible to the antique version of rpm

Re: NVR bugs in rawhide

2009-07-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:48:11 +0300, Jussi wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 14:48 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:21:28 +0200, Daniel wrote: Release doesn't contain a %dist tag. - %dist is missing in Release: in spec Often on purpose. Not a bug

Re: $HOME/bin

2009-07-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Emmanuel Seyman wrote: * Ralf Corsepius [13/07/2009 15:50] : For ordinary users, prepending ~/bin to $PATH is the only approach e.g. to replace vendor-supplied applications, the "security risks" are almost non-existent. You can also use bash aliases to override binary calls.

Re: $HOME/bin

2009-07-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Michal Hlavinka wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:08:55PM +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: Stefan Assmann wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why there's no $HOME/bin directory and $HOME/bin not mentioned in the $PATH variable. Any particular reason not to have that by default? $

Re: $HOME/bin

2009-07-13 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:08:55PM +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: Stefan Assmann wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why there's no $HOME/bin directory and $HOME/bin not mentioned in the $PATH variable. Any particular reason not to have that by default? $HOME/bin is not on every

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:40:44PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: No, not if they bundle the generated auto* files with their tarballs, as they are supposed to do. They're not "supposed to do" that. Wrong. Don't make stuff up. Read the man

Re: How to properly name a cross-toolchain package?

2009-07-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! I plan to add arm-toolchain into Fedora and encountered a difficulty - how to properly name the package? From what I found in the Internets, the cross-toolchains *often* named with the following prefix: For example: i686-pc-linux-gnu- powerpc-unknown-linu

Re: readline update?

2009-07-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Jussi Lehtola wrote: Quoting "Ralf Corsepius" : drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Miroslav Lichvar wrote: A possible replacement is the editline library which provides a compatible interface and is licensed under BSD, unfortunately it doesn'

Re: readline update?

2009-07-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Miroslav Lichvar wrote: I'd like to update readline to the latest version 6.0. The problem is that the license was changed to GPLv3+ and we have some GPLv2 packages using readline. A possible replacement is the edi

Re: readline update?

2009-07-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Miroslav Lichvar wrote: I'd like to update readline to the latest version 6.0. The problem is that the license was changed to GPLv3+ and we have some GPLv2 packages using readline. A possible replacement is the editline library which provides a compatible interface and is licensed under BSD, unf

Re: ppc64 assistance

2009-07-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Peter Robinson wrote: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1449113 Unrelated to this issue, but please use "make V=1" so we see the actual build command lines in the build.log (see the thread about the new automake). With V=1 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1450

Re: ppc64 assistance

2009-07-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Peter Robinson wrote: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1449113 Unrelated to this issue, but please use "make V=1" so we see the actual build command lines in the build.log (see the thread about the new automake). With V=1 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=145

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Jim Meyering wrote: > I try to accommodate progressiveness, when the benefit appears to > outweigh the risk. ACK. The risk of an automake-1.10->automake-1.11 upgrade on Fedora is close to zero and outweigh the effects of bug fixes having gone into automake-1.11. So far, I know of no incompat

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: a) it will cause some moderate stir-up to those packages whose upstreams are still abusing the autotools. s/ab// ;-) Why can't we just move to a better build system with higher focus on backwards compatibility? Because a) the autotools are n

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 12:50 +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 09:02 +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: Owen Taylor wrote: I was rather surprised to see: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-6661 https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Ondřej Vašík wrote: Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 09:02 +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: Owen Taylor wrote: I was rather surprised to see: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-6661 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-6076 https://admin.fedorap

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