Re: increasing the size of boot partition

2025-10-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > With three kernels at any given time (plus the rescue image), a > conservative estimate of 300MiB per generic initramfs makes 1.5GB very tight. > We probably do want to bump /boot to 2GB. And all our disk images need > similar adjustments unfortu

Re: increasing the size of boot partition

2025-10-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > The newer kernel cannot get installed and the rpm transaction fails. There was a (anecdotal?) report that there was a case where some part of the install failed but no error was propagated/detected, resulting in the new kernel/initram

Re: initramfs size increase, initial suspect is dracut 105 to 107

2025-09-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > OK it looks like sloppy mode was added and made default around this time, > though I'm not understanding how to match the tags in the git repo with the > versions I'm seeing in Fedora. > hostonly-mode was introduced with 107, and dracut was

Re: [F43] OpenH264 or NoOpenH264?

2025-09-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11 2025 at 09:07:36 PM +02:00:00, Marcin Juszkiewicz > wrote: > > Well. > > https://test-videos.co.uk/vids/jellyfish/mp4/h264/1080/Jellyfish_1080_10s_1MB.mp4 > > plays fine in Firefox. > > > > Videos from https://videorx.com

Re: [HEADS-UP] dracut 108 in Fedora Rawhide

2025-09-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > I think the expectation was for dracut 108 and systemd 258 to be used in > tandem. The changes for dracut 108 are significant, and clearly could break something in F43, but I think getting it into F43 would be for the best rather than waiting

Re: Very early heads-up: upcoming OpenSSL 4.0

2025-09-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote: > OpenSSL upstream has started development of the version OpenSSL 4.0 > It will imply soname bump, removing ENGINE support, etc. I seem to recall someone stating that currently Fedora itself uses the engine support for some infrastructure

Re: F44 Change Proposal: NTSYNC (system-wide)

2025-09-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM Kamil Paral wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM Justin Forbes wrote: >> >> If someone can go >> through the effort to grab a patched Proton, they can load a kernel >> module. > > > Hmm, can a user-space program load a kernel module during runtime, without >

Re: F44 Change Proposal: NTSYNC (system-wide)

2025-09-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM Justin Forbes wrote: > > As said elsewhere in the change, this kernel module has been enabled > since 6.14 kernels when it was first upstream. The idea that we > should *load* this module by default on every system is absolutely the > wrong way to go. +1 (to this

Re: Invalid maintainers for freeipa and retrace-server packages

2025-08-27 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM Maxwell G wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I don't use Gmail, but I've heard about this problem before, so it'd be > good to try and workaround it. Would it be helpful if I sent a separate > email that only had the affected maintainers BCCed and sent another one > to the

Re: Please don't commit significant changes and leave them to be built by the mass rebuild

2025-07-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > If the system doesn't handle this scenario sensibly: > > * Submit a PR to libfoo that bumps its soname > * Submit a PR to bar-app to rebuild it against the new libfoo soname > * ??? > * Profit > > then it cannot be viable for Fedora. Broadl

Re: Please don't commit significant changes and leave them to be built by the mass rebuild

2025-07-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I'm all for documenting this better, but where? > > We could perhaps add something to the reminder about the mass rebuild > coming up (which is supposed to be a week before I think?). We get an email when the mass rebuild has started (and fini

Re: Please don't commit significant changes and leave them to be built by the mass rebuild

2025-07-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM Adam Williamson wrote: > > It's the same question as Chris asked, effectively. If you can identify > the packages to revert them, you could just as easily skip them > instead. The answer is 'maybe, but it's not trivial'. > > Note the correct requirement is not just

Re: Please don't commit significant changes and leave them to be built by the mass rebuild

2025-07-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hey folks! I figured a wider heads-up about this might be useful. > > The owner of the "Dropping of cert.pem file" Change[0] committed the > change to dist-git but did not build it, instead leaving it to be built > as part of the mass rebu

[HEADS UP] [SONAME BUMP] libcbor will be updated to 0.12.0 in rawhide with a soname bump (second attempt)

2025-07-18 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
libcbor will be updated to 0.12.0 in rawhide in the next week or so (sooner if the rebuilds are complete), which includes a soname bump. The list of affected packages in rawhide are: libfido2 fwupd qemu (I missed this the previous attempt, my bad). I have tested the update using the mass pre-bui

Re: AI-generated content in Fedora packages: do we have rules?

2025-07-18 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM Simo Sorce wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-07-17 at 15:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-07-17 at 15:18 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > In my opinion the situation is simple, as already several courts > > > hinted, the output of an AI cannot be copyrighted,

Re: AI-generated content in Fedora packages: do we have rules?

2025-07-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > FYI, the council has been working on a policy... > > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/ai-policy-in-fedora-wip/144297/20 > The most interesting thing is that at this point the only approach is "it's complicated". That is both exciting,

Request for advice for soname bump with FTBFS dependencies

2025-07-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
I have a (somewhat?) strange situation (or at least strange for me, maybe others have this on a regular basis), that I wish to understand how to proceed. I have a library (libcbor, if it matters) which has a new version with a soname bump. It will require rebuilding of three packages in a side ta

Re: Windows Secure Boot certificate expiration (June 2026)

2025-07-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM Richard Hughes via devel wrote: > That's exactly what Microsoft want to ask from vendors in the future, but I > really wish them luck because when I asked them for the new PCR0 "golden > hashes" for LVFS updates only one vendor complied, and and only for a few

Re: Post datacenter move steps?

2025-07-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > We should probibly put this info into onboarding docs, it's just been a > long time since it changed. ... > I tried to announce things to devel-announce (which also cc to this > list). > > Open to ideas on how to better announce things. I think

Re: Datacenter move update - 2025-07-03 01:00UTC

2025-07-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > The problem is that isn't a few big netblocks from big AI companies, as > they are relatively easy to deal with And many (not all) of the big companies actually respect the various directives as to where to (not) crawl, and to throttle

Re: Datacenter move update - 2025-07-03 01:00UTC

2025-07-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > If you're not going to use something like Cloudflare or Anubis > sometimes you do *have* to do this just to keep the site up - we have > blocked the entirety of Brazil from Fedora infra a couple of times so > far (since, as Jelle noted, for

Re: Datacenter move update - 2025-07-03 01:00UTC

2025-07-03 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Leigh Scott wrote: > > Why isn't fedora infra using Anubis to block LLM scrappers? > > Why should they? Anubis is a scourge that wastes massive energy for all > legitimate browsers, breaks search engines, and if configured in a > par

Re: F43 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide)

2025-06-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > It doesn't, though. It still means we have to maintain all the weird > infrastructure for putting i686 packages in x86_64 repos, and any other > work we want to do on infrastructure or testing has to account for that > weirdness. That, to

Re: F43 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide)

2025-06-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > If we only want to build a small subset of packages as i686, then > rather than doing it as an architecture in koji, IMHO, we could > consider doing it as cross-compiled target, creating sub-RPMs > from the native x86_64 package, as we d

Re: F43 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide)

2025-06-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote: > By dropping completely the i686 architecture, Fedora will decrease the > burden on package maintainers, release engineering, infrastructure, > and users. A completely out-of-the-box alternative to reducing package maintai

Re: F43 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide)

2025-06-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM Chris Adams wrote: > Yeah, that's the catch. Has anybody tried talking to somebody at Valve > (if they can be found)? This isn't a Fedora-exclusive issue; Ubuntu and > SuSE (and all the downstreams of each) are probably looking at the same > thing at some point.

Re: New package faad2 (AAC decoding)

2025-06-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
"Review Request: faad2 - Library and frontend for decoding MPEG2/4 AAC" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370973 Was this reviewed by Fedora Legal (I did not see it in the email list archives, but I might have used the wrong search criteria). Last I recall, some of the patents for

Re: Remove openh264?

2025-06-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Unfortunately, in the US, there are claimed patents affecting parts of > H.264 who's expirations are as far out as late 2030. It's not clear > which versions/profiles of H.264 are affected by which patents, so not > sure when parts of H.264

Re: F43 Change Proposal: Wayland-only GNOME (self-contained)

2025-04-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > I'm a bit confused here tho, as my understanding is that upstream does > > indeed plan to remove this in the upcoming cycle, so the gnome version > > thats included in f43 (which this

Re: f42: hostname vs. sendmail (vs. systemd depsolver) bug?

2025-04-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > Unless there's anything glaringly obvious that I'm too silly to notice Are you using systemd-networkd or NetworkManager? You have to enable the correct -wait service. -- ___ devel mailing list

Re: f42: hostname vs. sendmail (vs. systemd depsolver) bug?

2025-04-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > This *sort-of* worked: systemd-networkd-wait-online took about two > minutes before it failed with a timeout. However, that was long enough > to hold back network-online.target, and by extension sendmail.service, > so that the latter foun

Re: f42: hostname vs. sendmail (vs. systemd depsolver) bug?

2025-04-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > > Adding `After=networ-online.target` to `sendmail.service` does *not* > seem to help. As I recall, the network is considered "online" a lot earlier than you might think (after the loopback is up?) without additional requirements. If you

Re: A few notes upgrading F41 to F42

2025-04-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM Ian Laurie via devel wrote: > Reinstalling filesystem doesn't provide messaging relating to the merge > script. As I recall (someone else posted this) you need to do a: dnf reinstall filesystem -y | cat to get the essential messages about the why. Perhaps o

Re: A few notes upgrading F41 to F42

2025-04-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM Ian Laurie via devel wrote: > > Thanks guys. Seems in may case more that just a couple: > ... I *think* all those are part of the iptables-nft package if you want to try to remove that package, and see if the merge can be completed. -- _

Re: Discussion about dropping qemu builds on i686

2025-04-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Can we just stop building for i686 in Fedora in general, instead of burning > maintainer time figuring out deps problems like this... ? What's the > blocker and how much longer do we have to put up with its burden in Fedora ? Was there

Re: Please untag libcbor-0.12.0-2.fc43 in rawhide

2025-04-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > I accidentally did not specify a side-tag target, > so this build will break rawhide. Sorry for my > mistake. Looks like the gating status failed ("Yah!"), and I have explicitly unpushed it. I will try to be more

Re: Auto generated Requires: user(), group()

2025-04-03 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > If you're not using sysusers, you're supposed/required to add the > necessary provides manually. So, for those that what want a common RPM spec file that supports *all* current releases, one should specify a: Provides: user(mysql) Provides

Re: Please untag libcbor-0.12.0-2.fc43 in rawhide

2025-03-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > As a side note: if this sort of thing happens and you need something > untagged for some reason, please file a releng ticket. > ( https://pagure.io/releng ) > Thats likely to be seen/acted on much quicker than an list post. Fair enough. I was

Please untag libcbor-0.12.0-2.fc43 in rawhide

2025-03-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
I accidentally did not specify a side-tag target, so this build will break rawhide. Sorry for my mistake. -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Condu

Re: [HEADS UP] [SONAME BUMP] libcbor will be updated to 0.12.0 in rawhide with a soname bump

2025-03-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM Richard Hughes wrote: > I tried this, but got "GenericError: Build already exists" -- I'm using > %autorelease in the spec file -- do I have to disable that for the side tag > and then re-enable it for the next rebase? Thanks. As I understand it (from notes I ke

[HEADS UP] [SONAME BUMP] libcbor will be updated to 0.12.0 in rawhide with a soname bump

2025-03-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
libcbor will be updated to 0.12.0 in rawhide in the next week or so, which includes a soname bump. The list of affected packages in rawhide are: libfido2 fwupd I have rebuilt libfido2. For fwupd, I will need the assistance of the fwupd maintainers (CC'ed), Please use the side tag f43-build-sid

Re: F43 change Proposal: Disabling support of building OpenSSL engines (system-wide)

2025-02-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Those are some high profile and/or important pieces of Fedora functionality > that seemingly depend on OpenSSL engines, and would (possibly[1]) need fixing > unless OpenSSL 3 is going to be kept in Fedora as a compat package in parallel

Re: WRT "Add explicit BR: libxcrypt-devel"

2025-02-03 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM Björn 'besser82' Esser wrote: > Python <= 3.12 is still building the crypt module, which links > libcrypt.so; thus those packages should express an explicit BR in libxcrypt. I never bothered to follow all the details of the issue, but is there not a problem where l

Re: Inadvertent mass-rebuild triggered soname bump in libnfs

2025-01-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM Björn Persson wrote: > If I correct a typo in a comment, I should bump the release and cause > churn on build servers and mirrors, even though nothing at all changes > in the binary package? I do worry about server/storage usage, but in my more innocent years I ha

Re: Proper Way to Convert Package from crontab to systemd timer?

2025-01-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM Frank Crawford wrote: > > Folks, > > Do we have any documentation or policies on how to convert an existing > package (in this case logwatch) from using cron to using systemd > timers? > > While it isn't too hard to fix up the spec file, the main thing I'm > worrie

Re: [rfc] mass package change to introduce sysusers.d configs

2025-01-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Updated diff: > Zbyszek I have a preference for seeing packages follow the current packaging guidelines (that I can find) that say: Create a .sysusers file with the user definition and add it to the specfile as a sourc

Re: Idea proposal for next mass rebuilds

2025-01-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > So if you see packages that *change* (either their dependencies, or > their contents - but ignoring codegen differences with new compiler > versions etc.) between the last build before the mass rebuild and the > build performed during the

Re: Non-responsive maintainer ngompa

2025-01-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM Chuck Anderson wrote: > The policy as written also says to check the vacation calendar, so if you had > marked yourself "away" on the calendar that would have perhaps avoided > getting to the next step: It can be a very bad idea to publicly document when you are

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Intel Compute Runtime - Upgrade with HW cut-off (self-contained)

2024-12-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 11:13 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 16/12/2024 21:43, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote: > >> removed support for GPU Generations prior to the > >> 12th Gen GPUs. This effectively means that any hardware released > >> befor

Re: On revoking provenpackager from probinson

2024-12-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 9:08 PM Fabio Valentini wrote: > Let me be clear - FESCo is *not* usurping CoC responsibilities. From the currently available public information, I disagree(*), but I trust the Council will eventually review and clarify (as they seem to have agreed to do). Gary (*) T

Re: On revoking provenpackager from probinson

2024-12-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:03 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-12-16 at 15:42 -0500, David Cantrell wrote: > > We neglected to make available the facts behind our decision quickly (In > > some cases we were dealing with situations where reporters wanted to remain > > anonymous > > This

Re: On revoking provenpackager from probinson

2024-12-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 9:17 PM Leigh Scott wrote: > > I have already withdrawn my FESCo election votes as I don't think any of the > candidates are fit to rule. > -- Until we have an independent review of what individuals knew, and when did they know it, and what actions they took (or did not t

Re: On revoking provenpackager from probinson

2024-12-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 7:28 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > I'm not sure today of everything we need to do to make things right, but the > Council will work this week on immediate actions before the holiday, and > then longer-term in January. Thank you for the update. I was especially concerned abo

Re: Revocation of provenpackager access from pbrobinson

2024-12-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 10:18 PM Fabio Valentini wrote: > In "the spirit of transparency": > FESCo agreed that a public ticket with a summary of the discussion in > the private ticket should be filed, it just hasn't happened yet. It is unclear, from that statement, whether it was intended to cre

Re: What application uses an old version of mariadb?

2024-12-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:27 PM ttys3 wrote: > > MariaDB 11.6.2 is a Stable (GA) release. > https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-11-6-2-release-notes/ > It is also a short term rolling release, with no future fixes available, and you are expected to upgrade to the next rolling 11.7 release (whic

Re: Revocation of provenpackager access from pbrobinson

2024-12-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 1:33 AM Josh Stone wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 1:33 AM Josh Stone wrote: > As a result of more than a month of debate in the latest > private FESCo ticket on his conduct, the Committee voted – seven in > favor, two against – to remove Peter from the provenpackager gr

Re: Proposed qemu-srpm-macros

2024-11-27 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:43 PM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Does anyone have a preference here, or other comments on this plan? Separate source package, given all the ways qemu dependencies seem to be entwined all over the place. I am not sure I love the macro names, but a rose is still a rose

Re: Mariadb server update soon?

2024-11-14 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 12:41 AM Ryan Bach via devel wrote: > > https://release-monitoring.org/project/1887/ > 11.7.1 11.5, 11.6, and 11.7 are rolling/development releases. 11.4(.4) is an LTS release, and would likely be the next alternative version target for some future package. I would expec

Re: Moving away from the term "karma" in Bodhi

2024-11-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 3:19 PM Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > For updates, the term "karma" is used as the sum of all karma|feedback > submitted by users, so I plan to rename this to "rating". I dislike the term rating. Maybe just remove the term karma, and simply count the thumbs (stable by

Re: Email when build completes

2024-09-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM Ron Olson wrote: > > Hey all, I think I remember that I’d get an email when a build submitted to > koji completed, regardless of whether it was scratch or not. Am I remembering > that correctly and if so, is it still possible to get them? > > Thanks for any info!

Re: No matching package to install: 'pkgconfig(xorg-macros) >= 1.8

2024-09-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 3:34 PM Petr Pisar wrote: > You want to contact xorg-x11-util-macros component owner. xorg-x11-util-macros was in CRB in EL9, but is no longer available in (future) EL10. The OP will need to open a bugzilla to request an EPEL10 branch and build for the package by the pac

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F40 to F41

2024-09-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 10:21 AM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > In case you hit dependency issues, please report it against the appropriate > package. The only problem I get is: Error: Problem: package python3-fb-re2-1.0.7-18.fc41.x86_64 from fedora requires libre2.so.9()(64bit), but none of the prov

[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL 10 status update

2024-09-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 10:42 PM Carl George wrote: > > Happy packaging! > I have noted that some dependencies for some of my packages are (apparently) no longer going to be shipped in EL10 (they were in EL9). Before I request the branches and builds in EPEL10, I would like to make sure those p

Re: Packaging Guidelines: "Source File Verification" docs incomplete?

2024-08-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 8:36 AM Frank R Dana Jr. wrote: > > Also, a yea/nay on whether I've correctly understood this point: > > > So, does that mean that remote keyrings should be listed at their source > > URL, > > BUT the `gpgkey-` file at that URL should be manually downloaded and > > `git ad

Re: Packaging Guidelines: "Source File Verification" docs incomplete?

2024-08-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 8:26 AM Frank R Dana Jr. wrote: > I'd be happy to. (Believe me, the Edit button is _always_ > my first choice.) But the issue here is, unless we > want to tell packagers to use Seahorse to retrieve > upstream keys (and I'm assuming we don't), I don't > know what to tell th

Re: Packaging Guidelines: "Source File Verification" docs incomplete?

2024-08-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 1:46 AM Frank R Dana Jr. wrote: > But a Seahorse-based graphical search and import isn't really > practical for packager workflows in general, and holy smokes > was the documentation almost no help at all in actually > guiding me to the finish line here. I would agree tha

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 6:18 PM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > For what it's worth, I don't believe that this process will work well. > I'm all for democracy, but direct democracy without compulsory voting > inevitably leads to "grievance-based voting", where the majority of > folks ignore the discus

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:38 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > And this one is yet another case of FESCo rubberstamping a change without > even any dissenting vote despite loads of negative mailing list feedback. How can one determine "loads"? Since the feedback itself is opt-in, no statistic

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 12:23 AM Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > I believe qt5-qtwebkit uses python3 for builds > (I believe the qt4 variant does use python2, > but a quick repoquery indicates no fedora > package depends on qtwebkit-devel, although > I admit the query may have been wrong

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:30 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > #3244 Change: Retire Python 2.7 > > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3244 > > APPROVED (+8, 0, 0) > > This is going to break the build of a whole bunch of compatibility packages, > which will in

Re: Fedora rawhide (to be f41) and openssl engines

2024-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 8:55 AM Clemens Lang wrote: > However, we should still consider the effect this will have on developers > that build software on Fedora — they will also have to specify > -DOPENSSL_NO_ENGINE now or see failing builds, and we don’t really see that > impact until 41 relea

Re: Fedora rawhide (to be f41) and openssl engines

2024-07-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote: > So I wonder if it's worth changing the engine deprecation mechanism in > Fedora to the one we have in CentOS and if yes, what is the mechanism > for such a change. I think you are free to submit a (very) late change request, but changin

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Opt-In Metrics for Fedora Workstation (system-wide)

2024-07-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 7:03 PM Marc Deop i Argemí wrote: > Most users will just click on "Yes" without really comprehending what they > are doing. And you _know_ this. With no default provided, the most likely response may very well depend on the exact phrasing of the prompt (as few would be ex

Re: 2FA policy for provenpackagers is now active

2024-06-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > I would prefer this one since I can use open source applications to > generate these codes. I can't find any FIDO2 implementations that are > completely open source which doesn't require proprietary technologies > like TPM or SGX.

Re: 2FA policy for provenpackagers is now active

2024-06-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 5:48 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > If we decide that this is a good idea, we might be able to get funding to > distribute these to all proven packagers (and perhaps more). > FD: I am *strongly* in favor of FIDO2 support. As I recall from a previous query, there are (aroun

Re: 2FA policy for provenpackagers is now active

2024-06-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 6:02 PM Alexander Bokovoy wrote: > BTW, the cheapest and verified to work with Fedora USB token I was able > to find is T2F2-NFC-Slim from Token2.eu: > https://www.token2.eu/shop/product/token2-t2f2-nfc-slim-fido2-u2f-and-totp-security-key When I was looking for "cheap",

Re: Guidance on individual packages requiring x86_64-v2 baseline ?

2024-06-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 11:51 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > If you mean Extended Page Table here Yes, I used a shorthand term, since I am apparently too steeped in the architectural details. > I don't know any way to tell if my Cedar View Atom D2550 CPU from 2012 > supports it or n

Re: Guidance on individual packages requiring x86_64-v2 baseline ?

2024-06-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 8:39 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > * I suspect more of the hardware that don't support -v2 have failed > out of use naturally Due to product line feature differentiation there are more recent -v1 hardware than the aforementioned roughly 2008 date, but the one pre-nehalem -v1 sys

Re: Guidance on individual packages requiring x86_64-v2 baseline ?

2024-06-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 3:52 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher said: > > three) and recommend creation of a Fedora "Hardware Life Extension" > > Remix that can provide rebuilds of (a subset of) Fedora that they want > > to run on ancient hardware. > > TBH I feel that a

Re: F41 Change Proposal: Nvidia Driver Installation with Secure Boot Support (self-contained)

2024-06-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024, 11:33 Vitaly Zaitsev via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: Another option is to package the nvidia-kmod-open module into Fedora and > sign it with Fedora key. > > Starting with version 555, nvidia-kmod-open will be the default option. > As I recall, only the defa

Re: Guidance on individual packages requiring x86_64-v2 baseline ?

2024-06-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 1:35 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > But it is the ONLY approach that is compatible with Fedora policies, and as > such should be required. ESPECIALLY for a package like QEMU that many people > are using. Please provide your audited (by a 3rd party) data that shows tha

Re: Guidance on individual packages requiring x86_64-v2 baseline ?

2024-06-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > But it > would at least buy us some time so that we don't end up with the > "surprise, you can't use this release on your hardware if you want to > use QEMU!" situation. Since we don't have complete instrumentation, we really don't know ho

Re: Guidance on individual packages requiring x86_64-v2 baseline ?

2024-06-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > Neither "Functional" nor "eFficient" are in the Fedora Foundations, > but in general, I think we should prefer the former over the latter. > It's better for the project overall to be a little less efficient than > it could be than to surprise pe

Re: Understanding noopenh264 in Fedora

2024-05-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 8:15 AM Byoungchan Lee via devel wrote: > > While this is okay > for Google, as they likely have a license agreement with other patent > holders > While I do not think it has ever been officially confirmed, it has been widely conjectured that Google just pays the maxi

Re: SPDX Statistics - L'Aigle meteorite edition

2024-05-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 9:40 AM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > The current change > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SPDX_Licenses_Phase_4 > > is planned to be the last one. At the end of this phase - scheduled to > 2024-08-06 - we plan to mark this conversion as "done". My estimation is that

Re: SPDX Statistics - L'Aigle meteorite edition

2024-05-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 6:11 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > Just eyeballing the prediction graph in the Google doc, it looks like the > linear approximation is distorted by the big drop in "non-trivial" last > September. And, the slope for "converted" is pretty steep before that, but > significantly f

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 6:14 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > I don't believe GNOME Software enforces this. (There was some debate about > whether doing two updates in a row was really useful, if I remember.) That > may be a big source of pain. As I recall, *much* of the time it does not matter, but if

Re: LLVM Packaging Ideas for Fedora 41

2024-04-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > Both of my LLVM dependent packages: iwyu and pocl. On every LLVM major > release they break and I have to wait for the upstream to release a new > version. I would hope that there are more examples than O(1), as processes should n

Re: LLVM Packaging Ideas for Fedora 41

2024-04-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 2:25 PM Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote: > Considering that LLVM releases usually happen very late in Fedora's > development cycle, if the default LLVM version is changed, packages may > start to FTBFS very late in the development cycle if they buildrequire > the de

Re: how to do minor bump using %autorelease?

2024-04-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 11:44 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > No, this will make a Release like 2.1.fc40 - which is not what's > needed (which would be 1.fc40.1). > So it doesn't work because -e adds a component *before* the dist-tag, > *and* because the main number is still incremented. Since [.min

Re: Is there a policy for branches being merged or not

2024-04-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 11:35 AM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 10:27:26AM +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote: > > > I know this is just a cosmetic issue, but choices made by the > > primary maintainers should be respected IMO. > > I agree in general, but sometimes if you're makin

Re: [HEADS-UP] openexr so name bump heading Rawhide and f40

2024-04-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:15 PM Josef Řídký wrote: > > Hi folks, > > this is in advance notice about the upcoming rebase of the openexr package in > Fedora Rawhide and f40. > I note that there is a patent clause which allows DreamWorks to revoke the patent grants under some conditions for the l

Re: network service removed in Fedora 40 without a Change proposal(?)

2024-04-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 9:41 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > > Michel Lind just prompted me to notice that the 'network' service > appears to have been removed from initscripts in Fedora 40+. > Should this have been a Change? How worried are we about it going out > in Fedora 40 without having b

Re: Three steps we could take to make supply chain attacks a bit harder

2024-04-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 4:05 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > So, if FESCo decided we wanted to enforce 2fa for provenpackagers or > whatever, right now that would require some work on some scripting, > which I guess would remove people without otp? But then there would > still be a window when the user w

Re: Three steps we could take to make supply chain attacks a bit harder

2024-04-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:44 AM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I sometimes think how hard it would be to explain all of this to my > mother. I don't understand why 2FA needs to be so obscure and clumsy > to use. FIDO2 (Apple branded[0] as "passkeys") is not that hard to use, or explain. The probl

Re: Three steps we could take to make supply chain attacks a bit harder

2024-04-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 1:10 AM Kilian Hanich via devel wrote: > 2FA in a lot of cases is just access to a different account (e.g. email > or even SMS) and these normally aren't unique. Sure, there are other > ways like FIDO2, but these are not necessarily used (or liked, quite > frankly I know a

Re: convert everything to rpmautospec?

2024-04-08 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 2:26 PM Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > > On 08/04/2024 14:47, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > > It is already supposed to be default / preferred since this Fedora 38 > > Change: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rpmautospec_by_Default > > I find that quite interesting be

Re: convert everything to rpmautospec?

2024-04-07 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 3:23 PM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > Dne 07. 04. 24 v 5:15 odp. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek napsal(a): > > I think it's time to switch to rpmautospec completely. > > -1 from me. > > While I enjoy simplicity of rpmautospec in some of my packages. > > I have bunch of packages whe

Re: F41 Change Proposal: OpenSSL Deprecate Engine (system-wide)

2024-04-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote: > Third-party engines may be a problem but as we don't break ABI, it's not a > problem of the moment. The fact you are removing the headers means it is a problem for 3rd party engines who build from source (and everyone should at least occ

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-01 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 9:17 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 05:47:10PM +, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > It does bring up a potential point that perhaps > > Fedora should have an additional repo (let's > > call it "emergency fixes") tha

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