Rawhide notes from the trail, 2017-02-22
Some recent gotchas in rawhide: firefox doesn’t seem to compile correctly with gcc7 (and the optimization levels Fedora uses by default). The current rawhide version will install and run fine, but...
View ArticleRawhide notes from the trail, the 2017-03-04 edition
Well, branching of Fedora 26 off rawhide has come and gone, and it was a bit of a rocky ride this time sadly. The branched composes were failing at first, then working, but not actually syncing to the...
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Email and RSS and their readers and writers
I’ve been using claws-mail to both read/compose emails and to read all the vast pile of RSS feeds I try and keep up with for quite a while now and it’s for the most part been fine. I never liked...
View ArticleMUA++ (or on to thunderbird)
So, a few weeks ago I moved my MUA (Mail User Agent) from claws-mail over to evolution. Last week I decided to move on and give thunderbird a try. Mostly evolution worked, but it had some bugs I hit...
View ArticleRawhide notes from the trail, 2017-04-01 (no foolin!)
Just a few quick notes for those folks riding along the rawhide trail: There’s some pretty bad brokenness in the polkit package that landed in rawhide on thursday. Your best bet is to downgrade to...
View ArticleCI and Infrastructure hackfest 2017 next week
Tomorrow I’m traveling out to Raleigh, NC for a gathering to work on CI and Infrastructure for Fedora and will be out there all next week. We will of course be around on IRC and hope to pull in remote...
View ArticleCI and infrastructure hackfest day -1
Ah travel, such fun, especially these days. Happily things went pretty nicely… security was not a hassle, the flight was a bit early and went well and no problems meeting up with folks once I landed....
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CI and infrastructure hackfest 2017
I was hoping to write a bit of a summary for each day of the CI and Infrastructure hackfest last week, but there just wasn’t enough time to sit down and write up blog posts. Each day we started bright...
View Articlerawhide notes from the trail, the 2017-07-24 edition
Greetings! Once again it’s been a long spell since one of these posts, so lets jump right in and rope that calf. Rawhide has been marching along to the next branching point, when Fedora 27 will branch...
View ArticleRawhide notes from the trail, the long road edition (2017-08-24)
Hey look, it’s been exactly 30 days since my last rawhide post. What a ride it’s been this last month: The mass rebuild was delayed a bit due to tooling issues, then releng availablity, but finally...
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