On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 08:42 -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am sending this because, we have a lot of FTBFS packages which I have > > see at least one blog griping about, I accidentally fixed something that > > was blocking other work (in the sense that I didn't know that other work > > that I wouldn't have to do was waiting for this problem to be solved) and > > I fixed something for someone that asked for help in a roundabout way. > > > > We are all not experts in everything and it isn't a problem to ask for > > help if you are stuck on something for a package. Someone else on the > > devl list (or one of the programming language specific lists) may be able > > to easily solve a problem that you could spend hours on without making > > a lot of progress. > > > > For those that can help, doing so is a good idea. By removing a blocker > > you let someone else do work they can do on Fedora. By showing them > > the resolution, they may be able to resolve similar situations when they > > see them again, including cases when other developers run across the > > problem. It's nice to help your fellow contributors. Fixing things makes > > Fedora better for everyone. > > Seconded. > > And if anyone has gcc47 or libpng FTBFS issues, this is a great place > to ask for help on them. I have with VirtualBox (again) but is a Kbuild problem http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=7356 The biggest problem (now) is with one package on fedora kbuild ? kmk_sed stops to work correctly on F17 . /usr/bin/kmk_sed: file /builddir/build/BUILD/VirtualBox-4.1.8_OSE/src/VBox/Runtime/common/err/errmsg.sed line 31: Unmatched [ or [^ see this bug report, please: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10160 any clue is welcomed Thanks, -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
