Re: [arch-general] Pacman keys

2012-06-04 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/12 19:39, Allan McRae wrote: > On 05/06/12 12:37, David Benfell wrote: >> On 06/04/12 15:46, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:11 PM, David Benfell >>> wrote: I *think* you're right. But perhaps pacman-key should give

Re: [arch-general] Pacman keys

2012-06-04 Thread Allan McRae
On 05/06/12 12:37, David Benfell wrote: > On 06/04/12 15:46, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:11 PM, David Benfell >> wrote: >>> I *think* you're right. But perhaps pacman-key should give a clue >>> that this is what's going on. > >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28027 If yo

Re: [arch-general] Pacman keys

2012-06-04 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/12 15:46, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:11 PM, David Benfell > wrote: >> I *think* you're right. But perhaps pacman-key should give a clue >> that this is what's going on. > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28027 If yo

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> 1) Do not buy locked down hardware if possible. > >    All new hardware (x86 anyway) will have this enabled by default best > I can tell, (1) is probably not an option. A lot of people (and businesses) will still want to use Windows XP or 7, years after Windows 8, so I think OEMs will make sure

Re: [arch-general] Pacman keys

2012-06-04 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:11 PM, David Benfell wrote: > I *think* you're right. But perhaps pacman-key should give a clue that > this is what's going on. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28027 If you have time, please file this upstream if it haven't been filed in the mean time.

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:44:31 +0200 schrieb Alexandre Ferrando : > Arch doesn't seems to have the same kind of user than fedora, Arch if > I don't remember it wrong, tends to be aimed for a competent user. > Such a competent user can disable secure boot in x86 devices. (ARM > devices doesn't seem a

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Sander Jansen
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Sudaraka Wijesinghe wrote: > On 06/04/12 23:48, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >>   Just to add another fedora link: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/Features/SecureBoot >> >>   Sounds like they till plan to make use of the UEFI CA $99 signing >> service

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/04/2012 04:44 PM, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: ... > > Arch doesn't seems to have the same kind of user than fedora, Arch if > I don't remember it wrong, tends to be aimed for a competent user. > Such a competent user can disable secure boot in x86 devices. ... Yep - I agree about technica

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 4 June 2012 22:27, Sudaraka Wijesinghe wrote: > On 06/04/12 23:48, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >>   Just to add another fedora link: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/Features/SecureBoot >> >>   Sounds like they till plan to make use of the UEFI CA $99 signing >> service from Micro

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Sudaraka Wijesinghe
On 06/04/12 23:48, Genes MailLists wrote: > > Just to add another fedora link: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/Features/SecureBoot > > Sounds like they till plan to make use of the UEFI CA $99 signing > service from Microsoft. > >Do you think Arch should follow suit or re

Re: [arch-general] Pacman keys

2012-06-04 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/12 13:06, Ionut Biru wrote: > > create entropy, start copying some files, do a backup, do cat > /dev/sda as root :D > I *think* you're right. But perhaps pacman-key should give a clue that this is what's going on. On two of the three systems

Re: [arch-general] Pacman keys

2012-06-04 Thread Ionut Biru
On 06/04/2012 10:36 PM, Guillermo Leira wrote: > For the past six months, pacman's package verification features were turned > off by default while we were figuring out the details of our public-key > infrastructure. > > They have finally been enabled in pacman-4.0.3-2; when you upgrade, you will

[arch-general] Pacman keys

2012-06-04 Thread Guillermo Leira
For the past six months, pacman's package verification features were turned off by default while we were figuring out the details of our public-key infrastructure. They have finally been enabled in pacman-4.0.3-2; when you upgrade, you will be prompted to run: pacman-key --init pacman-k

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/04/2012 02:55 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >>Do you think Arch should follow suit or require instead that Secure >> Boot is disabled? > > No. > > 1) Do not buy locked down hardware if possible. All new hardware (x86 anyway) will have this enabled by default best I can tell, (1) is pr

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 04.06.2012 20:18, schrieb Genes MailLists: > Just to add another fedora link: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/Features/SecureBoot > > Sounds like they till plan to make use of the UEFI CA $99 signing > service from Microsoft. > >Do you think Arch should follow suit or req

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Genes MailLists
Just to add another fedora link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/Features/SecureBoot Sounds like they till plan to make use of the UEFI CA $99 signing service from Microsoft. Do you think Arch should follow suit or require instead that Secure Boot is disabled? gene/

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding rng-tools to extra?

2012-06-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:18:09 +0100 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > all sorts That was a bad choice of words by me however.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding rng-tools to extra?

2012-06-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:01:08 +1000 Gaetan Bisson wrote: > Quite the contrary: if you have one weak source, it'll make the kernel > believe it has more entropy that it actually has, while other sources, > seeing as you've filled your entropy pool, won't contribute to it, > leaving you with the fake

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding rng-tools to extra?

2012-06-04 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-06-04 14:18:09 +0100] Kevin Chadwick: > Multiple sources will probably increase the > unpredictability and strength or reduce the effectiveness of > predictability flaws Quite the contrary: if you have one weak source, it'll make the kernel believe it has more entropy that it actually has, w

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding rng-tools to extra?

2012-06-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:47:57 +0200 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Ok as discussed on IRC, haveged seems the better choice because > rng-tools need a real hw generator to work correct. Why not both. Multiple sources will probably increase the unpredictability and strength or reduce the effectiveness o

Re: [arch-general] /usr/bin/X: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0:

2012-06-04 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:57:11 +0100 "P .NIKOLIC" wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:42:30 +0800 > Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:34 PM, P .NIKOLIC > > wrote: > > > Since you  seem to be in snotty mode  that i neither asked for nor > > > required.   if the mirrors were up to date the

Re: [arch-general] /usr/bin/X: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0:

2012-06-04 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 13:08:31 +0100 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > X is not a critical package and you > > shouldn't mess with udev just because X fails to launch. > > Is that right. Many may see X as far more critical. The drivers are in > the kernel after all. What drivers? All I was saying is

Re: [arch-general] /usr/bin/X: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0:

2012-06-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> X is not a critical package and you > shouldn't mess with udev just because X fails to launch. Is that right. Many may see X as far more critical. The drivers are in the kernel after all. I presume you mean udev problems could possibly affect bootup. If it can, maybe that's a design error? Of

Re: [arch-general] /usr/bin/X: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0:

2012-06-04 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jun 4, 2012 11:57 AM, "P .NIKOLIC" wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:42:30 +0800 > Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:34 PM, P .NIKOLIC > > wrote: > > > Since you seem to be in snotty mode that i neither asked for nor > > > required. if the mirrors were up to date then this so

Re: [arch-general] /usr/bin/X: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0:

2012-06-04 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:42:30 +0800 Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:34 PM, P .NIKOLIC > wrote: > > Since you  seem to be in snotty mode  that i neither asked for nor > > required.   if the mirrors were up to date then this sort of thing > > would not happen  , So Needs must  , I update

Re: [arch-general] /usr/bin/X: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0:

2012-06-04 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:34 PM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > Since you  seem to be in snotty mode  that i neither asked for nor > required.   if the mirrors were up to date then this sort of thing > would not happen  , So Needs must  , I update this machine everyday for > several days i have been told noth