Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2017-02-22 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 02/22/2017 08:35 AM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > Note that if you want to fine-tune a sandbox for a single application, > bubblewrap is great. However, what I wanted is that I can install the > GNOME packages in one tree and then create other trees out of it, for > exam

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2017-02-21 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello, A while ago I started pacman and pacbub for file system isolation of pacman packages. pacpak and pacbub are dead now. They were the wrong approach for user space isolation. It all gets too hacky. It’s not KISS. I don’t like it anymore and would rather use GNU Guix for isolating users’ appli

Re: [arch-general] On containers. WAS: Re: snapcraft.io ...

2016-11-25 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
manager is a better approach? The same missing separation may be a reason to use Mach/Hurd over Linux. Of course that is still in its infancy. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-08-06 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
is “the boy”. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-08-04 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 07/19/2016 08:37 PM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On 07/19/2016 07:03 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> This is a nice and useful project, but I think we could be served >> better in the short term by having supported firejail profiles >> for th

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
i. Maybe you need to use the --no-remote option on Firefox if you have another running Firefox? Firejail does not isolate from other Firefox sessions. Regards, Florian Pelz signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
r Bubblewrap; apparently there is some disagreement about the scope, e.g. whether how Pulseaudio should be dealt with. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-13 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
g list and a pacpak’d bugtracker. Incorporate the ideas from this discussion. · August: Make sure every basic command works and is unit tested (-S, -R, -Q, -U, -Syu, -Sc). · September: Make sure the user experience for these is good enough, e.g. -Syu should not take an hour to complete. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 141, Issue 17

2016-07-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
ckages. Customizing packages and taking care of bug reports cannot be done fully automatically in this way, so that part of app containerization is perhaps not ideal anyway. This link has recently been posted on the GNOME gtk-devel list; I think it is relevant here: http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/2016-06-16-11-31-07-560.html Either way, this is not what I want pacpak to be. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
the effort to compete here. Developers should use the official Flatpak platforms, not Arch. Only if a single user or organization wants to use an Arch app on another distribution, pacpak is appropriate. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
ion and its possibilities, but running > malicious software will never be safe. this only adds another layer of > control to the os. > > georg > It won’t be completely safe. I will add a reminder for new pacpak users to make sure they are aware of this as well. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
e popular. I will set it up elsewhere. Regards, Florian Pelz signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 07/11/2016 03:32 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) via arch-general wrote: > Florian, I love it, the tool itself is a break-through, just depends how we > use it properly. > Thank you. I’m happy to get some positive feedback :) .

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 141, Issue 16

2016-07-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
ion mostly provides added security by privilege revocation and separation of privileges. Regards, Florian Pelz [1] https://github.com/cgwalters/build-api

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
. I’m sorry for not expressing myself clearly in previous posts. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
utodetected defaults, the user should review the privileges granted to software. It should be clear that the pacpak user will be responsible for specifying such privileges or at least confirm autodetected privilege settings. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
hat Flatpaks can be run without any fear at all. pacpak users should be made aware of this. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
me for those using pure pacman. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
sire to support Flatpak “officially” as an Arch project, then I probably will end up setting up a mailing list and bug tracker on my server sometime in the coming weeks. Regards, Florian Pelz

[arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
similar tool eventually becomes an official Arch project. Let me conclude by thanking those who develop Flatpak, those who package and maintain Flatpak for Arch and all the other Arch and free software developers we rely on. Regards, Florian Pelz

Re: [arch-general] DKIM debuggage (Was: Deletion of old account)

2016-05-24 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 05/24/2016 11:03 AM, G. Schlisio wrote: > Am 24.05.2016 um 10:58 schrieb pelzflorian (Florian Pelz): >> On 05/24/2016 10:41 AM, G. Schlisio wrote: >>> maybe this helps you to debug further (and lets see the state of my dkim >>> signature…) >> >> Not sure i

Re: [arch-general] Deletion of old account

2016-05-24 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 05/24/2016 10:41 AM, G. Schlisio wrote: > maybe this helps you to debug further (and lets see the state of my dkim > signature…) Not sure if you confused me with Florian Pritz or meant him by “you”. I changed my e-mail From name now. There's too many Florians on other lists as well…

Re: [arch-general] Deletion of old account

2016-05-24 Thread Florian Pelz
Giovanni Santini's and my mails still fail to verify when they come from arch-general. Is this an error on my side? Regards, Florian

Re: [arch-general] Deletion of old account

2016-05-22 Thread Florian Pelz
On 05/22/2016 02:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2016 14:01:47 +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: >> On Sun, 22 May 2016 08:36:10 +0200 Florian Pelz wrote: > > Oops, I just noticed yet, that two Florian P*z replied to this thread. > Ah, now I understand. Sorry for the confusion ;) .

Re: [arch-general] Deletion of old account

2016-05-22 Thread Florian Pelz
On 05/22/2016 02:01 PM, Florian Pritz wrote: > As for DKIM, I just now noticed this too. It appears that our DNS > provider's UI mangled the entry I put in. I'm working on > fixing this problem. > That sounds great. Strangely for other people's arch-general mail, DKIM works fine. Thank you for y

Re: [arch-general] Deletion of old account

2016-05-21 Thread Florian Pelz
On 05/21/2016 02:35 PM, Giovanni 'ItachiSan' Santini wrote: > Good afternoon, > after some time, I decided to shift to another email address in order to > have an account on this mailing list. > My previous account was based on a Yahoo! Mail address which seems > unusable from the start of January.

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-15 Thread Florian Pelz
On 04/16/2016 04:01 AM, flow wrote: > Still have yet unwanted font. Can you use gnome-tweak-tool to change the font and font hinting? I have never tried using it on a non-GNOME desktop, so I'm not sure this helps. There are no problems on my Adwaita-themed GNOME; Raleigh is broken for me too, but

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-12 Thread Florian Pelz
On 04/12/2016 09:07 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote: > Does anyone off the top of his/her head know of any good tools or guides > for converting gtk2 themes to gtk3 themes? > > --Kyle > I don't know very much, but it's all done in CSS nowadays. There are no more programmable theming engines for GTK+ 3, i

Re: [arch-general] Win 10 Dual boot nightmare

2016-03-14 Thread Florian Pelz
Hello, You can install GRUB for EFI too. If Windows does break (it shouldn't) then [1] contains instructions on how to fix it from a Windows DVD/USB installer. You can download the Windows installer image from Microsoft. I actually had to put the Windows installer on a multiboot USB to make it bo

Re: [arch-general] most efficient way to get linux kernel statistics

2016-03-07 Thread Florian Pelz
On 03/07/2016 09:20 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > there's also `sysinfo(2)` > I didn't know there's a syscall for that. That seems like the easiest way to get memory data. I'm not sure if you can get the other information the original poster wanted without parsing /proc though. On 02/19/2016 0

Re: [arch-general] most efficient way to get linux kernel statistics

2016-03-07 Thread Florian Pelz
On 03/07/2016 04:36 PM, Jonathan Horacio Villatoro Córdoba wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 05:13:37PM +0100, Florian Pelz wrote: >> On 03/06/2016 04:47 PM, Jonathan Horacio Villatoro Córdoba wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 03:23:33PM +0100, Andre Schmidt wrote:

Re: [arch-general] most efficient way to get linux kernel statistics

2016-03-06 Thread Florian Pelz
On 03/06/2016 04:47 PM, Jonathan Horacio Villatoro Córdoba wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 03:23:33PM +0100, Andre Schmidt wrote: >> hello archers, >> >> thought i ask here first, before i try some kernel mailing list. >> >> i'm writing (for fun) a tiny daemon that sends linux usage (cpu, mem, net

Re: [arch-general] how to remove template service from systemd

2015-10-06 Thread Florian Pelz
On 10/06/2015 12:58 PM, Guus Snijders wrote: > A reboot is probably the quickest way to get rid of this "ghost" > entry. Maybe it's enough to systemctl disable vboxvmservice@A.service.

Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

2015-07-16 Thread Florian Pelz
On 07/17/2015 01:01 AM, Natu wrote: > On 07/16/2015 02:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:43:25 -0700, Natu wrote: >>> And yes, you have to turn off features in firefox to avoid >>> similar spying behavior, but it can be done without maintaining your >>> own version of the source

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-10 Thread Florian Pelz
On 06/10/2015 01:43 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Florian Pelz > wrote: >> On 06/09/2015 09:26 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >>> How do I track down the issue? The library's source code is available, >>> but without knowing it well I'm unsu

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-09 Thread Florian Pelz
On 06/09/2015 09:26 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > How do I track down the issue? The library's source code is available, > but without knowing it well I'm unsure where to even begin. > > Normally I'd contact the authors, but as this issue was caused (on my > system) by a system update I think I'd need to

Re: [arch-general] Subpixel antialiasing

2015-05-24 Thread Florian Pelz
Is this issue related? https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=490398 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Handling GeForce GTX 850M GPU on Arch Linux

2015-05-15 Thread Florian Pelz
On 05/16/2015 01:31 AM, cao...@mail2tor.com wrote: > → Sometimes, even the window manager (Gnome) freezes and I have to > go to a tty to have a chance to get it unfreeze. It doesn't always work > then sometimes I have to reboot my computer because it has become > absolutely frozen (no mouse, no key

Re: [arch-general] Headphone Sound Trouble

2015-05-10 Thread Florian Pelz
Does it occur with all applications? For example, I have crackling sound with headphones in all ALSA applications such as unpatched wine, but not in e.g. a patched wine-staging or VLC or most Linux games because they use Pulseaudio. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Headphone Sound Trouble

2015-05-10 Thread Florian Pelz
On 05/10/2015 09:16 AM, Heiko Becker wrote: > But just > for simplicity I tried with awesome WM instead of Plasma 5.3 and > strangely it works. > Can someone help me with this? So when you run `aplay something.wav` on Awesome it works, but when you run it on KDE it doesn't? (aplay is from the als

Re: [arch-general] Headphone Sound Trouble

2015-05-09 Thread Florian Pelz
I'm using Pulseaudio and my headphone has issues with applications using ALSA (such as an unpatched Wine), but not with applications supporting Pulseaudio natively. Have you tried if that makes a difference for you? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Severity of Failed checksum for PKGBUILD

2015-02-20 Thread Florian Pelz
On 02/20/2015 07:22 PM, Dolan Murvihill wrote: > CAs can, and have, deliberately issued fraudulent certificates. > TrustWave is the only one that has been discovered doing this --- > and that, only because they came forward on their own years after > the fact. The security community generally agree

Re: [arch-general] Severity of Failed checksum for PKGBUILD

2015-02-20 Thread Florian Pelz
On 02/20/2015 04:51 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: > PKGBUILD checksums provide *zero*, yes *zero* security for the case > that matters most, which is the build done by the packager. It does > provide the ability for other people to verify that a MITM attack > was not used to target a specific packager...

Re: [arch-general] Severity of Failed checksum for PKGBUILD

2015-02-20 Thread Florian Pelz
> This certainly is the right way to go, but I don't think enough upstream projects care to make it a viable option for personal computers today. PKGBUILD checksums provide less security, but they do provide some. > On 20/02/15 09:41 AM, Florian Pelz wrote: >> I'm not sur

Re: [arch-general] Severity of Failed checksum for PKGBUILD

2015-02-20 Thread Florian Pelz
Hi, On 02/20/2015 03:22 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: > On 20/02/15 09:03 AM, Mark Lee wrote: >> I understand that the metadata changed which changed the checksum, but >> that doesn't really change the question of what to do with source code >> versioning systems that have changing checksums and the nee

Re: [arch-general] nm-applet and ethernet

2014-10-17 Thread Florian Pelz
On 10/17/2014 08:49 AM, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: > is there any problem with ethernet amd nm-applet ? i cant connect via > ethernet > nm-applet works for me. Why do you mention ethernet -- does wireless work for you and ethernet does not? Does "systemctl status -l NetworkManager" show h

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

2014-09-27 Thread Florian Pelz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/28/2014 07:04 AM, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote: > On 09/27/2014 02:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 10:02 +0200, Florian Pelz wrote: >> >>> Same here. With only NoExtract, I linked /bin/sh to dash, >&g

Re: [arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

2014-09-27 Thread Florian Pelz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/2014 09:30 AM, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote: > On 09/27/2014 01:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 01:21 -0600, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote: >>> I assumed NoExtract should have been enough >> Correct! Or are we missing something? >

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

2014-09-27 Thread Florian Pelz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/2014 09:23 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 09:04 +0200, Florian Pelz wrote: >> On 09/27/2014 09:01 AM, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote: >>> On 09/26/2014 05:11 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: >>>> >>>

Re: [arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

2014-09-27 Thread Florian Pelz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/2014 09:01 AM, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote: > On 09/26/2014 05:11 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: >> >> I should qualify that in that I don't think adding another >> package to base is a good idea *unless* there is a significant >> benefit to doing so.

Re: [arch-general] To those that are testing Gnome 3.14

2014-09-26 Thread Florian Pelz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/2014 07:43 PM, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a favor to ask to those that are currently testing Gnome > 3.14. > > In gnome 3.12 I am having problems with user switching, which is > quite important for me. In particular, I had