Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 08:05, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:10:01PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPLv3 [1] (therefore also with GPLv2+). > It's more complicated than "therefore also". > Imagine a GPL2+ prog

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 21:29, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> * License Must Not Contaminate _Other_ Software > > A work which is a derivative work of another piece of software isn't > merely distributed alongside. > >> Shippi

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 21:09, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lars Wirzenius writes: > >> Instead, I'll repeat that licenses shouldn't be violated. One way of >> achieving that is to ask copyright holders for additional permissions >> that are needed to avoid a violation. > > The problem with this approach, though,

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 14:31, Ian Jackson wrote: > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes ("Re: System libraries and the GPLv2"): >> However, I still don't understand why we don't just declare OpenSSL a >> system library; or at least define a clear policy for when a packag

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 10:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (2017-03-30 05:08:24) >> On 30/03/17 03:11, Clint Byrum wrote: >>> Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 02:49:04 >>> +0200: >>>> I understand

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 03:11, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 02:49:04 > +0200: >> On 30/03/17 00:24, Philipp Kern wrote: >>> On 03/29/2017 11:10 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >>>> So, the best case situation

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 00:24, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 03/29/2017 11:10 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> So, the best case situation (IMHO) would be that a lawyer tell us that >> Apache 2.0 is also compatible with GPLv2-only, and that we stop playing >> the game of being amate

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 00:26, Josh Triplett wrote: > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> On 26/03/17 01:01, Walter Landry wrote: >>> Florian Weimer wrote: >>>>> #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. >>>>> >>>> (snip) >>>> >>>

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/03/17 22:25, Brian May wrote: > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > >> But in the worst case, it will be compatible with GPLv2+ and GPLv3. > > I am not sure I see this as the worst case situation. Or maybe you meant > to write "incompatable"? > No. A

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/03/17 22:28, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:58:07PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> So... does this means that we are actually *now* shipping OpenSSL with >> GPL software on the same DVD? > This is permitted, or are you joking? >

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/03/17 19:37, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:49:48 +0200 Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > [...] >> I think that any package that is essential for the base OS >> (aka Priority: required) should qualify for the system exception. > > We

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/03/17 15:58, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: >> On 26/03/17 01:01, Walter Landry wrote: >>> Florian Weimer wrote: > #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. > (snip) > #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian > has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I so

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 26/03/17 01:01, Walter Landry wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote: >>> #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. >>> >> (snip) >> >>> #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian >>> has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I somehow doubt we would use it for >>> GMP. >> >> I would like t

Re: use long keyid-format in gpg.conf (Re: Key collisions in the wild

2016-08-10 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 10/08/16 15:19, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ian Jackson, on Wed 10 Aug 2016 13:45:05 +0100, wrote: >> Adam D. Barratt writes ("Re: use long keyid-format in gpg.conf (Re: Key >> collisions in the wild"): >>> [explanation] >> >> Thanks. >> >> I don't know what side of this (one) line such a proposed

Re: Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status

2016-04-22 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 22/04/16 14:48, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:11:39PM -0700, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote: >> * Package name: flipcoin >> * URL : https://github.com/rudi-cilibrasi/flipcoin >> Description : flip an adjustable coin for random exit status >> >> This command-line u

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 04/07/15 19:40, Jan Gloser wrote: > computers people somehow started to think that everything in this domain > should be free. Well, I don't really think so. If you go to the market and > want to get some apples, it's only fair that you pay for the apples. It's > your way to say to the apple-sel

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 13/11/14 23:16, Brian May wrote: > On 14 November 2014 04:20, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > wrote: > >> The last one that I read is that udev is going to stop working on >> non-systemd systems: >> >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 13/11/14 18:11, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > And it sure would be nice if > we don't have the same amount of pain as each of these components get > proposed. (My personal hope is that if they are optional, as opposed > made mandatory because GNOME, network-manager, upower, etc. stops > working if you

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 11/09/14 14:36, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 21:36 +, Nick Phillips wrote: > [...] >> Debian has a good and hard-earned reputation for not messing up >> sysadmins' changes; upgrading to systemd - however wonderful it is (and >> I confess to having no opinion on that) - withou

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 09/09/14 23:17, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> That way of testing is completely unreliable when we are talking about >> > low level stuff (kernel/udev/systemd). > No, it's not. It is able to emulate most of the concerns people are > talking about in this thread. Nobody has so far showed up and bee

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 09/09/14 22:34, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > I truly believe that making systemd the default without asking the user > to test it first, is going to cause more breakage and angry users than > doing it the other way. s/making systemd the default/replacing the user init sy

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 09/09/14 22:18, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > >> But if you don't (Is not uncommon to have servers on remote locations >> that are only accessible via ssh) and the machine don't boots properly >> you can find yourself in trou

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 09/09/14 15:14, Mathieu Parent wrote: > 2014-09-09 13:46 GMT+02:00 Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez : > [...] >> So, when upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie, we have three options: >> >> 1) Keep the user init system (sysvinit most probably) >> 2) Upgrade to systemd after

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 09/09/14 13:10, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> > I believe most our users prefer to stay with sysvinit when upgrading from >> > wheezy > And I believe that most our users don't care. But I as a maintainer > and operator of several daemons I really do care to have as most > unified environment for debugg

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-03 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 03/07/14 22:50, David Weinehall wrote: > Why would the NSA take even the slightest risk of discovery > when they could put a backdoor in a driver for a piece of hardware that > has full access to your system? Or on the firmware of your HDD/SDD: http://s3.eurecom.fr/~zaddach/docs/Recon14_HDD.pd

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 01/07/14 18:09, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 01, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > >> I think that a critical debconf warning should be in place to avoid >> replacing the init system of users without prior explicit consent. > I think that this would be an annoy

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 01/07/14 17:20, Thomas Weber wrote: > Or, taking a different perspective: now that the issue is known, what is > done to prevent another user from hitting the very same issue in the > future? I think that a critical debconf warning should be in place to avoid replacing the init system of users

Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable

2014-07-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/06/14 23:47, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> Unless I'm mistaken, the wording in the PHP license makes it invalid for >> > anybody that isn't actually the PHP project to use without making a >> > false claim that "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PHP DEVELOPMENT >> > TEAM". > The fact that ~nobody els

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 10/05/14 00:50, Russ Allbery wrote: > we should also prepare for that situation > and ensure that any switch of an init system via package installation > results in a critical debconf warning so that no one is caught by > surprise. > > This has the advantage of future-proofing against any later

Re: Avoiding system d

2014-05-11 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 11/05/14 09:18, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 2014 19:47:10 +0100, Brian > wrote: >> On Sat 10 May 2014 at 12:05:25 -0400, John wrote: >> A couple of quotes from your mail: >> > "I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of >> > almost all systemd's defenders." >> >> Y

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-20 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 17/04/14 00:23, Aaron Zauner wrote: > Now shipping grsec is a really good idea. I'd like to see that as well. There has been an attempt to provide an official grsec-flavour of the Debian kernel, but it didn't worked: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605090 For those interested

Re: when will we finally throw away binary uploads (Re: Please upgrade your build environment when you are affected by transition

2014-02-15 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 13/02/14 22:10, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On 13 February 2014 16:13, Holger Levsen wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, Ondřej Surý wrote: >>> >> this is just a pledge to you all fellow debian developers to update your >>> >> build environment before you build a package

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2014-01-28 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 28/01/14 16:53, Andreas Metzler wrote: > There seems to be some good news: > https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/rev/02634effbd4e > | Update library files license to use LGPL3+ and GPL2+. Do you know what motivated the change? Was because of the license issue in Debian? signature.asc Description: Op

Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when 5 youtube video opened

2014-01-18 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 18/01/14 19:37, moli wrote: >* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > I started chrome and opened 5 youtube 10 hour long videoes (i was planning to > test my cooling solution). The processor load was at 80% (!! not 100%!), the > ram was at ~90%.

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-24 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 23/12/13 02:16, Shawn Wilson wrote: > My gut reaction was that #5 or #6 are the best option (leaning to #6). > However I guess I don't understand what making something a system library > effects the license? > > Andreas Metzler wrote: >> >> #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. >> >> #6 Mov

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-23 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 22/12/13 21:59, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> #1 Fork LGPLv2.1+ GMP (version 4.2.1) for Debian. >> > >> > This seems like the best idea, as it lets us use newer versions of >> > GnuTLS that support elliptic curves with the minimum amount of pain. > I think this would be a good idea if GnuTLS doesn't

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 28/10/13 20:14, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > For those who haven't seen it, Lennart has posted some of his comments > about all this on G+: > https://plus.google.com/u/0/115547683951727699051/posts/8RmiAQsW9qf And here is the reply from Gentoo developer Patrick Lauer: http://gentooexperim

Re: default MTA

2013-06-14 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/05/13 12:15, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes: >> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:06:59PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 29 mai 2013 à 16:31 +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino a écrit : > Take for

Re: default MTA

2013-06-14 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 31/05/13 08:41, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > A utility to scan syslog and convey important information to the user > would be much more useful than configuring all mailers in Debian to read > root's local mail by default. I know how to redirect root's mail > elsewhere, thank you for not makin

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Monday, May 27, 2013 21:02:22, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the >> > flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as the default MTA? >> > >> > Are there any objections other than "but I like i

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/05/13 13:27, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:01:46 PM Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> On 30/05/13 12:27, Scott Kitterman wrote: >>> On Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:16:38 PM Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >>>> On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris K

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/05/13 12:27, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:16:38 PM Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote: >>> - Exim is more popular >>> >>> http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201201/mxsurv

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote: > - Exim is more popular > > http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201201/mxsurvey.html This is actually quite interesting. Given that Postfix is the default MTA on RHEL/CentOS, SLES (SUSE) and Ubuntu; meanwhile Exim is only the default on De

Re: default MTA

2013-05-28 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 28/05/13 18:53, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013, Arno Töll wrote: >> Why not consider something light, better suited for most systems which >> need nothing but a sendmail binary which is suited to relay to a >> real(tm) mail-server and deliver local mail and does not involve lots >> o

Re: Debian 7

2013-05-08 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 08/05/13 17:19, Mikael Livchenko wrote: > also, why still using mailing list? this is the 2013. Mailing list is like > living in 1993. spam bots love mail-list. mozilla bugzilla system is good > chat system. the user e-mail address is hidden, and there is the login > system. no one wants hund

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 06/05/13 19:02, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Famously, Fedora made the switch Seems that also OpenSUSE and Arch (among others) did the switch https://kb.askmonty.org/en/distributions-which-include-mariadb/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#706985: ITP: opensmtpd -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon

2013-05-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 06/05/13 18:42, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 05:10:17PM +0100, Daniel Walrond wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Daniel Walrond >> >> >> * Package name: opensmtpd >> Version : 5.3.1p1 >> Upstream Author : OpenBSD >> * URL : htt

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 27/04/13 01:46, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "CALP" == Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > > CALP> This can be even more simple: > > CALP> dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz > CALP> dpkg-buildpackage > > And where does one find dh_make? >

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 25/04/13 19:18, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> Gentoo: >> > - vim foo-1.ebuild; ebuild foo-1.ebuild manifest; emerge foo >> > - That may look like oversimplification, but the contents of >> > foo-1.ebuild really are very simple. > By that rationale, building a Debian package s

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-16 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 17/04/13 06:19, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > When downloading a source package from somewhere else, I often find > myself in the situation that after.. > > $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc > [...] > dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libreadline6-dev > libncursesw5-dev (>= 5.3) li

Re: Getting Intel Cedarview drivers into Debian

2013-02-28 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 28/02/13 15:54, Mikko Rasa wrote: > > We considered the possibility of updating the DDK to version 1.9, but in > the end decided to stay with 1.7. An update of the DDK would involve an > unknown amount of work in making the driver work with it, and that was > deemed undesirable by the customer

Re: Getting Intel Cedarview drivers into Debian

2013-02-25 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 25/02/13 15:09, Mikko Rasa wrote: > On 21.02.2013 19:42, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> On 21/12/12 14:23, Mikko Rasa wrote: >>> Hi Debian developers, >>> >>> I'm working as a consultant on a project to develop drivers for the >>> Pow

Re: Getting Intel Cedarview drivers into Debian

2013-02-21 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 21/12/12 14:23, Mikko Rasa wrote: > Hi Debian developers, > > I'm working as a consultant on a project to develop drivers for the > PowerVR graphics processor in the Cedarview family of Intel Atom > microprocessors in a Debian environment. The current target is Wheezy, > and Intel wishes to ge

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 03/01/13 19:18, alberto fuentes wrote: > Request for comments! AFAIK there is already an ongoing effort to provide an usable updated rolling release of Debian. http://joeyh.name/code/debian/cut/ http://cut.debian.net/ Isn't this (more or less) what you are asking for? signature.asc Descr

Canonical pushes upstart into user session - systemd developer complains

2012-11-24 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
FYI, Yet another episode of the Linux init drama: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/RaringUpstartUserSessions https://plus.google.com/115547683951727699051/posts/ZZWLtq6tYdn signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: debian mate

2012-11-21 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 21/11/12 04:03, Michael Schmitt wrote: > It may be for you or for some others, but not for all a viable option. > Most definitely not for me, the local and remote folks I asked around > the globe. Don't get me wrong most of them could probably "get along" > with the fallback mode after some degr

Re: debian mate

2012-11-20 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 20/11/12 22:55, Michael Schmitt wrote: > > If one likes Gnome2.x or MATE or not is a question of taste, to > acknowledge that many users are just mad about Gnome3 is a fact. To > offer no real sane upgrade-path for those users is... dunno how to say > it in another way, it is just insane! I did

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 06/11/12 17:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Still, it did lead me to a possible cause: I am not trying to modprobe > "microcode" in the intel-microcode postinst. This can indeed cause the > failure to update microcode at package install time. > > I forget why I didn't do it that way

Re: Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem

2012-09-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 01/09/12 20:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 08:02:21PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > >> This package contains the source code for the native implementation of ZFS >> for the Linux Kernel, which can be used with DKMS, so

Re: Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem

2012-09-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 01/09/12 20:36, Arno Töll wrote: > Hi, > > On 01.09.2012 20:02, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> This package contains the source code for the native implementation >> of ZFS for the Linux Kernel, which can be used with DKMS, so that >> local kernel modules

Bug#686453: ITP: spl-dkms -- The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) for the Linux kernel

2012-09-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
Package: wnpp Owner: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: spl-dkms Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Brian Behlendorf * URL : http://zfsonlinux.org/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C

Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem

2012-09-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
Package: wnpp Owner: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: zfs-linux Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Brian Behlendorf * URL : http://zfsonlinux.org/ * License : CDDL Programming Lang: C

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-12 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 11/08/12 07:12, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/11/2012 05:53 AM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Declaring "one area -- one chosen tool" is declaring the monopoly in the >> area. As with other monopolies, this often leads to "vendor" lock-in, >> stagnation, stopping developing the standards. Have s

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 09/08/12 15:54, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Please do not bother. > openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large > consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd. > We do not need to be able to choose among multiple init implementations. > What about

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 09/08/12 22:05, Thomas Goirand wrote: > What you are proposing here is a hack based on dangerous assumptions. Why you say this is a dangerous assumption? I am not proposing adding this to already installed machines via upgrades, but to add this feature to d-i, so it automatically adds sbin dir

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 08/08/12 12:11, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/08/2012 10:32 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> I think this is a great idea :) >> >> You can't imagine how much I blame Debian each time I have to type the >> full path "/sbin/ifconfig" as a non-ro

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-07 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 08/08/12 03:16, Ulrich Dangel wrote: > Currently the default PATH for Debian does not include /sbin, /usr/sbin, nor > /usr/local/sbin. If an user wants to run a program in either /sbin/ or > /usr/sbin > the full path must be specified. > > Some programs don't necessarily need root privileges l

Re: Bug#682706: ITP: crtools -- tools for freezing/checkpointing/restoring a running application

2012-07-24 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 25/07/12 04:19, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Artem Leshchev wrote: >> * Package name: crtools >> >...< >> Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace, or CRIU, is a tool, that can freeze a >> running >> application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to a hard drive as a collecti

Re: Debian stickers

2012-07-22 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 22/07/12 04:41, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Such Debian stickers would make no sense without certification. A hardware > certification can only be done if we have the necessary software to do it. > We don't have it (yet), so let's discuss that instead, then when we have > it, we may talk about Debia

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
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Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-20 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
disk. I really think this is the way to go :) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineering

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
-PID basis and block (sleep) the pid while its cache is full. Thanks! Best regards! -- ~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineeringhttp://www.igalia.com

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-28 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
er when using tmpfs for /tmp - [...] Regards! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineeringhttp://www.igalia.com ~~~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

2012-05-28 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
document which says that its recommended the use of /tmp for "small" files? -- ~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineeringhttp://www.igalia.com ~~~

Benchmarking tmpfs for /tmp

2012-05-27 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
tem with a HDD and on another with a SSD. Best regards! Thanks a lot! -- ~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineeringhttp://www.

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-27 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
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Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

2012-05-27 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
! [1] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html [2] http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/doc/Posix-1003.2.txt -- ~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineeringht

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
is simply *not* *true*. It is *not* defined on any standard that files on /tmp should be small. Period. Regards! [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=90222140834090&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=9022392841 [2] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#TMPTEMPORARYFILES --

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

2012-05-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 26/05/12 19:43, Russ Allbery wrote: > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: >> On 26/05/12 19:13, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> I find some of the assertions in this thread confusing. I've been >>> using tmpfs /tmp on my laptop for quite some time and have watched

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

2012-05-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
vies via the Adobe Flash player and have never noticed any unexpected > consumption of space in /tmp. > > Are you sure that video streaming via Adobe's Flash player works the way > that you seem to think it works? > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666096 -- ~~~~

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
hen the system is swapping. I don't know the ultimate reason behind this ugly behaviour of Linux when the swapping process is happening, but I know this is real and it happens because I have experimented this situation myself more than a couple of times. Regards! -- ~~

default settings should be sane

2012-05-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
s to go back to Windows. What happens if tmpfs on /tmp is *not* the default? * The user is happy with Debian because he can get things done and tells its friend about Debian. Regards! -- ~~~~~~~ Carlos Albe

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
lel means that if we have to run something, we should not serialize its start-up (as sysvinit does), but run it all at the same time, so that the available CPU and disk IO bandwidth is maxed out, and hence the overall start-up time minimized. """ http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
old-good sysvinit scripts when systemd is not installed on the system. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineer

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 31/03/12 17:40, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/30/2012 09:46 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> This can be the solution we are looking to tie together the different >> init systems. >> > Hi, > > Others have already expressed their view that using a *new*

Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd

2012-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 31/03/12 01:03, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-03-30 19:43:48 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> On 30/03/12 12:29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> I don't know what's going on exactly, but from the logs, it seems >>> that when suspending, the c

Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd

2012-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
o set it again. Regards! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineeringhttp://www.igalia.com

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/12 08:18, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > >> > On 20/03/12 07:14, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >>> > > FWIW, I have a proposal for a GSoC task this year to write a >>> > > systemd-to-initscript converter, >>> >

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
://darcs.nomeata.de/metainit/examples/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineeringhttp://www.igalia.com ~~~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
to metainit via a new debian standard-version and also with lintian warnings if a startup script other than the metainit one is detected on the package. This can be the solution we are looking to tie together the different init systems. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-28 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
ting (making Network Manager work also without X) would be > the default! $ sudo apt-get remove network-manager* $ sudo apt-get install wicd wicd-curses wicd-gtk ^ wicd-kde ? $ wicd-curses And enjoy your network without the NM mess :) -- ~

Re: [PHP-DEV] Suhosin patch disabled by default in Debian php5 builds

2012-02-02 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 02/02/12 14:43, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 02/02/12 14:31, Stefan Esser wrote: >> considering the fact that you write this email the very same day that a >> remote code execution vulnerability in PHP is found that is easy to exploit >> from remote and is gre

Re: [PHP-DEV] Suhosin patch disabled by default in Debian php5 builds

2012-02-02 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
128/PHP-PHP.html?vendor_id=74 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Engineeringhttp://www.igalia.com ~~~

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
doing this I think is a mistake and should be fixed. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez http://neutrino.es Igalia - Free Software Eng

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
e-list for hardware that is > installed > but never used) and then make a small white-list for the USB devices that are > suitable for use. https://lwn.net/Articles/470906/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-16 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 16/11/11 11:37, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Assuming you have increased your SWAP by the size of the tmpfs to > compensate for /tmp now using RAM+SWAP you can only ever get that effect > in cases where the OOMKiller would have already been triggered with /tmp > on disk. We are talking about t

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-12 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 12/11/11 23:25, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 12 novembre 2011 à 23:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : >> Adam Borowski, le Sat 12 Nov 2011 23:08:08 +0100, a écrit : >>> You need to increase the swap size by the amount you'd use for /tmp. >> >> Well, the idea of such case is precisely to

ITP: aircrack-ng -- wireless WEP/WPA cracking utilities

2011-11-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
reassign 642934 wnpp retitle 642934 ITP: aircrack-ng -- wireless WEP/WPA cracking utilities severity 642934 wishlist owner 642934 ! * Package name: aircrack-ng Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Thomas d'Otreppe * URL : http://www.aircrack-ng.org * License : GPL