Re: Check if config files were changed during package installation

2023-09-03 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo Олег Михайлов, 16.08.23 16:38 Олег Михайлов: > I want to create a package, which acts in the following manner: > - If configs were not changed by dpkg during installation, restart service > immediately after installation; > - If configs were changed by dpkg during installation, do not rest

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-12-01 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo Steve McIntyre, 30.11.20 16:36 Steve McIntyre: > I'll admit that I'm thinking of this *mostly* in terms of the needs of > tasksel so far, but I'd expect switching to a new template type is > likely to need a rethink to make best use of them anyway. In my mind there is also locales where we

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-11-29 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo Steve McIntyre, 29.11.20 20:21 Steve McIntyre: > On and off, I've been hacking on tasksel for quite a while to improve > the UI there and add better support for things like Blends. I've made > some progress in my hacking, but I think I've hit a brick wall and I > need to change tack. :-/ >

Re: Bug#963191: RFH: aufs

2020-06-29 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo, 20.06.20 13:26 Bastian Blank: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:14:17PM +0200, Jan Luca Naumann wrote: > > At the moment aufs is nearly unmaintained since I do not have time due to > > personal issues. Therefore, I would be happy if there is somebody to > > co-maintain the package. > Since the k

behaviour of "systemctl kexec" not matching man page, sabotaging kexec reboots with kexec-tools

2020-02-20 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo, some Debian releases ago I used to use kexec-tools to do kexec reboots with sysvinit. With the advent of systemd I used "systemctl kexec" with kexec-tools installed and it worked as intended. Some time ago it started failing and I didn't care because I didn't have bare metal servers runn

Re: Master-Slave terminology Re: [Piuparts-devel] piuparts.d.o stalled?

2020-02-13 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo Ulrike, 12.02.20 17:46 Ulrike Uhlig: > On 12.02.20 17:01, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: > > In any case, since DSA had to restart everything at UBC, the piuparts > > slave got restarted as well and it's churning through the backlog. > > Unfortunately it looks like restarting the slave just eats

apt: deprecate /etc/apt/trusted*

2019-11-04 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Package: apt Version: 1.8.4 Severity: normal Hallo Ansgar, 04.11.19 09:44 Ansgar: > Paul Wise writes: > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 4:52 AM Guillem Jover wrote: > >> The official archive-keyring packages that use these, I think it's mostly > >> for backwards compatibility reasons. > > > > I wonder

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2019-11-03 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo Wouter Verhelst, 03.11.19 18:35 Wouter Verhelst: > The software from the package downloads the metadata index and validates > the GPG signature; and if everything checks out, adds configuration to > /etc/apt/sources.list.d and /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d to enable the > repository. Please don't

Re: Recreating history of a package

2019-02-17 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo, 16.02.19 21:24 Ben Hutchings: > On Sat, 2019-02-16 at 14:17 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-02-16 at 12:22:04 +, peter green wrote: > > > 2. Snapshot.debian.org is only offered over plain insecure http. For > > >recent versions the packages can be verified against the >

Re: pro-tip: preinstall debhelper in your sbuild

2017-03-24 Thread Timo Weingärtner
2017-03-24 16:18:10 CET Adam Borowski: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 07:30:55PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 03:25:59PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > autoremove will still usually catch this. > > > > I'm not sure about this. Looks like it keeps Recommends or somethi

Bug#838989: Debian 8.0 ipv6 bug

2016-09-27 Thread Timo Weingärtner
27.09.16 19:14:31 CEST Asim Shaikh: > Package: general > Severity: important > > Ipv6 Stops working exactly after 30 mins on debian 8.0 and 7.8. > The ipv6 configuration is written in the network file and not added a alias. What configuration is written in which file(s) (full path, please)? What

Re: The state of cross building

2016-01-31 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi Helmut, 2016-01-31 15:58:17 Helmut Grohne: > Unfortunately, for Makefile based build systems we cannot simply pass CC > to the build. Exporting it as an environment variable, will not help > much as make defines CC as a builtin variable, which overrides the > environment. In the vast majority o

Re: The state of cross building

2016-01-31 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, 2016-01-30 20:08:09 Helmut Grohne: > Let me give a status update on how well cross building works in > unstable. > Processing the logs > --- > > I've hacked up a script that guesses failure reasons by scanning the > logs with some regular expressions. Common issues are: > >

Re: ask github to encourage signed git tags

2015-08-21 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, 2015-08-21 09:51:45 Thomas Koch: > we want upstream to sign releases. Nowadays a lot of software is on github > and a release is just a git tag. - An unsigned git tag ... :-( > > Github has a site that shows tags[1] but it does not give any indication > whether the tag is signed or not. > [1]

multiarch coinstallability of libc6 / conflicting loader paths

2014-12-06 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, last week I tried exploiting multiarch to set up a machine to build and run binaries for multiple architectures. So I enabled architectures in dpkg, updated the package lists and tried installing libc6 packages for each architecture, but dpkg refused to unpack libc6:mipsel after libc6:powe

abstraction library and linkage

2014-09-13 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, consider a library libabstr implementing an interface and a library libimplX that is currently used by libabstr to actually do stuff. The public headers are called abstr.h and implX.h libabstr could be designed in basically two different ways: 1: * abstr.h contains just prototypes, perhaps

Re: Does "recovery mode" imply read-only filesystem ?

2014-08-22 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, 2014-08-22 14:17:33 Olivier Berger: > I had the impression that the "recovery mode" default grub entry was > meant for booting with read-only, but can't manage to spot > documentation. You can boot with "ro" and "init=/bin/bash" to get a shell without anything trying to remount read/write.

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-18 Thread Timo Weingärtner
2014-08-18 14:27:15 Thorsten Glaser: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 04:16:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > - encoding (due to git restrictions): > > > ":" -> "%" > > > "~" -> "_" > > I’d rather have something that sorts like Debian versi

Re: Introducing vcswatch

2014-07-05 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, 2014-07-04 23:04:33 Christoph Berg: > To fix that, there's now a service running at qa.debian.org which > grabs the Sources files from unstable and experimental, notes all > Vcs-* URLs, makes checkouts, and compares the debian/changelog file > seen there with the current version in the archive

Re: How to provide support for -i386 utilities within -amd64 packages?

2014-05-22 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi Carl, 2014-05-21 15:41:44 Carl Worth: > I'm interested in packaging (or helping to package) several programs and > libraries related to OpenGL, (such as apitrace, vogl, fips, and waffle). > > For each of these packages I have a question about best practices > related to supporting 32-bit libra

Re: Demande

2014-05-21 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi Nadia, 2014-05-21 11:58:15 nadia ziane: > Je suis ingénieur en informatique , et j'aimerais bien rejoindre l'équipe > de développement debian mais j'aimerais savoir quels sont les conditions > pour y faire? Please read https://www.debian.org/devel/join/. > quels sont les connaissances techni

Re: Point 1 of Social Contract

2014-05-04 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, 2014-05-04 14:24:16 Solal: > [GR2004-2] have nothing to do with it. > My proprosition is just warn about proprietary software dangers, but > users would still install non-free software from repositories, get help > from developers, etc. But they are warned. The installer already asks whether

Re: Bug#722950: ITP: ssh-agent-filter -- filtering proxy for ssh-agent

2013-09-15 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, On Sun, 2013-09-15 11:48:01 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Timo Weingärtner wrote: > > Packaging is prepared, an upload to mentors is waiting for the bug number. > > FYI, ITP stands for *intent* to package. The ITP comes before the > package to prev

Bug#722950: ITP: ssh-agent-filter -- filtering proxy for ssh-agent

2013-09-14 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Timo Weingärtner" * Package name: ssh-agent-filter Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Timo Weingärtner * URL : https://github.com/tiwe-de/ssh-agent-filter * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C++, Shell D

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-05 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo Игорь Пашев, 2013-04-05 um 13:32:24 schriebst Du: > I've just realized that debian/rules might not be a makefile, but can > be a script in any language. > > Is there any package using debian/rules whihc is not a makefile? > Are there any packages that can get advantages by using debian/rule

Re: unsafe use of gpg

2013-01-13 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo, 2012-12-15 um 17:12:54 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > You're right, in gpgv, it appears you _can't_ suppress the default > keyring, ~/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg. So either ensure that this file > does not exist, or set HOME or GNUPGHOME or --homedir to a location > where it will not exist. $ stra

Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo Russ Allbery, 2013-01-03 um 19:26:46 schriebst Du: > Timo Weingärtner writes: > > 2013-01-03 um 18:32:28 schrieb Russ Allbery: > >> Alexey Eromenko writes: > >>> User error? Huh ? > >>> > >>> No ! This is a Debian Bug ! > >>

Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Timo Weingärtner
clone 697270 -1 retitle -1 misleading error message when ELF interpreter does not exist reassign -1 bash severity -1 normal merge -1 609882 retitle 697270 i386 multiarch not enabled and ia32-libs not installed by default on amd64 severity 697270 minor tags 697270 +wontfix thanks Hi Alexey, 2013-

Re: Differing behaviour of shells regarding simple commands with parameter assignments

2012-12-25 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, 2012-12-26, 02:22:45 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Timo Weingärtner (26/12/2012): > > bash, zsh, posh output 121 > > > > busybox sh, dash, (m)ksh output 122 > > > > checkbashisms doesn't complain. > > > > Which of the three is wrong? Where shal

Differing behaviour of shells regarding simple commands with parameter assignments

2012-12-25 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, I just stepped over a difference between bash and busybox. To illustrate I wrote this simple script: -- #!/bin/sh bar () { echo -n $foo; } foo=1 bar foo=2 bar bar -- bash, zsh, posh output 121 busybox sh, dash, (m)ksh output 122 checkbashisms doesn't complain. Which of

Re: devotee (debian vote engine): predictable RNG allows recovery of secret monikers

2012-04-26 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, 2012-04-26, 23:23:54 Timo Juhani wrote: > Raphael Geissert writes: > > print hmac_sha1_hex($v, $m); > > Yeah that sounds promising. Now we just need to fix the code that tries > to randomize the order of entries in the tally. Is that randomization really needed? Why not just sort based on t

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-03-14 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo, 2012-03-14 um 01:30:45 schrieb Paul Wise: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > (There's a third issue, of course, which is whose environment the daemon > > should be inheriting -- the sanitised environment of init, or the > > environment of the shell of whoever i

Bug#662080: ITP: hadori -- Hardlinks identical files

2012-03-03 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: hadori Version: 0.2 Upstream Author: Timo Weingärtner URL: https://github.com/tiwe-de/hadori License: GPL3+ Description: Hardlinks identical files This might look like

Re: how to divert /etc/profile?

2011-07-04 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi Harald, Am Montag, 2011-07-04 schrieb Harald Dunkel: > I would like to install a private package diverting > /etc/profile (to support /etc/profile.d). Problem: > There is no owner for this file. > > What would you suggest? > > > Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated. See /usr/shar

Re: Bug#612752: Bind fails to start if $OPENSSL_CONF is set

2011-02-25 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2011 schrieb Peter Palfrader: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Package: bind9 > > Version: 1:9.7.2.dfsg.P3-1.1 > > > > I'm not sure whether this is a bug or my own configuration error. > > > > In interactive shells, I set $OPENSSL_CONF to point to the config

Re: Bug#534891: ITP: openssh-known-hosts -- known_hosts downloader for OpenSSH

2009-06-28 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Am Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009 schrieb Steve Langasek: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:47:39AM +0200, Timo Weingärtner wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > > >Package name: openssh-known-hosts > >

Re: Bug#534891: ITP: openssh-known-hosts -- known_hosts downloader for OpenSSH

2009-06-28 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Am Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009 schrieb David Paleino: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:47:39 +0200, Timo Weingärtner wrote: > > Upstream Author: Timo Weingärtner > > URL: will go to mentors.debian.net as soon as I get the bug > > number > > This should really be upst

Bug#534891: ITP: openssh-known-hosts -- known_hosts downloader for OpenSSH

2009-06-27 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: openssh-known-hosts Version: 0.2 Upstream Author: Timo Weingärtner URL: will go to mentors.debian.net as soon as I get the bug number License: GPL2+ Description: This