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

2014-09-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Svante Signell writes ("Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]"): > As you can see from that bug report the systemd maintainers overrides > every attempt to change severity of that bug to wishlist and won

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

2014-09-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 13:04 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > 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 - h

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]

2014-09-16 Thread Noel Torres
On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 21:26:50 Matthias Urlichs escribió: > Hi, > > Steve Langasek: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > > > What about cases when init scripts doesn't come from any package but > > > are crafted by hand? > > > > It's straightforward

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

2014-09-16 Thread Noel Torres
On Thursday, 11 de September de 2014 08:00:57 Marc Haber escribió: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:04:07 -0300, Martinx - ? > > wrote: > > Also, during Debian 8 installation, please, provide an "altinit" option ( > > > >http://pyro.eu.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-altinit/ ?), so, people can > >choo

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

2014-09-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:58:11 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> sysvinit init scripts will suffer heavy bitrot in jessie+1. >> >Possibly. But let's get Jessie out the door first … So that it'll be completely impossible to roll back? Not that I seriously believe that we got the balls

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

2014-09-13 Thread lee
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > 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 defaul

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

2014-09-12 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: > sysvinit init scripts will suffer heavy bitrot in jessie+1. > Possibly. But let's get Jessie out the door first … -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

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

2014-09-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:27:58 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >Nobody says jessie+1 will not permit running sysvinit any more, >and the CTTE rulings explicitly did not touch that topic which >implies some amount of scepsis. sysvinit init scripts will suffer heavy bitrot in jessie+1. Greetings Marc

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

2014-09-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Nick Phillips wrote: > Debian has a good and hard-earned reputation for not messing up > sysadmins' changes Agreed. This is about the only thing I can currently use to argue for use of Debian over *buntu in some places. > So, is it actually feasible to provide such a prompt?

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

2014-09-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > We could delay the transition-on-upgrade by one release, but the > migration from sysvinit to systemd on a Jessie -> Jessie+1 upgrade will > probably end up less tested (though systemd itself would probably be > more tested by then). Nobody says jessi

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

2014-09-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Mathieu Parent wrote: > 4) Upgrade to systemd silently without asking the user AND add a grub > entry to use old init These are the Linux bootloaders I came up within less than five minutes of searching the ’net: • Acronis OS Selector • AiR-Boot • AKernelLoader • AMIBOOT • AP

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

2014-09-11 Thread lee
Daniel Dickinson writes: > I will add that for a distribution that claims to be about it's users, > the systemd attitude of "We're *going* to use systemd so 'suck it up > Buttercup' really stinks at a social level. Debians' decision to support systemd already violates Debians' social contract.

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

2014-09-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
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) - without at least a debconf > prompt of a reasonable p

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

2014-09-11 Thread Josh Triplett
Marcin Kulisz wrote: > On 2014-09-09 18:23:58, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Together with the /lib/sysvinit/init fallback binary in sysvinit and > > > (and optionally my patch getting merged for grub [1]), this should > > > provide for a hopefully seamless upgrade experience.

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

2014-09-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:04:07 -0300, Martinx - ? wrote: > Also, during Debian 8 installation, please, provide an "altinit" option ( >http://pyro.eu.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-altinit/ ?), so, people can >choose between systemd / sysvinit (before 1st boot). I know that it seems >easy to just

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

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On 11/09/14 12:10 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > I will add that for a distribution that claims to be about it's users, > the systemd attitude of "We're *going* to use systemd so 'suck it up > Buttercup' really stinks at a social level. Especially since 'Free' is supposed to be 'as in Freedom no

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

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Dickinson
For the heck of it, I will add that if in my job I pushed out crap like Network Manager and Pulseaudio at the time of introduction as 'the saviour of the Linux desktop' as a production release I would have fired long ago. Regards, Daniel On 11/09/14 12:10 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > I will

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

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Dickinson
I will add that for a distribution that claims to be about it's users, the systemd attitude of "We're *going* to use systemd so 'suck it up Buttercup' really stinks at a social level. Not to mention, as many have pointed out, transition to systemd is *not* going to be painless and without problem

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

2014-09-10 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Hi! Yes, please... I vote +1 for *not silently replace* sysvinit by systemd, when upgrading from Debian 7, to 8. Also, during Debian 8 installation, please, provide an "altinit" option ( http://pyro.eu.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-altinit/ ?), so, people can choose between systemd / sysvinit (

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

2014-09-10 Thread Nick Phillips
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 18:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:44 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 03:12:16 Ben Hutchings escribió: > > > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55

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

2014-09-10 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Steve Langasek: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > > What about cases when init scripts doesn't come from any package but are > > crafted by hand? > > It's straightforward to check for init scripts that are not owned by any > packages. > … and besides, systemd

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

2014-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > What about cases when init scripts doesn't come from any package but are > crafted by hand? > Those can not be easily detected and compared for changes, as they are not > coming from any package and they may (and in some cases are)

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

2014-09-10 Thread Marcin Kulisz
On 2014-09-09 18:23:58, Josh Triplett wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Together with the /lib/sysvinit/init fallback binary in sysvinit and > > (and optionally my patch getting merged for grub [1]), this should > > provide for a hopefully seamless upgrade experience. > > Agreed, this seems like t

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

2014-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:44 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 03:12:16 Ben Hutchings escribió: > > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55 Tollef Fog Heen escribió: > > > > ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez

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

2014-09-10 Thread Noel Torres
On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 03:12:16 Ben Hutchings escribió: > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55 Tollef Fog Heen escribió: > > > ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > > > > > > > But if you don't (Is not uncommon to have serve

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

2014-09-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014, at 04:12, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55 Tollef Fog Heen escribió: > > > ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > > > > > > > But if you don't (Is not uncommon to have servers on remote locat

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

2014-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55 Tollef Fog Heen escribió: > > ]] 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 do

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

2014-09-09 Thread Josh Triplett
Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 09.09.2014 17:15, schrieb Ansgar Burchardt: > > Having only some systems switch to a different init system on upgrade > > seems potentially confusing to me. > > Agreed. We definitely should switch the machines on upgrades. There is a > good reason why we also did it when

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 Tollef Fog Heen
]] 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 tr

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 system with systemd

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 trouble. > > Then surely you test the upgrade

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

2014-09-09 Thread Noel Torres
On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55 Tollef Fog Heen escribió: > ]] 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 trouble. > > Th

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

2014-09-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] 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 trouble. Then surely you test the upgrade before making it live, using kvm -snapshot or simila

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

2014-09-09 Thread Marvin Renich
* Michael Biebl [140909 11:43]: > Am 09.09.2014 17:15, schrieb Ansgar Burchardt: > > Having only some systems switch to a different init system on upgrade > > seems potentially confusing to me. > > Agreed. We definitely should switch the machines on upgrades. There is a > good reason why we also

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

2014-09-09 Thread Marvin Renich
* Mathieu Parent [140909 09:15]: > 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 asking the user. > > 3) Upgrade to s

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

2014-09-09 Thread Marvin Renich
* Ansgar Burchardt [140909 11:16]: > On 09/09/2014 16:59, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I don't believe we should switch init systems on upgrade without at least > > a prompt, > > I think there are good arguments for both switching to the new default > and not: Perhaps, but not without giving the sysa

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 asking the user. >> 3) Upgrade to

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

2014-09-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 09.09.2014 17:15, schrieb Ansgar Burchardt: > Having only some systems switch to a different init system on upgrade > seems potentially confusing to me. Agreed. We definitely should switch the machines on upgrades. There is a good reason why we also did it when switching to dependency based boo

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

2014-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > On 09/09/2014 17:01, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The original plan was to have the question owned by some package that >> could then switch the init symlink from one implementation to another. >> That way, no abort is required. I'm not sure if that survived contact >> with

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

2014-09-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 09/09/2014 17:01, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Danjean writes: >> I agree with your analysis. However, how do you think we can ask the >> user ? We can have a debconf question. However, whatever the answer is, >> we must not return an error (i.e. aborting the upgrade). It is really a >> pain t

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

2014-09-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 09/09/2014 16:59, Russ Allbery wrote: > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: >> 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 asking the user. >> 3) Upgrade to systemd silently without as

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

2014-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Danjean writes: > I agree with your analysis. However, how do you think we can ask the > user ? We can have a debconf question. However, whatever the answer is, > we must not return an error (i.e. aborting the upgrade). It is really a > pain to recover when this occurs. The original plan

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

2014-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > Most of our users don't care as long as their machines continue to work > as expected after an upgrade. > 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 a

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

2014-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Thibault writes: > When I got "upgraded" to systemd on july, my system was completely > misbehaving for several reasons related to my configuration: > - I had an ISO mount in my fstab, whose file didn't exist any more, > sysvinit never complained about it, systemd just stopped at boot. S

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

2014-09-09 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014, at 15:14, Mathieu Parent wrote: > 4) Upgrade to systemd silently without asking the user AND add a grub > entry to use old init I like this approach very much since it's least intrusive to the upgrade process, but provides a emergency fallback in default installation. O. --

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

2014-09-09 Thread Mathieu Parent
2014-09-09 15:14 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Parent : > 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 asking the user. >> 3) Upgrade

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

2014-09-09 Thread Mathieu Parent
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 asking the user. > 3) Upgrade to systemd silently without asking the user. 4) Upg

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

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 13:10:48 +0200, a écrit : > > And I'm saying that I don't think this is an isolated case, > > And I'm saying that all we have is anecdotal evidence Our uni lab has switched to systemd, 20% of the machines do not boot. The admin is currently looking at what the diff

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

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 14:11:28 +0200, a écrit : > I have made a quick poll among various people here and there, there is > no real consensus, either on switching to systemd by default or keeping > with sysvinit by default. So it seems to me a question during upgrade is > needed. (mor

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

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthias Urlichs, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 13:49:54 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault: > > > So please fill a bug for every breakage you will encounter, so it > > > can be either fixed or documented. > > > > There will be dozens of them then. Will they really be fixed in time for > > Jessie? > > > We

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

2014-09-09 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 09/09/2014 13:46, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > 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 asking the user. > 3) Upgrade to systemd silently without asking the user. [...] > I und

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

2014-09-09 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 09/09/2014 13:10, Ondřej Surý wrote: > And I'm saying that all we have is anecdotal evidence and we all > know what we step into when we run our systems on jessie or sid. > So please fill a bug for every breakage you will encounter, so it > can be either fixed or documented. Did you look at the

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

2014-09-09 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Samuel Thibault: > > So please fill a bug for every breakage you will encounter, so it > > can be either fixed or documented. > > There will be dozens of them then. Will they really be fixed in time for > Jessie? > We don't know yet. Would you rather have bugs which are not even reported, an

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

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 13:19:31 +0200, a écrit : > > > I believe most our users prefer to stay with sysvinit when upgrading from > > > wheezy > > > > And I believe that most our users don't care. > > I believe most of our users care about an upgrade to Jessie that doesn't > bring re

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

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 13:10:48 +0200, a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014, at 11:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 11:47:38 +0200, a écrit : > > > And you are saying that you can do all those tweaks, but you cannot > > > pin systemd-sysv to not install? > > > > N

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

2014-09-09 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014, at 11:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 11:47:38 +0200, a écrit : > > And you are saying that you can do all those tweaks, but you cannot > > pin systemd-sysv to not install? > > No, I'm saying that if I hadn't noticed "systemd" among the upgrades, I

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

2014-09-09 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014, at 09:11, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > You cannot have an MTA without configuring it, and nobody even tried to > > implement auto-migration of the old default mailer's configuration to the > > new one. Also, we didn't switch to a different default mailer because the > > new one o

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

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 11:47:38 +0200, a écrit : > switch the default init to systemd as Debian > maintainers who would like to keep their sanity would do. I have lost my sanity about system boot & shutdown since when I have switched to systemd. Really. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 11:47:38 +0200, a écrit : > And you are saying that you can do all those tweaks, but you cannot > pin systemd-sysv to not install? No, I'm saying that if I hadn't noticed "systemd" among the upgrades, I would have gotten all these changes all of a sudden without ask

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

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
> You cannot have an MTA without configuring it, and nobody even tried to > implement auto-migration of the old default mailer's configuration to the > new one. Also, we didn't switch to a different default mailer because the > new one offered a heap of features and infrastructure which the other >

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

2014-09-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jonas, On Montag, 8. September 2014, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I did not file a bugreport about that - where could I? upgrade-reports seems to be the pseudo package you want. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=upgrade-reports :-) cheers, Holger signature.asc Des

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

2014-09-08 Thread Cameron Norman
El lun, 8 de sep 2014 a las 9:07 , Matthias Urlichs escribió: Hi, Vincent Danjean: If I recall correctly, when Debian switched the default MTA, upgrades did not change the already installed. You cannot have an MTA without configuring it, and nobody even tried to implement auto-migration

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

2014-09-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Vincent Danjean (2014-09-08 21:37:14) > On 08/09/2014 18:07, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> Vincent Danjean: >>> If I recall correctly, when Debian switched the default MTA, >>> upgrades did not change the already installed. >> >> You cannot have an MTA without configuring it, and nobody even

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

2014-09-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 18:07:18 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Vincent Danjean: >> If I recall correctly, when Debian switched the default MTA, upgrades >> did not change the already installed. > >You cannot have an MTA without configuring it, and nobody even tried to >implement auto-migration of the

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

2014-09-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 08/09/2014 18:07, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Vincent Danjean: >> If I recall correctly, when Debian switched the default MTA, upgrades >> did not change the already installed. > > You cannot have an MTA without configuring it, and nobody even tried to > implement auto-migration of the o

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:39:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Note also that a few of those things (udev, adduser, and > libdevmapper1.02.1 for example) are likely to be on any non-chroot system > already since they're either dependencies of other things (such as grub > for libdevmapper1.02.1) or

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 02:33:04PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Ok, so let's quantify the view of sysadmins somehow. This is a complete waste of time and I expect better of you in particular. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

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

2014-09-08 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Vincent Danjean: > If I recall correctly, when Debian switched the default MTA, upgrades > did not change the already installed. You cannot have an MTA without configuring it, and nobody even tried to implement auto-migration of the old default mailer's configuration to the new one. Also, we

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

2014-09-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 08/09/2014 15:27, Noel Torres wrote: > On Sunday, 7 de September de 2014 23:45:12 David Weinehall escribió: >> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:37:12PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Noel Torres wrote: > So we are clearly failing to f

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On 08/09/14 14:44, Noel Torres wrote: > Example: having EMC Networker server softare for backups in a sysvinit > machine > is (relatively) easy, because the scripts for starting and stopping the > services are (quite) standard (but very complicated) sysv scripts. systemd is compatible with LSB

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-08 Thread Noel Torres
On Sunday, 7 de September de 2014 16:11:02 Matthias Urlichs escribió: > Hi, > > Chris Bannister: > > > If technically feasible, that would be a far better safety net (just > > > tell people to boot with init=/sbin/sysvinit if they run into a > > > problem) than an "oh dear, it's so dangerous that

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-08 Thread Noel Torres
On Sunday, 7 de September de 2014 23:45:12 David Weinehall escribió: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:37:12PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Noel Torres wrote: > > >> So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the user) >

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-08 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/08/2014 at 02:05 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 11:12:01PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> Surely, it should be an OPT-IN choice, not an OPT-OUT one? I'm >> talking upgrades here, not new installs. > > I have no clue

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Josselin Mouette , 2014-09-08, 10:58: Excuse me? Are you trying to use the fact that you and your stupid friends are trolling about systemd all day long in order to justify your own rants? And I thought you couldn’t get any lower. You have a very good shovel. OTOH, a hydraulic excavator mu

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Adam Borowski wrote: > Noel Torres writes: > > So, in your POV, forcing millions of sysadmins out there to take extra pain to > > keep their systems running as they expect is the way to go? > > I think it's fair to expect the few hundred people[1] that wa

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 11:12:01PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Surely, it should be an OPT-IN choice, not an OPT-OUT one? I'm talking > upgrades here, not new installs. I have no clue why we are continuing to discuss this. The ctte resolution says that "the default init system for Linux archit

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-07 Thread Cameron Norman
El dom, 7 de sep 2014 a las 3:45 , David Weinehall escribió: On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:37:12PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Noel Torres wrote: >> So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the user) path. >> >>

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-07 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:37:12PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Noel Torres wrote: > >> So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the user) path. > >> > >> Should not logind depend on systemd-shim | systemd-sysv instea

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 14:08 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Steve, as long as bugs like [1] are not fixed in systemd-shim, I'm not > going to make it the first alternative. Installing a half-broken logind > whould be a disservice to our users. Kinda strange to use *that* as an argument, while

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:30:11 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >You make the assumption that there's not been an tries to resolve this, >which is wrong. As for security, well, I have a keyscript that unlocks >my boot drive just fine, but handled through initramfs, not systemd. Those tries are invisi

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Chris Bannister: > > If technically feasible, that would be a far better safety net (just tell > > people to boot with init=/sbin/sysvinit if they run into a problem) than > > an "oh dear, it's so dangerous that we don't even install it by default" > > message. :-/ > > Surely, it should be an

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 6. September 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > No. I expect them all to continue running just peachy fine and seamlessly. > I also expect the Jessie upgrade to switch to systemd. Because, frankly and > strictly IMHO, doing anything else makes no sense whatsoever. > > On the other ha

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Marc Haber > On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 15:56:23 +0200, Matthias Urlichs > wrote: > >Marc Haber: > >> On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:12:50 +0200, Svante Signell > >> wrote: > >> >On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 14:20 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> >> Thus, unless the user explicitly tells the apt{-get,itude} sub

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-09-07, Sune Vuorela wrote: > I had my systems painfully and transparantly upgraded to systemd. And > I'm happy it happens. Please keep it this way. I apparantly like pain. or maybe s/ful/less/ is the appropriate reading. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-09-07, Chris Bannister wrote: > Surely, it should be an OPT-IN choice, not an OPT-OUT one? I'm talking > upgrades here, not new installs. I had my systems painfully and transparantly upgraded to systemd. And I'm happy it happens. Please keep it this way. I do want my systems to look the

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.09.2014 14:08, schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Steve, as long as bugs like [1] are not fixed in systemd-shim, I'm not >> going to make it the first alternative. Installing a half-broken logind >> whould be a disservice to our users. > > Uhm, did you

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sat, 6 Sep 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > Steve, as long as bugs like [1] are not fixed in systemd-shim, I'm not > going to make it the first alternative. Installing a half-broken logind > whould be a disservice to our users. Uhm, did you read this subthread at all? Let me try to summarise: At

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 12:18:08PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Zack Weinberg: > > I think this strategy is positively _necessary_ in order to ensure > > that systems currently running Wheezy can safely be upgraded to > > Jessie. There are simply too many wacky configurations out ther

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Zack Weinberg: > I think this strategy is positively _necessary_ in order to ensure > that systems currently running Wheezy can safely be upgraded to > Jessie. There are simply too many wacky configurations out there; it If we do decide that a default switch is unsafe for too many systems, t

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 15:56:23 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:12:50 +0200, Svante Signell >> wrote: >> >On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 14:20 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> >> Thus, unless the user explicitly tells the apt{-get,itude} subsystem not >> >> to switch to

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
Zack Weinberg wrote: > Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> I also expect the Jessie upgrade to switch to systemd. Because, >> frankly and strictly IMHO, doing anything else makes no sense >> whatsoever. > This is exactly the thing I don't agree with. > I think _new installs_ of Jessie should use systemd

Re: There should not be dependencies on systemd (Was: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-06 Thread James McCoy
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 02:20:33AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 00:05:59 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Sep 06, Noel Torres wrote: > > > It is just wrong to have dependencies on the init system. > > > If you need dbus, you should Depend on dbus, and systemd should > > >

Re: There should not be dependencies on systemd (Was: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 07, Guillem Jover wrote: > > This is why most of these dependencies are on libpam-systemd, which does > > not depend on systemd. > That's incorrect: What I meant was "does not depend on systemd being PID 1". Are you happy now? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signatur

Re: There should not be dependencies on systemd (Was: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-06 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 00:05:59 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 06, Noel Torres wrote: > > It is just wrong to have dependencies on the init system. > > If you need dbus, you should Depend on dbus, and systemd should > > Provides dbus. > This is why most of these dependencies are on libpam-sy

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 06, Sven Joachim wrote: > Here's what I get when replacing sysvinit-core with systemd-sysv in my > pbuilder chroot: To be fair, most of these packages (adduser, kmod, udev and their dependencies, for a start) would be installed anyway on a normal system which is not a minimal chroot. If

Re: There should not be dependencies on systemd (Was: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 06, Noel Torres wrote: > It is just wrong to have dependencies on the init system. > If you need dbus, you should Depend on dbus, and systemd should > Provides dbus. This is why most of these dependencies are on libpam-systemd, which does not depend on systemd. As usual, people complain

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2014-09-05 23:50 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: >> That seems much higher than I believe is the case. Wasn't there a >> detailed analysis of this posted a while back? My vague recollection >> was a number more on the order of a quarter of that, and with most of >> those be

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