Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-27 Thread Christian Seiler
On 06/27/2015 07:03 PM, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 at 17:29:52 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: >> As I said: the majority use case for dropbear in initramfs will not be >> these kinds of setups, so I think the new behavior should be the >> default setting - but it should be overrida

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-27 Thread Guilhem Moulin
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 at 17:29:52 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > As I said: the majority use case for dropbear in initramfs will not be > these kinds of setups, so I think the new behavior should be the > default setting - but it should be overridable, and there should be a > debian/NEWS entry so t

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-27 Thread Christian Seiler
Thanks for your quick reply! On 06/27/2015 05:01 PM, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 at 16:20:56 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: >> On 06/27/2015 02:19 PM, Guilhem Moulin wrote: >>> Alright, that's it :-) The changelog is pretty heavy because I also >>> lintian-cleaned and modernized (

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-27 Thread Guilhem Moulin
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 at 16:20:56 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 06/27/2015 02:19 PM, Guilhem Moulin wrote: >> Alright, that's it :-) The changelog is pretty heavy because I also >> lintian-cleaned and modernized (using dh_* tools) the packages, as well as >> fixed most bugs: >> [...] >>+ B

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-27 Thread Christian Seiler
On 06/27/2015 02:19 PM, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > Alright, that's it :-) The changelog is pretty heavy because I also > lintian-cleaned and modernized (using dh_* tools) the packages, as well as > fixed most bugs: > [...] > + Bring down interfaces and flush network configuration before existing

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-27 Thread Guilhem Moulin
Alright, that's it :-) The changelog is pretty heavy because I also lintian-cleaned and modernized (using dh_* tools) the packages, as well as fixed most bugs: * debian/source/format: 3.0 (quilt) * debian/compat: 9 * debian/control: bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6 (no changes necessary).

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-18 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:09:26PM +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > Hi Gerrit, > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 at 11:23:04 +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Thanks for the help. I'd be happy to have the initramfs functionality > > split out and maintained separately. If a binary/service split is > > necessary

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-18 Thread Guilhem Moulin
Hi Gerrit, On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 at 11:23:04 +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > Thanks for the help. I'd be happy to have the initramfs functionality > split out and maintained separately. If a binary/service split is > necessary, I'd prefer to have a "dropbear" package with the binaries, > and a "dropbe

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-18 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:09:16AM +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 at 20:29:41 +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Generally I'm with upstream who wrote in bug#692932: > >> As Dropbear upstream I'm keen to see this fixed. Given how > >> many Debian Dropbear bugs are in the initramfs po

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 03:52:55AM +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2015 at 11:39:31 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > So in this case you might have: > > * dropbear-bin (executable, private libraries if any) > > * dropbear (init integration goo) Depends: dropbear-bin > > * dropbear-ini

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-05-31 Thread Guilhem Moulin
On Sat, 30 May 2015 at 11:39:31 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > So in this case you might have: > > * dropbear-bin (executable, private libraries if any) > * dropbear (init integration goo) Depends: dropbear-bin > * dropbear-initramfs Depends: dropbear-bin, Suggests: dropbear Makes sense indeed, t

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-05-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On 30/05/15 01:09, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > - Should [dropbear initramfs support] be included in src:dropbear? It would probably lead to easier maintenance if it was, if Gerrit is willing to either sponsor your uploads or give you DM upload rights - the initial move from "initramfs support is in

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-05-29 Thread Guilhem Moulin
Hi Gerrit, On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 at 20:29:41 +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > Generally I'm with upstream who wrote in bug#692932: >> As Dropbear upstream I'm keen to see this fixed. Given how >> many Debian Dropbear bugs are in the initramfs portion, >> perhaps the initramfs setup of Dropbear should go

RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2014-08-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 01:24:04PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > Hi, in 2008 initramfs support was contributed to the dropbear package. > Unfortunately the contributor seems to be no longer active and quite > some bug reports concerning this feature have been collected in the BTS. > > Since I don't

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2014-01-14 Thread Vitaliy Filippov
+1, thanks for maintaining the package! Also I have a small note that may be useful for someone (?): I recently experimented with dropbear in initramfs for another task - I wanted to have a "rescue" ssh on a non-standard port available all the time, even if initramfs can't mount the root fil

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2014-01-14 Thread Lukas Anzinger
Hi Gerrit, first I want to say thank you for maintaining dropbear and the cryptsetup patches. The package works well and reliable for me on a number of hosts. However, it's a bit rough around the edges and didn't see any improvements for some time so I started to update it locally by myself. I cr

RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2014-01-14 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, in 2008 initramfs support was contributed to the dropbear package. Unfortunately the contributor seems to be no longer active and quite some bug reports concerning this feature have been collected in the BTS. Since I don't use ssh support in initrams, I hereby look for helpers or even a co-mai