While reading the LWN article about this, I had a thought that might
be interesting.
The packages should all install to /usr and $something should
automatically manage the contents of /bin /sbin /lib (/boot?) based on
the tools needed to mount /usr (perhaps plus some more recovery
tools), just lik
Hi, I tried to contact debian developer Rudy Godoy but I got no reply. A
package he maintains, torcs, is in need of an update since some years.
As explained here:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa
I am sending this mail.
Hello.
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 02:47:31AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> The real problem is that vconfig (or rather the kernel interface it
> used) imposed any scheme at all. Â Requiring a '.' is equally short-
> sighted. Let me give an example:
IMHO not equally, but yes... too shortsighted.
Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2016, 10:23 +0100 schrieb Pedretti Fabio:
> Hi, I tried to contact debian developer Rudy Godoy but I got no
> reply. A
> package he maintains, torcs, is in need of an update since some
> years.
>
> As explained here:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-referenc
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On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 09:57:26 +, Jonathan Dowland
wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 06:20:42PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>>
>> > https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
>>
>> Now that we have union mounts in Linux
>
>Do you mean overlayfs? If so can
I am using overlayFS in Limba[1], and it works well (and is really
fast!) for read-only filesystems, read-write sometimes has issues if
you are using multiple OverlayFS layers (which made me adjust the code
so this doesn't happen anymore).
2016-01-06 17:29 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Dowland :
> I wish I c
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On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 19:37:03 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>On Jan 05, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
>> People who have been using a configuration for many years naturally
>> become upset when they are told that it has been `unsupported' for all
>> of this time and that, implicitly, changes are going to be ma
On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:37:17 +, Ben Hutchings
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>That's why I was suggesting a replacement package that would provide
>similar functionality but using 'ip' so not subject to the limitations
>of the vlan ioctl interface.
Do we already have such a replacement package?
Greetings
Marc
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Marc Haber writes:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 19:37:03 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>>On Jan 05, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>
>>> People who have been using a configuration for many years naturally
>>> become upset when they are told that it has been `unsupported' for all
>>> of this time and that, implicitly
Hi
On 2016-01-07, Stephan Foley wrote:
> Hello, I am working on a Fluxbox Debian Pure Blend:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/FluxBox/Blend
>
> Currently, I am going to use discover, mdetect and read-edid for
> hardware discovery but found in the repos hwinfo which is used by
> Debian Edu and was won
Marc Haber writes:
> Unfortunately, it's emotions that take vendor decisions. Your attitude
> is driving big users towards the paid-for Enterprise Linuxes, be it
> logical or not, be it good engineering or not.
...the ones that have already merged /usr and /?
I'm not sure I understand this reas
On 07/01/16 08:36, Paul Wise wrote:
> $something should
> automatically manage the contents of /bin /sbin /lib (/boot?) based on
> the tools needed to mount /usr (perhaps plus some more recovery
> tools)
I really don't think that's a good approach, particularly as a default.
We already have tools
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Hello and thank you for this in depth answer!
On 2016-01-07, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
As someone working on Debian derived live systems since the earlier
kernel 2.4 days, I wonder why you think to need any of those on a
modern linux system at all?
I am probably reading old references.
I
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On 08/01/16 11:15, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 2016-01-07, Stephan Foley wrote:
>> Hello, I am working on a Fluxbox Debian Pure Blend:
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/FluxBox/Blend
>>
>> Currently, I am going to use discover, mdetect and read-edid for
>> hardware discovery but found i
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I really don't think that's a good approach, particularly as a default.
> We already have tools to make a minimal bootable environment that can
> mount /usr and do some limited recovery, and the result is called an
> initramfs. If you want a
On Jan 08, Paul Wise wrote:
> The idea was for those who don't want an initramfs or can't use an
> initramfs (someone mentioned some Debian platforms can't) but still
All platforms can use an initramfs.
It has been said that some have[citation needed] crappy boot loaders
that do not support load
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On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 22:46 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> Marc Haber writes:
>
> > On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 19:37:03 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > > On Jan 05, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > >
> > > > People who have been using a configuration for many years naturally
> > > > become upset when they are told
On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:48:56 -0800, Russ Allbery
wrote:
>Marc Haber writes:
>> Unfortunately, it's emotions that take vendor decisions. Your attitude
>> is driving big users towards the paid-for Enterprise Linuxes, be it
>> logical or not, be it good engineering or not.
>
>...the ones that have a
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