Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
stops doing anything such as reaping zombies and you need to reboot quite quickly, but the system continues to mostly work. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: release goal for jessie! (Re: Source-only uploads

2012-11-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ld pose no additional effort to get. And it > would mean IMO a good leap forward in ensuring buildability — Even > more with arch:all I doubt it would make any change in the workload for us in the DSA. I assume it will lead to a slight increase in workload for the buildd maintainers. -

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
stemd primary upstream authors that having /usr on a separate fs is a bad idea since there are tools that (primarily) some udev rules use, which live on /usr. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: Really, about udev, not init systems

2012-11-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
tions to install things the >traditional way are in INSTALL." > > Just stating the facts. I see no reason to discuss these issues any > further. «default location» vs «architecture of udev». Reality check, please? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about

Re: Really, about udev, not init systems

2012-11-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bjørn Mork > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > ]] Bjørn Mork > > > >> "The default 'configure' install locations have changed. Packages for > >>systems with the historic / vs. /usr split need to be adapted, > >>otherwise ude

Re: Really, ...

2012-11-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
a point where we can or should make a decision what the next default init system should be. Let's leave that discussion until wheezy is out the door, at least. -- Tollef Fog Heen, who is sorry for contributing even more to this thread UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky abou

Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)

2012-11-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
argue about specific contribution legal documents and policies > (although hopefully, not here ;) but not about whether they are a reality in > today's FLOSS world. There's a significant difference whether your contractual counterpart is somebody who has the public good or profits i

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment

2012-12-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ely factor into > my decision. This isn't about whether money is dirty or not, it's about whether you give your copyright to somebody who are able to do whatever they want with it or not. The FSF's is a lot more tied than a private corporation is. You might not consider this a pro

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-12-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ore poweroff. LVM vs non-LVM isn't really relevant here, is it? It's just about whether /usr is a separate fs or not? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable

2013-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
encourage people to run package repositories on Alioth, in particular full-distro ones. It's not what it's for. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
er the jessie cycle, deprecate (but still read) /etc/network/interfaces and for jessie+1 just drop the file and only use the .d directory. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Andrew Shadura > > Also, your fix doesn't actually solve the RC bug either: > > Well, it does. No, it doesn't. You're still recreating /etc/network/interfaces if it's not there. Removing a file is a change which must be preserved. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t sounds like you are arguing that we should just ship the the repository in the source package, then. No chance of it ever getting out of date, trivial to find the merge points and missing patches between two packages and fits much better with a VCS-driven workflow. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is us

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > ]] Gergely Nagy > > >> No, not really. I don't really care what tools one uses, as long as the > >> result is reasonably easy *and* reliable to work with. Since VCS can be > >> stale, and quite often

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
d up on the whole idea of devops. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: bits from the DPL: January 2013

2013-02-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek > (/etc/aliases on master mentions it going to leader@, but this entry > is commented out.) Use exim -bt $address on master to find out. It goes to leader@ + an archive. (I agree it should probably go on the org page too.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly

Re: No native packages?

2013-02-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
rimary goal and not what I'm optimising for, so I disagree with what you're saying above. (Everything else being equal, I'll choose a solution that makes my downstream's lives easier, of course.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about

Re: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-02-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e able to do this. > - prevent some users pushing tags (or only allow tags matching a pattern) You can do this with a hook as well. I'm using gitano (not packaged) for this on my own setup, it has a set of ACLs that gets run. I think gitolite is able to do it as well, so maybe take a look a

Re: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-03-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > I wasn't discussing what can be done for backing up a Git repository, > I was asking what is *currently installed* in production as a backup > for Alioth. da-backup. Look at /etc/da-backup/* for the configuration. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, i

Re: RE : Gerrit, Git requirements, cooperation with others. was: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-03-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
anything > else. Maybe buildbot would fit my needs better, so I would > really appreciate if anyone can share his experience with it. Just use jenkins-job-builder? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dak-roulette activated

2013-04-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
r to hit, since there are more copies of them floating around. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ugs (because then we can release, which means we can then do what we prefer to, which (as you can see in the unconstrained periods), is to package new software, new upstream versions and so on). New code tends to be buggier than older, debugged code, so it's no surprise that we get more RC bugs

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre > On 2013-04-02 21:06:30 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Just to expand slightly on this, the problem you're both poking at is > > that during a freeze, our incentives are directed towards fixing RC bugs > > (because then we can release, which me

Re: Bug#684128: down the memory hole

2013-04-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
omething, legitimate or (probably) otherwise. Sure, that was the definition in 1995. Today, anything that's off-topic for a given forum is typically called spam. Whether it's about selling something or not. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its frie

Re: Git packaging workflow discussion on planet.d.o

2013-04-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
be deficiencies in the tools, something that can be fixed easily enough with a few patches. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Legal possibility of more open package reviews.

2013-04-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ouble. > Assuming we have some DSA assets in such countries. But I presume the > mentors admins and/or DSA have thought of that… We have machines outside the US, yes, the biggest ones are/will be in .ca, .de, .uk and .gr. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about wh

Re: Debian two-factor auth, GSoC?

2013-04-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
TP, and we have quite strong overall solution, I think. The Yubikey neo can run the java applet thingies, it seems, so it can act as a GPG token too. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.

Re: Debian two-factor auth, GSoC?

2013-04-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > On 04/12/2013 03:25 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > The Yubikey neo can run the java applet thingies, it seems, so it can > > act as a GPG token too. > Please, please, please ... no java!!! > That's a security nightmare. I think we'd be l

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Lars Wirzenius > - if it's a lot of packages, I construct a complicated sed > and awk and so on pipeline to extract the package names > and feed those to apt-get install Aka /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends ? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user frien

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ext as the bug in question has a patch. Aka, the code is written already. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: GSoC/debian.org SIP/XMPP infrastructure

2013-04-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
g, so inquries should be sent there. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e's not a huge interest.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bo8qbspo@xoog.err.no

Re: Doubts about PPA in Debian

2013-05-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
work. Thomas is facing a very large chunk of work to make sure upgrades from the no-longer-supported E release to whatever might be in jessie, since upstream breaks APIs and doesn't support skipping releases when upgrading. >From what I've understood from upstreams in the openstack com

Re: epoch fix?

2013-05-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
got confused back in the days, but that's probably been fixed since, but I would not be surprised to see other tools be confused about such versions.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@

Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)

2013-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
n a task or a blend, but it's one of the packages where I'm fairly sure that lots of people (DSA included) would be less than impressed if it was missing from a stable release. I'd also not be surprised if it wasn't in an existing blend or task. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user

Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)

2013-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
their infrastructures. Also, it's generally a bigger problem if something goes away than if it was never shipped. Going away means leaving users hanging. Not ever having something just means, well, we didn't have it and those who wanted it had to install it from elsewhere. -- Tollef Fog

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
faults to local mail only, listening on localhost only, so how it would reject mail by default, I'm not sure? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: Apport for Debian

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
cess that processes the core files, adding backtraces and removing the core file afterward. This isn't perfect but, it's deemed good enough. (This is from what I remember it was like some years ago, I might be misremembering and they might have changed the process since.) -- Tollef Fo

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre > On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > But not for postfix, which can reject mail by default without an > > > initial configuration. Since it is not working by default, and loses > > > mail, the da

Re: epoch fix?

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t need to be escaped within a path segment in a URL. I believe the only reason why apt escapes them on disk is to avoid problems if .deb files are copied to file systems where : is problematic, such as VFAT and HFS. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its frie

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre > On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > > > On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > > > But not for postfix, which can reject mail by

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre > On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > > > On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > So you configured it through debconf, in a non-default way, and it > > > >

Re: Dead-lock in replaced package scripts

2013-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
, but also, rm the old postrm script (with suitable checks). It's not pretty, but it's sometimes necessary. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Niels Thykier > However, I would not be surprised if DSA were to object to maintaining > machines running sid. With the (grumbling) exception of new architectures where there is sometimes a bootstrapping problem, we want to run stable on buildds and porter boxes, yes. -- Tollef Fo

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
and off for about six months, but that doesn't help us until we actually have machines racked and set up as porter boxes/buildds. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Bits from ARM porters

2013-12-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
As for merging buildd.net into the rest of the wbadm stuff, I have no opinion. Talking to the existing wbadm people is probably the best way forward. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lis

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
fan mounted above the hard-drive, so shouldn't > easyly overheat. Does it have IPMI, LOM/DRAC/ILO/some sort of remote management or is all that serial console + networked power switch? I suspect Debian would be more interested in the 3A 2001 server, any idea about cost for that? (And same

Re: Bug#732041: ITP: libvmod-throttle -- Throttling module for Varnish

2013-12-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
o experimental, so you could build against that if he does. We'd love to see some real-life feedback on the changes we've made to make packagers' lives easier. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
nd porter boxes can run. At the same time, I believe it's a release criteria that buildds and porter boxes are available and run by DSA, so there's a small bootstrapping problem there. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To U

Re: Bug#733045: debhelper: Can debhelper make autotools-dev updating default behaviour?

2013-12-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
#x27;s pretty clear that configure.ac is the source and configure isn't, really. It's some kind of intermediate format. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Bug#733860: ITP: pond -- Forward secure, asynchronous messaging for the discerning.

2014-01-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
formation against everyone except a > global passive attacker. Am I understanding it correctly that this is somewhat like sending an encrypted message to a key's fingerprint in a DHT with an expiration tacked on, or is this completely off the mark? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2014-01-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
onship to each other. I don't think you can blame English for ancient Greek being confusing. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-01-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
they're likely to lose buildds and porter boxes once oldstable is no longer supported. We don't want to run testing or unstable on those machines for obvious reasons. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: amd64 arch and optimization flags?

2014-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Jaromír Mikeš > Aha ... so these default flags are added by compiler and they are not > controlled by debian tools at all? > Can I see somewhere default flags for different archs? run gcc -dumpspecs on the different platforms and you can see them. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user

Re: Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!

2014-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
' to generate the > LSB header from the upstart job. This will break if you're using systemd and there's no systemd service for the service in question, so this is a pretty icky approach. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -

Re: Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!

2014-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > Since last summer, OpenRC has full support for LSB headers. Also, I > believe that OpenRC is the only init system replacement which allows to > mix dependencies with LSB or it's own implementation. It's not, systemd has provided this from the start. -- T

Re: Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!

2014-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ged since last time I looked at upstart, though. > Yes, different name spaces will be a challenge. But it can be handled > by deciding to keep the name spaces in sync, using the same name for > the same service in LSB headers, upstart jobs and systemd jobs. That + alias support. Anything

Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
n $all. IIRC, systemd just ignores it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d2j0qpw9@xoog.err.no

Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
nows if the system is about to shut down and then avoid restarting daemons.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
rt/stop monit > as appropriate. Sure, worst case is that monit, in the middle of shutting down, requests a service start which won't ever happen (because the machine will be shut down by then). -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are --

Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
n (this would also solve the shutdown problem). I assume upstart has a reasonable way to solve this, but I'm not familiar with what it should be. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ore than one a day, you can do 0~20140209.1+git$sha1 and so on. The date information is useful, both for SVN and git non-relases. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Ubuntu will switch to systemd

2014-02-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
-specific changes as a fork). You make it sound like we are not involved upstream and that we don't already have weight to affect systemd development. Neither of those are true. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ke the one described by Christian usually occur on systems > which have been undergone several configuration changes and upgrades, > i.e. old systems. If the configuration you get from install + upgrade is different than just installing a newer version, that's a bug. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] The Wanderer > (And now I wait for someone to point out an obvious specialized format > and/or tool that everyone uses that I've overlooked...) .deb files? :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!

2014-02-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
k namespaces, capability bounding sets, limitation of new privileges and syscall filters. Being able to start a daemon is necessary, but not sufficient for great integration. I think we should aim for great, not the bare minimum. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky a

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > Once I consider OpenRC ready for it, would it be ok to just replace > sysv-rc by OpenRC, and transform sysv-rc into a transitional package? No, update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d still need to be provided by something. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
at one able to manage openrc in addition to the others it already knows how to. No point in forking it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t think anybody is actually particularly hung up about whether it's a git repo or something else, as long as the semantics are preserved and it's easily consumable using standard tools. (So a git or bzr repo are both ok, a Visual Sourcesafe or Perforce repo less so.) -- Tollef

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Dmitry Smirnov > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:55:05 Andreas Metzler wrote: > > FWIW there is an article about it on > > http://lwn.net/Articles/590879/ > > Thanks but LWN subscription is needed to read... Use http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/590879/fef0c71560078461/ -- Tollef

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
nd it disrespectful to the 2500 odd members on the list to not spend time to format your message in a useful way and expect them to go out and do your homework for the original poster. (It sure looked that way to me from a skimming of the original mail, so I might be wrong here. If I am, see above about

Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-03-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
doesn't care about the same set of things as the existing ones do. Or, you could fix the software you care about so it adheres to the guidelines for the existing desktops and then convince the maintainers (or upstream) to adopt your favourite as their new default. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is us

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
top.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74589 systemd needs cgroups, that's pretty well established. Arguably, it should die with a clearer message. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Norbert Preining > Hi Tollef, > > On Thu, 03 Apr 2014, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935 > > > > That's being moved to systemd.debug instead of overloading debug. > > Good news. And please make Kay exc

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bjørn Mork > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > ]] Norbert Preining > > > >> > systemd needs cgroups, that's pretty well established. Arguably, it > >> > should die with a clearer message. > >> > >> No, NO NOO &

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > On 04/03/2014 05:58 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Am I understanding you correctly that you don't think there are any > > situations where compiling out features from the kernel can lead to pid1 > > not working would be acceptable? > > I&#

Re: Deprecating/removing racoon/ipsec-tools from Debian GNU/Linux and racoon from Debian/kfreebsd

2014-04-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
fulfilled by using > Strongswan/Freeswan. Is there a migration guide anywhere? I have ipsec installations that currently use racoon, but would happily switch them to something else if that is considered better. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e many BMCs. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87txa4djhq@xoog.err.no

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e any latency on my desktop with that setting. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: Bug#743887: ITP: direnv -- A utility to set directory specific environment variables

2014-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
l recipe for disaster if code gets run just by entering a directory. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Bug#743887: ITP: direnv -- A utility to set directory specific environment variables

2014-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Punit Agrawal > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Punit Agrawal > > > >> Instead of putting every environment variable in your > >> "~/.profile", have directory-specific ".envrc" files for your > >

Re: debconf reconfiguration from postinst of another package

2014-04-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
think dpkg provides the hooks you need to do that today. I think it could be useful to have it, so you could do «dpkg --needs-reconfigure A B C» and those would then be put in a state where they'd be reconfigured at the next opportunity. Care would of course have to be taken to avoid loops.

Re: concurrent installation of different pkg versions

2014-04-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ploy virtual machines with specific versions otherwise you're > constantly battling with trying to make sure that you're actually using > the version that you think you're using. You might also have success by using omnibus, https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby -- T

Re: ProposalL /usr/bin/open as an alternative for xdg-open and run-mailcap.

2014-04-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
> I propose to harvest the fruit of this effort and introduce a /usr/bin/open > command to open files. Please don't, or if you insist, get kbd to stop shipping it, wait for at least two releases and then introduce it with a new name. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it'

Re: debconf reconfiguration from postinst of another package

2014-05-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
grab data from the configuration file. I still believe what I suggested earlier, having a custom answer database module in debconf would be the right solution here. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
oot > when upgrading. I think this is a bug in init system choice and should > be reported. The default has changed and you chose to accept the defaults when you upgraded. > How to go back to sysvinit? I think installing sysvinit-core should work, but I at least have never tested that. -

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Andrew Shadura > Hello, > > On 9 May 2014 14:32, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >> Well, I've not been asked if I wanted to switch to systemd based boot > >> when upgrading. I think this is a bug in init system choice and should > >> be reported. >

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thorsten Glaser > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >> Changes to the default init system should not affect existing setups. > > > >Were that true, it would be different to how we handle changes in other > >defaults. > > A default is a default because

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ems like a good idea. Yes, sysvinit should change in that way. It and upstart (and any other providers of /sbin/init) should also grow critical debconf warnings if you install them and you were previously using systemd as your init so it's symmetric. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, i

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
catch the normal cases. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Norbert Preining > So I *strongly* advise to inform *and* ask the users!! I would strongly advise you to stop spreading FUD as well as conserving the global supply of exclamation marks. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
, so no, it's not. It's using undefined behaviour and just like all other transitions we've had in Debian we discover bugs when packages are using the implementation defined (or undefined) behaviour rather than the specified and documented behaviour. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ould help reduce the admin burden, maybe there are > other approaches too? Help fix bugs in fusionforge, hang out in #alioth try to help people and we'd be happy to get more people involved. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Daniel Pocock > On 11/05/14 18:26, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Daniel Pocock > > > >> On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: > >> > >>> What is the reason that the processing there is so slow? Is there a way > >>> to change that? &

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
pted in the narrow window before the package automatically > migrates to testing. They're not responsible for it, no. That doesn't mean they can take an update hostage by saying «this must be fixed or I'll continue raising the severity of this bug» either. (I'm not saying y

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
precisely why so many people not only > dislike systemd, but also it's maintainers. Are you aware that Joss isn't a systemd maintainer? (He's one of the GNOME maintainers.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Bug#749099: ITP: conv -- Simple ASCII,binary,decimal,hex converter

2014-05-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t command line printf to do binary, but iprint seems to be a match or a superset. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Bug#749456: ITP: gpx -- Gcode to x3g conversion post-processor

2014-05-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
rocessor GPS is well-known as the GPS interchange format. Could you convince upstream to rename the package to something else? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Why not 03 ?

2014-05-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
evel in Policy and just let the architecture toolchain default to the recommended value for that architecture, and only override when there's a need. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.

Re: Bug#750546: ITP: sluice -- rate limiting data piping tool

2014-06-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Colin Ian King > Sluice reads from standard input and write to standard > output at a specified data rate. This can be useful > for benchmarking and exercising I/O streaming at desired > throughput rates. Any reason not to just use pv for this? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is u

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