Re: insserv: warning: script ... missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-04-07 Thread Roger Leigh
and re-running insserv. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 --

Re: chroot jail problem

2014-02-14 Thread Roger Leigh
ou a functional Debian system with dpkg and everything. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 28

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:12:54PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Co-incidentally, I'm just > doing a whole-archive rebuild of Debian with 8 concurrent job slots; > taking about 24h to rebuild every arch-any package with sbuild. That's > 7527 builds, working out at just 90 seco

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Roger Leigh
s causing the mainboard to try cooking itself, by blowing air directly down onto the area surrounding the CPU. None of the hardware was faulty here--just the combination of case, mainboard and cooler not working out due to the poor airflow; just thought it worth mentioning if it helped anyone else av

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-11 Thread Roger Leigh
e it and extend the tmp LV --now that you're on LVM you have the power to play around with this! See /etc/default/tmpfs. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http:/

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-11 Thread Roger Leigh
e until I thought about it long and hard and realised this. The content of /, and /usr (and /boot for most people) are a managed whole. /var is the only part which can be properly justified in splitting since it's writable, likewise for user data in /home or /srv. Regards, Roger -- .'&#

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
s you like, and assign mountpoints to them, make swapspace etc, and then continue with the install as usual. > > ravenclaw# lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/ravenclaw/chroots > Is there a simple gui tool available for the same? I have no idea myself. I've always just used the tools

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
ee the size increased by 1GiB and we didn't even have to unmount the filesystem--it all happened online with no interruption in service. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://a

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 04:23:27PM -0500, Doug wrote: > On 02/09/2014 04:05 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > /snip/ > > On W > > On Linux, there are three possibilities which mitigate all these > > things: > > > > 1) Use LVM. You can use the entire drive as a

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-09 Thread Roger Leigh
to the practice of putting stuff > that belongs under / under /usr. Nowadays you can just have / readonly so /usr doesn't need to kept separate. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http:

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-09 Thread Roger Leigh
kFreeBSD, you can install directly onto ZFS; I've been using it for kFreeBSD and native FreeBSD installs, and it's the best of the lot--hopefully Debian can offer native support for Linux at some point [currently needs patching, and the patches don't work with current 3.12 ke

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-02 Thread Roger Leigh
le to boot > > > windows anew. > > > > Is os-prober installed? > > Doesn't a chainloader work for an efi boot? No, it's not possible from what I've seen. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rl

Re: schroot

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
s was added to remove duplicated logic used in each and every setup script. If you're looking for where this is coming from in the source, see session::setup_chroot() in sbuild/sbuild-session.cc (1.0--1.6) (lib/sbuild/session.cc on current git master). Regards, Roger -- .''`. R

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
-label and /dev/disk/by-uuid. I don't think that labels are handled specially by the kernel in addition to that, since it can be potentially quite complex and filesystem-specific, but I could be wrong. Maybe they were in the past, or handled specially prior to udev? Regards, Roger --

Re: building from source for different arch

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
trap a completely foreign architecture and use qemu to directly run emulated native builds in the chroot using the kernel binfmt-misc support. Maybe pbuilder has also picked up this as well. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp:/

Re: NFS in schroot/sbuild

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
helpful, or else we're just guessing what you did. schroot's 10mount setup script just runs the regular mount command; so there's nothing special about NFS here. But note that the mountpoint is inside the chroot; schroot will prepend the chroot mount path to this. Other t

Re: Reg: gcc option for printing large number (large double)

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
e a look into multi-precision arithmetic libraries such as libgmp (libgmp-dev). Or if you also do C++, see Boost.Multiprecision, which wraps the GMP types nicely so you can use them as regular primitives. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Re: fsck on boot...revisited

2013-07-25 Thread Roger Leigh
being opt-in; you take the responsibility for the small chance it might do rather bad things. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/

Re: Problems with util-linux in Debian Sid

2013-07-15 Thread Roger Leigh
or testing), then #716923 may be causing problems. Hopefully fixed later tonight. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GP

Re: Problem printing (SCX-4200)

2013-07-13 Thread Roger Leigh
e on /var after you did the wheezy upgrade. "apt-get clean" to clean the apt cache for example. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/bui

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-13 Thread Roger Leigh
et the timezone to UTC (in Windows). It would have been nicer to tell it to use a UTC hardware clock, but I didn't care enough about Windows to bother configuring that; as suggested before, Windows can be configured to use a UTC hardware clock if you want to dual boot. Regards, Roger -- .

Re: How to force an application to use only ipv4?

2013-05-18 Thread Roger Leigh
s should default to IPv6 and fall back to IPv4 if unavailable. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D

Re: Warnings when doing a chroot.

2013-05-11 Thread Roger Leigh
nd you should see the warning disappear. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC

Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 03:16:30PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > Roger Leigh a écrit : > > > > With current GRUB and initramfs, you can boot directly from LVM, or > > LVM on RAID. > [...] > > If you aren't using an initramfs, then you will st

Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-08 Thread Roger Leigh
at the initramfs can boot using such filesystems. I would imaging that this would require an unencrypted /boot to load the kernel and initramfs, but this could be on LVM as well as the encrypted rootfs. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxh

Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-08 Thread Roger Leigh
e of LVM. But that's not the default. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B4

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-28 Thread Roger Leigh
ect on Alioth a year or so back, and the Arch repo. I plan to resurrect it after porting the GObject-based stuff to C++. But I've got a number of higher-priority projects waiting before I get to this. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://peo

Re: Debian + UEFI + Install w/ USB Key

2013-04-22 Thread Roger Leigh
ting from an "insecure" medium. At least with my board, when I select the boot menu, there's a "UEFI" label/icon for UEFI boot methods. Good luck! It can certainly be done, but it might take a little experimentation to get the UEFI BIOS configured to allow it. Regards, Ro

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Roger Leigh
/usr (*as a separately mountable filesystem*) is not a useful feature. I long held the opposite opinion very strongly, until I spent a good bit of time really considering the validity of all the assumptions behind why we consider it useful, and came to the conclusion that it was, for the most pa

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Roger Leigh
sr. This will make /usr available from before init starts (the immediate goal), and potential unification of / and /usr further down the line (jessie+1 or later). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `'

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
could potentially merge the two. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
oing a rebuild of the > initramfs would cache different values. Or perhaps it is listed in > the /etc/fstab twice? It's most likely that the definition in /etc/fstab doesn't match the one expected by the initscripts (first field not the same), so that it gets mounted twice. See fstab(5)

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 08:55:42PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote: > Hello Roger > > > Excerpt from Roger Leigh: > > >>> update-rc.d foo disable|enable > > -- -- > >> It might be a nuisance but running the stop part of the initscript isn't > >>

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-16 Thread Roger Leigh
Sorry, I don't quite understand the question here. update-rc.d never starts or stops anything--all it does is adjust the rc.d links. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http:/

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-16 Thread Roger Leigh
all the dependencies once rather than repeated evaluation would be a very nice improvement. Automatic startup of dependencies is great, and one thing LSB scripts don't currently do. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.o

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 05:28:02PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 15/04/2013 16:55, Roger Leigh a écrit : > >On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 08:39:27AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I > >>>have never wa

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-15 Thread Roger Leigh
things are OK when they are in fact not. Dependent services are going to break, for example. Getting rid of all the /etc/default disable options will be a release goal for jessie. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rlei

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-15 Thread Roger Leigh
tatic ordering is no longer used. Note that there is ongoing work to get OpenRC integrated; it's at the point where it's possible to boot a Debian system with OpenRC. I'm sure that help would be appreciated. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GN

Re: BTRFS Kernel Panic

2013-04-11 Thread Roger Leigh
Currently using it on an SSH for testing purposes as my rootfs, but don't use it for user data, which is on ext4 on LVM RAID.] Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.

Debian on recent MacBooks

2013-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
using either the intel or radeon driver (I'll settle for anything which gives a usable display!) I'd be very grateful for any advice here. Thanks all, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot a

Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Roger Leigh
having a static /dev on a contemporary system are vanishingly small--you'd have to intentionally alter the boot scripts to avoid a dynamic /dev. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Roger Leigh
stantaneously), and safety (everything is built in a pristine clean temporary chroot environment). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-

Re: chrootkit suspicious files and directories

2013-02-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 02:28:59AM +0100, sp11 wrote: > /lib/init/rw/.ramfs Harmless. Created during boot by mountall-bootclean to prevent cleaning. See /lib/init/bootclean.sh. Not sure about the others though. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp:/

Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Leigh
and LVM only uses the devices (partitions) you put the PVs on. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key

Re: var/run and var/lock relative links not being compliant with Policy

2012-12-27 Thread Roger Leigh
iour can be quite subtle. Think links to links and the special cases where it can go wrong. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
ual issues, but not really tackled the big problem. Help understanding what the problems are and how best to address them would be very much appreciated if anyone wishes to help here. We really need someone intimately familiar with NFS, and how the boot scripts work, or who could take the time to b

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
ld all be triggered when the package is initially installed. Please could you file a serious bug against the lvm package so that this can be fixed. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbui

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-11 Thread Roger Leigh
'/dev/VGNAME/LVNAME -> /dev/mapper/VGNAME-LVNAME' > >on its own (apparently). > > What version of udev are you using? I could see this being a udev issue. and/or dmsetup. Might be worth installing that if missing. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Lei

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-08 Thread Roger Leigh
#x27;t need them. Also, the mode isn't being set, so it's also insecure. Michael's suggestion regarding autofs is definitely worth exploring for your other NFS mount issues. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.

Re: time zone and UTC issue

2012-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
> login user use uk timezone. dpkg-reconfigure sure change the H/W timezone to > UTC, but > also changes local. This bit was answered very well by Bob. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `'

Re: time zone and UTC issue

2012-12-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:19:50PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:55:16PM +0530, J. B wrote: > > > > If I need my hwclock to UTC then what should be the right way to do that ? > > I have followed "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" and found it has

Re: time zone and UTC issue

2012-12-01 Thread Roger Leigh
clock from the system clock in UTC. Look at /etc/adjtime and you should see UTC on the third line. Use --local in place of --utc, and it switches it back to LOCAL. I'd definitely recommend using UTC though. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-16 Thread Roger Leigh
nd fix up the directories and links by hand, but I wouldn't advise it since these directories all contain the state of the running system, and many of them are kept open by running services. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.de

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Leigh
current desktop of choice on Debian, even if it's not marked as such in the installer. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-

Re: Running 32bit OpenGL program with amd64

2012-10-14 Thread Roger Leigh
e file bugs appropriately. Multi-arch is working extremely well for everyone else, and it is already a massive improvement upon the status quo. If you have nothing positive to contribute, then consider not saying it at all. Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Lin

Re: any status monitor for epson tx 121 ?

2012-10-14 Thread Roger Leigh
ny thing else I am missing ? The escputil utility (part of Gutenprint) can do this. It's in the escputil package. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http

Re: Util-linux package was removed and the system is not bootable.

2012-10-14 Thread Roger Leigh
ner scripts depend on util-linux already being installed, for example), then you can unpack it by hand within the chroot: ar x /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.20.1-5.2_amd64.deb data.tar.gz tar xfvz data.tar.gz and then immediately install it with dpkg so that its database is correct: dpkg -i /

Re: Printing to parallel port printer

2012-09-30 Thread Roger Leigh
m and printer from the last 12 years should support this. But if you've used an ancient cable, that could cause trouble. Even if autodetection fails, you should be able to just set it up manually with parallel:/dev/lp0 or equivalent. Also: check that the CUPS lp backend is executable. Re

Re: ifupdown's changelog: Try to remove old /etc/network/run even if it's a symlink

2012-09-04 Thread Roger Leigh
as a supported configuration). It's not doing any harm even if it's unused. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-G

Re: /etc/init.d/bootlogs said to be removed. Still there. Is it a bug?

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Leigh
d? > Is it safe to remove it manually? No, we subsequently reverted the change, so it was added back. Regards, Roger commit d85dac4639d50efef7fd44c8b7ee360a9400abad Author: Roger Leigh Date: Sun Jul 22 10:20:55 2012 +0100 Revert "debian: Remove bootlogs init script" T

Re: LSB init script virtual facility for name switch service resolution

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Leigh
their input before getting the virtual facility added. Packages should probably only use Should-Start rather than Required-Start, so that this isn't going to cause circular dependencies? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.deb

Re: What does charset in locale setting affect?

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 11:11:56PM -0400, Dan B. wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 07:32:48PM -0400, Dan B. wrote: > >... > > > >>Which common programs (e.g., getty, xterm/etc., sed/grep?) do something > >>different based on the charset p

Re: What does charset in locale setting affect?

2012-09-02 Thread Roger Leigh
CC defaults to using UTF-8 internally, and will translate it to the user's locale encoding on output. Nowadays, there's little reason to use any encoding other than UTF-8; all the others are a subset of UTF-8 and only present for legacy and compatibility reasons. Regards, Roger -

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Roger Leigh
can read them directly from your /boot, so there's no longer any need to have them separate from the main rootfs. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.o

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
have my preinst script stop/start the > MySQL server during install) .. You don't do this. The database server might be on a different machine. So a requirement for a local database, or any attempt to alter a local instance of MySQL, is doomed to failure. Please don't do thi

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
to "/run/shm") after mounting "/dev". This approach is really nice, and schroot used to do this. There's just one niggle: If you use systemd, it will kill your system because autofs mounts under /dev created by systemd can't be bind mounted; well, they can, the

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:00:22AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 08:40 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 06:46:35PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was > > > mount --

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
subsequently umounts the filesystems and deletes the snapshot. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-08-16 Thread Roger Leigh
root on the host system unintentionally. "Unlikely" isn't a good enough guarantee here--we need to be absolutely certain. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http:/

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 05:58:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I haven't submitted a bug yet but I always have problems with sysvinit > > > postinst depending upon ischroot and ischroot getting it wrong and > > &

Re: Debian 6.0 , not named as GNU/Linux ?

2012-08-13 Thread Roger Leigh
never leave it unless they do something radical, like being able to use *all* the Linux drivers (rather than just networking). It's still limited to 2GiB partitions AFAIK! On Linux, my swap space alone is 8 times this size. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Deb

Re: systemd

2012-08-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:53:38PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On 8/7/12, Tom H wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > > > The answer to the second is "the jury's still out." AFAIR, Roger Leigh > > phrased this in this thread i

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-08-02 Thread Roger Leigh
cally sophisticated imaging model 2) PDF is the de-facto standard for professional document printing 3) PostScript is no longer being developed, and PDF is its successor Moving to a PDF based printing workflow is an improvement due to being technically superior and the logical way to go. Reg

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Roger Leigh
longer-term view of what is in *our* best interest, rather than jumping at the latest cool and shiny thing, and tying ourselves to the interests of RedHat, which may not be in our interest at all--it could significantly hamper our ability to tailor our own distribution for our own needs. Regards, Rog

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-31 Thread Roger Leigh
the predominant input format; making it the intermediary format is just a logical consequence of that. (Anecdote: I do not have fond memories of editing buggy PostScript to fix the DSC comments so that tools like psnup, psselect etc. could work with it. This is due to the fragility of

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-26 Thread Roger Leigh
hout all the pointless bells and whistles. PDF is the successor to PostScript, which eliminates the mistakes of the format (being fully programmable, and lacking in many modern features), while adding a few of its own (stupid additional features). Ignore those extra features, and it&#

Re: systemd

2012-07-26 Thread Roger Leigh
I would highly recommend giving it a try. While I disagree with a number of systemd decisions, many of the core concepts are solid, and this type of init system is definitely the future. Even if we don't default to systemd, reusing its concepts will be highly beneficial. Regards, Roge

Re: systemd

2012-07-26 Thread Roger Leigh
ut its configuration file format is not one of them. A straightforward declarative format is vastly more robust and maintainable than a motley collection of imperative shell scripts. There's simply no argument on that point. If we could use the same (or a subset) of the format in sysv

Re: systemd

2012-07-25 Thread Roger Leigh
ed for Debian. Yes. Or we add support for OpenRC dependencies to insserv and convert all scripts to use the OpenRC runscript format. We might end up doing both. If anyone is interested in exploring OpenRC use, please do get in touch. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
ion:sid-sbuild-28666af7-3e88-42cd-a83c-16267088d3f6 Note that this is also version-specific since only newer versions add the session: namespace. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 06:31:48PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:18 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:54:58AM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > > > Is there another one which I can use to set specific mounts? > > > Lik

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 05:27:14PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Son, 2012-07-22 at 15:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > I would also chec

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > Firstly, add schroot to Required-(Start|Stop), since you do > > need it to be set up prior to starting new sessions. > > Thanks for the hint! &g

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-21 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:54:58AM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:32:14 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:49PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> > >&g

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-21 Thread Roger Leigh
, but in the general case, I'd recommend checking. What "talking" are you seeing? --quiet should hide all the messages, unless there's a problem. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `&#x

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:49PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:26PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I have some questions about starting daemons in a chroot environment or > >>

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
,service2" etc. It won't handle LSB ordering or anything advanced though--it just runs invoke-rc.d in order on the list when you start a session, and stop in reverse order on ending the session. Using this facility would avoid the need to manually stop and start services in your init scr

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
imple case of a chroot. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083

Re: self signed repository

2012-07-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 04:59:05PM +0400, Anton Gorlov wrote: > 05.07.2012 16:40, Roger Leigh пишет: > >On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 04:24:12PM +0400, Anton Gorlov wrote: > >>05.07.2012 12:46, Roger Leigh пишет: > >>>You also need the Release file in the apt repository sig

Re: self signed repository

2012-07-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 04:24:12PM +0400, Anton Gorlov wrote: > 05.07.2012 12:46, Roger Leigh пишет: > >You also need the Release file in the apt repository signing. > >apt-get doesn't get check per-package signatures? Individual > >packages aren't signed by defau

Re: self signed repository

2012-07-05 Thread Roger Leigh
;t signed by default; just the archive as a whole via the Release/InRelease files. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-

Re: Upgrading to Wheezy (frozen)

2012-07-04 Thread Roger Leigh
vinit/sysv-rc/insserv will remain the default; systemd/systemd-sysv will be an optional replacement. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-too

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:32:17AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:20:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:43:56AM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > > > Tried both of those but nothing. I have a theory that it might be a Udev > &

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
outside the connection being encrypted, not much, really. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 4

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
e key in the web of trust. I'm probably just another hop or two by all the other keys, since I signed Adam and Simon's older keys, and I also have lots of paths to the keys via other people's keys. Even if I had never met any of these people personally, I'd still only be thre

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
ther, rather than just having some purchased certificate--how much trust do you place in one of those? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
/unstable, and /run is a symlink to /var/run, your system is broken (/run should not be a symlink), and you should try the packages at http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/sysvinit/ which fix the problem (they'll be uploaded soon). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' :

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
that doesn't work, you can set the > size explicitly in /etc/fstab. The tmpfs (kernel filesystem) default is 50% RAM. The initscripts default is 20% VM. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
been fixed. I'm away until Thursday, but if you have any further information it can be attached to the above bug. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/pr

Re: failures on boot.

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
houldn't be giving errors. It would be useful to know where the error occurs (transcript of the boot log from e.g. bootlogd) and the contents of /etc/fstab. Possibly might happen if the filesystem is mounted read-only? If you can replicate the problem and pin it down to a specific script, cou

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