Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default

implementing the idea outlined by Robin or what Michael said about /etc/users.d and user-update tool, this is highly appreciated but will probably not happen anytime soon. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default

ny anymore. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Trying to locate and remove unused dev- & media-libs?

Hi, please forget my previous mail. I was informed that I misread your mail, sorry about that! -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default

entire GLEP 81 with something new just because a group believes there is no flaw and everyone else having problems are doing things wrong so this group is rejecting any attempts to address the problem? -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default

his implementation detail. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] acct-user.eclass: allow opt-out of user modification

administrator to disable modification of any existing user. Note: Lock/unlock when acct-* package will be installed/removed will still happen. Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann --- v2: Keep current behavior; Add opt-out eclass/acct-user.eclass | 25 + 1 file changed

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] acct-user.eclass: allow opt-out of user modification

_ACCT_USER_ALREADY_EXISTS? Then _ACCT_USER_ALREADY_EXISTS would deviate from ACCT_USER_NAME which has no underscore prefix and is also marked as internal variable. Or should I fix both? -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3] acct-user.eclass: allow opt-out of user modification

administrator to disable modification of any existing user. Note: Lock/unlock when acct-* package will be installed/removed will still happen. Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann --- v3: - Fixed eclass documentation - Honor 80 chars limit - Prefixed internal variable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-db/percona-xtrabackup

Hi, mysql project will take this package. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [News item review v2] Python preference to follow PYTHON_TARGETS

retain old, well established behavior across all slotable packages anymore. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [News item review] V2 Chromium access to Google services

build-time if you are going to support that) or add reference to [2] again.> -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

without mentioning a reason. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

his matter? I doubt that systemd will even think about removing what I believe to be a false warning when systemd detects that /etc/localtime is a regular file. So let's focus on dealing with the fallout... -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

PS: Even Debian is mentioning "to follow systemd" when they updated their tzdata package end of 2015, https://bugs.debian.org/803144. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal

B in patch releases, such as the removal of the client-server architecture and the SQL API between 18.1.32 and 18.1.40. This paragraph doesn't belong into a news item. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/xen-pvgrub

# Tomáš Mózes (2021-06-10) # Based on unsupported grub-legacy, replaced by # pvgrub2. # Removal on 2021-07-08. Bug #790668. app-emulation/xen-pvgrub -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should we switch IRC client defaults off Freenode?

ing to far. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should we switch IRC client defaults off Freenode?

at. Gentoo is done with freenode, we migrated away. There is no need for us take additional actions against freenode. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

tatus of PaX support in the packages listed above? I can only speak for icedtea and nodejs which are working fine. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

On 2021-06-23 08:43, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:19 PM Thomas Deutschmann wrote: The PaX community in Gentoo is still big and active. Many Gentoo users received free access to upstream sources or became paying customers. It's just not available for everyone for free/wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

On 2021-07-07 05:05, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 7:41 PM Thomas Deutschmann wrote: As you probably know, I am not a Linux desktop user (yet). My complete experience with that PaX stuff is limited to servers. Maybe I've misunderstood what you meant. You don't use Li

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-07-09-systemd-tmpfiles: re-add news item

c9 [2] https://www.gentoo.org/support/security/vulnerability-treatment-policy.html [3] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/function-reference/install-functions/ [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/704914 -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Security Team fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Changes to EAPI ban workflow

more like a policy which is more likely to cause more stale packages/ignored bugs assuming these maintainer didn't do that for fun or wilful ignorance. At the moment, the whole idea of creating a policy for that problem sounds like shooting sparrows with cannons. But maybe I am missing some

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing SHA512 hash from Manifests

//bugs.gentoo.org/784710 [2] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20210509.txt -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing SHA512 hash from Manifests

On 2021-07-25 08:27, Michał Górny wrote: On Sun, 2021-07-25 at 01:12 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: I don't understand. Isn't it the same motion we put down just 2 months ago [1]? Or is this something new? If this isn't something new, what has changed since May [2]? Appare

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-08-01-tcpd-disabled: Remove USE=tcpd from make.defaults

adata/news/2021-07-23-libxcrypt-migration/2021-07-23-libxcrypt-migration.en.txt # emerge -p mail-mta/postfix [...] > * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > * Use eselect news read to view new items. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata/install-qa-check.d: add 60tmpfiles-path QA check

which should install below /usr. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata/install-qa-check.d: add 60tmpfiles-path QA check

that's the idea of having such a check: To notice something like that, just in case ;-) -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata/install-qa-check.d: add 60tmpfiles-path QA check

ow my view on this but you already have an opinion and are saying that I am the culprit. I think this is called "prejudiced". I am pretty sure that as a ComRel member you will abstain from this case as you seem to be superior. I mean you are publicly attacking me for 10+ months, rejected

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving more architectures to ~arch only

to expect to change by this keyword change and why you want to change current status at all (motivation). -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving more architectures to ~arch only

We have that Gentoo Vulnerability Treatment Policy and HPPA isn't listed in supported architectures. That problem was resolved in 2018 [1]. [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-announce/message/196e45cde209d1ed25bd42e679739cf5 -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving more architectures to ~arch only

le architectures by default. [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/a3c7a6cb7596a5ff9102e4d819a52d9c -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing separate "security supported" arch list

eived good feedback and is accepted by users and didn't cause any problems (can't remember that we ever got GLSA feedback for other architectures than amd64 or x86). -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_s

[gentoo-dev] You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

lated) use case, feel free to unmask them on your system. - sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r7::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) - virtual/perl-Pod-Parser-1.630.0-r8::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask: # Andreas K. Hüttel (2021-10-16) # Outdated virtual; the respecti

Re: [gentoo-dev] You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

de path"... -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval

ers there is _no_ easy way back anymore. Any blow up will probably require user to reinstall their entire system... -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/825234 Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann --- ...adb-database-restore-maybe-required.en.txt | 46 +++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required/2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item

efore next week and has to do a full restore, that user will lose about one week of data... Just saying. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item

And forcefully here refers to the undesirable result (at least that was my intention). Something the user doesn't want. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles: mask sys-fs/eudev for removal

. We can still last-rite next quarter, not? -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item

re is some discussion for such a feature for 10.7 (probably too late) or 10.8). -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] [PATCHv2] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/825234 Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann --- ...adb-database-restore-maybe-required.en.txt | 45 +++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required/2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe

[gentoo-dev] [PATCHv3] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/825234 Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann --- ...adb-database-restore-maybe-required.en.txt | 45 +++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required/2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe

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