Re: [gentoo-user] No 'libs' in world file?

2015-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Many thanks to all for the responses, will work on cleaning this up next weekend (don't like doing things like this on a production server during the week)... On 3/2/2015 9:53 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:29:15 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Yes, you shouldn't

[Mailman-Users] max_message_size, how do I change behavior (reject, instead of hold for moderation) and/or notification message (when exceeded)

2015-02-25 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, Ok, I did this a very long time ago, and can't for the life of me remember where/how I did this... I have some lists that have a max_size set, and when someone sends an email that exceeds this size, it gets held for moderation, and the sender gets a notification of this, but it is a

Re: [Mailman-Users] max_message_size, how do I change behavior (reject, instead of hold for moderation) and/or notification message (when exceeded)

2015-02-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2/25/2015 10:21 AM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: It is possible you just modified the messages in the MessageTooBig class definition in Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py. The postheld.txt template is also involved in the notice to the user, but it is used for all held messages so it seems

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-19 Thread Tanstaafl
Honest question... What exactly is libsystemd0? Maybe a simple solution would be to just rename it to something less 'offensive' to some, like: libinit - or libinit0 ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [k-9-mail] K-9 is Eating too much Data

2015-02-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2/13/2015 12:37 AM, Igor Lyustin i...@sfrepairs.com wrote: I replaced my tablet for a new version, and K-9 started eating a lot of data. Every time it fetches mail, it downloads everything I have on the server to my tablet, and then erases it. That results in extreme data overage. Please

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread Tanstaafl
Philip, I'm not sure what your particular problem is, but I've installed Libreoffice on multiple Win 8.1 systems with zero problems. Methinks this may be a problem with some crapware that your hardware vendor so thoughtfully installed for you - or possibly a PEBKAC issue... On 1/29/2015 10:13

Re: [gentoo-user] Rkhunter now showing Warnings for two files: /bin/egrep fgrep

2015-01-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/26/2015 5:53 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:27:05 -0500, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: script: /bin/fgrep: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable Anyone know if this is due to something changing in Gentoo? Upstream changed egrep and fgrep from binaries

[gentoo-user] Rkhunter now showing Warnings for two files: /bin/egrep fgrep

2015-01-26 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello all, Been on rkhunter 1.4.2 for a while, no changes made to its config file, been running nightly for years without these warnings... I recently did some Gentoo updates after almost 2 months of no updates (was out of town), and now, even after running --propupd, I continue to get these

[Rkhunter-users] Recent Gentoo update, warnings on /bin/egrep and /bin/fgrep

2015-01-26 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, Been on rkhunter 1.4.2 for a while, no changes made to its config file, runs nightly without any warnings... I recently did some Gentoo updates after almost 2 months of no updates (was out of town), and now, even after running --propupd, I continut to get these warnings: # grep Warning

Re: [gentoo-user] Download of source for file-5.22 blocked by firewall?

2015-01-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/21/2015 4:45 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:58:05 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Changed mirror setting in make.conf to: http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/ and all is well now... Guess there is a problem with mirror.datapipe? That's why I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Download of source for file-5.22 blocked by firewall?

2015-01-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/21/2015 9:01 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 01/21/2015 08:51 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: From the sync output: Downloading 'http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/distfiles/file-5.22.tar.gz' --2015-01-21 08:49:43-- http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/distfiles/file-5.22

Re: [gentoo-user] Download of source for file-5.22 blocked by firewall?

2015-01-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/21/2015 11:03 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 1/21/2015 9:01 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 01/21/2015 08:51 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: From the sync output: Downloading 'http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/distfiles/file-5.22.tar.gz' --2015-01-21 08

[gentoo-user] Download of source for file-5.22 blocked by firewall?

2015-01-21 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, Ok, new one to me... I'm performing some updates after a hiatus of a couple of months, and the second package to be installed was file-5.22. I have my firewall locked down pretty tight, controlling even outbound access, and when portage tries to download the source for this file it is

Re: [SOGo] TB 34 - coresponding SoGo Connector version existing

2015-01-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/21/2015 8:59 AM, christian_ja...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, by when will a Connector version for TB 34 be available? SOGo only supports RELEASE versions of Thunderbird - so, for now, it is 31... -- users@sogo.nu https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists

Re: [gentoo-user] Download of source for file-5.22 blocked by firewall?

2015-01-21 Thread Tanstaafl
, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, Ok, new one to me... I'm performing some updates after a hiatus of a couple of months, and the second package to be installed was file-5.22. I have my firewall locked down pretty tight, controlling even outbound access, and when

Re: [SOGo] 'Reset Calendar Cache' doesn't work

2015-01-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/21/2015 9:57 AM, Ludovic Marcotte lmarco...@inverse.ca wrote: On 21/01/2015 09:52, Charles Marcus wrote: No one? Do you see any errors in the Thunderbird error console you click on the option Reset Calendar Cache? Thunderbird should NOT restart anymore but the cache will be

Re: [SOGo] Re: TB31 Issue with Outgoing Mail . . .

2015-01-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/20/2015 1:33 PM, Steve Ankeny stev...@cinergymetro.net wrote: However, I understand your comment. As I said in another e-mail, I will continue to implement SASL in Dovecot, as I've already configured most of the pieces, but for now, we'll let the users work as needed. Which still

Re: [k-9-mail] Error - Unknown error code during application install: -505

2015-01-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/7/2015 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 1/6/2015 2:36 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: Do you have any third-party notification widgets, designed to tell you about unread email messages? They might well have K-9 support. Do you have any system

Re: [Mailman-Developers] RELEASED: GNU Mailman (core) 3.0b5

2015-01-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/7/2015 2:13 AM, Paul Wise pa...@bonedaddy.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Not for those wanting to avoid systemd. systemd is optional and easy to avoid in Debian. Until it isn't, and that is the overriding concern, and with very good reason considering

Re: [Mailman-Developers] RELEASED: GNU Mailman (core) 3.0b5

2015-01-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/7/2015 4:21 AM, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Tanstaafl wrote: On 12/30/2014 2:39 PM, Barry Warsaw ba...@list.org wrote: * A release, which remains on Python 2.7 * B release, which is only compatible with Python 3.4 So, wheezy admins will be left out

Re: [k-9-mail] Error - Unknown error code during application install: -505

2015-01-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/6/2015 2:36 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: Do you have any third-party notification widgets, designed to tell you about unread email messages? They might well have K-9 support. Do you have any system automation apps, such as Tasker? Hmmm... I do have an app called

Re: [Mailman-Developers] RELEASED: GNU Mailman (core) 3.0b5

2015-01-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/7/2015 10:37 AM, Barry Warsaw ba...@list.org wrote: Let me ask again: if you have to install MM3 from source anyway (and probably many of its dependencies), why is it also a problem to install Python 3.4 from source? Maybe I missed that question (sorry, currently out of the country)...

Re: [k-9-mail] Error - Unknown error code during application install: -505

2015-01-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/4/2015 12:51 PM, cketti cke...@googlemail.com wrote: Use 'adb logcat' to get more information on which app is the culprit. I googled your suggestion and found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726238 I am not a software developer. How can I fix

Re: [Mailman-Developers] RELEASED: GNU Mailman (core) 3.0b5

2015-01-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/6/2015 8:36 PM, Paul Wise pa...@bonedaddy.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: So, wheezy admins will be left out in the cold. I expect Debian jessie will become Debian stable soon enough. Not for those wanting to avoid systemd

Re: [Mailman-Developers] RELEASED: GNU Mailman (core) 3.0b5

2015-01-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 12/30/2014 2:39 PM, Barry Warsaw ba...@list.org wrote: * A release, which remains on Python 2.7 * B release, which is only compatible with Python 3.4 So, wheezy admins will be left out in the cold. Bummer... :( ___ Mailman-Developers mailing

Re: [k-9-mail] Error - Unknown error code during application install: -505

2015-01-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/6/2015 11:17 AM, cketti cke...@googlemail.com wrote: On 06.01.2015 16:36, Tanstaafl wrote: How can I fix this without having to learn how to build Android from scratch?? https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/wiki/Installing-adb Thanks for the pointer, but I think this is a bit much just

Re: [k-9-mail] Error - Unknown error code during application install: -505

2015-01-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/4/2015 9:12 AM, Dennis Rockwell prr65...@gmail.com wrote: On January 3, 2015 4:54:01 AM EST, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Got this error when auto update attempted to update to 5.0.2 Exported my settings so I could uninstall/reinstall Uninstalled Now getting the exact

Re: [k-9-mail] Error - Unknown error code during application install: -505

2015-01-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/4/2015 9:12 AM, Dennis Rockwell prr65...@gmail.com wrote: Go to the download page https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/releases and download an earlier version until the devs fix it. Ok, but how do I install it? Never installed anything not from the playstore yet. Thanks -- -- You received

[k-9-mail] Error - Unknown error code during application install: -505

2015-01-03 Thread Tanstaafl
Got this error when auto update attempted to update to 5.0.2 Exported my settings so I could uninstall/reinstall Uninstalled Now getting the exact same error when attempting to install Now I have no K-9 Mail... Anyone have any clues??? Thanks, Charles -- -- You received this message

Re: [SOGo] Multiple Calendars with ActiveSync

2015-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 1/2/2015 7:31 AM, Ludovic Marcotte lmarco...@inverse.ca wrote: On 02/01/2015 06:41, Charles Marcus wrote: Well... that isn't good. You mean all Calendars will be the same color? Users can change colors as they want on their EAS client (Outlook, iOS, Android, etc.). It's just that this

[Maria-discuss] 5.5.x vs 10.x

2014-12-28 Thread Tanstaafl
So, thinking of building a totally new server from scratch on a new vmWare host for playing around, and was curious of the differences. Is 5.5 still being maintained just because it is the last major stable version before 10.x? But then isn't 10.x the way forward? Is 10.x still considered a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Python 3

2014-12-28 Thread Tanstaafl
On 12/26/2014 4:25 PM, Barry Warsaw ba...@list.org wrote: On Dec 26, 2014, at 08:48 PM, Geoff Shang wrote: FWIW, Debian Jessy (aka Testing/Frozen?) has Python 3.4.2. Yep, Jessie will have 3.4, and Ubuntu has had it since Trusty Tahr (14.04 LTS). I don't know about other distros. First,

Re: [SOGo] ActiveSync improvements

2014-12-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 12/27/2014 9:32 AM, Ludovic Marcotte lmarco...@inverse.ca wrote: On 27/12/2014 02:16, Charles Marcus wrote: Sync 1 will pick 1 2, Sync 2 will pick 3, Sync 3 will pick 4, and Sync 4 will pick 5? No, it'll work like I said - ie., we stop and return the response when the size is greater

Re: [SOGo] ActiveSync improvements

2014-12-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 12/22/2014 8:05 PM, Ludovic Marcotte lmarco...@inverse.ca wrote: The most significant changes are an important memory leak fix and the fact that's now possible to limit the returned EAS response size. You can enable this by setting SOGoMaximumSyncResponseSize to 512 for example. This will

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest indexes

2014-12-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 12/16/2014 6:40 AM, Andrew Hodgson and...@hodgsonfamily.org wrote: I run a high volume list (around 80 messages per day), and we have complaints from digest users that the digests are difficult to work with. One requested feature is could the digests be in HTML format, and a link be

Re: [SOGo] Plugins TB 31 - error DAV_NOT_DAV

2014-12-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 12/12/2014 5:07 AM, Louis DUBAILLE l.dubai...@eurytos.fr wrote: With a thunderbird which has the problem, when i refresh calendar this error appears in thunderbird error console: By refresh, do you mean resetting the Calendar Cache? I have found that usually works... -- users@sogo.nu

[gentoo-user] Layman - list any/all apps installed from a layman repo

2014-11-26 Thread Tanstaafl
Is this possible? I have two layman repos I have added at some point in time in the past: sunrise, and ultrabug. I'd like to see what, if any packages, I have installed from them, and see if I can remove them and ultimately remove the layman repo. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Layman - list any/all apps installed from a layman repo

2014-11-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/26/2014 9:28 AM, Александр Паутов sh2d0...@gmail.com wrote: man eix Ah, I thought I'd need to do this with the layman command. Thanks! -J, --installed-overlay Only match packages which have been installed from some overlay. To get a completely reliable

Re: [SOGo] list faster posts

2014-11-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/26/2014 1:34 PM, Ludovic Marcotte lmarco...@inverse.ca wrote: On 26/11/2014 13:09, Charles Marcus wrote: Are you saying you would not recommend this in an office setting, say, with about 70 users? I think that has been exaggerated. The initial process of syncing can be slow and memory

Re: [SOGo] list faster posts

2014-11-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/26/2014 1:32 PM, André Schild an...@schild.ws wrote: Am 26.11.2014 um 19:09 schrieb Charles Marcus: Noted for iPhone users. I also wish I could get my Android to see my Address Books... DavDroid just doesn't seem to see them, ever... For Android use the Apps from Marten Gadja. You

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/21/2014 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: As long as there are developers willing and able to support OpenRC in Gentoo (and it looks like there are), that will be the case. To make sure that this remains to be true, help them. This is really an incorrect (and even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 1:00 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:44:12PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Since OpenRC is the *default* - for now at least - it is *king*, and systemd is the red-headed step-child, and as such OpenRC is and will be 100% fully supported

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 2:02 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: I get the distinct feeling that you two should probably read the LWN article again. No need... This: In the end, it comes down to this: it just is not that important. It is just a system initialization utility. simply proves that the

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 1:07 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: So, don't be surprised if FreeBSD develops something *really* similar (along the lines of the second bullet) to systemd in the future Doesn't matter because: a) it won't be systemd (with all of its warts) b) it won't be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 2:24 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: The current Gentoo policy is that maintainers cannot block other devs from adding support for systemd/openrc/etc to their packages if they lack such support. Gentoo policy does NOT require maintainers to support any particular init

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 3:23 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Also, I'll wager it likely won't be implemented in such a way as to be perceived by its user base as being shoved down their throats. Clarification - this reference was actually to the way Debian is handling it, not Gentoo - I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 4:21 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: There is no such thing as the default init system. There is only the one that portage will happen to install should you not specify a preference. Lol! That is what I would call a 'default'...

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 3:34 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 11/23/2014 1:07 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: So, don't be surprised if FreeBSD develops something *really* similar (along

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/22/2014 10:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 10 nov 14, 18:20:37, Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/10/2014 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 12:43 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:23:15 Tanstaafl wrote: 'installing systemd, then removing and installing sysvinit' - was absolutely not and never could be considered the *equivalent* of doing a *clean install with sysvinit

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 2:09 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: It would be nice if you regarded the word functionally as an essential qualification of equivalent or identical and not dismiss it. What would be nice is if you (and others) would stop claiming that 'installing systemd, then installing

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential problems that might result from later

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/17/2014 6:10 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Excuse me, but some people think anatomy jokes are distasteful. Some people think sex should only be for procreation... PC police get sooo tiring... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/16/2014 6:40 AM, Klistvud klist...@gmail.com wrote: As a further example, the former udev (prior to being merged into systemd) has already been forked and could/will serve us well for years to come. And so on. Is eudev in the debian sources? Or do you mean another fork? -- To

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/15/2014 7:20 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:55:47, Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not mine) init, and therefore no selection

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/14/2014 12:46 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/11/2014 18:18, Helmut Jarausch wrote: The only unusual message is Systemd is not detected as the running init system; which is true since I still use openrc (but with systemd installed, as well) Could this be the

Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

2014-11-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/14/2014 5:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: It was claimed that sysvinit was the default *and only* (emphasis not mine) init, and therefore no selection was needed, but now that there are several a selection suddenly is needed. I don't recall claiming that sysvinit

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/12/2014 5:18 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 12 nov 14, 15:43:09, Tanstaafl wrote: Sounds good to me, but in reality, since the default *and only* init system for the last very many years was Sysvinit (this extremely salient point seems to be completely

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/13/2014 10:53 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2014 15:31:02 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: Andrei Popescu: Quote from above, with added emphasis: Upstart was the only *real* contender to systemd *at the time* of the evaluation for the Technical

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/13/2014 3:42 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 13 nov 14, 11:28:57, Tanstaafl wrote: Yes, apparently because someone actively sabotaged any possibility of OpenRC being considered by giving improper bad information on how to use it... OpenRC was represented

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/11/2014 3:33 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Actually, there's a patch (thank you Kenshi). It has not been applied. Hence, to use it right now, one has to build a custom version of the installer. I hope, that post the initial Jessie release, the deboostrap and

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/11/2014 2:16 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: New users do not need to be be aware of all the background to the choosing of a default init. No advertisement is needed. By definition, they do not care. They want Debian. Please let them have it. Wow... what arrogance... That is

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/12/2014 9:02 AM, Laurent Bigonville bi...@debian.org wrote: So like Michael said, Jessie will indeed be the first version that allows you to have an alternate init without modifying the kernel cmdline. Which is precisely *why* the systemd proponents should have been required to fix that

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/12/2014 10:13 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: Le mercredi, 12 novembre 2014, 09.11:40 Tanstaafl a écrit : Which is precisely *why* (people) should have been required to fix that bug (…) This is simply not how Debian works. If Debian works in such a way that the Tech

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/12/2014 10:40 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: I can't insist enough on this: the Debian procedures have been correctly followed; the TC took a decision which could be challenged by a simple majority GR [0]. This GR has never been called by anyone with voting rights, or

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/12/2014 3:10 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Wed 12 Nov 2014 at 06:27:56 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/11/2014 2:16 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: New users do not need to be be aware of all the background to the choosing of a default init. No advertisement is needed

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 00:14 schrieb Miles Fidelman: Ok, then explain to me the procedure for running the installer in such a way that systemd is never installed, thus avoiding any potential problems that might result from later

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 6:32 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 00:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek: Optional? Yes. A lot (most) of systemd is optional. (So, I've read.) But isn't a lot of that optional stuff installed by default? It is, yes. We decided to not split up a 10M package

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 6:23 PM, Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: systemd-networkd is an entirely optional component, you don't have to use it. systemd-udevd is also an individual component, which btw is also used under sysvinit (or upstart). You don't

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/11/2014 11:38 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: Other people subscribe to a meaning of default which, e.g., assumes only that systemd will get installed as PID 1 unless some action is taken to prevent it from getting so installed. That seems like an entirely reasonable

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. Eh? My understanding is that this systemd mess is due to a vote of the technical committee, a vote that was in

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/11/2014 12:07 PM, Laurent Bigonville bi...@debian.org wrote: There are no functional differences between an installation with sysvinit-core out of the box or an install where sysvinit-core is installed later, this is a fact. Irrelevant. Allowing the user to choose this at install time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 9/26/2014 1:04 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 25/09/14 22:03, James wrote: I'd be better of with a fresh install of lilblue + musl + eudev is what you are really saying here? that's the only usecase for eudev currently, yes, otherwise you have no reason to switch Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 7:30 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, there are no plans to make udev stop working without systemd as far as I can tell. HOWEVER, there ARE plans to require using kdbus to communicate with udev, and for that to work there needs to be a userspace initialization of

Re: [gentoo-user] udev update

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 8:21 AM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: Checking the news (eselect news read), I see that an upgrade to udev-217 might break firmware loading, so the news tagged 2014-11-07-udev-upgrade says that a kernel = 3.7 should be configured to: CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 10:48 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: I wouldn't worry about it at all, there is no way *sys-fs/udev ebuild* will ever need systemd. There might be a news item later, with instructions on moving to something else, but that's not something we are even planning at

[gentoo-user] Anyone using Veeam to backup Gentoo VMs on vmware hosts?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
Wondering if this is supported? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using Veeam to backup Gentoo VMs on vmware hosts?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 1:21 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 10-Nov-14 18:06, Tanstaafl wrote: Wondering if this is supported? It is supported, but not on ESXi-hypervisor (free) anymore. AFAIK only Trilead VM-Explorer works on free-ESXi (and command line tools i.e. ghettoVCB). Cool, thanks

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/8/2014 10:03 AM, Mart van de Wege mvdw...@gmail.com wrote: Quite frankly, I'm disgusted. A developer with a lot of contributions is chased away by the noise made by a bunch of whiners who can't even be bothered to set up a test server. Obviously you didn't bother to read his posts. His

Re: Lennart Poettering Linux -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:01 AM, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: Sorry, but requiring an up-to-date kernel (or any other infrastructure you rely on) instead of maintaining workarounds and compatibility code in perpetuity makes perfect sense. It amazes me the depths that some systemd

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 8:47 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: If systemd can stand on its own, it doesn't have to be defended against every whinger that comes along. (And I'll have you know that many, probably most of those you accuse of being whiners are very busy working out alternatives.

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:01 PM, st s...@kem.ru wrote: Hans wrote: And at the beginning things never work perfect That's why they shouldn't make it into Stable as defaults, now should they? Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released *perfectly* stable, so if that means it

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:08 PM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the systemd-haters. It's not about haters ...

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:44 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice. Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install an alternative init.

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:50 PM, Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 10/11/14 19:26, Tanstaafl wrote: Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released *perfectly* stable, so if that means it stays in unstable for 5 years, so be it. If you want *perfectly* stable software

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
An opinion from a very new debian user... On 11/4/2014 5:09 PM, Laurent Bigonville bi...@debian.org wrote: http://debianfork.org/: If systemd will be substituting sysvinit in Debian, we will fork the project and create a new distro. We hope this won't be necessary, but we are well prepared

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
1:03 PM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: Quoting myself from http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20141021184619.gq28...@teltox.donarmstrong.com with modifications. On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: Personally I think the biggest issue with Jessie at present is the inability to do

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/5/2014 1:35 PM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: It's not an RC bug because it's easy to overcome with a late command. Not understanding this reference - so, you're saying you *can* perform a clean install of Jessie using sysvinit for the init system, just using a special command

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/5/2014 1:57 PM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: Not understanding this reference - so, you're saying you *can* perform a clean install of Jessie using sysvinit for the init system, just using a special command during the install process? Yes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommended version of Java?

2014-11-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/31/2014 8:35 PM, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On 31/10/14 20:12, Andreas Säger wrote: The fact is, Libreoffice, for a long time, simply did not work at al with Java7. Huh? Really? Which issue number was that? I can't believe that any LO version had been released with such a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommended version of Java?

2014-11-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/31/2014 4:30 PM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 31.10.2014 um 20:50 schrieb Sophie Gautier: So, I figured I'd ask if Java8 was supported - meaning, expected to work properly in most cases... Sheesh... No, that was: THAT IS WHAT I ASKED FOR. SHEESH. See the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommended version of Java?

2014-11-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/31/2014 4:12 PM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 31.10.2014 um 20:32 schrieb Tanstaafl: If Libreoffice requires Java to do certain things (yes, I understand that iits reliance on Java is less and less as time goes on, but it still requires it for some things

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-10-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/31/2014 3:11 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Systemd is, in my opinion, suffering from the same feature-creep as Grub2 does. Grub1 was faster, because it was smaller. But it isn't working propery anymore and Grub2 does its job Eh?? Grub1 doesn't work properly any more?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/30/2014 5:02 PM, Virgil Arrington arringto...@gmail.com wrote: In my experience on this list, Tom has been extremely helpful and, just as important, courteous. I agree for the most part, and he is always polite and cordial. I just really hate it when someone deigns to try to 'help' me

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/31/2014 3:26 PM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 31.10.2014 um 19:10 schrieb Tanstaafl: So, I figured I'd ask if Java8 was supported - meaning, expected to work properly in most cases... You are the one to check this out. We don't even know your operating system. Please

[gentoo-user] Switch from PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY to repos.conf - WAS: Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/29/2014 7:37 AM, Martin Vaeth mar...@mvath.de wrote: The long-term plans are to drop PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY completely, the reason being that it is not flexible enough: With repos.conf you can specify details for every repository, you are not even forced to have a *single* major

[libreoffice-users] Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-30 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, Is there a page somewhere that specifies what version(s) of Java are supported for what versions of Libreoffice? Specifically, is Java8 fully supported for version 4.1.x? 4.2.x? 4.3.x? Thanks -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-30 Thread Tanstaafl
off java. Hopefully no data-loss occurs and it just grumbles when something does need Java. If you do get such an error message then it should be reasonably easy to switch java back on and re-try the task. Good luck! Regards from Tom :) On 30 October 2014 11:18, Tanstaafl tansta

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/30/2014 11:29 AM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Sorry! I was trying to say that it might be difficult to get an answer. Java updates are too frequent and unreliable so tracking them would be tricky. Oracle are not particularly open and talkative about their problems.

Re: Thinking about preserving freedom of choice of init systems and future of udev...

2014-10-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/28/2014 8:45 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: John Hasler wrote: Martinx writes: I'm wondering here about this subject and what it means... So, what if `udev` becomes useless without `systemd` as PID1? The someone will fork it. But it won't happen, partly for that

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