Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-13 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 10:04:28AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Matthias Klumpp writes: > > > I find that statement quite encouraging. Of course they don't commit > > to not having those depend on systemd-as-PID1, but there really isn't > > a reason to create that dependency, and if for whatever

Re: sysusers and tmpfiles

2019-12-09 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 03:57:57PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > > > Using systemd-sysusers and systemd-tmpfiles more widely was mentioned a > > few times, along with a statement that an implementation for non-systemd > > systems w

sysusers and tmpfiles

2019-12-08 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Hi, [disclaimer: on work on systemd upstream, I'm not an active Debian user anymore.] Using systemd-sysusers and systemd-tmpfiles more widely was mentioned a few times, along with a statement that an implementation for non-systemd systems would need to be provided. Both those programs work just

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:56:33AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: I'm also no longer convinced, that running a huge shell machinery (as root) during login via PAM is a good idea. Agreed. If we go the update-motd route, I'd like to see the update-motd calls be

Re: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-12-01 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 10:58:45PM +, Roger Lynn wrote: On 29/11/14 13:30, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 29 novembre 2014 12:41 GMT, Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie : One concern I'd have is the lack of flexibility to produce a cut-down system. The option of a dedicated

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:10:09AM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 04:40:21PM +, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: * Other users only have access to audio devices through ACLs when physically logged on. Unless I be mistaken,

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 06:33:44PM +, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl writes: […] The second part, making systemd portable, has already been widely discussed. There are significant technical reasons why systemd is Linux only

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:30:07PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 19:12 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: New

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… I brought this upstream to no avail. OK, since this is a different forum, let me go over the reasons once again.

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:23:39PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: El mar, 21 de oct 2014 a las 7:03 , Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org escribió: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: This is the problem. The init system should not be providing features which other software

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:12:56PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 16:03 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: This is the problem. The init system should not be providing features which other software might, post-boot

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-16 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 09:17:46AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: Heh. Maybe we can turn this into a useful question: Assume that I have a broken system (maybe the disk is partially broken or it got owned and I don't want to rely on its toolbox anymore). Now for some reason, I can still access

Re: systemd - getting started?

2014-02-12 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:53:49PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: Hi! In fact, I installed systemd on my jessie system just yesterday. So far I filed two (not very major, promptly being dealt with) bugs and after a lot of initial conservative scepticism, I'm quite excited especially by

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:30:07PM +0400, Vitaliy Filippov wrote: Here's a challenge then: Implement everything the journal does, without using a binary format, and show us it's not only doable, but performs similarly. I would first recommend you read up - and try! - what the journal has to

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:26:11PM +0400, Vitaliy Filippov wrote: You can tell it to do that, yes. You can also set it to forward them to rsyslog without storing anything. Or both. Read http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/journald.conf.5.html and be enlightened. ;-) OK, it's good they've

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-26 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 03:56:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl writes: But this should be safe for instance units, so I'd like to see 'systemctl stop/status/... server@*.service' implemented. That would be very useful for distribution

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-12-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 05:47:05PM +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 02:19:36AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2013-12-23 13:15, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: [a potentially badly-phrased question] ...I don't think many continue to read your rant and take your feedback

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:48:47PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: upstart calls this instances and systemd calls this unit templates. We too call them instances: an instance is created from a template. Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au writes: Just to clarify: does this mean systemd and

Re: Bug#732603: ITP: python-daemonize -- Python module for writing system daemons

2013-12-19 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:19:55AM +, Neil Williams wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:46:02 +0100 Mike Gabriel mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de * Package name: python-daemonize

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-11 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:24:36PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 08:20:58PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Or a private tmp? I shudder at the mere thought of allowing a dæmon to unshare its /tmp from the rest of the system, because of the maintenance nightmare this

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:47:37PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: And overriding the *entire* service file seems excessive if you wish to override just one line of the package's service file. You add a file /etc/systemd/system/xxx.service.d/yyy.conf with the following contents: [Service]

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 08:47:00PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:15:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:29:10PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: And this is not just

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 03:10:16PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: The interfaces of all init systems (except sysvinit, but are we really considering that one?) still are somewhat in flux, so this is the point where we can still influence and shape them. dream Imagine a world where upstart and

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:50:53PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 06:18:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I suspect you and I have a root disagreement over the utility of exposing some of those degrees of freedom to every init script author, but if you have some more

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-26 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:02:13PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: # systemd units on my laptop that are generated internally by systemd # when it reads a sysvinit script (or LSB init script as it # calls them) % systemctl list-units | grep LSB | wc -l That's only currently loaded units, i.e.

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: And this is not just an issue because of people not wanting to use systemd init, but also because systemd init *can't* run in a container. Whoah, that's not true: sudo systemd-nspawn -bD ~/images/fedora-19 works just fine :)

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 05:59:25PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 07/21/2013 05:04 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 19:21 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : [I am almost certainly going to regret this.] I hope so. Please don't be a jerk. Making the switch away from

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:38:57PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:32:42PM +0300, Arto Jantunen wrote: In addition to that the wrapper also needs to be able to track the processes started by the systemd service (the admin might want to stop or restart services in

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 04:49:19AM +0900, heroxbd wrote: Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de writes: By far the more severe issue is socket activation, because it removes the need to spell out service dependencies. We cannot infer these dependencies later on. Instead such a wrapper must

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-06-06 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 12:24:02PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: It seems that now, we can do this, but the cookbook also says this is not here yet: start on started network-services I don't know how systemd behaves in this way (so this is not something to hold against upstart), but

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 04:45:49PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: This is more true for the socket activation API that systemd could have reasonably adopted from upstart, but chose not to do. Didn't systemd actually have a socket activation API before upstart? I don't remember exactly, but

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:37:35AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Matthias wrote: Am 22.05.2013 18:12 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org: Note that if it's there, and Ubuntu uses upstart, it has probably been tested. I was not suggesting that we blindly import upstart job files from

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:47:46AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:39:06PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:53:43PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: There was a GSoC project in 2012 about generating sysvinit scripts from systemd .service files. Was

Accepted tralics 2.14.4-2 (source amd64)

2012-04-04 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:42:46 +0200 Source: tralics Binary: tralics Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.14.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl Changed-By: Zbigniew

Bug#655390: ITP: jmatio -- Java library to read and write Matlab files

2012-01-10 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl * Package name: jmatio Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Wojciech Gradkowski wgradkow...@users.sf.net * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmatio/ * License : BSD

Bug#655420: ITP: jtransforms -- A multithreaded FFT library written in pure Java

2012-01-10 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl * Package name: jtransforms Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Piotr Wendykier piotr.wendyk...@gmail.com * URL : http://sites.google.com/site/piotrwendykier/software/jtransforms

Accepted tralics 2.14.4-1 (source i386)

2012-01-07 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:43:26 +0100 Source: tralics Binary: tralics Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.14.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl Changed-By: Zbigniew