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

2014-04-07 Thread Roger Leigh
the cause of this could be or how to resolve it. Any clues or suggestions much appreciated. The usual cause is that old configuration files from removed packages are still lying around. Try removing them fully by purging them completely and re-running insserv. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger

Re: chroot jail problem

2014-02-14 Thread Roger Leigh
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 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800

Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-13 Thread Roger Leigh
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 avoid the same mistake. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

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 seconds (mean) per package

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

2014-02-11 Thread Roger Leigh
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 -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh

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

2014-02-11 Thread Roger Leigh
then mount a tmpfs on /tmp which could potentially be much faster, depending upon the amount of memory in the system. Or just remove 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

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 single physical volume (PV) and then carve it up

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

2014-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
with no interruption in service. 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: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
/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 directly. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

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

2014-02-09 Thread Roger Leigh
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 kernels] Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

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

2014-02-09 Thread Roger Leigh
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://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-02 Thread Roger Leigh
. 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/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key

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

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
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Re: NFS in schroot/sbuild

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
is inside the chroot; schroot will prepend the chroot mount path to this. Other than that, it's just the same as the normal /etc/fstab entries. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

Re: building from source for different arch

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
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://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

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

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
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Re: schroot

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Leigh
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 -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http

Re: fsck on boot...revisited

2013-07-25 Thread Roger Leigh
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Re: Problems with util-linux in Debian Sid

2013-07-15 Thread Roger Leigh
), 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 `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-13 Thread Roger Leigh
that; as suggested before, Windows can be configured to use a UTC hardware clock if you want to dual boot. 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: Problem printing (SCX-4200)

2013-07-13 Thread Roger Leigh
the apt cache for example. 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: How to force an application to use only ipv4?

2013-05-18 Thread Roger Leigh
connectivity. All services 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
in the chroot, so it's just warning you that it can't change to the same directory /inside/ the chroot before it starts an interactive shell. Try running schroot from the root directory, or adding an options like -d /, and you should see the warning disappear. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

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 still need a /boot partition outside of LVM

Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-08 Thread Roger Leigh
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Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-08 Thread Roger Leigh
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/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-28 Thread Roger Leigh
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://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key

Re: Debian + UEFI + Install w/ USB Key

2013-04-22 Thread Roger Leigh
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, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Roger Leigh
), 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/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Roger Leigh
managed system. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
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) for the expected format. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
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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 -- snip -- It might be a nuisance but running the stop part of the initscript isn't the same as not touching it all? Sorry, I don't quite

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-16 Thread Roger Leigh
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.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-16 Thread Roger Leigh
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://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-15 Thread Roger Leigh
be appreciated. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: administration of initscripts

2013-04-15 Thread Roger Leigh
for jessie. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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 wanted to manage init scripts. I always

Re: BTRFS Kernel Panic

2013-04-11 Thread Roger Leigh
is on ext4 on LVM RAID.] 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

Debian on recent MacBooks

2013-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
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 and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Roger Leigh
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 sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Roger Leigh
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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://people.debian.org

Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Leigh
(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 F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800

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

2012-12-27 Thread Roger Leigh
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 `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
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 sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
familiar with NFS, and how the boot scripts work, or who could take the time to become familiar with them. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-11 Thread Roger Leigh
be worth installing that if missing. 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: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-08 Thread Roger Leigh
, 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.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http

Re: time zone and UTC issue

2012-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
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/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A

Re: time zone and UTC issue

2012-12-01 Thread Roger Leigh
in place of --utc, and it switches it back to LOCAL. I'd definitely recommend using UTC though. 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: 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 changed the local time to UTC too

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

2012-11-16 Thread Roger Leigh
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.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Leigh
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 `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756

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

2012-10-14 Thread Roger Leigh
/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 /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.20.1-5.2_amd64.deb Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Re: any status monitor for epson tx 121 ?

2012-10-14 Thread Roger Leigh
? 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://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key

Re: Running 32bit OpenGL program with amd64

2012-10-14 Thread Roger Leigh
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/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU

Re: Printing to parallel port printer

2012-09-30 Thread Roger Leigh
should be able to just set it up manually with parallel:/dev/lp0 or equivalent. Also: check that the CUPS lp backend is executable. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

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

2012-09-04 Thread Roger Leigh
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 `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800

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 portion of the local setting? All of them

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

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Leigh
Should-Start rather than Required-Start, so that this isn't going to cause circular dependencies? 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: /etc/init.d/bootlogs said to be removed. Still there. Is it a bug?

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Leigh
reverted the change, so it was added back. Regards, Roger commit d85dac4639d50efef7fd44c8b7ee360a9400abad Author: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Date: Sun Jul 22 10:20:55 2012 +0100 Revert debian: Remove bootlogs init script This reverts commit

Re: What does charset in locale setting affect?

2012-09-02 Thread Roger Leigh
, 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 -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Roger Leigh
/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.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
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 B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800

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 --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev I have exited

Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
your system because autofs mounts under /dev created by systemd can't be bind mounted; well, they can, they are just broken and umountable, and all the processes in your system will slowly enter D state! Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
/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 this. Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-08-16 Thread Roger Leigh
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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 that leaving a broken /run - /var/run behind. You

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

2012-08-13 Thread Roger Leigh
! On Linux, my swap space alone is 8 times this size. 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: 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 tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: The answer to the second is the jury's still out. AFAIR, Roger Leigh phrased this in this thread in terms

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-08-02 Thread Roger Leigh
is an improvement due to being technically superior and the logical way to go. 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: Printers using free software only

2012-07-31 Thread Roger Leigh
work with it. This is due to the fragility of the tools in coping with incorrect comments! In contrast, you never have such a situation with PDF unless the file is actually corrupt.) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Roger Leigh
at all--it could significantly hamper our ability to tailor our own distribution for our own needs. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public

Re: systemd

2012-07-26 Thread Roger Leigh
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 sysvinit, I'd certainly look at that. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Re: systemd

2012-07-26 Thread Roger Leigh
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, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-26 Thread Roger Leigh
programmable, and lacking in many modern features), while adding a few of its own (stupid additional features). Ignore those extra features, and it's a much, much better solution than PostScript. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: systemd

2012-07-25 Thread Roger Leigh
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 : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot

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 check the return status of schroot. If sid

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? Like in my case the config dir in my home

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
since only newer versions add the session: namespace. 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: 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! I added $schroot at the end (don't

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-21 Thread Roger Leigh
. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

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: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:26PM +, Ramon Hofer

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
-- .''`. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
the need to manually stop and start services in your init script; you'd just need to create and end a session. Whether that's useful or not depends on your specific needs, but it's there if you want to try it out. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

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 rather about starting schroot on bootup

Re: self signed repository

2012-07-05 Thread Roger Leigh
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 `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800

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 default; just the archive as a whole via

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 signing. apt-get doesn't get check per

Re: Upgrading to Wheezy (frozen)

2012-07-04 Thread Roger Leigh
/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-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
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 : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
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-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
of these people personally, I'd still only be three or four hops away. 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

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

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 problem, but can't

Re: [OT] Documenting new stuff (was: /tmp is too small)

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
in the configuration file. If you would like additional information adding, please do file bugs, patches if you have proposed text. It's all in the public git repo. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http

Re: failures on boot.

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
-only? If you can replicate the problem and pin it down to a specific script, could you file a bug against iniscripts with all the above information as requested? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
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/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC

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