Re: openresolv vs. resolvconf

2010-12-01 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Thomas Hood jdth...@gmail.com wrote: I am interested in how openresolv stacks up against resolvconf. ... What further pros and cons do people see out there? Mh, having a quick glimpse at openresolv I doubt it is the drop-in replacement for resolvconf that it suggests to be (Provides/Conflicts:

Re: Bug#603767: gdm: starts on v8 instead of vt7

2010-11-18 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:41:37AM +1100, dave b wrote: So what's kind of why i asked about how you were trying to find the bug. Don't tell me to search through lots of C code point it out! I don't have time for that and you seemed to know more! Please calm down and don't shout at me. I'm not

Re: Bug#603767: gdm: starts on v8 instead of vt7

2010-11-18 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Salvo Tomaselli tipos...@tiscali.it wrote: Well, to me, it does indeed appear to be a GDM bug: I can not reproduce this permanent VT allocation with either KDM, XDM or startx. The issue It happens to me with kdm. Before or after you logged in to a session? Is it reproducible for you by just

Re: Bug#603767: gdm: starts on v8 instead of vt7

2010-11-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:36:14AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 à 13:47 +1100, david b a écrit : After upgrading from lenny to squeeze, gdm starts on vt8 always (even after restarting it). It should start on vt7 as this is the expected I noticed this happens

Re: Bug#603767: gdm: starts on v8 instead of vt7

2010-11-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:01:53PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 à 17:15 +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe a écrit : Well, to me, it does indeed appear to be a GDM bug: I can not reproduce this permanent VT allocation with either KDM, XDM or startx. The issue

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-10 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: The FHS says mkfs.* have to be on the root filesystem. I'm not entirely clear why this is. Well, I personally believe this holds for at least two of the purposes listed in FHS Chapter 3: * To enable recovery and/or repair of a system * To restore a system

Re: Advanced Startup/Shutdown with Multilayered Block Devices and Related Issues

2010-07-05 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: There is one big problem with an event based startup. Specifically for raid1/4/5/6 devices. Those you can use just fine with missing devices but the boot should really wait for all device to be present. Well, this problem arises with

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-31 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr wrote: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr wrote: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: So far this is independent of third packages which is IMHO fine and desirable. So far, this could be solved by a postfix-conf.d-snippet shipped

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-28 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr wrote: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: So far this is independent of third packages which is IMHO fine and desirable. So far, this could be solved by a postfix-conf.d-snippet shipped with the amavis package. Quite not. You also need to configure the incoming

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-27 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr wrote: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: Why would you like to go another way with mail servers? Because upstream doesn't want a conf.d folder, unfortunately, and that Well, you can have something equal without upstream support by concatenating conf.d snippets

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr wrote: What happens here is that, if you take a normal Debian system, then install postfix, then let's say amavis, they don't talk to each other. ... much spams. It is also totally unrealistic to say that it's up to the system administrator to configure

Re: symlinks replaced by directories and vice versa

2006-12-11 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to replace a directory with a symlink, and the directory still contains files, what do you do with these files? Indeed, symlinks colliding with existing directories should give an error while package installation. And IMHO this could even be done

symlinks replaced by directories and vice versa

2006-12-09 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Hello, IMHO, one of the most frequently re-appearing issues in package-upgrades is symlinks in previous package versions replaced by directories in current versions and vice versa. Although the Debian policy clearly states in 6.6 (4) A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic link to a

Re: Question: mount /var/run as tmpfs

2006-10-30 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mount point. For the others, edit /etc/default/rcS and set RAMRUN and RAMLOCK to 'yes'. There are still some packages unable to cope with Hmm, is there any argument against making /etc/default/rcS a conffile or an ucf file to make sure - or at

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-19 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which OS combination does not define int to be 32bit on a 64bit architecture? This is mainly compiler-, not primarily OS-dependent. And: all compilers with an ILP64 data model. However, the question should rather be: *why* compilers do not define int to

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has been pointed out to me in http://bugs.debian.org/387699 that syvinit is going to move /var/run to a tmpfs to solve a long-standing Yes, having the opportunity to mount /var/run on a tmpfs would be really nice. Please consider the same for

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is clear /to me/ from the juxtaposition of these two sentences that the FHS intends for programs to be allowed to create such subdirectories without them being removed at the beginning of the boot process. It is also clear Well, it would then

2.4 vs. 2.6 (was: Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?)

2006-09-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with supporting old kernels is not just the need to maintain 2.4 is not old, it's just stable :) a few packages like initrd-tools or modutils, but that every important package cannot rely on features of modern kernels: inotify, sysfs, etc.

Re: 2.4 vs. 2.6

2006-09-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A good hint for such cases is to actually report such bugs to the driver developers. Did you? It's still in my reproduction and analysis-queue. However, 2.6 is not my biggest priority atm (it will still take a while to get it stable anyways :)). You

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all of them are buggy, e.g. ssh, inn and inn2 have the directory in the package but also create it in the init script if needed. I would consider this a bug, when a package ships things which it expects to magically disappear and where it thus cares

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-24 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point is that if I choose to install a doc packages I intend to use it frequently and would therefore like that it is user friendly rather than that one has squeezed some few kilobytes out by gzipping files. If Agreed. Particularly since the saving

Re: cgiirc Hijacking

2006-06-21 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, there is no good reason to have s.d.o in my sources list, as the packages in there are for sarge, and may not be compatible with the current sid ABI. This is nonsense. If this should really be the way you understand it, please ask yourself

Re: cgiirc Hijacking

2006-06-20 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:18:11PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: In cases where a security bug is being fixed, you usually try to upload the package as soon as possible. If your sponsor is on We did. 0.5.4-6sarge1 was on s.d.o as soon as possible. Since there were no newer version in