Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Roger Leigh
an asoundingly bad attitude with respect to this. It would be perfectly possible for systemd to support other platforms if they really wanted to; it probably wouldn't even be that hard. Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Roger Leigh
there is a much better and more capable 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 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Roger Leigh
strictly bad, but may cause confusion and just pollutes the namespace for tab completion etc. If you want them in your path, it's trivial to add /sbin to it yourself. I can't see any compelling reason to make them the default. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Roger Leigh
the dir with a symlink. 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: tasksel: Default desktop: Gnome→Xfce

2012-08-04 Thread Roger Leigh
=161324k) This is only until sysvinit migrates to testing though. We did (regrettably, IMO) change back the default. Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools

Re: Bug#683486: ITP: barman -- Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

2012-08-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:56:56AM +0200, Marco Nenciarini wrote: * Package name: barman postgresql-barman would make it a bit easier for people to find. Most of the other postgreql packages use the postgresql- namespace. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

RFH: NFS support and networking

2012-07-28 Thread Roger Leigh
expert. I would be very grateful for anyone who could contribute their time for getting some of the above issues resolved for wheezy. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects

Re: solving the network-manager-in-gnome problem

2012-07-24 Thread Roger Leigh
done already. -- .''`. 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-devel

Re: solving the network-manager-in-gnome problem

2012-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
should ensure that all init systems provide add/remove/enable/disable actions. The stop|start actions are going to simply defer to the defaults action, and will ultimately go. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot

Accepted schroot 1.6.3-1 (source all amd64)

2012-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Re: solving the network-manager-in-gnome problem

2012-07-22 Thread Roger Leigh
. This has been already debated extensively many times over. Irrespective of whether your personal opinion is that this is a good or bad thing, that's just the way it is at present. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-29 (source all amd64)

2012-07-22 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like

Accepted schroot 1.6.2-1 (source all amd64)

2012-07-21 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Accepted schroot 1.6.1-1 (source all amd64)

2012-07-18 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Accepted gutenprint 5.2.9-1 (source all amd64)

2012-07-09 Thread Roger Leigh
-locales escputil ijsgutenprint foomatic-db-gutenprint gutenprint-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 5.2.9-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Printing Group debian-print...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: cups-driver-gutenprint

Re: Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-07-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:58:09PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: On 27.06.2012 11:13, Roger Leigh wrote: I'd like to suggest that we do the following in sysv-rc update-rc.d: - wheezy: silently drop start|stop sequence numbers and runlevels (this is already the case when using insserv

Re: Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-07-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 06:39:57PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:52:23AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:44:53AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The numbers specified for update-rc.d must be well ordered according to the dependencies specified

Re: locking system users on package removal

2012-06-30 Thread Roger Leigh
of usermod from the discussion on debian-devel regarding Policy bug #621833 (where it was originally suggested by Roger Leigh), so this potentially affects quite a few packages. Stephan's proposed patch (below) makes me think we really need a script (or dpkg-maintscript-helper subcommand

Re: Improving our response to duplicate packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Roger Leigh
a package should be part of Debian. I don't mean having to suffer a drawn out argument, but just being able to give the reasons why it's important for the software to be in Debian, what it does, and why it's sufficiently different from what we already have. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-06-29 Thread Roger Leigh
tags 539591 + patch thanks On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 02:40:18PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 08:02:33AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:39:38PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 06/27/2012 03:46 PM

Re: Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-06-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:44:53AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: This means that the runlevels and sequence numbers passed as arguments to update-rc.d will never be used; they will just get silently discarded. The main problem as I see

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-06-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 08:02:33AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:39:38PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 06/27/2012 03:46 PM, Alexander Wirt wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6

Re: Dependency-based boot ordering and sysvinit in unstable

2012-06-27 Thread Roger Leigh
severity 678231 serious severity 676473 serious forgemerge 676463 678231 676473 tags 676463 + pending thanks On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:31:47PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi, If you're using unstable and you're using static boot ordering with sysv-rc, you might have run into #676463/#676520

Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-06-27 Thread Roger Leigh
what's possible here. Could it use insserv to do the dependency graph and then just consume the makefile-style dependency list? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-06-27 Thread Roger Leigh
, 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-devel-requ

Accepted gutenprint 5.2.8-1 (source all amd64)

2012-06-27 Thread Roger Leigh
-locales escputil ijsgutenprint foomatic-db-gutenprint gutenprint-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 5.2.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Printing Group debian-print...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: cups-driver-gutenprint

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-28 (source all amd64)

2012-06-27 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like

Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Roger Leigh
), renaming them is do-able, but not something we should be doing this close to the freeze. PS: Is there a way to list all packages putting a file in /etc/init.d/? dpkg -S $(ls -1 /etc/init.d/*) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:59:30PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: Le 25-06-2012, à 14:47:58 +0100, Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) a écrit : On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:51:36PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: I noticed that some scripts in /etc/init.d/ are suffixed by .sh and some

Accepted schroot 1.6.0-1 (source all amd64)

2012-06-25 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Roger Leigh
safely or sensibly handle. Doesn't the Ubuntu updater tool do something like this already when it does a full upgrade between releases? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-18 Thread Roger Leigh
-Depends can be restricted to the common subset needed for packing sources but not those needed for arch-all or arch-any building. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-27 (source all amd64)

2012-06-08 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like

Incorrect use of /run

2012-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
, where /run will exist at all times. But until then, you need to follow the instructions in the reference above. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net

Dependency-based boot ordering and sysvinit in unstable

2012-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
probably be using insserv to order the scripts even if it doesn't use startpar to run them in parallel, so that it can use LSB dependency ordering as well. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-26 (source all amd64)

2012-06-06 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 01:21:43PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/28/2012 05:32 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:46:27PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/25/2012 07:44 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: However, the majority of software which finds the tmpfs too small has

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:44:03PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:22:24AM +0300, Serge wrote: I've read across different debates about whether using tmpfs is good or bad but I could not find the most important reason, so here it is... I haven't got anything

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-01 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-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Accepted sbuild 0.63.1-1 (source all)

2012-05-31 Thread Roger Leigh
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: buildd - Daemon for automatically building Debian binary packages from Deb libsbuild-perl - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources sbuild - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian

Accepted schroot 1.5.4-1 (source all amd64)

2012-05-30 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Accepted sbuild 0.63.0-1 (source all)

2012-05-30 Thread Roger Leigh
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: buildd - Daemon for automatically building Debian binary packages from Deb libsbuild-perl - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources sbuild - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian

Accepted schroot 1.5.3-1 (source all amd64)

2012-05-29 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 04:39:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: I did want to have this for wheezy (#633299). But I lacked the time and familiarity with the d-i code, and the d-i developers also have higher priorities. Personally, this d-i developer has as one priority

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:46:27PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/25/2012 07:44 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: However, the majority of software which finds the tmpfs too small has unreasonable expectations of what can be expected to be available (by default). We welcome you to rewrite

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-27 Thread Roger Leigh
for user services such as pidfiles, sockets and state. i.e. the user equivalent of /var/run. Its size should be only a few KiB at most. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-25 Thread Roger Leigh
be welcome if you want to add this functionality. 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

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-25 (source all amd64)

2012-05-23 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-18 Thread Roger Leigh
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Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

2012-05-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:38:14PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: With the above approach, the only hard question is how to set the ownership during the package build. fakeroot handles this just fine, but it does require the user/group

Accepted schroot 1.5.2-1 (source all amd64)

2012-05-15 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

2012-05-12 Thread Roger Leigh
to be present on the build system, which will not always be the case. Is there an alternative means to set/override the ownership during packing of a tarfile? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-12 Thread Roger Leigh
in continuing this further on this list. It's not adding anything new or useful. 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: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

2012-05-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 03:55:24PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 12:28:27 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:23:49PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: With the above approach, the only hard question is how to set the ownership during the package build

Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

2012-05-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:10:13AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 22:47:22 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 03:55:24PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: One option would be to make dpkg-deb use an internal tar implementation, and add a file describing

Accepted schroot 1.4.26-1 (source all amd64)

2012-05-12 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Configuration file handling (was: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian)

2012-05-11 Thread Roger Leigh
should never need to concern itself with such cleanup, or indeed any manual work with conffiles at all, except maybe for deletion ahead of purge where this is needed. And given the frequency this is needed, a defined mechanism to do this would be useful. Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

Re: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Roger Leigh
/RunDirectory . You basically just need to have a Depends on initscripts (= 2.88dsf-13.3) and you're good to go. Don't store megabytes of data in here though, since it's stored in virtual memory on most systems. Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Work on init systems (was: Making -devel discussions more viable)

2012-05-09 Thread Roger Leigh
provide files in the same format-- we don't really want to have fragmented support for different systems within Debian, though supporting different init systems as the present is needed and desirable. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-09 Thread Roger Leigh
to symlink/include the units provided elsewhere, but is this either necessary or desirable on a Debian system? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-24 (source all amd64)

2012-05-08 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 09:30:42PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: On 04/26/12 00:42, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:52:59PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: I'd like to ask you to evaluate OpenRC as candidate to replace the old have-always-been-there sysvinit/insserv init scripts

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:00:15PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:04:32PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: On 04/30/2012 04

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-30 Thread Roger Leigh
be an interim solution. Unless OpenRC itself could become more event-based. 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

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-29 Thread Roger Leigh
and/or central list is an insanity I wish we could have fixed years ago. We should not have global policy WRT virtual package defaults embedded (inconsistently!) into every single dependency! Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 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-devel-requ

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 01:42:48PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: I'm going to investigate it in more detail on a running Gentoo system and learn a bit more about it before doing anything. If anyone fancies doing the packaging, I'll be happy to join in. I'll probably be able to provide a better

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:19:44PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 29, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: While sysvinit is clearly inferior, it gives us (Debian) something the others do not: control over our own destiny, and the ability to modify every aspect of it and the init

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Roger Leigh
a Conflicts/Breaks and be done with it. Not a great solution, but it doesn't seem like there's a better one if both camps are unwilling to change. Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-27 Thread Roger Leigh
an additional silent option so that systemd can behave similarly to the existing stuff when passed the quiet option? Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:49:18AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 04/25/2012 06:42 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:52:59PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: I'd like to ask you to evaluate OpenRC as candidate to replace the old have-always-been-there sysvinit/insserv init

Re: Plans to (re-)include cgroups in wheezy?

2012-04-26 Thread Roger Leigh
. However, we should also copy the set of mounts used by systemd (?). Is the proposed patch in this bug sufficient? I've not yet looked to see--I'm not familiar with cgroups, and I don't know if it's sufficiently compatible with the systemd mounts. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:50:51PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 04/26/2012 08:42 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: If anyone fancies doing the packaging, I'll be happy to join in. I'll probably be able to provide a better overview once I know a bit more. I don't know much about OpenRC apart from

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-25 Thread Roger Leigh
into update-rc.d) 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: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
through a translator? It's neat, but not really useful (from the POV of the distribution as a whole). Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:20:00AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Roger Leigh, le Mon 23 Apr 2012 09:44:32 +0100, a écrit : While it's great that Hurd can support all of these esoteric translators, in terms of making Hurd a viable *Debian* port, we really only need a few specific ones

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
a standard format (mtab) and not a moving target of 'be like Linux'. For mtab, it's probably not even strictly necessary for this to be in /proc/mounts. It could be a translator on /etc/mtab directly? (If a translator can be a single file?) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-23 (source all amd64)

2012-04-21 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:01:55AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Roger Leigh] I can't see why not at first glance--it's done its job, so should no longer be needed. It is still needed in two use cases. 1) Machine upgraded from Lenny where the migration was not done. Either

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:52:23PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Roger Leigh (I don't know if you saw my mail regarding having done this provisionally in git; I mentioned it on the pkg-sysvinit-devel list and in #545976. I was wanting to additionally ask you how safe it would

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-18 Thread Roger Leigh
a release isn't supported and as this has been in squeeze, can it be dropped from sysv-rc, please? I can't see why not at first glance--it's done its job, so should no longer be needed. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild

Bug#669108: general: assorted segfault

2012-04-17 Thread Roger Leigh
me to collect further information to investigate the problem? Try memtest86 to see if it's memory corruption due to bad RAM. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects

Re: Bug#668841: ITP: svipc -- System V InterProcess Communication for Python/Yorick

2012-04-14 Thread Roger Leigh
already in Yorick and Python? While yorick-svipc is undoubtedly useful, it's also quite dated; the standard POSIX equivalents to the old SysV should really be preferred. FWIW, http://pypi.python.org/pypi/posix_ipc/0.8.1 Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:13:09PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: As a side note I have a use case at work where static order seems to be needed. We build boot images for network boot of clusters. During boot additional files can be copied from NFS

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-10 Thread Roger Leigh
at this over the weekend, it's a PITA though. Hopefully should be fixed in the next upload if I have time to thoroughly test it this week (but I need to write the helper function first given that this has apparently not been needed until now). Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU

The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-09 Thread Roger Leigh
unbootable, but doing it without any manual intervention where possible would be desirable. This can, of course, be left until wheezy+1. It's just something which needs considering before it becomes a bigger problem. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Roger Leigh
- and build-related variables is inconsistent? 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: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 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-devel

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:17:43AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:20:47PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote: [note: it's somewhat desirable for them to be optional on Linux too, to prevent feature lock-in and future compatibility problems]. Unix

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Roger Leigh
be run by init? This would provide a migration path and permit packages to migrate away from providing init scripts in favour of systemd units (or upstart jobs), while permitting sysvinit use to continue. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:20:47PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: I certainly don't think it's fair for fairly niche platforms to hold back Linux indefinitely. There is a high cost on maintainers to support these platforms, and it would be an ideal situation if systemd

Re: mass bug filing of 'ucf: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:14:49AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Roger Leigh Just FYI, please see #659451. I've split the UTC variable into /etc/default/hwclock, which means /etc/default/rcS can become a regular dpkg conffile (in current git only for now). This needs support in d

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-22 Thread Roger Leigh
the modern systems on all arches. The attitude of the systemd upstream is not encouraging here, however. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG

Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-18 Thread Roger Leigh
with this patch against util-linux once this is properly tested. 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: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:59:23PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi, The attached patch against current util-linux cleans up hwclock handling with the following changes: • Also adds /etc/default/hwclock and hwclock(5) which permit configuration without editing the initscript, and also

Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress

2012-02-18 Thread Roger Leigh
tools first started supporting it for backward- compatibility reasons, but it's been the default for some time now (since July 2008) since everything we would want to build on supports it. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 08:00:28PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Feb 18, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: • There are currently two init scripts, hwclockfirst.sh and hwclock.sh. The reasons for these two originally existing Why do you still bother with init scripts? With very

Re: mass bug filing of 'ucf: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:07:22PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:52:42AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:10:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: Interesting timing. initscripts started depending on ucf just a few days ago, which makes ucf quasi

Re: mass bug filing of 'ucf: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:18:08PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:52:42AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:10:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: Interesting timing. initscripts started depending on ucf just a few

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-09 Thread Roger Leigh
in the context of being used by the computer. By all means refer to the user this way (e.g. you), but I don't think Ian's opinion on the use of I is by any means universal. It's by no means wrong, but I think such uses could be phrased better. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian

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