Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:03:31 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >On 2016-01-04 11:30, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 22:30:24 +0100, Eric Valette >> wrote: >>> System admins do like using absolute path >>> for security reasons... >> Please also notice tha

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:48:56 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> Unfortunately, it's emotions that take vendor decisions. Your attitude >> is driving big users towards the paid-for Enterprise Linuxes, be it >> logical or not, be it good engineering or not

Re: vlan support en* or br*?

2016-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
package? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf,

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
isions. Your attitude is driving big users towards the paid-for Enterprise Linuxes, be it logical or not, be it good engineering or not. Do care about people, at least partially. Sound logic and technical decisions are not always the right thing to do. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
in Linux > >Do you mean overlayfs? If so can you or anyone vouch for its quality? I am using Overlayfs for mini-buildd and sbuild systems, overlaying an ext4fs with an tmpfs for build chroots. Works like a charm, so far. Greetings Marc -- ------ !!

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:21:06 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: >On 2016-01-04 12:03:07, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:15:18 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >> >Anyway, if you think that the merged /usr scheme is about systemd then >> >you are automa

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:01:46 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:28:14 -0800, Russ Allbery >> wrote: >>>But I don't get why people who are using non-embedded UNIX systems >>>particularly care. >> >> I,

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
itization." We can't >fix every wishlist bug. Is this one actually worth the effort? So it is a wishlist bug to keep things as broken as they were always been? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
t;with only the rootfs anymore. And it is a disadvantage of a distributed project like Debian that we have given up on this gradually without thinking about it. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | &quo

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
lly looking upon Debian, saying that system administrators and distributions need to be "educated" about how to use systemd. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadre

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: [Fwd: Re: [DNG] FW: support for merged /usr in Debian]

2016-01-03 Thread Marc Haber
in the past to find the root cause for any initramfs issues I had in the past. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisd

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Marc Haber
But I have been wrong in the past, the last time when I said that the wheezy => jessie update would be painful. It isn't. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadress

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Marc Haber
obably lead to a wave of code refactoring upstream-side so that maintaining such patches will be harder. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, G

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-02 Thread Marc Haber
t has /usr split off? Will it just stop being bootable after upgrading? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom "

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-02 Thread Marc Haber
tter then accepting a historic >decission" >* "just because we can" >* "others doing also" Amen. >In other words: I don't yet see a _good_ reason for "TheUsrMerge". Seconded. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-02 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2015-12-31 Thread Marc Haber
merged >/usr system. Please consider keeping support for separate /usr as it is done today. Mounting /usr in initrd is an acceptable workaround. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the |

Re: Can I suppress automatic creation of -dbgsym packages?

2015-12-22 Thread Marc Haber
fortunately, the "we're all volunteers" argument seems to allow all kinds of unfriendlyness and uncaringness. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mai

Re: debian.org RTC: announcing XMPP, SIP presence and more

2015-11-21 Thread Marc Haber
nts, having multiple rosters etc bla foo? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de

Re: Ideas to improve dpkg/ucf with hooks

2015-11-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:47:33 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Marc Haber wrote: >> I advocate doing things exactly the other way roud. Give package >> maintainers the power! > >Why would merging ucf into dpkg remove the power from maintainers? Nowa

Re: Ideas to improve dpkg/ucf with hooks

2015-11-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:29:48 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Marc Haber wrote: >> I am aware of that. That's one of my reasons for advocating giving the >> needed love to ucf and to deprecate dpkg's conffile functions in favor >> of ucf

Re: Ideas to improve dpkg/ucf with hooks

2015-11-16 Thread Marc Haber
enhanced ucf can replace dpkg with a lot less work than would be necessary to bring dpkg's conffile handling into the 2020ies decade. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Ideas to improve dpkg/ucf with hooks

2015-11-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:10:11 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 05:47:41PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> Regarding dpkg, its conffile handling is IMO beyond repair, it should >> be deprecated and later removed. > >Could you explain why? - It does not give

Re: Ideas to improve dpkg/ucf with hooks [was: Putting default config files in /usr]

2015-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
ucf is already the right tool to maintain systemd and friends the Debian way if the Debian packaging team would be willing to. Regarding dpkg, its conffile handling is IMO beyond repair, it should be deprecated and later removed. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No co

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:24:48 -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >On Nov 11 2015, Marc Haber wrote: >> Once and for all we're doing _SOMETHING_ right, let's keep it that >> way. > >I think what Debian is doing right is that it tracks and notifies about >changes in con

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:58:13 +0100, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: >[ ? 11/11/2015 18:14 ] [ ? Marc Haber ] >> Once and for all we're doing _SOMETHING_ right, let's keep it that >> way. >I do not agree that we are doing something exactly right. I would like >/etc to

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
gs Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
stems - but systemd used to >modify, at least, kernel.sysrq in older systemd versions in this way. I didn't know that and would have been severely surprised. But, alas, it's empty on all my systems as well. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy co

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:38:42 +, Ian Jackson wrote: >Anyway, that systemd.deb does it wrong, definitely doesn't mean that >we should repeat the same mistake for other programs. Agreed. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
ies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:04:01 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: >On 11/11/15 10:37, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:24:52 -0800, Josh Triplett >> wrote: >>> Vincent Danjean wrote: > >> I violently disagree. We have always done it the other way, and had &

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
do not have systemd for long enough to see the fallout of this bad setup. >I would suggest that the problem here isn't moving defaults out of /etc >into /usr, but rather the lack of widespread tools for managing that >configuration. That's a fixable problem. Why do we cause prob

Re: #791857 ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-11-09 Thread Marc Haber
ged to migrate console-log to a systemd unit, I intend to drop daemon. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom

Re: Bug#803303: general: Standardized troubleshooting

2015-10-28 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: init script, installed but not activated

2015-10-07 Thread Marc Haber
guring the package harder and non-intuitive. Checking for a config file with at least one non-comment line in the systemd-unit is ugly. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mai

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

2015-09-23 Thread Marc Haber
[module-assistant] On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:24:54 +0200, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >Hi, confirmed: it is still there. The Question is: Is it still supported? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Quest

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

2015-09-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:14:13 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 15:02 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Do we now require DKMS, which requires a fully-blown build system on >> the target box? Wouldn't it be much better to be able to build a >> virtualbox-

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

2015-09-23 Thread Marc Haber
h requires a fully-blown build system on the target box? Wouldn't it be much better to be able to build a virtualbox-modules-$KERNELFLAVOUR.deb? What was so bad with module-assistant? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: is the whole unstable still broken by gcc-5?

2015-09-12 Thread Marc Haber
:) sni-qt is one of the big problems in the KDE transition since it needs to be rewritten for Plasma 5. There is, to my knowledge, no way to keep it while staying current with KDE in unstable and stretch. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copie

Re: How to read mail addressed to "root" from "root" user?

2015-08-31 Thread Marc Haber
ould really have root's mail delivered to a regular user. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Marc Haber
y default. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt.

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
formed decision about whether to >update immediately, or perhaps wait until they get to a cheaper network, >or wait until after the important presentation they're about to give. Amen. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies,

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 14:42:54 +0200, intrigeri wrote: >Marc Haber wrote (30 Aug 2015 11:43:09 GMT) : >> You reasoning again resembles what Microsoft says. > >I may be misunderstanding, but given what immediately follows ("I >don't know whether [...]) it seems to

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:27:02 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: >On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:53:17AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Yes, Windows 10 has _exactly_ the same issue. I am astonished that we >> managed to copy that epic fuckup in such a short time span. > >This is getting ri

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
even if it's from the same ecosystem, to fix issues that were caused by a terrible misfeature in your own software. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header M

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
what is g-s-d? gnome-software-? > >kibi@arya:~$ apt-file search /usr/bin/g*-s*-d* >gnome-settings-daemon: /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon Yes, that is easy to do when one knows what to search for. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
. Yes, Windows 10 has _exactly_ the same issue. I am astonished that we managed to copy that epic fuckup in such a short time span. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadress

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Marc Haber
"apt do anything as you wish including bad things and non-interactively", which is an unacceptable choice. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germ

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Marc Haber
s Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Metapackage dependencies: "Depends" or "Recommends"?

2015-07-31 Thread Marc Haber
machine is to be considered a snowflake once a person has been root on them. Greetings Marc [1] all alike, but different -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannh

Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

2015-07-30 Thread Marc Haber
killing valueable time and makes backporting a double pain. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom "

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-15 Thread Marc Haber
gt; >Thank you, Mike. Amen. Packaging Mozilla software surely is hard work just for its obiquity, and the work is done just splendidly. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Ma

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-10 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Marc Haber
mething I needed only last week. Having said that, I think that >This looks like a job for systemd. How do I have that functionality on Debian/kFreeBSD? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-08 Thread Marc Haber
: C > Description : tool to run a command as a daemon Other than being alive upstream, does that have advantages over daemon(1)? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse i

Re: Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-06-25 Thread Marc Haber
stand how it works >are always ready to propose solutions. Do you ever come without insults? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-14 Thread Marc Haber
ependency on the correct wget version. Is that a problem? btw, please read up on bug severities. I consider filing this bug as "grave" quite short of being offensive. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |

Re: Regarding Debian development

2015-06-02 Thread Marc Haber
s not endorse third party software and/or support organizations. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nord

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-14 Thread Marc Haber
o depend on that target/unit with one's own units, and they will of course be able to call scripts. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Be

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 13 May 2015 17:16:07 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >On 2015-05-12 22:31:43 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Tue, 12 May 2015 17:08:33 +0200, Vincent Lefevre >> wrote: >> >On 2015-05-11 18:04:14 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> >> In IPv6, routers advertise

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 12 May 2015 17:08:33 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >On 2015-05-11 18:04:14 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> In IPv6, routers advertise prefixes. If a new prefix comes, end >> systems configured for SLAAC will allocate an IP address in this >> prefix and begin to use it. &g

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 11 May 2015 22:37:40 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: >On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 09:29 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> For example, it doesn't know dependencies between Interfaces, which is >> rather common for a server jockey (consider a VLAN on a bridge which >> is conn

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 11 May 2015 09:29:43 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >On Mon, 11 May 2015 10:18:18 +1000, Russell Stuart > wrote: >>I get the distinct feeling some people posting here consider ifup/down >>"old fashioned". Granted it doesn't have a nice GUI, but from the point

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
modify than ifupdown, which has a _very_ flexible script interface. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom "

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-10 Thread Marc Haber
me change hasn't happened in my professional career in more than ten years. Plugging persistent network naming with -this- imminent danger destroys the pro-faction's credibility. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Q: any reason for debian-policy non-i18n-ed?

2015-05-10 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 08 May 2015 21:54:11 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> Btw, why the is the only way to configure this the kernel >> command line and no configuration inside /etc where one would expect >> it? > >Maybe because udev is started fro

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
and make it come up as usbeth0, regardles of the port it is being plugged in. Greetings Marc, seeing Karsten's point -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginnin

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 08 May 2015 15:11:06 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >]] Marc Haber > >> That would mean changing local code to _both_ handle en* and eth*, >> which is (a) a surprise and (b) unsatisfying in _my_ personal opinion. > >By en*, you mean emN, enN, pXpY all, righ

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 8 May 2015 12:40:39 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: >I don't >know whether it's possible to change the name while the interface is >up and in use. It isn't. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
nge should be (a) manually and (b) atomically? It's fine with me to have net.ifnames=1 by default. Btw, why the is the only way to configure this the kernel command line and no configuration inside /etc where one would expect it? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No court

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 8 May 2015 00:28:44 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >>I have tried this just last week and have found it kind of >>unsatisfactory that it doesn't work in virtualized environments. For >>example, in a KVM VM with virtio ethernet, the network dev

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-07 Thread Marc Haber
have found it kind of unsatisfactory that it doesn't work in virtualized environments. For example, in a KVM VM with virtio ethernet, the network devices still end up in the system as eth0, eth1, eth2. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! --

Re: Half-cycle

2015-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 4 May 2015 18:27:33 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On May 04, Marc Haber wrote: > >> >Too many releases, no more Plesk. >> Is not having P(l)est really a bad thing? >If you sell servers or hosting and want to have customers, then yes. >(Also,

Re: Half-cycle

2015-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
. >> Can you give the detailed problem that happened to Fedora? >Too many releases, no more Plesk. Is not having P(l)est really a bad thing? Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are t

Re: upgrading to jessie on container with old kernel

2015-05-03 Thread Marc Haber
t calls systemctl, or systemctl? > >I'm thinking the scripts are the buggy ones. So we should fix hundreds of packages for this instead of adding a check in systemctl? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:13:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> Thankfully, git is by far the best VCS on the market and the vast >> majority of people seem to agree. But imagine the outcry if ten years >> ago Sourceforge had said "our VCS is svn and

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-16 Thread Marc Haber
our VCS is svn and we don't support anything else". Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http:

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-15 Thread Marc Haber
s "package". This is in dire need of clarification. Greetings Marc, who agrees with the idea though -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: aptitude has Priority: standard, why?

2015-03-31 Thread Marc Haber
. > >Do we really need to have two CLI package management tools installed, is >this reasonable? Aptitude is not only a CLI package management tool. Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package

2015-02-20 Thread Marc Haber
re are even some upstreams that consider Debian's packages of their software broken because we dare to add patches or to link to SSL libraries that this software can be linked to be upstream doesn't like. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package

2015-02-20 Thread Marc Haber
ly good packages for all major distributions out there. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt

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

2015-02-17 Thread Marc Haber
oh, most systemd documentation lacks objectivity. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugsch

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-26 Thread Marc Haber
ngs Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | F

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

2014-12-04 Thread Marc Haber
tes are served from such setups. Yes, using Debian. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zug

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
taller is the >right solution here; I don't think that it is. But I also don't think that >the release freeze can reasonably be an argument against it. Amen. With all the technical issues in systemd popping up just now, we have frozen prematurely. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:34:46 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new concepts. >> >I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new >concepts are bizarre at all. If anything, th

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:09:19 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> Which significantly changes things in Jessie since the majory of >> services is still started via the old rcX.d mechanism, and thus >> starting to runlevels behaves completely different from

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:33:08 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> A few hours of reasearch later (which could have been a few minutes if >> just the community would have been a bit more helpful) it turned out >> they were right: We start kdm via an i

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

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:49:58 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >I think he meant systemd, the PID 1 specifically here. No. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse i

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

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:28:19 -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:25:46 -0800, Nikolaus Rath >> wrote: >>> Would you stop using (random example) apache if it started shipping with >>> some often-useful CGI scripts? >&

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:55:42 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:08:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> And this facing a mostly hostile upstream and a Fedora-Centric >> community. > >I have observed a mostly hostile Debian community in recent months. I'

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:30:01 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> Updating of such systems has always been a pain, but this time it's >> going to be a gazillion times more painful. >> >Why? (Seriously.) Because this time fixing those things is more than ju

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

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
hurting people. Your way of communicating is hurting people as usual. Please stop. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning o

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