removing a non-static version of qemu-user?

2024-08-25 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hi! I'd love to get some input about an idea which I expressed in https://bugs.debian.org/1079603 - namely, to move static qemu-user emulation binaries from qemu-user-static package to qemu-user package (which contains dynamically-linked binaries with exactly the same functionality), effectively

Re: Some t64 libraries already in testing; I'm confused

2024-03-31 Thread Michael Tokarev
31.03.2024 12:16, Andreas Metzler wrote: ... Looking through testing, I see the following t64 libraries present: libaio1t64 libfyba0t64 libglibmm-2.68-1t64 libnetcdf19t64 libudns0t64 libczmq4t64 (virtual package; libczmq4 provides this) Unfortunately the other four are not similar, but rather

Re: Bug#1063329: libselinux1t64: breaks system in upgrade from unstable

2024-02-07 Thread Michael Tokarev
07.02.2024 11:06, Helmut Grohne : .. pam seems difficult: | extern time_t pam_misc_conv_warn_time; /* time that we should warn user */ | extern time_t pam_misc_conv_die_time; /* cut-off time for input */ Attached is a sketch to make pam compatible. I had a more complete and *tested* fi

Re: RFC: Rearranging qemu-system packages

2023-04-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
19.04.2023 11:41, Christian Ehrhardt пишет: On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 8:47 AM Michael Tokarev wrote: .. But while I see the appeal of reunifying I also have often liked (and seen people appreciate and use) this being split and explicit. Do you consider your proposed qemu-system-native be a meta

RFC: Rearranging qemu-system packages

2023-04-18 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hello! TL;DR: skip to The Question: below. QEMU system mode is a whole-machine emulator which is able to run virtual machines of various architectures. Here's the current list of emulators on amd64: total 417456 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mjt mjt 24042800 Apr 18 20:50 qemu-system-aarch64* -rwxr-xr-x 1 mjt m

Bug#1030361: ITP: libblkio -- library for high-performance block device I/O with support for multi-queue devices

2023-02-03 Thread Michael Tokarev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Tokarev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Stefan Hajnoczi * Package name: libblkio Version : v1.2.2 Upstream Author : The libblkio Contributors * URL : https://libblkio.gitlab.io/libblkio * License

Re: ifupdown/dhcp

2022-05-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
08.05.2022 18:24, Michael Stone wrote: [apologies to package aliases getting this twice due to autocomplete fail] I've been trying to make sense of the NEWS item in isc-dhcp-client (that alternatives are needed) in combination with the functionality of ifupdown and what the implications are for

Re: IMPORTEND squid3 stable needs update

2016-01-22 Thread Michael Tokarev
15.01.2016 22:47, startrekfan wrote: > *squid3 Version 3.4.8* is deployed in the Jessie stable repository.*This > version is outdated and has some security risks!!*. Version 3.5 is more > secure but unfortunately it's only marked as unstable I wonder how many times this question should be asked

Re: Bug#757941: static linking: alternatives for glibc?

2014-10-06 Thread Michael Tokarev
07.10.2014 08:34, Steve Langasek wrote: [] >>> Was the removal of gethostby* APIs from the static glibc intentional? > >> Yes. It's the nsswitch problem. The behavior of those APIs is controlled >> by the nsswitch mechanism (specifically the hosts configuration), which is >> inherently dynamic a

static linking: alternatives for glibc?

2014-10-06 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hello. For a very long time, we had a busybox variant which is linked statically, for rescue or other similar purposes (for those who don't know, busybox provides minimal implementations of varios system utilities so can be used almost alone as a replacement for whole (minimal) system). But with

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-01 Thread Michael Tokarev
01.08.2014 11:37, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > as a first step towards source-only uploads, the archive will now accept > source-only uploads provided the following conditions are met: > > * The source package is not NEW and does not build NEW binaries. > * Architecture-independent (arch:a

Re: ITA: microcom

2014-01-05 Thread Michael Tokarev
[Replying to an old message] 20.12.2013 19:29, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: retitle 726551 ITA: microcom - minimalistic terminal program owner 726551 ! thanks Hello, my colleagues and I are using microcom much at my work place and the last upstream releases were done by a colleague. So I'm willing

Re: Proposal: switch init system to systemd or upstart

2013-11-07 Thread Michael Tokarev
25.10.2013 20:47, Martin Steigerwald wrote: [] #717731 upower: authentification is required for hibernating while other users are logged in http://bugs.debian.org/717731 #717554 systemd: authentification is required for hibernating while other users are logged in http://bugs.debian.org/717554 B

Re: RFA: jabberd2 -- Jabber instant messenger server

2012-12-20 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 21.12.2012 02:29, Willem van den Akker wrote: > Thanks for getting new [udns] version into stable. FWIW, it is not stable, it is unstable. This version will not hit stable before wheezy is released. /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: RFA: jabberd2 -- Jabber instant messenger server

2012-12-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
18.12.2012 17:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 18 dec 12, 09:20:25, Willem van den Akker wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am willing to maintain the packages jabberd2 and udns. I have already >> uploaded new versions of both packages to mentors.debian.org. >> >> http://mentors.debian.net/package/udns >>

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 15.09.2012 01:03, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:15:51AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> >> So we have the following options: >> >> 1) package just this single file, of 20 bytes long, in a >>separate Arch:all package, in it's o

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 15.09.2012 00:31, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:15:51AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> This file is also included in the upstream source in compiled >> form, as pc-bios/spapr-rtas.bin. This is because it needs >> ppc assembler to compile, and not e

packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Tokarev
In qemu package there's a source file, pc-bios/spapr-rtas/spapr-rtas.S, which is an PPC assembly file with exactly 5 instructions: #define KVMPPC_HCALL_BASE 0xf000 #define KVMPPC_H_RTAS (KVMPPC_HCALL_BASE + 0x0) .globl _start _start: mr 4,3 lis 3,KVMPPC_H

Re: Renaming packages: maintscripts

2012-09-03 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 03.09.2012 12:15, Guillem Jover wrote: [] > But then --control-path was intended only for read accesses for things > like dpkg-repack or dpkg-reconfigure, never for *removing* files from > the dpkg database. Removing such files from maintainer scripts is just > *wrong*, the correct solution is t

Re: Renaming packages: maintscripts

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 02.09.2012 23:54, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 23:17 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > [...] >> But the OP system does not have old autofs5 package installed, >> only the config files from it, and the maintscripts. Which is >> exactly the problem. >&g

Re: Renaming packages: maintscripts

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 02.09.2012 21:21, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: [] >> Basically I want to ensure that if one installs package B to >> a system with A installed, A should be upgraded to A' at the >> same time. This works when upgrading A to A' (satisfying A' >> dependency and installing B), but does not work when

Renaming packages: maintscripts

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hello. It's been not once when I hit an issue described below. Now I hit it in one of the packages I maintain, but so far I can't figure out a good solution for it. The issue is with package renaming and handling of dpkg maintscripts. Having in mind typical renaming scenario: package A has been

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-13 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 13.08.2012 00:50, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 12, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> Not good. Time to look a bit more seriously at mdev then? > Waste of time, mdev lacks critical features like modules autoloading so > it is laughable to argue that it is a credible udev replacement for It is laughab

Re: Processed: reassign 676001 to busybox

2012-06-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 08.06.2012 15:28, maximilian attems wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:59:26PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> [Adding debian-devel@ to the Cc list] >> >> Short story (and it is short): the bug has been filed >> against initramfs-tools initially, it is about how &

Re: Processed: reassign 676001 to busybox

2012-06-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 08.06.2012 14:59, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] > Wonderful. > > I asked you nicely a) to stop reassigning without explanation, > and b) to provide some comments about why do you think it is > a busybox isue, at the same time providing my reasoning why > it is not. Ok.

Re: Processed: reassign 676001 to busybox

2012-06-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
[Adding debian-devel@ to the Cc list] Short story (and it is short): the bug has been filed against initramfs-tools initially, it is about how /proc and /sys filesystem should be handled in initramfs when switching to new root. Original reporter included a trivial patch for initramfs that does re

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-30 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 30.04.2012 16:55, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:58:18AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: >> * Russ Allbery [2012-04-29 17:32 -0700]: [] >> If dma would be the default MTA, then it should IMHO be as reliable as >> possible and even try to prevent user errors. If a user would >> unin

Re: thttpd

2012-04-27 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 27.04.2012 14:49, Oleg wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:34:52PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Heck. Thank you for reminder. I was looking at something to >> replace bozohttpd I use (because it is just too buggy), but > > What bugs does it have? $ dmesg | grep

Re: thttpd

2012-04-27 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 27.04.2012 00:17, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 27/04/2012 02:59, Oleg wrote: >> Yes, i'm searching a tiny httpd for an embedded system with cgi support and >> possibly with http basic authentication support. >> Thank you. I didn't know about busybox httpd. > > No problem. busybox httpd suppor

Re: devtmpfs requirement

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 20.01.2012 21:53, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 20, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> Marco, at which point did Debian userspace started requiring devtmpfs? > The next udev release. The same which will move things to /usr ? :) Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-re

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 20.01.2012 14:21, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:19:00PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> The "problem" is that kernel does not know what /dev/mapper >> is, or what does /dev/r/usr thing mean. It knows these by >> their canonical (and mea

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 20.01.2012 11:55, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [] >>> And yes it is kinda trivial to add a call to realpath(3) to >>> busybox (or equivalent). >> >> Or add readlink into initramfs-tools, for that matter. >> >> But it is still not clear if it is a bug or not :) > > As a side note: With LVM you ge

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 19.01.2012 19:09, Michael Tokarev wrote: > On 18.01.2012 18:18, Roger Leigh wrote: >> clone 653073 -1 >> retitle -1 df: [patch] Please ignore rootfs in df output >> reassign -1 coreutils >> thanks >> >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:05:58PM +010

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 18.01.2012 18:18, Roger Leigh wrote: > clone 653073 -1 > retitle -1 df: [patch] Please ignore rootfs in df output > reassign -1 coreutils > thanks > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> jida...@jidanni.org writes: >> >>> Forty years of pleasant df(1) and mo

Re: Outstanding /dev/.udev bugs for /run migration

2012-01-13 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 13.01.2012 03:18, Roger Leigh wrote: [] > All are currently broken. Whether they cause severe breakage depends > upon the individual case. Some are working apparently OK, e.g. > mdadm. Others are doing broken things to try and create device nodes For mdadm an upstream patch is needed. I alr

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 25.12.2011 12:12, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/22/2011 07:07 PM, Russell Coker wrote: >> It seems to me that wanting to have / outside LVM but /usr inside LVM is a >> fairly obscure corner case. > I have about 100 servers setup this way, and my laptops as well. I really > don't see why this wo

Bug#653055: ITP: libiscsi -- iscsi client library and utilities

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Tokarev * Package name: libiscsi Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Ronnie Sahlberg * URL : https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi * License : GPL, LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : iscsi client library

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Tokarev
29.07.2011 18:02, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:27:09AM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >> What virtualisation solutions should be supported? > > Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is the only format that should need to be > supported. VirtualBox, VMWare, RHEV, AbiCloud, Citrix X

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Tokarev
26.07.2011 02:46, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:27:09AM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >> What virtualisation solutions should be supported? >> - Virtual Box seems like a natural candidate since it's free and >> included since Squeeze. >> - Vmware has a significant installed

Re: postfix

2011-03-13 Thread Michael Tokarev
13.03.2011 16:09, Павел пишет: > Добрый день! > Скажите пожалуйстаУ меня есть сайт, стоит на дебиан 6. Есть ли > пакеты которые поддерживают нашу зону .рф Я так понял что postfix не > поддерживает. Может есть или подскажите как лучше быть? или мне надо > перейти на .ru .рф = .xn--p1ai . Это н

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Tokarev
01.03.2011 14:56, Aron Xu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 19:54, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> 2011/3/1 ximalaya : >>> I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used >>> commands on Debian 6.0, 5.0.7 and 4.0. These commands include netstat, ps >>> -ef, ls -latr, top, etc.

Q: who uses busybox-static, what for, and your wishes for it?

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Tokarev
The $Subj basically says it all. I'm trying to review configuration of different busubox packages, but I don't really see the intention for some of them, especially for the -static flavour of it. As originally created by Erik Andersen back in early 2000s, busybox-static intended to be a rescue/re

Re: for those who care about unbound (resolvconf and DNSSEC)

2011-02-17 Thread Michael Tokarev
17.02.2011 07:07, Robert Edmonds wrote: > hi, > > i'd like to get some feedback on whether i should implement some changes > in the unbound debian packaging: > > * integration with resolvconf as a provider of recursive DNS > resolution. (#562031) > > * retrieving a list of upstream

Re: how to help end-users to increase the life-time of their SSDs

2010-06-05 Thread Michael Tokarev
06.06.2010 02:13, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hi folks. I recently got my first SSD payed by my university and, even though modern SSDs seem to have smart wear leveling algorithms and more and more parts of kernel/userspace support TRIM, I was thinking about what one can do to improve its li

Re: extlinux

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Tokarev
26.05.2010 22:32, Daniel Baumann wrote: [] how about adding your parameters to EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS in /etc/default/extlinux? then they will be used for all images in the config automatically. in case that's not what you were looking for: as stated in another mail, i've added update-extlinux/extl

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-03-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
Toni Mueller wrote: > > On Sat, 27.02.2010 at 21:59:39 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> ]] Faidon Liambotis >> | Beyond that, I've also seen filesystem corruption when using live >> | migration and the filesystem cache hasn't been disabled -- an almost >> | undocumented directive of libvirt's XM

Re: klibc only initramfs

2010-02-20 Thread Michael Tokarev
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > I googled a bit and found this old mail about a klibc only initramfs: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/07/msg00400.html > > I would really like to do this and it has been close to 4 years since > that mail. But it doesn't look like there has be

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-25 Thread Michael Tokarev
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 24, maximilian attems wrote: [] >> On the negative side it doesn't have yet checkpointing support >> and not all net/ has netns support yet. > It's not just that, AFAIK there is no match for many of the > user_beancounters features (especially the accounting part) and

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:51 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports >>> without any extra dependencies. I'm not aware of any significant >>> breakage though some packages may rely on deprecated an

Re: Bug#554893: startup script should be more careful with chown -R

2009-11-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
The Fungi wrote: On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 07:13:25PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: [...] And as others in #debian pointed out the overlooked obvious, `chown -R' follows symlinks. So it's sufficient to put a symlink to /etc/passwd into /var/lib/nsd3 to get the system 0wned. [..

Re: Bug#554893: startup script should be more careful with chown -R

2009-11-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
Michael Tokarev wrote: [] Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:48:35AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: Package: nsd3 Version: 3.2.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Current /etc/init.d/nsd3 contains the following code which gets executed _every_ time the script is run, even before

Re: Bug#554893: startup script should be more careful with chown -R

2009-11-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
at 08:48:35AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: Package: nsd3 Version: 3.2.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Current /etc/init.d/nsd3 contains the following code which gets executed _every_ time the script is run, even before checking the cli arguments: --- cut --- mkdir -p /var/run/nsd3 &&am