Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-13 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 10:04:28AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Matthias Klumpp writes: > > > I find that statement quite encouraging. Of course they don't commit > > to not having those depend on systemd-as-PID1, but there really isn't > > a reason to create that dependency, and if for whatever

Re: sysusers and tmpfiles

2019-12-09 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 03:57:57PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > > > Using systemd-sysusers and systemd-tmpfiles more widely was mentioned a > > few times, along with a statement that an implementation for non-systemd > > systems w

sysusers and tmpfiles

2019-12-08 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Hi, [disclaimer: on work on systemd upstream, I'm not an active Debian user anymore.] Using systemd-sysusers and systemd-tmpfiles more widely was mentioned a few times, along with a statement that an implementation for non-systemd systems would need to be provided. Both those programs work just f

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:56:33AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > I'm also no longer convinced, that running a huge shell machinery (as > > root) during login via PAM is a good idea. > > Agreed. > > > If we go the update-motd route, I'd like to see the update-motd calls be

Re: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-12-01 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 10:58:45PM +, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 29/11/14 13:30, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > ❦ 29 novembre 2014 12:41 GMT, Alastair McKinstry > > : > >> One concern I'd have is the lack of flexibility to produce a cut-down > >> system. The option of "a dedicated init=/custom-progr

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:10:09AM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 04:40:21PM +, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > > Josselin Mouette writes: > > > * Other users only have access to audio devices through ACLs when > > > physically logged on. > > > > Unless I be mistaken,

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

2014-11-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:30:07PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 19:12 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew > &

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

2014-11-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 06:33:44PM +, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > >>>>> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > > […] > > > The second part, making systemd portable, has already been widely > > discussed. There are significant technical reasons why systemd

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

2014-11-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionali

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

2014-11-28 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* > binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… I brought this upstream to no avail. OK, since this is a different forum, let me go over the reasons once again.

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:12:56PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 16:03 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > The Wanderer wrote: > > This is the problem. The init system should not be providing > > "features" > > which other software might, post-boot and pre-s

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:23:39PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: > El mar, 21 de oct 2014 a las 7:03 , Josselin Mouette > escribió: > >The Wanderer wrote: > >This is the problem. The init system should not be > >providing "features" > >which other software might, post-boot and pre-

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-16 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 09:17:46AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Heh. Maybe we can turn this into a useful question: > > Assume that I have a broken system (maybe the disk is partially broken > or it got owned and I don't want to rely on its toolbox anymore). Now > for some reason, I can still acce

Re: systemd - getting started?

2014-02-12 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:53:49PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: > Hi! > > In fact, I installed systemd on my jessie system just yesterday. So > far I filed two (not very major, promptly being dealt with) bugs and > after a lot of initial conservative scepticism, I'm quite excited > especially by

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:26:11PM +0400, Vitaliy Filippov wrote: > >You can tell it to do that, yes. You can also set it to forward them to > >rsyslog without storing anything. Or both. > > > >Read http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/journald.conf.5.html and be > >enlightened. ;-) > > OK, it's g

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:30:07PM +0400, Vitaliy Filippov wrote: > >Here's a challenge then: Implement everything the journal does, without > >using a binary format, and show us it's not only doable, but performs > >similarly. > > > >I would first recommend you read up - and try! - what the journa

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-26 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 03:56:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > > > But this should be safe for instance units, so I'd like to see > > 'systemctl stop/status/... server@*.service' implemented. > > That would be very

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-12-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 05:47:05PM +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 02:19:36AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2013-12-23 13:15, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > > [a potentially badly-phrased question] > > > ...I don't think many continue to read your rant and take your > > "fe

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:48:47PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > upstart calls this "instances" and systemd calls this "unit > templates". We too call them instances: an instance is created from a template. > Daniel Pocock writes: > > > Just to clarify: does this mean systemd and upstart can refe

Re: Bug#732603: ITP: python-daemonize -- Python module for writing system daemons

2013-12-19 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:19:55AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:46:02 +0100 > Mike Gabriel wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Mike Gabriel > > > > * Package name: python-daemonize > > Version : 2.2.1 > > Upstream Author : Ilya Ot

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-11 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:24:36PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 08:20:58PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > >Or a private tmp? > > > > I shudder at the mere thought of allowing a dæmon to unshare > > its /tmp from the rest of the system, because of the maintenance > > nigh

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:47:37PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > And overriding the *entire* service file seems excessive if you wish to > override just one line of the package's service file. You add a file /etc/systemd/system/xxx.service.d/yyy.conf with the following contents: [Service] Se

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:50:53PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 06:18:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I suspect you and I have a root disagreement over the utility of exposing > > some of those degrees of freedom to every init script author, but if you > > have some mor

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 03:10:16PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > The interfaces of all init systems (except sysvinit, but are we really > considering that one?) still are somewhat in flux, so this is the point > where we can still influence and shape them. > > > Imagine a world where upstart and

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 08:47:00PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:15:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:29:10PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-26 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:02:13PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > # systemd units on my laptop that are generated internally by systemd > # when it reads a sysvinit script (or "LSB init script" as it > # calls them) > % systemctl list-units | grep LSB | wc -l That's only currently loaded units, i.e

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > And this is not just an issue because of people not wanting to use systemd > init, but also because systemd init *can't* run in a container. Whoah, that's not true: sudo systemd-nspawn -bD ~/images/fedora-19 works just fine :) Zby

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 05:59:25PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/21/2013 05:04 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 19:21 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : > > > >>[I am almost certainly going to regret this.] > > > >I hope so. > > Please don't be a jerk. > > >>Making th

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 04:49:19AM +0900, heroxbd wrote: > Helmut Grohne writes: > > > By far the more severe issue is socket activation, because it removes > > the need to spell out service dependencies. We cannot infer these > > dependencies later on. Instead such a wrapper must implement socke

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:38:57PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:32:42PM +0300, Arto Jantunen wrote: > > In addition to that the wrapper also needs to be able to track the > > processes started by the systemd service (the admin might want to stop > > or restart services i

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-06-06 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 12:24:02PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > It seems that now, we can do this, but the cookbook also says this is > not here yet: > > start on started network-services > > I don't know how systemd behaves in this way (so this is not something > to hold against upstart), bu

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 04:45:49PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > > This > > is more true for the socket activation API that systemd could have > > reasonably adopted from upstart, but chose not to do. > > Didn't systemd actually have a socket activation API before upstart? I > don't remember exactl

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:47:46AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:39:06PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:53:43PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > There was a GSoC project in 2012 about generating sysvinit scripts from > > > systemd .service file

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:37:35AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Matthias wrote: > >Am 22.05.2013 18:12 schrieb "Lucas Nussbaum" : > >> > >> Note that if it's there, and Ubuntu uses upstart, it has probably been > >> tested. I was not suggesting that we blindly import upstart job files > >> from U

Bug#655420: ITP: jtransforms -- A multithreaded FFT library written in pure Java

2012-01-10 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" * Package name: jtransforms Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Piotr Wendykier * URL : http://sites.google.com/site/piotrwendykier/software/jtransforms * License : MPL/LGPL/GPL P

Bug#655390: ITP: jmatio -- Java library to read and write Matlab files

2012-01-10 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" * Package name: jmatio Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Wojciech Gradkowski * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmatio/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java D