Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On 09/07/2014 12:24 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: However there is a wider problem here. The systemd of Fedora 14/15 is not the systemd of today. I agree 100% We need to decide if just because you manage to get an important core package into Fedora 4 years ago, that means you can forever more

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Digimer
On 12/09/14 01:08 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On 09/07/2014 12:24 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: However there is a wider problem here. The systemd of Fedora 14/15 is not the systemd of today. I agree 100% We need to decide if just because you manage to get an important core package into Fedora 4

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: You are wasting your time. Lennart and his bunch proved to be impervious to any pleas to stop mad feature creep. They WANT to extend systemd in every imaginable way to scratch their favorite itch of the week. It's not

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Sex, 2014-09-12 at 19:08 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On 09/07/2014 12:24 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: However there is a wider problem here. The systemd of Fedora 14/15 is not the systemd of today. I agree 100% We need to decide if just because you manage to get an important core

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 08:36:21AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 22:18 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: - has tools for setting the system time and timezone, and locale Sure. They're useful. In GNOME, our settings panels previously only worked on Fedora and

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 08:36:21AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 22:18 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: - has tools for setting the system time and timezone, and locale Sure. They're useful. In GNOME, our settings panels

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Lukas Zapletal
and others integration like crontab should be modular Systemd as cron is something that is built in. If you want a replacement, just install it and don't use this. It's a relatively small feature and it consumes just few kilobytes on your drive. It makes a lot of sense to have this burnt in

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 07/09/2014 20:04, Reindl Harald ha scritto: on http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/199113 *you* complain about systemd-readahead - guess what - if a virtual machine is detected it is skipped And why is it a good idea to skip it on a virtual machine? Paolo -- devel

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.09.2014 um 12:33 schrieb Paolo Bonzini: Il 07/09/2014 20:04, Reindl Harald ha scritto: on http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/199113 *you* complain about systemd-readahead - guess what - if a virtual machine is detected it is skipped And why is it a good idea to

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:37:45PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.09.2014 um 12:33 schrieb Paolo Bonzini: Il 07/09/2014 20:04, Reindl Harald ha scritto: on http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/199113 *you* complain about systemd-readahead - guess what - if a

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Peter Robinson
on http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/199113 *you* complain about systemd-readahead - guess what - if a virtual machine is detected it is skipped And why is it a good idea to skip it on a virtual machine? guess what happens if you fire up 20 guests at the same

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.09.2014 um 13:51 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:37:45PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.09.2014 um 12:33 schrieb Paolo Bonzini: Il 07/09/2014 20:04, Reindl Harald ha scritto: on http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/199113 *you* complain

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 01:01:09PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: on http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/199113 *you* complain about systemd-readahead - guess what - if a virtual machine is detected it is skipped And why is it a good idea to skip it on a virtual

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 08:43 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Anyway, systemd now does the following which it didn't do in F15: - has its own network configuration system ...which we don't use. So why is the tool there? Well, because it's part of upstream systemd? We ship

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 10:18:45PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 18:49 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 06:54:03PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: We need to decide if just because

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I think FESCO underestimates the problem in that case. FESCO should ask that these packages are separate (exist as different components) and communicate with the rest of the system / systemd through fully specified interfaces. Linux improves because of a brutal Darwinian selection process where

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.09.2014 um 09:43 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 10:18:45PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: - detects virtualization (long story here, but a very bad idea to encourage programs to do this) I don't believe any Fedora units use this ability. It's there for people

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 10:26:44AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: so *what* is your problem by a unit knowing i must not run now What open-vm-tools needs is a system feature known as the VMware backdoor. This is provided by other hypervisors too (notably qemu). If you look at Hyper-V, it provides

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.09.2014 um 10:43 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 10:26:44AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: so *what* is your problem by a unit knowing i must not run now What open-vm-tools needs is a system feature known as the VMware backdoor. This is provided by other hypervisors

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 22:18 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: - intercepts coredumps not on Fedora, abrt does that. It's on the roadmap. coredumpctl is really great, and it's wonderful that the ABRT devs are working on this. I don't care too much about the rest of systemd, but coredumpctl

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 22:18 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: - has tools for setting the system time and timezone, and locale Sure. They're useful. In GNOME, our settings panels previously only worked on Fedora and Debian, with some half-functional code for Arch and openSUSE, because each

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-08 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 08:36:21AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 22:18 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: - has tools for setting the system time and timezone, and locale Sure. They're useful. In GNOME, our settings panels previously only worked on Fedora and

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-07 Thread drago01
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:31:45AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 16:11:37 +0100, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: Hi, [1] since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-07 Thread drago01
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: On Sáb, 2014-09-06 at 22:36 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:31:45AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 16:11:37 +0100, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: Hi, [1]

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 06:54:03PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: We need to decide if just because you manage to get an important core package into Fedora 4 years ago, that means you can forever more push any old stuff you want

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-07 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 07.09.2014 um 19:49 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 06:54:03PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: We need to decide if just because you manage to get an important core package into Fedora 4 years ago, that means you

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 22:30 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:35:10AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: /tmp has nothing to do with systemd The tmp-on-tmp misfeature is to do with systemd. It's implemented as a systemd mount because...that's how we do mounts now. That's

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 22:36 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: We need to decide if just because you manage to get an important core package into Fedora 4 years ago, that means you can forever more push any old stuff you want into Fedora, without going back and consulting with the community and

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 18:49 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 06:54:03PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: We need to decide if just because you manage to get an important core package into Fedora 4 years ago,

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:35:10AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: /tmp has nothing to do with systemd The tmp-on-tmp misfeature is to do with systemd. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog:

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:31:45AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 16:11:37 +0100, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: Hi, [1] since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group have some valid reasons , systemd should be the replacement of

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-06 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Sáb, 2014-09-06 at 22:36 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:31:45AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 16:11:37 +0100, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: Hi, [1] since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: We need to decide if just because you manage to get an important core package into Fedora 4 years ago, that means you can forever more push any old stuff you want into Fedora, without going back and consulting with the community

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:35:10AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: /tmp has nothing to do with systemd The tmp-on-tmp misfeature is to do with systemd. How? systemd works fine without it. Many distributions have switched to

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/04/2014 09:01 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 05:50:42PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 09/04/2014 05:37 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Do we really need another systemd thread? Yes, because Fedora has failed to discuss system and systemd development in advance before they

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-05 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 08:52:42AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 09/04/2014 09:01 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 05:50:42PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 09/04/2014 05:37 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Do we really need another systemd thread? Yes, because Fedora has failed

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-05 Thread Scott Schmit
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 08:52:42AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Also I do not recall any lengthy discussions on systemd when it was proposed. It was just one of these Feature-announcement pages hardly anybody reads. I recall later discussions when systemd became feature bloated and when

New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Sérgio Basto
Hi, [1] since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group have some valid reasons , systemd should be the replacement of sysvinit , a built in DHCP !? why ? and others integration like crontab should be modular, for someone else could use his own crontab . OTOH , the support

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Digimer
On 04/09/14 11:11 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: Hi, [1] since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group have some valid reasons , systemd should be the replacement of sysvinit , a built in DHCP !? why ? and others integration like crontab should be modular, for someone else

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Haïkel
*sigh* Could we stop ranting every time, we speak about systemd ? Not only, it's tiresome but it does *not* help to fix the aforementioned issues. systemd and its upstream are not perfect, but systemd gains vs loss are by far positive. About systemd-network, there are perfectly valid arguments to

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 16:11:37 +0100, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: Hi, [1] since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group have some valid reasons , systemd should be the replacement of sysvinit , a built in DHCP !? why ? and others integration like crontab

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:14:59 -0400 Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: On 04/09/14 11:11 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: Hi, [1] since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group have some valid reasons , systemd should be the replacement of sysvinit , a built in DHCP !? why

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Michal Schmidt
On 09/04/2014 05:11 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: OTOH , the support of systemd is not good, we got bug opened and they are ignored as nothing happens, as for example bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1088619 The bug is unresolved so far, but it is not ignored. At least there is a

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/04/2014 05:37 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Do we really need another systemd thread? Yes, because Fedora has failed to discuss system and systemd development in advance before they had been deployed. Instead Fedora was confronted with completed facts. Ralf -- devel mailing list

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Digimer
On 04/09/14 11:50 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 09/04/2014 05:37 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Do we really need another systemd thread? Yes, because Fedora has failed to discuss system and systemd development in advance before they had been deployed. Instead Fedora was confronted with completed

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 04.09.14 16:11, Sérgio Basto (ser...@serjux.com) wrote: Hi, [1] since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group have some valid reasons , systemd should be the replacement of sysvinit , a built in DHCP !? why ? It's a set of tools to build an OS from, not

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.09.2014 um 17:11 schrieb Sérgio Basto: since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group have some valid reasons , systemd should be the replacement of sysvinit , a built in DHCP !? why ? and others integration like crontab should be modular, for someone else

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Kelly Miller
I have to admit, I love the claim that systemd is anti-Unix. Isn't the fact that systemd makes use of systems that exist already, like DBus and udev, following the Unix philosophy of letting programs worry about their own problem space? The fact is, any system that is required to do system

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 05:50:42PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 09/04/2014 05:37 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Do we really need another systemd thread? Yes, because Fedora has failed to discuss system and systemd development in advance before they had been deployed. Instead Fedora was

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: This reminds me of the Beefy Miracle fiasco... Everyone complained after it happened, but few said or did anything before then. The scope of systemd has crept dramatically since the start. If the initial discussions of systemd said

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Tait Clarridge
On September 4, 2014 at 3:19:09 PM, Gregory Maxwell (gmaxw...@gmail.com(mailto:gmaxw...@gmail.com)) wrote: It should be perfectly acceptable to tell people Fedora is not for you.” I agree with this - although I suspect most of the long time Fedora users feel a sense of loyalty and would

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com said: The scope of systemd has crept dramatically since the start. If the initial discussions of systemd said it would merge dhcp, udev, and that it would push binary logging, etc. Do you really think it would have gone without more

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/04/2014 07:13 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 04.09.14 16:11, Sérgio Basto (ser...@serjux.com) wrote: Hi, [1] since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group have some valid reasons , systemd should be the replacement of sysvinit , a built in DHCP !? why ?

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 04.09.14 12:19, Gregory Maxwell (gmaxw...@gmail.com) wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: This reminds me of the Beefy Miracle fiasco... Everyone complained after it happened, but few said or did anything before then. The scope of systemd has