Re: System V to systemd unit migration

2015-10-28 Thread Lennart Poettering
does this mean for you as a packager? Excellent! Thank you very much for working towards this! I think it would be great to ship without sysv scripts! Thanks! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Disable PulseAudio flat volumes to prevent it from pushing volume level to max

2015-09-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
l come along and play the same game with the actual device volume, and you won *zero*. Don't mix flat volumes with misbheaving apps. Turning off flat volumes is a hack around the broken apps at best, and completely pointless.. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Same comand names in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

2015-08-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
eds to be fixed first, but other than that? Suddenly all binaries are available in both paths. That means pretty much all scripts that hardcode one or the other path (maybe because ported over from another distro which sticks some binaries in a different path of the two than us) will work on our systems. That certainly *improves* compatibility with external software, not breaks any. But anyway, I think we can end the discussion here. You clearly have a problem with me personally, and I should probably not even have answered even once... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Same comand names in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

2015-08-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 14.08.15 17:58, Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:24:16PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Given that sbin is in $PATH for unprivileged users too the seperation > > is really pointless, since it's now only the $PA

Re: Same comand names in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

2015-08-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
ll two different things to the two paths. It's really ugly from mock... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: systemd bugs again and again

2015-08-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 14.08.15 02:50, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: > is systemd now orphaned in Fedora or why is there no single comment over 3 > months from a maintainer and a upstream available fix is also ignored for a > week without any comment > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: [HEADS-UP] Please test kdbus in Rawhide!

2015-07-31 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 30.07.15 19:57, Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) wrote: > Heya! > > I'd like to ask everybody to test kdbus on Rawhide. Josh thankfully > added it to the Rawhide kernel packages, and our systemd RPMs come > with built-in support, too now. If you are r

Re: [HEADS-UP] Please test kdbus in Rawhide!

2015-07-31 Thread Lennart Poettering
o the userspace components, not to the kernel part. Hence you do need both the new kernel and the new systemd from rawhide. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: [HEADS-UP] Please test kdbus in Rawhide!

2015-07-31 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 30.07.15 16:59, Orion Poplawski (or...@cora.nwra.com) wrote: > On 07/30/2015 04:54 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > On 07/30/2015 11:57 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> Heya! > >> > >> I'd like to ask everybody to test kdbus on Rawhide. Josh thank

[HEADS-UP] Please test kdbus in Rawhide!

2015-07-30 Thread Lennart Poettering
Heya! I'd like to ask everybody to test kdbus on Rawhide. Josh thankfully added it to the Rawhide kernel packages, and our systemd RPMs come with built-in support, too now. If you are running an up-to-date Rawhide system adding "kdbus=1" to your kernel command line is hence everything you need to

Re: Granting a capability to a service

2015-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
akes it difficult to drops caps sanely if you want to ensure they are dropped in all threads at the same time, and not just in whatever thread was the one started first... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

Re: Granting a capability to a service

2015-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
7;s worse is that in kernels before 2.6.24 passing caps across exec() actually worked fine. Kernel broke API heavily in this regard by introducing fcaps and altering the caps inheritance logic then. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: F23 System Wide Change: SELinux policy store migration

2015-06-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 15.06.15 11:15, Petr Lautrbach (plaut...@redhat.com) wrote: > Dne 13.6.2015 v 19:07 Lennart Poettering napsal(a): > > On Fri, 12.06.15 19:00, Miroslav Grepl (mgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > >> On 06/12/2015 12:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >>> On

Re: F23 System Wide Change: SELinux policy store migration

2015-06-13 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 12.06.15 19:00, Miroslav Grepl (mgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > On 06/12/2015 12:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Thu, 11.06.15 06:51, Jan Kurik (jku...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > >> = Proposed System Wide Change: SELinux policy store migration = > >&g

Re: F23 System Wide Change: SELinux policy store migration

2015-06-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
boot. Is that a problem for this proposal, and if not, why not? Does this require changes in systemd? Does this require changes anywhere in the core OS, outside of selinux' own userspace? And so on... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fe

Re: simplestreams json or index.asc for deliverables in the new list-of-deliverables?

2015-05-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
it nicer I think then the alternatives (i.e. the fact that it renders the image names into URL via a fixed template, and that it uses tags for exposing this information is pretty nice). Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fed

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
oot file system shall stay read-only during runtime, since booting ro and then remounting rw makes sense, but booting rw and then remounting ro certainly doesn't... Hence I think FEdora is fine as it is. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
t.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201979 is about systemd > being stupid and rerunning root fsck, which sometimes triggered the > first issue. I just posted a patch upstream: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/031445.html Well, note that this one is triggered if the system

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-29 Thread Lennart Poettering
le. systemd-timesyncd implements this, too, it will ensure that the clock is monotonic at least. It will save the local clock to disk at shutdown and each time it acquires an NTP fix. fedora doesn't use timesyncd by default however. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel m

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-29 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 29.04.15 16:46, Lubomir Rintel (lkund...@v3.sk) wrote: > On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 14:00 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On 04/28/2015 03:52 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > > And no, this *never* worked fully on Linux, and it never will, > > &

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-28 Thread Lennart Poettering
something we simply cannot support at all. Either get your RTC set to UTC like everybody else, or disable time-based fsck like everybody else, but if you enable both then you are purely on your own. Essentially you are asking us to support multi-boot with windows, but you ignore that it's win

Re: Time sync

2015-04-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
arliest boot to latest shutdown. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: hibernation support - lack of distro-wide coordination between systemd, dracut, anaconda, pm-utils and maybe more?

2015-03-31 Thread Lennart Poettering
the hibernation resume logic in the initrd on its own without any external support, see the man page systemd-hibernate-resume(8). This does not require any explicit support in Dracut. pm-hibernate is obsolete as others already mentioned. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list

Re: Is systemd within a Docker container still recommended?

2015-03-02 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 02.03.15 10:03, Mauricio Tavares (raubvo...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Lennart Poettering > wrote: > >> We are continuing to work on making running systemd within a container > >> better. > >> I am trying to get a /run on tmpf

Re: Is systemd within a Docker container still recommended?

2015-03-02 Thread Lennart Poettering
he whole thing has more holes than a swiss cheese. Maybe one day the security holes can be fixed, but as of now, it's simply not secure. And this "information leak" is certainly the least of your problems... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Why sysrq is limited to only "sync" command on official fedora kernel?

2015-02-28 Thread Lennart Poettering
rse, that it is apparently Leonard Pottering's > announced desire to stop people from using /etc/ Hmm? What? I figure "Leonard Pottering" cannot be a misspelling of my name, given that what you claim his desire to be is certainly not even remotely mine. Plese stop FUDding

Re: Why sysrq is limited to only "sync" command on official fedora kernel?

2015-02-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 25.02.15 11:16, Chris Adams (li...@cmadams.net) wrote: > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering said: > > We generally default "secure". The thing is that with sysrq you can > > kill arbitrary processes if you have acecss to the console, and other > > thing

Re: Why sysrq is limited to only "sync" command on official fedora kernel?

2015-02-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
official fedora live CDs are unsuitable for system recovery > tasks; you have to change sysrq value every time you use live CDs or > build your own live CD. I figure for livecds it would be fine to override this. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.f

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 23.02.15 10:52, David Cantrell (dcantr...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 04:27:22PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mon, 23.02.15 08:17, David Cantrell (dcantr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > > > Communication is a two way street, and as

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
the suse, debian, ubuntu MLs either. > For example, now if I manipulate /etc/resolv.conf for whatever reason, > and I edit it with "vi" or a management tool like "chef" that is > unaware of symlinks, I'll break the link. Will systemd correctly &g

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
sary. The /etc/os-release to /usr/lib/os-release is hardly a change in the public interface, it keeps compat by leaving a symlink in /etc. And jeezuz, I didn't push this change into Fedora. Other people did, without talking to me. Really, this is neither much of a compat break, nor is this som

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
ution > need to be coordinated in Fedora among the affected components. David, I see how you would like to pin this all on systemd's supposedly bad communication. But coming back to the /etc/resolv.conf issue: it really just boils down to the fact that you knew the change was coming 6 mo

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
s we could have likely avoided the > breakage while the change was made altogether. Good, please ping me about changes like this next time then, and I am happy to comment! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
ion is a two way street, and as an upstream I cannot be in the business of pinging every single downstream about every single change individually, in particular if I consider the change unimportant. To learn about changes upstream, please follow the upstream discussions, thank you. Lennart -- Len

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 20.02.15 11:04, Dennis Gilmore (den...@ausil.us) wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:36:17 +0100 > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Fri, 20.02.15 16:24, Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > >> > Sorry for the inconve

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 20.02.15 11:07, Dennis Gilmore (den...@ausil.us) wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:04:13 -0600 > Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:36:17 +0100 > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 20.02.15 16:24, Peter R

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
like this? Isn't 6 month *ample* time? > > Likely not, not everyone has the same schedule as upstream systemd, in > a lot of cases they don't know it's broken until things land and teams > have other priorities. OK, got it, will let everybody know now of changes 5 ye

Re: systemd-219 issues with 22 and Rawhide composes

2015-02-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
uch time do you think is appropriate for fixing a file copy routine in anaconda? 12 months? 18 months? 2 years? Also, NM fixed a similar issue with /etc/resolve.conf in their code a long time ago, to my knowledge. Am I so misguided to assume that Anaconda can fix a fricking file copy too, in all thos

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Systemd Package Split

2015-01-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
opers. By not providing them in a container we are certainly not making things easier for people... But anyway, I can see that people disagree with this... I am not convinced though that we should fuck up the packaging of systemd too badly, just to accomodate for broken ideas... Lennart -- L

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Systemd Package Split

2015-01-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
v/null 2> /dev/null" (at least the ones done via our macros), and hence should become NOPs if systemd itself is missing... Not enthusiastic, Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Enable Polyinstantiated /tmp and /var/tmp directories by default

2015-01-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
> /tmp, but I agree this would cause confusion. For example a user > copies something to /tmp and then tells the admin or another user to > look at it, and the admin can not see it. Also the fstab option "users" becomes useless with this scheme. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Enable Polyinstantiated /tmp and /var/tmp directories by default

2015-01-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 21.01.15 14:34, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (huzai...@redhat.com) wrote: > On 01/20/2015 05:59 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > > Well, /tmp is used by X11 among other for IPC across user > > boundaries. If you give each other their private instance of it, >

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Enable Polyinstantiated /tmp and /var/tmp directories by default

2015-01-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
e sessions through logind very precisely. However, X11 and the mount propagation breakage are real blockers to make this useful in the general case. This idea can only fly for very special systems where the propagation is irrelevant. It's not compatible with admin workflows, at all. Lennart

Re: Fedora tcp_wrappers (missing) support for custom acl scripts, aclexec

2015-01-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
;s not just OpenSSH that is dropping it... tcpwrap should really be removed. Having such crap, unmaintained code responsible for security checks is completely backwards. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: timedatex replacing systemd-timedated for NTP packages

2014-12-01 Thread Lennart Poettering
> polkit authorization check. E.g. running "timedatectl set-time 12:00:00" > and taking 5 seconds to type the password sets the clock to 12:00:05, > not 12:00:00. This would be useful functionality in the upstream version, I'd really like to see a patch added for that. Len

Re: systemd.timer: Get next start time from unit being run?

2014-11-30 Thread Lennart Poettering
mer unit in /etc/systemd/system from a shell script, and then issue "systemctl daemon-reload" and start it with "systemctl start". Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/deve

Re: timedatex replacing systemd-timedated for NTP packages

2014-11-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 25.11.14 11:08, Michael Catanzaro (mcatanz...@gnome.org) wrote: > On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 17:15 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > I am sorry, but timedated is really not the place to control NTP > > *server* software. It's simply, desktopy stuff, for controlling NTP &

Re: timedatex replacing systemd-timedated for NTP packages

2014-11-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 25.11.14 18:04, Florian Weimer (fwei...@redhat.com) wrote: > On 11/25/2014 05:15 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >Really? if you want a UI that controls whether NTP server software is > >running, why not call into the EnableUnitFiles() APIs directly? > > Both chron

Re: timedatex replacing systemd-timedated for NTP packages

2014-11-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
out of the initil transaction and all is good. The way to configure server software is via "systemctl enable" and "systemctl disable" not via "timedatectl". Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://adm

Re: How to stop unneeded services?

2014-11-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
networked services a logic like this is relatively easy to implement: if a daemon figures out that it has nothing to process anymore, it can simply exit(), and that's it. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Requiring all files in /usr to be world-readable?

2014-11-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
will exploit what it can exploit, and won't what it doesn't have any pre-generates exploit parameters around. Or you have a "smart" worm, where a human attacker is behind. In that case the attacker can easily look at the binary versions of whatever he finds on the target systems

Re: Requiring all files in /usr to be world-readable?

2014-11-02 Thread Lennart Poettering
that package fixed! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: possibly problem with rawhide (systemd-217?): "Found ordering cycle on basic.target/start"

2014-10-31 Thread Lennart Poettering
cosmetic/unrelated. > > Readahead was removed from systemd, so if you were using it, you should > remove stale symlinks. I figure systemd.rpm is currently missing the right postinst scripts to remove those automatically on upgrade... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel m

Re: possibly problem with rawhide (systemd-217?): "Found ordering cycle on basic.target/start"

2014-10-31 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 31.10.14 16:20, Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) wrote: > On Fri, 31.10.14 16:13, Michal Schmidt (mschm...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > On 10/31/2014 03:42 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:01:12 +0100 > > > Lennart Poettering wrote

Re: possibly problem with rawhide (systemd-217?): "Found ordering cycle on basic.target/start"

2014-10-31 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 31.10.14 16:13, Michal Schmidt (mschm...@redhat.com) wrote: > On 10/31/2014 03:42 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:01:12 +0100 > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > >> So the problem appears to be that gssproxy.service been ordered before &

Re: possibly problem with rawhide (systemd-217?): "Found ordering cycle on basic.target/start"

2014-10-31 Thread Lennart Poettering
ify DefaultDependencies=no), hence there's an ordering cycle. Most likely some NFS maintainers tried to move gss-proxy.service into the early boot, and didn't set DefaultDependencies=no. That said, services running in early boot must be written in a specific style (i.e. not assume /var to

Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-10-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 22.10.14 14:11, Roberto Ragusa (m...@robertoragusa.it) wrote: > On 10/21/2014 10:02 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > Maybe > > that's actually a strategy to adopt here: upload the encryption keys > > into the firmware as efi vars, and then pull the

Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-10-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
but this requires isolating things first. We are working on app sandboxes, and they will make this available, but it's the traditional Linux model cannot really deliver this. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-10-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
logic is about making the test matrix smaller, and adding determinism where it normally is missing. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-10-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
the machine is used by noobs only, or because the machine is buried somewhere under the see, or where so many instances of the machine are running that a human admins don't scale. Hope that makes some sense. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

2014-10-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
hdd passphrase and a user passphrase at boot. It has been a long-time todo list item for systemd to add the hdd passphrases (with strict expiry) to the kernel keyring and then optionally pull them out there for gdm's autologin mode, so that they can be used for decrypting the gnome keyring and suc

Re: man-db without cache update (no cron or systemd *.timer)

2014-10-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 20.10.14 15:08, Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:56:19PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > But again, I am not sure I understand what is going on here. Is > > systemd now optional in Fedora? > > I guess to some

Re: man-db without cache update (no cron or systemd *.timer)

2014-10-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
tter as the command should be suffixed by >/dev/null 2>&1 || : anyway... But again, I am not sure I understand what is going on here. Is systemd now optional in Fedora? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-02 Thread Lennart Poettering
rkManager). I am more concerned about code written by admins and users. I kinda hope that we don't ship too massive shell programs in Fedora, (well, except of course autoconf scripts...), but I am pretty sure that shell is one of the most common languages used by admins to do thing

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-01 Thread Lennart Poettering
y much break API there. In general, I am pretty sure that except a couple of programming language or UNIX aficionades very few people can actually correctly separate bashisms from true bourneshellisms. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Dash as default shell

2014-10-01 Thread Lennart Poettering
let's please stick with one shell and one shell only, and let's stay with bash. Thank you. Let's not waste our time with this, please! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: blivet-gui announcement

2014-09-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
do your homework and split things up into privileged and non-priviliged parts from the beginning. The blivet-ui thing in this regard is certainly not an improvement over g-d-u, it's a step back. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
to set up repositories. As one git repo or as many. If your biggest criticism is about code hosting issues, then things can't be that bad... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fed

Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

2014-09-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
good as a news outlet... Also, the "group" is pretty much one invidual, Billy Estes. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: fakesystemd package breaking builds

2014-08-28 Thread Lennart Poettering
e can make upstream and in the systemd rpm in fedora, don't start doing things like fakesystemd/systemd-container without first trying to do these things properly, upstream and in the default RPM. For example, let's split out the hwdb stuff in Fedora, and maybe some other things, and then

Re: fakesystemd package breaking builds

2014-08-28 Thread Lennart Poettering
emd was entirely news to me under this name... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: fakesystemd package breaking builds

2014-08-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
one works > >too... > > We've talked about this on Flock - it's not only about disk space > but also about security reasons (CC'ing Dan Walsh). My goal was not Dan, can you elaborate what the rationale for this is? > to have needless junk in base image - if we are not go

Re: fakesystemd package breaking builds

2014-08-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
lly any value in doing this weird stuff for a fricking 150K?! Fedora has no bigger fishes to fry? The systemd-container or fakesystemd stuff sounds awfully adhoc. Can we please always discuss this first, and see if we can find a different solution? We don't need three dif

Re: fakesystemd package breaking builds

2014-08-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
is sounds all very much not thought to the end. Can you please explain what these packages precisely do, and why they exist? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: fakesystemd package breaking builds

2014-08-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
here was already a systemd-mini, and now a fakesystemd, I mean, what is this all about? Anyone? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
es might be easy to resolve, but a big chunk really isn't. And our core OS stuff is full of it. I think you underestiate the complexity of this. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
at texlive packaging is an absolute disaster, where things are split up to the maximum possible (> 20% of the packages I have on my machine now are texlive packages, just because i use latex beamer from time to time...) Of course, this kind of pragmatism makes bootstrapping fedora on some new

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
ion, that looks fishy to me. The init system of Fedora is systemd. What did you expect? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
7;s the real reason for that? If the systemd package isn't optional anyway, why is this the dep you start with and asking people to complicate things for? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
splitting things up into a million of subpackages, unless you have a ver good reason for a split. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
e removed the systemd-units package a while after systemd was the only init system we supported on Fedora... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: systemd dependencies

2014-08-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
onale here? I mean, we have so many dependencies, if you want to minimize them, you have a lng way to go... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: /media -> /run/media???

2014-08-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 18.08.14 13:25, Richard W.M. Jones (rjo...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:21:19PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Fri, 15.08.14 22:21, Nico Kadel-Garcia (nka...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > > I just reverted the "two

Re: /media -> /run/media???

2014-08-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
ugged in drives stay around on physical media. Dynamic stuff shouldn't be placed on persistent disks. This change has been made a long time ago and for good reasons, I really don't see a point in complaining about this now. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- deve

Re: Need help with converting growroot to a systemd service

2014-08-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
file. For instance units systemd will look for both the .d/ directory of the instance and of the template. Hence: mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/systemd-fsck@.service.d echo "..." > /etc/systemd/system/systemd-fsck@.service.d/foobar.conf systemctl daemon-reload Allows you to exte

Re: Need help with converting growroot to a systemd service

2014-08-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
rence to syslog in the docs, to avoid the confusion...) > Also, I suspect I need to add this service to a target unit. What would be > the most appropriate one? Currently it's initrd.target. This sounds appropriate for an initrd service. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- dev

Re: /media -> /run/media???

2014-08-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 04.08.14 18:30, Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) wrote: > To make this more confusing, to my knowledge Ubuntu (or is it Debian as > its upstream?) actually patches /run/media/$UID back into /media. Or at > least I did that. It's stupid, and a security hole, and t

Re: /media -> /run/media???

2014-08-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
y be dropped from FHS, as it it's really pointless, and is nothing one would ever use today. In fact, our filesystem.rpm package should really stop shipping that (but then again, I mean, it also ships /var/gopher, ...) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lis

Re: New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

2014-07-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
les with some timestamp in the mmap, before using the data. And if the mtime is out of date it needs to ping the server, to sync on. But if you do that, then there's really no need for inotify, again... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

2014-07-10 Thread Lennart Poettering
uery you get (well, but not more often than once per 1s or so), and reread the file if the mtime changed. That way you have to issue one stat() call every 1s if you are busy, and do nothing if you are not. Which sounds like a good deal. Much simpler and safer than inotify. Lennart -- L

Re: New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

2014-07-10 Thread Lennart Poettering
emd, > do the changes get lost? Nope, what the admin changes will take effect. The only thing that might happen that if you delete a user it might be recreated the next time sysusers runs. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

2014-07-10 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 10.07.14 08:17, Oron Peled (o...@actcom.co.il) wrote: > > > A non-API related question... > > On Thursday 10 July 2014 01:49:41 Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Please understand that we are not duplicating "adduser" here. Already in > > the name of t

Re: New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

2014-07-09 Thread Lennart Poettering
cate implementations, and keeping > specialized knowledge private to specialized modules as a “stacking > game” is not helping this discussion. Well, we need to solve a very simple problem with sysuers, and we have a very simple API for that in glibc, and hence it appears clearly the right decision for us to use glibc. I can see that you disagree, but I figure we have to agree to disagree on this. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

2014-07-09 Thread Lennart Poettering
rrently deviate greatly in, and we needed somethign simple, safe, somewhat vwidely available and capable of running in earliest boot. The glibc APis provide that, no other API does that. Oh, also, libuser is a glib API. Nothing against glibc, but for the low-level stuff we do that runs with not

Re: New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

2014-07-09 Thread Lennart Poettering
ek I am sorry, but to make this very clear: sssd has not place in early boot or in smaller setups. The problems we we want to solve with systemd we try to solve generically, and this means that I am not telling people to pull in sssd into the smallest of devices. sssd/libuser is fine fo

Re: New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

2014-07-09 Thread Lennart Poettering
ot pretty... Not sure though what other options there are, that would be better... Anyway, I do like to see this feature implemented in Fedora. I think it's really crucial to get this done. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https:

Re: PostgreSQL systemd config scheme change

2014-07-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 07.07.14 17:07, Pavel Raiskup (prais...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Monday 07 of July 2014 15:57:30 Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mon, 07.07.14 14:48, Pavel Raiskup (prais...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > I'd always advise against inventing addition configurat

Re: PostgreSQL systemd config scheme change

2014-07-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 07.07.14 14:48, Pavel Raiskup (prais...@redhat.com) wrote: > > On Friday 04 of July 2014 00:09:03 Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mon, 23.06.14 16:23, Pavel Raiskup (prais...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > $ cat /etc/postgresql/postgresql@com_example > > > PG

Re: PostgreSQL systemd config scheme change

2014-07-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 03.07.14 19:11, Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering writes: > > Please migrate away from ".include", please use .d/ drop-ins instead. We > > kinda are deprecating ".include", only support it for compatibility > > in

Re: PostgreSQL systemd config scheme change

2014-07-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
. It's OK to copy unit files from /usr/lib/systemd/system into /etc/systemd/system and edit it there. I'd always advise against inventing addition configuration files that are neither the daemons own, nor systemd's. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

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