Re: [Dng] vdev status updates

2015-03-17 Thread Jude Nelson
How would that watching work? vdevd-user would have an inotify(2)-based back-end (hopefully via libkqueue, so it would be portable). The back-end would set up inotify watches on /dev and its descendant directories, and translate creat(2) and unlink(2) events from inotify into a vdev-specific

[Dng] release date

2015-03-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 09:00:49PM +0100, Anto wrote: Hello Everybody, I know that Devuan is not even at the alpha release yet. So I don't have any intention at all here, to ask the nasty question about the release date. Everybody involved in Devuan development are already really busy, so

Re: [Dng] greetings how to help

2015-03-17 Thread fsmithred
On 03/17/2015 09:56 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I tried the Vagrant on my Wheezy box the day the Vagrant image came out, and it errored out with some VirtualBox error. I forgot the error, and don't have enough time to whip it into working shape. Are there any instructions for using Vagrant with Qemu

Re: [Dng] vdev status updates

2015-03-17 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 17. März 2015, 01:20:43 schrieb Jude Nelson: Hey everyone, Hi Jude! I have the latest news on vdev over the past two weeks. I'm not sure if the news from last week made it to the mailing list; apologies if the latter half of this email is redundant. [Week of March 15]

Re: [Dng] Dng Digest, Vol 6, Issue 60

2015-03-17 Thread David Harrison
On 17/03/2015 09:30, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Insofar as what needs doing, there's a pre-alpha ISO floating around (Valentine pre-alpha), and the Vagrant image could always use more testing and bug reports. There's also a list of infrastructure to-dos here:

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-17 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Anto, I think the plan is to make the installation of all systemd components optional. The packages in git.devuan.org that are cloned from Debian's sources have build flags set automatically to compile out systemd dependencies, for example. If you're wondering what's pulling in libsystemd0

Re: [Dng] vdev status updates

2015-03-17 Thread Jude Nelson
Wow, thank you! You put a lot of work into this. You're welcome! I am really considering using Devuan with vdev on my server VM. I like the approach to let one tool do one thing and do it well and even more flexible than the current main stream implementations. I'm glad to hear it! If you

Re: [Dng] vdev status updates

2015-03-17 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Steve, Several months ago I did a proof of concept shellscript using inotifywait, which detected USB thumb drive insertion and removal. It worked just fine, and if I'd wanted to spend more than 30 minutes, a combination of tweaking sudoers and writing a few shellscripts could have given

[Dng] Systemd: it depends -- was Re: release date

2015-03-17 Thread hellekin
On 03/17/15 18:57, Anto wrote: I asked the questions whether Devuan will be really free from systemd and its components? Or will there be trade-off being applied so that some of systemd components will be used in Devuan? *** I'm merely repeating what's been said before, and I'm not ointed by

Re: [Dng] greetings how to help

2015-03-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:30:57 -0400 Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: * There's an i386 Vagrant image released for pre-alpha testing (see https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/try-devuan-on-vagrant). I tried the Vagrant on my Wheezy box the day the Vagrant image came out, and it

Re: [Dng] greetings how to help

2015-03-17 Thread Richard
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:30:57 -0400 Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: * There's an i386 Vagrant image released for pre-alpha testing (see https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/try-devuan-on-vagrant

Re: [Dng] vdev status updates

2015-03-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 04:48:46 -0400 Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: How would that watching work? vdevd-user would have an inotify(2)-based back-end (hopefully via libkqueue, so it would be portable). The back-end would set up inotify watches on /dev and its descendant directories, and