Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 13:15 +0100, David Hare wrote: On 05/05/15 12:48, Noel Torres wrote: Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr escribió: Please remember that our objective is not to forbid nor impede usage of systemd. A Devuan user might quite well **CHOOSE** to use systemd (well, not for the

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread David Hare
On 05/05/15 12:48, Noel Torres wrote: Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr escribió: [...] I bet every service daemon package would now provide a .service file, just like everyone used to provide an init script. As far as I understand, the .service files are the systemd counterpart of sysvinit

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Noel Torres
Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr escribió: [...] I bet every service daemon package would now provide a .service file, just like everyone used to provide an init script. As far as I understand, the .service files are the systemd counterpart of sysvinit scripts. I imagine it is just enough to

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Anto
On 05/05/15 13:29, David Hare wrote: On 05/05/15 11:57, Anto wrote: I pinned *systemd* packages into Pin-Priority: -1, and re-compiled cron package without anything related to systemd. But there is still /lib/systemd/system/cron.service file as we can see below. Which package actually

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Anto
On 05/05/15 13:48, Noel Torres wrote: Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr escribió: [...] I bet every service daemon package would now provide a .service file, just like everyone used to provide an init script. As far as I understand, the .service files are the systemd counterpart of sysvinit

Re: [Dng] why someone might want systemd on devuan

2015-05-05 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 09:17:28PM +0100, David Harrison wrote: On 05/05/2015 20:43, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Well, the problem here is that systemd is*not* hot-pluggable, at all, as we have recently learned the hard way. Here's a thought. Thrown to the list with no requisite

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

2015-05-05 Thread James Powell
Yes, we need another MacroShaft screwing us over a barrel... NOT. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Laurent Bercotmailto:ska-de...@skarnet.org Sent: ‎5/‎5/‎2015 3:21 PM To: dng@lists.dyne.orgmailto:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates On

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 08:44:22PM +0200, Anto wrote: On 05/05/15 18:52, Noel Torres wrote: As a resume: If you want a systemd-free system, Devuan is your distribution, and will always be. But if you want a system designed to be unable to run systemd, please leave us. This is not the place

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Jaret Cantu
On 05/05/2015 05:36 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Or, migrating to BSD. I installed it over the weekend just 'cause. I'd be using it now, too, if it had write support for ext4. (I kinda want my 3TB home partition to be usable.) And I find it very hilarious that BSD has gnome 3.14 that seems

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Jaret, It would probably help to have some ground rules on how Devuan handles packages which provide systemd support. I know Devuan says Nope! when it comes to anything that would introduce systemd/init system dependencies, but does it ever get more elaborate than that? If it is already

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Jaret Cantu
On 05/05/2015 12:35 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 11:49:34AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Noel, Having any systemd-equipped Devuan packages means that I need to always be on my guard to prevent systemd from sneaking in. Could segregate the packages by putting them in another

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread David Hare
The decision in Debian to default the init system to systemd is the main reason to fork Debian in the first place. Not exactly.. The reason is Debian's decision to *require* systemd with the only alternative a crippled OS. What is default matters less.. D

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Anto
On 05/05/15 16:00, Noel Torres wrote: Anto arya...@chello.at escribió: [...] Hello Noel, I think I have a good reason to want to have them removed. I hate them :) You are free to do so. I don't think Devuan should provide the option to use systemd. Why should it? The decision in

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 05 May 2015 14:00:31 + Noel Torres env...@rolamasao.org wrote: Anto arya...@chello.at escribió: [...] Hello Noel, I think I have a good reason to want to have them removed. I hate them :) You are free to do so. I don't think Devuan should provide the option to use

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Noel Torres
Anto arya...@chello.at escribió: [...] Hello Noel, I think I have a good reason to want to have them removed. I hate them :) You are free to do so. I don't think Devuan should provide the option to use systemd. Why should it? The decision in Debian to default the init system to systemd

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Marlon Nunes
On 2015-05-05 11:34, Anto wrote: On 05/05/15 16:00, Noel Torres wrote: Anto arya...@chello.at escribió: [...] Hello Noel, I think I have a good reason to want to have them removed. I hate them :) You are free to do so. I don't think Devuan should provide the option to use systemd. Why

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Martin Waschbüsch
Unlurking here for a moment... Am 05.05.2015 um 16:05 schrieb David Hare davidah...@gmail.com: The decision in Debian to default the init system to systemd is the main reason to fork Debian in the first place. Not exactly.. The reason is Debian's decision to *require* systemd with the

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Tilmann Hentze
On 2015-05-05, Anto arya...@chello.at wrote: Which package actually generates all of the files and directories under /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd if not the packages themselves, like cron on the example above? dpkg -S /lib/systemd /etc/systemd

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:31:45PM +0200, Anto wrote: I don't think Devuan should provide the option to use systemd. Why should it? The decision in Debian to default the init system to systemd is the main reason to fork Debian in the first place. And the users who want systemd are better of

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Marlon Nunes
On 2015-05-05 11:34, Anto wrote: On 05/05/15 16:00, Noel Torres wrote: Anto arya...@chello.at escribió: [...] Hello Noel, I think I have a good reason to want to have them removed. I hate them :) You are free to do so. I don't think Devuan should provide the option to use systemd. Why

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Didier Kryn
Please Guys, my answer to Anto was purely technical but it triggered a philosophical discussion which happened already several times. Could we stop the thread please? Maybe this discussion may happen later, when we are all happy with our working devuan system. Didier Le 05/05/2015

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 05 May 2015 14:31:45 +0200 Anto arya...@chello.at wrote: On 05/05/15 13:48, Noel Torres wrote: Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr escribió: [...] I bet every service daemon package would now provide a .service file, just like everyone used to provide an init script. As far

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 11:53:30AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Before we get too deeply into this whole thing, what was the original question? What exact thing are we arguing whether or not to include in Devuan? Whether or not we need to rebuild packages that have .service files so they will not

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 05:34:19PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: [cut] I meant we should live with the fact that systemd is not unpluggable :) Nicely put. But do you draw any implication from that vis-a-vis supporting systemd in Devuan? (I certainly do :-) If it was up to me (and it is

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Noel Torres
Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com escribió: On Tue, 05 May 2015 16:50:13 +0200 Anto arya...@chello.at wrote: In my view, the decision to use systemd as the default init of Debian forces the locked-in of massive number of packages into systemd. That is the main problem which leads to the

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 May 2015 16:40:55 +0200 Martin Waschbüsch mar...@waschbuesch.de wrote: At any rate, Devuan's distinguishing factor, as Noel has correctly pointed out, is that freedom of choice is promoted. So that people can continue to mix and match components as they see fit. Therefore, (at

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Anto
On 05/05/15 16:53, Tilmann Hentze wrote: dpkg -S /lib/systemd /etc/systemd Thanks Tilmann, I tried that command as well, though I usually use --search. But I actually just found it, with find command (Doh!) anto@d945gclf:~/packages/cron-3.0pl1-devuan$ find . -name cron.service

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Jaromil
dear Noel, I'm happy that you are back, we really miss DWN, but I'm also sorry to contradict you on this one. On Tue, 05 May 2015, Noel Torres wrote: As a resume: If you want a systemd-free system, Devuan is your distribution, and will always be. But if you want a system designed to be

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 11:49:34AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Noel, Having any systemd-equipped Devuan packages means that I need to always be on my guard to prevent systemd from sneaking in. Could segregate the packages by putting them in another category, so we'd have free, contrib,

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:52:44PM +, Noel Torres wrote: [cut] Because it is so intrincately depended on by the core of a Debian system that we can not simply get Debian and remove the systemd bits. We owe our users a truly systemd-free system, and that's why we are here, but we do not

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-05 Thread Anto
On 05/05/15 19:50, Peter Maloney wrote: On 05/05/2015 08:55 AM, Anto wrote: Just FYI. I just noticed that the changes that I have made seem to break udev. It was not started after reboot- I have not investigate further, but re-installing udev solve the problem. It seems that I have to

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Noel Torres
Anto arya...@chello.at escribió: On 05/05/15 18:52, Noel Torres wrote: As a resume: If you want a systemd-free system, Devuan is your distribution, and will always be. But if you want a system designed to be unable to run systemd, please leave us. This is not the place for such an

Re: [Dng] why someone might want systemd on devuan

2015-05-05 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:43:09PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: [cut] Well, yes. I can imagine a systemd hater who discovers down the road that he needs a package that's been comtaminated with systemd. Maybe instead of going whole-hog systemd, which is that the other distros force him

Re: [Dng] why someone might want systemd on devuan

2015-05-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 May 2015 14:43:09 -0400 Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: Well, yes. I can imagine a systemd hater who discovers down the road that he needs a package that's been comtaminated with systemd. Maybe instead of going whole-hog systemd, which is that the other distros

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 07:33:32PM +, Noel Torres wrote: [cut] Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I follow Lennon on this. I Imagine a world where systemd is optional (probably against its own core developers wishes), and can be installed or deinstalled as any other init system. Well, you

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-05 Thread Anto
On 05/05/15 01:27, Anto wrote: Hello Everybody, As I mentioned on https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150504.064731.04c39de7.en.html, in my Devuan installation via debootstrap, I had to include init-system-helpers in order to complete the installation. After the installation, I purged

Re: [Dng] Linux boot documentation

2015-05-05 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/05/2015 16:48, Steve Litt a écrit : Hi all, I just documented the boot process, from Grub through init. See http://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/howboot.htm Hope you like it. SteveT Dear Steve, I have a few comments, more or less important to understand how things work:

Re: [Dng] why someone might want systemd on devuan

2015-05-05 Thread Edward Bartolo
I will only say a few words. The purpose of Devuan was to promote software freedom and more specifically software choice. If systemd Co. change drastically, which is clearly very unlikely to happen, it will be a completely another situation, and systemd Co. may start forming part of a project

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread shraptor shraptor
But I guess there is no obstacle to for instance run vdev with systemd, huh? On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: dear Noel, I'm happy that you are back, we really miss DWN, but I'm also sorry to contradict you on this one. On Tue, 05 May 2015, Noel Torres

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-05 Thread Peter Maloney
On 05/05/2015 08:55 AM, Anto wrote: Just FYI. I just noticed that the changes that I have made seem to break udev. It was not started after reboot- I have not investigate further, but re-installing udev solve the problem. It seems that I have to re-compile udev as well. But it looks more

Re: [Dng] Linux boot documentation

2015-05-05 Thread Jürgen Buchmüller
Am Dienstag, den 05.05.2015, 11:22 +0200 schrieb Didier Kryn: I'm not sure what happens if init crashes after other processes have been started, wether the kernel panics or other processes continue without init - not a very good situation. FWIW: I've seen this happening with a home grown

Re: [Dng] Linux boot documentation

2015-05-05 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 05/05/2015 11:22, Didier Kryn wrote: I'm not sure what happens if init crashes after other processes have been started, wether the kernel panics or other processes continue without init - not a very good situation. The Linux kernel panics when init dies. It's the dreaded attempted to kill

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

2015-05-05 Thread marcxdv
Hello * I then argue that in the current world, autocompletion is not reliable, because since it does not stat(), it cannot hide filenames the user cannot execute, such as a 0644 file. What your autocompletion is currently printing is an approximation of the programs you can run, not an

Re: [Dng] Linux boot documentation

2015-05-05 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 12:29:59PM +0200, Jürgen Buchmüller wrote: Am Dienstag, den 05.05.2015, 11:22 +0200 schrieb Didier Kryn: I'm not sure what happens if init crashes after other processes have been started, wether the kernel panics or other processes continue without init - not a very

Re: [Dng] why someone might want systemd on devuan

2015-05-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
David Harrison wrote: On 05/05/2015 20:43, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: Well, the problem here is that systemd is*not* hot-pluggable, at all, as we have recently learned the hard way. Here's a thought. Thrown to the list with no requisite knowledge to back it up, so please don't bite!

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Harald Arnesen
Noel Torres [2015-05-05 18:52]: As a resume: If you want a systemd-free system, Devuan is your distribution, and will always be. At the moment, it is either Trios or Funtoo or Slackware, right? Or some limited distro like Alpine (which I run on my netbook). -- Hilsen Harald

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
KatolaZ wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 03:53:55PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: [cut] Unfortunately, systemd has been *designed* to be unpluggable, and to munch as much as possible of the low-level userspace. We should live with it, especially because the typical answer you get about systemd

Re: [Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Anto
On 05/05/15 21:41, Noel Torres wrote: Anto arya...@chello.at escribió: On 05/05/15 18:52, Noel Torres wrote: As a resume: If you want a systemd-free system, Devuan is your distribution, and will always be. But if you want a system designed to be unable to run systemd, please leave us.

[Dng] Which package generates /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd files?

2015-05-05 Thread Anto
Hello Everybody, I pinned *systemd* packages into Pin-Priority: -1, and re-compiled cron package without anything related to systemd. But there is still /lib/systemd/system/cron.service file as we can see below. anto@d945gclf:~/packages/cron-3.0pl1-devuan$ grep -R systemd * debian/changelog: