Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:19:03 + Stephanie Daugherty sdaughe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Stephanie! =) They did, but out of all this design by committee, hidden between all the political bullshit and bikeshedding, they also created the most brilliant, most comprehensive set of standards for

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Lars Noodén
I would be interested in * No-dbus replacement for NetworkManager/Wicd Are you thinking a C program? HECK no! There's no requirement for this program to be fast, and I want to make it easy on myself. Python probably, with the minimum Python addons, and only addons that ship with Python

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 14:26:41 +1200 Daniel Reurich dan...@centurion.net.nz wrote: On 16 August 2015 7:47:46 AM GMT+12:00, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: All that I ever try to say that I think there should be room for both sorts to make Devuan a home. Yes, I think Devuan should

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 07:37:16 +0300 Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: I would be interested in * No-dbus replacement for NetworkManager/Wicd Are you thinking a C program? HECK no! There's no requirement for this program to be fast, and I want to make it easy on myself.

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Go Linux
On Sat, 8/15/15, Simon Hobson li...@thehobsons.co.uk wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream To: dng@lists.dyne.org dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Saturday, August 15, 2015, 3:53 PM Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: THe way I heard the

[DNG] Wireless configuration tools (was: Re: Systemd Shims)

2015-08-15 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 06:19:23PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:08:11 +0200 shraptor shrap...@bahnhof.se wrote: I would be interested in * No-dbus replacement for NetworkManager/Wicd Are you thinking a C program? HECK no! There's no requirement for this

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Simon Hobson
Stephanie Daugherty sdaughe...@gmail.com wrote: They did, but out of all this design by committee, hidden between all the political bullshit and bikeshedding, they also created the most brilliant, most comprehensive set of standards for quality control, package uniformity, license

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 15/08/2015 18:01, Steve Litt a écrit : On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:51:55 +0200 Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr wrote: Le 15/08/2015 02:26, Steve Litt a écrit : On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:49:17 -0700 Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 8/14/15, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-15 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:54:06AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:25:06 -0700 Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg and fluxbox. That

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread shraptor
I would be interested in * No-dbus replacement for NetworkManager/Wicd Are you thinking a C program? daemon and user interface/GUI separation? On 2015-08-15 18:01, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:51:55 +0200 Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr wrote: Le 15/08/2015 02:26, Steve Litt a écrit

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Simon Hobson li...@thehobsons.co.uk writes: T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: I used Debian Sid recently, with the apparent ability to boot using either System 5 or Systemd via Grub. The choice seems clear to me that Devuan could minimize upsteam maintenance by looking at that. The

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
The lack of the last two: multiple versions and shell scripts are why Debian derivatives cannot share packages, even though they use identical base code. Correction: The lack of multiple versions and packahe shell scripts are why Debian derivatives cannot share packages, even though they use

Re: [DNG] [hai...@histomat.net: Re: Alpha2 without desktop environment]

2015-08-15 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 07:43:04AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I reiinstalled (avoiding past missteps), to a console, and from it installed xorg and fluxbox. I then ran xstart from console and all went well. With one exception. I'm in what looks like VGA mode with large crude characters. It

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:08:11 +0200 shraptor shrap...@bahnhof.se wrote: On 2015-08-15 18:01, Steve Litt wrote: Please, Steve, provide us with all you mentionned, as an alternative to mainstream bloated/infected stuff. Since Devuan is all about freedom, this is the place where to

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Daniel Reurich
On 16 August 2015 7:47:46 AM GMT+12:00, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 03:15:50 -0700 James Powell james4...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Jim! =) To me, a shim is not the way. Sanitization is what is needed, and if that requires work, then question this, 'Will the

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On 15/08/2015 00:19, James Powell wrote: Slackware is maintained by 3 core people with extra help as needed. The rest of the packages are pushed by the community at large contributing. Devuan doesn't have to maintain every package possible. That's ludicrous to think so. Debian got in over its

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On 15/08/2015 05:38, Isaac Dunham wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 02:42:14PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 02:02:22PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Seems to me there's something weird, both, in libreoffice depending on just one single version of libstdc++, and in

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread James Powell
My $0.02... Shims are not needed, or, in my viewpoint, wanted. You're still working with systemd or pseudo-systemd and either way you see it, it's still systemd. While the prospect of systemd-shim does allow to separate the API layer and logind out from the core project, as uselessd allowed

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On 15/08/2015 05:57, T.J. Duchene wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:38:35 -0700 Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: To elaborate on this, GCC 5.1 (I think) has changed the ABI for C++11 support. Packages using C++11 need to be rebuilt with the new library; libreoffice has already been rebuilt,

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 15/08/2015 02:26, Steve Litt a écrit : On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:49:17 -0700 Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 8/14/15, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Friday, August 14, 2015, 2:47 PM I know not

[DNG] hostname set to (none)

2015-08-15 Thread aitor_czr
Hi, I built the minimal chroot jailgenerated by live-build in devuan, and the hostname is set to none: $ hostname (none) There aren't underscores in the /etc/hostname file, and the /etc/hosts is also correct.It happened to me the same some other time starting with sysvinit, but not with

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-15 Thread aitor_czr
Hi again, Grub-install failed in gnuinos server (Alpha2). Apparently libfuse2 and os-prober are not included in it. I will solve this issue during the day. Thanks, Aitor. On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 23:52:56 +0200 aitor_czr wrote: Hi all, I'm uploading a live image of gnuinos in amd64

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:01:35 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Please, Steve, provide us with all you mentionned, as an alternative to mainstream bloated/infected stuff. Since Devuan is all about freedom, this is the place where to deliver to the world. As soon as I can

Re: [DNG] Correction: Re: systemd files found in fresh devuan alpha2 install.

2015-08-15 Thread Riccardo Boninsegna
Il 15/ago/2015 03:05 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com ha scritto: There are still a few systemd-related packages iinstalled: libpam-systemd systemd systemd-shim libsystemd0 Is this normal? Yes (for now), and you can easily remove all of them, except libsystemd0, with no issues If

Re: [DNG] Using apt pinning to block systemd in DEVUAN 64 bit

2015-08-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 03:33:31PM +0200, Anto wrote: On 15/08/15 14:39, Edward Bartolo wrote: What is the purpose of: Package: init Pin: origin Pin-Priority: -1 As far as I understood, the init package was developed to allow smoother transition of Debian default init from sysvinit to

[DNG] [hai...@histomat.net: Re: Alpha2 without desktop environment]

2015-08-15 Thread Haines Brown
I reiinstalled (avoiding past missteps), to a console, and from it installed xorg and fluxbox. I then ran xstart from console and all went well. With one exception. I'm in what looks like VGA mode with large crude characters. It seems a problem (or symptom) is that installation did not create a

[DNG] Stupid LVM conflict resolved

2015-08-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 05:15:44PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: On 15/08/15 16:54, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 03:21:47PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: On 15/08/15 14:47, Hendrik Boom wrote: Don't forget to do `update-initramfs -u -k all` and `update-grub` to rebuild the

[DNG] Correction: Re: systemd files found in fresh devuan alpha2 install.

2015-08-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
I accidentally checked for systemd using aptitude on the wrong system. There are actually a lot more systemd packages. On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 08:58:46AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: After a clean install of devuan from the alpha2 iso using a USB stick my system is running properly, with xfce and

Re: [DNG] Using apt pinning to block systemd in DEVUAN 64 bit

2015-08-15 Thread Anto
On 15/08/15 15:53, Edward Bartolo wrote: So, init was transitional. Thanks. Yes. It was. But now it is an essential package in both Debian and Devuan. I am not sure what is the purpose of that for Devuan. But according to the discussion some time ago, it looks like it is to keep the

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 8/14/15, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Friday, August 14, 2015, 7:26 PM On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:49:17 -0700 Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 8/14/15, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote:

[DNG] Using apt pinning to block systemd in DEVUAN 64 bit

2015-08-15 Thread Edward Bartolo
I tried to install xfce4-power-manager which tried to pull in systemd. Does it harm my new installation of DEVUAN to use apt pinning to block packages like libsystemd0 and systemd? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Using apt pinning to block systemd in DEVUAN 64 bit

2015-08-15 Thread Anto
On 15/08/15 13:53, Edward Bartolo wrote: I tried to install xfce4-power-manager which tried to pull in systemd. Does it harm my new installation of DEVUAN to use apt pinning to block packages like libsystemd0 and systemd? Hello Edward, Since months ago I always have

[DNG] systemd files found in fresh devuan alpha2 install.

2015-08-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
After a clean install of devuan from the alpha2 iso using a USB stick my system is running properly, with xfce and an unknown display manager. The only packages I asked to install were ones from dselect in the installer, and very few of those. Beyond the defaults, I asked for xfce. There does

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:25:06 -0700 Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg and fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no desktop environment. At

Re: [DNG] [hai...@histomat.net: Re: Alpha2 without desktop environment]

2015-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 07:43:04 -0400 Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net wrote: I purged and reinstalled xorg without luck. Installed were libglu1-mesa, x11-apps, x11-session-utils, x11-server-utils, xinit, xorg, xorg-docs-core. The xorg log tells me that it is using as system configuration

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Simon Hobson li...@thehobsons.co.uk writes: Rainer Weikusat rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com wrote: ClamAV claims to support FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, OpenVMS, Slackware and Windows, all of which certainly don't have systemd. I've just cloned the current development repository and

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:51:55 +0200 Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr wrote: Le 15/08/2015 02:26, Steve Litt a écrit : On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:49:17 -0700 Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 8/14/15, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims To:

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-15 Thread Simon Hobson
T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: I used Debian Sid recently, with the apparent ability to boot using either System 5 or Systemd via Grub. The choice seems clear to me that Devuan could minimize upsteam maintenance by looking at that. The problem is not which init system to use -

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Stephanie Daugherty
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:20 PM James Powell james4...@hotmail.com wrote: Slackware is maintained by 3 core people with extra help as needed. The rest of the packages are pushed by the community at large contributing. Devuan doesn't have to maintain every package possible. That's ludicrous to

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 02:20:44PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: Having a specifically defined base makes it easier for third parties to ensure that software is going to work without a hitch. It's much more attractive from a testing standpoint than the usual Linux hodge-podge. I think it is

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 15/08/2015 22:19, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: They did, but out of all this design by committee, hidden between all the political bullshit and bikeshedding, they also created the most brilliant, most comprehensive set of standards for quality control, package uniformity, license auditing, and