Re: [Dng] system scriptinng language.

2014-12-23 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi T.J., sorry this is late--this thread got lost in my inbox. Thank you for your feedback regarding GPLv3. My reason for choosing it was because it explicitly grants an irrevocable patent license to downstream coders, whereas GPLv2 does not. I would think this would make it more attractive to

Re: [Dng] sugestion apulse as pulseaudio replcement

2014-12-24 Thread Jude Nelson
. Jude On Dec 24, 2014 2:37 PM, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:26:10PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: +1 for apulse. It's proven stable enough for Skype calls in my (limited) experience with it, which is the only reason I would have had for installing

Re: [Dng] What to do with udev? Some ideas...

2014-12-28 Thread Jude Nelson
I see vdev as more of a medium/long-term solution. I'd create a libudev-compat library that implemented the udev API, but I'd structure vdev to expose the same information via the filesystem (so libudev-compat would just perform the requisite filesystem queries for legacy applications). Jude On

Re: [Dng] Device management [WAS: system scriptinng language.]

2014-12-31 Thread Jude Nelson
offers it, but Linux does not (AFAIK; I know that there's been interest in adding it). -Jude On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult enrico.weig...@gr13.net wrote: On 31.12.2014 01:56, Jude Nelson wrote: Hi, A much more elegant solution would be to give each session

Re: [Dng] vdev update and design document

2015-01-02 Thread Jude Nelson
:58, Jude Nelson wrote: Hey everyone, I just thought I'd post an update on vdev, since I'd mentioned earlier that I was shooting for packages by now. It will take a couple more days, but I'm pleased to say that the pre-alpha vdev can do the following: * populate itself with all block and char

Re: [Dng] vdev update and design document

2015-01-03 Thread Jude Nelson
, can you open an issue on the issue tracker [1] describing this, and tag it as a feature request? Thanks, Jude [1] https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev/issues On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Aldemir Akpinar aldemir.akpi...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 January 2015 at 10:58, Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com

[Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-02 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey everyone, Is there a list somewhere that has the packages in Jessie that depend on some part of systemd? I'd like to get the ball rolling on compiling out systemd dependencies for Devuan packages, but I don't want to duplicate anyone's efforts. Maybe a good first step would be to get a list

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-02 Thread Jude Nelson
I think that in the limit, it would be ideal that every piece of software--no matter how obscure--would have sufficiently extensive documentation to cover every single corner case of its operation (and I want a pony, while I'm making impossible wishes :P) I humbly recommend that the official

Re: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-02 Thread Jude Nelson
, and start parceling out responsibility for them. -Jude On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Jude Nelson wrote: Hey everyone, Is there a list somewhere that has the packages in Jessie that depend on some part of systemd? I'd like to get the ball rolling on compiling

Re: [Dng] Community polls on Devuan design

2015-02-08 Thread Jude Nelson
I also like the last logo the best. It's not on the survey, however. -Jude On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Dima Krasner d...@dimakrasner.com wrote: My vote goes to the last logo from http://albancrommer.github.io/devuan/Logo_2ndpass.pdf (D with a spiral). The typography is great. On Sun,

Re: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-08 Thread Jude Nelson
: dear Jude, On Mon, 02 Feb 2015, Jude Nelson wrote: Hey everyone, Is there a list somewhere that has the packages in Jessie that depend on some part of systemd?* I'd like to get the ball rolling on compiling out systemd dependencies for Devuan packages, but I don't want

Re: [Dng] Community polls on Devuan design

2015-02-08 Thread Jude Nelson
If Google Translate has any accuracy, it means your vote was registered (it's the usual Survey Monkey message, but in Italian). -Jude 2015-02-08 13:38 GMT-05:00 Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com: On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 18:03 +, Jaromil wrote: hi, A fellow VUA has ...anonymously

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-03 Thread Jude Nelson
Regarding seeing battery levels from the GUI, I currently use fdpowermon. It polls the battery info from sysfs every few seconds via acpi. On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 01:19:26AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Last time I

Re: [Dng] libsysdev preview

2015-01-19 Thread Jude Nelson
at 04:05:46PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: Hey Isaac, this looks great! Starred and watched :) Thanks! Related, I've just committed some (very) preliminary code for libudev-compat in the vdev repository that's meant to be both API and ABI-compatible with libudev. I think we're working towards

Re: [Dng] libsysdev preview

2015-01-19 Thread Jude Nelson
hwdb files udev_util: only one string-encoding method; nothing to see here. -Jude On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 08:56:10PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: Regarding the architecture, I have a design document here: http

Re: [Dng] Announcing libsysdev 0.1.0

2015-01-21 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey, this is cool! Looking forward to putting it to use in libudev-compat, since it looks like I'll be needing a way to find a device file's sysfs path. -Jude On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Those who've been following the list in the last

Re: [Dng] Purpose of all this complicated device management?

2015-01-17 Thread Jude Nelson
Moreover, vdev will support the option of simply generating the device files for the system's current hardware configuration and promptly exiting. You won't have to leave it running, and if your hardware configuration changes, you can simply re-run it and it will add/remove the requisite device

Re: [Dng] libsysdev preview

2015-01-19 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey Isaac, this looks great! Starred and watched :) Related, I've just committed some (very) preliminary code for libudev-compat in the vdev repository that's meant to be both API and ABI-compatible with libudev. I think we're working towards the same end--make a library that can replace

Re: [Dng] libsysdev preview

2015-01-22 Thread Jude Nelson
at 12:01 AM, Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Isaac, I was asking about implementation details (something like the HACKING document that many projects have, giving an overview of how it works internally). Good idea; I'll add one. I'm getting the impression that libsysdev won't

Re: [Dng] libsysdev preview

2015-01-22 Thread Jude Nelson
ready, I have several Epoch and runit experimental setups I'd like to use it on. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:50:11 -0500 Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: I was looking

Re: [Dng] Please!! revive Bastille hardening tool for Devuan - Conflict of Interest

2015-02-11 Thread Jude Nelson
This one's a troll. I've added his new address to my killfile already. -Jude On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:07 PM, KatolaZ kato...@freaknet.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:41:48AM -0800, Usspookes Lovesystemd wrote: [cut] You are shitsucking scum in that you won't have Bastille for

[Dng] Package tags

2015-02-11 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey Jaromil, I just want to make sure I'm doing this right (and I apologize in advance if I am not). I imported dbus from Debian upstream, including previous tags and commit histories, into the dbus repository in git.devuan.org. I merged the fix for CVE-2015-0245. I tagged it as

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-01-31 Thread Jude Nelson
(If I recall correctly, non-root X is only possible with systemd or on openbsd, so that's a moot point for now.) From what I recall reading up on this, you should be able to run X as an unprivileged user on Linux without systemd as long as your video card has a driver with KMS support. IIRC,

Re: [Dng] pre alpha valentine (secret love declaration)

2015-02-14 Thread Jude Nelson
3 On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: re all, Here is a pre-alpha sneak preview of Devuan at the current state of affairs. It is my valentine to Franco: despite we probably never met in person, I love him. He is really dedicated to this project and putting

[Dng] Weekly developer status update (Was: Re: OT: Programming languages again.)

2015-02-14 Thread Jude Nelson
The dev teams seems very quiet and isolated, which is okay - but it makes them seem less approachable if you are on the list. I think this is a good idea, even if only to keep me motivated :) I'll start. ** vdev ** It's been slow-going for me these past couple weeks since I've had to devote

Re: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-10 Thread Jude Nelson
integration testing in a VM, for example. Regards, -Jude On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: hi, On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Jude Nelson wrote: To clarify, the SDK will pull a package from Debian, and create a new branch for each version so maintainers can observe

Re: [Dng] vdev update and design document

2015-01-04 Thread Jude Nelson
generated from sysfs get processed. That way, adding support for this scenario won't affect the core logic. -Jude On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult enrico.weig...@gr13.net wrote: On 03.01.2015 23:07, Jude Nelson wrote: Hi Aldemir, That sounds like a good

Re: [Dng] vdev status updates

2015-03-18 Thread Jude Nelson
it. This means you will provide support for inotify in vdevfs? AFAIK there isn't in every filesystem, eg sysfs. Didier Le 17/03/2015 09:48, Jude Nelson a écrit : How would that watching work? vdevd-user would have an inotify(2)-based back-end (hopefully via libkqueue, so it would

Re: [Dng] vdev status updates

2015-03-17 Thread Jude Nelson
device event with the relevant information (e.g. by querying the device metadata that the system's vdevd puts into /dev/vdev/...). -Jude On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Joerg Reisenweber reisenwe...@web.de wrote: On Tue 17 March 2015 01:20:43 Jude Nelson wrote: What I'm considering doing

[Dng] vdev status updates

2015-03-16 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey everyone, 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] This week, the Linux port of vdev is now accesses /sys in a manner that is

Re: [Dng] greetings how to help

2015-03-16 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Udo, I'm not part of the VUA, and what I'm about to say is by no means comprehensive or official. I'd say things are looking up for Devuan: * The Devuan package repository is available at http://apt.devuan.org/devuan. I think the current plan is to mirror Debian's repositories and copy in

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
(I just opened issue #18 on the github page to see about running specific actions as an unprivileged user, if this is a concern). -Jude On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. März 2015, 01:20:43 schrieb Jude Nelson: Hey everyone, Hi

Re: [Dng] vdev status updates

2015-03-17 Thread Jude Nelson
. -Jude On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: 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

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

2015-03-21 Thread Jude Nelson
I think what we're after is a way to accept/reject software based on a well-defined set of acceptance criteria. It sounds like we're trying to say that the mission statement of Devuan is something like Devuan prioritizes the inclusion of Free Software that follows the Unix software design

Re: [Dng] Devuan Alpha i386 - developers release series on Vagrant

2015-03-06 Thread Jude Nelson
Woo! I can't wait to start testing with vdev :D Thank you to everyone involved! -Jude On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: Hi all, This is the initial release of the Alpha series, base-system stripped at minimum and distributed in Vagrant format (virtualbox

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update and milestone

2015-03-24 Thread Jude Nelson
, they shouldn't have to do anything. -Jude On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Jude Nelson wrote: I'm pleased to announce that vdev can successfully boot to a console on the Devuan vagrant image!* It creates all requisite device files

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update and milestone

2015-03-25 Thread Jude Nelson
3) I don't think this is a great place for unsubstantiated attacks on Ulrich Drepper or on Ulrich Drepper's leadership of glibc. Ulrich Drepper's bad attitude is cited as one of the main reasons Debian switched from glibc to eglibc. Source: http://blog.aurel32.net/47. -Jude On Wed, Mar 25,

Re: [Dng] libudev-compat

2015-03-28 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Scooby, It's not ready yet--it's not yet ABI-compatible with libudev (but it is API-compatible--Kay Sievers' tests pass when recompiled). Some background for the rest of the list. I've managed to extract the required variables, macros, and headers from systemd 219 to make libudev compile

Re: [Dng] Why daemontools is so cool

2015-03-30 Thread Jude Nelson
The problem there is that a consecutive boot system needs to probe for hardware and give that hardware time to show up, blocking the boot process in the meantime. The only hardware detection during boot that *needs* to block is mounting the root device. Boot cannot proceed without that. To

Re: [Dng] Why daemontools is so cool

2015-03-30 Thread Jude Nelson
, lvm --forgot-the-parameter, cryptsetup open, and the others that allow you to do cool things with your filesystems. Sorry for the confusion this caused and my poor choice of words. On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Jude Nelson - jud...@gmail.com devuan.kn.ae5676beef.judecn#gmail@ob.0sg.net

Re: [Dng] Why daemontools is so cool

2015-03-30 Thread Jude Nelson
, upgrade, or failsafe. They do not sleep on the start/stop critical paths. Thus, I stand by my earlier point that timeouts aren't an expected part of the boot process. -Jude On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: If you need to generically support a wide range

Re: [Dng] Any plans to provide xinit without the systemd hacks?

2015-03-30 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey Isaac, So, I'm looking at startx here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xinit/tree/startx.cpp Where's the offending block of code? Is it lines 191-200? Looking at the commit history ( http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xinit/log/), it doesn't look like startx sees many changes these

Re: [Dng] Wana give a try to vdev

2015-03-31 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Didier, Thank you for offering! I haven't tried statically linking vdev or its helper programs yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. You'll need to tweak the vdevd and vdevd helper program makefiles (in vdevd/Makefile and vdevd/helpers/LINUX/Makefile, respectively) to add the -static

[Dng] [vdev] vdev tutorial

2015-03-31 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey everyone, A few people have asked me privately how to help test vdev, for which I am very grateful :) It inspired me to write up a tutorial and crash course to testing and using vdev [1]. The instructions should work in the Vagrant image (or in Debian testing/unstable, for that matter).

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update

2015-03-31 Thread Jude Nelson
Thankfully, the puppy should be fine :) She only ate a few capsules, and we caught her just after the fact, so we were able to get her proper treatment before the toxicity could set in. We get to take her home from the vet either tonight or tomorrow. -Jude On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:15 AM,

Re: [Dng] Devuan Weekly News XIV - Where no toy has gone before

2015-03-03 Thread Jude Nelson
and no one has been troubled enough by it to reimplement a replacement. Jude Nelson suggests that if inter-process communication could be done all over again from scratch it would probably take the form of userspace API filesystems. ## Missing Bits As the activity on the list intensified

Re: [Dng] Plan for Devuan to use Mozilla products as is

2015-03-04 Thread Jude Nelson
Besides issues related to Chromium's poor support for privacy features, it also has no real security support. No comment on the privacy features, but I beg to differ on the security. The fact that the Linux build of Chromium runs each tab and plugin in its own seccomp'ed process and runs them

Re: [Dng] plan to install valentine pre-alpha on real hardware.

2015-02-23 Thread Jude Nelson
Have you tried dd'ing the .iso directly to the USB stick? Example: # dd if=/path/to/valentine/pre-alpha.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M (assuming /dev/sdb is your USB device). -Jude On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: I have a three-or-four year-old laptop on

Re: [Dng] LoginKit on the pre-alpha

2015-02-20 Thread Jude Nelson
Congratulations Dima! This is wonderful news for the future of Devuan! On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Dima Krasner d...@dimakrasner.com wrote: Hello folks, Good news on the logind front! I got the pre-alpha to play nicely with LoginKit instead of logind. http://i.imgur.com/1PTI6L5.png

Re: [Dng] vdev status update

2015-02-22 Thread Jude Nelson
Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 08:00:58PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: I consider vdev closer to being done than closer to having been just started, and it's mature enough that early testers can start experimenting with using it to boot Devuan in a VM (maybe even

[Dng] vdev status update

2015-02-22 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey everyone, In keeping with the request to give more frequent status updates on development, here's where things stand now with vdev. === CURRENT STATUS === I consider vdev closer to being done than closer to having been just started, and it's mature enough that early testers can start

Re: [Dng] vdev status update

2015-02-22 Thread Jude Nelson
, On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Jude Nelson wrote: Hey everyone, In keeping with the request to give more frequent status updates on development, here's where things stand now with vdev. many thanks! one quick q (sry if I don't answer it myself looking at the code...) (1) Create

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Jude Nelson
Nevertheless, RPC had already been solved in a general way by SunRPC (ONCRPC) before either GNOME or KDE existed. Heck, the earliest versions predate Linux. Given the combined functionality offered by PolicyKit/Polkit and dbus, I'm beginning to think that FreeDesktop has succeeded in

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

2015-03-27 Thread Jude Nelson
with other programs that must run as PID 1. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:58 PM, KatolaZ kato...@freaknet.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 06:53:54PM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: [cut] I took a stab at stating what Unix software design philosophy means earlier up the thread, but I'll reproduce

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

2015-03-26 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi John, I think the general consensus right now is that Devuan prioritizes the inclusion of Free Software that adheres to the Unix software design philosophy. Like Debian, Devuan strives to be a Universal Operating System by giving users as much freedom as possible in the choice of what

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-23 Thread Jude Nelson
GCC was deliberately making things interdepend on each other, even without technical reasons, simply to prevent commercial entities to replace the e.g. front-end of the compiler with some proprietary code and then have that use the GPL backend. This would enable a new, proprietary language to

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

2015-03-23 Thread Jude Nelson
in 2008 on the subject, for example: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20081029164221 -Jude On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:36 PM, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: *From:* Jude Nelson [mailto:jud...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2015 3:50 PM *To:* T.J. Duchene *Cc:* dng

Re: [Dng] What do you guys think about Suggest and Recommends dependency?

2015-04-02 Thread Jude Nelson
I'm all for it. If there are a set of packages that usually get installed together, we can create a metapackage for them. -Jude On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Franco Lanza next...@nexlab.it wrote: Personally on debian i was using from date APT:Install-Recommends 0; APT:Install-Suggests 0;

Re: [Dng] Fwd: [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-19 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Anto, I am confused now about your comment that we can install any/all device managers and pick one that gets started at boot-time via the alternatives system. I initially thought that vdev requires udev or any other device managers to work. But since you added the command to disable

Re: [Dng] A systemd-free Valentine image: Was: Re: ... devuan image

2015-04-28 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Svante, On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 13:49 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I'm running debian wheezy on a 32-bit machine. Given the appearance of Jessie last Saturday, it seemed time to try out devuan. Because I don't

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

2015-04-28 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Isaac, [Snip] Theoretically, it *should* work if /etc/{passwd,group} are present in the initramfs, with those paths. It's possible to mistakenly copy them to / instead of /etc, but I assume that you've already checked that. Detail that shouldn't make a difference but might: static or

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

2015-04-29 Thread Jude Nelson
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr wrote: Le 29/04/2015 22:34, Hendrik Boom a écrit : On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:47:27AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: I'm under the impression you can do most or all of what needs to be done in the actual init, rather than the initramfs.

Re: [Dng] About (k)dbus in LKML

2015-04-30 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi James, On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:26 AM, James Powell james4...@hotmail.com wrote: The discussion has not been favorable towards the adoption from current reading on LKML. Past tests have not proven reliability, nor any significant increase of speed of messaging across the IPC. Linus 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 source version fo systemd are you stripping code from?

2015-05-07 Thread Jude Nelson
Since I have time on my hands, I would like to give a try stripping the bare minimum of necessary functions from systemd. I know the task is complex. If I fail, it will not be the end of the universe. Which systemd source version are you using? I am assuming it should be version: 215-17 from

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

2015-05-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Following up to what T.J. said... On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:15 PM, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: I think the fact that I pointed out clearly shows that there is very good technical reason to exclude udev, unless you are willing to be the maintainer of udev outside systemd

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Steve, On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2015 23:24:42 -0400 Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, I have the latest news for vdev: * vdev now creates symlinks for: -- /dev/v4l/by-path -- /dev/disk

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

2015-05-13 Thread Jude Nelson
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Jack L. Frost f...@fleshless.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 08:03:02PM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: Hey everyone, I have the latest news for vdev: Hi. I dunno if it's very relevant to this particular mailing list, but still. I've packaged vdev and all

Re: [Dng] Systemd discussions at LinuxQuestions.

2015-05-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi James, On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:58 PM, James Powell james4...@hotmail.com wrote: I agree T. J. The problem is too much thinking about problems, rather than offering a clear solution other than scrapping the fore and replacing it entirely seems to be the source of the problem. One

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Anto, Thanks a lot for all your efforts on this. My pleasure :) It looks like we are getting closer now, or at least to be able to compile vdev as a deb package. And it seems the only package that needs to be re-compile is initramfs. Do you think it is reasonable now to start

Re: [Dng] Fwd: [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-16 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Anto, Sorry for the late reply; I had been super busy with work over the last 24 hours. On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Anto arya...@chello.at wrote: On 15/04/15 05:20, Jude Nelson wrote: Hi Anto, Don't you want to know my setup? Yes, eventually :) Â However, I don't want

Re: [Dng] Fwd: [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-16 Thread Jude Nelson
that the realpath of the mountpoint is the same as or is a subdirectory of a devtmpfs mountpoint, that's why--we (currently) can't rely on the f_fsid in statfs(2) or statvfs(2). Thanks, Jude On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anto, [snip] I am not really sure

Re: [Dng] Fwd: [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-17 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Anto, I push code to both github and git.devuan.org. Either one works :) Thanks, -Jude On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Anto arya...@chello.at wrote: On 17/04/15 06:00, Jude Nelson wrote: Hi Anto, I just committed preliminary support for using vdevd with devtmpfs. vdevd should

Re: [Dng] Wana give a try to vdev

2015-04-17 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Didier, [Snip] Hello Jude. Here is a brief summary of what I did up to now. The goal was to install a minimal rootfs in flash memory of an embeded Powerpc (MVME3100) to use as a sandbox. 1) I compiled a kernel with the following boot parameters:

Re: [Dng] Fwd: [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-18 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Anto, On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Anto arya...@chello.at wrote: On 18/04/15 19:46, Anto wrote: Hello Jude, I have tried a lot other combinations but the problem remains, that is the init fails to mount the root partition. I am not sure why as I can manually mount any disks that

Re: [Dng] Boot sequence: was vdev status update

2015-04-18 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Steve, On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:08:54 -0400 Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: The init program in example/initramfs/init goes into /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init, not /sbin/init :) The initramfs's init

Re: [Dng] Fwd: [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Anto, Don't you want to know my setup? Yes, eventually :) However, I don't want to waste your time either, at least until I am more confident that the vdev installation process works correctly. Maybe there are some packages required by your vdev, but I don't have them installed on my

[Dng] Fwd: [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-14 Thread Jude Nelson
It just occurred to me that my reply wasn't CC'ed to the ML. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update To: Anto arya...@chello.at Hi Anto, thank you for giving that a try! I am

Re: [Dng] Fwd: [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey Anto, On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Anto arya...@chello.at wrote: On 14/04/15 21:18, Anto wrote: Hello Jude, I have just done the following: - remove /etc/vdev - |git pull https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev|- remove /etc/vdev - make clean - compile and install libvdev, vdevd and

Re: [Dng] Too many man pages, too much complicated : systemd

2015-04-06 Thread Jude Nelson
a wiki page with all contributors accounted for--not only developers, but also testers, bug-hunters, integrators, editors, document-writers, graphic artists, packagers, and so on. We're all in this together :) On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 6

Re: [Dng] Too many man pages, too much complicated : systemd

2015-04-05 Thread Jude Nelson
If I ever write a desktop suite, it will store settings as a well-defined directory tree with human-meaningful file names and contents instead of a MySQL database or a large flat opaque file. That's just me, though. Jude On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:37 PM, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-07 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Scooby, [Snip] However, this has proven to be a somewhat challenging problem, for a couple reasons. First, inotify(2) does not work on pseudo-filesystems like sysfs or devtmpfs, so we can't just watch /sys for changes, and we can't use devtmpfs for /dev. This means that systems using

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-07 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Isaac, [snip] libsysdev is meant to help clients pull information from sysfs. I don't think it is supposed to help clients run privileged ioctls (Isaac, please correct me if I'm wrong!). Not at present. It basically maps a device to a sysfs directory and possibly gets a *little*

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Jude Nelson
suggest that Pottering is evil, Definitely looking forward to this stopping. Seriously, it's not Lennart's fault that Debian decided to switch to systemd. If you want to blame anyone for this, blame the CTTE, the DDs who voted against init freedom in the GR, and the systemd fanbois who

Re: [Dng] Would like to help with Devuan

2015-04-08 Thread Jude Nelson
Welcome aboard, Jeremy! The easiest way to help out is to use Devuan regularly, and keep track of the things about it that bother you. Then, try to figure out how to fix them, and share your fixes--be they new program configurations, shell scripts, Python scripts or C programs. If you ever get

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-01 Thread Jude Nelson
Unlike systemd, you can easily get a working desktop system without PulseAudio, even on Debian. IIRC, the only commonly-used program that requires PulseAudio is Skype, and I've been able to get by even then by using apulse[1]. -Jude [1] https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at

Re: [Dng] two lists and developer disconnect (was: Re: dev-list)

2015-04-09 Thread Jude Nelson
for. -Jude -Jonathan On Thursday, April 9, 2015 2:10 PM, Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: It has been suggested several times now that the reason Debian developers supposedly suffer a disconnect from Debian users is because there are dedicated -dev and -user mailing lists, where -dev

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update

2015-04-09 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Isaac, On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 05:22:55PM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: report every kind of device, since it listens to the kernel's driver core (i.e. libudev learns about network interfaces, buses, power

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

2015-05-16 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Jaret, On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Jaret Cantu ja...@realitysend.com wrote: Just pushed eudev to the Devuan git. https://git.devuan.org/jaretcantu/eudev I used eudev version 1.9 since it is based on systemd 215. That is the udev/systemd version used by Jessie, so it just seemed

[Dng] libudev-compat update

2015-06-07 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey everyone, I've just pushed my first stab at libudev-compat to the vdev repository. It took a while to work out how to remove the need for udev to send libudev clients device events, but I think I've figured out something that works. Instead of sending events via a netlink multicast group,

Re: [Dng] libudev-compat update

2015-06-08 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Jack, On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Jack L. Frost f...@fleshless.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:31:40AM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: Hey everyone, I've just pushed my first stab at libudev-compat to the vdev repository. It took a while to work out how to remove the need

Re: [DNG] We Must be Prepared ....

2015-06-18 Thread Jude Nelson
I'm not worried. Linus won't accept kdbus until he thinks it's in a position where it will be stable and easily supported for the foreseeable future. Watching kdbus get refactored a few times over this past year, I'd wager a guess that they're going to end up keeping as much of dbus in userspace

Re: [DNG] We Must be Prepared ....

2015-06-19 Thread Jude Nelson
Whelp, looks like kdbus in systemd is no longer optional (but to be fair, its use can be disabled at runtime, and won't be used anyway if kdbus isn't present in the kernel). Announcement: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/033170.html -Jude On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at

Re: [DNG] Packages aren't the only path to alternate inits

2015-06-26 Thread Jude Nelson
Has anyone taken a look at pleaserun? Link: https://github.com/jordansissel/pleaserun. It's made by the same person who wrote fpm (Jordan Sissel). It lets you generate init scripts for a plethora of different inits, given only the installed location of the binary. -Jude On Thu, Jun 25, 2015

Re: [DNG] We Must be Prepared ....

2015-06-23 Thread Jude Nelson
Looks like Linus weighed in. I found the whole conversation thread interesting. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.2/05492.html -Jude On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:28 PM, KatolaZ kato...@freaknet.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 08:15:01PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: [cut]

Re: [DNG] [Dng] Hal and Vdev

2015-06-16 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Isaac, On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:18:18PM -0400, JeremyBekka C wrote: Hi Jeremy, I have a question about the deprecated program hal. We like to stream videos from Amazon.com but we need hal installed in order

Re: [DNG] [Dng] Hal and Vdev

2015-06-16 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Isaac, On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:55:09PM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: Hi Isaac, On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: I've looked at https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash

Re: [Dng] Hal and Vdev

2015-06-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Jeremy, I have a question about the deprecated program hal. We like to stream videos from Amazon.com but we need hal installed in order to make it work. The Hal Debian wiki says that it is being deprecated and it is being replaced by udev (https://wiki.debian.org/hal). Since vdev is being

Re: [Dng] straw poll, non-free firmware for installers

2015-06-03 Thread Jude Nelson
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Franco Lanza next...@nexlab.it wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 08:37:22PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: Hi, I'd like a straw poll on whether we should include non-free firmware in our installers by default. It's a deviation from Debians traditional

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