Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:31:21PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote > >> The overhead of the files' presence is trivial, and most users won't >> care. Those who do care have a trivial line to add in make.conf, and >> that is for the small number of pe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:31:21PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote > The overhead of the files' presence is trivial, and most users won't > care. Those who do care have a trivial line to add in make.conf, and > that is for the small number of people who share your vitriol for the > systemd project.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 8 May 2013 21:48:36 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > Wouldn't the "systemd" USE flag be the appropriate one to key on? > The description in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc says... > > systemd - Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like > socket activation or session trackin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:49:18PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote > And I believe the council has only spoken out against using a useflag > for installing such files. Afaik they haven't spoken out against a > systemd-units package. Please refer me to their decision if I'm wrong. Wouldn't the "system

Re: [gentoo-dev] extending metadata.xml to support CPE information

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 08 May 2013 21:01:19 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 07 May 2013 23:59:18 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > we've already got a database for maintaining this sort of thing on a per- > > package basis: metadata.xml. so let's extend the DTD to cover this. the > > existing remote-id field lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] extending metadata.xml to support CPE information

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 07 May 2013 23:59:18 Mike Frysinger wrote: > we've already got a database for maintaining this sort of thing on a per- > package basis: metadata.xml. so let's extend the DTD to cover this. the > existing remote-id field looks like a pretty good fit, so the proposal is > simple: add a n

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] gnome2.eclass does not respect ECONF_SOURCE

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 05 December 2012 18:02:51 Doug Goldstein wrote: > - if grep -q "disable-scrollkeeper" configure; then > + if grep -q "disable-scrollkeeper" ${ECONF_SOURCE:-.}/configure; then ECONF_SOURCE should be quoted -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message pa

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/08/2013 04:06 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Michael Mol schrieb: >>> Sounds like a great feature. A crashed process is a buggy one, and I >>> would want to investigate said program before I relaunched it, and >>> not have it automatically relaunched as if nothing had happened. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > You could be looking at someone trying to compromise your system through a > buffer overflow or similar vulnerability. If you enable automatic respawn > then congratulations, you just gave the attacker unlimited tries to guess >

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Michael Mol schrieb: >> Sounds like a great feature. A crashed process is a buggy one, and I >> would want to investigate said program before I relaunched it, and >> not have it automatically relaunched as if nothing had happened. > > That's highly, highly, highly use-case dependent. If it's a >

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Ambroz Bizjak wrote: >> Init.d scripts are programs - they could probably do just about anything. > > They couldn't monitor a process and restart it when it crashes, as > specified by the restart options in the unit file. That is, without > significant modifications

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Jeroen Roovers schrieb: > Sounds like a great feature. A crashed process is a buggy one, and I > would want to investigate said program before I relaunched it, and not > have it automatically relaunched as if nothing had happened. Even worse if it keeps on thinking that the process has crashed whe

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/08/2013 03:18 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2013 20:55:35 +0200 > Ambroz Bizjak wrote: > >>> Init.d scripts are programs - they could probably do just about >>> anything. >> >> They couldn't monitor a process and restart it when it crashes, as >> specified by the restart options

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 8 May 2013 13:32:01 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:07:17PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > It is quite likely that OpenRC will start supporting unit files soon. > > Then in many cases we will be able to strip down this to just one init > > format which would satisf

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 8 May 2013 20:55:35 +0200 Ambroz Bizjak wrote: > > Init.d scripts are programs - they could probably do just about > > anything. > > They couldn't monitor a process and restart it when it crashes, as > specified by the restart options in the unit file. That is, without > significant modi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deptree broken - remove keyword on many packages, or downgrade profile to "dev"?

2013-05-08 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 5/8/13 2:56 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > the deptree of kde-base has been broken for over two months now (most likely > more, it was already bad for a while when I filed bug 460532), and we cannot > really commit new KDE releases without repoman --force option. > > A package is missing key

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Ambroz Bizjak
> Init.d scripts are programs - they could probably do just about anything. They couldn't monitor a process and restart it when it crashes, as specified by the restart options in the unit file. That is, without significant modifications in the way OpenRC works, such as adding a monitoring process,

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:32 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > OpenRC can't support units directly; if this ever did happen it would > have to be a tool that converts units to init scripts. Or an init script skeleton that interprets a unit file. That seems like it shouldn't be too hard to write for a

[gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:07:17PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > It is quite likely that OpenRC will start supporting unit files soon. > Then in many cases we will be able to strip down this to just one init > format which would satisfy both init systems. Do you want to fill me in? ;-) I haven't se

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 12:21:53AM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 8 May 2013 23:49, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > > wrote: > >> Ben de Groot schrieb: > >>> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > It looks like there is some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 08-05-2013 a las 23:49 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió: [...] > It sounds more wrong to me to be asking normal package maintainers to > test and maintain unit files, while they don't use systemd themselves, > nor have it installed. Nor would most of our users need this. > > And I believe the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:49:18PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 8 May 2013 23:39, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > >>> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd > >>> m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > It would effectively need to be bumped every time any package added, > removed or changed a unit file requirement. Also every time a unit > file-bearing package is added or removed from tree. > > That would be one insanely hot package. Splittin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 08 May 2013 13:18:57 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On 05/08/2013 01:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Wed, 8 May 2013 23:26:57 +0800 > > Ben de Groot wrote: > > > >> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > >>> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/08/2013 01:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2013 23:26:57 +0800 > Ben de Groot wrote: > >> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >>> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd >>> more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs abou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 8 May 2013 23:26:57 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd > > more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about > > new systemd units of the sort that maintainer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 9 May 2013 00:21:53 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 8 May 2013 23:49, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > > wrote: > >> Ben de Groot schrieb: > >>> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > It looks like there is some consen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 8 May 2013 21:51, Ben de Groot wrote: [...] > Where upstreams ship systemd units, I don't think there is any issue. > The problem is you are asking Gentoo maintainers to add unit files > that upstream is not shipping. In this case we should test and > maintain these ourselves, which is an addit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > In my opinion you should not be asking maintainers to add systemd > units to their packages. They most likely do not have systems on which > they can test these, and very few users would need them anyway. I > would think it is better to add th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Mike Gilbert schrieb: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > wrote: >> Fabio Erculiani schrieb: >>> Or perhaps all these man pages, I don't need man pages locally but >>> still most ebuilds do install them. What do we do? >> Users who don't want them set FEATURES="noman"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/05/13 12:06 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Ben de Groot > wrote: >> On 8 May 2013 23:39, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot >>> wrote: >>> >>> This sounds really wrong (tm) to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/05/13 11:49 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 8 May 2013 23:39, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot >> wrote: >>> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: It looks like there is some consensus on the eff

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Ben de Groot
On 8 May 2013 23:49, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > wrote: >> Ben de Groot schrieb: >>> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd more accessible, while ther

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Fabio Erculiani schrieb: >> Or perhaps all these man pages, I don't need man pages locally but >> still most ebuilds do install them. What do we do? > > Users who don't want them set FEATURES="noman". > >> Let's be serious here

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Fabio Erculiani schrieb: > Or perhaps all these man pages, I don't need man pages locally but > still most ebuilds do install them. What do we do? Users who don't want them set FEATURES="noman". > Let's be serious here. I assure you that I am fully serious. >> Another option would be to add a "

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 8 May 2013 23:39, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: >>> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd more accessib

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 8 May 2013 23:39, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: >>> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd more accessibl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/08/2013 11:39 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Ben de Groot schrieb: >> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >>> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd >>> more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about >>> new systemd unit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Ben de Groot schrieb: >> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >>> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd >>> more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about >>> new sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Ben de Groot
On 8 May 2013 23:39, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >>> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd >>> more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Ben de Groot schrieb: > On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd >> more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about >> new systemd units of the sort that maintainers just_dont_answer(tm). >> In this ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd >> more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about >> new systemd units of the sort that maintainers just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-08 Thread Ben de Groot
On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd > more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about > new systemd units of the sort that maintainers just_dont_answer(tm). > In this case, I am just giving 3 weeks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deptree broken - remove keyword on many packages, or downgrade profile to "dev"?

2013-05-08 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 08 May 2013 11:56:51 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > Hiya everybody, > > the deptree of kde-base has been broken for over two months now (most > likely more, it was already bad for a while when I filed bug 460532), > and we cannot really commit new KDE releases without repoman --

[gentoo-dev] Deptree broken - remove keyword on many packages, or downgrade profile to "dev"?

2013-05-08 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hiya everybody, the deptree of kde-base has been broken for over two months now (most likely more, it was already bad for a while when I filed bug 460532), and we cannot really commit new KDE releases without repoman --force option. A package is missing keyword ~amd64-fbsd, and so far noone f