Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Discontinuing LibreSSL support?

2020-12-29 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 01:24:33PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > As noted in another fork of this thread, libtls is now provided > by dev-libs/libretls which works against OpenSSL. The latest version of libressl also supports linking libtls statically against libssl and libcrypto, allowing it to

[gentoo-dev] libressl / libtls

2020-12-11 Thread Paul B. Henson
Current versions of libressl link libcrypto and libssl into libtls statically, allowing libtls to be installed concurrently with openssl without any ABI breakage. Would it be possible to have a use flag such as 'libtlsonly' or whatever for the ebuild which only installs libtls, allowing it to

Re: [gentoo-dev] uid/gid request for net-misc/openntpd

2019-09-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 09:53:49PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > Added. Much appreciated, thanks.

Re: [gentoo-dev] uid/gid request for net-misc/openntpd

2019-09-11 Thread Paul B. Henson
It was suggested to use uid/gid 321 for this purpose? Any objections to this selection? If not, how do I get https://api.gentoo.org/uid-gid.txt updated to mark it as requested or reserved? Thanks... On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 01:09:40PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > Per ht

[gentoo-dev] uid/gid request for net-misc/openntpd

2019-09-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
Per https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693050 openntpd is going to switch to a dedicated openntpd user/group rather than sharing the ntp user/group with net-misc/ntp. Could I please get a static uid/gid assigned for this? For now, I'm just going to hardcode them in the ebuild, and transition

Re: [gentoo-dev] Amazon Corretto openjdk builds?

2019-06-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:50:11PM -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > As a maintainer of most jdks in gentoo I'm not looking at adding even > more JDK versions this time as there is little to no reason of doing > that. Cool, thanks for the perspective. > if there is significant performance or

[gentoo-dev] Amazon Corretto openjdk builds?

2019-06-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
Is anybody looking at Amazon's new openjdk distribution? https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ Advertised as production ready with long term support, no-cost. I'm not sure how it compares to the current AdoptJDK builds, but seems like it might be another good option.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/oracle-{jre,jdk}-bin

2019-04-23 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 07:44:53PM -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > I've modified the mask for now, but I still believe we should drop it. > I do not maintain it at all, I only work on openjdk and a bit of icedtea. Speaking of openjdk, all versions are masked and the ebuilds contain: if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 05:07:22PM +, Peter Stuge wrote: > Maybe this is a discussion for -project, then? > > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > * and keep commenting opinionated on technical things they plainly have no > > clue about (while whining when are told they sprout bulls##t). > > You

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:20:56PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > * Subscribing to the list and receiving list mail remains as it is now. > * Posting to the list will only be possible to Gentoo developers and > whitelisted additional participants. Any chance you'd consider automatically

Re: [gentoo-dev] openntpd-5.9_p1 with USE=libressl

2016-05-23 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 01:07:01PM +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > I am not one of the devs, but I run a system with libressl and openntpd. > It does build, but it is affected by this bug I reported: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583652 Ah, that bug had not yet been wrangled, so I

[gentoo-dev] openntpd-5.9_p1 with USE=libressl

2016-05-22 Thread Paul B. Henson
I recently added subject ebuild with a new libressl use flag. Unfortunately I don't have a libressl system to test with and don't really have the time right now to spin one up just for this :(. I was wondering if one of the devs working with libressl would be kind enough to make sure this at least

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status]

2015-05-27 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:59:25AM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote: Is there a way to split libtls off libressl? To revive this rather old thread, I just wanted to provide an update. After some discussion with upstream portable openntpd, the libressl team decided to go ahead and create a standalone

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-05-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
[Sorry if this is a dupe, my first send didn't seem to go through] On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:59:25AM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote: Is there a way to split libtls off libressl? To revive this rather old thread, I just wanted to provide an update. After some discussion with upstream portable

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-05-25 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:59:25AM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote: Is there a way to split libtls off libressl? To revive this rather old thread, I just wanted to provide an update. After some discussion with upstream portable openntpd, the libressl team decided to go ahead and create a standalone

RE: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-06 Thread Paul B. Henson
From: hasufell Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2015 4:34 AM However, openntpd still compiles with openssl. Well, the current stable openntpd in portage compiles with openssl but that's not surprising as it is ancient and predates libressl :). The current unstable openntpd actually has no ssl

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-04 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:59:25AM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote: Tricky thing here, because then you'd need to rename the libs. E.g. libssl to liblibressl or something. But then every program with a build environment to link to libssl would first have to be patched to link to our specialized

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-04 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:31:53PM +0200, hasufell wrote: Not anymore. We will go for libressl USE flag for the same reason there is a libav USE flag now (working subslots etc). Um, ok. That still only allows one or the other to be installed though, right? So if you want a package that only

[gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
What is the current status/thoughts regarding libressl? Reviewing the bug and some past threads, it sounds like the initial plan was to make openssl a virtual and let either classic openssl or libressl fulfull it? I'm not sure if things have changed from that viewpoint, but it really doesn't seem

RE: [gentoo-dev] Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

2013-12-10 Thread Paul B. Henson
From: Pacho Ramos [mailto:pa...@gentoo.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:55 PM This has reminded me that maybe we should switch to cronie from vixie-cron as default and recommended cron provider in Handbook. Last time I checked, vixie-cron upstream was died while cronie forked it

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-12-04 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:44:42PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: I've tested a variety of scenarios, from the network interface being down/unplugged, providing invalid NTP servers, etc., and I haven't seen a delay longer than 15 seconds. I tracked down the failure mode where openntpd will take

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-12-01 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:59:37AM -0700, Christoph Junghans wrote: back to the original mechanism where openntpd runs normally as a daemon and logs to syslog This is exactly what the syslog use flag in openntpd-20080406-r5 does. (And syslog is enabled by default in most profiles.) The

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-12-01 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 09:21:32PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: and logs to syslog, I'll put together a patch that adds a -p argument to optionally create a pid file after daemonizing... Bug 493082 contains a patch to openntpd adding a pid file option, along with an updated ebuild that uses it...

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-12-01 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 02:17:18PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: Bug 493082 contains a patch to openntpd adding a pid file option, along with an updated ebuild that uses it... Someone had asked me offlist about using SIGUSR1 instead of SIGINFO for dumping peer status, and as long as I had my

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-12-01 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:28:25PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: For current OpenRC -- maybe. For systemd and hopefully future OpenRC capable of service supervision, PID file is just useless cruft and foreground option is much more fun. Dunno about the future of openrc, but as far as systemd I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-11-30 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 09:14:30AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: You know, usually it's enough to ping upstream. AFAIR there was a similar problem in irqbalance, and they have added plain '--foreground' for us. I don't know there really is an upstream for portable openntpd right now, there's

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-11-30 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 04:20:09PM +, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: If you really don't want PID files (and it probably means you have never had to deal with medium-scale deployments, but never mind), you can make it so that `-p` is an optional parameter, and if not passed no pidfile is

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-11-29 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 09:49:03AM +0100, Lars Wendler wrote: I think there's some confusion on what the -d option actually does, so let me cite the relevant parts from man 8 ntpd: [...] Now let's discuss if this can be considered as debug mode or not. Let me cite the relevant code ;) :

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-11-28 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 08:55:56AM -0700, Christoph Junghans wrote: run openntpd with two different ways of logging, via syslog (like Paul wants) and with a separate log file to avoid boot delays (like djc wants). We could easily make syslog logging the default, like My point is that running

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-11-28 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 06:48:30AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Having 47 devs agree with you doesn't really accomplish much if none of them care to maintain the package in question. Well, I would kinda hope that if 47 devs told 1 dev they were making a poor design decision, that 1 dev would

Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-11-27 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:36:38PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: Paul B. Henson wrote: In openntpd ebuilds starting with version 20080406-r3, logging was changed from using the default standard syslog to running the daemon in debug mode, logging to stderr, and having start_stop_daemon

[gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-11-22 Thread Paul B. Henson
In openntpd ebuilds starting with version 20080406-r3, logging was changed from using the default standard syslog to running the daemon in debug mode, logging to stderr, and having start_stop_daemon background the process itself and redirect the output to a log file. I think this is broken.

RE: [gentoo-dev] logging in openntpd 20080406-r3+

2013-11-22 Thread Paul B. Henson
From: Dirkjan Ochtman [mailto:d...@gentoo.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 12:30 PM - Without -s, it can take a *very* long time to get close to an acceptable time error, whereas my initial expectation was that starting my ntpd should fix the time error fairly quickly. But for me this,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kerberos Maintainence

2008-02-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
important to us. I'm not sure of the current state of his mentorship, but he did just have his first baby Monday so it's probably not the top thing on his mind :)... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [EMAIL PROTECTED