Re: RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On 13 January 2016 at 12:26, Ben Howard wrote: > All, > > On the Ubuntu Cloud Images, we have a request to make /tmp a tmpfs. The > rationale, from the bug: > * Performance - much faster read/write access to data in /tmp > * Security - sensitive data would be cleared

Re: Re: about upstart

Hi, You have asked a lot of questions already. Could you maybe elaborate what are you investigating overall? Or what are you trying to achieve? Answering questions one by one is not very productive. UPSTART_SESSION variable points at private unix socket that one can use to communicate with a

Re: Default languages strategy for Ubuntu desktop CD

On 9 December 2015 at 11:29, David Planella wrote: > Thanks Didier! > > Just to understand it, what impact would the change have on languages that > are not on the image and are traditionally installed online? In particular, > > - Would ubiquity still be shown in those

Re: systemd-fsck@.service

On 2 December 2015 at 13:14, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:29:35PM +0200, Tom H wrote: >> 1) How does the unit now what "%f" is? > > See the "SPECIFIERS" section of the systemd.unit(5) manual page. > >> 2) "%i" is, in the case that I set up a few weeks ago,

Re: Most Bazaar repo's out of date when I try and clone

Hello, On 18 November 2015 at 15:07, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2015, at 11:20 PM, Robert Park wrote: > > >In my experience, these Ubuntu Distributed Development branches have been > >languishing for some time (many of them are stale due to various import > >errors). >

Re: Ubuntu : developing Android native apps!

Hello, I do not provide end-user / end-developer support. It is best to ask these questions elsewhere e.g. in ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list, where multiple people can answer your question, and both questions and answers are archived and are discoverable with search engines. Have you trying

Re: Python 3 only for 16.04

Heya, On 5 November 2015 at 15:48, Rodney Dawes wrote: > One thing I notice, is that this list only includes runtime > dependencies, and not build time dependencies. To port things to Python > 3, it's not necessarily just a matter of porting the runtime deps, but >

Re: Python 3 only for 16.04

Hello, On 4 November 2015 at 21:46, Barry Warsaw wrote: > In today's UOS session on dropping Python 2 from the default > installs/seeds/images, we captured a bunch of work items. For those of you on > the session, please look at both the wiki and blueprint linked below, and

Re: Wubi

On 25 August 2015 at 09:27, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: Hi, On 21 August 2015 at 14:01, Dimitri John Ledkov x...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 13:53, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com wrote: Modern

Re: Wubi

On 21 August 2015 at 13:53, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com wrote: Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and supporting it a while back. As far as I know it's a dead-end now. We didn't stop shipping

Re: gnupg 2.1.x by default

On 20 August 2015 at 11:28, Dmitry Shachnev mity...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Dimitri, On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:49:40 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: I'd like to propose to switch to gnupg 2.1.x by default. [...] How does above plan sounds? Any comments / remarks / suggestions? I am now

Re: equivalent of chkconfig

On 4 August 2015 at 23:28, Luis Mondesi lem...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly for those reasons. What we probably would like to see is update-service which would wrap all init services into one umbrella. update-service --list # shows all services and init running it: runit, upstart, systemd,

Re: rsyslog 8.9.0 merge an liblogging-stdlog

On 16 July 2015 at 13:59, Louis Bouchard louis.bouch...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, While merging rsyslog 8.9.0-3 from debian, I have encountered an issue with the liblogging-stdlog sister library (developped by the same people) that happens

Re: DPDK for Ubuntu / Debian, let's do it?

Heya, On 11 July 2015 at 05:06, Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Any plans to package Intel DPDK for Ubuntu? Also, what about integrating Open vSwitch with DPDK (after package ready)? I'd be interested in doing this in Debian (and thus in Ubuntu). My networking

gnupg 2.1.x by default

A growing number of features are desired, yet missing from classic gnupg (1.4.x series). Specifically support for many gpg smarcards tokens, as well as ECC. I'd like to propose to switch to gnupg 2.1.x by default. First it would mean upgrading gnupg 2.0.x to 2.1.x. (available in experimental).

Re: Outstanding jobs

On 21 May 2015 at 05:04, Logan Rosen lo...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a reason for the 22068 outstanding jobs at http://package-import.ubuntu.com/status/? It looks like it peaks at the start of every cycle, based on the graph at the bottom of the page, but I feel like that's usually

Re: btrfs plans for 15.10/16.04?

On 21 Apr 2015 2:07 pm, Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmarti...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 April 2015 at 16:36, Bryan Quigley bryan.quig...@canonical.com wrote: Hi there, I'm just wondering if there are any plans to revisit btrfs as the default filesystem before the next LTS? So on Suse, btrfs is used

Re: pidgin package update...

On 17 February 2015 at 22:32, Anonymous anonym...@hoi-polloi.org wrote: Hi there! There is a Pidgin update from pidgin.im with some security fixes in October that are not currently in the Ubuntu Pidgin package. Ubuntu has us at Pidgin 2.10.9, and Pidgin 2.10.10 is out with some security

Fwd: [ubuntu/vivid-proposed] syncevolution 1.5-0ubuntu3 (Accepted)

: 4 February 2015 at 10:32 Subject: [ubuntu/vivid-proposed] syncevolution 1.5-0ubuntu3 (Accepted) To: Dimitri John Ledkov launch...@surgut.co.uk syncevolution (1.5-0ubuntu3) vivid; urgency=medium * Revert upload of 1.5-0ubuntu2, neither sponsor nor sponsoree have upload permissions

Re: Bug Triage Beginner question about package dependencies for file-roller

On 24 January 2015 at 08:04, Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunna...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Dave! On 2015-01-24 01:21, Dave Kokandy wrote: I am getting started with bug management in Lubuntu, and one bug seems like it would be fixed by making the package file-roller depend on yelp (currently recommended,

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

On 15 January 2015 at 21:04, Adam Conrad adcon...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:49:42AM -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Adam Conrad adcon...@ubuntu.com wrote: I can see several ways power users can shoot themselves in the foot with autoremove,

systemd local bridge

So I've started converting a few things and it seems to work fine. [Unit] BindsTo=android-contai...@proerty.name\x3dvalue.target [Install] WantedBy=android-contai...@proerty.name\x3dvalue.target However this cannot deal with * / globbing matching as seen in:

Re: upstart-local-bridge plan to support systemd

On 13 January 2015 at 16:35, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hey Dimitri, Dimitri John Ledkov [2015-01-12 19:39 +]: local-bridge will generate template target, which other units can BindsTo WantedBy: e.g. persist.sys.usb.config=mtp on the local bridge will - stop all android

upstart-local-bridge plan to support systemd

At the moment upstart-local-bridge is used on the phone in very specific ways. Android property watcher is run inside the hardware-support lxc container, and it communicates property changes to the upstart-local-bridge which makes those changes available to the system and session inits. The way

Re: upstart-local-bridge plan to support systemd

On 12 January 2015 at 20:16, Stephen M. Webb stephen.w...@canonical.com wrote: On 01/12/2015 02:39 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: This should unblock porting phone to systemd as pid 1. That is convert remaining custom upstart jobs to systemd units, and create matching preset policy to disable

Please retire extras.ubuntu.com

At the moment do-release-upgrade -d from utopic - vivid is failing because extras.ubuntu.com repository does not exist for vivid, it's failing to fetch and thus upgrade is aborted becase of possible network problems. Can we please stop adding extras.ubuntu.com by default? Not consider it's

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Please, consider reflecting on the Canonical Contributor Agreement

On 10 January 2015 at 18:19, Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:01:49AM -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote: Maybe. I contributed small patches to GCC for years before taking the leap and signing my soul over to the FSF so I could get them to accept more substantial

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Please, consider reflecting on the Canonical Contributor Agreement

On 2 January 2015 at 12:37, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: On Monday, December 29, 2014 01:09:57 PM Stephen M. Webb wrote: Fact is, when it comes time for me to accept or reject a contribution, I must outright reject any from an author who has not proven good will, and that proof

gnome-python - universe

Can we demote gnome-python to universe? As far as I can tell the only reverse dependency chain is: compiz - depends: compiz-gnome - recommends: python-gconf Can we port compiz-gnome to using gsettings or something? Is it actually, in fact, use python-gconf? -- Regards, Dimitri. --

Re: Devuan

On 2 December 2014 at 10:11, Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.vill...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/2/14 2:59 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: On 02.12.2014 08:27, Martin Pitt wrote: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult [2014-12-02 7:55 +0100]: By the way: is it then be mandatory ? Yes, it will

Re: Devuan

Heya, On 2 December 2014 at 11:57, Diego Germán Gonzalez diegogermangonza...@gmail.com wrote: El 02/12/14 a las 08:12, Tom H escibió: Why would Ubuntu give its users a choice of init now when it hasn't in the past? -- Why use Unity when we always use Gnome? Why use LibreOffice when we

Re: The fate of Upstart

On 28 November 2014 at 12:41, Ben Tinner bentin...@yahoo.com.sg wrote: Hello Recently, the developers of Ubuntu have decided to migrate the init system from upstart to systemd. So, I would like to find out what will happen to upstart after Ubuntu complete its transition to systemd. Will

Re: Thoughts about software-properties

Heya, On 2 August 2010 14:04, Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi ilidrissiam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was discussing with Michael Vogt about an idea I've had for a long time, and he recommended me to share my thoughts here. So, here goes nothing: Software-properties is one of the few applications

Re: [ubuntu-release] Vivid Vervet (15.04) now open for business

On 27 October 2014 14:45, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 09:48:29PM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote: Nothing else major is happening on opening day, however there are some things to look out for in the coming months: - A switch from C to C.UTF-8 on the builders

Re: ntp by default on servers in Vivid

On 22 October 2014 15:59, Seth Arnold seth.arn...@canonical.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: I'd like to seed ntp in both server and cloud-image in Vivid. Servers should maintain the correct time by default. Please make any objections now. Right now,

Re: ntp by default on servers in Vivid

On 22 October 2014 14:51, Robie Basak robie.ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: I'd like to seed ntp in both server and cloud-image in Vivid. Servers should maintain the correct time by default. Please make any objections now. Right now, ntpdate is seeded in minimal. It makes little sense to have both

Re: root and capabilities list

On 15 October 2014 02:11, ds 1000hz.radiow...@gmail.com wrote: On 15.10.2014 04:54, Colin Watson wrote: Martin's right - CAP_SYS_MODULE is functionally equivalent to root. I see. Anyway, there is another part, reading the msr and cpuid. For that, it seems to be really beneficial, to make

Re: [Launchpad-dev] Considering change of Architecture: all builders for next release cycle

On 6 October 2014 03:29, Barry Warsaw ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Oct 05, 2014, at 04:28 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote: Would now also be a good time to look through the archive and assess the various arch:all packages that do not explicitly declare themselves as Multi-Arch:foreign (and thus not

Re: Considering change of Architecture: all builders for next release cycle

On 3 October 2014 14:42, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi, We've always built Architecture: all packages as part of our i386 builds. This is beginning to look a bit outdated. A few packages have had difficulty building their architecture-independent components on amd64 (usually

Re: update cadence backlog management for Ubuntu on Phones

On 11 September 2014 14:30, Rodney Dawes rodney.da...@canonical.com wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 22:34 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 16:06 -0600, Oliver Ries wrote: Update Cadence: * System components: - OTA (over the air) updates in 4 week iterations, starting at retail

Re: Call for testing: QEMU security updates

On 14 August 2014 19:33, Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauri...@canonical.com wrote: Hi, I have pushed updated qemu-kvm packages for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and qemu packages for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS into the -proposed pocket. Would these also be pushed to cloud archive, when released

Outstanding systemd jobs

I'm going to advertise lp:~upstart-devel/upstart/upstart-jobs again, which is a branch that stores the result of scanning all init.d scripts, upstart jobs and systemd units in ubuntu devel and debian sid. I've also now run a simple (dumb) script to generate a list of upstart jobs which do not

Re: sudoers

On 17 May 2014 06:53, Charl Wentzel charl.went...@vodamail.co.za wrote: On 17/05/2014 01:35, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: On 16 May 2014 07:26, Charl Wentzel charl.went...@vodamail.co.za wrote: I wanted do to debugging in Eclipse which required me to let Eclipse run gdb with sudo. However

Re: sudoers

On 16 May 2014 07:26, Charl Wentzel charl.went...@vodamail.co.za wrote: Hi Guys I recently struggled with an issue for quite a few days because of the way the /etc/sudoers file is laid out. I would like to make a suggestion to change it that would hopefully save others the same hassle. I

Re: Odd ADT test results

On 27 April 2014 14:51, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hey Dimitri, Dimitri John Ledkov [2014-04-27 3:01 +0100]: A few ADT tests are red in jenkins: * bedtools * epsilon * ipset What happens is that newest version is asked to be tested (e.g. 2.19.1-1 src+bin) yet jenkins sees

Odd ADT test results

A few ADT tests are red in jenkins: * bedtools * epsilon * ipset What happens is that newest version is asked to be tested (e.g. 2.19.1-1 src+bin) yet jenkins sees an older version (e.g. 2.17.0-1 src) which doesn't have any tests and thus marks the job as failed. Imho, job should be marked

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ANN: TRAINCON-0 - CITRAIN all stop starting Friday

On 21 March 2014 14:08, Alexander Sack a...@canonical.com wrote: On the front of data, we haven't seen much new. For instance we only know about a single case where this all halt event has negative impact; so please speak up if you are affected. Similar to Colin, I am deeply and negatively

Unreproducible test results, blocking python2 removal - Re: [Merge] lp:~xnox/gallery-app/fix-sample-dir into lp:gallery-app

I made a merge proposal to resolve compatibility in gallery_app with next phablet-tools (which is needed to support transition to python3 and python2 supported branches). See: https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/gallery-app/fix-sample-dir/+merge/210517 A jenkins bot, points that .debs were built

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

On 13 March 2014 15:56, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com wrote: Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): On 03/12/2014 08:52 AM, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): Creating a symlink to /usr/bin/qemu-img from /usr/bin/kvm-img makes this error go

Re: Launchpad buildds and capabilities

On 8 March 2014 15:09, Dmitry Shachnev mity...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi all, I am maintaining python-secretstorage package, and I would like to run gnome-keyring-daemon as part of the build process, to run the testsuite. However, I noticed that gnome-keyring-daemon fails to start in Launchpad

Re: Installer's cryptsetup script - location and extending

On 25 August 2013 17:54, PHP Nut php...@live.com wrote: I'd like to extend the installer's cryptsetup script to allow for: 1. Execution of a pre-cryptsetup script, if it exists, placed conveniently in the root of the installation medium. 2. User specification of parameters. The official

Re: Changing default CFLAGS on i386

On 6 March 2014 14:44, Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca wrote: hi, On Thu, Mar 6, 2014, at 2:23, Adam Conrad wrote: I wouldn't be entirely against this option, if the performance hit is measurably not awful in general purpose usage. I'd rather approach the problem from the point of we must have

Re: Our Networking Story

On 6 March 2014 21:32, Benjamin Kerensa bkere...@ubuntu.com wrote: Why was it necessary to have discussions internally when they could have been open by default? Eh... this particular bug is public and well known in both Debian and Ubuntu for a long time now. As you can see in that email, he

Re: Dmraid to Mdadm migration

, Dimitri. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Dimitri, On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 03:49:28PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: This cycle a few things were done in mdadm dmraid packages to prepare for transition from dmraid to mdadm for a few

Shutdown / Logout improvements - Call for testing

As part of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/967229 recently a number of uploads were done to improve shutdown ordering, such that there is a smoother transition between lightdm shutting down and plymouth shutdown splash animation appearing. Ideally, upon shutting down, one

Dmraid to Mdadm migration

This cycle a few things were done in mdadm dmraid packages to prepare for transition from dmraid to mdadm for a few formats that mdadm supports. At the moment it trusty, mdadm has full support to assemble Intel Matrix Raid and DDF fakeraid arrays, instead of dmraid. At the moment however, mdadm

Re: remove i386 from foreign arch on server install?

On 13 February 2014 11:24, Scott Moser smo...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hey all, I just did an ISO server install of trusty server, and I end up with 'i386' in the output of: $ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386 I really wish we'd have done it earlier, but I really think that most of

Re: On-demand starting/stopping of cups [was: [Blueprint client-1305-printing-stack-with-mobile-in-mind] Printing Stack with Mobile in Mind]

On 4 February 2014 06:12, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hello Till, all, thanks for picking this up and pioneering on-demand startup in Ubuntu! Unfortunately cups is probably the most complicated case for on-demand startup, so I have some remarks. Till Kamppeter [2014-02-03

Re: Full disk encryption for multiple disks

On 2 February 2014 14:47, Haug Bürger pi...@dokom.net wrote: Hi, I just tried to set up a secure system with multiple disks and found the Ubuntu installer more or less useless. It works for a single disk solution only. If you have a SSD and a harddisk and want all it all encrypted, you are

Re: Include samba and libpam-smbpass by default in Ubuntu

On 27 December 2013 00:59, pabloalmeida...@gmail.com pabloalmeida...@gmail.com wrote: As suggested by a triager of a bug I reported on this issue, I'm bringing this idea for discussion on this list. If this is the wrong place, feel free to point me to the right one. When one tries to share a

Re: NetworkManager cleartext config files vs home folder encryption

On 25 December 2013 02:07, Per Guth mailingl...@perguth.de wrote: Hello, I recently stumbled over the fact, that NetworkManager by default stores Wifi profiles *including clear text passwords* under `/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/`. It's stored there because All users may connect

Re: NetworkManager cleartext config files vs home folder encryption

On 25 December 2013 10:31, Per Guth m...@perguth.de wrote: On 25.12.2013 10:36, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: It's stored there because All users may connect to this network ticked on that Wifi connection point. Open network indicator - Edit connections ... - Select network - Click edit

Re: NetworkManager cleartext config files vs home folder encryption

On 25 December 2013 20:20, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Dimitri John Ledkov [2013-12-25 14:15 +]: I don't remember, but i thought it was not the default. Until lucid or natty it indeed wasn't, it defaulted to per-user connections. But this is highly unfriendly with multiple

Re: Including VirtualBox guest drivers in trusty iso.

Hello, On 20 December 2013 10:04, Robie Basak robie.ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 02:55:11PM +0530, staticd wrote: The drivers (virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-x11, virtualbox-guest-utils) are in debian and ubuntu repos (universe) and total to only 1.8MB. What

Re: Including VirtualBox guest drivers in trusty iso.

On 20 December 2013 13:05, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Dimitri John Ledkov [2013-12-20 12:11 +]: Looks like virtualbox-guest-dkms package doesn't declare any Modaliases, maybe it should be integrated with ubuntu-drivers, if possible. Indeed, then it would also automagically

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 should be upgraded to LTS status

Hello Mark and ubuntu-devel, On 29 October 2013 15:56, Mark Rogers m...@more-solutions.co.uk wrote: [Moved here from bug 1245870] I've marked the bug won't fix and set assignee to Ubuntu Release Team, as common release decisions are delegated to that team by the Ubuntu Technical Committee.

Re: ntp and ntpdate [was: Ubuntu Server seeded package review]

On 12 December 2013 13:17, Robie Basak robie.ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:15:41PM -0600, C de-Avillez wrote: Although I am probably hammering a rather cold iron, I still fail to understand why ntp is not installed by default. I would expect precise timekeeping to be

Cross-compile with CMake from SDK Apps to Unity8/Mir

As of latest cmake upload into trusty, it is now trivial to cross-compile CMake based projects: One time setup: $ mk-sbuild --target armhf trusty Building a package: $ sbuild -A -d trusty --host armhf package*.dsc This succeeds for a wide variety of packages: * mir * unity8 *

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