Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:44:25PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 8 août 2012 12:21 CEST, David Given  : > > > ifconfig (before this discussion I'd never even *heard* of ip) > > All what is inside "net-tools" package is old and hardly maintained. > > "arp" can be replaced by "ip neigh", "ifc

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 08/08/12 12:11, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/08/2012 10:32 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> I think this is a great idea :) >> >> You can't imagine how much I blame Debian each time I have to type the >> full path "/sbin/ifconfig" as a non-root user on virtual servers to just >> know th

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Michal Politowski
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:16:46 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [...] > While I'm in rant mode, note that there's no programmable bash > completion for the subcommands of ip. I wasn't aware of ip neigh. For a brief shell size war interlude, note that there is zsh completion for the subcommands of ip. --

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 12:14, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 08/08/12 12:11, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 08/08/2012 10:32 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: [...] > on any *nix. Furthermore the output formatting of ifconfig is more user > friendly than the one of ip. It depends of that

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:58:51PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:54:59PM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:44:25 +0200 > > Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > "arp" can be replaced by "ip neigh", "ifconfig" by "ip addr" or "ip > > > link", "route" by "ip rou

Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread XU Benda
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: XU Benda * Package name: openrc Version : 0.10.5 Upstream Author : Gentoo OpenRC Team * URL : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/openrc/ * License : 2 clause BSD Programming Lang: C, shell script Description : al

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
Please do not bother. openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd. We do not need to be able to choose among multiple init implementations. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signatur

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-08-09 15:54:05 +0200 (+0200), Marco d'Itri wrote: > Please do not bother. [...] Last I recall from that thread, Roger Leigh was coordinating with Gentoo upstream to incorporate/wrap the necessary functionality to parse LSB header comments already present in Debian's init scripts. He also s

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 09, The Fungi wrote: > So I would assume this ITP is merely an outcome of that debian-devel > discussion, I think that the outcome of that discussion was that openrc would be too little too late for Debian, and that it is proven that trying to support well multiple init implementations d

Bug#684403: ITP: python-librcsb-core-wrapper -- library that exports C++ mmCIF accessors to Python

2012-08-09 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Laszlo Kajan -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: python-librcsb-core-wrapper Version : 1.000 Upstream Author : Vladimir Guranovic * URL : http://sw-tools.rcsb.org/apps/CORE-WRAPPER/index.html * License

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Marco d'Itri [2012-08-09 16:12]: > Please do not bother. > openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large > consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd. It was a very long discussion that did not end in a major consensus the way I read it. Cons

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/09/2012 06:14 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > I am aware of the shortcomings of ifconfig. However it is still a nice > and valid tool to just show the ip address the DHCP server assigned to a > machine (AFAIK DHCP servers only assign one IP address per interface) > With all the du

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Jason Rhinelander
On 09/08/12 04:05 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: When we are talking about IPv4, then it's probably right to tell that having multiple IPs on a single interface isn't a very common setup. But for IPv6, that's another story! It's very common to setup more than one IP per iface with IPv6. And yes, we sh

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:54:05PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Please do not bother. > openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large > consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd. openrc is not acceptable from the very start, as it lacks a key pa

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 09 août 2012 à 18:42 +0200, Martin Wuertele a écrit : > > We do not need to be able to choose among multiple init implementations. > > According to my latest information only the DPL may speak on behalf of > the project which can by overridden by way of a GR. I therefore conclude > that

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 09/08/12 22:05, Thomas Goirand wrote: > What you are proposing here is a hack based on dangerous assumptions. Why you say this is a dangerous assumption? I am not proposing adding this to already installed machines via upgrades, but to add this feature to d-i, so it automatically adds sbin dir

Bug#684430: ITP: nagios-plugins-ldap-ltb -- LDAP Tool Box (ltb) nagios plugins

2012-08-09 Thread Le_Vert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" * Package name: nagios-plugins-ldap-ltb Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Clement OUDOT, LTB-project.org * URL : http://tools.ltb-project.org/projects/ltb * License : GPL-2.0+ Programming Lang: Per

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 09/08/12 15:54, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Please do not bother. > openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large > consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd. > We do not need to be able to choose among multiple init implementations. > What about

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:40:44PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:54:05PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Please do not bother. > > openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large > > consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and syste

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 09 août 2012 à 23:53 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez a écrit : > What about Debian kFreeBSD and Hurd? AFAIK systemd needs a linux kernel to > work. Please explain again why we should cripple the Linux port for the sake of toy ports? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `-

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 05:37:57PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 09, The Fungi wrote: > > > So I would assume this ITP is merely an outcome of that debian-devel > > discussion, > I think that the outcome of that discussion was that openrc would be too > little too late for Debian, and that

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:51:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:40:44PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:54:05PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > Please do not bother. > > > openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:50:43AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 09 août 2012 à 23:53 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez a > écrit : > > What about Debian kFreeBSD and Hurd? AFAIK systemd needs a linux kernel to > > work. > > Please explain again why we should cripple the Linux port f

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! systemd's upstream is not hostile at all - systemd just relies on many Linux-specific technologies, not just cgroups, and therefore it is not easily possible to port it. Upstream suggested to fork systemd and maintain patches for other OSes there, because they don't want a construct with lots o

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 01:16:17AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Wasn't the idea of porting to non-Linux rejected by upstart's upstream? Porting upstart to non-Linux kernels has never been rejected by upstream. It just requires porters to do the porting; no one involved in upstart upstream has a

Work-needing packages report for Aug 10, 2012

2012-08-09 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 457 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 144 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Bug#684439: ITP: libguac-client-rdp -- RDP client plugin for Guacamole

2012-08-09 Thread Mike Jumper
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Jumper * Package name: libguac-client-rdp Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Michael Jumper * URL : http://guac-dev.org/ * License : MPL-1.1 or GPL-2.0 or LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: C Description : RDP clien

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 10/08/2012 08:04, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 01:16:17AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >> Wasn't the idea of porting to non-Linux rejected by upstart's upstream? > > Porting upstart to non-Linux kernels has never been rejected by upstream. > It just requires porters to do th

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 10, Roger Leigh wrote: > In the case of OpenRC, it has the potential to be a drop-in replacement > for sysv-rc (note that it uses base sysvinit still underneath that). So do the other init systems. The point is what they can do which sysvinit (and openrc) cannot. -- ciao, Marco signatu

Bug#684440: ITP: horst -- small, lightweight IEEE802.11 wireless LAN analyzer with a text interface

2012-08-09 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Antoine Beaupré" * Package name: horst Version : 3.0 Upstream Author : Bruno Randolf * URL : http://br1.einfach.org/tech/horst/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : small, lightweight IEEE802.11 w

Bug#684442: ITP: pax-britannica -- one-button real-time multi-player strategy game

2012-08-09 Thread Joseph Nahmias
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joseph Nahmias * Package name: pax-britannica Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : nofunga...@gmail.com * URL : http://paxbritannica.henk.ca/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Lua Description : one-button real-time m

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/09/2012 09:54 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large > consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd. > That's clearly *not* truth. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 08/09/2012 11:43 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: """ As of DebianSqueeze, if you ask for the Desktop task during the installation, that pulls in sudo with a default configuration that automatically grants sudo-ing rights to any member of the sudo group. Depending on what user accounts yo