Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Nick, On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 06:25:03PM -0400, nick black wrote: > Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: > > But maybe an alternative? I find the partitioning step one of the most > > error-prone and hard-to-use parts of non-trivial Debian installations. > > so overall, i've got to s

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:18:48PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > Even if that interpretation would work as an excuse to never do > > anything, and I'm not really sure it does, this specification has been > > published i

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread nick black
Wouter Verhelst left as an exercise for the reader: > One thing that partman does is "support plug-ins", to allow for > configuring block devices before being able to partition them, where > needed. This can be useful for iSCSI, multipath, or (the one I care most > about) NBD. I wrote a "partman-nb

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/28/21 12:13, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > IOW, chill out, nobody's going to kill off partman unless there's > something that's *actually* better than partman. Just some comments after reading after this [1] because I honestly find it unfair the way I am being cornered here. First of all, neither

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:19:28AM -0400, nick black wrote: > Wouter Verhelst left as an exercise for the reader: > > One thing that partman does is "support plug-ins", to allow for > > configuring block devices before being able to partition them, where > > needed. This can be useful for iSCSI, mu

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi nick, [ cc += debian-boot@ ] nick black (2021-09-27): > Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: > > But maybe an alternative? I find the partitioning step one of the > > most error-prone and hard-to-use parts of non-trivial Debian > > installations. > > so overall, i've got to say the

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread nick black
Wouter Verhelst left as an exercise for the reader: > iSCSI works very differently and is way more complex, but I remember > from when I last played with it (which is a while ago, so the details > are hazy) that it's not possible to set up in a non-persistent manner > (i.e., all iSCSI connections s

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:22:18PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/28/21 12:13, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > IOW, chill out, nobody's going to kill off partman unless there's > > something that's *actually* better than partman. > > Just some comments after reading after this [1] becau

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:15:58 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >On Sep 28, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >> For what it's worth, my preference would be transition to >> systemd-networkd with bookworm. >I think that a good default would be systemd-networkd for servers and >NetworkManager for systems with Wi-Fi

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:48:25 -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >It's worth noting also that ISC's DHCP client, packaged as >isc-dhcp-client from the isc-dhcp source package, is considered EOL >upstream. Same applies to the relay, doesn't it? Greetings Marc -- -- !

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Vincent Blut
Hi, Le 2021-09-28 13:00, Marc Haber a écrit : > On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:15:58 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >On Sep 28, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > >> For what it's worth, my preference would be transition to > >> systemd-networkd with bookworm. > >I think that a good default would be systemd-networkd

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 28.09.21 um 13:00 schrieb Marc Haber: On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:15:58 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 28, Noah Meyerhans wrote: For what it's worth, my preference would be transition to systemd-networkd with bookworm. I think that a good default would be systemd-networkd for servers and Ne

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
El 28/09/21 a las 13:01, Marc Haber escribió: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:48:25 -0700, Noah Meyerhans > wrote: > >It's worth noting also that ISC's DHCP client, packaged as > >isc-dhcp-client from the isc-dhcp source package, is considered EOL > >upstream. > > Same applies to the relay, doesn't it?

Bug#995243: ITP: linux-apfs-rw -- APFS module for linux, with experimental write support

2021-09-28 Thread Gürkan Myczko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gürkan Myczko X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: linux-apfs-rw Version : 0+git20210928 Upstream Authors: Ernesto A. Fernández Corellium LLC * URL : https://github.com/linux-apfs/li

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 September 2021 01:29 -05, Richard Laager: > As to what should be the distro default, I'm not sure I am convinced > either way, but to argue the other side... There is some value in > using netplan by default. Some random thoughts: [...] OTOH, netplan is just an abstraction above existing sy

Bug#995246: ITP: apfsprogs -- Experimental APFS tools for Linux

2021-09-28 Thread Gürkan Myczko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gürkan Myczko X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: apfsprogs Version : 0+git20210928 Upstream Authors: Ernesto A. Fernández * URL : https://github.com/linux-apfs/apfsprogs * License : GPL-2-or-l

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Richard Laager
On 9/28/21 8:44 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 28 September 2021 01:29 -05, Richard Laager: As to what should be the distro default, I'm not sure I am convinced either way, but to argue the other side... There is some value in using netplan by default. Some random thoughts: [...] OTOH, netplan

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 September 2021 11:16 -05, Richard Laager: >>> As to what should be the distro default, I'm not sure I am convinced >>> either way, but to argue the other side... There is some value in >>> using netplan by default. Some random thoughts: >> [...] >> OTOH, netplan is just an abstraction above

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Richard Laager
On 9/28/21 11:49 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 28 September 2021 11:16 -05, Richard Laager: As to what should be the distro default, I'm not sure I am convinced either way, but to argue the other side... There is some value in using netplan by default. Some random thoughts: [...] OTOH, netplan

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 September 2021 13:04 -05, Richard Laager: > Are you saying "everything breaks" as in: > A) the change is not applied (correctly) in the way that it would be if >the system was rebooted, or > B) the change is applied, but the human made a mistake in the config and >the change breaks t

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Nick! On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:47:11PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi nick, > >[ cc += debian-boot@ ] > >nick black (2021-09-27): >> Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: >> > But maybe an alternative? I find the partitioning step one of the >> > most error-prone and hard-to-use

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread nick black
Steve McIntyre left as an exercise for the reader: > 100% true - expect people are busy, rather than hostile! :-) i must have come across as far more disappointed than i felt -- i meant "hoped" in the literal sense, of "did not expect, but thought plausible and welcome" =]. no, this has been an A-