Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 24.11.10 14:29, Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) wrote: > > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering said: > > We currently still use the old securetty tool to patch those terminals > > into /etc/securetty on demand. I have submitted a patch to pam_securetty > > however, to make it look for

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering said: > We currently still use the old securetty tool to patch those terminals > into /etc/securetty on demand. I have submitted a patch to pam_securetty > however, to make it look for console= on the kernel cmdline internally, > which when merged allows us to

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 24.11.10 00:06, Paul Wouters (p...@xelerance.com) wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > That way most distros would only have to install one getty implementation, > > and can use it for both serial consoles and VCs. > > Yes please. > > Bonus points for anacon

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Paul Wouters said: > Bonus points for anaconda configuring a working agetty login if the install > console was serial. That is, run agetty using the same linespeed as the > install and add the serial device to securetty. This is handled automatically now; if the kernel console i

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote: > That way most distros would only have to install one getty implementation, > and can use it for both serial consoles and VCs. Yes please. Bonus points for anaconda configuring a working agetty login if the install console was serial. That is, run

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-15 Thread Petr Pisar
On 2010-11-11, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Do we really want to keep mingetty around? > [...] > > You apparently see value in keeping two almost identical getty > implementations around. Can you elaborate why? Is there any feature > missing in agetty that mingetty has? > Till someone uses minget

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:53:47PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 10.11.10 21:33, Bernie Innocenti (ber...@codewiz.org) wrote: > > > Hello Petr, > > > > I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to > > maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintain

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 10.11.10 21:33, Bernie Innocenti (ber...@codewiz.org) wrote: > Hello Petr, > > I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to > maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer released > the package. Do we really want to keep mingetty around? We discu

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Petr Pisar
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:33:26PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to > maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer released > the package. > > Since you're clearly working on it, I think it would make sense to pa

Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-10 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Hello Petr, I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer released the package. Since you're clearly working on it, I think it would make sense to pass ownership to you. If you agree, I will orphan the package so