Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Simon Wise
On 05/01/16 08:10, Svante Signell wrote: On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 20:43 +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: k...@aspodata.se writes: chaosesquet...@cock.li: I don't understand the desire to change it at all. See UsrMerge discussion on debian-devel. They wan to move most stuff in / to /usr and make it

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX (Errata)

2016-01-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 16:53:00 +, hellekin wrote in message <568aa36c.9010...@dyne.org>: > On 01/04/2016 03:07 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> > >> https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-news/wikis/past-issues/volume-03/issue-060 > >> > >> tips about UUID's][2], Arnt Karlsen talked about the

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Simon Wise
On 05/01/16 10:45, Daniel Reurich wrote: Update: I have raised an issue about no longer merging dmo. There are a bunch of other reasons for removing it as well - but I won't discuss them here. Thank you very much for that. Simon ___ Dng mailing lis

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Simon Wise
On 05/01/16 10:45, Daniel Reurich wrote: On 05/01/16 11:33, Daniel Reurich wrote: On 04/01/16 06:52, Go Linux wrote: Why are you merging the debian, backports and dmo repos? Is there a way to separate them? I have rarely used backports and always downloaded what I need from dmo when I first i

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread hal
chill...@use.startmail.com wrote on 01/04/2016 05:29 AM: > # Devuan News Issue LX > > In case you wondered, yes Devuan is alive and kicking. Devuan Weekly News > hasn't released a > single issue since last June. We're very sorry about that. Did you miss it? > [Tell us!][feedback] Definitely

[DNG] SystemD Casualty List (was Re: Devuan Weekly News LX)

2016-01-04 Thread hal
Nate Bargmann wrote on 01/04/2016 09:48 AM: > SD now includes a replacement for running ntp/ntpdate to synchronize > time so that is being absorbed. It's probably a wash and low on most > desktop users list, but one more example of SD becoming your complete > middleware system! Anyone have an up-

Re: [DNG] FW: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Clarke Sideroad
So I've been thinking more about this as to why? It is quite obvious that it is driven by Redhat to be the same as Oracle Solaris, they say as much. The base reason I can see is part of a marketing job showing the apparent ease of change when trying to sell Redhat servers to replace Oracle Server

Re: [DNG] PAM usage (Was: Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities)

2016-01-04 Thread Aldemir Akpinar
> > But do any of you find useful to have PAM? Do any of you need > single-sign-on, > TPM, smart-cards that unlock ttys, integrate kerberos with linux, or the > like? > ___ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/m

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/01/2016 21:33, k...@aspodata.se a écrit : If you have a desire to move /lib/modules why don't move it and everything you need to boot to /boot. I don't want to move anything. I just don't care. And I think it has nothing to do with Systemd, except it comes in the same time. Didie

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/01/2016 18:33, Svante Signell a écrit : On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 17:43 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 04/01/2016 17:32, Svante Signell a écrit : Just an idea: Would it be possible to detect the hardware of each computer being installed on and after that install the needed modules? Preferably th

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Daniel Reurich
On 05/01/16 11:33, Daniel Reurich wrote: > On 04/01/16 06:52, Go Linux wrote: >> Why are you merging the debian, backports and dmo repos? Is there >> a way to separate them? I have rarely used backports and always >> downloaded what I need from dmo when I first install and then >> disable it. d

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 1/4/16, Daniel Reurich wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos To: "Go Linux" , "dng@lists.dyne.org" Date: Monday, January 4, 2016, 4:33 PM On 04/01/16 06:52, Go Linux wrote: > Why are you merging the debian, backports and dmo repos? Is there a > way to separate

[DNG] PAM usage (Was: Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities)

2016-01-04 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Good evening, 2016-01-04 21:43 GMT+01:00, Rainer Weikusat : > k...@aspodata.se writes: >> chaosesquet...@cock.li: >>> I don't understand the desire to change it at all. >> >> And neither do I. >> Except someone talked about ssl libs. > > Someone wrote about some PAM module which would require Open

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Daniel Reurich
On 04/01/16 06:52, Go Linux wrote: > Why are you merging the debian, backports and dmo repos? Is there a > way to separate them? I have rarely used backports and always > downloaded what I need from dmo when I first install and then disable > it. dmo can really break things if you're not careful

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:13:06 +0100 (CET), k...@aspodata.se wrote in message <20160104211307.20a5d809d...@turkos.aspodata.se>: > Rainer Weikusat: > > k...@aspodata.se writes: > > > chaosesquet...@cock.li: > > >> I don't understand the desire to change it at all. > > > > > > And neither do I. > > >

Re: [DNG] GNOME3 and Co.

2016-01-04 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Am Montag, 4. Januar 2016 schrieb Mitt Green: > I don't really understand, why a desktop environment > depends on a initialisation system. I'm sure M$ has a good answer to this question. And GNOME has a registry, too, which is a very good thing to have, I was told ;-) > GNOME3 is by the way a

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Mitt Green
Karl Hammar wrote: >But then, /etc-less systems are thought about: >[http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateles](http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html)s.html PulseAudio motto is "I'll break your audio", Lennartd should be "I'll break your Unix". What's next, I wonder. If they call it

Re: [DNG] GNOME3 and Co.

2016-01-04 Thread Mitt Green
Bryan Baldwin wrote: >...does have dependencies on Gentoo's default init >system, OpenRC, and some other bits and >pieces. I don't really understand, why a desktop environment depends on a initialisation system. >But, if there were a desire within Devuan >to package GNOME 3, this could be a good

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread karl
Rainer Weikusat: > k...@aspodata.se writes: > > chaosesquet...@cock.li: > >> I don't understand the desire to change it at all. > > > > And neither do I. > > Except someone talked about ssl libs. > > Someone wrote about some PAM module which would require OpenSSL. No such > PAM module currently ex

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 20:43 +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > k...@aspodata.se writes: > > chaosesquet...@cock.li: > > > I don't understand the desire to change it at all. See UsrMerge discussion on debian-devel. They wan to move most stuff in / to /usr and make it readonly. (The only sensible motiv

Re: [DNG] GNOME3 and Co.

2016-01-04 Thread Bryan Baldwin
On 01/05/2016 06:26 AM, Mitt Green wrote: > Yours truly wrote: > > >I think that Gentoo people (and Funtoo) don't experience problems we > have, like > >patches, messed and missed dependencies that change over and over; > >I mean, their packaging system is simpler. > > Most of the time the problem

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
k...@aspodata.se writes: > chaosesquet...@cock.li: >> I don't understand the desire to change it at all. > > And neither do I. > Except someone talked about ssl libs. Someone wrote about some PAM module which would require OpenSSL. No such PAM module currently exists on my system and I don't quite

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread karl
chaosesquet...@cock.li: > I don't understand the desire to change it at all. And neither do I. Except someone talked about ssl libs. > On 2016-01-04 16:43, Didier Kryn wrote: ... > > I don't understand the repulsion towards having the modules in > > /usr/lib. What difference does it make? Non

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread chaosesqueteam
I don't understand the desire to change it at all. We know where the kern modules are now, we've known for over a decade, just leave it as it was. If systemd wasn't, this wouldn't be talked about. Which is why it shouldn't be discussed. Don't let them pull you by the nose. At all. On 2016-01-0

[DNG] RFP: Bastille-Linux is a hardening program for linux.

2016-01-04 Thread chaosesqueteam
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: bastille-linux Version : 3.0.9 Upstream Author : Jay Beale * URL : http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/ * License : (GPL) Programming Lang: (TCL, Perl5) Description : Bastille Linux is a well tested ha

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:32:26 +0100 Svante Signell wrote: > Just an idea: Would it be possible to detect the hardware of each > computer being installed on and after that install the needed > modules? IIUC, exactly this hardware detection is already happening. Regarding the installation of the

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Irrwahn
On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:22:01 +1100, Simon Wise wrote: > On 05/01/16 00:31, Irrwahn wrote: [ About mixing packages from Debian and Deb-Multimedia. ] [...] > If you only used audio from dmo it was generally ok, but they do not cover a > lot > of audio needs. I guess I have just been lucky then,

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Irrwahn
[Sorry, Golinux, replied to you directly by accident, post was intended to go to the list.] On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 16:53:39 + (UTC), Go Linux wrote: > On Mon, 1/4/16, Irrwahn wrote: >> How do you receive updates and security fixes? > > I generally don't. 'If it works, don't fix it' especially

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Svante Signell writes: > On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 17:43 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: >> Le 04/01/2016 17:32, Svante Signell a écrit : > >> Just an idea: Would it be possible to detect the hardware of each computer >> being installed on and after that install the needed modules? Preferably the >> modules

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Mitt Green
Simon Wise wrote: >There was a very aggressive push to drop the GNU from the GNU/linux name some >time ago, it was fairly successful. But of course android/linux is just as much >linux as any other system with linux as the kernel (and because of that I can >compile a suitable busybox, put it in th

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread KatolaZ
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:32:26PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: [cut] > > Just an idea: Would it be possible to detect the hardware of each computer > being > installed on and after that install the needed modules? Preferably the modules > should not be located on /usr, currently they are under

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 17:43 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 04/01/2016 17:32, Svante Signell a écrit : > Just an idea: Would it be possible to detect the hardware of each computer > being installed on and after that install the needed modules? Preferably the > modules should not be located on /usr,

Re: [DNG] GNOME3 and Co.

2016-01-04 Thread Mitt Green
Yours truly wrote: >I think that Gentoo people (and Funtoo) don't experience problems we have, like >patches, messed and missed dependencies that change over and over; >I mean, their packaging system is simpler. Most of the time the problem is package maintainers that use horrible dependencies,

Re: [DNG] GNOME3 and Co.

2016-01-04 Thread Mitt Green
Bryan Baldwin wrote: >Gentoo lovers have already been using this patchset to keep GNOME 3 >systemd-less. >It would be great to get an even larger part of the systemd-free community >behind this project. >I'd love to see Devuan GNOME 3 packages :) I think that Gentoo people (and Funtoo) don't exp

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 1/4/16, Irrwahn wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Monday, January 4, 2016, 7:31 AM On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 17:52:48 + (UTC), Go Linux wrote: >> > Why are you merging the debian, backports and dmo repos? Is there a way to > separ

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX (Errata)

2016-01-04 Thread hellekin
On 01/04/2016 03:07 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-news/wikis/past-issues/volume-03/issue-060 >> >> tips about UUID's][2], Arnt Karlsen talked about the [purpose of > > ..er, I did not, I asked the (I believe timely) question > "..where did the "/media t

Re: [DNG] OT: Desktop recording

2016-01-04 Thread Jaromil
At dyne.org we are just setting up an office room for video tutorials and the dedicated computer is running vokoscreen. Worthed mentioning, works well on Devuan! and is packaged, yet the upstream version is more recent http://www.kohaupt-online.de/hp/ ciao ___

Re: [DNG] Possible bug of apt-cache show?

2016-01-04 Thread KatolaZ
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 01:24:02AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote: [cut] > Ok.. perhaps this thread explains it: > > https://lists.debian.org/deity/2009/08/msg00073.html > > the gist is, they've been moved to translations even for english... we > don't yet have the translation support in our repo.

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/01/2016 17:32, Svante Signell a écrit : On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 16:53 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 04/01/2016 16:26, Hendrik Boom a écrit : I meant 4) Let the installer build the kernel, depending on what the hardware and file systems being installed actually need. Maybe Gentoo does

Re: [DNG] OT: Desktop recording

2016-01-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 05:28:07 -0600, vmlinux wrote in message <13298612-ee2c-461a-856f-964d689dc...@charter.net>: > After reading Steve's post about Statifier I got to thinking; where > is a good desktop recording for Linux ? ..systemd? ;o) ..define "good." ;o) ..aaand, there are standards to

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Nate Bargmann writes: > SD now includes a replacement for running ntp/ntpdate to synchronize > time so that is being absorbed. According to information 'from the internet', that's an SNTP client and While a full featured NTP server or -client reaches a very high level of accuracy

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 16:53 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 04/01/2016 16:26, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > > I meant > > > > 4) Let the installer build the kernel, depending on what the hardware > > > > and > > > > file systems being installed actually need. > >  Maybe Gentoo does this, although I'

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/01/2016 16:26, Hendrik Boom a écrit : I meant >4) Let the installer build the kernel, depending on what the hardware and >file systems being installed actually need. Maybe Gentoo does this, although I'm not sure, but the philosophy is very different: they compile everything from sou

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
SD now includes a replacement for running ntp/ntpdate to synchronize time so that is being absorbed. It's probably a wash and low on most desktop users list, but one more example of SD becoming your complete middleware system! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all p

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Steve Litt writes: [...] > 3) Compile ext4 and only the most common hard drive and SSD drivers >into a separate and optional kernel that doesn't call an >initramfs, but merely runs an rc file as an init. That rc file >does nothing but get all the drives mounted and then exec the >

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 10:10:34AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:01:32AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > But there's a third option, that could be offered as a non-default > > choice: > > > > 3) Compile ext4 and only the most common hard drive and SSD drivers > >int

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/01/2016 15:29, Haines Brown a écrit : On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: ... We are discovering day after day that "init freedom" is about the emerged part of the iceberg. Debian still pretends to offer init freedom. What is under the sea level is a whole mon

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 11:29:34 -, chill...@use.startmail.com wrote in message <7ece505dfe773438d59e85b68f9a7b45.startm...@www.startmail.com>: > # Devuan News Issue LX > > __Volume 03, Week 1, Devuan Week 60__ > > Released 12016/1/04 > > https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-news/wikis/p

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Simon Wise
On 05/01/16 00:43, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 04/01/2016 12:29, chill...@use.startmail.com a écrit : Aside from the growing strength of the community, we have seen significant progress towards init freedom in Devuan and the approaching beta release. Important init freedom issues have been solved, a

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:01:32AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > But there's a third option, that could be offered as a non-default > choice: > > 3) Compile ext4 and only the most common hard drive and SSD drivers >into a separate and optional kernel that doesn't call an >initramfs, but me

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 09:29 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > > ... > > We are discovering day after day that "init freedom" is about > > the emerged part of the iceberg. Debian still pretends to offer init > > freedom. What is under the

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Simon Wise
On 05/01/16 00:31, Irrwahn wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 17:52:48 + (UTC), Go Linux wrote: Why are you merging the debian, backports and dmo repos? Is there a way to separate them? I have rarely used backports and always downloaded what I need from dmo when I first install and then disable

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > ... > We are discovering day after day that "init freedom" is about > the emerged part of the iceberg. Debian still pretends to offer init > freedom. What is under the sea level is a whole monolithic operating > system absorbing all

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/01/2016 12:29, chill...@use.startmail.com a écrit : # Devuan News Issue LX __Volume 03, Week 1, Devuan Week 60__ Released 12016/1/04 https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-news/wikis/past-issues/volume-03/issue-060 ## Editorial Happy new year from the Devuan news team! In case y

Re: [DNG] Question about the merged repos

2016-01-04 Thread Irrwahn
[DISCLAIMER: I'm using Devuan testing (ascii), thus my comments might not be apply to other versions, jessie in particular! (Which is BTW one reason I try to keep silent on DNG, to not disturb the jessie release process. But since no-one has replied to this post so far ...] On Sun, 3 Jan 2016

Re: [DNG] FW: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Micky Del Favero writes: > Daniel Reurich writes: > >> So the potteringisation continues... > > If I remember well Solaris has /bin linked to /usr/bin since many years, > so linking /bin to /usr/bin is not a poetteringisation, or almost it's > not an original idea of poettering. Sun/ Oracle don'

[DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread chillfan
# Devuan News Issue LX __Volume 03, Week 1, Devuan Week 60__ Released 12016/1/04 https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-news/wikis/past-issues/volume-03/issue-060 ## Editorial Happy new year from the Devuan news team! In case you wondered, yes Devuan is alive and kicking. Devuan Weekly

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-04 Thread KatolaZ
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:57:58AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: [cut] > > Thanks Joel, > > With my particular skillset, I'd envision my involvement to be more of > documentation somewhat like the Manjaro Experiments > (http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/manjaro_experiments.htm). > With a des

Re: [DNG] FW: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/01/2016 07:22, Steve Litt a écrit : If you didn't merge /lib and /usr/lib, you could load them from /lib once the root partition was mounted. This was my entire point. OK. I think I got it. Sorry, I was slow. So this is the case: - No initramfs, direct boot to the final rootfs (m