Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-02 Thread tilt
Am 02.02.2015 um 02:11 schrieb Hendrik Boom: > [...] > Which is exactly why I want to see documentation rather than > more take-care-of-everything automation. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Configuration That URL could be included by comments in "/etc/default/grub" and "/et

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-02 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:11:54PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 10:13:09PM +, KatolaZ wrote: > > > > My point is that if you need to care about boot loaders (or > > recompiling the kernel, or shrinking/extending a couple of > > partitions), then you should know exactly w

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-02 Thread Jude Nelson
I think that in the limit, it would be ideal that every piece of software--no matter how obscure--would have sufficiently extensive documentation to cover every single corner case of its operation (and I want a pony, while I'm making impossible wishes :P) I humbly recommend that the official docum

[Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Martijn Dekkers
http://ma.ttias.be/whats-new-systemd-2015-edition/ tl;dr everything, including the kitchensink. Some of the listed stuff looks/sounds pretty cool, I just have serious reservations of all this stuff belonging to one team. I find it very hard to see how any kind of quality can be maintained when de

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Jude Nelson
""" * Can also hide /dev/* devices and hide all the physical devices (like /dev/sda, ...) and only keep /dev/zero, /dev/null, ... for particular services. * By using other systemd tools (not mentioned), you can limit access to /dev/* devices to particular services and block it for all others """ H

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Jaromil
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015, Jude Nelson wrote: >Ha!* Beat'em to it with vdev, and we didn't have to replace PID 1 either. >-Jude cheers Jude! these are nice features and can come useful if substituting PID1 is not involved. I'm spending some time to study Roger's schroot these days and see lots

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Aldemir Akpinar
On 2 February 2015 at 13:02, Martijn Dekkers wrote: > http://ma.ttias.be/whats-new-systemd-2015-edition/ > > tl;dr everything, including the kitchensink. > > Some of the listed stuff looks/sounds pretty cool, I just have serious > reservations of all this stuff belonging to one team. I find it ve

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Martijn Dekkers
I found this an interesting read: * read ahead implementation dropped: in the age of SSDs the benefit is not big enough to have this. All systemd developers have SSDs and no more spinning disks, nobody could/wanted to support this anymore. The idea was to read-ahead the bits needed during the boot

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Clarke Sideroad
On 02/02/15 08:06, Aldemir Akpinar wrote: I was going to have a rude reply here until I read this at the bottom: a new secure boot implementation: this is a work-in-progress, to have more validation of the boot process that it hasn't been tampered with. It will integrate a new method of signi

Re: [Dng] Boot loader and What's new in systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Didier Kryn
Hello all. I have been using Debian as from Potato and installed it on embedded devices, servers and laptops, for my job. I am looking forward to install Devuan Jessie when it is realeased I have some comments on Grub, and some more general. Grub2: Currently, with Wheezy, the ins

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Ricardo Larrañaga
I have been trying to learn some systemd basics. While i dont really like the idea, i will probably still have to work with it. So i browsed some links about systemd and found a presentation about its features. Take a look at the third page and see what Lennart compares systemd to (For those that d

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Ron
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:56:22 -0400 Ricardo Larrañaga wrote: > Take a look at the third page and see what Lennart compares systemd to Since the beginning of this systemd thing, it has been my instinctive feeling that "We are systemd of Borg, resistance is futile". Only remains to prove the tali

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:56:22 -0400 Ricardo Larrañaga wrote: Take a look at the third page and see what Lennart compares systemd to Since the beginning of this systemd thing, it has been my instinctive feeling that "We are systemd of Borg, resistance is futile". On

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Michael Dec
On 2015-02-02 15:22, Miles Fidelman wrote: Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:56:22 -0400 Ricardo Larrañaga wrote: Take a look at the third page and see what Lennart compares systemd to Since the beginning of this systemd thing, it has been my instinctive feeling that "We are

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Ron
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:22:45 -0500 Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Only remains to prove the talibans of systemd that resistance is not > > futile... > Is not ISIL a better analogy? Grovelling apologies, but I have difficulties distinguishing shades in that region of the spectrum... Cheers, Ron

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:02:51 +0200 Martijn Dekkers wrote: > http://ma.ttias.be/whats-new-systemd-2015-edition/ > > tl;dr everything, including the kitchensink. LOL, that "ping gateway" functionality could have been done with a 10 or 20 line shellscript with a bunch of ip commands and a few ping

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Martijn Dekkers
I have come to the conclusion that they are basically re-inventing *nix - the ultimate "Not Invented Here" implementation On 2 February 2015 at 19:22, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:02:51 +0200 > Martijn Dekkers wrote: > > > http://ma.ttias.be/whats-new-systemd-2015-edition/ > > > >

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:56:22 -0400 Ricardo Larrañaga wrote: > Take a look at the third page and see what Lennart compares systemd > to (For those that dont feel like. It's Start Trek's Captain Piccard > as a borgand then tux as a borg.) > https://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/summi

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread T.J. Duchene
Funny thing. I hear a lot of complaining about systemd, and yes, i think some of it is justified, but consider this...Rather than joining the project and steering it in another direction, or creating patches to fix what you do not like, everyone is just standing about complaining. Now this is not

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Ron
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 12:31:54 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: > I'm not a Star Trek guy. What is the exact meaning of the two > "Resistance is Futile" slides? What point is the presentation trying to > get across? The point as I understand it is that (according to the authors) Linux will be compelled to

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Vlad
Hey Lennart if you dislike Devuan that much feel free to go back to freedesktop.org or whatever? On February 2, 2015 7:47:28 PM EET, "T.J. Duchene" wrote: >Funny thing. I hear a lot of complaining about systemd, and yes, i >think >some of it is justified, but consider this...Rather than join

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 12:31:54 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: I'm not a Star Trek guy. What is the exact meaning of the two "Resistance is Futile" slides? What point is the presentation trying to get across? The point as I understand it is that (according to the authors) Lin

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread digitek
FTFA It sounds like systemd is evolving into a piece of software which touches every single part of the operating system; and that's quite concerning in itself without considering one team is maintaining it all. "There were no slides. None whatsoever. No presentation. He just talked" ? no nee

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 11:47:28 -0600 "T.J. Duchene" wrote: > Funny thing. I hear a lot of complaining about systemd, and yes, i > think some of it is justified, but consider this...Rather than > joining the project and steering it in another direction, or creating > patches to fix what you do not l

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Vlad
Well Poettering is actually getting paid for doing all this, the same goes for a lot of other contributors, basically they have nothing better to do and this is a nice excuse to get money. On February 2, 2015 8:51:18 PM EET, digitek wrote: >FTFA It sounds like systemd is evolving into a piece o

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Vlad
If systemd is the Borg I propose the first release of Devuan be named S8472. And that we temporarily change the project motto to 'The weak shall perish'. Trek fans will know what I am talking about.;) On February 2, 2015 8:15:10 PM EET, Miles Fidelman wrote: >Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: >>

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/02/15 15:56, Vlad wrote: Well Poettering is actually getting paid for doing all this, the same goes for a lot of other contributors, basically they have nothing better to do and this is a nice excuse to get money. On February 2, 2015 8:51:18 PM EET, digitek wrote: FTFA It sounds like s

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Anthony, Let me say that I hold you in high esteem and have the utmost respect for you and your colleagues for your work on eudev, and keeping at it in the face of community ire no less. I would love to work more with you on creating a better independent device manager. You might recall that

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Jaromil, Making vdev easy to use in sandboxed contexts (chroot, lxc, jails, etc.) is definitely a design requirement! I didn't know about schroot before just now, but I'll be sure to take a look at it for inspiration and test vdev with it for compatibility. Regards, -Jude On Mon, Feb 2, 2015

[Dng] systemd

2015-02-02 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The problem with the systemd environment is not amenable to patching. In fact, the psychology of patching, more code fixes anything, is one of the primary problems with systemd. - From a purely mathematical perspective, aside from the ingenuous atti

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Clarke Sideroad wrote: On 02/02/15 08:06, Aldemir Akpinar wrote: I was going to have a rude reply here until I read this at the bottom: a new secure boot implementation: this is a work-in-progress, to have more validation of the boot process that it hasn't been tampered with. It will integra

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread t . j . duchene
On Monday, February 02, 2015 07:57:23 PM Vlad wrote: > Hey Lennart if you dislike Devuan that much feel free to go back to > freedesktop.org or whatever? > You misunderstood what I meant. I was in a hurry, and I admit, I should have phrased it better. Mea culpa. The reality is that no matter w

Re: [Dng] systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 2. Februar 2015, 17:31:20 schrieb william moss: > Compatibility is not a necessity. If Linux moves in multiple directions, > so be it. Systemd, Gnome and KDE and other do everything in one fat and > potentially pathological package. Such venues are usually the product William, did you r

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Vlad
GNOME and KDE are bloated, and DEs should not put requirements on anything, they are nothing more than GUI alternatives to the shell. On February 3, 2015 12:54:12 AM EET, t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: >On Monday, February 02, 2015 07:57:23 PM Vlad wrote: >> Hey Lennart if you dislike Devuan that m

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Gravis
> Unless Devuan intends to drop or fork every single piece of software that > decides to use systemd's facilities, it's going to be a war of attrition as > things go on, no matter the arguments against systemd. for the vast majority of programs that depend on systemd, you can just recompile progra

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Tuesday, February 03, 2015 01:04:10 AM Vlad wrote: > GNOME and KDE are bloated, and DEs should not put requirements on anything, > they are nothing more than GUI alternatives to the shell. DE's are not the only piece of software I was referring to. In the short run, they are certainly the mos

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:54:12 -0600 t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, February 02, 2015 07:57:23 PM Vlad wrote: > > Hey Lennart if you dislike Devuan that much feel free to go back to > > freedesktop.org or whatever? > > > > You misunderstood what I meant. I was in a hurry, and I admit,

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread tilt
Hello! Am 03.02.2015 um 00:21 schrieb T.J. Duchene: > [...] > Of course, it is also possible that Devuan will become a > "systemd-free" specialty distribution that follows your > suggestion of absolute minimalism. I don't see that being a > good niche, since there are already plenty to fill that a

[Dng] fd leak in evdev patch (was: Re: Announcing libsysdev 0.1.0)

2015-02-02 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 08:46:13PM +0300, Jack L. Frost wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:11:39PM -0800, Isaac Dunham wrote: > > I've just released libsysdev 0.1.0. > > Source code may be found at: > > https://github.com/idunham/libsysdev/archive/0.1.0.tar.gz > > (I'll have to tag releases using

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2015 02 Feb 07:53 -0600, Martijn Dekkers wrote: > I found this an interesting read: > > * read ahead implementation dropped: in the age of SSDs the benefit is not > big enough to have this. All systemd developers have SSDs and no more > spinning disks, nobody could/wanted to support this anym

[Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-02 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey everyone, Is there a list somewhere that has the packages in Jessie that depend on some part of systemd? I'd like to get the ball rolling on compiling out systemd dependencies for Devuan packages, but I don't want to duplicate anyone's efforts. Maybe a good first step would be to get a list

Re: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-02 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 2/2/15, Jude Nelson wrote: Subject: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages To: "dng@lists.dyne.org" Date: Monday, February 2, 2015, 7:40 PM Hey everyone, Is there a list somewhere that has the packages in Jessie that depend on some part of systemd? I'd like to get the ball rolling o

Re: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-02 Thread Joel Roth
Jude Nelson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Is there a list somewhere that has the packages in Jessie that depend on > some part of systemd? I'd like to get the ball rolling on compiling out > systemd dependencies for Devuan packages, but I don't want to duplicate > anyone's efforts. > > Maybe a good

[Dng] Devuan Weekly News X

2015-02-02 Thread Noel Torres
# [Devuan Weekly News][current] Issue X __Volume 02, Week 5, Devuan Week 10__ https://git.devuan.org/Envite/devuan-weekly-news/past-issues/volume-02/issue-010 ## Editorial The public surface of the project grows with the addition of new communication channels, mentioned below. This seems to mea

Re: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-02 Thread Jude Nelson
Thanks for the link, Joel! >From what I gathered from that picture, it looks the stuff that "apt-cache rdepends" can tell me. Considering the dependencies on libsystemd0, libpam-systemd, libudev0, and libudev1, I get: $ apt-cache rdepends libsystemd0 libpam-systemd libudev0 libudev1 | grep -v "R

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread t . j . duchene
On Monday, February 02, 2015 11:32:52 PM dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: > Devuan is probably going to have to provide some form of > > > compatibility in the future. This will be the case, regardless of how > > you or I might feel on the subject, especially if kdbus gets > > integrated into th

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-02 Thread Vlad
I think he might be a concern troll, best ignore him. On Feb 3, 2015 1:32 AM, "Steve Litt" wrote: > On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:54:12 -0600 > t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Monday, February 02, 2015 07:57:23 PM Vlad wrote: > > > Hey Lennart if you dislike Devuan that much feel free to go back t