Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

On 29/04/15 02:03, Jude Nelson wrote: Hey everyone, Sorry for being incommunicado these past two weeks--I was working on a conference paper that was due last Friday. Thank you all for being patient! I have the latest news for vdev: [Status updates] * Support for booting from LVM2 volumes

Re: [Dng] acpi and systemd

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:31:16AM +0200, Franco Lanza wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 05:16:42PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > acpid and acpi-support-base have already been removed from tasksel. > > > We already forked tasksel, so, it should not be an issue for us as long > as those two p

[Dng] by-uuid and by-partuuid

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 08:49:29PM -0700, Isaac Dunham wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 08:03:02PM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: > > [TODO] > > > > * I still need to figure out how to generate /dev/disk/by-partuuid and > > /dev/v4l/by-path, and possibly others. > > /dev/disk/by-partuuid does not exis

Re: [Dng] OT: How do I keep my Wheezy from upgrading itself to Jessie?

On 28 April 2015 at 14:27, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > While I wait for Dng to mature and become my daily driver OS, I'm > continuing to limp along on Debian Wheezy initted by sysvinit. What I > want to make sure of is that when I run apt-get update & apt-get > upgrade that my computer doesn't

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:03:02 -0400 Jude Nelson wrote: > * Packaging. I'm working on a way to automatically build a .deb for > vdevd that will, among other things, safely generate and install an > initramfs without having to hack the initramfs tools (as is the case > today). Please see [Help Wa

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

Le 29/04/2015 16:47, Steve Litt a écrit : maybe then we could eliminate the initramfs step entirely.:-) Sure that would be nice. It's something you can do for each machine, but is not practical for a distro intended for all. Some drivers, notably disk, raid, lvm, are necessary to moun

[Dng] Feedback installing Devuan through debootstrap in Debian Testing.

I am using the Devuan patched debootstrap in Debian Testing. debootstrap failed with the following message: # debootstrap --arch amd64 stable /mnt/sda8 http://packages.devuan.org/devuan I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Release.gpg I: Checking Release signature E: Release signed by unknown key (

Re: [Dng] Feedback installing Devuan through debootstrap in Debian Testing.

Update 2: I replaced stable with jessie as follows. debootstrap did better but failed. These are the results: # debootstrap --arch amd64 jessie /mnt/sda8 http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/ W: Cannot check Release signature; keyring file not available /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-keyring.gpg I: Retr

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:13:04 +0200 Didier Kryn wrote: > > > Le 29/04/2015 16:47, Steve Litt a écrit : > > maybe then we could eliminate the initramfs step entirely.:-) > > Sure that would be nice. It's something you can do for each > machine, but is not practical for a distro intended

Re: [Dng] Feedback installing Devuan through debootstrap in Debian Testing.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 04:18:00PM +, Edward Bartolo wrote: > > I am using the Devuan patched debootstrap in Debian Testing. > debootstrap failed with the following message: patched in debian testing would say the devuan debootstrao or the debian one + patch? dpkg -l | grep debootstrap plea

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:47:27AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > I'm under the impression you can do most or all of what needs to be > done in the actual init, rather than the initramfs. This gets a little > complicated now that Linux has been "improved" by having /sbin > and /bin be symlinks to /u

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

Le 29/04/2015 19:07, Steve Litt a écrit : On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:13:04 +0200 Didier Kryn wrote: Le 29/04/2015 16:47, Steve Litt a écrit : maybe then we could eliminate the initramfs step entirely.:-) Sure that would be nice. It's something you can do for each machine, but is not p

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

Le 29/04/2015 22:34, Hendrik Boom a écrit : On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:47:27AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: I'm under the impression you can do most or all of what needs to be done in the actual init, rather than the initramfs. This gets a little complicated now that Linux has been "improved" by h

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Didier Kryn wrote: > > > Le 29/04/2015 22:34, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:47:27AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> >>> I'm under the impression you can do most or all of what needs to be >>> done in the actual init, rather than the initramfs.

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

Le 29/04/2015 23:54, Jude Nelson a écrit : On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Didier Kryn > wrote: Le 29/04/2015 22:34, Hendrik Boom a écrit : On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:47:27AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: I'm under the impression you can do most

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

On Wed 29 April 2015 23:46:51 Didier Kryn wrote: > They decided to put them on the second disk which contained user data > and was therefore mounted at /usr AFAIK that's "Unix System Resources" or somesuch, not "User" /j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Dng] Feedback installing Devuan through debootstrap in Debian Testing.

debootstrap --exclude systemd,systemd-sysv,libsystemd0 jessie . without specifying a URL is working here (are the excludes needed?) However after I chroot it and apt update: W: GPG error: http://packages.devuan.org jessie InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 94532124541922

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:33:52AM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: > Hi Isaac, > > [Snip] > > > > > Theoretically, it *should* work if /etc/{passwd,group} are present in the > > initramfs, with those paths. It's possible to mistakenly copy them to / > > instead of /etc, but I assume that you've already