Re: [Dng] stonix

2015-05-14 Thread Jaromil
dear Roy, On 13 May 2015 18:33:44 CEST, Roy Nielsen wrote: >We released a (beta) security tool to give non-windows operating >systems a >base level of security based on government guideline and industry best >practices. > >https://github.com/CSD-Public/stonix > >The documentation is a bit sketch

Re: [Dng] Systemd discussions at LinuxQuestions.

2015-05-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi James, On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:58 PM, James Powell wrote: > I agree T. J. > > The problem is too much "thinking" about problems, rather than offering a > clear solution other than scrapping the fore and replacing it entirely > seems to be the source of the problem. > > One argument I stan

Re: [Dng] Devuan - Fork or Derivative (or perhaps both)

2015-05-14 Thread Jaromil
dear Daniel, On 12 May 2015 22:58:24 CEST, Daniel Reurich wrote: >Hi > >I wonder if Devuan should rebrand it's relationship to Debian as a >Derivative rather then a Fork. It may help to smooth things over a >bit. > >This may also be a good marketing approach as well as reduce the >hostility wh

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi James, On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:04 AM, James Powell wrote: > Thanks Jude. > > The Slackware package is delayed, but only due to the lack of a Slackware > style script. I might try to ask one of the Slackware team for assistance > when I resume work. However, the package is fairly much compl

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Jack L. Frost
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:33:34PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > Has something happened with standard udev that you are looking to switch? > I've not heard anything lately, but that does not make immediate sense to me. > I'm not the one you're asking, but I'll provide one reason to switch: ude

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread Jack L. Frost
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 03:33:06AM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: > I'm not a Slackware or Arch user, but please let me know if there's > anything I can do to make packaging easier? I don't want to make things > needlessly difficult :) I've dropped an issue on github about the new Makefiles, yeah :)

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Doing work now because it "is sure to be needed at some point" is one of the major problems fixed by XP and agile development. Google for YAGNI. So why is it a good idea in this case? Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.d

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:20:00PM +, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > Doing work now because it "is sure to be needed at some point" is > one of the major problems fixed by XP and agile development. Google > for YAGNI. So why is it a good idea in this case? Isn't our situation more a case of removi

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Jack L. Frost
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:20:00PM +, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > Doing work now because it "is sure to be needed at some point" is > one of the major problems fixed by XP and agile development. Google > for YAGNI. So why is it a good idea in this case? I have not heard good arguments against pl

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Anto
On 14/05/15 13:49, Jack L. Frost wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:33:34PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: Has something happened with standard udev that you are looking to switch? I've not heard anything lately, but that does not make immediate sense to me. I'm not the one you're asking, but I'

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread shraptor shraptor
I would be interested in a static Vdev. Didier could you please give some info how this was done especially any gotcha's you found? On Thursday, May 14, 2015, Jack L. Frost wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 03:33:06AM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: > > I'm not a Slackware or Arch user, but please le

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 14 May 2015 15:40:59 +0200 shraptor shraptor wrote: > I would be interested in a static Vdev. So would I. I could just slide that right onto my Valentine VM, without compilation and dependencies. Once I get familiar with vdev itself, I could install one with loadable modules. SteveT

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 13 May 2015 23:24:42 -0400 Jude Nelson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I have the latest news for vdev: > > * vdev now creates symlinks for: > -- /dev/v4l/by-path > -- /dev/disk/by-partuuid > -- /dev/disk/by-partlabel Thank you Jude. It's astounding what you've been able to accomplish. >

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > I think that has already happened for quite some time. The latest udev > package outside systemd source in Debian is 175-7.2 according to > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/udev. In Debian jessie it is provided by > systemd package as shown on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/systemd. I am > still

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Anto
On 14/05/15 17:53, T.J. Duchene wrote: I think that has already happened for quite some time. The latest udev package outside systemd source in Debian is 175-7.2 according to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/udev. In Debian jessie it is provided by systemd package as shown on https://tracker.debi

Re: [Dng] Systemd discussions at LinuxQuestions.

2015-05-14 Thread miro . rovis
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 03:25:46AM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: I'm really sorry for having sent the same message four times. However, it's my (urgh, "kind") provider who kept me from both receiving the messages of that thread and kept the old cached: ( with the same topic as the subject of this ema

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 14/05/2015 15:40, shraptor shraptor a écrit : I would be interested in a static Vdev. Didier could you please give some info how this was done especially any gotcha's you found? Hi Shraptor. I have been working for almost one year, partial time, on building a sysrooted gcc-4.7 b

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
> I think the fact that I pointed out clearly shows that there is very good > technical reason to exclude udev, unless you are willing to be the maintainer > of udev outside systemd source tree in Devuan. [T.J. ] Please understand that I very much respect your position, and I agree with you that

Re: [Dng] Systemd discussions at LinuxQuestions.

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
You both made good points. I've been around a while, so I'll just speak my mind. If that bothers anyone, please "plug your ears." I've used Unix before Linux existed, and after. I've seen ideas come and go. Systemd is absolutely nothing new, nor is the community reaction to it even surprising.

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Following up to what T.J. said... On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:15 PM, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > I think the fact that I pointed out clearly shows that there is very good > > technical reason to exclude udev, unless you are willing to be the > maintainer > > of udev outside systemd source tree in De

Re: [Dng] Systemd discussions at LinuxQuestions.

2015-05-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
Well said, T.J. I couldn't find anything to disagree with in your missive. I will also add that now a technical disagreement seems to have morphed into somehow opposing the pet cause of various social justice warriors that now seem to be everywhere. One such recent example is from Debian Develop

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
I thought it was already settled and decided by the VUA that Devuan Jessie will use udev. I agree with this stance, for the same reason as T.J. points out--udev is production-ready, whereas vdev is not. It's the pragmatic thing to do--I only have a handful of hours per week to work on vdev, so

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Steve, On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2015 23:24:42 -0400 > Jude Nelson wrote: > > > Hey everyone, > > > > I have the latest news for vdev: > > > > * vdev now creates symlinks for: > > -- /dev/v4l/by-path > > -- /dev/disk/by-partuuid > > -- /dev/disk/by-

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Anto
On 14/05/15 19:15, T.J. Duchene wrote: I think the fact that I pointed out clearly shows that there is very good technical reason to exclude udev, unless you are willing to be the maintainer of udev outside systemd source tree in Devuan. [T.J. ] Please understand that I very much respect your

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread miro . rovis
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:53:20AM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > > I think that has already happened for quite some time. The latest udev > > package outside systemd source in Debian is 175-7.2 according to > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/udev. In Debian jessie it is provided by > > systemd

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Anto
On 14/05/15 19:42, Jude Nelson wrote: I thought it was already settled and decided by the VUA that Devuan Jessie will use udev. I agree with this stance, for the same reason as T.J. points out--udev is production-ready, whereas vdev is not. It's the pragmatic thing to do--I only have a ha

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 12:15 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > I think the fact that I pointed out clearly shows that there is very good > > technical reason to exclude udev, unless you are willing to be the > > maintainer > > of udev outside systemd source tree in Devuan. > > The shortest and most

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
> Hello T.J., > > I didn't mean to express anything related to "put up or shut up". Actually, I am someone who would pat you on the back if you did. Talk is cheap, and quite frankly, I when dealing with Linux fans I often hear a lot of talk and see very little. I feel you handled it with

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > People are working _now_ on eudev as a replacement for udev until vdev is > finished. It might even be a good replacement for udev already for the > devuan jessie release. [T.J. ] That's very interesting and information I did not know. You have to admit that actual development details re

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Anto
On 14/05/15 22:16, T.J. Duchene wrote: Devuan needs more than programmers. There are documentation writers, graphic designers, public relations, even just fans. I know coders get a lot of the spotlight, but without others Devuan isn't going to go anywhere either. It would be great if I cou

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread shraptor shraptor
On Thursday, May 14, 2015, Didier Kryn wrote: > > Le 14/05/2015 15:40, shraptor shraptor a écrit : > >> I would be interested in a static Vdev. >> >> Didier could you please give some info >> how this was done especially any gotcha's >> you found? >> > > Hi Shraptor. > > I have been work

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 14 May 2015 22:15:50 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: > People are working _now_ on eudev as a replacement for udev until vdev > is finished. It might even be a good replacement for udev already for > the devuan jessie release. What do you do, except chat? The best thing to do with those who

Re: [Dng] A novice attempt to speed up Devuan development

2015-05-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 12:15 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > I think the fact that I pointed out clearly shows that there is very good > > > technical reason to exclude udev, unless you are willing to be the > > > maintainer > > > o

[Dng] Document on using Qemu for Linux DIY

2015-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I just finished a very basic document on using Qemu for Linux DIY, which I tech-edited using Valentines Devuan: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/qemu.htm It's based on three shellscripts, and also contains instructions for sharing host and guest /tmp/xfer directory via sshfs. As

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 14/05/2015 23:16, shraptor shraptor wrote: I even could try myself, did openssl static with musl a while ago but am not a 100% with what toolchain means. I compile everything statically with musl. OpenSSL is doable; the annoying thing IIRC is the Perl dependency at build-time, and of cours

Re: [Dng] Document on using Qemu for Linux DIY

2015-05-14 Thread hellekin
On 05/14/2015 08:18 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > sharing host and guest /tmp/xfer directory via sshfs. > *** I use the Plan9 way for sharing folders (per someone's suggestion on the list): https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/try-devuan-on-qemu#sharing-a-folder-with-the-host == hk -

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread James Powell
There's no issues, but due to the variable in the way Slackware packages things, I have to create directories in the temp install, then use cp to installing things which ends up being messy. Not to complain, but the lack of a traditional configure file to set the install paths does make things

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status update (2015-05-03)

2015-05-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 14/05/2015 23:16, shraptor shraptor a écrit : am not a 100% with what toolchain means. did you compile for 32bit or 64bit? Toolchain generally means the stuff necessary to build new programs from source. It includes gcc, binutils, the system libraries, the system headers and the kern