Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Simon Hobson
KatolaZ wrote: > Just please try to > avoid falling in the same "everybody needs to boot-up in 12 seconds > because high availability requires so" rhetoric championed by > systemd-fanboys. More to the point, I'd rather have reliability over speed any day. If the system boots reliably in 2 minut

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Jaromil
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Simon Hobson wrote: > KatolaZ wrote: > > > Just please try to avoid falling in the same "everybody needs to > > boot-up in 12 seconds because high availability requires so" > > rhetoric championed by systemd-fanboys. > > More to the point, I'd rather have reliability over s

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 08:05:42AM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: [cut] > > But, if you are going to boot slowly and methodically, it helps if there's > signs of progress. There's nothing that gets people impatient better than > something that appears to be taking a long time "doing nothing" ! >

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 24/09/2015 19:54, KatolaZ a écrit : But let's be honest here: how many times does it happen that you have to reboot a production server nowadays? It is quite rare that a failing program actually needs a reboot, right? And even when it happens, 1 minute or 5 minutes boot won't change your overa

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread aitor_czr
Hi Hleb, you are right !! El 25/09/15 a las 08:44, aitor_czr escribió: Hi Hleb, Those lines are located in debian/control. So..., an APT repository pointing to itself? Here you are an example random search in git: https://github.com/andrenth/postfix-erlang/blob/master/debian/control Aitor.

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:06:50AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 24/09/2015 19:54, KatolaZ a écrit : > >But let's be honest here: how many times does it happen that you have > >to reboot a production server nowadays? It is quite rare that a > >failing program actually needs a reboot, right? And ev

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread aitor_czr
Hi again Hleb, the link in my example points to a *Git* repository *of a debian package*. I didn't understand you, sorry. The Development Team of BulmaGes has been using those lines: |Homepage: http://bulmages.net XS-Vcs-Git: git://gitorious.org/bulmages/bulmages.git XS-Vcs-Browser: https://git

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread Hleb Valoshka
On 9/25/15, aitor_czr wrote: > Those lines are located in debian/control. So..., an APT repository > pointing to itself? https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackageInformation QUESTION: is that (Vcs-*) an upstream source or a debian source? ANSWER: It's the debian source. There is a difference becau

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread aitor_czr
Another clarification about XS-Vcs headers: as of dpkg 1.14.6, the Xs- prefix is no longer necessary. See this link: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/xs-vcs-header-in-debian-control.html Aitor. El 25/09/15 a las 11:35, aitor_czr escribió: Hi again Hleb, the link in my example points to a *Git*

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread Hleb Valoshka
On 9/25/15, aitor_czr wrote: > The Development Team of BulmaGes has been using those lines: > > |Homepage: http://bulmages.net > XS-Vcs-Git: git://gitorious.org/bulmages/bulmages.git > XS-Vcs-Browser: https://gitorious.org/bulmages/bulmages/trees/. > > during years in debian/control. Gitorious

Re: [DNG] [announce] Nostalgia (Was: s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems)

2015-09-25 Thread Simon Hobson
KatolaZ wrote: > Agree! That's why I would warmly suggest mobile devices producers to > include a pluggable nixie-tubes display like this: > > http://ad7zj.net/kd7lmo/images/ground_nixie_front.jpg Metaphorical "hands up" - how many of us went "gosh, how long is it since I saw one of those in t

[DNG] Hleb Valoshka <375...@gmail.com>

2015-09-25 Thread aitor_czr
When i built those packages, Gitorious had already announced the end. But there wasn't a consensus on which use in the future: BitBucket, GitLab, GitHub...? I porposed trying with Savannah, but there was no time... Thank you again for your clarifications. Aitor. El 25/09/15 a las 12:19, Hleb

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread aitor_czr
I will send again this post rectifying the content in the Digest: El 23/08/15 a las 17:19, Steve Litt escribió: I make mistakes, that's why my pencil has an eraser. Well..., when i built those packages, Gitorious had already announced the end. But there wasn't a consensus on which use in the

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread natacha
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have been following the devuan mailing list during the last couple of weeks, and I would like to present myself, I come from a human science and media arts background always involved in F/Loss communities, where I search for new forms of cre

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 25/09/2015 11:27, KatolaZ a écrit : On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:06:50AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 24/09/2015 19:54, KatolaZ a écrit : But let's be honest here: how many times does it happen that you have to reboot a production server nowadays? It is quite rare that a failing program actual

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread richard white
Maybe we could make a meta Roadmap/Priority project. This project would use Milestones to track releases and their issues. This could be a central place to determine the highest priority work. -Rich ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailin

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 25/09/2015 09:05, Simon Hobson wrote: More to the point, I'd rather have reliability over speed any day. How about you get both? The dichotomy is a false one. People believe they can't have both because init systems have never been done right so far, and always forced them to choose betwee

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 25/09/2015 09:26, Jaromil wrote: What I'm particularly interested is something to do process monitoring and respawning for a certain group of daemons Just supervise the daemons you want to supervise, and don't supervise the ones you don't want to. But really, there's no reason *not* to supe

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Isaac Dunham writes: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:31:40PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> Laurent Bercot writes: >> >> [...] >> >> > It manages dependencies between services, no matter whether they are >> > oneshots or longruns; it can intertwine oneshot starts and longrun >> > starts, or ones

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 25/09/2015 11:27, KatolaZ wrote: I actually had the impression that servers was what Laurent was referring to... :) Was I? It's possible. I usually refer to servers because it's the environment I'm used to; but what I'm saying about boot times, parallelism and so on is also true for client

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 03:40:35PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: [cut] > > But, as you or Jaromil said, and we all agree on this, the > important thing is that Devuan provide this new high quality > software, so that admins have more freedom. Important also is the > fact that fast and dependency

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread Hleb Valoshka
On 9/21/15, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Since netman is effectively ready, and I can still offer my coding > services to the Devuan project, I would like to ask what task should I > take as my second attempt at helping with the project? If your possible next project will look like netman then please

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Jaromil writes: > On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Simon Hobson wrote: [...] > What I'm particularly interested is something to do process monitoring > and respawning for a certain group of daemons - bundle in s6-rc? however > not necessarily mixed with the system-wide base daemons. For instance > in Dowse

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 07:01:16AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 09:28:28PM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > > > But let's be honest here: how many times does it happen that you have > > > to reboot a production server nowadays? > > > > I think you are overlooking the

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Simon Hobson
Laurent Bercot wrote: > On 25/09/2015 09:05, Simon Hobson wrote: >> More to the point, I'd rather have reliability over speed any day. > > How about you get both? Well yes, that's better still. > The dichotomy is a false one. People believe they can't have both > because init systems have neve

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 03:59:19PM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote: > On 25/09/2015 09:05, Simon Hobson wrote: > > > >There's nothing that gets people impatient > >better than something that appears to be taking a long time "doing > >nothing" ! > > Show them a terminal with a lot of scrolling gibbe

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 25/09/2015 17:29, Simon Hobson wrote: Windows and MacOS both prioritise those tasks needed to get a desktop picture (or login prompt) on the screen - as that gives the illusion of fast boot time. Oh, yes, definitely. (My client machine runs Windows, and I experience that every day.) It doe

Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 12, Issue 79

2015-09-25 Thread aitor_-czr
All projects are instructive. This is a little instructive project. My2Cents. Aitor. El 25/09/15 a las 18:51, Hleb Valoshka <375...@gmail.com> escribió: On 9/21/15, Edward Bartolo wrote: >Since netman is effectively ready, and I can still offer my coding >services to the Devuan project, I w

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Simon Hobson writes: [...] > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > >>> * anything that uses the syslog should start after the syslog. >> >> That's the same misunderstanding already shown elsewhere: Starting >> syslog at time X and starting syslog-user at time Y, Y > X, Y - X being >> 'very small', does not

Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems

2015-09-25 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Laurent Bercot writes: > On 25/09/2015 17:29, Simon Hobson wrote: [...] >> Of course, regardless of what system or definitions you use - if a >> service then dies then you have a problem. IMO, "it might die at some >> indeterminate time" isn't an excuse for not trying to get the "start >> stuff

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread Jaromil
On September 25, 2015 5:07:31 PM GMT+02:00, Hleb Valoshka <375...@gmail.com> wrote: >If your possible next project will look like netman then please do >nothing. It's a lowest quality project I've ever seen. It looks really >bad. You better read a good book about software architect. I wish yo

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 9/25/15, Jaromil wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman? To: "dng" Date: Friday, September 25, 2015, 5:12 PM On September 25, 2015 5:07:31 PM GMT+02:00, Hleb Valoshka <375...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If your possible next project will look like netman then please do >> n

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:07:31 +0300 Hleb Valoshka <375...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/21/15, Edward Bartolo wrote: > > > Since netman is effectively ready, and I can still offer my coding > > services to the Devuan project, I would like to ask what task > > should I take as my second attempt at help

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 09:20:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Here are the facts: While the rest of us, *especially* me, flapped our > lips about a NetworkManager replacement, Edward actually did it. It's worth adding I think that for those of you who have a low opinion of Edward's attempt, there'

Re: [DNG] What can I do after netman?

2015-09-25 Thread Edward Bartolo
Dear All, As many probably remember, when I asked to be allowed to create a network manager, I made it clear that I have NO FORMAL TRAINING IN PROGRAMMING. What I know, has been learnt by buying expensive books from specialised booksellers and studying on my own. Now regarding the bad marks I am