Re: [DNG] Help me understand what Daniel Reurich is asking?

2016-02-11 Thread aitor_czr
Hi Edward, El 11/02/16 a las 08:31, Edward Bartolo escribió: Hi, I repeated the git tag command and it was successfully run. However, git-buildpackage complained that there is no simple-netaid_0.1.1.orig.tar.bz2 file in the sources parent directory. As there is actually a simple-netaid_0.1.1.or

Re: [DNG] Copyright and employers (Was: Wifi device names: was systemd is haunting me)

2016-02-11 Thread Simon Hobson
Steve Litt wrote: > You'd be hugely surprised at how literally some states in the US > interpret contracts. I live in (anti-employee) Florida, and a friend of > mine here in Florida was advised by his lawyer to not work for Linux for > the next 6 months because his former employer had a 6 month >

Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)

2016-02-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 10/02/2016 23:37, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : Didier Kryn writes: Le 10/02/2016 18:50, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : Didier Kryn writes: [...] 2) At the time of this test campaign, the shebang line of vdev scripts was #!/bin/dash, which doesn't work in Busybox. It should be replaced by

Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)

2016-02-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 10/02/2016 23:40, Steve Litt a écrit : Didier, If you ever come to Orlando, Florida, USA, could you please give a presentation on Busybox and its use with initramfs systems at our local LUG, GoLUG? Your info is tremendously geeky and tremendously useful. Thanks for your confidence, Stev

[DNG] Docker leaves Ubuntu for AlpineLinux (and hires its dev)

2016-02-11 Thread Jaromil
Here the news on Phoronix (well known hangout of systemd hooligans) https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Docket-Alpine-Images Very elegant of the editor to skip over the obviously implicit read between the lines. Or am I the only one seeing a "systemd sucks" here written with inv

Re: [DNG] Docker leaves Ubuntu for AlpineLinux (and hires its dev)

2016-02-11 Thread Simon Wise
On 11/02/16 21:51, Jaromil wrote: Here the news on Phoronix (well known hangout of systemd hooligans) https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Docket-Alpine-Images Very elegant of the editor to skip over the obviously implicit read between the lines. Or am I the only one seeing a "

Re: [DNG] Docker leaves Ubuntu for AlpineLinux (and hires its dev)

2016-02-11 Thread Mitt Green
‎     Jaromil wrote: >Or am I the only one seeing a "systemd sucks" here w‎ritten with invisible ink? Looking at comments there, it seems it's about the size of the system and systemd is definitely too big for them, just as the whole GNU userland and glibc in particular. Mitt __

Re: [DNG] Docker leaves Ubuntu for AlpineLinux (and hires its dev)

2016-02-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 11/02/2016 15:31, Mitt Green a écrit : Jaromil wrote: >Or am I the only one seeing a "systemd sucks" here w‎ritten with invisible ink? Looking at comments there, it seems it's about the size of the system and systemd is definitely too big for them, just as the whole GNU userland and

Re: [DNG] state of what's working for modern desktop usage

2016-02-11 Thread hellekin
On 02/10/2016 07:20 AM, Didier Kryn wrote: >>> Sorry I missed that, does it handle wifi roaming? > > It means you can transport your laptop to whichever place there is a > wifi ap (which you have entered once in your config) and your laptop > will automatically connect to the network, with

Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)

2016-02-11 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Didier Kryn writes: [...] >> It should be the name of a shell capable of running Bourne/ standard >> shell scripts. But this may not work if the /bin/dash in the original >> script was there for a reason, ie, it was using dash features. >> > As I already wrote, vdev was working well with bus

Re: [DNG] state of what's working for modern desktop usage

2016-02-11 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 03:41:38PM +, hellekin wrote: > On 02/10/2016 07:20 AM, Didier Kryn wrote: > >>> > Sorry I missed that, does it handle wifi roaming? > > > > It means you can transport your laptop to whichever place there is a > > wifi ap (which you have entered once in your con

[DNG] simple-netaid-gtk

2016-02-11 Thread aitor_czr
Hi all, I pushedto gitlab the latest changes in 'simple-netaid-gtk'. A multithread proccess has been added while the backend scans all the active wifis (as you can see in the class 'ScanWifis') against blocking the spinner: https://git.devuan.org/aitor_czr/simple-netaid-gtk/tree/master You

Re: [DNG] Copyright and employers

2016-02-11 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Simon Hobson writes: [...] > However, on the employers side, consider the difficulty of determining > when someone worked on a bit of code. It would be relatively easy for > someone to work on code as part of their job, then claim they did it > at home in their own time. So being objective, it's

Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)

2016-02-11 Thread shraptor
On 2016-02-11 10:56, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 10/02/2016 23:37, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : Didier Kryn writes: Le 10/02/2016 18:50, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : Didier Kryn writes: [...] 2) At the time of this test campaign, the shebang line of vdev scripts was #!/bin/dash, which doesn't w

Re: [DNG] Help me understand what Daniel Reurich is asking?

2016-02-11 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi All, Thanks to all for taking some of your time to reply to this email. I followed Daniel Reurich's code edits and finally my branch works with format 3.0 (native) and without requiring me to create an orig.tar.gz file every time I use git buildpackage. THANKS, all of you! Edward On 11/02/20

[DNG] dpkg-buildpackage now works for downloaded simple-netaid

2016-02-11 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, I have just downloaded my master branch of simple-netaid to test whether users would be able to use dpkg-buildpackage successfully. Now, using dpkg-buildpackage works and produces two .deb packages one for the gui frontend and one for the cli backend. There is NO need to manually create a .ori

Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)

2016-02-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 11/02/2016 17:04, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : Didier Kryn writes: [...] It should be the name of a shell capable of running Bourne/ standard shell scripts. But this may not work if the /bin/dash in the original script was there for a reason, ie, it was using dash features. As I alread

Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)

2016-02-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 11/02/2016 19:25, shraptor a écrit : In my setup /usr/bin/dash is a symlink to /usr/bin/bash That's a big mistake. On any Debian system, /bin/sh points to /bin/dash, and dash doesn't point to bash. Your system has certainly been hacked. It works! Sure, bash can process ash sc

Re: [DNG] Help me understand what Daniel Reurich is asking?

2016-02-11 Thread aitor_czr
Hi Edward and Daniel, On 02/11/2016 08:00 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi All, Thanks to all for taking some of your time to reply to this email. I followed Daniel Reurich's code edits and finally my branch works with format 3.0 (native) and without requiring me to create an orig.tar.gz file every

Re: [DNG] Help me understand what Daniel Reurich is asking?

2016-02-11 Thread Daniel Reurich
> Where can i find documentation about this other method? I've never used it. > > Are the existing *.git files generated by this format? See, for example, > the case of gdisk: > > http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/g/gdisk/ > > There isn't any tarball in the repository...; a git file,

Re: [DNG] state of what's working for modern desktop usage

2016-02-11 Thread Simon Wise
On 12/02/16 02:58, KatolaZ wrote: My solution: just forget wicd and use wpa_supplicant directly. It works ALWAYS, without delays, without stupid automagicalities, without problems. +1 a little manual intervention, and a couple of keybindings to make that easier _

Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)

2016-02-11 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Didier Kryn writes: > Le 11/02/2016 17:04, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : >> Didier Kryn writes: >> >> [...] >> It should be the name of a shell capable of running Bourne/ standard shell scripts. But this may not work if the /bin/dash in the original script was there for a reason, ie,

Re: [DNG] Docker leaves Ubuntu for AlpineLinux (and hires its dev)

2016-02-11 Thread dev1fanboy
systemd in ubuntu is just another reason why it sucks, maybe they want to distance themselves from all that mess. On Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:51 AM, Jaromil wrote: > Here the news on Phoronix (well known hangout of systemd hooligans) > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&p

Re: [DNG] Frontend to pmount

2016-02-11 Thread aitor_czr
On 02/09/2016 03:02 PM, fsmithred wrote: I was inpired by Steve Litt's amounter, but I prefer a semi-automatic. And I wanted an easy clicky way to use pmount. So I recycled some code from refracta2usb and added inotifywait. The result is a set of scripts that will pop up a window showing the p

Re: [DNG] Help me understand what Daniel Reurich is asking?

2016-02-11 Thread aitor_czr
On 02/12/2016 02:51 AM, Daniel Reurich wrote: Where can i find documentation about this other method? I've never used it. > >Are the existing *.git files generated by this format? See, for example, >the case of gdisk: > >http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/g/gdisk/ > >There isn't any tar

Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)

2016-02-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:41:19PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > But POSIX conformance is not enough, /bin/dash in the shebang obviously > renders portability impossible. Just look at any system script in your > Debian or Devuan system and tell me if any of them start with #! /bin/dash. https:/