Re: [DNG] How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii

2017-07-01 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 at 00:24:59 +0200 Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 30/06/2017 à 23:30, Vincent Bentley a écrit : > > Along time ago, well designed and well behaved software could be > > recognised by the number of years passed without changes. I worked at > > one place that was proud of release version

Re: [DNG] How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii

2017-07-01 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 20:12 -0400, zap wrote: > It is a little too confusing trying to install openrc at the moment > so I > will pass for now... > > It is just a shame that the runit-init package was taken down... The instructions are crystal clear... (And btw: Daniel Reurich is working hard to

Re: [DNG] BUG (severe): chromium crashes

2017-07-01 Thread Jaromil
On Sat, 01 Jul 2017, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Hi folks, > > > on devuan jessie (in chroot) chromium crashes immediately: chromium uses seccomp sandboxing internally which may fail to run inside a chroot. I run chromium regularly on jessie, also inside firejail (using https://gi

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread John Crisp
On 30/06/17 08:56, Joachim Fahrner wrote: > It's driven by Red Hat to make money out of supporting their > development. > Hammer -> Nail signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread vmlinux
On June 30, 2017 1:14:24 AM CDT, Nate Bargmann wrote: ::* On 2017 30 Jun 00:55 -0500, Alessandro Selli wrote: :: ::> Maybe it's me, but what the hell is a DNS resolver doing inside an ::init ::> system? :: ::The same thing that a time sync (NTP) daemon is doing in there... :: ::- Nate :: ::--

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread vmlinux
It makes more sense when you consider that systemd is a thinly veiled excuse for an init daemon which really wants to replace every distro out there with something red hat has more control over. On July 1, 2017 8:25:56 AM CDT, vmlinux wrote: :: :: ::On June 30, 2017 1:14:24 AM CDT, Nate Bargma

Re: [DNG] How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii

2017-07-01 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 01/07/2017 à 10:20, Alessandro Selli a écrit : On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 at 00:24:59 +0200 Didier Kryn wrote: Le 30/06/2017 à 23:30, Vincent Bentley a écrit : Along time ago, well designed and well behaved software could be recognised by the number of years passed without changes. I worked at one

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 01 Jul 08:49 -0500, vmlinux wrote: > It makes more sense when you consider that systemd is a thinly veiled > excuse for an init daemon which really wants to replace every distro > out there with something red hat has more control over. Certainly, that trend has been well established. W

[DNG] Questions about Devuan installer

2017-07-01 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I want to install a brand new, Devuan stable Qemu guest, so I have some questions: 1) What's the name of the current stable version? 2) At what URL can I download the latest network install ISO file for that version? 3) Are there any landmines when installing from this ISO file? 4)

Re: [DNG] Questions about Devuan installer

2017-07-01 Thread fsmithred
On 07/01/2017 12:17 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to install a brand new, Devuan stable Qemu guest, so I have some > questions: > > 1) What's the name of the current stable version? jessie > 2) At what URL can I download the latest network install ISO file for >that version? f

Re: [DNG] Questions about Devuan installer

2017-07-01 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 01 July 2017 at 18:17:44, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to install a brand new, Devuan stable Qemu guest, so I have some > questions: > > 1) What's the name of the current stable version? https://devuan.org/ - current stable is “Jessie” > 2) At what URL can I download the

Re: [DNG] Questions about Devuan installer

2017-07-01 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 01 July 2017 at 18:29:11, fsmithred wrote: > On 07/01/2017 12:17 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I want to install a brand new, Devuan stable Qemu guest, so I have some > > questions: > > > > 1) What's the name of the current stable version? > > jessie > > > 2) At what UR

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread Ron
On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 10:25:20 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > fate accompli "Fate" is very apposite in the circumstance Cheers, Ron. -- It is a typically Hohenzollern idea to believe that it is a crime for a country to defend itself after its army has been destroyed.

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Nate Bargmann (n...@n0nb.us): > I'll admit, there was one trick that SD did that I liked, and that was > starting CUPS only when there was a call to print. I don't print often > so bringing up CUPS on demand and then shutting it down later was nice. > But then, SD was running all the time

Re: [DNG] BUG (severe): chromium crashes

2017-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 07/01/17 09:37, Jaromil wrote: chromium uses seccomp sandboxing internally which may fail to run inside a chroot. I run chromium regularly on jessie, also inside firejail (using https://github.com/dyne/tinfoil) so can confirm that at least outside of a chroot it works well. Meanwhile found

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 07/01/17 15:25, Nate Bargmann wrote: Certainly, that trend has been well established. What is troubling are all of the other distributions who treat it as fate accompli. My hope is that Devuan, Slackware, and other distributions that have staked out a position that seeks to maintain the tra

[DNG] kernel drivers [WAS: How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii]

2017-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 07/01/17 14:43, Didier Kryn wrote: > They preserve the external API but change all the rest. Yes, that's the way we support zillions of different devices, especially in the embedded world, w/ relatively small efforts (OF was probably one of the most important steps) and still offer good perfo

Re: [DNG] How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii

2017-07-01 Thread Miroslav Rovis
On 170630-13:16-0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:20:08 + > Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > > On 170629-19:34-0400, zap wrote: > > > not really complaining for the most part. But I am curious that's > > > all. > > I wish I knew better, but, for a simple question of mine today (see

Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

2017-07-01 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 at 16:50:28 -0700 Bruce Perens wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult < > enrico.weig...@gr13.net> wrote: > >> >> By selling, I mean, you'll first have to pay before you get the code. >> But anybody republish it at will (as long as complying

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread Simon Hobson
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" wrote: > At that point I'm curious which fancy features of systemd are needed > by applications at all ? In general - none ! But, it seems that the technique being used by it's proponents is to substitute their stuff and "force" new APIs on developers. Ie, pic

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 01/07/2017 à 18:46, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit : On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 10:25:20 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: fate accompli "Fate" is very apposite in the circumstance Cheers, Ron. "Fait accompli" means "accomplished fact", something it's a nonsense to oppose to, because it's do

[DNG] Error updating ascii today

2017-07-01 Thread Vincent Bentley
I updated a 32-bit Devuan Jessie system today (Saturday) to Ascii. After rebooting I needed to fix a few package dependency problems and I got the following message when using aptitude to update. sudo aptitude -y update Get: 1 http://packages.devuan.org/merged ascii InRelease [113 kB] Err http://

Re: [DNG] kernel drivers [WAS: How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii]

2017-07-01 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 01/07/2017 à 22:09, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult a écrit : On 07/01/17 14:43, Didier Kryn wrote: > They preserve the external API but change all the rest. Yes, that's the way we support zillions of different devices, especially in the embedded world, w/ relatively small efforts (OF was p

Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

2017-07-01 Thread Bruce Perens
It is the fact that the two actions are connected that makes it a breach. There are very many actions that are legal in isolation, but not when one is carried out as a consequence of another. The most common instances are of course in anti-discrimination law. As an expert witness, I would have no

Re: [DNG] How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii

2017-07-01 Thread zap
On 07/01/2017 04:20 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 at 00:24:59 +0200 > Didier Kryn wrote: > >> Le 30/06/2017 à 23:30, Vincent Bentley a écrit : >>> Along time ago, well designed and well behaved software could be >>> recognised by the number of years passed without changes. I w

Re: [DNG] How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii

2017-07-01 Thread zap
On 07/01/2017 05:32 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 20:12 -0400, zap wrote: >> It is a little too confusing trying to install openrc at the moment >> so I >> will pass for now... >> >> It is just a shame that the runit-init package was taken down... > The instructions are crysta

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 01 Jul 11:47 -0500, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 10:25:20 -0500 > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > fate accompli > > "Fate" > is very apposite in the circumstance One misspell and a person's reputation is shot forever! :-) - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live i

[DNG] Why /command ?

2017-07-01 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm writing a document on how to install runit on Devuan, with the hope that some day it will lead to a Devuan package that makes sense and to the best degree possible implements the goals of the software's author. Most of it's pretty straightforward, but the runit install scripts (packag

Re: [DNG] How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii

2017-07-01 Thread zap
On 06/30/2017 04:21 PM, zap wrote: > > On 06/30/2017 11:21 AM, Svante Signell wrote: >> On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 19:34 -0400, zap wrote: >>> not really complaining for the most part. But I am curious that's >>> all. >>> >> Hi zap, >> >> As I wrote earlier, you can install openrc by: >> 0) Enable asc

Re: [DNG] Why /command ?

2017-07-01 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 02/07/2017 à 01:37, Steve Litt a écrit : Hi all, I'm writing a document on how to install runit on Devuan, with the hope that some day it will lead to a Devuan package that makes sense and to the best degree possible implements the goals of the software's author. Most of it's pretty straight