Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 2/3] procd: Don't use syslog before its initialization

2017-03-11 Thread David Lang
and/or stderr capturing either per-script and/or globally David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH fstools] cmake: Make blockd link against libjson-c

2017-03-27 Thread David Lang
Just a note in case you were not aware, json-c is not thread-safe (the rsyslog project forked it to libfastjson to fix the thread safety and drastically improve speed) On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Florian Fainelli wrote: Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:10:57 -0700 From: Florian Fainelli To: lede-dev@lists

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [AD] support me hacking on OpenWrt/LEDE

2017-04-03 Thread David Lang
May I suggest that you talk directly rather than through the mailing list? David Lang On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, lede-proj...@bepo.de wrote: Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 13:51:21 +0200 From: "lede-proj...@bepo.de" To: lede-dev@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] [AD] support me hacking

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-08 Thread David Lang
ogress and look forward to the remerge happening. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-10 Thread David Lang
s, then you really aren't part of the project any longer. All it takes is changing the word "Committers" to "Contributers". The existing method of giving programmers commit/voting privileges will work just as well for non-programmers (i.

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-11 Thread David Lang
een taking place have included discussions on the rules. If there are OpenWRT devs that are unhappy with the LEDE rules, I would be expecting them to be speaking up in these discussions, and not in general terms, but with what they specifically are unhappy with. It almost sounds like you are tr

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-11 Thread David Lang
would have to comply with these rules? or are they outsiders (I am an outsider) David Lang On Fri, 12 May 2017, Eric Luehrsen wrote: Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 04:09:31 + From: Eric Luehrsen Cc: LEDE Development List Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal I read this on

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-11 Thread David Lang
m as source addresses for performing acts on behalf of openwrt. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-12 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 12 May 2017, Stijn Segers wrote: David Lang wrote: The (soon to be former) LEDE developers don't want @openwrt.org addresses, so providing a way to not break the existing addresses and not giving out new ones doesn't seem like it is upsetting to any of the developers.

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-12 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 12 May 2017, Daniel Golle wrote: Hi Edwin, On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:02:36AM +0200, Edwin van Drunen wrote: As a long time user of OpenWRT and recent “LEDE convert” I would also like to chime in on the naming and branding of the post-merge project. My employer and several of my indu

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-12 Thread David Lang
ge OpenWRT/LEDE user base' was not part of the vote, both LEDE and OpenWRT limit the vote to a fairly small set of people who contribute to the code (very common in opensource projects. I don't know of any who allow the user base to vote on project infrastructure) David Lang I also

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-12 Thread David Lang
east consider voting on "should the merged project be called OpenWrt" before the final decision on the name of the merged project is made. they already voted on exactly that question. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-12 Thread David Lang
The original post in this thread listed the remaining items to be done/decided for a remerge. David Lang On Fri, 12 May 2017, Fernando Frediani wrote: If the majority voted for the name OpenWRT what's the remaining issue then ? Fernando On 12 May 2017 23:40, "David Lang"

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-12 Thread David Lang
unity'? how do you determin who would be allowed to vote? how would you prevent voter fraud from people who have very strong opinions? David Lang P.S. the people who voted, including those who have strong opinions against the name OpenWRT are not disputing the vote, w

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-14 Thread David Lang
ually passionate in the other direction, while still others are less passionate. But the vote is the vote, and stating how passionate you are on one side or another doesn't alter the vote. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradea

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Remerge logo ideas

2017-06-04 Thread David Lang
the vote on the name was held several months ago, please stop trying to re-do the vote just because it didn't come out the way you wanted it to. k ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-d

Re: [LEDE-DEV] kernel 4.9 migration for next release

2017-10-02 Thread David Lang
note that the kernel currently under development (4.14) is tagged to be a LTS kernel (6 years of support), so it would be good to work on that if possible. ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listin

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] firewall3: Enable TCP_ECN by default.

2017-10-03 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant wrote: It's tempting to set it to 1 (like I have for the past year+) and be damned :-) So what is the failure mode and how will people who experience failures know what they need to change? David

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Kernel version in next major release

2017-10-07 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: * Port the generic patches what are the 'generic patches' and is there an effort to get them upstream so that they don't need to be ported in each release? * Make all the out of tree modules work with it is there any work being done to make these

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] dropbear: make syslog support configurable

2017-11-04 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 4 Nov 2017, Hans Dedecker wrote: On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Petr Štetiar wrote: Hans Dedecker [2017-11-03 13:46:14]: Hi, By default dropbear logs to syslog which discloses info about account names when doing connection attempts (e.g. "Bad password attempt for 'engineer' from

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE version numbers?

2017-11-06 Thread David Lang
t hash. LEDE makes fewer official release candidates and the nightly snapshots are just that. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE version numbers?

2017-11-06 Thread David Lang
17.01 is pointer to a particular commit on the master branch I haven't looked at the specific method used for the r# generation, but I think it's incremented daily ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mail

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH][ubox] Add log priority filtering to daemon

2017-11-08 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, John Crispin wrote: you can probably drop the validation. if the users passes 9 as a priority everything will be logged. passing -1 will cause silent logging. you should do limit checks and cap the internal value to the limit, otherwise you have to do more work for each lo

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Fwd: [FSFE PR][EN] FSFE makes copyrights computer readable

2017-11-09 Thread David Lang
that's mostly a question to direct at the upstream software sources. only a small portion of things are written by the LEDE team SPDX is mostly useful for people wanting to fork or extract code from opensource projects, not for the project writing the code David Lang On Thu, 9 Nov

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH v1] kernel: bump 4.4 to 4.4.112 for 17.01

2018-01-20 Thread David Lang
given that 4.4.114 added meltdown/spectrefixes, shouldn't we move to it? ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Images are too big in LEDE but not in OpenWRT

2018-02-08 Thread David Lang
s out when it hits a limit? David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-04 Thread David Lang
via e-mail? in other words, would this really be able to cover all commits without having people sign for other people's work? If it can't, what do the signatures actually tell you? David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev

Re: project goals

2016-05-04 Thread David Lang
nts down will ease introducing new versions, reducing the load on developers so they can produce more patches ;-) But I do think a push to get as much as possible upstream will help. And it will help not juse LEDE/OpenWRT but also every other project that's targeting this space. If w

Re: [RFC] A change to the way packages are built

2016-05-04 Thread David Lang
end up conflicting when building package C. automated tests for #1 would be a good start. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [RFC] A change to the way packages are built

2016-05-04 Thread David Lang
combined build, in an ideal world I'd try to build with everything submitted, and then bisect down to find the item that breaks it if the combined build doesn't work. If it's possible to auto-flash/pxeboot some devices to run the new build and do real tests on them, so

Re: List subject prefix?

2016-05-04 Thread David Lang
ts to have a separate folder for each of them. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-04 Thread David Lang
to be worth the hassle? David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-04 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 5 May 2016, John Crispin wrote: On 05/05/2016 07:38, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2016, John Crispin wrote: On 04/05/2016 23:38, Kus wrote: Greetings I'd like to propose that all commits (at least to master) going forward be signed with the commiter's gpg key. h

Re: Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
claiming to be someone who has access to that signing key), the value of signatures is much less. By all means consider using them. I'm just saying that the project should be able to state why with something other than "because we can" to the question of &qu

Re: getting users involved in on-device testing

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
, what you are especially interested in getting your hands on, and what you won't bother with even if someone donates it. Setup a way for people to donate small amounts monthly to the project (to fund such devices and/or hosting, trips to DC to argue with/brief the FCC, et

Re: [LEDE-DEV] List Prefix

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 5 May 2016, John Crispin wrote: On 05/05/2016 10:14, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 08:13 +0200, John Crispin wrote: Hi David, some folks would prefer to have the prefix on the 2 lists. I just had a look in the mailman settings and failed to quickly spot the location wh

Re: [RFC] A change to the way packages are built

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Michal Hrusecky wrote: David Lang - 18:20 4.05.16 wrote: Debian has ... Just for the sake of discussion and inspiration, how openSUSE does it's rolling release. We have OBS, which is server software, connected to multiple builders. It has projects and in those pro

Re: Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
by, etc tags to the commit message? David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
n take this approach has seen both more stability and more change. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Web forums for LEDE

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
o the nntp feed that mailman can provide). I believe that I saw that a recent version of mailman added a web interface to mailing lists, but I haven't seen anyone using it yet. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.inf

Re: Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Matthias Schiffer wrote: On 05/05/2016 07:43 PM, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2016, Ben Greear wrote: On 05/05/2016 07:30 AM, Kus wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Ben, Just to be clear. We're talking about signing git commits, not emai

Re: Future of Chaos Calmer

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
to it available. OpenWRT updates against *openwrt.org servers, so LEDE is not going to be able to do anything there. David Lang Trunk introduces important changes, for example the switch from uClibc to musl, so until everything's polished and ready for release I'd rather not use trunk

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Actual community change and additional developers compared to OpenWrt

2016-10-25 Thread David Lang
could be setup by someone outside of the core group (working with their own fork of the project until they get things functioning) David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] FCC killing open platforms and inovations [Was: Re: [PATCH] ar71xx: Add usable, inactive LEDs on OpenMesh devices]

2016-11-15 Thread David Lang
erent firmware from being loaded on the devices and the proposed rule that would have required lockdowns have basically been stopped. However, multiple vendors are imposing restriction and claiming that the FCC is requiring them, even after the FCC says that it'

Re: [LEDE-DEV] FCC killing open platforms and inovations [Was: Re: [PATCH] ar71xx: Add usable, inactive LEDs on OpenMesh devices]

2016-11-17 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Simon Wunderlich wrote: Hi David, On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 4:49:40 PM CET David Lang wrote: Well, we are. We can't change the fact that the devices need to be locked to be sold in the US. But if you google a little, you will find a lot of patches for various

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release Preparation Questions

2016-11-19 Thread David Lang
argument for the lede source in that you may backport some fixes into a release branch) Other than this, it looks reasonable. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release Preparation Questions

2016-11-20 Thread David Lang
the 'feeds'. LEDE maintains this structure and uses the same feeds as OpenWRT David Lang On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, James Feeney wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 18:11:16 -0700 From: James Feeney To: lede-dev@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release Preparation Questions Ok - thanks fo

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release Preparation Questions

2016-11-20 Thread David Lang
kernel.org and see what the folks there have to say. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release Preparation Questions

2016-11-20 Thread David Lang
r to just the git repository "https://git.lede-project.org/";, and the git directory "source.git" would instead be named "build.git". The file "feeds.conf.default" could be called "manifest.default", which would be a concept shared

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] include: image.mk: ext4: double the default inode counter

2016-11-22 Thread David Lang
every couple of blocks. On a 10TB filesystem, we probably want 4K block size and an inode for every few K blocks A menu to customize these rather than calculating them will allow people to tweak them to fit the uncommon cases that LEDE is likely to be used for. David Lang _

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] include: image.mk: ext4: double the default inode counter

2016-11-22 Thread David Lang
not sure I understand how this would work? David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] include: image.mk: ext4: double the default inode counter

2016-11-22 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Felix Fietkau wrote: On 2016-11-22 17:43, David Lang wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Felix Fietkau wrote: On a 16M filesystem, we probably want to use a 1K block size and have an inode for every couple of blocks. I'd say on a 16M filesystem we probably want to use squ

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] include: image.mk: ext4: double the default inode counter

2016-11-22 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Felix Fietkau wrote: On 2016-11-22 17:48, David Lang wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Felix Fietkau wrote: On 2016-11-22 17:43, David Lang wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Felix Fietkau wrote: On a 16M filesystem, we probably want to use a 1K block size and have an inode for

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release planning

2016-12-21 Thread David Lang
farm? how much hardware would people need to donate to reduce this significantly (1-2 days for example)? David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

2016-12-21 Thread David Lang
that brand attached to the development moving forward. I agree, I think this is an obvious choice to make. OpenWRT has a lot of name recognition, it would be foolish to throw that away. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradea

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release planning

2016-12-22 Thread David Lang
or a period, you want to use a tilde '~' the reason for this is sort order, if something is sorting versions with an alpha sort, you want the ~rc to show up as older than the YY.MM release, and you want that to show up as older than the YY.MM.N releases. David Lang

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

2016-12-22 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, Dave Taht wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:29 PM, David Lang wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, Kathy Giori wrote: From a PR perspective, I strongly suggest keeping the term OpenWrt as part of the branding of the project moving forward. It can just be cosmetic (web site, etc

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

2016-12-22 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote: - While brands have value, you can change a name without losing all the brand recognition. I'm thinking here of cases like XBMC->Kodi or OpenOffice->LibreOffice. I would point at OpenOffice -> LibreOffice as a failure of name change

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

2016-12-22 Thread David Lang
oblem that can be solved by a http redirect ... Is that going to break all links in discussions that point at OpenWRT docs and/or forum threads? That's a high cost. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://list

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release planning

2016-12-22 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016, James Feeney wrote: On 12/22/2016 01:33 AM, David Lang wrote: the reason for this is sort order, if something is sorting versions with an alpha sort, you want the ~rc to show up as older than the YY.MM release, and you want that to show up as older than the YY.MM.N

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

2016-12-22 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016, John Crispin wrote: On 22/12/2016 09:42, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2016, John Crispin wrote: Yes, the name is pointing at a product that doesn't exist any longer, but Deb and Ian aren't involved with Debian any longer either. At some point the fact that

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Release planning

2016-12-22 Thread David Lang
doesn't happen for a while, the list will still be useful as it reduces how far back people would have to go at the point of release. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

2016-12-26 Thread David Lang
ease. If you are able to sustain the results for a few versions, people may start to trust and use it (or they may just use the more up-to-date tree) David Lang (who has no authority within LEDE or OpenWRT) ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

2017-01-05 Thread David Lang
ready accepting pull requests via github But I think everyone is saying there won't be a 'commercial' vs 'community' split. There will be 'stable' vs tip-of-development, but that's it. David Lang ___ Lede-dev

[LEDE-DEV] forum limitations

2017-01-17 Thread David Lang
k. Reason: We're sorry, but new users are temporarily limited to 3 replies in the same topic. If you can correct the problem, please try again. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] NETSHe mac80211 GPL sources

2017-02-03 Thread David Lang
ers are free to pass the source along, as it is GPL. But if it's a separate download, it does have to be made available to anyone. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] NETSHe mac80211 GPL sources

2017-02-03 Thread David Lang
violation of the GPL and while none have gone to court in the US, that's because the violators have always settled before getting into court (with vmware being the only exception, and I haven't heard that that case has gone to trial yet) David Lang

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Makefile question

2017-02-10 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, Philip Prindeville wrote: Hi. I was wondering if there’s an obvious place to install a hook that’s: (a) after all the packages have been installed; (b) before the root filesystem image gets finalized; I’d like to be able to run some simple sed scripts inside the root-to-b

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Makefile question

2017-02-11 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017, Philip Prindeville wrote: This can't eliminate the /etc/rc.d/S* files as it only adds files, and it's not as flexibile as adding a user or changing a password (as it would just let you replace the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow files, not modify them). If you look for where the

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Makefile question

2017-02-12 Thread David Lang
On Sun, 12 Feb 2017, Philip Prindeville wrote: If you look for where the /files/* are copied into the filesystem, that is probably the place you would want to add your scripting hooks. Good idea. I’ll look there. Once you find this, may I suggest that you create /scripts/* and contribute t

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] utils/busybox: prevent weak root passwords

2017-02-17 Thread David Lang
he root user to select a password that is shorter than 'recommended', that's normal behavior on *nix systems and has been for decades, even as the 'recommendations' have changed. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] utils/busybox: prevent weak root passwords

2017-02-17 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 17 Feb 2017, Dan Lüdtke wrote: Hi David, thanks for the fast response! On 17 Feb 2017, at 11:54, David Lang wrote: But deciding that you know better than the admin of the system is not. Not that I am a fan of telling admins what to do, but do you see any chance that we can get an

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] utils/busybox: prevent weak root passwords

2017-02-17 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 17 Feb 2017, Alberto Bursi wrote: On 02/17/2017 12:26 PM, John Crispin wrote: On 17/02/2017 12:16, Dan Lüdtke wrote: Hi David, thanks for the fast response! On 17 Feb 2017, at 11:54, David Lang wrote: But deciding that you know better than the admin of the system is not. Not

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] utils/busybox: prevent weak root passwords

2017-02-17 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 17 Feb 2017, Alberto Bursi wrote: On 02/17/2017 12:52 PM, David Lang wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2017, Alberto Bursi wrote: And having no password is a much bigger change than having a short password when you are testing things. It makes a lot of sense to be excercising the password routine

Re: [LEDE-DEV] automated signed firmware upgrades / hide a secret in image

2017-02-25 Thread David Lang
The kernel already includes facilities for signing modules, if you are looking for a way to sign and verify things, it seems like it would make sense to adapt that to sign the entire image. ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http:/

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Github's new TOS

2017-03-02 Thread David Lang
result would greatly multiply the size of the downloaded page, not nice to users. This change seems reasonable to me. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: Future of Chaos Calmer

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 6 May 2016, Vittorio G (VittGam) wrote: On 05/05/2016 21:30:56 CEST, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2016, Vittorio G (VittGam) wrote: Hello, I'd like to know if there are any plans for Chaos Calmer? Will it become mantained by LEDE? almost certinly not. But LEDE will c

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Introducing the LEDE project

2016-05-05 Thread David Lang
s will they be able to really think about the larger issues and figure out what to do about them. And the LEDE folks have a lot of infrastructure to setup (and there will be a lot of bikeshedding going on while they do this), so they are going to take some time to get everything going and g

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-06 Thread David Lang
rough a hierarchy similar to how the Linux kernel maintainers merge things from their area and then Linus merges from them to the final tree. Too many people with commit access to the central tree just leads to more ways to trip over each other. David Lang ___

Re: [LEDE-DEV] RFC: Throughput testing results.

2016-05-06 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 6 May 2016, Ben Greear wrote: On 05/06/2016 10:20 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: Ben Greear writes: I am interested in feedback on the testing output. My goal is to add a few more different hardware configurations and then do nightly (or at least weekly) tests. So that is showin

Re: [LEDE-DEV] RFC: Throughput testing results.

2016-05-06 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 6 May 2016, Ben Greear wrote: On 05/06/2016 12:05 PM, David Lang wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2016, Ben Greear wrote: On 05/06/2016 10:20 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: Ben Greear writes: I am interested in feedback on the testing output. My goal is to add a few more different

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-06 Thread David Lang
atches could be more widely tested than an individual can do (in fact I'd argue that ideally *everyone* goes through some level of testing from someone other than themselves. Ideally, but we need to recognize that we don't live in an ideal world :-) David Lang __

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Proposal to sign all commits

2016-05-06 Thread David Lang
s it much harder to figure out what change broke things. It's good for someone creating a patchset to review the patches, re-ordering and/or squashing and/or splitting the patches as appropriate to produce a clean history (ideally, everything should work after every individual patch), b

Re: [LEDE-DEV] On the proposed Mantis and maximizing bug usefulness

2016-05-08 Thread David Lang
27;t help a lot, but there are a lot of options that would. David Lang 2) I repeat my offer to help with triage (i.e. making sure what does get posted is actually useful before a developer sees it) and my suggestion of asking for others to help with this, and providing the necessary access to mak

Re: [LEDE-DEV] OpenWRT tree vs LEDE tree

2016-05-09 Thread David Lang
cess for those people ase well, but I don't know for sure. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] bcm53xx: calculate TRX CRC32 using whole kernel partition

2016-05-09 Thread David Lang
any more either. the git history can untangle this for anyone who cares. But there is enough bad feelings going around, we don't need someone getting angry over copyright notices being removed. David Lang On Mon, 9 May 2016, Rafał Miłecki wrote: Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 20:35:20 +0

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] More OpenWrt -> LEDE renames

2016-05-10 Thread David Lang
ge - to ~ and it will sort before the release so 15.05.1~rc1 15.05.1~beta1 etc also 15.05.1-14-ge1357c0 will sort after the rc, not before it. David Lang * branch release builds: Branch codename designation, official release number, source revision, opkg download from release repo Once a rc bec

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Buildbot

2016-05-10 Thread David Lang
ng on a single target, especially as they are iterating through tweaks on their build. and resources for the project may change, if you can use spinning rust, storage is pretty cheap now. David Lang Another approach is to rebuild single packages (plus their dependency subtrees) using th

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Script to gather system info for bug reports and similar.

2016-05-11 Thread David Lang
we really need the IP details and routing info? I can see some cases where they would matter, but most of the time they don't. I'm not arguing for security by obscurity, but I am willing to argue against providing info to attackers instead of making them work a littl

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Wiki for LEDE Project

2016-05-11 Thread David Lang
s out of the box) thoughts? David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 2/2] [ubox] logd: add ubus reload method

2016-05-13 Thread David Lang
ea, let alone one that is common enough to have to introduce uci specific knowledge into the logd daemon. You are better off sending to a remote logserver anyway. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 2/2] [ubox] logd: add ubus reload method

2016-05-13 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 13 May 2016, Alexandru Ardelean wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:55 PM, David Lang wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2016, Helmut Schaa wrote: I was thinking of a different use-case: Increasing the buffer size on the fly comes in handy during a debug session where you'd like to not inte

Re: [LEDE-DEV] running stuff as !root

2016-05-17 Thread David Lang
There are various other things that will require capabilities to work (including some versions of ping and traceroute), but it's a matter of fixing them as you bump into them. don't try to make everything run as the same !root user, migrate things one (or at least one

Re: [LEDE-DEV] running stuff as !root

2016-05-17 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 18 May 2016, John Crispin wrote: On 18/05/2016 08:08, David Lang wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, John Crispin wrote: Hi, we had previously started building the infra for running stuff as !root. so far we have added * the userid/gid stuff * acl on ubus things that i know are missing

Re: [LEDE-DEV] running stuff as !root

2016-05-18 Thread David Lang
the same packages installed in a different order have different user->uid mapping) or if we are going to define service accounts distro wide so they are always going to be the same. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lis

Re: [LEDE-DEV] running stuff as !root

2016-05-18 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 18 May 2016, John Crispin wrote: On 18/05/2016 09:04, David Lang wrote: The first question I would have is if we are going to the system users in an essentially random order (as needed so two systems with the same packages installed in a different order have different user->

Re: [LEDE-DEV] running stuff as !root

2016-05-18 Thread David Lang
o they all rely on some external storage/database setup to hold all that stuff. Not something normally available to LEDE type devices running in homes and small offices. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] running stuff as !root

2016-05-18 Thread David Lang
of that caliber around. A reasonably competent sysadmin can understand an AppArmor config and tweak it for their layout without too much effort (once they identify that AppArmor is blocking what they are trying to do) David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing

Re: [LEDE-DEV] running stuff as !root

2016-05-18 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 18 May 2016, Ferry Huberts wrote: On 18/05/16 10:03, David Lang wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, John Crispin wrote: On 18/05/2016 09:46, Ferry Huberts wrote: already in-place in Fedora and RedHat/CentOS. You then get even stronger protection and run-time performance impact is

Re: [LEDE-DEV] running stuff as !root

2016-05-18 Thread David Lang
s the packages are installed in the system (with the exception of a small number in the minimal base system) I see arguments both ways, which is the issue I raised in a different thread. David Lang ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org

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