Running Britney locally against a PPA, how to keep Britney from thinking my PPA package is in main?

2023-12-07 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
(except for the last one, which would be awesome if it were possible). Any further ideas? If not, which one of the above should I try? -- Aaron Rainbolt Lubuntu Developer Matrix: @arraybolt3:matrix.org IRC: arraybolt3 on irc.libera.chat GitHub: https://github.com/ArrayBolt3 -- ubuntu-devel m

Re: Running Britney locally against a PPA, how to keep Britney from thinking my PPA package is in main?

2023-12-07 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On 12/7/23 17:58, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 03:11:31AM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: For this reason, I need to have every reverse dependency autopkgtested against the new signond packages in a PPA, lest I severely clog up the archive. You really, REALLY don't. Pre-u

Legality of using free VMware Workstation Player for alpha and beta testing of Ubuntu?

2022-05-13 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
I am digging deep into the world of Ubuntu development and am trying to make sure my alpha and beta testing is as effective as possible. I also don't want to cash out an arm and a leg for expensive software to do so. I've been using virt-manager (QEMU/KVM) for testing on virtual machines, and while

Re: Legality of using free VMware Workstation Player for alpha and beta testing of Ubuntu?

2022-05-14 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
the EULA. I would highly recommend installing > virt-manager as a suitable alternative. > > On Fri 13 May 2022, 08:17 Aaron Rainbolt, wrote: > >> I am digging deep into the world of Ubuntu development and am trying to >> make sure my alpha and beta testing is as effective

Re: Legality of using free VMware Workstation Player for alpha and beta testing of Ubuntu?

2022-05-16 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
a license. > > TL:DR if it's solely community work, it shouldn't be a breach. Other > things would be case by case. > > > On Sat, May 14, 2022, 10:50 Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > >> Thanks, that's what I needed to know! Virt-manager is more than >> sufficien

Re: systemd-oomd issues on desktop

2022-06-10 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 5:21 AM Ernst Sjöstrand wrote: > > Den fre 10 juni 2022 kl 07:36 skrev Olivier Tilloy > : >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 1:49 AM Steve Langasek >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 01:00:45PM -0400, Nick Rosbrook wrote: >>> > In the reports I refer to above, ap

Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-23 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
ecome an official flavor, and I may end up simply maintaining it as an unofficial installer by myself should I end up doing it. Is this kind of project a possible candidate for becoming an official Ubuntu Flavor, or is this enough info to declare it as not a possible candidate? Thanks

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
hat's awesome! I'll be watching for this, and if it's welcome, possibly trying to contribute to it eventually. Thanks for letting me know! On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 04:54, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: Note, I'm asking this *very* early. I don't have the project I have in mind even

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On 2/24/23 11:51, Dan Bungert wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 04:54, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: I've seen more than one person annoyed by the fact that the mini.iso netinstaller is no more. The "flavor" would be able to be held in a very small ISO file (preferably CD sized), and it

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
Huh. TIL. That's awesome. On 2/24/23 14:33, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 02:20:25PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: This makes good sense to me. The concern I'm noticing here is that Secure Boot activates a kernel lockdown mode that prohibits kexec. Incorrect. It di

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-03-09 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On 2/24/23 11:51, Dan Bungert wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 04:54, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: I've seen more than one person annoyed by the fact that the mini.iso netinstaller is no more. The "flavor" would be able to be held in a very small ISO file (preferably CD sized), and it wou

Re: sbuild --chroot-mode=unshare -d $suite{,-security,-proposed} magic for Ubuntu

2024-12-11 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
regression and the changes seem unlikely to cause any, so I uploaded > in the hopes they infrastructure fairs better. > > I've now managed to run them and there is failure related to > cross-bootstrap (yes sbuild --arch=armhf -d plucky also works); > I'll dig deeper and hop

Re: Time to move to Matrix (from IRC)?

2025-01-22 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:46:41 +0100 Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey Simon, > > Le 22/01/2025 à 00:01, Simon Quigley a écrit : > > The Flavor channel is hardly a development channel; this move would > > not make sense. > > Yet I often see topics like ISO build failures introduced by Ubuntu > D

Re: Operational stability (Re: Time to move to Matrix (from IRC)?)

2025-01-23 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:04:10 +0100 Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 03:19:14PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > > I think it's about time that Ubuntu Developer realtime conversation > > moved from IRC to Matrix. What do you think? Can we reach a > > consensus on this topic? > >

Re: Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-21 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:03:23 + Simon Quigley wrote: > Hello, > > I have been working on a general effort to improve the new packaging > guide[1]. As a general note, please consider joining me. > > As part of this effort, with the help of Aaron Rainbolt[2], I have &g

Re: Moving to Discourse from mailing lists?

2025-03-19 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:54:55 + Simon Quigley wrote: > Hello Robie, > > On 3/18/25 02:37 PM, Robie Basak wrote: > > Dear Ubuntu Developers, > > > > Following the move from IRC to Matrix, the topic of moving to > > Discourse from mailing lists

Re: Mailing list moderators needed

2025-03-31 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:35:39 +0100 Robie Basak wrote: > Currently there are 245 emails in the moderation queue for > ubuntu-devel@ and 12 for ubuntu-release@. Most are spam. I get the > impression there's been a massive increase in spam hitting the lists > in recent weeks. > > If we shutter the

Re: Unacceptable HWE kernel behavior change in livecd-rootfs

2025-02-12 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
makes very little sense (especially when there's a public list that is copied on this that we can look through if a CoC violation does occur and we need context). To those who reply here, please remove community-coun...@lists.ubuntu.com from the reply list. -- Aaron Rainbolt Ubuntu Community Counc