Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-26 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 4/25/19 6:10 PM, Björn Persson wrote: It's perfectly possible for a number to be unique without being random. As an example, you could hash the machine ID, which is supposedly unique in space, and the system clock, which is unique in time. That makes the hash unique in both space and time.

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-25 Thread Björn Persson
Lennart Poettering wrote: >On Do, 25.04.19 13:14, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov) wrote: >> That leaves the invocation IDs---the UUIDs need to be random to be truly >> Universally Unique, but  a limited entropy system is implicitly isolated, so >> maybe the limited UUIDs could be

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Do, 25.04.19 13:14, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov) wrote: > On 4/25/19 5:14 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > For the hashtable seeds we use classic /dev/urandom (i.e. entropy from > > a possibly non-initialized pool) since it's OK if those seeds are > > crappy initially, as

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-25 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 4/25/19 5:14 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: For the hashtable seeds we use classic /dev/urandom (i.e. entropy from a possibly non-initialized pool) since it's OK if those seeds are crappy initially, as long as they get better over time, since we reseed if we see too many hash collisions. I

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 24.04.19 17:28, Björn Persson (Bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: > Lennart Poettering wrote: > >As mentioned before: systemd itself already needs entropy itself (it > >assigns a random 128bit id to each service invocation, dubbed the > >"invocation ID" of it, and it generates the machine ID and

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 24.04.19 17:43, Tomas Mraz (tm...@redhat.com) wrote: > > But how can it be successful? If systemd already needs to wait until > > the pool is full to get the randomness it needs (and thus blocks > > system boot-up as a whole) then what's the point in running rngd > > afterwards? To reach

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 24.04.19 08:27, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > > a. systemd starts before rngd. > > b. rngd runs before the entropy pool is full. > > c. the entropy pool needs to be full for systemd to start > > > > a before b before c before a before b before c before a? How's that

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 11:30, Björn Persson wrote: > Lennart Poettering wrote: > >As mentioned before: systemd itself already needs entropy itself (it > >assigns a random 128bit id to each service invocation, dubbed the > >"invocation ID" of it, and it generates the machine ID and seeds its >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 14:16 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 24.04.19 12:37, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (n...@redhat.com) > wrote: > > > > As mentioned before: systemd itself already needs entropy itself > > > (it > > > assigns a random 128bit id to each service invocation, dubbed the > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Björn Persson
Lennart Poettering wrote: >As mentioned before: systemd itself already needs entropy itself (it >assigns a random 128bit id to each service invocation, dubbed the >"invocation ID" of it, and it generates the machine ID and seeds its >hash table hash functions) Given that access to entropy during

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 14:25 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 24.04.19 06:40, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > As mentioned before: systemd itself already needs entropy itself (it > > > assigns a random 128bit id to each service invocation, dubbed the > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 12:02 +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > Can the jitter entropy gather be done by the kernel? It seems yes via > the jitterentropy_rng module. So a combo of CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU > and the jitterentropy_rng may help in simplifying fedora (if people > agree :). This

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 08:26, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 24.04.19 06:40, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > As mentioned before: systemd itself already needs entropy itself (it > > > assigns a random 128bit id to each service invocation, dubbed the > > > "invocation

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 24.04.19 06:40, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: > > As mentioned before: systemd itself already needs entropy itself (it > > assigns a random 128bit id to each service invocation, dubbed the > > "invocation ID" of it, and it generates the machine ID and seeds its > > hash

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 24.04.19 12:37, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (n...@redhat.com) wrote: > > As mentioned before: systemd itself already needs entropy itself (it > > assigns a random 128bit id to each service invocation, dubbed the > > "invocation ID" of it, and it generates the machine ID and seeds its > > hash

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 06:24, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 24.04.19 12:02, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (n...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:23 AM Lennart Poettering > > wrote: > > > Sure, you can invoke rngd before systemd, in which case it would have > > > to be able to

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 12:24 PM Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > But why do that in userspace at all? the "Trust CPU RNG" kernel > > > compile time option shows that these things are trivial to solve if > > > people just want to. Instead of involving rngd at all, why not add a > > > similar

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 24.04.19 12:02, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (n...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:23 AM Lennart Poettering > wrote: > > Sure, you can invoke rngd before systemd, in which case it would have > > to be able to run as PID 1 itself pretty much and then hand over > > things. > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-24 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:23 AM Lennart Poettering wrote: > Sure, you can invoke rngd before systemd, in which case it would have > to be able to run as PID 1 itself pretty much and then hand over > things. > > But why do that in userspace at all? the "Trust CPU RNG" kernel > compile time option

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mo, 22.04.19 08:35, Robert Marcano (rob...@marcanoonline.com) wrote: > > What's the story anyway for rngd? Why would userspace be better at > > providing entropy to the kernel than the kernel itself? Why do we > > enable it on desktops at all, such systems should not be > > entropy-starved. >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Do, 18.04.19 09:16, stan (upai...@zoho.com) wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:22:27 +0200 > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Mi, 17.04.19 11:29, Japheth Cleaver (clea...@terabithia.org) wrote: > > > > This seems like a false dichotomy, no? Surely, things like this are > > > a possibility: > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-22 Thread Robert Marcano
On 4/17/19 4:38 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Di, 16.04.19 09:06, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: I think all of these are good ideas. "No udev-settle" seems like a nice highlevel goal to shoot for. Another one I might add: "No stuck stop jobs" - it annoys me every

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-18 Thread stan
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:22:27 +0200 Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 17.04.19 11:29, Japheth Cleaver (clea...@terabithia.org) wrote: > > This seems like a false dichotomy, no? Surely, things like this are > > a possibility: > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-18 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "LP" == Lennart Poettering writes: LP> Yes it is. But so is rngd afaik? The software isn't exclusive to any particular architecture, though it may of course have different sources of entropy on different architectures. - J< ___ devel mailing

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-18 Thread Martin Kolman
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 10:55 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:38:18 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Di, 16.04.19 09:06, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > > > > > > > > I think all of these are good ideas. "No udev-settle" seems like a > > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-18 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:55:58AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:38:18 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Di, 16.04.19 09:06, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > > > > > > > > I think all of these are good ideas. "No udev-settle" seems like a >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 17.04.19 15:25, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 15:14 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > > Many have tried to convince upstream about this. If anyone here has > > influence, > > please try. > > If upstream is currently resistant, what about turning rngd into a >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 17.04.19 16:05, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:36 AM Lennart Poettering > wrote: > > > > Yeah, all that stuff is stuff the kernel could do better on its > > own. If the CPU jitter stuff or the TPM stuff is a good idea, then why > > not add that

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 17.04.19 15:14, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > #!/bin/sh > > while [ 1 ] > do > /bin/cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > sleep 1 > done > > Then in another: > > cat /dev/random >/dev/null > > After a couple seconds, hit ctl-c to kill cat. Watch what

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 17.04.19 11:29, Japheth Cleaver (clea...@terabithia.org) wrote: > On 4/17/2019 10:36 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mi, 17.04.19 10:55, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:38:18 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > rngd runs as regular

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 17.04.19 13:01, Jason L Tibbitts III (ti...@math.uh.edu) wrote: > > "LP" == Lennart Poettering writes: > > LP> That's not true anymore. There's a kernel compile time option now > LP> for that in CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU=y. And yes, the Fedora kernel > LP> sets that since a while. > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:36 AM Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Yeah, all that stuff is stuff the kernel could do better on its > own. If the CPU jitter stuff or the TPM stuff is a good idea, then why > not add that to the kernel natively, why involve userspace with that? > i.e. if the TPM and the

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:06:02AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:48 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:08 PM Lennart Poettering > > wrote: > > > > > Heya, > > > > > > today I installed the current Fedora 30 Workstation beta on my new > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread stan
On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:14:54 -0400 Steve Grubb wrote: > Ah...the devil is in the details. It does not credit entropy. This > can easily be tested. systemctl stop rngd. Then open 2 terminal > windows. In one terminal start this shell script: > > #!/bin/sh > > while [ 1 ] > do > /bin/cat

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 15:14 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > Many have tried to convince upstream about this. If anyone here has > influence, > please try. If upstream is currently resistant, what about turning rngd into a loadable kernel module and then insure it is in the initramfs and loaded at

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Steve Grubb
On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:36:08 PM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 17.04.19 10:55, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:38:18 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > What's the story anyway for rngd? Why would userspace be better at > > > providing

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Japheth Cleaver
On 4/17/2019 10:36 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mi, 17.04.19 10:55, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:38:18 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote: rngd runs as regular system service, hence what's the point of that altogether? I mean, it runs so late during

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "LP" == Lennart Poettering writes: LP> That's not true anymore. There's a kernel compile time option now LP> for that in CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU=y. And yes, the Fedora kernel LP> sets that since a while. Isn't this arch-dependent? config RANDOM_TRUST_CPU bool "Trust the CPU

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 19:36 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 17.04.19 10:55, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:38:18 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Di, 16.04.19 09:06, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 17.04.19 10:55, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:38:18 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Di, 16.04.19 09:06, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > > > > > > > > I think all of these are good ideas. "No udev-settle" seems like a >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Steve Grubb
On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:38:18 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Di, 16.04.19 09:06, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > > > > > I think all of these are good ideas. "No udev-settle" seems like a > > > nice > > > highlevel goal to shoot for. > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:38:18AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Di, 16.04.19 09:06, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > > > > I think all of these are good ideas. "No udev-settle" seems like a nice > > > highlevel goal to shoot for. > > > > > > Another one I might add:

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-17 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Di, 16.04.19 09:06, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > > I think all of these are good ideas. "No udev-settle" seems like a nice > > highlevel goal to shoot for. > > > > Another one I might add: "No stuck stop jobs" - it annoys me every single > > time when I reboot and

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:48 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:08 PM Lennart Poettering > wrote: > > > Heya, > > > > today I installed the current Fedora 30 Workstation beta on my new > > laptop. It was a bumpy ride, I must say (the partitioner (blivet?) > > crashed five

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-16 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:08 PM Lennart Poettering wrote: > Heya, > > today I installed the current Fedora 30 Workstation beta on my new > laptop. It was a bumpy ride, I must say (the partitioner (blivet?) > crashed five times or so on me, always kicking me out of anaconda > again, just because

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sa, 13.04.19 14:03, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > If you enable lingering for a user, it's the "systemd --user" instance > > (i.e. the per-user service manager) that is started at boot and > > terminated at shutdown (instead of started at first login and > > terminated at last

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-13 Thread Steve Grubb
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:21:13 +0200 Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Do, 11.04.19 17:08, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov) > wrote: > > > > The logic in systemd is more strict on putting boundaries on > > > resource usage, and thus will by default not allow you to consume > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-13 Thread Steve Grubb
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:01:33 +0200 Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > Was this the privileged operation? What privilege does it require? I > > just run the command as a non-admin user and saw no errors or > > prompts for passwords or anything. > > Are you part of the wheel group No, this account

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 16:29 +, Akarshan Biswas wrote: > Mlocate too. I am not sure why is this package required but It > tremendously slows down all of my PC(using magnetic disk hard drive). > The first thing I do after installing Fedora Worstation is to remove > it. It only does that *one

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Akarshan Biswas
Mlocate too. I am not sure why is this package required but It tremendously slows down all of my PC(using magnetic disk hard drive). The first thing I do after installing Fedora Worstation is to remove it. Regards, Akarshan Biswas ___ devel mailing

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, at 7:13 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Fr, 12.04.19 11:35, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > (domi...@greysector.net) wrote: > > > > Interestingly I think Google Chrome needs this when it installs, > > > though it seems nonsensical to me. (Chrome is installed by about

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 14:47, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > said: > > Chrome doesn't require atd explicitly (nor is it pulled in by any of its > > dependencies). > > That's incorrect. The Google Chrome RPM requires /usr/bin/lsb_release, > which is

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski said: > Chrome doesn't require atd explicitly (nor is it pulled in by any of its > dependencies). That's incorrect. The Google Chrome RPM requires /usr/bin/lsb_release, which is from redhat-lsb-core, and that requires /usr/bin/at. -- Chris

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 12 avril 2019 à 13:12 +0200, Lennart Poettering a écrit : > On Fr, 12.04.19 11:35, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski ( > domi...@greysector.net) wrote: > > > > Interestingly I think Google Chrome needs this when it installs, > > > though it seems nonsensical to me. (Chrome is installed

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Jos Vos
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 01:12:51PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Just out of curiosity, why does a web browser need a daily chrome job? From the script's comment: # It creates the repository configuration file for package updates, since # we cannot do this during the google-chrome

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lennart Poettering: > Just out of curiosity, why does a web browser need a daily chrome job? It uses this to persist itself, so that it is more difficult to remove the Google repository. I guess we can be lucky that it doesn't does this via /etc/ld.so.preload or a kernel module. Thanks,

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fr, 12.04.19 11:35, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (domi...@greysector.net) wrote: > > Interestingly I think Google Chrome needs this when it installs, > > though it seems nonsensical to me. (Chrome is installed by about 50% > > of our users given some informal stats, so writing it off would

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Thursday, 11 April 2019 at 18:09, Paul Frields wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:07 PM Lennart Poettering > wrote: [...] > [...] > > 3. atd? Do we still need that? Do we have postinst scripts that need > >this? If so, wouldn't systemd-run be a better approach for those? > >Isn't it

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Do, 11.04.19 20:49, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > I run a bunch of background jobs like harvesting podcasts that are > > > released weekly, collecting weather stats for my garden watering > > > system, monitoring my power feed and UPS, collecting ADSB  data, > > > etc. I don't

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Do, 11.04.19 17:08, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov) wrote: > > The logic in systemd is more strict on putting boundaries on resource > > usage, and thus will by default not allow you to consume resources > > while you are not logged in. It's really how this always should have >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-12 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
> Was this the privileged operation? What privilege does it require? I > just run the command as a non-admin user and saw no errors or prompts > for passwords or anything. Are you part of the wheel group and is wheel configured to be password-less in sudo? Dridi

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Japheth Cleaver
On 4/11/2019 8:32 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 4/11/19 10:16 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: However, that's intended for system services only (i.e. for services running as users UID < 1000). For regular users (i.e. human ones, those with UID >= 1000), the idea is to install timer units in the

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 4/11/19 1:08 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: I run a bunch of background jobs like harvesting podcasts that are released weekly, collecting weather stats for my garden watering system, monitoring my power feed and UPS, collecting ADSB  data, etc. I don't think of those as 'system' services, so

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Steve Grubb
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:08:38 +0200 Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Do, 11.04.19 11:32, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov) > wrote: > > > On 4/11/19 10:16 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > However, that's intended for system services only (i.e. for > > > services running as users

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:48:13PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019, at 12:07 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Heya, > > > > today I installed the current Fedora 30 Workstation beta on my new > > laptop. It was a bumpy ride, I must say (the partitioner (blivet?) > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Do, 11.04.19 11:32, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov) wrote: > On 4/11/19 10:16 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > However, that's intended for system services only (i.e. for services > > running as users UID < 1000). For regular users (i.e. human ones, > > those with UID >= 1000),

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 4/11/19 2:12 AM, Vojtěch Trefný wrote: That's actually a bug in libblockdev, only multipath plugin should depend on device-mapper-multipath. Bug opened. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699071 I can make the spec changes if you need help, but I wanted to document this action

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019, at 12:07 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Heya, > > today I installed the current Fedora 30 Workstation beta on my new > laptop. It was a bumpy ride, I must say (the partitioner (blivet?) > crashed five times or so on me, always kicking me out of anaconda > again, just

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Paul Frields
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:07 PM Lennart Poettering wrote: [...] > Can we maybe reduce the default set of packages a bit? In particular > the following ones I really don't think should be in our default > install: Although somewhat orthogonal to your notes below, overall there's a lot of

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 4/11/19 5:32 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: I think the Android model is more relevant in this IoT age than the traditional timesharing, 'kick-me-off-when-I-log-out' mode. I would agree and observe that even the timesharing model was never really kick-me-off-when-I-log-out. Processes have

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 12:49 +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 8:21 PM Lennart Poettering > wrote: > > > Hmm, but the installed OS is not 100% the same as the livesys, or is > > it? If not, it should be possible to add a "systemctl disable > > dmraid.service --root=/path/to/os"

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 4/11/19 10:16 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: However, that's intended for system services only (i.e. for services running as users UID < 1000). For regular users (i.e. human ones, those with UID >= 1000), the idea is to install timer units in the per-user instance of the systemd service

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Do, 11.04.19 14:19, Steve Grubb (sgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > But what, exactly, has cron fallen short in? > > > > In this case, I was trying to communicate that if systemd, which seems > > to want to replace cron, can't meet all the use cases, we should be > > reporting those that we find

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 03:57:30PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Do, 11.04.19 11:18, Daniel P. Berrangé (berra...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > I don't know off hand of anything that would prevent it. Libvirt does > > > process events from running qemu VMs, but if there's no API users > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Do, 11.04.19 11:18, Daniel P. Berrangé (berra...@redhat.com) wrote: > > I don't know off hand of anything that would prevent it. Libvirt does > > process events from running qemu VMs, but if there's no API users > > connected to the daemon then I don't think libvirtd needs to be running; > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Michael Watters
I'd say that backward compatibility is important and as a Fedora workstation and server user I expect crond to work OOTB.  Yes, users can install and enable the service if needed but cron is such an essential part of every system that I see no reason to exclude it. On 4/11/19 6:30 AM, Brian (bex)

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Steve Grubb
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:30:11 +0200 "Brian (bex) Exelbierd" wrote: > To: Japheth Cleaver > CC: Development discussions related to Fedora > Subject: Re: Can we maybe reduce the > set of packages we install by default a bit? Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 > 12:30:11 +0200 Reply-To: Development

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Brian (bex) Exelbierd
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 8:54 PM Japheth Cleaver wrote: > > Reducing the Minimal size is, in general, good, but it's possible to go > too far, and I think that's the case with low-level, *nix wide tools > like this. I'm reminded of the time someone thought tar needed to go > too:

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:55:51PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > On 4/9/19 2:24 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Di, 09.04.19 14:16, Cole Robinson (crobi...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > >> On 4/9/19 1:09 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > >>> On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:07:09PM +0200,

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-11 Thread Vojtěch Trefný
On 4/10/19 11:57 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:35 AM Chris Murphy > wrote: > >>> 1. multipathd. >> >> I'm pretty sure it gets dragged in by the installer > > > Nope, multipath seems to be present because libblockdev and udisks (and > perhaps some more), which is in turn

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Japheth Cleaver
On 4/10/2019 4:10 AM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote: On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 8:40 PM Japheth Cleaver wrote: Is this really worth the effort? cronie in F30 is a 103K package, and a decent chunk of that might be the ChangeLog. crontabs is all of 18K, which is 95% the GPL and the RPM header. It

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Brian (bex) Exelbierd
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:22 PM Michael Watters wrote: > > You mean like systemd? ;) Given the origin of this thread, I tried not to go there. However, now that you've broached it, yes. This :D. systemd is a lot of things, but it also is the way forward we think that our audience wants. It

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Michael Watters
You mean like systemd?  ;) On 4/10/19 7:10 AM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote: > Adding software the user doesn't want > to have it as assumed for other users is always a trade-off. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Martin Kolman
On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 14:20 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:11 PM Adam Williamson > wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 12:54 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 12:07, Lennart Poettering > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Heya, > > > > > > > > today I

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 10.04.19 08:16, Julen Landa Alustiza (ju...@zokormazo.info) wrote: > I'm really interested on the livet crash, but I can't reproduce it with > latest branched compose. > Can you provide us with reproduction steps? Urks, I don't remember. I think created an ESP part, two ext4 partitions,

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Di, 09.04.19 18:34, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > > Ideally, the top 4 wouldn't be installed at all anymore (in case of > > the first two at least on the systems which do not need them). But if > > that's not in the cards, it would be great to at least not enable > > these

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mi, 10.04.19 12:49, Kamil Paral (kpa...@redhat.com) wrote: > > Hmm, but the installed OS is not 100% the same as the livesys, or is > > it? If not, it should be possible to add a "systemctl disable > > dmraid.service --root=/path/to/os" somewhere, no? > > AFAIK, they are 100% same. There's a

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Brian (bex) Exelbierd
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 8:40 PM Japheth Cleaver wrote: > Is this really worth the effort? cronie in F30 is a 103K package, and a > decent chunk of that might be the ChangeLog. crontabs is all of 18K, > which is 95% the GPL and the RPM header. It seems like a very small > price to pay for something

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Kamil Paral
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 8:21 PM Lennart Poettering wrote: > Hmm, but the installed OS is not 100% the same as the livesys, or is > it? If not, it should be possible to add a "systemctl disable > dmraid.service --root=/path/to/os" somewhere, no? > AFAIK, they are 100% same. There's a hack, check

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Kamil Paral
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:35 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > 1. multipathd. > > I'm pretty sure it gets dragged in by the installer Nope, multipath seems to be present because libblockdev and udisks (and perhaps some more), which is in turn required by GNOME: $ rpm -q --whatrequires

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mardi 09 avril 2019 à 10:11 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit : > > To be specific here, 'at' is part of the @standard group. 'chrony' is > pulled in several ways. It's part of @standard *if gnome-control- > center > is being installed*, so effectively it'll be installed with > Workstation > but

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-10 Thread Julen Landa Alustiza
I'm really interested on the livet crash, but I can't reproduce it with latest branched compose. Can you provide us with reproduction steps? Hau idatzi du Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) erabiltzaileak (2019 api. 10, az. (02:59)): > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 8:35 PM Chris Murphy > wrote: > > > >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-09 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 8:35 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:07 AM Lennart Poettering > wrote: > > > > Heya, > > > > today I installed the current Fedora 30 Workstation beta on my new > > laptop. It was a bumpy ride, I must say (the partitioner (blivet?) > > crashed five

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:07 AM Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Heya, > > today I installed the current Fedora 30 Workstation beta on my new > laptop. It was a bumpy ride, I must say (the partitioner (blivet?) > crashed five times or so on me, always kicking me out of anaconda > again, just because

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-09 Thread mcatanzaro
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: To be specific here, 'at' is part of the @standard group. 'chrony' is pulled in several ways. It's part of @standard *if gnome-control-center is being installed*, so effectively it'll be installed with Workstation but not other

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
On 4/9/19 2:14 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Di, 09.04.19 12:54, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> I think these two are here because of the blivet you mentioned earlier. >> Advanced partitioning requires them to be there... and there do seem to be >> people who actually do

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-09 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Di, 09.04.19 20:12, Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 19:27, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Hmm? Can you elaborate? Why does fwupd's runtime have something to do > > with display flickers? Not grokking the connection? > > More information in >

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-09 Thread Richard Hughes
On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 19:27, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Hmm? Can you elaborate? Why does fwupd's runtime have something to do > with display flickers? Not grokking the connection? More information in https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/commit/75b965d01d80d70ae51816acd4d4cafdaf792e99 -- in the case

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-09 Thread Cole Robinson
On 4/9/19 2:20 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Di, 09.04.19 10:11, Adam Williamson (adamw...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > >> Basically, anything that's part of the install environment is going to >> be present after a live install. That accounts for both of the above: >> the installer supports

Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

2019-04-09 Thread Cole Robinson
On 4/9/19 2:24 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Di, 09.04.19 14:16, Cole Robinson (crobi...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> On 4/9/19 1:09 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:07:09PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: multipathd [...] And beyond that, this daemon is

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