Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Paul Wouters p...@xelerance.com said: Bonus points for anaconda configuring a working agetty login if the install console was serial. That is, run agetty using the same linespeed as the install and add the serial device to securetty. This is handled automatically now; if the

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 24.11.10 00:06, Paul Wouters (p...@xelerance.com) wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote: That way most distros would only have to install one getty implementation, and can use it for both serial consoles and VCs. Yes please. Bonus points for anaconda

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de said: We currently still use the old securetty tool to patch those terminals into /etc/securetty on demand. I have submitted a patch to pam_securetty however, to make it look for console= on the kernel cmdline internally, which when

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 24.11.10 14:29, Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) wrote: Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de said: We currently still use the old securetty tool to patch those terminals into /etc/securetty on demand. I have submitted a patch to pam_securetty however, to make

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote: That way most distros would only have to install one getty implementation, and can use it for both serial consoles and VCs. Yes please. Bonus points for anaconda configuring a working agetty login if the install console was serial. That is, run

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-15 Thread Petr Pisar
On 2010-11-11, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Do we really want to keep mingetty around? [...] You apparently see value in keeping two almost identical getty implementations around. Can you elaborate why? Is there any feature missing in agetty that mingetty has? Till

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Petr Pisar
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:33:26PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer released the package. Since you're clearly working on it, I think it would make sense to pass

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 10.11.10 21:33, Bernie Innocenti (ber...@codewiz.org) wrote: Hello Petr, I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer released the package. Do we really want to keep mingetty around? We discussed

Re: Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-11 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:53:47PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 10.11.10 21:33, Bernie Innocenti (ber...@codewiz.org) wrote: Hello Petr, I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer

Passing ownership of mingetty

2010-11-10 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Hello Petr, I ended up being the owner of mingetty by chance, because I used to maintain it in the OLPC collection and the previous maintainer released the package. Since you're clearly working on it, I think it would make sense to pass ownership to you. If you agree, I will orphan the package