video driver, but I
gave up on plymouth as a generic solution. Maybe it works well with
systemd, but from what I gathered the last time, it is (or used to be)
explicitly disabled on unsupported video cards by the relevant
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in order to augment package's dependencies before
depclean...
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? I have /dev/pts bind-mounted from the (old)
host filesystem into chroot, yet pt_chown has its suid bit happily
disabled in deployed build since long time ago.
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permissions. However, you
*would* see such a bind-mount as a devpts mount in /proc/mounts. So
why not print a warning — what's the point of dying in pkg_preinst?
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://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424816
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, with its multiple versions and
subversions. In this case, 6000{,g2{a,b}} are different cards, and
-[456] are different firmware APIs, with multiple APIs supported by a
given kernel. See, e.g.,
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c.
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.
It is relevant in the sense that it is not straightforward to prevent
the kernel from installing firmware in /lib/firmware, which might
result in collisions.
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often than not,
individual packages are preferable, because they are versioned/slotted
and go through a proper stabilization process (e.g., iwlwifi). Perhaps
that conclusion was incorrect, but the point is that information on
the subject was scarce, to say the least.
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on what's going on? BFS instead of DFS search when satisfying ||?
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months ago), so perhaps and update in portage caused
the issue. On the other hand, this is just a hypothesis.
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in the future.
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote:
I will try another full build tomorrow, and if the issue persists, try to
uncover the culprit (naturally, my build script is somewhat more
complex than emerge -upvDN @world I tried above, so hopefully the
issue is reproducible
masked? There are no open bugs, so what's the point?
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/master/src/root/helpers/lst-firmwares
You can encounter superfluous warnings with modules that support
multiple firmware subversions (e.g., iwlwifi).
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote:
(I guess older kernel sources came with the firmware?)
See e.g. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42689#c5
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— perhaps a variable as was suggested already.
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. All of these are valid reasons for
not installing all possible firmware. Don't assume that your use case
is identical to everyone else's.
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for that if it
comes out even close to sane.
It is possible to start with something much simpler but still very
useful: savedconfig in rsync include format, for glob patterns
support.
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— this has been tested with
OVMF and real Secure Boot hardware.)
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: The Great Wiping
Controversy”, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89862-7_21
[2] E. Gal and S. Toledo, “Algorithms and Data Structures for Flash
Memories”, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1089733.1089735
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were replaced
with Javascript …/polkit-1/rules.d/*.rules files. The XML
.../polkit-1/actions/*.policy are still relevant. That's how they
roll, I guess — defaults in XML (called “actions”, extension
“.policy”), and local changes in Javascript (called “rules”).
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? There are no open bugs
besides the collision one (easy to solve with a rename?), and issues
with journaling filesystems / wear leveling / whatnot are generic
problems with secure deletion that can't be solved in userspace
anyway.
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are people supposed to use instead, dd if=/dev/zero
of=/media/sdcard/naked_gf_0001.jpg? Besides, there are complementary
tools in the package, like sfill.
[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1202656
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the question whether developers are familiar with how things are
done on Unix:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58787
Sudo even supports regex!
Only glob patterns, and it's not too good at that.
http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=500
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widespread is client DNSSEC support? E.g.,
I enabled DNSSEC for my domain, but not sure yet whether DNS
resolution anywhere will fail in case DNS responses are spoofed.
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, providing a
migration path.
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the tree, perhaps some guards should be put in place to avoid having a
snapshot with bad digests for 24 hours? E.g., a commit moratorium, or
verification of all digests in a temporary tree copy before archiving,
or synchronizing to a copy tree until the result is stable.
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someone feels like figuring it out on the glibc bug
opened by vapier). I certainly have no desire to read condescending
replies. If I wanted a flamewar, I would have probably mentioned that
glibc uses /var/db for the database, which is not FHS-compliant.
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?
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sunday 30 December 2012 13:47:40 Maxim Kammerer wrote:
Desktop users would probably benefit more from glibc databases, if they
worked: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432020
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla
to the system not being responsive
due to some other reason, though. But maybe I am expecting too much,
with even PolKit delegating each query to a full-blown Javascript
library nowadays.
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://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14498
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covered, will you cover sandboxing, installing to image
vs. merging to live system, etc.? I would expect students to like such
stuff.
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:18 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 12/17/2012 07:11 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
Then convert to autotools, update
dependencies. Do it all on GitHub, with a separate branch for
converting to autotools.
That's not really a common thing to do for ebuild
interface. Being
signed by MS is just a technical way to achieve that user
friendliness. So personally, I don't think that rushing to support
shim in Gentoo is that critical, since users can be expected to enroll
certificates by themselves.
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don't think the difference matters much
to the user. By the way, shim's interface is not much prettier than
the one provided by OVMF — I am a bit disappointed. :)
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On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
I think it is possible to use the unetbootin utility to make the
minimal iso image boot from a USB flash disk.
Just make the real thing…
https://github.com/mkdesu/liberte/blob/master/src/root/mkimage
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/gst-plugins-bad — perhaps one or the other
should be removed.
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requires HTTP access (whereas many firewalls restrict
RSYNC). Besides, emerge-webrsync can check PGP signatures, so I think
that it should be the primary recommended portage tree synchronization
method.
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
jmbsvice...@gentoo.org wrote:
I propose to commit this news item in 2 or 3 days. Does anyone have
any comments about it?
Several comments:
1. Maybe note that /etc/portage/make.conf takes precedence over /etc/make.conf?
2. New
for the old locations here but
about makeing the new location the default.
My point is that if you copy make.conf to /etc automatically, an
/etc/portage/make.conf in stage3 will break the procedure because it
takes precedence.
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will override
settings from /etc/make.conf.”
“If both /etc/make.profile/ and /etc/portage/make.profile/ exist, then
/etc/make.profile/ will be preferred.”
(no mention of /etc/make.globals, though — perhaps it can be removed
from stage3)
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://bugs.gentoo.org/427862
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, graphics, etc.).
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allowed extra arguments to useradd previously —
however, this feature was removed, probably because enewuser-like
functions are supposed to be multi-platform. I think that -M didn't
work even back then, since home directory is created explicitly by
enewuser.
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() is on the way
out [2]. All-in-all, I think that a --do-not-create-homedir (or a
shorter equivalent) is a good idea.
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395961#c1
[2]
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ed43ed0df212ea26ef953fb061e9e860.xml
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developers who have to deal with backwards compatibility issues and
established usage conventions as thick bureaucrats.
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be deferred to the regular post-initramfs services (such as
localmount) — on the other hand, maybe you want to do the same (mount
branches read-only in initramfs, and remount them read-write in an
init.d service).
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fork. [1]
[1]
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_72b87bf5888d6f6e675429dbfe420db5.xml
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udevd,
50k libudev, 500k resident memory), and I didn't even try compiling it
with all extra features switched off. If that's too large for an
embedded device, does that device really need (or can handle) anything
more than devtmpfs?
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build.
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available, this variable is
probably best left alone.
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other
filesystems, with or without the 0xEF / GUID marker above.
and should be 256 MB or so.
No such requirement.
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Anthony G. Basile bluen...@gentoo.org wrote:
I can take care of it if no one else wants it.
Just a comment: it's a great tool with responsive upstream (they just
added SOCK_CLOEXEC support because I asked for it).
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote:
Multilib (and/or multiarch) support
Sorry for a possibly ignorant question. Does multilib support include
the ability to build Busybox against uclibc (on a glibc system)?
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is public, and no, it doesn't add keys,
that's up to the BIOS to do, not the userspace tool.
So the re-signing mentioned above must be done in a tedious manual
process? Or can some automatic tool be developed (not necessary
userspace, it can be an EFI app)?
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(listing / extracting drivers, revoking keys, adding keys, etc.)?
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-play utility. To enable the gtk+3 sound effects add
canberra-gtk-module to the colon separated list of modules in the
GTK_MODULES environment variable. — very unclear: is it needed?
recommended? also, why doesn't the package handle the environment
variable by itself?
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experiencing any problems because of it, so I think that it
would be reasonable to have it enabled by default.
Ditto, ~2 years with regular full @world rebuild.
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- they're using it whether they like it or not.
IIRC, it was about git-svn specifically, although I think you are
right: developers will use git and GitHub because they fulfill a need,
regardless of policies.
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is that, while
/usr/games have found some uses in Gentoo “because it's there”, it is
pure legacy. However, /usr/games and associated directories *are* part
of the FHS [1], and are older than X [2].
[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
[2] http://unix-tree.huihoo.org/V7/
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things harder. And proves no point unless
we're going to ensure that all web browsers, ssh clients and other
applications in danger of being used to play games.
Sometimes users do not have Internet access or even ability to connect
removable media.
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dependencies DAG is usually unnecessary and
an overkill.
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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev
tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote:
Current local flags that could probably be unified:
What about USE=orc? It's JIT in a sense — IIRC, it creates an
executable in /tmp at run-time.
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as a small subset of udev core reimplemented with scripts.
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to mount /proc and parse
/proc/mounts in order to find out whether a directory is a mount
point, since Busybox has a mountpoint applet (and of course, one
could stat the directory and its parent, and compare device IDs, but
again...).
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/dev mount attempt in the code is supposed
to use /etc/fstab, but Busybox's mount options are not always
compatible with util-linux mount, so maybe that's not a good idea
anyway.
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are probably
right, since /dev fstab options are unlikely to hit the
incompatibilities (lack of iversion support and -o ro,loop oddity are
those that I noticed).
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(merely SSE[1]).
I knew I'd get called on that. s/every/almost every
I suspect that you are missing the point; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Athlon_XP_microprocessors.
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problems.
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.
Is there any other issue with grub:2 that would keep me from unmasking
(adding keywords) on x86 and amd64? I plan on waiting for the 2.00
release.
Note that whereas 1.99 searches for modules in $prefix, 2.00 searches
for them in $prefix/arch.
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would call it mature
and stable. I am not aware of the current state of affairs wrt.
Unionfs vs. aufs, and whether the propaganda at unionfs.org still
holds water, though. Too bad that there is no stacking filesystem in
the mainline kernel.
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with genkernel-generated
scripts for a long time, I wouldn't touch it with a pointed stick
anymore). The relevant files can be also generated automatically
during an upgrade (empty early modules and empty or /usr-only early
mounts, depending on /etc/fstab contents).
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bad anyway? I am baffled. Its quite
nice to have a minimal recovery env in case mounting fails, etc, etc,
etc.
There is nothing bad about initramfs. I think that you are misreading
the arguments above.
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opportunistically try to fstabinfo --mount /usr 2/dev/null in
init.sh to support such usecases.
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