Making Android system properties available to Upstart

2013-07-10 Thread James Hunt
of a better way to solve this problem, please jump in. Kind regards, James. -- James Hunt (*) - just like 'watchprop' does in the Android environment. #upstart on freenode http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart

Patch Pilot report 2013-05-13

2013-05-13 Thread James Hunt
the momentum going so we can turn [2] into a wall of green^H^H^H^H^H err blue sky and sunshine! :-) Kind regards, James. -- James Hunt #upstart on freenode http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel -- ubuntu-devel

Re: DEP-8 tests

2013-05-13 Thread James Hunt
On 13/05/13 13:59, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Montag, den 13.05.2013, 13:36 +0100 schrieb James Hunt: Great to see all these new DEP-8 tests [1] appearing! Let's keep the momentum going so we can turn [2] into a wall of green^H^H^H^H^H err blue sky and sunshine! :-) I found a bug: [1] and [2

Re: Further Coverity info

2013-04-10 Thread James Hunt
://scan.coverity.com/upload.html [4] - http://www.catb.org/~esr/coverity-submit/ James Hunt #upstart on freenode http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com

Coverity static analysis for C, C++ and Java code

2013-04-08 Thread James Hunt
is not. Kind regards, James. [1] - http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/coverity-static-analysis-for-c-c-and.html [2] - http://scan.coverity.com/ [3] - http://scan.coverity.com/all-projects.html -- James Hunt #upstart on freenode http://upstart.ubuntu.com

Re: Coverity static analysis for C, C++ and Java code

2013-04-08 Thread James Hunt
On 08/04/13 13:57, Matthias Klose wrote: Am 08.04.2013 14:13, schrieb James Hunt: As a precis of my earlier blog post [1], I'd like to encourage those involved with a C, C++ or Java project in Ubuntu to take a look at the Coverity Scan static-analysis service offered free to OSS projects [2

Re: Coverity static analysis for C, C++ and Java code

2013-04-08 Thread James Hunt
On 08/04/13 14:45, Colin Ian King wrote: On 08/04/13 14:40, James Hunt wrote: On 08/04/13 13:57, Matthias Klose wrote: Am 08.04.2013 14:13, schrieb James Hunt: As a precis of my earlier blog post [1], I'd like to encourage those involved with a C, C++ or Java project in Ubuntu to take

procenv and buildd environments

2012-11-29 Thread James Hunt
] - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procenv (expand version 'twistie' for build logs) [7] - https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Raring/view/AutoPkgTest/job/raring-adt-procenv/ -- James Hunt http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook

Patch Pilot report 2012-11-26

2012-11-26 Thread James Hunt
regards, James. -- James Hunt http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/upstart_cookbook.pdf -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Enhanced Upstart User Sessions for the Raring desktop

2012-11-22 Thread James Hunt
wonder if we should make this /etc/xdg/upstart/user/ (*) to make it clear the common jobs in that directory are only for Upstart running as a non-priv Session Init. Kind regards, James. (*) - or even /etc/xdg/init/upstart/user/ maybe. -- James Hunt http

Enhanced Upstart User Sessions for the Raring desktop

2012-11-20 Thread James Hunt
). Comments Welcome. If you would like to get involved in this project, please let me know. Kind regards, James. [1] - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-r-upstart-user-session-enhancements -- James Hunt http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook

Re: Enhanced Upstart User Sessions for the Raring desktop

2012-11-20 Thread James Hunt
Original Message Subject: Re: Enhanced Upstart User Sessions for the Raring desktop Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:53:40 + From: James Hunt james.h...@ubuntu.com Reply-To: james.h...@ubuntu.com To: Evan Huus eapa...@gmail.com CC: Upstart Devel List upstart-de...@lists.ubuntu.com

Patch pilot report 2012-07-31

2012-07-31 Thread James Hunt
/+source/nss-pam-ldapd/+bug/806761 Reviewed but user appears to have attached wrong version of patch. Asked for clarification and provided some advice on possible job modification. Kind regards, James. -- James Hunt http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook http

Re: event based initramfs

2012-05-17 Thread James Hunt
On 16/05/12 19:09, Phillip Susi wrote: On 5/16/2012 9:01 AM, James Hunt wrote: The most obvious reason is that the initramfs has it's own init system (a big shell script). So, an Ubuntu system with an initramfs has two different init systems. By reducing this down to just Upstart, we get

Re: Call for testing: Upstart 1.4 in Ubuntu

2012-01-07 Thread James Hunt
a lot of additional effort to ensure all the recovery paths are failsafe and I wonder if that effort wouldn't be better directed at just testing the latest init? Kind regards, James. -- James Hunt [1] - If you think this would be useful please raise a bug. [2] - http://people.canonical.com

Call for testing: Upstart 1.4 in Ubuntu

2011-12-22 Thread James Hunt
and ends *before* the disk becomes writeable will not currently have output logged. Note: both limitations are currently being addressed. [3] - https://launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/+archive/upstart-job-logging -- James Hunt http://upstart.ubuntu.com

Upstart helpers (abstract jobs and event aliases) for Oneiric

2011-06-07 Thread James Hunt
/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-o-upstart-convert-main-initd-to-jobs [2] - http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-o/meeting/foundations-o-upstart-convert-main-initd-to-jobs/ -- James Hunt -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-12 Thread James Hunt
On 11/05/11 20:07, Patrick Goetz wrote: On 05/11/2011 05:25 AM, James Hunt wrote: The best place to start is: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/TechnicalOverviewUpstart This section: ...if a job configuration file specified the following complex

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread James Hunt
On 10/05/11 21:45, Phillip Susi wrote: On 5/10/2011 4:15 PM, James Hunt wrote: If you are seeing strange behaviour, please raise bugs so we can look at them. It is a design limitation AFAIK, not a bug. At least the last time I asked SJR about it, Upstart doesn't use cgroups to track

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread James Hunt
On 10/05/11 21:45, Phillip Susi wrote: On 5/10/2011 4:15 PM, James Hunt wrote: If you are seeing strange behaviour, please raise bugs so we can look at them. It is a design limitation AFAIK, not a bug. At least the last time I asked SJR about it, Upstart doesn't use cgroups to track

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
underpowered laptop, we provide the ability to disable that job. Yes, the interface is simple, but does it really need to be any more complex than it is? James. -- James Hunt Ubuntu Foundations Team, Canonical. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
Hi Martin, On 09/05/11 21:01, Martin Pitt wrote: Steve Langasek [2011-05-09 12:36 +0200]: It's one thing to have a rollback plan for which desktop experience is shipped by default; that touches a handful of closely related packages. It's quite another to try to roll back an init system

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
On 09/05/11 19:34, Patrick Goetz wrote: I think the discussion found in this bug report makes a fairly compelling argument that Ubuntu should probably migrate to systemd sooner rather than later. Note particularly that a take away message from this is that services like apache and postfix

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
On 10/05/11 11:46, Steffen Barszus wrote: Look its new and it has bells and whistles lets move to that is not a valid argument for moving to a new init. +1000. James. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
Hi Phillip, On 10/05/11 18:39, Phillip Susi wrote: On 5/10/2011 6:46 AM, Steffen Barszus wrote: So the discussion should be on how to evaluate systemd , and set a number of criterias to benchmark both. Then the better one should be planned for slow migration. Look its new and it has bells

Re: Test version of Upstart with full chroot support available

2011-04-15 Thread James Hunt
with upstart-0.9.6-1ubuntu1~jh1. Feel free to re-test and let me know how it goes. Cheers, James. -- James Hunt Ubuntu Foundations Team, Canonical. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Test version of Upstart with full chroot support available

2011-04-11 Thread James Hunt
requests to re-connect to dbus from chrooted processes, but I haven't gotten very deep in to debugging it yet. Hi Clint, Thanks for highlighting this. It actually looks like a namespace leak that is causing the issue - I'm investigating now... Cheers, James. - -- James Hunt

Test version of Upstart with full chroot support available

2011-04-08 Thread James Hunt
) now checks Upstart stanza syntax and script sections. [1] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/TechnicalOverviewUpstart Kind regards, James. - -- James Hunt Ubuntu Foundations Team, Canonical. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux

Upstart Cookbook

2011-04-01 Thread James Hunt
added in the Natty Features yet - manana! - -- James Hunt Ubuntu Foundations Team, Canonical. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Upstart Cookbook

2011-04-01 Thread James Hunt
(hopefully) covers all this: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#job-lifecycle Cheers, James. - -- James Hunt Ubuntu Foundations Team, Canonical. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: Upstart Cookbook

2011-04-01 Thread James Hunt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/11 22:11, Scott James Remnant wrote: /On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:34 PM, James Hunt james.h...@canonical.com mailto:james.h...@canonical.com wrote: Clint and I have been hard at work on an Upstart Cookbook. Although it is early days, we

Upstart 0.9.2 PPA for testing

2011-03-11 Thread James Hunt
for upstart job configuration files. - -- Cheers, James. - -- James Hunt Ubuntu Foundations Team, Canonical. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org