Re: apt-get update --on-error=any

2021-02-18 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 5:14 AM Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > I just realized I did not yet widely advertise that hirsute has a new > --error-on=any argument for apt{,-get} update that makes it also > consider transient errors as errors instead of warnings. > > I think a bunch of people asked for

Re: General mechanism to supply "rich history" to git-ubuntu

2021-02-02 Thread Scott Moser
I think this is great. I think it is a game-changer for ubuntu development. Thank you. One thought inline. > > 5) If the commits pass sanity checks (eg. the final commit matches the > upload exactly), then it uses the commits provided instead of > synthesizing its own. > > What goes into

Re: SRU shift report: 2020-09-23

2020-09-24 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 1:41 PM Robie Basak wrote: > > On my SRU shift today, I'm disappointed to report that out of sixteen > packages I looked at, I didn't end up accepting a single one. Some of > this is because I ran out of time, but I am writing this report because > I think that with some he

Re: Migrating Bazaar repositories to Git on Launchpad

2018-11-26 Thread Scott Moser
Hi balint, Thanks for bzr-git-maas-convert. I wonder if you'd be interested in attempting to add a few features to it that I have used in my bzr2git I have a gist at https://gist.github.com/smoser/e4e5388faa6dcc92d8acfb1b7fbabb7c which i utilize and hand-patch a installed bzr-fastimport. The cha

Re: broken packages in xenial-updates

2018-06-21 Thread Scott Moser
, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:39 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > We have a curtin test that runs (simplified) > apt-get update > apt-get install linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04 > The jenkins run [1] failed on Monday (06-11), console log at [2] with > the following: > > | Some packages could

broken packages in xenial-updates

2018-06-13 Thread Scott Moser
We have a curtin test that runs (simplified) apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04 The jenkins run [1] failed on Monday (06-11), console log at [2] with the following: | Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have | requested an impossible situati

Server team meeting minutes: 2017-10-31

2017-10-31 Thread Scott Moser
== Meeting information == * #ubuntu-meeting: ubuntu-server-team, 31 Oct at 16:02 — 16:23 UTC * Full logs at [[http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-10-31-16.02.log.html]] == Meeting summary == === Review ACTION points from the previous meeting === The d

Re: upcoming changes to Ubuntu cloud images via cloud-init

2017-02-22 Thread Scott Moser
[Replying and adding ubuntu-cloud and ubuntu-cloud-announce] In an effort to improve the performance and efficiency of Ubuntu's cloud images[1], cloud-init is making some changes in the way that it searches for datasources. By making use of environment information that platforms provide such as D

upcoming changes to Ubuntu cloud images via cloud-init

2017-02-22 Thread Scott Moser
In an effort to improve the performance and efficiency of Ubuntu's cloud images[1], cloud-init is making some changes in the way that it searches for datasources. By making use of environment information that platforms provide such as DMI (Desktop Management Interface) data, cloud-init can quickly

moving of ppp packages from standard seed

2016-02-04 Thread Scott Moser
Hey all, For Ubuntu Server we've been doing some work on our seeds to try to trim down default installations. There are 3 packages related to ppp (ppp pppconfig pppoeconf) that we plan to remove from the 'server' seed. I've opened bug 1541422 [1] to track that. What I've done so far is to remove

FYI: systemd in cloud-images

2014-08-06 Thread Scott Moser
Hey, Just wanted to let people know that thanks to Dimitri's help, we now have systemd in the cloud images. It is inert by default, but we've set up a way that you can launch an instance to boot with systemd. By feeding the instance some user-data, cloud-init will boot up to its early stages, s

Re: remove i386 from foreign arch on server install?

2014-02-14 Thread Scott Moser
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Scott Ritchie wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > > I really think that 98% of all people who would possibly touch a amd64 > > server ISO will never install a i386 package. > > > > That's probably accurate, however

Re: remove i386 from foreign arch on server install?

2014-02-14 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Iain Lane wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:42:09AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > […] > > I personally think its an extremely high cost bandwidth cost spread across > > Canonical, other mirror pr

Re: remove i386 from foreign arch on server install?

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Moser
B in 11s (1,687 kB/s) du /var/lib/apt/lists: 94M So 40M of space and 7M of network traffic and 5 seconds of time (having hit a local proxy). I really think that 98% of all people who would possibly touch a amd64 server ISO will never install a i386 package. > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:

remove i386 from foreign arch on server install?

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Moser
Hey all, I just did an ISO server install of trusty server, and I end up with 'i386' in the output of: $ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386 I really wish we'd have done it earlier, but I really think that most of the time this is just a waste of network traffic on 'apt-get update' on

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2014-01-21 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:39:44AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:35:40AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote:

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:35:40AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I think it's helpful for user-facing documentation for it to be > > > consistently installed by default, espec

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:50:02AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Colin, it looks like you were the only person to have ever touched this > > package in the seeds - and that only to move it from minimal to standard. > > Do you think we can move memtest8

Re: is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-10 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 08:47:39PM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > > Hey all, > > Looking at the contents of the cloud images, memtest86+ is one of the > > packages that I questioned the necessity of in a cloud image. > > Tha

is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

2013-12-09 Thread Scott Moser
Hey all, Looking at the contents of the cloud images, memtest86+ is one of the packages that I questioned the necessity of in a cloud image. That is in the cloud images as cloud images are ubuntu-server and ubuntu-standard tasks plus a small amount of other packages. memtest86+ was added to s

Re: Ubuntu Server seeded package review

2013-12-05 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:33:26PM +, James Page wrote: > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu.trusty/view/head:/cloud-image > > > > Description: Default cloud-image install > > > > tasksel (drops aptitude etc.) > [...] >

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] Ubuntu cloud image '-root.tar.gz' content changes

2013-10-28 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Robert Collins wrote: > On 29 October 2013 07:46, Scott Moser wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > tldr; > > As we look forward to the 14.04 deliverable of cloud images, we're wanting > > to reduce legacy formats and streamline those that we h

Ubuntu cloud image '-root.tar.gz' content changes

2013-10-28 Thread Scott Moser
Hi all, tldr; As we look forward to the 14.04 deliverable of cloud images, we're wanting to reduce legacy formats and streamline those that we have. If you're a consumer of the '-root.tar.gz' file then read on. The change suggested here will *only* affect the -root.tar.gz file. We make s

Re: Systems with invalid locales

2013-06-04 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Adam Conrad wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:18:40AM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote: > > > > I wonder if it might be high time to discuss slapping C.UTF-8 in the > > default locale in pretty much every minimal installation scenario we > > can think of (obviously, still overriding

Re: Releasing Alphas and Betas without "freezing"

2012-06-18 Thread Scott Moser
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > With our dailies, I've found that the milestones are most useful for > > planning bug fix landings and feature deliverables. I'd be +1 on > > dropping alphas all together. [...] > > I'd certainly agree that the main value of milestones is as target da

Re: “debootstrap” 1.0.40~precise1 available in precise-backports

2012-04-30 Thread Scott Moser
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:42:50PM -0400, Scott Moser wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > This debootstrap knows about quantal. It just finished building and > > > should be > > > availa

Re: “debootstrap” 1.0.40~precise1 available in precise-backports

2012-04-30 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Scott Kitterman wrote: > This debootstrap knows about quantal. It just finished building and should be > available in less than an hour for precise backports. Could we make debootstrap use distro-info or distro-info-data ? I really like the idea of maintaining a list of rel

Patch Pilot Report 2011-12-21

2011-12-21 Thread Scott Moser
- fix-for-825807-2 https://code.launchpad.net/~cldunlap1/ubuntu/oneiric/kubuntu-docs/fix-for-825807-2/+merge/78134 lp:~cldunlap1/ubuntu/oneiric/kubuntu-docs/fix-for-825807-2 I pinged David Wonderly and Riddell in IRC as to if this was merged, it seems to me that it was not. - merge lapto

any kernel modules requested for -virtual kernel?

2011-12-13 Thread Scott Moser
Hello all, I just ran into a bug where the -virtual kernel was missing a module (veth) that I needed for something I was doing with a cloud-image on openstack (bug 903897). I figured it would be valuable to ask a larger community which modules you've wanted to use in a cloud instance. I kn

Patch Pilot Report 2011-10-17

2011-10-17 Thread Scott Moser
- lp:~psusi/ubuntu/natty/gnome-power-manager/fix-duplicate-battery https://code.launchpad.net/~psusi/ubuntu/natty/gnome-power-manager/fix-duplicate-battery/+merge/67466 This should be marked as merged (verified with mdeslaur). Neither he nor I can do that though. If you see this, and you

patch pilot report 2011-08-22

2011-08-22 Thread Scott Moser
Below is what I worked on during my patch pilot time today. General theme is that I'm either unsure how to or unable to get some of these off of the sponsorship queue. At very least, lp:~bones/ubuntu/natty/radiotray/fix-for-722886 should be dropped, but read below for others. - lp:~pali/ubuntu/n

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > > With no further digging, only looking at > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/Logs , 4 out of the last > > 11 meetings scheduled did not happen.  3 of thos

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Nathan Handler wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Chase Douglas > wrote: > > True, but progress sometimes means change. I think this system would > > work better, and if proven right it could be a model for other boards to > > adopt. If it's worse, then the DMB can easil

Patch Pilot Report 2011-07-22

2011-07-22 Thread Scott Moser
- lp:~vanvugt/ubuntu/natty/bcmwl/fix-793890 https://code.launchpad.net/~vanvugt/ubuntu/natty/bcmwl/fix-793890/+merge/67294 This trivial fix needs merging and uploading to natty-proposed. The fix for bug 776439 was merged and uploaded to natty-proposed, but was broken on install, causing t

Re: Patch Piloting: how much of the extra mile do you go?

2011-07-22 Thread Scott Moser
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm interested to see how patch piloting works out for you as reviewers > and how much the workflows in our team differ. > > When I did my shift last week I noticed that a couple of merge proposals > had their last comment saying "W

Patch Pilot Report 2011-06-17

2011-06-17 Thread Scott Moser
- uscan should support parsing s3 bucket listings http://pad.lv/798293 Deleted the merge proposal (it was mine), and let it possibly come through debian. - modglue version 1.17-2 failed to build on i386 http://pad.lv/755920 debdiff attached looks very straight forward, and fixes a FTBFS

Patch Pilot Report 2011-04-15

2011-04-15 Thread Scott Moser
I did make some progress. One overall theme I see is that there are things in that queue that should not be there. That means that patch-pilots (or anyone using it, really) potentially lose time reading bugs and coming to the conclusion that "this is not ready". I'm not a member of ubuntu-sponso

Patch Pilot Report 2011-03-18

2011-03-18 Thread Scott Moser
Hi, I have only PPU access to the Ubuntu archive, and no items in the list fell into my permissions, so I mainly just review and get things into better state for the next person. I have one general question, if something should not really be on the queue, what should be done ? Specifically,

Re: SSH and the Ubuntu Server

2010-11-19 Thread Scott Moser
Sorry if anyone gets dupes of the message below. I sent from a phone, and its sitting (i think) in moderator limbo. On Nov 18, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > Hello, > >>> >>> Please consider that the very definition of a "server" implies that >>> the system is running a "service"

Re: tool for getting changes between versions of a package

2010-10-20 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Kate Stewart wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 09:31 -0400, Scott Moser wrote: > > Hi all, > >I've got a need to generate a list of changes from manifest 'A' to > > manifest 'B'. I know the release for the manifest, and that i