Ubuntu initramfs (Was: Re: any reason for CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y)

2022-08-09 Thread Richard Laager
On 8/9/22 11:38, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: The fast majority of Ubuntu installations boot without initramfs at all. What makes you say this? Every Ubuntu system I've ever installed has an initrd.img-KERNEL_VERSION in /boot. In this context, I'm talking about systems installed using the

Re: Third party patch licensing

2022-05-25 Thread Richard Laager
On 5/25/22 12:59, Athos Ribeiro wrote: I contacted the patch author to wonder how we could re-distribute the patch (see the discussion in [2]). They agreed to license it with the upstream project's license (AGPLv3), and I suggested the approach described in [4]. Since IANAL, I decided to ask

Re: Include `::1 localhost` in /etc/hosts

2022-04-20 Thread Richard Laager
On 4/20/22 15:48, Treysis wrote: Not having localhost to resolve to ::1 is getting problematic. Why? Can you elaborate on the issue(s) you're seeing? I've always assumed the trade-off is as follows: A) localhost resolves to ::1 (with or without 127.0.0.1 too) Pro: Things can use IPv6

Re: Installers, feature request

2021-07-29 Thread Richard Laager
These days, just use TRIM support. As long as your filesystem isn't 100% full, this is going to achieve the same (actually better) effect. With either approach, the drive will have plenty of unused space for wear leveling. With TRIM, the drive also knows not to bother copying data around for

Re: ufw: add ability to restore ipset to support sshguard

2021-02-21 Thread Richard Laager
Here's a bug report for it, which you may want to subscribe to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ufw/+bug/1571579 FWIW, I too would love to see ufw have ipset support. I would use this for fail2ban integration as well as some permit rules for various applications. -- Richard --

Re: Update Ubuntu Coturn Packages to 4.5.1.3

2020-12-12 Thread Richard Laager
On 12/9/20 11:34 AM, Andrea Xheli wrote: Can Ubuntu please update the Coturn package currently on the Ubuntu 20.04  LTS https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/coturn its 4.5.1.1 and the latest version is from https://github.com/coturn/coturn  4.5.1.3 Ubuntu does not update packages in a given

Re: UBUNTU ARM64 DEB PACKAGES on DEBIAN RELATED VERSION

2020-03-23 Thread Richard Laager
On 3/22/20 4:49 PM, Onur GURSOY wrote: > In general, you are doing something for ubuntu for packaging ?  > I can say, Most of ubuntu packages are fully compatible with debian > buster/sid or something like that version? In practice, there is a fair amount of binary compatibility between Ubuntu

Re: State of libeigen3-dev in Ubuntu Focal

2020-02-25 Thread Richard Laager
On 2/25/20 2:29 PM, Mike Purvis wrote: > Would it be reasonable to patch this change onto the current 3.3.7 > version to avoid dependent packages turning off warnings or doing other > workarounds? Without knowing the specifics of the patch, most likely. But you're running out of time. At this

Re: Feature request: Could you make "Software Updater" download only the parts that have changed? Torrents divide a file into hashes and only download the missing parts. Could updates work in a simila

2019-12-01 Thread Richard Laager
Please file feature requests in Launchpad, on the appropriate package. -- Richard > On Nov 30, 2019, at 14:42, Clinton H <49studeba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ubuntu 19.10 > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >

Re: ZFS feature flags

2019-10-23 Thread Richard Laager
On 10/19/19 4:43 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > I don't have much to say about most of this, but noticed this bit: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:48:42PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: >> The same implementation could (and if I have my way, will) be used to >> provide a features=

Re: ZFS feature flags

2019-10-17 Thread Richard Laager
TL;DR: I think the installer should default to all features, so I think the current behavior is correct. I would support the installer gaining an option to default to a subset of features (e.g. using the future features=portable mechanism) to make the pool more portable. If the desktop GUI