From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com>
To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: nosh version 1.29
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 11:41:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a119b179-9174-e7d1-17e8-c4bb4713aa64@NTLWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb978b38-4e56-2ad5-3625-ac4835dafb95@NTLWorld.com>
Bloody Thunderbird! Here's that again, I hope without the surprise
reformatting after pressing "send" this time:
The nosh package is now up to version 1.29.
* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/
*
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.html#The-nosh-Project
* http://jdebp.info./Softwares/nosh/
There's been a lot going on since version 1.28 .
2016 leap second
----------------
The TAI to UTC conversions know about the forthcoming leap second.
service bundles
---------------
As usual, there are several new service bundles, from powerd++ through
zfsd to fwknopd. The new fs-servers target allows one to order the
initialization of NFS servers before loop-to-self NFS mounts. The new
multi-user-pre target is another ordering target that allows services
such as the motd file updater to be ordered before TTY login services.
The instantiated kdm@tty7 and kdm@ttyv6 services have been replaced with
a single kdm service, with a view to dealing with display managers
better in the future. I have some plans in this area.
The Samba service names have been fixed. Debian calls them nmb, smb,
and winbind; but the Samba doco and most places on the WWW call them
nmbd, smbd, and winbindd. The latter names are used in the service
bundles package, with aliases pointing to them from the Debian names.
doco
----
The doco has been improved and kept up-to-date in various places,
including correct descriptions of set-service-env and print-service-env
after one confused user got in touch. PC-BSD is now named as TrueOS
where the reference is not historical.
code review
-----------
As a result of some code review that was offered, std::auto_ptr is now
gone and a rare memory corruption bug in safe_execvp() has been fixed.
Building from scratch when one doesn't have a prior daemontools or
freedt toolset installed also no longer hits a bug.
configuration import improvements
---------------------------------
In an effort to clear those last few remaining items on the nosh
roadmap, a whole load of configuration import (pppd, sppp, rfcomm_ppp,
dhclient, wpa_supplicant, natd, and hostapd) has been consolidated under
the umbrella of static-networking. I plan to expand this further in
1.31, given how much is already in 1.30.
Linux kernel VTs
----------------
Management of Linux kernel virtual terminals has some improvements,
including setting UTF-8 canonical mode editing and keyboard composition
modes, and emitting the control sequences that set up the screen saver.
tai64nlocal changes
-------------------
tai64nlocal has adopted a minor but important change from the BSD and
GNU C libraries: before reading the start of a line it flushes its
output. This came from trying to use it as a co-process in GNU awk. To
prevent deadlocks, GNU awk co-processes need to be in what is
effectively line buffered output mode even though their standard inputs
and outputs are not terminal devices. This is now the case for
tai64nlocal and it can be used to convert TAI64N timestamps as a GNU awk
co-process.
FreeBSD and TrueOS packaging
----------------------------
The largest change, however, is in the FreeBSD/TrueOS and OpenBSD packaging.
This is a change that is going to happen in the Debian packaging in a
later version. It's partly to simplify the package maintenance, and
partly a step towards having OpenBSD packages that work. A single
package description is fed to both the new pkg tool that exists on
FreeBSD/TrueOS and the old pkg tool that exists on OpenBSD. It's not
perfect, as there are things that are easy with the new pkg tool that
are hard with the old one; and the OpenBSD packages are still not fully
functional. But things are better than they were. The OpenBSD service
bundles package now almost properly sets up per-service user accounts
and log directories, for example.
=======================================================================
=========== IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTE FOR FreeBSD/TrueOS: ===============
=======================================================================
An important consequence of the aforementioned is that the semantics of
the nosh-bundles package have changed. In earlier versions, the various
nosh-run-* packages were how one set services running, except for a
small rump set of services that were set up by the nosh-bundles
package. This is now no longer the case. The nosh-bundles package now
presets and starts no services at all. *All* running of services must be
achieved with the nosh-run-* packages or some other sets of scripts and
presets.
To this end, there are now two new packages,
nosh-run-freebsd-desktop-base and nosh-run-freebsd-server-base. These
parallel the already existing nosh-run-trueos-desktop-base and
nosh-run-trueos-server-base packages; except that they do not start any
of the services that exist in TrueOS but do not exist in FreeBSD, such
as the various pc-* services.
You must install, for a working fully-nosh-managed system, exactly one
of these four packages. If you are running nosh service management
under Mewburn rc, you can of course run as many or as few services under
the nosh service manager as you care to switch over from Mewburn rc.
But if you are running a fully-nosh-managed system these packages will
arrange to run the various fundamentals that one pretty much cannot do
without, such as mounting/unmounting volumes, running devd and ldconfig,
and initializing the PRNG.
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[not found] ` <54B86FD5.3090203@NTLWorld.com>
[not found] ` <554E53EF.4080600@NTLWorld.com>
2015-05-09 23:09 ` nosh version 1.14 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2015-06-01 0:02 ` nosh version 1.16 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2015-06-28 15:19 ` redo version 1.2 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2018-02-18 6:39 ` redo version 1.4 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard via freebsd-hackers
2015-06-28 16:39 ` nosh version 1.17 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2015-06-28 16:55 ` pflog(8) manual page bug Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2015-06-28 20:55 ` Warren Block
2015-08-20 13:01 ` nosh version 1.18 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2015-08-22 18:04 ` nosh version 1.19 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
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2015-09-28 1:05 ` nosh version 1.20 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2015-09-28 1:33 ` Joe Maloney
2015-09-28 7:27 ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2015-10-05 5:39 ` nosh version 1.21 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2015-11-02 2:15 ` nosh version 1.22 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2015-12-17 13:50 ` nosh version 1.23 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2016-01-13 9:25 ` nosh version 1.24 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2016-02-01 1:03 ` nosh version 1.25 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2016-05-06 23:19 ` nosh version 1.27 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2016-08-06 17:30 ` nosh version 1.28 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
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2016-08-21 11:04 ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2016-08-30 15:58 ` Joe Nosay
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2016-12-03 11:33 ` nosh version 1.29 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2016-12-03 11:41 ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard [this message]
2016-12-31 23:53 ` nosh version 1.30 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2017-01-14 11:26 ` nosh version 1.31 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2017-01-30 9:09 ` nosh version 1.32 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2017-04-09 19:52 ` nosh version 1.33 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2017-07-05 20:41 ` nosh version 1.34 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2017-09-10 10:43 ` nosh version 1.35 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2017-12-11 8:03 ` nosh version 1.36 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2018-02-18 6:49 ` nosh version 1.37 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard via freebsd-hackers
2018-02-18 21:23 ` Guillermo
2018-02-18 23:05 ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2018-02-19 3:12 ` Guillermo
2018-02-19 5:10 ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2018-02-20 19:13 ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2018-02-21 1:21 ` Guillermo
2018-02-21 7:53 ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2019-01-23 4:51 ` nosh version 1.39 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2019-03-20 10:21 ` nosh version 1.40 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
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