The nosh package is now up to version 1.33 .
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http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/
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https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.html#The-nosh-Project
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http://jdebp.info./Softwares/nosh/
This has been held back because of work being done by someone else. I don't
want to steal xyr thunder, so I'll leave the announcement of that work to xem.
Suffice it to say that it will interest a new group of people.
There are several major improvements in 1.33 .
Packaging
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In the version 1.29 announcement I said that the Debian packaging system was
going to be brought into line with the system used for FreeBSD/TrueOS and
OpenBSD. This is now done. Debian and the BSDs all now use a similar system
for generating each package manager's package maintenance instructions from an
abstract package description.
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=========== IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTE FOR Debian: ===============
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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-debian-desktop-base and
nosh-run-debian-server-base. These parallel the
nosh-run-{freebsd,trueos}-{desktop,server}-base packages already available since
1.29 for FreeBSD/TrueOS. You must install, for a working fully-nosh-managed
system, exactly one of the nosh-run-debian-{desktop,server}-base packages.
If you are running nosh service management under systemd, you can of course run
as many or as few services under the nosh service manager as you care to switch
over from systemd. 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
udev/eudev/vdev/mdev, binfmt loading, and initializing the PRNG.
Log service account names
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The naming scheme used for the user accounts for dedicated log service users has
changed. Installing the new nosh-bundles package should automatically rename
all existing log service accounts to use the new scheme.
The new naming scheme is slightly more compact, and copes better with services
that have things like underscores and plus characters (e.g. powerd++) in their
names.
As an ancillary to this, system-control now has an "escape" subcommand which can
be (and indeed is) used in scripts to perform the escaping transformations.
More packages
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There are now four more -shims packages, for commands whose names conflict with
commands from other packages: nosh-kbd-shims, nosh-bsd-shims, nosh-core-shims,
and nosh-execline-shims.
nosh-kbd-shims, for example, contains a chvt shim that is an alias for the (also
new) console-multiplexor-control command; with it, and suitable privileges to
access the virtual terminal's input queue, one can switch between multiplexed
user-space virtual terminals in much the same way as the old chvt command does
with kernel virtual terminals.
The Z Shell command-line completion for the various commands in the toolset
(system-control, svcadm, shutdown, svstat, and so forth), which has been
available to the people building from source for a while, is now also available
as a binary package.
Configuration import
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ldconfig on TrueOS is now properly handled. In particular, the external
configuration import subsystem now correctly pulls in and converts all of the
ldconfig directories. (TrueOS has a lot more things that require ldconfig
support than stock FreeBSD does.)
The configuration import subsystem also now handles instances of Percona server,
alongside MySQL and MariaDB. Moreover, these are now handled by the same set of
service bundles, which always produce service bundles named mysql_at_*. MySQL
version 5.7 or later is now assumed.
The configuration import subsystem now automatically generates OpenVPN service
bundles based upon the current OpenVPN configuration.
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==== CAVE: OpenVPN ====
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The upgrade process attempts to remove the old hardwired openvpn_at_server and
openvpn_at_client service bundles. However, you might encounter remnants of these
service bundles lying around in /var/sv that you will find that you need to
clean up by hand.
GOPHER
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To accompany the new gopherd server in djbwares 5, there is a gopher6d service
bundle that runs it, serving up the same static files area as http6d, https6d,
and ftp4d do.
The FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Debian package repositories can now be browsed with
GOPHER. This is gopherd in action. On the server side, generating the
index.gopher files is a fairly humdrum exercise in the use of redo (to
regenerate the indexes only when the directory contents change) and printf (to
construct the GOPHER format menus).
UCSPI-UNIX
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Two new UCSPI tools have been added to enable UCSPI-UNIX servers to listen on
and accept connections on AF_UNIX sequential packet sockets. udevd is one such
server, and it is now handed its listening socket at startup rather than
expected to open its own.
Received on Sun Apr 09 2017 - 19:52:07 UTC