nosh version 1.29

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

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 at tty7 and kdm at 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.