Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 1:50 PM BST, Richard wrote: > upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to > this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line > of the last entry and not in a new line character. I think there either > should be a fix for

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-26 Thread John Crawley
On 26/04/2024 12:56, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 11:27:24 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: Innocent question: what difference does the comment make vs just ending the file with an empty line? Nothing for the computer, but visibility for me. Say you print the file on paper. All you

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2024-04-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/04/2024 10:56, David Wright wrote: Editor examples: a windowed emacs buffer has a ≣ decoration at the extreme left edge after the last line of text, so that you can distinguish an absence of lines from empty lines. Perhaps that decoration should be explicitly enabled. However it

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 11:27:24 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: > On 24/04/2024 22:37, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote: > > > upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to > > > this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-25 Thread John Crawley
On 24/04/2024 22:37, David Wright wrote: On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote: upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line of the last entry and not in a new line character.

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote: > upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to > this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line > of the last entry and not in a new line character. I think there either > should be a fix

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Richard
Hi Michel, upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line of the last entry and not in a new line character. I think there either should be a fix for this or at least a way to handle this case with

Re: Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Richard
Hello Hans, this is exactly what I did. To be precise, I followed this guide [1], with the difference that instead of "crypt" I used the actual name, luks- (Disks thanksfully shows everything relevant). It's not the first time I'm doing this. Yet I experience the errors mentioned. Sure, I'm not

Re: Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-23, Richard wrote: > luks-775ea946-6797-4c4d-a042-72924309f3d2 > UUID=775ea946-6797-4c4d-a042-72924309f3d2 /crypto_keyfile.bin > luks,keyscript=/bin/cat > luks-78362aa3-760c-41de-b911-6531b684e3f7 > UUID=78362aa3-760c-41de-b911-6531b684e3f7 /crypto_keyfile.bin >

Re: Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 23. April 2024, 22:26:17 CEST schrieb Richard: Hi Richard, this is, what I am doing when this happens: 1. booting into a live system (any new is working, I prefer kali-linux) 2. If you are using encrypted filesystems, open it. But you have to name it like it is named in /

Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-23 Thread Richard
-a042-72924309f3d2 splash resume=/dev/mapper/luks-78362aa3-760c-41de-b911-6531b684e3f7" I even created the file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume containing the line "RESUME=UUID=luks-78362aa3-760c-41de-b911-6531b684e3f7", also no change. In the meantime, I also tried adding

Bug#735496: initramfs-tools fails because of missing keyutils package

2024-04-11 Thread j
vegades el password de xifrat es pot configurar el fitxer /etc/crypttab i posteriorment executar update-initramfs -u però surt un missatge d'error: E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptkeyctl failed with return 1. Instal·lant el paquet keyutils es soluciona.

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-27 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > You'd have to specify a set of criteria to test. I just treat > /media/samsungd like any other filesystem, copying files in the > usual manner. Well, when I last tried MTP in Linux I got maybe half of a directory listing and then it hung there. Concluded it doesn't work

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 25 Sep 2023 at 21:08:34 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: > David Wright writes: > > On Sun 24 Sep 2023 at 22:13:20 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> On 9/24/23, Marco M. wrote: > >> > On most Android phones, you need to explicit allow data transfers. > >> > >> What do you functionally

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread David Wright
ng to me.) 7 An Android File Transfer window will open on your computer. Use it to drag files. Perhaps linux DEs do that too, IDK. I just use mc, cp, or anything else you'd use for a mounted filesystem. (And tools like find, du and df etc.) Before their final step, I unmount (with fusermount -u)

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:13 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 7:05 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > > On 9/24/23, Michel Verdier wrote: > > > If you use USB you need a cable allowing data, some allow only power. > > > > The USB cable I have been using to charge the

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 7:05 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > On 9/24/23, Michel Verdier wrote: > > If you use USB you need a cable allowing data, some allow only power. > > The USB cable I have been using to charge the battery of that phone > visually seems to be the same exact one being

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-25, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Is there a way to test for sure that cable is the right one? Usually the original cable furnished with the phone is a data cable. My only test was to successfully use adb then change cable and see that I have some power only cables.

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-25, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Android awakens when I unplug the cable from the computer; so, > something is being somehow detected. android also awakens on power on/off

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Nicolas George
David Wright (12023-09-25): > On bullseye I have android-file-transfer installed. I connect the > phone to the PC with USB, and run this function: If we are sharing how we do file transfer to and from an Android phone: My favorite solution is tu install Termux and run sshd in it. Then I can use

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/25/23, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Most probably there is a setting in that phone I haven’t been able to > find. Android awakens when I unplug the cable from the computer; so, something is being somehow detected. lbrtchx

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > On Sun 24 Sep 2023 at 22:13:20 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: >> On 9/24/23, Marco M. wrote: >> > On most Android phones, you need to explicit allow data transfers. >> >> What do you functionally mean? I need for you to talk to me like >> this: a) go "Settings"; b)

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/24/23, Michel Verdier wrote: > If you use USB you need a cable allowing data, some allow only power. The USB cable I have been using to charge the battery of that phone visually seems to be the same exact one being advertised as doubling as a data cable, but running: $ sudo lsusb Before

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread David Wright
te/size/name). BTW the d distinguishes my own phone from our other one when they're both connected (there's no daemon involved). As for (android-tools-)adb, I read that unless android-sdk-platform-tools-common is installed, you need to run adb as root. I don't know what extra things adb buys you, co

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Roland Mueller
As far as I remember adb requires debugging to be enabled on the Android device. For newer androids following - slighly obscure - process has to be used: Enabling USB Debugging on an Android Device - On the device, go to Settings > About . - Tap the Build number seven times to make Settings >

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-24 Thread Marco
Am 24.09.2023 22:13 schrieb Albretch Mueller: > What do you functionally mean? I need for you to talk to me like > this: a) go "Settings"; b) ... According to the Google documentation: With a USB cable, connect your device to your computer. On your device, tap the "Charging this device via

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/24/23, Marco M. wrote: > On most Android phones, you need to explicit allow data transfers. What do you functionally mean? I need for you to talk to me like this: a) go "Settings"; b) ... Thank you, lbrtchx On 9/24/23, Marco M. wrote: > Am 24.09.2023 um 19:45:11 Uhr schrieb Albretch

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-24 Thread Michel Verdier
efault). If all this is done your device should be listed. There is also some applications that can do transfer, like syncopoli using rsync without USB. Or syncthing. Or termux on which you can use subversion or git or other unix tools.

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-24 Thread Marco M.
Am 24.09.2023 um 19:45:11 Uhr schrieb Albretch Mueller: > How can you troubleshoot that problem or, do you know about any other > way to transfer your data to a drive off your phone? On most Android phones, you need to explicit allow data transfers. Did you do?

"sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ sudo apt-get update ... $ date; sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb Sun 24 Sep 2023 02:07:24 PM UTC ... $ which adb /usr/bin/adb $ adb --version Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.41 Version

debian 12 error "Se encontraron errores al procesar: initramfs-tools"

2023-06-27 Thread miguel angel gonzalez
Buenas tardes, He instalado debian 12 y me he encontrado con este error al instalar un paquete: Se utilizarán 0 B de espacio de disco adicional después de esta operación. ¿Desea continuar? [S/n] Configurando initramfs-tools (0.142) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated

Re: missing wireless tools

2023-03-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 04:04:22PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > i'm trying to install a minimal debian + kde plasma. started with debian > standard iso then move to the firmware iso that includes non-free (my > laptop's wifi is there). > > during install, i was able to configure apt with mirrors

missing wireless tools

2023-03-12 Thread Rino Mardo
i'm trying to install a minimal debian + kde plasma. started with debian standard iso then move to the firmware iso that includes non-free (my laptop's wifi is there). during install, i was able to configure apt with mirrors and updated the apt cache. however, upon reboot after the install, the

Re: besides ping/nslookup, any other tools to resolve a hostname?

2023-03-04 Thread Ken Young
seems too restricted for system software, these following >> commands are removed: >> >> sudo (so I can't su to root for apt) >> ping >> dig >> nslookup >> net-tools >> > It is a good practice to build small images for pods without commands for > the

Re: besides ping/nslookup, any other tools to resolve a hostname?

2023-03-04 Thread Nicolas George
Greg Wooledge (12023-03-03): > Dedicated lookup tools: > > getent hosts > host > dnsqr It is important to know that host and dnsqr do actual DNS requests, and therefore ignore local configuration about other means of resolving hosts, including /etc/hosts. getent hosts is the de

Re: besides ping/nslookup, any other tools to resolve a hostname?

2023-03-03 Thread Rodrigo Cunha
> > I have bitnami/mysql container (debian OS) running on kubernetes. > This container seems too restricted for system software, these following > commands are removed: > > sudo (so I can't su to root for apt) > ping > dig > nslookup > net-tools > It is a go

Re: besides ping/nslookup, any other tools to resolve a hostname?

2023-03-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/03/2023 07:53, Ken Young wrote: Do you know any other way to resolve a hostname by manual  on this container? systemd-resolve However I am unsure concerning k8s containers. Some interpreters: python3 -c 'import socket as s, sys; print(s.gethostbyname(sys.argv[1]))' debian.net

Re: besides ping/nslookup, any other tools to resolve a hostname?

2023-03-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 08:53:39AM +0800, Ken Young wrote: > ping > dig > nslookup > net-tools > > Do you know any other way to resolve a hostname by manual on this > container? Dedicated lookup tools: getent hosts host dnsqr Utilities that resolve hostnames as

besides ping/nslookup, any other tools to resolve a hostname?

2023-03-03 Thread Ken Young
Hello, I have bitnami/mysql container (debian OS) running on kubernetes. This container seems too restricted for system software, these following commands are removed: sudo (so I can't su to root for apt) ping dig nslookup net-tools Do you know any other way to resolve a hostname by manual

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-04-30 Thread Dekks Herton
z3fold a choice for zsap compressor module, normally if your seeing a problem you need to add z3fold to initramfs modules file and rebuild. see https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2021/10/03/setting-up-zswap-in-debian-11-gnu-linux/

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-04-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Mar 2022, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > ~$ sudo find /lib/modules/ -iname "*z3fold*" > /lib/modules/4.19.0-17-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko > /lib/modules/4.19.0-14-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko > /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko > > > Then why doesn't it load up? update-initramfs

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-03 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 10:45:06 +0200 didier gaumet wrote: > > > Hello, > > - Yes, I was suggesting both running VMs as an ordinary user instead of > root and running VMs as session instead of system > - But myself not running any VM as a server, I was not aware of the > limitations inherent to

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-03 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, - Yes, I was suggesting both running VMs as an ordinary user instead of root and running VMs as session instead of system - But myself not running any VM as a server, I was not aware of the limitations inherent to the use of "session" compared to "system" - SSH tunnel: I was just saying

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:53:18 +0200 didier gaumet wrote: ... > - double authentication: "When using a SSH tunnel to connect to a SPICE > console, it's recommended to have ssh-agent running to avoid getting > multiple authentication prompts." > > (take a look at virtsh, virt-manager, virt-viewer

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:40:30 +0200 Linux-Fan wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to use virt-manager / virt-viewer to access the console of > > some qemu / kvm virtual machines on a remote system over ssh. I have > > public key access to root@remote_system. When I do: > > > >

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 03:43:10 +1200 Richard Hector wrote: > > > On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: > >> > >> > >> What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command > >> line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of > >> VMs - why am I being prompted for the

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 08:05:52 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command > > line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of > > VMs - why am I being prompted for the password? > >

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
sary permissions to use proper > networkings via bridges or virtual networks. qemu:///system is > generally what tools like virt-manager default to. > > qemu:///session has a serious drawback: since the libvirtd instance > does not have sufficient privileges, the only out of the box network &g

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Linux-Fan
Celejar writes: Hi, I'm trying to use virt-manager / virt-viewer to access the console of some qemu / kvm virtual machines on a remote system over ssh. I have public key access to root@remote_system. When I do: virt-manager -c 'qemu+ssh://root@remote_system/system?

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of VMs - why am I being prompted for the password? Celejar Apologies for replying to the wrong message - I've deleted the

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: > > > What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command > line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of > VMs - why am I being prompted for the password? > > Celejar > > Aren't you required to copy the key over to the

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Disclaimer: I do not use ssh, nor remote virtual machines, so this is far from an expert answer :-) You could be confronted to several possible problems: - root access: you could try using an ordinary user instead - "system" problem: virt-manager/virt-viewer propose "system" and

libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-01 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm trying to use virt-manager / virt-viewer to access the console of some qemu / kvm virtual machines on a remote system over ssh. I have public key access to root@remote_system. When I do: virt-manager -c 'qemu+ssh://root@remote_system/system? keyfile=path_to_private_key' the connection

Re: Mtp-tools, wa: "Could not display mtp://XXXXX" error no such interface 'org.gtk.vfs.mount' on object at path /org/gtk/vfs/mount/1"

2022-03-21 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I can see mtp-tools is a meta-package for: [...] > Which one do I need to configure/troubleshoot my issue? I'm afraid I've pretty much exhausted my knowledge in this area. The only other things I can offer are 1. My phone (Android 11, Samsung One UI 3.1) de

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-03-03 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 07:25:01 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: (...) > > /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: > > z3fold: not found > > Well, as your file says, this is supposed to be a kernel module. On my > system, I have this: > > unic

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-03-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 10:21:45AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I was following this guide: > https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/speed-mint.html#ID1.2 > > So I added: > > # cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf > # List of modules that you want to incl

How to use bt-... suite of Bluetooth tools?

2022-01-02 Thread Musbur
I'm trying to connect my Bluetooth earbuds to my laptop. It works interactively using bluetoothctl, but not with bt-adapter and bt-device. First, bluetoothctl: $ bluetoothctl Agent registered [bluetooth]# devices Device 1C:52:16:CA:E7:D9 SOUNDPEATS TrueFree [bluetooth]# connect 1C:52:16:CA:E7:D9

Useful clipboard inspection tools?

2021-05-06 Thread Jeremy Ardley
I have a problem with a linux gtk application when I copy some text from a window. I can paste the text into pluma and openoffice documents on the same machine without problem, but when I use remote desktop to a windows machine the paste doesn't work. If I paste into pluma and then copy

Re: IPFS tools not in the repos?

2021-05-04 Thread Emanuel Berg
>>> Well, most likely because nobody found it useful enough >>> and also because it is go and js based which are not >>> really friendly for packaging with their tendency to >>> introduce the dependency hell. >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779893 > > Oh, OK, so it is Go. >

Re: IPFS tools not in the repos?

2021-05-04 Thread Emanuel Berg
Celejar wrote: >>> Uhm... why aren't the IPFS tools in the Debian repos? >>> >>> Very interesting stuff! >>> >>> https://ipfs.io/ >>> >> >> Well, most likely because nobody found it useful enough and >> also beca

Re: IPFS tools not in the repos?

2021-05-04 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 4 May 2021 08:44:57 +0200 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 5/4/21 8:19 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Uhm... why aren't the IPFS tools in the Debian repos? > > > > Very interesting stuff! > > > > https://ipfs.io/ > > > > Well, most likely b

IPFS tools not in the repos?

2021-05-04 Thread Emanuel Berg
Uhm... why aren't the IPFS tools in the Debian repos? Very interesting stuff! https://ipfs.io/ -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: IPFS tools not in the repos?

2021-05-04 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 5/4/21 8:19 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: Uhm... why aren't the IPFS tools in the Debian repos? Very interesting stuff! https://ipfs.io/ Well, most likely because nobody found it useful enough and also because it is go and js based which are not really friendly for packaging

pdf-tools, doc-view and emacs 27.1 in bullseye is very slow

2021-03-26 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello folks, Just upgraded to bullseye, and pdf-tools and doc-view for the emacs folks is very different: -- startup is very slow, and emacs seems to stutter (like, pre-26, pre-threading...) on conversion. -- the place in the pdf is no longer reliably bookmarked -- doc-view-fit-to-width

Re: SRT-tools version upgrade

2020-10-02 Thread john doe
On 10/2/2020 9:13 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 11:47:42AM -0700, Alan Latteri wrote: Hello, I request that set-tools be upgraded to the latest version, 1.4.2. File a wishlist bug against the package. Or chip in and update the package yourself! :) -- John Doe

Re: SRT-tools version upgrade

2020-10-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 11:47:42AM -0700, Alan Latteri wrote: > Hello, > > I request that set-tools be upgraded to the latest version, 1.4.2. File a wishlist bug against the package.

SRT-tools version upgrade

2020-10-02 Thread Alan Latteri
Hello, I request that set-tools be upgraded to the latest version, 1.4.2. Thanks, Alan

Re: Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?]

2020-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 aug 20, 07:33:05, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I had done similar search with DuckDuckGo receiving similarly useless hits. [...] > That's why I'm looking for a human's answer. It helps to specify in advance what you tried already and didn't work. Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?]

2020-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/07/2020 06:46 AM, David wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 21:31, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ I've done a first read of the well written manual which has many examples

Re: Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?]

2020-08-07 Thread David
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 21:31, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > You may wish to have a look at recutils: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ > I've done a first read of the well written manual which has many > examples of individual commands. Are

Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?]

2020-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). I've done a first read of the well written

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Tom Dial
On 7/29/20 06:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/29/2020 06:13 AM, Joe wrote: >> [snip] >> >> I'd recommend using the right tool for the job. >> > > Which is why I'll investigate. > Your approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want. With respect, Joe is right, in my opinion based

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Joe
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:51:06 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 7/30/20 5:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >>> You may wish to have a look at recutils: > >> A database is over-kill

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/30/2020 09:51 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.  Yogi Berra

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/30/20 5:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 30 Jul 2020 at 06:15, Richard Owlett wrote: > Does that sound at all like I saw anything in favor of SQL ? ! No but you said: > IIRC, dBase was simpler. so I suggested a simple FOSS database system. Like I said, no worries. I obviously misunderstood what you were looking

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/30/2020 08:03 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: Richard Owlett writes: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Linux-Fan
Richard Owlett writes: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). I've just begun going

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). I've just begun going through the manual

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/30/2020 04:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:09:15PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-07-29 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >[A suggested] approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want. > > > Consider these idealized cost functions for solution technologies A, > B, and C: > > fA(t) =

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> You may wish to have a look at recutils: > > A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. > > I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I had visualized a I am confused. You

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-29 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote: [A suggested] approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want. Consider these idealized cost functions for solution technologies A, B, and C: fA(t) = t*t + 1 fB(t) = (t/3)*(t/3) + 10 fC(t) = (t/10/*(t/10) + 100 Observe:

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/29/2020 06:13 AM, Joe wrote: [snip] I'd recommend using the right tool for the job. Which is why I'll investigate. Your approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want.

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:40:24 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > You may wish to have a look at recutils: > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ > > > > but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you > > could build on it

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-07-29 10:40, Richard Owlett wrote: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. apropos of nothing I found this great, clear introduction to Perl/Tk for inputting how many cups of coffee and bacon sandwiches you had.

[Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). A database is over-kill for some personal

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/27/20 9:59 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Somebody wrote: But... isn't the tool the least of your problems? The big one being, where are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of products.)

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-28 Thread mick crane
On 2020-07-27 22:46, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for. Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other people tell you that you "have to" do. That's funny considering

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Yes, the Harbour project. https://harbour.github.io/ On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 9:57 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > There used to be an open-sourced version of Clipper, wasn't there? That > was the dBase 3 compiler from a 3rd party. Did that go extinct? > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 8:59 PM wrote: > >>

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
There used to be an open-sourced version of Clipper, wasn't there? That was the dBase 3 compiler from a 3rd party. Did that go extinct? On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 8:59 PM wrote: > Somebody wrote: > > But... isn't the tool the least of your problems? The big one being, > > where are you going to get

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread rhkramer
Somebody wrote: > But... isn't the tool the least of your problems? The big one being, > where are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that > most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of > products.) From my records in my free format database

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Jul 2020 at 15:46:08 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > For a project of this size

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Joe
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:46:35 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: > >The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for. > > Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other > people tell you that you "have to" do.

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Joe
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 22:22:12 +0200 wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no > > >one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for. Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other people tell you that you "have to" do.

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Joe
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:04:16 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no > >one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) > > How? The OP request was for something simpler

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no > >one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) > > How? The OP request was for something

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no > > one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) > > How? The OP request was for something

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) How? The OP request was for something simpler than SQL (presumably because he didn't want to learn SQL?), so the

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