Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-27 Thread Mitt Green
Rainer Weikusat wrote:


>What's the base for the claim that neither old nor new pinning methods
>'work'?

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/avoid-systemd
Package: systemd-sysv
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

$ sudo apt install systemd-sysv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libseccomp2 libsystemd0 systemd
Suggested packages:
systemd-ui systemd-container
Recommended packages:
libpam-systemd dbus
The following packages will be REMOVED:
init sysvinit-core
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libseccomp2 libsystemd0 systemd systemd-sysv
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
init sysvinit-core (due to init)
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,849 kB/3,883 kB of archives.
After this operation, 18.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'

?]

But, both the methods that you have provided [1] work.
Thus it becomes
---

Package: [package name]
Pin: release a=* [or o=*]
Pin-Priority: -1

---

apt search can't find the package. I couldn't check this
out using Devuan repos (see my thread about apt update error),
but using Debian repositories apt didn't see the presence of
the package.

Sorry and thanks,
Mitt
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-27 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Mitt Green  writes:
> dev1fanboy,
>
> Since APT pinning no longer works, the purpose of
> the guide [1] is uncertain to me.

Judging from the Debian documenation on this, which I quoted last time
you made this claim, there has been a minor syntax change in this area
and the suggested configuration ought to work with both the old and the
new syntax. This is also claimed in the text itself.

What's the base for the claim that neither old nor new pinning methods
'work'?
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-27 Thread Mitt Green
dev1fanboy,

Since APT pinning no longer works, the purpose of
the guide [1] is uncertain to me.

I would also add spacefm to the list [2]; transcript from
the site [3]:
"SpaceFM & udevil can be used completely without systemd,
consolekit, policykit, dbus, udisks, gvfs & fuse
(although it can coexist with any of these)."

Although it has dependency on dbus in Debian, that can be safely
removed, as I haven't observed any issues so far.

SpaceFM can automount using udevil, so it could be added to
Openbox quick start guide [4]. The main problem, as I mentioned,
is that user either has to recompile the package, removing
dbus from control, or compile from sources.


Also, both Iceweasel and gmusicbrowser don't depend on dbus.
Iceweasel has libdbus-1-3, I reckon, it is not a problem.

Hope this helps,
Mitt


References:
[1]:https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Ceres-without-Systemd
[2]:https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/dbus-free-software
[3]:http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/
[4]:https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Openbox-quick-start-guide
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-27 Thread Mitt Green
Florian Ziebolli wrote:

>What entries do you have in your sources.list? Here it's only "jessie"
>and "jessie-updates" from de.mirror.devuan.org/merged/

I'm using Unstable/Ceres. Starting from APT 1.1 pinning rules
have changed. We had a conversation on it a month ago:
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/thread/20151202.105920.e7d97bbc.en.html


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-27 Thread dev1fanboy
Yeah the old pinning won't work on ceres, but the new pinning does as far as 
I'm aware, or do I need to change that? Only recently went back to Jessie, so 
can't test my instructions atm. 

(from here 
https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Upgrade-to-Devuan)

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 6:21 PM, Mitt Green  wrote:
> Florian Ziebolli wrote:
> 
>>What entries do you have in your sources.list? Here it's only "jessie"
>>and "jessie-updates" from de.mirror.devuan.org/merged/
> 
> I'm using Unstable/Ceres. Starting from APT 1.1 pinning rules
> have changed. We had a conversation on it a month ago:
> https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/thread/20151202.105920.e7d97bbc.en.html
> 
> 
> // Mitt
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-18 Thread Joel Roth
dev1fanboy wrote:
> Some suggestions for minor updates to quick start
> translations.
> 
> There is a change in devuan that means it's no longer
> necessary to do "apt-get install sysvinit core" anymore,
> also "apt-get install basefiles" is not necessary. 
> 
> As mentioned before, adding the user to the disk group is
> not needed anymore. Feel free to change wordings to
> whatever you like, the CC license allows that anyway. 
> 
> A quick suggestion for working with markdown format..
> where commands are done, or snippets of config files, it
> is necessary to use return carriages in mark down after
> each new line or they will display on the same line. 

You can also explicitly break lines by ending the lines with
two or more spaces.

> This
> would basically mean I don't need to comment on changing
> the formatting for them, so content will look better. 
> 
> Anyway, will leave it up to translators if they feel this
> is worth doing, the newer version is what I'm working with
> now because it fixed some bigger issues with the guide
> (https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/devuan-talk-version).
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-17 Thread dev1fanboy
Some suggestions for minor updates to quick start translations.

There is a change in devuan that means it's no longer necessary to do "apt-get 
install sysvinit core" anymore, also "apt-get install basefiles" is not 
necessary. 

As mentioned before, adding the user to the disk group is not needed anymore. 
Feel free to change wordings to whatever you like, the CC license allows that 
anyway. 

A quick suggestion for working with markdown format.. where commands are done, 
or snippets of config files, it is necessary to use return carriages in mark 
down after each new line or they will display on the same line. This would 
basically mean I don't need to comment on changing the formatting for them, so 
content will look better. 

Anyway, will leave it up to translators if they feel this is worth doing, the 
newer version is what I'm working with now because it fixed some bigger issues 
with the guide 
(https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/devuan-talk-version).
 
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2016-01-15 Thread aitor_czr

On 01/15/2016 01:00 PM, "dev1fanboy"  wrote:

if people have self hosted versions they should update those to exclude those 
lines.


I will do it.

Thanks, Chillfan

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2016-01-15 Thread dev1fanboy
nice, I found that apt-get install sysvinit-core isn't needed to upgrade 
anymore either :)

On Friday, January 15, 2016 1:14 PM, aitor_czr  wrote:
> On 01/15/2016 01:00 PM, "dev1fanboy"  wrote:
>> if people have self hosted versions they should update those to exclude
>> those lines.
> 
> I will do it.
> 
> Thanks, Chillfan
> 
> Aitor.
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-14 Thread Simon Wise

On 13/01/16 10:58, Florian Zieboll wrote:

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:34:20 -
"dev1fanboy"  wrote:


hey Florian,

I do try to include the inexperienced, hopefully that's not too
boring for everyone else.

I think I should probably change startx to startxfce4 this time,
because it has it's own session script



It's kind of funny, perhaps I just don't get who you are writing the
guides for. I mean, for a somewhat experienced *nix user, wouldn't it be
sufficient to say "add the command 'xfce4-session' to your favorite X
startup script"?


I see one important target audience for this kind of documentation ... people 
who have done a little coding or scripting, or are DIY types and technically 
inclined, but have never worked in a unix context ... and who are  happy to 
spend a little extra time during the first couple of installs to learn and 
understand what is going on, perhaps then starting on a longer learning curve 
towards all sorts of possibilities in a platform that does not obscure all the 
configuration in the maze of complex software we are trying to avoid (which is 
essentially aiming to make DIY obsolete).


These really exist, they are also a group which would find devuan a very useful 
platform. One part of this group is the people who jumped into the Raspberry Pi 
in such big numbers, I think one reason that platform gained their support was 
that its documentation was at exactly this level ... assuming almost no specific 
knowledge of unix but a readiness to learn and a desire to understand what is 
going on.


This wiki guide is a great resource, I have walked many people through similar 
tasks using this kind of script ... with the right person it works very well.


Simon

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-14 Thread dev1fanboy
Thanks for offering to translate into german,

Initially I asked for translations in the early stage because it was better 
than nothing for now, and hopefully people who don't speak english well enough 
can benefit in the here and now. I will post back when everything is looking 
right, there a few nuances for upgrading to devuan from debian that I'm testing 
at the moment for the new version here: 
https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/devuan-talk-version
 

The older one actually has a security issue, as users don't need to be in the 
disk group for manual mounting via fstab (and user access to the disk group is 
enough to destroy all filesystems from there). I'll trim what's uploaded 
already for translations, but if people have self hosted versions they should 
update those to exclude those lines.

cheers,

chillfan 


On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 12:51 PM, Florian Zieboll  
wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:52:27 -
> "dev1fanboy"  wrote:
> 
>> minimal xorg and xfce4 install guides are now available
> 
> Hallo Chillfan,
> 
> when you think that your documentation has become somewhat stable and is
> not prone to bigger changes anymore, I'd like to offer to translate
> some more of it to german. I am not really sure, how necessary this is,
> as i think most people "here" do understand english more or less. I guess
> that spanish, french, portuguese, russian, chinese and of course arabic
> are the more widely spoken languages...
> 
> Perhaps you want to send a note to the list, when (which) documents are
> ready to translate.
> 
> Ahoi,
> 
> Florian
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-14 Thread dev1fanboy
Thanks :) good to know I'm not off the mark by being expansive.

It's interesting to know that raspberry pi is taking off because of that, 
building instructions for the bbb is on my list of stuff to do. 

On Friday, January 15, 2016 2:09 AM, Simon Wise  wrote:
> On 13/01/16 10:58, Florian Zieboll wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:34:20 -
>> "dev1fanboy"  wrote:
>>
>>> hey Florian,
>>>
>>> I do try to include the inexperienced, hopefully that's not too
>>> boring for everyone else.
>>>
>>> I think I should probably change startx to startxfce4 this time,
>>> because it has it's own session script
>>
>>
>> It's kind of funny, perhaps I just don't get who you are writing the
>> guides for. I mean, for a somewhat experienced *nix user, wouldn't it be
>> sufficient to say "add the command 'xfce4-session' to your favorite X
>> startup script"?
> 
> I see one important target audience for this kind of documentation ...
> people
> who have done a little coding or scripting, or are DIY types and
> technically
> inclined, but have never worked in a unix context ... and who are  happy
> to
> spend a little extra time during the first couple of installs to learn and
> understand what is going on, perhaps then starting on a longer learning
> curve
> towards all sorts of possibilities in a platform that does not obscure all
> the
> configuration in the maze of complex software we are trying to avoid
> (which is
> essentially aiming to make DIY obsolete).
> 
> These really exist, they are also a group which would find devuan a very
> useful
> platform. One part of this group is the people who jumped into the
> Raspberry Pi
> in such big numbers, I think one reason that platform gained their support
> was
> that its documentation was at exactly this level ... assuming almost no
> specific
> knowledge of unix but a readiness to learn and a desire to understand what
> is
> going on.
> 
> This wiki guide is a great resource, I have walked many people through
> similar
> tasks using this kind of script ... with the right person it works very
> well.
> 
> Simon
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-13 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:16:18PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote:

[cut]

> >
> > Simple enough to change this into:
> >
> > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc  
> 
> [rw@doppelsaurus]~#cat .xinitrc 
> xsetroot -solid grey36
> exec xterm

Ahahahahahahah :D

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-13 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 08:48 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:30:16 +0100
> Florian Zieboll  wrote:
> 
> > > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" > ~/.xinitrc  
> > 
> > I already noticed this in your upgrade guide – and especially then it's not
> > unlikely to break things when using this kind of redirection, as a .xinitrc
> > might already exist. Regarding the unexperienced audience you appear to
> > target with your guides, I think there should be at least a footnote that
> > informs about this risk and perhaps also mentions that this is called a
> > "redirection", as a starting point for a related websearch.
> 
> Simple enough to change this into:
> 
> user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc  

Normally you use exec and an absolute path to start the window manager in
.xinitrc:
exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-13 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:52:27 -
"dev1fanboy"  wrote:

> minimal xorg and xfce4 install guides are now available

Hallo Chillfan,

when you think that your documentation has become somewhat stable and is
not prone to bigger changes anymore, I'd like to offer to translate
some more of it to german. I am not really sure, how necessary this is,
as i think most people "here" do understand english more or less. I guess
that spanish, french, portuguese, russian, chinese and of course arabic
are the more widely spoken languages...

Perhaps you want to send a note to the list, when (which) documents are
ready to translate.

Ahoi,

Florian

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Ron
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:30:16 +0100
Florian Zieboll  wrote:

> > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" > ~/.xinitrc  
> 
> I already noticed this in your upgrade guide – and especially then it's not 
> unlikely to break things when using this kind of redirection, as a .xinitrc 
> might already exist. Regarding the unexperienced audience you appear to 
> target with your guides, I think there should be at least a footnote that 
> informs about this risk and perhaps also mentions that this is called a 
> "redirection", as a starting point for a related websearch.

Simple enough to change this into:

user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc  
 
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 13:22 +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:48:45 -0300
> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI  wrote:
> 
> > Simple enough to change this into:
> > 
> > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc  
> 
> 
> Yes – if there's no "exit" command contained in the existing .xinitrc.

What about: (saves a copy of the old file):

if [ -f test ]; then
mv test test.old
echo "new_entry" > test
else
echo "new_entry" > test
fi

or:

if [ -f test ]; then
mv test test.old
fi
    echo "new_entry" > test

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread dev1fanboy
hey Florian,

I do try to include the inexperienced, hopefully that's not too boring for 
everyone else.

I think I should probably change startx to startxfce4 this time, because it has 
it's own session script


On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 11:30 AM, Florian Zieboll  wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:52:27 -
> "dev1fanboy"  wrote:
> 
>> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Minimal-XFCE4-install
> 
> 
> Hallo Chillfan,
> 
> A quote from the guide:
>> user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" > ~/.xinitrc
> 
> I already noticed this in your upgrade guide – and especially then it's
> not unlikely to break things when using this kind of redirection, as a
> .xinitrc might already exist. Regarding the unexperienced audience you
> appear to target with your guides, I think there should be at least a
> footnote that informs about this risk and perhaps also mentions that this
> is called a "redirection", as a starting point for a related websearch.
> 
> Florian
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI  writes:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:30:16 +0100
> Florian Zieboll  wrote:
>
>> > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" > ~/.xinitrc  
>> 
>> I already noticed this in your upgrade guide – and especially then
>> it's not unlikely to break things when using this kind of
>> redirection, as a .xinitrc might already exist. Regarding the
>> unexperienced audience you appear to target with your guides, I think
>> there should be at least a footnote that informs about this risk and
>> perhaps also mentions that this is called a "redirection", as a
>> starting point for a related websearch.
>
> Simple enough to change this into:
>
> user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc  

[rw@doppelsaurus]~#cat .xinitrc 
xsetroot -solid grey36
exec xterm
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:52:27 -
"dev1fanboy"  wrote:

> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Minimal-XFCE4-install


Hallo Chillfan,

A quote from the guide:
> user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" > ~/.xinitrc

I already noticed this in your upgrade guide – and especially then it's not 
unlikely to break things when using this kind of redirection, as a .xinitrc 
might already exist. Regarding the unexperienced audience you appear to target 
with your guides, I think there should be at least a footnote that informs 
about this risk and perhaps also mentions that this is called a "redirection", 
as a starting point for a related websearch.

Florian
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:48:45 -0300
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI  wrote:

> Simple enough to change this into:
> 
> user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc  


Yes – if there's no "exit" command contained in the existing .xinitrc.

Florian

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:36:03 +0100
Svante Signell  wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 13:22 +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:48:45 -0300
> > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI  wrote:
> >   
>  [...]  
> > 
> > 
> > Yes – if there's no "exit" command contained in the
> > existing .xinitrc.  
> 
> What about: (saves a copy of the old file):
> 
> if [ -f test ]; then
> mv test test.old
> echo "new_entry" > test
> else
> echo "new_entry" > test
> fi
> 
> or:
> 
> if [ -f test ]; then
> mv test test.old
> fi
>     echo "new_entry" > test


For not having to mention the trigger words "text editor", I think the
easiest way to avoid frustrated beginners would be to add a warning like
the following to the guide:

"This command contains a redirection which will create the named file.
If that file already exists, its content will be overwritten and thus
should be edited manually instead!"

Florian
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Mitt Green
Svante Signell wrote:

> What about: (saves a copy of the old file):
> blah-blah-blah

Why not simply check .xinitrc first and put "startxfce4" or whatever
inside with a text editor?

By the way, I have "startxfce4 --with-ck-launch."

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:34:20 -
"dev1fanboy"  wrote:

> hey Florian,
> 
> I do try to include the inexperienced, hopefully that's not too
> boring for everyone else.
> 
> I think I should probably change startx to startxfce4 this time,
> because it has it's own session script


It's kind of funny, perhaps I just don't get who you are writing the
guides for. I mean, for a somewhat experienced *nix user, wouldn't it be
sufficient to say "add the command 'xfce4-session' to your favorite X
startup script"?

OTOH, your version has the never-paste-what-you-do-not-understand
appeal, but I remember well going half crazy, when I tried to find an
explanation for these strange < > - characters that appeared here and
there.

BTW, I just browsed through your git repo: It is getting a really
interesting resource for minimal desktops! 
https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/home

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread dev1fanboy
I think generally it will appeal to experienced users, and some non admin types 
coming over. I mostly had in mind people sitting on the sidelines who weren't 
sure how to migrate but are unhappy with the systemd situation. Still, I'll 
likely cut out some of the more obvious things for brevity later on. 

Just the quick start guide and upgrade version I need to fix now really, then 
I'll put the minimalism stuff together in one "manual"

On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 11:58 PM, Florian Zieboll  wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:34:20 -
> "dev1fanboy"  wrote:
> 
>> hey Florian,
>>
>> I do try to include the inexperienced, hopefully that's not too
>> boring for everyone else.
>>
>> I think I should probably change startx to startxfce4 this time,
>> because it has it's own session script
> 
> 
> It's kind of funny, perhaps I just don't get who you are writing the
> guides for. I mean, for a somewhat experienced *nix user, wouldn't it be
> sufficient to say "add the command 'xfce4-session' to your favorite X
> startup script"?
> 
> OTOH, your version has the never-paste-what-you-do-not-understand
> appeal, but I remember well going half crazy, when I tried to find an
> explanation for these strange < > - characters that appeared here and
> there.
> 
> BTW, I just browsed through your git repo: It is getting a really
> interesting resource for minimal desktops!
> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/home
> 
> f.
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Daniel Reurich
On 22/12/15 08:39, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 07:54:21AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>> On 22/12/15 03:59, Adam Borowski wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:53:18PM +, Mitt Green wrote:
 deb http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main 
 deb-src http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main

 Yet there isone package that can't be upgraded currently, upower,
 it requires libplist2 but there is libplist3 in Unstable.
>>>
>>> Fixed.
>>>
>> Does libplist3 introduce api changes that we should be concerned about?
>>  If not I'll bump the version in our upower package for ceres
> 
> I don't know, sorry.  All I know is that my upower package makes suspend
> work for me on current Debian unstable, unlike gutted newer upowers.
> 
Ok, it looks like ABI changes according to git, and it looks also like
it's transitioned to gccv5.

As always, if you want to help maintain this and other packages in
Devuan I'd be happy to get you started using our stack.

Regards,
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 07:54:21AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> On 22/12/15 03:59, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:53:18PM +, Mitt Green wrote:
> >> deb http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main 
> >> deb-src http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main
> >>
> >> Yet there isone package that can't be upgraded currently, upower,
> >> it requires libplist2 but there is libplist3 in Unstable.
> > 
> > Fixed.
> > 
> Does libplist3 introduce api changes that we should be concerned about?
>  If not I'll bump the version in our upower package for ceres

I don't know, sorry.  All I know is that my upower package makes suspend
work for me on current Debian unstable, unlike gutted newer upowers.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Daniel Reurich
On 22/12/15 03:59, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:53:18PM +, Mitt Green wrote:
>> deb http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main 
>> deb-src http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main
>>
>> Yet there isone package that can't be upgraded currently, upower,
>> it requires libplist2 but there is libplist3 in Unstable.
> 
> Fixed.
> 
Does libplist3 introduce api changes that we should be concerned about?
 If not I'll bump the version in our upower package for ceres


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread dev1fanboy
Thanks, that's all fixed now and the layout looks correct :)

On Monday, December 21, 2015 12:45 PM, Florian Zieboll  wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:51:07 -
> "dev1fanboy"  wrote:
> 
>> Aha, yeah I can see there's something going on with it now that I've
>> checked.
>>
>> Could you send the file in an attachment again?
> 
> Here's the file. The change suggested in my other mail is already
> implemented (and two more details changed in the first paragraph).
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Mitt Green


dev1fanboy  wrote:

>True the apt pinning is broke there, and libsystemd0 may not be avoidable with 
>libpulse0 now depending on it. 

libpulse0 is available in those repos as well.
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread dev1fanboy
True the apt pinning is broke there, and libsystemd0 may not be avoidable with 
libpulse0 now depending on it. 

On my list of things to do, so that users can seemlessly upgrade to Ceres or 
Testing without it breaking. 

I'll mention the angband repos and the upower issue too, thanks :)

On Monday, December 21, 2015 12:53 PM, Mitt Green  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You have mentioned pinning libsystemd0 for Ceres in Wiki
> 
> (https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Ceres-without-Systemd)
> but as I have written it does no longer work.
> 
> There is no way to prevent this package from installing,
> one has to use these repositories:
> 
> deb http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main
> deb-src http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main
> 
> And then add the apt key (under root):
> 
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key BED007F9
> gpg --armor --export BED007f9 | apt-key add -
> 
> I hope when Devuan will be released we won't need them, but till then
> it is the way.
> 
> Yet there isone package that can't be upgraded currently, upower,
> it requires libplist2 but there is libplist3 in Unstable.
> For the rest, everything is smooth and stable (well,
> if ye don't count occasional dependency dissatisfaction from apt,
> but these things are native to Debian and get their fixes in a couple
> of days).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mitt
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 11:33:51 -
"dev1fanboy"  wrote:

> I enabled the issue tracker on the wiki so if anyone has problems (or 
> suggestions) with the docs they can add it there if they like.
> 
> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/home


Hallo Fanboy,

somehow the character encoding of the german translation got messed up,
the original text file is in in utf-8, as is the character set defined
for your wiki page.

Also, the link to the translation at
https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/home
should be named "Deutsch" instead of "Deutsche".

Attached is a screenshot of the text as a hopefully troll-proof
encoding check :)

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread dev1fanboy
Aha, yeah I can see there's something going on with it now that I've checked.

Could you send the file in an attachment again? 

On Monday, December 21, 2015 11:42 AM, Florian Zieboll  wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 11:33:51 -
> "dev1fanboy"  wrote:
> 
>> I enabled the issue tracker on the wiki so if anyone has problems (or
>> suggestions) with the docs they can add it there if they like.
>>
>> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/home
> 
> 
> Hallo Fanboy,
> 
> somehow the character encoding of the german translation got messed up,
> the original text file is in in utf-8, as is the character set defined
> for your wiki page.
> 
> Also, the link to the translation at
> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/home
> should be named "Deutsch" instead of "Deutsche".
> 
> Attached is a screenshot of the text as a hopefully troll-proof
> encoding check :)
> 
> Ahoi,
> 
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:51:07 -
"dev1fanboy"  wrote:

> Aha, yeah I can see there's something going on with it now that I've
> checked.
> 
> Could you send the file in an attachment again? 

Here's the file. The change suggested in my other mail is already
implemented (and two more details changed in the first paragraph).

Ein kurzer Leitfaden zum Umstieg auf Devuan und der Konfiguration von 
Minimalismus


Viele Leute bei Devuan reden von Minimalismus und manche werden sich fragen, ob 
sie auf Devuan umsteigen können. Die Antwort ist: Ja. Du kannst zu Devuan 
wechseln und davon ausgehen, dass der 'stable'-Ableger nahezu problemlos 
läuft. Der ist bislang zwar nicht als 'stable' angekündigt, wie Du vielleicht 
auf devuan.org mitbekommen hast jedoch weitaus besser als Alpha-Qualität. Zur 
Zeit bin ich noch ein wenig am experimentieren, bevor ich dann einen 
umfassenderen Leitfaden zum Umsteigen, Installieren und weiteren Minimalisieren 
von Devuan schreiben werde. Bald kann ich hoffentlich ein Wiki für diese 
ganzen Informationen und mehr anlegen, aber jetzt will ich das für alle die 
ihr System umrüsten oder weiter minimalisieren möchten erstmal so 
veröffentlichen.


Los geht's!


1) Upgrade von Debian zu Devuan 'stable' (Jessie 1.0)

Du kannst sowohl von Debian Wheezy als auch von Debian Jessie zu Devuan Jessie 
1.0 umsteigen. Mit anderen Ablegern bist Du vorerst auf Dich allein gestellt. 
Bis zur offiziellen Veröffentlichung von 'stable' empfehle ich, Upgrades auf 
Devaun 'testing' (Ascii) zu vermeiden.

Zuerst öffne ein Terminal, tippe

user@debian:~$ sudo -s

und gib Dein Nutzer-Passwort ein. 

Oder, falls sudo nicht zur Verfügung steht:

user@debian:~$ su

und gib Dein Root-Passwort ein. 

Jetzt können wir mit den Upgrade loslegen. Damit apt die Pakete nur vom 
(derzeit einzigen) Devuan-Spiegelserver bezieht, musst Du die 'sources.list' 
editieren:

root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Kommentiere ALLE vorhandenen Zeilen in der 'sources.list' aus und füge den 
Devuan-Spiegelserver mit dem Ableger Jessie (stable) hinzu. Das sollte dann 
ungefähr so aussehen:

#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main

Nun müssen wir den Devuan-Schlüsselbund aus dem Repository laden, um Pakete 
authentifizieren zu können:

root@debian:~# apt-get update
root@debian:~# apt-get install devuan-keyring

Viele die zu Devuan wechseln werden hoffen, dadurch dem Systemd-Netz zu 
entkommen – falls das auf Dich zutrifft, musst Du zunächst das Init-System 
festlegen. Ich werde in diesem Beispiel SysV-Init verwenden, weil ich das 
bereits getestet habe – falls vorhanden, wird Systemd-Init dabei entfernt:

root@debian:~# apt-get install sysvinit-core 

Beim Upgrade von Debian Wheezy wird das 'base-files'-Paket automatisch 
installiert, es wurde jedoch berichtet, dass es manuell ausgewählt werden 
muss, falls Du von Jessie her umsteigst. Wie auch immer, tun wir es einfach:

root@debian:~# apt-get install base-files

Starte das System-Upgrade mit:

root@debian:~# apt-get dist-upgrade

Abhängig von Deiner Internetverbindung kann das jetzt eine Weile dauern, Zeit 
für ein Getränk!

Wenn dann alles durchgelaufen ist, bist Du Nutzer von Devuan GNU/Linux 1.

Jetzt könntest Du noch ein wenig aufräumen (optional):

root@devuan:~# apt-get autoremove --purge
root@devuan:~# apt-get autoclean

Der erste Befehl entfernt alle 'verwaisten' Abhängigkeiten Deiner vorherigen 
Installation samt aller überflüssigen Konfigurationsdateien dieser Pakete. 
Ich empfehle diesen Schritt ausdrücklich als gute Sicherheits-Praxis. Der 
zweite Befehl löscht alle Pakete aus dem Cache, außer denen, die auf dem 
laufenden System noch installiert sind, und gibt so etwas Festplattenplatz frei.

Jetzt solltest Du noch einen Neustart machen, um auch den Kernel von Devuan zu 
nutzen:

root@devuan:~# reboot

Falls während des Upgrades Gnome deinstalliert worden sein sollte: Keine 
Panik! Das liegt daran, dass Gnome von Systemd abhängt und Du Dich zuvor für 
SysV-Init entschieden hast. Devuans Standard-Desktopumgebung ist XFCE:

root@devuan:~# apt-get install xfce4

Überprüfe, ob Du die Desktopumgebung starten kannst:

root@devuan:~# su - dein_nutzername
user@devuan:~$ startxfce4

Falls alles klappt, kannst Du nun gefahrlos einen Display-Manager für den 
nächsten Neustart installieren:

root@devuan:~# apt-get install slim


2) Minimalismus des Systems konfigurieren

Ein Minimalisten-Kollege von #debianfork (der vorläufig ungenannt bleiben 
soll, bis ich mit ihm gesprochen habe) gab mir einen Tipp, der es ermöglicht, 
Dein System auf äußerst geschickte Weise zu entschlacken. Das ist völlig 
optional und kann sowohl vor, als auch nach dem Upgrade geschehen. Wir werden 
apt so einrichten, dass es alle von Debian/Devuan 'empfohlenen' Pakete 
ignoriert, weil die Mehrzahl dieser Pakete auf dem System oft keinen Sinn 
macht. Es gibt einige 

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread dev1fanboy
If anyone can improve upon the Italian or German translations, please feel free 
to post in this thread to discuss it with other translators :)


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Mitt Green
Hi,

You have mentioned pinning libsystemd0 for Ceres in Wiki

(https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Ceres-without-Systemd)
but as I have written it does no longer work.

There is no way to prevent this package from installing,
one has to use these repositories:

deb http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main 
deb-src http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main

And then add the apt key (under root):

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key BED007F9
gpg --armor --export BED007f9 | apt-key add -

I hope when Devuan will be released we won't need them, but till then
it is the way.

Yet there isone package that can't be upgraded currently, upower,
it requires libplist2 but there is libplist3 in Unstable.
For the rest, everything is smooth and stable (well,
if ye don't count occasional dependency dissatisfaction from apt,
but these things are native to Debian and get their fixes in a couple
of days).

Cheers,

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Mitt Green
On Monday Adam Borowski  wrote:



>Fixed.

Now it depends on libupower-glib1, which is obsolete. There is
libupower-glib3 in Unstable.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Mitt Green
On Monday Adam Borowski  wrote:


>libupower-glib1 comes from upower sources, that's okay.  Changing the soname
>to that of upower 0.99 would lead to breakage, I'm using upower 0.9.23 which
>is the last version before suspend/hibernate/etc functionality was removed.


Then it's fine, thank you.


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:53:18PM +, Mitt Green wrote:
> deb http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main 
> deb-src http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main
> 
> Yet there isone package that can't be upgraded currently, upower,
> it requires libplist2 but there is libplist3 in Unstable.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 03:14:23PM +, Mitt Green wrote:
> On Monday Adam Borowski  wrote:
> 
> >Fixed.
> 
> Now it depends on libupower-glib1, which is obsolete. There is
> libupower-glib3 in Unstable.

libupower-glib1 comes from upower sources, that's okay.  Changing the soname
to that of upower 0.99 would lead to breakage, I'm using upower 0.9.23 which
is the last version before suspend/hibernate/etc functionality was removed.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-20 Thread aitor_czr


Hi Emiliano and dev1fanboy,

On 16/12/15 22:04, Emiliano Marini  wrote

>Thanks, let me know if it needs corrections or has misspellings. 


I uploaded my translation to the following link:

http://gnuinos.org/index.php/es/2015-12-20-23-42-21/guia-de-actualizacion-a-devuan-desde-debian

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-18 Thread aitor_czr

Hi Emiliano,


On 12/17/2015 02:07 PM, Emiliano Marini  wrote:

Thanks aitor_czr!


remover --> eliminar <= synonyms

xinit y iniciar --> xinit*e*  iniciar <= ouch!

un gestor de login*para*  utilizar --> un gestor de login*que poder*
utilizar <=  it's badly conjugated, better use:

"Si todo funciona correctamente, es posible agregar un gestor de login para
poder utilizar durante el siguiente inicio:"

or

"Si todo funciona correctamente, es posible agregar un gestor de login para
utilizar durante el siguiente inicio:"


The rest is ok.

Thanks again!


I desagree :)

EMHO (en mi humilde opinión), the right ways are:


"Si todo funciona correctamente, es posible agregar un gestor de login 
para poder utilizar*lo* durante el siguiente inicio:"


or

"Si todo funciona correctamente, es posible agregar un gestor de login 
*que poder* utilizar durante el siguiente inicio:".



The last one is well conjugated. This is: *el cual poder* utilizar 
(*which can be* used, in english).



On the other hand, regarding the use of the verb "remover" in spanish, 
it has another meaning compared to "remove" in english. *To remove* 
something means *eliminar* algo.



*Re* is a superlative in both America and Europe. For example, in 
Argentina *re*loco means *super*loco (very crazy).


So, "remover" means to move continuously.

For example:


- You *can* "remove" a blod sample avoiding formation of air bubbles.

- You *can* "remove" a fish soap in your kitchen.

- You *can* "remove" the sugar in the coffie.


It is true there is another meaning for the verb *remover*: to move 
something from one point to another different point.



But...


- You *cannot* "remove" a folder infected by systemd.

- You *cannot* "remove" a user top-leveling our posts.


However:


- You *can* "remove"a folder infected by systemd *to the trash*.

- You *can* "remove" a picture *from* the Uffizi Gallery *to* the 
Vittorio Emanuele Gallery.



EQESDA (espero que esto sirva de ayuda)

Cheers,

  Aitor_CZR  &&  Pablo Neruda :)


P.D.- I'm *super*pedantic, i know...











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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-18 Thread aitor_czr

Hi LOL,


On 18/12/15 12:13, Emiliano Marini wrote:

LOL no problem,

It must be our (argentinian) dialect. That's why I said I tried to 
keep it neutral.


First, we do use "remover" as "remove" in Argentina.

Second, about "...*que poder* utilizar...", we never use that kind of 
conjugation in Argentina (in Latin America I dare to say), it's really 
strange to me :S (maybe you are from Spain?)


Anyway, your corrections are welcome!

Cheers,
Emiliano.



I'm from the basque country. My deceased mother spoke only basque, but i 
speak both languages (spanish and basque).



I am not sure about this point... *Re* means *continuity*, and also 
means *repeatability*.



Perhaps, the following examples are right:


- You *can* "remove"a folder infected by systemd *to the trash*.

- You *can* "remove" a picture *from* the Uffizi Gallery *to* the 
Vittorio Emanuele Gallery.



But they are not used in Spain, because the meaning of "remover" in 
Spain is "eliminar".



- A picture of "El Veronés" today is in a concret Gallery, but tomorrow 
is in another Gallery.


- A folder infected by systemd today is in a concret path, but tomorrow 
is in another path.



This is the repetibility of the action "to move" :)


NOW:


@english_speakers


Don't use *re*user root password, instead of *super*user root password :)


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-17 Thread Emiliano Marini
Thanks aitor_czr!


remover --> eliminar <= synonyms

xinit y iniciar --> xinit *e* iniciar <= ouch!

un gestor de login *para* utilizar --> un gestor de login *que poder*
utilizar <=  it's badly conjugated, better use:

"Si todo funciona correctamente, es posible agregar un gestor de login para
poder utilizar durante el siguiente inicio:"

or

"Si todo funciona correctamente, es posible agregar un gestor de login para
utilizar durante el siguiente inicio:"


The rest is ok.

Thanks again!


2015-12-17 8:47 GMT-03:00 aitor_czr :

> Hi Emiliano,
>
> On 16/12/15 22:04, Emiliano Marini 
>  wrote:
>
> Thanks, let me know if it needs corrections or has misspellings.
>
>
> Your translation is very good, i only did minor changes:
>
>
> - Ahora es posible *continuar* con la actualización --> Ahora es posible
> *empezar* con la actualización  (We just started !!)
>
> - entrar en pánico --> asustarse
>
> - remover --> eliminar
>
> - proceder --> continuar   Now in the other way around!! And several
> times... Surery this is due to the differences between American and
> European :)
>
> - xinit y iniciar --> xinit *e* iniciar
>
> - En el proceso de eliminar dbus --> *Al* eliminar   (*although being
> right*)
>
> - Los ahora huérfanos paquetes --> Los actuales paquetes huérfanos
>
> - un gestor de login *para* utilizar --> un gestor de login *que poder*
> utilizar
>
>
> ... The rest of the changes are due to my *pedantry* ...
>
>
> Here you are the guide:
>
>
> #   Dev1FanBoy   #
>
>
> Guía rápida para actualizar a Devuan y configurar el sistema de forma
> minimalista
>
> Se ha hablado con frecuencia del minimalismo en la comunidad Devuan y
> puede que muchos usuarios estén preguntándose cómo migrar a Devuan. Este
> documento describe la manera de hacerlo, para lograr así un sistema más
> minimalista.
>
>
>
> Cómo migrar a Devuan desde Debian
> =
>
> Es posible actualizar a Devuan Jessie 1.0, tanto desde Debian Wheezy como
> desde Debian Jessie. Actualmente no existen guías para otras ramas (desde y
> hacia), ya que es algo todavía por probar. Se recomienda permanecer en
> Jessie antes de la liberación de la nueva versión estable, ya que utilizar
> la rama de pruebas (ascii) tiene cierto riesgo, al ser menos estable.
>
> Para comenzar, se abre una terminal y se introduce el siguiente comando:
>
> user@debian:~$ sudo -s
>
> que nos preguntará la contraseña. En su defecto (si sudo no está
> disponible), haríamos esto otro:
>
> user@debian:~$ su
>
> que nos pedirá la contraseña de root.
>
> Ahora es posible empezar con la actualización. Es necesario editar el
> archivo de configuración sources.list para que el gestor APT obtenga sólo
> paquetes provenientes del mirror de Devuan (por ahora existe sólo uno):
>
> root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Comentar TODAS las líneas dentro del archivo sources.list y agregar el
> mirror de Devuan con la rama Jessie (estable). Debe lucir más o menos así:
>
> #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main
>
> deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main
>
> A continuación se debe obtener el keyring de Devuan desde el repositorio
> para poder así verificar los paquetes:
>
> root@debian:~# apt-get update
>
> root@debian:~# apt-get install devuan-keyring
>
> Muchos usuarios provenientes de Debian u otros sistemas probablemente
> deseen huir de systemd durante el proceso (si es así, será nedesario
> especificar el sistema de inicio, antes de continuar). En este ejemplo se
> utiliza sysvinit (systemd será eliminado, si es que está presente en el
> sistema actual):
>
> root@debian:~# apt-get install sysvinit-core
>
> En el caso de una actualización desde Debian Wheezy, el paquete base-files
> será instalado automáticamente. Por el contrario, si se actualiza desde
> Jessie, la instalación se deberá llevar a cabo manualmente, cosa que
> podemos hacer ahora:
>
> root@debian:~# apt-get install base-files
>
> Y procedemos a actualizar:
>
> root@debian:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Esto puede demorar más o menos, dependiendo de la velocidad de la conexión
> a Internet, momento ideal para tomar un refresco.
>
> Finalizado el proceso, se estará utilizando Devuan GNU/Linux 1.
>
> Opcionalmente, se puede hacer una limpieza de paquetes:
>
> root@devuan:~# apt-get autoremove --purge
>
> root@devuan:~# apt-get autoclean
>
> El primer comando elimina toda dependencia huérfana de la instalación
> previa, incluyendo las configuraciones no deseadas para esos paquetes. Es
> altamente recomendable hacer esta limpieza como buena práctica de
> seguridad. El segundo comando elimina toda la cache de paquetes, excepto
> aquellos que se encuentran instalados actualmente, con lo que se recupera
> algo de espacio en disco.
>
> Ahora simplemente se debe reiniciar el sistema a fin de utilizar el kernel
> Linux que viene con Devuan:
>
> root@devuan:~# reboot
>
> No hay que asustarse si 

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-17 Thread aitor_czr

Hi Emiliano,

On 16/12/15 22:04, Emiliano Marini  wrote:

Thanks, let me know if it needs corrections or has misspellings.


Your translation is very good, i only did minor changes:


- Ahora es posible *continuar* con la actualización --> Ahora es posible 
*empezar* con la actualización  (We just started !!)


- entrar en pánico --> asustarse

- remover --> eliminar

- proceder --> continuar   Now in the other way around!! And several 
times... Surery this is due to the differences between American and 
European :)


- xinit y iniciar --> xinit *e* iniciar

- En el proceso de eliminar dbus --> *Al* eliminar   (*although beingright*)

- Los ahora huérfanos paquetes --> Los actuales paquetes huérfanos

- un gestor de login *para* utilizar --> un gestor de login *que poder* 
utilizar



... The rest of the changes are due to my *pedantry* ...


Here you are the guide:


#   Dev1FanBoy   #


Guía rápida para actualizar a Devuan y configurar el sistema de forma 
minimalista


Se ha hablado con frecuencia del minimalismo en la comunidad Devuan y 
puede que muchos usuarios estén preguntándose cómo migrar a Devuan. Este 
documento describe la manera de hacerlo, para lograr así un sistema más 
minimalista.




Cómo migrar a Devuan desde Debian
=

Es posible actualizar a Devuan Jessie 1.0, tanto desde Debian Wheezy 
como desde Debian Jessie. Actualmente no existen guías para otras ramas 
(desde y hacia), ya que es algo todavía por probar. Se recomienda 
permanecer en Jessie antes de la liberación de la nueva versión estable, 
ya que utilizar la rama de pruebas (ascii) tiene cierto riesgo, al ser 
menos estable.


Para comenzar, se abre una terminal y se introduce el siguiente comando:

user@debian:~$ sudo -s

que nos preguntará la contraseña. En su defecto (si sudo no está 
disponible), haríamos esto otro:


user@debian:~$ su

que nos pedirá la contraseña de root.

Ahora es posible empezar con la actualización. Es necesario editar el 
archivo de configuración sources.list para que el gestor APT obtenga 
sólo paquetes provenientes del mirror de Devuan (por ahora existe sólo uno):


root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Comentar TODAS las líneas dentro del archivo sources.list y agregar el 
mirror de Devuan con la rama Jessie (estable). Debe lucir más o menos así:


#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main

deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main

A continuación se debe obtener el keyring de Devuan desde el repositorio 
para poder así verificar los paquetes:


root@debian:~# apt-get update

root@debian:~# apt-get install devuan-keyring

Muchos usuarios provenientes de Debian u otros sistemas probablemente 
deseen huir de systemd durante el proceso (si es así, será nedesario 
especificar el sistema de inicio, antes de continuar). En este ejemplo 
se utiliza sysvinit (systemd será eliminado, si es que está presente en 
el sistema actual):


root@debian:~# apt-get install sysvinit-core

En el caso de una actualización desde Debian Wheezy, el paquete 
base-files será instalado automáticamente. Por el contrario, si se 
actualiza desde Jessie, la instalación se deberá llevar a cabo 
manualmente, cosa que podemos hacer ahora:


root@debian:~# apt-get install base-files

Y procedemos a actualizar:

root@debian:~# apt-get dist-upgrade

Esto puede demorar más o menos, dependiendo de la velocidad de la 
conexión a Internet, momento ideal para tomar un refresco.


Finalizado el proceso, se estará utilizando Devuan GNU/Linux 1.

Opcionalmente, se puede hacer una limpieza de paquetes:

root@devuan:~# apt-get autoremove --purge

root@devuan:~# apt-get autoclean

El primer comando elimina toda dependencia huérfana de la instalación 
previa, incluyendo las configuraciones no deseadas para esos paquetes. 
Es altamente recomendable hacer esta limpieza como buena práctica de 
seguridad. El segundo comando elimina toda la cache de paquetes, excepto 
aquellos que se encuentran instalados actualmente, con lo que se 
recupera algo de espacio en disco.


Ahora simplemente se debe reiniciar el sistema a fin de utilizar el 
kernel Linux que viene con Devuan:


root@devuan:~# reboot

No hay que asustarse si gnome es eliminado durante el proceso de 
actualización, esto se debe a que depende de systemd y se ha optado por 
sysvinit. El entorno de escritorio por defecto en Devuan es XFCE:


root@devuan:~# apt-get install xfce4

Verificar que se puede iniciar el entorno de escritorio:

root@devuan:~# su - username

user@devuan:~$ startxfce4

Si todo funciona correctamente, es posible agregar un gestor de login 
que poder utilizar durante el siguiente inicio:


root@devuan:~# apt-get install slim

Configuación minimalista de APT
===

Gracias a un tip de un colega minimalista ("TheFlash"), es posible 
adelgazar el sistema de forma elegante. Esta configuración es 
completamente opcional y puede ser llevada a cabo antes o después de 

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-17 Thread aitor_czr



On 17/12/15 12:48, aitor_czr  wrote:

On 16/12/15 22:04, Emiliano Marini  wrote:

>Thanks, let me know if it needs corrections or has misspellings.

Your translation is very good, i only did minor changes:


- Ahora es posible*continuar*  con la actualización --> Ahora es posible
*empezar*  con la actualización  (We just started !!)

- entrar en pánico --> asustarse

- remover --> eliminar

- proceder --> continuar   Now in the other way around!! And several
times... Surery this is due to the differences between American and
European:)

- xinit y iniciar --> xinit*e*  iniciar

- En el proceso de eliminar dbus -->*Al*  eliminar   (*although beingright*)

- Los ahora huérfanos paquetes --> Los actuales paquetes huérfanos

- un gestor de login*para*  utilizar --> un gestor de login*que poder*  
utilizar



... The rest of the changes are due to my*pedantry*  ...


More changes:

los paquetes *que* sí deseados --> los paquetes sí deseados

Well, i will put it somewhere, after consulting my doubts about licences.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread Florian Zieboll

Hallo Fanboy,

I killed some time translating your quick start guide to german, see
attachment. My translation of "configuring minimalism" is probably a
bit square-edged. 

Some things that came to my mind when working on it:

- It might be nice to mention the possible removal of gnome a bit
  earlier ;-)
- On systems with installed recommends, I use debfoster with
  "-o UseRecommends=no" to clear them out. This allows you to decide
  for every package if you want to keep/remove/prune it. If unsure, you
  can get information on the package in question before removing it.
- JWM is another dbus-free window manager, very lightweight but still
  reasonably usable for a if-you-don't-know-it-you-need-it audience.

Regarding a copyright: In 2015, although I usually (have to) trust the
certificate authorities myself, I don't want to see my name in context
with a document that recommends this practice to the public. I hope you
can still use it somehow – I won't reclaim any rights on it.

Finally, regarding translations in general: Is there already some
infrastructure for the versioning of documents and their translations,
any resources on how (and if) to translate common terms to different
languages and also a communication platform for (wannabe) translators?
Before starting the internationalization of the Devuan documentation,
it might be good to have a sturdy manual on that topic.

Regards,

Florian

Ein kurzer Leitfaden zum Umstieg auf Devuan und der Konfiguration von 
Minimalismus


Viele Leute bei Devuan reden von Minimalismus und manche fragen sich, ob sie zu 
Devuan umsteigen können. Die Antwort ist: Ja. Du kannst zu Devuan umsteigen 
und davon ausgehen, dass der 'stable'-Ableger mit – wenn überhaupt – nur 
wenigen Problemen läuft. Der ist bislang zwar nicht als 'stable' angekündigt, 
wie Du vielleicht auf devuan.org mitbekommen hast jedoch weitaus besser als 
Alpha-Qualität. Zur Zeit bin ich noch ein wenig am experimentieren, bevor ich 
dann einen umfassenderen Leitfaden zum Umsteigen, Installieren und weiteren 
Minimalisieren von Devuan schreiben werde. Bald kann ich hoffentlich ein Wiki 
für diese ganzen Informationen und mehr anlegen, aber jetzt will ich das für 
alle die ihr System umrüsten oder weiter minimalisieren möchten erstmal so 
raushauen.


Los geht's!


1) Upgrade von Debian zu Devuan 'stable' (Jessie 1.0)

Du kannst sowohl von Debian Wheezy als auch von Debian Jessie zu Devuan Jessie 
1.0 umsteigen. Mit anderen Ablegern bist Du vorerst auf Dich allein gestellt. 
Bis zur offiziellen Veröffentlichung von 'stable' empfehle ich, Upgrades auf 
Devaun 'testing' (Ascii) zu vermeiden.

Zuerst öffne ein Terminal, tippe

user@debian:~$ sudo -s

und gib Dein Nutzer-Passwort ein. 

Oder, falls sudo nicht zur Verfügung steht:

user@debian:~$ su

und gib Dein Root-Passwort ein. 

Jetzt können wir mit den Upgrade loslegen. Damit apt die Pakete nur vom 
(derzeit einzigen) Devuan-Spiegelserver bezieht, musst Du die 'sources.list' 
editieren:

root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Kommentiere ALLE vorhandenen Zeilen in der 'sources.list' aus und füge den 
Devuan-Spiegelserver mit dem Ableger Jessie (stable) hinzu. Das sollte dann 
ungefähr so aussehen:

#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main

Nun müssen wir den Devuan-Schlüsselbund aus dem Repository laden, um Pakete 
authentifizieren zu können:

root@debian:~# apt-get update
root@debian:~# apt-get install devuan-keyring

Viele die zu Devuan wechseln werden hoffen, dadurch dem Systemd-Netz zu 
entkommen – falls das auf Dich zutrifft, musst Du zunächst das Init-System 
festlegen. Ich werde in diesem Beispiel SysV-Init verwenden, weil ich das 
bereits getestet habe – falls vorhanden, wird Systemd-Init dabei entfernt:

root@debian:~# apt-get install sysvinit-core 

Beim Upgrade von Debian Wheezy wird das 'base-files'-Paket automatisch 
installiert, es wurde jedoch berichtet, dass es manuell ausgewählt werden 
muss, falls Du von Jessie her umsteigst. Wie auch immer, tun wir es einfach:

root@debian:~# apt-get install base-files

Starte das System-Upgrade mit:

root@debian:~# apt-get dist-upgrade

Abhängig von Deiner Internetverbindung kann das jetzt eine Weile dauern, Zeit 
für ein Getränk!

Wenn dann alles durchgelaufen ist, bist Du Nutzer von Devuan GNU/Linux 1.

Jetzt könntest Du noch ein wenig aufräumen (optional):

root@devuan:~# apt-get autoremove --purge
root@devuan:~# apt-get autoclean

Der erste Befehl entfernt alle 'verwaisten' Abhängigkeiten Deiner vorherigen 
Installation samt aller überflüssigen Konfigurationsdateien dieser Pakete. 
Ich empfehle diesen Schritt ausdrücklich als gute Sicherheits-Praxis. Der 
zweite Befehl löscht alle Pakete aus dem Cache, außer denen, die auf dem 
laufenden System noch installiert sind, und gibt so etwas Festplattenplatz frei.

Jetzt solltest Du noch einen Neustart machen, um auch den Kernel von Devuan zu 
nutzen:


Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread dev1fanboy
If you could let me know the link for that when it's posted I will link 
the page :)

 
On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 4:06 PM, aitor_czr 
 wrote:

 
On 16/12/15 16:30, Emiliano Marini  
wrote:

I'm from Argentina but I tried to keep it as neutral as possible:
español/castellano



Thanks for your work, Emiliano. I will review your translation 
shortly, and put it somewhere in both languages.


I can also translate the guide to basque language :)

   Aitor


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread dev1fanboy
I'm not sure of all the ins and outs of licensing yet, so I'm not sure 
if that is binding or not. If it is, that is fine by me and I'll 
mention you didn't wish to claim ownership.


Bear in mind though, I'm not representing Devuan, so it's more of just 
translation of my wiki docs rather than all Devuan docs. I'm not sure 
how to go about translating personally, as my second language skills 
are very limited.


The wiki pages are here: 
https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/home


The original text from the quickstart guide posted here is a little 
outdated compared to the above (I might try to replace that with a more 
complete 'manual'), and translations of anything on the wiki is 
prefered. My reason for mentioning it is I remembered people wanted to 
translate, and even if it's a little outdated or needs fixing any 
finished translations may be helpful to someone still. Anyone should 
free to fix anything they found that doesn't work from whichever page 
and if you let me know the problem (put subject wiki docs or so to my 
mailbox) I can fix it in english too for more recent versions, it's all 
CC-BY-SA 4.0 (GPL compatible) :)


 
On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:10 PM, Florian Zieboll 
 wrote:

 

Hallo Fanboy,

I killed some time translating your quick start guide to german, see
attachment. My translation of "configuring minimalism" is probably a
bit square-edged.

Some things that came to my mind when working on it:

- It might be nice to mention the possible removal of gnome a bit
 earlier ;-)
- On systems with installed recommends, I use debfoster with
 "-o UseRecommends=no" to clear them out. This allows you to decide
 for every package if you want to keep/remove/prune it. If unsure, 
you

 can get information on the package in question before removing it.
- JWM is another dbus-free window manager, very lightweight but still
 reasonably usable for a if-you-don't-know-it-you-need-it audience.

Regarding a copyright: In 2015, although I usually (have to) trust 
the
certificate authorities myself, I don't want to see my name in 
context
with a document that recommends this practice to the public. I hope 
you

can still use it somehow – I won't reclaim any rights on it.

Finally, regarding translations in general: Is there already some
infrastructure for the versioning of documents and their 
translations,

any resources on how (and if) to translate common terms to different
languages and also a communication platform for (wannabe) 
translators?

Before starting the internationalization of the Devuan documentation,
it might be good to have a sturdy manual on that topic.

Regards,

Florian

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread dev1fanboy
Thanks, I had lost the original emails and so couldn't get back to you 
on that before - sorry about that. It looks good to me, so I'll add it 
with some formatting changes. Thanks again :)

 
On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 12:56 PM, Antonio Trkdz.tab 
 wrote:

 

Hi Dev1fanboy,
 
I revised the translation (italian) and added The CC html code at the 
end of the text file (attached).

I hope it fits the purpose
 
If any italian speaker has 5 minutes to spare having a look at it I 
would be glad to incorporate any correction.

 
In the meanwhile I will try to register to the wiki and add the 
translated version myself, if possible.


 
Cheers,
 
Antonio
 
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:36 AM, dev1fanboy  
wrote:
Just wanted to mention if anyone wants to send me translations that 
would be great. Please use CC-BY-SA 4.0 for anything you translate, 
and add copyright information appropriately (check CC-BY-SA 4.0).


On a related topic, someone sent me an italian translation before 
but I have lost the mails during migrating a mail account.




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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread dev1fanboy
Thanks for the translation, since there's more than one translations 
being offered I will try updating the original 
(https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Upgrade-to-Devuan-and-minimalism) 
so people can continue with their translations.


If anyone has a single translation, they can inbox it to me or they can 
upload it wherever they like and I'll link to them. 


If someone wants to attempt doing more translations, I suggest a 
seperate devuan git account instance until I can get my head round all 
the nuances of git to enable the necessary features.


Also using http://wiki.friendsofdevuan.org/doku.php is a good idea if 
you feel like it, as I'll pay attention to this and link any 
translations or new guides.


I'll add what's been posted already in plain text to begin with so that 
I don't lose anything this time.

 
On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 3:30 PM, Emiliano Marini 
 wrote:

 

Here you have your guide translated to Spanish (Español).
 
I'm from Argentina but I tried to keep it as neutral as possible: 
español/castellano


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_given_to_the_Spanish_language
 
Cheers!
Emiliano.
 
 
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Antonio Trkdz.tab  
wrote:

Hi Dev1fanboy,
 
I revised the translation (italian) and added The CC html code at 
the end of the text file (attached).

I hope it fits the purpose
 
If any italian speaker has 5 minutes to spare having a look at it I 
would be glad to incorporate any correction.

 
In the meanwhile I will try to register to the wiki and add the 
translated version myself, if possible.


 
Cheers,
 
Antonio
 
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:36 AM, dev1fanboy  
wrote:
Just wanted to mention if anyone wants to send me translations that 
would be great. Please use CC-BY-SA 4.0 for anything you translate, 
and add copyright information appropriately (check CC-BY-SA 4.0).


On a related topic, someone sent me an italian translation before 
but I have lost the mails during migrating a mail account.


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread dev1fanboy

Thanks

Since it looks well liked the original post to this mailing list thread 
would be a good place to start.


These pages from my wiki are more or less complete:

https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Upgrade-to-Devuan
https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Devuan-without-dbus
https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/configure-minimalism

and the more advanced: 
https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Minimal-install-guide


It will help if you're familiar with markdown a little if working from 
these pages: https://help.github.com/articles/markdown-basics/


I'm hoping someone more savvy with languages can offer to put these 
somewhere in a repo for other translations, and I will just link to it 
then copy over anything deemed complete (in the meantime I'll put them 
there anyway).



 
On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 12:34 PM, Emiliano Marini 
 wrote:

 
I want to help with Spanish translations. What do you need/want to 
translate?

 
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Just wanted to mention if anyone wants to send me translations that 
would be great. Please use CC-BY-SA 4.0 for anything you translate, 
and add copyright information appropriately (check CC-BY-SA 4.0).


On a related topic, someone sent me an italian translation before 
but I have lost the mails during migrating a mail account.




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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread Emiliano Marini
Here you have your guide translated to Spanish (Español).

I'm from Argentina but I tried to keep it as neutral as possible:
español/castellano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_given_to_the_Spanish_language

Cheers!
Emiliano.



On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Antonio Trkdz.tab 
wrote:

> Hi Dev1fanboy,
>
> I revised the translation (italian) and added The CC html code at the end
> of the text file (attached).
> I hope it fits the purpose
>
> If any italian speaker has 5 minutes to spare having a look at it I would
> be glad to incorporate any correction.
>
> In the meanwhile I will try to register to the wiki and add the translated
> version myself, if possible.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Antonio
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:36 AM, dev1fanboy 
> wrote:
>
>> Just wanted to mention if anyone wants to send me translations that would
>> be great. Please use CC-BY-SA 4.0 for anything you translate, and add
>> copyright information appropriately (check CC-BY-SA 4.0).
>>
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Guía rápida para actualizar a Devuan y configurar el sistema de forma 
minimalista

Se ha hablado un poco acerca del minimalismo en la comunidad Devuan y muchos 
usuarios pueden tal vez preguntarse cómo migrar a Devuan. Este documento 
describe cómo migrar a Devuan y lograr que el sistema sea más mínimo.

Cómo migrar a Devuan desde Debian
=

Es posible actualizar a Devuan Jessie 1.0, tanto desde Debian Wheezy como desde 
Debian Jessie. Por el momento no existe una guía para otras ramas (desde y 
hacia), pues no ha sido probado. Se recomienda permanecer en Jessie hasta la 
liberación de la versión estable, pues se debe tener más cuidado si se utiliza 
testing (ascii), pues es una rama inestable.

Para comenzar, simplemente se debe abrir una terminal e ingresar el siguiente 
comando:

user@debian:~$ sudo -s

E ingresar la contraseña.

O, si sudo no está disponible:

user@debian:~$ su

E ingresar la contraseña de root

Ahora es posible continuar con la actualización. Es necesario editar el archivo 
de configuración sources.list para que el gestor APT sólo obtenga paquetes 
desde el mirror de Devuan (por el momento existe sólo uno):

root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Comentar TODAS las líneas dentro del archivo sources.list y agregar el mirror 
de Devuan con la rama Jessie (estable). Debe lucir más o menos así:

#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main

deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main

A continuación se debe obtener el keyring de Devuan desde el repositorio para 
poder verificar los paquetes:

root@debian:~# apt-get update

root@debian:~# apt-get install devuan-keyring

Muchos usuarios provenientes de Debian y otros sistemas probablemente deseen 
escapar de systemd en el proceso (si es esta la elección, es necesario 
especificar qué sistema de inicio se va a utilizar, antes de proceder). En este 
ejemplo se utiliza sysvinit (systemd será eliminado, si es que está presente en 
el sistema actual):

root@debian:~# apt-get install sysvinit-core

El paquete base-files será instalado automáticamente en el caso de una 
actualización desde Debian Wheezy, pero se ha reportado que este paquete se 
debe instalar manualmente cuando se actualiza desde Jessie. De cualquier manera 
es posible instalarlo en este momento:

root@debian:~# apt-get install base-files

Luego iniciar la actualización del sistema ejecutando:

root@debian:~# apt-get dist-upgrade

Dependiendo de la velocidad de la conexión a Internet, puede demorar un tiempo, 
el momento ideal para conseguir una bebida.

Una vez finalizado se estará utilizando Devuan GNU/Linux 1.

Opcionalmente, se puede ejecutar una limpieza de paquetes:

root@devuan:~# apt-get autoremove --purge

root@devuan:~# apt-get autoclean

El primer comando elimina toda dependencia huérfana de la instalación previa, 
incluyendo las configuraciones no deseadas para esos paquetes. Es altamente 
recomendable ejecutar esta limpieza como buena práctica de seguridad. El 
segundo comando elimina toda la cache de paquetes, excepto aquellos que se 
encuentran instalados actualmente, con lo que se recupera algo de espacio en 
disco.

Ahora simplemente se debe reiniciar el sistema a fin de utilizar el kernel 
Linux que viene con Devuan:

root@devuan:~# reboot

No entrar en pánico si gnome es eliminado durante el proceso de actualización, 
esto se debe a que 

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring, minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread David Harrison

On 16/12/2015 15:30, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote:

Hi Dev1fanboy,

I revised the translation (italian) and added The CC html code at the end
of the text file (attached).
I hope it fits the purpose

If any italian speaker has 5 minutes to spare having a look at it I would
be glad to incorporate any correction.

In the meanwhile I will try to register to the wiki and add the translated
version myself, if possible.


Cheers,

Antonio


Hi Antonio,

I just saw your registration go through on the friends-of wiki. If you 
have any issues posting a translation, please contact me off-list and 
I'll help you out.


Cheers,

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread Emiliano Marini
I want to help with Spanish translations. What do you need/want to
translate?

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> be great. Please use CC-BY-SA 4.0 for anything you translate, and add
> copyright information appropriately (check CC-BY-SA 4.0).
>
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread aitor_czr


On 16/12/15 16:30, Emiliano Marini  wrote:

I'm from Argentina but I tried to keep it as neutral as possible:
español/castellano


Thanks for your work, Emiliano. I will review your translation shortly, 
and put it somewhere in both languages.


I can also translate the guide to basque language :)

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread Emiliano Marini
Thanks, let me know if it needs corrections or has misspellings.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:06 PM, aitor_czr  wrote:

>
> On 16/12/15 16:30, Emiliano Marini 
>  wrote:
>
> I'm from Argentina but I tried to keep it as neutral as possible:
> español/castellano
>
>
> Thanks for your work, Emiliano. I will review your translation shortly,
> and put it somewhere in both languages.
>
> I can also translate the guide to basque language :)
>
>Aitor
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-12 Thread janpenguin

Hi,

I just finished installation Devuan 1.0 on my i386 laptop.
I logged most of the installation steps.

Create a bootable USB stick

I used Debian Wheezy installer because of few issues in Devuan Alpha 
version.
In Debian installer, I chose Print server, Laptop, Standard system 
utilities for the system.


In my case, hard disk is /dev/sda, USB stick is /dev/sdb.

$ sudo dd if=installer_file_name.iso of=/dev/sdb


/etc/apt/sources.list
#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.9.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST 
Binary-1 20

150905-13:15]/ wheezy main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.9.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST 
Binary-1 201

50905-13:15]/ wheezy main

deb http://ftp.lecl.net/debian/ wheezy main
deb-src http://ftp.lecl.net/debian/ wheezy main

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

# wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.lecl.net/debian/ wheezy-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.lecl.net/debian/ wheezy-updates main

Set up keyboard layout

In my case I set Colemak as default keyboard layout of the system.

# dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
# service keyboard-setup restart

Install sudo

# apt-get -y install sudo

modify /etc/sudoers file to get permission for the user

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
penguin ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Download devuan-baseconf package
# wget 
http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/d/devuan-baseconf/devuan-baseconf_0.6.4%2bdevuan3_all.deb


$ sudo dpkg -i devuan-baseconf_0.6.4+devuan3_all.deb

$ sudo apt-get install devuan-keyring

$ sudo apt-get install vim

$ sudo apt-get install sysvinit-core

$ sudo apt-get install base-files

I use -d option that download all the packages first before 
installation. In night time internet speed gets slow here.


penguin@dv1-laptop:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -d
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cpp-4.7 foomatic-filters gcc-4.7-base ghostscript-cups libcupsdriver1
  libescpr1 libperl5.14 libsnmp15
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  colord-data cpp-4.9 crda cups-browsed cups-core-drivers cups-daemon
  cups-filters-core-drivers cups-server-common dconf-gsettings-backend
  dconf-service dh-python dmeventd docutils-common docutils-doc 
emacsen-common

  ethtool firmware-linux-free fonts-dejavu-core gcc-4.9-base gnupg-agent
  gnupg2 init init-system-helpers iproute2 irqbalance iw 
libalgorithm-c3-perl
  libarchive-extract-perl libasn1-8-heimdal libasound2-data libassuan0 
libatm1
  libaudit-common libaudit1 libauthen-sasl-perl libavahi-glib1 
libbind9-90

  libboost-iostreams1.55.0 libcap2-bin libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl
  libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libcloog-isl4 libcolord2 
libcolorhug2
  libcpan-meta-perl libcurl3-gnutls libdata-optlist-perl 
libdata-section-perl

  libdb5.3 libdconf1 libdebconfclient0 libdns-export100 libdns100
libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libelf1 libestr0
  libfcgi-perl libfdisk1 libffi6 libfontembed1 libfontenc1 libgcrypt20 
libgd3

  libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgnutls-deb0-28
  libgnutls-openssl27 libgphoto2-6 libgphoto2-port10 libgraphite2-3
  libgssapi3-heimdal libharfbuzz0b libhcrypto4-heimdal 
libheimbase1-heimdal
  libheimntlm0-heimdal libhogweed2 libhx509-5-heimdal libicu52 
libintl-perl

  libio-html-perl libirs-export91 libisc-export95 libisc95 libisccc90
  libisccfg-export90 libisccfg90 libisl10 libjim0.75 libjpeg62-turbo
  libjson-c2 libkrb5-26-heimdal libksba8 liblcms2-utils libldb1 
libllvm3.5

  liblog-message-perl liblog-message-simple-perl liblogging-stdlog0
  liblognorm1 liblvm2cmd2.02 liblwres90 libmodule-build-perl
  libmodule-pluggable-perl libmodule-signature-perl libmpc3 libmpdec2
  libmro-compat-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnettle4 libntdb1 libnuma1
  libopenjpeg5 libpackage-constants-perl libpam-cap libpango-1.0-0
  libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0 
libpangoxft-1.0-0
  libparams-util-perl libperl4-corelibs-perl libperl5.20 
libpod-latex-perl

  libpod-readme-perl libpoppler46 libprocps3 libpsl0 libpython-stdlib
  libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib 
libpython3-stdlib
  libpython3.4-minimal libpython3.4-stdlib libqpdf13 
libregexp-common-perl
  libroken18-heimdal librtmp1 libsasl2-modules-db libsigsegv2 
libsmartcols1

  libsmbclient libsnmp30 libsoftware-license-perl libssh2-1
  libsub-exporter-perl libsub-install-perl libsystemd0 libtasn1-6 
libtcl8.6

  libterm-ui-perl libtevent0 libtext-soundex-perl libtext-template-perl
  libtext-unidecode-perl libtiff5 libtk8.6 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 libudev1
libutempter0 libvpx1 libwebp5 libwebpdemux1 libwebpmux1 libwind0-heimdal
  libx11-xcb1 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0
  libxcb-shape0 libxcb-sync1 libxml-libxml-perl 
libxml-namespacesupport-perl

 

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-11 Thread dev1fanboy
If anyone has any pages or blogs or whatever that is relevant to devuan 
upgrades, or is copied from my wiki please let me know so I can add 
links.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-11 Thread Mitt Green
I think:

 - Devuan should add libsystemd0 and systemd packages to devuan-baseconf
to exclude their appearance on one's system;
 - Devuan's first focus is stable, thus testing and unstable users
should be able to solve packaging problems, which includes
pinning and even forking packages (which should be followed by
pushing newly forked packages to repository so others won't be
in need to create their own all the time);
 - you shouldn't use testing and unstable in production not because the latest
software is less stable but because updates are too frequent and
unwanted dependencies can be added.

There is not much can break, packages dependent on what you have pinned,
won't be upgraded. For example, I've pinned libsystemd0 (let's say,
added to "unwanted packages" list), so gvfs won't upgrade. Or
another example, today I updated repos and saw "aha, rpcbind now needs
libsystemd0, okay, let it be not the latest version". It won't upgrade.
Of course I have an option to download the source and remove libsystemd0
dependency, but, as I pointed out, I am not the only who uses unstable
(I hope) and there should be people who solve such problems. But, as I said,
the most important is to get stable to work. Stable doesn't have as frequent
updates as testing and unstable.

I didn't use (and still don't) dist-upgrade.

Also, packages that can't be upgraded are always shown as "kept back".

And there is a solution to use angband repos (angband.pl)
if you use unstable.


Hope this helps,

Mitt


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wrote:
Mitt Green  wrote:

> But I also have libsystemd0 file in /etc/apt/preferences.d containing:
> 
> 
> 
> Package: libsystemd0
> Pin: origin ""
> Pin-Priority: -1
> 
> 

Does anyone have any tips for getting more meaningful output from apt when 
something fails ?
Specifically, not long ago I pinned systemd out like that and tried a 
dist-upgrade to Debian Jessie to see what would happen. It took some time (and 
trial and error) to figure out which package was blocking it since apt seems to 
baulk at something that depends on something that depends on something else 
that is blocked - making it hard to figure out what that something else 
actually is.

In my case, turned out to be clamd causing the problem.


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-11 Thread dev1fanboy
The nice thing is the Devuan devs are already working on removing 
mandatory libsystemd0 for stable, and some packages will accept an 
installation with apt-get install packagename loginkit if you want to 
avoid systemd.


I'll try to write up instructions for sure to include apt-pinning, much 
to do first though and it'll be a seperate doc at first though. Much 
thanks for the tips though, that's very enlightening as to how to 
manage a Sid/Ceres system, for now the docs have changed to mention 
that ceres should be used by expert users only and all branches are 
mentioned as being supported for upgrading or migrating to as you've 
confirmed Ceres.


Only thing left is can you upgrade from oldoldstable, has anyone tried 
that?

 
On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 9:04 AM, Mitt Green 
 wrote:

 

I think:

- Devuan should add libsystemd0 and systemd packages to 
devuan-baseconf

to exclude their appearance on one's system;
- Devuan's first focus is stable, thus testing and unstable users
should be able to solve packaging problems, which includes
pinning and even forking packages (which should be followed by
pushing newly forked packages to repository so others won't be
in need to create their own all the time);
- you shouldn't use testing and unstable in production not because 
the latest

software is less stable but because updates are too frequent and
unwanted dependencies can be added.

There is not much can break, packages dependent on what you have 
pinned,

won't be upgraded. For example, I've pinned libsystemd0 (let's say,
added to "unwanted packages" list), so gvfs won't upgrade. Or
another example, today I updated repos and saw "aha, rpcbind now 
needs
libsystemd0, okay, let it be not the latest version". It won't 
upgrade.
Of course I have an option to download the source and remove 
libsystemd0
dependency, but, as I pointed out, I am not the only who uses 
unstable
(I hope) and there should be people who solve such psoftware is less 
stable but because updates are too frequent and

unwanted dependencies can be added.

There is not much can break, packages dependent on what you have 
pinned,

won't be upgraded. For example, I've pinned libsystemd0 (let's say,
added to "unwanted packages" list), so gvfs won't upgrade. Or
another example, today I updated repos and saw "aha, rpcbind now 
needs
libsystemd0, okay, let it be not the latest version". It won't 
upgrade.
Of course I have an option to download the source and remove 
libsystemd0
dependency, but, as I pointed out, I am not the only who uses 
unstable
(I hope) and there should be people who solve such problems. But, as 
I said,
the most important is to get stable to work. Stable doesn't have as 
frequent

updates as testing and unstable.

I didn't use (and still don't) dist-upgrade.

Also, packages that can't be upgraded are always shown as "kept 
back".


And there is a solution to use angband repos (angband.pl)
if you use unstable.


Hope this helps,roblems. But, as I said,
the most important is to get stable to work. Stable doesn't have as 
frequent

updates as testing and unstable.

I didn't use (and still don't) dist-upgrade.

Also, packages that can't be upgraded are always shown as "kept 
back".


And there is a solution to use angband repos (angband.pl)
if you use unstable.


Hope this helps,

Mitt


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 wrote:

Mitt Green  wrote:
 
But I also have libsystemd0 file in /etc/apt/preferences.d 
containing:




Package: libsystemd0
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1


Does anyone have any tips for getting more meaningful output from apt 
when something fails ?
Specifically, not long ago I pinned systemd out like that and tried a 
dist-upgrade to Debian Jessie to see what would happen. It took some 
time (and trial and error) to figure out which package was blocking 
it since apt seems to baulk at something that depends on something 
that depends on something else that is blocked - making it hard to 
figure out what that something else actually is.


In my case, turned out to be clamd causing the problem.


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-11 Thread fsmithred
On 11/11/2015 12:37 AM, dev1fanboy wrote:
> Ok, so for those who have been paying attention so far, I am missing some
> information.
> 
> Specifically it would be nice to confirm which branches work for the
> upgrade. So far the following is known to work:
> 
> Debian Wheezy > Devuan Jessie
> Debian Jessie = Devuan Jessie
> Debian Stretch = Devuan Ascii
> 
> Please mention any branches you were able to get working and if there were
> any additional required steps or omisions.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> dev1fanboy
> 


Refracta jessie-sysv (Debian) -> Refracta jessie-sysv (Devuan)

This was a build with openbox, last updated in March, that had *systemd*
pinned to -1 and a few packages pinned to older versions to exclude
libsystemd0. (dbus, libpulse0, bsdutils, util-linux and sane-utils)

Unpinned everything except *systemd*
Changed sources.list to Devuan and got the keyring.
update/dist-upgrade
autoremove
deborphan
aptitude purge ~c

One of the smoothest upgrades I've ever done.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-11 Thread Simon Hobson
Mitt Green  wrote:

> But I also have libsystemd0 file in /etc/apt/preferences.d containing:
> 
> 
> 
> Package: libsystemd0
> Pin: origin ""
> Pin-Priority: -1
> 
> 

Does anyone have any tips for getting more meaningful output from apt when 
something fails ?
Specifically, not long ago I pinned systemd out like that and tried a 
dist-upgrade to Debian Jessie to see what would happen. It took some time (and 
trial and error) to figure out which package was blocking it since apt seems to 
baulk at something that depends on something that depends on something else 
that is blocked - making it hard to figure out what that something else 
actually is.

In my case, turned out to be clamd causing the problem.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-10 Thread dev1fanboy
I've added in the corrections, I wondered if gnome might survive the 
upgrade.


Understand about giving up on your DE as I was using xfce for a very 
long time until recently but got fedup with how it looks and with dbus 
so switched to openbox. It can be configured to be as versatile as a 
desktop if not more, I wanted to add in a page about it but there's 
already an excellent blog here which is worth a little time if you can 
spare it: https://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/


Sounds good, I'll make a list of completed stuff ready to be translated 
shortly and mail you.

 
On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 12:29 PM, Antonio Trkdz.tab 
 wrote:

 

Dear All and dev1fanboy,
 
this is just to let you know that I followed your guide to upgrade my 
debian wheezy install and it went very well!

Thank you for the great instructions.
It was a really messed up old installation and the upgrade sorted it 
out brilliantly.


Just as a note, gnome was still there at the end of the upgrade, 
refusing to start.
I solved it with: # apt-get purge gnome* , followed by the 
installation of XFCE
I am (was) a long time gnome user, so it was not a easy choice, but I 
definitely prefer to get accustomed to a new DE / WM rather than 
getting accustomed to systemd.

I still have to purge dbus, though.
 
I am sure this list is not short of italian translators, but please 
let me know if I could help translating the guide for wiki or for 
other documentation purposes.


All the best.
 
Antonio

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-10 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear All and dev1fanboy,

this is just to let you know that I followed your guide to upgrade my
debian wheezy install and it went very well!
Thank you for the great instructions.
It was a really messed up old installation and the upgrade sorted it out
brilliantly.

Just as a note, gnome was still there at the end of the upgrade, refusing
to start.
I solved it with: # apt-get purge gnome* , followed by the installation of
XFCE

I am (was) a long time gnome user, so it was not a easy choice, but I
definitely prefer to get accustomed to a new DE / WM rather than getting
accustomed to systemd.
I still have to purge dbus, though.

I am sure this list is not short of italian translators, but please let me
know if I could help translating the guide for wiki or for other
documentation purposes.

All the best.

Antonio

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Didier Kryn  wrote:

> Le 09/11/2015 05:06, Sam a écrit :
>
>> On 07/11/15 20:53, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>
>>> Le 07/11/2015 11:02, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com a écrit :
>>>
 All that info is right as far as I can tell.

 gcc versions from /proc/version are labelled as debian for me too.

  The kernel remembers who has compiled it, when, and where. If you
>>> compile it yourself you'll be pleased to see your username in
>>> /proc/version. You can also add some tag to the kernel version It is
>>> also possible to add some tag to the version of gcc if you compile it
>>> yourself, and it will appear when you invoke 'gcc --version'.
>>>
>>>  As long as Devuan keeps Debian packages for kernel and gcc, you're
>>> going to see that they have been compiled by Debian devs. And Devuan,
>>> for the moment only modifies packages which need to, in order to get rid
>>> of systemd dependency. This does not involve gcc, and not yet the kernel.
>>>
>>>  Didier
>>>
>>> Thanks Didier, for the advice and especially for setting me straight on
>> this matter. I should have realised this before I raised it as a quirk
>> or an issue; I've compiled many, many custom kernels, so I should have
>> been well-aware of the process and the tweaks that are possible - and
>> having played with that one in particular when customising and compiling
>> kernels off-platform for the particular idiosyncrasies of the eventual
>> host systems, I should have been more attentive to this.
>>
>> Thanks especially for dignifying my input into the discussion with your
>> response.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>
> Dear Sam,
>
> You seem experienced in embedded Linux (compiling custom kernels).
> This is a field in which I gained a little experience, and this is how I
> learned the most about the init process. And it is probably for this reason
> that I became a Devuan fan at the beginning of this year. I guess people
> must have some knowledge of init to have an opinion on how it should be :-)
>
> I, like you, have a great respect for the goals of the VUAs.  I admire
> their talent regarding both Debian and Cloud technologies.
>
> Didier
>
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-10 Thread Mitt Green
Sid/Unstable/Ceres is working too, but one has to pin gvfs (libs etc.),
libpulse0 (and libpulse-mainloop-glib0) and rpcbind (from today; not sure
about this one. For example, they removed libsystemd0 dependency from procps).
I'd upgraded from Wheezy
and have gvfs and udev from Wheezy (I also have udev pinned, but it seems
unnecessary).

I can only advise pinning packages that require libsystemd0; original
package maintainers seem to play with it, adding and removing dependency.
But I also have libsystemd0 file in /etc/apt/preferences.d containing:



Package: libsystemd0
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1



which prevents its installation and thus upgrading packages that require it.

The whole list of packages that I prevent from installing is systemd-sysv
(it's from devuan-baseconf), systemd and libsystemd0.

I am using Xfce, which doesn't pull any systemd dependency as KDE, GNOME,
Cinnamon and maybe even MATE do.

Cheers,

Mitt


On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:37 AM, dev1fanboy 
 wrote:



Ok, so for those who have been paying attention so far, I am missing some 
information. 

Specifically it would be nice to confirm which branches work for the upgrade. 
So far the following is known to work: 

Debian Wheezy > Devuan Jessie 
Debian Jessie = Devuan Jessie 
Debian Stretch = Devuan Ascii 

Please mention any branches you were able to get working and if there were any 
additional required steps or omisions. 

Cheers, 


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-09 Thread Didier Kryn

Le 09/11/2015 05:06, Sam a écrit :

On 07/11/15 20:53, Didier Kryn wrote:

Le 07/11/2015 11:02, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com a écrit :

All that info is right as far as I can tell.

gcc versions from /proc/version are labelled as debian for me too.


 The kernel remembers who has compiled it, when, and where. If you
compile it yourself you'll be pleased to see your username in
/proc/version. You can also add some tag to the kernel version It is
also possible to add some tag to the version of gcc if you compile it
yourself, and it will appear when you invoke 'gcc --version'.

 As long as Devuan keeps Debian packages for kernel and gcc, you're
going to see that they have been compiled by Debian devs. And Devuan,
for the moment only modifies packages which need to, in order to get rid
of systemd dependency. This does not involve gcc, and not yet the kernel.

 Didier


Thanks Didier, for the advice and especially for setting me straight on
this matter. I should have realised this before I raised it as a quirk
or an issue; I've compiled many, many custom kernels, so I should have
been well-aware of the process and the tweaks that are possible - and
having played with that one in particular when customising and compiling
kernels off-platform for the particular idiosyncrasies of the eventual
host systems, I should have been more attentive to this.

Thanks especially for dignifying my input into the discussion with your
response.

Sam


Dear Sam,

You seem experienced in embedded Linux (compiling custom kernels). 
This is a field in which I gained a little experience, and this is how I 
learned the most about the init process. And it is probably for this 
reason that I became a Devuan fan at the beginning of this year. I guess 
people must have some knowledge of init to have an opinion on how it 
should be :-)


I, like you, have a great respect for the goals of the VUAs.  I 
admire their talent regarding both Debian and Cloud technologies.


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-08 Thread Sam
On 07/11/15 20:53, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 07/11/2015 11:02, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com a écrit :
>> All that info is right as far as I can tell.
>>
>> gcc versions from /proc/version are labelled as debian for me too.
>>
> 
> The kernel remembers who has compiled it, when, and where. If you
> compile it yourself you'll be pleased to see your username in
> /proc/version. You can also add some tag to the kernel version It is
> also possible to add some tag to the version of gcc if you compile it
> yourself, and it will appear when you invoke 'gcc --version'.
> 
> As long as Devuan keeps Debian packages for kernel and gcc, you're
> going to see that they have been compiled by Debian devs. And Devuan,
> for the moment only modifies packages which need to, in order to get rid
> of systemd dependency. This does not involve gcc, and not yet the kernel.
> 
> Didier
> 

Thanks Didier, for the advice and especially for setting me straight on
this matter. I should have realised this before I raised it as a quirk
or an issue; I've compiled many, many custom kernels, so I should have
been well-aware of the process and the tweaks that are possible - and
having played with that one in particular when customising and compiling
kernels off-platform for the particular idiosyncrasies of the eventual
host systems, I should have been more attentive to this.

Thanks especially for dignifying my input into the discussion with your
response.

Sam




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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-08 Thread sam
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On 04/11/15 07:21, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote:
> Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring 
> minimalism.
> 
> There are a lot of people talking about minimalism in Devuan and 
> some may be wondering if they can upgrade to Devuan. The answer is 
> yes, you can upgrade to Devuan right now and expect it to work
> with few if any problems in the stable branch - which is not yet 
> announced stable but is clearly a lot better than alpha quality as 
> you might have heard mentioned on devuan.org. I am currently 
> putting in a little research before writing a more full guide to 
> upgrading, installing and getting more minimalism out of Devuan. 
> Hopefully I will be starting a wiki for all this info and more to 
> go into in the near future, but for now I want to just put it out 
> there for people trying to upgrade their current system or get
> more minimalism in their system.
> 
> Let's get started.
> 
> 
> 1) Upgrading Debian to Devuan Stable (aka Jessie 1.0)
> 
> You can upgrade to Devuan Jessie 1.0 from either Debian Wheezy or 
> from Debian Jessie. For other branches you are on your own for
> now, and I suggest avoiding upgrades to Devuan testing (ascii) for
> now until after the official stable release. ...

Hello dev1fanboy, and everyone else.

This is just an F.Y.I. I'd like to let you know that I've just carried
out what so far appears to be a successful Debian -> Devuan
conversion. You prudently advised that the
upgrade/transformation/conversion should be from either Debian Wheezy
or Jessie, and that was for very good reason. However, my Debian
system was of the Stretch/Sid flavour:

/etc/debian_version
stretch/sid

/proc/version
Linux version 4.1.0-2-rt-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
version 4.9.3 (Debian 4.9.3-3) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.1.6-1
(2015-08-23)

Alas, I am far too impatient, impetuous and imprudent to methodically
downgrade my system to the appropriate level before I attempted such a
foolish thing, so I proceeded regardless. I even went so far as to
configure minimalism in the system as you suggested, and that almost
went off without a hitch. I say almost, because in the process my
nvidia graphics driver and kernel module were trashed. But reinstating
those was in principle easy owing to the brilliant SGFXI script,
however I did need to re-boot (sorry KatolaZ) into a non-real-time
pre-emptive kernel (i.e. non -rt-) otherwise the the sgfxi script
complained and barfed.

I can provide more detail if you're curious, but for the minute, I
just wanted to thank you for your exceptionally clear and prescriptive
instructions and perhaps to say that, if one is as brave or foolish as
I am, it is eminently possible to jump across to Devuan from Debian
Stretch/Sid by following your guide.

Cheers,
Sam


p.s. there is (at least?) one annoying relic of the old Debian system
lingering on my new Devuan OS, however: /etc/debian_version still says
stretch/sid, and /proc/version now says:

Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3
(2015-08-04)

Is my triumphant declaration of success premature?




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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-08 Thread Sam
On 07/11/15 20:32, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote:
> All that info is right as far as I can tell.
> 
> gcc versions from /proc/version are labelled as debian for me too.
> 
> Try cat /etc/devuan_version
> 
> Also try switching to the stock 4.x kernel that comes with testing, you
> can do it by installing linux-image-amd64 package which I guess you
> don't have. Watch carefully the output though, I managed to mess up my
> testing system that way because I didn't notice it wanted to remove
> things, which was due to dependencies not having the right version yet
> which I think is happening occasionally.
> 
> But it looks like you migrated properly :-)
> 
> There's probably several solutions somewhere to purge old configuration
> files for packages already removed, or maybe /etc/debian_version should
> be there too idk.

Thanks dev1fanboy

I've responded to Didier about these matters you bring to my attention,
but I should have responded specifically to you too.

I appreciate your advice and apologise for burdening you with matters
that I was already aware of. I should have thought about it a little
more before flagging it as an anomaly.


>> Hello dev1fanboy, and everyone else.
>>
>> This is just an F.Y.I. I'd like to let you know that I've just carried
>> out what so far appears to be a successful Debian -> Devuan
>> conversion. You prudently advised that the
>> upgrade/transformation/conversion should be from either Debian Wheezy
>> or Jessie, and that was for very good reason. However, my Debian
>> system was of the Stretch/Sid flavour:
>>
>> /etc/debian_version
>> stretch/sid
>>
>> /proc/version
>> Linux version 4.1.0-2-rt-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
>> version 4.9.3 (Debian 4.9.3-3) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.1.6-1
>> (2015-08-23)
>>
>> Alas, I am far too impatient, impetuous and imprudent to methodically
>> downgrade my system to the appropriate level before I attempted such a
>> foolish thing, so I proceeded regardless. I even went so far as to
>> configure minimalism in the system as you suggested, and that almost
>> went off without a hitch. I say almost, because in the process my
>> nvidia graphics driver and kernel module were trashed. But reinstating
>> those was in principle easy owing to the brilliant SGFXI script,
>> however I did need to re-boot (sorry KatolaZ) into a non-real-time
>> pre-emptive kernel (i.e. non -rt-) otherwise the the sgfxi script
>> complained and barfed.
>>
>> I can provide more detail if you're curious, but for the minute, I
>> just wanted to thank you for your exceptionally clear and prescriptive
>> instructions and perhaps to say that, if one is as brave or foolish as
>> I am, it is eminently possible to jump across to Devuan from Debian
>> Stretch/Sid by following your guide.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sam
>>
>>
>> p.s. there is (at least?) one annoying relic of the old Debian system
>> lingering on my new Devuan OS, however: /etc/debian_version still says
>> stretch/sid, and /proc/version now says:
>>
>> Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
>> version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3
>> (2015-08-04)
>>
>> Is my triumphant declaration of success premature?
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-08 Thread Sam
On 07/11/15 20:49, Jaromil wrote:
> Dear Sam,
> 
> On November 7, 2015 7:07:22 AM GMT+01:00, Sam 
>> Thanks again, but I fear that when folks on the other side of the world
>> wake up and read about these exploits, I'll be given a stern dressing
>> down for brazenly and recklessly mucking-up the stable/testing/unstable
>> canon...
> 
> such an attitude will find no place in this
> camp, for we are all here in mutual respect
> of the many different things we like to do
> with our computers, not to be told what
> 
> Thanks for sharing your adventures
> 
> indeed the kernel is still Debian's
> we have no plans nor need to substitute
> that with our own build ATM
> 
> but won't be a problem if needed
> (For instance removing kdbus)
> 
> Ciao
> 

Hello Jaromil

I'll keep messing around with it all to see what works and what breaks,
and I'll let you know what I've found. It's not much of a contribution,
I suppose, in particular with respect to the sterling efforts and
high-minded goals of the devuan project, but it's as much as someone
with the meagre capabilities as I possess can offer to your excellent
endeavour.

Sam


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-07 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:10:49AM +0100, miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote:

 > it is possible to use a testing kernel on the Devuan Stable Jessie 1.0,
 > to then compile and deploy grsecurity-hardened kernel, much like I was

Didn't actually try that on Devuan yet, but I wouldn't expect 
any problems unless you forget to configure in something essential...

I have Wheezy running on 4.2.x-grsec kernels, and besides the usual 
suspects that need some pax flags (java, iceweasel), everything works. 
Ah yes, /usr/sbin/grub-probe needs to have MPROTECT disabled, too.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-07 Thread Jaromil
Dear Sam,

On November 7, 2015 7:07:22 AM GMT+01:00, Sam 
>Thanks again, but I fear that when folks on the other side of the world
>wake up and read about these exploits, I'll be given a stern dressing
>down for brazenly and recklessly mucking-up the stable/testing/unstable
>canon...

such an attitude will find no place in this
camp, for we are all here in mutual respect
of the many different things we like to do
with our computers, not to be told what

Thanks for sharing your adventures

indeed the kernel is still Debian's
we have no plans nor need to substitute
that with our own build ATM

but won't be a problem if needed
(For instance removing kdbus)

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-07 Thread Didier Kryn

Le 07/11/2015 11:02, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com a écrit :

All that info is right as far as I can tell.

gcc versions from /proc/version are labelled as debian for me too.



The kernel remembers who has compiled it, when, and where. If you 
compile it yourself you'll be pleased to see your username in 
/proc/version. You can also add some tag to the kernel version It is 
also possible to add some tag to the version of gcc if you compile it 
yourself, and it will appear when you invoke 'gcc --version'.


As long as Devuan keeps Debian packages for kernel and gcc, you're 
going to see that they have been compiled by Debian devs. And Devuan, 
for the moment only modifies packages which need to, in order to get rid 
of systemd dependency. This does not involve gcc, and not yet the kernel.


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-07 Thread dev1fanboy

All that info is right as far as I can tell.

gcc versions from /proc/version are labelled as debian for me too.

Try cat /etc/devuan_version

Also try switching to the stock 4.x kernel that comes with testing, you 
can do it by installing linux-image-amd64 package which I guess you 
don't have. Watch carefully the output though, I managed to mess up my 
testing system that way because I didn't notice it wanted to remove 
things, which was due to dependencies not having the right version yet 
which I think is happening occasionally.


But it looks like you migrated properly :-)

There's probably several solutions somewhere to purge old configuration 
files for packages already removed, or maybe /etc/debian_version should 
be there too idk.

 
 

Hello dev1fanboy, and everyone else.

This is just an F.Y.I. I'd like to let you know that I've just 
carried

out what so far appears to be a successful Debian -> Devuan
conversion. You prudently advised that the
upgrade/transformation/conversion should be from either Debian Wheezy
or Jessie, and that was for very good reason. However, my Debian
system was of the Stretch/Sid flavour:

/etc/debian_version
stretch/sid

/proc/version
Linux version 4.1.0-2-rt-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
version 4.9.3 (Debian 4.9.3-3) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.1.6-1
(2015-08-23)

Alas, I am far too impatient, impetuous and imprudent to methodically
downgrade my system to the appropriate level before I attempted such 
a

foolish thing, so I proceeded regardless. I even went so far as to
configure minimalism in the system as you suggested, and that almost
went off without a hitch. I say almost, because in the process my
nvidia graphics driver and kernel module were trashed. But 
reinstating

those was in principle easy owing to the brilliant SGFXI script,
however I did need to re-boot (sorry KatolaZ) into a non-real-time
pre-emptive kernel (i.e. non -rt-) otherwise the the sgfxi script
complained and barfed.

I can provide more detail if you're curious, but for the minute, I
just wanted to thank you for your exceptionally clear and 
prescriptive
instructions and perhaps to say that, if one is as brave or foolish 
as

I am, it is eminently possible to jump across to Devuan from Debian
Stretch/Sid by following your guide.

Cheers,
Sam


p.s. there is (at least?) one annoying relic of the old Debian system
lingering on my new Devuan OS, however: /etc/debian_version still 
says

stretch/sid, and /proc/version now says:

Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3
(2015-08-04)

Is my triumphant declaration of success premature?




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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-07 Thread miro . rovis
On 151107-12:06+0100, Alexander Bochmann wrote:
> ...on Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:10:49AM +0100, miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr 
> wrote:
> 
>  > it is possible to use a testing kernel on the Devuan Stable Jessie 1.0,
>  > to then compile and deploy grsecurity-hardened kernel, much like I was
> 
> Didn't actually try that on Devuan yet, but I wouldn't expect 
> any problems unless you forget to configure in something essential...
> 
> I have Wheezy running on 4.2.x-grsec kernels, and besides the usual 
> suspects that need some pax flags (java, iceweasel), everything works. 
> Ah yes, /usr/sbin/grub-probe needs to have MPROTECT disabled, too.
> 

Great to know!

I can't tell you how much I'd like to try it, and resume teaching
newbies grsecurity hardening, only in Devuan. But, poor health and other
problems...

Also, I'm really happy to see that you cater for users who want no-dbus
(nor other poetterware). Recommended you the other day over on Gentoo
Forums (like that I haven't already in many occasions spoke about my
hopes in the Devuan projects):

Uninstalling dbus and *kits (to Unfacilitate Remote Seats)
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-992146-start-75.html#7837424
(just search for string Devuan)

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-06 Thread Sam
On 07/11/15 15:23, Go Linux wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11/6/15, Sam  wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring 
> minimalism
>  To: dng@lists.dyne.org
>  Date: Friday, November 6, 2015, 11:17 PM
>  
> [snip]
> 
>> But reinstating those was in principle easy owing to the brilliant SGFXI 
>> script,
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Congrats!
> 
> Yes, SGFXI is amazing!  I used it frequently before I moved to on-board 
> graphics on this newer board.
> 
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Thank you!

> Yes, SGFXI is amazing!  I used it frequently before I moved to
> on-board graphics on this newer board.

Indeed. I've used it a handful of times over the years (since about
2006, when it was provided simply as smxi) for both NVidia and ATI/AMD
graphics subsystems, and compared to the alternative manual approach
which involved all kinds of jiggery-pokery as well as the sacrifice of
small animals and other votive offerings to the gods for the miracle of
transubstantiation, SGFXI is a peach.

But we digress, by just a little perhaps. I'd like to reiterate how
clear and concise dev1fanboy's instructions are, and that so far it
appears it is indeed possible to convert from Debian Stretch/Sid to Devuan.

What has been conspicuous by its absence I suppose is the detail about
my original system. For instance, I've made no mention of the fact that
the original (and present) system does not make use of any of the GNOME,
KDE, XFCE, nor LXDE classes of desktop environment. I've always only
used either OpenBox or FluxBox with XDM as the display manager, or no
desktop environment and display manager at all. Besides these, I've
never been able to endure anything else for very long at all before
reverting back to the venerable terminal.

If more information, or if the detailed step-by-step log of my approach
is needed (it would be somewhat redundant however as I followed
dev1fanboys's recipe fairly closely and simply peppered the directives
with my own diagnostic probings here or there), I mention this as a
caveat for anyone else considering a reckless approach such as mine. So,
as it was from the outset, YMMV.

Sam


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-06 Thread Go Linux


On Fri, 11/6/15, Sam  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring 
minimalism
 To: dng@lists.dyne.org
 Date: Friday, November 6, 2015, 11:17 PM
 
[snip]

> But reinstating those was in principle easy owing to the brilliant SGFXI 
> script,

[snip]

Congrats!

Yes, SGFXI is amazing!  I used it frequently before I moved to on-board 
graphics on this newer board.

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-06 Thread Sam
On 07/11/15 15:23, Go Linux wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11/6/15, Sam  wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring 
> minimalism
>  To: dng@lists.dyne.org
>  Date: Friday, November 6, 2015, 11:17 PM
>  
> [snip]
> 
>> But reinstating those was in principle easy owing to the brilliant SGFXI 
>> script,
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Congrats!
> 
> Yes, SGFXI is amazing!  I used it frequently before I moved to on-board 
> graphics on this newer board.
> 
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Thanks again, but I fear that when folks on the other side of the world
wake up and read about these exploits, I'll be given a stern dressing
down for brazenly and recklessly mucking-up the stable/testing/unstable
canon...

Sam



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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-06 Thread Sam


On 04/11/15 07:21, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote:

> Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring
> minimalism.
>
> There are a lot of people talking about minimalism in Devuan and
> some may be wondering if they can upgrade to Devuan. The answer is
> yes, you can upgrade to Devuan right now and expect it to work
> with few if any problems in the stable branch - which is not yet
> announced stable but is clearly a lot better than alpha quality as
> you might have heard mentioned on devuan.org. I am currently
> putting in a little research before writing a more full guide to
> upgrading, installing and getting more minimalism out of Devuan.
> Hopefully I will be starting a wiki for all this info and more to
> go into in the near future, but for now I want to just put it out
> there for people trying to upgrade their current system or get
> more minimalism in their system.
>
> Let's get started.
>
>
> 1) Upgrading Debian to Devuan Stable (aka Jessie 1.0)
>
> You can upgrade to Devuan Jessie 1.0 from either Debian Wheezy or
> from Debian Jessie. For other branches you are on your own for
> now, and I suggest avoiding upgrades to Devuan testing (ascii) for
> now until after the official stable release. ...

Hello dev1fanboy, and everyone else.

This is just an F.Y.I. I'd like to let you know that I've just carried
out what so far appears to be a successful Debian -> Devuan
conversion. You prudently advised that the
upgrade/transformation/conversion should be from either Debian Wheezy
or Jessie, and that was for very good reason. However, my Debian
system was of the Stretch/Sid flavour:

/etc/debian_version
stretch/sid

/proc/version
Linux version 4.1.0-2-rt-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
version 4.9.3 (Debian 4.9.3-3) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.1.6-1
(2015-08-23)

Alas, I am far too impatient, impetuous and imprudent to methodically
downgrade my system to the appropriate level before I attempted such a
foolish thing, so I proceeded regardless. I even went so far as to
configure minimalism in the system as you suggested, and that almost
went off without a hitch. I say almost, because in the process my
nvidia graphics driver and kernel module were trashed. But reinstating
those was in principle easy owing to the brilliant SGFXI script,
however I did need to re-boot (sorry KatolaZ) into a non-real-time
pre-emptive kernel (i.e. non -rt-) otherwise the the sgfxi script
complained and barfed.

I can provide more detail if you're curious, but for the minute, I
just wanted to thank you for your exceptionally clear and prescriptive
instructions and perhaps to say that, if one is as brave or foolish as
I am, it is eminently possible to jump across to Devuan from Debian
Stretch/Sid by following your guide.

Cheers,
Sam


p.s. there is (at least?) one annoying relic of the old Debian system
lingering on my new Devuan OS, however: /etc/debian_version still says
stretch/sid, and /proc/version now says:

Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc
version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3
(2015-08-04)

Is my triumphant declaration of success premature?






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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-06 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 09:37:40PM -, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote:
> Of course it's not mandatory to reboot after an upgrade. There is a
> reason for instructing a reboot in this case - to avoid any
> potential problems with drivers that need to be reinstalled. This
> way they can test that their xserver will start as in the next
> step. 

Sorry, I didn't mean to put you down. Yours is an excellent example of
how documentation should be written, and I have to thank you again for
your work. I probably used the wrong quote to reinforce a concept that
I think is fundamental: upgrades should not break a system, or prevent
it from working. If they do, then such an upgrade should not be
allowed altogether :)

Debian used to consider this very seriously, and in fact Debian
upgrades and dist-upgrades until wheezy were always smooth and clean
(if the user did not mess up with the repos), up to the point that you
could also avoid rebooting the machine and carry on. Then came the
systemd-fuzz and rebooting became (and was often suggested as) a
stupid solution to stupid problems caused by stupid software.

My2Cents

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-05 Thread miro . rovis
On 151104-18:07-, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote:
> I'm still getting used to the mailing list so sorry if this starts a second
> post
> 
> I didn't realise I would get such a good response for sharing a little
> knowledge, thanks to everyone for the compliments and for resharing. I
> posted here just hoping to help someone for now until I had more to share. I
> wasn't sure how to respond at first as I'm not used to publishing but I will
> say that yes I'm happy for everyone to share, modify, and reuse my previous
> post/work on upgrading devuan and configuring minimalism. Please also give
> others permission to do so, and you can just mention dev1fanboy if you like.
>  
> 
> It was kindly suggested to me by one of the installer devs from the
> debianfork channel that I could share it on the devuan gitlib instance under
> my own project. I didn't realise they had it open for others to sign up
> (which is cool), or maybe it's my noobishness about gitlab as well but i
> have posted it here:
> 
> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Upgrade-to-Devuan-and-minimalism
And looking up also:
http://wiki.friendsofdevuan.org/doku.php/quick_start_minimal

And I was wondering. In my Tips page on Debian:
Grsecurity/Pax installation on Debian GNU/Linux
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=108616

and my dream being to teach newbies deploying grsec-hardened kernel in
Devuan, since Debian has fallen victim to poetter-people...

[And I was wondering] (sorry if I've rusted a bit in Debian/Devuan ways and
terminology since), *grsecurity* can since recently
(see:
Intel Subsidiary's Violations Made Grsec withdraw Stable? 
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1031476.html 
gone stable-available-only-for-sponsors (and I don't blame
the grsec devs for that...)
)

Since grsecurity can since recently only be used if you use testing
kernel (such as the current one in my Gentoo: 4.2.5-hardened), I was
wondering, and excuse my ignorance if that is the case, whether after:

Upgrading Debian to Devuan Stable (aka Jessie 1.0)

it is possible to use a testing kernel on the Devuan Stable Jessie 1.0,
to then compile and deploy grsecurity-hardened kernel, much like I was
doing in my Devuan tips page above?

(A note is due: much that I'm eager to, if the answer to my query is:
YES it can be done, try that A.S.A.P and report, poor health and other
issues may prevent me for some more time to do so; pls. should that be
the case, don't count it at inconsistency on my part)

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-05 Thread Ста Деюс
Good time of the day, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com.


On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 20:51:47 - you wrote:

> Hopefully I will be starting a wiki for 
> all this info and more to go into in the near future, but for now I 
> want to just put it out there for people trying to upgrade their 
> current system or get more minimalism in their system.

If you will any help on wiki, please let me know.


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread Harald Arnesen
Steve Litt [2015-11-04 15:37]:

> Now of course, if I'm troubleshooting a system serving hotel
> reservations to millions of people, I'd reboot only as the very last
> resort. I'd build a parallel system and exploit the differences or
> similarities rather than rebooting. But if it's my own desktop or a
> server that's already down for repair, often rebooting decreases
> Mean Time To Repair.

In such a case you wouldn't upgrade the system at all, unless there were
known insecurities.
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread dev1fanboy
Of course it's not mandatory to reboot after an upgrade. There is a 
reason for instructing a reboot in this case - to avoid any potential 
problems with drivers that need to be reinstalled. This way they can 
test that their xserver will start as in the next step. 


I also used the word reboot again in the original post after slim 
installation, and hope it doesn't mislead people to think they need to 
reboot to use a display manager.


Exiting XFCE and typing:

root@devuan:~# /etc/init.d/slim start 

As root would be a nicer finishing step that I may just add.

 
On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:45 PM, KatolaZ  
wrote:

 

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:21:27PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:

Le 04/11/2015 09:08, KatolaZ a écrit :
>Thank you very much. Very nice guide, but please: do not urge 
people
>to reboot, ever. There is simply no need at all to reboot, and in 
the

>ovewhelming majority of use cases it is not necessary at all to use
>the latest kernel available, unless using "the kernel shipped with
>Devuan" is the only way for you to get a crappy device finally
>work. But if your crappy devices are already working, just avoid
>rebooting, unless you need to power the system down for some other
>reason.

    Rebooting several times during an upgrade is the Windows
fashion, and it's satisfactory that you don't need it when upgrading
a Linux system.

    But it happened to me some times in the past that my Debian box
didn't restart properly after even a simple apt-get upgrade, not to
talk of a dist-upgrade. Therefore I can understand that one is eager
to immediately check that it works.

Yes Didier, I acknowledge that I was a bit too harsh, and indeed a
reboot is sometimes needed upon some specific updates. I just wanted
to warn ourselves about the later confusion between "sometimes needed
upon some specific updates" and "compulsory whenever you have used
aptitude to install a package or launched an apt-get upgrade" :)

My2Cents

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread cangrejo
Hi aitor,

yes I am who interviewed Dani on my podcast, it was a great experience.

Not videos yet, but we have pictures and slides,

2015.opennebulaconf.com

Cheers

On 4 de novembre de 2015 13:13:39 CET, aitor_czr  wrote:
>Hi cangrejo,
>
>Are you who interviewed the author of AmayaOS in a radio transmitter?
>
>Are available the videos of Alberto Zuin and Jaromil in Barcelona? You 
>refer to the event in the website...
>
>Aitor.
>
>On 04/11/15 12:38, cangrejo  wrote:
>> If I had your permission, I will  post it in spanish with some
>> screenshots, in my bloghttps://devuanita.wordpress.com  (after trying
>it
>> first).
>>
>>
>> That's a great work!
>
>
>
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread aitor_czr

+1

I agree 100% with the pencil of Steve Litt :)

Aitor.

On 04/11/15 12:38, Steve Litt  wrote:

Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism.
>
>There are a lot of people talking about minimalism in Devuan

[snip some of the best documentation I've ever seen]

This is spectacular documentation! You should put it on a website
somewhere, because the world needs to see this.

SteveT


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread aitor_czr

Hi cangrejo,

Are you who interviewed the author of AmayaOS in a radio transmitter?

Are available the videos of Alberto Zuin and Jaromil in Barcelona? You 
refer to the event in the website...


Aitor.

On 04/11/15 12:38, cangrejo  wrote:

If I had your permission, I will  post it in spanish with some
screenshots, in my bloghttps://devuanita.wordpress.com  (after trying it
first).


That's a great work!


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread Simon Hobson
KatolaZ  wrote:

> ... but please: do not urge people
> to reboot, ever. There is simply no need at all to reboot, and in the
> ovewhelming majority of use cases it is not necessary at all to use
> the latest kernel available, unless ...

With all due respect, I disagree with that.

I don't generally "reboot to fix it" though that is sometimes the answer. But 
in the case of having upgraded the system (especially if it's a major 
dist-upgrade, and in this case a cross-grade), I would normally reboot for 
several reasons :

1) If the kernel has been upgraded, then (ATM) a reboot is needed to be using it
2) The upgrade process has quite likely done a grub-update - and I'd like to 
know now, not some random (could be weeks or months) time in the future, 
whether that grub update is OK. It most likely is, but I think any experienced 
admin has experienced a non-booting system at some point.
3) There's always the possibility that some process wasn't properly 
stopped-started during the upgrade - leaving a situation where there's a 
process running with the old binary and old config which we think we've 
upgraded. No it shouldn't happen, but I'm fairly certain I've experienced it in 
the past.

So yes, you are correct that we shouldn't need to reboot (and especially not 
upgrade-reboot-upgrade-reboot-... rinse and repeat until we run out of upgrades 
like with Windows), it's a valid thing to do after a major upgrade if we want 
to be completely 100% certain that were running the kernel we've installed, and 
running the software & configs we've installed, *AND* that the system will 
actually boot with the changes we've made.
The only thing worse than having a problem with a system, is having a problem 
with a system which falsely appears to be a new problem because it's been sat 
there just waiting for an opportunity to show itself. You're then scratching 
your head trying to think about what's changed just now, while in reality we 
need to remember what we changed weeks or months ago.



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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and, configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread David Harrison

On 04/11/2015 11:38, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote:

This is spectacular documentation! You should put it on a website
somewhere, because the world needs to see this.

SteveT


Hi Steve, all,

With permission from dev1fanboy, a copy of the excellent how-to is here:

http://wiki.friendsofdevuan.org/doku.php/quick_start_minimal

Its posting there is, of course, non-exclusive. I have added a little 
wiki-ish formatting for readability, and included one correction as 
supplied by dev1fanboy.


Cheers,

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:21:27PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 04/11/2015 09:08, KatolaZ a écrit :
> >Thank you very much. Very nice guide, but please: do not urge people
> >to reboot, ever. There is simply no need at all to reboot, and in the
> >ovewhelming majority of use cases it is not necessary at all to use
> >the latest kernel available, unless using "the kernel shipped with
> >Devuan" is the only way for you to get a crappy device finally
> >work. But if your crappy devices are already working, just avoid
> >rebooting, unless you need to power the system down for some other
> >reason.
> 
> Rebooting several times during an upgrade is the Windows
> fashion, and it's satisfactory that you don't need it when upgrading
> a Linux system.
> 
> But it happened to me some times in the past that my Debian box
> didn't restart properly after even a simple apt-get upgrade, not to
> talk of a dist-upgrade. Therefore I can understand that one is eager
> to immediately check that it works.

Yes Didier, I acknowledge that I was a bit too harsh, and indeed a
reboot is sometimes needed upon some specific updates. I just wanted
to warn ourselves about the later confusion between "sometimes needed
upon some specific updates" and "compulsory whenever you have used
aptitude to install a package or launched an apt-get upgrade" :)

My2Cents

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Joel Roth  writes:
> dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote:
>> 2) Configure minimalism in the system
>> 
>> Thanks to a tip given to me by a fellow minimalist from #debianfork (unnamed
>> for now until I talk to them) you will be able to debloat your system in a
>> very neat way. 
> (...)
>> First use an editor to make the necessary changes:
>> 
>> root@devuan:~# nano /etc/apt.conf.d/01lean
>> 
>> Add the following lines:
>> 
>> APT::Install-Suggests "0";
>> APT::Install-Recommends "0";
>> APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false";
>> APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant "false";
>
> This led to losing quite a bit of fat in my system.
> I'm waiting to see what breaks! 

It shouldn't break anything: 'Recommends' expresses an opinion of the
package maintainer that one should "unless in unsual circumstance" also
install certain other packages. The usual recommendation is 'avahi' (Mac OS
X compatible 'zeroconfig networking' daemon). Since I grew tired with
deinstalling this package, I've been running with

APT {
Install-Recommends "false";
};

for a long time.

'Suggests' is a weaker form of that, relying on "authoritative nagging"
instead of "Let's install that and see who dares to remove it!" There's
a 'classic' Jack Nicholson reply to unwarranted suggestions: "I didn't
ask".

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-04 Thread Didier Kryn

Le 04/11/2015 09:08, KatolaZ a écrit :

Thank you very much. Very nice guide, but please: do not urge people
to reboot, ever. There is simply no need at all to reboot, and in the
ovewhelming majority of use cases it is not necessary at all to use
the latest kernel available, unless using "the kernel shipped with
Devuan" is the only way for you to get a crappy device finally
work. But if your crappy devices are already working, just avoid
rebooting, unless you need to power the system down for some other
reason.


Rebooting several times during an upgrade is the Windows fashion, 
and it's satisfactory that you don't need it when upgrading a Linux system.


But it happened to me some times in the past that my Debian box 
didn't restart properly after even a simple apt-get upgrade, not to talk 
of a dist-upgrade. Therefore I can understand that one is eager to 
immediately check that it works.


If you think a translation of the guide into french maybe usefull, 
I would happily do it. I think, though, that, at this level of geekery, 
people have enough understanding of "computer-english".


Didier

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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 20:51:47 -
dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote:

> Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism.
> 
> There are a lot of people talking about minimalism in Devuan

[snip some of the best documentation I've ever seen]

This is spectacular documentation! You should put it on a website
somewhere, because the world needs to see this.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
 of the Successful Technologist
http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 20:51:47 -
dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote:


> A quick list of window managers that do not depend on dbus with 
> suggestions from a couple of #debianfork regs:
> 
> fluxbox
> blackbox
> openbox
> fvwm
> fvwm-crystal
> icewm

Don't forget to mention how beautifully dmenu from Suckless Tools
integrates into all of these and makes you *a lot* more productive.

> For a graphical browser I suggest iceweasel, you might also like:
> ​
> epiphany
> links2
> dillo

xombrero, or it might still be called xxxterm, is another great
lightweight, especially if you're the touch typist kind of person. I've
installed elinks and found it's wonderful, but I forget which distro I
did it on. 

SteveT

Steve Litt 
November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
 of the Successful Technologist
http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-03 Thread Jaromil

On Tue, 03 Nov 2015, cangrejo wrote:

> If I had your permission, I will  post it in spanish with some
> screenshots, in my blog https://devuanita.wordpress.com (after trying it
> first).
> 
> That's a great work!

I guess the guide was posted with the intention of sharing it publicly
starting from this place and, as it goes for Devuan, I think we are all
fans of freedom and decentralization, so this is not an exclusive for
our webpages - but we'll surely republish this and perhaps give editor
access to the author for updates.

sharing is caring <3

so please go ahead and translate and repost what you read here pretty
much as you like and where you like. If you need a website platform to
write more I recommend also getting involved in https://talk.devuan.org
where we have wiki + comment stream functionality, email gateway and
same auth as the gitlab. The talk site will become the more collectively
maintained source of information for Devuan in the future, better
exposed than the actual gitlab wiki. However if you have your own
website it is also very good and we'll link it.

All in all I am really moved by reading this, for someone from the
community withnessing how stable is getting our development is worthed
more than a thousand release announcements and labels. I can confirm
running on my private PCs pretty much the same setup as described and
stable - but on awesome WM hence struggling with dbus, perhaps I'll
revert to larswm one day...

ciao


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Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-03 Thread Joel Roth
dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote:
> 2) Configure minimalism in the system
> 
> Thanks to a tip given to me by a fellow minimalist from #debianfork (unnamed
> for now until I talk to them) you will be able to debloat your system in a
> very neat way. 
(...)
> First use an editor to make the necessary changes:
> 
> root@devuan:~# nano /etc/apt.conf.d/01lean
> 
> Add the following lines:
> 
> APT::Install-Suggests "0";
> APT::Install-Recommends "0";
> APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false";
> APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant "false";

This led to losing quite a bit of fat in my system.
I'm waiting to see what breaks! 

-- 
Joel Roth
  

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