Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > The Wheezy point releases have no BIND9 updates so, without searching > further, I am unable to check that new libraries were installed. Even > if they were they would be from stable, which is ok. This was a recent BIND9 upgrade in Wheezy on 18 Feb 2015. https://www.debian.org/se

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net) in a previous posting: > I think the question was quite clear as to meaning - the OP asked is > Jessie (i.e., Debian stable), stable (in the plain English use of the > word) enough for general use. Not confusing at all. Jessie is not Debian stab

Re: duplicate logrotate configurations for cups

2015-03-07 Thread Laverne Schrock
On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 19:18 +, Brian wrote: > On Sat 07 Mar 2015 at 11:21:36 -0600, Laverne Schrock wrote: > > > cups-daemon is provided by the cups-daemon package, but dpkg cannot find > > the provider for cups.dpkg-remove > > > > I have two questions: > > 1) Where did /etc/logrotate.d/cups.

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Sat 07 Mar 2015 at 09:14:31 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Well, yes and no. -- Yes: Typical desktop operating systems (e.g., Windows, Mac OS), and applications, "call home" periodically to check for updates, Debian doesn't work like that unless it is configured to do so. Duh..

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-07 Thread Brian
On Sat 07 Mar 2015 at 09:14:31 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Well, yes and no. > -- Yes: Typical desktop operating systems (e.g., Windows, Mac OS), > and applications, "call home" periodically to check for updates, Debian doesn't work like that unless it is configured to do so. > but, > -- No:

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 18:26:46 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the > > > equivalent with aptitude, if you use that). Things change quickly and > > > sometimes majorly on the path to Stable. Yo

Re: duplicate logrotate configurations for cups

2015-03-07 Thread Brian
On Sat 07 Mar 2015 at 11:21:36 -0600, Laverne Schrock wrote: > cups-daemon is provided by the cups-daemon package, but dpkg cannot find > the provider for cups.dpkg-remove > > I have two questions: > 1) Where did /etc/logrotate.d/cups.dpkg-remove come from? It looks like you have been using test

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-07 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 07 Mar 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >> Brian wrote: > >>> On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>> > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > > > Thanks everybody for the colle

duplicate logrotate configurations for cups

2015-03-07 Thread Laverne Schrock
Hi, I have a desktop computer running Jessie (amd64). When I check for messages using the 'mail' command, I find many messages like the following From Envelope-to: root@ Delivery-date: From: root@ (Cron Daemon) To: root@ Subject: Cron > test -x /

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1 is it. FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgr

Re: alternative to avidemux?

2015-03-07 Thread Victor
On 07/03/2015 02:37, Anil Duggirala wrote: Im using avconv to do this, it is a part of libav-tools package, and its probably faster if you are doing this on a regular basis, use the -ss option along with the -t option. Thanks. Indeed avconv can do it. But as I said, I’d prefer something with a g

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-07 Thread Joe
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 18:26:46 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > > On a Sid Unstable system there are a lot of transitions. Running > dist-upgrade only mostly works but sometimes the transitions and other > noise confuse APT and it wants to take a different path than we want > it to take. Such as to rem

Re: Recompiling debian kernel

2015-03-07 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 5, 2015 7:26 AM, wrote: > make deb-pkg replaces all this: > > Then I execute > make > to build the kernel, and > > sudo make modules_install > > dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b -apowerpc > > but at these last step I get an error message: > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/csanyipal/BubbaKe