Sent this message to ifupdown@packages.d.o a few days ago. So far,
I didn't get a reply. Perhaps I should have asked the list prior to
asking the maintainer.
Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7.46.1
$ zgrep -B3 netdev /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/changelog.gz | \
sed '2,3d'
ifupdown
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:08:50PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:28:01PM +0300, Regid Ichira wrote:
On Fri, Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:34:56 -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:06:43 -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in wrote:
On Fri, Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:34:56 -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote
On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:29:35 +0900 Joel Rees wrote:
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in wrote:
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:06:43 -0400, Tom H wrote:
[...]
As I said, more or less, in a reply to Ralf, can you guarantee that no
other Linux user will have a disk renamed
On Fri, Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:34:56 -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
Traditional device names, such as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb,
(and therefore the partitions on those devices, such
as /dev/sda1,
In view of http://bugs.debian.org/722580 and
http://bugs.debian.org/722604:
A machine with:
- a custom, non initrd, linux image
- udev 175-7.2
- no DEVTMPFS in the kernel configuration
is able to boot.
1. Will the machine boot with
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
# CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT
I deliberately changed the subject of this message because I hope
people will also pay attention to my previous message in the thread.
At http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/09/msg01150.html, which,
I hope, this message will be a follow-up to, Stephen Powell wrote
that, in general,
I find it useful to have the kernel configuration automatically
pointing out only the NEW kernel configuration options. Quite often,
the kernel's
$ make oldconfig
takes a long time. In particular, when I am trying to find out more
information on the NEW features. The options that I am
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 07:55:51PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in wrote:
I find it useful to have the kernel configuration automatically
pointing out only the NEW kernel configuration options. Quite often,
the kernel's
$ make
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:54:21 +
From: Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org
To: Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in
CC: pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org,
debian-d...@lists.debian.org
After upgarding bootlogd and initscripts 2.88dsf-42 - 2.88dsf-43,
and other packages that are built from sysvinit, I found that
1. /etc/init.d/bootlogd
2. /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd
3. /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd-single
are no longer installed. Looks similar to
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:14:40 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
1. What exactly are you concerned about that we can do something
about on the users list? Has bc been dropped from being a default
part of the most basic install?
bc is priority standard. Doesn't that mean that there are Debian
I didn't get response for a similar post on
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/06/msg01262.html. Is it
because the answers are too obvious?
bc, an arbitrary precision calculator language, is a kernel build
dependency since a long time ago. Should it be added to:
1. The
$ zgrep -A5 458-2 /usr/share/doc/less/changelog.Debian.gz
less (458-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Merge 458-1ubuntu1
- debian/lesspipe{.1}: Make lesspipe treat ddebs the same as it does
debs
and udebs (LP: #1180013).
What are ddebs?
I think it is not a
I am not subscribed to the list. Did I managed to set In-reply-to
header? The thread this message belongs to is
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/06/msg00040.html
I think Claudius Hubig was right with the observation that task-desktop
pulled many packages:
As proposed by Andrei
$ aptitude show xserver-xorg-video-all | grep -A 21 Depends
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-apm, xserver-xorg-video-ark,
xserver-xorg-video-ati,
xserver-xorg-video-chips, xserver-xorg-video-cirrus,
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev, xserver-xorg-video-i128,
packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/vsftpd is refering
http://git.debian-maintainers.org/?p=daniel/vsftpd.git. The
reference is in the left column of the page, under the links for
vsftpd title ( Debian Source Repository (Git) ).
$ host git.debian-maintainers.org
Host
Quoting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690345#5
In sysvinit (initscripts), we were obliged to revert back to using
absolute links for /var/run and /var/lock in this commit:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/sysvinit;a=commitdiff;h=0977997
due
Isn't lintian meant to be used at build time? Isn't it a sort of
post build depends?
In that case, why lintian overrides are shipped in (binary) debs?
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I am a perl beginner. I stambled upon a perl line
if (system(command -v wget /dev/null 21) == 0)
I was able to find perl's documentation for system. But where is
the documentation for command?
Am I right that that line tests whether wget is installed in the
system? How does it do
package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.4
Tags:patch
Files: /usr/bin/rc-alert
/usr/share/doc/devscripts/README.gz
Many devscripts choose on the fly whether to use curl or wget,
depending on what is installed. So far rc-alert was using solely
wget. The following patches tries to
$ grep Provides /etc/init.d/mountnfs-bootclean.sh
# Provides: mountnfs-bootclean
$ grep Description /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
# Short-Description: Miscellaneous things to be done during bootup.
# Description: Some cleanup. Note, it need to run after
$ zgrep 'Try to remove' /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/changelog.gz
- Try to remove old /etc/network/run even if it's a symlink.
$ ls -l /etc/network/run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 20 20:59 /etc/network/run - /run/network
Can I remove /etc/network/run manually? Just
$ zgrep -A1 'bootlogs init script has been removed'
/usr/share/doc/initscripts/changelog.Debian.gz
- bootlogs init script has been removed; current logging daemons
handle this themselves, making this script redundant.
$
$ ls -l /etc/init.d/bootlogs
-rwxr-xr-x 1
Many (most?) packages with extensive documentation offer a deb
so that the documentation will be available locally.
Am I right that there is no deb offering the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook? Is
it reasonable to file a wishlist bug for that matter?
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Isn't closing fd at the end makes all the work meaningless?
$ man login_tty| grep -A6 'The login_tty() '
The login_tty() function prepares for a login on the tty fd
(which may be a real tty device, or the slave of a pseudoter-
minal as returned by
netbase 5.0 changelog states
* Starting from this release, TCP/UDP ports will be added only for the
actually implemented protocol even if IANA nowadays assigns both.
Why is that? Wouldn't it be better to quote exact IANA assignment?
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I had difficulties getting ssh(1)'s ESCAPE CHARACTERS to be recognized
from within a login shell over ssh. In particular, sometimes the escape
character was not recognized as such. I was able to find in gmane a
similar issue for a Gentoo user from a few years ago. I don't have
that gmane URL
Quoting pipe(7):
If all file descriptors referring to the write end of a pipe
have been closed, then an attempt to read (2) from the pipe
will see end-of-file ( read (2) will return 0).
Consider a pipe with 1 reading and 1 writing processes. The
reading process was put to sleep
$ zgrep -A3 '%A%p' /usr/share/info/find.info.gz
newest=$(find subdir -newer timestamp -printf %A%p\n |
sort -n |
tail -1 |
cut -d: -f2- )
is taken from findutil's (4.4.2-4) documentation. It doesn't work
here:
$ mkdir
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-22
$ grep -nA13 ^INITCTL= /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysvinit.postinst
19:INITCTL=/run/initctl
20-case $(uname -s) in
21- *FreeBSD)
22- OLDINITCTL=/etc/.initctl
23- ;;
24- *)
25- OLDINITCTL=/dev/initctl
26- ;;
27-esac
28-
29-# Create /run/initctl if
Referring to Package: vsftpd, Version: 2.3.5-1.
1. Can I get the debian source for 2.3.4, and possibly older?
I think debian had some version control archive for the vsftpd
package.
2. Since I write, I'll mention the issue I am after:
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/vsftpd/changelog.gz | tail
Quoting changelog of some recent deb:
Add texinfo back to build depends: policy has been subverted
What is he talking about?
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Why does diffutils.deb priority required?
Why is it an essential package?
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Within a shell, what is the difference between [ -n undefinedString ] and [
-n $undefinedString ] ?
With bash I get:
$ unset undefinedString
$ [ -n undefinedString ]printf $undefinedString | od -c
000
$ [ -n $undefinedString ]printf $undefinedString | od -c
$ [
$ diff --help | grep -e --show-c-function
-p --show-c-function Show which C function each change is in.
Will diff -p behaves reasonably when applied to non C files?
I want to use the -p option in a script that does not necessarily act
on C files?
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hadi motamedi motamedi24 at gmail.com writes:
- Add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/iptables
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
Then issue:
#service iptables restart
I tried for it and now the windows machine can browse valid url . I
must mention that the problem
hadi motamedi motamedi24 at gmail.com writes:
On 7/18/11, Regid Ichira regid23 at yahoo.com wrote:
hadi motamedi motamedi24 at gmail.com writes:
On 7/18/11, Tom Furie tom at furie.org.uk wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote:
I have set the same
hadi motamedi motamedi24 at gmail.com writes:
I tried for 'iptables -S' but it returned 'unknown arg -S' . The
windows machine firewall is turned off. On the windows machine,
browsing like http://128.31.0.51 is successful .
The -S option is clearly mentioned in the manual page and the help
Bob Proulx bob at proulx.com writes:
Regid Ichira wrote:
I have installed the ntp package. I edited /etc/insserv.conf, and
added +ntp to the $time line.
$ grep time /etc/insserv.conf
# The system time has been set correctly
$time +hwclock +ntp
Why do
hadi motamedi motamedi24 at gmail.com writes:
On 7/18/11, Tom Furie tom at furie.org.uk wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote:
I have set the same DNS on both my debian firewall and windows macine.
And that would be what? You can ping an IP address from
David Baron d_baron at 012.net.il writes:
Get load of these on any dpkg/apt operation:
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 39750
package 'libmal0':
missing architecture
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 40988
package
Bob Proulx bob at proulx.com writes:
Looking at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634215 I
see that you have found a problem related to @reboot with cron
starting earlier using the dependency based booting than it did before
with the legacy based manually specified number
I have installed the ntp package. I edited /etc/insserv.conf, and
added +ntp to the $time line.
$ grep time /etc/insserv.conf
# The system time has been set correctly
$time +hwclock +ntp
I then issued
dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc
, expecting to have ntp added to the
Will the debian management system interpret a missing conffile as
though it was removed by the system administrator? That is, will
somethings break if the administrator removes a conffile, rather
then nullify its contents or commenting in each line of the file?
The file is marked by dpkg as a
debian/control of the nut source package has about 7 binary debs,
say A ... G.
They are built using cdbs. What should I put in debian/rules in order to
have it build only A and B? I have tried with DH_OPTIONS and
DH_LISTPACKAGES. It didn't work. I always end up with all the 7 binary
debs.
Is there a way to see whether a random bug report in the BTS has usertags?
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$ apt-cache --names-only search apm | grep sleepd
sleepd - puts an inactive or low battery laptop to sleep
Am I right that, according to man apt-cache, mentioning sleepd is a bug?
$ man apt-cache | grep -A20 ' search regex' | head
search regex [ regex ... ]
In the last 2 weeks, or so, I am not able to read the changelogs of debs
online. An example from today:
Not Found
The requested URL
/changelogs/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.15.1-1/changelog
was not found on this server.
Apache
On 13/04/11 11:57, kuLa wrote: On 13/04/11 11:30, Regid Ichira wrote: In
the last 2 weeks, or so, I am not able to read the changelogs of debs
online. An example from today: Not Found The requested
URL
/changelogs/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.15.1-1/changelog
The output of that command varies by a +/-1 in the last couple of days.
Why it that? Could it be related to security updates in stable?
The listing itself is related to the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list. My
sources.list uses:
deb security stable/updates main contrib non-free
Am I right having aptitude stdin connected to a pipe, as in
# printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade
will cause aptitude NOT to log its actions to /var/log/apt/* ?
I think this is a bug. Do you agree?
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Is there a command line tool that can search the contents of a deb that
is not installed and was not downloaded? If so, how does it do that?
Does it basically download Contents.gz and search in it?
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Consider the following:
$ man bootlogd | grep -A4 DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
Bootlogd runs in the background and copies all strings sent to the
/dev/console device to a logfile. If the logfile is not accessible,
the messages will be kept in memory until it is.
I think
Does `It also lists the DBM library this is being used' a
correct English phrase?
$ zgrep -C4 'DBM library this is being used' /usr/share/doc/exim4/spec.txt.gz
-bV
This option causes Exim to write the current version number, compilation
number, and compilation date of the exim binary
As some of you might know, the transition to dependency based
boot / insserv is causing the following lines:
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp'
overwrites defaults (empty).
Is it safe for the system administrator to issue
update-rc.d remove
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