Re: user accounts in docker group

On 1/21/23 04:42, L L wrote: The banner at the top of https://wiki.debian.org/Docker says: "The Docker daemon has setUID root, and by design allows easy access as root to the host filesystem. This makes it trivial for a malicious user to read and alter

Re: Debian 11 - How to install Gtkmm

On 11/10/22 01:09, Amn wrote: Trying to install Gtkmm 4 in a Debian 11 box I do this : sudo apt install libgtkmm-4.0-dev But then I get this error : Unable to locate package libgtkmm-4.0-dev What am I doing wrong? rmadison libgtkmm-4.0-dev libgtkmm-4.0-dev | 4.8.0-2 | unstable |

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

On 12/29/21 1:10 AM, Gavin Henry wrote: Hi, (I reply assuming you seek packaging help, because that appears in your subject, even though you don't mention that in your message) There is another mailing list specifically for packaging questions:

Re: using pam-ldap to allow ssh logins from only *some* ldap accounts (and not all)

On 12/10/21 12:31 PM, charlie derr wrote: Hi again everyone, Having gotten an excellent (and quite simple) response to my query about automatic homedir creation upon ssh login, i'm going to push my luck (expecting @ any moment to receive responses with RTFM or somethings close to that

Re: Development permissions

On 9/24/21 11:27 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:22:00AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 9/22/21 8:53 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:09:41PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: Without setting directory and file permissions to 777, how do you

Re: Development permissions

On 9/22/21 8:53 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:09:41PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: Without setting directory and file permissions to 777, how do you allow the above? What combinations of groups, directory owners/permissions and file owners/permissions might make this

Re: Docker installation problems

On 7/8/21 6:48 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: On 7/7/21 4:43 PM, IL Ka wrote: I suspect that something might be wrong with the /etc/apt/daemon.json file but am not sure what. try # dockerd https://docs.docker.com/config/daemon/#start-the-daemon-manually

Re: IPFS tools not in the repos?

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

Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable

On 3/5/21 9:02 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: Hi all, What is the best way to install the latest version of the inkscape on Buster? Buster installs inkscape 0.9 and I still encounter lots of bugs with it. I would like to try the latest but what is the best way to install newest version?

Re: command to build a Debian package

On 1/22/21 1:53 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I'm surprised to see on https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation that the recommended command to build a Debian package is dpkg-buildpackage. I had problems with it in the past as it doesn't clean up the environment (and some packages are

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On 12/12/20 3:35 PM, Marco Möller wrote: On 12.12.20 15:18, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? It is not even

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? On 12/12/20 1:03 AM, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: Even if you plan to use sudo for 99%

Re: VPN ideas

On 12/8/20 9:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 08:12:09AM +0100, john doe wrote: On 12/8/2020 1:50 AM, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 23:27:25 +0200 ellanios82 wrote:  - any suggestions please , for a handy VPN for everyday use : no specific purpose, but

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

Hi, another option is hd-idle package available via backports for stable and oldstable. On 11/12/20 1:18 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote: Hello List, I have two drives (setup in a RAID 1 array). The drives are mostly for archive purposes, and accessible via SMB on my local network. They are

Re: Building my own packages

On 11/4/20 3:32 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Dear Colleagues, As a person with the FreeBSD background, I'm used to building my own packages with the exact build options I need (those include exim, nginx, samba, clamav and many others). FreeBSD has a good infrastructure for this (ports tree,

Re: Securing local host of reverse SSH tunnel?

On 9/17/20 1:27 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2020 16 Sep 12:08 -0500, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: btw, there is package authprogs, doing exactly that and not only. It seems to only be in Bullseye right now. It's not in Buster nor Buster backports. As the target computer is a Freedombox

Re: Securing local host of reverse SSH tunnel?

On 9/15/20 8:53 PM, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > Nate Bargmann writes: > >> I am going to be deploying a Debian system at a location where I am >> unsure if I can make any inbound connection into that system. I am >> going to set up an SSH tunnel from that system to a host in my LAN. >> What I

Re: Why does Debian not include POSIX-specified commands like bc and ed by default?

On 9/12/20 9:05 AM, Lone Learner wrote: > POSIX.1-2001 Utilities[1] and POSIX.1-2008 Utilities[2] both list the > commands "bc" and "ed" to be part of POSIX. > > Yet, in a brand new Debian installation (version 10 for example), > these commands are missing by default: > > $ bc > bash: bc:

Re: Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

may be you need to import zpool before? try zpool import Best, Alex On 9/3/20 10:34 AM, James Allsopp wrote: This is just debian grub recovery mode so on the same machine, so hopefully zfsutil will be there. Looked at this; zfs                  4214784  9 zunicode              335872  1 zfs

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

On 7/14/20 3:05 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 03:04:38PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Since you anyway use tools like awk or tr, here is the perl code: echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | perl -F'\\\|' -lanE 'say "\"".$_."\"

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

On 7/14/20 2:52 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote: I have a string delimited by two characters: "\|" _S=" 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " which then I need to turn into a array looking like: _S_AR=( " 34 + 45" " abc" " 1 2 3" " c" "123abc" ) I can't make awk or tr work in the

Re: Chromium randomly crashes

On 7/13/20 10:30 AM, Toni Casueps wrote: Not sure if I should report this to Chromium or to Debian, but I guess that packaging a new Chromium version could fix the problem I updated (on Debian 10) to 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u2 and after some minutes it crashes giving this log. It's difficult to

Re: what calculator do you use?

On 7/13/20 9:31 AM, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my Debian os. What do you guys use? I'm having trouble with Galculator. Thank you! perl -E 'say eval(math expression)' Math::XX modules for more complicated stuff :) Best, Alex

Re: Sharing /boot and /lib/modules with multiple distros

On 6/6/20 11:06 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I usually have three different distros installed.  I was wondering if I could > have a separate partition (possibly in an extended partition) containing /boot > and /var/modules that would be mounted in each of the distros.  This would > eliminate having

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On 6/6/20 12:13 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: > Peter Ehlert writes: > >> Family is using Zoom, International. >> They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. >> >> I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR >> >> I am concerned about security, duh! >> Looking for ideas. >> >> my current thoughts, in

Re: advisable to use installer script?

On 4/6/20 9:33 PM, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 08:49:53PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> Regarding Python and R modules of unknown quality. What quality? > > My question exactly. Who build it? From which source? What toolchain was > in use? How ca

Re: python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

On 4/6/20 5:11 PM, Anil F Duggirala wrote: >> Python provides virtualenv, plus one can install most of the modules >> locally with pip3 install --user which will install the >> modules >> in ~/.local/lib and tools in ~/.local/bin, so don't forget to add >> this >> to your PATH. >> > > Could you

Re: advisable to use installer script?

On 4/6/20 6:44 PM, Anil F Duggirala wrote: >> I'm assuming it's this one: >> https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/#linux > > Thats the one. > > >>> Can anyone give a broad idea of what this install script does? >> >> Extracts a HUEG tar.bz2 archive full of (presumably) Python and R >> modules

Re: python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

On 4/3/20 11:54 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I've been using apt (and friends) to maintain my systems, including > python. Today I discovered the Debian version of the more-itertools > module is on version 4.2.0 and is three years old. Meanwhile, the > version documented on pypi.org is at version

Re: Best practice regarding Ruby gems installation on Buster

> 28 mars 2020 à 18:18 de ames...@rsh2.donotuse.de: > >> In order to avoid messing up packages and system in general one should >> never install modules/packages/whatever as root into system locations. >> Most of sane languages provide a way to install modules into home >> directory and usually

Re: Best practice regarding Ruby gems installation on Buster

On 3/28/20 11:37 AM, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on Debian 10. > What is the best practice regarding Ruby gems installation please (user vs > root)? > Below is my situation. > > It all begins with the installation of vim-gtk3 (because I want access to the > +/* registers) that comes

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

On 3/2/20 6:52 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Tony van der Hoff writes: > >> Hi, >> I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with >> a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running >> fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this >>

Re: Ansible recommendations?

On 2/11/20 4:08 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I'm considering using Ansible (from Debian packages) for maintaining multiple remote Debian servers. The master server will be my Debian laptop. I have three questions: 1. If you have experience with Debian ansible, are you or were you satisfied with

Re: debian format usb drive that a Mac likes

On 2/4/20 3:48 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: If one is on a debian system and formatting a usb drive that will be recognized by a Mac, I know that xfs is usually a good choice for the file system but what type of partition are we supposed to use to enclose that xfs file system? I

Re: fmtree: line 0: unknown keyword sha256digest

On 1/16/20 11:31 AM, Brian wrote: On Wed 15 Jan 2020 at 20:55:28 -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-01-15 12:28, David Christensen wrote: Do I build from source?  If so, is there a good tutorial? https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation The only change is the installation step

Re: Ethernet trouble

My shell scripts are all broken now and I'm afraid that next week, after I change all my scripts, something will change things back. Or increment them again. Anybody have an explanation? Or somewhere I can start looking? Or know how whatever labels Ethernet ports does it (or why they weren't

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

On 10/29/19 12:59 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Ma, 01 oct 19, 15:49:57, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >>> >>> You may want to try hd-idle, it is not yet available in stable, but one >>> can install

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

On 9/29/19 1:30 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Since a fresh install of buster, an external USB3 hard disk cage from > Terramaster that I own is not automatically spinning down the disks in > it when they go unused for a time. > > I used a previous generation of the cage with Stretch previously,

Re: NSS-LDAP group preventing proper boot

On 9/20/19 7:42 AM, Marc Franquesa wrote: > After making a clean install of Buster and setup it, the system doesn't > boot propery and enters emergency mode with some systemd-udevd errors on > timing out. > > I tracked down and isolated the issue to be caused by nss-ldap group > mapping: If I

Re: Debian Perl or Brew Perl for production application?

On 7/2/19 11:20 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 06:30:19PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> I tend to stick to Debian packages as my primary choice, resorting >> to off-distribution packages when needed (e.g. not packaged for >> Debian, or I /need/ a newer version). Of course

Re: Debian Programming languages

On 5/24/19 11:19 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: > On 5/24/19 10:03 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> On 5/24/19 7:28 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: >>> On 5/24/19 6:51 PM, john doe wrote: >>>> On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote: >>>>> Perl is happily off on

Re: Debian Programming languages

On 5/24/19 7:28 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: > On 5/24/19 6:51 PM, john doe wrote: >> On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote: >>> Perl is happily off on it's own. "There's more than one way..." Boy is >>> there ever. Nice to write, but it's next to impossible to understand >>> other people's code.

Re: Once again: alt as my meta key

On 02/09/2017 07:27 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > When I boot my Jessie it brings me, as desired, to a bash command line > prompt (no X at this stage of the game). > > If I then launch the jed editor (or emacs -nw) from that prompt, > pressing Alt-x on the keyboard, produces the M-x prompt where jed

Re: Debian-compatible "compute stick" thingy

On 02/03/2017 06:32 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > Inspired by the recent discussion of installing Debian on smartphone. > > I'm thinking of getting one of the tiny-format PCs like the Intel "Compute > Stick". They're mostly ARM-based systems with a video out and two or three > USB ports, and often WiFi

Re: firefox + flashplayer on slow pc

On 12/20/2016 11:10 PM, deloptes wrote: > I have an older notebook with ATI. (Actually I gave it to a friend) Recently > I updated to OS is ubuntu 16.04 from 12.x. > > glxgears looks good, but after installing later firefox when watching some > YT it slows down and video breaks. even lowering

Re: probable broken tomcat6 package on wheezy

On 12/17/2016 11:05 AM, John Naggets wrote: > Hi Alex, > > By installing the previous package version from the apt cache archive > as you mention I managed to find out that it is the libtomcat6-java > package which is broken. You just need to downgrade that package back > to deb7u3 and Tomcat will

Re: probable broken tomcat6 package on wheezy

On 12/17/2016 07:40 AM, John Naggets wrote: > Hi, > > Since today the tomcat6 package on Debian 7.11 seems to be broken as > the tomcat6 service does not start anymore. Here is the relevant > output of catalina.out: > > Dec 17, 2016 6:35:15 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory >

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

On 12/08/2016 08:53 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > On 08/12/16 16:27, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> 0) backport it yourself. It is not that hard to dget a dsc file from >> testing and try to build it for the current release. Often works without >>

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

On 12/08/2016 02:14 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:58:18PM +0200, Martin T wrote: >> let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from >> Debian "testing": > > Let's not say that. > > Let's instead say "I am running jessie, but jessie's version of weechat

Re: Does hdparm not run at startup anymore?

On 11/12/2016 09:14 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi Alex, > > thank you for your reply and your testing. > > On Saturday 12 November 2016 16:40:40 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> On 11/12/2016 08:37 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >>> + Alexandre, hdparm maintainer >>>

Re: Does hdparm not run at startup anymore?

On 11/12/2016 08:37 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > + Alexandre, hdparm maintainer > > On Friday 11 November 2016 23:11:24 Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I configure sdb in /etc/hdparm.conf to apm=64, but when I start the system, >> apm does not change. Interesting enough a /etc/init.d/hdparm

Re: How to create package without source code

On 07/27/2016 10:49 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-07-27 10:14 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> Here is the manual describing how to build binary packages: >> >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ > > This

Re: How to create package without source code

On 07/27/2016 09:39 AM, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I want to create a debian package with my own additions (added an icon and a > button for the kde-menu, changed groups and user rights). > > But there is a problem: > > The file is just a script. I read in the dokus, and all told, they want

Re: Upgrading from Backports

On 06/07/2016 11:46 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Need to upgrade claws-mail installed from regular repo to a newer > version in wheezy-backports. I don't want to end up with two installed > versions. Have done research, but have found nothing specific about > this particular procedure. Would >

Re: clamav 0.99.2 in jessie

On 05/24/2016 09:41 AM, Arnaud Jacques / SecuriteInfo.com wrote: > Hello, > >> Is there a way to get 0.99.2 in Jessie (jessie-updates and jessie >> backports do not have it either). > > More information at : > >

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

On 05/12/2016 09:49 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 12 May 2016 08:12:22 Curt wrote: >> You should probably run 'check-support-status' to obtain a list of >> packages on your machine that are no longer supported security-wise. > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ check-support-status > check-support-status:

Re: Debian package: Quilt | git | add files to package

On 05/09/2016 02:55 PM, Denny Fuchs wrote: > hi, > > I trying to create a own Debian package which mostly worked without Git. > Now I moved the sources (only files) to a Git repo and using > git-buildpackage. That was working too, until I wanted to add a file > (example Apache config). Now it

Re: flash?

On 03/14/2016 05:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2016 12:22:45 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings; >> >> Adobe just announced a whole passel of fixes, including the linux >> flash. >> >> When do we get them? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett > > And a second question: > >

Re: Difficulties while installing additional packages from .iso (USB stick) after successful stretch install

On 02/07/2016 02:15 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:06:56AM +0100, sb...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: >> Hi list members, >> >> I have successfully installed stretch from a usb stick onto which I had >> downloaded the latest amd64 weekly-build DVD-1.iso and other necessary >>

Re: Difficulties while installing additional packages from .iso (USB stick) after successful stretch install

On 02/06/2016 11:06 AM, sb...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > Hi list members, > > I have successfully installed stretch from a usb stick onto which I had > downloaded the latest amd64 weekly-build DVD-1.iso and other necessary > init files. > Well, after the install process had finished, I rebooted

Re: Testing Jessie in a chroot?

On 11/24/2015 04:22 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am still running Wheezy and would like to test Jessie before > committing to it. Is a chroot a viable method? I think it would be easier to go either with linux containers or virtual machine ( virtualbox, qemu, xen, kvm ...)

Re: Install fail on a Macbook

On 11/07/2015 06:30 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote: > Tried - and failed - to install Wheezy on an old - late 2008 - > Macbook. Why not Jessie ? > Any pointers, hints, solutions, etc. appreciated. > Just in case you didn't see this link: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple

Re: /bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found on jessie amd64

On 10/25/2015 05:29 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> The packages cups-bsd, lpr, and lprng all have lpr. Try installing them >> and removing them in turn, and see which works. > Installation of cups-bsd did the trick. > > BTW, I tried installing lpr before and it did not help. > > This is weird,

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/20/2015 09:35 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: content of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled root@supercrunch:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# ll total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Apr 28 00:22 000-default.conf - ../sites-available/000-default.conf

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

On 08/19/2015 06:26 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 08/19/2015 01:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:23AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: [...] I thought all of them did it in their free time. It's (as always) a mix. Some companies do give Debian Developers time to work in

Re: Problems with SSD

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0033 100 100 003 Pre-fail Always - 0 Reallocated_Event_Count is 0 meaning no bad sectors were ever found. I have a failing drive atm and this number slowly piles up. 201 Unc_Soft_Read_Err_Rate 0x001c 120 120 000Old_age Offline

Re: jessie: `evince`, `atril`, `okular` unable to open PDFs; libtiff.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On 05/20/2015 08:44 AM, Alexis wrote: Hi all, Context: jessie x86_64 [+updates], recently upgraded from wheezy. i've started having a strange issue where none of `evince`, `atril` or `okular` can open PDFs. All produce the error: libtiff.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such

Re: pam debugging

On 05/11/2015 06:18 PM, Cedric Gava wrote: Hello I’am trying to set up pam/ldap authentication on Wheezy, and struggling for many days on these topics since I knew nothing from both of them before beginning (I know more know ;) To better understand what’s going on (I have ldap credential

Re: pam debugging

On 05/12/2015 02:47 PM, Cedric Gava wrote: Alex, thank you for your answer, which did not helped me at all but committed me to verify once again this point. Yes I looked before at auth.log, but since the auth.log tells the same thing whether I activate debug in pam.d/common-auth or not (see

Re: making thumbnails

On 04/28/2015 06:42 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Steve Greig wrote: I have about 60 large jpg files in a directory. They are almost all over 2MB in size. I want to put them on the internet but wanted to make a thumbnail version and a small version (about 75KB) of each one so the web page does not take

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

On 04/02/2015 02:10 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi al, WHen issuing 'hostname --fqdn', I'm supposed to get the FQDN. Anyway when trying some different combinations, involving /etc/hostname, /etc/domainname, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, I cannot figure out where the FQDN is looked up

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

and as far as I see it simply asks the DNS about the hostname using getaddrinfo. But, with stock nsswitch.conf, it issues uname(2) syscall first, goes to /etc/hosts second, and if it encounters FQDN hostname - it all ends here. If /etc/hosts contain only bare hostname - it'd return a

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

On 03/03/2015 09:22 AM, Richard Hector wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In this case, however, we know there's lots of space used, and it's supposed to be - what we don't know is where in the tree that usage is changing. That requires running du multiple times, and if done

Re: creating a simple private repository with reprepro

On 03/01/2015 07:45 PM, Asaf Dalet wrote: Is there another tool I can use that doesn't have that limitation? As Mirko suggested you can use independent reprepro repositories. I do not have experience with other tools like reprepro.. On Mar 1, 2015 3:42 PM, Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu

Re: creating a simple private repository with reprepro

On 03/01/2015 12:58 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 01 March 2015 09:03:30 Asaf Dalet wrote: I have a private debian package which I want publish in binary format. I want to supply 2 binary versions: 1. precise/amd64 2. trusty/amd64 That's not Debian. It's Ubuntu. Try:

Re: creating a simple private repository with reprepro

On 03/01/2015 02:32 PM, Asaf Dalet wrote: that means I have to change the changelog before each run of pbuilder? Yes, but probably you can automatically update the version before running the pbuilder. It depends on your build environment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: creating a simple private repository with reprepro

On 03/01/2015 10:03 AM, Asaf Dalet wrote: Hi, I must first apologize for the somewhat lengthy post, but you'll see most of it is just directory structures which you can probably skip. Here goes: I have a private debian package which I want publish in binary format. I want to supply 2 binary

Re: In menuconfig when Load an Alternate Configuration File, can't enter the file name

On 03/01/2015 06:55 AM, Csányi Pál wrote: Hi, I'm compiling a custom kernel for my Debian Wheezy operating system. In menuconfig when Load an Alternate Configuration File, can't enter the file name. The cursor blinking in the field but can't enter any letter. How can I solve this problem?

Re: Bug or problem with ssd disk

On 02/03/2015 06:32 AM, Ian Scheehan wrote: Sometimes (random moment), my debian freeze, stop working. I don't know which package or kernel part cause that debian jessie freeze. How can get data/info of my computer and error which happen and send report bug to you? Can you help? best

Re: Bug or problem with ssd disk

On 02/03/2015 06:32 AM, Ian Scheehan wrote: Sometimes (random moment), my debian freeze, stop working. I don't know which package or kernel part cause that debian jessie freeze. How can get data/info of my computer and error which happen and send report bug to you? Can you help? best

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

On 01/19/2015 06:53 PM, mrr wrote: Hi everybody. Ok, my question is in the title but I think I should be more precise so: I often use the mouse to select some text and then I can paste it using the central wheel button of the mouse (that can be simulated by clicking both buttons if you

Re: Choosing/Rotating screen for greeter

On 01/12/2015 12:01 PM, Daniel Lintott wrote: Hi, I've recently switched to using one of my screens in vertical orientation. This is fine from the desktop (after login), but currently the greeter displays on the vertical screen but on it's side. Is it possible to move the greeter to the other

Re: multiple versions of python

On 12/29/2014 09:17 PM, Boruch Baum wrote: Hello everyone, I'm preparing two bug reports, and in trying to sort one of them out, it seems that it may be linked to an incompatibility of a script with python2.7 (see bug #659831). So, in test that possibility, what I would like to do is install

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

On 12/05/2014 07:43 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 12/05/2014 at 01:05 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 09:04:14 -0800, Eduardo Nogueira wrote: With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online conference. I

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

On 10/30/2014 10:27 AM, Hans wrote: Dear maintainers, completely without starting any flamewars: I am using systemd and I have /usr mounted on a separate partition as well as /var, /home, /boot and /. Additionally /usr, /var and /home are luks encrypted. Due to this profile, I get a lot of

Re: Suggestions? A small webserver for file upload

On 09/24/2014 03:53 PM, Ron Leach wrote: List, good afternoon, What package would list members suggest for a small webserver that would enable co-workers to upload files to us? We exchange files with people we work with through email and attachments - that normally works well. During a

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

On 07/21/2014 04:34 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 07:26:43AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: I do not have the ressources to test : no time no machine which I can afford to break. And since today syste,md-shim is no more an option (aptitude wants to remove it) I do not want to

Re: upgrading kernel on wheezy

On 07/03/2014 07:28 PM, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I'd like to install kernel 3.14 on wheezy from backports. Is the install with apt keeps the previous kernel and add an entry to the grub menu so I could come back to kernel 3.2 in case...

Re: Can't get Apache to display a directory

On 05/13/2014 02:16 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I recently upgraded a back-end server from wheezy to jessie, and with the upgrade, Apache went from 2.2 to 2.4. There are a lot of changes to Apache between 2.2 and 2.4, especially in the area of authentications, authorizations, etc. One difference

Re: Is Debian still Debian?

Hi, On 05/10/2014 10:54 AM, Slavko wrote: Hi, in last weeks (or months?) i see a lot of daily updates in Debian testing. I am using the testing for years and i am surprised by this. testing is the key word, if you would use sid, you probably would wonder even more :) If there would be no

Re: Directly connecting two computers

On 04/26/2014 08:56 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 27/04/14 05:36, Martin wrote: Hello, I have two computer that I want to connect directly, similarly as I did long time ago with Null-Modem cable ( or LapLink cable). I have obtained a crossover ethernet cable that I plug in network card of each

Re: Sun/Oracle Java

On 04/16/2014 10:09 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/16/2014 03:16 AM, Frank Weißer wrote: Hi Oliver! Facing the same problem a while ago, i somewhere found a hint to add deb http://www.duinsoft.nl/pkg debs all to sources.list. Don't remember from where, but it works for me on debian testing.

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

On 04/09/2014 11:03 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:12:40PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: | find . -name *.png | parallel -P8 convert -quality 95 {} -geometry 1280 /tmp/{.}.jpg| Alternatively find . -name *.png -exec convert -quality 95 {} -geometry 1280 /tmp

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

On 04/09/2014 12:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. So, 2 questions: A) What's the best tool for the

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

I have to agree with you here, Raffaele. While it's nice to talk about users and 20 character random keys, the fact of the matter is, they aren't used by the vast majority of users. In many cases, even those who *should* know better don't do it. Sure, you could require a 20 character

Re: How to patch files in a package's debian directory

On 01/13/2014 03:49 PM, Malte Forkel wrote: Hello, I'm testing some changes to an existing package which is using format 3.0 (quilt). I have split my changes into two patches: One modifies the original source, one adapts files in the debian directory. This approach fails when I build the

Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

On 01/14/2014 12:05 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2014-01-03 9:18 AM, Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: emerge --pretend -vuDN world results in a list of all available updates, as well as any dependencies that would be installed, which I can then pick and choose from. I usually wait until newly

Re: How to patch files in a package's debian directory

On 01/14/2014 03:04 PM, Malte Forkel wrote: Am 14.01.2014 10:44, schrieb Alex Mestiashvili: I am also interested in possible solutions, but I would use git with 2 branches - one for debian package, and one for the modified version. This way by switching between branches you can build packages

Re: sd card not detected

On 11/02/2013 01:51 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: On 11/01/2013 07:35 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Hi All, A card inserted into card reader is not mounted automatically and even doesn't shown up in the dmesg output, but if I switch off and on the monitor with cardreader or run lshw the card appears

Re: sd card not detected

On 11/02/2013 05:22 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: On Saturday, November 02, 2013 06:55:39 AM Alex Mestiashvili wrote: I use xfce4 4.10, but in this case I think it has nothing to do with the problem. The problem is that the device is not detected by the kernel . it is not visible in the dmesg output

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