Re: [DNG] Bug in synaptic package manager?

2022-01-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
rces.list{,.d/*} so we can see what sources you're using. BTW, I don't use synaptic myself. Too much bloat. The command-line suits my needs just fine. Hope this helps, -- Olaf MeeuwissenFSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8

Re: [DNG] software question

2022-01-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
nd personalized bulk mail. IIRC it was >> quite annoying to set up, but once done, it worked. > > I just use /etc/aliases That was my first reaction too ;-) -- Olaf MeeuwissenFSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4

Re: [DNG] software question

2022-01-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi, Hendrik Boom writes: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 05:43:44AM -0600, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 3:02 AM Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Hendrik Boom writes: >> > >> > > On Sun,

Re: [DNG] Bug in synaptic package manager?

2022-01-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
kage for Devuan and maintain the appropriate information in it >> >> My opinion is that 1) is not a good option, because the mirror list is >> volatile >> information and that would require stable updates on a regular basis (and >> that >> won't easily happen in

Re: [DNG] Bug in synaptic package manager?

2022-01-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi, tito via Dng writes: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:27:52 +0100 > Didier Kryn wrote: > >> Le 25/01/2022 à 09:49, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng a écrit : >> > Hi Tito, >> > >> > tito via Dng writes: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> [

Re: [DNG] daedalus with chromiium

2022-04-16 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
-1 | http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages chromium | 100.0.4896.88-1~deb11u1 | http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security/main amd64 Packages Seems to be there alright. Hope this helps, -- Olaf MeeuwissenFSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A

[DNG] Looking for a file (was Re: mouse driver question)

2022-04-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
both files and packages. All that said, these days the Xorg server works quite well without this file, auto-detecting things upon startup, so chances are you don't have this file. Hope this helps, -- Olaf MeeuwissenFSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
7000 of those on an NFS backed filesystem on the NAS downstairs. The rest is on an SSD (NVMe). Another point, the grep approach also lists everything below a directory that matches, whereas the -name approach does not. That may be a lot of extra junk to scan through depending on what you're l

[DNG] Looking for xorg.conf (was Re: mouse driver question)

2022-04-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
guration. As I mentioned in a previous response, nowadays Xorg gets by without this file quite well, most of the time. It simply probes your system and uses what it finds. You can configure things yourself but you'll have to write your own /etc/X11/xorg.conf yourself. Hope this helps, --

[DNG] Newer version of libelogind0 not getting installed

2022-04-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
while, until things are sorted out. Hope this helps, -- Olaf MeeuwissenFSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Softwarehttps://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Softwar

Re: [DNG] Newer version of libelogind0 not getting installed

2022-04-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Mark, Mark Hindley writes: > Olaf, > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 06:14:26PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: >> Ah! Looking at the currently installed libelogind0=246.10-3, I see it >> Provides: libsystemd0 whereas libelogind0=246.10-4 no longer does. >> >

Re: [DNG] Newer version of libelogind0 not getting installed

2022-04-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
gt; >> which, I think should be >> >> Breaks: libelogind0 (<< 246.10-4~) Oh! Missing digit ... > src:elogind version 246.10-5 with this fixed is being built at the moment. Thanks, waiting for packages to trickle down to daedalus. -- Olaf MeeuwissenFSF As

Re: [DNG] UEFI, software RAID1, LVM and encryption

2022-07-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Didier, Didier Kryn writes: > Le 24/07/2022 à 05:18, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng a écrit: >> Hi list, >> >> I lost the single SSD on my mini PC and am in the process of rethinking >> its storage. So far, I've got myself two brand new and identical PCIe >> NVMe S

Re: [DNG] UEFI, software RAID1, LVM and encryption

2022-07-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Antony Stone writes: > On Sunday 24 July 2022 at 11:58:01, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > >> Hi Antony, >> >> Thanks for the feedback. I've been researching a bit myself in the mean >> time as well but still value additional input from the list. > > I completely a

[DNG] UEFI, software RAID1, LVM and encryption

2022-07-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
keep the copies in sync? - should I use LVM? - does randomizing the partition for /home make sense if on LVM and may get resized sometime in the future? Thanks in advance, -- Olaf Meeuwissen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https

Re: [DNG] UEFI, software RAID1, LVM and encryption

2022-07-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Antony, Thanks for the feedback. I've been researching a bit myself in the mean time as well but still value additional input from the list. Antony Stone writes: > On Sunday 24 July 2022 at 05:18:47, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> I lost the

Re: [DNG] UEFI, software RAID1, LVM and encryption

2022-07-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Gregory, Gregory Nowak via Dng writes: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 08:54:00PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: >> OK but if / and /boot are encrypted, something has to be able to decrypt >> that before GRUB can read /boot/grub/grub.cfg. It might be that GRUB is >> a

[DNG] APT configuration directives info (was Re: OpenVPN 2.5.1-3+devuan1 packaging vs best practices)

2022-07-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Looking at manual pages, doing web searches and not really finding what you're looking for. I often forget to look below /usr/share/doc/$package/ ... Have a peek at /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz -- Olaf Meeuwissen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Chimaera installation issue (regulatory.db)

2022-04-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
n main. I do seem to remember that the handling of the file changed a bit and that now the kernel loads it instead of whatever used happen before that. Hope this helps, -- Olaf MeeuwissenFSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8

Re: [DNG] Newer version of libelogind0 not getting installed

2022-05-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Mark, list, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng writes: > Mark Hindley writes: >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 01:44:44PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: >>> I have had a look at the dependencies again and I think I see the (my!) bug. >>> libelogind-compat has >>>

Re: [DNG] Newer version of libelogind0 not getting installed

2022-05-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi, Mark Hindley writes: > On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 08:38:06AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> and do not have a desktop installed in case that matters. >> Instead I rely on startx to start i3 for me when I need a GUI. > > Ah, so, no libpam-elogind? Yes that probably makes

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
overall impression he gives is > unfavourable and inaccurate. > > I'm rather more amazed that he labels Devuan (and therefore by extension > Debian too) as "retro" and yet gives a pretty complimentary review, in > comparison, of Slackware! > > Antony. -- Olaf Meeuwis

Re: [DNG] Another problem you won't have without Systemd (or separate oomd)

2022-08-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
oes not depend on oomd ... > Thank you for Devuan! Thank you for some sanity. > > And yeah, it appears that with Debian oomd is not installed as standard > so far, but if its in Fedora, it may come with Debian at some point in > time. Or not, after their recent experiences in Fedora

Re: [DNG] Question re: screen blanking and shutoff

2022-09-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
but perhaps xss-lock can help with that. Haven't used it myself (yet?) though. See the manual page at https://bitbucket.org/raymonad/xss-lock/src/master/doc/xss-lock.1.rst.in for details. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen. #!/bin/sh # # xfce4 # # Copyright (C) 1999, 2003 Olivier Fourd

Re: [DNG] chimaera install problem

2022-09-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
at > it's talking to the network and the server - it appears to be doing so > (accessing server at 95.216.15.86). > > I'm wondering if it could be another effect of the recent key expiry > problem. I'd start a shell in the installer environment (or switch to a VT) and pok

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