[DNG] Question about the text editor named medit.

2022-01-05 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, Going to packages/debian.org I found other packages similar to medit like bluefish and jedit. I tried jedit first, but its font rendering is aggressive on my aging eyes and resorted to using bluefish which has its font rendering more comparable to medit's. That is the beauty of open

Re: [DNG] How to make non /usr merged dpgs (was: Re: merged /usr breakage)

2022-01-05 Thread Antony Stone
On Wednesday 05 January 2022 at 11:24:08, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > $ ldd /sbin/init | grep /usr > > > > libpcre2-8.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so.0 > > (0x7f737ba28000) > > So, how do I change the above package to install the lib in >

Re: [DNG] How to make non /usr merged dpgs (was: Re: merged /usr breakage)

2022-01-05 Thread aitor
Hi Karl, En 5 de enero de 2022 11:24:13 escribió: Karl: The first one gives me an unbootable system $ ldd /sbin/init | grep /usr libpcre2-8.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so.0 (0x7f737ba28000) ... So, how do I change the above package to install the lib in

[DNG] How to make non /usr merged dpgs (was: Re: merged /usr breakage)

2022-01-05 Thread karl
Karl: > The first one gives me an unbootable system > $ ldd /sbin/init | grep /usr > libpcre2-8.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so.0 > (0x7f737ba28000) ... So, how do I change the above package to install the lib in /lib//x86_64-linux-gnu instead ? I can get the

Re: [DNG] How to make non /usr merged dpgs (was: Re: merged /usr breakage)

2022-01-05 Thread aitor
Hi Karl, En 5 de enero de 2022 11:24:13 escribió: Karl: The first one gives me an unbootable system $ ldd /sbin/init | grep /usr libpcre2-8.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so.0 (0x7f737ba28000) ... So, how do I change the above package to install the lib in

Re: [DNG] snetaid debs...

2022-01-05 Thread al3xu5 via Dng
Mon, 3 Jan 2022 22:02:48 +0100 - aitor : > Hi, > > On 3/1/22 12:05, al3xu5 via Dng wrote: > > After upgraded to Chimaera, I wsa able to install snetaid .deb > > packets without problems. > > > > It seems it works as expected. > > > > Many thanks Aitor! > > Good :) > > > PS: I would also

Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage

2022-01-05 Thread karl
Aitor: > On 4/1/22 22:17, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > the problem is that the lib is on a > > filesystem that isn't available at kernel to init handover time. > Did you try something like this: > copy_exec /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so.0 > in a hook located at/usr/share/initramfs-tools,

Re: [DNG] busybox init

2022-01-05 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/01/2022 à 03:08, Steve Litt a écrit : k...@aspodata.se said on Mon, 3 Jan 2022 18:45:28 +0100 (CET) Would there be any interests having a busybox_init package which I could possible maintain (with a little help) ? My opinion is that the more init systems the merrier, except for

Re: [DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-05 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Hi Alejandro In der Nachricht vom Wednesday, 5 January 2022 03:03:53 CET schrieb Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Dng: > So, if the problem is that the rc scripts don't run parallel and don't > know about exact dependencies from each-other, let's rewrite that part rc.scripts do run in parallel

Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage

2022-01-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 12:08:18AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 04/01/2022 à 23:38, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 05:09:58PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > > > There is no utility in splitting the OS in several partitions. > > Might it make sense to have /usr mounted readonly

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2022-01-05 Thread Antoine via Dng
On Tuesday, 4 January at 14:24, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote: (...) Portable shell use would be "whatever() {" which I wish to encourage by saying that here. Please use only that form for /bin/sh scripts. :-) The "function" keyword was introduced by ksh. This syntax is also supported by bash and

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

2022-01-05 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 18:30:25 +0100 Antoine via Dng wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 January at 14:24, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote: > > (...) > >Portable shell use would be "whatever() {" which I wish to encourage > >by saying that here. Please use only that form for /bin/sh scripts. > >:-) > > > >The

Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage

2022-01-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 09:54:20PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 05/01/2022 à 16:11, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 12:08:18AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > > > Le 04/01/2022 à 23:38, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 05:09:58PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > >

Re: [DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-05 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Dng
Hi Adrian, On 1/5/22 14:42, Adrian Zaugg wrote: Hi Alejandro In der Nachricht vom Wednesday, 5 January 2022 03:03:53 CET schrieb Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Dng: So, if the problem is that the rc scripts don't run parallel and don't know about exact dependencies from each-other, let's

Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage

2022-01-05 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 05/01/2022 à 16:11, Hendrik Boom a écrit : On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 12:08:18AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 04/01/2022 à 23:38, Hendrik Boom a écrit : On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 05:09:58PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: There is no utility in splitting the OS in several partitions. Might it make

Re: [DNG] Printer trouble again. -- solved

2022-01-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 03:07:44PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I installed CUPS a part of the standard istall long ago. > I had no trouble configuring it back the to talk sweet to me printer. > Worked fine. Bu tnow it doesn't. > > The printer seems to hae changed its IP number. > Now I can tell