Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt

2016-09-25 Thread Dietmar
Thanks, that was successful. However, I had to restart the box to have unattended-upgrades run again. Dis- and en-abling was not sufficient. Dietmar Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2016, 17:34 -0400 schrieb James Valleroy: > On 09/22/2016 02:26 PM, Dietmar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I realized, my last

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt

2016-09-23 Thread Daniel Gnoutcheff
I haven't much help to offer about possible APT database trouble, except: On 09/22/2016 02:26 PM, Dietmar wrote: > meaning "unfullfilled dependencies, try "-f". > Before breaking my packages, is it save to use "force"? In apt-get, "-f" is short for "--fix-broken". HTH, Daniel signature.asc D

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt

2016-09-22 Thread James Valleroy
On 09/22/2016 02:26 PM, Dietmar wrote: > Hi, > > I realized, my last unattended upgrade was on 8-Sept. So I went via > ssh into the box and tried aptitude which recommended me to do a "sudo > dpkg --configure -a", which brought up an error: > >> $ sudo dpkg --configure -a >> libapt-inst2.0:armhf (1

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Apt anomaly when going through privoxy.

2016-09-08 Thread Sunil Mohan Adapa
On 06/29/2016 09:06 PM, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote: > On 06/28/2016 08:59 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: >> I have noticed that if privoxy is enabled, when doing an apt download from >> internal machines, if it fails, aptitude retries but starts at the >> beginning again. > > My Google-fu suggests that Privox

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Apt anomaly when going through privoxy.

2016-07-05 Thread Daniel Gnoutcheff
On 07/02/2016 09:42 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:36:22AM -0400, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote: >> On 06/28/2016 08:59 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: >>> I have noticed that if privoxy is enabled, when doing an apt download from >>> internal machines, if it fails, aptitude retries but starts

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Apt anomaly when going through privoxy.

2016-07-02 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:36:22AM -0400, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote: > On 06/28/2016 08:59 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: > > I have noticed that if privoxy is enabled, when doing an apt download from > > internal machines, if it fails, aptitude retries but starts at the > > beginning again. > > My Google-fu

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Apt anomaly when going through privoxy.

2016-06-29 Thread Daniel Gnoutcheff
On 06/28/2016 08:59 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: > I have noticed that if privoxy is enabled, when doing an apt download from > internal machines, if it fails, aptitude retries but starts at the > beginning again. My Google-fu suggests that Privoxy filters out the "Range" HTTP request header field by def

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt upgrade creates eth0 network interface

2016-05-14 Thread Dietmar
Am Donnerstag, den 12.05.2016, 18:28 -0400 schrieb James Valleroy: > On 05/12/2016 03:07 PM, Dietmar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did yesterday an 'apt upgrade' (my impression is that > > unattended-upgrades are not working, but no proof yet, no error > > messages in the log). > > The result was that

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt upgrade creates eth0 network interface

2016-05-12 Thread James Valleroy
On 05/12/2016 03:07 PM, Dietmar wrote: > Hi, > > I did yesterday an 'apt upgrade' (my impression is that > unattended-upgrades are not working, but no proof yet, no error > messages in the log). > The result was that I had a new network interface 'eth0' again, which > was activated, additionally to

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Apt mirror from Debian as a Tor hidden service

2015-09-04 Thread Sunil Mohan
On 08/26/2015 03:51 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Petter Reinholdtsen] >> I send the blog author a proposal to create a new apt transport method >> in /usr/lib/apt/methods/ to make it easier to ensure transport via Tor, >> but I have not tested it myself. > > Today a new blog post showed up, >

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Apt mirror from Debian as a Tor hidden service

2015-08-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > I send the blog author a proposal to create a new apt transport method > in /usr/lib/apt/methods/ to make it easier to ensure transport via Tor, > but I have not tested it myself. Today a new blog post showed up, http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/08/25-Tor-enabled_D

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx

2012-12-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting bnewb...@robocracy.org (2012-12-04 21:17:31) > On the subject of restructuring freedom-maker, what about using Debian > Live instead? "Normal" (non-live) images can be generated, and it's a > more general purpose (and supported) debian tool. > > I have a working-but-not-documented wheezy

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx

2012-12-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
bnewb...@robocracy.org writes: > I have a working-but-not-documented wheezy image for the DreamPlug > generated using Debian Live if there is interest, but will be AFK for the > next week. Feel free to pass me the details when you return. My impression the last time I looked was that the Live

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx

2012-12-04 Thread bnewbold
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Bdale Garbee wrote: JOSEFSSON Erik writes: Just a very general question: What does it take (in detailed steps) to get from where fbx is today to apt-get install fbx? I'm working on it. The short answer is creating a suitable metapackage or three and then restructuring

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx

2012-12-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
JOSEFSSON Erik writes: > Just a very general question: What does it take (in detailed steps) to > get from where fbx is today to apt-get install fbx? I'm working on it. The short answer is creating a suitable metapackage or three and then restructuring freedom-maker to use it/them. Bdale pg

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx

2012-11-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jonathan Wilkes (2012-11-20 21:13:12) > It's nice to see a plan of basic infrastructure work and example > scripts up to 0.4.0, but that's a mysterious and large jump to 1.0.0 > when you project FBX will be "usable by non-technical users". > > Regardless of time frame, I predict when som

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx

2012-11-20 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
s Smedegaard > To: freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:27 PM > Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx > > Quoting JOSEFSSON Erik (2012-11-14 18:55:19) >> Just a very general question: What does it take (in detailed ste

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx

2012-11-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting JOSEFSSON Erik (2012-11-14 18:55:19) > Just a very general question: What does it take (in detailed steps) to > get from where fbx is today to apt-get install fbx? FreedomBox (arguably) exist today in version 0.1 (and some additional progress beyond that), but not in a long-term maintain

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get updating the kernel

2012-06-28 Thread Ian Sullivan
On 06/28/2012 05:07 PM, monkeyiq wrote: > Probably starting with the uboot upgrade and > then trying a few kernel updates on the non live plug system. Once upgrading uboot to boot from ext file systems it is possible to just format the microsd card as a single ext partition and boot from that. I h

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get updating the kernel

2012-06-28 Thread monkeyiq
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 11:35 -0400, Ian Sullivan wrote: > On 06/27/2012 10:22 PM, Nick M. Daly wrote: > > If you're using the uBoot that came with the DreamPlug, kernel upgrades > > or boot process changes will probably give you trouble. If you're using > > the upgraded uBoot [0], everything should

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get updating the kernel

2012-06-28 Thread Ian Sullivan
On 06/27/2012 10:22 PM, Nick M. Daly wrote: > If you're using the uBoot that came with the DreamPlug, kernel upgrades > or boot process changes will probably give you trouble. If you're using > the upgraded uBoot [0], everything should be fine. Ian might recall > details I've forgotten, though.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get updating the kernel

2012-06-27 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:40:44 +1000, monkeyiq wrote: > Sorry about the FAQ, but if one has installed FreedomBox on an sdcard > in a Dreamplug is there any special procedure needed to update the > kernel or does the normal apt-get update command take care of all of > that sort of thing for you? If

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get updating the kernel

2012-06-27 Thread Brian Drake
Honestly - I found that apt-get upgrade on my dreamplug has more than once bricked it. Annoying to say the least. BUT - I wasn't using the freedom box image at that point. I tend to avoid updating anything now unless specifically called for by an update/ config requirement. And then I do it wit

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get update and an SD card

2012-06-04 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:52:32 +0100, Nicholas Hardiman wrote: > When I run apt-get upgrade, the top command tells me wa (time spent > waiting for SD card IO) can sit at 95%. SD cards seem to have > appalling write speeds. Yup. > Are you using any trick to make big write jobs less awful? Some card