Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts? (was: dpkg, symlinks, directories)

2012-09-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nikolaus Rath [2012.09.30.0056 +0200]: > > preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet > > that was a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth. > > Somehow that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Admittedly > manually placing some file in /usr/include/

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?

2012-09-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:29:09 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I've solved that in the > preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was > a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth. > >>>Somehow that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Admittedly ma

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?

2012-09-29 Thread Nikolaus Rath
"Andrej N. Gritsenko" writes: > Hello! > > I have written on Sunday, 30 September, at 2:12: >>Nikolaus Rath has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 18:56: >>>"Andrej N. Gritsenko" writes: I've solved that in the preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts? (was: dpkg, symlinks, directories)

2012-09-29 Thread Andrej N. Gritsenko
Hello! I have written on Sunday, 30 September, at 2:12: >Nikolaus Rath has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 18:56: >>"Andrej N. Gritsenko" writes: >>> I've solved that in the >>> preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was >>> a right step since upgrade 1.0.

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts? (was: dpkg, symlinks, directories)

2012-09-29 Thread Andrej N. Gritsenko
Hello! Nikolaus Rath has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 18:56: >"Andrej N. Gritsenko" writes: >> I've solved that in the >> preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was >> a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth. >Somehow that sounds like a re

rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts? (was: dpkg, symlinks, directories)

2012-09-29 Thread Nikolaus Rath
"Andrej N. Gritsenko" writes: > I've solved that in the > preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was > a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth. Somehow that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Admittedly manually placing some file in /usr/include/libfm

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:26:57PM +0200, Frank Bauer wrote: > I am considering migrating my Debian testing system to a SSD to speed things > up. > Since SSD lifetime is severely limited (about 5000 overwrites for > consumer grade MLC), I wanted to know beforehand, how much writes does > my system

Re: Audit of Debian/Ubuntu for unfixed vulnerabilities because of embedded code copies

2012-09-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Henri Salo] > Has there been any progress with this project? I am glad to help if > there is something I can do? This is needed in my opinion. You could try to run the scripts I created in the debian-security svn repository, and see how they could be improved. I have not had time to work much on

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-09-29 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:26:57 +0200, Frank Bauer wrote: > Hi, Hello, > I am considering migrating my Debian testing system to a SSD to speed things > up. Since SSD lifetime is severely limited (about 5000 overwrites for > consumer grade MLC), I wanted to know beforehand, how much writes does > my

Re: Audit of Debian/Ubuntu for unfixed vulnerabilities because of embedded code copies

2012-09-29 Thread Henri Salo
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 07:59:26PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Silvio Cesare] > > I recently ran the tool and cross referenced identified code copies with > > Debian's security tracking of affected packages by CVE. I did this for all > > CVEs in 2010, 2011, and 2012. > > This sound like a

Re: CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 septembre 2012 à 07:49 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > > You can either run your own bot (debian package kgb-bot), or use ours. As > > for the client, alioth does not have it installed, but you can run it off > > /home/groups/kgb. > > It's installed now. Thanks to everyone invo

Re: Processor microcode update packages

2012-09-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Eric Valette wrote: > On 29/09/2012 12:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >If you want to use non-modular, built-in microcode, the documentation of > >iucode-tool does explain how to trigger the microcode reload after boot. You > >will have to add it to your system yourse

Bug#689163: ITP: edtsurf -- triangulated mesh surfaces for protein structures

2012-09-29 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: edtsurf * URL : http://zhanglab.ccmb.med.umich.edu/EDTSurf/ * License : custom, DFSG-free Programming Lang: C++ Description : triangulated mesh surfaces for protein structures EDTSurf is a op

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 05:31:40PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > In my case, this is quite complicated. I have done all this to allow a > user to install its own plugin in /var/lib/roundcube/plugins but if he > did install some plugins in /usr/share/roundcube/plugins because of the > symlink probl

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 29/09/2012 11:17, Andrej N. Gritsenko a écrit : > I supposedly not much understand how dpkg does this but my question > is - isn't it simpler to delete directory in preinst? There are corner cases where it simply doesn't work as expected (and some symlinked files are deleted, e.g. #68

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Andrej N. Gritsenko
Hello! Vincent Bernat has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 17:31: > ❦ 29 septembre 2012 17:17 CEST, "Andrej N. Gritsenko"  : >>>This is indeed intentional, that dpkg never replaces directories with >>>symlinks if directory is present, see [1] and [2] (under 4.). >> >>> [1]: http://bugs.d

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 29 septembre 2012 13:01 CEST, Andreas Beckmann  : >> Thanks for the pointers! I now understand why this does not >> work. Fixing in postinst is quite difficult since I have swapped >> symlinks and, from the bug reports, successive installs make the >> situation worst (things got installed in th

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 29 septembre 2012 17:17 CEST, "Andrej N. Gritsenko"  : >>This is indeed intentional, that dpkg never replaces directories with >>symlinks if directory is present, see [1] and [2] (under 4.). > >> [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/404850 >> [2]: >> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintain

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Andrej N. Gritsenko
Hello! Salvatore Bonaccorso has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 12:35: >This is indeed intentional, that dpkg never replaces directories with >symlinks if directory is present, see [1] and [2] (under 4.). > [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/404850 > [2]: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-p

Re: Processor microcode update packages

2012-09-29 Thread Eric Valette
On 29/09/2012 12:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: If you want to use non-modular, built-in microcode, the documentation of iucode-tool does explain how to trigger the microcode reload after boot. You will have to add it to your system yourself. Fair enough. Already done. However, during

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-09-29 12:47, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 29 septembre 2012 12:35 CEST, Salvatore Bonaccorso : > >>> In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and >>> symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that: >>> symlinks are not replaced with the appropria

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 29 septembre 2012 12:35 CEST, Salvatore Bonaccorso  : >> In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and >> symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that: >> symlinks are not replaced with the appropriate directories. I didn't >> find anything about th

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 29 septembre 2012 11:59 CEST, Vincent Bernat  : > In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and > symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that: > symlinks are not replaced with the appropriate directories. I didn't > find anything about this in the

Re: dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Vincent On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:59:38AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and > symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that: > symlinks are not replaced with the appropriate directories. I didn't > find any

Re: Processor microcode update packages

2012-09-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Eric Valette wrote: > On 29/09/2012 03:46, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >1. No html, please. > > > >non-initrd is supported. Read the package documentation for the details. > > I did. I do not want to compile microcode tool as a module because Currently using microco

Re: [OT] kernel modules

2012-09-29 Thread Eric Valette
Unless under very specific circumstances, the use of a modular kernel brings one the ability to replace the particular hardware the system runs on at will. If I do taylor my kernel for my machine, I do not care at all Say, it's possible to replace a just burn

dpkg, symlinks, directories

2012-09-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hi! In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that: symlinks are not replaced with the appropriate directories. I didn't find anything about this in the documentation. How should I handle such cases? -- Make

[OT] kernel modules

2012-09-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Eric Valette writes: […] > I do not want to compile microcode tool as a module because module > loading juts slows down the boot process and contrarilly to many > other package requiring firmware, this one does not enable to load > firmware when not compiled as a module. > So it does

Re: Processor microcode update packages

2012-09-29 Thread Eric Valette
On 29/09/2012 03:46, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: 1. No html, please. non-initrd is supported. Read the package documentation for the details. I did. I do not want to compile microcode tool as a module because module loading juts slows down the boot process and contrarilly to many o