Re: Re: Realtek RTL8723DE, RTL8821CE, RTL8822BE and RTL8822CE chipsets

2021-04-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ally, long after I have given up, that's why the local shopping attempt). So I ended up buying a TP-Link Archer T3U v3.2 in a local shop and using it with a driver from https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu, and it does yield throughput higher than the theoretical limit of USB 2.0. -- Alexander E. Patrakov CV: http://u.pc.cd/wT8otalK

Re: Re: [PATCH reproducible-notes] Remove non-sense wireguard note

2020-01-21 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
unction. Wouldn't it make more sense to refer to it instead of giving a dead link? P.S. for me, it is still not obvious how this function, or whatever gets inlined into it, would lead to a non-reproducible build. -- Alexander E. Patrakov

Re: Re: Handling of entropy during boot

2019-01-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
nghai if you want to confirm my statement. -- Alexander E. Patrakov smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
y packages with any Tainted-By control field from being uploaded to the Debian archive. P.S. I am not even a Debian Maintainer, so all of the above may be rubbish. Would appreciate a reply that confirms or disproves that my thoughts make any sense. -- Alexander E. Patrakov smime.p7s Desc

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
On 11/24/18 8:51 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 21, Michael Stone wrote: How many long-running production systems do you think people have run usrmerge on? I'd guess close to zero, since there is no advantage whatsoever Actually I have quite a lot

Re: Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
and auto-rejecting any package that has these strings in it. I understand that there will be lots of FTBFS from doing that, so it may or may not be a good idea, especially because this covers only "we won't catch the breakage" point, but not "we should not be doing that". -- Alexander E. Patrakov

Re: Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
yment, and to reduce divergence between Debian and Ubuntu plans. -- Alexander E. Patrakov

Bug#679853: general: Too much downtime during a big dist-upgrade - avoidable with snapshots

2012-07-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
l changes in /etc between the upgrade and the reboot). Also, for anyone reading this bug, I would like to stress that I consider it an issue only for systems running the testing distribution, because big dist-upgrades are not frequent in stable. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#679853: general: Too much downtime during a big dist-upgrade - avoidable with snapshots

2012-07-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
reboot, too. If the kernel is upgraded, then you'll have to reboot by whatever method that works for you, anyway. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#679853: general: Too much downtime during a big dist-upgrade - avoidable with snapshots

2012-07-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
t] does this state information really belong to /var? It is written to only when /usr is written to, by the same package manager that modifies the root fs and /usr. Maybe it's time to move it to /usr so that it is not intermixed with really variable user data. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -

Bug#679853: general: Too much downtime during a big dist-upgrade - avoidable with snapshots

2012-07-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ease: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To

Re: graphicsmagick or imagemagick

2010-01-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
d see if any of the linked images still cause GraphicsMagick to misbehave (crash, access uninitialized variables, leak memory, or unpack pixels even if explicitly told to extract only image metadata). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#518927: Please update dtoa.c in all packages that use it

2009-03-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ine word1(x) ((U*)&x)->L[0]", and clone this bug accordingly. System information: irrelevant. Diego Elio Pettenò: you received this mail because I want you to do the same thing for Gentoo. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Large data packages in the archive

2008-05-25 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Joerg Jaspert wrote: That already has a problem: How to define "large"? One way, which we chose for now, is simply "everything > 50MB". Random thought: some architecture-dependent -dbg packages are also > 50 MB in size. Shouldn't they get some special t

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:36PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Marc Haber wrote: In some cases, exim still looks up its IP address when a listening daemon starts up. This is why the Debian installer configures 127.0.1.1 (not 127.0.0.1) for the local hostname on

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ay to skin exim. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mc with new utf-8 patch in experimental available - please test

2008-02-26 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Patrick Winnertz wrote: Since this patchset is quite new, I uploaded it for first testing to experimental and I it would rock if someone would test it and report errors to me :) Displays only question marks in the ru_RU.KOI8-R locale. This regression is a showstopper. -- Alexander E

Bug#464551: general: USB devices missing in lsusb

2008-02-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
tests as root). To confirm or disprove my theory, please provide the output of the following two commands: find /proc/bus/usb find /dev/bus/usb before and after plugging in your new USB devices. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
simple utility for this to debianutils or similar so that it doesn't need to be reimplemented in so many places. Why not use "udevsettle" that comes with new udev just for this purpose? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
stuff properly and reliably? Until very revently, Mozilla family of products could print non-Latin properly only via Xprint. With Seamonkey-1.0.x, this is no longer true, and Xprint is no longer needed. (BTW it was never needed with Konqueror). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: udev event completion order

2005-12-20 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
evice name. This will no longer work when the kernel will probe devices in parallel (i.e., since linux-2.6.??) because device ordering will be random. Please create an initramfs that mounts the root device using some stable attribute, like label or UUID. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCR