Re: HFS/HFS+ are insecure

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 09:49:48AM +, Bastien Roucariès wrote: > I vaguely remember that someone implement a fuse over uml (user space linux) A similar tool is libguestfs's guestmount tool: https://www.libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#why-don-t-you-do-everything-through-the-fuse-filesystem-in

Re: LTO and ABI compatibility

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 03:30:16PM +0200, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu did LTO by default, and I've not heard about > any wrong. Is the situation in Debian differ from theirs? Not everything works with LTO right away: debugging build problems or runtime problems takes effo

Re: DebConf22 registration and call for proposals are open!

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 11:38:01PM +0800, YS wrote: > Sorry. How to unsubscribe this thread? Most mail lists insert headers that describe how to subscribe, unsubscribe, change settings, post, etc: List-URL: List-Post:

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 09:37:49PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >- leading digits sometimes causes programs to parse a 'username' as an > > 'user id' instead; you can see some of this here: > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237 > > I know I've seen more instances of this over the year

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 05:49:04PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > (2) > #774046 #520037 > Which special characters should we allow for account names? Please consider the leading character separately from the rest of the characters: - leading digits sometimes causes programs to parse a 'username' as a

Re: Embedded buildpath via rpath using cmake

On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 10:49:43AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > CMake removes the RUNPATH > just before installation, so it doesn't become a security problem, > but that's too late to stop it from affecting the build-ID - and the > *length* of the build directory can also affect the contents of t

Re: Embedded buildpath via rpath using cmake

On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 04:41:21PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Over the last several months, I and others have found quite a few > packages that embed build paths via rpath when building with cmake. I > found myself slowly edging into a mass bug filing, one bug report at a > time... Hello V

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > The only missing bit AFAIK is getting the step where tasksel gets > installed into the target system, and then run, to be able to grab the > version of tasksel to use from an alternative apt repository (which is > already being created

Re: Shall we serve scripts as application or as text?

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:58:45PM +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > It is usually easy to save a text file from a web browser, while it is hard > (impossible?) to persuade it to display an unknown application/* type. Thus, > even if your latter example is more common, it may be preferable use text/. The

Re: Bug#988406: notifying users on EOL of a debian release

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:08:09AM +, Paul Wise wrote: > I seem to remember that Ubuntu might have a solution for this and I > found these resources: Another possibility would be to use Ubuntu's dynamic motd support. This may not be appropriate for Debian but could be used to share news like n

Re: Tools to better colorize the command-line experience?

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:02:24PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Do you have any tips about generic command-line coloring programs? The bat package provides a batcat program that'll add colour to a lot of different file formats. There's some screenshots on the github page: https://github.com/sha

Re: Security. Allow to run only executables with certain hash

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:22:58PM +0200, Dmytro Spivak wrote: > Please make a system app, that will prevent strange executables and > wrappers to be launched. Hopefully this is helpful to you: https://sourceforge.net/p/linux-ima/wiki/Home/ Thanks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

xTuple Postbooks license change

FOSS community to lose this CPAL licensed software. Which directions might the Debian community take regarding Postbooks? (Some users and some xTuple staff do idle in #xtuple on FreeNode.) Seth McClain

Re: IBM POWER9 SIMD support? (Was: SIMDebian: ...)

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 05:04:54AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > However Power machines are really too expensive so I don't expect a While "too expensive" is subjective, there are "cheaper" power9 systems available soon: https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/purchase.html starting at ~$1200 USD.

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:31:00AM +, Chris Knadle wrote: > A logical place to check or the lack of BIOS virtualization features and show > an > error message for this would be within the .postinst script for the virtualbox > package in Debian. This way when Virtualbox is installed the user i

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 11:07:09AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Rust is stable. Thank you for your contributions helping it work on more > architectures, but "does not have first-tier support for every > architecture ever" is not a component of "stabilize". Hello Josh, I can't speak for anyone ex

Re: Problem sending my key to keyring.debian.org

On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:38:43AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:16 AM Alexandre Viau wrote: > > keyring.debian.org pulls updates from the keyserver network? > No, it does not. > > I wasn't sure, and I would always send to keyring.debian.org separately. > This is still necessar

Re: Problem sending my key to keyring.debian.org

On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 05:39:34PM -0700, Joseph Herlant wrote: > I'm having issues sending my updated key to keyring.debian.org: > [...] > Do you have any idea what I could do wrong here? Two thoughts: first, give it another try. I was able to refresh my keyring using the debian keyserver a few s

Re: [apparmor] Let's enable AppArmor by default (why not?)

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:10:02AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > Is there a way that an app (e.g. smbd) whose file access requirements > change dynamically through admin and user configuration can at least > inspect its own apparmor profile and give the user a clue that the admin > must update the

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 10:19:25PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Do you happen to know what was the reason somebody way back in time > > decided to not consider the epoch in the filenames? > > My understanding is that it would have caused some kind of problems for > common operations at the time

Re: seccomp jailing for applications (was: recommends for apparmor in newest linux-image-4.13)

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:29:44AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > but should be much easier to maintain, and would probably also make it > easier to switch to a syscall-set-confining library if such a thing > exists in the future. Would a version of OpenBSD's pledge() system call have looked appeali

too funny to not pass on...

from debian-freshmeat, where we are talking about setting up the new DFMR (Debian Freshmeat Repository) Seth: b) apt-get able, so it's a ftp and/or http site, and a single line to stick into etc/apt/sources.list Jeff Covey of freshmeat: this would rock. we'll have to work wi

Re: ITP: spong

ckaged for Debian. Hopefully, we can make all of these play nice with each other, and replaceable with each other. Maybe we can define a 'provides' like 'bbclient' or 'bbserver' so we can use any of the possible combos. feel free to write me offlist, Seth -- T

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

> BTW, the rant has been a long time coming - this just keyed it. > > Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... Hey erik, grow up. Debian has enough flamewars without you stirring the coals intentionally. 'The broken update happened 20 minutes before the rant' HUH? Geez

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

you don't like the manual, help write a better one. If you don't like the way Debian deals with new users, help change it, by setting an example. File bug reports if nothing else. Etc. another happy Debian user, Seth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

digest version broken?

Looks like digests are broken, could someone fix please? Seth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

At 10:13 PM 09/07/2000 +, you wrote: I don't object to a web-browser, personally. I do object to having to install and configure a Web server (!!) to set up the machine, for the same reason I object to needing a Web server to view documentation (eg, doc-central depends on apache). Webmin has

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

e's come. > a dpkg/apt module, Someone pointed out to me that dpkg is already part of the standard software package module. No apt module though. Seth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Nate Duehr wrote: > Linuxconf is very broken (and it's documented in the Readme's provided > with the .deb) on Debian, and it mangles perfectly good config files > into nasty-looking ones that sysadmins who prefer vi usually dislike > reading. Another point in webmin's favor.

Webmin works... was Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Frederic Peters wrote: > > Agreed. If you want to do something USEFUL, write a better webmin, debconf > > or linuxconf module. > - webmin: I think it is useful (and nice) not to have to launch mozilla >to add an user or change a password. Excuse me? if you don't want to

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

So, yes, why reinvent the wheel, if there are allready n^x conftools around with a new one popping up monthly (webmin, COAS, linuxconf, debconf, yast, ..., ..., ...) ? It's not going to make anything easier. Agreed. If you want to do something USEFUL, write a better webmin, debconf or linuxconf m

Offtopic: Re: FW: Firewall Project

the right forum for this. Seth The "technical" leadership at my wife's work are back-pedalling from using a Linux firewall between an AS/400 system and remotely-connected PC's based on the following argument: > To all Network Administrators: > > Problem: AS/400 can only

Re: ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher

re there plans to make the new science subsection soon? This would fit in there nicely. > I would sponsor the package. thanks, Seth

ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher

Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2000-08-19 Severity: important Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian. Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net License is GPL I think this will go into contrib, since it uses PubMed's database, and it is pretty useless without access to t

Re: Subpackaging

you sure you want to install this on your x86 box?) I'm sure other 'featuresets' can be brainstormed. This uses the existing suggested and recommended levels, in a new way, and also is flexible enough to allow only those who want something like this to install it, maintainers to use or ignore it, and piecemeal implementation. Adding fields or keywords to a package, and maybe a file to categorize package contents. feedback? Seth [1] it's the number of the trash compactor door in Star Wars.

Bug#69271: general: why not a praise tracking system?

Joost> What I am missing is a praise tracking system. It would Joost> operate similarly to the b.t.s.; users could: >Sounds like a good idea, eg to help motivate maintainers fix bugs. I think it would be good just to alert people to real well done packages (for instance, excellent debcon

Re: Potato now stable

> I recall reading a few months ago about a plan to merge ALL of the > existing hardware detection routines into one lump, in order to > consolidate work and effort. The proposal was met with acceptance by many > (if not all) of the major developers (Mandrake, Redhat, Suse, Turbo) > > please post

Re: Potato now stable

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Has anyone has looked into porting this [Kudzu] to Debian? > > Mandrake, too, includes a hardware detection libarary (libdetect). > Some time ago, Dan Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Cc'ed him), was busy > packaging it. Dan, have you had any luck yet ad

Re: Deb base ISO images

I've been browsing cdimage. Do we release a base system as a 30/40-ish meg ISO that can network to enable apt handling retrieval of anything else? One would be really useful to me, and I'm sure to others too. The base packages (for floppies etc) aren't always so easy or convienient, and I think an

Re: [Election Results] Official and Final

dents et al... Wouldn't this be more properly FUD? :) -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate funct

the rest delayed until the end of package copying, then no, debian does not ask too many questions. :) As for actually implementing this thing, I am hoping debconf is this good. I will give it a shot when it stabilizes a bit (eg, fewer updates per week.. :) Comments/suggestions/flames welcome. --

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

lly started. Some require configuration before being started. Perhaps a change of wording would improve my question. fwiw, $.02. -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

cause it's GPL'ed. You > don't have to agree :-) I agree with you absolutely and totally. However, as it is, many of us need the JDK until kaffe is ready for prime time, as it were. -Seth -- "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion"

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 07:48:28PM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > > > What is wrong with distributing an installation package like is > > done with netscape and realaudio? > > Hrm. You know, that didn't occur

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

rashes before my research system loads, yet the blackdown jdk works flawlessly. -Seth -- "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion"

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

off of a CD. I did have to recompile the kernel for APM stuff and pcmcia utilities, which was exceedingly painless (for me, that is, YMMV). I also had to get and install the NeoMagic X Server manually, but this was before a package for it existed. Therefore, I don't think this is la

Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

ne has a definite clue or course of action, can someone tell me where I can find the previous version of syslogd? If I can get the previous version, I think I could probably figure out what is going on. -Seth -- "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion"

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