Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-17 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-17 04:25 (UTC-0500): > Anssi Saari wrote: >> Richard Owlett writes: >>> The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my >>> peculiar goals. >>> I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition. >>> It must be possible

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 16:07:56 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, September 17, 2020 02:58:19 PM Brian wrote: > > On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 09:29:35 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > > On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 22:36:31 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 17.09.20 20:58, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 09:29:35 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > > > > On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > Agreed. Where the menu says "Deb

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On 9/17/2020 10:29 AM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:14:30 +0200 Hans wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: Hi Joe, No offence. :) And none taken. Yes, I've lost one or two applications over the years which I was actively using. But it is rare for this t

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-17 Thread Marco Möller
On 17.09.20 20:58, Brian wrote: On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 09:29:35 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: Agreed. Where the menu says "Debian desktop environment" I would:    1. remove the check-box.    2. rephrase it as

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If I change the mode of the mount point to : Is there some advantage other than making a long listing visually distinctive when the mount

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-17 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, September 17, 2020 02:58:19 PM Brian wrote: > On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 09:29:35 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > Agreed. Where the menu says "Debian desktop environment" I would: > > >

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 09:29:35 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: > > Agreed. Where the menu says "Debian desktop environment" I would: > >    1. remove the check-box. > >    2. rephrase it as "Chose a Debian desk

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On 9/17/2020 10:14 AM, Hans wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: Hi Joe, yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, which is close to unstable. The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at all, but the deinstallation

Re: Securing local host of reverse SSH tunnel?

2020-09-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 15 Sep 13:54 -0500, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > To restrict what an SSH account can do, you can use the command="..." > setting in the autorized_keys file. It is documented in sshd(8). I use > it specifically to restrain the possible actions that can be done with > that private key.

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 11:14:30 -04 Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: > Hi Joe, > > yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, > which is close to unstable. > > The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 17:14:30 (+0200), Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: > > yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, which is > close to unstable. > > The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at all, bu

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Joe
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:14:30 +0200 Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: > Hi Joe, > > yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, > which is close to unstable. > > The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at >

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: Hi Joe, yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, which is close to unstable. The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at all, but the deinstallation of packages which are still useful

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Joe
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:47:24 +0200 Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > of course, apt-get full-upgrade sometimes wants to deinstall some > packages, but this here is strange. Take a look: > > --- > > apt-get full-upgrade > > > > Really? You want deinstall packages like wicd*, zenmap, d-rats? This

Re: Bad homepage reference for xorriso

2020-09-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > https://packages.debian.org/buster/xorriso reports its homepage to be > http://libburnia-project.org/. That gives a 404 error. I get redirected to https://libburnia-project.org/ and then warned that the certificate belongs to a different domain. This address should g

Bad homepage reference for xorriso

2020-09-17 Thread Richard Owlett
https://packages.debian.org/buster/xorriso reports its homepage to be http://libburnia-project.org/. That gives a 404 error.

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-17 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, September 17, 2020 05:25:11 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/17/2020 03:02 AM, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Richard Owlett writes: > >> The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my > >> peculiar goals. > >> I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatte

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 12:47:24 CEST schrieb Hans: Hmm, answer myself. Looks like the output is could not be pasted into the mail (root rights). However, think, you understood my worries. To verify: I do not want to blame someone, my intention is more looking in the way, unexperien

dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Hans
Hi folks, of course, apt-get full-upgrade sometimes wants to deinstall some packages, but this here is strange. Take a look: --- apt-get full-upgrade Really? You want deinstall packages like wicd*, zenmap, d-rats? This looks weired for me, as there is no success for wicd (network-manager

Re: qemu-kvm won't install on Bullseye. Installs qemu-system-x86 instead.

2020-09-17 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:20 AM Thomas Pircher wrote: > Kenneth Parker wrote: > > When I try to install qemu-kvm, I get: "Note, selecting > > 'qemu-system-x86' instead of qemu-kvm" > > The 'qemu-kvm' package does no longer exist. It is a virtual package and > is being replaced by qemu-system-x86

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/17/2020 03:02 AM, Anssi Saari wrote: Richard Owlett writes: The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my peculiar goals. I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition. It must be possible. A testable installer preceded ISO format. I'm wor

Re: qemu-kvm won't install on Bullseye. Installs qemu-system-x86 instead.

2020-09-17 Thread Thomas Pircher
Kenneth Parker wrote: > When I try to install qemu-kvm, I get: "Note, selecting > 'qemu-system-x86' instead of qemu-kvm" The 'qemu-kvm' package does no longer exist. It is a virtual package and is being replaced by qemu-system-x86. > And then, when I try to Define the Guest, using the file I had

qemu-kvm won't install on Bullseye. Installs qemu-system-x86 instead.

2020-09-17 Thread Kenneth Parker
Hello, I installed Mint 20 on a small Partition, and then installed Elementary-OS under qemu-kvm, which worked, but took up much of the small space I had allocated. So I tried to "Migrate" the Guest to a qemu-kvm on my largeri Devuan Ascii (like Stretch), which failed, due to a back-leveled qemu-

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Richard Owlett writes: > The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my > peculiar goals. > I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition. > It must be possible. A testable installer preceded ISO format. > I'm working thru https://www.debian.org/rel

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-17 Thread Marco Möller
On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: Agreed. Where the menu says "Debian desktop environment" I would:    1. remove the check-box.    2. rephrase it as "Chose a Debian desktop environment".    3. add a default check by GNOME. YES, Exactly this

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-17 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:30 AM Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:44:03 -0700 > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > On 9/16/20 5:55 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 > > >> Greg Wooledge wrote:

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-17 Thread Rick Thomas
I too have been using Debian for over a decade, and I've come to rely on it, so I hear your concern at having to "switch" to something new. But I don't think Devuan is really all that "new". For almost two years I've had Devuan ascii with mate desktop in a VM that I use daily for a variety