Re: Battery CMOS

2024-10-17 Thread William Torrez Corea
On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 8:58 AM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:59:47 -0600 > William Torrez Corea wrote: > > > What happened with my CMOS battery? > > I conjecture that this is not a recent computer. Perhaps the computer > is failing? > > I take

Re: why some -dev packages depend on pkgconf and not others?

2024-10-17 Thread Nicolas George
Patrice Duroux (12024-10-17): > That is not clear to me why certain -dev depends on pkconf whereas (a > lot of) others with a .pc file don't. I guess it would depend on whether the only supported and documented way to link with the library in the package is to use pkg-config or whether the .pc fil

why some -dev packages depend on pkgconf and not others?

2024-10-17 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, For instance, libfontconfig-dev depends on pkgconf. It makes me hesitate to add a(n explicit) dependency on pkgconf in the control file of a packaging that depends libfontconfig-dev. but not on pkgconf. It seems to require the pkg-config command regarding the folllowing extract of its .build f

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Oct 2024 at 07:35:55 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested > debian.org sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that > sub-directory by following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory". > > That led to http://ftp.us.d

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/17/2024 08:39 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org > > > sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by > > > following

Re: Battery CMOS

2024-10-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:59:47 -0600 William Torrez Corea wrote: > What happened with my CMOS battery? I conjecture that this is not a recent computer. Perhaps the computer is failing? I take it that the computer has worked correctly (at least in this regard) until now. What, if anything, are yo

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 09:10:35AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/17/2024 08:39 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > I wonder if apache is doing some kind of directory-level > > virtualization, where it only "exists" if you have the trailing > > slash on the end (I don't know enough of the interna

Re: /proc on /proc ?

2024-10-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 04:38:13AM +, Mike wrote: > I was running `xen-create-image`… Just a note that Xen is pretty exotic at this point and very few people will know what you are talking about. I use Xen a lot, but most people who play with VMs on Linux only use KVM/qemu. You may have m

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/17/2024 08:39 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory". That led to ht

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 09:39:40AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org > > sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by > > following a chain of links titled "Paren

Re: STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org > sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by > following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory". > > That led to http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ whose

Re: Bug in 'more' command

2024-10-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> (I do use less, FWIW). FWIW, I do use less more as well, but I also use more, tho less so. Stefan

Re: confused about available 32bit kernels in Trixie

2024-10-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> # dpkg-query -l | grep linux-image This doesn't show the state of the archive/available packages. You can use apt-cache to see what versions are available for the version of Debian you have on your system / which mirrors you have I find https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux useful, too. It show

STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README

2024-10-17 Thread Richard Owlett
While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory". That led to http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ whose first link is to "http://ftp.us.debian.org/d

Re: confused about available 32bit kernels in Trixie

2024-10-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/10/2024 à 00:55, Felix Miata a écrit : # apt-mark showhold # grep ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ trixie main non-free non-free-firmware contrib deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org trixie main non-free deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity-sb trixie dep