Re: Debian glossary?

2018-05-06 Thread Felix Dietrich
ation on Debian-specific as well as general *nix usage. [1] <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/> [2] <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/> -- Felix Dietrich

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-06 Thread Felix Dietrich
Reco writes: > But, considering *who* designed DE in question, it may be for the best > that users are oblivious about this particular feature ;). What is „DE” referring to? -- Felix Dietrich

Re: Debian glossary?

2018-04-30 Thread Felix Dietrich
s for the more common terms and also on Wikipedia can be found helpful computer related articles, e.g. for block devices: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_device>. [1] Also available on the web: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/What-information-is-listed.html#index-verbose-ls-format -- Felix Dietrich

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Felix Dietrich
rectory will be deleted unless --keep-debootstrap-dir is specified. Do not specify „--print-debs” if you want „debootstrap” to install the packages. Also: if you run debootstrap from the same target architecture (or a very similar one like creating an i386 environment from an amd64 host, I suspect

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread Felix Dietrich
/i386/apds03.html.en#idm46014282700896 -- Felix Dietrich

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Felix Dietrich
he used to indicate his point of confusion are at the MIRROR parameter). Even if he had been confused about the usage of the TARGET parameter he deserved a more polite and helpful answer because, as you have just experienced, sometimes one misunderstands, what has been written. Maybe I am just to sensitive, though. -- Felix Dietrich

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Felix Dietrich
ust increase your scrollback buffer size or use a screen multiplexer, like _tmux_, if your terminal emulator does not allow setting an high enough value. [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en#idm46014282700896 -- Felix Dietrich

Re: how to copy files

2017-05-20 Thread Felix Dietrich
behavior to avoid creating an additional directory level at the destination. You can think of a trailing / on a source as meaning "copy the con‐ tents of this directory" as opposed to "copy the directory by name" […] -- Felix Dietrich

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-05-04 Thread Felix Dietrich
Kent West writes: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Felix Dietrich > wrote: > > Kent West writes: > > What I needed (and have since solved - below) was help working out the > syntax of determining human interaction with X. > > You may also want to consider

Re: Old, stale bug reports (bug triage)

2017-04-29 Thread Felix Dietrich
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 02:53:28AM +0200, Felix Dietrich wrote: > When closing, annote the bug with found/fixed version information. > If you are using the bts command-line helper, you could do > (for the ficftional bug number ABCDEF, which was found

Re: Old, stale bug reports (bug triage)

2017-04-29 Thread Felix Dietrich
songbird writes: > does installing package how-can-i-help help? Thanks for the suggestion. I will have to spent some time going through that list and see if I can find anything that I am able to do. -- Felix Dietrich

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-29 Thread Felix Dietrich
ntify the wrong, and copy and paste the slightly less wrong. I also won't judge anything to be "the best" – unless it is my own of course. :-p -- Felix Dietrich

Re: Old, stale bug reports (bug triage)

2017-04-27 Thread Felix Dietrich
ist, a quick skimming over its archive left me with the impression that the messages are generally package sponsering requests or otherwise about packaging – my question felt more like that of an interested user who has started to explore the possibilities of contributing to Debian. -- Felix Dietrich

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-04-27 Thread Felix Dietrich
Happy hacking. :) Footnotes: [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Builtins.html#index-source [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Conditional-Constructs.html#index-case [3] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/xautolock -- Felix Dietrich

Old, stale bug reports (bug triage)

2017-04-25 Thread Felix Dietrich
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