Sent this message to ifupdown@packages.d.o a few days ago. So far,
I didn't get a reply. Perhaps I should have asked the list prior to
asking the maintainer.
Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7.46.1
$ zgrep -B3 netdev /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/changelog.gz | \
> sed '2,3d'
ifupdown (0.
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:08:50PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:28:01PM +0300, Regid Ichira wrote:
> > On Fri, Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:34:56 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2013
On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:29:35 +0900 Joel Rees wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Regid Ichira wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:06:43 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> As I said, more or less, in a reply to Ralf, can you guarantee that no
> >> other
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:06:43 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Regid Ichira wrote:
> > On Fri, Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:34:56 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:
On Fri, Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:34:56 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >>
> >> Traditional device names, such as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb,
> >> (and therefore the partitions on those devices, such
> >> as
I deliberately changed the subject of this message because I hope
people will also pay attention to my previous message in the thread.
At http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/09/msg01150.html, which,
I hope, this message will be a follow-up to, Stephen Powell wrote
that, in general, initrd
In view of http://bugs.debian.org/722580 and
http://bugs.debian.org/722604:
A machine with:
- a custom, non initrd, linux image
- udev 175-7.2
- no DEVTMPFS in the kernel configuration
is able to boot.
1. Will the machine boot with
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
# CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 07:55:51PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Regid Ichira wrote:
> >
> > I find it useful to have the kernel configuration automatically
> > pointing out only the NEW kernel configuration options. Quite often,
> > the
I find it useful to have the kernel configuration automatically
pointing out only the NEW kernel configuration options. Quite often,
the kernel's
$ make oldconfig
takes a long time. In particular, when I am trying to find out more
information on the NEW features. The options that I am a
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:54:21 +
From: Debian Bug Tracking System
To: Regid Ichira
CC: pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org,
debian-d...@lists.debian.org
Subject: Processed: init files might get unnoticebly
After upgarding bootlogd and initscripts 2.88dsf-42 -> 2.88dsf-43,
and other packages that are built from sysvinit, I found that
1. /etc/init.d/bootlogd
2. /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd
3. /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd-single
are no longer installed. Looks similar to
http://bugs.debian.org/c
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:14:40 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> 1. What exactly are you concerned about that we can do something
>about on the users list? Has bc been dropped from being a default
>part of the most basic install?
bc is priority standard. Doesn't that mean that there are Debian
ins
I didn't get response for a similar post on
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/06/msg01262.html. Is it
because the answers are too obvious?
bc, an arbitrary precision calculator language, is a kernel build
dependency since a long time ago. Should it be added to:
1. The Recomme
$ zgrep -A5 458-2 /usr/share/doc/less/changelog.Debian.gz
less (458-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Merge 458-1ubuntu1
- debian/lesspipe{.1}: Make lesspipe treat ddebs the same as it does
debs
and udebs (LP: #1180013).
What are ddebs?
I think it is not a typo
I am not subscribed to the list. Did I managed to set In-reply-to
header? The thread this message belongs to is
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/06/msg00040.html
I think Claudius Hubig was right with the observation that task-desktop
pulled many packages:
As proposed by Andrei POPESC
$ aptitude show xserver-xorg-video-all | grep -A 21 Depends
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-apm, xserver-xorg-video-ark,
xserver-xorg-video-ati,
xserver-xorg-video-chips, xserver-xorg-video-cirrus,
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev, xserver-xorg-video-i128,
xserve
packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/vsftpd is refering
http://git.debian-maintainers.org/?p=daniel/vsftpd.git. The
reference is in the left column of the page, under the links for
vsftpd title ( Debian Source Repository (Git) ).
$ host git.debian-maintainers.org
Host git.debian-maintaine
Quoting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690345#5
In sysvinit (initscripts), we were obliged to revert back to using
absolute links for /var/run and /var/lock in this commit:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/sysvinit;a=commitdiff;h=0977997
due t
Isn't lintian meant to be used at build time? Isn't it a sort of
post build depends?
In that case, why lintian overrides are shipped in (binary) debs?
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package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.4
Tags:patch
Files: /usr/bin/rc-alert
/usr/share/doc/devscripts/README.gz
Many devscripts choose on the fly whether to use curl or wget,
depending on what is installed. So far rc-alert was using solely
wget. The following patches tries to recti
I am a perl beginner. I stambled upon a perl line
if (system("command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0)
I was able to find perl's documentation for system. But where is
the documentation for command?
Am I right that that line tests whether wget is installed in the
system? How does it do
$ grep Provides /etc/init.d/mountnfs-bootclean.sh
# Provides: mountnfs-bootclean
$ grep Description /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
# Short-Description: Miscellaneous things to be done during bootup.
# Description: Some cleanup. Note, it need to run after
mountnfs-boot
$ zgrep 'Try to remove' /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/changelog.gz
- Try to remove old /etc/network/run even if it's a symlink.
$ ls -l /etc/network/run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 20 20:59 /etc/network/run -> /run/network
Can I remove /etc/network/run manually? Just /etc/networ
$ zgrep -A1 'bootlogs init script has been removed'
/usr/share/doc/initscripts/changelog.Debian.gz
- bootlogs init script has been removed; current logging daemons
handle this themselves, making this script redundant.
$
$ ls -l /etc/init.d/bootlogs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 r
Many (most?) packages with extensive documentation offer a deb
so that the documentation will be available locally.
Am I right that there is no deb offering the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook? Is
it reasonable to file a wishlist bug for that matter?
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Isn't closing fd at the end makes all the work meaningless?
$ man login_tty| grep -A6 'The login_tty() '
The login_tty() function prepares for a login on the tty fd
(which may be a real tty device, or the slave of a pseudoter-
minal as returned by op
netbase 5.0 changelog states
* Starting from this release, TCP/UDP ports will be added only for the
actually implemented protocol even if IANA nowadays assigns both.
Why is that? Wouldn't it be better to quote exact IANA assignment?
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I had difficulties getting ssh(1)'s ESCAPE CHARACTERS to be recognized
from within a login shell over ssh. In particular, sometimes the escape
character was not recognized as such. I was able to find in gmane a
similar issue for a Gentoo user from a few years ago. I don't have
that gmane URL h
Quoting pipe(7):
If all file descriptors referring to the write end of a pipe
have been closed, then an attempt to read (2) from the pipe
will see end-of-file ( read (2) will return 0).
Consider a pipe with 1 reading and 1 writing processes. The
reading process was put to sleep b
$ zgrep -A3 '%A%p' /usr/share/info/find.info.gz
newest=$(find subdir -newer timestamp -printf "%A%p\n" |
sort -n |
tail -1 |
cut -d: -f2- )
is taken from findutil's (4.4.2-4) documentation. It doesn't work
here:
$ mkdir
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-22
$ grep -nA13 ^INITCTL= /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysvinit.postinst
19:INITCTL=/run/initctl
20-case "$(uname -s)" in
21- *FreeBSD)
22- OLDINITCTL=/etc/.initctl
23- ;;
24- *)
25- OLDINITCTL=/dev/initctl
26- ;;
27-esac
28-
29-# Create /run/initctl if n
Referring to Package: vsftpd, Version: 2.3.5-1.
1. Can I get the debian source for 2.3.4, and possibly older?
I think debian had some version control archive for the vsftpd
package.
2. Since I write, I'll mention the issue I am after:
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/vsftpd/changelog.gz | tail
Quoting changelog of some recent deb:
Add texinfo back to build depends: policy has been subverted
What is he talking about?
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Why does diffutils.deb priority required?
Why is it an essential package?
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Within a shell, what is the difference between [ -n undefinedString ] and [
-n "$undefinedString" ] ?
With bash I get:
$ unset undefinedString
$ [ -n undefinedString ] && printf "$undefinedString" | od -c
000
$ [ -n "$undefinedString" ] && printf "$undefinedString" | od
$ diff --help | grep -e --show-c-function
-p --show-c-function Show which C function each change is in.
Will diff -p behaves reasonably when applied to non C files?
I want to use the -p option in a script that does not necessarily act
on C files?
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hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes:
> - Add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/iptables
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
> Then issue:
> #service iptables restart
> I tried for it and now the windows machine can browse valid url . I
> must mention that the problem could
hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes:
> I tried for 'iptables -S' but it returned 'unknown arg -S' . The
> windows machine firewall is turned off. On the windows machine,
> browsing like http://128.31.0.51 is successful .
The -S option is clearly mentioned in the manual page and the help text.
Wh
hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes:
>
> On 7/18/11, Regid Ichira yahoo.com> wrote:
> > hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> On 7/18/11, Tom Furie furie.org.uk> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi mo
Bob Proulx proulx.com> writes:
>
> Looking at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634215 I
> see that you have found a problem related to @reboot with cron
> starting earlier using the dependency based booting than it did before
> with the legacy based manually specified number boot
David Baron 012.net.il> writes:
>
> Get load of these on any dpkg/apt operation:
>
> dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 39750
> package 'libmal0':
> missing architecture
> dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 40988
> package 'hwda
hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes:
>
> On 7/18/11, Tom Furie furie.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote:
> >
> >> I have set the same DNS on both my debian firewall and windows macine.
> >
> > And that would be what? You can ping an IP address from Wind
Bob Proulx proulx.com> writes:
>
> Regid Ichira wrote:
> > I have installed the ntp package. I edited /etc/insserv.conf, and
> > added +ntp to the $time line.
> >
> > $ grep time /etc/insserv.conf
> > # The system time has been set correctl
Will the debian management system interpret a missing conffile as
though it was removed by the system administrator? That is, will
somethings break if the administrator removes a conffile, rather
then nullify its contents or commenting in each line of the file?
The file is marked by dpkg as a c
I have installed the ntp package. I edited /etc/insserv.conf, and
added +ntp to the $time line.
$ grep time /etc/insserv.conf
# The system time has been set correctly
$time +hwclock +ntp
I then issued
dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc
, expecting to have ntp added to the cron
debian/control of the nut source package has about 7 binary debs,
say A ... G.
They are built using cdbs. What should I put in debian/rules in order to
have it build only A and B? I have tried with DH_OPTIONS and
DH_LISTPACKAGES. It didn't work. I always end up with all the 7 binary
debs.
Is there a way to see whether a random bug report in the BTS has usertags?
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$ apt-cache --names-only search apm | grep sleepd
sleepd - puts an inactive or low battery laptop to sleep
Am I right that, according to man apt-cache, mentioning sleepd is a bug?
$ man apt-cache | grep -A20 ' search regex' | head
search regex [ regex ... ]
s
On 13/04/11 11:57, kuLa wrote:> On 13/04/11 11:30, Regid Ichira wrote: > > In
the last 2 weeks, or so, I am not able to read the changelogs of debs > >
online. An example from today: > > > > Not Found > > The requested
URL
> > /changelogs
In the last 2 weeks, or so, I am not able to read the changelogs of debs
online. An example from today:
Not Found
The requested URL
/changelogs/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.15.1-1/changelog
was not found on this server.
Apache Server
The output of that command varies by a +/-1 in the last couple of days.
Why it that? Could it be related to security updates in stable?
The listing itself is related to the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list. My
sources.list uses:
deb security stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb
Am I right having aptitude stdin connected to a pipe, as in
# printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade
will cause aptitude NOT to log its actions to /var/log/apt/* ?
I think this is a bug. Do you agree?
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Is there a command line tool that can search the contents of a deb that
is not installed and was not downloaded? If so, how does it do that?
Does it basically download Contents.gz and search in it?
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Consider the following:
$ man bootlogd | grep -A4 DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
Bootlogd runs in the background and copies all strings sent to the
/dev/console device to a logfile. If the logfile is not accessible,
the messages will be kept in memory until it is.
I think ther
Does `It also lists the DBM library this is being used' a
correct English phrase?
$ zgrep -C4 'DBM library this is being used' /usr/share/doc/exim4/spec.txt.gz
-bV
This option causes Exim to write the current version number, compilation
number, and compilation date of the exim binary t
As some of you might know, the transition to dependency based
boot / insserv is causing the following lines:
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp'
overwrites defaults (empty).
Is it safe for the system administrator to issue
update-rc.d remove defaul
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