On Mon, 31 Mar 2025, keller.st...@gmx.de wrote:
For comparison, some research and portability tests I'd like
to install old releases of Debian, i.e. versions 8, 9, 10.
Are there archives and old repositories to install from?
Steve
archive.debian.org for packages before bullseye.
Buster is t
On Tue, 25 Mar 2025, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Tim Woodall wrote:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h
[...]
==4710== Warning: noted but unhandled ioctl 0x5395 with no size/direction
hints.
ioctl CDROM_LAST_WRITTEN is something which software would call
Bit of a wild guess/hope that someone might know what this is. I'm
getting a strange error from valgrind about an ioctl that I'm definitely
not calling directly and I've got no idea why it would be trying to do
anything with a cdrom.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/l
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Git *does* preserve permissions [1]. For the ownerships (and more accurate
mtime, atime and ctime) cf. etckeeper.
Git only tracks the execute bit. And because it always writes a new file
rather than truncate then write by most editors, the permissio
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 02:07:53PM +0800, tim wade wrote:
I plan to make increment backup for my home dir.
It's currently in the size of 1xx GB.
I use git. I keep terminal open running a ssh connection open to the
backup system. Whenever I wish
On Sat, 15 Mar 2025, Eben King wrote:
On 3/15/25 05:49, Tim Woodall wrote:
This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen
in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails the resulting text
gets wrapped at column 80 in vim.
I can then tell vim to reflow to get
Hi,
I have the following setting in my (remote) pinerc:
Viewer Margin Right = 72c
Not sure it's relevant but in vim I have
textwidth=72
formatoptions=tcqlw
This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen
in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails t
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 2:08?AM tim wade wrote:
I plan to make increment backup for my home dir.
It's currently in the size of 1xx GB.
besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment
backup?
I use Duplicity to backup a webserve
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
But if, instead, what you want is the backing store to grow then use a
sparse file as the backing store.
This idea reduces the search to filesystems which don't hop around and
write without need to new random places on their storage medium.
# trunca
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Miriami wrote:
Hi!
Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single
file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size?
It's like using a fuse ext4 filesystem, just that with self-growing -
I tried the fuse ext4 filesystem, but it seems that fuse ex
t shows a problem with sticking the version in the description
though - it's actually 1.14 now :-o
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/fuse-overlayfs/changelog.Debian.gz | head
fuse-overlayfs (1.14-1~tjw12r2) bookworm; urgency=medium
* Backport 1.13 to bookworm
-- Tim Woodall Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11
On Wed, 19 Feb 2025, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
Hello.
I've started with this:
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/winehq-v9
Package: *:any
Pin: release o="dl.winehq.org", v=9*
Pin-Priority: 625
Now
On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
Hello.
I've started with this:
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/winehq-v9
Package: *:any
Pin: release o="dl.winehq.org", v=9*
Pin-Priority: 625
Done some tests.
Package: *
Pin: release o=dl
On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
Hello.
I've started with this:
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/winehq-v9
Package: *:any
Pin: release o="dl.winehq.org", v=9*
Pin-Priority: 625
I'm not sure about the quotes, the :all or the * on the version in your
example.
The easiest way to fix th
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, Loren M. Lang wrote:
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 11:09:58AM +, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi Loren,
On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:29:45PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:
I am looking for a way to find all packages that have been installed on
my system according to dpkg, but don't have a m
On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote:
I trust that you are aware of the (now) alpine mailing list?
That mailing list includes people involved in the ongoing development and
maintenance of the alpine email software (not alpine Linux), and, is at
https://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/lis
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote:
"X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0"
This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a
As there clearly are more holdouts of traditional mail than just me,
do
On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Bob McGowan wrote:
Hello list,
I've been trying to figure out how to use my BD disc writer to create
backups of files.
What I first found were instructions to create an empty file of the
propper size, 'mkudffs file', loop mount it, copy files to it, unmount
and burn to the
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 14/01/2025 16:32, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote:
I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what
on
earth is going
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote:
I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on
earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why
is
it not possible to
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote:
Hello
I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on
earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why is
it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore.
It's not possible with chromium either.
On Mon, 30 Dec 2024, Tom Browder wrote:
I've had this problem a long time ago, and don't remember how I recovered,
but it was with help here.
I suspect a failing disk, and I wonder if there is a hail Mary command I
can do to force a reboot to see if it can recover on its own. I would
almost wel
On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:52:52 + (GMT)
Tim Woodall wrote:
This looks like the culprit:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1077096
But the maintainer hasn't dealt with it in 6 months.
This package needs a no-change uplo
On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Charles Curley wrote:
The packages elpa-auto-complete and elpa-markdown-toc are missing from
trixie. They are in bookworm and sid. Any chance we'll see them back in
trixie?
This looks like the culprit:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1077096
But the mai
On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, mick.crane wrote:
hello
I'm not really understanding the internet.
Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without
having the device open to random internet connections?
mick
Yes, but in practice many places won't accept mail from most home IPs
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Frank Guthausen wrote:
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:51:58 + (GMT)
Tim Woodall wrote:
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Frank Guthausen wrote:
The files of my packages are not included in the database of
apt-file, the mandatory ``apt-file update'' does not help to find
fil
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Frank Guthausen wrote:
Hello.
I try to setup a repository with a similar structure as Debian's
original, just smaller. In the Debian repository, e.g. bookworm main[1]
there are a lot Contents-*.gz files. My repository is created with
reprepro following the wiki[2]. But I ca
you can see if anything in debugfs will help. That's part of e2fstools I
think.
In particular, you could use freei to free the inode for this directory
(although I suspect another fsck will then attach it back to lost and
found but I'm not sure)
N.B. Actions like this are last resort and you rea
open at once this
doubles the screen real-estate that I have.
Tim.
On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, Tim Woodall wrote:
Hi,
I have a vanilla installation of debian bullseye on a rpi4
But I cannot get X to start with two 4K screens attached.
The error (entire log below) is
[ 707.980] (II) modeset(0): Output
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Patrice Duroux wrote:
That's why I ended up with the suffix and letting the sysadmin
(often me, with a different hat on ;-) making that preference
explicit in the APT machinery.
But could it be the a nice feature for apt to have a list apart on the upgrading
(I would say
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:53:25AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
On Sat 16 Nov 2024 at 15:54:17 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 03:11:37PM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote:
On Sid, building and installing locally modified packages
On Fri, 25 Oct 2024, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
From: Felix Miata
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:55:37 -0400
Instead of 40_custom, I use 41_custom, but copied to 07_custom.
You have two copies of the custom configuration. One in
/etc/grub.d/07_custom and one in /etc/grub.d/41_custom. Correc
On Mon, 30 Sep 2024, Default User wrote:
Hi!
On a thread at another mailing list, someone mentioned that they, each
day, alternate doing backups between two external usb drives. That got
me to thinking (which is always dangerous) . . .
I have a full backup on usb external drive A, "refreshed"
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 28 Sep 2024 16:28 +0100, from debianu...@woodall.me.uk (Tim Woodall):
Hmmm, I've managed to fix it. The problem seems to be related to using
echo in the exit trap itself while both stderr and stdout are redirected
- e.g. via |& tee
On Fri, 27 Sep 2024, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
Here is a manual network setup I have created by use of the "ip"
command:
$ ip address show dev enX0
2: enX0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group
default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:16:5e:00:02:39 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 85.119.82.225/32 scope glo
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 14:53:10 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
Is there a way in bash to guarantee that a trap gets called for cleanup
in a script?
#!/bin/bash
trap cleanup EXIT
cleanup() {
...
}
This works in bash -- i.e., it calls the cleanup
Is there a way in bash to guarantee that a trap gets called for cleanup
in a script?
I have a script that works perfectly normally and cleans up after
itself, even if it goes wrong.
However on trying to debug something else, I wanted to run it like this:
./script |& tee log
and now it doesn't
On Mon, 23 Sep 2024, Steve Keller wrote:
Tim Woodall writes:
The raid rebuild is a particular pain point IMO. It's important to do a
discard after a failed disk rebuild otherwise every block is 'in use' on
the underlying storage.
Hmm, does a RAID rebuild really always cop
On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Florent Rougon wrote:
Le 20/09/2024, Tim Woodall a écrit:
Because the script will abort after the mount fails.
root@dirac:~# cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
set -e
mount /boot/efi2
echo "do important stuff"
root@dirac:~# ./test.sh
mount: /boot/efi2: /dev/sd
On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Florent Rougon wrote:
Le 20/09/2024, Tim Woodall a ?crit:
Haven't looked at the script but assuming it's run set -e, then your
suggestion will fail if it's already mounted.
Why?
Because the script will abort after the mount fails.
root@dirac:~# cat
On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Steve Keller wrote:
I'd like to understand some technical details about how fstrim, file
systems, and block devices work.
Do ext4 and btrfs keep a list of blocks that have already been reported as
unused or do they have to report all unused blocks to the block device
layer
On Thu, 19 Sep 2024, Florent Rougon wrote:
Hi,
Le 19/09/2024, Andy Smith a ?crit:
I don't think the answer, on Debian, has changed since I asked the
same question in 2020:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/11/msg00455.html
There is a script at [1] to install as, e.g.,
/etc/gru
On Thu, 19 Sep 2024, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
in my iptables i havetcp LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix "REJECT: "
this does what i want but how to direct the logging
it gets written to multiple file in /var/log
syslog, messages, kern, debug
can i restrict this to a single file
*.*;auth,a
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Steve Keller wrote:
In older Debian releases, I think at least until Debian 9, it was
possible to access PVs and LVs which are stored in a LV. The PV
inside the containing LV could be displayed and activated with
vgdisplay(8) and vgchange(8).
This scenario makes sense if y
On Sat, 14 Sep 2024, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 14 Sep 2024 16:15 +0100, from debianu...@woodall.me.uk (Tim Woodall):
Is there anywhere I can download really, really ancient debian images. I
need potato or older (i386). I'd like a mountable disk image.
And, of course, as soon as I sent
On Sat, 14 Sep 2024, Tom Furie wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 04:15:46PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
The oldest backups I still have go back to 2006 which, sadly, is way too
modern. Checking the potato release information says security updates
were discontinued in 2003. I switched from Redhat
On Sat, 14 Sep 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
Is there anywhere I can download really, really ancient debian images. I
need potato or older (i386). I'd like a mountable disk image.
I have no idea if debootstrap supports this, I haven't tried (yet), I
was hoping there was somewhere I coul
Is there anywhere I can download really, really ancient debian images. I
need potato or older (i386). I'd like a mountable disk image.
I have no idea if debootstrap supports this, I haven't tried (yet), I
was hoping there was somewhere I could download an image.
This is to build some ancient sof
On Wed, 4 Sep 2024, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 04:29:00AM +, Tim Woodall wrote:
Every reply I've seen talks about local macs.
To be honest I had trouble parsing the original post as a cohesive
English text. I mean it had words I understood, just not in that
parti
On Sun, 1 Sep 2024, John Conover wrote:
The MAC filter needs a local filter for the two 16 X dual hex, (23
total,) digits.
The MAC is router usually aligned internally by the router, and
contains unique hex digits.
Does any anyone recall how to query the digits to the display?
Every reply I
On Wed, 28 Aug 2024, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
In the systemd log, the first entry indicating network problems is that the DNS
server switches to another interface. But it could easily be a consequence and
not the cause of the issue:
Aug 28 06:57:54 h370 dhclient[1195]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.4.203
On Mon, 26 Aug 2024, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Mon Aug 26, 2024 at 9:08 AM BST, Tim Woodall wrote:
Is there some magic needed to subscribe to bug updates?
…
I've managed to do this in the past. Not sure what I've done wrong or
has changed.
Can you outline what you tried
Is there some magic needed to subscribe to bug updates?
I added patches for three trixie RC bugs at the weekend and tried to
subscribe to uodates but I didn't get the subscribe confirmation email.
Do I need the word subscribe in subject or body perhaps?
debian.org/Bugs/Developer says subject an
On Wed, 21 Aug 2024, Steve Keller wrote:
Can I run a container for a different CPU architecture using
systemd-nspawn? I can easily install on my amd64 host a Debian
container of the same architecture and run that:
Don't know about systemd-nspawn but I do something like this using
unshare, bi
On Sun, 4 Aug 2024, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 05:44:07PM +0100, Mick Ab wrote:
I have a Debian Bullseye desktop PC.
I am looking for a 2fa authenticator that works on my desktop, without
using a smartphone or tablet.
I don't know what an "authenticator app" is. If what
On Fri, 2 Aug 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
# Reading through this now I'm not absolutely sure that those hoops I
# jump throught to sign the repo are needed...
Just confirmed the gpg stuff is not needed
# Not sure why I have that proxy bit in here either. I think I'm
# installing f
On Fri, 2 Aug 2024, daggs wrote:
Greetings,
I'm working on an automated Debian installation without network access.
I've discovered the --make-tarball and --unpack-tarball switches which I use to
create the tarball and use it as repo.
the initial deployment is this: debootstrap --arch amd64 --
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024, Nicolas George wrote:
Tim Woodall (12024-07-30):
Yes, I use unison to keep some imap servers in sync.
Be precise: you use unison to keep the directories that serve as mail
storage for some IMAP servers in sync. Your unison does not know that
there is IMAP involved
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024, mick.crane wrote:
On 2024-07-29 14:36, Nicolas George wrote:
Hi.
I am looking for a tool that reads a mail from its input and stores it
into an IMAP mailbox:
With a new Dovecot install I believe I copied all the old mails into eg.
~/Maidir/cur
and they showed up.
I was c
On Sun, 21 Jul 2024, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
This is in a way a continuation of my recently "purely local DNS" thread.
To recap: my objective is to send emails to a single domain with both DNS and
any other email traffic being disabled.
A simple working solution that I've found for Postfix is:
On Wed, 17 Jul 2024, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 17/07/2024 15:37, Tim Woodall wrote:
umask 077 can come with its own problems when using shared directories.
<https://wiki.debian.org/UserPrivateGroups>
Taking into account old 022 vs. 002 discussions it might be 007.
I'm not a sudo us
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Debian is a multi-user operating system. Decisions should be made accordingly.
I suppose umask is a moot point on phones and tablets, where
single-user is often the use case.
umask 077 can come with its own problems when using shared directories.
On Tue, 16 Jul 2024, Michael Kj?rling wrote:
Debian 12 will boot in 256 MB RAM (I think that's the minimum
supported configuration on amd64, which your VPS very likely is) and a
One annoying "feature" I've found if you create the disk image on
another machine is that 'modules=dep' often won't
On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, Jeff Peng wrote:
Hello gurus,
Is there a tool for maintaining the timeout for iptables rules?
for example, one IP would be blocked by my iptables for 24 hours, and another
IP should be blocked for one week.
Off the top of my head I can't think exactly how to do it but
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote:
Yeah I'm seeing this too! Identical in fact. This is what I did to
fix this: I added this to my /etc/mail/access file for my local
server that sends this messag
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote:
Yeah I'm seeing this too! Identical in fact. This is what I did to
fix this: I added this to my /etc/mail/access file for my local
server that sends this messages to me:
SRV_Features:127.0.0.1
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Mark Fletcher wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 23:21, Tim Woodall wrote:
The thing I'm seeing is in the body of the email - I had no idea
this was illegal - and I'm surprised that tools like cron don't do
something to avoid sending "illegal" email
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote:
Yeah I'm seeing this too! Identical in fact. This is what I did to
fix this: I added this to my /etc/mail/access file for my local
server that sends this messages to me:
SRV_Features:127.0.0.1 L U G
Specifically, I added the U and G features, (I
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 23:08:01 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
According to this
https://support.trustwave.com/kb/KnowledgebaseArticle10016.aspx
bare CRs aren't allowed in emails but this has always worked.
I'm only likely to have cron generat
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote:
After an update today, sendmail is refusing to accept mail. I'm
seeing this in the logs:
Hmmm, this update seems to have done a lot of odd things.
root@dirac:~# mail root
Cc:
Subject: test cr
this
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote:
After an update today, sendmail is refusing to accept mail. I'm
seeing this in the logs:
Hmmm, this update seems to have done a lot of odd things.
MSP Queue status...
/var/spool/mqueue-client (2 requests)
-Q-ID- --Size--
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote:
Jun 30 11:43:00 bottom sm-mta[18852]: AUTH: available mech=DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
LOGIN PLAIN, allowed mech=EXTERNAL
Update here, it's not apparently an STARTTLS error, it's an AUTH
error. Something in the update last night altered my list of
available
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024, Greg Marks wrote:
I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address,
with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than
password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to
my server from external locations. When I ssh from a
On Tue, 28 May 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
I start a new user namespace as follows:
(The special bashrc is just because there are some things in my default
one that (expectedly) don't work in the lxc user namespace)
I then mount an overlayfs on t
On Tue, 28 May 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
I start a new user namespace as follows:
(The special bashrc is just because there are some things in my default
one that (expectedly) don't work in the lxc user namespace)
I then mount an overlayfs on top of that:
fuse-overlayfs -o lowerdir=
I start a new user namespace as follows:
(The special bashrc is just because there are some things in my default
one that (expectedly) don't work in the lxc user namespace)
lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:689824:65536 -- /bin/bash --rcfile ~/.bashrc.lxc
Inside there I mount a squash fs image that includes
On Mon, 27 May 2024, Curt wrote:
On 2024-05-26, Tim Woodall wrote:
Anyone got any ideas how to disable this?
If you have ~/.alpine.passfile apparently it will keep asking, but maybe
you don't, in which case I'm stumped.
Thanks, no that file doesn't exist. I'm a b
I start alpine with the following alias
alias pine='alpine -p
\{imap202.home.woodall.me.uk/norsh/tls/user=tim\}remote_pinerc'
and after entering my password I get:
Preserve password on DISK for next login? [y]:
I don't want to do this. My googling suggested that I could set
[X] Disabl
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Mike Castle wrote:
Now, I would like to expand that into also setting up various config
files that I currently do manually, for example, the `/etc/apt/*`
configs I need to make the above work. For a single set of files,
manual isn't bad, but as I want to get into setting up
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
Hi,
I use lxc-usernsexec to simulate root (and other users) for a non-root
user.
lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:10:65536
That then chroots into an overlayfs mounted using fuse.
The lowerdir is a mounted squashfs, the upperdir is a regular directory
Hi,
I use lxc-usernsexec to simulate root (and other users) for a non-root
user.
lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:10:65536
That then chroots into an overlayfs mounted using fuse.
The lowerdir is a mounted squashfs, the upperdir is a regular directory.
squashfuse rootimg.sqfs lower
fuse-overlayfs -o
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024, Simon Hollenbach wrote:
Hi,
I have not found a mistake in your considerations about "sane"
component inter-dependency.
However, package dependencies are declared upon a package with a
suitable version, whether this package can be set-up on a bespoke
target system remains to
Is there a wiki or something else that lays out exactly what other
distributions and components each debian (distribution,component) tuple
is allowed to depend on?
This is what I've concluded so far.
I'm assuming transitive dependencies are allowed, e.g.
bookworm-updates-contrib can depend on bo
On Sun, 17 Mar 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Tim's assumption here is that he can write a function which emits a
stream of whitespace-separated words, and use this safely in an unquoted
command substitution.
count $(args)
I'm guessing "count" is a stand-in for something more complex, but $(arg
On Sun, 17 Mar 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 09:25:10AM +, Tim Woodall wrote:
In almost all other cases, the space separated items cannot, even in
theory, contain a rogue space, so suppressing the warning is fine
Famous Last Words™.
As one example, it calls out to
On Sun, 17 Mar 2024, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 09:25:10AM +, Tim Woodall wrote:
Hi,
I've been cleaning up some bash scripts
Good
and, where possible, addressing things reported by shellcheck.
Oh, shellcheck, https://www.shellcheck.net/
I have this one-
Hi,
I've been cleaning up some bash scripts and, where possible, addressing
things reported by shellcheck.
I have this one-liner (which works but shellcheck doesn't like the
quoting)
idxsrc="$( newest_file $( APT_CONFIG=${APT_CONFIG} apt-get indextargets --format
'$(FILENAME)' 'Identifier: Pac
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Paul M Foster wrote:
Folks:
I have a /home/paulf/stow directory with contains subdirectories for each
of the packages whose dotfiles I want to manage, like:
/home/paulf/stow/alacritty
In each subdirectory, I have all the config files for that packages, under
git manageme
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Paul M Foster wrote:
Folks:
I have a /home/paulf/stow directory with contains subdirectories for each
of the packages whose dotfiles I want to manage, like:
/home/paulf/stow/alacritty
In each subdirectory, I have all the config
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Paul M Foster wrote:
Folks:
I have a /home/paulf/stow directory with contains subdirectories for each
of the packages whose dotfiles I want to manage, like:
/home/paulf/stow/alacritty
In each subdirectory, I have all the config files for that packages, under
git managemen
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 09:44:51AM +0100, Hans wrote:
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 06:25:53PM +, Tim Woodall wrote:
Feb 17 17:01:49 xen17 vmunix: [3.802581] ata1.00: disabling queued TRIM
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Feb 17 17:01:49 xen17 vmunix: [3.805074] ata1.00: disabling queued TRIM
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Gremlin wrote:
re running fstrim in a vm.
The Host system takes care of it
I guess you've no idea what iscsi is. Because this makes no sense at
all. systemd or no systemd. The physical disk doesn't have to be
something the host system knows anything about.
Here's a threa
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Gremlin wrote:
Are you using systemd ?
No, I'm not
You should not be running trim in a container/virtual machine
Why not? That's, in my case, basically saying "you should not be running
trim on a drive exported via iscsi" Perhaps I shouldn't be but I'd like
to understan
TLDR; there was a firmware bug in a disk in the raid array resulting in
data corruption. A subsequent kernel workaround resulted in
dramatically reducing the disk performance. (probably just writes but I
didn't confirm)
Initially, under heavy disk load I got errors like:
Preparing to unpack ..
On Sat, 3 Feb 2024, Max Nikulin wrote:
It seems secure boot is disabled in your case, so I am wondering why you do
not boot xen.efi directly.
Because the NVRAM is extremely tempremental. Most updates fail, or
worse, corrupt it to the point it's hard to get anything to boot.
Additionally, the
On Thu, 1 Feb 2024, Marco Moock wrote:
Am 01.02.2024 um 19:20:01 Uhr schrieb Tim Woodall:
$ cat /boot/efi/EFI/XEN/xen.cfg
[global]
default=debian
[debian]
options=console=vga smt=true
kernel=vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/vg--dirac-root ro quiet
ramdisk=initrd.img
menuentry "Xen EFI
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
Hi fellow Debian users!
In my quest to advance the IPv6 preparedness of my home LAN I want to
find a solution to use IP tokens on all my clients. IP tokens (keeping
the host part of the IPv6 address static while getting the subnet part
by SLAAC) seem v
On Thu, 1 Feb 2024, Marco Moock wrote:
Am 02.02.2024 um 01:46:06 Uhr schrieb Dmitry:
2. ==>BAM<== some how that binary knows the system partition.
That information is on the EFI partition, where the GRUB bootloader
binary also resides.
root@ryz:/boot/efi/EFI# cat /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grub.c
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024, Dmitry wrote:
Hi Tim. The community is so kind.
So.
I'm not exactly sure what you're doing.
Understand how GRUB works, to boot myself.
1. Trying to install Debian on the Flash.
2. Use it by the Debootstrap.
3. Now I want to boot using that Flash.
Looks like a caught th
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