Re: Copying file has unexpected side effect

2017-04-12 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Apr 2017 at 06:41:15 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/09/2017 02:40 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: > >>On 04/09/2017 10:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Re-inserting _*CRITICAL_ critical information from 1st post > > I have a laptop with multiple installs

Re: Copying file has unexpected side effect

2017-04-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/09/2017 02:40 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: On 04/09/2017 10:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Re-inserting _*CRITICAL_ critical information from 1st post I have a laptop with multiple installs of Debian Jessie using MATE desktop. There are minor differences of packag

Re: Copying file has unexpected side effect

2017-04-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: >On 04/09/2017 10:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> My solution was to place this files on a separate partition of the hdd. >> It will be mounted at boot. The fstab entry is currently >> UUID=E90C-65B4 /media/common vfat auto,exec,rw,flush,umask=000 0 0 >> >> The probl

Re: Copying file has unexpected side effect

2017-04-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/09/2017 10:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a laptop with multiple installs of Debian Jessie using MATE desktop. There are minor differences of package complements - the purpose being to determine an optimal configuration. There are a relatively small number of files which I would like

Copying file has unexpected side effect

2017-04-09 Thread Richard Owlett
I have a laptop with multiple installs of Debian Jessie using MATE desktop. There are minor differences of package complements - the purpose being to determine an optimal configuration. There are a relatively small number of files which I would like to have the latest version available no matt