Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 05:16:51PM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > On 18/01/2025 23:01, Andy Smith wrote: > The *-updates suite is something different from security upgrades. > > To get bookworm security upgrades the necessary apt line is something like: > > deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-s

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-19 Thread John Crawley
On 18/01/2025 23:01, Andy Smith wrote: After a stable release of Debian is made, future package updates will come from the stable-updates suite (e.g. bookworm-updates in the case of Debian 12). These updates will in most cases contain the same version of the software from stable suite but with a

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread George at Clug
On Sunday, 19-01-2025 at 01:21 Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (12025-01-18): > > One particular consequence of this process of making a stable release is > > that generally no new features will ever come to the packages in it. > > No new *features* is not the point of Debian stable, though,

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 07:12:30PM +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > Thanks Roberto, and others who tried to explain Backporting, I will > need to read this and think about it for a while. > > To make comment, I stay away from FlatPacks (the MS world tried this > kind of technology once, I wonder

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread Nicolas George
Andy Smith (12025-01-18): > One particular consequence of this process of making a stable release is > that generally no new features will ever come to the packages in it. No new *features* is not the point of Debian stable, though, only a side effect. The point is: no changes in behavior. When

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread fxkl47BF
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (12025-01-18): >> Why do you continue to post to this list > > Why do you continue replying? maybe pocket is an ai toy designed to annoy andy smith

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 02:53:23PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (12025-01-18): > > Why do you continue to post to this list > > Why do you continue replying? Sometimes in an attempt to understand Pocket's behaviour. I mean, I'm aware it's easy to just write it off as trolling.

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 12:14:16PM +1100, George at Clug wrote: > On Saturday, 18-01-2025 at 11:47 John Hasler wrote: > > In the case of rsync Debian backported a fix. Therefor it gets the old > > version number with a suffix to indicate that Debian patched it. In the > > case of chromium up

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread Nicolas George
Andy Smith (12025-01-18): > Why do you continue to post to this list Why do you continue replying? Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 03:19:16AM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > Oh I see you would rather stick your fingers in your ears and pretend all is > well. > > I determine what is right for me, you certainly don't Why do you continue to post to this list if you believe that there are Linux

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread George at Clug
Thanks Roberto, and others who tried to explain Backporting, I will need to read this and think about it for a while. To make comment, I stay away from FlatPacks (the MS world tried this kind of technology once, I wonder if they still do)? I prefer stability and hence Debian Stable with its "

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 03:19:16AM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: [...] > Oh I see you would rather stick your fingers in your ears and pretend all is > well. In some cases, that's the right idea, yes. You kind of prove it. > I determine what is right for me, you certainly don't Exactly. T

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread gene heskett
On 1/17/25 20:30, Max Nikulin wrote: On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote: Would I be correct in assuming this is because the version of Chromium (as in its features) are being updated within  Debian 12 Major browsers are an exception. Security fixes are frequent and massive. The upstr

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 18-01-2025 at 12:30 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote: > > Would I be correct in assuming this is because the version of Chromium > > (as in its features) are being updated within Debian 12 > > Major browsers are an exception. Security fixes are freque

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:21:48 +0100 poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > Stefan > > > > All your post end up in the spam directory of my account on mail.com. > I need to leave them there. Oh, come on, Pocket. He was trolling you, apparently successfully. Turnabout is fair play. -- Does anyb

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote: > > Would I be correct in assuming this is because the version of Chromium > > (as in its features) are being updated within Debian 12 > > Major browsers are an exception. Security fixes are frequent

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread pocket
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM > From: "Stefan Monnier" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release? > > > That is why the rolling release method is superior to the old model > > used by oth

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread pocket
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM > From: "Roberto C. Sánchez" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release? > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 02:36:34AM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > > > T

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread David
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 at 01:14, George at Clug wrote: > So this means that a patched version from : [...] > deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main contrib non-free > non-free-firmware [...] > Was copied into debian-security as in: > deb https://security.debian.org/debian-se

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 02:36:34AM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > That is why the rolling release method is superior to the old model used by > others. > s/superior/different/ > > Most rolling release distributions do the same and you get the latest > updates, features and fixes > We

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That is why the rolling release method is superior to the old model > used by others. Yes, and for the same reason non-rolling release distributions of GNU/Linux don't exist. Actually, for that same fundamental reason, there is only one GNU/Linux distribution (the one that "is superior").

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 12:14:16PM +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > I rarely use backports, but when I do, I like the "adjusted and > recompiled for usage on Debian stable" part, much better that grabbing > packages from other distributions and just installing them, hoping > there will not be issu

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread pocket
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM > From: "Max Nikulin" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release? > > On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote: > > Would I be correct in assuming this is because

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote: Would I be correct in assuming this is because the version of Chromium (as in its features) are being updated within Debian 12 Major browsers are an exception. Security fixes are frequent and massive. The upstream teams do not maintain stable version

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 18-01-2025 at 11:47 John Hasler wrote: > In the case of rsync Debian backported a fix. Therefor it gets the old > version number with a suffix to indicate that Debian patched it. In the > case of chromium upstream patched it and released the patched version > with a new version nu

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread John Hasler
In the case of rsync Debian backported a fix. Therefor it gets the old version number with a suffix to indicate that Debian patched it. In the case of chromium upstream patched it and released the patched version with a new version number. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread George at Clug
deb12u1 i386 chromium/stable 131.0.6778.139-1~deb12u1 i386 On Saturday, 18-01-2025 at 10:57 George at Clug wrote: > Hi, > > > Are Debian packages updated within a release? > > > After running: "# apt update" > > # apt list -a linux-image-amd64 > Listing...

Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread George at Clug
Hi, Are Debian packages updated within a release? After running: "# apt update" # apt list -a linux-image-amd64 Listing... Done linux-image-amd64/stable-backports 6.11.10-1~bpo12+1 amd64 linux-image-amd64/stable-updates 6.1.124-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 6.1.106-3] linux-image-am

Re: Succint changelogs for Debian packages

2024-12-01 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 01/12/2024 09:04, jman wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: Usually if the upstream provides a list of changes, it is included in /usr/share/. But there isn't a standard for its name (and much less for its contents), so look for names like NEWS, Changelog, etc. Often it is gzipped. The pat

Re: Succint changelogs for Debian packages

2024-12-01 Thread jman
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: Usually if the upstream provides a list of changes, it is included in /usr/share/. But there isn't a standard for its name (and much less for its contents), so look for names like NEWS, Changelog, etc. Often it is gzipped. The path you probably mean is /usr/share/

Re: Succint changelogs for Debian packages

2024-12-01 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
s. This is documented somewhere in the Debian policy. Is there a workflow or something else I can do to actually get an actual summary of upstream changes, without jumping through loops trying to reach the upstream project itself? Ideally this is something I would like to do when upgrading

Succint changelogs for Debian packages

2024-12-01 Thread jman
ject itself? Ideally this is something I would like to do when upgrading my Debian packages. Thanks!

Creation of Debian packages of Kernel and RTAI(real time application interface)

2023-06-28 Thread Manish Damodare
Hello Debian Community Support Team, I was already installed and compiled Kernel with rtai patches of 4.9.146-rtai_5.2 Can you suggest me proper steps to follow debian packages load in my kernel please let me know. Thank you, Manish D. @india

Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages

2020-06-11 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/11/20 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm interested in the installer  menu titled "Software Selection". > I want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop environment" > and/or "MATE" is checked. Pretty much the same thing that happens when you enter the command "tasksel," I thi

Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages

2020-06-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/11/2020 06:24 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-06-11 at 07:03, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm interested in the installer menu titled "Software Selection". I want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop environment" and/or "MATE" is checked. If you want to know the specific sequ

Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages

2020-06-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 02:21:50PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 11.06.20 13:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm interested in the installer  menu titled "Software Selection". > > I want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop environment" > > and/or "MATE" is checked. > > TIA > > The

Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages

2020-06-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Jun 2020 at 06:03:28 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm interested in the installer menu titled "Software Selection". > I want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop environment" > and/or "MATE" is checked. > TIA Checking "Debian desktop environment" alone gets you the ta

Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages

2020-06-11 Thread Marco Möller
On 11.06.20 13:03, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm interested in the installer  menu titled "Software Selection". I want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop environment" and/or "MATE" is checked. TIA The for me most important observation is, that if deactivating all listed deskto

Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages

2020-06-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-06-11 at 07:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm interested in the installer menu titled "Software Selection". I > want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop > environment" and/or "MATE" is checked. If you want to know the specific sequence of coded actions, you'll have to look

Investigating internals of Debian packages

2020-06-11 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm interested in the installer menu titled "Software Selection". I want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop environment" and/or "MATE" is checked. TIA

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-23 Thread deloptes
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I was just asking, in case there would be some advantage. > For instance, it seems to install build dependencies automatically. I understand. It is bothering to install dependencies, I agree - but it is one time job. I do it when setting up the build environment - it take

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-23 08:31:32 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I was wondering whether apt-build could automate things even more > > than my current solution, but it seems that my current solution can > > do more, at least for the goal of just patching source packages and > > rebuild

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-22 Thread deloptes
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I was wondering whether apt-build could automate things even more > than my current solution, but it seems that my current solution can > do more, at least for the goal of just patching source packages and > rebuilding. I did not miss this in the beginning. I did not unde

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-22 22:18:19 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2020-04-22 08:29:09 +0200, deloptes wrote: > >> OK I understand now. I did not have a problem to add a new section in the > >> changelog with > >> dch -v "4:$BUILDISTRO_NAME" -D "$DISTRO_NAME" -c $debian/changelog \

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-22 Thread deloptes
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2020-04-22 08:29:09 +0200, deloptes wrote: >> OK I understand now. I did not have a problem to add a new section in the >> changelog with >> dch -v "4:$BUILDISTRO_NAME" -D "$DISTRO_NAME" -c $debian/changelog \ >> "Autogenerated by building script" >> >> $BUILDISTRO

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-22 08:29:09 +0200, deloptes wrote: > OK I understand now. I did not have a problem to add a new section in the > changelog with > dch -v "4:$BUILDISTRO_NAME" -D "$DISTRO_NAME" -c $debian/changelog \ > "Autogenerated by building script" > > $BUILDISTRO_NAME is the release number (14.

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-21 Thread deloptes
> > https://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/07/04/how-to-prepare-patches-for-debian-packages/ > mentions the use of dch, and it seems that the debdiff output > will contain the change in the Debian changelog file, but even > if apt-build can handle that (which I doubt), this is not O

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
produce the build > > in any case > > https://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/07/04/how-to-prepare-patches-for-debian-packages/ > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/modify.en.html#fixupstream > https://wiki.debian.org/debian/patches > > I think what you are missing i

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-21 Thread deloptes
-to-prepare-patches-for-debian-packages/ https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/modify.en.html#fixupstream https://wiki.debian.org/debian/patches I think what you are missing is the quilt. when you register the patch in the debian build, the build log should include some lines like applying patc

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-21 18:37:03 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 05:31:38PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2020-04-21 16:44:57 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > apt install apt-build > > > > > > Requires some scripting to run without a human intervention, it's > > > relatively simple. > > > > Can

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 05:31:38PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2020-04-21 16:44:57 +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:23:37PM +0200, Thomas Martin wrote: > > > My goal is simple : I'm applying few modifications on some Debian > > &g

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2020-04-21 16:44:57 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:23:37PM +0200, Thomas Martin wrote: > > My goal is simple : I'm applying few modifications on some Debian > > packages and would like those packages to be rebuilt with my changes > > when a new pa

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-21 Thread Thomas Martin
Hi, Thank you, I will check this out. Thomas Le mar. 21 avr. 2020 à 15:45, Reco a écrit : > > Hi. > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:23:37PM +0200, Thomas Martin wrote: > > My goal is simple : I'm applying few modifications on some Debian > > packages and wo

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:23:37PM +0200, Thomas Martin wrote: > My goal is simple : I'm applying few modifications on some Debian > packages and would like those packages to be rebuilt with my changes > when a new package version is available. apt install apt-build

The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-21 Thread Thomas Martin
Hello, I would like to know what is the simplest way to rebuild Debian packages automatically when a new version of the package is released ? My goal is simple : I'm applying few modifications on some Debian packages and would like those packages to be rebuilt with my changes when a new pa

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 14:29 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 02:26:26PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > Tixy, thanks. I did check the latest Deb 10 version but not the change > log. > > I was fooled by the Debian version number which looks like the BSD number > > which I guess never

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 02:26:26PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > Tixy, thanks. I did check the latest Deb 10 version but not the change log. > I was fooled by the Debian version number which looks like the BSD number > which I guess never changes. https://www.debian.org/security/faq#version

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:13 Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 11:53 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > I started looking in to use of OpenSMPTD for a mail server and have > > installed it from Debian packages. > > > > In the process of reading a blog article

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Reco
tem and I don't see any > provision for systemd. I don't grok systemd very well and usually > rely on others for the proper setup. And that's why the lazy among us use Debian packages - because packages tend to fix such problems. > I have asked for help on the OpenSMTPD

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Mike Oliver
Tom Browder writes: > I started looking in to use of OpenSMPTD for a mail server and have > installed it from Debian packages. > > In the process of reading a blog article by the current developer I > discovered the upstream is now at version 6.6.2p1+ after some serious > se

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Tom Browder (2020-02-12 18:53:09) > I started looking in to use of OpenSMPTD for a mail server and have > installed it from Debian packages. > > In the process of reading a blog article by the current developer I > discovered the upstream is now at version 6.6.2p1+ aft

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On qua, 12 fev 2020, Tom Browder wrote: I started looking in to use of OpenSMPTD for a mail server and have installed it from Debian packages. In the process of reading a blog article by the current developer I discovered the upstream is now at version 6.6.2p1+ after some serious security

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 11:53 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > I started looking in to use of OpenSMPTD for a mail server and have > installed it from Debian packages. > > In the process of reading a blog article by the current developer I > discovered the upstream is now at version 6.6.

Re: Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:53:09AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD > > I would like to install from source but I wonder if that is such a > smart move, especially when we now use systemd and the source is set > up with the traditional GNU automake system and I

Install OpenSMTPD from source or use the Debian packages?

2020-02-12 Thread Tom Browder
I started looking in to use of OpenSMPTD for a mail server and have installed it from Debian packages. In the process of reading a blog article by the current developer I discovered the upstream is now at version 6.6.2p1+ after some serious security issues were discovered by SSL Labs (Qualys

Re: Advantages of downloading Debian packages over tor

2019-03-29 Thread Jonathan Sélea
> Is there any advantage, in terms of privacy, to download Debian > packages  > over the Tor network? > > Are you doing it yourself, and if yes, for what reason(s)? > > Is using the Tor transport better than a standard http proxy (e.g.  > privoxy → tor) ? > > Thanks

Re: Advantages of downloading Debian packages over tor

2019-03-28 Thread ghe
On 3/28/19 9:17 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > No. Because the least Google track is your IP address. It is true that > Tor is meant to obscure your IP address, but "trackers", in your use > of the word, are mostly Javascript code snippets (sometimes invisible > images and things like that) made to

Re: Advantages of downloading Debian packages over tor

2019-03-28 Thread Lee
On 3/28/19, André Rodier wrote: > On 2019-03-28 16:12, John Hasler wrote: >> tomas writes: >>> No. Because the least Google track is your IP address. It is true that >>> Tor is meant to obscure your IP address, but "trackers", in your use >>> of the word, are mostly Javascript code snippets (somet

Re: Advantages of downloading Debian packages over tor

2019-03-28 Thread John Hasler
tomas writes: > No. Because the least Google track is your IP address. It is true that > Tor is meant to obscure your IP address, but "trackers", in your use > of the word, are mostly Javascript code snippets (sometimes invisible > images and things like that) made to convince your browser to betra

Re: Advantages of downloading Debian packages over tor

2019-03-28 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 08:27:08AM -0600, ghe wrote: > On 3/28/19 1:18 AM, André Rodier wrote: > > > Is there any advantage, in terms of privacy, to download Debian packages > > over the Tor network? > > Tor's job is to keep the trackers away by bouncing your pack

Re: Advantages of downloading Debian packages over tor

2019-03-28 Thread ghe
On 3/28/19 1:18 AM, André Rodier wrote: > Is there any advantage, in terms of privacy, to download Debian packages > over the Tor network? Tor's job is to keep the trackers away by bouncing your packets around so Google starts tracking the wrong IP address. But the last hop is in th

Re: Debian packages for Sparc

2017-10-08 Thread Fred
On 10/07/2017 06:48 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Fred wrote: I have a Sun Ultra 5 that needs to continue running Wheezy for a while. I tried to apt-update but binary_sparc is no longer at http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release. What do I need to change the sources list to? Debian

Re: Debian packages for Sparc

2017-10-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Fred wrote: > I have a Sun Ultra 5 that needs to continue running Wheezy for a > while. I tried to apt-update but binary_sparc is no longer at > http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release. What do I > need to change the sources list to? Debian Wheezy LTS is only available for i386

Debian packages for Sparc

2017-10-07 Thread Fred
Hello, I have a Sun Ultra 5 that needs to continue running Wheezy for a while. I tried to apt-update but binary_sparc is no longer at http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release. What do I need to change the sources list to? Best regards, Fred

Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ?

2017-09-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:08:34AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 at 10:25:33 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Not a readymade solution [...] > It does, and Debian Policy says it must. That information ends up in > /usr/share/doc

Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ?

2017-09-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 at 10:25:33 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Not a readymade solution, but perhaps a lead to follow: package copyright > info is supposed to be in a file debian/copyright within the package source > archive[1]. I don't know at the moment whether this info percolates to > the pac

Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ?

2017-09-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 04:05:49PM +0800, Yanhao Mo wrote: [...] > Nothing, I was just curious. :P Not a readymade solution, but perhaps a lead to follow: package copyright info is supposed to be in a file debian/copyright within the package source

Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ?

2017-09-23 Thread Yanhao Mo
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 02:32:36PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Yanhao Mo wrote: > > > but what I really want to know is that is there such a list that display > > all debian packages with their licenses, just like the following link > > abou

Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ?

2017-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Yanhao Mo wrote: > but what I really want to know is that is there such a list that display > all debian packages with their licenses, just like the following link > about rhel[1]. There is no single list of licenses for each Debian package, just the i

Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ?

2017-09-22 Thread Yanhao Mo
Hi, I do known how to find license info about packages those have been installed on my system and how to generate a list about it. but what I really want to know is that is there such a list that display all debian packages with their licenses, just like the following link about rhel[1]. [1

Re: Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/27/2014 10:20 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > Hey guys, > > I would like to evaluate both `eudev` (or any other *udev), plus > `uselessd`, on Debian sid/testing. > > Lets do it?! > > I' m planning to achieve, at least, "CGroups Process" with `uselessd` > (no init scripts). I would strong

Re: Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.10.2014 14:34, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : Andrei's reply has lots of useful stuff in it, I just had two things to add: On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:20:24AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: If things goes well, I think that `uselessd + new udev` might be a good path to follow, mostly becaus

Re: Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
stop doing that, they have to support sysvinit scripts for the forseeable future. Secondly, if you want to discuss creating Debian packages, please use debian-ment...@lists.debian.org and not debian-user@ for that. Thanks, -- Jonathan Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.10.2014 03:20, Martinx - ジェームズ a écrit : Hey guys, I would like to evaluate both `eudev` (or any other *udev), plus `uselessd`, on Debian sid/testing. Lets do it?! I' m planning to achieve, at least, "CGroups Process" with `uselessd` (no init scripts). If things goes well, I thi

Re: Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 oct 14, 00:20:24, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > I would like to evaluate both `eudev` (or any other *udev), plus > `uselessd`, on Debian sid/testing. There's already a Request For Package (RFP) bug[1] against the wnpp[2] pseudo-package, you might want to post your progress there. I'd sug

Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-27 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Hey guys, I would like to evaluate both `eudev` (or any other *udev), plus `uselessd`, on Debian sid/testing. Lets do it?! I' m planning to achieve, at least, "CGroups Process" with `uselessd` (no init scripts). If things goes well, I think that `uselessd + new udev` might be a good path to

libvirt and QEMU Debian packages with support for GlusterFS?

2014-04-30 Thread ML mail
Hi, I am planning to install OpenNebula 4.6 on Debian 7 to be used with GlusterFS storage servers. In the documentation of OpenNebula 4.6 one care read the following: "The hypervisor nodes need to be part of a working GlusterFS cluster and the Libvirt and QEMU packages need to be recent enough

Re: How to updated after install? [Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?]

2013-12-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/12/13 19:27, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Thanks, Scott. See my notes interlineated below… Thanks, I appreciate the feedback/testing. > > > On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > >> On 06/12/13 13:30, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > >>> There was some recent discussion on the me

How to updated after install? [Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?]

2013-12-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Scott. See my notes interlineated below… On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 06/12/13 13:30, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions. >> >> The one that finally got me off the ground is this one… Somehow I >> missed

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-12-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/12/13 13:30, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions. > > The one that finally got me off the ground is this one… Somehow I > missed it in all my googling. :) It didn't exist when you did your Googling. I wrote it *after* reading your post. >

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions. The one that finally got me off the ground is this one… Somehow I missed it in all my googling. https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress By *carefully* following *all* the instructions there, I was able to get a functioning WordPres

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:38 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Hi Rick, >> >> These instructions should work for Debian as well: >> http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/05/09/how-to-wordpress-on-ubuntu-gnu-linux/ >> >> The main thing is to get Apache & PHP configured properly. Once that's >> done, Wordpre

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 19:21, Kailash wrote: > On Sunday 24 November 2013 07:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from >> sudo aptitude install wordpress >> on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress >> website on th

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 24 November 2013 07:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from > sudo aptitude install wordpress > on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress > website on the same machine? > > I've read the READ

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 12:10, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/11/13 10:13, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Rick Thomas wrote: >>> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from >>> sudo aptitude install wordpress >>> on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working >>> wordpress

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 10:13, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: >> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from >> sudo aptitude install wordpress >> on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working >> wordpress website on the same machine? >> >> I've read th

Fwd: Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
--- Begin Message --- Rick Thomas wrote: Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from sudo aptitude install wordpress on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress website on the same machine? I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rick Thomas wrote: Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from sudo aptitude install wordpress on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress website on the same machine? I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ and the s

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
I'd avoid the packages. Wordpress is basically a bunch of php scripts that get dumped inside a directory on your Apache server, plus some setup for your database. You're a lot safer just downloading the zip file and following the instructions. At least, that's how I've always had the best lu

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Sharon! That's good advice if all I want is wordpress. But I'm a sysadmin, and like to understand the details. So, for the time being, I'd prefer to do it from scratch if I can. If I succeed (with help from the list) I promise to write up the step-by-step procedure for the wiki, so t

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