On Wednesday 04 September 2019 12:36:43 Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 12:10:09 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > You can see from Gene's error messages that it's currently trying > > > to run "/usr/bin/tar" -- and that is what you would expect on a > > > usrmerged system. So he just needs to grant that permission (i.e. > > > with a amgtar:gnutar_path=/usr/bin/tar > > > line.) > > > > And that apparently fixes it for amcheck. We'll see what happens > > tonight. > > Sounds good. After my experiments yesterday I saw no complaints this > morning and everything looked fine. > > > Okay, but please explain this "usrmerged" B.S. to this old fart. I'm > > lost at the first corner as to both what it is, and the > > justification for doing whatever it is that they've done. > > I don't understand it either, but then again all I know is what Nathan > pointed out in the release notes: > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-ne >w.en.html#merged-usr > Which contains zero *reasons* for the change.
> This change shouldn't impact normal users that only run packages > provided by Debian, ... > > Yeah, right! Maybe I'm not a "normal user". Whatever that is. Me neither. I build machines to do a specific job, likely as not the software to accomplish that job will be self built and installed and NOT from a distro's repo. So I am the classic unreasonable man definition according to George Bernard Shaw. > > On other question, why can I not "reply to list". Its a pita to > > have to copy/paste the list address into the blank To: line. > > Try "Reply all"? That's what I do. That bombs everybody, which I'd druther not do. I checked, List-Id: is properly defined in the incoming headers. Twice. Is that legal? IDK. Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
