-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2017-02-09 03:33, Unman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 09:27:38AM +0100, wile.e.coy...@keemail.me wrote: >> >> Hello qubes-team, >> >> I'm actually facing a problem with a guide of yours. I've used the Privacy >> Guide "Tor Onion Repos" entering the following two commands: >> >> sudo sed -i 's/yum.qubes-os.org/yum.qubesos4rrrrz6n4.onion/' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-dom0.repo && cat /etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-dom0.repo >> >> sudo sed -i 's/yum.qubes-os.org/yum.qubesos4rrrrz6n4.onion/' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-templates.repo && cat >> /etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-templates.repo >> >> Now i cant resolve a connection to the update servers anymore, please tell >> me the right commands to reset it. >> >> By the way, I could not enter the other two commands because the following >> variables didnt exists on my new qubes r3.2 installation: >> >> $DebianTemplateVM >> $FedoraTemplateVM >> >> Because I ran into all these problems, I would prefer to just set it back. >> Please tell me how to. >> >> Thanks. =) > > It's important that you know what is happening here. > > sed is, as Bernhard tells you, a stream editor. It runs through a file > making edits. > The -i option allows you to change a file in place. > s/foo/bar will SUBSTITUTE (s) the phrase 'foo' with replacement 'bar' > > So that first command in dom0 went through the file > /etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-dom0.repo and on every line where it found: > yum.qubes-os.org > changed it to: > yum.qubesos4rrrrz6n4.onion > and then saved the changed file. > > Instead of the sed command, the instructions could say: > 1. Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-dom0.repo in your favourite text > editor. > 2. Look for every occurrence of yum.qubes-os.org, and change it to > yum.qubesos4rrrrz6n4.onion. > 3. Save the changed file. > > If you really want to set it back you can either reverse the sed > command, or make the changes manually in a text editor. > That is: > 1. Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-dom0.repo in your favourite text > editor. > 2. Look for every occurrence of yum.qubesos4rrrrz6n4.onion and change it to > yum.qubes-os.org. > 3. Save the changed file. > > Do the same for the other file. > That's reversed the changes you made. > > > The two variables that "dont exist" are just placeholders for the name > of the template that you want to change. > So instead of $DebianTemplateVM type in the name of the Debian template > that you want to affect. > The qvm-run command allows you to run programs on qubes from dom0 - in > this case, using sed allows you to change those files quickly from dom0 > instead of opening the TemplateVM, firing up a text editor and making > the changes in the TemplateVM. > > > What's puzzling is that you find that you can't connect to the update > servers anymore. (I assume that you mean from dom0 because you didnt > make any changes in Templates.) > It occurs to me that it doesn't actually say on the page that you will > need your updateVM to be running behind a Tor gateway for this method to > work. Perhaps you knew this? Perhaps not. You should ensure that you > made this change - if your updateVM is NOT running through Tor then > updates will always file. If it IS then they will fail some of the time > - that seems to be inevitable using Tor. > > If you really do want to revert then you dont need to worry about this. > Just revert the changes you made in the .repo files and things should > work again. >
Thank you, unman, for the characteristically clear and comprehensive answer. That page was just meant to be a quick placeholder for people who know what they're doing. We should be able to take it down or rewrite it soon, once this is implemented: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2623 - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYnRmBAAoJENtN07w5UDAwWdwQALna4cIdUzg6HChKCYIcd0MC jAnvgJ0z4Tty7K4S0DE7YKMHk/HUhM6ZSCq/xAE9WmylJgR02jCvZnViB2Agphql 5mZFyjDL55AccKvi+UmhKtg04R6QpkCv53aKNsjB94VSMvYA7WN33HLKKavtIXuK fW30Zk8D5zx7ojnUsOLSzA6lSGWwOUDzNKShvAx0j6z6avv7cPAsTDdQKZKYyDwV vD8xm3hOlHzc6Uci0qGIJL38S6LDZ9YHqgpH3QsfmIbPvfUnfMRlrH7Khumm0Yww VXdChMRsug+N10MfRPN664J50SCFg83CCXXW+Lyz+86zptFzY+CVO2BWCKF4yKZV nJpsNKXMIZ/wDi1S89BGnDRW+mEWE3/KUCBuniGdbHSQqzUB/tbsABI8rD3ZG2t2 3cubP1Ne1ewFjkKUnBh+ejhgPPm+EvK6dDd22CuEmhitHu8hfYue2WDart36imK9 3rnOtNN1FlhdiRFQbA82yHzV5Rcz6ZUiV0cDZuwjwHx5mNgQTzGZrStx2VQQQkMx uWuermCXosB+LVqe3DNMGnBSNqbfMM7/eC3eNZCxMCGpTWd7fiPUCOHLYS28bz24 ZPuBQtkH1VmXdm0Eh30qMVNvo8aLe3fG6YPhiIxntmBBXCf6vnHRii1mm3gZFFg1 zHgWS/lZGYSdvBsrkzA4 =ca7v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/7cef0edc-ccf3-a7f3-fc5a-b64dda0fb63c%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
