apt usage with local debian mirror
I am not on the list, please keep me in CC. I'm using apt in a way that works for me. I have a local mirror and apt was setup to use /debian/apt- for various apt files (like sources.list, the /var/lib/apt/lists, /var/cache/apt, ...). This allows me to never need to do apt-get update. The question I have is on the list dir (Dir::State::lists). I have created links like this: _debian_dists_sid_Release -> /debian/dists/sid/Release My sources list is: deb file:/debian sid main non-free contrib deb-src file:/debian sid main non-free contrib My question is, is it possible for apt to use another name. For instance, instead of apt using _debian_dists_sid_Release, use _dists_sid_Release or just _sid_Release. I checked the code, but I don't understand c++ well enough to know what it was doing. If my understanding is correct, apt wants to use(create) a name that is uniq. This would mean that names like _dists_sid_Release or _sid_Release would no longer be uniq. In my case, this would work fine as I have a seperate apt directory for each arch and thus would be uniq for me. The point of asking this is to beable to move /debian to another location/mount point and it all just work. Maybe another question would be, can relative paths be used in sources.list. This would fix the problem for me as well. Another thought would be to never use the lists directory since the files are already in the tree. Apt already does this for packages. If anyone is interested in how I have set this up, feel free to ask. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130108005712.ga23...@animx.eu.org
Re: 1GB RAM is missing.
Again, please do not top post. Also, keep list mails on the list. Pawe?? G??ga wrote: > i have a kernel compiled fod 4gb , can this be the reason of these lacks ? The way it works, there are 3 memory models. 1gb, 4gb, and 64gb. This is NOT the amount of memory in your machine. 1gb will give you access to upto 900mb but definately not 1024mb if you have 1gb actually installed. For this, you need 4gb. 4gb will give you access to upto about 3072mb of memory. This would be used if you have more than 1gb of memory but not more than 3gb. 64gb will give you access to all of your memory (I do not know the upper limit on this, but I'm almost certain it's not 64gb). This also enabled PAE extensions. I don't know what motherboards support PAE, my original understanding was that only machines that handle more than 4gb of physical memory supported PAE and kernels compiled for PAE would only run on those machines. I was wrong on that. Most recent boards I've dealt with (pIII class and above) work just fine with PAE extensions even though hold less than 1gb of memory. This also enables 64-bit memory addressing (I think that was the term. See the kconfig for the option). Be sure that your replies also go to the list. > 2007/10/24, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > pgega wrote: > > > > Please do not top post. > > > > > I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does > > > not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub. > > > > > > I completly do not know what to do now. > > > > I'm using i386 debian with a custom kernel. I'm running on xeon dual core > > processors. I did not set mem= on anything, but I do have the kernel > > compiled for 64gb ram. Using 2.6.23 and I notice no slowdowns having 4gb > > of > > ram. > > > > > On Oct 24, 1:20 am, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > Modern 32 bit processors and chipsets map around those limitations. > > > > > > > > > For many years there have been 32-bit server motherboards that > > > > > accept and use (in both Linux and Windows) up to 64GB RAM. > > > > > > > > I have a SuperMicro X7DA3+ board with 4gb of memory installed. Here's > > what > > > > I see: > > > > # uname -a > > > > Linux vegeta 2.6.20-pae #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 4 18:10:06 EDT 2007 > > i686 GNU/Linux > > > > # free > > > > total used free sharedbuffers > > cached > > > > Mem: 4150372 7098243440548 0 143332 > > 247752 > > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 3187403831632 > > > > Swap:0 0 0 > > > > # > > > > > > > > I have not compiled my kernel for 64-bit yet. Given this I may > > not. I > > > > really don't want to change my userland to 64-bit right now. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals > > > > Got Gas??? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > > Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals > > Got Gas??? > > -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1GB RAM is missing.
pgega wrote: Please do not top post. > I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does > not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub. > > I completly do not know what to do now. I'm using i386 debian with a custom kernel. I'm running on xeon dual core processors. I did not set mem= on anything, but I do have the kernel compiled for 64gb ram. Using 2.6.23 and I notice no slowdowns having 4gb of ram. > On Oct 24, 1:20 am, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Modern 32 bit processors and chipsets map around those limitations. > > > > > For many years there have been 32-bit server motherboards that > > > accept and use (in both Linux and Windows) up to 64GB RAM. > > > > I have a SuperMicro X7DA3+ board with 4gb of memory installed. Here's what > > I see: > > # uname -a > > Linux vegeta 2.6.20-pae #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 4 18:10:06 EDT 2007 i686 > > GNU/Linux > > # free > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem: 4150372 7098243440548 0 143332 247752 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 3187403831632 > > Swap:0 0 0 > > # > > > > I have not compiled my kernel for 64-bit yet. Given this I may not. I > > really don't want to change my userland to 64-bit right now. > > > > -- > > Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals > > Got Gas??? > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1GB RAM is missing.
Ron Johnson wrote: > Modern 32 bit processors and chipsets map around those limitations. > > For many years there have been 32-bit server motherboards that > accept and use (in both Linux and Windows) up to 64GB RAM. I have a SuperMicro X7DA3+ board with 4gb of memory installed. Here's what I see: # uname -a Linux vegeta 2.6.20-pae #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 4 18:10:06 EDT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux # free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 4150372 7098243440548 0 143332 247752 -/+ buffers/cache: 3187403831632 Swap:0 0 0 # I have not compiled my kernel for 64-bit yet. Given this I may not. I really don't want to change my userland to 64-bit right now. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to match parenthesis in sed
H.S. wrote: > I think I have asked this before. Does thunar allow me to arrange the > files spatially (drag and drop) and then to rename them sequentially in > that order? I couldn't do this in Linux when I tried this earlier this > year. I think I tried thunar too at that time after a suggestion by > someone here. However, in the end, I could only do it in Windows. You can use find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 to give you a list of filenames in disk order. If you use reiserfs (I know v3) and possibly btree for ext3, you may not get the files in the order you want due to the restructuring it does on the fly. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel
Mumia W.. wrote: > Your Iceweasel/Mozilla profile might also be messed up. Move your > profile to someplace where Iceweasel can't find it, e.g. a trash > directory. Do this before starting iceweasel again. Read here about your > profile folder: Alternatively, you can invoke it as: iceweasel -profilemanager and create a new profile. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel tab question
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Wakko Warner wrote: > >I know one browser I used or maybe even firefox used to. Is it possible to > >configure iceweasel so that when you middle click on a tab it'll open > >another tab with the same contents? > > > You might want to look into TabMixPlus, > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122 Thanks, but I was hoping to do this without plugins/addons. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
iceweasel tab question
I know one browser I used or maybe even firefox used to. Is it possible to configure iceweasel so that when you middle click on a tab it'll open another tab with the same contents? -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers
Orestes Leal wrote: > El Lun, 8 de Octubre de 2007, 5:21 pm, Wakko Warner escribi??: > > Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Thanks. I saw the X800 listed, unfortunately, ATI makes both a PCIe > >> and an > >> > AGP 8x version of the card. Not sure which they used. If you have a > >> clue, > >> > let me know. I'll email them and ask too. > >> > >> Well, I don't have any direct experience with PCIe, but my understanding > >> is that it should make no difference at all. PCIe should work just as > >> well > >> as AGP. If you find anything that indicates otherwise, I would be > >> interested in hearing about it. > > > > I just heard back from them, the X800 was PCIe. > > > > No, THe X800 Has the AGP version, too, look. I was refering to 1 specific card. In this case, someone was doing benchmarks and his X800 was PCIe not AGP. I was already aware that the X800 was available in AGP. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers
Orestes Leal wrote: > El Dom, 7 de Octubre de 2007, 9:49 pm, Wakko Warner escribi??: > > Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> > I was looking at a V5100 or V7100 (both based on the X800 or X850 > >> chip). > >> > But the question remains, is the R4xx chips supported in 3D? > >> > >> Yes r400 is supported: > >> http://spearhead.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/gpus-beryl-what-is-needed/ > > > > Thanks. I saw the X800 listed, unfortunately, ATI makes both a PCIe and > > an > > AGP 8x version of the card. Not sure which they used. If you have a > > clue, > > let me know. I'll email them and ask too. > > > > Yeah, the r400 chips are supported, the fglrx driver > from ati has support for 3d and 2d accel, > for example I have a X800 XL AIW Radeon PCIe > and I have full 3d aceleration (if I can say so :)) My question was, is the chip supported with 3D with open source drivers (ie NOT using fglrx). -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers
Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks. I saw the X800 listed, unfortunately, ATI makes both a PCIe and an > > AGP 8x version of the card. Not sure which they used. If you have a clue, > > let me know. I'll email them and ask too. > > Well, I don't have any direct experience with PCIe, but my understanding > is that it should make no difference at all. PCIe should work just as well > as AGP. If you find anything that indicates otherwise, I would be > interested in hearing about it. I just heard back from them, the X800 was PCIe. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers
Kelly Clowers wrote: > > I was looking at a V5100 or V7100 (both based on the X800 or X850 chip). > > But the question remains, is the R4xx chips supported in 3D? > > Yes r400 is supported: > http://spearhead.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/gpus-beryl-what-is-needed/ Thanks. I saw the X800 listed, unfortunately, ATI makes both a PCIe and an AGP 8x version of the card. Not sure which they used. If you have a clue, let me know. I'll email them and ask too. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers
Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please keep me CC'd, I've not subscribed to the list yet. > > If a card is supported, it shouldn't matter if it is AGP or PCIe, just as > with older cards, it does not matter if they are PCI or AGP. I know that 2D is supported. The question was 3D. For some time, the R300 and newer chips were 2D only and then support for 3D was available. > I have not really heard anything about using FireGL cards, but if they > use the same chips as the consumer cards, I guess they should work. > > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon is probably the best place > to see what is supported. I've been there, but might be out of date (I did notice the last change date). They list R300 and above cards as not well supported for 3D. I don't know if that means that it might or might not work, but the FireGL X1 seems to be fairly well supported for what I've been doing with it (which is based on the Radeon 9700 R300 chip). I was looking at a V5100 or V7100 (both based on the X800 or X850 chip). But the question remains, is the R4xx chips supported in 3D? > AMD recently began releasing specs for ATI cards, and is working > with Open Source devs to create good drivers for all modern ATI > card, but it will be a while before there are results for end users. I read this and was quite pleased to hear it. I appreciate your response and any help you or anyone else reading can give. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers
Please keep me CC'd, I've not subscribed to the list yet. I've been thinking about upgrading one of my computers but I've had difficulties figuring out if any PCIe video cards have open source 3D drivers. My current system is using an ATI FireGL X1 graphics card (R300 I think). I'm looking for a graphics card comparible or faster that is PCIe that open source 3D drivers are available. I came across free3d.org but was unsure if the drivers are already available. I read the X800 radeons were supported. According to some texts I've found, a FireGL V7100 has the X800 chip. Does anyone know if this will work? I'm using SID on this machine. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ifupdown and --exclude ?
I'm not subscribed, keep me in CC. I noticed that the --exclude option was depreciated. I have a need to keep lo up. What is the recommended way of doing this? Something like "pre-down /bin/false" ? I would like to know the opinions from others about not deconfiguring the network interfaces on shutdown. I know that they are not deconfigured if the root is mounted from some type of network filesystem or if there are still network filesystems mounted. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DSA 1073-1
Is package mysql-server-4.1 4.1.15-1 vulnerable? -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
low mem boot disks
slink was the last debian dist with lowmem boot disks, where have they gone? Don't tell me that the programs have gotten so big they won't work on a 2-4mb machine. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals
x11amp/xmms
I just have one problem with xmms. I can't find the skin from x11amp which is what's keeping me from upgrading the one copy I have on my machine (I don't like the default skin and I've yet to find one I like other than the x11amp one). Does anyone happen have it or know anyone who has it? I'd love to get a copy. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals
netscape and libc6 2.1
Is it a known bug that netscape is unstable with glibc 2.1? I'm using potato packages of netscape 4.61 on a slink machine (slight modifications to make it work w/o upgrading to packages from potato) and it hasn't crashed. The crash I'm experiencing is when I hit alt-w to close the window and NS dies (sigbus I assume) -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals
NIS & current unstable
Is there any known problems with NIS and the current unstable (as of
9-30-1999)
I have a diskless machine booting that mounts another for it's root (it's
root is seperate of the server and has the latest unstable as of the above
date).
I have added the +: stuff to passwd/shadow, nsswitch.conf has:
passwd: compat
group: compat
shadow: compat
Here's what happens:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/] chroot /[nfs-server here] /usr/bin/perl -e
'(@a)=getpwnam("[username here]");print "$a[1]\n"'
0ytKPR777ROBY
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/] perl -e '(@a)=getpwnam("wd4d");print "$a[1]\n"'
*
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/]
the nfs server this machine mounts as root has also mounted that server's
root into another directory. This works (just happens that the nfs server
is running hamm. No I'm not upgrading what works ). nsswitch.conf,
passwd, and shadow are the exact same things on the nfs server and this
client's etc dir.
As shown above, it's not an access problem!
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less
Every time I go to less a file that might be a binary (to less), it asks if I want to view it. This has gotten very annoying and I haven't seen how to turn this off. I want to turn it off. And someone reply to me, the past few messages I asked were just ignored. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals
xterm doesn't work like it did
Before I send a bug or a feature request maybe one of you can help me with this problem. The xterm package that's in slink (I'm not sure about the first 3.3.3.1 released in potato) used to let me hold down any one of shift, alt, and/or ctrl and hit the arrow keys (meaning it sent the same codes regardless). Now, ctrl-up sends something like ^[[5A (or was it 2, anyway), I wanted to set the behaviour back like it was. Any one know how I can do this? Or should I send a bug on it. The console works the same way as the slink xterm (in regards to this)
Booting a sparc10
I have a sparc10 that I installed debian 2.1 sparc on. I can't get it to boot off the hard drive. It always complains about no disk label. The kernel on the cdrom is 2.2.1 The bootloader is silo. The disk is a 1.3gb with 2 partitions. First partition is almost the entire disk with type 83. the 2nd partition is about 20mb type 82. ROM is v2.12 32mb ram
Snooping program
I'm looking for a program similar to the linspy that will work under kernel 2.2.x. If you're reading this and don't know what linspy is. It's similar to ttysnoop except that it's not a daemon. Linspy loads into the kernel and attaches to the write or read functions (forgot which). There's a program that reads /dev/ltab (a device you create) and will allow you to attach to tty* and take control. I mainly use this at work when I have to unmount a drive. sometimes I leave a shell in that dir and don't want to kill the xterm.
xserver-s3v package
--quote-- Description: X server for S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX-based graphics cards This package provides an X server suitable for use with video cards based on the S3 ViRGE chipset. In most cases, use of this X server is deprecated in favor of the SVGA X server. --quote-- Is there a reason use of this package is deprecated? What can the svga x server package do that this one can't?
bootpd
Is there a way to keep bootpd from replying to computers when using multiple network boards? I'm going to be setting up 2 diskless machines (floppy boot actually) to get a random IP address. The machine I'll be running bootpd has 2 nics. One of them is the corporate's network, the other is my workroom network. I only want it to listen to the workroom network (eth1). Is there a way I can do this?
midi-to-wav
I know that timidity will take a .mid and write a .wav (or to /dev/dsp or /dev/dac). Is there any program that will do the same (or convert to a .mid) for creative's CMF files? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
ppp PAP question
I have 2 machines (well, 1 machine 1 isp). I'd like to use PAP between them. in pap-secrets I have: wakko lwts... wakko bristol ... "lwts" is my computer at work "bristol" is the name I received from my ISP. Doesn't matter how I invoke pppd, the results are the same. It will always use the first line (I'm using the default pap-secrets file. the only mods were removing the entry at the end and replacing it with the 2 above). The line I used to invoke pppd: pppd connect 'chat "" atdt### CONNECT' user wakko /dev/modem 115200 I see no other way to get pppd to send the correct user name. Obviously, I'm not going to use my machine name and I'm not going to have my machine name as my ISP login name. It seems that it can't get the remote host name or something... I don't fully (or half way) understand PAP. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the boot disk's kernel
I have noticed that the boot disk for debian contains support for fat32 drives, yet 2.0.33 does not have this support. What has been done in the kernel to support fat32? P.S. Sorry if I sent this again, my mailer daemon has been dead for a week =( Please re-reply to this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the boot disk's kernel
I have noticed that the boot disk for debian contains support for fat32 drives, yet 2.0.33 does not have this support. What has been done in the kernel to support fat32? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd question
Philip Hands wrote: > > Does pppd support server assigned nameservers? I know some isp's tell what > > the name servers are, I was wondering if there was a way that pppd would set > > up the new nameserve > > If you are talking about the microsoft protocol tweaks that let you tell > Win95 > clients what the name servers are, then the answer is: > > as a server - yes > and > as a client - I don't think so Here's what I'm asking. I'm trying to setup a system for someone and I wanted to know if there's a way that PPPD will accept server assigned DNS servers (IP addresses). I'm using pppd 2.3.2-2. If this can be done, reply to the address above... If it can't, please don't reply. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
