Using wheezy-backports, advice needed
I have discovered, with help form Bernhard Voelker, a user of openSUSE, that the version of findutils that I am using (4.4.2) contains a bug that explains crashes in my use case. He is using (4.5.12) and recommends =(4.5.10) I have attempted to use wheezy-backports using instructions at: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ I have wheezy-backports in my sources.list. I have run apt-get update, but I get root@big:/etc/apt# aptitude -t wheezy-backports install findutils No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 72 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. This is pretty clear indication that wheezy-backports won't help, Or did I make a mistake? What mistake? An alternative source of findutils that fits with Wheezy? Where? How? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140411152349.gb5...@big.lan.gnu
Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed
On Fri 11 Apr 2014 at 09:23:49 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: root@big:/etc/apt# aptitude -t wheezy-backports install findutils No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 72 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. This is pretty clear indication that wheezy-backports won't help, Or did I make a mistake? What mistake? An alternative source of findutils that fits with Wheezy? Where? How? https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/11042014163849.b318d6f94...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed
On Friday 11 April 2014 16:23:49 Paul E Condon wrote: This is pretty clear indication that wheezy-backports won't help, Or did I make a mistake? What mistake? There is no findutils package in Wheezy backports. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=findutilssearchon=namessection=allsuite=wheezy-backports I will let others more knowledgeable than I suggest the best alternative - but things that appear worth exploring are using a Jessie package, or compiling a later version of findutils from source. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201404111642.05689.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed
On 11/04/14 16:23, Paul E Condon wrote: This is pretty clear indication that wheezy-backports won't help, Or did I make a mistake? What mistake? An alternative source of findutils that fits with Wheezy? Where? How? You don't appear to have made a mistake. As Lisi Reisz notes, findutils is not in wheezy-backports. A search on packages.debian.org reveals that a package of findutils 4.5.12 was created for experimental on 2013-09-28, but for whatever reason the maintainer has not acted to put any of the 4.5.x versions (the first 4.5.x version to land in experimental was 4.5.7, created on 2010-04-03) of findutils into unstable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53481140.1020...@zen.co.uk
Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed
On 20140411_1639+0100, Brian wrote: On Fri 11 Apr 2014 at 09:23:49 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: root@big:/etc/apt# aptitude -t wheezy-backports install findutils No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 72 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. This is pretty clear indication that wheezy-backports won't help, Or did I make a mistake? What mistake? An alternative source of findutils that fits with Wheezy? Where? How? https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Thanks for the link. It appears to me that findutils verision is also (4.4.2) in both Jessie *and* Sid. I'd volunteer to help, but very mistake prone. Best regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140411161632.gc5...@big.lan.gnu
Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 04:58:56PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: As Lisi Reisz notes, findutils is not in wheezy-backports. A search on packages.debian.org reveals that a package of findutils 4.5.12 was created for experimental on 2013-09-28, but for whatever reason the maintainer has not acted to put any of the 4.5.x versions (the first 4.5.x version to land in experimental was 4.5.7, created on 2010-04-03) of findutils into unstable. findutils 4.5.x is considered alpha by its developers. As such, the Debian package maintainer understandably only uploads those releases to experimental. The latest upstream release still is 4.4.2, cf. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/ @Paul: Has the bug you encountered already been reported to the BTS? If so, you might want to add some detail to it, e.g. the hint that it is supposedly fixed in 4.5.10. If not, you might want to file a bugreport. HTH, Flo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140411165302.ga...@fernst.no-ip.org
Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed
On 20140411_1853+0200, Florian Ernst wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 04:58:56PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: As Lisi Reisz notes, findutils is not in wheezy-backports. A search on packages.debian.org reveals that a package of findutils 4.5.12 was created for experimental on 2013-09-28, but for whatever reason the maintainer has not acted to put any of the 4.5.x versions (the first 4.5.x version to land in experimental was 4.5.7, created on 2010-04-03) of findutils into unstable. findutils 4.5.x is considered alpha by its developers. As such, the Debian package maintainer understandably only uploads those releases to experimental. The latest upstream release still is 4.4.2, cf. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/ @Paul: Has the bug you encountered already been reported to the BTS? If so, you might want to add some detail to it, e.g. the hint that it is supposedly fixed in 4.5.10. If not, you might want to file a bugreport. HTH, Flo I have been pursuing a multitrack approach on this. Things happened faster on this issue on the non-Debian track. I don't know if its been reported on Debian BTS, but from another track I already know that it is already fixed in (4.5.10) and has been established as present in (4.4.2) (both by an openSUSE user). I will file a bugreport. Thanks, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140411173513.gd5...@big.lan.gnu
Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed
On 20140411_1642+0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 11 April 2014 16:23:49 Paul E Condon wrote: This is pretty clear indication that wheezy-backports won't help, Or did I make a mistake? What mistake? There is no findutils package in Wheezy backports. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=findutilssearchon=namessection=allsuite=wheezy-backports I will let others more knowledgeable than I suggest the best alternative - but things that appear worth exploring are using a Jessie package, or compiling a later version of findutils from source. Lisi I've found that there was a bug report that I did not realize was related to the symptoms I was experiencing. The action taken way back when was to refer the problem to upstream. Now, today, the fix is ready and waiting upstream. The best alternative for me, now, is to let the system work. (Jessie and Sid are also a v 4.4.2) I don't usually succeed the first time I try something new to me like building a Debian package from foreign source code. Thanks, I'm happy. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140411181604.ge5...@big.lan.gnu
