Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/3/2024 11:25 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 03/05/2024 13:27, Paul Scott wrote: In the mean time, an install seemed to be working but gave an failure error which said it would be in the log and visible on virtual terminal 4, I didn't know how to get to a virtual in the installer.  Various co

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 03/05/2024 13:27, Paul Scott wrote: In the mean time, an install seemed to be working but gave an failure error which said it would be in the log and visible on virtual terminal 4, I didn't know how to get to a virtual in the installer.  Various combinations with F4 didn't seem to work. It

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-03 Thread David
On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 06:27, Paul Scott wrote: > On 5/1/2024 10:44 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > > Paul Scott (12024-05-01): >>>I have many installs over many years (only a few per year).. [...] >>> I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions, [...] > In the mean time, an install seemed to b

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-05-03 Thread David Christensen
On 5/3/24 04:26, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 10:04:01PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: For off-site long-term offline archiving, no, I am not using RAID. Now, as I had to think a bit about ONLINE integrity, I found this comparison: https://github.com/t13a/dm-integrity-benchmarks

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread David Christensen
On 5/3/24 04:34, jeremy ardley wrote: On 3/5/24 19:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: I would suggest that if you need to use a debugger to track down a bug in your program, you should use filenames that don't require quoting when you set up your tests. 1970's style static test cases are not relevant h

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread David Christensen
On 5/3/24 04:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:18:03PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I am unable to find $'string' in the dash(1) man page (?). As I typically write "#!/bin/sh" shell scripts, writing such to deal with file names containing non-printing characters is going to

Re: RE: Problems installing QEMU packages on Debian 12 (stable)

2024-05-03 Thread Lukas Nagy
Hi, thanks for checking, in the end I solved this by switching mirrors from default http://deb.debian.org/debian to http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian - after updating I got the correct version of QEMU package. Maybe something was cached somewhere for several days, strange that I had to change

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 03/05/2024 11:31, jeremy ardley wrote: My use case is very simple. Give an argument to a program that expects a single filename/path. Role of realpath in your workflow is not clear for me yet. If you need to copy its result to clipboard then you may use xsel, xclip, etc. realpath --zero

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-05-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 3 May 2024 13:26 +0200, from schae...@alphanet.ch (Marc SCHAEFER): > https://github.com/t13a/dm-integrity-benchmarks > > Contenders are btrfs, zfs, and notably ext4+dm-integrity+dm-raid ZFS' selling point is not performance, _especially_ on rotational drives. In fact, it's fairly widely accept

Re: time_t transitions in testing

2024-05-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 03 May 2024 12:11:22 +0100 "mick.crane" wrote: Hello mick.crane, >Eeeek "725 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see >them" Quite a few here, too. Although not as many as you had; 46 packages removed 46 packages installed (t64 versions of the packages removed) 309

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Fri, 03 May 2024), jeremy ardley thus quoth: > > On 3/5/24 19:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I would suggest that if you need to use a debugger to track down a bug > > in your program, you should use filenames that don't require quoting > > when you set up your tests. > > 1970's s

Re: time_t transitions in testing

2024-05-03 Thread songbird
mick.crane wrote: ... > Eeeek "725 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see > them" that was about where i was at as i'd been holding firefox from unstable due to it wanting to remove a lot of Mate packages without replacing them. however last night, like you, i first upd

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread jeremy ardley
On 3/5/24 19:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: I would suggest that if you need to use a debugger to track down a bug in your program, you should use filenames that don't require quoting when you set up your tests. 1970's style static test cases are not relevant here. In the real world...  I download

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-05-03 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 10:04:01PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > For off-site long-term offline archiving, no, I am not using RAID. Now, as I had to think a bit about ONLINE integrity, I found this comparison: https://github.com/t13a/dm-integrity-benchmarks Contenders are btrfs, zfs, and notably

Re: time_t transitions in testing

2024-05-03 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-05-03 06:11, songbird wrote: songbird wrote: ... the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted. i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are many Mate packages that would be removed. i decided

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:18:03PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I am unable to find $'string' in the dash(1) man page (?). As I typically > write "#!/bin/sh" shell scripts, writing such to deal with file names > containing non-printing characters is going to baffle me. Currently, $' quoting

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 12:31:13PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > My use case is very simple. Give an argument to a program that expects a > single filename/path. Then you need to use "$1" with quotes when you reference it. Simple! > If you give it an unquoted and unescaped filename it will break

Re: time_t transitions in testing

2024-05-03 Thread Erwan David
Le 03/05/2024 à 07:11, songbird a écrit : songbird wrote: ... the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted. i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are many Mate packages that would be removed. i