Re: [DNG] [RFC] User services

2019-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 11:26:12AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi. > > Now that the proof of concept is out, I am thinking about extending it a > little bit. You use the spellings user-services, userservices, and userservice. Is there actually a difference in meaning between these? Or

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 09:15:12AM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > On 2019-04-22 01:18, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > > If I was to lose faith in Devuan, which I'm now invested in, then I > > would consider the following, especially ahead of Debian (unless I > > wished to return with systemd). >

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 05:21:48AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 01:51:39AM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > > > > Following common understanding with other caretakers and parallel to > > the work on the conference documentation, I have started this website, > > soon to be

[DNG] devuan.pro works now.

2019-04-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 09:35:35PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 01:51:39AM +0200, Jaromil wrote: ... > > > > Following common understanding with other caretakers and parallel to > > the work on the conference documentation, I have started t

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 06:09:46PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:24:39AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:41:53AM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > > > Do we want to emphasise purely "sans-systemd", or do we want to pro

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:41:53AM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Friday 12 April 2019 at 00:53:40, Steve Litt wrote: > > > I suggest we pass the following resolution: > > > > === > > At Devuan we prioritize benefits to individual users over

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 01:51:39AM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > > Fine. I accept your apologies Dan, but still believe this is not > enough, now we have lost a major contributor and are in need of > finding both sustainability and reliable agency. I am fully committed > to the continued success of

[DNG] frustration with browsers.

2019-04-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 08:06:14AM +, chillfan--- via Dng wrote: > > There are many of us frustrated with web browsers and the web in general, Is there anything that can be done about this? Browsers seem to be an all-or-nothing kind of nonmodularity. Yet they should have components that

Re: [DNG] The 1st Devuan conference kicks off tomorrow afternoon!

2019-04-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 02:42:19PM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > > dear readers, > > Here is the final program of the upcoming Devuan conference, starting > tomorrow afternoon (Friday 5 April 2019) at 16:00 CET and continuing > through all the weekend. > > The location of the event is marked as

Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 08:37:43PM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > Apologies for the tardy response but I'm on my way to AMS atm and don't own > a mobile device to keep current. Sadly, I won't be meeting any of you in AMS next weekend. I'm rooted to Montreal for medical reasons. -- hendrik

Re: [DNG] *** DEVUAN.ORG HAS BEEN PWNED *** , message

2019-03-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 12:55:34PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sun March 31 2019 12:36:44 Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > You are over-reacting on April Fools joke. > > Whether or not a joke, all admins MUST assume the worst and > rebuild from trusted sources. Even if the jokers had not > intended a

Re: [DNG] *** DEVUAN.ORG HAS BEEN PWNED *** , message -- UPDATE

2019-03-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 01:35:30AM +0200, KatolaZ wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:21:58AM +0200, KatolaZ wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > Just to let you know that Devuan's caretakers got anonymous emails > > from a group who identified themselves as "Green Hat Hackers". They > > insisted on the

[DNG] problems upgrading from ascii to beowulf

2019-03-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
I've done the upgrade, and I'm posting this here so as to have the problems on the record. Over the ast month I haven't been able to post any of this properly (I've been seriously ill) and I'm afraid it will slip further if I wait until I can produce a full and perfect report. (1) backspace

[DNG] USB mounting

2019-03-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 09:15:52AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:10:12 -0400, Steve wrote in message > <20190315011012.14cfc...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > > ...whenever you stick anything into that box in front of you. > > ..now, some of us also play with boxes far away over

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:45:08AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:43:44AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > By the way, how did you detect insertion? Were you using dmesg > > --follow ? > > > > Much easier than that: since I am normally the only person who

Re: [DNG] Desktop integration [was logging uses of machine-id]

2019-03-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:30:41AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > >     Let me also agree with both of you. When I rant against Dbus, gvfs and > watever entanglement, it's not to express the will that Devuan tries to > eradicate them. It's just to tell that *I* aim to eradicate them from *my > own

Re: [DNG] probem with mutt after upgrade to beowulf

2019-03-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 07:57:20PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:14:25PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:30:16PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I have just upgraded to beowulf from ascii. > > > > > > Sudden

Re: [DNG] Desktop integration

2019-03-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 05:10:06AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:54:34PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 04:54:02PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:40:02AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > >

[DNG] Desktop integration

2019-03-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:54:34PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 04:54:02PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:40:02AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > > Then, you won't have any > > > "desktop integration" which seem

Re: [DNG] probem with mutt after upgrade to beowulf

2019-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:14:25PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:30:16PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I have just upgraded to beowulf from ascii. > > > > Suddently mutt will not accept a backspace to scroll upwards one line > > while reading a t

[DNG] LXQT issues after upgrade to beowulf

2019-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
After upgrading to beowulf, there are several changes in LXQt: The background desktop image has disappeared. Instead, I have a solid black background. The clock has disappeared from the activity bar at the bottom. These may be intended changes that just need reconfiguring, but are

[DNG] probem with mutt after upgrade to beowulf

2019-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have just upgraded to beowulf from ascii. Suddently mutt will not accept a backspace to scroll upwards one line while reading a text email. However, on the help page, mut still maintains that backspace means to scroll upwards one line. -- hendrik

Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id

2019-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:40:02AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > Then, you won't have any > "desktop integration" which seems to be a "must" for many users today, > but I can assure that life goes on either way. What *is* that "desktop integration" that those users want? -- hendrik > > We can only

Re: [DNG] tried testing elogind and libelogind0 241.1-1

2019-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:42:49PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:32:18PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > Do I just have to do aptitude install elogind? > > > > Just try: > > # apt-get install libelogind0 > &g

[DNG] tried testing elogind and libelogind0 241.1-1

2019-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 02:10:10PM +, Mark Hindley wrote: > Hello all, > > We have just packaged a new upstream version of elogind (241.1) for Devuan. > The > packages have just hit ceres and beowulf and should be in mirrors within an > hour. > > The Big News in this release is that, thanks

[DNG] Trying out beowulf.

2019-03-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:17:39PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 02:31:06PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:13:01AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > [cut] > > > > > > > > Is beowulf alr

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:34:28AM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > Oh, my . . . how fast and how hard Debian has fallen . . I am all for > shining light into dark, dank places. What a terrific idea to track > down all the offending packages that are "leaking" information and then > publish

Re: [DNG] Request for testing of slim/experimental

2019-03-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 02:31:06PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:13:01AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > Is beowulf already in a state where it is generally useable for an ordinary > > user on a laptop? Except maybe a few

Re: [DNG] Request for testing of slim/experimental

2019-03-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:58:03PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Thursday 07 March 2019 at 13:27:10, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:43:05AM +1100, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone else have bogus 'w'/'last' reports? &

Re: [DNG] Request for testing of slim/experimental

2019-03-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:43:05AM +1100, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > > > KatolaZ wrote on 7/3/19 9:30 am: > > Bug report to bugs.devuan.org, please. This is something we definitely > > need to pin down and fix. Thanks Ralph! > > Yes, though I just discovered it on my system, and whilst I

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 11:15:03PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > hendrik: > > Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > > > > With grub-install I get errors: > > > > april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 11:04:54PM +0100, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 02-03-19 23:02, Alessandro Selli wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > >> Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > >>

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 10:14:57PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Saturday 02 March 2019 at 22:06:51, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > > > Installing for i386-pc platform. > > That seems like a bi

[DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. With grub-install I get errors: april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no

[DNG] visually impaired ise of Devuan.

2019-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:16:08AM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2019 at 00:58:31, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 03:56:33PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > > > I need to set up a machine for someone with Orca for speech output, > > > therefore it needs to

Re: [DNG] [car...@debian.org: [SECURITY] [DSA 4393-1] systemd security update]

2019-02-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:57:25PM +0100, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Il giorno lunedì 18/02/2019 23:44:01 +0100 > Didier Kryn ha scritto: > > > Le 18/02/2019 à 23:38, KatolaZ a écrit : > > > Please upgrade your systemd packages :P > > > >     It's automatic and unattended on Devuan (~: > >

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 01:50:31PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > In general, in a server environment an admin wants to make sure that > an upgrade actually does not stop the running services from doing > their job as planned. Especially if there are customisations and/or > other hacks put in place to

Re: [DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 06:02:52AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 08:32:25AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I just found the following comment on Soylent News: > > > > > > https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1=30051=1=799766#commentwrap > &

[DNG] unatternded upgrades by default in Debian

2019-02-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
I just found the following comment on Soylent News: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1=30051=1=799766#commentwrap > As of Debian 9 (Stretch) both the unattended-upgrades and > apt-listchanges packages are installed by default and upgrades are > enabled with the GNOME desktop.

Re: [DNG] Added desktop-live to the install guides

2019-02-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 10:03:29PM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > On 2019-01-01 21:37, Steve Litt wrote: > > The degree of attentiveness we now > > demand in our workplaces has been a positive trait for only a > > couple centuries, and genetics hasn't caught up. So blame is > >

Re: [DNG] Systemd as tragedy

2019-02-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 08:49:34PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 01/02/19 at 11:19, KatolaZ wrote: > > [about 100 lines cut off] > > >   Jeez, that many?  My wife was right that I got to bed too late > yesterday night!   > > > > Are you willing to help with enabling s6/s6-rc in Devuan?

[DNG] testing beowulf

2019-01-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
Where should I get the installer for the beowulf version that needs to be tested now? I plan to install it on a spare partition of my hard drive and hope the installed dual boot still recognises my existing ascii partition. I will *not* be using a virtual machine. I can test on two systems

Re: [DNG] nvidia driver?

2019-01-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 08:49:25AM -0600, hal wrote: > > > On 1/31/19 8:44 AM, Antony Stone wrote: > > What happens if you try following that info? Do you run into some problem > > when the machine turns out to be running Devuan and not Debian? > > > Yeah, my concern is that adding the

[DNG] suspicious firefox behaviour

2019-01-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have firefox up with a number of tabs. I shut wifi off on my Purism laptop by shutting off power to the radio. I start up a new tab by clicking on '+'. I ask to look at file:///home/hendrik by typing in the url bar. Nothing happens. It's frozen. I try file:/// Nothing happens either. I turn

Re: [DNG] ..alsa+apulse and torbrowser... rpath is /usr/lib/apulse and is too long???

2019-01-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 01:37:17AM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > > I don't see what sound has to do with that. Gotta have that video stream? If you're a video journalist, yes. -- hendrik ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Debian dev takes a break from packaging systemd

2019-01-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:42:15AM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 22/01/19 at 00:08, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: > > https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/21/042251 > > > > “Michael Biebl, long-time maintainer of systemd for Debian (2010 or > > earlier, based on

[DNG] Debian bug-squashing

2019-01-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
It looks as if about a week from now I'll be at a debian bug-squashing party near where I live as a complete distro-level-developer newbie. It seemed reasonable because Debian and Devuan will mostly have the same bugs. I expect to deal with bugs that aren't involved with systemd, since I

Re: [DNG] (forw) [sf-lug] systemd memory corruption...

2019-01-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:05:16AM +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:02:00 -0800 > Rick Moen wrote: > > > [insert ironic comment here.] > > > Surprising details from the original report: > > | CVE-2018-16864 was introduced in April 2013 (systemd v203) and became > |

Re: [DNG] SOLVED: slashes in FAT file names

2019-01-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 10:04:19PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 01:10:04PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Well, it *was* 32G. That takes a while just to read *once*. > > Hint: in almost any rescue operation, the recommended first step is t

Re: [DNG] SOLVED: slashes in FAT file names

2019-01-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 11:26:43AM +0200, Eric Pozharski wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 06:22:34PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > *SKIP* > > I tried magicrescue. But it kept finding many many starts for mp3 > > files, and running a script for each one to see if it was re

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Re: What should an Install Guide accomplish?

2019-01-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 10:34:21AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > On the other hand, I personally think that an installation guide > should be a "layered" document: the main thread being the "usual" > install path with only the necessary details, and links to further > information about specific

Re: [DNG] [OT] Attention deficit and consciousness

2019-01-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:14:07PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 08:02:05 -0500, Hendrik wrote in message > > > > THose interested in looking into the development of consciousness > > further should probably start by reading "The Strange Order of > > Thinkg" by Antonio Damasio.

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Re: What should an Install Guide accomplish?

2019-01-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 19:04:32 -0800 > Rick Moen wrote: > > Yes, but in a "how to do it" document (like documentation on a distro's > install procedure), once you've articulated the steps and substeps and > what could go wrong and how to deal with it, you're done. Any requests > for further info,

Re: [DNG] SOLVED: slashes in FAT file names

2019-01-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:34:16AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > >     Do I understand correctly that WxHexEdit can edit directories in place? It did. On a VFAT file system on an SDHC card. I suspect if it had been a btrfs file system I might have had trouble with the checksum, though. --

[DNG] [OT] Attention deficit and consciousness

2019-01-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
Starting new OT thread: n Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 07:42:51AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:50:27PM +0300, Andres Suarez wrote: > > В Ср, 02/01/2019 в 00:48 -0600, goli...@dyne.org пишет: > > > On 2019-01-01 23:46, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > >

[DNG] [OT] Attention deficit and consciousness

2019-01-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:50:27PM +0300, Andres Suarez wrote: > В Ср, 02/01/2019 в 00:48 -0600, goli...@dyne.org пишет: > > On 2019-01-01 23:46, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > > > On 02/01/2019, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > > > On 2019-01-01 21:37, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > The degree of

[DNG] SOLVED: slashes in FAT file names

2019-01-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a 32GiB microSD card an am reying to read it on my Devuan system. > I munted it with a simpel mount /dev/sdb1 /nedia/hendrik/ > > It reads almost everything fine, except for a few files whose names > contain

Re: [DNG] Bond ATI driver for old video cards.

2018-12-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 08:23:36PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 15:49:03 +0700, Андрей wrote in message > <20181230114858.mugw7...@smtp4p.mail.yandex.net>: > > > Приветствую. > > > > > > В Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:19:14 +0100, ты писал(а): > > > > > I only cared about video

Re: [DNG] Admins can you fix/set the header overrides?

2018-12-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 08:06:52PM +, Simon Hobson wrote: > > What they've down with the list (and I've seen it with other lists > too) is: if the mail matches some criteria, then the originator's > address is replaced with the list address and a reply to header is > added. Thus for those

Re: [DNG] Admins can you fix/set the header overrides?

2018-12-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 08:49:32PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > > > I *hate* the way that the Google Groups mailing lists refuse to > > include the mailing-list headers so you cannot just > > reply-to-list. > > *glyph

Re: [DNG] Admins can you fix/set the header overrides?

2018-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 10:17:41PM +, Simon Hobson wrote: > > Nice thought, but do you really think that the likes of Google give a sh*t > about some little mailing list somewhere, and which should be using Google's > services anyway - how dare they use their own solution ! > The reality

Re: [DNG] 2 months and no response from Eben Moglen - Yes you can rescind your grant.

2018-12-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 03:28:18PM +, vsnsdua...@memeware.net wrote: > > Additionally the CoC regime itself is a license terms violation, being an > additional restrictive term, as explained in the other analysis. (Similar to > the GRSecurity license violation) Actually, no. It has no

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 09:45:47AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hendrik Boom - 23.12.18, 04:15: > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 02:35:35AM +0100, Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer > Córdoba wrote: > > > Hi Hendrik, > > > > > > El Sat, 22 Dec 2018 18:20:22 -0

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 02:35:35AM +0100, Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba wrote: > Hi Hendrik, > > El Sat, 22 Dec 2018 18:20:22 -0500 > Hendrik Boom escribió: > > > > > > Rename them. > > > > > > > > > > 1. 'ls -i' #Gets the ino

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 02:35:35AM +0100, Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba wrote: > Hi Hendrik, > > El Sat, 22 Dec 2018 18:20:22 -0500 > Hendrik Boom escribió: > > > > > > Rename them. > > > > > > > > > > 1. 'ls -i' #Gets the ino

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 02:42:13PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:24:24PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > > > Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > > > > > > > I have

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
Let me thank everyone for their advice; it looks as if I have enough ideas to try out now. I'll do that when I'm fully awake an report back on what worked. -- hendrik On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a 32GiB microSD card an am reying to read it on

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:37:32AM +, Adam Sampson via Dng wrote: > Hendrik Boom writes: > > > -? ? ? ? ?? 07/TRA~1.MP3 > > As others have said, / isn't a valid character in Windows filenames, so > finding a Windows machine probabl

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 10:37:44AM +, marc wrote: > Hello: > > > -? ? ? ? ?? 07/TRA~1.MP3 > > > With the slash, it can't even figure out the permissions, ownership, or > > file size. Preumably some parts of the system interpret the '/' as the > >

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 05:15:55PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi Hendrik, > > Hendrik Boom writes: > > > I have a 32GiB microSD card an am reying to read it on my Devuan system. > > I munted it with a simpel mount /dev/sdb1 /nedia/hendrik/ > > You might want

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:24:24PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > > > I have a 32GiB microSD card an am reying to read it on my Devuan system. > > I munted it with a simpel mount /dev/sdb1 /nedia/hendrik/ > > > > It reads

Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:00:00PM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > On 2018-12-21 21:23, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any ideas here other than begging, borrowing, or > > buying a Windows system

[DNG] slashes in FAT file names

2018-12-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have a 32GiB microSD card an am reying to read it on my Devuan system. I munted it with a simpel mount /dev/sdb1 /nedia/hendrik/ It reads almost everything fine, except for a few files whose names contain '/' characters. I can handle the other horribly weird characters in file names -- emacs

Re: [DNG] Drive-by critique

2018-12-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 04:33:32AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > I forgot the details why, but during the process I resorted to a small > Debian partition. Every piece of hardware was supported perfectly, > including even that machine's USB wifi card. I've found a Linux partition is essential

Re: [DNG] Installing without rebooting

2018-12-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 12:09:29AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 23:33:30 +0100 (CET) > k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > > With all this discussion about installing procedures, why do we need > > to reboot during reboot ? > > > > Couldn't one boot the install media like an initram

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 06:36:30PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Yeah but all the partitioner questions can be asked before the action is > committed. Not that mkfs takes a noticeable amount of time anyway... Can be ... at present I don't think you can start defining partitions in a RAID or

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 04:29:25PM +, g4sra via Dng wrote: > On 18/12/2018 13:19, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:51:53PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:28:43 +0100 > >> KatolaZ wrote: > > > >> Also, H

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:51:53PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:28:43 +0100 > KatolaZ wrote: > Also, Hendrik is right: If the bootable installer > finds information, it should be saved for the secondary installer to > use. It would be enough if the software the bootable

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 01:28:43PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 07:08:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > g4sra via Dng wrote: > > > > > > > > > Media partitioning, formatting > > > > > Co

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 11:10:20AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:36:45 + > > g4sra via Dng wrote: > > > > > Media partitioning, formatting > > > Configure mountpoints > > > Install Bootloader > > > Install

[DNG] allegedly open wifi

2018-12-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
I've started to see a few public wifi sites that actually don't require you to log in with a browser. They let you enter a password as a part of the normal, official protocol for talking to the access point. The rest are a problem with the increasing paranoia of browsers against sites

Re: [DNG] mailing list software

2018-12-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 07:26:52PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 01:17:52PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Looking for free software recommendats for managing a few small mailing > > lists. > > > > Typically these will be for small gro

Re: [DNG] mailing list software

2018-12-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 07:26:52PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 01:17:52PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Looking for free software recommendats for managing a few small mailing > > lists. > > > > Typically these will be for small gro

[DNG] mailing list software

2018-12-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
Looking for free software recommendats for managing a few small mailing lists. Typically these will be for small groups of about five to twenty subscribers, averaging one to five messages a day. Especially desired: simplicity and small footprint software. I'm currently using entries in

Re: [DNG] The Blackbird - An owner controlled, open source firmware system on the POWER ppc64/ppc64le arch - a less expensive mATX TALOS 2

2018-11-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:26:23PM -0500, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > This is a much less expensive mATX variant of the TALOS 2 from the same > people. > > It runs both little and big endian so both ppc64 and ppc64le and > supports POWER-KVM/POWER-IOMMU/IOMMU-GFX for DMA protection and to > attach

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 01:30:53PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > > Compiling a kernel locally to include inline essential hardware drivers > is so simple I _think_ I could teach even a Republican Party voter how > to do it. ;-> > > ITYM 'will probably never support without sysadmin manual work to

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:44:35AM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > On 2018-11-29 00:22, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > My understanding is that Devuan will ask in the fresh installer whether > > the user wants to merge or not, with the default being no merge. This > > is fine with me. > > > > I

Re: [DNG] Participate to the first Devuan Conference in Amsterdam!

2018-11-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 08:37:12AM +0100, Jaromil wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, Linux O'Beardly wrote: > > >I don't want to be "that American," so I'm writing to ask: will this > >conference will be done primarily in English or another language? > > it will be entirely in english. Also

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:45:25PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 02:25:20AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > > Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr): > > > > > Le 28/11/2018 à 08:11, Rick Moen a écrit : > > > >If I were relying on NFS during early boot, I'd file a bug against > > >

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:36:12AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > > (This is why I tend not to waste time hyperventilating about dumb distro > policy decisions: Submit a bug. If it's rejected or never acted on, > just make a local configuration that works around the stupid distro > action, and move

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:11:25PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Instead, it > seems /lib has become a holly directory where only the libc and the dynamic > linker are allowed to live. I do *not* mean this sarcastically; I am confused. Is "holly" a new technical use of an existing English word? Or

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 11:11:41PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): > > > # ldd /sbin/mount.nfs | grep "/usr" > > libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x7f82f53ac000) > > libkrb5.so.3 =>

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:00:40AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr): > > > For what concerns, laptops, I think we are in the era of ssd > > and, unfortunately, there is usually only one disk drive per laptop, > > except of older ones where the cdrom drive can be

Re: [DNG] OT: Mutuality and harmlessness

2018-11-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 05:14:44PM -0800, spiralofhope wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:27:20 +0100 > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > At this point I'm trying to understand your perspective better, since > maybe there are things to learn. I did notice I can articulate myself > a bit better now.

Re: [DNG] Mutuality and harmlessness

2018-11-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 09:27:20AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I can be perfectly honest to some apparent other, without ever choosing > to hurt him, her or cis. (There may be other words or ways to refer to > non binary genders in English. Yes, even gender does not appear to be >

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 06:21:01PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > It would be possible to share the ports tree on a FreeBSD system, since it's > mostly self-contained, so long as it's read-only (it has unshared data in > /var including the package database, so can't be read-write). But this is >

Re: [DNG] My setup, and why I like it

2018-11-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 03:14:10PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > There are a million different ways to set up your computer. Preserving > those choices is why we use Linux instead of windoz and mac. In a > recent thread people have expressed love or disdain for various setups. > > Let

[DNG] merging /tmp

2018-11-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:47:42PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > >     In my last install, I still had /tmp and /var on separate partitions, > but I'm questionning the validity of such a setup. It's useful to have /tmp on a separate partition in case some process running amok fills it and

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 04:12:23AM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 21/11/18 at 20:56, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 05:24:24PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > >> On 21/11/18 at 16:59, KatolaZ wrote: > >>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 07:

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question

2018-11-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 05:24:24PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 21/11/18 at 16:59, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 07:32:22AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > >> Quoting Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net): > >> > >>> I've been following the discussion with interest. > >> For values of

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