Top posting and 72 characters per line?

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi Daniel. Just some questions/points about email posting etiquette: I have read the article you pointed me to and I would just like to explain why I top post and why sometimes my lines sometimes go over 72 characters. Firstly I work in a college for the blind, I make a distro for the blind and mo

Re: debootstrap doesn't use configured categories/components

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: don't top post, don't full quote, don't write >72 chars a line... and, above all, do not hijack threads. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-syst

RE: debootstrap doesn't use configured categories/components

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony Sales
I did at 20:13 as soon as I realised - but I changed the subject to 'user error'! drbongo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debootstrap doesn't use configured categories/components

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
don't top post, don't full quote, don't write >72 chars a line... ...and if you find the error yourself, and you've bothered the mailinglist before hand about it, it's considered rude to not tell. ---snip--- (timestamps are utc) 19:47:50 -!- vinux (vinux) [~vi...@90.242.135.166] has joined #de

RE: debootstrap doesn't use configured categories/components

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi I have just tried running lh_build and the process keeps stoppiing and giving this error message: I have tried both apt and aptitude and tried changing the repository URL's from uk to us with the same result. I don't know if this is caused by live-helper or the Debian repositories, but not su

Debian Live netboot installations

2009-11-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Ivan Shmakov writes: [...] > The situation is, roughly, that an organization ``donates'' some of > its computers (say, ``diskless stations'') for a certain time (the > forecoming new year's holidays) and for a certain project. The > computers are connected into the organization's netw

Re: securing netboot

2009-11-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tzafrir Cohen writes: >> Do I understand correctly that the netbooting Debian Live is >> currently inherently insecure against both eavesdroppers and >> intruders? > PXE is indeed inherently insecure. Well, it's not that bad when gPXE is considered: >> I see that even if the

Re: debootstrap doesn't use configured categories/components

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
Kai Hendry wrote: Instead I propose a parameter expansion. I'm a little wary of parameter expansions as I rarely seem them in other shells except bash, hence aren't they bashisms? in general, expansions are not bashisms. some of them are posix (like the 'simple' ones: ${foo:-bar} etc.). it's

Re: Bug#519690: live-helper: rename categories to archive-areas

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
Diederik de Haas wrote: Shouldn't those be updated as well to use ARCHIVE_AREAS instead of CATEGORIES? absolutely. it's fixed in git, thanks for reporting it. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet:

Re: securing netboot

2009-11-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:44:38PM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Do I understand correctly that the netbooting Debian Live is > currently inherently insecure against both eavesdroppers and > intruders? PXE is indeed inherently insecure. > > I see that even if the gPXE opti