Re: new debian-live, /live/cow and /lib/live/mount/overlay

2013-08-20 Thread chals
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Denis Cardon wrote: > Hi everyone, > Hi > > Now on wheezy I am wondering where is gone my /live/cow... I guess I am not > doing things the proper way with the new mechanism, but google didn't helped > me on that one... > live-manual is your friend ;) You can e

Re: How could I change the default user password?

2013-08-20 Thread Dionisio E Alonso (Baco)
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 06:58:28PM -0300, Dionisio E Alonso (Baco) wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to change the default live user password, but I don't > find the cleanest way to do so. I would like to provide via a hashed > provided by mkpasswd, because I don't want to write the password in > p

Re: Bug: config/apt/preferences ignored

2013-08-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 08/20/2013 02:56 PM, Robert Spencer wrote: > I suspect there's some basic system that live-build always sets up and > that's installing cron, logrotate and rsyslog. they are all part of the 'default' package selection that you get when you run debootstrap without any further option. if you wan

Re: Bug: config/apt/preferences ignored

2013-08-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 08/20/2013 09:56 AM, Robert Spencer wrote: > Most of our customers are still on squeeze and there's SLA's in place to > support them. Fair enough. > Okay, but in my defense I wasn't filing a bug. I wanted confirmation > whether I'd found one. > > cron: > Installed: 3.0pl1-124 > Candidate:

Re: Bug: config/apt/preferences ignored

2013-08-20 Thread Robert Spencer
On 20/08/2013 11:59, Ben Armstrong wrote: On 20/08/13 05:25 AM, Robert Spencer wrote: With live-build 3.0.5-1 on squeeze config/apt/preferences is ignored. On squeeze? May I ask why you're still running a release that is nearly EOL? It's highly recommended you upgrade to wheezy as very soon yo

new debian-live, /live/cow and /lib/live/mount/overlay

2013-08-20 Thread Denis Cardon
Hi everyone, I have been a happy debian-live user for a few years and with the last release I was wondering how one is supposed to deal with the new overlay mechanism. I'm using both debian-live for nfsboot of thin clients, and for running routers in ramdisk with flash storage. The case th

Re: Bug: config/apt/preferences ignored

2013-08-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 20/08/13 07:24 AM, Robert Spencer wrote: > On 20/08/2013 11:35, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> On 08/20/2013 10:25 AM, Robert Spencer wrote: >>> With live-build 3.0.5-1 on squeeze config/apt/preferences is ignored. >> >> there are two bugs here, one is apt (which was fixed long time ago), and >> the o

Re: Bug: config/apt/preferences ignored

2013-08-20 Thread Robert Spencer
On 20/08/2013 11:35, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 08/20/2013 10:25 AM, Robert Spencer wrote: With live-build 3.0.5-1 on squeeze config/apt/preferences is ignored. there are two bugs here, one is apt (which was fixed long time ago), and the other one is the incomplete handling of the preferences fi

Re: Bug: config/apt/preferences ignored

2013-08-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 20/08/13 05:25 AM, Robert Spencer wrote: > With live-build 3.0.5-1 on squeeze config/apt/preferences is ignored. On squeeze? May I ask why you're still running a release that is nearly EOL? It's highly recommended you upgrade to wheezy as very soon you'll no longer be supported. For that reason

Re: Bug: config/apt/preferences ignored

2013-08-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 08/20/2013 10:25 AM, Robert Spencer wrote: > With live-build 3.0.5-1 on squeeze config/apt/preferences is ignored. there are two bugs here, one is apt (which was fixed long time ago), and the other one is the incomplete handling of the preferences file in some cases in live-build (fixed some ti

Bug: config/apt/preferences ignored

2013-08-20 Thread Robert Spencer
Hi, Before I submit this to the bug tracking system. Is anyone else able to replicate this? With live-build 3.0.5-1 on squeeze config/apt/preferences is ignored. config/apt/preferences: Package: cron Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 Package: logrotate Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 Package