Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-01-16 Thread David Wright
On Mon 14 Jan 2019 at 19:06:29 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/14/2019 02:18 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 14 Jan 2019 at 10:20:51 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 01/14/2019 09:22 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > Assuming there are entries

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 January 2019 20:22:45 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:07:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2019 17:15:48 Andy Smith wrote: > > > For bonus points investigate ways to back up the config files of > > > your whole computer. > > > > I

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:07:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2019 17:15:48 Andy Smith wrote: > > For bonus points investigate ways to back up the config files of > > your whole computer. > > I hate to spoil your attempt at levity, but amanda is doing that every

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 January 2019 17:15:48 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > I second the suggestion to learn version control, specifically git, > and then force yourself to use it when editing your work. The > discipline will pay dividends. > > That solves the problem of making accidental/incorrect chang

Debian stretch crashes on Lenovo T410s *often*

2019-01-16 Thread Alexander Biersack
Hi, I wanted to report a bug with reportbug, but because I cannot say which package reportbug has advised me to contact debian-user@lists.debian.org first. The problem is the system crashes sporadically, sometimes after 30 minutes, sometimes after an hour, unpredictably. I have now had probably 20

Re: customise internationalization

2019-01-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:38:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: > Hi! > > I have Swedish language settings. I would like to partly change those. I > want Swedish keyboard settings and all the date formats, currency, thousands > separators, decimals and so on to conform to Swedish convention. But

Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo

2019-01-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 1/16/19 5:04 AM, plataleas plataleas wrote: Indeed the mirror was not updated correctly. Sorry for that. PLEASE stop spamming me and the entire list, who you have CC'd to everyone personally. Jerk

customise internationalization

2019-01-16 Thread Andreas Berglund
Hi! I have Swedish language settings. I would like to partly change those. I want Swedish keyboard settings and all the date formats, currency, thousands separators, decimals and so on to conform to Swedish convention. But in programs I want all menus, messages, error messages etc in English.

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, I second the suggestion to learn version control, specifically git, and then force yourself to use it when editing your work. The discipline will pay dividends. That solves the problem of making accidental/incorrect changes. Don't forget to back up the git repository though, to protect aga

Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo

2019-01-16 Thread plataleas plataleas
Indeed the mirror was not updated correctly. Sorry for that. Thanks and regards Martin On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 9:56 AM Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > > > With rmadison we can see that 4.9.144 is available on the mirrors, but > not > > yet „active“ in the stable > > distribution: > > > > $ rmadis

Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo

2019-01-16 Thread plataleas plataleas
Hi Nik With rmadison we can see that 4.9.144 is available on the mirrors, but not yet „active“ in the stable distribution: $ rmadison linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 | 4.9.130-2 | stable | amd64 linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 | 4.9.144-1 | proposed-updates | amd64

Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo

2019-01-16 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > With rmadison we can see that 4.9.144 is available on the mirrors, but not > yet „active“ in the stable > distribution: > > $ rmadison linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 > linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 | 4.9.130-2 | stable | amd64 > linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 | 4.9.144-1 | proposed-upda

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 January 2019 15:56:58 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2019 14:17:04 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2019 11:59:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > Option 6: you like using geany, right? > > > https:/

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2019 14:17:04 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2019 11:59:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > > Option 6: you like using geany, right? > > https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#id232 > > I don't h

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
be? > > Option 1: totally manual. If there's only one or a few files, > this works well. > > $ cp foobar.txt foobar.txt.20190116; edit foobar.txt But is a load of typu inducing typing, needs to be a script, one simple name, saveit maybe > > Option 2: version control s

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
be? > > Option 1: totally manual. If there's only one or a few files, > this works well. > > $ cp foobar.txt foobar.txt.20190116; edit foobar.txt > > > Option 2: version control system. > > Setup: > git init > git add foobar.txt > >

Re: Need help making new boot vol

2019-01-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/01/2019 à 01:59, Andy Smith a écrit : On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 04:56:31PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have copied my boot, root and home partitions to a larger device but I think I need to run grub to actually make the disk boot. # dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc will normally take care of th

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Dan Ritter
$ cp foobar.txt foobar.txt.20190116; edit foobar.txt Option 2: version control system. Setup: git init git add foobar.txt Working: edit foobar.txt git commit foobar.txt -m "drew a new line" Review: git status foobar.txt git log foobar.txt Option 3:

Re: backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 January 2019 11:59:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > 2 instant questions about backintime, which I just now installed to > make small backups as I work on some machine config files, and some > gcode to go with linuxcnc. > > This after haveing suffered the of having xmlind

backintime

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; 2 instant questions about backintime, which I just now installed to make small backups as I work on some machine config files, and some gcode to go with linuxcnc. This after haveing suffered the of having xmlindent nissfire and left me with an empty xml file of over 250 loc I've

Re: How to set up ethernet and pppoe

2019-01-16 Thread David Wright
On Wed 16 Jan 2019 at 14:06:40 (+), jpff wrote: > My firewall computer is showing problems, including a failed update > from wheezy to jessie, and I reported disk read error (according to > smartd) so I am trying to build a new machine. I have installed > stretch on the new system but I have g

Re: How to set up ethernet and pppoe

2019-01-16 Thread Dan Ritter
jpff wrote: > My firewall computer is showing problems, including a failed update from > wheezy to jessie, and I reported disk read error (according to smartd) so I > am trying to build a new machine. I have installed stretch on the new > system but I have got problems beyond my knowledge. > > T

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/16/2019 09:46 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I have yet to encounter a "dfsg" repack that changes the functionality of the package, though. So, in that regard your statement is correct. Good. Makes life simpler. Thanks.

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:51:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/16/2019 07:58 AM, songbird wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. > > > Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . > > > The current upstrea

Re: How to set up ethernet and pppoe

2019-01-16 Thread john doe
On 1/16/2019 3:06 PM, jpff wrote: > My firewall computer is showing problems, including a failed update from > wheezy to jessie, and I reported disk read error (according to smartd) > so I am trying to build a new machine.  I have installed stretch on the > new system but I have got problems beyond

How to set up ethernet and pppoe

2019-01-16 Thread jpff
My firewall computer is showing problems, including a failed update from wheezy to jessie, and I reported disk read error (according to smartd) so I am trying to build a new machine. I have installed stretch on the new system but I have got problems beyond my knowledge. The install gave me a

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/16/2019 07:58 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+b1" is telling me. Where is that n

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. > Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . > The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . > > I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+b1" is telling me. > Where is that numbering scheme described? > > M

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/16/19, Curt wrote: > On 2019-01-16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> >> I don't know what "dfsg" is but "b" means BinNMU - Binary Non-Maintainer >> Upload. This usually means that the package is recompiled because of >> changed version of dependency(es). > > “+dfsg.N” and “+ds.N“ are a conventio

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/16/2019 06:37 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-01-16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 1/16/19 1:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . I don't un

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 1/16/19 1:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. >> Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . >> The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . >> >> I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 1/16/19 1:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. > Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . > The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . > > I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+b1" is telling me. > Where is that numbering sch

Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+b1" is telling me. Where is that numbering scheme described? My goal is to understand (from upstre

Re: Need help making new boot vol

2019-01-16 Thread Keith Bainbridge
I wonder if you need to review the partition UUIDs in /etc/fstab? Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 On 16/1/19 9:56 am, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have copied my boot, root and home partitions to a larger device but I think I need to run grub to actually make th

Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo

2019-01-16 Thread plataleas plataleas
Hello The issue was, that our local mirror was not updated correctly. Now it looks good: $xzgrep linux-image debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | grep Filename Filename: pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64_4.9.130-2_amd64.deb Filename: pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-4.9.0-8