Re: Apt configuration - As Stable As Possible

2024-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-04-07 04:48 +0300, Cyprus Socialite wrote: > I am trying to configure Apt to follow a "stable where we can, unstable > where we must" logic. > > On the "Stable+Backports - Testing - Unstable - Experimental" stencil, I > would like to > > - install left-to-right (the stablest version availa

Apt configuration - As Stable As Possible

2024-04-06 Thread Cyprus Socialite
Hi all, I am trying to configure Apt to follow a "stable where we can, unstable where we must" logic. On the "Stable+Backports - Testing - Unstable - Experimental" stencil, I would like to - install left-to-right (the stablest version available), - upgrade right-to-left (the stablest newer ver

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread gene heskett
On 4/6/24 16:30, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2024 11:05:52 am Curt wrote: On 2024-04-05, John Hasler wrote: Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux on their rockets and spac

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 06 April 2024 11:05:52 am Curt wrote: > On 2024-04-05, John Hasler wrote: > > Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses > > Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux > > on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 mill

Am I missing a trick somewhere? lxc-usernsexec and squashfs

2024-04-06 Thread Tim Woodall
Hi, I use lxc-usernsexec to simulate root (and other users) for a non-root user. lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:10:65536 That then chroots into an overlayfs mounted using fuse. The lowerdir is a mounted squashfs, the upperdir is a regular directory. squashfuse rootimg.sqfs lower fuse-overlayfs -o

Re: Dependencies between components.

2024-04-06 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024, Simon Hollenbach wrote: Hi, I have not found a mistake in your considerations about "sane" component inter-dependency. However, package dependencies are declared upon a package with a suitable version, whether this package can be set-up on a bespoke target system remains to

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-06, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/6/24 11:07, Curt wrote: >> On 2024-04-05, John Hasler wrote: >>> Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses >>> Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux >>> on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90%

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread gene heskett
On 4/6/24 11:07, Curt wrote: On 2024-04-05, John Hasler wrote: Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web servers run Linux, inclu

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-05, John Hasler wrote: > Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses > Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux > on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web > servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and Ebay.

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-06 Thread gene heskett
On 4/6/24 09:15, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: But what if next time the back-doored software _does_ build without error? The initial build problems did not cause suspicion. It was the CPU load of sshd and an obscure complaint by valgrind which caused the discovery. ht

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > But what if next time the back-doored software _does_ build without error? The initial build problems did not cause suspicion. It was the CPU load of sshd and an obscure complaint by valgrind which caused the discovery. https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-abo

Re: Old control sums for packages.

2024-04-06 Thread Kamil Jońca
Simon Hollenbach writes: > Hello KJ, > > there is the snapshot archive at https://snapshot.debian.org/ - You > can get older Packages files from there. Thanks. I was not aware of this service. KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html

Re: Dependencies between components.

2024-04-06 Thread Simon Hollenbach
Hi, I have not found a mistake in your considerations about "sane" component inter-dependency. However, package dependencies are declared upon a package with a suitable version, whether this package can be set-up on a bespoke target system remains to be determined by APT when the package is insta

Re: Old control sums for packages.

2024-04-06 Thread Simon Hollenbach
Hello KJ, there is the snapshot archive at https://snapshot.debian.org/ - You can get older Packages files from there. I don't know if you mean the links like `Packages.gz -> by-hash/SHA256/c039245acc063d9b42cade368a874bf5e0ee3025a7bb2634f3f3bc601f15bb89` or the actual contents of Packages: These