Re: APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

2021-09-04 Thread Daniel M.
t. And that is still 88. Okay, thank you for explaining, I learned something today :) Am Sa., 4. Sept. 2021 um 15:02 Uhr schrieb Anssi Saari : > > "Daniel M." writes: > > > The debian package tracker (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox) > > states that version 9

Re: Re: APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

2021-09-04 Thread Daniel M.
To my understanding, unstable has 91.0.1-1 and experimental has 91.0.1-2 as seen in https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox.

APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

2021-09-03 Thread Daniel M.
Hi everyone, I'm running debian testing ("bookworm" at the moment) and have firefox 88 installed from unstable. My sources.list contains testing and unstable main, contrib and non-free lines and I have pinning set up to 900 testing, 500 unstable. Default-Release is set to "testing". The debian pa

Re: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

2013-07-11 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
Huh. I wonder how it got that way in the first place, then. Thanks, that fixed it. Daniel On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:44:24PM -0400, Daniel M. Drucker wrote: > > When I run apt-get update, I get: > > > > W: Fai

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

2013-07-11 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
/debian/ squeeze-updates main deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main I have tried running apt-get clean and autoremove; no change. -- Daniel M. Drucker, Ph.D. d...@3e.org

Re: rekall doesn't work properly on debian

2004-09-14 Thread Daniel M.
At risk of being shot at at sunrise, I had rekall working without any problems in Gentoo a few days back. Does the following help you at all? I don't think it is going to help - all the required dependencies are seemed to be fully met, but nontheless the problem still exists. Maybe gdb backtrace

Re: rekall doesn't work properly on debian

2004-09-13 Thread Daniel M.
A month ago, I found a .deb for Rekall, version 2.2.0-beta4-2. I can't seem to find the package again, but the maintainer listed through apt-cache show is: Maintainer: Edgar Jasper < develop at edgar dot org dot uk > I can't say much about the program because I haven't used it extensively. Hopefu

rekall doesn't work properly on debian

2004-09-12 Thread Daniel M.
Hello everybody, I successfully compiled and instaled rekall 2.2.1 on Debian unstable (rekall is a database front-end, similar to Microsoft's Access, see http://www.rekallrevealed.org/), but the program is virtually unusable, since it crashes with a segfault every couple of minutes when you try to

Wrong interpretation og '\$' by bash?

2004-08-21 Thread Daniel M .
Hello everybody, I have the following lines in ~/.bash_prompt (for all users): -- # set prompt and window title (if running in X terminal) case $TERM in xterm*) PS1="\[\033]0;\$\w/\007\]\$\w/: " ;;

Re: 'umask' and mounting of vfat filesystem.

2004-08-17 Thread Daniel M .
>I didn't see it yesterday, but it seems that is is always the write bit >that does not get set properly. The umask values that work are only >those that do /not/ allow writing to all files. > >Is it possible that the files have been marked "read-only" in Windows >and that mount respects that sett

Re: 'umask' and mounting of vfat filesystem.

2004-08-16 Thread Daniel M .
>VFAT doesn't support unix-style file permissions. What you're seeing >is a unix-style system trying to do the best it can on a crappy >filesystem. It won't get any better than what you've got. I know all that, but *why* permissions on some files cannot be set properly - that is my initial quest

'umask' and mounting of vfat filesystem.

2004-08-16 Thread Daniel M .
Hello everybody, According to the man page for 'mount', 'umask=value' is used as follows: "umask=value Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that are not present). The default is the umask of the current process. The value is given in oc

Have I broken apt/dpkg ?

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel M. Griswold
Hi all, I am getting the strangest behavior from apt-get install. It yields the following message: dpkg: /build/buildd/dpkg-1.8.3.1/main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. One of those times I was also given instructions to try dpkg --configure -a but it yie