Re: Problems with big data transfer and partitions? - suggestion!

2025-01-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Hans wrote: Fourth: exfat (needed or big files) does not have a journal like ext3 or ext4, so data may be going corrupt on the harddrive and could not be restored. That's not what a journal is for, and if the copy completes and the disk is unmounted th

Problems with big data transfer and partitions? - suggestion!

2025-01-23 Thread Hans
Hi folks, in the last weks there were several issues with data transfer from ext4 to exfat. Most cases wanted to be done, to transfer seceral terrabyte of date to a MS-Windows system. Thinking of it, IMO this is a bad choice. Olease let me explain: Besides to host tzerrabyte of important data

Re: suggestion of upgrade to 12

2024-06-21 Thread Richard
That's the beauty of Debian. If the dev doesn't backport a fix, the maintainer might. It's not uncommon. On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 22:38 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > One additional data point to consider... there are folks who have > exploits written for vulnerabilities that the community does not know >

Re: suggestion of upgrade to 12

2024-06-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:09:35AM +0800, Jeff Peng wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a small mailserver with debian 11 for many years. It's quite > solid. > Though I have read this article: > https://www.cherryservers.com/blog/debian-12-bookworm-release > do you think there is any need for me to u

Re: suggestion of upgrade to 12

2024-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:08 AM Richard wrote: > > The question with Linux isn't if there's a need to update to the latest > version (of the distro) like on Windows, but rather what's keeping you from > updating? If there's no urgent reason to stick to 11, update. 11 is now > oldstable and wil

Re: suggestion of upgrade to 12

2024-06-20 Thread Jeff Peng
that's nice to know. thanks for all your help. about dovecot: if you have dovecot installed from the dovecot repository, then be aware that dovecot does not (yet) provide a version for bookworm. if you have dovecot installed from the debian repository, then you should be fine. about debian:

Re: suggestion of upgrade to 12

2024-06-20 Thread Richard
The question with Linux isn't if there's a need to update to the latest version (of the distro) like on Windows, but rather what's keeping you from updating? If there's no urgent reason to stick to 11, update. 11 is now oldstable and will become oldoldstable mid next year. Thus, it currently become

Re: suggestion of upgrade to 12

2024-06-20 Thread Michael
On Thursday, June 20, 2024 5:09:35 AM CEST, Jeff Peng wrote: I am running a small mailserver with debian 11 for many years. It's quite solid. Though I have read this article: https://www.cherryservers.com/blog/debian-12-bookworm-release do you think there is any need for me to upgrade from 11 to

Re: suggestion of upgrade to 12

2024-06-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:09:35 +0800, Jeff Peng wrote: > I am running a small mailserver with debian 11 for many years. It's quite > solid. > Though I have read this article: > https://www.cherryservers.com/blog/debian-12-bookworm-release > do you think there is any need for me to upgrade from 11

suggestion of upgrade to 12

2024-06-19 Thread Jeff Peng
Hello, I am running a small mailserver with debian 11 for many years. It's quite solid. Though I have read this article: https://www.cherryservers.com/blog/debian-12-bookworm-release do you think there is any need for me to upgrade from 11 to 12? just for the newer software like postfix, doveco

Installer change suggestion

2023-06-19 Thread Damian
Hi guys, I want to suggest to change behavior of the installer in user password configuration step. In my opinion would be great to leave only one - second checkbox “Show password in Clear”. It will be much easier to tabbing to confirmation field and cleaner without redundant filed BR Damian

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 05:16:56PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Hakan Bayındır wrote: > > > I think AppImages are great (from my perspective) for allowing people to run > whatever they want on their systems, without getting root privileges and > having a sandboxed, hermetically sealed application with batteries included. If they actually did that, it would

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Hakan Bayındır
On 1.12.2022 12:16, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or explicitly acquiring privilege of) user. The general idea of a

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 05:16:56PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > > > Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any > > package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or > > explicitly acquiring privilege o

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any > package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or > explicitly acquiring privilege of) user. The general idea of a safe way to allow users to manage sys

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-11-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Patrice Duroux wrote: > Already possible or not, I would like to have a Debian system for > which packages can be installed either by a specific user > (root/sysadmin as usual) only or by any other (or a group of) users. > But this would also depend on the class of the requested packages: > 1. pac

a two cent suggestion

2022-11-26 Thread Patrice Duroux
Dear Debian people, Already possible or not, I would like to have a Debian system for which packages can be installed either by a specific user (root/sysadmin as usual) only or by any other (or a group of) users. But this would also depend on the class of the requested packages: 1. packages provid

Suggestion

2022-03-07 Thread I - FSBR
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Re: mac-boot suggestion, where can I report?

2021-10-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
d211ba4b00a0c93ec93b > GPT partition flags: 2 0x > GPT start and size : 2 6077752 8464 > GPT partition name : 3 4700610070003100 > GPT partname local : 3 Gap1 > GPT partition GUID : 3 5c6683ef292fd6488c3c80f5a69cfeb7 > GPT type GUID

Re: mac-boot suggestion, where can I report?

2021-10-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
start and size : 3 6086216 600 > I'm wondering who I can send this suggestion to, as there are mac users who > are resorting to the more dangerous hybrid dosmbr+GPT configuration. Actually only the MBR is valid in Debian ISOs, whereas their GPT is not. It may be that the GPT debris

mac-boot suggestion, where can I report?

2021-10-23 Thread westlake
hi debianers! there a better source to report suggestions for mac builds? (intel x86) i found out that the debian installer is able to boot in UEFI-mode if I replace the DOSMBR with a GPT header within the usb installer media. I'm wondering who I can send this suggestion to, as there ar

Suggestion

2021-07-22 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Hi guys and girls. I can probly manage without Gparted cos good man cfdisk But others really need it 2 often. In 'Manage flags' put a Root flag So the partition newbies can set Root a specified place, usually in main partition. Now u cannot flag more than 2 flags, like Boot and lvm (to cfdisk parti

Re: Site Suggestion

2021-05-25 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
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Re: Site Suggestion

2021-04-25 Thread tomas
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Re: A suggestion to multiply your users

2021-03-09 Thread Brett Pierce
Thanks guys. Fortunately I have a computer games programming son who is all over Linux. I'll get him to help. On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, 10:34 am Michael Grant, wrote: > Brett, > > Dan's exactly correct: > > > Debian is a Linux distribution -- a collection of software that > > works together as a comp

Re: A suggestion to multiply your users

2021-03-09 Thread deloptes
Brett Pierce wrote: > Can I suggest you get a straight-talking non-geek who knows nothing about > your software and give them several scenarios (eg, A. You want to edit raw > files for your photos. Try Ubuntu with Gnome or KDE. It is more user friendly.

Re: A suggestion to multiply your users

2021-03-09 Thread Michael Grant
Brett, Dan's exactly correct: > Debian is a Linux distribution -- a collection of software that > works together as a complete operating system plus applications. A Linux distribution can run programs written to run in Linux of which Inkscape is but one of those programs. The Debian users on th

Re: A suggestion to multiply your users

2021-03-09 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, March 09, 2021 04:05:38 PM Brett Pierce wrote: > Hi. > > Really looking forward to trying out this tool. Are you talking about Debian? > Only... even though I've > been on computers since late 1980s but I'm not a geek - but not entirely > stupid either. Your website is really intimi

Re: A suggestion to multiply your users

2021-03-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Brett Pierce wrote: > Really looking forward to trying out this tool. Only... even though I've > been on computers since late 1980s but I'm not a geek - but not entirely > stupid either. Your website is really intimidating and confusing. It's > very geeky to me, which means to many others as well

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Re: zfs data partition, crypt loop mounts and newbie tutorials -- was Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on separate partition

2020-07-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-09 02:28, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Since I have to re-send this anyway, my current laptop setup for some time is this: - there is one internal drive, ~750 MiB - Root partition, ~30 GiB, Debian default Ext4 - (there's also a default sized EFI partition, may be ~1GiB from memory)

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 09 iul 20, 11:02:49, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 10:56:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > > Sounds pretty risky. > > > > Sure. On the other hand, what is the point of using LVM if one is not > > going to use it to adjust partitions when required? > >

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jul 2020 at 11:02:49 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 10:56:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > > Sounds pretty risky. > > > > Sure. On the other hand, what is the point of using LVM if one is not > > going to use it to adjust partitions when re

zfs data partition, crypt loop mounts and newbie tutorials -- was Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on separate partition

2020-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness - From: Zenaan Harkness To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 19:00:06 +1000 Subject: Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 10:56:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 08 iul 20,

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-09 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 10:56:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > Sounds pretty risky. > > Sure. On the other hand, what is the point of using LVM if one is not > going to use it to adjust partitions when required? You first have to copy stuff, then delete stuff, then shrink, then move

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 iul 20, 10:20:45, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 08:35:35AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > I was under the impression that LVM is used in particular for its > > flexibility in adjusting your partitions. > > But it won't make disappear a separate /usr p

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 18:07:05 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 8/7/20 3:35 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 08 iul 20, 02:35:09, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> On 8/7/20 2:11 am, Michael Stone wrote: > >>> > >>> The short answer is that there simply isn't a good reason to do this > >>> on

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 06:07:05PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: A line for /usr is in /etc/fstab using it's UUID ... same as root is referenced by UUID (both are in the same lvm2 volume group). Why not just reference it by path?

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-08 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 08:35:35AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > I was under the impression that LVM is used in particular for its > flexibility in adjusting your partitions. But it won't make disappear a separate /usr partition "by magic". > What prevents you from merging '/' and '/usr

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/7/20 3:35 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 08 iul 20, 02:35:09, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> On 8/7/20 2:11 am, Michael Stone wrote: >>> >>> The short answer is that there simply isn't a good reason to do this >>> on a modern system, and there is no volunteer to donate the enormous >>> amo

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 iul 20, 02:35:09, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 8/7/20 2:11 am, Michael Stone wrote: > > > > The short answer is that there simply isn't a good reason to do this > > on a modern system, and there is no volunteer to donate the enormous > > amount of effort required to make > > something

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-07 Thread David Wright
On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 02:35:09 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 8/7/20 2:11 am, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:45:17AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > >> On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 00:41:12 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >>> On 2/11/14 8:58 am, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > >>>

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 8/7/20 2:11 am, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:45:17AM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 00:41:12 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> On 2/11/14 8:58 am, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >>> > * David Baron [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]: >>> >> On Friday 31 Octobe

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:45:17AM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 00:41:12 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 2/11/14 8:58 am, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * David Baron [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]: >> On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > [...] > >>> I

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-07 Thread David Wright
On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 00:41:12 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 2/11/14 8:58 am, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * David Baron [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]: > >> On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >>> It's your decision. MODULES=most should be okay. B

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 2/11/14 8:58 am, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * David Baron [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]: > >> On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > [...] > >>> It's your decision. MODULES=most should be okay. BUSYBOX=y is >>> essential. >> >> This is what the install gave me. I hav

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-05-14 12:22, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 13/05/2020 à 02:30, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-12 08:04, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: What is the model/ part number of your computer? It is an Acer Asp

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-14 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 14/05/2020 à 21:22, Yvan Masson a écrit : Le 13/05/2020 à 02:30, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-12 08:04, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Was the memory in your computer installed by Acer? I believe so

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-14 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 13/05/2020 à 02:30, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-12 08:04, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Was the memory in your computer installed by Acer? I believe so. Okay. Have you removed or inserted any

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-05-12 08:04, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Was the memory in your computer installed by Acer? I believe so. Okay. Have you removed or inserted any memory modules? Not before the issue arose. Okay.

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-12 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Hi, I installed Debian 10 on a Acer AspireOne (32 bits processor, 1GB RAM). Installation failed two times with corrupted packages, each time on same package (tcllib). I finally manage to re-download and

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Hi, I installed Debian 10 on a Acer AspireOne (32 bits processor, 1GB RAM). Installation failed two times with corrupted packages, each time on same package (tcllib). I finally manage to re-download and install it by hand in another TTY so that the insta

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-11 Thread didier gaumet
I do not know well the subject but RAM problems can be a nightmare and I suppose yours could be -for example- caused by a particular area of the RAM that does not systematically fail under workload (transiant fault) and thus is not detected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_tester

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-11 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 11/05/2020 à 20:03, didier gaumet a écrit : Hello, perhaps try to install in text mode and lowmem: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html perhaps you have a RAM problem in a particular area that is not reported by the RAM verifying tool you used. If the installation s

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-11 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, perhaps try to install in text mode and lowmem: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html perhaps you have a RAM problem in a particular area that is not reported by the RAM verifying tool you used. If the installation succeeds, it could mean you have to replace the RA

Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-11 Thread Yvan Masson
Hi, I installed Debian 10 on a Acer AspireOne (32 bits processor, 1GB RAM). Installation failed two times with corrupted packages, each time on same package (tcllib). I finally manage to re-download and install it by hand in another TTY so that the installer could finish. However, after the re

Re: [OT] Backup Suggestion

2020-04-04 Thread Leslie Rhorer
riences about bacula or suggestion? Been using it since 2003 and works great. Break up your configuration files into jobs, times, etc otherwise they get hard to read. Have a machine as a dedicated(ish) storage director Thank you. Thank you for your suggestion. What type of backup strat

Re: [OT] Backup Suggestion

2020-04-04 Thread Leslie Rhorer
Any bad experiences about bacula or suggestion? Been using it since 2003 and works great. Break up your configuration files into jobs, times, etc otherwise they get hard to read. Have a machine as a dedicated(ish) storage director Thank you. Thank you for your suggestion. What typ

Re: [OT] Backup Suggestion

2020-04-04 Thread Alessandro Baggi
n disk or tape. Multi platform, VirtualFull backup, compression and encryption. Actually I'm testing on a dataset of 1,5 Tb (~150 files of various size). Any bad experiences about bacula or suggestion? Been using it since 2003 and works great. Break up your configuration files i

Re: [OT] Backup Suggestion

2020-04-03 Thread elvis
tualFull backup, compression and encryption. Actually I'm testing on a dataset of 1,5 Tb (~150 files of various size). Any bad experiences about bacula or suggestion? Been using it since 2003 and works great. Break up your configuration files into jobs, times, etc otherwise they get ha

Re: [OT] Backup Suggestion

2020-04-03 Thread deloptes
up, compression and encryption. > Actually I'm testing on a dataset of 1,5 Tb (~150 files of various > size). > > Any bad experiences about bacula or suggestion? Don't know bacula but started using borgbackup last year and delighted. It can deduplicate, compress and encrypt

Re: [OT] Backup Suggestion

2020-04-03 Thread Dan Ritter
VirtualFull backup, compression and encryption. > Actually I'm testing on a dataset of 1,5 Tb (~150 files of various > size). > > Any bad experiences about bacula or suggestion? Nope. The generic advice is this: Nobody cares about backups. They only care about restores. Anyt

[OT] Backup Suggestion

2020-04-03 Thread Alessandro Baggi
'm testing on a dataset of 1,5 Tb (~150 files of various size). Any bad experiences about bacula or suggestion? Thank you.

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Re: Feature suggestion re package metadata

2017-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017, Mark Summerfield wrote: > ISTM that subcategories or some other finer-grained classification > would be a real help. You're probably looking for debtags. For example, if I wanted something with a shell interface which was implemented in C++: aptitude search '?tag(implemented

Re: Feature suggestion re package metadata

2017-10-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Oct 2017 at 18:51:48 +, Mark Summerfield wrote: > When I first started using Debian, it had a little over 1000 packages. > Today, it has over 51000. Yet there are very few categories, so while > searching is quite easy, browsing is often no longer practical. For > example, there are

Feature suggestion re package metadata

2017-10-29 Thread Mark Summerfield
When I first started using Debian, it had a little over 1000 packages. Today, it has over 51000. Yet there are very few categories, so while searching is quite easy, browsing is often no longer practical. For example, there are around 600 packages classified under 'Python Programming Language', ove

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:44:01AM -0400, Bob Weber wrote: > > > > > Simple workaround for now: > > > > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > > > deb http://site1.ip.address/debian jessie-backports main > > #deb http://site2.ip.address/debian jessie-backports main > > > > > > Now just change the

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com [Wed, Jun 14 2017, 09:57:50PM]: >Hello, > >I have a suggestion for a client program/package in combination with >apt-cacher-ng > >Consider following situation: > >User U_A has a laptop which he uses at home and

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-16 Thread Yvan Masson
> Another solution whichi does not depend of the server software (squid or > apt-cacher-ng) is to use this directive on the client: > Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect > > I could not find a good example in English, but here is one in French. > Obviously, man 5 apt.conf also explains it. Oups, for

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 16:44:27 (+0200), tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the tips. Like I said, I'd prefer a program that does all > this in the background by calling one simple command Sure. You're free to commission one from a C/C++ programmer. We're just illustrating that the co

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com
Thanks for the tips. Like I said, I'd prefer a program that does all this in the background by calling one simple command On 15-Jun-17 4:38 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 10:16:45 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread Bob Weber
> Simple workaround for now: > > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://site1.ip.address/debian jessie-backports main > #deb http://site2.ip.address/debian jessie-backports main > > > Now just change the comment from one to the other, run apt-get > update and go. > > Second workaround,

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 10:16:45 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: > > The shown way is not very comfortable. > > > > 1. it is annoying having to remember IP addresses > > 2. sed command is error prone (consider typos, etc.) >

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:16:45AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: The shown way is not very comfortable. 1. it is annoying having to remember IP addresses 2. sed command is error prone (consider typos, etc.) 3. copying arou

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-15 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: > The shown way is not very comfortable. > > 1. it is annoying having to remember IP addresses > 2. sed command is error prone (consider typos, etc.) > 3. copying around backup files is time consuming having to type in a

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-14 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 15/06/2017 à 04:51, Andy Smith a écrit : > Hello, > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: >> apt-cacher-switch add :> >> apt-cacher-switch add :> >> >> Then at university: >> apt-cacher-switch enable >> >> At home: >> apt-cacher-switch enable >> >>

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: > apt-cacher-switch add :> > apt-cacher-switch add :> > > Then at university: > apt-cacher-switch enable > > At home: > apt-cacher-switch enable > > In an environment where no cacher is on the network > apt

apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

2017-06-14 Thread tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com
Hello, I have a suggestion for a client program/package in combination with apt-cacher-ng Consider following situation: User U_A has a laptop which he uses at home and at university He has a poor internet connection in both places. So he set up apt-cacher-ng services in both places but they

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Brian
On Wed 20 Jul 2016 at 17:17:18 +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi Brian, > > It doesn't look DFSG free. > > > > http://mintakaconciencia.net/squares/umtskeeper/#license > hmm, I fear you are right and might be not DFSG-like. > > Maybe it could be put into contrib or non-free? Maybe. Pass. > Besides, I

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/20/2016 11:12 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le tridi 3 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : It doesn't look DFSG free. http://mintakaconciencia.net/squares/umtskeeper/#license For the purpose of including UMTSkeeper or portions thereof in GNU GPL licensed projects, UMTSkeeper is a

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, On 07/20/16 12:12, Nicolas George wrote: >> It doesn't look DFSG free. >> >> http://mintakaconciencia.net/squares/umtskeeper/#license >> >>For the purpose of including UMTSkeeper or portions thereof >>in GNU GPL licensed projects, UMTSkeeper is also licensed >>under the GPL. You

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Hans
Hi Brian, > It doesn't look DFSG free. > > http://mintakaconciencia.net/squares/umtskeeper/#license hmm, I fear you are right and might be not DFSG-like. Maybe it could be put into contrib or non-free? Besides, I could not get clear, what license sakis3g is on. Sakis3g can be downloaded and

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 3 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : > It doesn't look DFSG free. > > http://mintakaconciencia.net/squares/umtskeeper/#license > >For the purpose of including UMTSkeeper or portions thereof >in GNU GPL licensed projects, UMTSkeeper is also licensed >under the GPL. You may

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Brian
On Wed 20 Jul 2016 at 15:56:10 +0200, Hans wrote: > I tried a lot of options, and found out, that the best solution IMO is > "umtskeeper", which includes sakis3g. Nice gui, very easy to use, and works > like a charm. And it is free! It doesn't look DFSG free. http://mintakaconciencia.net/squa

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Hans wrote: > Dear community, > > I found a new software, which IMHO might be interesting for debian. However, > there is still no debian package available. > > Who can I ask, and will decide, if a software is worth to be added into the > repo of debian? Y

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Hans
, which includes sakis3g. Nice gui, very easy to use, and works like a charm. And it is free! But there is no deb-package available and a start icon (and also entry for a menu) is still missing. Things, experienced packagers may be fix in less then 10 minutes, whilst I will need a week for the s

Re: New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/20/2016 8:32 AM, Hans wrote: Dear community, I found a new software, which IMHO might be interesting for debian. However, there is still no debian package available. What is package. What's special about it. The functionality may already be present.

New software suggestion - whom to ask?

2016-07-20 Thread Hans
Dear community, I found a new software, which IMHO might be interesting for debian. However, there is still no debian package available. Who can I ask, and will decide, if a software is worth to be added into the repo of debian? Please understand, I am not very experienced in packaging, and

Re: A suggestion for a new programme in Debian 8?

2015-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2015 10:13:22 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 08:36:39PM +, ludo0...@dbmail.com wrote: > >Dear Sirs and Madames, > > > >Could I allow myself to express a wish for the next version of Debian: > > it would be to have the DVD authoring programme "bombono" (

Re: A suggestion for a new programme in Debian 8?

2015-03-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 08:36:39PM +, ludo0...@dbmail.com wrote: >Dear Sirs and Madames, > >Could I allow myself to express a wish for the next version of Debian: it >would be to have the DVD authoring programme "bombono" (see >[1]http://www.bombono.org) on the distribution. >

Re: A suggestion for a new programme in Debian 8?

2015-03-06 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 05 Mar 2015 23:13:21 +0100 schreef Martin Read : On 05/03/15 20:36, ludo0...@dbmail.com wrote: Could I allow myself to express a wish for the next version of Debian: it would be to have the DVD authoring programme "bombono" (see http://www.bombono.org) on the distribution. No new so

Re: A suggestion for a new programme in Debian 8?

2015-03-05 Thread Martin Read
On 05/03/15 20:36, ludo0...@dbmail.com wrote: Could I allow myself to express a wish for the next version of Debian: it would be to have the DVD authoring programme "bombono" (see http://www.bombono.org) on the distribution. No new software will be added to Debian 8 at this point; it has been i

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