Re: fetchmail

2018-11-19 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-19 00:33, Nate Bargmann wrote: I installed the Sid version on this Buster installation and it works just fine. I simply downloaded it and installed it manually. Aptitude puts it in the Obsolete and Locally Created Packages section. Shrug. - Nate fetchmail for me had a problem wit

Re: ssh

2018-11-19 Thread john doe
On 11/19/2018 8:28 AM, Michael Howard wrote: > On 19/11/2018 02:46, Alan Taylor wrote: >> Thanks Mike, >> >> I was slowly coming to that conclusion ! >> What would be best practice regarding a password for that account >> (i.e. system account such as backuppc that needs ssh access but no >> shell a

Re: latest Stretch update breaks Scribus!

2018-11-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Gary Dale wrote: > On 2018-11-18 1:19 p.m., Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:19:00AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > This is one of the those WTF moments. Despite the fact that Ghostscript > > > 9.25 > > > has been known to break Scribus since at least the start of the month

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:01:07AM +0100, solitone wrote: When I was playing with my disk's partition table I messed it up and lost everything. It was a dual boot system with macOS and Debian. Thanks to the back2l utility I have a full backup of Debian. Now I would reinstall it and recover all t

Re: pdfjoin loses web links in the PDFs

2018-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 04:16:21PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: This is frustrating. I'm running Debian/Buster (AMD64) and just finished creating web links (mostly mailto: in a two-part directory I created using Scribus. I exported the files to PDF on a Debian/Stretch machine because Buster uses a v

Re: pdfjoin loses web links in the PDFs

2018-11-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jonathan Dowland wrote: >On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 04:16:21PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: >>This is frustrating. I'm running Debian/Buster (AMD64) and just >>finished creating web links (mostly mailto: in a >>two-part directory I created using Scribus. I exported the files to >>PDF on a Debian/Stretch

VMPK

2018-11-19 Thread Magnus Johansson
Hello! When will VMPK 0.7.0 become available in the Debian software repository? Regards, Magnus Johansson

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2018 19 Nov 02:10 -0600, mick crane wrote: > fetchmail for me had a problem with the ssl certificate of gmail which keeps > changing seemingly depending on which server connect to. Probably is fixable > but was easier to use getmail. I don't have a gmail account so I haven't run into that. I

Re: VMPK

2018-11-19 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:56:38PM +0100, Magnus Johansson wrote: > Hello! When will VMPK 0.7.0 become available in the Debian software > repository? There's an outstanding bug to switch to version 0.6.2 [1]. Perhaps you can contribute to this (or file a new bug, dunno, but referring to this one m

Re: latest Stretch update breaks Scribus!

2018-11-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:49:05PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > > Of course, the world does not revolve around Scribus. > > No but it is a popular and important package that gives Linux a powerful > publishing application. > I agree and have been very happy with Scribus in the past when I hav

Re: ssh

2018-11-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:28:15AM +, Michael Howard wrote: > Don't get too hung up on it all. > > If the account needs login access then give it. Create or use an account > with a shell of your choice and a secure password. You don't need to > remember the password, as you are using keys, so

Re: ssh

2018-11-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:32:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:28:15AM +, Michael Howard wrote: Don't get too hung up on it all. If the account needs login access then give it. Create or use an account with a shell of your choice and a secure password. You don't n

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 08:53:19AM +0100, john doe wrote: > Using Bash you could use functions or aliases: > > search_pkg() { aptitude search -F '%p %V' --disable-columns ${1}; } You probably want "$@" there (with quotes) instead of $1.

Re: ssh

2018-11-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 08:38 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:32:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > If you're only going to login to the account using ssh keys, you > > don't need to give it a valid password hash at all.  Just put a > > string of rubbish (English words qual

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/15/18 10:24 PM, Tom D. wrote: Thank you, Sir. I understand now. Not quite, you're still top posting. It is frowned upon greatly in these parts. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Onl

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread solitone
> On 19 Nov 2018, at 12:35, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:01:07AM +0100, solitone wrote: >> When I was playing with my disk's partition table I messed it up and >> lost everything. It was a dual boot system with macOS and Debian. >> >> Thanks to the back2l utility I ha

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread solitone
Another option would be: (1) Install the system as it was (i.e. with physical partitions); (2) Restore the backed up configuration/files. (3) Move to LVM. How cumbersome would be point 3?

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread Reco
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 04:31:45PM +0100, solitone wrote: > > > On 19 Nov 2018, at 12:35, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:01:07AM +0100, solitone wrote: > >> When I was playing with my disk's partition table I messed it up and > >> lost everything. It was a dual boot s

Re: pdfjoin loses web links in the PDFs

2018-11-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-19 6:58 a.m., Steve McIntyre wrote: Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 04:16:21PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: This is frustrating. I'm running Debian/Buster (AMD64) and just finished creating web links (mostly mailto: in a two-part directory I created using Scribus. I export

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread solitone
> On 19 Nov 2018, at 16:59, Reco wrote: > > LVM requires certain kernel modules and hooks to be present in > initramfs. > If your current installation lacks them, I suggest you to install lvm2 > before the backup to save yourself the hassle of regenerating initramfs > after the restore. Unfort

Re: ssh

2018-11-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 09:43:29AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 08:38 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:32:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > If you're only going to login to the account using ssh keys, you > don't need to give it a valid password hash a

Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata]

2018-11-19 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Nov 18, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:56:27AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On 11/14/18, Reco wrote: > If you're content with losing all this metadata in your backup - there > are rsync, cpio or tar. Or all those ‘backup solution

Re: ssh

2018-11-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 12:12 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 09:43:29AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 08:38 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:32:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > If you're only going to login to the acco

Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata]

2018-11-19 Thread Reco
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 09:50:12AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > On Nov 18, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Reco wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:56:27AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> > On 11/14/18, Reco wrote: > > If you're content with losing all this metadata in your backup - ther

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:01:07AM +0100, solitone wrote: > Thanks to the back2l utility I have a full backup of Debian. Now I > would reinstall it and recover all the backed up files. However, I > didn’t use LVM and now I would. In this case, would the > adjustments needed from the origina

subject:"Re\: discover and install specific package version"

2018-11-19 Thread Eric Barault
have you tried this version? It worked for me on top of debian stretch-slim: https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180701T205743Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-19 Thread Eric Barault
have you tried this version? It worked for me on top of debian stretch-slim: https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180701T205743Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/11/2018 à 16:34, solitone a écrit : Another option would be: (1) Install the system as it was (i.e. with physical partitions); (2) Restore the backed up configuration/files. (3) Move to LVM. How cumbersome would be point 3? Much more than install with LVM from the start.

Re: ssh

2018-11-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:12:50PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 09:43:29AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 08:38 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:32:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: If you're only going to login to the account usin

glibc_2.27-8 build fails on Butcher (testing)

2018-11-19 Thread Tetsuji Rai
Hi all, I'm trying to build several packages from their source packages, however I have not succeeded in building glibc_2.27-8.   It always fails telling ndbm.h and varargs.h (or stdarg.h) in testsuite building, although I have installed libgdbm-compat-dev (including /usr/include/ndbm.h) and stdar

Re: glibc_2.27-8 build fails on Butcher (testing)

2018-11-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:06:17PM +0900, Tetsuji Rai wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to build several packages from their source packages, however > I have not succeeded in building glibc_2.27-8.   It always fails telling > ndbm.h and varargs.h (or stdarg.h) in testsuite building, although I > ha

Re: glibc_2.27-8 build fails on Butcher (testing)

2018-11-19 Thread Tetsuji Rai
As the tutorial ( https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial ) says, download with "apt-get source libc6" in my ~/work-glibc, and cd glibc-2.27, then download build dependencies with "sudo apt-get build-dep libc6", then rebuild with "debuild -b -uc -us". After a while, I got these errors.  But I mi

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 01:22, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Much more than install with LVM from the start. You can install LVM if you want, but it might be worth while to take note that you loose all the data if the disk fails underneath. I had a bad experience using LVM including more than one dis

Re: glibc_2.27-8 build fails on Butcher (testing)

2018-11-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 03:02:12PM +0900, Tetsuji Rai wrote: > As the tutorial ( https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial ) says, > > download with "apt-get source libc6" in my ~/work-glibc, and cd > glibc-2.27, then download build dependencies with "sudo apt-get > build-dep libc6", then rebuild w

Re: glibc_2.27-8 build fails on Butcher (testing)

2018-11-19 Thread Tetsuji Rai
On 11/20/18 3:30 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 03:02:12PM +0900, Tetsuji Rai wrote: >> As the tutorial ( https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial ) says, >> >> download with "apt-get source libc6" in my ~/work-glibc, and cd >> glibc-2.27, then download build dependencies

Re: glibc_2.27-8 build fails on Butcher (testing)

2018-11-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 03:47:44PM +0900, Tetsuji Rai wrote: > > > I want to stick to debuild because it looks like a standard.   I am > recompiling with the logs.  Suit yourself. Just be advised that debuild is 'standard' because it happens to be present and slightly more convenient than buildi

Re: glibc_2.27-8 build fails on Butcher (testing)

2018-11-19 Thread Tetsuji Rai
On 11/20/18 3:57 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I will report the logs (compressed) later.  >> So far error are given to only stdout.  I used >> >> debuild -b -uc -us > ~/glibc-stdout.log 2> ~/glibc-stderr.log & >> > That will make it difficult to correlate outputs and errors. Better > would be: