Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 feb 21, 17:00:41, Gary Dale wrote: > > Which is why I think it would be useful to have way to rollback a package > when you can't fix it quickly. That way you aren't asking all the users to > do it themselves and track the bug status individually. When the maintainers > think they have a

rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-13 Thread mick crane
I made a mistake and instead of getting a PC for backup I got a NAS. I'm struggling to get to grips with it. If rsync from PC to NAS NAS changes the owner/group of files to me/users which is probably no good for backing up. There's that problem then another that it won't let me login as root. I

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-13 Thread Frank
Op 12-02-2021 om 22:18 schreef Gary Dale: On 2021-02-12 14:12, Frank wrote: Op 12-02-2021 om 18:19 schreef Gary Dale: I appreciate the people doing this, but this is a serious issue. I have to resort to firing up a VM or resorting to the command line on my local server to update my web sites be

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-13 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Disclaimer: I do not use and am not familiar with Sinology hardware and software and generally speaking, I am not knowledgeable in networking I would say that: - the owner:group names of a file on the PC you backup and the owner:group names of the backup files on the synology files

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-13 Thread Toni Mas Soler
Is there an alternative if you want an incremental backup? Obviously you could use tar-ed archives with unprivileged permissions. If you did, you would get a huge network overhead. thks Toni Mas GPG 3F42A21D84D7E950 Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ En dissa

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:27:54 + mick crane wrote: > I made a mistake and instead of getting a PC for backup I got a NAS. > I'm struggling to get to grips with it. > If rsync from PC to NAS NAS changes the owner/group of files to > me/users which is probably no good for backing up. Can you set

Tora 3 for Bullsey?

2021-02-13 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, how comes there is not Tora for Bullseye? Regards Harri

Re: Tora 3 for Bullsey?

2021-02-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Harald Dunkel wrote: > how comes there is not Tora for Bullseye? It was removed from Sid and Testing in 2019 because it was not compatible with Qt5 and only available for Qt4 and was not reuploaded ever since: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tora https://tracker.debian.org/news/1057870/removed-

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-13 Thread songbird
Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... > Debian doesn't support downgrading of packages. > > When dpkg installs another version of a package (typically newer) it=20 > basically overwrites the existing version and runs the corresponding=20 > package scripts from the to be installed version. > > A newer package m

Re: Tora 3 for Bullsey?

2021-02-13 Thread songbird
Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > how comes there is not Tora for Bullseye? it doesn't look like it is being very actively worked on and the package didn't get enough support from a Debian Developer or Maintainer to continue so it was removed. it is in stable, if someone wanted to get it

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-02-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:05:44PM -0500, Michael Grant wrote: > Replying to this message that's just over a month old now. Now that > 10.8 just came out, is this a good time to jump off the testing repo > and onto stable for my production box? Is this one of those rare > moments when testing and

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-13 Thread songbird
Frank wrote: > Op 12-02-2021 om 22:18 schreef Gary Dale: ... >> I can do the same with Dolphin but I find it clumsy. FileZIlla is made >> to let you transfer files between local and remote directories. >> > That's exactly what I do with caja, either from one tab to the other or > between separate w

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-02-13 Thread Michael Grant
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 02:32:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > The below is my opinion: it is informed by watching other folk have problems > over the years. > > TLDR; - If you are running a production system - run Debian's latest stable > release. Stable > gets security support and backp

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-13 Thread Frank
Op 13-02-2021 om 14:56 schreef songbird: Frank wrote: Op 12-02-2021 om 22:18 schreef Gary Dale: ... I can do the same with Dolphin but I find it clumsy. FileZIlla is made to let you transfer files between local and remote directories. That's exactly what I do with caja, either from one tab t

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-02-13 Thread songbird
Michael Grant wrote: ... > I completely understand the desire for stability and reliability. But > it seems like having to wait up to 2 years for some major new feature > to get into Debian can be daunting, especially when it gets into > Testing. I was wondering, is there, or has anyone given any

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-02-13 Thread Michael Grant
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 11:31:16AM -0500, songbird wrote: > yes, but since Debian is run by volunteers and many of > them are very busy it has been talked about but not beyond > that. the idea of rolling releases, always releasable, and > some other phrases has been discussed, but until enough

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 feb 21, 10:47:41, Michael Grant wrote: > > I completely understand the desire for stability and reliability. But > it seems like having to wait up to 2 years for some major new feature > to get into Debian can be daunting, especially when it gets into > Testing. I was wondering, is the

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 feb 21, 11:57:42, Michael Grant wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 11:31:16AM -0500, songbird wrote: > > yes, but since Debian is run by volunteers and many of > > them are very busy it has been talked about but not beyond > > that. the idea of rolling releases, always releasable, and

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-02-13 Thread Michael Grant
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 06:58:36PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 13 feb 21, 10:47:41, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > I completely understand the desire for stability and reliability. But > > it seems like having to wait up to 2 years for some major new feature > > to get into Debian can be

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 feb 21, 11:31:16, songbird wrote: > > to me the freeze should just be a snapshot that is > worked from off to the side and then unstable can > continue to be worked on and security fixes and such > can keep working through to testing. This can already be done, e.g. by uploading to

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 feb 21, 11:57:42, Michael Grant wrote: > > I was not thinking this would cause more (or significantly more > anyway) work than we already do. Dot releases are tested. It might > even be *less* work as upgrades would be incremental and smaller > rather than large. https://wiki.debian.o

Re: Rebuilding Debian Live gnome image fails

2021-02-13 Thread debian-user-001
On 13-Feb-21 06:06, John Crawley wrote: On 12/02/2021 17:16, Matthijs wrote: On 12-02-2021 03:12, John Crawley wrote: On 09/02/2021 21:40, Matthijs wrote: Following the Debian Live manual on using a predefined configuration(https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/managi

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-13 01:27, mick crane wrote: I made a mistake and instead of getting a PC for backup I got a NAS. I'm struggling to get to grips with it. If rsync from PC to NAS NAS changes the owner/group of files to me/users which is probably no good for backing up. There's that problem then anothe

Re: chromecast: no audio when casting screen, works with tab

2021-02-13 Thread Javier Barroso
I have just find a posible solution https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/04/how-to-cast-your-gnome-shell-desktop-to.html?m=1 I will test it in unstable Regards El jue., 17 dic. 2020 10:19, Andrea Borgia escribió: > > Il giorno gio 17 dic 2020 alle ore 07:12 Javier Barroso < > javibarr...@gmail.

btrfs?

2021-02-13 Thread Steve Mynott
Is anyone running btrfs (either on bullseye or buster)? I've been running on U20.04 and the stability seems fine and I wondered if my experience was typical?

Re: btrfs?

2021-02-13 Thread Brian Flaherty
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 1:20 PM Steve Mynott wrote: > Is anyone running btrfs (either on bullseye or buster)? > I am using it on a laptop running buster with encryption and lvm. It seems to be working fine. I haven't really checked anything, though.

Missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-13 Thread Charlie Gibbs
[This would probably be an FAQ if I knew the proper incantation...] I realized recently that a box I've been running for a while isn't seeing all of its installed memory. The BIOS screens indicate that 8GB is installed, but Debian (recently upgraded to Buster) only sees a bit over 3GB. cjg@

Re: btrfs?

2021-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-13 13:13, Steve Mynott wrote: Is anyone running btrfs (either on bullseye or buster)? I've been running on U20.04 and the stability seems fine and I wondered if my experience was typical? I ran several Stretch machines with btrfs. One was my daily driver. I never did any maintena

official list of alternatives?

2021-02-13 Thread IL Ka
Hello. There is a list of alternatives in ``sensible-browser`` including ``www-browser``, ``x-www-browser`` etc. This makes me think that all alternatives must be documented somewhere in debian policy. Something like "each developer of X-based browser must register it as x-www-browser alternative

Re: btrfs?

2021-02-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
I used it on a system I intended to be sort of a NAS with a pair of 1 TB spinning drives. Then one drive started to make funny noises so I moved on from that idea. What I like about BTRFS is being able to use it in a RAID type fashion and the subvolume capability so it isn't a show stopper if, sa

Re: official list of alternatives?

2021-02-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2021-02-14 01:57 +0300, IL Ka wrote: > Hello. > > There is a list of alternatives in ``sensible-browser`` including > ``www-browser``, ``x-www-browser`` etc. > > This makes me think that all alternatives must be documented somewhere in > debian policy. What makes you think so? Many alternativ