Re: usrmerge in bookworm

2023-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-10-06 22:32 +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:42:56PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: >> Greg Wooledge writes: >> >> > Yeah, usrmerge is a bit wonky in these early stages. >> >> $ apt-get changelog usrmerge | tail -n2 >> -- Marco d'Itri Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:42:44

Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager

2023-10-07 Thread gene heskett
On 10/7/23 05:17, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Am 05/10/2023 um 09:41 schrieb Timothy M Butterworth: Hello, I am running Debian 12.  I have noticed for a little while now that WiFi is intermittent. It goes through cycles of deactivation and activation. It does this on multiple WiFi networks so I kno

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-07 Thread gene heskett
On 10/7/23 01:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 01:44:34PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: Something I played with recently was https://packages.debian.org/stable/vcs/git-filter-repo Yes, it does work. My typical use case is when someone has put a password in the repo you don't eve

Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Steve Keller
I've always thought, that a package's dependencies must be full-filled to install that package and that apt-get automatically manages these dependencies. And also, that if I remove a package, that all other packages are removed, that depend on it. Like this: # aptitude purge bind9-libs T

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 7 Oct 2023 13:47 +0200, from keller.st...@gmx.de (Steve Keller): > But how can this then be explained? > > # aptitude why lsb-base > i ntpsec Depends lsb-base > # aptitude show ntpsec | grep ^Depends > Depends: adduser, lsb-base, netbase, python3, python3-ntp (= > 1.2.2+dfsg1

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 01:04:56PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 7 Oct 2023 13:47 +0200, from keller.st...@gmx.de (Steve Keller): > > # aptitude purge lsb-base > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > lsb-base{p} > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove

Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager

2023-10-07 Thread gene heskett
On 10/7/23 09:08, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Am 07/10/2023 um 11:11 schrieb gene heskett: Another possibility is a leaky microwave oven in the vicinity This is an urban legend and an excuse I was using when I was in tech support. Wireless cards w/o good pre-selectivity, which is all the ones we

Re: Does the debian kernel sends the gratuitous arp ?

2023-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 1:38 AM wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 05:20:22PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 2:04 PM Balaji G wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > I am using "Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" with kernel version > > > 5.16.12. > > > When i do a link up/down i d

Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager

2023-10-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/10/2023 18:11, gene heskett wrote: On 10/7/23 05:17, Ottavio Caruso wrote: options iwlwifi bt_coex_active=0 swcrypto=1 11n_disable=8 to /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf Another possibility is a leaky microwave oven in the vicinity. I consider buggy firmware as a more plausible cause of c

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Steve Keller
Greg Wooledge writes: > Package: sysvinit-utils > [...] > Provides: lsb-base (= 11.1.0) > > When you remove the physical lsb-base package, the virtual package > provided by sysvinit-utils remains, to satisfy the dependencies of > ntpsec, rsync, etc. OK, that explains, why lsb-base can be removed

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 07:24:24PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > Package: sysvinit-utils > > [...] > > Provides: lsb-base (= 11.1.0) > > > > When you remove the physical lsb-base package, the virtual package > > provided by sysvinit-utils remains, to satisfy the depende

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-10-07 19:24 +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > >> Package: sysvinit-utils >> [...] >> Provides: lsb-base (= 11.1.0) >> >> When you remove the physical lsb-base package, the virtual package >> provided by sysvinit-utils remains, to satisfy the dependencies of >> ntpsec, r

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:27:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Yes, aptitude can do that. Quoting the manual[1]: > > , > | ?provides(pattern), ~Ppattern > | > | Matches package versions which provide a package that matches the > | pattern. For instance, “?provides(mail-transport-ag

Re: usrmerge in bookworm

2023-10-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Sven, On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 09:09:27AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2023-10-06 22:32 +, Andy Smith wrote: > > It got done years ago in Ubuntu, and their dpkg doesn't have this > > issue, as they've carried patches for that for all those years. > > Ubuntu may have patched out the dpkg

Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager

2023-10-07 Thread gene heskett
On 10/7/23 11:42, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Am 07/10/2023 um 15:21 schrieb gene heskett: On 10/7/23 09:08, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Am 07/10/2023 um 11:11 schrieb gene heskett: Another possibility is a leaky microwave oven in the vicinity This is an urban legend and an excuse I was using when I was

Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-07 Thread Tom Browder
I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of Rakudo downloadable files. Question: How can I get the fingerprint from the downloads? The products I download are (1) the file of interest, (2) a PGP signed checksums file with various shaX hashes for the file, and (3) a separat

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-07 Thread DdB
Am 08.10.2023 um 01:16 schrieb Tom Browder: > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of > Rakudo downloadable files. > > Question:  How can I get the fingerprint from the downloads?  > > The products I download are (1) the file of interest, (2) a PGP signed > checksums fi

Re: Does the debian kernel sends the gratuitous arp ?

2023-10-07 Thread Balaji G
Hi Jeff, Do you mean this is a known issue & will be fixed in the future releases ? Thanks, Balaji On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 at 02:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 2:04 PM Balaji G wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am using "Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" with kernel versi