Re: [DNG] How to construct a testing .deb binary with dpkg-buildpackage?

2021-11-14 Thread Stefan Krusche
Am Sonntag, 14. November 2021 schrieb Haines Brown: > Given the absence of a backport for nano, my aim is to construct > a .deb for the testing version of nano (nano-9.5). This is what I > did: > > In apt sources.list IO added the lines > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports

Re: [DNG] pkexec in Chimaera

2021-11-14 Thread tempforever
Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: > sudoedit is running as root there, but it is not itself an editor. > > You can verify for yourself that the editor runs under the unprivileged > account.  Here is an example of using sudoedit to fire up Geany: > > $ EDITOR=geany sudoedit /etc/group & > > $ ps -p $(pgrep

Re: [DNG] pkexec in Chimaera

2021-11-14 Thread Lars Noodén via Dng
On 11/14/21 20:44, tempforever wrote: Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: [snip] On 11/8/21 05:12, tempforever wrote: > You say that sudoedit will run the editor itself under the unprivileged account; however, it appears it does run as root: [snip] Yes, I say that, but I got it from the manual page

Re: [DNG] pkexec in Chimaera

2021-11-14 Thread tempforever
Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: > On 11/8/21 05:12, tempforever wrote: > [snip]> Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: >>> You could consider running sudoedit instead.  That will allow you to >>> edit a file as root (or any other designated account) while still >>> running the editor itself under the unprivileged

[DNG] lpr command not working

2021-11-14 Thread Haines Brown
I reinstalled a printer on a Chimaera box. The CUPS test file prints just fine. The lpr Printers, the status of the old printer Idle, Accepting Jobs, Not Shared. Under its Administration I select Delete Printer and verify that I want it deleted. This returns the message that it has been succes

[DNG] How to construct a testing .deb binary with dpkg-buildpackage?

2021-11-14 Thread Haines Brown
As a long time debian/devuan user I always feel ashamed to ask such a pedestrian question as this. Given the absence of a backport for nano, my aim is to construct a .deb for the testing version of nano (nano-9.5). This is what I did: In apt sources.list IO added the lines deb http://d

Re: [DNG] eudev issue after beowulf upgrade

2021-11-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola via Dng
Hi, On 11/13/21 4:06 PM, Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote: thanks for the hint. I did the upgrade using directly two of the packages and, voilà things work again and USB disks and CD-ROM appear correctly again in xfce. actually, I was too quick too rejoyce. Installed new eudev and rebooted,