[DNG] Devuan Ascii: Upgrading initramfs-tool breaks current devuan package initscripts

2016-02-23 Thread Fred DC
I don't know if this is the right place to report this. Please accept my apologies. Upgrading initramfs-tools version 0.120 to 0.123 breaks initscripts <2.88dsf-59.3-1 presently installed is 2.88dsf-59.2+devuan2 Right now I have put the package on hold because if force the install the kernel gets

Re: [DNG] Debian archives (Was:systemd==bad)

2016-02-23 Thread Simon Hobson
Brad Campbell wrote: >> But then I still have Squeeze and Lenny systems running (they aren't broken >> ...) - don't think I have anything older than that ! >> > > I just bumped up against a problem with a squeeze system. It's ppc, and > everyone has dropped the non-x86/x64 archives. That made

Re: [DNG] Debian archives (Was:systemd==bad)

2016-02-23 Thread Brad Campbell
On 23/02/16 16:10, Simon Hobson wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: Interestingly the package files are still all present, so after an apt-get update ; apt-get install foo I just put the package names it can't download into google and they turn up in odd corners of the net. Yes that's a problem. I

Re: [DNG] The first FreeDesktop bicycle accessory

2016-02-23 Thread Mitt Green
> Raised $5,076 of $70,000 > Five days to go > Estimated delivery: Mar 2017 > Receive it for donating $50 ... But hey, 'tis Kickstarter. If ye browse popular projects, ye'll see, how much of unnecessary rubbish is there (see also [yourkickstartersucks.tumblr.com](http://yourkickstartersucks.tumb

Re: [DNG] Devuan Vagrant install OSX

2016-02-23 Thread hellekin
On 02/22/2016 08:14 PM, Wim wrote: > Hi List, > > > I've tried to install Devuan on Vagrant/OSX Mavericks. > Hey Wim, are you talking about the Alpha4 .box file? If yes, then we need to open some tickets :) In general you can report issues at https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/issues

[DNG] How to guarantee authenticity of Devuan installer downloads?

2016-02-23 Thread David Kuehling
Hi, after the recent Mint ISO hack [1], I wonder how secure the Devuan installer download scheme actually is. The Devuan installer download page [2] uses plain unencrypted HTML [2]. It does supply sha256 checksums, but these are also provided via unencrypted HTML only. No GPG signatures or noth