[DNG] odd dist-upgrade difference

2021-05-27 Thread James Cloos via Dng
given the addition of breaks:mlocate to plocate, a sid box will delete mlocate when upgrading plocate, but a ceres box instead will refuse to update plocate when both are installed. re-running /apt install plocate/ did the right thing. not sure which behaviour is generally preferred, but i prefer

Re: [DNG] Devuan with usr merge?

2021-11-13 Thread James Cloos via Dng
> John Morris via Dng writes: > So yes, it is time to eliminate /bin, /sbin and /lib. the real result shod be eliminate /usr. system packages should all use --prefix=/, local ones should default to --prefix=/local, and closed src crap^Wstuff should use things like /opt/FOO for a prefix. li

Re: [DNG] PHP 8.1 depends on systemd?

2022-01-29 Thread James Cloos via Dng
Looking on my main web box (running deb sid w/ sysvinit), I see that I have a dummy systemd-tmpfiles there: :; apt show systemd-tmpfiles Package: systemd-tmpfiles Version: 1.0 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Maintainer: Your Name Installed-Size: 9,216 B Provides: sys

Re: [DNG] iptables at risk when uprgading?

2019-11-16 Thread James Cloos via Dng
> "HB" == Hendrik Boom writes: HB> Does this mean that the upgrade from ascii to beowulf is not transparent HB> and that I risk losing the iptables on my front-end machine when I do it? Save the tables with iptables-save and ip6tables-save before upgrading and try restoring them with iptable