Re: Best way to change disk layout?

2018-12-24 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi John, Sorry I had a msg saved in draft.. just to point out you can boot the bsd.rd kernel (on an alternate device / partition when modifying partitions and it will facilitate upgrades.. im glad you were able to work it out your self .. All the Best... On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 at 00:05, John Lon

Re: Best way to change disk layout?

2018-12-24 Thread John Long
Hello Nick, Thanks for your reply. I figured everyone was busy so I played around trying a few things. I was able to copy /var to a new directory, unmount -f /var and rename the new directory to /var. So far so good... Changed my fstab to not mount the filesystems I wanted to delete, and rebooted

Re: Best way to change disk layout?

2018-12-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/23/18 3:16 PM, John Long wrote: > I'm running release instead of stable like I did years ago. Syspatch is > a better solution for me than building from source. I want to change my > disk layout because when I set up this box I was thinking of building > from source like the old days. I want t

Re: Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by the grantor.

2018-12-24 Thread Raul Miller
(1) Wrong mailing lists - these are not linux mailing lists. (2) ... (I am not going to go over the legal mistakes you've made, because of (1))... (3) Anyways, ... people do make mistakes... But, please stop making these mistakes. Thanks, -- Raul On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 10:55 AM wrote: > > B

Re: You removed Weboob package over political reasons? Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread Daniel Corbe
For starters, this package isn’t being removed because of its name. It’s being removed because it has a bunch of extremely offensive comments littered throughout the comments. For example, up until recently, it had a log message that called people “fags.” [1]. Secondly, this just doesn’

Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by the grantor.

2018-12-24 Thread visionsofalice
Bradley M. Kuhn: The SFConservancy's new explanation was refuted 5 hours after it was published: Yes they can, greg. The GPL v2, is a bare license. It is not a contract. It lacks consideration between the licensee and the grantor. (IE: They didn't pay you, Greg, a thing. YOU, Greg, simply

2 months and no response from Eben Moglen - Yes you can rescind your grant.

2018-12-24 Thread vsnsdualce
It has been 2 months. Eben Moglen has published no research. Because there is nothing more to say: The GPLv2, as used by linux, is a bare license. It can be rescinded at the will of the grantor. The regime that the FSF used, vis-a-vis the GPLv2, is essential: copyright transfers to a central

Re: You removed Weboob package over political reasons? Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread vsnsdualce
Debian is not ruled by the men who actually write the software, but instead women. Just like in all the anglo-american conquered world. We, the men who actually do work, are treated as the same worker-slaves everywhere. Opensource was a refuge from the worthless cunts (who ban us from having

[off-topic] when is devious coming back?

2018-12-24 Thread iam
anyone has any idea about when devio.us is going to come back into active service mode?