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#276 Re: Other Issues » Where to express package requests? » 2018-06-23 12:27:37
Well, I'm not really interested in becoming a package maintainer. For starters, I'm not a coder, I've already committed to introducing a local language pack (and a 2nd if that goes well) and a lot of other commitments (non-Linux related!) take up a lot of spare time.
I did find a page introducing d1h, which may or may not entice me giving it a try for personal use.
#277 Other Issues » Where to express package requests? » 2018-06-23 07:41:52
- Dutch_Master
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Something I haven't found so far: where can I request packages to be build/included into Devuan? There's 2 I'd like to see appear ASAP (seamonkey and unetbootin) but nowhere on the Devuan site can I find a way to request those packages being included, all I found was a reference to this forum.
TIA!
#278 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Enable Backports - Newbie Question » 2018-06-21 04:09:58
What you need is apt-pinning. Google is your friend 
#279 Re: Installation » Network booting » 2018-06-19 21:41:09
NFS is a server-client system, so just nfs-common on its own doesn't work at all, as you've experienced. What you need is to install nfs-server on the appropriate machine and then configure both server and client to exchange data. For the server, you 'export' the directory you want to share, while on the client, a line must be added to fstab so the kernel knows where to find it. See the NFS man-pages for more detailed info.
#280 Re: Installation » [Solved] Ascii upgrade (also) messed up this Devuan Jessie » 2018-06-17 19:26:27
OK, reboot into rescue mode, then fire up aptitude:
aptitudeUse the / key to bring up a search box and find the package x11-xkb-tools. If it has an i in front, it's installed. If that's the case, purge it (Shift+-) then re-install the package. It'll probably throw up a bunch of errors when purging, remove all packages that rely on it too (they'll be re-installed when you install the package)
HTH!
#281 Re: Installation » Installation attempt does not seem to see partitions » 2018-06-17 17:51:40
Well, first things first: if you have any data on that machine worth keeping, copy it over to a safe storage device. When done, it allows you to start afresh.
Rather then writing a detailed guide, I'll refer you to the install guide from Funtoo. I've run Funtoo in the (recent) past and found their install guide very helpful indeed. The part you need is here: click! Funtoo uses the SysrescueCD tools to give you a working live system. It's perfectly OK to use it preparing your hard-drive. Make sure you reboot the machine for changes to the partition table to take effect.
Once done setting up the disk as you've chosen, re-run the installer from the live-disk (or USB drive in your case) to see if it detects the partitions you've made.
HTH!
#282 Re: Forum Feedback » Much ado about nothing » 2018-06-17 17:34:20
Om further reflection I'm with cynwulf in this case. I run my own forum (nothing to do with OSS) and am a member of another, very large forum (100,000+ members, 1M+ messages, also nothing to do with OSS) which actually removed the 'negative' ratings people could give to posts for precisely the reason stated above: abuse by certain cliques. My own forum runs on phpBB (which doesn't have the ability to rate posts) and I've resisted the urge to upgrade it to a forum engine that does, even though I can see the merits of that, but I'm not willing to spend (much/any) time dealing with those abusing the ratings system.
#283 Re: Forum Feedback » Let's make this forum multilingual! (Calling for language authors) » 2018-06-17 06:12:38
My advice is to stay away from LO for any text/config files. Please use a text editor like mousepad or Pluma or geany etc..
OK then, Pluma it'll be.
If you would provide Dutch that would be most appreciated!
Given it's gonna be a full translation, I might be a while. Remind me 3 months in (that is, after I received the templates, etc) 
#284 Re: Forum Feedback » Let's make this forum multilingual! (Calling for language authors) » 2018-06-17 06:08:23
Great! Dutch, or "Netherlands", is a new language for this forum, as is German ("Deutche"), so those tasks will involve the full grunt of translating some 1500 phrases, and 16 email templates.
Yikes! I thought you'd said it was already partially done. Never mind, just takes a while longer to get through the list. Anyway, you were nearly there:
Dutch -> Nederlands
German -> Deutsch
Mind, there are multiple versions of both languages. Dutch knows several dialects (despite being a small country) as well as Flemish, which is spoken in northern Belgium. The Flemish are particularly particular that they don't speak Dutch, but Flemish instead! For German, it's even worse! There's 3 countries speaking German, and each have local dialects as well as the official version: "Hoch-Deutsch". Which is the version you'll get from me, when I getroundtoit.
I used to have a script that made a CSV for the phrases to make it easier But, as that was a couple of laptops ago, it'll take a short while to recall. When I've done so, and prepared the basis, I'll email it to your registration email address.
OK, thx!
It reminds me that I'm still sitting still on the Swedish translation
Ah, can't help you with that I'm afraid 
#285 Re: Forum Feedback » Let's make this forum multilingual! (Calling for language authors) » 2018-06-16 22:05:26
OK, if it's that simple I'll have a look into the Dutch language pack then. Can't make any promises as there's a lot on my plate already. Can these files be opened by LibreOffice and more importantly, edited and saved in the correct format?
If Dutch works, I may try my hand at German too. But as a non-native speaker I'm not sure my options/solutions/translations would be best suited. For now, that's of no concern, first the Dutch language pack to solve before anything else!
#286 Re: Forum Feedback » Much ado about nothing » 2018-06-16 21:55:50
I'd raise the threshold for defining a troll a little to, say, 5. A true troll will annoy enough members to meet this figure, but it will not falsely accuse a member who has a disagreement with one or more others about trivial, or controversial, matters. Like, which DE or text editor is the best, whether Devuan should do a full implementation of systemd (please don't! 
) or even which music player to designate as standard for a minimal install. And members should be able to revoke their vote if/when they find it was wrongly applied.
Just me tuppence lads!
#287 Re: Off-topic » In what country are you right Now ? » 2018-06-13 22:23:52
If someone is interested in germanic languages i think dutch would be easier for english speakers than german as it doesn't have the gender/article madness and often seems closer to english than the german translations.
No, but it has quite a few words (and sentences for that matter!) that can have more then one meaning, all depending on context! This is highly confusing for those not raised with Dutch as their native language I know, we have quite a few of those* where I work. In fact, so much so that the company offers them Dutch language lessons during company time, twice a week! I don't need that, as you may have guessed from my nick
*this includes folk from the Indian subcontinent, Central & Eastern Europe, Asia, various African nations and Central & South America.
#288 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Desktop resolution problem (AMD graphic card). » 2018-06-13 08:13:39
You didn't search the web for the driver, didn't you?
Click!
(it's not the driver, but enough to get you started)
#289 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » openvpn server and client on same box » 2018-06-11 21:14:32
What you need are bridging tools to 'transfer' traffic between the various subnets and the VPN. Never tried it myself though, but google should be able to give you some info on bridging ethernet/LAN traffic.
HTH!
#290 Re: Other Issues » (Un)Limited TTL for mirror Release files » 2018-06-11 17:41:30
Quick note to inform you lot that the mirror transfer via external hard drive works as planned/hoped for, so no more moving about of the actual server
I also gave some thought to (partially) automating the install itself, but it would be site-specific so not really suitable for inclusion into the Devuan archive. As it's a different subject it warrants its own thread in due cause.
#291 Re: Other Issues » (Un)Limited TTL for mirror Release files » 2018-06-10 22:38:22
Hmmm, there's a thought. I could put it in a script (Bash), put that on the mirror, d/l it from there, execute on the local system then remove the script again have the script remove itself.
I'll have a brain-storm about that sometime tomorrow.
Thx again!
#292 Re: Other Issues » (Un)Limited TTL for mirror Release files » 2018-06-10 09:30:27
Thanks for that. I was hoping for an easier solution as I'd have to type in every command by hand on any newly installed system and I'm one very lazy bu99er (I'm a big fan of tab-completion and bash history scrolling )
I'll try using an external hard-drive (USB3) this week for updating the mirror. Tried it before but didn't work as hoped, perhaps better luck this time now I have a better understanding of the processes and tools involved.
#293 Other Issues » (Un)Limited TTL for mirror Release files » 2018-06-09 12:19:46
- Dutch_Master
- Replies: 11
Not sure this is the right forum for this particular topic, but here it goes.
First, some background info:
I work for a recycling company/thrift shop chain. Earlier this year I was added to the already running PC-refurbishment project. Officially this consists of 3 blokes, including yours truly, but one is a web designer and hasn't visited the premises housing the project since he'd introduced me, the other chap is a volunteer with ADD and an addiction who uses it as some sort of rehab. Meaning that effectively, I'm running the place.
Hardware is donated by private individuals but also (semi-) commercial enterprises as well as governmental dept's (including UN tribunals, which are/were located in or in the vicinity off my home town) and ranges from Lenovo Intel-based Core2 systems (sans hard-drive and RAM) to Dell P4's. I even have a P3 server (2U, SCSI-based) set aside as the drive is too small (70GB is not enough).
When I started out, Linux Mint was used to install Linux on whatever hardware was picked. Imagine the "joy" of systemd on a P4 :-\ We were lucky to install 2 systems a day! A few weeks ago I made the decision to switch over to Devuan instead. Regrettably, for a novice the default DE is too spartan, so I wanted Mate instead. But that can't be installed from the install DVD (missing policykit packages) as well as quite a few machines can't boot from DVD at all. So I decided to create a local mirror. Fortunately I found enough network stuff to make it happen (switches, machines with sufficient space to host everything one needs for an offline mirror) as our location has no internet connection! Not having done this before it took a fair few days to fiddle everything and get a working system. Next step, obtain the packages from the Devuan mirrors. That went reasonably well, copying the lot over also worked. But after the first week, I got reports that the mirror was outdated and therefore would not be used to install stuff from. This was traced to a just-under-a-week TTL of the various Release files. That in turn meant I need to take the server home every weekend to update it and bring it back in on Monday. Cumbersome. Quite. So, how do I prevent these low TTL files messing things up as it's my intention to inform purchasers of these systems they need to update their PC's after connecting it to the web first thing. Ideally, I'd like to see no TTL at all and I'll update the repo on a monthly basis in order not to get too far out of sync with the main Devuan repo's.
(FYI: I'm running Linux exclusively since 2005, initially Debian after earlier testing of RedHat 8&9 and Suse, but when the last pre-systemd version became too old I switched to Funtoo in 2015. Regrettably Portage is not as good in conflict-resolving as the Debian package managers, so when I learned about Devuan I made the switch when Portage threw me one too many wobbly updating my system :-\ )
Thanks if you've read it this far
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