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#2102 Re: Other Issues » How i can fix ? » 2019-05-23 04:48:07

Getting OT but can't remember ever seeing much of a discussion in this camp about SELinux.

#2103 Re: Other Issues » How i can fix ? » 2019-05-23 04:16:18

yeti wrote:
Dutch_Master wrote:

I'd suggest to re-install Devuan with separate partitions for /etc, /var, /usr and /home.

/etc?

Maybe that would work on his Funtoo . . .  wink

#2104 Re: Devuan » UsrMerge on Devuan? » 2019-05-18 16:38:41

Yeah . . . it's another clusterf*** from the freedesktop.org folks.

#2105 Re: Installation » [solved]Paused at installing grub? » 2019-05-18 16:22:36

There are also install guides with screenshots posted on the website that might be helpful. And on the index page a description of what the various installers provide.

#2106 Re: Devuan » UsrMerge on Devuan? » 2019-05-18 00:45:22

IIRC the default in Devuan Beowulf will be to NOT merge /usr.

#2108 Re: Installation » Beowulf questions » 2019-05-11 01:36:42

I often get conflicts and "you have broken packages" notices with perl upgrades.  Usually a reboot allows me to do the upgrade immediately after logging in but I guess that depends on what the conflicts are exactly.

#2109 Re: Installation » Interested in installing devuan, couple questions before I do » 2019-05-10 21:17:58

rolfie wrote:

If you want to install external packages that are available in Debian use the Stretch package and it works.

Not a good idea - installing directly from Debian repos could put you in a world of hurt.  Devuan filters the Debian repos and bans packages that could break your system.  The Debian packages that won't break Devuan are already provided via redirect to the Devuan repos.

#2110 Re: Intergalactic Communities » Does NASA use Devuan? » 2019-05-09 17:34:26

alupoj wrote:
golinux wrote:

Not Devuan but the International Space Station did move to Debian some years ago.

Smart move, from Windows to systemD :b

That happened in 2013 before systemd was entrenched in Debian.  I have no idea whether they are still on Debian or moved to another Linux distro.  I wonder if they might move to Devuan one day.

#2111 Re: Intergalactic Communities » Does NASA use Devuan? » 2019-05-09 14:02:41

Not Devuan but the International Space Station did move to Debian some years ago.

#2112 Re: Other Issues » deb.devuan.org doesn't get updates for Jessie, auto.mirror.devuan does » 2019-05-09 03:24:37

MiyoLinux wrote:

I may be wrong, but I don't remember being advised to change jessie repositories over to deb.devuan.org. I thought they were supposed to stay as auto.mirror.devuan.org. Seems like deb.devuan.org was introduced with ASCII.

I just looked at the Devuan website, and it's still showing jessie as using auto.mirror.devuan.org.

auto.mirror.devuan.org is still the default repository because there has never been a point release for jessie and that is the repository used on the isos.

This note is also on the website (in several places):

IMPORTANT NOTE: auto.mirror is now deprecated and will be decommissioned. Please make sure you have the latest devuan-keyring package with apt-get install devuan-keyring and then point your /etc/apt/sources.list to deb.devuan.org.

#2113 Re: Other Issues » deb.devuan.org doesn't get updates for Jessie, auto.mirror.devuan does » 2019-05-07 22:21:32

haary wrote:
All packages are up to date.

That is working.  There are no updates because everything is already up to date,

See? sources.list is correct, but still no updates. Please note that I am using Jessie. Ascii is working fine with deb.devuan.org.

Jessie is old stable.  It will probably only get security patches.  I just ran update and there are no packages for me to install either on jessie i386.

#2114 Re: Other Issues » deb.devuan.org doesn't get updates for Jessie, auto.mirror.devuan does » 2019-05-07 15:19:59

IIUC, not all the mirrors in deb.devuan.org support https so it requires http to function properly.  If you want to use https, the advice I remember was to look at the mirror list and choose a specific mirror that provides it.

#2116 Re: Installation » Beowulf questions » 2019-05-06 01:11:51

garyk wrote:

Never mind.  I just found it at the top of the forum page.  I find that a strange place to put the link to the page for searching packages.

It's also in my signature on every post.

That it isn't on the official Devuan site is very odd.

It's all over the devuan.org site - on the index page and about 6 other pages too . . . maybe more.  No blinking neon though.  wink

#2117 Re: Installation » Beowulf questions » 2019-05-06 00:35:22

@sgage . . . thanks for the heads-up.   I sometimes lose track of things . . .

#2118 Re: Installation » Beowulf questions » 2019-05-05 22:21:32

garyk wrote:

1. I surfed over to the devuan mirror links page wanting to get an iso image for beowulf.  The mirrors I looked at only had directories for ascii and Jessie.  Where do the Beowulf directories exist?  Do they exist on only some mirrors and I didn't happen to look at the right mirrors?

Beowulf is still in testing so no official installation isos are available on the mirrors.  You can upgrade from ASCII by changing your sources to beowulf or use the one of the mini.isos here.  Read the options carefully because there are some different ones available:
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … s/netboot/
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … s/netboot/

2.  Are all the software packages now in Beowulf the only ones that are going to be included?  I was interested specifically in the latest xiphos version that exists in Debian Buster but when I updated my sources.list file to look at the Beowulf repositories, did an aptitude update, and then used apt-cache to search for xiphos it did not show up in Beowulf.

https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/d1pk … elease=any

#2119 Re: Other Issues » VLC has no codecs » 2019-05-05 05:05:52

I must say that you're living up to your nick.

#2121 Re: Installation » It works! » 2019-05-03 18:39:44

Thanks for the happy news.  big_smile

#2122 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Replacement for system-config-lvm in Beowulf » 2019-05-02 19:28:08

rolfie wrote:

Is there a replacement available with similar capabilities?

There could be if you forked and packaged it for Devuan.

#2123 Re: Off-topic » Something is wrong with my Devuan setup because my containers work » 2019-05-01 18:50:48

kuleszdl wrote:

Just stumbled over this pro-systemd talk from linux.conf.au which suggests that we need systemd for properly running containers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

Haven't heard this argument before. Now I am wondering what is wrong in my Devuan setup since the lxc containers seem to work in Devuan even with sysvinit although UNIX is dead.

More amusement from the systemd camp.  Most of their arguments are propaganda not fact.  Read this if you haven't before.

kuleszdl wrote:

However, one thing that I could not agree more with the speaker is the following:

The world around us is changing and we can either go with the change or we can try and resist it.

The borg tired that argument too, rather forcefully.

Happy to hear that everything is working for you.

#2124 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Thank you to whoever got Gnome desktop running » 2019-05-01 14:23:57

Comment from helios21 who is "not that much of a forum guy":

Yes, I bet it is due to elogind packaging.

GNOME depends on systemd-logind, which elogind-compat provides.

Debian developers work to convince packagers of packages which depend on
systemd-logind to change the dependencies in a way that makes elogind-
compat superfluous. AFAIR it was by having elogind and systemd-logind
both provide logind. And then have either a default-logind packages
which recommends systemd-logind on Debian, elogind on Devuan or so this
with a direct dependency aka "systemd-logind | elogind" on Debian and
vice versa an Devuan. But AFAIR there was talk about some "default-
logind" package.

#2125 Re: Installation » The most secure hardened kernel » 2019-05-01 06:58:01

alupoj wrote:
golinux wrote:

Don't you need a valid PW to change the PW?  Or does this forum have an "I forgot my PW" option?  (Too lazy to log out to see if it's there.)

Joke? Is password reset used to find a recipient in recent Echelon data to avoid mining deeper into older layers?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

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