Earth's magnetic field protects the atmosphere from the solar wind resulting in the beautiful physical phenomenon known as Aurora Borealis. On the other hand, this magnetic field is generated by the movement of the metallic liquid in the core, in much the same way as the one generated by a solenoid, but as opposed to your magnets, which consists of some metals previously surrounded by a magnetic field so that all of its sub-atomic spins (microscopic fields that were cancelled each other out) point now in the same direction creating altogether a macroscopic one.

This said, in the flat model Earth's magnetic field couldn't exist (where is the volume of metallic liquid?). And even if it could, it wouldn't be able to protect the atmosphere in the various directions without certain degree of spherical symmetry. As a result, the atmosphere would be lost as happened in Mars.

There is another phenomenon that, in spite of it really cannot demonstrate that the earth is necessarily a spherical globe, it does demonstrate, for reasons of simmetry, that it cannot be a flat surface: That is the magnetic field it generates.

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Ruben's packages were quite outdated -at least the last time i used Trisquel-, based on 52.3:

http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/pool/main/i/icecat/

The script generates the sources of icecat together with the debian folder used by debbuild for the packaging, and the resulting sources are debianized afterwards in a secondary step. But it's not surprising that the content of the debian folder may differ from one distribution to another to suite the required dependencies in each particular case. All the more in view of the different distros (ubuntu/debian) they are based on.

Yes, but the above reason isn't the only one. For example:

- I apply several patches taken from Debian's packaging of firefox-esr, leaving aside those related to android and other non-free stuff.

- The use of quilt patches leads to the use of the quilt source format, instead of the native format used in Trisquel. Look at the paragraph 5.22. source/format in the link below:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/main … er.en.html

- My packages provide firefox-esr, otherwise in xfce the removal of firefox-esr would force the installation of the epiphany-browser and all its dependencies.

On the other hand, i like to make sure the application builds succesfully in my system, where  the versions on gcc, libnss etc, are involved.
Otherwise i prefer not to use it,  and much less to distribute it

DEB packages of version 78.15.0 are available at:

http://packages.gnuinos.org/gnuinos/pool/main/i/icecat/

I announced them yesterday night in the irc channel. It looks good in chimaera:

Head_on_a_stick: i misunderstood you, you were quoting the phrase in reference to the arch-install-scripts package. Well..., fixed anyway. They are directories.

In a live system you can copy and paste them from anywhere.

Debian-installer in graphical mode gives you the option to take screenshots during the installation.

Are you sure it's a scsi | tape device? Have a look at the device/type file in the same path to the filesystem [1] you are taking the MAJOR:MINOR numbers from. If i'm not mistaken, the different options are (taken from the code of vdev [2]):

   0 : DISK
   1 : TAPE
   4 : OPTICAL
   5 : CD
   7 : OPTICAL
0xe : DISK
0xf : OPTICAL

[1] For example, something looking like this:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:04:00.3/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sdc/device/type

[2] lines nº1145 - 1168 in vdevd/helpers/LINUX/stat_scsi.c:
https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev/blob/m … tat_scsi.c

Try with the b flag instead of c, for block-oriented devices:

mknod /dev/{filename} b MAJOR MINOR

What's devuan beofulf? Is it a new derivative unknown for me? Either way, the answer is yes, you can create a fork of these repositories in the same way than devuan forks the repository of debian. Indeed, that's what amprolla is for. Take as an example gnuinos, whose repository is a fully amprolla setup taking devuan as a base.

Yes, you can configure the sections in lib/config.py

Please, in quoting the answer of another member of the forum try to keep the content of the frame in coherence. Thanks.