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01:41.03*** topic/#devuan is Welcome to Devuan! https://devuan.org | Releases: https://files.devuan.org (Jessie 1.0 old-stable, ASCII 2.1 stable) | | Conference (2019) https://www.dyne.org/the-first-devuan-conference/ | Forum https://dev1galaxy.org | Chanlogs http://maemo.cloud-7.de/irclogs/freenode/_devuan/ | take offtopic chat to #debianfork
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06:30.50tuxd3vhello dear Dev1ners,
06:30.55tuxd3v:)
06:31.16tuxd3vdon't know if somebody can help me, with a strange request..
06:31.55tuxd3vI need a crosscompiler from --build=i686 --host=amd64 --target=amd64
06:32.21tuxd3vI am in i686 and need to compile stuff for amd64 :S
06:32.31tuxd3vpeculiar request
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06:42.58tuxd3vactually I will need both
06:43.33tuxd3vamd64-Linux-gnu
06:43.51tuxd3vand amd64 baremetal to compile coreboot bootloader..
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07:23.59gnarfacetuxd3v: don't know for sure, but i didn't think that was possible.  mabye in qemu though...
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07:25.08meep_____I know it's certainly possible in gentoo
07:25.14meep_____Hmm
07:25.18meep_____I don't know
07:25.31meep_____In any case you might have to compiile gcc yourself if it's not packaged
07:25.32onefangIt should be possible.  The very first 64 bit compilers where likely built using 32 bit cross compilers.  Qemu is a good idea though.
07:25.54meep_____Bootstrapping gcc isn't two bad, there's only like 2 or three math libraries you need
07:26.01meep_____*too
07:26.32meep_____onefang: TCG 64bit emulation on a 32 bit host
07:26.43meep_____That's not going to be fun
07:27.39onefanghttp://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html is what I use for my cross compiling.
07:29.10gnarfaceif it works in gentoo then it should work in ceres at least, i would think
07:29.39gnarfacei wouldn't put much hope in it working on ascii though
07:29.52gnarface(just because i couldn't cross-compile anything else there either)
07:31.25gnarfacetuxd3v: these guys say it should work, just add it as a foreign architecture and see what happens?
07:33.31tuxd3vthanks guys, I believe that in the past I was trying to build my own crosscompiler, but I gaveup because of memory contraints something like that
07:33.50tuxd3vI only have 4GB total in my machine and I am in beowulf
07:34.52tuxd3vI have around 2.5GB free and I think the minimum needed was 3 or 4 something like that
07:35.01tuxd3vI mean to build the crosscompiler..
07:36.29tuxd3vits strange but that are a lot of combinations possible out there for other smaller usage archs, and for --host amd64 I still haven't found one crosscompiler :)
07:37.11tuxd3vgnarface, you mean add it as a foreign architecture, it will install new glibc, and a lot of packages I believe
07:38.10tuxd3vonefang, nice stuff :)
07:38.29gnarfaceyes, it would probably also pull in a bunch of dependencies
07:39.00gnarfacewell, i used a chroot
07:39.20gnarfacehow qemu compares on disk space usage may vary...
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10:05.25kaun_Hi people. I am a returning refugee, braving a ascii->beowulf upgrade. I have trouble.
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10:09.11kaun_Any non-contributors here running beowulf?
10:09.43crashoverridedoes the German thing and stacks kaun_ with the rest of the refugee in an overcrowded locked up "camp" where a good half is sick
10:09.57kaun_ha ha
10:10.17kaun_I shouldn't have moved now?
10:11.11crashoverridethat's pretty much the message they're sending: die in your verdammt OWN country
10:11.17ejrkaun_: why do you qualify your question with the comment about being a refugee?
10:11.32kaun_I was over-confident, having used Debian since Potato. Coming back after a couple of years of Gentoo, I guess I got excited.
10:11.56onefangMight be better just to tell us what the trouble is you have.
10:12.13kaun_I did a ASCII2.0 netinst, and immediately dist-upgrade'd to beowulf.
10:12.42crashoverridethinks it was a humorous attempt, and found it so before trying to turn it into dark humour for the sake of "activism"
10:12.57kaun_I got Xorg working, but not with beowulf's 4.19 kernel.
10:13.38kaun_ASCII's 4.19 works.
10:13.44ejrif your installation was recen and you havent yet set up all your programs and stuff, just reinstall a beowulf netinstallation image
10:14.00crashoverrideI would expect the apt update && apt upgrade && apt dist-upgrade to work
10:14.08kaun_recent, yes. 12 hours old!
10:14.24ejrthen just reinstall
10:14.43ejris usually easier than going through the hassle of setting that up manually, after a bothed dist-upgrade
10:14.43crashoverrideejr: but is this not a bug report in a way?
10:14.46kaun_I expected it to too. dist-upgrade really spoils one.
10:15.13kaun_I am just wondering. userland beowulf is working.
10:15.14gnarfacethe beowulf upgrade worked when i tested it, but i had to uninstall one of the policy backends again like with ascii
10:15.22crashoverrideor do you think this borked upgrade is a one-off only?
10:15.22gnarface(it's mentioned in the release notes)
10:15.26ejrcrashoverride: true... assuming that it's not Xorg related (there were several bugs because of the new kernel recently)
10:15.33kaun_ok
10:16.19crashoverridehmm
10:16.20ejruserland beowulf is working fine otherwise, yes. i myself also had some issues with the kernel upgrade 2 weeks ago though, related to Xorg (but I am running libreboot so that complicates matters even more)
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10:19.35manchotanyone speak french here?
10:20.31onefangThere might be a #devuan-fr, I'm not sure.
10:24.41kaun_I'd like to get 4.19 working now, when I'm in the middle of setting the system up.
10:25.16meep_____kaun_: why? What's wrong with 4.9?
10:25.52kaun_I'd have to ask the developer of 4.10+ ;-)
10:26.14kaun_I assumed 4.9 was ASCII's kernel.
10:26.20meep_____Yes
10:26.30meep_____Oh is beowulf releasing now?
10:26.45kaun_I dist-upgraded to beowulf (knowingly)
10:27.12kaun_it largely works ... with ASCII's kernel
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10:27.42meep_____Oh nvm then
10:27.53meep_____I thought you were trying to backport kernels to ascii or something
10:28.22kaun_nah, typical desktop user here.
10:29.06kaun_I want to spend time now, when I've just installed Devuan.
10:29.37kaun_keep updating like a rolling release until beowulf releases.
10:29.47kaun_then stay put.
10:31.49kaun_I went from a long stint on Debian, to Gentoo for a couple of years. I had forgotten how "old" De{bv}uan kernels are.
10:32.00kaun_For good reason.
10:36.31kaun_the beowulf kernel problem is not Xorg, it is earlier - when kms kicks in.
10:37.28kaun_So, I can't see anything on console. Which log files could I look at after rebooting with ASCII's kernel?
10:38.33meep_____As a gentoo user i just went back to 4.19 from 5.4 lts
10:38.40meep_____They are old for a reason
10:38.43meep_____Because they work
10:39.27kaun_yep
10:40.00meep_____I'd rather wait for debian to be good and ready
10:40.01meep_____Also
10:40.11meep_____Openrc on devuan is atrocious
10:40.28meep_____Hopefully that improves
10:40.35kaun_meep____: gentoo? sticking with it?
10:40.42meep_____*devuan to be good and ready
10:40.46meep_____Yes
10:40.50kaun_i stay with sysinit
10:40.54meep_____I'm sticking with gentoo on my main machine
10:41.00kaun_ok.
10:41.07meep_____Everything else is devuan stable or netbsd release
10:41.12kaun_i missed dist-upgrades
10:41.18meep_____*netbsd stable
10:41.22kaun_on gentoo
10:41.41meep_____I don't like the rolling nature of gentoo
10:41.46meep_____That's my only complaint
10:41.57kaun_i usually didn't 'emerge sync' for months.
10:42.06meep_____I want more stability then just the !~arch
10:42.32meep_____Yeah, I have a computer to do work on, not run the updater in a while loop
10:42.41meep_____*cough archlinux cough*
10:42.50kaun_ha ha, yes.
10:45.39meep_____The problem with gentoo'
10:46.30kaun_ascii's 4.9 kernel and beowulf's 4.19, both use the same video firmware
10:46.44onefangThe problem with Gentoo is it has nothing to do with Devuan support so probably should be discussed somewhere other than this Devuan support channel.  B-)
10:47.06meep_____Gentoo's rolling release model even with experimental and stable flags, is that third party software can have major changes between releases so it's not safe to install all update automaticly for a release and not have to worry about things breaking like you can with devuan
10:47.27kaun_yep, devuan is better
10:49.52kaun_the beowulf system is not on any network, I can't ssh into it when it has booted 4.19 and lost the console likely due to kms
10:55.06gnarfaceyou could try adding nomodeset to the kernel command-line via the grub prompt?
10:57.19kaun_ah nomodeset (i only tried video=vesa)
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10:59.06kaun_since I anyway seem to be kernel-hopping, does Debian/Devuan have only 1 supported kernel version? Do any patchset versions also see use, like Con Kolivas' desktop latency patches?
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11:01.04gnarfacethere's beowulf-backports
11:01.11gnarfacethat should have a 5.4 kernel or later right now
11:01.25gnarfacewhich video card are you using?
11:05.14kaun_amd apu, 5350 (kabini)
11:05.56kaun_i see redhat and debian forums reporting the problem being missing firmware
11:06.37kaun_for some amd chips, i feel it could be missing for the kabini apu too.
11:06.52onefangBeowulf-backports has kernel 5.4 and 5.5 by the look of it.
11:08.09kaun_back in my decade of debian use, I stayed with stable. i'd like to start on "nextstable" and stay on it in devuan.
11:08.52kaun_in case some other amd apu user tries beowulf as-is
11:09.18gnarfaceoh, the firmware would be in non-free
11:10.19kaun_i pulled in non-free just for that (thst's why ascii kernel works)
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12:11.35radhas anyone got an encrypted home directory (in beowulf or ascii)?
12:11.57rad"Package ecryptfs-utils is not available, but is referred to by another package."
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12:18.53radhttps://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/d1pkgweb-query?search=ecryptfs-util&release=beowulf it really doesn't exist in beowulf.
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12:22.25rrqnot for my home dir, but I use gocryptfs as replacement
12:24.13radI see. I'll check if it can used for home dir encryption as well. Is ecryptfs-utils coming to beowulf? Can I somehow help to bring it over?
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12:30.53radI've also got a question about packages and amprolla in general. I see that some debian packages are overridden by devuan-specific versions of these packages, which I assume are maintained by the devuan community. I am wondering first of all of there is a list of these packages and secondly, how does the maintainance go? Is there a repo for the devuan versions and peoply check the patches in the debian version and try to port them to their
12:30.54raddevuan version? Is it possible to monitor which devuan-specific packages are lagging behind especially in regard to security related patches?
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12:38.17radI guess the devuan specific packages are here: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages
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13:16.13xrogaanthere should be a list somewhere
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13:21.03xrogaanI mean, it's the logical stuff to do right? List the packages they forked...
13:23.18fsmithredrad, that list on gdo is not perfectly accurate, but it's close. For an exact list, you'd need to look at a Packages.* file in the repo, such as these: https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/beowulf/main/binary-amd64/
13:23.50fsmithredand to see what devuan-specific packages you have installed, run 'dpkg -l | grep devuan'
13:24.18fsmithredwe put 'devuan' in the version when we fork a package from debian.
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13:27.30radThanks for the info. Do you have any idea why ecryptfs-utils is not available? I would assume that if it's not overridden then it would come directly from debian. But it looks like it's coming from neither. And I checked some of the banned-packages textfiles in the pkgmaster page before and didn't find it anywhere.
13:28.21xrogaanthey have -devuan right?
13:29.55xrogaandpkg -l | awk '/devuan/ { print $2 " " $3 }'
13:30.53xrogaanrad: if the package depends on systemd and not forked, it may just be because nobody's done it.
13:31.33radIn ascii, not really: https://pkginfo.devuan.org/stage/ascii/ascii/ecryptfs-utils_111-4.html
13:31.47radI'll check the package in buster to see if it depends on systemd
13:31.48xrogaanFor ecryptfs, it's not available in buster at all. So not available in beowulf either.
13:32.02xrogaansee: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/ecryptfs-utils
13:32.54radO_O but I have it in my raspbian, which I'm pretty sure it's based on buster.
13:33.19xrogaanDid you upgrade from stretch?
13:33.27xrogaanif so, may not have been removed.
13:33.47radI think it was a fresh image from the website (for rasbian)
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13:34.22radAnd it's not even installed by default so I must have fetched it with apt.
13:34.29radI'm booting my raspbian now to check
13:35.17xrogaanask the debian people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
13:35.50radyeah this doesn't seem to be an issue with devuan.
13:38.18xrogaantheir ML seems dead https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/filesystems-devel/
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14:58.15radxrogaan, just in case you are interested, I checked my raspbian. I have ecryptfs-utils 111-4 armhf installed. And yeah it's supposed to be based on buster. So I suppose they got the version from stretch.
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15:50.17xrogaanor sid
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16:41.18*** topic/#devuan is Welcome to Devuan! https://devuan.org | Releases: https://files.devuan.org (Jessie 1.0 old-stable, ASCII 2.1 stable) | | Conference (2019) https://www.dyne.org/the-first-devuan-conference/ | Forum https://dev1galaxy.org | Chanlogs http://maemo.cloud-7.de/irclogs/freenode/_devuan/ | take offtopic chat to #debianfork
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17:21.46*** topic/#devuan is Welcome to Devuan! https://devuan.org | Releases: https://files.devuan.org (Jessie 1.0 old-stable, ASCII 2.1 stable) | | Conference (2019) https://www.dyne.org/the-first-devuan-conference/ | Forum https://dev1galaxy.org | Chanlogs http://maemo.cloud-7.de/irclogs/freenode/_devuan/ | take offtopic chat to #debianfork
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17:21.48wdqHello
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17:24.16wdqOnly bots
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17:24.44fsmithredno, we're here
17:25.09wdqOhh my god i was thinking is just bots
17:25.37fsmithredthis is more of a help channel than a conversation channel
17:26.11fsmithredif you ask a question here, someone will eventually answer
17:26.20wdqI see , and where is the conversational one
17:26.28fsmithredcould be seconds, minutes, hours...
17:26.39fsmithredOT channel is #debianfork
17:26.47wdqOkay
17:26.50wdq10x
17:26.53fsmithredyw
17:27.14fsmithredyou gonna burn a cd of your mix and test it for me, please?
17:28.11wdqYes ... if you need i have it on a usb drive and installed it twice
17:28.23fsmithredyeah, they work fine on usb
17:28.38fsmithredbut burned to optical, no mouse or keyboard
17:28.43fsmithredunless you boot toram
17:28.45fsmithredit's weird
17:28.51wdqI will put it on a cd now
17:28.55fsmithredthanks
17:29.50wdqNo problem
17:30.40wdqI will be back as soon as i am done with the test
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17:34.54wdqStarted to write disk in real mode
17:50.36wdqFsmithred
17:50.41wdqhttps://ibb.co/sPGKMr5
17:50.46wdqCheck this out
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17:51.50wdqNo errors tested on different laptop with atached usb mouse
17:55.39wdqOhh sorry
17:55.55wdqYou wanted me to test the devuan distro
17:56.24wdqWill do and come back with a answer
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18:06.52fsmithredno, I want to know about your distro (or any)
18:07.56fsmithredI already know mine doesn't work.
18:14.51morpheuMine is ok
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19:48.12scaredysquirrelhello
19:48.36scaredysquirrelwhy does localedef during the install take half an hour or more to complete?
19:48.59scaredysquirrelI told it to generate all locales
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20:24.17ShorTiethat is probily why
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21:11.26systemdletemy ascii vm became unresponsive.  It took me an hour to figure out what the problem was because the entire VM was getting swallowed up by whatever it was.  Looking at the system logs, I saw that processes could no longer fork.  Then I recalled that sometimes firefox or thunderbird spring a memory leak.  So I did a killall firefox-esr and sure enough, that stopped the panic.   I just found out there is a new firefox-esr, and I've
21:11.27systemdleteinstalled it.
21:11.59systemdleteI've tried umpteen different ways to limit firefox memory (ulimit, etc) but none of it seems to work for me.
21:12.27systemdleteI'm more than happy to do whatever it takes to keep firefox from eating every last byte of memory in the system.
21:12.59systemdletestrange it had been working OK for some time.  This morning was the first time this has happened in recent time (say, 6 months or so?)
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21:20.14gnarfacesystemdlete: i just wouldn't leave firefox running, it's not safe anymore.  it's got so many leaks you might even be experiencing different leaks depending on what features the website uses
21:21.28gnarfacesystemdlete: best you can probably do without cracking open the source code is just set something to kill it before it uses too much memory
21:21.49systemdletewhy doesn't ulimit work?
21:22.13gnarfacei don't really know specifically, but ulimit is a soft limit
21:22.31gnarfaceso, the progam in question has to be well enough behaved to care about it and obey it in the first palce
21:22.35gnarfacefirst place*
21:23.36gnarfacealthough, when you set ulimit did you override the "soft" or "hard" settings?
21:23.45gnarfaceit might matter but i'm not holding my breath
21:25.28gnarfacei frankly haven't tried struggling against firefox, i've only messed with these limits when something hits them
21:25.56gnarfaceit might be there's some trick to it like also limiting sockets or threads or file locks...
21:26.23gnarfacebut my assumption is whatever you manage to impose it's still going to end with a crashed firefox so you know, it might not be worth it except in the academic sense
21:27.24gnarfacei do wish it was different but at this point the situation needs a staffing solution
21:28.30gnarfaceremembers being able to leave firefox open for weeks at a time but not recently
21:33.52systemdleteLike, as in beat it with a staff?
21:35.29gnarfaceno i mean like, some people at mozilla need to be fired
21:35.59systemdleteI like that talk.
21:36.49systemdleteThis would be a good time to do it, too, given all the layoffs.
21:39.18gnarfacei've heard good things about palemoon, maybe it's worth a try? i don't know if it's more stable or not
21:39.35gnarfacemostly people switched to it because of protest over some other feature change
21:39.46systemdleteI've heard good things about palemoon also.  And I even tried it.  Many people do not like it.
21:39.56systemdletethen there is chrome
21:40.02systemdleteand waterfox
21:40.24gnarfacethe fact palemoon is not in Debian yet might be a warning sign, but then again waterfox isn't there either
21:40.42gnarfacebut yea you can use chromium instead, that's in the repo and it's also gaining popularity
21:40.45systemdletebut most of them use the same one or two rendering engines, so I'm not sure it makes too much difference.
21:41.02gnarfacefor rendering yea there's basically 2
21:41.07systemdleteright.
21:41.19gnarfaceso except for bleeding-edge css3 features, probably no big differences in rendering
21:41.25systemdletethen there are some browsers that come with a different js engine
21:41.56systemdleteOn one hand, I'm curious to know what is eating memory.  Then, otoh, I really don't want to know either.
21:42.14gnarfacewell, valgrind might help?  i think that's what it is for
21:42.26systemdleteIt seems like most of the updates are superficial, changes to the UI, e.g., or some minor convenience features.
21:42.36gnarfaceif you can narrow it down to a specific website you have a good chance of narrowing it down to a specific plugin or javascript function
21:42.44systemdleteomg...
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21:43.03systemdleteI usually have dozens of tabs open for all my banks, credit cards, utilites, etc
21:43.16gnarfacei mean, if you leave firefox open with only "about:blank" loaded, does it get any more stable?  that's a big question
21:44.01gnarfacemy assumption based on observations here is that it mostly does not leak, then suddenly leaks a bunch real fast
21:44.21systemdletethat could be the issue in itself, though, as I said, until recently firefox has been working well.  Firefox in particular seems to go through periods of rapid updates to fix their latest changes -- they should try testing before releasing, but that's just my silly, immature opinion
21:44.55gnarfacebut i'm not sure it's anything to do with web content per-se... it seems to happen more if other opengl programs are running at the same time, leading me to believe it may actually be exciting a leak in my *nvidia proprietary drivers* which isn't for whatever reason exposed by anything else except sometimes wine
21:44.58systemdleteI mean, I'd hate to tell a bunch of self-righteous hipster millenials how to do their work.
21:45.10gnarfacehehe
21:45.23gnarfacewell, let's not get too far off the rails into editorializing
21:45.27systemdleteok
21:45.35gnarfacei think we know their priorities aren't about the stability of the stupid thing
21:45.46systemdleteooh. what if...
21:47.00systemdletewhat if there were, say, an open source browser where the emphasis was on security and stability.  There would be hundreds of developers working on nothing but security and stability, and one part-time UI developer.
21:47.18systemdleteand of course 100s more to do testing
21:47.28systemdleteTHOROUGH testing.  Infrequent releases.
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21:48.28fsmithredsystemdlete, how much ram does your VM have?
21:50.21systemdleteI just bumped it from 4G to 6G because I added a second user.  I have 16G total on the host, and only about 14 or so is used typically
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21:51.37systemdleteAlso, the VM has 500M of swap... hmmm.   Maybe I should bump that up also?  But I'd think with 6G that really ought to be enough for both users, even if they are both running firefox
21:53.57fsmithredholy shit. 4G should be more than enough.
21:54.01fsmithredum
21:54.04fsmithredI take that back
21:54.18fsmithredI have 6 and I've had the browser choke
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22:02.31gnarfacezram swap!
22:04.01veeeeis there a way to manually download packages?
22:06.04onefangThe package mirrors are just ordinary web servers, so you you can manually download packages from any of them.
22:06.16onefang"so yes you can".
22:07.10veeeewhat's the right command to do that?
22:07.45onefangThough keep in mind most Devuan packages are unchanged Debian packages, and most of the mirrrors just redirect those packages to the Debian mirror system.
22:08.27veeeeare you saying i could download a package from debian and install it on devuan?
22:09.27onefangMost of the time that's basically what you are doing anyway.  Depends on the package.
22:11.27systemdleteDepends on whether the package has to be defanged
22:12.53veeeehow do i tell?
22:13.55onefangI guess the easiest way is to use - apt install ----download-only packageName
22:21.49fsmithredthe packages that we fork from debian have 'devuan' in the version
22:22.25fsmithredapt-cache policy <package> will give you version information
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22:32.58systemdletexscreensaver has a module called Zoom.  So guess what?  Guess what happens if you happen to have the zoom conferencing program installed *AND* are running xscreensaver in, say, random mode?
22:33.18systemdleteOK, I'll tell you.
22:33.55systemdleteThe zoom app just suddenly appears without you having launched it.  Because xscreensaver thinks that the zoom app is one of its own screen saver programs.
22:34.10systemdleteSooooo....
22:34.36systemdleteif you might wonder why zoom suddenly pops up on your desktop, even if the user does not normally use it, well... now you know the REST of the story.
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22:39.26bgstack15systemdlete: thank you! Actually I do have zoom installed on one Devuan machine, and Zoom has been initiated some of the times.
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22:41.23bgstack15I actually saw one screen in my xscreensaver that I thought was an "error message" theme, and it was QT and zoom related. I thought, "How.. specific for a random screensaver module."
22:42.14systemdleteThat's why I posted in THIS channel...
22:42.47systemdleteTrying to alert the support people like fsmithred and gnarface so they will know how to help other users
22:44.10fsmithredthat's weird
22:44.33fsmithreddid the xscreensaver dev think this was a good idea?
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22:48.06fsmithredyou do know that closing that zoom popup does not close the zoom app, right?
22:48.23fsmithredyou have to right-click on the panel icon to really close it
22:49.14fsmithredI do not understand the logic of opening a video chat app when you've been away from the computer long enough for the screensaver to kick in
22:50.08rrqafaik xscreensaver runs any command that you tell it to run
22:50.31golinuxSo it knows when you come back and how log you've been gone?
22:50.45golinuxlog > long
22:53.05rrqit indeed is a cognisant beeing
22:55.10rrqI use xautolock rather which is merely a program
22:56.25rrqconfigure it to moo 10 seconds before running the locker just to warn me
22:57.05rrqbut I haven't configured it to run zoom as locker
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