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This documentation deals with CDBS, a tool to help Debian packages creation. This documentation was made when only spare notes were available, to help CDBS wide adoption. Unfortunately, it is not the same document as the one included in the official Debian package, even if the latter is a fork of this documentation, because the CDBS maintainer did not even think about cooperating. Both versions ar

The Bug On May 13th, 2008 the Debian project announced that Luciano Bello found an interesting vulnerability in the OpenSSL package they were distributing. The bug in question was caused by the removal of the following line of code from md_rand.c MD_Update(&m,buf,j); [ .. ] MD_Update(&m,buf,j); /* purify complains */ These lines were removed because they caused the Valgrind and Purify tools to pro

Details about individual drivers 3w-xxxx Hardware using this driver: 3ware 8xxx controllers and earlier. There is a CLI tool (tw_cli) from 3Ware which supports all functions of the card. There is a GUI tool (3dm2) accessible via browser used for management and monitoring daemon that configures the RAID, monitors the disk status and sends mail on failure. Both tools are available as Debian packages

The ARM EABI port (armel) is the default port in Debian for ARM architecture versions 4T, 5T, and 6. From Debian 10 (buster), 4T is no longer supported and the armel baseline was updated to 5T. If you have 4T hardware, please use Debian stretch or upgrade your hardware. Other ports to ARM hardware exist / have existed in Debian - see ArmPorts for more links and an overview In a nutshell EABI is th

_ mini-dinstallでRelease.gpg この話をうけて、mini-dinstallでRelease.gpgを作る実験をしてみる。といってもそのためのサンプルスクリプトが入っているたりする。ちなみにmini-dinstallはRelease-Packages-Sourcesを一組だけ作り、apt-lineも「/」で終わるタイプのエントリにする必要がある。さて、実験のほうだが、まずは以下のような設定をしておく: [DEFAULT] archivedir = /tmp/archive archive_style = simple-subdir verify_sigs = 1 release_signscript = /tmp/sign-release.sh [unstable] generate_release = 1 release_description = Mini-di

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Dell PowerEdge 9G servers (x9xx, 840, 860, SC1435, and SC440) can work well with Debian, provided you have a new-enough kernel or are willing to backport drivers from a new-enough kernel to your older kernel. The three PowerEdge components that cause the most difficulty for new Debian sysadmins are the PERC 5 SAS RAID controllers (megaraid_sas driver), the SAS 5 non-RAID controllers (mptsas driver

This page describes how to compile your own modified kernel from the linux-2.6 source package, rather than the debianized source tarball provided in linux-source-2.6.xx. Hopefully it will be integrated into the kernel handbook someday. See also HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage, which, despite its name, seems to address similar problems. Purpose My initial purpose was to build two images,

All about secure apt Debian uses strong cryptography to validate downloaded packages. This is commonly called "secure apt" (or "apt-secure") and was implemented in Apt version 0.6 in 2003, which Debian migrated to in 2005. Since the documentation (here and here) is fairly slim on how this all works from an administrator's point of view, this document will try to explain in detail how secure apt wo

The main web page for the project FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)FAI is an automated installation tool to install or deploy Debian GNU/Linux and other distributions on a bunch of different hosts or a Cluster. It's more flexible than other tools like kickstart for Red Hat, autoyast and alice for SuSE or Jumpstart for SUN Solaris. FAI can also be used for configuration management of a running sys

Debian Bug report logs - #319244 openssh-server: Build the package with the OpenSSH LDAP public key patch (openssh-lpk)

The switch from initrd to initramfs for newer Debian kernels This information is of historical interest only. Debian kernels require an initial ramdisk to work Debian has for some time distributed and installed modular kernels by default, depending on the helper package initrd-tools to add the needed modules in a cramfs initrd-image. 2.6 has a newer format, initramfs, which is an cpio gzipped arch