Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

[Michael Felt <aixtools@gmail.com>]

And last little bit - what is the linux world thinking - spaces in file names? Good grief. (as well as very long names).

root@jessie:/etc/NetworkManager# ls -l system*
total 4
-rw------- 1 root root 260 May  1 22:44 Wired connection 1

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Michael Felt <aixtools@gmail.com> wrote:

Maybe something else to add to the release notes - the new /etc/NetworkManager/* (I hate long names and caps - I know this is not UNIX, but one of the goals of UNIX was to keep things short, fewer key presses, and less output (the example given was IBM 'mainframe' that gave a page of text for a command that had no output - making it much easier to start the 'pipe' concept - only send the output) compared to /etc/network/* for configuring (static) interfaces.

imho a real pain - every distribution of Linux has a different way of doing things (although I am beginning to think it is a different version of Linux - change things because we can - because every distribution of Linux seems to be a different version of Linux).

Previous UNIX vendors would have been hung out to dry for this kind of 'change management (read mis-management). (imho).

Anyway, please add NetworkManager - and other core Linux changes, or a link to 'Linux-world' changes - although I would expect Debian to take responsibility for the list of changes between:
Linux wheezy 3.2.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 ppc64 GNU/Linux

and
Linux jessie 3.16.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) ppc64 GNU/Linux

my two cents.

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Felt wrote:
[...]

> BTW: I notice a slight difference in how 'login as root' works between
> wheezy and jessie. On both systems I have enabled 'root login' for my
> initial tests. With wheezy I cannot login as root on the console, but
> can login using ssh. On Jessie this is the reverse. I assume this is
> deliberate.
[...]

The ssh part: yes, and that's documented in the release notes:
<https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#openssh>.

The console part: I don't think so; this is probably a bug in wheezy.
The last time I had that sort of problem, it was due to an omission from
the file /etc/securetty (list of devices that root may log in through).
But in wheezy that file does include hvc0.

Ben.

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