Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster
On 2019-06-30, Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> wrote:
> Il 30/06/19 11:52, Curt ha scritto:
>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928956
>>
>> Due to #765854 ecryptfs-utils has been removed from Buster.
>> The kernel module (ecryptfs.ko) is still built but depending on the
>> upgrade path users will be unable to mount their encrypted home
>> directories (pam module, ecryptfs-mount-private missing).
>> So they should probably be strongly advised to not upgrade.
>
> Should I count myself lucky that I have two systems running "testing"
> with also "stable" sources? Perhaps it's time to mark the package as
> "hold" :)
>
> I'd be interested to know if there is an alternative: not so much for my
> desktop but my laptop really needs it. Thanks for the heads up, though.
I haven't yet investigated the alternatives.
I guess I will be rolling back the encryption and purging the
incriminated software. I have nagging doubts about my encrypted swap and
whether I need to roll that back, too. I guess I will.
Another, less serious, gotcha for those inveterate upgraders and newbies
who don't read the release notes is that
'/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' is no longer a valid
mechanism for defining device names. This mechanism (automagically)
permitted users upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch (where the old-style
names were deprecated) to continue using their obsolete, legacy
interface names (eth0, anyone?).
Me, I migrated to the new-fangled denominations as per the instructions
at the link below to obviate the eventual loss of network connectivity,
which is a bummer when you don't what you're doing and all the help
available is at the other end of the severed wire.
https://www.debian.org/releases///buster/s390x/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#migrate-interface-names
The Wanderer and other recalcitrants allergic to progress (just kidding)
can still resort to the 'net.ifname=0 kernel' command line option for
relief.
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
>
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