Bug#673328: live-installer does not preserve /var/log; breaks freeradius

2012-12-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
retitle 673328 fix live-installer to properly detect errors during tar extraction thanks On Thu, 06 Dec 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I had a similar problem and it's probably the same as #652946. So instead of reassigning it and merging it, we will repurpose this bug to track the problem

Bug#652946: partman-target should not create /var/run

2012-12-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Michael Tokarev wrote: This whole hack is not needed anymore, and /run will be created in a usual way during install process. So this whole trick should be removed. I agree. Here's the corresponding patch. It would be nice if someone could commit it so that it gets

Bug#673328: live-installer does not preserve /var/log; breaks freeradius

2012-12-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 17 May 2012, Sam Hartman wrote: If the live system includes the freeradius package, it fails to start freeradius because /var/log/freeradius fails to exist. As best I can tell something in the installer is clobbering /var/log because it's missing a lot of directories and files present

Re: xz strategies

2012-03-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 09 Mar 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: I'd appreciate if you could go ahead and push the xz strategies patch for dpkg-deb to unstable. The conversion of d-i udebs to xz compression blocks on this and should better not be delayed further. The other components are ready / will be patched

Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

2011-07-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Otavio, On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Otavio Salvador wrote: It seems XZ support has been included in 1.0.21, as can be seen at: Yeah but debian-installer doesn't have bzip2 and xz in the host so it's not really useful... you saw the recent bugs when libacl used bz2 compression. About the use of

Re: squeeze-updates during Squeeze installation

2011-02-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
(Moving to debian-boot@lists.debian.org where it's more appropriate) On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Adnan Hodzic wrote: Hello, During Squeeze installation process, since volatile archive was replaced with squeeze-updates and error of unreachable archive occurs. Of course installation process can be

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#608522: postgresql-common.config: wrong use of $2

2011-01-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
reassign 608674 debconf retitle 608674 debconf calls .config script with bad arguments when postinst triggered is run severity 608674 important clone 608674 -1 reassign -1 cdebconf thanks On Sun, 02 Jan 2011, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: reassign -1 dpkg 1.15.8.7 Bug #608674

d-i should use dpkg --force-unsafe-io

2010-11-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
, Raphael Hertzog wrote: 2/ d-i should be modified to use --force-unsafe-io if it detects a dpkg version = 1.15.8.6. dpkg has become slower due to the usage of fsync() to ensure data consistency in case of crashes/power failures. In the context of d-i, a crash means restarting the installation

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
(Dropping bug report) On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Hence the fact that all file system developers, whether they were btrfs developers or XFS developers or ext4 developers, made the joke at the file system developers summit two years ago, that what the application

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: c) extract(a.dpkg-new); extract(b.dpkg-new); extract(c.dpkg-new); fsync(a.dpkg-new); fsync(b.dpkg-new); fsync(c.dpkg-new); rename(a.dpkg-new, a); rename(b.dpkg-new, b); rename(c.dpkg-new, c); (c)

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, adding debian-devel, debian-boot, debian-kernel and Theodore Y. Ts'o in CC because I'm fed up with this problem. Sorry for the massive crosspost, you might want to follow up only on -devel and on the bug report. Some clones/reassign should probably result from this discussion anyway. On

Re: Bug#603938: debian-installer: The 1st CD doesn't contain desktop nor laptop tasks

2010-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: Result: only mail server, SSH server and standart system are available. Unfortunately, that's expected result. As discussed on So let's close this bug. There is no need and gain to keep this bug report open (against general at least),

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Modestas Vainius wrote: On trečiadienis 20 Spalis 2010 22:33:34 Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:20:31 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: Btw, how will I be able to enable --force-unsafe-io for dpkg when it's run under apt/aptitude? Maybe environment

Package-Type not included in udebs

2010-05-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 07 Apr 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: Anyway, I'd rather just make dpkg-dev special case udebs and not output the field to the binary, even if I think that will imply lose of automation and better integration among others, than a possible solution shoved down the d-i team throat

Bug#579522: tasksel - Removes packages without consent

2010-05-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: Package: tasksel Version: 2.81 Severity: grave On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:09:56PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: - Task reinstallation removed packages first. The task installation must not remove packages without approval. What task did you

Bug#579645: base-installer: Should be usable to install base system somewhere else than /target

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Package: base-installer Version: 1.106 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I have a custom udeb for a debian derivative that installs supplementary debian base systems and configures them as virtual machines or chroots. However I want to install those in /target/srv/something and not in /target

Bug#575059: Should Package-Type be included in udebs or not?

2010-03-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Package: tech-ctte (a change in lintian is triggering my request) On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: following the instructions given by Frans in [1], I've written a tiny check to ensure I wasn't missing any occurrences in the bunch of udebs I'm currently adding. I guess it would be

Bug#489006: debian-installer: After grub software raid installation, machine fails to boot with first drive removed or blanked.

2009-06-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
tag 489006 patch thanks On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I would suggest to force install grub-pc when boot partition is on RAID and replace (hd0) by (md0) for installation in MBR. Maybe we need a supplementary check that ensures that (hd0) is part of (md0). I might try to come up

Bug#489006: debian-installer: After grub software raid installation, machine fails to boot with first drive removed or blanked.

2009-06-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 17.06.2009, 15:43 +0200 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote: I think this shouldn't anymore happen with grub2. It supports the Linux Software RAID. Could you please try it? (grub-pc package

Bug#489006: debian-installer: After grub software raid installation, machine fails to boot with first drive removed or blanked.

2009-06-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote: I think this shouldn't anymore happen with grub2. It supports the Linux Software RAID. Could you please try it? (grub-pc package) How are we supposed to try it? grub-install /dev/md0 ? In any case, grub-installer still needs some modifications to do

Bug#524233: console-setup should conflict with console-data

2009-05-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 23 May 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14:34PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Package: console-setup, console-data Severity: serious Hi, console-setup and console-data both allow you to setup the keyboard layout but they do not take each other settings

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: This means that Debian will get uninstallable on the following CPUs: - Intel i486, There is new hardware sold today that is (only) compatible to the 486 SX instruction set. But it runs at 300 MHz. So it would be a pity to loose support for such

Bug#527641: Package installation overwrites /etc/default/console-setup without warning

2009-05-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
found 527641 1.35 found 527641 1.36 thanks On Fri, 08 May 2009, Dave Witbrodt wrote: I have set the severity of this bug report to serious because, technically, it is a policy violation to overwrite user changes to file in /etc; This is the real problem this bug is about... so closing it with

Bug#527641: Package installation overwrites /etc/default/console-setup without warning

2009-05-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
notfound 527641 1.35 notfound 527641 1.36 retitle 527641 doesn't support/keep undefined FONT* parameters close 527641 1.35 On Wed, 20 May 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: If you have found the bug in versions 1.35 and 1.36, please provide more information: is this reproduced behaviour, how did it

Bug#514016: options for fixing

2009-02-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Thomas Viehmann wrote: What would dpkg do with the symlinks in the the unpack phase? I have not tested it, but I would venture the same thing (calling tar, ergo having the same problem) from when I last looked at it. dpkg does not call tar, it has it own tar

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item]

2008-04-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ ---BeginMessage--- Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:29:58 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Determining a file's type from its extension is weak and specific? I'd say generally, yes. But it also depends

Bug#475783: marked as done (busybox: mounting loopback device fails in initrd (using live-initramfs))

2008-04-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:37:02PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: * Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080420 19:03]: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:51:29AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: So the mount binary of busybox works whereas the one

Bug#475783: marked as done (busybox: mounting loopback device fails in initrd (using live-initramfs))

2008-04-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
reopen 475783 reassign 475783 live-initramfs retitle 475783 generated initrd fails mounting loopback device thanks On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:28:29AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Why aren't you reassigning it to klibc-utils instead? Its neither

Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: BTW, has anyone looked at how library symbols files interact with udeb: lines in shlibs files? The symbols file tend to override the shlibs files, and I wonder if this won't result in bad dependencies in udebs as the libraries they depend on are

Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: Symbols files are not used for udebs. So they won't affect dependencies of udebs. Not that I don't trust you about this, but just to make sure... Do symbol files affect the way shlibs files are generated, or will those remain unchanged? Those

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: If nobody has any objections, i'll follow Frans' advice and file a bug against dpkg-dev. Yes, makes sense. I've just fixed it in dpkg's git [0]. Except it will only work if the package uses 'Package-Type' and not 'X*-Package-Type'. We should maybe

Bug#408643: debian-installer-manual: Document that booting on USB key requires a key with 512-bytes sectors

2007-01-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: normal I tried to follow the instructions from section 4.4: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s04.html Unfortunately syslinux is not usable with my USB key: $ sudo syslinux /dev/sda1 syslinux: only 512-byte sectors are supported And

Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge

2004-08-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Quoting Joey Hess: 15. Get ftp-master to remove kernel udebs for the old kernel version from testing. This will *break* some old released install media (floppy, netboot, not cdrom), but it's necessary before release. Why is this necessary ? I'm a bit worried that rc1 netinst images do

d-i and qemu ?

2004-07-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi everybody, I wanted to try d-i with qemu but it failed to detect the network card (although I made sure that qemu had network support by using the -n switch). Selecting the ne module by hand doesn't help either (I tried several modules related to NE2K). FYI, here's how I use qemu for d-i : I

Re: TRANS.TBL on CDs

2004-06-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Quoting Steve McIntyre: Guys, We're still putting TRANS.TBL files in every directory on the CDs. Surely by now we can just lose them? They're going to be wasting space on all the images (especially important on netinst and business card), and I'd bet that we're not bothered about supporting

Re: Not usefull kernel images take all first Debian sarge CD :(

2004-01-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ removing debian-devel which is not really necessary but added debian-boot ] Quoting Goswin von Brederlow: Test and pre kernels could be kept in sid exclusively. They could, but for the moment they aren't and I have to live up with that. :) For non i386 the list of kernels differs widely

Re: Problems building d-i on sparc: mklibs failed

2004-01-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:42:39PM -0800, Blars Blarson écrivait: Apparently you use debian-cd, which requires a local package mirror. From my looking into it, debian-cd will need some minor tweeks to build bootable sparc CDs. When I get it running, I'll submit appropriate bugs. Please

Re: Bug#225075: X-Mas netinst stumbles over release file

2003-12-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
reassign 225075 installation-reports thanks Le Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 06:25:04PM +0100, Harald Dunkel écrivait: Package: debian-cd Version: unknown Hi folks, When I tried to install Debian using the X-Mas netinst CD (Dec 24th) I got this error message: Where did you download that CD ?

Re: let the gates open...

2003-12-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:45:41AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: Duh, I'm wrong, the PTS is working on master but the DNS (MX) are still wrong... I asked debian-admin to update them and I hope the PTS will be working today. Everything is fixed now, you can safely redirect the CVS commit

Re: let the gates open...

2003-12-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:04:38PM -0500, Joey Hess écrivait: Since the PTS is down, commit emails would be delayed or lost. I have moved them to go directly to this mailing list, until the PTS comes back up. If you were not subscribed to the commit emails on the PTS, this will be some more

Re: let the gates open...

2003-12-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:35:44AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: Le Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:04:38PM -0500, Joey Hess écrivait: Since the PTS is down, commit emails would be delayed or lost. I have moved them to go directly to this mailing list, until the PTS comes back up. If you were

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:00:12PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan écrivait: We can build two netinst sets for now if you want, but I'd rather build test images with the last version of isolinux in debug mode before making a decision on all this, anybody objects on building this kind of images

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:29:25PM -0500, Joey Hess écrivait: I have just tried it and it works, even though the setup for syslinux should be changed a bit to include the help screens and all that, this should be done in debian-installer, as it is d-i who makes that image. There are

Re: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd

2003-11-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:54:19AM -0500, Joey Hess écrivait: Yes, we will need at least two lists. The netinsts and business card may be the same. There may also be minor variances for different architectures. No problem, the lists are preprocessed by cpp and you can include/exclude packages

Re: prerequisites for debian-installer image upload

2003-10-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:24:26PM -0500, Joey Hess écrivait: debian-cd: What kinds of images do you use/need from the debian-installer tree for building CDs on the various architectures? There is both an initrd image, and a CD boot floppy image, and I do not want to waste space in the

Re: how to get cvs commit messages for d-i?

2003-07-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:37:58AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen écrivait: [Joey Hess] I tried a few different mails to the bot but I cannot find the right magic invocation to subscribe to d-i commit messages. Help? Check for instance

Re: Making netinst CDs Not Suck

2003-04-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:24:15PM +0200, Martin Sjögren écrivait: The cvs version of anna now supports calling the retriever with a 'config' argument, and tries to load a list of udebs to automatically install from /var/cache/anna/autoinst. Now we need: How does that interact together ?

Re: Making netinst CDs Not Suck

2003-03-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:05:44AM +, Alastair McKinstry écrivait: I don't know how to fix 2, but one idea I had for fixing 1 was to have overrides in the netinst CD building, so ethdetect and friends would be normally optional, but when put on a netinst CD, they'd be overridden to

Re: Where are d-i CVS commit messages being sent ?

2003-02-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:24:39PM -0200, André Luís Lopes écrivait: Hi, Sorry if it's a FAQ, but I wasn't able to figure out by myself where the messages which were sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are being sent now. I was used to check this list daily looking for any changes within CVS

Re: Official testing NetInst cds being weekly built

2003-01-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:51:17AM +0100, Richard Atterer écrivait: Am I correct in assuming that these images are not suited at all for installing woody? Yes. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

mklibs doesn't manage to include symbol atexit

2002-12-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Please put me in cc in your answer so that I have a copy at work too, thanks ] Hello, i'm using mklibs at work here and I have a problem with it. One of the binaries that I use (lilo-mtd) requires the symbol atexit and mklibs doesn't manage to include it in the libc6 generated from the -pic

Re: [important] CVS-generated email shouldn't go here

2002-12-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:37:04PM -0600, Adam DiCarlo écrivait: Oh my. I didn't even realize that debian-installer wasn't a package. Maybe I should burst out the debian-installer/* commits to their actual source packages instead. That sounds like a better plan. The only problem there is

Re: [important] CVS-generated email shouldn't go here

2002-12-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:01:40AM +, Colin Watson écrivait: Raphael, you'd have to add support for a debian-installer_cvs pseudo-source-package to the PTS manually, I suppose. Would it work? How? What would the web pages say for it? Everything works automagically, I don't need any

Re: [important] CVS-generated email shouldn't go here

2002-12-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:05:10AM +, Colin Watson écrivait: Everything works automagically, I don't need any override. Anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is automatically forwarded to the subscribers of entry xx who have the keyword cvs enabled. Oh, I see. What about the virtual

Re: Debian-Installer Alpha Release

2002-10-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 06:59:36PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: I can make the initrd available. The kernel is exactly what is in the kernel-image-di package, but I suppose I can make it available redundantly if you really need it. Yes, please. If the kernel is the same on all boot images (as I

Re: Debian-Installer Alpha Release

2002-10-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:15:11PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: Would you please also build nightly net images? Well I've worked out a disgusting way to let a regular user build a d-i floppy image, and so I will now be uploading daily builds of all available image types, including 2.8 and

Re: Debian-Installer Alpha Release

2002-10-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:41:55AM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: Is that supposed to be access controlled so I can't list the directory over the web? Nope, it was just badly configured and .htaccess was not authorized. It's fixed now. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com

Re: Debian-Installer Alpha Release

2002-10-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:23:45PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: NB2: Looks to me like the cdrom-retreiver looks for Packages in dists/sid/suite/debian-installer/binary-*/Packages, which seems a mite off (isn't sid a suite?) especially for sarge cdroms. It would be good if

Re: Anyone actually using autopartkit v0.2?

2002-09-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:38:01AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen écrivait: I know, but I'm still working on fixing it, and was just wondering if I should make our current version available for a larger audience. Oh, if you're sure that you're going to do it, then you can take over the current CVS

Re: Anyone actually using autopartkit v0.2?

2002-08-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:33:20PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen écrivait: Is there anyone actually using the version in Debian CVS, or is it OK for me to just replace it with the skolelinux version? The Skolelinux version is not able to present a question about which device to use, but will

Re: error from CVS in committing changes

2002-08-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:48:10AM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco écrivait: Checking in README-Users.it.m4; /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/README-Users.it.m4,v -- README-Users.it.m4 new revision: 1.5; previous revision: 1.4 done cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/home/aph): No such file or directory

Re: d-i udebs up-to-dateness of archive

2002-07-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:52:57AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen écrivait: autopartkit 0.02n/a if used?[1][2] It is used by Skolelinux. And by debian-educ. :) I've done a lot of changes to this package in the Skolelinux CVS. I hope to merge this with the

Severe limitation with flavor bf2.4 !

2002-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, I was discussing with someone who wanted to install Debian with the netinst CD prepared by Chris Lawrence. Like most of the people who are given the choice, he decided to use the bf2.4 flavor ... Unfortunately this flavor doesn't have the ne2k-pci module ! Such network cards are so common

Re: Severe limitation with flavor bf2.4 !

2002-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Eduard Bloch écrivait: Unfortunately this flavor doesn't have the ne2k-pci module ! Such network Oh Raphael, I expected you to look first before believing everything... Oh sorry ... I checked with dpkg -c on the package. :-) Why didn't you put it

Re: Severe limitation with flavor bf2.4 !

2002-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:46:35AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: Of course, now that bf 3.0.23 has been tagged and uploaded, it's too late for woody ... and we'll release as is. But please update everything so that 3.0r1 will be ok. In fact, it's too important to release as is. I suggest

Re: Severe limitation with flavor bf2.4 !

2002-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:35:36AM +0200, Eduard Bloch écrivait: Since I favorite the idea of a real network-based installation. Currently, there are drivers for very common PCI ethernet cards builtin, so you can theoreticaly install with 2 floppies from the network. And with an additional

Re: Will debian-cd 2.2.15 be used for woody?

2002-05-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:56:01PM +0200, Karsten Merker écrivait: Hallo everybody, will debian-cd 2.2.15 (still unreleased) be used for woody? Boot-floppies 3.0.23 are about to be released and as debian-cd 2.2.15 will bring us bootable CDs on mipsel, I would like to change the

Bug#145904: install-doc: Document isolinux multiboot failure with SCSI cdrom (i386 only)

2002-05-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:17:28PM +0100, Rob Bradford écrivait: The Release notes may need to be updated at the same time. Uhm, i didnt realise we releasing official cd images with isolinux. Which section of the release notes is relevent? Well, i just checked, you don't speak of

Bug#145904: install-doc: Document isolinux multiboot failure with SCSI cdrom (i386 only)

2002-05-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Package: install-doc Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-05 Severity: normal The section describing the various install CDs and what they boot needs to be updated (for i386). We realized that the isolinux multiboot method seems to fail on most SCSI cdrom readers. So, that means that SCSI users

[ron.stordahl@digikey.com: Debian CD1 Woody]

2002-04-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
I received this installation report by private mail. He has a problem using an http proxy during the installation. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com ---BeginMessage--- I tried an install from

Bug#142305: i386 - borders gone on vanilla flavor

2002-04-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:36:11AM +0200, Eduard Bloch écrivait: Philip? Well, debian-cd did not release afaik, so they still could set this argument at least for the multiboot CD. Others require the change in BFs and a new release, of course. It has already been done last WE ... | LABEL

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman écrivait: Also it would be fine if we could give some guidance about how to make that choice - type of system, connected hardware, age? I guess the differences are already covered for vanilla/compact/idepci, but how about bf2.4? Which

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:44:42PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: 1: multiboot 2: vanilla 3: compact 4: idepci 5: bf2.4 [...] Sounds excellent to me. I'm excited to try it, I've never even seen the ISO boot in action. Can you update the installation manual if it hasn't already

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:11:43PM +0200, Eduard Bloch écrivait: Btw, I would suggest this order: 1: Multiboot 3: idepci 2: bf2.4 4: compact 5 and rest: vanilla So people with broken BIOSes have luck with the next CD-ROM. I will probably do this (as suggested by aj) : 1: multiboot 2:

Re: cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by lawrencc

2002-04-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:45:11PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master écrivait: Add disksize argument to loadlin command lines. BTW, I noticed that you removed the cdrom argument from the loadlin call. I guess it's not needed. In fact I think it's a good idea to put it back and to add it to the

[gwolf@campus.iztacala.unam.mx: Small report (re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available)]

2002-04-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, I'm forwarding this report since it contains information that may be valuable for you too... if you plan to make yet another bf upload before the release. The cat:: missing command is an error which someone else already reported to debian-cd when using the bf24 flavor. Cheers, -- Raphaël

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:53:56AM +0200, Christian Leber écrivait: The same with gentoo, they have even managed to fit a 2.4 kernel on their first and only CD. But I have at least one Computer (i386, from end of 1996) where isolinux fails. What kind of failure ? It doesn't boot at all ? It

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:50:50PM -0800, David Kimdon écrivait: aph and I were just talking on irc, how about : cd1: idepci; cd2 scsi; cd3: bf2.4; cd4: vanilla That gives us language chooser on the first CD, a big plus, while still giving us 2.2 as 'default'. IMO leaving the language

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:17:58AM -0800, Jim Westveer écrivait: Hi, - -- Question: Would there be any objections to setting the default boot kernel on woody CD#1 to the bf2.4 flavor ??? I guess it's a bit late for this change since it probably means that we have to update the

Re: Needs feedback and testing

2002-03-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 12:47:55PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen écrivait: [Raphael Hertzog] Doing install in a language that is included with the language pack but that is not on the boot floppy itself. OK, then I believe it does not work. Checking my freshly built CD, I see

Re: Bug#138357: woody's list of base debs must be updated

2002-03-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:43:08PM +0100, Eduard Bloch écrivait: changed. debian-cd needs to update this file or, even better, generate the list dynamically. I see, the basedebs list is hardcoded and should be updated as soon as possible. Raphael (or whoever), could you fix this before

Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

2002-03-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:23:40PM -0800, David Kimdon écrivait: One things that came up in the BTS is that the debian-cd package currently doesn't need to manipulate the *.bin images that boot-floppies makes for it. If I understand correctly what we are discussing here the debian-cd package

Re: packages required in installation (Re: apt-utils in debootstrap)

2002-01-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:40:14PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:22:11PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: The following script checks for validity of priority/section (and I think this is what should be done, please tell me if something looks wrong) : for A in

Re: packages required in installation (Re: apt-utils in debootstrap)

2002-01-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:42:44PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa écrivait: By the way, shouldn't the task file creation be automated ? The task files are not meant to be automatically created. We should do that for the file listing the packages required by debootstrap but even automating it is not

Re: Bug#123948: woody CD not passing 'cdrom' argument

2001-12-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:08:03AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: How do you expect us to set that argument ? Merely by editing the syslinux.cfg file I guess, during the build. Yes but to do that, I need to mount the image with the loopback. And for this you need to be root ... debian-cd

Re: Bug#123948: woody CD not passing 'cdrom' argument

2001-12-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:09:26AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: Package: debian-cd My testing with install from woody based on a 3.0.17 CD which bbennet was kind enough to suppy me with lead me to discover that the official CD-rom sets do *not* set the 'cdrom' bootargument ! How do you

Re: [d-i] growth of insmod since 2001-09-05

2001-10-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:45:18AM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: In the past few months, something has made insmod grow 15k. I'm talking about the insmod in modutils-basic. Do you have any clue what might be making it get so much bigger? I hope depmod wasn't accidentially included in that build

Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

2001-10-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:58:53PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: Looks interesting, but I'll let it sit for a while since we're not aiming at cdrom installs quite yet. Hopefully it won't be too far away ... once you have a working network installer, it'll be a matter of hours to have a working

Re: [d-i] partkit vs autopartkit

2001-10-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:06:38PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: 1. Identifying available media, and deciding which to use. 2. Identifying existing partitions, and deciding what to do with them (delete them, keep them unchanged, resize them). 3. Deciding how many

Re: Bug#111937: debian-cd: setting language in boot-i386

2001-09-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:25:26AM -0300, Carlos Barros écrivait: This is the boot-i386 that I change to set the *.txt and font.psf of the rescue.bin image right before the inclusion in the CD. The file is debian-cd/tools/woody/boot-i386 Hope you like it. Unfortunately no, I don't

Re: debootstrap not working in boot floppies 3.0.13

2001-09-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:22:46PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: Why don't you reassign it then ? You've got luck that I've seen this mail here ... i'm the submitter and never got a direct answer. :-( This is #110552 then? Yes. I cced the bug report on debian-boot without using the

debootstrap not working in boot floppies 3.0.13

2001-08-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Package: deboostrap Version: 0.1.15.2 Severity: important I tried a woody cdrom install with the boot floppies 3.0.13 (on i386). But it failed at the debootstrap stage. The error code returned by debootstrap was 2 and the error log displayed : debootstrap: arithmetic expression: syntax error:

Bug#109925: Easy to fix

2001-08-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi people, i also got hit by this error, the problem is just that the azerty/fr-latin0 keymap is not included in the keymaps.tgz that is used. Please include it. If you don't have enough space, remove fr-latin1 in favor of fr-latin0 and make sure that fr-latin1 is no more proposed in the menu.

Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD

2001-08-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:03:56PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: I think split floppy images of base make the most sense. It seems that we all agree on this point. Split floppy 1.44k images of base would cover the case where someone wants to install on a machine that has only floppy and

Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

2001-08-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:10:42PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: I had hoped that the first working debian-installer would be able to do network installs, and it's not too far away. I think actually that the peices it's missing are all required for the cdrom installer (partitioning, debootstrap

Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

2001-08-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:58:14PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: strip -R .comment -R .note, it saves about 500k on the scsi directory. (eventually I heard that compiling them with -Os could help too but that'd need more work for you Herbert) Wow! We need this. Is this done on the

Re: [debian-installer] Some questions

2001-08-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:15:00PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: But launching an external program would break the nice encapsulation of the UI. Was that already discussed ? Yes, this is a problem of course. Debconf may come in handy for feeding in pre-determined partition setups, and it

Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

2001-08-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 07:20:09PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: ide-probe-mod is not automatically included, it must be added to this list. Ok, sorry, here's yet another change. Since libdetect won't work without ide-disk I need to add it and there's no point in integrating all the IDE

Re: [debian-installer] Could not boot on disk, kernel loader issue

2001-08-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:35:29AM +0200, Romain BEAUGRAND écrivait: You should try using syslinux 1.48-2. And indeed, with the syslinux in potato, it does work. I've submitted a grave bug report against syslinux. Now I get those messages from the kernel : | Warning: Unable to open an initial

Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

2001-08-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 07:45:56PM +1000, Herbert Xu écrivait: cdrom-modules-kver-udeb . all modules that are in kernel/driver/cdrom/ : aztcd.o cdu31a.o gscd.o mcd.o optcd.o sjcd.o cdrom.o cm206.o isp16.o mcdx.o sbpcd.o sonycd535.o . ide-cd . isofs ide-probe-mod

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