Re: Keeping boot/* out of filesystem.squashfs

2008-08-26 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le lun 25 aoû 2008 16:41:26 CEST, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : the reason for that is that your patch is, although it would work, not a good (passing environment variables to live-helper is possible, but should never be done if it is possible through a config file or config

Moving debian-live-devel to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, as Debian Live will be an official Debian subproject starting with the upcoming Lenny Beta 1 release, I've requested a new list, [EMAIL PROTECTED], in order to reflect the 'new' state (in practise, that means that this list here, debian-live-devel and it's archives will move to that new

Re: Moving debian-live-devel to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
Marco Amadori wrote: It is nice when shorter means longer :-) lol, yes :) as a side note, the howto-request-list thing points to http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe for examples of the long-description, which is indeed a very short long-description. -- Address:Daniel Baumann,

Bug#491313: live-initramfs: support splashy

2008-08-26 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 16/08/2008, Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michal Suchanek wrote: When splashy is installed in the root image it shows on boot and does nothing until the init from the root image is executed. Oh? Splashy currently works quite well within Debian Live. Running the image

Bug#491313: live-initramfs: support splashy - patch

2008-08-26 Thread Michal Suchanek
Attaching a patch that enables the remove CD prompt in splashy. live-splashy.patch Description: Binary data ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel

Bug#491313: live-initramfs: support splashy - patch

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michal Suchanek wrote: Attaching a patch that enables the remove CD prompt in splashy. commited, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/

Bug#496684: live-initramfs: panics during network boot if there is not network interface

2008-08-26 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-initramfs Severity: important Hello I am not exactly sure about the cause of this problem but it seems it is because I tried http network boot and did not have any NIC supported by Linux. The symptom: During the network boot the system panics. The last message is Runnnig

live-helper for Slax

2008-08-26 Thread maybeway36
debootstrap is designed to run on any Linux distribution, to facilitate installations from Red Hat, Slackware and the like. I realized that live-helper uses debootstrap for the initial stage, and does most other operations inside the chroot. This got me to thinking: could live-helper produce a

Re: live-helper for Slax

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
maybeway36 wrote: debootstrap is designed to run on any Linux distribution, to facilitate installations from Red Hat, Slackware and the like. I realized that live-helper uses debootstrap for the initial stage, and does most other operations inside the chroot. This got me to thinking: could

Re: RFC: Roadmap to Lenny, or announcing Lenny Beta 1 RSN

2008-08-26 Thread Chris Lamb
Daniel Baumann wrote: For Debian Live, I'm propose the following roadmap: Looks all good. If I'm missing something, please directly add it there (or reply to this mail explaining it if you think it needs to be discussed first). Here are a list of issues affecting Debian Live that I think

Re: Keeping boot/* out of filesystem.squashfs

2008-08-26 Thread Phillip Lougher
Juergen Fiedler juergen.fiedler at gmail.com writes: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Daniel Baumann daniel at debian.org wrote: [...] i've commited a not perfect but less limited approach: It looks like this fix made it into live-helper 1.0.0+20080825.163637, so I created

Re: RFC: Roadmap to Lenny, or announcing Lenny Beta 1 RSN

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
Chris Lamb wrote: Here are a list of issues affecting Debian Live that I think should be fixed or investigated before Lenny. Ignoring the live-installer entry, they all affect packages out of our direct control. Thanks Chris from bringing these to attention. * live-installer not installing

Re: Keeping boot/* out of filesystem.squashfs

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
Phillip Lougher wrote: Mksquashfs 3.3 significantly improves the exclude file mechanism adding wildcard support and removing the odd behaviour seen previously. To use this you have to specify the -wildcards option to Mksquashfs. depending on the fact if we build chrooted or not, the exclude