Bug#95921: superformat isn't on root.bin or installed by debootstrap
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-05-01 Severity: grave dbootstrap attempts to execute /target/bin/superformat. debootstrap has not installed the package fdutils where superformat would be found. One of the following is probably a good idea: 1. have debootstrap install fdutils, but since it is priority optional that probably doesn't make sense unless it is conditional on the --boot-floppies command line switch. Interestingly slink and potato versions of debootstrap install fdutils. 2. include superformat on root.bin. I'd rather have debootstrap include it that put it on root.bin since we need to limit what goes into root.bin and superformat can be pulled onto the system later. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux ruff 2.2.17 #2 Sat Dec 30 11:46:38 PST 2000 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 00:33:49 PDT 2001 Log Message: save off /target/etc/modutils before calling debootstrap, fix it after calling debootstrap as it gets trampled by the modutils package. touch /target/sbin/unconfigured.sh so that we are prompted to configure the base system fix some compiler warnings that were actually pointing out potential problems. fix a comment Files: changed:extract_base.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to base-config/debian by dwhedon
Repository: base-config/debian who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 00:45:03 PDT 2001 Log Message: some fixes to Danish translation that I am going to need to have Claus Hindsgaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] take a look at. Files: changed:templates.da -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to base-config by dwhedon
Repository: base-config who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 00:45:03 PDT 2001 Log Message: some fixes to Danish translation that I am going to need to have Claus Hindsgaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] take a look at. Files: changed:apt-setup.templates.da -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by dwhedon
save off /target/etc/modutils before calling debootstrap, fix it after calling debootstrap as it gets trampled by the modutils package. For what I see you are not talking about modutils overwriting /target/etc/modutils but /target/etc/modules, well, after a talk with Wichert yesterday he has submited a new version of modutils to solve this, I think the solution he has applied was the one that Santiago Vila suggested on this list. The new package should be installed on unstable today. So this piece of the patch won't be needed anymore. touch /target/sbin/unconfigured.sh so that we are prompted to configure the base system I was doing this on debootstrap for comodity, but thinking that it should be done here. Great. BTW, who decides this kind of things? I mean if this should be done here or there :-??? Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester - http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make Release
I've recently getting to grips with woody's boot-floopies and I've noticed that during make release it fails while makeing the sgml documentation sgml on the following command: debiandoc2text -d debiandoc.decl -l C -O install.sgml install.en.txt which produces the following error nsgmls:E: cannot find declaration/debiandoc.decl; tried declaration/debiandoc.decl, /usr/local/share/sgml/declaration/debiandoc.decl, /usr/local/lib/sgml/declaration/debiandoc.decl, /usr/lib/sgml/declaration/debiandoc.decl I guess that the declaration/debiandoc.decl file should be added to cvs or it's reference be removed from documentation/install.sgml ? -- Jon Along with freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, there is freedom to share generally useful information with other people. This should be an inalienable right. Richard M. Stallman, creator of the GNU Public License. PGP signature
Re: Make Release
I guess that the declaration/debiandoc.decl file should be added to cvs or it's reference be removed from documentation/install.sgml ? You can also install debiandoc-sgml and then you will have it ;-) BTW: have you run make check first? Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester - http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by dwhedon
Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:21:23PM +0200 wrote: save off /target/etc/modutils before calling debootstrap, fix it after calling debootstrap as it gets trampled by the modutils package. For what I see you are not talking about modutils overwriting /target/etc/modutils but /target/etc/modules, well, after a talk with oops, right. Wichert yesterday he has submited a new version of modutils to solve this, I think the solution he has applied was the one that Santiago Vila suggested on this list. The new package should be installed on unstable today. So this piece of the patch won't be needed anymore. very nice, I'll be happy to remove the hack. touch /target/sbin/unconfigured.sh so that we are prompted to configure the base system I was doing this on debootstrap for comodity, but thinking that it should be done here. Great. BTW, who decides this kind of things? I mean if this should be done here or there :-??? There isn't a simple answer to that. In general if you have a good fix that is clean and doesn't break other things you should apply it. You can ask this list too, but sometimes it doesn't even know. If I really don't know I just submit a bug and sometimes the problem gets magically fixed by benevolent bug fixers. These two 'fixes' I have here aren't a good example of clean fixes. The modules thing is marked with a big FIXME, the unconfigured.sh thing is lame too. I don't have any excuse for that except that I'm trying to get boot-floppies working and sometimes a hack is better than nothing, especially when it allows testers to get farther along and find more bugs. David Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester - http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removing bogl from bf CVS module
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:33:14AM +0400, Peter Novodvorsky wrote: Hello! Daniel made a package with bogl frame-buffer library and bterm, so we don't need to keep them in boot-floppies CVS. But still I think that we should have bogl and stuff, but in another module, Dan? Well, I could move my local CVS tree to cvs.d.o, certainly, if people want me to. Do you want to tackle making woody b-f build with my packages? Mostly boxes.c got gutted; that wants to stay in b-f and link to -lbogl. I'd rather not give others commit access, though... -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to base-config/debian by dwhedon
Repository: base-config/debian who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 08:23:47 PDT 2001 Log Message: fixed for Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: changed:templates.da -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 08:37:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove the 403 Forbidden item. I haven't seen it in a while, I'll assume it was wget's problem and that it is now fixed. Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Make Release
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:37:37PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: I guess that the declaration/debiandoc.decl file should be added to cvs or it's reference be removed from documentation/install.sgml ? You can also install debiandoc-sgml and then you will have it ;-) I've got debiandoc-sgml version 1.1.45 [from unstable] installed on my laptop which has no /usr/lib/sgml/declaration/debiandoc.decl, but it's there on my workstation which has 1.1.44 [from testing] installed. BTW: have you run make check first? Yes I have run make check before it reports no errors. -- Jon Along with freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, there is freedom to share generally useful information with other people. This should be an inalienable right. Richard M. Stallman, creator of the GNU Public License. PGP signature
Bug#95921: superformat isn't on root.bin or installed by debootstrap
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:23:37AM -0700, David Whedon wrote: dbootstrap attempts to execute /target/bin/superformat. debootstrap has not installed the package fdutils where superformat would be found. One of the following is probably a good idea: 1. have debootstrap install fdutils, but since it is priority optional that probably doesn't make sense unless it is conditional on the --boot-floppies command line switch. Interestingly slink and potato versions of debootstrap install fdutils. I've added it. I'll look into making debootstrap's base [required+optional]+/-[random other stuff] soon, so that it's more work-with-able. But for now, just hacking around seems fine. Unfortunately, fdutils has an interactive install, so you'll need to hit enter (assuming you can) to use debootstrap now. :( Someone should probably do an NMU, or at least file a bug... Anyway, debootstrap 0.1.7 is in incoming now, fixing this and a handful of other bugs. It kind-of works with sid (assuming you have a mirror that's not half out of date like ftp.d.o...), except that the dpkg segfault bug has gotten worse, so it doesn't get anywhere at all anymore. debootstrap sid sid-chroot http://ftp.kernel.org/debian /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody with dpkg 0.9.2 segfaults at the first attempt to invoke dpkg. :( I assume you mean 1.9.2. I see the segfault. It's stack corruption. I'll look at it more later tonight, after I compile a debug version. I can't duplicate this. The only suites avaiable to 0.1.7 are slink, potato, and woody. There is no sid. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc reduction and powerpc/apus woody boot floppies.
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:01:59PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: Note : The symptoms were that init (from busybox) did not launch correctly, which makes boot-floppies rather unusable on powerpc/apus right now. What exactly do you mean by did not launch correctly? Were there missing symbols? Did it segv or sigbus, or something else? Note, I testes a reduced libc with bash, and it worked fine. Perhaps something in busybox is broken? Maybe you are building with a different libc6-pic package on your system that the libc6 that is installed on boot-floppies? Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc reduction and powerpc/apus woody boot floppies.
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:19:26PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:01:59PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: Note : The symptoms were that init (from busybox) did not launch correctly, which makes boot-floppies rather unusable on powerpc/apus right now. What exactly do you mean by did not launch correctly? Were there missing symbols? Did it segv or sigbus, or something else? Note, I I did not test this myself, as i have not the hardware, but the report of Giorgio Terzi is that there is no output anywhere. Err, this is not really understandable, isn't it ? Anyway, this is when using the busybox init to launch the boot-floppies root.bin root image. What happens is that the kernel boots, then tries to launch INIT (from busybox) as the parent process, and fails, without any fursther output, not even the log on VC 3 or 4. And since the only way to go out of that is rebooting, there is no significative log file to look trough. Now, it seems the same init will work well when launched from the shell, not sure though, at least dbootstrap will. Did i get that right Giorgio ? testes a reduced libc with bash, and it worked fine. Perhaps something in busybox is broken? Maybe you are building with a different libc6-pic package on your system that the libc6 that is installed on boot-floppies? mmm, yes, this seems like a plausible thing to me, busybox is built with the installed libc6, but then is tried to run with the reduced one on the root.bin root image. This would explain this. How can we test that this is the case ? And if it is, how should we build busybox to have it working right ? Maybe Girgio did not have the good version of libc6 installed when building busybox, but then, this would be a build-depend bug or something such in busybox ? Thanks for caring, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Patch] Galician (gl_ES) translation
I'm attaching a partial translation of the boot-floppies. I'm calling it partial, because I'm including the translations of the programs only; docs are being translated now. That is, the patch creates/modifies the following files: README-Users.gl.m4 config scripts/rescue/messages/gl/debian.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/debian.txt.sparc scripts/rescue/messages/gl/debian.txt.vme scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f1.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f10.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f2.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f3.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f4.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f5.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f6.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f7.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f8.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/f9.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/install.sh.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/readme.txt scripts/rescue/messages/gl/readme.txt.sparc scripts/rootdisk/messages/gl/boot_message scripts/rootdisk/messages/gl/release_notes scripts/rootdisk/messages/languages utilities/dbootstrap/langs/Makefile utilities/dbootstrap/langs/galician.src utilities/dbootstrap/langs/langs.xml utilities/dbootstrap/po/Makefile utilities/dbootstrap/po/gl.po -- Tarrío (Compostela) patch-bf-gl-softwareonly.bz2
cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 17:13:44 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician (gl_ES) translations contributed by Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: changed:config -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 17:13:44 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician (gl_ES) translations contributed by Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: changed:languages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 17:13:46 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician (gl_ES) translations contributed by Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: changed:Makefile langs.xml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 17:13:47 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician (gl_ES) translations contributed by Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 17:19:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician (gl_ES) translations contributed by Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: added: README-Users.gl.m4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/gl by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/gl who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 17:19:40 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician (gl_ES) translations contributed by Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: added: debian.txt debian.txt.sparc debian.txt.vme f1.txt f10.txt f2.txt f3.txt f4.txt f5.txt f6.txt f7.txt f8.txt f9.txt install.sh.txt readme.txt readme.txt.sparc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/gl by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/gl who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 17:19:54 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician (gl_ES) translations contributed by Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: added: boot_message release_notes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 17:19:55 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician (gl_ES) translations contributed by Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: added: galician.src -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:dwhedon time: Tue May 1 17:19:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician (gl_ES) translations contributed by Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: added: gl.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#95921: superformat isn't on root.bin or installed by debootstrap
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:14:17AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: Anyway, debootstrap 0.1.7 is in incoming now, fixing this and a handful of other bugs. It kind-of works with sid (assuming you have a mirror that's not half out of date like ftp.d.o...), except that the dpkg segfault bug has gotten worse, so it doesn't get anywhere at all anymore. debootstrap sid sid-chroot http://ftp.kernel.org/debian /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody I can't duplicate this. The only suites avaiable to 0.1.7 are slink, potato, and woody. There is no sid. So use the command you quoted just above, which'll use the woody script to build a sid chroot. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
