Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

[Chris Tillman]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:44:15PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:53:13PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > just something what everyboday should know if he/she doesn'T know
> > > it yet, i was bitten by it and i am pissed :/.
> > 
> > Why not take that anger and turn it constructive energy, like a patch?
> > I'm sure the base-config maintainer would be pleased.

I did submit one, albeit untested. aj said that particular patch wouldn't 
work correctly. I'm still unconvinced that it doesn't re-download the stuff 
even when theres a deb sitting there. it takes exactly the same amount of
time, which really just doesn't make any sense; that would mean all the time
is consumed by doing the checksums, not doing the download. Nah.

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Re: apt behaviour with satellite

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:32:16PM -0500, John Davidson wrote:

> Apt now behaves like wget when installing woody using the rieserfs 3.0.15
> bootfloppies. This means that it no longer works with my one-way satellite
> connection. Prior to the releease of 3.0.14 bootfloppies this was not a
> problem and I would regularly get 40KB speeds. Now I get less than 2KB??!
> 
> Things improve to about 3.5KB when I use my modem without satellite.
> 
> This is the exact performance I get with wget. Has apt been changed since
> mid-Aug?? If so I will report a critical bug.

If you do, I'll be sure to downgrade it if nobody else gets to it first.

critical
makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break,
or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on systems where
you install the package.

This bug obviously does not break the whole system, or even unrelated
software.

If you could provide some information about what is different, at the source
code or protocol level, to cause this change in behavior, someone could help
you track down the problem (which is probably not a bug in APT or wget).

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Re: apt behaviour with satellite

[Philip Charles]

Is this a Telemann system?  IIRC, it uses a different port than a modem
for incoming traffic.

Phil.

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Glenn McGrath wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:32:16 -0500
> "John Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Apt now behaves like wget when installing woody using the rieserfs
> 3.0.15
> > bootfloppies. This means that it no longer works with my one-way
> satellite
> > connection. Prior to the releease of 3.0.14 bootfloppies this was not
> a
> > problem and I would regularly get 40KB speeds. Now I get less than
> 2KB??!
> > 
> > Things improve to about 3.5KB when I use my modem without satellite.
> > 
> > This is the exact performance I get with wget. Has apt been changed
> since
> > mid-Aug?? If so I will report a critical bug.
> > 
> 
> Why would the speed vary per client ?
> 
> If your uing the same protocol (be that http or ftp) then it shouldnt
> make any difference which client you use.
> 
> debootstrap uses wget to install base, apt-get is a bit big for boot
> floppies
> 
> 
> Glenn 
> 
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Re: apt behaviour with satellite

[Glenn McGrath]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:32:16 -0500
"John Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Apt now behaves like wget when installing woody using the rieserfs
3.0.15
> bootfloppies. This means that it no longer works with my one-way
satellite
> connection. Prior to the releease of 3.0.14 bootfloppies this was not
a
> problem and I would regularly get 40KB speeds. Now I get less than
2KB??!
> 
> Things improve to about 3.5KB when I use my modem without satellite.
> 
> This is the exact performance I get with wget. Has apt been changed
since
> mid-Aug?? If so I will report a critical bug.
> 

Why would the speed vary per client ?

If your uing the same protocol (be that http or ftp) then it shouldnt
make any difference which client you use.

debootstrap uses wget to install base, apt-get is a bit big for boot
floppies


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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
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time:   Sat Nov 10 17:00:33 PST 2001


Log Message:

Replace hard-wired "cfdisk" with myfdisk

VS: --


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Log Message:

Update arm make machinery


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Re: Installation success on Powerbook G4 (TiBook, the newest model)

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:57:59PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 
> BTW, is anyone working on 2.4 PowerMac boot disks then?

Colin Walters and i were going to look at it shortly, do you have any
suggestions on the best method to implement flavors for different
kernel versions?

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Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:53:13PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > just something what everyboday should know if he/she doesn'T know
> > it yet, i was bitten by it and i am pissed :/.
> 
> Why not take that anger and turn it constructive energy, like a patch?
> I'm sure the base-config maintainer would be pleased.

i don't blame him for being pissed, software silently rm -rf'ing huge
ammounts of data without permission is highly evil.

i also don't blame him for being pissed when he went to file a bug and
obviously found one already there, one that has been ignored for 130
days, and even closed once for no good reason.

> FYI, "important" doesn't mean that release will be blocked for this
> bug.  We might want to upgrade the 3 base-config Important bugs to
> "serious"?

good idea.

since the maintainer of base-config has demonstrated a complete
unwillingness to fix this bug I am prepared to commit a patch to
boot-floppies baseconfig.c to ask the user if they wish for .debs to
be removed or not, if they do not, the relevant code that silently
removes them will be deleted from the base-config install in /target/

this is of course not the correct solution, the correct solution is
for the base-config maintainer to cooperate and fix this, but if he
refuses to be useful we shall have to fix it another way (unless
someone wishes to NMU and reNMU when new versions revert the fix.)

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Log Message:

remove apparently-troublesome strip


Files:

changed:rootdisk.sh


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apt behaviour with satellite

[John Davidson]

Apt now behaves like wget when installing woody using the rieserfs 3.0.15
bootfloppies. This means that it no longer works with my one-way satellite
connection. Prior to the releease of 3.0.14 bootfloppies this was not a
problem and I would regularly get 40KB speeds. Now I get less than 2KB??!

Things improve to about 3.5KB when I use my modem without satellite.

This is the exact performance I get with wget. Has apt been changed since
mid-Aug?? If so I will report a critical bug.


John Davidson


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Log Message:

log changes


Files:

changed:changelog


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Log Message:

remove netwinder special casing


Files:

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Log Message:

group QWERTY entries together; make naming a bit clearer



Files:

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Log Message:

correct acorn keymap generation


Files:

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correct acorn keymap generation


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Log Message:

- use mklibs.py on arm
- avoid scanning modules.tgz quite so many times during rootdisk build
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Files:

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- use mklibs.py on arm
- avoid scanning modules.tgz quite so many times during rootdisk build
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Log Message:

Use special fdisk version on RiscPC



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Log Message:

Add acorn-fdisk for riscpc flavour
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installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

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On Friday morning I successfully installed woody onto my new iBook.  In
the process a few bugs in the boot-floppies were found, but nothing that
couldn't be recovered from with Ethan Benson and Colin Walters at the
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I've written up a HOWTO that in part documents my experience, and in
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Bug#116648: marked as done (Busybox is broken in woody ppc boot-floppies)

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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.15 (2001-10-08)
Severity: grave


Busybox, or a dependancy, appears to be broken in this version of the
woody-powerpc root floppy.
On my Power Mac 7300/180, the system boots from the boot floppy, and I can
see that the MACE ethernet drivers come up.

When the "Configure the Network" options is selected, the network hardware
will not configure with DHCP, giving the generic message "The network failed
to initialize using DHCP".

The network interface can be manually configured.

When a shell is invoked, ifconfig shows that the card is properly
configured.

ping  results in a segfault.
wget  results in a segfault.

Obviously, http installations immediately return an error code as there is
no network connectivity.

This is a grave error in my case, because wget is required to install woody.

I repeated this problem on another Mac as well, with identical results:

Hardware Profile #1:
Power Mac 7300
PPC 604e @180MHz
132MB FP RAM (interlaced)
2GB Fireball SCSI
ATI PCI video
On-board MACE ethernet hardware

Hardware Profile #2:
Power Mac 7600
PPC 604 @132MHz
64MB FP RAM (interlaced)
1.2GB Fireball SCSI
On-board video
On-board MACE ethernet hardware

After this problem, I verified that potato will install without incident on
this hardware.


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This seems to have been fixed in boot-floppies 3.0.16 according to all
PowerPC testers I've talked to.  It might have been just taht 3.0.15
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Subject: boot-floppies: debootstrap fails
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.15-2001-10-18
Severity: critical


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: 


I am sending this bug from another machine because the machine on
which the problem occurs has not successfully been installed because
of the problem I am about to report here, hence deleteing the kernel
version information above.

The version of boot-floppies above is the directory name under
debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386 from which I took images-1.44's
rescue and root, and the drivers.tgz.

Anyway, on with the bug report. I boot the rescue and switch the root
fine. I've mounted a couple of partitions in order to see the Debian
archive on my own machine (put there with older Debian installation
in different partition). I specify that I want to configure kernel
modules and add pcnet32, st, sg. Then when I proceed to installing
the base system, I get the little progress bar appearing, the message
displayed is 'calling debootstrap', and when the bar just begins
to move off, I get an window with title "Error" and with message
"Couldn't download at". Yup, that's all. When I press enter to
continue, I am returned to the main installation menu with the same
'Next' and alternates displayed.

This error was *very* reproducible; I got it each of the about ten
times I tried.

I don't know that I can really offer you much more information, since
I'm now going back to 2.2R3's CDROMs to install a base system, and
then I'll just do an upgrade to get to my intended 'testing' system,
but if you let me know ... Thanks.

Alexis Huxley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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cvs commit to boot-floppies/s390-specials by gt

[Debian Boot CVS Master]

Repository: boot-floppies/s390-specials
who:gt
time:   Sat Nov 10 09:09:22 PST 2001


Log Message:

Some fixes of the s390 netsetup script.


Files:

changed:netsetup.sh


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by joy

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po
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time:   Sat Nov 10 08:20:25 PST 2001


Log Message:

unfuzzying

Files:

changed:hr.po


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#103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

[Othmar Pasteka]

just something what everyboday should know if he/she doesn'T know
it yet, i was bitten by it and i am pissed :/.

hi,

i just got bitten by this bug and it just pisses me off.
downloading 220 megs and all silently deleted because base-config
configures apt so that it gets the .debs from two different
servers, i.e. non-us and the usual stuff. and non-us times out
usually. and DO NOT have a small bandwidth, 512kbit/s isn't just
a dial up user. but all the bandwidth is sucked up with the
downloading the non non-us software. and the other regularly
times out. and when i go to retry then, assuming that it just
gets the 2 failed packages, IT DOWNLOADS THE WHOLE DAMN THIGN
AGAIN! AGAIN 200 MEGS OF .DEBS. that's NOT funny. this simply
sucks and pisses me off. the users should AT LEAST get the choice
to decide whether to delete the downloaded .debs. everything else
is just BRAINDEAD. i have a decently fast internet connection but
for everyone else this would be just a nightmare. AND, maybe not
in the us, but in europe one gets their amount of traffic
accounted, meaning that you have to pay if you go beyond a
certain limit. which is at about 1-2 gig at my isp. so i waste
1/5th of my amount for this stupid brainless bug.
you should just allow one connection at a time AND ask the user
whether he wants to delete the .debs otherwise the whole retry
point is brainless and just not seriously meant (i just lack the
vocabulary to make the point more clearly).

i hope you fix that.
thanks
Othmar


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Re: problem in en i386 pdf installation manual

[Ardo van Rangelrooij]

Adam Di Carlo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> "Tom Troughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Just a quick note to let you know that the links found on pages 33 to 39 of the 
>english 
> > installation manual in pdf format 
> > 
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.pdf
> > 
> > are not appearing on the pages. They seem to extend past the edge of the page.
> > 
> > I couldn't find any indications that you know about this, so I'm sending this 
>note. I use os2 mcp. 
> > The effect is the same in acrobat3 and gs7.00 with gsview 4.0
> 
> Thanks.  That's a known prolblem with debiandoc-sgml, already filed as
> a bug I believe.

Yes, as bug #61038.

Thanks,
Ardo
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Re: Installation success on Powerbook G4 (TiBook, the newest model)

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:23:18PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote:
> after that go on as usual. you should use the "Edit kernel parameters" or
> something like that and enter there the video=ofonly option so it
> becomes added to the yaboot.conf file so that oyu don't have to
> provide it yourself when you reboot.

video=ofonly of course should not be necessary and wouldn't be if we
added the option to boot/install with a 2.4 kernel, 2.2.19 simply
won't cut it for most of the newwer apple machines, and ofonly video
is NOT an acceptable long term option (its slow, X won't work right
etc).

that being said it seems to make sense to me that if video=ofonly was
supplied for b-f boot it should be automatically added to the default
additional boot paramaters.  any objections to this?  (it would be
powerpc only of course).

> the only real issue is the OpenFirmware sillyness, but that will
> be resolved, i hope :).

there is a documentation problem with G4 OpenFirwmare, someone needs
to properly analize it and find the proper way to configure the
netboot server.  its also possible it only works with a proprietary
Apple extended version of dhcpd.

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Bug#118999: boot-floppies: i386-disk reiserfs hadn't the correct set of pcmcia drivers

[Luca Olivetti]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2000
Severity: important


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux debian 2.2.19 #1 Sat Sep 22 22:08:47 EST 2001 i686 unknown

Hi, before of the current install (with the standard boot floppies), i tried
to install with the reiserf i386 disks (my intention was to install xfs, but
there's no diskset to do that), but I couldn't do it because it was
impossible to load the kernel modules for pcmcia (since they aren't there).

the modules I need:

pcmcia_core
i82365
ds
3c589_cs



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Bug#118997: boot-floppies: pcmcia isn't enabled after first boot, so apt-get from the net won't work

[Luca Olivetti]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2000
Severity: important


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux debian 2.2.19 #1 Sat Sep 22 22:08:47 EST 2001 i686 unknown

Hi,
after installing the base system and the reboot, the pcmcia subsystem wasn't
enabled, so I apt-get configuration failed (because it couldn't grab its
files off the net).
I manually started it end eventually I could complete the installation but I
think it should have activated pcmcia by itself (since I installed the base
system from the net).


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Installation success on Powerbook G4 (TiBook, the newest model)

[Othmar Pasteka]

Hi,

I installed 3.0.16 on the Powerbook G4 (550MHz version).
Basically follow the netboot mini-howto at penguinppc.org but with
these changes:
use a dhcp server which provides the yaboot binary. and you have
to go into the OpenFirmware bios because the default boot with
pressing n during the boot won't work. dunno why. if you come
there type "boot enet:bootp,,yaboot" then it should
download yaboot and the linux kernel image. at the boot: prompt
add video=ofonly to the bootoptions otherwise it won't proceede
after the root.bin is loaded from the tftpserver.
You should als read the mac-fdisk howto which is also at
penguinppc.org, especially if you want to keep mac os x or 9.
after that go on as usual. you should use the "Edit kernel parameters" or
something like that and enter there the video=ofonly option so it
becomes added to the yaboot.conf file so that oyu don't have to
provide it yourself when you reboot.

here is the part of the dhcpd.conf i used:
host maci {
  hardware ethernet 00:03:C3:0F:54:A4;
  fixed-address 192.168.1.1;
  filename  "/tftpboot/yaboot";
}

the only real issue is the OpenFirmware sillyness, but that will
be resolved, i hope :).

so long
Othmar


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/powerpc-specials by eb

[Debian Boot CVS Master]

Repository: boot-floppies/powerpc-specials
who:eb
time:   Sat Nov 10 06:22:19 PST 2001


Log Message:

Add powerpc-specials/yaboot.conf.  This is a functional config for
temporarily bootstrapping the boot-floppies from an existing MacOS
partition.  This file is copied to $release/powermac next to the
yaboot binary.


Files:

added:  yaboot.conf


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by eb

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:eb
time:   Sat Nov 10 06:22:19 PST 2001


Log Message:

Add powerpc-specials/yaboot.conf.  This is a functional config for
temporarily bootstrapping the boot-floppies from an existing MacOS
partition.  This file is copied to $release/powermac next to the
yaboot binary.


Files:

changed:changelog


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cvs commit to boot-floppies by eb

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Repository: boot-floppies
who:eb
time:   Sat Nov 10 06:22:18 PST 2001


Log Message:

Add powerpc-specials/yaboot.conf.  This is a functional config for
temporarily bootstrapping the boot-floppies from an existing MacOS
partition.  This file is copied to $release/powermac next to the
yaboot binary.


Files:

changed:release.sh


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/arm-specials by pb

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Repository: boot-floppies/arm-specials
who:pb
time:   Sat Nov 10 05:51:20 PST 2001


Log Message:

Skeleton install kit for RiscPC


Files:

added:  rpc-skel-kit.zip


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by pb

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:pb
time:   Sat Nov 10 05:47:30 PST 2001


Log Message:

- teach dbootstrap about "drv14riscpc" and "drv14netwinder" disk series


Files:

changed:extract_kernel.c


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by pb

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:pb
time:   Sat Nov 10 05:46:46 PST 2001


Log Message:

- python-dev seems not to cut the mustard; build-depend on python1.5-dev
- also build-depend on zip for arm
- don't prompt for boot floppy creation on arm


Files:

changed:main_menu.c


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by pb

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:pb
time:   Sat Nov 10 05:46:45 PST 2001


Log Message:

- python-dev seems not to cut the mustard; build-depend on python1.5-dev
- also build-depend on zip for arm
- don't prompt for boot floppy creation on arm


Files:

changed:control changelog


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