Re: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#448553: bluez-utils should not recommend bluez-gnome
[tasksel maintainer CCed] On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:03:33AM +0200, Luca Brivio wrote: Package: bluez-utils Version: 3.13-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- 'bluetooth' is installed by the 'laptop' task and depends on 'bluez-utils', so the latter should not recommend 'bluez-gnome'. (not all the usual installations with the 'laptop' task should require tens of GNOME-related packages). I am not sure how to fix this, given that recommends are automatically installed. A proposal: bluez-utils: suggests: bluez-firmare, bluez-audio, bluez-gnome bluetooth: depends: bluez-utils recommends: bluez-audio, bluez-gnome with the rationale that installing bluetooth the user is expected to get more than from bluez-utils. This however would not solve OP's bug, thus I'm asking for some ideas. thanks, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net PGP key: 0x6B79D401 random quote follows: Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. -- Alan Turing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#448553: bluez-utils should not recommend bluez-gnome
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:03:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 13 April 2008, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: 'bluetooth' is installed by the 'laptop' task and depends on 'bluez-utils', so the latter should not recommend 'bluez-gnome'. (not all the usual installations with the 'laptop' task should require tens of GNOME-related packages). I am not sure how to fix this, given that recommends are automatically installed. A proposal: However, at the moment Recommends are _not_ installed automatically by Debian Installer when installing tasks. This is basically because it would result in tons of additional packages getting installed, most of which users have no use for. So this problem is currently limited to users installing bluetooth manually and, which is the real problem IMO, situations where bluetooth gets pulled in automatically by other packages (e.g. a KDE lib that depends on it). Ack, thanks. The Debian Policy manual defines Recommends as: This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations. As bluetooth is a generic stack and thus useful on all systems that support it, and bluez-gnome is GNOME specific and GNOME is only one desktop option of many, it should be clear that bluetooth recommends bluez-gnome does not fit the definition of Recommends: they will often *not* be found Agreed, so: bluetooth Depends: bluez-utils bluez-utils Suggests: bluez-gnome | kdebluetooth, bluez-firmware together. I'm not sure of bluez-audio as I've no idea what it does, but I suspect the same to be true there. It provides the ability to use and interact with audio-capable devices such as headsets, I am more inclined to leave that as recommends since it is part of bluez and packaged separately only for convenience. thanks, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net PGP key: 0x6B79D401 random quote follows: I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. -- Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Utnubu-discuss] dmraid initramfs integration patch
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:59:13PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: Heh, would help if I actually attached the debdiff. I guess that's what happens when you fire off email with one eye open in the wee hours of the morning. hehe, thanks for the patch, unfortunately I'm not going to have some free time anytime soon to look at it :( perhaps some people in debian-boot are interested in integrating this into d-i thanks for your work, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi PGP key: 0x6B79D401 random quote follows: UNIX IS user friendly, it is just selective who his friends are. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#231073: install report on an amd k6/2 350mhz
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 03-02-2004 i386 netinst uname -a: not available, 2.4.22-1-386 installed Date: Wed Feb 4 00:08:06 CET 2004 Method: boot from cdrom Machine: custom PC Processor: amd k6/2 350mhz Memory: 256mb Root Device: hda: wester digital 4,2gb Root Size/partition table: hda2 1gb Output of lspci: not available but i saved /var/log/debian-installer/ Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[E] see below Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: all went fine, none of the udebs failed and the priority didn't get lowered, which is good. however, grub-installer did NOT ask me if I want to install the boot loader, overwriting mine, which is NOT good. To me, this is not the good default behaviour for the general user. at least asking would be good (okay, for the random user this might be confusing, then defaulting to yes should be ok). I know this issue has already been raised, anyhow at least a backup of the MBR should be done and document it somewhere. thanks for the great debian-installer! filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature below: I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#229772: install report on powerbook 12
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 25-01-2004 powerpc netinst sid_d-i iso from gluck uname -a: not available, sorry Date: Fri Jan 26 19:35:42 CET 2004 Method: boot from cdrom, Machine: recent Apple Powerbook 12 (bought nov03) Processor: g4 1ghz Memory: 512mb Root Device: 60gb disk Root Size/partition table: hda11 9gb Output of lspci: not available Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[E] see below Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] see below Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[E] see below Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: boot from cd works ok (and closes #226447) but main-menu comes up with a red background for normal questions and blue background for warnings! switching to console 4 shows tail unable to find /var/log/syslog (and in fact syslogd didn't started!), manually starting syslogd from console 2 still doesn't create /var/log/syslog (there's only /var/log/messages) eth0 switching to forced 10bt is printed at regular intervals in the current console (apart from 1) and it changes from 10bt to 100bt and back again to 10bt and so on I previously had to shrink my hfs+ partition with a patched parted (see #226115) and then I partitioned the free space with d-i but had to reboot to see newly created partitions. d-i installed base into /target and then happily prompt it hadn't installed a boot loader, after it asked for reboot. please contact me if you need other informations! I'll keep on testing sid_d-i isos on this powerbook and thanks for the great debian-installer! filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature below: I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#229570: kernel-installer: doesn't identify pentium mobile processors
Package: kernel-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, as per subject kernel-installer doesn't recognize pentium mobile processors (centrino) and defaults to -386, i'm not sure but it should use -686 instead, here is the relevant patch. please be aware of possibily (b|d)ashism in case --- tools/base-installer/debian/postinst.orig Sat Jan 24 18:41:54 2004 +++ tools/base-installer/debian/postinstSat Jan 24 18:48:53 2004 @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ CPUS=1 fi case $MODEL in -Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4*) +Intel(R) Pentium(R) [4M]*) if test $CPUS -eq 1; then trykernel=kernel-image-$version-686 else thanks, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature below: I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me -- and I didn't hear it. -- Steven Wright pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#229347: install report on acer aspire 2000
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: today's 23-01-2004 i386 businesscard
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/i386/daily/sarge-netinst-businesscard.iso
uname -a: not available, sorry
Date: Fri Jan 23 19:35:42 CET 2004
Method: boot from cdrom, used ftp2.it.debian.org as a mirror, no proxy
Machine: Acer Aspire 2000
Processor: intel centrino 1,6 ghz
Memory: 512mb
Root Device: hda: IC25N060ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
Root Size/partition table: hda2 10gb
Output of lspci: not available but i saved /var/log/debian-installer/
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [E] see below
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[E] see below
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
boot went fine until probing for floppy.o (which doesn't exists in businesscard)
and detection of hardware can't complete giving a fatal error
Jan 23 16:52:36 (none) user.notice hw-detect: Detected module 'floppy' for
'Linux Floppy'
Jan 23 16:52:36 (none) user.notice hw-detect: Trying to load module 'floppy'
Jan 23 16:52:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: inserting floppy driver for
2.4.22-1-386
Jan 23 16:52:36 (none) syslog.err klogd: devfs_mk_dir(floppy): using old entry
in dir: dffe 9690
Jan 23 16:52:39 (none) syslog.warn klogd: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
other hardware detected successfully.
while retrying hw-detect I got this:
Jan 23 17:22:36 (none) user.notice hw-detect: Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr
is already runni ng.
Jan 23 17:22:36 (none) user.notice hw-detect: done.
Jan 23 17:22:41 (none) user.notice hw-detect: Missing modules 'ide-scsi (Linux
IDE-SCSI emulatio n layer)
Jan 23 17:22:44 (none) user.info main-menu[229]: (process:25556): umount:
Jan 23 17:22:44 (none) user.info main-menu[229]: (process:25556): /target/proc
and /target/proc became not umountable, which is just weird because apt-install
tries to umount it and fails (thus failing kernel-installer and
{grub|lilo}-installer)
thanks for the great debian-installer!
filippo
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Re: Bug#227055: Debian Installer failure on 15 PowerBook G4
Hi Barry, On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:39:23PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: Package: installation-reports Version: Debian Installer Sarge Business Card daily build, see below INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: January 09, 2004 daily of sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso at http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/powerpc/daily/ uname -a: Not available; install will not complete Date: January 10, 2004 11:30 Method: Used boot cd:,install\powermac\yaboot at OpenFirmware prompt; cd will not boot this issue with newer powerbooks (I suppose so, Aluminium suggests it) is more or less known, see #226447. In fact I have the same problem with my powerbook 12 aluminum [snip] dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4: ... Setting up tasksel (140) ... Errors were encountered while processing: libopencdk8 libgnutls7 exim4-daemon-light mailx at exim4 /usr/sbin/debootstrap: 1: sleep: not found also this problem is known, please see #226105 and debian-boot archives regarding this bug kind regards, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature below: Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. -- Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#226447: updated ofboot.b (Was: sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso not bootable)
Package: debian-installer Version: unavailable; reported 2004-01-06 Tags: patch doing some investigation about this issue (not a cd problem) I tried to substitute ofboot.b with an example from the latest yaboot in doc/examples/simpleboot.chrp (attaching the file I used ) and rebuild the iso and it works! Said that, the ofboot.b relevant section seems to be compatible or even os-badge-icon. Probably my powerbook has a recent OF version (bought one month ago, powerbook g4 1ghz) and it doesn't recognize the cd as bootable with the old ofboot.b. Perhaps it should be changed so newer powerbooks can boot, I didn't tested it with older macs but it should work. filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature below: I always keep the Titanic in mind when I talk about security or safety, meaning that nothing is fully secure. CHRP-BOOT COMPATIBLE MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4 /COMPATIBLE DESCRIPTION GNU/Linux PPC bootloader /DESCRIPTION BOOT-SCRIPT screen output load-base release-load-area boot cd:,\install\powermac\yaboot /BOOT-SCRIPT OS-BADGE-ICONS 1010 F8FEACF6 00F5FEFEF500 002BFAFEFAFCF700 00F65D5857812B00 00F5350B2F885600 00F6335708F8FE00 005600F600F5FD81 F9F800F5FAFFF800 8100F5F5F6FEFE00 00F8F700F500F5FCFFF7 0088F7F5F5FCFF2B 002F582A00F508ADE02C 00090B0A35A62B002D3B350A 000A0A0B0B3BF6505E0B0A0B0A00 002E350B0B2F87FAFCF45F0B2E09 0007335FF82BF72B57590700 AC81 00818100 00FBAC00 0081DFDFDB00 0081DD5F83FFFD00 0081DDDF5EACFF00 00FDF981F981 FFACF9F9F981AC00 FFF98181F9F98100 00ACACF981F981F9F9AC 00FFACF9F981F9F981FB 0083DFFBF981F9F95EFC 005F5F5FDDFFFBF9F9F9835F 005F5F5F5FDD81F9F9E7DF5F5F5F5F00 0083DD5F5F83DF5F835F 00FBDDDFACFBACFBDFDFFB00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00FF FF00 FF00 00FF 00FF 00FF 00FF 0000 00FF 0000 /OS-BADGE-ICONS /CHRP-BOOT pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso not bootable
Hi! first thanks for d-i, it's really great! As of Jan 01 http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/powerpc/daily/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso is not bootable on my powerbook 12, holding 'c' while booting simply does nothing and it boots osX as usual. Is it possibile to include also the daily build log to see if something goes wrong? looking at build/make/arch/linux-powerpc the cd_image target seems ok kind regards, filippo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration questions
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:44:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i The current order is not really natural : I suggest using the following order: -IP address -Netmask -Gateway -Machine name -Domain name -DNS servers ip address, netmask, gw and dns (perhaps even domain?) can be obtained via dhcp, if available, this leaves out only machine name thus: -IP address -Netmask [guessed from ip address] -Gateway [guessed from previous answers] -DNS servers -Machine name -Domain name sounds sensible to me regards, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature follows: I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. -- Groucho Marx pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: explicit image classification in INSTALLER-HOWTO
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:55:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Filippo Giunchedi wrote: first of all thanks for the great work with d-i, it is really cool! after playing around with some images I found netinst confusing, I thought it was full networked installation (d-i included) but that is netboot! Attached there is a patch for three types of images (maybe there are more?) Your patch is against section 2, but section 3 is what explains what files to use for different types of installations. There is no section about netboot, because nooone has written one. Difference between netinst and businesscard is indeed explained in section 2.1, in section 3 I can't find anything related to explanation of different image favours. My point was only to do a more explicit image classification there's a typo at line 81 in INSTALLATION-HOWTO: 81c81 Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.ing, the floppy-image.img and --- Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.img, the floppy-image.img and filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature follows: It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sarge-install onto Thinkpad
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:43:22PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:12:07PM -0600, Bibek Sahu wrote: Is there anything special I need to know about using XFS, or using XFS for boot? I would certainly be interested in discussing XFS support for d-i with anyone willing to help work on it. I might be persuaded to put together maintained kernel images using the XFS patch, if there was enough overall interest to support a full d-i build and make the effort worthwhile. I am interested in seen XFS support added to d-i and in helping to get it added. please let me know, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature follows: If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
explicit image classification in INSTALLER-HOWTO
hi! first of all thanks for the great work with d-i, it is really cool! after playing around with some images I found netinst confusing, I thought it was full networked installation (d-i included) but that is netboot! Attached there is a patch for three types of images (maybe there are more?) thanks, filippo Index: doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO === RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -r1.18 INSTALLATION-HOWTO --- doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO 6 Nov 2003 19:09:07 - 1.18 +++ doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO 8 Nov 2003 19:36:30 - @@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ The installer team provides different types of images for the debian-installer. None of these images are yet available on Debian mirrors, but there are a few semi-official places to get different kinds of images. +There are different types of images, one for each different installation +flavour: + +netinst: contains d-i plus core packages to have a base system +businesscard: contains d-i but core packages are retrieved directly from + network +netboot: contains only essential d-i modules to get the network up and + running, everything else (d-i modules and core packages) will + be retrieved from network The debian-cd team provides known working builds of CD images for debian-installer here: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ @@ -75,7 +84,7 @@ 2.2 The dreaded floppies If you can't boot from CD, you can download floppy images to install -Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.ing, the floppy-image.img and +Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.img, the floppy-image.img and possibly one of the driver disks. - net_drivers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: another vmware install report (100% success)
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:35:41AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Debian-installer-version: sarge netinst iso from the 4th Machine: ye olde vmware Memory: 96 mb Root Device: 310 mb pseudo-ide Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] are you using vmware-dhcpd or static network? i can't make dhcpd working and i'm trying to understand why thanks, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature follows: How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them. -- Groucho Marx pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#211032: choose-mirror: add optional netselect support to choose-mirror?
Package: choose-mirror Version: N/A; reported 2003-09-15 Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When testing d-i I was wondering to add a question like would you like to probe for the fastest mirror instead of country selection (or search within the current locale country or a country of choice). This can be accomplished with netselect, OTOH it can be tricky to include a full copy of netselect source inside choose-mirror or making a library is definitely overkill. this is just a thought, please let me know any ideas filippo. - -- System Information Debian Release: stable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux karamazov 2.4.21-fg #2 Wed Sep 10 09:48:01 CEST 2003 i586 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE/ZbkCABzeamt51AERAvDMAKDQdJkvopjhqfrKRaWmVjBmfqNjawCeKHay aqyZFyB83CT9Ntsk2h0uAQA= =/ju+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
should udebs report (udeb) in their short descriptions?
hi debian-boot, while testing d-i I've noticed that a few packages[1] have (udeb) in their short descriptions and this is obviously also shown when anna asks for installer modules. When seeing the modules list this looks like a repetition and is useless. perhaps having For use with Debian-Installer in long description sounds like a solution to me. regards, filippo [1] Package: directfb-udeb Description: frame buffer graphics library (udeb) Package: discover-udeb Description: hardware identification library (udeb) Package: raidtools2-udeb Description: Utilities to support 'new-style' RAID disks (udeb) Package: ttf-freefont-udeb Description: Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts (udeb) Package: zlib1g-udeb Description: compression library - runtime (udeb) -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature follows: Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. -- Groucho Marx pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Italian .po files for current d-i cvs
hi! i've translated .po files in debian-installer cvs to italian, unified diff is available for download on http://debian.esaurito.net/d-i.it.po.diff.gz Waiting for suggestions/corrections (and complains, of course!) I hope this will be useful. cheers, filippo. -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key id: 1024D/6B79D401 Random signature follows: The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. msg23018/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
mark cvs commits as read with procmail and maildir
hi!
just to know because is non-trivial to mark a maildir message as read with
procmail, i use this to mark cvs commits in debian-boot as read.
procmailrc
# trick to mark cvs commits from debian-boot ML as read
:0
* X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
# first deliver to maildir so LASTFOLDER gets set'd
:0 c
debian-boot/
# then move it to cur/
:0 ai
* ^Subject: cvs commit to debian-installer.*
* LASTFOLDER ?? ()\/[^/]+^^
|mv $LASTFOLDER debian-boot/cur/$MATCH:2,S
}
/procmailrc
i got the idea from:
http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2000-10/msg00262.html
cheers,
filippo.
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