Bug#419177: www.debian.org: network installation does not show netboot etch images.
Package: www.debian.org Severity: important There is no evident way to do a netboot (PXE on x86) installation listed on : http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst IT only list the floppies, and the netinst isos, but not the netboot (PXE on x86) images, while this would be the obvious location for them. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:53:59AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:51:01PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > I'm not sure what the criteria are for listing on that page? I've no > > involvement with the buildds or anything - all the PowerPC stuff I've > > ever done has been to do with porting user space applications and > > testing. > > That is porting. There is little porting work in buildd maintenance; all > you ever do is sign successful logs, interpret failures, and file > appropriate bugs (although many buildd maintainers, myself included, > seem to think the last part is optional when they are swamped with other > work) BTW, i think that historically, the pages in question where listing a few lead-porter, not all of the porters. This include people who work on important areas (toolchain, kernel, d-i mostly today), as well as people who take over a coordinator role. I think both me and waldi qualify for this, i am unsure of the others, i don't think there is currently someone actively looking after the porting needed packages and having a global overview outside of the kernel/d-i area. This is in big part due to the fact that powerpc is mostly a mainstream arch today, and most issues have been solved long ago. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 11:20:50AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday 25 December 2006 23:40, Frans Pop wrote: > > PowerPC -- > > member Daniel Jacobowitz > > member Martin Schulze > > member Hartmut Koptein > > > I would suggest at least the following changes: > > PowerPC: add Sven Luther and Bastian Blank > > http://wiki.debian.org/powerpcEtchReleaseRecertification lists the following > people for powerpc (Bastian is missing there): > > Holger Levsen > > Given the rumors powerpc would be dead, I suggest to name them all :) Given how you where so virrulent in your attacks against me, and publicly told that i was evil incarnate and because of me you left all powerpc work, and furthermore didn't feel concerned with the mediation, i have some trouble understanding all this. Are you really interested in working with the rest of us, and participate in the mediation ? Will you participate in the mediation, and be bound by the result of it ? Will you take back your most insulting comments you did back then ? Anyway, you list yourself as porter, and i look forward in seeing your constructive and positive work. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > (BCCed to d-ports) > > Hello, > > We received a BR that the list of porters for PowerPC on the Organization > webpage [1] was outdated. However, this seems to be true for most ports. > > Please reply to debian-www@lists.debian.org with an updated list of active > porters for your port after discussing changes on your port list. Hi Franz, happy christmas to you. BTW, i wonder about not only adding but removing folk. The PowerPC porter list has for example Hartmut, which i don't have seen (at all) since 2000 or so. Anyone know about the whereabout of Hartmut Koptein ? I also wonder if Dan and Martin/Joey still consider themselves as active PowerPC porters. This may be the case for other arches too. BTW, Maybe we should have some emeritus page or whatever, where we also list people who have been active in important parts of debian in the past, but for whatever reason left, or moved to other responsabilities. Just removing these folks from the porter page also somehow feels wrong. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sarge errata -> X fails to come up for radeon 9200 SE users.
Hello, On Steve's suggestion, i mail here an errata item for the sarge release, concerning bug#280738. There is a non-fixed bug in sarge's X packages (Bug #280738), which is triggered on dual head radeon 9200 SE and maybe others. The bug is triggered by the card having two pci ids, and the ati wrapper chosing the second one to match against its database of known cards, and since it doesn't know about the pci ids of this second head, fail to detect it needs the radeon driver. The pci id which triggers this is 1002:5d44, which is listed in lspci as : ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) The symptom are two : 1) X configuration will not select the ati or radeon driver for these cards. 2) if you manually chose ati, X will fail to come up, and drop you in the error message in text mode. Workaround for this is to manually edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, go to the Device section, and change the "ati" driver to "radeon". I did look at the errata.wml file in the cvs, but it was non-obvious where to integrate this, and if the above was the right tone for an errata. I would appreciate if this errata item be added in the right place for the sarge release, especially as i will get to do user support for many hundred of pegasos users who have this exact problematic card :/ Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solutions Linux Paris 2005 event date are wrong.
Hello, The Solutions Linux 2005 event in Paris is to be held on february 1-2-3, and not on february 3-4-5, like written in the debian-event page at : http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0203-solutionslinux At least i think so since both the banner and the page on the link mention 1-2-3. Friendly, Sven Luther
Re: broken link at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:28:09PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:04:58PM +0200, Christian Leimer wrote: > > I hope this is the right place to ask for a correction. > > The powerpc floppy link at the page in the subject does not work. > > The broken link > > is :http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/ > > the working one is: > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/ . There are two > > directories one for 2.4 and one for 2.6 floppies. > > This is a question for debian-boot and Sven. Mmm, the floppy stuff is mostly for oldworld pmac and miboot floppies, and success with them has been somewhat tedious, in big part because of poor state of existing floppy drives in oldworld machines. It should work now though, altough there seem to be more problems with 2.6 floppies than 2.4 ones. The powerpc-small directory was renamed to powerpc/floppy-2.4, which made more sense. > > And I have an other question. Why is there no link on the main page > > www.debian.org to ask if people want to test the new debian installer and > > the link to the di-page? > > Perhaps the d-i release announcements should be included in the News > section on the home page. Anyone? Yes, it would be good to have a direct link to the installer from the home page in the future. Friendly, Sven Luther
