Bug#70387: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Sad as I think this sort of automated bug report without looking at individual cases is, I think it raises a point. IMHO, either dpkg-buildpackage in the boot floppies source should not build floppies normally (which I suspect a lot of people will object to, but I kind of like as a solution) or w

Bug#70387: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; Severity: normal *** explain.txt I compiled all packages that have no "Build-Depends" in potato/main/Sources.gz. Your package failed to build together with about 1700 other packages. Since you have no "Build-Depends" you eigther forgot that your package buil

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2000-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 70082 boot-floppies Bug#70082: Can't mount CDROM Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `boot-floppies'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- T

[i18n] README-Users.m4, index.html

2000-08-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hello! If other translators also care to translate this file, I guess we should have a consistent way of naming that file when it's built. If all language have a sane method of naming the language in ASCII only (URLs don't like anything else AFAIK), then we can make it like this: README.txt READ

Processed: reassign Re: Bug#70093: Can't download Rescue disk completely.

2000-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 70093 boot-floppies Bug#70093: Can't download Rescue disk completely. Bug reassigned from package `dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/rescue.bin' to `boot-floppies'. > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:45:44AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Looks good, although one of the messages was in English. I'm > > > satisfied it's enough to close the bug for. > > > > Sure they're in english, which other language do you expect? > > You said: > > +

Bug#67888: netwinder/arm port shouldn't ask about maintaining 2.0 compatability

2000-08-27 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sun Aug 27, 2000 at 11:12:45AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Package: boot-floppies > > Version: N/A > > Severity: wishlist > > > > The debian installer for potato worked just fine on the netwinder, one I > > convinced it to tftp boot the provided netwinder-rescue image. One hitch > > thou

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:45:44AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Looks good, although one of the messages was in English. I'm > > satisfied it's enough to close the bug for. > > Sure they're in english, which other language do you expect? You said: +snprintf (prtbuf, sizeof (prtbuf), _(

New experimental boot floppies (pre 2.2.17) available for testing

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi folks, could you give the new preview boot floppies a try? The changelog is impressive, we have fixed *a lot* of bugs. Aph and myself have tested the resulting disk images a couple of times, but it's always better to have a wider range of testing. I'm uploading the following files to http:/

Re: [debian-installer] microdpkg

2000-08-27 Thread Glenn McGrath
Randolph Chung wrote: > > > Im getting bogged down with forks and IPC with the C based debconf stuff > > i was attempting, i might have a quick look now. > > Glenn, is your code available some place? > > randolph Hi, i was looking at purely the unpacking side of things, the idea was to use pip

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2000-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 69970 [CVS-fixed] images-1.20/root.bin consists entirely of nulls Bug#69970: boot-floppies: images-1.20/root.bin consists entirely of nulls Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darre

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2000-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 69959 [CVS-fixed] 1.2M root.bin is just nulls Bug#69959: [i386] 1.2M root.bin is just nulls Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database)

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2000-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 68021 [CVS-fixed] Can't locate/configure modules with compact set Bug#68021: [i386] can't locate/configure modules with compact set Changed Bug title. > retitle 67888 [CVS-fixed] Netwinder/arm port shouldn't ask about maintaining 2.0 >compata

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2000-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 69153 [powerpc] include partition name in initialize and activate partitions >dialogs Bug#69153: boot-floppies: include partition name in initialize and activate partitions dialogs Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here.

Bug#69959: 1.2M root.bin is just nulls

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
> Package: boot-floppies > Version: 2.2.16 > Severity: important It's only null's, just confirmed. I guess it never gets written, only the file gets padded with zeroes before. Correct. Let's see. the $rootimage is empty, bad... Hmm, it's not empty for 1440, funny... Hmm, I found the problem:

Bug#69161: boot-floppies: installer fails to create bootable system on ``oldworld'' PowerMacs

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
C.M. Connelly wrote: > > > Package: boot-floppies > Version: 2.2.16-2000-07-20 > Severity: important > > > The dialog ``Make Linux bootable directly from the hard disk'' > apparently involves installing Quik. A dialog appears with lots > of text, but disappears before you can focus on it. (A

Bug#69153: powerpc stuff

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
retitle 69153 [powerpc] include partition name in initialize and activate partitions dialogs thanks This is only possible on systems where partitions also have names, like powerpc boxes. Needs to be done by powerpc folks. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time

Bug#69151: provide advice about partitions to create and their sizes

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
> Package: boot-floppies > Version: 2.2.16-2000-07-20 > Severity: wishlist > > > Once you've chosen a disk to partition, you are unceremoniously > dumped into pdisk, without any instructions as to how the program > works or what you should do. > > It would be nice if there were some information

Bug#67888: netwinder/arm port shouldn't ask about maintaining 2.0 compatability

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
> Package: boot-floppies > Version: N/A > Severity: wishlist > > The debian installer for potato worked just fine on the netwinder, one I > convinced it to tftp boot the provided netwinder-rescue image. One hitch > though -- the question about maintaining 2.0 compatability for the ext2 fs > shou

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2000-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 64522 [slink, m68k] error installing on Performa 600 Bug#64522: [m68k] error installing on Performa 600 Changed Bug title. > retitle 56886 [slink, alpha] cd boot attempts mount of 08:02 as / Bug#56886: [alpha] cd boot attempts mount of 08:02 a

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Looks good, although one of the messages was in English. I'm > satisfied it's enough to close the bug for. Sure they're in english, which other language do you expect? Will commit the code later then. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a