Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Brian May
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony> On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:32:06PM +1100, Glenn McGrath Anthony> wrote: >> What do you think of the constant infighting that happens here, >> do you thing its a neccesary evil ? Isn't it fun ??? Anthony>

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

2001-11-17 Thread Brian May
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> Joey, you SHOULD quit this project. [...] I, too, hope that this bug will be fixed. Hopefully before the next release of Debian, too. However, if I was Joey, and I received the previous message, I might not be so eager to fix

Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:32:06PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > What do you think of the constant infighting that happens here, do you > thing its a neccesary evil ? _GLENN_. IS IT REALLY TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR YOU TO NOT CC ME ON MAILING LIST POSTS? IF IT IS, WELCOME TO MY KILLFILE. There, did y

Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:22:12 +1000 "Anthony Towns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to ask yourself why you're getting involved in this one > rather than looking at the bug report and trying to fix the package. > Because im trying to make people see that constant infighting isnt prod

[aj@azure.humbug.org.au: Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)]

2001-11-17 Thread Anthony Towns
Grrr. Don't Cc me on posts to debian-* mailing lists! Geez. My headers are set. The developers reference recommends it. I'm sure I've mentioned this. What more do you want?! On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:09:26PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > I dont think he would have much chance of getting through

Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 14:06:27 +1000 "Anthony Towns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:52:07PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > To work efficiently as a team we have to be able to trust each other to > > > perform our own tasks. > >

Re: 2.4.x kernel, pcmcia-cs, and boot-floppies

2001-11-17 Thread David Kimdon
Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:37:19AM -0700 wrote: > I'm trying to make some custom boot floppies for Woody with xfs support > and have managed to hack the package enough to make it work with one > exception. When the installation reaches the point of installing the > base system it gets hung up on t

Bug#57369: marked as done (PowerPC documentation inaccurate)

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#116413: marked as done (Alpha: Wrong partition No. for aboot)

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 17 Nov 2001 22:58:45 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#116413: fixed in boot-floppies 3.0.17 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is

Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > please then remove all that i have contributed from this project, all > of it, revert, remove etc. also be sure to remove the yaboot package > from debian as well. im sure the powerpc people will be happy then. Sorry, can't do that. You applied patch

boot-floppies_3.0.17_arm.changes INSTALLED

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Installer
Installing: bf-archive-install_3.0.17_arm.sh byhand bf-misc_3.0.17_arm.tar.gz byhand bf-doc_3.0.17_arm.tar.gz byhand bf-netwinder_3.0.17_arm.tar.gz byhand bf-riscpc_3.0.17_arm.tar.gz byhand install-doc_3.0.17_arm.deb to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/install-doc_3.0.17_arm.deb bf-cats_3.0.17_arm.tar

boot-floppies_3.0.17_i386.changes INSTALLED

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Installer
Installing: boot-floppies_3.0.17.dsc to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/boot-floppies_3.0.17.dsc boot-floppies_3.0.17.tar.gz to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/boot-floppies_3.0.17.tar.gz bf-misc_3.0.17_i386.tar.gz byhand bf-images-1.44_3.0.17_i386.tar.gz byhand bf-images-1.20_3.0.17_i386.tar.gz byhand b

boot-floppies_3.0.17_s390.changes INSTALLED

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Installer
Installing: bf-images_3.0.17_s390.tar.gz byhand bf-archive-install_3.0.17_s390.sh byhand bf-doc_3.0.17_s390.tar.gz byhand bf-misc_3.0.17_s390.tar.gz byhand install-doc_3.0.17_s390.deb to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/install-doc_3.0.17_s390.deb Changes: boot-floppies (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low

Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:52:07PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > To work efficiently as a team we have to be able to trust each other to > > perform our own tasks. > How can we trust someone who isn't one of us? Or, to put it in a way that doesn't sound

Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:52:07PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > Lets all remember that we are all on the same team. > > Ethan is not a developer. please then remove all that i have contributed from this project, all of it, revert, remove etc. also

Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Lets all remember that we are all on the same team. Ethan is not a developer. > > To work efficiently as a team we have to be able to trust each other to > perform our own tasks. How can we trust someone who isn't one of us? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Glenn McGrath
Lets all remember that we are all on the same team. To work efficiently as a team we have to be able to trust each other to perform our own tasks. If one thinks there own house is in perfect order then by all means help someone else with their workload, if you cant help them dont get in their wa

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

2001-11-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > Joey, you SHOULD quit this project. You are of no use to it any > longer, you are publically displaying an absolute intent to force YOUR > system administration policies down upon ALL of debian's users. As someone who is not part of this project, you h

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/da by dwhedon

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/da who:dwhedon time: Sat Nov 17 18:55:51 PST 2001 Log Message: Danish documentation moving along very well thanks to Claus Hindsgaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, one new file, and an update. Files: changed:boot-new.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by dwhedon

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:dwhedon time: Sat Nov 17 18:55:51 PST 2001 Log Message: Danish documentation moving along very well thanks to Claus Hindsgaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, one new file, and an update. Files: added: dselect-beginner.da.sgml -- To UNSUB

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

2001-11-17 Thread Joey Hess
Ethan Benson wrote: > Joey, you SHOULD quit this project. Could you please take all future flames to an appropriate venue. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/da by dwhedon

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/da who:dwhedon time: Sat Nov 17 18:06:19 PST 2001 Log Message: add some New danish files that I forgot to add, thanks to Claus Hindsgaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: added: appendix.sgml boot-new.sgml inst-methods.sgml kernel.sgml pa

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by dwhedon

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:dwhedon time: Sat Nov 17 18:06:19 PST 2001 Log Message: add some New danish files that I forgot to add, thanks to Claus Hindsgaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: added: index.da.html.m4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2001-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 05:35:56PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > As a junior participant, I may have little authority. But I'd like to > offer my perception of Ethan: He is hardworking, vitriolic, > knowledgeable, subject to wide mood swings, and completely committed > to the cause of free soft

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

2001-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:12:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Fourthly, I don't killfile coworkers on projects, because I belive that > that can lead to disastrous breakdowns in communications. I may, > however, leave projects in disgust. My disgust level with Ethan is > currently quite high. Threa

Re: last gasp to achieve b-f i18n (was Re: LC build failing)

2001-11-17 Thread Mikhail Sobolev
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:35:13AM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:59:16PM +0100, KORN Andras wrote: > > > > I think dropping Polish in favour of Chinese would be a good idea. (I didn't > > follow the thread, so I don't know why Polish was included in the first > > place

Re: last gasp to achieve b-f i18n (was Re: LC build failing)

2001-11-17 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:59:16PM +0100, KORN Andras wrote: > > I think dropping Polish in favour of Chinese would be a good idea. (I didn't > follow the thread, so I don't know why Polish was included in the first > place Because I was one of the guys who tried to make it work for last few mon

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

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:joy time: Sat Nov 17 15:00:43 PST 2001 Log Message: updates Files: changed:hr.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-11-17 Thread Othmar Pasteka
Hi, On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:40:05AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > I'd submit a patch, but I can't seem to determine where dselect > asks, nor how base-config can access this information. Does > anyone know the text of question, so that I can find it in the > dpkg sources? ah well, it would be e

Re: last gasp to achieve b-f i18n (was Re: LC build failing)

2001-11-17 Thread KORN Andras
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:30:20PM -0200, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: > > >I don't see any alternative to stripping down the language list. > > >I suggest 'de pl fr es ja'. > > Right, yeah. I suggest adding pt to that list, if it will fit; I think > > there are lots of users in Brazil. It's also so

Re: last gasp to achieve b-f i18n (was Re: LC build failing)

2001-11-17 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
Em Sab 17 Nov 2001 17:04, Philip Blundell escreveu: > >I don't see any alternative to stripping down the language list. > >I suggest 'de pl fr es ja'. > > Right, yeah. I suggest adding pt to that list, if it will fit; I think > there are lots of users in Brazil. It's also somewhat tempting to pu

Syslinux charset/font

2001-11-17 Thread Claus Hindsgaul
Hi, I have tried to fiddle with the charset of the rescue disk text files (on i386) in order to display the special Danish letters æøå correct. Have we got any experts on this topic on the list? The default IBM PC 437 charset lack the danish letter "ø", so a new font need to be loaded by sysl

boot-floppies_3.0.17_s390.changes REJECTED

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Installer
Rejected: no source found for boot-floppies 3.0.17 (install-doc_3.0.17_s390.deb). === If you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if the override file requires editing, reply to this email. Your rejected files are in incoming/REJECT/. (Some may also be in incoming/ if your .chan

boot-floppies_3.0.17_arm.changes REJECTED

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Installer
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Re: last gasp to achieve b-f i18n (was Re: LC build failing)

2001-11-17 Thread Philip Blundell
>I don't see any alternative to stripping down the language list. >I suggest 'de pl fr es ja'. Right, yeah. I suggest adding pt to that list, if it will fit; I think there are lots of users in Brazil. It's also somewhat tempting to put Chinese back, even if that means dropping one of the Eur

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

2001-11-17 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:12:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > First of all, Othmar's problem report is about an independant bug, > though it is loosely related to Ethan's wishlist report. > > Secondly, I have been away on personal business and have not been able > to fix all RC (ie, important or a

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Sat Nov 17 09:36:25 PST 2001 Log Message: more changes from me Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/powerpc-specials who:aph time: Sat Nov 17 09:36:01 PST 2001 Log Message: don't remove yaboot.conf in the clean rule, that's not downloaded anymore -- this problem was completely breaking PowerPC build Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

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

2001-11-17 Thread Joey Hess
First of all, Othmar's problem report is about an independant bug, though it is loosely related to Ethan's wishlist report. Secondly, I have been away on personal business and have not been able to fix all RC (ie, important or above) base-config bugs until this morning. This includes #117741, whi

Re: last gasp to achieve b-f i18n (was Re: LC build failing)

2001-11-17 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unfortunately, I did not have success on building > > LC-able BFs with limited number of languages. Doing so, dbootstrap > > crashed after complaining "could not load messages.trm". > >

cvs commit to base-config/lib by joeyh

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config/lib who:joeyh time: Sat Nov 17 08:33:15 PST 2001 Log Message: * Corrected a typo in 75apt-get ($NOCLEAN -> $CLEAN), that was making it clean up the downloaded debs even if the apt run failed sometimes. Also, only clean up debootstrap debs befor

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Sat Nov 17 08:33:15 PST 2001 Log Message: * Corrected a typo in 75apt-get ($NOCLEAN -> $CLEAN), that was making it clean up the downloaded debs even if the apt run failed sometimes. Also, only clean up debootstrap debs before th

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sat Nov 17 08:33:15 PST 2001 Log Message: * Corrected a typo in 75apt-get ($NOCLEAN -> $CLEAN), that was making it clean up the downloaded debs even if the apt run failed sometimes. Also, only clean up debootstrap debs be

Re: Bug in 3.0.17 images (i386)

2001-11-17 Thread Rainer Groesslinger
...I forgot to say that Nov 16 21:04:44 (none) user.debug dbootstrap[53]: umount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory Nov 16 21:04:44 (none) user.debug dbootstrap[53]: umount: /floppy: Invalid argument always occured at my pc even when woody floppies still were 2.3.x...I never had problems with

Re: Bug in 3.0.17 images (i386)

2001-11-17 Thread Rainer Groesslinger
Hello, eh, just to mention: I downloaded 3.0.15 and the bug isn't there...3.0.15 really shows only eth0 as the realtek card and no other eth0...The bug made its way into it in 16 or 17... ifconfig -a -- eth0 Link encap: unspec HWaddr: 00-00-00-00-07-00-00-00-00 [No flag] MT

Bug#119947: cannot resume installation after abort

2001-11-17 Thread Jörg Wendland
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.15; reported 2001-11-17 Severity: important When the installation is aborted while fetching the Release file, dbootstrap says "Malformed Release file" when trying to resume the installation. This is caused by /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dis

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

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:eb time: Sat Nov 17 00:35:47 PST 2001 Log Message: since the base-config maintainer refuses to fix 103302 apply a patch to fix it after base installation. this workaround must remain until 103302 is correctly fixed (patch in BTS,

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by eb

2001-11-17 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:eb time: Sat Nov 17 00:35:47 PST 2001 Log Message: since the base-config maintainer refuses to fix 103302 apply a patch to fix it after base installation. this workaround must remain until 103302 is correctly fixed (patch in BTS, awaiting NMU)