Re: new installer

2003-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:19:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > quik-installer is moderatly complicated if you want to do it right, it > > needs to depend on yaboot since yaboot provides ofpath. > > I have no intention to do a quik-installer, since i don't have the > hardware, so i guess that som

Re: new installer

2003-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:09:07PM +, simon raven wrote: > > any kernel that lies in the startup System\ Folder/$some_sub_dir on the mockos > classic > partition; as long as it recognises it as a linux.bin (this name can be > changed in the application resources) it'll boot. it doesn't need

Re: new installer

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:22:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:19:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > quik-installer is moderatly complicated if you want to do it right, it > > > needs to depend on yaboot since yaboot provides ofpath. > > > > I have no intention to do

Re: Integrating the debian-installer into the archive

2003-10-04 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-03 19:26]: | I doubt it's possible to use the regular autobuilders personally (I expect | you'll require root privleges to mount filesystems for instance). If | it is possible, that's cool. Either way, you'll need to work out how to | automate the build

Bug#214064: Missing setup options

2003-10-04 Thread Ari Laitinen
Package: install Version: 3.0.23 In the /install folder there is "boot.bat" startup file which contains a menu. This menu calls a program called "choise". Apparently there is no such program in the CD. Due to the missing program the boot bat allways starts installing the IDEPCI flavor. -- T

Bug#214064: Missing setup options

2003-10-04 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Ari Laitinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-04 10:56]: | Package: install | Version: 3.0.23 | | In the /install folder there is "boot.bat" startup file which contains a menu. | | This menu calls a program called "choise". | | Apparently there is no such program in the CD. | | Due to the missing

powerpc per subarch kernels and builtin initrd (was Re: Integrating the debian-installer into the archive)

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:53:56AM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > * Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-03 19:26]: > | I doubt it's possible to use the regular autobuilders personally (I expect > | you'll require root privleges to mount filesystems for instance). If > | it is possible, t

Re: Integrating the debian-installer into the archive

2003-10-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:10:00PM +0200, Sebastian Ley wrote: > > If it is possible, that's cool. Either way, you'll need to work out how > > to automate the builds yourselves, and tell everyone else. > Oh, I did not post this message to push all the work to the ftpmasters. > We merely wanted some

New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I am searching for testers for the new 2.4.22-2 serie of kernel packages before uploading them to the archive, and potentially breaking lot of stuff. They can be found at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 And i would like for two kind of tests : 1) please people using

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > I am searching for testers for the new 2.4.22-2 serie of kernel packages > before uploading them to the archive, and potentially breaking lot of > stuff. > > They can be found at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powe

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Thanks, Sven. I gzipped vmlinus-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac, and it > is 1675729 in size, thus cannot fit on a 1.44 floppy. Is there > anything that can be removed which would allow it to fit on > a floppy for oldworld booting? Actually

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > of the sarge release. I verified the powerpc-pmac kernel does boot on oldworld pmac, us

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am searching for testers for the new 2.4.22-2 serie of kernel packages > > before uploading them to the archive, and potentially breaking lot of > > st

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:07:21AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > Thanks, Sven. I gzipped vmlinus-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac, and it > > is 1675729 in size, thus cannot fit on a 1.44 floppy. Is there > > anything that can be removed w

Bug#214102: rootskel-bootfloppy: does not boot into d-i

2003-10-04 Thread Sebastian Ley
Package: rootskel-bootfloppy Severity: grave File: rootskel-bootfloppy Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable I suppose that with the recent busybox and rootskel upload everything was in place to build working floppy images again. And in fact, building of the bootfloppy and floppy targe

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > of the sarge release. I successfully booted the powerpc-pmac kernel with quik on my o

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > > of the sarge relea

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > > of the sarge

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > > of the sarge

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:01:58PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > > > all these powerpc subarch

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:44:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:07:21AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, Sven. I gzipped vmlinus-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac, and it > > > is 1675729 in size, thus c

freezing python packages until python-2.3 becomes the default in testing

2003-10-04 Thread Matthias Klose
[ This mail is sent to all package maintainers, whose packages depend on python, python2.1, python2.2 or python2.3 ] You are maintaining the following packages: mklibs To help python2.3 to enter the testing (sarge) release as the default python version, we need a whole bunch of packages to ente

Bug#178511: mklibs: Misses some symbols?

2003-10-04 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, the symbol parsing part of mklibs has been reworked in 0.1.12. Can you please check whether the problem is still there and if so, how exactly to reproduce it? -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:05:54PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:01:58PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Anyway, please test and give fe

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:15:32PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:44:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:07:21AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks, Sven. I gzip

cdebconf set seen stuff

2003-10-04 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
I've looked around a bit since my last post on this issue, and I've found out how it's implemented: cdebconf heeds "fset seen" if and only if "debconf/showold" is set to "false", _or_ the environment variable DEBCONF_SHOWOLD exists and is set to "false". (Or both, of course.) Does anybody know why

Bug#214142: debian-installer: lack of network card causes problems

2003-10-04 Thread Andre Lehovich
Package: install Version: N/A, jigdo image of 3 Oct 2003 The installer doesn't gracefully handle an install without a network card present (for example, an install under Bochs). Each time one returns back to the main menu the installer complains "No interfaces were detected.", gives some more text

Bug#214145: /home/sar/debian-installer/tools/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser: segfault on hppa

2003-10-04 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Package: kbd-chooser Version: 0.26 Severity: important File: /home/sar/debian-installer/tools/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser Hi, kbd-chooser segfaults on hppa architecture. It segfaults after "get console-tools/archs" More informations follows... Bye Thorsten -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#214144: debian-installer: cfdisk asks for reboot after partitioning

2003-10-04 Thread Andre Lehovich
Package: install Version: N/A, jigdo image of 3 Oct 2003 After partitioning the disk with cfdisk, one briefly sees a message that says "Reboot the system to ensure the partition table is properly updated". On a modern machine it probably scrolls by too fast to read, but it is easy to see in Bochs

Processed: Re: Bug#214144: debian-installer: cfdisk asks for reboot after partitioning

2003-10-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 214144 util-linux Bug#214144: debian-installer: cfdisk asks for reboot after partitioning Bug reassigned from package `install' to `util-linux'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Proposed build system

2003-10-04 Thread Sebastian Ley
Hello, on the way to a build system that enables us to use the current buildd infrastructure for d-i images, I checked in a preliminary proposal into cvs. I placed it under build/debian_proposed because it discards most of the old build system. It is quite simple: - Stick with the idea of havin