[D-I Manual] Build log for en (27 Aug 2009)

2009-08-27 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/logs/en.log === It is possible to use R

Re: [PATCH] grub-pc build-dependency

2009-08-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 06:23:23PM +0200, Luca Favatella wrote: > On 27/08/2009, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Hi. > > > > grub-pc is used during d-i build but isn't listed as build-dependency. > > It looks to me it is present both in trunk and branch. Please see: > http://svn.debian.or

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: > Why not a step in the installer menu (perhaps immediately prior to > tasksel) -- only displayed at "expert" priority -- that gives you a > selection list of available desktops -- pick one or more? That's not exactly a new thought. But if you're goin

Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I also worry what the change will mean for the total size of the > various desktop installs. Is the 3GB check still enough? Somehow I > doubt it. Installing GNOME desktop currently requires 3.2GB. That's including the package cache. After 'aptitude

Bug#477092: Bug #477092 grub-installer: does not support setting password for grub2

2009-08-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
grub2 supports now setting a password. I just documented that in the wiki: http://grub.enbug.org/Authentication It's a bit different then grub-legacy's. /etc/default/grub doestn't have any support for it. I think the best would be to create a /etc/grub.d/01_password file or something like that. -

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

2009-08-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 27 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote: I'm very suprised to see syslinux menus being used to offer a choice amoung desktop environments. It was discussed extensively when the functionality was implemented. Most people were happy to at last

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
tags 543256 pending thanks On Sunday 23 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Attached patches (untested, but straightforward) for three components: > - base-installer, where the question will be asked and which will > configure apt accordingly; this means the base system installation > will now als

Processed: Re: Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

2009-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 543256 pending Bug #543256 [pkgsel] Make installing recommends optional Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs

Re: Our stable release

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > We haven't had a properly installable stable release for a full month > now, #536312. Applies to both CD/DVD and network installs. I don't see > much activity to resolve this. Are we so busy with squeeze and sid, > that we don't care about lenny any

Re: problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: > I'm not sure where to ask, so please redirect me to the appropriate > mailing list if necessary. > > I'm currently trying to use pbuilder to package an OCaml binding to the > R interpreter API. > > However, I've repreatedly been unable to use d

problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

2009-08-27 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Hello. I'm not sure where to ask, so please redirect me to the appropriate mailing list if necessary. I'm currently trying to use pbuilder to package an OCaml binding to the R interpreter API. However, I've repreatedly been unable to use debootstrap to create a new base.tgz. There's always

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm very suprised to see syslinux menus being used to offer a choice > amoung desktop environments. It was discussed extensively when the functionality was implemented. Most people were happy to at last have the option in *some* form, even though fa

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

2009-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
I'm very suprised to see syslinux menus being used to offer a choice amoung desktop environments. This subverts d-i's design principles on several levels: 1. It's a fundamental principle of d-i's UI design that we ask questions using debconf. And the clumsiness of this syslinux menu UI for s

Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

2009-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
I don't appreciate the confrontational tone Frans is using in this thread, and so will not be continuing to follow it. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy template

2009-08-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 18:55 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 10:17 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > > Now that squeeze probable will freeze in December, I somehow have the > > feeling it won't use grub2 by default. > > So I suggest to change the grub2 instead of

Re: [PATCH] grub-pc build-dependency

2009-08-27 Thread Luca Favatella
On 27/08/2009, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, Hi. > grub-pc is used during d-i build but isn't listed as build-dependency. It looks to me it is present both in trunk and branch. Please see: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/trunk/installer/debian/control?revision=60127 http://svn.debian.org/view

Re: Spellchecking priorities [Was: Re: Override changes standard -> optional]

2009-08-27 Thread Agustin Martin
2009/8/25 Frans Pop : > On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: >> Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): >> > On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Agustin Martin wrote: >> > > I am about to ask dictionaries-common priority be changed to >> > > optional in the override file. Also, ispell maintain

Re: Manual is in string freeze!

2009-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:41:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:18:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > Rev 60476 - cjwatson (2 file(s) modified) > > > Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if > > > partman-auto/method is not set. > > > > I'

Re: Manual is in string freeze!

2009-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:18:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Rev 60476 - cjwatson (2 file(s) modified) > > Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if > > partman-auto/method is not set. > > I'm reverting this commit as we're currently in a string freeze, as > annou

Manual is in string freeze!

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
> Rev 60476 - cjwatson (2 file(s) modified) > Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if > partman-auto/method is not set. I'm reverting this commit as we're currently in a string freeze, as announced on the list. Will reapply after release. Cheers, FJP -- To UN

Bug#264963: £891,934.00 GBP. Comfirm

2009-08-27 Thread Camelot Board
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Bug#543864: Lenovo S10e - Testing - Grub2

2009-08-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 09:54 +0200 schrieb Florian Hoberg: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: USB-CD > Image version: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso > Date: 2009-08-26 (03:30 PM) > > Machine: Le

Processed: Re: Bug#543819: please include security updates in stable installations

2009-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 543819 wontfix Bug #543819 [debootstrap] please include security updates in stable installations Added tag(s) wontfix. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (a

Bug#543819: please include security updates in stable installations

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
tags 543819 wontfix thanks On Thursday 27 August 2009, Hannes von Haugwitz wrote: > when selecting the current stable release as SUITE the resulting system > should contain the security updates for the basic system and the > sources.list should contain the sources for the security repository. I'm

Bug#543864: Lenovo S10e - Testing - Grub2

2009-08-27 Thread Florian Hoberg
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB-CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2009-08-26 (03:30 PM) Machine: Lenovo S10e (netbook) Processor: Intel Atom N270 Memory: 2048 MB Partitions: /dev/map

Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > So, that change was made in tasksel three months ago, near to the start > what was, AFAIK at the time, a 1.5 year release cycle. This was done in > full knowledge that enabling recommends would take some time to sort So why did you not inform the d-cd

Bug#543819: please include security updates in stable installations

2009-08-27 Thread Hannes von Haugwitz
Package: debootstrap Severity: wishlist Hi, when selecting the current stable release as SUITE the resulting system should contain the security updates for the basic system and the sources.list should contain the sources for the security repository. Hannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-