Re: [RFC] Dropping architectures alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide

2009-10-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): Now that we have two architectures that are no longer official release architectures I've been wondering if we should remove any architecture- specific text for them from the Installation Guide. No objection from my side (I wonder what objections I

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23:57AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Note however that the daily image will still be based on sid, like other daily images, but will install testing instead. I believe other daily images are based on testing. Though, I'm not sure if that currently works for

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
if that currently works for kfreebsd-*. No, they are also based on unstable, see for example: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/20091014-00:00/build_netboot.log -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net

Bug#550955: installation-reports: installer unable to use package repositories

2009-10-14 Thread Janusz S. =?UTF-8?Q?Bie=C5=84
Package: installation-reports Severity: critical I've tried today unsuccesfully to install Squeeze from today's bussiness card image on a virtual machine with bridge networking, first under VirtualBox, than under VMWare. I had no problem when installing Lenny under VMWare with the same network

Bug#550962: kbd-chooser: please let Bépo keyboard layout available when choosing kbd layout

2009-10-14 Thread Frederic Boiteux
Package: kbd-chooser Version: 1.48 Severity: normal Quite a lot of people in France now uses the 'dvorak like' Bépo keyboard layout (as described in www.bepo.fr) and can have their keyboard using this particular layout, either with sticks, either through the TypeMatrix ergonomic keyboard. It

Re: [RFC] Dropping architectures alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide

2009-10-14 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:58:43PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: m68k was dropped as a release architecture for Etch, and alpha is being dropped for Squeeze. For m68k the intention was to bring it back as a release architecture, but now, over 2 years later, I think we can say that's unlikely to

Bug#550955: installation-reports: installer unable to use package repositories

2009-10-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 14:32 +0200 schrieb jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl: Package: installation-reports Severity: critical I've tried today unsuccesfully to install Squeeze from today's bussiness card image on a virtual machine with bridge networking, first under VirtualBox, than under VMWare.

Bug#550955: installation-reports: installer unable to use package repositories

2009-10-14 Thread Janusz S. =?UTF-8?Q?Bie=C5=84
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote: [...] Where exactly does it fail with what error message? Unfortunately I don't remeber the exact wording. And would it be possible for you to attach the compressed installer syslog? I'm not sure how to dig it out from the VBox

Bug#546983: uk keymap also fails

2009-10-14 Thread ael
Package: console-setup-mini Version: 1.45 Severity: normal Same problem here. US keymap on all consoles as well as X. I have to loadkeys uk to get proper map. This happens on two squeeze boxes (another is ok?). Problem on both an i386 as well as this amd64 box. In passing, on the i386 box,

Re: [RFC] Dropping architectures alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide

2009-10-14 Thread Brian Szymanski
Maybe I'm just sad that alpha is being dropped for squeeze, but... It strikes me that not having install docs will be a major hindrance to any revival of the alpha port, as it will discourage potential new developers from ever trying debian on their boxes and seeing what needs to be fixed. As far

Re: [RFC] Dropping architectures alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide

2009-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Brian Szymanski wrote: Maybe I'm just sad that alpha is being dropped for squeeze, but... It strikes me that not having install docs will be a major hindrance to any revival of the alpha port, as it will discourage potential new developers from ever trying debian

Bug#550987: upcoming GRUB command interface change affects GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Millan
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch Next upstream release of GRUB (1.97~beta5) will have its kFreeBSD loader renamed (from freebsd to kfreebsd) to reflect that it is loading the kernel of FreeBSD rather than FreeBSD itself. Since GRUB 1.96 didn't include a kFreeBSD loader at

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23:57AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Note however that the daily image will still be based on sid, like other daily images, but will install testing instead. I believe other daily images are based on testing.

Processed (with 1 errors): Re: Bug#550962: kbd-chooser: please let Bépo keyboard layout available when choosing kbd layout

2009-10-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 550962 console-data Bug #550962 [kbd-chooser] kbd-chooser: please let Bépo keyboard layout available when choosing kbd layout Bug reassigned from package 'kbd-chooser' to 'console-data'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions

Bug#550962: kbd-chooser: please let Bépo keyboard layout available when choosing kbd layout

2009-10-14 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 550962 console-data retitle 55092 Please offer Bépo keyboard layout during D-I installs thanks Quoting Frederic Boiteux (fboit...@free.fr): Package: kbd-chooser Version: 1.48 Severity: normal Quite a lot of people in France now uses the 'dvorak like' Bépo keyboard layout Hmmm,

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 14:07 -0400 schrieb Rick Thomas: On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23:57AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Note however that the daily image will still be based on sid, like other daily images, but will install

Re: [RFC] Dropping architectures alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide

2009-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Brian Szymanski wrote: As far as the burden on translators goes, is there a priority ranking system for what needs to be done? Seems like that could help here... Sorry, I misread that comment. Yes, there is a

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: Let me see if I've got this right... The installer being based on (e.g.) Sid/unstable means that the active components of the installer CDs (the parts that do the installing, not the parts that will be installed) come from the current

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Note that we don't really use the D-I images for unstable on the mirrors. (With one exception: the sid_d-i daily built CD images; but those are only used during a *very* short window for pre-release testing, and recently that has just been skipped