Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm not 100% sure that partman-efi is the right package for the bug report, but it's as good as any. So, it's way past time to fix this particular bug. After a fair amount of playing with systems like this and discussing with

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the partition table(s) and starting again with GPT, but I don't think we currently have a

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 10:26 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the partition table(s) and

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 21:05 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-09-10): as you might have seen, a number of uploads happened lately and the d-i BoF notes from DebConf kindly provided by Steve (thanks!) reminded me about uploading d-i more often. So I think

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk (2014-09-28): Should we do anything about #762007 (user-params breakage due to kernel changes) or can it wait? I might be mistaken but I think it can wait a bit until we agree on a solution and have some time to get it tested. WRT #762618 (empty grub.cfg in

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 15:47 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk (2014-09-28): Should we do anything about #762007 (user-params breakage due to kernel changes) or can it wait? I might be mistaken but I think it can wait a bit until we agree on a solution and have

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the partition table(s) and

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:54 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: If the user wants to continue, we

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:02:12PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:54 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100,

Bug#762342: task-cinnamon-desktop: Please turn on display of Cinnamon desktop task

2014-09-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 23/09/14 02:36 PM, Joey Hess wrote: One way might be to decide if a given DE is fundamentally different than the others in some way, and if not, only include one of a set that share common characteristics. So, maybe only gnome and not cinnamon since it's a rather near cousin (AFIACS).

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:14 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:02:12PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I was thinking more along the lines of a yes/no question which would either cause partman-efi.isinstallable to fail or not. Allowing selection between the wants to convert to

Processing of netcfg_1.108+deb7u2_amd64.changes

2014-09-28 Thread Debian FTP Masters
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iso-scan_1.43+deb7u2_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into proposed-updates-stable-new

2014-09-28 Thread Debian FTP Masters
Mapping wheezy to stable. Mapping stable to proposed-updates. Accepted: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:12:51 +0200 Source: iso-scan Binary: iso-scan load-iso Architecture: source all Version: 1.43+deb7u2 Distribution: wheezy Urgency: low

netcfg_1.108+deb7u2_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into proposed-updates-stable-new

2014-09-28 Thread Debian FTP Masters
Mapping wheezy to stable. Mapping stable to proposed-updates. Accepted: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:11:31 +0200 Source: netcfg Binary: netcfg netcfg-static Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.108+deb7u2 Distribution: wheezy Urgency: low

Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: That sounds better to me too, assuming we can sensibly do a question at that point. Is that allowed? I honestly don't know... :-/ While isinstallable scripts can talk to debconf, they should not ask questions, as main-menu will run

[PATCH v2] Update new-kernel-checklist.txt for the last few years' changes

2014-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
- Kernel udebs are built from the kernel source packages - There are no floppy images - The minimum memory requirements have increased; point to the documentation rather than repeating them here - debian-cd configuration no longer includes kernel versions, as it lists metapackages instead -

[PATCH] Keep Linux modules.builtin file in the initrd

2014-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
modules.builtin is generated at kernel build time and can't be regenerated from the installed kernel or modules. If it's missing when depmod runs again within the installer, depmod will generate an empty modules.builtin.bin and issue a warning. modprobe will also fail noisily if asked to load a

Re: [PATCH] Keep Linux modules.builtin file in the initrd

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (2014-09-28): modules.builtin is generated at kernel build time and can't be regenerated from the installed kernel or modules. If it's missing when depmod runs again within the installer, depmod will generate an empty modules.builtin.bin and issue a warning.

Re: Bug#762959: [libclang1-3.5] ABI break: missing libclang.so.1

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
David Suárez david.sephi...@gmail.com (2014-09-28): Package: libclang1-3.5 Version: 1:3.5-3 New version, 1:3.5-3, have this bug too. I see 311 FTBFS on last archive rebuild. Logs at: http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/09/26/ Example pkgs: alsa-lib alsaplayer apr-util

Re: Bug#762959: [libclang1-3.5] ABI break: missing libclang.so.1

2014-09-28 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 28/09/2014 21:31, Cyril Brulebois wrote: David Suárez david.sephi...@gmail.com (2014-09-28): Package: libclang1-3.5 Version: 1:3.5-3 New version, 1:3.5-3, have this bug too. I see 311 FTBFS on last archive rebuild. Logs at: http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/09/26/ Example

control the UID/GID assignment by installer

2014-09-28 Thread Ross Boylan
I would like to control the UID/GID assignment to match that of another system. E.g., UID 101 was Debian-exim, but on a new install that's the UID of messagebus, and Debian-exim is 103. I think I can do a minimal install and then modify /etc/passwd for any accounts not yet created, assuming they

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: That sounds better to me too, assuming we can sensibly do a question at that point. Is that allowed? I honestly don't know... :-/ While isinstallable scripts can talk to

Re: libdebian-installer_0.97_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Christian, Debian FTP Masters ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org (2014-09-25): libdebian-installer (0.97) unstable; urgency=low . [ Jérémy Bobbio ] * Do not write timesamps in Doxygen generated documentation for reproducibility of the build process. all good. But then, using

Bug#763005: installation-guide-amd64: website for wheezy leads to jessie installation guide

2014-09-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Ross Boylan, le Fri 26 Sep 2014 18:23:19 -0700, a écrit : On http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual I selected the link for amd64 pdf, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/install.pdf.en. When I view this it says that it is the installation guide for Debian 8,

Bug#763005: installation-guide-amd64: website for wheezy leads to jessie installation guide

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (2014-09-28): Hello, Ross Boylan, le Fri 26 Sep 2014 18:23:19 -0700, a écrit : On http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual I selected the link for amd64 pdf, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/install.pdf.en. When I view this it

Bug#763289: Debian testing dayly build (2014-09-28) successfully installed

2014-09-28 Thread Jürgen Kleber
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB memory stick Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 2014-09-28 12:15 Machine: Notebook Samsung N150 Plus Processor: Architecture: x86_64 CPU

Bug#763005: installation-guide-amd64: website for wheezy leads to jessie installation guide

2014-09-28 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 28/09/2014 16:54, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (2014-09-28): Ross Boylan, le Fri 26 Sep 2014 18:23:19 -0700, a écrit : On http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual […] it is the installation

Bug#763005: installation-guide-amd64: website for wheezy leads to jessie installation guide

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
David Prévot taf...@debian.org (2014-09-28): Right. There is currently nothing magic to handle what release the installation-guide is targeted to, so webmaster@d.o has to update one cron script to install it where it belongs when the release changes. If there is an in-advance notice before the

Re: control the UID/GID assignment by installer

2014-09-28 Thread Philip Hands
Ross Boylan rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org writes: I would like to control the UID/GID assignment to match that of another system. E.g., UID 101 was Debian-exim, but on a new install that's the UID of messagebus, and Debian-exim is 103. I think I can do a minimal install and then modify

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partman-efi_48_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2014-09-28 Thread Debian FTP Masters
Accepted: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:25:36 +0200 Source: partman-efi Binary: partman-efi Architecture: source Version: 48 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org

Bug#762614: stop preseeding desktop

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 pending Joey Hess jo...@debian.org (2014-09-23): Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch Once tasksel 3.27 is in testing, but not before, d-i should stop preseeding desktop=xfce for kfreebsd and hurd. This version of tasksel defaults to xfce for those

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ debian-release@: see last paragraph. ] Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-09-26): Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-09-10): as you might have seen, a number of uploads happened lately and the d-i BoF notes from DebConf kindly provided by Steve (thanks!) reminded me about uploading

Processed: Re: Bug#762614: stop preseeding desktop

2014-09-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: tag -1 pending Bug #762614 [debian-installer] stop preseeding desktop Added tag(s) pending. -- 762614: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762614 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#763073: partman-md places first line of mdadm.conf to wrong file

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 pending Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru (2014-09-27): Package: partman-md Version: 70 Severity: normal Tags: patch finish-install.d/65partman-md reads: CF=/target/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf if ... then mkdir -p /target/etc/mdadm echo # Autogenerated by

Processed: Re: Bug#763073: partman-md places first line of mdadm.conf to wrong file

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Processing control commands: tag -1 pending Bug #763073 [partman-md] partman-md places first line of mdadm.conf to wrong file Added tag(s) pending. -- 763073: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763073 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To

RE: control the UID/GID assignment by installer

2014-09-28 Thread Philip Hands
Boylan, Ross ross.boy...@ucsf.edu writes: Thanks for the pointers. But is it really true that the 2 pieces of code don't rely on the rest? They have . /tmp/HandsOff-dbg-fn.sh . /tmp/HandsOff-fn.sh Actually, I was making it more complicated than it need be, just because I happened to have

Processing of netcfg_1.122_source.changes

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netcfg_1.122_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

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Accepted: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 07:02:57 +0200 Source: netcfg Binary: netcfg netcfg-static Architecture: source Version: 1.122 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org