Bug#1041207: debootstrap: bad NMU produces buildds not supported by dpkg _and_ CTTE

2023-07-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 12:42:11PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > If there is somebody who's ignoring things, that would be yourself, > given this change has been not only been explicitly requested, but even > provided _BY_ the CTTE, as you would have easily found out if you > actually went and chec

Bug#589213: [Popcon-developers] Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:29:55AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Daniel Richard G.] > > Yes, I see that... what is it now, the --no-recommends switch is broken? > > Nope. Your installation simply used version 0.26, which is one > version before the change was introduced. > > I eagerly awa

Re: How to detect Debian systems w/o root passwd ?

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:08:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:10:46PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I'd say that reading the value of passwd/root-login debconf template > > > is the safest way. If you get "false", then the

Re: How to detect Debian systems w/o root passwd ?

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Bill Allombert (bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr): > > Dear Debian boot, > > > > It is now possible to set up Debian system without a root password. > > On such system sudo must be used ins

Re: How to detect Debian systems w/o root passwd ?

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:31:08PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: >> Dear Debian boot, >> >> It is now possible to set up Debian system without a root password. >> On such system sudo must be used instead of su. >> What is the canon

How to detect Debian systems w/o root passwd ?

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear Debian boot, It is now possible to set up Debian system without a root password. On such system sudo must be used instead of su. What is the canonical way to detect such situation ? My purpose is to change su-to-root to automatically default to sudo mode on such system. Cheers, -- Bill.

Re: Preparing linux-2.6 2.6.18-1

2006-09-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 08:52:15AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > There won't be any GR, there will be a new pet proposal until forever, and > endless discussions as we start recalling the DPL, and bashing on the > secretary and what not. In the absence of GR, the current situation is that sourceless

Re: Preparing linux-2.6 2.6.18-1

2006-09-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:38:50PM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: > Second: this release contains ALL binary firmware blobs shipped > upstream, even those we kept pruning since the day Herbert Xu removed > them the first time in 2004. > > Initially, we wanted to wait for a positive GR vote out

Bug#368487: Bug: #368487: tasksel-data: overwrite files from tasksel

2006-05-22 Thread Bill Allombert
close 368487 merge 368487 368408 quit Somehow I missed 368408. Sorry for the duplicated report. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#368487: tasksel-data: overwrite files from tasksel

2006-05-22 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: tasksel-data Version: 2.45 Severity: serious Dear Debian Install System team, Upgrading taskel from sarge to sid fails with the error: Selecting previously deselected package tasksel-data. Unpacking tasksel-data (from .../tasksel-data_2.45_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/

Bug#368481: tasksel has circular Depends on tasksel-data

2006-05-22 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: tasksel Version: 2.45 Severity: important Hello Debian Install System Team, There is a newly introduced circular dependency between tasksel and tasksel-data: tasksel :Depends: tasksel-data tasksel-data:Depends: tasksel (= 2.45) Circular dependencies make installation and up

Re: gtk 2.0.x or 2.9+ for etch g-i ? (Was: graphics or text as default)

2006-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:48:30AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 09:09, Sven Luther wrote: > > It is scheduled for release during may, which may or not be delayed a > > bit. This is way this is an important point to get feedaback from the > > release team and from the gtk-gnome t

Re: [RFR] Proposal for installs without network connection

2006-04-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > With Beta 2 we have lost the option to (easily) install without using a > network connection. There have been several comments about this. Please keep in mind that there is a distinction between having no network connection and no Inter

Bug#251206: LANG in /etc/environment should be filled earlier

2004-05-27 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: base-config Version: 2.24 Severity: normal Hello, apparently base-config set up LANG in /etc/environment only at the end. This might cause some shells to not have a proper LANG because they are started earlier (for example if you press F2 and log in). Ideally, /etc/environment could be s

Re: locale for the root user

2004-05-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:20:03PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > This has some consequences: > > 1) Debian menu is translated, since update-menus was ran under > > proper locales! This is very nice ! Thanks to everybody involved! > > Is this _r

locale for the root user

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian-installer team, During the baseconfig part of the install, locales are set up, while root has C locale by default (but the user account has correct locales). This has some consequences: 1) Debian menu is translated, since update-menus was ran under proper locales! This is very nice

Bug#247765: base system install: kernel menu should offer to not install any kernel

2004-05-06 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hello debian-installer team, During the base system install, I get a menu asking me to choose a kernel (2.4.25 or 2.6.5). I don't install on a bootable media so I technically don't need a kernel. Unfortunately I was forced to install one, so I picked 2

Bug#247734: debian-installer: incorrect /etc/hosts localhost line

2004-05-06 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal (From Pierre Machard on irc) Hello dream-installer Team, /etc/hosts in the debian-installer environnement is not correct after network configuration is complete (manual). it read: 127.0.0.1 localhost pingo 10.10.0.17 pingo.miss-knife.net pingo From

Bug#247733: main-menu: "Launch a shell" lead to a shell with broken readline

2004-05-06 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal If you choose "main-menu: Launch a shell", you get a shell with broken readline: using the left arrow key lead to a broken display. Apparently, the shell under Alt-F2 does not have this problem, so I suspect a bad tty setting. Long life debian-installer

Re: loop device install or how to skip partman ?

2004-04-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > Hello Debian-installer team, > > > > After testing beta 1 and beta 2, I tried beta 3, with the > > same goal in mind: install Debian in a file using a loop > > device. > &g

loop device install or how to skip partman ?

2004-04-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian-installer team, After testing beta 1 and beta 2, I tried beta 3, with the same goal in mind: install Debian in a file using a loop device. As far as I could see, all beta detected the hardware of the box fine. beta 1 and 2 lacked the minimal support to create loop device, but the s

Re: status of pppoe support in d-i ?

2003-12-16 Thread Bill Allombert
Geert Stappers wrote: > We, debian installer system team, have seen this before. > > At http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200311/msg00925.html > is a patch submitted. Reading this link, I see that > > > so far. All of those suposedly mklibs weak symbols bugs disapeared > > >

Re: status of pppoe support in d-i ?

2003-12-15 Thread Bill Allombert
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/USR3/src/P/ppp/ppp-2.4.2+20031127$head -3 debian/ppp-udeb.postinst > #!/bin/sh -e > echo " $0 DISABLED "; exit 0 Oh, I well-know that. I use a modified version. My problem is I cannot manage to properly load the udeb in d-i. After udpkg -i ppp-

status of pppoe support in d-i ?

2003-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello d-i developers, There have been some work toward pppoe support in d-i. I tried to test the ppp postinst script, but apparently I was not skilled to even manage to run it. So is there a d-i image with updated ppp-udeb and pppoe modules that I could test ? Cheers, [please CC me] -- Bill. <[

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:17:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > The help screen [F3] says that 'net' is good for a network install, and > > I wanted to test network install. > > IIRC, The help screens are from the boot-floppies and basically

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:47:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > I have entered `net' at boot prompt. > > Why did you do that, instead of just hitting enter? It apparently booted > you up in low priority mode, which explains most of the following: Th

Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration questions

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:44:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Package: netcfg > Severity: wishlist > Tags: d-i > > The current order is not really natural : > I would like to propose this change; > > -IP address > -Netmask > -Gateway -DNS servers > -Machine name > -Domain name > > Bill

My experience with d-i

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear D-I developers, I have tested the debian-install first beta. I have used the sarge-i386-businesscard.iso. I have a IDE disk a IDE CDROM an windbond-840 ethernet card and a SCSI card (aic7xx) with nothing attached. Here my experience: I have entered `net' at boot prompt. The `Choose languag

Re: Installation from USB CDROM/Floppy

2002-12-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Michael Ablassmeier wrote: > i got some problems installing from a USB CDROM/Floppy Drive, Do you know if your USB devices work with a stock 2.4 kernel ? It seems the current support for USB Mass storage in 2.4 kernels needs a bit of screwdriving for a lot of hardware. This mean adding entries t