Re: Broken syslinux in sid

2013-02-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 02/04/2013 08:40 AM, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: On 02/03/2013 10:53 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/03/2013 10:44 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Now please explain how exactly syslinux-themes-debian is involved here. it's a bug in your config, you need more files present on the media

Re: Broken syslinux in sid

2013-02-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 02/03/2013 10:53 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/03/2013 10:44 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Now please explain how exactly syslinux-themes-debian is involved here. it's a bug in your config, you need more files present on the media, as the link to the corresponding commit in live-build

Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

2009-09-15 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Don Wright (wdi...@wricomp.net): Today I see this storm is still present. Does it need additional follow up with listmasters or should it be marked manually like the rest? I'd say mark it manually. Apparently, that

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

2009-09-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
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 canonical way to detect such situation ? My purpose is to change su-to-root to automatically default to sudo mode on such

Re: [PATCH 2/4] easy-build.sh: use getopts instead of rolling our own option parsing.

2009-08-07 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:33 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I just tried it and it looks like the script is already not dash-ready: $ dash -x ./easy-build.sh -h + set -e + export CF=CONF.sh + . CONF.sh .: 1: CONF.sh: not found I'm no expert but it looks like dash obeys $PATH

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

2009-08-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Frans Pop wrote: This oneliner change would fix the issue as well: +++ b/packages/base-installer/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ install_base_system () { # so make a backup to be restored later copied_fstab=true cp

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Samuel Thibault wrote: Giacomo Catenazzi, le Wed 08 Apr 2009 19:47:55 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: I installed grub (and Debian). Trying the Windows hidden partition (to install windows), grub stopped working (it was rescue mode, but without capability to rescue something). Also

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Ferenc Wagner wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: Does grub use the unallocated disk space near the MBR? Yes. As far as I know, even grub2 does so, but pls. correct me. So next question: why does windoze installation write to these block (but not to MBR)? Ah, ok

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Nenolod: sorry for the other mail. William Pitcock wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:06 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, William Pitcock neno...@sacredspiral.co.uk wrote: Lilo upstream is dead (no release in quite a while), but the lilo maintainer has also been seen

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, William Pitcock said: The only way it is feasible to do so is to drop all of the Debian patches. Without this, upstream is not cooperative with us. Why is this? I think because of William Pitcock with: - his very strong words, - his attitude:

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting William Pitcock (neno...@dereferenced.org): lilo is due for removal anyway due to being unmaintained upstream and the widespread availability of alternatives. I think that last part is debatable. I do not have time

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
William Pitcock wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:26 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting William Pitcock (neno...@dereferenced.org): lilo is due for removal anyway due to being unmaintained upstream and the widespread

Re: State of pci.ids

2008-10-01 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Martin Mares wrote: Dropping this information in the udeb is if course a good way of saving space, but the full package should contain everything. In the future (after Lenny), I would like to solve one more problem: with the current rate of development of new hardware, the pci.ids file is

Re: State of pci.ids

2008-10-01 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Martin Mares wrote: I think that changing the format of the file (with other suffix) would also be helpful, i.e. instead of using tab-indent I would explicitly writing vendor id (ev. other implicit ids) in every line. In this manner it is easier to grep for hardware, and also to merge files