Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

2009-08-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:33:31PM +0200, Uwe Bugla wrote: If I do describe accurately a problem dealing with netinst image, and, as a consequence, I am asked to perform a test with a netboot image (which has technologically nothing to do with the netinst one This is so utterly and completely

Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

2009-08-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:09:37PM +0200, Uwe Bugla wrote: Am Montag 24 August 2009 16:11:10 schrieb Wouter Verhelst: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:33:31PM +0200, Uwe Bugla wrote: If I do describe accurately a problem dealing with netinst image, and, as a consequence, I am asked to perform

Bug#399840: Do we want an ssh-server task?

2009-08-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:57:06AM -0700, Rick Jones wrote: In my case, 99 times out of ten it is a case of Sit at the console and do the install, when it completes walk back to my desk in another building, try to login and realize 'Damn, I didn't get an ssh server installed' and go back to do

Please allow NBD in testing

2009-08-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, The NBD packages are currently blocked because the package produces a udeb. Since the version in testing has a bug that prevents the initscript from working with the module-init-tools that are also in testing, it would be nice if you could allow NBD to migrate. This will have zero impact on

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:17:04AM +, Etienne Lorrain wrote: Hello, May I ask what would it take to have the Gujin bootloader added to this list, URL: http://gujin.sourceforge.net. It is a newer bootloader, but there isn't any Debian package for it, That would be a first step.

Re: [RFC] Packages that looks ready for uploading

2009-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:54:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Yes please. How does one go about uploading m68k-only packages? Don't you have to do a source+m68k upload, which presumably the main archive would reject because it doesn't know about m68k? Yes, indeed. We can upload to

Re: [RFC] Packages that looks ready for uploading

2009-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:32:56PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Otavio Salvador (ota...@debian.org): [...] The following was not uploaded because they need to be done by porters: [...] vmelilo-installer vmelilo-installer is specific to a rather rare m68k subarch. It should not be

Bug#531316: --foreign for kfreebsd-* fails

2009-05-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
/debian I: Retrieving Release I: Validating Packages [...] I: Extracting sysv-rc... I: Extracting tzdata... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/wouter/scratch/newage mount -t devfs devfs /dev -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable

Re: Handling spam as it comes in the mailing list (was: ....a spam...)

2009-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:55:58AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: macro index \eL breport-lists...@lists.debian.org\ny\nq report as spam to Debian lists macro pager \eL breport-lists...@lists.debian.org\ny\n report as spam to Debian lists You can combine that into one line: macro

Re: Handling spam as it comes in the mailing list (was: ....a spam...)

2009-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:01:10AM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:55:04AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:55:58AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: macro index \eL breport-lists...@lists.debian.org\ny\nq report as spam to Debian lists macro

Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-04-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
, it might be included as part of the planned 'lenny and a half' release where a new kernel and installer will be provided, to support new hardware. Before that can happen, however, testing will be necessary. You can find the daily builds here: http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc

Re: powerpc dailies back

2009-04-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:38:39PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello Luk and Wouter, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: [...] I've prepared powerpc dailies on one of the buildds, so please tell me if I should update the repositories or if you want to keep

powerpc dailies back

2009-04-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, As you may know, I stopped the powerpc dailies about a month ago, due to the fact that the machine on which they were running was a PowerMac 8500, an oldworld machine, that is no longer supported by recent kernels; the kernel that it does run is now too old for the libc in squeeze. They now

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:05:44AM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:38:20PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The correct installer is chosen based on a set of rules for the Obviously I meant to say 'kernel' here :-) subsystem. I'm assuming

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:45:25AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: On 03/21/2009 10:38 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: That is the BD drive. Did you have a disc in the drive at that point? If so, what kind of disc? The mini.iso installer, a CD-ROM. The fact that you were successful makes me doubt

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
bug report is unanswered. I'm copying Wouter Verhelst who indicated some interest in helping with the powerpc port. I own a lot of PPC/Cell hardware, including a couple of PS3's. I'll have a look on the issue. Geoff, could you please test this image: http://people.debian.org

Re: asd

2009-03-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:46:52AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: Hello, It is possible to preseed the installer so that the installer does not attempt to configure the network, but the installed system will be configured to use dhcp? use something like d-i preseed/late_command string echo -e

Bug#517854: Haven't install Chinese fonts and input engine in locale zh_HK

2009-03-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:01:46PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Arne Goetje (a...@linux.org.tw): Christian Perrier wrote: Damn. This is one of those cases where we suffer from the silly trick of using zh_CN and zh_TW to differentiate between two different

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
is unanswered. I'm copying Wouter Verhelst who indicated some interest in helping with the powerpc port. Martin is currently working to get me a PegasosII which will be used to build the powerpc dailies. When I get it, however, I will also use it to fix the installer for the PegasosII platform

Re: Revisiting partman-nbd

2008-12-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:23:49PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Unable to determine geometry of file/device /dev/nbd0. You should not use Parted unless you REALLY know what you're doing! This message comme straight from libparted. From a

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: The regular powerpc DVD will switch from GNOME-based to all-desktop. The only thing missing is offering boot options to select different desktop environments as we'll now do for x86, but that could possibly be implemented by someone

Re: Detect already installed partitions.

2008-12-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:47:58PM +0530, Rabbul Nawaz wrote: Thanks for the quick respose. Installing libparted, and all its dependencies including all the libraries inside the rootfs environment would definetely increase the size of the rootfs. Moreover it would require a static

Revisiting partman-nbd

2008-12-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, Back in spring, I did some preliminary work on a 'partman-nbd', to support an installation to the Network Block Device. I didn't finish it then, for two reasons: - Just as I was working on it, a patch was submitted to the Linux kernel to make NBD support partition tables. At the time, I was

Bug#488565: should check status of /dev/mtdblock* before trying to write to it

2008-06-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: flash-kernel Version: 1.1 Severity: normal Hi, I just found out why flashing the kernel to the flash of my Thecus N2100 was not working: I had disabled udev there, and as a result there were no /dev/mtdblock{1,2} files which flash-kernel wants to write to. Apparently flash-kernel does

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:49:40PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:28:36PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 18 juin 2008 à 09:52 +0300, Eric Pozharski a écrit : On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:19:03AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: OTOH, aren't most of these choosing

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:58:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: reassign 458154 installation-guide retitle 458154 Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections thanks On Monday 07 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote: I agree that documenting this is the best approach. Thanks for the

partman-nbd

2007-12-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
which is now in /people/wouter. It builds, but I still need to run some tests to verify whether it actually works, too; and there's quite a bit of work still left to be done. The purpose of such a partman-nbd would be so that people could use NBD devices to install on systems with low or no disk

Re: partman-nbd

2007-12-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:18:17PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I'd been planning to do a partman-nbd for quite a while (hence the Comments about debconf templates: Note that they're still quite likely to change, the code

Re: getting newer nbd into testing

2007-09-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:24:50PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey there, just wondering if folks have requested to debian-release that newer nbd should be allowed into testing ? Not me, yet. seems like it's sat in unstable for 20+ days, and the only thing holding it up is the .udeb ?

Re: getting newer nbd into testing

2007-09-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: -release: please push nbd into testing (unless someone on -boot objects). There's a .udeb which (for now) is stale; my plans are to (eventually) write a partman-nbd to support installing to an NBD device. It's not ready yet

Bug#435657: installation-guide: given preseeding example for ntp-server is not valid

2007-08-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:06:12AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 02-08-2007 om 13:55 schreef Holger Wansing: In the new section about preseeding ntp functionality (../appendix/preseed.xml) the given server example is ntp.example.com, which is not an valid ntp-server. I recommend

Re: Bug#437018: Network shouldn't be used/enforced on non-network installs

2007-08-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 07:20:20PM +0200, Stefano Canepa wrote: IMVHO security upgrades are a _must_, if the user is free to bypass this step I'm quite sure she/he will forgot to check for security update leave her/his system unsecure. I disagree. Security is always a tradeoff; it's not hard

Re: d-i nfsroot

2007-07-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:37:49AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I thought some today about how to make d-i support installing nfsroot systems, as I set one up manually. While there are plenty of other tools (LTSP, lessdisks, etc) I think there's still a use case here for d-i. Sometimes you want

Re: d-i nfsroot

2007-07-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:16:49AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:56:34AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Interesting idea. I think the NBD support in d-i that I'm somewhat working on could be related to this (to use it for swap, or whatever). I think we should use

Bug#418124: debian-installer: Does not recognise pre-existing LVM LVs

2007-04-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:03:52PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: However d-i didn't recognise the root and swap LVs, I had to go to the LVM configuration, delete them, and then create new LVs (of the same size and name) before I could do the install I desired. Are you sure? IME, going to the LVM

Bug#411446: Clock not set correctly; MacOS9 not detected?

2007-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:53:16PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Note that Debian people tell me that OSx systems _are supposed_ to run with internal clock on UTC. This seems correct, yes; My PowerBook happily runs both Debian and OS X at this time, with clock set correctly, and with 'tail -n 1

Re: change to d-i powerpc build needed

2007-01-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:59:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: My guess is that your installer/build/config/powerpc/env.sh is not up-to-date. I modified it in svn to list the new target names. Could you check if it's up to date on your build system? It is updated now. My cronjob would source

Bug#404435: Debian etch RC1 does not start

2007-01-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:34:40AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 17:49, Willem Weide wrote: Thanks for your reply, I got the thing moving now. I moved from /dev/hdh to /dev/hdh1. Not sure what you mean by moved. Also, AFAIK hdh and hdh1 are effectively the same if

Re: 20061230-2 netinst powerpc iso

2006-12-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:41:33PM +0100, Ulrich Teichert wrote: [issues with powerpc dailies] I suspect this is the same for the 20061231-1 build, as it has almost the same size. I hope this is not intentional? There was an issue on ragtime today, which builds the powerpc dailies. I've fixed

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:33:42AM -0200, Lucas Rossi wrote: Hi folks! Sven told me to post this here on debian-boot, so... I'm trying to install Debian sarge in a Power Macintosh 8500/150 (Old World). The problem is that the newest floppy disks aren't booting. When I use the

Re: other fallback languages Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 05:58:52PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: So, well, the fallback language is a possible option in a few cases such as Northern Sami abovebut this is not a definitive solution for most of the currently incomplete languages ? Why hardcode it? While there is a

Bug#395262: Arch: all package FTBFS due to test needing network access - RC?

2006-11-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Real or fake makes no difference. Anything that test id or file permissions will (hopefully) behave the same with fakeroot. Wrong; otherwise there wouldn't be packages who fail to build when root is, in fact, root, as happens

Re: http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI (Was: Open Letter to Anthony Towns about the d-i mediation ...)

2006-11-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:25:40AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: And if he hurts the powerpc users with these actions ? Then they will be mad at him. Perhaps you should be happy with that. -- Lo-lan-do Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To

Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - update - full freeze

2006-10-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 03:06:54AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I've seen no reports for the following architectures, which is disappointing: alpha, arm, m68k, mips, mipsel m68k will not make etch; we're now working on getting something for our current users so that they can, at least, continue

Re: Daily builds, powerpc64/cdrom seems broken. ...

2006-10-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 09:31:54PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hi Wouter, Can you investigate why the powerpc64/cdrom target is not building since a couple of days ? I checked and it is enabled in the build configs, Well, no actually :) debian-installer/installer/build/config/powerpc/env.sh

Re: Daily builds, powerpc64/cdrom seems broken. ...

2006-10-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:30:53AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:26:02AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 09:31:54PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hi Wouter, Can you investigate why the powerpc64/cdrom target is not building since a couple

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:36:00PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote: Can people please have a look and comment? I'd like to avoid some specific GR by making whatever is going to be voted upon moot ;-) We should have a way of doing the same thing, only with a custom

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:12:52PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: posted mailed Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:35:25AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Feedback is welcome. Since the only feedback I received thus far was Goswin von Brederlow saying he liked

Re: powerpc d-i daily ISOs are back but broken. (was: one week out of date. )

2006-09-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:24:02AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: someone who does the whole stuff, right ? It was an honest question, why do you respond so agressively ? Maybe because the question was asked in a rather aggressive tone? That's at least what it looked to IMNSHO. -- Fun will now

Re: powerpc d-i daily ISOs are one week out of date.

2006-09-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
; it looks as though there has been a change in the daily ppc images which the CD build process doesn't like. In fact, looking further - there are d-i build failures on ppc which are causing the problem. Wouter/Frans, can you take a look please? They were related to the recent kernel upgrade

Re: Lost on new insatallation

2006-09-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Note, you should really have sent this to debian-user@lists.debian.org, our user support mailinglist. I Cc'ed them, please replies (if any) there. On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:27:52PM -0700, Sam Franc wrote: I just bought Debian 3.1 i386 Rel R2. I know absolutely nothing about Linux. I have been

non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, In the discussion about firmware-in-main, one argument that has come up consistently is the fact that d-i doesn't currently support non-free, and that implementing this support would take a significant development effort. AIUI, anna would need to be updated to support multiple installation

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:35:25AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Feedback is welcome. Since the only feedback I received thus far was Goswin von Brederlow saying he liked the idea, and since I didn't have much else to do today (other than wait for a supplier...), I went ahead and wrote it. It's

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:07:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote: Since the most central point of disagreement seems to be around the need to support non-free firmware from the installation (whether by doing that through supporting the non-free repository, or by just

Bug#380105: Show current hour in hardware clock question

2006-08-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:10:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:57:17PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: I am not sure, but in the graphical installer, we could add a clock widget somewhere from the start, and do clock setting pretty early one (we probably only

Bug#384475: graphical-installer: No shortcut for screenshot available

2006-08-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:13:46PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: the screenshot button was indeed added because not all keyborards have a prtsc button.. :( I don't see a way out, unless re-enabling tabbing to the screenshot button. What's wrong with adding more than one way to allow for

Bug#328411: note

2006-08-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 07:40:54PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:37:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: is one, it could be a possibility, except for systems that don't support the ondemand governor. Are there any such systems? Yes. Ondemand only works if the CPU

Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again

2006-08-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:59:09AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: That said, in all those months i maintained the buildds (and i still recent the way i was summarily dismissed by frans, thank you but we don't need you anymore, go away right, he), the only problems i saw was with things like abi

Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again

2006-08-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:02:06AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Ah, so you don't use a chroot to build the daily builds, naturally, i was using a chroot which i so updated, not the running system, which was a stable system anyway. I believe it is saner and more secure to build the daily builds

Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again

2006-08-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:02:15PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:32, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I don't think it's something at my end, though, rather than changes in svn which broke the build. Anyone on -boot care to comment? this seems to be #379878, which

Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again

2006-08-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:08:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:18:44PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:02:15PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:32, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I don't think it's something

Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again

2006-08-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:27:20AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:13:01AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:32:41PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: Just thought I'd give you a heads up: According to build_powerpc_floppy_boot.log the build

Bug#378959: debian-installer: needs option to bypass network config dialog

2006-07-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:35:08AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: zero79 wrote: d-i assumes that the user always wants to bring up a network connection during installation. sometimes this is not desirable; for example when using the rescue mode or when doing a cd or dvd install. so the

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:19:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 21 July 2006 22:09, Rick Thomas wrote: Putting the install CDrom into sources.list makes sense when you are installing from a full CD (or DVD) set, because there's a large amount of significant information on them, *and*

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:59:02AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: so it hung. (Does hanging if the CD is not inserted count as a bug?) If it did not ask you to insert it, yes. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, Ashes to Ashes, stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Some testing also noted that /etc/apt/sources.list includes the install CD as a source. I don't think this is a good idea -- it means that I have to hang onto the install CD and put it in the drive every time I want to apt-get

Bug#379057: Please allow to deselect the modules that get loaded by default

2006-07-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Hi, Debian-installer keeps growing, which makes installing on low-ram machines harder as time goes by. Sometimes such growth is necessary; in other cases, the memory footprint grows to add features which admittedly are nice, but aren't required for

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 10:21:23AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Friday 14 July 2006 14:55, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug (258545) can be closed as wont fix. It's not reasonable (or possible -- I think) to do what I wanted and what your revised bug title asks for. We can detect

Re: Scary message on new installations

2006-07-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:43:27PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: appropriate here than in other cases. Is there some concern about apt-listchanges not listing NEWS files for newly-installed packages? IME, it only lists NEWS.Debian files on upgrades... -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

2006-06-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:39:22AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 17:18 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I fail to see why this would be a problem or is, indeed, relevant. I'm sorry, Wouter, it's not clear to me that you correctly read the problem I was describing. Well, I

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

2006-06-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 07:10:07PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:04 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: However, what I'm saying is that such an event is extremely rare on ext3, since a journal replay can, IME, deal with most filesystem inconsistencies. The chance

PowerPC images now (hopefully) built correctly.

2006-06-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, I've been building PowerPC dailies since about a week now, and they're up at http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/. They (should) work, there were only some minor issues with the miboot stuff: On the 24th and the 25th, I had miboot installed, so regular floppy images from those days should

Re: Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

2006-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:54:24AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: You're taking it too disastrously. The problem I'm trying to solve is when the max mount count is reached, this is the case in which the forced fscks becomes annoying. Whether the forced fsck is done this time around or only on

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

2006-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:40:17AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: Robert wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:40:05PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: The inconvenience could be ameliorated if the force-fsck mount counter could be staggered for each partition. For instance, the first partition on

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

2006-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:50:55PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: remount setting that would want to be staggered. Staggering the counter would in a sense only work the first time round. More precise, it would work until the first unclean shutdown and subsequent forced fsck. However, seen as

Bug#374278: Install report: 12Ã PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz

2006-06-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:51:53AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Hoi Wouter, On Sunday 18 June 2006 12:48, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I couldn't find the install-report template on my hard disk (maybe I'm not looking at the right place; it used to be in /root, but it's not there now), so I'm doing

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

2006-06-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:40:05PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: Hi debian-installer people, Partitions have a counter so that an fsck is forced on them at reboot after they have have mounted as certain number of times (I think it's after 20 or 30 mounts). The last time I checked, on a

Bug#374278: Install report: 12Ã PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz

2006-06-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:34:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 12:48:28PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The reboot didn't work, however. The first message I got was one of RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608

Bug#374278: Install report: 12 PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz

2006-06-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:26:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:18:39PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Nothing else, the yaboot.conf built with the installer. Ah, sorry, this is the already installed system, you are not trying to boot the d-i image, right ? Yes

Bug#374278: Install report: 12Ã PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz

2006-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
old), I ran the daily-build script myself (the result is at http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i, FTWCA dailies), wrote the mini.iso to a DVD-RW (yeah, I know), and booted off of that. The installation went fine up to the point where I tried to use LVM rather than a regular install partition; I

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:12:59PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:53:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: No, Frans and Joey are not the only members of the d-i team that have a hard time working with you. Ah, so you are the unnamed third one. Anyway, i guess you also

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:45:37PM +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote: On 6/17/06, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a clue. == I don't know, aka lack of knowledge, aka diletantism (I am not sure if this word is too strong) No interest either == I don't care, aka ignorance -- how

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 02:06:41AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:26:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:12:59PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:53:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: No, Frans and Joey are not the only

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:09:48PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: And what has that to do with anything ? I have no interest in going into this hate-game, i want the situation solved, and be able to commit as any normal DD would. You have that already. There are 1000 DD's, and only a small portion

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:40:32PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:43:12PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:09:48PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: And what has that to do with anything ? I have no interest in going into this hate-game, i want

Re: Are Georgian/Nepali display OK in the graphical installer ?

2006-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:59:18PM +0545, Paras pradhan wrote: Hi all: I have checked the iso with installgui option . The rendering is OK. But on the 1st lines of each page of the install process, the top glyphs are cut and not displayed properly. I have attacted a screenshot and mark it

Re: New DASD templates

2006-05-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:34:31AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Well, there is only one work up for translation. As s390 don't use any translations, it may just worth to don't translate it at all. Then why'd you mark them as translatable...? -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, Ashes

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:59:31AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 07:38:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:21:17PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: The problem is that there is no way to automatically determine the best choice. I disagree

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:59:31AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: I am open to suggestions. Back when the exim4 packages were developed, we mainly copied what exim 3 did and debconfed the questions. I'll try to come up

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:30:58PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Something like the following template would work: With one huge drawback. It is way too long and thus does not fit in a standard 80x25 window (even the current one is too long, IIRC). Moreover, such long text will indeed not

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:13:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The main problem I have with the current setup is that out of the choices which are currently available, I never know which to pick since none of them seems to ever

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:21:17PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: The problem is that there is no way to automatically determine the best choice. I disagree. There are common setups contradicting each other, Can you name them? I can only think of one, really (all mail gets sent through a

Re: graphics or text as default?

2006-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:34:27AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 15 May 2006 23:40, Sven Luther wrote: That said, another important point is, will we be using a separate gtk-dfb 2.9/2.10 package set, or will we be using the main gtk debian package ? In this second case, are the

Re: graphics or text as default?

2006-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:36:56AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 08:11, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Eh, if you want to do gtk-dfb, you can't. The choice between using the DirectFB backend or the X11 backend has to be done at compile time. Or am I missing something? No, you're

Re: graphics or text as default?

2006-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 05:06:03PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:25, Wouter Verhelst wrote: My point really was that it's silly to drop the graphical installer as a target for Etch if you need to compile differently for gtk-dfb anyway; so if the regular gtk2 packages

Re: Running debian-installer from the command line?

2006-05-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:01:31AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote: Hi all, I've been scanning all available resources and not found anything, so I'm turning here for help. I'd like to run the Debian installer from a command line. The machine was booted from the network and is running

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:28:27PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, Samuel Thibault, le Tue 02 May 2006 21:50:39 +0200, a écrit : Christian Perrier, le Tue 02 May 2006 19:59:54 +0200, a écrit : brltty integration -- Unofficial images have been built by Samuel

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:06:32AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:45:46PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: Sven Luther wrote on 01/05/2006 08:21: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:20:09AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: The reason that I did not inform you was because things were

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:59:54PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: [kernel issue] No news for m68k: Frans will mail the porters. No need :-) The situation is mostly the same: 2.4 works everywhere except on mac; 2.6 works on some machines, but certainly not all of them. The upstream Linux/m68k

Re: vmelilo-installer_1.10_m68k.changes ACCEPTED

2006-04-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:32:06PM -0700, Debian Installer wrote: Thank you for your contribution to Debian. Sorry about that one. I had built and committed the update back in January, but recently found out that I had forgotten the upload. Silly me. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of

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