Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:39:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 04 July 2004 15:45, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > > Am Saturday 03 July 2004 21:14 schrieb Geert Stappers: > > > A visit to http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status > > > and some clicks got me to > > > http://peop

Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-04 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 July 2004 15:45, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > Am Saturday 03 July 2004 21:14 schrieb Geert Stappers: > > A visit to http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status > > and some clicks got me to > > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d

Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-04 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Saturday 03 July 2004 21:14 schrieb Geert Stappers: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:29:55PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > > If it would be possible to provide daily PXE or Etherboot d-i images that > > might help. People could let their boot servers serve up those and > > quickly test most functio

Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-03 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Karl Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this > > requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of > > course, this also requires hardware. > > Net-booting d-i works fairly well. But also required some infrastr

Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-03 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:47 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this > requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of > course, this also requires hardware. Net-booting d-i works fairly well. -- Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL

Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-03 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:29:55PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > > > Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this > > requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of > > course, this also requires hardware. > > If it would be possible to provide daily PXE

Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-03 Thread C. Gatzemeier
> Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this > requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of > course, this also requires hardware. If it would be possible to provide daily PXE or Etherboot d-i images that might help. People could let their boot serve

Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-01 Thread Christian Perrier
> I'm afraid that sid is diverging too far from sarge for it to be easy to > keep maintaining sarge (we're at the point of needing relativly untested > backports of some packages to be put into sarge to fix bugs), and that > nobody is testing sarge's d-i, or paying much attention to it at all. Wel

state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
I've been looking at d-i sarge, and it seems to be rather broken. Every install I have tried today with sarge initrds and udebs has failed. I'm seeing many instances where someone makes a change to a package, like hw-detect, that is dependent on a new version of some other package, like busybox, d