Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of August for the removal of the package unless there's significant progress to fixing the issue. I still feel this is an overreaction as only the original reporter has ever seen

Bug#590667: debmirror: fails to move installer MD5SUMS file in place on mirror

2010-08-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 July 2010, Stefan Kisdaroczi wrote: the file dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/images/MD5SUMS didn't get updated on my mirror. The attached patch fixed it for me. Thanks for reporting the issue. The patch looks correct. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#590993: installation-reports: netboot install report broken mirror if installation CD is used as mirror

2010-07-31 Thread Frans Pop
tags 590993 patch thanks It would be better if debian-cd was modified to only include the symlink for the suite actually specified in the Release file. The attached patch (tested) implements this. diff --git a/tools/start_new_disc b/tools/start_new_disc index cf00344..779f242 100755 ---

Bug#590993: installation-reports: netboot install report broken mirror if installation CD is used as mirror

2010-07-30 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 590993 debian-cd severity 590993 normal thanks Since you are trying something that's not really supported, this is certainly *not* a grave issue. After all, a CD image is not a mirror even if both contain a repository. It is correct that the error occurs because CD images have

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: 3. The 686 flavour is considered unsuitable for some AMD K7 processors Problem 3 appears to be due to a workaround for an incorrect kernel configuration.  The comment on this exclusion is 'May not have SSE support', but this has never been a

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: +   if grep -q '^flags.*\blm\b' $CPUINFO; then Has this been tested with busybox shell? Does busybox' grep understand '\b'? I don't recall us using it anywhere else in D-I. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 23:11 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: + if grep -q '^flags.*\blm\b' $CPUINFO; then Has this been tested with busybox shell? Does busybox' grep understand '\b'? I don't recall

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I eagerly await Bills view on the proposed change for popularity-contest, which I believe i a better place to implement the change. No, it is not reasonable to ask packages to change functionally correct and policy-compliant dependencies

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
(Daniel: sorry for the private duplicate of this mail; no need to CC me.) On Saturday 17 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 13:35+0200, Frans Pop wrote: So: as the reported issue is already fixed in current daily built D-I images and as the Recommends in popcon

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 21:40+0200, Frans Pop wrote: I'm not sure what image was used by the bug reporter, but I assume a current D-I alpha 1 image. The alpha1 images date from mid Februari. These received a refresh a few days ago: http

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: So if I had used the one from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-amd64/current/ images/netboot/ it would have worked? No. Those are *not* daily built images. Follow the relevant links from the page I referred to! For

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-16 Thread Frans Pop
Steve Langasek wrote: This manual represents the opinion of a single developer. And what does that have to do with the price of bananas in Iceland? The fact that aptitude is currently the recommended tool for package management has various reasons: user interface, features, dependency

Bug#579954: installation-guide: Add link from accessibility section to boot screen section

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
tag 579954 pending thanks On Sunday 02 May 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: It has been reported that it would be useful to add a link from the accessibility to the boot screen section, as the attached patch does, since the latter describes precisely how keypresses work there. I've added the

Bug#580508: installation-guide: Fix brltty driver/table code URL

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
tag 580508 pending thanks On Thursday 06 May 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: The chapter numbers of the brltty manual have unfortunately changed. The attached patch points at its index instead of directly to a chapter number. Updated. I've used a different patch as IMO the text where the URLs

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: From the looks of it, exim4 is installed because of a Recommends: by the cron package: Recommends: exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent, lockfile-progs How exactly did you determine this? I doubt it is cron as Recommends are not

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I suspect the change you propose can not be implemented by debian-installer, but instead would have to be done by changing cron or any other package pulling in the mta package.  At least the way d-i is designed at the moment. And on what do

Bug#583388: Non-US keyboard problem with graphical installer

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: 5. Fix for real:    Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard-configuration.config, and add the    following line in ask_debconf(), right before the if part, once all    choices have been merged together:       choices=`echo $choices | sed 's/,$//'`

Bug#583388: Non-US keyboard problem with graphical installer

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl (06/07/2010): The proposed fix could well be OK, but maybe the code can be fixed a bit earlier so the trailing comma is avoided in the first place? Whatever unbreaks g-i. Not really. There's also such things

Bug#586404: udev-udeb: Very slow installation in Squeeze caused by udevadm settle

2010-07-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 04 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Looks so, I never expected that the two packages could get out of sync. Is there some way to get the udevadm settle command work also with older udevd versions? Can the protocol be changed? This is a D-I release management problem and

Bug#571939: [sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude

2010-07-03 Thread Frans Pop
found 571939 0.6.3-2 thanks I can still reliably reproduce this segfault. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#587493: choose-mirror: Strange wget error message in the installation log

2010-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 June 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: In Debian Edu, we automatically search for error: in the installation log to detect errors during installation. Then it seems you need to make an exception for this error. When PXE installing, I get this one: Jun 28 23:18:29

Bug#587493: choose-mirror: Strange wget error message in the installation log

2010-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 June 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Frans Pop] So, one wget results in a 404. As choose-mirror tries various possible suites and codenames and wgets are used for other purposes as well, a 404 is always a possibility. Sure, but all the URLs listed in the log are working

Bug#587493: choose-mirror: Strange wget error message in the installation log

2010-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 June 2010, Frans Pop wrote: NACK. The errors are too useful to suppress. I disagree.  The error in question is almost useless.  There is no way to see which URL was missing, and the message show up in the wrong location in the log.  A useful error message would make

Bug#586428: Please clear the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br [2010-06-19 12:35]: The following patch, which clears the cache after debootstrap and then again at the end (after kernel/extra packages), works for me.  OK to apply? Conceptually it is OK but

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 19 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I see no reason for leaving .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives on a fresh installation, so let's run apt-get clean before reboot. This has been suggested and discussed before. IIRC (but I may be mistaken) Joey has always been against it.

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Frans Pop wrote: The main reason IIRC is that leaving the packages makes it unnecessary to download them again if part of e.g. tasksel fails for whatever reason and the user has to install some packages manually [...]. Note that the above argument is only really valid

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Any disk space savings are IMO illusionary as the cache will fill up again anyway during later updates and any system that does not have sufficient disk space to hold a decent package cache will also have serious problems during later stable updates. I

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Maybe, for more corner cases where keepign the cache would be good, could we have a low priority option (or a preseed-only choice) to *not* clean the cache? I don't think it has anything to do with user choice or preseeding. Making this a

Bug#586428: Please clear the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: If you are *very* short of disk space, doing it twice might make sense. Nonsense. If you're that short on diskspace you have a totally unusable system anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [1] Checking installation of packages using apt-install is much harder to do as there are many different calls and failure may be expected in some cases. It also gains much less as their total size is much less. I believe it would not be

Bug#586428: Please clear the apt cache

2010-06-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 19 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote:  cleanup () { +   rm -f /target/var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb 2/dev/null || true rm -f $KERNEL_LIST $KERNEL_LIST.unfiltered  } Shouldn't this call 'apt-get cleanup' in /target instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#583733: tasksel: please install kde-config-tablet if a tablet is found

2010-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Sune Vuorela wrote: Please install kde-config-tablet if a tablett (wacom-like)_is found and the user is installing kde task. Why not always, so that a wacom tablet that's plugged in later can still be configured? I guess that could be done. it was just 'why

Bug#583767: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#583767: Add udeb

2010-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org): I don't know if all udebs are automatically included in d-i, but if they are, I doubt d-i people will like the additional 1.3MB uncompressed. They aren't automatically included. But udebs we don't

Bug#505609: [SOLVED] Unbootable after kernel upgrade: Lilo can't load kernel

2010-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 505609 reassign 505609 linux-2.6 affects 505609 lilo thanks Stephen Powell wrote: The real question is, Why didn't the map installer get run during the kernel upgrade? [...] So is this a bug in the kernel maintainer scripts? Or is it a feature? I don't know. I'll leave that up to

Bug#582223: partman - Wants to overwrite swap partition/lv

2010-05-19 Thread Frans Pop
severity 582223 normal tags 582223 wontfix thanks On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: partman wants to overwrite the swap partitions on a already setup machine. As swap partition can contain hibernation data, this is an data-destroying operation. Doing any system install while the

Bug#581873: [languagechooser] unable to select language more than once

2010-05-19 Thread Frans Pop
*Exactly* when did you do this? I suspect it was after the step of loading additional components? Before that point changing the language should work fine. After that point the language setting *is* changed, but you get English because other translations have been deleted to save memory.

Bug#581873: [languagechooser] unable to select language more than once

2010-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 May 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: The earliest possibility to reach the main menu in standard priority is when network configuration via DHCP fails or if I abort it before it succeeds. I would say it is during keyboard selection (if you ignore the localechooser dialogs). And you

Bug#581873: [languagechooser] unable to select language more than once

2010-05-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 581873 2.09 localechooser block 581873 by 470258 thanks On Sunday 16 May 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: If I remember now, that I wanted to do an italian installation (for example, every other choice does the same), and I go back to the change language step as soon as I can access the

Bug#576576: option to skip installer for specific releases

2010-05-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 05 April 2010, Kees Cook wrote: In addition to the patches waiting in bug 455082, here is a patch to add a --skip-installer option to skip d-i files for specific dists (this is very handy for Ubuntu). Can you give an example of a debmirror command where this is needed? I tried with

Bug#580978: installation-reports: fails to see NIC firmware drivers on USB stick

2010-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 10 May 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 10 May 2010, Bonno Bloksma wrote: I have an ext2 formatted usb stick The installation guide specifies that the stick should be *FAT* (or VFAT) formatted. ext2 may work with some installation methods, but not with all. It is also important

Bug#581013: [debmirror] debmirror ignore the section 'debian-installer' for the distribution '.*-proposed-updates'

2010-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 10 May 2010, Philippe wrote: debmirror ignore the section 'debian-installer' for the distributions '.*-proposed-updates'. It is hardcoded in the debmirror script itself. Yes. You should be able to remove the test if you want to. Is there any raisons to do that ? In the past

Bug#576576: option to skip installer for specific releases

2010-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 05 April 2010, Kees Cook wrote: In addition to the patches waiting in bug 455082, here is a patch to add a --skip-installer option to skip d-i files for specific dists (this is very handy for Ubuntu). I don't like this. It's way too complicated for the problem. To be honest, I think

Bug#579995: Partitioning failure in Squeeze install

2010-05-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 03 May 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 03 May 2010, Terry Stroup wrote: On completing the partitioning, I get the following error:   File system has an incompatible feature enabled.  Compatible   features are has_journal, dir_index, filetype, sparse_super   and large_file

Bug#580799: linux-image-2.6.32-5-sparc64: Should include pata_cmd64x driver instead of cmd64x

2010-05-08 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-12 Severity: serious Because of the IDE - ATA transition for Squeeze the pata_cmd64x driver should be enabled instead of the (old) cmd64x driver. AFAIK the pata_cmd64x has been tested and is known to work correctly. My system failed to boot after updrading to

Bug#571939: [sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude

2010-05-08 Thread Frans Pop
found 571939 0.6.2.1-2 thanks I can still reproduce this with the current version. Any updates on the issue? The offer to give access to my sparc box is still open. Thanks, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#580265: Failed netinst

2010-05-05 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 580265 linux-2.6 2.6.32-9 thanks On Tuesday 04 May 2010, Gmail Notifier wrote: 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f0] (rev 06)         Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0037]         Kernel driver in use: e1000e

Bug#579995: Partitioning failure in Squeeze install

2010-05-03 Thread Frans Pop
tag 579995 moreinfo thanks On Monday 03 May 2010, Terry Stroup wrote: On completing the partitioning, I get the following error:   File system has an incompatible feature enabled.  Compatible   features are has_journal, dir_index, filetype, sparse_super   and large_file.  Use tune2fs or

Bug#579948: SunBlade 1000 installation report - fails to mount root partition on /target

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 579948 partman-base severity 579948 serious thanks On Sunday 02 May 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: Comments/Problems: The display of partition sizes appears to be all screwed up (see the first attached screenshot). Possibly a regression in libparted for sparc disklabel. Please send the

Bug#579948: SunBlade 1000 installation report - fails to mount root partition on /target

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 579948 libparted0debian1 2.2-5 tags 579948 d-i affects 579948 partman-base thanks On Sunday 02 May 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:57:48PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8864 cylinders

Bug#579625: partman-base: partman/alignment should also be a regular question

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
Package: partman-base A new template partman/alignment has been added which is currently only preseedable. During a discussion [1] it was suggested that the question should also be asked during interactive installs (at medium and/or low priority and only for relevant disk labels). The

Bug#566635: sysconfig-hardware: Inconsistent use of variables in hwup-ccw-group?

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
in sysfs for CTC network devices in Linux kernel 2.6.33. Closes: #566632. + * Correct variable use in hwup-ccw-group script. Closes: #566635. -- Frans Pop f...@debian.org Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:50:24 +0200 diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/scripts/hardware/hwup-ccw-group b/etc/sysconfig/scripts

Bug#566632: sysconfig-hardware: Fails to bring up ctc network interface with kernel 2.6.33-rc5

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
in sysfs for CTC network devices in Linux +kernel 2.6.33. Closes: #566632. + + -- Frans Pop f...@debian.org Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:50:24 +0200 + sysconfig (0.0.9+nmu1) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/scripts/hardware/hwup-ccw-group b/etc/sysconfig

Bug#566629: sysconfig-hardware: Inconsistency for module ctc versus ctcm

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
in Linux kernel 2.6.33. Closes: #566632. * Correct variable use in hwup-ccw-group script. Closes: #566635. + * Also set buffer and protocol options both for the (old) ctc module and +the (current) ctcm modules. Closes: #566629. -- Frans Pop f...@debian.org Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:50:24

Bug#571045: syslinux: Incorrect display of boot screen image in D-I

2010-04-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 04/14/2010 02:56 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Can we please get a fix? It's been a while since the very first image seen by people giving a shot to d-i is broken. since the change was done upstream wise on purpose, i think i'm sticking

Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 577451 pkgsel severity 577451 wishlist thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware in question. IMO this belongs in pkgsel, not in

Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
tag 577461 pending thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le Sun 11 Apr 2010 22:58:39 +0200, a écrit : Squeeze apparently needs vga=0 in addition to fb=false, else the kernel switches to graphical mode very early. That being said, it could actually been

Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 April 2010, Frans Pop wrote: The fact that now two parameters are needed is the simple consequence of the fact that one is a kernel parameter (which *must* be passed at boot time) and one is a D-I parameter and the fact that the one does not automatically imply the other

Bug#576885: debhelper: Change to act only on relevant packages breaks builds

2010-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 April 2010, Joey Hess wrote: That's few enough to manually review. I found these problems: - partconf (contains workaround for #572077 that can be removed) Updated in SVN. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#576885: debhelper: Change to act only on relevant packages breaks builds

2010-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 April 2010, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: This could of course be fixed with an arch test, but that would mean an extra cost of maintaining that arch test with changes in supported arches in debian/control. Or with a dh_listpackages test. (or a test -d) Right. Have

Bug#576885: debhelper: Change to act only on relevant packages breaks builds

2010-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 April 2010, I wrote: On Thursday 08 April 2010, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: This could of course be fixed with an arch test, but that would mean an extra cost of maintaining that arch test with changes in supported arches in debian/control

Bug#576885: debhelper: Change to act only on relevant packages breaks builds

2010-04-07 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.16 Severity: important Tags: d-i I was happy to see the change to make debhelper only act on packages relevant to the current architecture as it allows to remove a workaround that was needed in netcfg after the switch to dh 7 [1]. However, it turns out that this

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
tag 576206 moreinfo thanks On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz wrote: qemu-system-ppc -m 1024 -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=nomg -cdrom debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso -boot d -nographic does not seem to do anything. Without -nographic a

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek wrote: Changing the -boot d to -boot c gives access to the installed system with full serial support from the quik bootloader so I don't think this is the case. Can you provide the boot log for the installer somehow? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek wrote: I cannot run the installer without graphics. It could be that the installer is actually running but does not print anything on the serial port but I doubt that is the case because with graphics I have to type the name of the image to boot.

Bug#558686: This bug now happens always

2010-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: Since about ten days, I can reproduce always this bug using daily builds of squeeze images. I've also been using simple-cdd to do squeeze images, and the bug begun to appear since last tuesday. So there must be some package migrated

Bug#575947: 60-persistent-input.rules is missing in the udeb

2010-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I just noticed that qcontrol in squeeze d-i doesn't work because /dev/input/by-path/platform-gpio-keys-event doesn't exist. Please include 60-persistent-input.rules in the udev so it's created. I suppose this may be because some of the

Bug#575751: [rootskel-gtk PATCH] Only start X if we're using the GTK frontend.

2010-03-29 Thread Frans Pop
tag 575751 pending thanks On Sunday 28 March 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: Subject: Only start X if we're using the GTK frontend. Also try to not start X clients before the server is ready to accept connections. Thanks. Committed. Will upload once ftp-master is alive again. -- To

Bug#575352: debmirror: spelling mistake in mirror_size

2010-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
tag 575352 pending thanks On Thursday 25 March 2010, Prema wrote: -All numbers reflect the state of te archive per 19 Dec 2009. +All numbers reflect the state of the archive per 19 Dec 2009. Thanks. Will be fixed with the next release. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#569348: example debmirror.conf contains useless $dry_run

2010-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Piotr Lewandowski wrote: In contrast to $dry_run_var, this variable has no effect on debmirror. Please update example accordingly. Thanks for reporting this. I have fixed the problem differently from your suggestion. I think it makes more sense to keep the name in

Bug#574647: Likely solution - quotemeta

2010-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 25 March 2010, David Venz wrote: Tried this out and it appears to fix the problem: sub first_set_with_package { my ($package, $set) = @_; + # Escape any characters that will upset the regex below + $package = quotemeta($package); foreach my $s (sort keys %$set) { if

Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Benjamin Cama wrote: I don't know the exact cause of this bug, but there is not enough informations (for me) to try to understand this bug. Could you give at least a dmesg result when in the installer ? And what exact message does it outputs when looking for the

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Robert Lemmen wrote: unless you object soon, i will suggest the removal of these packages from testing. the rationale is (a mixture of these will apply to the package in question) This package should not be removed. The bug is partly theoretical and only affects a

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Robert Lemmen wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:51:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: This package should not be removed. The bug is partly theoretical and only affects a minority of use cases. ok, so you think it should be squeeze-ignore? do you think it should

Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Benjamin Cama wrote: OK. So, if it has not already been told (I didn't see much details about that in this BR) what steps should be taken for powerpc volunteers ? If you are not a Debian Developer I'm afraid you cannot help with this issue. However, there is plenty

Bug#373253: #373253 libgcc_s.so.1 on AMD64 and PowerPC should be provided

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
tags 373253 wontfix thanks Because of the switch from DirectFB to X.Org as backend for the graphical installer I don't think this issue is relevant anymore. But I'm keeping the BR open for now for reference. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: So how do we get this fixed? If it really is a problem on the buildd, who *can* fix it? Is there a list somewhere of who is responsible for which buildd? I've already provided that info a few times. For the centralized D-I buildds (which

Bug#575309: user-setup: Should stop adding first user to device access groups

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The code in user-setup-apply to add the first user to all the groups in passwd/user-default-groups should no longer be needed. I believe it should be dropped for Squeeze, or at least the default groups used should be trimmed down to

Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
(Dropping some CCs.) On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Norberto Feliberty wrote: However maybe that has changed and will test a sid build and see if it can find the network drivers to install. That will only work if you build your own images. If you can do that, great! The fact that the official

Bug#575309: user-setup: Should stop adding first user to device access groups

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: What about (server) systems that don't have consolekit installed? Yes, what about them? On such systems the first user would be left without expected default access to devices. If the local user to have special privileges, one should

Bug#575059: Should Package-Type be included in udebs or not?

2010-03-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I'm a bit annoyed with lintian officializing usage of the non-official field name. It's counterproductive IMO. The issue should be resolved at the dpkg level. Unfortunately the underlying issue has never been resolved between Guillem and the

Bug#549681: needs MODULES=dep on some PowerPC systems

2010-03-23 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 549681 base-installer severity 549681 normal tag 549681 help user debian-b...@lists.debian.org usertag 549681 powerpc thanks On Wednesday 24 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote: some OpenFirmware implementations, such as the one in the PegasosII, have a 12 MB size limit on kernel

Bug#574985: using the network even when I said no network mirror...

2010-03-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 March 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: If I dont configure a mirror for the regular system, I will mostly likely edit the sources.list myself anyway. And then I could also enable commented out entries for volatile and security... It could also be you're installing from DVD and not

Bug#575012: x86 architecture names are confusing

2010-03-22 Thread Frans Pop
tags 575012 wontfix severity 575012 wishlist thanks On Monday 22 March 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: The current installation and download links referring to 'AMD64' sometimes confuse users with Intel x86-64 chips, who instead select 'IA64'. This is a waste of time and bandwidth for all

Bug#574854: libklibc-dev: D-I rootskel FTBFS because of missing header files

2010-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: libklibc-dev Version: 1.5.16-1 Severity: serious The D-I package rootskel failed to build with this version and also after upgrading to 1.5.17-2 because header files could not be found. The cause was traced to the fact that instead of symlinks there are empty directories: $ ls -dl

Bug#574647: debtree: 'nested quantifiers in regex' when a package name contains +

2010-03-19 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debtree Version: 1.0.5 If a package name contains regexp characters, mainly +, the following can occur: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by -- HERE in m/(^|,)g++ -- HERE (,| $)/ at /usr/local/bin/debtree line 377. sub first_set_with_package { my ($package, $set) = @_;

Bug#394719: About bug # 394719 in Debian BTS

2010-03-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 March 2010, Olivier Vitrat wrote: Are you able to reproduce it with a recent version of the package ? If yes, which version ? It can still be reproduced with the Lenny version of kmail. No idea about Squeeze. If you want to know that, you'll have to try it yourself. If not,

Bug#574288: Please switch from DirectFB to X11

2010-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: please find attached the patch to switch from DirectFB to X11. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/03/msg00313.html for the details. --- src/lib/debian-installer.d/Makefile (révision 62665) +++ src/lib/debian-installer.d/Makefile

Bug#574336: pkgsel: Only run update-initramfs once during installation?

2010-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: This seem like a good optimization for the installation time to bring over to Debian, making sure update-initramfs is only executed twice during the installation instead of several times more In exactly which scenario would it be executed

Bug#574336: pkgsel: Only run update-initramfs once during installation?

2010-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: It is possible some of these are from setting up the LTSP chroot environment. Something looks very broken in this example. Why is initramfs-tools getting set up twice for the same version? Why is dmsetup getting installed if it is not

Bug#574336: pkgsel: Only run update-initramfs once during installation?

2010-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: No idea.  This what made me suspect the cause might be the LTSP chroot. Ah. I failed to really comprehend that earlier. Yes, I guess that could be and that would of course make it separate from base system installation Why is dmsetup

Bug#574288: Please switch from DirectFB to X11

2010-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:50:04 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: --- /dev/null +++ b/src/lib/debian-installer.d/S62Xorg @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Xorg -retro -noreset -nolisten tcp +export DISPLAY=:0 This is racy, we probably should do something

Bug#574407: os-prober does not detect 64bit systems like Fedora 64

2010-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
tag 574407 pending thanks On Wednesday 17 March 2010, max wrote: os-prober does not detect 64bit systems like Fedora 64. The /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro script only checks $dir/lib/ld*.so* but to detect Fedora 64 correctly it must check $dir/lib64/ld*.so* too. I've simplified

Bug#574096: installation problem report

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Paul Jurczak wrote: Comments/Problems: I'm experimenting with various distributions and I successfully installed Ubuntu, Puppy, Fedora from USB Flash to USB Flash. Debian is the first distro, where I had to go USB CD to USB Flash route. Debian supports all kinds of

Bug#574096: installation problem report

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Please always reply to the BTS, not to the person responding. On Tuesday 16 March 2010, you wrote: Thank you for quick response. Do you mean that copying hd-media/boot.img.gz and .iso image to USB Flash will result in different installation behavior than preparing USB Flash with LiveUSB

Bug#573791: Installer fails due to invalid signatures

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 573791 installation-reports tag 573791 unreproducible needinfo thanks On Tuesday 16 March 2010, steve clark wrote: I sent a report to the debian bug reporting system (bug number 573791) but it seems to not have been taken serious, being shuffled between responsible owners. I see it

Bug#573791: apt-get update in Debian 5.04 (lenny) failing since updates of 2010-03-11

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Please note this log is taken just now using: debian 5.04 netinst business card image I have just tried with the same image (for i386), using ftp.nl.d.o as mirror without any problems. My log looks similar to you, except that I get good signatures... From my log: Mar 16 17:41:08

Bug#574158: firmware licenses never displayed

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: 3. Provide some way for firmware debs to communicate to d-i that they    have a license the user needs to see, and have check-missing-firmware    display these licenses before the firmware is ever used. This is the option that I have had in the back

Bug#243857: Patch has been available in Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
tags 243857 + pending thanks On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joshua Kwan wrote: Looks like this bug hasn't seen action for quite a while. It seems like in the meantime, Ubuntu has fixed this bug. Check out this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18656164/cdrom-detect-better-flow.patch Thanks for

Bug#243857: Patch has been available in Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Joshua, On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joshua Kwan wrote: Looks like this bug hasn't seen action for quite a while. It seems like in the meantime, Ubuntu has fixed this bug. Check out this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18656164/cdrom-detect-better-flow.patch Thanks for the pointer. I

Bug#243857: Patch has been available in Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joshua Kwan wrote: Looks like this bug hasn't seen action for quite a while. It seems like in the meantime, Ubuntu has fixed this bug. Check out this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18656164/cdrom-detect-better

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