Quoting Khalid Aziz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Since one of your proposals was to change from type Choice to
Boolean for the debconf variable, I am trying to figure out how to
handle upgrade from previous version. I might choose to simply shelve
the type change issue for now and update the package
On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 20:01 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Your proposal seems fair by me as long as it is turned into:
_Description: Should kexec-tools handle reboots?
If you choose this option, a system reboot will trigger a restart
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Your proposal seems fair by me as long as it is turned into:
_Description: Should kexec-tools handle reboots?
If you choose this option, a system reboot will trigger a restart
into a kernel loaded by kexec instead of going through the full
Quoting Khalid Aziz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I like this wording except for specifying shutdown -r. I would suspect
a number of users simply issue a reboot command or use reboot option
from gdm menu, and shutdown -r may not be as familiar to all users as
reboot might be. Plus I do not want to try
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 10:08 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
Khalid Aziz wrote:
Please choose whether to enable kexec-tools to load a new kernel
automatically on reboots and kexec into the new kernel instead of
rebooting into firmware.
Any thoughts?
Mainly, again, what's new about them?
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 10:48 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Quoting Justin B Rye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
How about:
Should kexec-tools handle reboots? If you accept this option,
invocations of shutdown -r will trigger a restart
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Quoting Justin B Rye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
How about:
Should kexec-tools handle reboots? If you accept this option,
invocations of shutdown -r will trigger a restart into a kernel
loaded by kexec instead of going through the full
Khalid Aziz wrote:
Please choose whether to enable kexec-tools to load a new kernel
automatically on reboots and kexec into the new kernel instead of
rebooting into firmware.
Any thoughts?
Mainly, again, what's new about them? - kexec _can_ be used to
load a specified kernel, but that's not
Quoting Justin B Rye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
How about:
Should kexec-tools handle reboots? If you accept this option,
invocations of shutdown -r will trigger a restart into a kernel
loaded by kexec instead of going through the full system bootloader
process.
Which would of course
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might need to explain us in more details what is a kexec'able kernel.
I think I would write either kexec-enabled or kexec-ready, depending
on whether it is the kernel that can kexec, or the kernel to be loaded
by kexec, respectively.
Hope that
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:17 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might need to explain us in more details what is a kexec'able kernel.
I think I would write either kexec-enabled or kexec-ready, depending
on whether it is the kernel that can kexec, or the
Quoting Khalid Aziz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 18:26 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Anyway, whether or not my suggestion is followed, the debconf
templates need a serious rewrite to fit the commonly accepted writing style.
Also, the long description is hard-formatted
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 07:28 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Khalid Aziz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I am getting ready to update kexec-tools package. Can you send me a
proposal for template rewrite.
Could you repost the templates file to this bug report to make this
easier ?
I also
Quoting Khalid Aziz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Sure. Template file is attached. Yes, I will call for translations
before updating template file.
I'd go for something liek the attached file.
But let's see what others on debian-l10n-english have to say.
You might need to explain us in more details
Christian Perrier wrote:
But let's see what others on debian-l10n-english have to say.
You might need to explain us in more details what is a kexec'able kernel.
Template: kexec-tools/load_kexec
Type: boolean
Default: true
_Description: Enable automatic kexec reboots?
Please choose
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 18:26 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Anyway, whether or not my suggestion is followed, the debconf
templates need a serious rewrite to fit the commonly accepted writing style.
Also, the long description is hard-formatted because of the use of
leading
Package: kexec-tools
Severity: normal
Your newly added debconf template wrongly uses a select question to ask an
enable/disable question.
Please use a boolean type for this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture:
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 09:14 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Package: kexec-tools
Severity: normal
Your newly added debconf template wrongly uses a select question to ask an
enable/disable question.
Please use a boolean type for this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Quoting Khalid Aziz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Your newly added debconf template wrongly uses a select question to ask an
enable/disable question.
Please use a boolean type for this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500,
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