Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:52:35PM -0400, Will Murnane wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:11, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I maintain the configuration directory under version control. The old values that lh_config once generated make little sense to me. Many of them have changed

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Why do you run it several times? Shouldn't once be enough? for the records: due to the fact that some defaults are conditional on others, you don't get the same in all cases if you run it once compared to multiple runs. therefore, lh_config should be called only once if

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
tags 500740 +pending thanks workarounded in git by enforcing lh_config to be run before lh_build. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:11:38PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [...] In my case: I maintain the configuration directory under version control. The old values that lh_config once generated make little sense to me. Many of them have changed over

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:26:35PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I maintain the configuration directory under version control. The old values that lh_config once generated make little sense to me. Many of them have changed over time anyway. that's manual overriding of

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-13 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
can you *please* show *exactely* how you construct a situation where this can happen (withouth manual ovveride). also see #490290. Let me state once again that we are *not* using the lh_config script, but building the config directory with our own script[1]. Our script does not set all of the

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: The simplest test case here is running 'lh_build' in an empty directory (no configuration). note that this has never been meant to be working; you are always supposed to run lh_config before lh_build. i'll add a check so that any helper will fail immediately if there's no

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Let me state once again that we are *not* using the lh_config script, but building the config directory with our own script[1]. you shall be using lh_config, and anything else is not supported. Our script does not set all of the LH_* variables, but lets lh_build

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I posted a link to patches I posted on the list half a year ago. A quick glance shows that the problems still stand today. To reproduce you need to avoid using the default configuration. That is: assume that a variable is not set at all. Rather, set by

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I maintain the configuration directory under version control. The old values that lh_config once generated make little sense to me. Many of them have changed over time anyway. that's manual overriding of variables then. Or is lh_config the only supported interface? and

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
tags 500740 +unreproducible tags 500740 +moreinfo thanks Guys, can you *please* show *exactely* how you construct a situation where this can happen (withouth manual ovveride). also see #490290. Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email:

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:47:47PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I posted a link to patches I posted on the list half a year ago. A quick glance shows that the problems still stand today. To reproduce you need to avoid using the default configuration. That is:

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:53:29AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: tags 500740 +unreproducible tags 500740 +moreinfo thanks Guys, can you *please* show *exactely* how you construct a situation where this can happen (withouth manual ovveride). also see #490290. I posted a link to patches I

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-12 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:11, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I maintain the configuration directory under version control. The old values that lh_config once generated make little sense to me. Many of them have changed over time anyway. For the record, I store a Makefile and a shell

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: When LH_UNION_FILESYSTEM and LH_LINUX_PACKAGES are left undefined how are you *exactely* constructing a situation where they are undefined? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet:

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 15:44:14 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: When LH_UNION_FILESYSTEM and LH_LINUX_PACKAGES are left undefined how are you *exactely* constructing a situation where they are undefined? We're only defining in config/* the variables for which we

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Juliusz Chroboczek (01/10/2008): When LH_UNION_FILESYSTEM and LH_LINUX_PACKAGES are left undefined, the build process breaks with D: Executing: xargs --arg-file=/root/chroot_packages apt-get --yes install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Regex

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-01 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Julien, On 01/10/2008, Julien Cristau wrote: When LH_UNION_FILESYSTEM and LH_LINUX_PACKAGES are left undefined how are you *exactely* constructing a situation where they are undefined? We're only defining in config/* the variables for which we don't want to I am confused - what are

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Your reports sound all to familiar. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-live-devel/2007-December/002937.html (1) and (4) has since been fixed. (2)3 and (3) are this bug. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Your reports sound all to familiar. I don't remember seeing this post before. Why didn't you file these as actual bug reports? Regards, -- Chris Lamb, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG:

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-09-30 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Package: live-helper Version: 1.0.1-1 Hi, I'm currently attempting to build a Debian Live-CD and leave most of the configuration variables undefined. Unfortunately, this doesn't work -- some of the variables are not defaulted correctly. When LH_UNION_FILESYSTEM and LH_LINUX_PACKAGES are