Re: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:53:43AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Finally I created the etch-support udeb which does two things: 1) add an early base-installer hook script that sets the 'altmeta' template 2) add an partman init.d hook script

Re: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-05 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:53:43AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Finally I created the etch-support udeb which does two things: 1) add an early base-installer hook script that sets the 'altmeta' template 2) add an partman init.d hook script that changes the default inode_size from 256 to 128

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-05 01:13]: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 05:23:14PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: As suggested by Frans, with many good points, we'll release with 2.6.22 but just after it, we'll start to work to release another beta with 2.6.24 kernel. This should

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-05 Thread Otavio Salvador
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given we're doing a beta based on 2.6.22 now, how quickly could we get another beta based on 2.6.24 out? Can you be done relatively quickly after the beta based on 2.6.22? I guess we can. d-i itself isn't receiving deeply changes latelly (except

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-05 16:43]: d-i itself isn't receiving deeply changes latelly (except latest Frans partman improvements but that has been very well test by him, as usual) and other minor things. I guess we could do another in begin of April or so, dunno for sure. I

Re: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sorry for the long explanation below, but I really want people to understand what is happening and why so we are agreed on this implementation and don't have nasty surprises after the point release. Your mail (which I read carefully) requires ACK from

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-03 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With all comments that has been sent to this thread, I've changed the timeline to the following: +--+---+ | Date | What happens |

D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 03 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I have been quite disappointed that there was no real follow-up to my mails, which now leaves us in the situation that there is basically no support yet to select the correct kernel for etch+1/2. Being the sucker that I am, I did start to look into

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:51:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: It's far to early to switch d-i to 2.6.24, especially since it drops support for most of /proc/acpi, including the parts used by laptop-detect. I suspect you already know this, but for the record, that's not an intrinsic property of

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi, On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:51:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: It's far to early to switch d-i to 2.6.24, especially since it drops support for most of /proc/acpi, including the parts used by laptop-detect. I still think this switch was an extremely premature and really, really bad idea. We

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Otavio Salvador
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Otavio Salvador wrote: We have 2.6.22 as a safe bed on lenny now and their udebs are there too however since EtchAndHalf intends to release with 2.6.24 and it has been uploaded to sid already I'm considering a better option to us to release

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 01 February 2008, dann frazier wrote: Is there anything special we need to add to deal with etch 1/2 kernel metapackages? We were talking about using a name like linux-image-2.6-686-etchnhalf. As I explained in my mails re etch+1/2 some time back [1] , D-I simply will not install

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: We have 2.6.22 as a safe bed on lenny now and their udebs are there too however since EtchAndHalf intends to release with 2.6.24 and it has been uploaded to sid already I'm considering a better option to us to release with it. linux-2.6 has been built

Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-01-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ Reply-To adjusted to debian-boot so we can keep this discussion in a single mailing list ] Hello folks, I've been working at migrations of packages for lenny and I think we're more or less fine to define a timeline to the end of Febuary for the

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-01-31 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:04:23PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: - kernel to release We have 2.6.22 as a safe bed on lenny now and their udebs are there too however since EtchAndHalf intends to release with 2.6.24 and it has been uploaded to sid already I'm considering a better