grub-of (Re: Please fix your RC bugs)

2007-06-11 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:42:58PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, please note that even while we're not going to release Lenny next month, RC bugs should be fixed in a very timly manner. Usually there is no reason to let them open, and so we already started removing packages for being

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-09 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:21:05AM +, Colin Watson wrote: + uuid=$(PATH=/lib/udev:$PATH vol_id -u $fs) + if [ $uuid ]; then + printf # %s\n $(mapdevfs $fs) + printf %-15s %-15s %-7s %-15s %-7s %s\n UUID=$uuid ${mp} $type $options

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:09:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I don't believe this should be changed for etch at this point in the release process, and that's speaking as someone who's run into this problem myself with SCSI device renumbering -- it's awkward and annoying to have to

Re: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:28:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Is this theoretical with SATA, or have you reproduced it? I've only reproduced it for SCSI. The usb sticks include sata-modules as well as usb-modules, so AFAICS, hardware detection should happen in the same order when booting from

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 06, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation that makes it much worse: The correct

Re: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:41:19PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:15:23PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 06, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation that makes it much

Re: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:05:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 07, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Labels are not well tested and a source of problems indeed. The /dev/disk/by-*/ devices are well tested and I do not know about problems posed by them. I thought we

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:33:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 06, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:55:45AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: With USB, you can't just boot a rescue system and repair a broken install from there, because /dev/sda will still be your USB drive. Of course, there are lots of hacks you can do to workaround that, but if we go this way,

RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-06 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
Hi, I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation that makes it much worse: - User boots off USB stick - sda is USB, sdb is SCSI or SATA - GRUB install on (hd0) (i.e. sda) fails. - Manual repairing is not possible, because if you boot a rescue system

changes in upstream

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
It seems that the changes between pre9 and pre10 for code we already had are purely non-technical (license change, etc). See attached diff. Other than this, we just have changes in documentation/makefiles and replacement of object code with a newer version of its corresponding source. I think

Re: Bug#409882: changes in upstream

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:43:15AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: Given all this, would still be possible to consider this for etch ? ...which would require another round of main and non-free conglomeration packages in NEW, together with removals in testing

udev and I2O support

2006-08-25 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
Hi! udev 0.097-1 contains fixes necessary support of I2O drives (see #373921). I understand that the version of udev currently in sid (or later) will forcibly get into etch because of #369479, but I'm not sure if this will affect d-i image generation. Is d-i etch RC1 expected to include udev =