Re: Can we prefix this list?

2015-10-08 Thread Jordi Mallach
olluting the subject and using this instead? List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http:

Re: [PATCH] Some documentation updates

2009-09-03 Thread Jordi Mallach
en if the missing sections have a "to be written" placeholder content. This way users know it's not just an omission (we know it's missing) and also know where the manual needs more help. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindomi

Re: [PATCH] Refuse to install on XFS destroying its superblock

2009-10-16 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:03:01PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > + if (memcmp (tmp_img, "XFSB", 4) == 0) > +grub_util_error ("Can't install on XFS."); Can this error message give some more detail on what the problem is? Jordi --

Re: gettext in build system

2009-11-16 Thread Jordi Mallach
patch yet, but I'm not sure if a bindtextdomain() call is needed here too. The rest looks good, given there's no automake. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org ht

Re: gettext in build system

2009-11-16 Thread Jordi Mallach
ext implementation are supported. It provides checks for gettext(), ngettext(), setlocale() and friends, so yep, probably. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/

Re: gettext in build system

2009-11-16 Thread Jordi Mallach
s. Can't do that right now though, I need to go to bed RSN. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/

Handling of translations

2009-11-18 Thread Jordi Mallach
interesting info for upstream authors. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ ___ Gr

Re: gettextizing

2009-11-23 Thread Jordi Mallach
ie we can end up having 3 different strings: - \nPress any key to continue... - Press any key to continue... - Press any key to continue...\n which makes it easy to make different translations for the same string if the translator isn't careful. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer

Re: gettext: --no-hash in msgmft

2009-11-26 Thread Jordi Mallach
erging the full pos against this pot would discard many strings, and compiling those temporary po files (w/o a hash) would get rid of the unused strings. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuP

Re: new function: grub_printfnl

2009-11-30 Thread Jordi Mallach
where it's worth the extra effort; the gettext manual recommends plain strings and so on, but if it's just a trailing new line, I think in most cases it's not worth it. Translators know how to deal with them. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo.

Re: gettext: normal/*

2009-12-07 Thread Jordi Mallach
s a common translator mistake. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___

Re: gettext: commands/hdparm.c

2009-12-08 Thread Jordi Mallach
of translators will actually try to figure out if the string is correctly aligned or how many \t's they need to use (by manually calculating how the string will look, by reading the source code, or using qemu). If the alignment is just a cosmetic enhancement, dropping it could be a reason

Re: grub_error messages

2009-12-22 Thread Jordi Mallach
" ") ? I would say > yes. No! Don't use any of N_() or _() if the message isn't meant to be translated. If it's extracted into the pot file but then it's not used by GRUB (not being marked with the necessary gettext call), it's a waste of time for translators, of c

Re: gettext util

2010-03-27 Thread Jordi Mallach
projects that I can remember where my LUG has > done things (e.g. tar) is not done in this way. > > I don't have any probem to change in Grub, I just wonder if people is > expecting it :-/ > > I'm adding Jordi Mallach to the CC Whether gettext itself is doing it or no

Re: [PATCH] Improve man page headers

2010-06-09 Thread Jordi Mallach
quickly), but the problem with this approach is that if the description changes in the program, it needs to be manually updated in the h2m helpers. http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-mailutils/trunk/debian/mangen.sh?revision=348&view=markup Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http

Re: Pager weirdness

2010-11-23 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 01:30:02PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Am I the only one who finds GRUB's pager really strange? Not AT ALL. :) It reminds me of how some things misbehave when you have to suffer bterm. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian

Re: Device instability, gettext and default

2012-03-03 Thread Jordi Mallach
te a lot. Thanks for squeezing it into 2.0! -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ ___ Gr

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Jordi Mallach
istro is theming grub2 and the theme doesn't have that text, it's not GRUB who's to blame. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://

Re: Endianness macros capitalization

2008-07-11 Thread Jordi Mallach
ls and toolchains. At least Debian has, and Debian isn't know for dropping old hardware that easily. We even had libc5 toolchain until before the etch release, iirc. :) -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: too many commands, "help" output rolls of screen

2008-11-02 Thread Jordi Mallach
efault? totally, this is very annoying by default. :) -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ _

State of GRUB on PowerPC

2008-12-18 Thread Jordi Mallach
- what to do about second-boot confusing search? Ah, also, my menu appears as white on red colours, but this is so minor at this point I was not even going to mention it. :) Hopefully some OF expert can have a look at some of this. Thanks, Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian de

Re: State of GRUB on PowerPC

2008-12-21 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hello, Just a little correction, I was really tired when I wrote this down the other day: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:00:19AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On the command-line, I copied the "search --fs-uuid --set" line from my > grub.cfg, and > 1) it printed "no such

Re: hfs patch (Re: State of GRUB on PowerPC)

2009-02-10 Thread Jordi Mallach
;t > make this clear enough in my original post. Ugh, welcome our GPLv3 party. v2 members not invited. :/ Thanks for working on this, Michel! -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG

Re: hfs patch (Re: State of GRUB on PowerPC)

2009-02-10 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:50:18AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > BTW, let me point out again that this table including comment is a > > verbatim copy from the Linux kernel fs/hfs/string.c . Sorry if I didn't > > make this clear enough in my original post. > Ugh, w

Re: [PATCH 5/7]: Add sparc64 loader implementation.

2009-03-05 Thread Jordi Mallach
Mac G3. But I'm not yet familiar with powerpc. FWIW, I'm using GRUB to boot my PowerBook without manual intervention, given a few tweaks to the generated grub.cfg, so I can also easily test ppc-related changes if you wish. It's scary though. I find it breaks at least on Apple qui

Re: [PATCH] Use hfs case ordering - another try

2009-03-22 Thread Jordi Mallach
error. Furthermore, the search command still appears to fail on at least Apple OF, and if it's in my boot commandlist, it'll set root to an invalid device, making the boot fail with "you need to load the kernel first". Has anyone else had success with this patch in Debian

Re: [PATCH] Use hfs case ordering - another try

2009-03-28 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hi, I'm attaching Michel's reply to this post, as he isn't subscribed. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 04:23:39AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > However, I'm having the same boot problems as before. I've installed > the new version of GRUB to OF, and when I boot I get t

Re: [PATCH] Use hfs case ordering - another try

2009-03-28 Thread Jordi Mallach
is could be an optional setup. /dev/hda2 974K 697K 278K 72% /boot/grub See Michel Dänzer's post I just forwarded. Besides what you pointed out, it seems there are other serious problems with the new HFS patch which make it fail as before. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez --

Re: [PATCH] Use hfs case ordering - another try

2009-03-30 Thread Jordi Mallach
an here. > > See Michel Dänzer's post I just forwarded. Besides what you pointed out, > > it seems there are other serious problems with the new HFS patch which > > make it fail as before. > My bad. Fixed now. Thank you! Great! Thanks Michel and Pavel! I've give

PowerPC build is broken

2009-04-02 Thread Jordi Mallach
d can't figure out what's missing. Can anyone help? I strongly suspect this was caused by Bean's huge patch on 2009-03-21, versions up to 2009-03-14 did build. I hope someone can lend a hand here! Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian

Re: PowerPC build is broken

2009-04-07 Thread Jordi Mallach
build. > I tried with a checkout from today and it builds and boots fine on my > Powerbook G4. Are you still having issues building grub? No, this was related to the [BUGFIX] thread and was fixed by phcoder on a recent commit. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http:/

Re: Removing autogenerated files from svn

2009-04-14 Thread Jordi Mallach
r language, preferably shell. That would make things a bit more simple. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ __

Re: zfs preview

2009-04-25 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 09:50:09AM +1000, Chip Panarchy wrote: > Haven't had a chance to test it yet, but I'm sure phcoder will be interested! He surely will, yes... if you take into account that phcoder /is/ Vladimir. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://w

Re: Fw: gettext support

2009-06-19 Thread Jordi Mallach
g the correct grub device that contains the locales. Probably grub.d/ could make that configurable somehow. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key

Re: Fw: gettext support

2009-06-22 Thread Jordi Mallach
eally!) would be something like: msgid "Use the %C and %C keys to select which entry is highlighted." msgid "Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the" msgid "commands before booting or 'c' for a command-line." Or even worse, msgid "

Re: Fw: gettext support

2009-06-23 Thread Jordi Mallach
msgid ended there. > msgid "Use the %C and %C keys to select which entry is highlighted." > msgstr "Utilize las teclas %C y %C para seleccionar la entrada > resaltada." Well, s/Utilize/Utilice/ > "Pulse Enter para iniciar el SO seleccionado, 'e' para e

Re: Fw: gettext support

2009-06-24 Thread Jordi Mallach
/Enter/Retorno de carro/. ;P Didn't intend to sound as a punishment ;) Getting a bit offtopic, but I think Enter is one key, Return is another, so Retorno would be the translation for Return. Good luck with your exams! -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/

Re: [Fwd: Bug#536846: grub-pc: /boot/vmlinux entry cannot be booted]

2009-07-24 Thread Jordi Mallach
o hide the vmlinuz entries as they fail and are suppossed to be useful only to boot directly from OF. Ie, just the contrary that this user is asking for. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio

Re: [Fwd: Bug#536846: grub-pc: /boot/vmlinux entry cannot be booted]

2009-07-24 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:53:12PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > More interestingly, if I try to boot the vmlinuz entry I get dropped to > OpenFirmware, with a friendly Illegal Memory Access error message. Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 00203b94 %Srr1: 3030 load-size=edc0 a

Problems with GRUB2 on PPC (Modified by Hollis Blanchard)

2006-04-19 Thread Jordi Mallach
, and Linux boots. Thanks for this great loader. It's fun to see GRUB on my laptop. :) Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key informa

Re: another regression on Efika

2007-07-10 Thread Jordi Mallach
s are the very same model, there are different model revisions involved. The biggest issue now is that we all had to fix our generated configurations, as grub-probe and update-grub won't cope with a device.map that looks like this: (hd)/dev/hda This is a minor issue t

Re: OF disk naming scheme (Re: another regression on Efika)

2007-07-10 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > What naming/numbering scheme does this follow when you add more disks? hd, hd1, hd2. Luckily Mozillion has Firewire disks. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EM

Re: [PATCH] password command implementation

2007-08-07 Thread Jordi Mallach
minimal layer of "annoyance" for anyone wanting to boot what they aren't supposed to boot. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information

Re: GRUB on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:03:59PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > The grub have to be on a FAT filesystem so that Open Firmware can > read them. I have grub2 installed in a hfs Apple bootstrap partition. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PRO

Re: [PATCH] TODO

2007-10-21 Thread Jordi Mallach
o be able to find it in the source. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ ___ G

Re: GRUB 2 development

2007-11-10 Thread Jordi Mallach
ost trac.enbug.org or whatever domain would be trivial. http://trac.edgewall.org/ Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ ___

Re: BTS overhaul

2007-12-12 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > No response? Does anybody object if I proceed? Did anyone comment on the trac-based solution I mentioned? If someone did, I missed it, sorry. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EM

Re: BTS overhaul

2007-12-16 Thread Jordi Mallach
is clean, I guess it'll be good enough. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ __

Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm)

2008-01-14 Thread Jordi Mallach
eared, this is not nice from a i18n POV. Concatenating strings like this will make the message untranslatable for a number of languages. > - grub_printf ("\ > - The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in %d s.", > - timeout); This one is ok, th

Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm)

2008-01-15 Thread Jordi Mallach
_stage ? msg_end : msg, timeout); Yes; however as discussed on IRC we'll eventually have to take into account plural form handling. I need to discuss this with Danilo Segan or Christian Perrier for this particular case. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.

powerpc fixes

2008-01-30 Thread Jordi Mallach
(__thenan_sf) (void); void EXPORT_FUNC (__trampoline_setup) (void); void EXPORT_FUNC (__truncdfsf2) (void); void EXPORT_FUNC (__ucmpdi2) (void); -void EXPORT_FUNC (__unpack_d) (void); -void EXPORT_FUNC (__unpack_f) (void); void EXPORT_FUNC (__floatdisf) (void); void EXPORT_FUNC (__cmpdi2) (void

OF device names and util/biosdisk.c

2008-01-31 Thread Jordi Mallach
add a drive number, say hd0: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo grub-probe /boot/grub hfs util/biosdisk.c assumes: if (drive < 0 || drive >= (int) (sizeof (map) / sizeof (map[0]))) show_error ("Bad device name"); Can this be ifndef GRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS'd? Jordi -- Jordi

Re: legal problem with cs89x0 driver

2008-02-05 Thread Jordi Mallach
tents. If Robert's signature now includes "…" or "⁉", the full message gets recoded in UTF-8. Mixing the encodings of the message and the signature would be really bad news. Here goes another UTF-8 message. :) Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http:

Re: [PATCH] manpages for everything

2008-02-08 Thread Jordi Mallach
ly to GRUB2: [see also] The complete GNU mailutils manual is not available in Debian systems due to licensing reasons. You can find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage: .br http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html. Jordi -- Jordi Mal

Re: [PATCH] manpages for everything

2008-02-09 Thread Jordi Mallach
es as a base for manually maintained manpages, then we would use "po4a" to maintain translations of the original documents. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key

Regression on powerpc-ieee2375

2008-04-17 Thread Jordi Mallach
d grub, but that's all I can remember. Any help to get grub-probe functional on Apple would be cool. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http