Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-25 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:18 AM, katre50 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:11 PM, John Cater wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM, John Cater wrote: >>> >>> $ sudo do-release-upgrade -d >>> >>> Unfortunately, the release upgrade to karmic failed, after not being able >>> to find a lo

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:42 AM, John Cater wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Michael Casadevall > wrote: >> >> I can reproduce on my Sunfire. I think SILO broke when it was migrated >> to GCC 4.4. Unfortunately, this freaking antique can't netboot, which

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-22 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, John Cater wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Michael Casadevall > wrote: >> >> Netboot: >> http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/karmic/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot/ >> > > I just attempted to

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-21 Thread Michael Casadevall
own. Michael On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:17 PM, John Cater wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Scott Kitterman >> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:35:58 -0400 John Cater wrote: >>>

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:17 PM, John Cater wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Scott Kitterman > wrote: >> >> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:35:58 -0400 John Cater wrote: >> ... >> >feisty, gutsy - I still have the netboot images but with no archive, they >> >can't be installed >> ... >> >> Thes

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Casadevall
e the SMP kernel the default kernel and such), but I am going to have to do it for karmic+1. Michael On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:08 PM, John Cater wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Michael Casadevall > wrote: >> >> SPARC has had some kernel issues recently which shou

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Casadevall
SPARC has had some kernel issues recently which should be resolved as of writing, but it is still a community-supported architecture. silo at the moment is broken though causing d-i to FTBFS, and the installation to bomb out, its been on my TODO list to look at this for awhile, but I have no ETA on

Re: Creating a encrypted directory during the server installation

2008-09-24 Thread Michael Casadevall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've did some work implementing /dev/random in GNU Hurd (yes, yes, I know :-P). Static bootups are fairly constant, i.e., poor source of entropy, so that is a major problem. However, it might be possible to have the user provide or generate entropy (ma

Re: SSLv2 - do we really need it?

2008-07-24 Thread Michael Casadevall
Well, if a user has both Universe and Main enabled, if we have a openssl-sslv2, which is the same package expect with SSLv2 compiled in, all it needs is a Replaces/Conflicts/Provides which removes the sslv3-only package. That way, any users who need it (and those who need likely already know) are