Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
. But the code it touches looks substantially different in 2.6.32. Who can test this? The other bug for which there is a pending fix (#700544) is not a regression and is easy to work around. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description

Re: There is no device support DVD-RW PIONEER DVR-S20BK

2013-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
labelled 'SATA controller [0106]'. Send us the text that follows this label. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#700637: Installer fails to detect/install TP-Link TL-WDN4800 PCIe Atheros AR9380 Chipset

2013-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
a later kernel version from the squeeze-backports suite http://wiki.debian.org/Backports. Installing the linux-image-amd64 package from there should give you essentially the same kernel as will be in 'wheezy'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think

Bug#700637: Installer fails to detect/install TP-Link TL-WDN4800 PCIe Atheros AR9380 Chipset

2013-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 03:34 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 10:26 -0700, Jack Wilborn wrote: Package: installation-reports Version: 2.11.3-4 I installed from a commercially purchased Debian 6.0.6 Installation DVD i386 from LinuxCollections.com. Installation

Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:28 -0800, dann frazier wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:34:51PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 15:18 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 12.02.2013 02:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: One or other of us will then need to merge the squeeze-security

Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 15:18 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 12.02.2013 02:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: One or other of us will then need to merge the squeeze-security branch into squeeze and upload -48 in time for the point release. Is there an ETA for that? Sorry for chasing, but if we're

Bug#700190:

2013-02-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
while browsing web pages. I don't know what behaviour you're expecting... maybe you should send this query to the debian-user list. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert

Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 08:36 -0800, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 03:41:03AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 16:25 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, We're somewhat overdue with the next Squeeze point release (6.0.7) and it'd be good to get it done

Bug#700190: sub...@bugs.debian.org

2013-02-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
friendlist, but it download games and some of them work, some not. You have an AMD GPU, so you need to install the firmware-linux-nonfree package from the non-free section in order to get accelerated graphics. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism

Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
to be included in the point release but should not be need in the installer. Dann/Moritz, do you have any plans for a security or other stable update? Should I upload to stable with just these two fixes? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Bug#697890: marked as done (installation-reports: iwconfig not in /sbin)

2013-02-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
, you guys convinced me. Re-opening the bug, then. Should this be wheezy material? Please. And crda too, as previously discussed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Bug#697890: marked as done (installation-reports: iwconfig not in /sbin)

2013-02-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 17:35 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Ben Hutchings (b...@decadent.org.uk): Should this be wheezy material? Please. And crda too, as previously discussed. But crda is a Recommends of iw, right? So, it would be pulled by it (and if these dependencies

Bug#700190: sub...@bugs.debian.org

2013-02-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
. [...] The line6 driver is in the Linux 'staging' area, and the kernel team usually does not enable building of such drivers unless specifically requested. But I'll treat this as a request to enable this driver. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo

Bug#698322: Include Dvorak Native Brazilian in list of keyboard layouts

2013-02-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
it, but maybe if Juliano or another wants to contribute that...? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#697905: persistent naming in crypttab

2013-02-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
files, though I agree that an untested patch can't be accepted. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#697890: marked as done (installation-reports: iwconfig not in /sbin)

2013-01-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 06:58 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Ben Hutchings (b...@decadent.org.uk): By the same token, we don't need iproute2 if there is no GUI tool that invokes it. See how silly that argument is? The point is not saying that iw is useless. My point is that I

Bug#697890: marked as done (installation-reports: iwconfig not in /sbin)

2013-01-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
than from a shell or GUI front-end. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#697890: installation-reports: iwconfig not in /sbin

2013-01-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
networking I think that task-desktop should include them as well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#697692: installation-reports: Broken Partition if only one partition is used

2013-01-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
: dd if=/dev/mapper/vg_toad0-debian_squeeze_baseimage bs=512 count=1 | od -tx1 -Ax would help to confirm where the error lies. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#697035: installer: kb and mouse don't work on a decTop (NSC geode processor)

2013-01-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Corp. EZ-9900C Keyboard [...] As I suspected - this wants the special hid-ezkey driver, and we are not including this in the installer. I'll add that and check for other special HID keyboard/mouse drivers at the same time. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll

Bug#697035: installer: kb and mouse don't work on a decTop (NSC geode processor)

2013-01-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
run out of options with linux for these machines and am about to try kfreebsd. If you do actually try that, please let me know how it goes! -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Bug#695961: workaround

2012-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
parameter. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#696571: installation-reports: Linux 3.2 VGA controller regression

2012-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
software. The current Linux kernel packages in unstable have a change to the radeon driver which should improve the fallback behaviour when the firmware is not installed. I'm assuming this will work for you, and therefore merging with the earlier bug reports for this problem. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Bug#694344: installation-report: Wheezy beta set up on FSC Futro S400

2012-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
Forwarded Message From: Andreas Glaeser bugs.andreas.glae...@freenet.de To: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Subject: Re: Bug#694344: installation-report: Wheezy beta set up on FSC Futro S400 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:53:40 +0100 On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:33:23 +0100 Ben

Bug#694344: Device does not work with 'linux-image-686-pae', but it is the default

2012-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
a 686 flavour but not a 686-pae flavour. Also, the 486 flavour is optimised for uniprocessor systems. Ben. Thus changing the severity of this report to 'important'. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2012-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
an option for a machine-readable progress indicator. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#695403: installation-guide: Please point out the limitations of firmware detection

2012-12-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 19:52 +, Brian Potkin wrote: On Sat 08 Dec 2012 at 18:59:43 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 18:04 +, Brian Potkin wrote: Would a user employing the search terms have some chance of discovering a lack of firmware on an installed system

Bug#695403: installation-guide: Please point out the limitations of firmware detection

2012-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
this seems to be mostly scriptable. This doesn't work. I think we should standardise the log messages from the kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#695403: installation-guide: Please point out the limitations of firmware detection

2012-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 18:04 +, Brian Potkin wrote: On Sat 08 Dec 2012 at 13:59:57 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 12:29 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi Brian Potkin claremont...@gmail.com writes: +/parapara + +The routines used to detect

Re: Bug#694928: asks for confirmation on config-file change on /etc/default/rcS, while file didn't change

2012-12-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
). This should really be the default for everyone... how many people know their filesystem well enough to answer fsck prompts intelligently? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
tell you that). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#694575: installation-reports: Fails to find SATA drives regardless of the FakeRAID card settings

2012-11-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
to be the same as bug #690886. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#694310: debootstrap: test-exec function does not work on android

2012-11-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Bug#694344: installation-report: Wheezy beta set up on FSC Futro S400

2012-11-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
of the CPU frequency scaling driver that is appropriate for your CPU. It should no longer rely on cpufreqd or cpufrequtils. Did this not happen? Which driver did you need to load? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity. signature.asc

Bug#693227: missing driver for ISCI (Intel C600 SAS) (not iscsi!)

2012-11-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
(standard on lots of motherboards). NOTE: I'm not talking about iscsi (i-scsi), but isci. [...] This was already reported as #690886 and the fix is pending. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Booth at FSCONS 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
presumably need to disable the X screen blanker somehow. That might require adding a check to the relevant udeb. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#691147: installation-report: FSC_Futro_S300 set up with Wheezy beta

2012-11-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
-packages-for-i386.html Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH] Update new-kernel-checklist.txt for the last few years' changes

2012-11-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 14:46 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (01/11/2012): - Kernel udebs are built from the kernel source packages - There are no floppy images - The current documented minimum memory requirement is 56 MB - debian-cd

Re: Problem with d-i manual file - FIXED

2012-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
for translators by replacing across all files at once since a brand name does not get translated. I'll ask for review before any further manual changes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

[PATCH] Update new-kernel-checklist.txt for the last few years' changes

2012-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
- Kernel udebs are built from the kernel source packages - There are no floppy images - The current documented minimum memory requirement is 56 MB - debian-cd configuration no longer includes kernel versions, as it lists metapackages instead - The installer manual sources have been reorganised

Re: Adding armhf vexpress udebs

2012-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
/modules/armhf-vexpress/minix-modules @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +#include minix-modules [...] Let's stop adding crap like this to new architectures/flavours. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed

[PATCH kernel-wedge 0/3]

2012-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
I'm intending to commit the following changes and upload a new version of kernel-wedge. Let me know if you see any problems with them. Ben. Ben Hutchings (3): gen-deps: Ignore default dependencies that are overridden per-architecture List the unpackaged modules install-files: Include

[PATCH 1/3] gen-deps: Ignore default dependencies that are overridden per-architecture

2012-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
: #678587) + + -- Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:34:25 +0100 + kernel-wedge (2.84) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[PATCH 2/3] List the unpackaged modules

2012-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
that are overridden by the architecture package-list (Closes: #678587) + * find-unpackaged: New sub-command lists modules not packaged in a udeb + * install-files: Call find-unpackaged -- Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:34:25 +0100 signature.asc Description: Digital

[PATCH 3/3] install-files: Include modules.{builtin,order} in Linux kernel-image udebs

2012-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
-unpackaged: New sub-command lists modules not packaged in a udeb * install-files: Call find-unpackaged + * install-files: Include modules.{builtin,order} in Linux kernel-image udebs -- Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:34:25 +0100 signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
. [...] Will be included in the next linux upload to unstable, hopefully this weekend. I don't know how long that will take to get into a daily installer. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
picture of which chips this needs to be done for. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#652672: busybox: modprobe does not handle builtins

2012-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 14:02 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: [Note: the right bug# for this is #652672] On 22.07.2012 20:02, Ben Hutchings wrote: OK, attaching a new patch that does that as well. @@ -595,6 +598,11 @@ int modprobe_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, while (config_read

Bug#661069: d-i: radeon: Please make sure firmware is installed or the user warned about its lack

2012-08-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
the choice after upgrading to this upstream version. Maybe the linux-image packages should also warn in case 1, probably using a different message. Another example of the problem here: http://lwn.net/Articles/506543/ Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think

Re: Byte queue limits in Linux for wheezy / linux kernel ABI bumps

2012-08-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
to download the modules, so they'll break. But that seems to be more easily fixed by holding off decrufting. Ben. [Please somebody correct the above if this is nonsense] -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed

Bug#679571: modprobe: no module unix found in modules.dep

2012-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
meaning to fix this for a while. It seems to be a bug in the minimal implementation of modprobe used in the initramfs, part of 'busybox'. I'm attaching a patch that seems to do the right thing, which I hope the busybox maintainer will apply. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made

Bug#679571: modprobe: no module unix found in modules.dep

2012-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
with raising severity but let's at least merge them. A spurious warning message that appears for *all* users is important. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#679571: modprobe: no module unix found in modules.dep

2012-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 11:15 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: forwarded 679571 https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5270 thanks On 22.07.2012 10:11, Ben Hutchings wrote: [] I've been meaning to fix this for a while. It seems to be a bug in the minimal implementation of modprobe used

Re: Preparation for d-i beta 1

2012-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
or whether this should be left until we have other substantial changes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ

Bug#678587: kernel-wedge: gen-control does not merge default and per-arch/flavour depends

2012-06-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 23:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Package: kernel-wedge Version: 2.84 gen-control makes each package field specified per-arch/flavour override the default. gen-deps seems to effectively merge Depends from the default and per-arch/flavour. This means that copy

Bug#678587: kernel-wedge: gen-control does not merge default and per-arch/flavour depends

2012-06-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
specified and which module dependencies must be satisifed by copying. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Mount options for procfs

2012-06-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
at installation time (and presumably pre-seeded), or should this be left to post- installation? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
). [...] This bug was already fixed in squeeze, since we primarily used CPU feature flags for kernel flavour selection. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#671895: [sparc] Kernel NULL pointer dereference in sungem/gem_poll() (Re: updates)

2012-05-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
while net-booting? It can time-out and will then log SW reset is ghetto but will *not* abort initialisation. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. - Carolyn Scheppner

Bug#672611: [PATCH] base-installer: Disable selection of '686' kernel flavour for i386

2012-05-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
In wheezy, linux-image-686 is now a transitional package depending on linux-image-686-pae, and is uninstallable on systems without PAE. We must not select it on systems without PAE. This will prevent installing the squeeze 686 flavour from the wheezy installer, but this shouldn't matter since

Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#661069: Bug#649448: radeon (evergreen): random-looking pattern of pixels when firmware not installed

2012-04-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
thought it did...? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

2012-02-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Bug#660446: linux-image-3.2.0-1-4kc-malta: Should include built-in support for ext4

2012-02-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
to be built-in then it seems like we should disable ext2 and ext3 and enable CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Allow building a subset of flavous in kernel/udeb build

2012-02-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
to be able to test building udebs for just one flavour. That bit is definitely useful. [...] Is it possible that the same issue exists for disabling featuresets? I didn't look. Theoretically, but the installer never uses such a kernel configuration. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Lowery's Law

Nonexistent modules in Linux kernel-wedge configuration

2012-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
. However, kernel-wedge should treat '-' and '_' as equivalent in module names, consistent with module-init-tools and the kernel itself. rt2870sta was replaced by rt2800usb. cloop is out-of-tree and therefore can no longer be included in the installer. Can anyone explain the others? Ben. -- Ben

Re: Nonexistent modules in Linux kernel-wedge configuration

2012-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 21:41 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 29 Jan 2012 20:24:53 +, a écrit : brlvger modules/brltty-modules This is an oldie, removed in 2004. I'll drop it from kernel-wedge (it's not used anywhere any more). Thanks

Re: Nonexistent modules in Linux kernel-wedge configuration

2012-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 00:00 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 29 Jan 2012 20:24:53 +, a écrit : snd-dt019x modules/sound-modules snd-es968 modules/sound-modules snd-hda-codec-atihdmi modules/sound-modules snd-hda-codec-intelhdmi modules

Re: Nonexistent modules in Linux kernel-wedge configuration

2012-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 21:19 -0500, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 01/29/2012 03:24 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: The IDE modules listed here have presumably been replaced by libata-based modules, but there might be some cases where neither driver is built or neither is included in the installer

Re: Upcoming stable point release

2012-01-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 13:39 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: [CC += -boot] On 16.01.2012 19:06, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 04:09 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 13:12 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: If there is a further kernel update planned for inclusion

Bug#500459: #500459 debian-installer: ide-floppy module is missing from /dev on installer

2012-01-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
floppy drives should be handled by the sd driver, which is already included in the installer. Mark, please confirm whether or not the 'squeeze' installer supports these drives. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#655923: Missing xhci-hcd module in installer

2012-01-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: kernel-wedge Version: 2.74+squeeze3.1 Severity: important Tags: d-i patch squeeze Another addition needed for squeeze: --- a/modules/usb-modules +++ b/modules/usb-modules @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ ehci-hcd ? ohci-hcd ? uhci-hcd ? +xhci-hcd ? usbcore ? --- END --- This has already been fixed

Re: Upcoming stable point release

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
in 2.6.32-40 (currently in stable-proposed-updates). I can probably make an upload this weekend, but cannot promise that a further upload will not be needed. We need some testing of the isci driver (added in 2.6.32-40) and more generally regression testing. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt

Bug#653500: Missing isci module in installer

2011-12-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: kernel-wedge Version: 2.74+squeeze3 Severity: important Tags: d-i patch squeeze The isci driver for Intel C600 Series SAS/SATA controllers should be added in a stable point update. (I added it in 2.6.32-40, but do not yet know whether it works properly.) Please include it in the

Bug#651439: Missing et131x module in installer

2011-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: kernel-wedge Version: 2.74+squeeze3 Severity: important Tags: d-i squeeze patch According to http://wiki.debian.org/et131x this module should be available in the installer. However, it seems to have been dropped when et131x moved from linux-modules-extra-2.6 into linux-2.6. ---

nic-modules vs nic-extra-modules

2011-12-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Moving default module/package lists out of kernel-wedge

2011-12-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 13:35 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] I was considering changing kernel-wedge to support a KW_DEFCONFIG_DIR variable, similar to the KW_CONFIG_DIR variable, that would affect where all of these files are looked for. The (untested) change is pretty

Moving default module/package lists out of kernel-wedge

2011-11-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
$sysdir=/usr/share/kernel-wedge/modules/; + +my $defconfigdir = ($ENV{KW_DEFCONFIG_DIR} || '/usr/share/kernel-wedge'); +my $sysdir=$defconfigdir/modules/; my %modules; my %loaded; --- END --- Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description

Re: Bug#647586: FTBFS on alpha: missing module crc32

2011-11-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
-wedge configuration is the same as was previously used for alpha, so it was apparently already broken. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Uploading linux-2.6 (3.0.0-5)

2011-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
find any more problems with the changes in experimental to use kernel-wedge, I will apply those to unstable as well. I'll need to upload kernel-wedge yet again with Joey's fix for the bug that affected s390. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

s390 kernel-wedge failure

2011-09-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
this and the others depend on it. Aside from dasd_mod, I don't understand these failures. (As for other architectures: so far amd64, i386, ia64 and mips have built successfully, while powerpc failed at an earlier stage.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible

Re: Building udebs from linux-2.6

2011-09-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 12:50 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: Otavio is happy for us to start building kernel udebs from linux-2.6, Done, in experimental. with the following provisos: 1. Installer team members (initially Otavio, Joey and Colin) will need commit access, to update the module

[PATCH kernel-wedge 0/3] Fixes for copy-modules

2011-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
pbuilder sid chroot. Please apply these changes and upload the new version. Ben. Ben Hutchings (3): Set 'join' output format for module dependencies and exclusions Set $PATH for depmod Strip unwanted output from depmod -n commands/copy-modules |6 -- debian/changelog | 11

[PATCH kernel-wedge 1/3] Set 'join' output format for module dependencies and exclusions

2011-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
-wedge (2.80) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + [ Ben Hutchings ] + * Set 'join' output format for module dependencies and exclusions, +for compatibility with coreutils 8.13 + + -- Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:36:51 +0100 + kernel-wedge (2.79) unstable; urgency=low

[PATCH kernel-wedge 2/3] Set $PATH for depmod

2011-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
index c99837b..9011fe3 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ kernel-wedge (2.80) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Ben Hutchings ] * Set 'join' output format for module dependencies and exclusions, for compatibility with coreutils 8.13 + * Fix bugs in support

[PATCH kernel-wedge 3/3] Strip unwanted output from depmod -n

2011-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
) UNRELEASED; urgency=low for compatibility with coreutils 8.13 * Fix bugs in support for use in kernel source packages: - Set $PATH for depmod +- Strip unwanted output from depmod -n -- Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:36:51 +0100 -- 1.7.5.4 signature.asc

Re: [PATCH kernel-wedge 0/3] Fixes for copy-modules

2011-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 22:10 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Now that I've tried building linux-2.6 with kernel-wedge in pbuilder, I found more bugs. (Obviously I should have done this earlier, but it takes a damn long time to build!) One of these bugs is longstanding and turns out to be fatal

[PATCH kernel-wedge v2] Allow configuration files to be placed in a subdirectory

2011-09-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
--git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 9cc2682..a19ae2d 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ kernel-wedge (2.79) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Ben Hutchings ] * Allow kernel source packages to use kernel-wedge on themselves * Allow kernel ABI version

[PATCH kernel-wedge 0/3] Support use of kernel-wedge in linux-2.6

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
These are the same changes I posted before, except: - Split into 3 coherent changes, as Joey requested - Removed the bogus -V option to depmod Ben. Ben Hutchings (3): Allow kernel source packages to use kernel-wedge on themselves Allow kernel ABI version to be specified as command-line

[PATCH kernel-wedge 1/3] Allow kernel source packages to use kernel-wedge on themselves

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
-$flavour; diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 2dcbad0..4cfaab0 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ kernel-wedge (2.79) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Samuel Thibault ] * sound-modules: Update to 3.0. + [ Ben Hutchings ] + * Allow kernel source

[PATCH kernel-wedge 2/3] Allow kernel ABI version to be specified as command-line argument

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
$fixsourcedir) { $sourcedir = $fixsourcedir; diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 4cfaab0..9cc2682 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ kernel-wedge (2.79) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Ben Hutchings ] * Allow kernel source packages to use

[PATCH kernel-wedge 3/3] Allow configuration files to be placed in a subdirectory

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
-dups, $kernelversion-$flavour); doit(kernel-wedge, strip-modules, $kernelversion-$flavour); } diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 9cc2682..a19ae2d 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ kernel-wedge (2.79) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Ben

Re: [PATCH kernel-wedge] Add support for building within a kernel package

2011-09-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 20:06 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I don't want to waste your time, but there are enough changes here that a split patchset would improve reviewing. Perhaps, but they're really not huge. if [ $os = linux ] ; then - if [ ! -e $moddir/modules.dep ]; then -

[PATCH kernel-wedge] Add support for building within a kernel package

2011-09-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
, strip-modules, $kernelversion-$flavour); } diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 2dcbad0..699a22a 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ kernel-wedge (2.79) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Samuel Thibault ] * sound-modules: Update to 3.0. + [ Ben

Bug#631087: debootstrap fails to unmount /proc from target

2011-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 16:21 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Ben, I don't understand your patch for this at all. The error message you showed is umount: /proc: device is busy. How can umount -n avoid it trying to umount the wrong /proc? It not only inhibits umount from updating /etc/mtab, but also

Bug#631087: debootstrap fails to unmount /proc from target

2011-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 18:22 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: It not only inhibits umount from updating /etc/mtab, but also means that it never uses /etc/mtab to canonicalize the given path. That seems very doubtful. Especially since I tried applying your patch and pbuilder

Updating linux-2.6 for point release 6.0.3

2011-08-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
Back in May, I prepared backports of several network drivers to squeeze. However these did not receive much testing in time to upload them for point release 6.0.2. There has been some more testing since then, but still not as much as I would like. I believe that further testing will have to be

Building udebs from linux-2.6

2011-07-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
Otavio is happy for us to start building kernel udebs from linux-2.6, with the following provisos: 1. Installer team members (initially Otavio, Joey and Colin) will need commit access, to update the module selections for udebs. 2. The automatic inclusion of module dependencies sometimes results

Bug#626217: Default /etc/kernel-img.conf should have do_symlinks=no; nothing needs those links now

2011-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Please consider defaulting it to no. Josh, this is simply not true. Only grub and syslinux create menus of all installed kernels. I hope to get this changed for wheezy, but can't promise it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc

Re: CONFIG_NLS=y in 2.6.39 packages (Was Re: [PATCH base-installer] Update i386 kernel selection for new flavours in wheezy)

2011-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:36 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 09:53 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 05:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:38 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 15:59 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote

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