Re: base-config CVS relocated

2003-12-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:17:15PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: Or why not to gnu arch? which implementation? tla? if you want to answer this question with yes, go ahead and add fundemental error checking first. Let me guess: We are only 18 days before a new release, so there is no time

Re: base-config CVS relocated

2003-12-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:26:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: version of cvs2svn which know about the release tags, otherwise it will produce many useless copies as tags. Those are cheap copies, I don't see the problem. the information about the releases are lost. if we want to use that,

Bug#224676: Broke debootstrap.

2003-12-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:05:13PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Current busybox broke debootstrap functionality. Please check the sed, wc or md5sum module. Please provide proper tests for the needed features. | $./busybox md5sum busybox | 742a1a1bf7dea06565344fa65a9b039d busybox | $ md5sum

busybox-cvs - new upstream version - request for testing

2003-12-31 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks i merged a current cvs snapshot of busybox and intend to release them before beta2 because it includes many fixes. the changelog entry is busybox-cvs (20040101-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * New CVS version. - Fix ln. (closes: #216435) - Make insmod quiet. (closes: #215612) *

Re: 2003-12-30 failure report

2004-01-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:59:57PM -0600, Florin Iucha wrote: APPEND load initrd=netboot-initrd.sarge.i386.gz devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0 video=aty128fb where do you have this line from? it have to include devfs=mount bastian -- Dammit Jim, I'm an

Re: Bug? strings truncated in loading installer components

2004-01-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:03:12PM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: the selection list has the last? character of the description strings chopped off. Is it me lacking sight? Can someone confirm? look at #219902. bastian -- Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.

libdebian-installer - issues

2004-01-03 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks there are some issues with libdebian-installer, mostly located in the Packages parser. 1. it uses only the package name for identification within the hash table. (in future we may have equal packages in different archs at the same time, e.g. i386 and amd64) 2. the definition of

Bug#226722: fails to create symlink

2004-01-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: A patch that fixes it is attached. the patch is broken, the proper behavior is to ignore non-existant source files in symlink mode. bastian -- Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain. Index: coreutils/ln.c

Re: beta 2 and beyond

2004-01-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:57:29AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: I don't know if the Menu-Item-Number stuff can vary by architecture. I think it can, with some difficulty. Not yet. Bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: partman (and ext3)

2004-01-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:40:04PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Weird things about ext3. There is no difference between mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext3, you just need to use the right name or specify -j. Bastian -- You can't evaluate a man by logic alone. -- McCoy, I, Mudd, stardate

Re: Installation report and plans for oldworld power macintoshes

2004-01-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:13:41PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Another possible solution which would be less intrusive to core components like anna would be to handle this via the isinstallable scripts in the quik-installer package. yaboot-installer currently does this to make sure it's

Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung

2004-01-21 Thread Bastian Blank
clone 228772 -1 reassign -1 busybox-cvs severity -1 normal tags -1 upstream confirmed retitle -1 busybox - ash stops respoding after alt-1 thanks On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:08:36AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: - bash on con2, for whatever reason, stops responding if you hit 'alt-1' by

libdebian-installer - release of 0.18

2004-01-24 Thread Bastian Blank
Changes in libdebian-installer 0.18: * Fix of #215448, * Fix of #219902, * Fix of improper termination of argv array in control file execution, * Enable Subarchitecture match, * Reorganize lists destroy, * Add udebs and another lib which may hold functions for stage 1. New symbols according to

Re: goals for next release

2004-01-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:18:30PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: - udebs and debs with same names No progress; ftp-master is still busy with beta2 stuff and non-d-i stuff and I have not brought it up lately. ETA: One month. dpkg failes to generate a changes file for such

Re: Testing cdebootstrap and debootstrap

2004-02-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:19:49PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: apt-utils at bsdmainutils cpio cron dhcp-client ed exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-l fdutils gcc-3.2-base gettext-base groff-base ifupdown info ipchains iptables libdb2 libgcrypt1 libgcrypt7 libgdbm3

rootskel, base-installer - apt-get calls

2004-02-02 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks rootskel and base-installer currently does some apt-get calls in the target. They are currently done without a chroot call because /cdrom or similar is not available within. This calls break either if the installer root don't have a libc-udeb installed or if the libc version in the

Re: Testing cdebootstrap and debootstrap

2004-02-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:04:50PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Several of the packages in the above list are Priority required, and I feel they should not be removed from the debian base system while they have that priority, as our documentation documents Required packages as packages whose

Bootstrap packages list

2004-02-05 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks Currently the only source of the bootstrap packages list is debootstrap. We are currently building a more robust replacement and need a proper packages list. I attach the current list. It don't list required packages and dependencies which will be installed automaticaly. Package

Re: Bootstrap packages list

2004-02-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:26:00PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: Please add hotplug, it's needed to automatically load drivers. Which archs? Bastian -- What kind of love is that? Not to be loved; never to have shown love. -- Commissioner Nancy Hedford, Metamorphosis,

Bug#231606: busybox-cvs-udeb: busybox depmod and insmod fail on sparc64

2004-02-07 Thread Bastian Blank
severity 231606 wishlist retitle 231606 busybox-cvs-udeb - modutils should support biarch thanks On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:10:55AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: busybox insmod and depmod appear not to understand sparc64 and complain about wrong architecture when used on a sparc64 box. They

Re: Bootstrap packages list

2004-02-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:24:59PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: I attach the current list. It don't list required packages and dependencies which will be installed automaticaly. I just installed sid in saw, that inetd opens some unneeded ports by default. Until this is fixed i drop it and any

Bug#231994: ls adds newline before first directory header

2004-02-10 Thread Bastian Blank
tags 231994 unreproducible thanks On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:22:12PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: ls prints a newline before the first directory header: $ mkdir /tmp/foo $ busybox ls /tmp/foo /tmp/foo: $ exit I can't reproduce the output: $ mkdir test2 $

Re: Change bterm-unifont udeb priority to standard

2004-02-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:35:02PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: anna does not install bterm-unifont because its priority is optional. This causes missing characters in some languages. Please change the priority to standard. NACK Bastian -- Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack,

Re: base-installer bind mounts

2004-02-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:11:44AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: I sure miss bind mounting when using a 2.2.x kernel. Speaking of which, base-installer uses a bind mount to mount the cdrom to /target/cdrom. This is known and documented and left over for the people using 2.2 to fix. However,

Re: apt-install, and packages adding mounts

2004-02-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 01:06:33AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: +# Record the current mounts +cat /proc/mounts |cut -d -f 2 | /target/usr/bin/sort -ru /tmp/mount.pre You know, why i changed the apt-get calls? +cat /proc/mounts |cut -d -f 2 | /target/usr/bin/sort -ru /tmp/mount.post

Re: apt-install, and packages adding mounts

2004-02-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:23:55AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Nope, I have no idea what you are talking about. I haven't been paying attention the last few months to the changes in d-i. libc missmatches in the installer root and the target often breaks such calls. Bastian -- I object

Bug#233627: CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY disabled

2004-02-19 Thread Bastian Blank
tags 233627 unreproducible moreinfo severity 233627 important thanks On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:29:20AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: Recent versions of tar produce archives that BusyBox tar does not support if CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY is not enabled. As a result, debootstrap fails

Bug#233627: CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY disabled

2004-02-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:00:32AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: | config-deb:# CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY is not set | config-static:CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY=y | config-udeb:CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY=y |

tar and busybox

2004-02-19 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks Any archive produced by tar 1.13.92 ary not accessible with busybox. Any versions before produced archives in a format called GNU. It only uses a little subset of available types and moved the other information into the mode field. This format is neither compatible with POSIX nor with

Re: tar and busybox

2004-02-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:37:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Waldi, when can we expect an updated busybox-cvs? Subject: busybox-cvs_20040101-7_i386.changes ACCEPTED Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:02:04 -0500 Bastian -- Only a fool fights in a burning house. -- Kank the Klingon, Day

Re: a test of converting to subversion

2004-02-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:59:02PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: trunk/ tools/ cdebconf/ build/ branches/ d-i/ beta2 release tools/

Bug#206531: simple relink

2003-08-23 Thread Bastian Blank
i change the external abi a little bit and export any symbols. i just applied the following patch to the versions script (it just move any internal symbol to GLIBC_PRIVATE). the linked lib crashes like any reduces version even if it is linked with --whole-archive. bastian -- Immortality

Re: debian-installer - update of libd-i, needs change of major

2003-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:37:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: we currently think about changing some parts and introduce new parts into libd-i. this requires a change of the major version. the current documentation for the code is reachable via http://debian.ipv4.waldi.eu.org/debian-installer

Re: debian-installer - update of libd-i, needs change of major

2003-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:04:05AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:37:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: we currently think about changing some parts and introduce new parts into libd-i. this requires a change of the major version. the current documentation for the code

Re: mklibs and brltty

2003-09-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:04:39PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Could weak symbols solve the problem? I'm not very familiar with shared library internals, but I believe a weak symbol will be selected from the library if no other matching symbol is available. If the library provides such

Re: [install-doc] DocBook SGML/XML?

2003-09-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: So I do not want to lose our time if for any reason Chris do absolutely want to keep those marked sections. I don't know, it DocBook supports include directives which makes it possible to use several input files. If he may

Re: [install-doc] DocBook SGML/XML?

2003-09-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 07:18:56AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I don't know, it DocBook supports include directives which makes it possible to use several input files. Many of the sections are laid out just this way, one reference that pulls in a whole file. any pointer? It is easy to

Re: [install-doc] DocBook SGML/XML?

2003-09-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:47:30PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I's encourage people to proof/correct the changes in the hardware, install-methods, and preparing folders. In particular, I wonder what tag should be used for marked sections within a paragraph. I was using screen arch=arch, that's

cdebconf - lists should support selection via id

2003-09-21 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks i think cdebconf should support selection of a list value via an id. this makes it much easier to set a default value for a generated list or read the value for such lists. also it makes the handling of static lists easier because the code don't need to know the real value. the list

retrievers - some thoughts

2003-09-21 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks i want to write down some thoughts about the retrievers as whole thing in d-i. current state: - retriever selection is completely done by anna. - retriever don't provide any data to make the selection easier. usefull things for the future: - cdebootstrap try to use the retrievers. -

Bug#195704: cdebconf - text frontend progress bar is unusable on TERM=dumb

2003-09-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:48:54PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: I can't reproduce #195704. I set TERM=dumb and run the progress bar test with the text frontend in cdebconf, but everything appears normal. The text frontent don't look at TERM and you have a terminal which supports \r.

libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-09-28 Thread Bastian Blank
renamed structures with changes: - struct package_t - di_package - struct package_dependency - di_package_dependency one dependency without support for groups or versions - struct language_description - di_package_description DEPREACATED support for translated fields in the packages file is

d-i - subarchitecture stuff

2003-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks anna will use a new control field in the next version. it is called subarchitecture and will restrict the selection of this package only if it runs on this subarch. also this information should be used by kbd-chooser, which currently does this stuff themself. i will introduce a new

d-i: overal image_in_boot setting

2003-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks currently only sparc sets image_in_boot for the kernel-image. this breaks grub if /boot is an extra partition. i prefere to set this setting always on yes and drop them as arch specific. bastian -- Yes, it is written. Good shall always destroy evil. -- Sirah the Yang,

libdebian-installer - packages which needs to be changed

2003-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks this packages needs to be changed (only arch-independend and powerpc/i386 packages are listed) anna, Bastian Blank (mostly done) main-menu, Bastian Blank base-installer cdrom-checker kbd-chooser (also subarch stuff) netcfg partconf partitioner yaboot-installer udpkg (don't depend

Re: d-i: overal image_in_boot setting

2003-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:36:14AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: i prefere to set this setting always on yes and drop them as arch specific. i delay that change one week bastian -- Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. -- Spock

Re: libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:11:21PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: new functions: - di_system_init (const char *) sets syslog log handler bastian -- Killing is stupid; useless! -- McCoy, A Private Little War, stardate 4211.8 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#213237: Acknowledgement (kernel-installer - should set warn_initrd=NO and image_in_boot=YES)

2003-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
warn_initrd just removes the warning about the initrd, it does not any harm if the image don't use an initrd link_in_boot makes the links always apear in /boot which is needed if /boot is an extra partition and grub should be used. also some other arches always needs this because the bootloader

Re: libdebian-installer - packages which needs to be changed

2003-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: netcfg builds with backward compatiblity partconf builds with backward compatiblity yaboot-installer seems to build with backward compatiblity bastian -- Most legends have their basis in facts. -- Kirk

Re: debian-installer cvs access

2003-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:46:31AM -0500, Adam DiCarlo wrote: Also, I need approval from the debian-installer maintainer. I think, i'm allowed to approve this, so this is the approval for Gaudenz Steilin to get access to the cvs. bastian -- Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a

Bug#213333: cdebconf - lists should support selection via id

2003-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: cdebconf Version: N/A i think cdebconf should support selection of a list value via an id. this makes it much easier to set a default value for a generated list or read the value for such lists. also it makes the handling of static lists easier because the code don't need to know the

libdebian-installer - proposal: usage of ERROR log level

2003-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks the error log level in libdebian-installer is currently marked as critical, i.e. is always exits. my proposal is, that it should display a internal error message via debconf if available. this should only be used for realy rare conditions which may occur but only if things mess up really

Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

2003-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:33:44AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: anna will use a new control field in the next version. it is called subarchitecture and will restrict the selection of this package only if it runs on this subarch. the Subarchitecture field includes several whitespace seperated

main-menu - discrepance in template names

2003-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks main-menu themself uses templates below debian-installer/ but expects package titles in main-menu/ bastian -- The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to heal than to kill. -- Surak of Vulcan, The Savage Curtain, stardate 5906.5 signature.asc

d-i - isinstallable script is superseeded by subarchitecture specification

2003-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks the isinstallable script is now superseeded by the Subarchitecture specification. bastian -- A father doesn't destroy his children. -- Lt. Carolyn Palamas, Who Mourns for Adonais?, stardate 3468.1. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: main-menu - discrepance in template names

2003-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:22:50AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:59:24PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: main-menu themself uses templates below debian-installer/ but expects package titles in main-menu/ How about using debian-installer/package-title? some time ago i

Re: d-i - isinstallable script is superseeded by subarchitecture specification

2003-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:32:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Bastian Blank wrote: the isinstallable script is now superseeded by the Subarchitecture specification. Not completly, the scope of that script is more general than just subsrchitectures. yeah, but no other usage is currently known

Bug#213482: cdebconf - allocate fd 3 always or use dynamicaly assigned fd

2003-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: cdebconf Version: N/A Severity: important cdebconf should either allocate always fd 3 before executing the client or the client should dynamicaly allocate a fd. unconditional overwriting of fd 3 interferes with syslog. bastian -- Beauty is transitory. Beauty survives.

Re: kernel CONFIG_TR interferes with busybox CONFIG_TR

2003-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:38:26PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Is this an acceptable timeline to d-i folks for having headers that can be used for building busybox on ia64 and alpha (estimate 3 weeks to testing) where are currently in a freeze

Re: libdebian-installer - proposal: usage of ERROR log level

2003-10-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:12:50PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: Can this be used for out of disk space errors also? it will just catch any error with ERROR level. bastian -- There are certain things men must do to remain men. -- Kirk, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4929.4

Re: libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-10-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:52:28PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: functions with changes prototypes: - di_logf - di_log (di_log_level_flags log_level, const char *format, ...) reason: add the log level for different handling of differen log entries Eh, there already was a function

Re: libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-10-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:44:08AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: I can't find di_config_package anymore. Has it also been removed? ugh, seems that i forget to they that it is removed. it is used only by main-menu so it makes no sense to put them in (/me looks at martin and joey). also i'm currently

Re: libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-10-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:11:25PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:11:21PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: new functions: - di_system_init (const char *) sets syslog log handler i forgot to say, that any program which uses libdi have to call this at the begining

Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

2003-10-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:21:56PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Ok, let's do it that way then. Bastian, how will you handle that ? Will libdi be able to understand that powerpc_powermac is both of powerpc_powermac_oldworld and powerpc_powermac_newworld, or something similar ? that it much

Re: libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-10-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:58:56PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: But in any case, I believe strongly that it is a good idea to _always_ rename functions when their prototype change, and would very much like this to happen in the new libdebian-installer. any package which uses the logging

Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

2003-10-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:37:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: oldpmac, newpmac, prep, chrp, pegasos, chrp-rs6k (or rs6k ?) and apus. or pmac, oldpmac, prep, chrp, pegasos, rs6k and apus for that matter. no, the long version but without the submatch. bastian -- Vulcans never bluff.

Re: libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-10-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:24:45PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Changing the name will make sure all programs will fail to link if the source hasn't been updated to use the new name and prototype. Only changing the prototype will only trigger an error at compile time, not at link time.

Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

2003-10-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:16:36PM +, simon raven wrote: how about just shortening the names to 'ppc-*-*'? my first version uses powerpc:powermac_oldworld with an optional first part. bastian -- Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the same mistakes.

Re: libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-10-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:38:23PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: IIRC, it was moved to libd-i so that anna could use it to handle the retriever dependencies. (I.e. the problem that it doesn't make sense to run cdrom-detect if you want to use floppy-retriever) anna don't configure packages.

Re: libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-10-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:43:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on subarch detection code for various platforms seperately. please read debian-boot first, it is mostly done. bastian please fix your mua, it don't generate proper references. bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty!

libdebian-installer - needs help for transition

2003-10-03 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks we want to do the libdi4 transition on sunday. before this date, the following packages needs to be fixed: main-menu cdrom-checker kbd-chooser netcfg partitioner i ask matt for help on main-menu because i don't understand the code completely but he is out of home for the weekend.

Re: libdebian-installer - needs help for transition

2003-10-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:44:19PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: it seems that only the following packages are left: main-menu kbd-chooser bastian -- Fascinating, a totally parochial attitude. -- Spock, Metamorphosis, stardate 3219.8 signature.asc Description: Digital

libdebian-installer - final call for tests of the changes

2003-10-05 Thread Bastian Blank
as we want to switch over to the new api, this is a final call for tests of the packages which uses the new api. bastian -- There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder. -- Spock, A Taste of Armageddon, stardate 3193.9 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: libdebian-installer - introduced changes

2003-10-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 04:17:40PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: Yet! The idea was to let anna configure the retrievers so we would get rid of the stupid problem of main-menu configuring all available retrievers! Do you have a better fix for this, please share it! I see. Lets see if i find some

Re: debian-installer/utils patch

2003-10-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:50:27PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: Would you mind to tell us more? It is already fixed. Bastian -- Knowledge, sir, should be free to all! -- Harry Mudd, I, Mudd, stardate 4513.3 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: libdebian-installer - needs help for transition

2003-10-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:05:57PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:44:19PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: main-menu done by myself, needs testing kbd-chooser done by mckinstry bastian -- Military secrets are the most fleeting of all. -- Spock

Fixed in NMU of main-menu 0.042

2003-10-09 Thread Bastian Blank
Version: 0.042 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: main-menu - Debian installer main menu (udeb) Closes: 213185 Changes: main-menu (0.042) unstable; urgency=low . * Matt Kraai

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/debian by joeyh

2003-10-10 Thread Bastian Blank
+- make linuxrc.bootfloppy loop cleanly if it cannot load a bad floppy -- Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:09:03 +0200 @@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ - Install /var/log/messages so tail has something to tail. - Add me to uploaders. - -- Joey Hess [EMAIL

Re: linux-kernel-di_0.1_i386.changes is NEW

2003-10-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:47:55PM -0400, Debian Installer wrote: Changes: linux-kernel-di (0.1) unstable; urgency=low please explain, how do you want to build this package for each arch with linux kernel. bastian -- Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, Today

Re: linux-kernel-di_0.1_i386.changes is NEW

2003-10-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 06:59:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I expect it will not be autobuildable until kernel-image packages can be installed automatically w/o prompting (and non-destructively!). I don't anticipate any problems merging in alpha support, I will do it once the current version

Re: bloat in libdebian-installer

2003-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:25:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Here we have a function that is used in one powerpc specific module, and in one utility program that is not installed as part of any d-i boot image. And yet this function is included on all our boot media, which is always almost full.

Re: bloat in libdebian-installer

2003-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:44:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: this is a realy bad example. this function is used in a bunch of packages. You seem to have completly missed my point. i don't think so This function is used in two binaries in the whole tree. My previous email provides a grep of

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Can someone explain to me what features are in the new busybox that prevents us from using regular old busybox? TIA. go away bastian -- Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing. -- Spock, The Cloud Minders,

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:31:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: # The busybox-cvs udeb is included as a workaround for the broken # busybox-cvs-net-udeb. Should be reverted when it works again. # XXX surely it's fixed by now? What was the issue? busybox-cvs-udeb than ask correctly, this is not an

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:25:57PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: go away I think I must have missed the rest of this conversation... he criticise many of the fundamental changes i implement within the last months. bastian -- Vulcans believe peace should not depend on force. --

Bug#216528: busybox-cvs doesn't build on s390

2003-11-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:57:12PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: consider the attached patch. I tried it on raptor.d.o and it builds now. Tell me if I should upload it because the last upload was also an NMU. It fails on i386 becuase of the new libc6. Bastian -- A princess should not be afraid

space considerations

2003-11-05 Thread Bastian Blank
some time ago, joey hess calls libd-i bloated. a few time before i added many code to them which enlarges them by 13KiB uncompressed on powerpc. at the same time a added a multicall binary to di-utils which wraps a few of the functions for shell scripts. i also moved the shell and mapdevfs binary

Re: space considerations

2003-11-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:45:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: This is not the time to be making any modifications to libd-i in unstable. I expect we will be getting a beta release out this week (details coming soon). Do it in a branch, do not upload it to unstable. lets show. if you realy want

Re: [PATCH] mips/mipsel subarchitecture support in kernel-installer

2003-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:42:44AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: this patch adds mips/mipsel subarchitecture kernel selection to kernel-installer. retry that with utils/ddetect/archdetect* bastian -- We have phasers, I vote we blast 'em! -- Bailey, The Corbomite Maneuver,

Re: dhcp clients

2003-11-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:39:02PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: This does not seem like a good idea, it puts us in the position of supporting more than one dhcp client. I have plenty of space on the floppy for dhcp-client-udeb, and this would also let udhcp be turned off in busybox-cvs-udeb,

Re: dhcp clients

2003-11-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:42:14AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: I don't care which dhcp client we use, as long as it is *1* per architecture and not 3. At least we're using the same dhcp client on i386 and powerpc now, which will make switching to any other one a bit easier. the plan was to drop

Re: Bug#221227: pump-udeb: Depends: libpopt0 (= 1.7) but it is not installable

2003-11-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:37:10PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: pkg-lists/netboot/s390:pump-udeb s390 don't have any dhcp capable netdevice All three have a dhcp-client.udeb. I will chnage them and drop pump-udeb from the cd list too. any of them have a working udhcpc in busybox.

debian-installer - make demo

2003-11-19 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks i just realize that someone break make demo in the build tree, the debconf-loadtemplates just load nothing. bastian -- ... bacteriological warfare ... hard to believe we were once foolish enough to play around with that. -- McCoy, The Omega Glory, stardate unknown

libdebian-installer - request for testresults

2003-11-19 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks i prepare an update for libdebian-installer. this is a request for tests with current version 0.17.cvs, as make demo is currently busted, i can't do tests with the existing packages. the external interface is stable, it only defines two new symbols: - di_log, the backward compatiblity

Re: debian-installer - make demo

2003-11-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:23:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Bastian Blank wrote: i just realize that someone break make demo in the build tree, the debconf-loadtemplates just load nothing. I tried it the first time you mentioned it was broken, but it works for me. Details? | Nov 13 22:31:10

Bug#221879: cdebconf - debconf-loadtemplate don't fail if it can't write the template files

2003-11-20 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: cdebconf Version: 0.49 Severity: important debconf-loadtemplate failes exit non-successfull of it can't write the template files. | open(/var/lib/cdebconf/templates.dat, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) | time([1069340945]) =

Re: libdebian-installer - request for testresults

2003-11-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:38:27PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: my testcases for the fixed problems (#215448, #219902) works well i just test #219902 in a real system, it is fixed. bastian -- There are always alternatives. -- Spock, The Galileo Seven, stardate 2822.3

Re: (low priority) udeb naming

2003-11-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:58:34AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I think that this naming requirement was a bad idea, and we should open up the archive for debs and udebs with different names. same i finished the helperpackage which makes it

Bug#222386: busybox-cvs: umount does not accept the -n option

2003-11-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:47:59AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: I assume that CONFIG_FEATURE_MTAB_SUPPORT is a compile time option? Is it possible to get it turned on? :-) which package? busybox-cvs produces 4 different ones Why? The debian installer has no need for a /etc/mtab file, it is

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:21:10PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: wrong. jfs is online resizable: The AIX JFS is online growable and shrinkable, the Linux one one growable. Bastian -- Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya! -- Hag, Tomorrow is Yesterday, stardate unknown

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