Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:06:25AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Also if udeb:s are going to be using xz then it makes even more sense to use it for everything. µdebs won't use the xz default, though. (The compression for them will be handled in debhelper.) With the compression scheme I posted

Re: [DRAFT] Debian Installer Wheezy Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 21:50:44 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: * Linux kernel installation fails on old x86 processors (earlier than 686, or 686 without PAE) (#672611). Should just be 686 without PAE I think, older CPUs would get the 486 flavour, not 686. Cheers, Julien signature.asc

Bug#671884: kfreebsd panic: page fault on installer image

2012-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Steven, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (13/05/2012): Hi Miguel, Which kernel did you choose? Do both kfreebsd-8 and kfreebsd-9 have this problem? And which version of VirtualBox was this? I believe a bug in vbox 3.2 leads to regular panics of kfreebsd-9. vbox 4.x or

Bug#584752: same for keymap selection

2012-05-13 Thread Adam Borowski
Same for the keymap selection screen: if you select a wrong one, the go back button doesn't work. (Also, it's strange that typing po selects Persian instead of Polish -- one would expect that if a prefix search doesn't work, it'd go to O instead). -- “This is gonna be as easy as cheating on

Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian Wheezy. Improvements in this release of the installer = Network configuration - * Add WPA support to installer (#327309). *

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 15:55 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian Wheezy. Improvements in this release of the installer = I assume these will also be

Bug#671884: marked as done (kfreebsd panic: page fault on installer image)

2012-05-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 13 May 2012 17:20:09 +0100 with message-id 4fafdf39.9050...@debianpt.org and subject line Re: Bug#671884: kfreebsd panic: page fault on installer image has caused the Debian Bug report #671884, regarding kfreebsd panic: page fault on installer image to be marked as done.

Re: debhelper + udeb + xz

2012-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Philipp Kern wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:45:03AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Philipp Kern wrote: So now to the question: What's the policy for dpkg(-deb) feature use in debhelper? Would it be feasible to add '-z1', '-Zxz', '-Sextreme' to the dpkg-deb arguments for udebs within

Re: debhelper + udeb + xz

2012-05-13 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:19:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Philipp Kern wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:45:03AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Philipp Kern wrote: So now to the question: What's the policy for dpkg(-deb) feature use in debhelper? Would it be feasible to add '-z1',

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
2012/5/13 Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org: kFreeBSD Specific -  * Kernel updated to version 8.3.  * Option to use new 9.0 kernel during install.  * Detect LVM devices. LVM detection is still not complete, we still need to figure out where to put the command to load LVM

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
2012/5/13 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk:  * Re-enable ZFS on kfreebsd-i386.  * Allow stripped ZFS for root filesystem. Presumably 'striped' not 'stripped'. Yep. Btw, root on mirrored ZFS is supported too (but not on RAID-Z). -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
2012/5/13 Robert Millan r...@debian.org: 2012/5/13 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk:  * Re-enable ZFS on kfreebsd-i386.  * Allow stripped ZFS for root filesystem. Presumably 'striped' not 'stripped'. Yep.  Btw, root on mirrored ZFS is supported too (but not on RAID-Z). Sorry, I meant

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hey folks, Remembering the fun that we had during the Squeeze release with trying to make single-CD installations work well, it's time to consider what we're going to *claim* to support in Wheezy. We've had a history of supporting the

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:36:09 -0400 Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hey folks, Remembering the fun that we had during the Squeeze release with trying to make single-CD installations work well, it's time to consider what

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: supporting only the smaller/lighter desktop environments is exactly what comes out of accepting that the first two options just won't be acceptable. Changing compression is only putting off the inevitable. There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to get

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: I'd support XFCE4 as the default Graphical Desktop Environment and possibly putting GNOME (and KDE) as alternative options. What is the point of providing a default which is not what people usually want? Just document that a normal desktop

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2012-05-13 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * OLD BUILD:armel May 08 08:10 buildd@ancina build_iop32x_netboot http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/build_iop32x_netboot.log * OLD BUILD:armel May 08 08:13 buildd@ancina

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Dom 13 May 2012 21:40:10 Marco d'Itri escribió: [snip] Does anybody actually know that people routinely try to install desktop systems with only a CD and no networking, and why? What is the use case for this? Cheap DVD readers have been around for over 10 years now. Actually, I was going

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Joey Hess, le Sun 13 May 2012 20:39:20 -0400, a écrit : Neil Williams wrote: supporting only the smaller/lighter desktop environments is exactly what comes out of accepting that the first two options just won't be acceptable. Changing compression is only putting off the inevitable.

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-13 at 10:26pm, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Dom 13 May 2012 21:40:10 Marco d'Itri escribió: [snip] Does anybody actually know that people routinely try to install desktop systems with only a CD and no networking, and why? What is the use case for this? Cheap DVD