Bug#431160: Caching mechanism for local-packagelists seems not to work

2007-06-30 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: live-helper Version: 1.0~a16-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I've a lot of packages that are installed because they are listed in the config/chroot_local-packagelists/extra.txt and are fetched from a custom debian archive listed in

Bug#431160: Caching mechanism for local-packagelists seems not to work

2007-06-30 Thread Mathieu GELI
Hi, After the lh_* these debs are not in the cache directory and are re-download over and over. The caching mechanism is working fine for external repositories here with 1.0~a16-1. You could give us more details about the complete procedure you use. Cheers -- Mathieu

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
Chris Ross wrote: So, it's looks pretty nice through there except for the hostname issue (I've always seen this. Is this based on the hostname= that's on the kernel argument list? Is it avoidable?), the only problem I see is the odd fsck 1.40-WIP comment from fsck. did you specify

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Chris Ross
On Jun 30, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: Chris Ross wrote: So, it's looks pretty nice through there except for the hostname issue (I've always seen this. Is this based on the hostname= that's on the kernel argument list? Is it avoidable?), did you specify an empty hostname

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
Chris Ross wrote: Perhaps the '_' is irritating it? yes, hostnames cannot have '_' caracters. Maybe I misunderstand you, or we're talking about things in two different directions here. :-) well, we are talking about two different symptoms cause by the same root problem: fsck should not

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Chris Ross
On Jun 30, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: Chris Ross wrote: Perhaps the '_' is irritating it? yes, hostnames cannot have '_' caracters. Yup. I had that same thought, and have removed that character. Thanks... well, we are talking about two different symptoms cause by the

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle sabato 30 giugno 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: fsck should not be run on the live system at all. we'll need to completely disable this in the initscripts, somehow. We could just have the initramfs touching a /fastboot file and the checkfs init script will remove it This because: $

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Chris Ross
On Jun 30, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Marco Amadori wrote: fsck should not be run on the live system at all. we'll need to completely disable this in the initscripts, somehow. We could just have the initramfs touching a /fastboot file and the checkfs init script will remove it This because: $

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
Marco Amadori wrote: We could just have the initramfs touching a /fastboot file and the checkfs init script will remove it to complicated; i just added the removal of /etc/rcS.d/S*checkfs.sh in 12fstab. But maybe we should offer also a boot parameter option to have this default behaviour

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle sabato 30 giugno 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: We could just have the initramfs touching a /fastboot file and the checkfs init script will remove it to complicated; i just added the removal of /etc/rcS.d/S*checkfs.sh in 12fstab. I'll look when you commit, anyway touching a file is

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
Marco Amadori wrote: to complicated; i just added the removal of /etc/rcS.d/S*checkfs.sh in 12fstab. I'll look when you commit, anyway touching a file is not so complicated... removing is simpler and faster since we do not need the script at all. So you seems to need to patch also

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Baumann wrote: to complicated; i just added the removal of /etc/rcS.d/S*checkfs.sh in 12fstab. I'm curious (and probably clueless): How does thia affect systems installed from the live image using live-installer? Will they also lack fs checking? -- see shy jo signature.asc

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle sabato 30 giugno 2007, Joey Hess ha scritto: Daniel Baumann wrote: to complicated; i just added the removal of /etc/rcS.d/S*checkfs.sh in 12fstab. I'm curious (and probably clueless): How does thia affect systems installed from the live image using live-installer? Will they also lack

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
Marco Amadori wrote: Yes they could lack it no, they don't. because... It will happen only if the user will use stackable fses (snapshots saved back in the r-o media at /live) live-installer does not and will not care about snapshots. this opens a can of worms and is not supportable from