Bug#291094: (ppc - radeonfb, sometimes "out-of-scan-range" occurs when switching to framebuffer)

2005-01-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, this is the dmesg output if the machine boots correctly. If an "out-of-scan-range" occours, none of it gets displayed, I just can see some lines for maybe a second when the kernel gets loaded and unpacked - then the monitor fades away... regards, Holger Total memory = 256MB; using 512kB

Bug#290259: Update regarding the keyboard

2005-01-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joerg, On Saturday 22 January 2005 16:12, Joerg Dorchain wrote: > As I have sent a Console keymap already, I supply only the files for X > in this mail you didn't :-) regards, Holger pgpjsQbVzFpsk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#291954: The kdebase templates and the German translation

2005-01-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 26 January 2005 05:21, Adeodato Simó wrote: > OK, so this is something you have to discuss among yourselves. I'm not > very familiarized with the l10n process in Debian, but: do you think > it'd make sense to X-Debbugs-CC: the appropriate -l10n- list upon > submitting INTL

Bug#337619: rebuilding ipw2200 on 2.6.14-3

2005-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I cannot confirm this ("What DID work was"). With linux-source-2.6.14-3 I had to disable the ipw2200-driver and the ieee80211-subsystem, build the kernel, build the modules from the ieee80211-source and ipw2200-source packages until I had a working ipw2200-driver again. As it's not se

Bug#328442: same here...

2005-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, wavemon used to work with 2.6.12 and ieee80211-1.1.5 and ipw-1.0.6, after I switched to 2.6.14 and ieee80211-1.1.6 and ipw-1.0.8 it stopped working (with the above errormessage). Recompiling the wavemon-package from sid sources didnt help. regards, Holger pgpQk0Sxvuv7A.pgp Descr

Bug#341467: patch doesn't apply to 2.6.14

2005-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
package: kernel-patch-vserver version: 2.3 Hi, The patches in this packages dont apply to linux-source-2.6.14 only up to 2.6.12 which isn't in the archive anymore. Upstream has not yet released a patch for 2.6.14. Workaround: build against 2.6.12: wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2

Bug#336315: fai-kernels should be fai-kernels-i386 and in the all architecture

2005-11-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Sebastian, thanks for your bug report! On Saturday 29 October 2005 14:24, Sebastien Koechlin wrote: > fai-kernels is a package with kernels for guest computers. > > As thoses kernels are for i386, the package should be named > fai-kernels-i386 or something like that. > > As this package as no

Bug#336303: please document the wireless options

2005-10-29 Thread Holger Levsen
package: intuitively version: 0.7-1 Hi, intuitively supports two new options (see #152862), wireless_key and wireless_essid, which are not documented except in this bugreport and the source, but not in the intuitively.conf manpage. regards, Holger (I've been only looking at the packag

Bug#337011: installation-guide: Please document the new ways to preseed root and user passwords

2005-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:04, Christian Perrier wrote: > The attached patch documents the password preseeding, including the "new" > ways to preseed passwords as of shadow 4.0.13-1, which is now in testing. Thanks. > I'm not very used to the writing style of the Installation Guide. Th

Bug#337121: /vote/howto_proposal: headlines not matching link titles

2005-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Package: www.debian.org Version: 20051102 grumpf :-/ -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: /vote/howto_proposal: headlines not matching link titles Date: Wednesday 02 November 2005 16:55 From: Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-www@lists.debian.org P

Bug#337135: pdfs which include transparent pngs are not displayed correctly

2005-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
package: gpdf version: 2.8.2-1.3 severity: important Hi, http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~mrei0999/linuxtag05/debian-women.pdf includes a transparent png on page 56 which is not displayed correctly using gpdf. xpdf 3.01 from sid and acroread (non-free) display the pdf and the image within correct

Bug#337136: pdfs which include transparent pngs are not displayed correctly

2005-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
package: evince version: 0.4.0-1 severity: important Hi, http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~mrei0999/linuxtag05/debian-women.pdf includes a transparent png on page 56 which is not displayed correctly using evince. xpdf 3.01 from sid and acroread (non-free) display the pdf and the image within corre

Bug#337137: pdfs which include transparent pngs are not displayed correctly

2005-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
package: kpdf version: 3.4.2-2 severity: important Hi, http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~mrei0999/linuxtag05/debian-women.pdf includes a transparent png on page 56 which is not displayed correctly using kpdf. xpdf 3.01 from sid and acroread (non-free) display the pdf and the image within correctly

Bug#339098: fai-cd cannot run on architecture's other than i386

2005-11-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Henning, what was that ? > Version: 2.8.6multidistribution does not exist (at least within debian) Did you open the bug to document this ? Then it should probably be renamed to "document that currently fai-cd is i386 only" - as it's not impossible per se to support other archs. regard

Bug#328707: patch works for me

2005-11-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I can confirm that joeyh's patch (which is in the BTS) does work for me in an unstable chroot of today. So I would be real happy about 2.4.27-12 upload, which would also fix the bugs #324591 / #334631 (FTBFS: Missing build-dependency on gcc-3.3 ) which are marked as pending. That would b

Bug#286855: fixed in fai-kernels 1.10 / 2.6.14 ?

2005-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, could you please check if this is fixed in fai-kernels 1.10 which uses linux-kernel 2.6.14 ? Thanks, Holger pgpzvTrcIIn2I.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#340609: re

2005-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, after grepping for mnt2 in the source I guess you mean the MNTPOINT-variable in fai.conf ?! (Which is used for nfs-mounting a debian-mirror during installation on the client.) I agree that this directory is not fancy, but I doubt it's really serious, as it's only during installation. d-i u

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I have some remarks to this bug. First, I think it can be merged with #309554, which severity should be raised at least to important... (But) #309554 deals with both the FAI_CONFIGDIR (currently defaults to /usr/local/share/fai) and NFSROOT (defaults to /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot) - both varia

Bug#340884: fai-kernels: FTBFS: build dependency on gcc-3.3 missing

2005-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:50, Roland Stigge wrote: > building the package fai-kernels in a clean sid build environment > (with pbuilder) on i386 results in: ... > Adding gcc-3.3 to debian/control: Build-Depends helps. This is essentially #334631 (against kernel-source-2.4.27): FTBFS: M

Bug#312296: fai doesn't copy disk_var.sh to $diskvar, so FAIBASE/20-save_diskvar fails

2005-06-07 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 Hi, me2 has to file a bug against fai in sarge, once sarge is released ;) During softupdates, scripts/FAIBASE/20-save_diskvar fails, because $diskvar does not exist. regards, Holger pgplhYbHTamU6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#313069: fai softupdate on systems-not-installed-with-fai destroy grub/menu.lst

2005-06-11 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 severity: important Hi, scripts/GRUB/10-setup fcopies an invalid /boot/grub/menu.lst and the fcopy-postinst script fixes this file, by running grub-installer with the data from $diskvar (/etc/fai/diskvar.sh) - which doesn't exist on systems which were not installed

Bug#313440: softupdates & Re: installing packages that require a running mysqld

2005-06-13 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 severity: wishlist Hi, On Monday 13 June 2005 13:41, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Alternatively, one could run "apt-get install mtop" only, if mysqld is > running, i.e., during a softupdate. That might cause less trouble ... I've just come home from the skolelinux deve

Bug#310392: fai_2.8.3 still "uses" non-US (was Re: Release Notes - non-us being phased out - please comment)

2005-05-23 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.3 Hi, On Sunday 22 May 2005 16:34, Frans Pop wrote: > > Hrm. "s/there is a chance//" *IMO*. It is 100% sure it will be shut > > down, either for r0 directly, or with empty package files for a time > > (until r1 or etch). No package file will cause "fai-setup" (and "mak

Bug#309917: please mention Skolelinux next to debian-edu on http://www.debian.org/devel/

2005-05-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, info for people reading this through the BTS: there has been some discussion about the question "is debian-edu==skolelinux ?" on the debian-edu mailinglist, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2005/05/threads.html#00208 On Friday 20 May 2005 20:33, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > s/Debian-

Bug#309917: please mention Skolelinux next to debian-edu on http://www.debian.org/devel/

2005-05-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 23 May 2005 14:03, you wrote: > hallo? just because Cobaco likes to tell this to people it is not > official pollicy. (c: I gave you what is the official position. hallihallo Andreas ;-) Just because you sad something how should I tell this is an official statement ? You didnt tel

Bug#309917: please mention Skolelinux next to debian-edu on http://www.debian.org/devel/

2005-05-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, btw, I've talked (aka irced) with Andreas today about the issue... Again thinking about the issue afterwards, I came to the conclusion, it should be mentioned more clearly and more prominently on www.skolelinux.(org|no|de), that Skolelinux is a CDD created by the debian-edu project. Searc

Bug#310392: additional info

2005-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, the 9-step Quickstart-Guide for the impatient fai user (http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ch-intro.html#s-impatient) will fail in step 2 if this bug isn't fixed when non-US stops to respond. This will be unneccessarily annoying for people making their first steps with

Bug#310705: please remove non-free packages from simple examples

2005-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.3 Hi, /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/simple/package_config/XFREE contains a package from non-free, namely t1-xfree86-nonfree, please remove it as Debian doesnt want to promote non-free software. regards, Holger pgpVYrsgz985H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#307147: #307147 has been fixed since fai 2.8.1 - the bug is open to track the workaround

2005-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, from the fai 2.8.1 changelog: * FAIBASE/10-misc: do not call tune2fs when using 2.6 kernel. This may hang the system This is "fix" or better workaround for a kernel bug. So I opened #307147, to track that kernel bug, so that we won't forget to remove that workaround from fai, once t

Bug#305362: fai: cfengine2 instead of cfengine

2005-04-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, since sarge is close release (and cfengine2 is not a drop-in-replacement for cfengine1), no work on this bug will be done _now_. regards, Holger pgpCGvntCAejT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#306167: Installation (PPC - RC3) fail on a G4 Cube

2005-04-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 24 April 2005 19:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hardware: G4 cube, cinema display, USB pro keyboard > > The keyboard is not recognised after the boot. Neither when plugged in the > cube, nor in the display. RC1 worked. could you please try if unplugging and replugging your usb keybo

Bug#296782: PowerPC boot.img broken?

2005-04-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Madjic, On Thursday 24 February 2005 17:24, Madjic wrote: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2005-02-23/powerpc/ > \ > floppy-2.4/ > /boot.img gives me just a black/white flickering screen, but seems to work, > as it drops out the floppy

Bug#306167: RC3 - PPC attempt with install-2.4

2005-04-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, could you (@#306167) please try again with kernel 2.6 ?! #305882 was also done with 2.6: h01ger: well the usb replug thing was with 2.6, with 2.4 i couldn't get it to load anyway, iirc Kernel 2.4 on powerpc is not supported upstream anymore. So 2.6 is the default kernel for ppc for debia

Bug#308665: config option "bind" not documented in manpage

2005-05-11 Thread Holger Levsen
package: ctrlproxy severity: wishlist version: 2.6.1-1 Hi, the config option "bind" is not documented in the "socket" manpage, the attached patch fixes it. regards & thanks for ctrlproxy! Holger --- ctrlproxy-2.6.1/doc/socket.mod.xml.orig 2005-05-10 16:32:29.0 +0200 +++ ctrlpro

Bug#308806: tar -l is deprecated, use --one-file-system

2005-05-12 Thread Holger Levsen
tead. > ... this happens when using tar 1.15 which is in sid now... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: tar -l is deprecated, use --one-file-system Date: Thursday 12 May 2005 13:42 From: Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#308836: rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(181)

2005-05-12 Thread Holger Levsen
package: rsync version: 2.6.4-6 severity: important Hi, IMHO the failure is similar to (the closed) #308733, that is I get an error "io timeout after 50 seconds -- exiting rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(181)" I'm not sure if #308733 did occur when running rsync as a

Bug#308931: dont mention fixed #186104 in README.Debian.gz

2005-05-13 Thread Holger Levsen
package: debtags version: 0.99.4 severity: wishlist Hi, the first three paragraphs of README.Debian.gz the bug #186104 is mentioned, which was fixed in Sep 2003. Please remove that :-) regards, Holger pgpK0cCoz3jLA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#309554: FAI proposes use of /usr/local/share/fai for its configdir

2005-05-17 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai severity: wishlist Hi, as some know for too long, the FAI Guides proposes use of /usr/local/share/fai for its configdir and /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot for the clients rootfile-system. I should have filed this bug a year ago or earlier. Sorry. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-g

Bug#309556: no german fai guide + impantient guide somewhat lacking (Re: Wie macht man effiziente Linux-Installationen auf 20 Computern?)

2005-05-17 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.2 severity: wishlist Hi Daniel, ich bin zu müde für richtige Patches und zu faul, nicht der Versuchung eines Bugs zu widerstehen statt eine FAQ perönlich zu beantworten ;-) File & kill bugs! kind regards, especially to Lima :-) Holger P.S.: I will clone this

Bug#309556: patch: impantient guide somewhat lacking (Re: Wie macht man effiziente Linux-Installationen auf 20 Computern?))

2005-05-18 Thread Holger Levsen
tags 309556 patch Hi, patch attached, regards, Holger --- doc/fai-guide.sgml_orig 2005-05-18 17:24:40.667213467 +0200 +++ doc/fai-guide.sgml 2005-05-18 18:05:24.267749661 +0200 @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ - - + + @@ -249,24 +249,28 @@ Install fai and all recommended packages (s

Bug#309659: Fai Guide in Romanian language

2005-05-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Eugen, On Wednesday 18 May 2005 04:47, you wrote: > A complete translation of the FAI Guide, > in romanian language is out. > http://pc.debian.ro/fai great! which version did you translate ? are you familar with tools to keep track of needed-translation-updates ? (oh, btw, your translation is

Bug#309678: please propose ssh+scp (instead of insecure rsh) in fai.conf

2005-05-18 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai severity: wishlist version: 2.8.2 On Wednesday 18 May 2005 19:15, martin f krafft wrote: [in /etc/fai.conf:] > -FAI_REMOTESH=rsh > -FAI_REMOTECP=rcp > +FAI_REMOTESH=ssh > +FAI_REMOTECP=scp This wishlist-bug also has been expressed several times. It will be fixed post-sarge... The a

Bug#309554: additional info

2005-05-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, /var/lib/fai/config and /var/lib/fai/nfsroot should be used according to previous versions of FHS, FHS 2.3 proposes something like /srv/fai/config and /srv/fai/nfsroot. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ is a useful ressource ;-) Whether FAI should propose plural names (configs and nfsroots, fo

Bug#309917: please mention Skolelinux next to debian-edu on http://www.debian.org/devel/

2005-05-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Package: www.debian.org severity: wishlist debian-edu and Skolelinux _afaik_ are names which have equal rights, but http://www.debian.org/devel/ only mentions the "Debian-Edu Project". This is confusing and leads to less valuable search results. I've someone says "go" I can commit the change.

Bug#309917: please mention Skolelinux next to debian-edu on http://www.debian.org/devel/

2005-05-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Luk, On Friday 20 May 2005 16:06, Luk Claes wrote: > I understand your concern, but I think this entry shouldn't stand out > over the others. How would your patch look like? s/Debian-Edu Project/Debian-Edu\/Skolelinux Project/ :-) I don't think that this patch would cause the entry to stand

Bug#274649: Bug#292530: Should configure inittab for sercon if network-console is used

2005-01-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 28 January 2005 23:09, Frans Pop wrote: > > > While installing with a serial console, it would be fine to have > > > the matching inittab line enabled, so that I'm able to use > > > the machine later on. > I've committed a patch to SVN for this issue. > > The patch is fairly straight

Bug#266566: Status of gnokii-licence-violation problem

2005-02-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I just subscribed to this list, read the archives from last summer, esp. http://albatross.madduck.net/pipermail/gammu-legal/2004-October/000112.html and would like to hear your comments regarding the solution of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266566. If I understood the p

Bug#266566: Status of gnokii-licence-violation problem

2005-02-03 Thread Holger Levsen
out to be relevant. [Quoting a lot for the report... it's in the gammu-list-archive as well, btw:-] > On 03-02-2005 16:31, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 16:08, you wrote: > >>Only the authors of Gnokii can solve legal issues of their own software. >

Bug#307150: better debconf-text (use fai.conf for "exotic" mirrors)

2005-05-01 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai severity: wishlist Hi, attached is a proposed patch for the debconf-template about access to a mirror. The patchs points out more clearly that different layouts or access methods can be used by editing fai.conf. regards, Holger --- debian/templates.orig 2005-04-09 18:41:0

Bug#307147: tune2fs is not called on 2.6, because of a kernel-bug

2005-05-01 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai Hi, this bug is to track the issue... As described by Thomas Lange in http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai%40rrz.uni-koeln.de/msg02459.html Kernel 2.6 has a bug, which prevents tune2fs to work correctly, which is why tune2fs is disabled for kernel 2.6 in fai 2.8.1 in the example

Bug#307232: can't boot rc3 netboot+cd on oldworld, floppy undocumented (Re: Can't boot floppy on PowerMac G3)

2005-05-01 Thread Holger Levsen
package: debian-installer-manual mainly a repost to the BTS, one more info: cd booting on oldworld was possible with woody, according to http://www.biccard.com/alan/7200/7200boot.html Hi, On Sunday 24 April 2005 19:53, Jon Niehof wrote: > I see on the status page that CD booting should work on

Bug#307281: quagga has to depend on real packages first

2005-05-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Holger -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: aptitude install amd64-kernel Date: Sunday 01 May 2005 11:37 From: Holger Levsen To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, what I forgot to mention: this doesnt happen, when installing quagga with "apt-get install

Bug#307281: quagga has to depend on real packages first

2005-05-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 02 May 2005 12:25, Christian Hammers wrote: > tags 307281 + pending confirmed thanks. also to steve for the explaination. regards, Holger pgpwSwRqIDn8Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#307570: please provide releasenotes (Re: Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts)

2005-05-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Package: www.debian.org Hi, On Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:46, Steve Langasek posted a fine mail about a fine change (thanks for both to whom it may apply). Whohoo! :-) Regarding testing upgrades from woody, I would like to propose mentioning more visible that the suggested upgrade tool is aptitud

Bug#307570: please provide releasenotes (Re: Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts)

2005-05-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Javier, On Wednesday 04 May 2005 13:49, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > This might be related to the fact the they're somewhat hidden, at least > > to ./google "sarge releasenotes" - > > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes isn't helpful atm > > either. > Why not? Isn't

Bug#307570: please provide releasenotes (Re: Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts)

2005-05-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Frank, On Wednesday 04 May 2005 15:20, you wrote: > The German translation was faulty and I noticed that tonight so this > might explain it. AFAICT all other pages should have shown the right > content even yesterday. Ah - thanks for the explaination & action ;-) My main point was anyway to

Bug#307632: not rc, not a security issues

2005-05-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joey, On Thursday 05 May 2005 22:02, Joey Hess wrote: > This bug is not RC and is not a security issue. The piece of policy > quoted is intended to warn against attacks such as symlink attacks that > can be performed on unsafely created temp files. The program in question > is run during a fai

Bug#313440: patch

2005-06-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, add the following lines to /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/simple/class/10-base-class # define a class named after $FAI_ACTION echo "FAI_${FAI_ACTION}" | tr a-z A-Z regards, Holger pgpVTCBkgFZIE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#314991: access fai_configdir with svn

2005-06-19 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 severity: wishlist Hi, similar to being able to access the fai configdir with cvs it would be great to be able to use svn, darcs, arch or other... I have a working hack for subversion which I will publish soon. regards, Holger pgpvB5CZiNJzC.pgp Descriptio

Bug#312296: don't try to install boot loaders on softupdates

2005-06-19 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 severity: important Hi, in the simple examples, the class GRUB is defined for every I386 machine. If disk_var.sh does not exist (because the machine was not installed with fai...), running a fai softupdate will overwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst with wrong contents which

Bug#313440: Info received (was patch)

2005-06-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, it's even worse ;-) That patch doesnt work at all as $FAI_ACTION is not defined when defining the classes ;-) It'll have to go into /usr/sbin/fai or /usr/bin/fai-class directly. An ugly workaround in 10-base-classes would be # define a class named after $FAI_ACTION [ $ROOTCMD ] && echo "FA

Bug#315000: don't run prepareapt on softupdates

2005-06-19 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 Hi, task_prepareapt is (IMO) unneccessarily run during softupdates. This is bad, as it overwrites (and corrupts) /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf is "only" overwritten. fcopy could really allow more control here. regards, Holger pgpYjtCXc1tRt.pgp Descriptio

Bug#315000: don't run prepareapt on softupdates

2005-06-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 20 June 2005 08:22, you wrote: > it is necassairy, if you are (ab-)using softupdates for dist-upgrades. Why ? If you do softupdates, your machine has been set up allready. > But > I agree the current implementation in FAI not ideal, but my proposed > changes were not accepted into

Bug#315000: don't run prepareapt on softupdates

2005-06-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 20 June 2005 14:29, you wrote: > > Why ? If you do softupdates, your machine has been set up allready. > ?! > prepareapt copies the dpkg and apt conffiles _before_ messing around with > apt; if an updated sources.list points to sarge while it pointed before at > woody, you are able t

Bug#315080: fai uses /fai directory

2005-06-20 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 severity: important Hi, during installs (and softupdates and...) fai uses /fai to store/mount the fai configdir on the fai client. This clearly violates the FHS (and is similar to #309554). I suggest using /var/lib/fai/config instead. (On the fai _clients_. And /srv

Bug#281257: ext3 works with fai-kernels-1.8.2

2005-04-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Martin, as you already said, your bug report is unreproducable. As ext3 definitly also works with the kernel-image-2.4.27 which is included in fai-kernels-1.8.2, I think this bug can be safely closed. Agreed ? regards, Holger pgp3opiNBReZi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#149690: fai-kernels need not to be arch all

2005-04-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jeff, the fai-kernels package (or rather the included .debs) are only used on the install server to create the nfsroot. Since the nfsroot for a specific arch can only be created on that arch, it is not useful to install fai-kernels-i386 on a different arch. So, Thomas Lange (the fai author,

Bug#297550: retitle: fcopy doesnt ignore .svn directories

2005-04-03 Thread Holger Levsen
retitle 297550 fcopy doesnt ignore .svn directories pgpQBqkrRNnbd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, to fix #297811, which is about adding the kernel abi version number to fai-kernels (which is only build on i386 currently, powerpc is pending) to be able to do security support for fai-kernels in sarge, I made the following changes and I would like to ask on the release managers and securit

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > To reiterate our discussion on IRC, I don't think this addresses my > concerns, which are that: > > - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the > kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, s

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joey, On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:26, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Howto handle security fixes for fai-kernels > > --- > > > > fai-kernels uses the kernel-source-2.4.27 and kernel-source-2.6.8 > > packages. If these packages get updated with a security fix,

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, btw, no need to cc: me, i'm subscribed to release, the bug and the package :-) On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the > kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, since ABI name > != patchle

Bug#304343: preseeding disabled passwords

2005-04-12 Thread Holger Levsen
package: shadow severity: wishlist Hi, I would like to be able (post sarge :) to preseed (with d-i) disabled passwords. So I could disable the root account and pull user data from ldap or with ssh's authorized_keys. Some log bits from our discussion on #debian-boot bubulle: i'm strictly agai

Bug#304350: always ask for passwords twice - also in critical installations

2005-04-12 Thread Holger Levsen
package: shadow Hi, currently, when doing d-i installs with DEBCONF_PRIORITY, root and user passwords are only asked once (if not preseeded). IMO this is a grave bug, as this provides no way to detect typos, so users will choose simple passwords. (Or make typos...) And it's also different fro

Bug#304352: allow encrypted password for preseeding

2005-04-12 Thread Holger Levsen
package: shadow priority: wishlist Hi, it would be nice if it were possible to preseed encrypted passwords. Please also provide a fat warning, that this still isnt really secure - it's only more secure than plaintext passwords. I also intend to deal with the suggestion to preseed the password

Bug#320024: Processed: Combine fai-cd bugs

2005-10-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 17 October 2005 01:18, the BTS wrote: > > merge 329547 320024 > > Bug#320024: fai-cd does not work with sarge > Bug#329547: fai-cd: sources.list should be configurable > Merged 320024 329547. Aehm, I'm not so sure if this was a good idea: 320024 could be fixed within sarge, where 3

Bug#320024: Processed: Combine fai-cd bugs

2005-10-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, no need to cc: on mails to the fai-BTS, i'm subscribed to the package fai... ;-) On Monday 17 October 2005 16:55, you wrote: > But properly fixing #320024 certainly demands a solution similar to my > suggestion, which is #329547. As said: maybe we dont want to properly fix #320024, because

Bug#334373: make-fai-nfsroot fails to set up /dev

2005-10-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Martin, On Monday 17 October 2005 17:04, martin f krafft wrote: > A call to make-fai-nfsroot yields an nfsroot which lacks /dev/hd* > devices: with what sources lines and what version of debootstrap ? regards, Holger pgpOjHili7xOl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#334871: fai-cd should error immediately if mkisofs is not available

2005-10-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 20 October 2005 14:50, Henning Sprang wrote: > fai-cd only fails at the end of it's run when it tries to run mkisofs. it > should instead check at starttime if mkisofs is available and quit with > error when not. wouldn't a proper depends solve this ? regards, Holger p

Bug#330915: fai entirely broken on Alpha

2005-10-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 30 September 2005 14:37, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Running FAI from Debian Sarge on Alpha systems is entirely > impossible as the disk paritioning part is broken. This is not entirely true, you can always use a hook to setup the partitions "manually" with a small shell script (see

Bug#156614: Bug#331072: ITP: cinelerra-cvs -- non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux.

2005-10-05 Thread Holger Levsen
is a year old, I would like to ask upstream and the maintainers of the fork to comment on the current situation. Have those issues been addressed ? (Yes, i'm too lazy to check this myself now. Thats why I'm asking the people who should know whether they did that work ;) >A

Bug#327206: the apache-config-snipplet could be customized

2005-09-08 Thread Holger Levsen
package: trac version: 0.8.1-3sarge2 severity: wishlist Hi, after creating my trac repository with $ svnadmin create /srv/trac/first_track_svn $ trac-admin /srv/trac/first_track initenv the following apache-config snipplet is presented: begin Alias /trac "/wherev

Bug#327205: README.Debian says nothing about setting up a subversion repository

2005-09-08 Thread Holger Levsen
package: trac version: 0.8.1-3sarge2 severity: wishlist Hi, README.Debian says nothing about setting up a subversion repository, it only says begin A new Trac environment is created with trac-admin: $ trac-admin /path/to/projectenv initenv" end-

Bug#333586: missing build-depends: kdepim-dev

2005-10-12 Thread Holger Levsen
package: taskjuggler version: 2.1.1-5 severity: serious Hi, Thanks for packaging taskjuggler! kdepim-dev is missing in the build-depends. After installing it, the build run successfully. regards, Holger pgpBgVYDDLsDW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#326486: mouseemu doesn't block all connected mice

2005-09-03 Thread Holger Levsen
package: mouseemu version: 0.15-2 Hi, I installed mouseemu and the trackpad blocking feature does not seem to work with all my mouse devices. I'm running sarge with a 2.6.12 kernel & udev on a thinkpad r51 (which has a trackpad and the thinkpad nipple mouse), with an external mouse (and keyboa

Bug#322026: classes_description.txt is out of date

2005-08-08 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 Hi, this should not be forgotten... The original message was Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> regards, Holger -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: implementation of classes inclear Date: Thursday 28 July 2005 16:12 From: Thomas Lange <[EMA

Bug#322634: support and document a FAI-Installation into a local chroot

2005-08-11 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 severity: wishlist Hi, On Thursday 11 August 2005 18:58, Henning Glawe wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:39:33AM +0200, Christopher Huhn wrote: > > I'd like to use FAI to install debian systems into local chroots on the > > FAI server (i.e. for Xen/UML virtualization

Bug#321820: Installer problems on Beige PowerMac G3

2005-08-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 10 August 2005 17:56, Magnus Sandberg wrote: > I have some problems installing Debian Sarge on my OldWorld PowerMac. > I sent a bug report to the bugtracking system; > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/08/msg00288.html > > Does any one has any ideas regarding thies problems

Bug#404633: copyright file missing

2006-12-26 Thread Holger Levsen
package: perl version: 5.8.8-7 severity: serious Hi, the binary package lacks a copyright file, this violates policy severerly, thus serious. regards, Holger pgptbz8klskjv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#404634: copyright file missing

2006-12-26 Thread Holger Levsen
package: vlc version: 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1 severity: serious Hi, the binary package lacks a copyright file, this violates policy severerly, thus serious. regards, Holger pgpIdlULKYtwc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#404899: olsrd_0.4.10-3(hppa/unstable): FTBFS: non-PIC in shared lib

2007-01-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Lamont, On Friday 29 December 2006 02:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A full build log can be found at: > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=hppa&pkg=olsrd&ver=0.4.10-3 Thanks for the bugreport! TTBOMK olsrd has not been build on hppa ever :) But I'll see how to fix this... regards,

Bug#405331: also FTBFS on ia64 and alpha

2007-01-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Package: olsrd Version: 0.4.10-3 Severity: serious Hi, http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=olsrd;ver=0.4.10-3;arch=alpha;stamp=1167317999 http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=olsrd;ver=0.4.10-3;arch=ia64;stamp=1167317677 seems to be a different issue than #404899... olsrd has probably never

Bug#405331: also FTBFS on ia64 and alpha

2007-01-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 02 January 2007 22:33, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Why? The error messages are very much alike: the linker complains > about a particular kind of relocation (gprel / dprel) that is forbidden > in shared objects. The objects and symbols are different, but that's > probably because the

Bug#407041: Fix pending po-debconf l10n bugs for debian-edu-install?

2007-01-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, /me also cheers Christian for all his i18n work! :) On Monday 22 January 2007 06:16, Steffen Joeris wrote: > Regarding the debian-edu-install package i did not upload it to debian as > we are probably not using the package which will be in etch for our release > as there is (as it looks like)

Bug#408206: warn/ask user about first accounts privs

2007-01-23 Thread Holger Levsen
package: debian-installer severity: wishlist On Friday 12 January 2007 09:47, dann frazier wrote: > I personally was surprised to see that the first user was added to > additional groups and, had I known that, there are times I would've > elected not to create that user at that time. (Most of my i

Bug#390367: --hostname and -u parsing dysfunctional

2006-12-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, this bug has not been reopend, because Henning send the mail to the bug and not to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefor the severity was also not changed. I leave it to Henning whether he reopens the bugs or opens a new one. regards, Holger pgpM1RqtGpQNY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#396593: ship with this bug in etch?

2006-12-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I dont think it's a good idea to ship util-vserver with a broken build method for fai-vservers in etch. What do you think? regards, Holger pgpt9Z6NH4G1j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#403040: please prompt for crypto passphrase

2006-12-14 Thread Holger Levsen
package: usplash severity: wishlist version: 0.3e Hi, I recently installed usplash on powerpc, together with a crypted partition using dm-crypt. Usplash doesn't give me a prompt to enter the passphrase, please provide one :) regards, Holger P.S.: I'm sorry to be so unspecific, I've

Bug#403041: breaks crypto setup

2006-12-14 Thread Holger Levsen
package: usplash severity: important version: 0.3e tags: security Hi, I recently installed usplash on powerpc, together with a crypted partition using dm-crypt. Usplash doesn't give me a prompt to enter the passphrase (which I just filed a wishlist bug about), but whats much worse, when I ma

Bug#396593: ship with this bug in etch?

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 15 December 2006 07:52, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > I do not even know what fai is so I can not make a judgement about that. The vserver-fai build methods only works with a very old branch of fai (from june, based on fai 2.10, we have 3.1.2 in etch now. So if you would want to use it,

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