Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 09:53:05PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Whether this is the one labelled alpha 1 or not isn't exactly my call, but I guess it's mostly about PR et al., rather than about technical matters. As far as I'm concerned, a missing upload was what worried me most, especially this late in the release cycle, hence my upload today. I've still got two changes pending, which I didn't push for alpha 1 (volatile → -updates and the xz compression of udebs). All because I thought that alpha 1 is near. Please don't forget to tell us when we can start disrupting d-i again. :P Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
Hi again, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (07/05/2012): in case it helps, I've prepared a branch with some changes for d-i. Given what's in git looks suitable for everyone's needs (basically: getting it to build on kfreebsd-* again), it only contains minor stuff (namely: pleasing lintian). Otavio, please let me know if you want me to upload it, or if you prefer handling it yourself. git://anonscm.debian.org/users/kibi/debian-installer.git since there are apparently only two known bugs with the current git, Miguel is looking into documenting them as errata for alpha 1. In the meanwhile, I've pushed my master branch along with a signed tag for 20120507, and the upload of the generated amd64 images is going on. Whether this is the one labelled alpha 1 or not isn't exactly my call, but I guess it's mostly about PR et al., rather than about technical matters. As far as I'm concerned, a missing upload was what worried me most, especially this late in the release cycle, hence my upload today. Otavio, I'd like to thank you for letting us know you needed some help to get that done. I've been in such a position (I'm still, actually), and I know how it feels. Come back soon! ;) I hope we'll be able to get the ball running. Please direct any blame to me. ;) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 23:09 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 17:36 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 16:54 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I can do an alpha build of CDs whenever they're desired, just let me know when things are looking ready. Ah, I'd somewhat assumed that Otavio's Steve, yey! above meant that he'd already talked to you about that. :-/ From the -release side, I think we should get on with producing and testing images asap. Forgive my ignorance on the d-i side, but is there an easily accessible / parseable list of reported issues with the dailies which might be considered show stoppers? I guess they'd have to be fairly severe to be blockers for an alpha though. Any hints? So, in the absence of any replies or better ideas on IRC, I've scheduled a binNMU for d-i on amd64. If that goes okay then I'll do the other architectures and we can look at where we go from there. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336314928.3128.18.ca...@jacala.jungle.funky-badger.org
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:35 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: So, in the absence of any replies or better ideas on IRC, I've scheduled a binNMU for d-i on amd64. If that goes okay then I'll do the other architectures and we can look at where we go from there. Apparently I missed that one of the outstanding changes in git was quite important - the kfreebsd-* binNMUs failed due to the kernel version having changed from 8.2 to 8.3, which was covered by ae6982018059e936e1b0fe5e72a9f735fb8db92a So we'd need a source upload of d-i in order to get working kfreebsd-* images. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336330934.14163.10.ca...@jacala.jungle.funky-badger.org
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
Hi, Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk (06/05/2012): Apparently I missed that one of the outstanding changes in git was quite important - the kfreebsd-* binNMUs failed due to the kernel version having changed from 8.2 to 8.3, which was covered by ae6982018059e936e1b0fe5e72a9f735fb8db92a So we'd need a source upload of d-i in order to get working kfreebsd-* images. in case it helps, I've prepared a branch with some changes for d-i. Given what's in git looks suitable for everyone's needs (basically: getting it to build on kfreebsd-* again), it only contains minor stuff (namely: pleasing lintian). Otavio, please let me know if you want me to upload it, or if you prefer handling it yourself. git://anonscm.debian.org/users/kibi/debian-installer.git Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 17:36 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 16:54 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I can do an alpha build of CDs whenever they're desired, just let me know when things are looking ready. Ah, I'd somewhat assumed that Otavio's Steve, yey! above meant that he'd already talked to you about that. :-/ From the -release side, I think we should get on with producing and testing images asap. Forgive my ignorance on the d-i side, but is there an easily accessible / parseable list of reported issues with the dailies which might be considered show stoppers? I guess they'd have to be fairly severe to be blockers for an alpha though. Any hints? Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336082991.1724.27.ca...@jacala.jungle.funky-badger.org
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 13:43 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: By the way, I have a question. What is the difference between the netboot and the xen image ? I thought I would need the xen image on the Amazon cloud, but it worked well with the simple netboot (which is good as the xen image did not build today). A 32 bit PV Xen guest must have PAE (large physical addressing) enabled in the kernel and so the 32 bit the netboot/xen image uses a PAE kernel. The plain netboot kernel is a 486 non-PAE kernel for compatibility with the widest range of native machines. There is no PAE/non-PAE distinction on 64 bit, all 64 bit kernels are effectively PAE already. So on 64 bit netboot/xen is actually just a symlink to the regular netboot, the only reason it exists really is for parity with 32 bit (i.e. it's easier to just unconditionally say use netboot/xen on xen). Ian. -- Ian Campbell Dr. Jekyll had something to Hyde. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335710458.16558.15.ca...@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:31 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: To what we had for a1 basically: get CD images built (Steve, yey!); test them finish announce mail mail to to d-d-a if all above work How are things going with that? Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335714580.4844.75.ca...@jacala.jungle.funky-badger.org
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 04:49:40PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:31 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: To what we had for a1 basically: get CD images built (Steve, yey!); test them finish announce mail mail to to d-d-a if all above work How are things going with that? I can do an alpha build of CDs whenever they're desired, just let me know when things are looking ready. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- James D. Nicoll -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120429155458.gv21...@einval.com
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 16:54 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 04:49:40PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:31 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: To what we had for a1 basically: get CD images built (Steve, yey!); test them finish announce mail mail to to d-d-a if all above work How are things going with that? I can do an alpha build of CDs whenever they're desired, just let me know when things are looking ready. Ah, I'd somewhat assumed that Otavio's Steve, yey! above meant that he'd already talked to you about that. :-/ From the -release side, I think we should get on with producing and testing images asap. Forgive my ignorance on the d-i side, but is there an easily accessible / parseable list of reported issues with the dailies which might be considered show stoppers? I guess they'd have to be fairly severe to be blockers for an alpha though. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335717406.4844.85.ca...@jacala.jungle.funky-badger.org
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
Le Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 02:32:57PM -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit : I do need help to manage the missing steps and testing. Is someone willing to help on it? Dear Otavio, I am not sure how far this can help, but I tested today's daily build of netboot (amd64) on the Amazon cloud, and it worked well unattended with the following preseed file. I am not yet able to test if the installed system is bootable; I need to package cloud-init first. By the way, I have a question. What is the difference between the netboot and the xen image ? I thought I would need the xen image on the Amazon cloud, but it worked well with the simple netboot (which is good as the xen image did not build today). Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan d-i debconf/priority select critical Contents of the preconfiguration file (for squeeze) ### Localization # Preseeding only locale sets language, country and locale. d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US # Keyboard selection. #d-i console-tools/archs select at d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us # netcfg will choose an interface that has link if possible. This makes it # skip displaying a list if there is more than one interface. d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions # from being shown, even if values come from dhcp. d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain ### Network console # Use the following settings if you wish to make use of the network-console # component for remote installation over SSH. This only makes sense if you # intend to perform the remainder of the installation manually. #d-i anna/choose_modules string network-console #d-i network-console/password password r00tme #d-i network-console/password-again password r00tme ### Mirror settings # If you select ftp, the mirror/country string does not need to be set. #d-i mirror/protocol string ftp d-i mirror/country string manual d-i mirror/http/hostname string ftp.jp.debian.org d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian d-i mirror/http/proxy string ### Account setup # Skip creation of a root account (normal user account will be able to # use sudo). d-i passwd/root-login boolean false # To create a normal user account. d-i passwd/user-fullname string Debian User d-i passwd/username string debian # Normal user's password, either in clear text d-i passwd/user-password password r00tme d-i passwd/user-password-again password r00tme # or encrypted using an MD5 hash. #d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password [MD5 hash] ### Clock and time zone setup # Controls whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC. d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true # You may set this to any valid setting for $TZ; see the contents of # /usr/share/zoneinfo/ for valid values. d-i time/zone string UTC # Controls whether to use NTP to set the clock during the install d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true # NTP server to use. The default is almost always fine here. #d-i clock-setup/ntp-server string ntp.example.com ### Partitioning ## Partitioning example # If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space. # This is only honoured if partman-auto/method (below) is not set. #d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free # Alternatively, you may specify a disk to partition. If the system has only # one disk the installer will default to using that, but otherwise the device # name must be given in traditional, non-devfs format (so e.g. /dev/hda or # /dev/sda, and not e.g. /dev/discs/disc0/disc). # For example, to use the first SCSI/SATA hard disk: d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/xvdb # In addition, you'll need to specify the method to use. # The presently available methods are: # - regular: use the usual partition types for your architecture # - lvm: use LVM to partition the disk # - crypto: use LVM within an encrypted partition d-i partman-auto/method string regular # You can choose one of the three predefined partitioning recipes: # - atomic: all files in one partition # - home: separate /home partition # - multi: separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic # This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided # that you told it what to do using one of the methods above. d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true d-i partman/choose_partition select finish d-i partman/confirm boolean true d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true ## Controlling how partitions are mounted # The default is to mount by UUID, but you can also choose traditional to # use traditional device names, or label to try filesystem labels before # falling back to UUIDs. #d-i partman/mount_style select uuid ### Base system installation # Select the
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
Quoting Miguel Figueiredo (el...@debianpt.org): Hi, On 23-04-2012 20:31, Otavio Salvador wrote: [...] To what we had for a1 basically: Major bummers from recent d-i installations: - it's not possible to install with raid+lvm because it fails while installing grub (see #662086). - and kfreebsd daily builds (and installations) are failing; Are these blockers for a1, a2 or even b1? None of these are IMHO blockers for a1. Of course, the RAID+LVM failure is a blocker for b1 (either there is visibility that it can be fixed, or we need to drop the feature). signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 02:26, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: Major bummers from recent d-i installations: - it's not possible to install with raid+lvm because it fails while installing grub (see #662086). - and kfreebsd daily builds (and installations) are failing; Are these blockers for a1, a2 or even b1? None of these are IMHO blockers for a1. Of course, the RAID+LVM failure is a blocker for b1 (either there is visibility that it can be fixed, or we need to drop the feature). Agreed. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cap9odkow-hnxgthc1lden51px9ysvkjsrcps6qfgfxjns2z...@mail.gmail.com
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
Hi, On 23-04-2012 18:32, Otavio Salvador wrote: [...] I do need help to manage the missing steps and testing. Is someone willing to help on it? Count with me for testing installation images. Can you elaborate remaining steps where we can help? I'm sad to ask for it but I won't be able to take it by myself and do need your help. I'm sure my opinion is shared with many others, we are glad to participate :) -- Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards, Miguel Figueiredo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f95a82d.4030...@debianpt.org
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 16:06, Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org wrote: I do need help to manage the missing steps and testing. Is someone willing to help on it? Count with me for testing installation images. Can you elaborate remaining steps where we can help? To what we had for a1 basically: get CD images built (Steve, yey!); test them finish announce mail mail to to d-d-a if all above work I'm sad to ask for it but I won't be able to take it by myself and do need your help. I'm sure my opinion is shared with many others, we are glad to participate :) After a1: check new and current bugs that has known fixes or are easy to fix work on those start preparing a2 / b1 -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cap9odkr9o0lutzp9pkp2zg1vbrdv4nmeomgaqo_w9ttn4o0...@mail.gmail.com
Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1
Hi, On 23-04-2012 20:31, Otavio Salvador wrote: [...] To what we had for a1 basically: Major bummers from recent d-i installations: - it's not possible to install with raid+lvm because it fails while installing grub (see #662086). - and kfreebsd daily builds (and installations) are failing; Are these blockers for a1, a2 or even b1? get CD images built (Steve, yey!); test them finish announce mail mail to to d-d-a if all above work -- Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards, Miguel Figueiredo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f95d054.50...@debianpt.org
