Debian Installer - Call for testing *this week*

2006-10-17 Thread Frans Pop 
(Please reply to the debian-boot list.)

Preparations for Release Candidate 1 of the installer have now really 
started. All important functional changes are now included in the daily 
images.

In order improve the quality of the release and reduce the number of nasty 
surprises afterwards, it would be great if we could get some help testing 
the installer during *this week*.

Please make sure you use one of the _daily built_ images available from:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
or
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/

and file an installation report with your findings:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug

See this wiki page for a general overview of the planned release, 
including known issues:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/EtchRC1Prep


Testing the installer for your favorite architecture(s)
===
This is the main focus for this call for testing. Please let us know if 
there are any important issues, especially regressions from previous 
releases. If you can, try different installation methods.

Note that the installer still uses 2.6.17. Main reason is that 2.6.18 is 
not yet ready to migrate to testing and switching to 2.6.18 would 
therefore block RC1 of d-i. Depending on the kernel team and RMs, we may 
still switch to 2.6.18 before RC1, but switching immediately afterwards 
looks more likely.

Other things to test

There is a number of other things that could be tested, mostly new 
functionality that was added recently:
- graphical installer, especially whether your mouse and touchpad work
  correctly
- crypto support in partman: the installer now has crypto support both
  for guided [1] and manual [2] partitioning; thorough tests, including
  of the actual security of the installed system, very, very welcome
- automatic raid partitioning (preseeded only [1])
- 2.6 based installation floppies for i386
- support for non-standard filesystems (i.e. anything other than ext3)
- if you speak a language other than English, consider installing in
  that language; note that one last round of translation updates is
  still planned, but reports of issues are still appreciated

TIA,
Frans Pop

[1]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#di-partition
[2]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#partman-crypto
[3]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-partman-raid


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Off Topic : MSA-1 in s390

2006-10-17 Thread Ivan Warren 

Hello,

First of all, my apologies since this is not directly debian related.. 
however, it is possible some people here may be able to help me out on 
this one.


I am trying to determine whether the Message Security Assist Extension 
1 facility (as described in the Sept 2005 z/Architecture Principle of 
Operation) may also be available in ESA/390 mode.


However, this requires a z9 machine to try out, which I do not have 
readily at hand.


To that effect, I was wondering if anyone having access to a z9, and 
that would be running a s390 (NOT s390x) flavor of the kernel could try 
out this little program and send back the results :


 CUT HERE 
#include stdio.h
#include string.h
int main()
{
   int i;
   charx[8];
   memset(x,0,8);
   asm volatile ( la 0,0\n\
   lr 1,%0 \n\
   .byte 0xb9,0x2f,0x00,0x10
   : : a(x) : 0,1,memory);
   for(i=0;i8;i++)
   {
   printf(%2.2X,x[i]);
   }
   printf(\n);
}
 CUT HERE 

There are also other facilities (STFLE comes to mind) I'd like to try 
out in s390 mode.. but later !


TIA,

--Ivan


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[Help] Please compile clustalw on architectures ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 and m68k

2006-10-17 Thread Charles Plessy 
Dear porters,

Sorry for the annoyance if you are also reading debian-devel, and
already got that mail.

It would be a great help if some porters could compile clustalw on
architectures ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 and m68k. clustalw has been NMUed
during the lesstif transition, but not built on enough architectures,
and was therefore removed from testing. We need either to update or
to remove the binary packages which are not up-to date in order for
clustalw to migrate to testing.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clustalw.html

Clustal W and Clustal X are still the most popular software for multiple
alignment of biological sequences. Despite their non-freenes, they are
pivotal to the usability of Debian in the field of molecular biology.

Have a nice day,

--  
Charles Plessy
Debian-Med packaging team
Wako, Saitama, Japan


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