Bug#579948: SunBlade 1000 installation report - fails to mount root partition on /target

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 579948 libparted0debian1 2.2-5 tags 579948 d-i affects 579948 partman-base thanks On Sunday 02 May 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:57:48PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8864 cylinders

Bug#579948: SunBlade 1000 installation report - fails to mount root partition on /target

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 579948 libparted0debian1 2.2-5 tags 579948 d-i affects 579948 partman-base thanks On Sunday 02 May 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:57:48PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8864 cylinders

Re: timezone in squeeze installer

2010-05-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 01 May 2010, Xavier Chantry wrote: I wanted to use an english locale/language with my timezone (Europe/Paris UTC+1 or 2) but that was not possible. After selecting english (or was it american?), I only had a very restricted list of timezones, with no obvious way around. So I had to

Re: timezone in squeeze installer

2010-05-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 01 May 2010, Xavier Chantry wrote: And unfortunately I cannot reinstall on the qnap, I've already a fully working and configured system that is in use. and I cannot just ran the installer again there, I would need to re-flash it and probably lose everything. If you abort the

D-I Manual - String freeze / Call to update translations (deadline: May 17)

2010-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
It's time for another upload of the Installation Guide. As we're getting closer to the Squeeze release I will drop incomplete translations this time. Most translations need updates. The deadline for translation updates is in two weeks: ***Monday May 17***. Status info can be found at:

Re: is BTS down?

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
Debian BTS seems to be on vacation. For how long? It's not down, but HTTP access is extremely slow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Accepted sysconfig 0.0.9+nmu2 (source s390)

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:50:24 +0200 Source: sysconfig Binary: sysconfig-hardware Architecture: source s390 Version: 0.0.9+nmu2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f

Bug#579625: partman-base: partman/alignment should also be a regular question

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
Package: partman-base A new template partman/alignment has been added which is currently only preseedable. During a discussion [1] it was suggested that the question should also be asked during interactive installs (at medium and/or low priority and only for relevant disk labels). The

Bug#566635: sysconfig-hardware: Inconsistent use of variables in hwup-ccw-group?

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
in sysfs for CTC network devices in Linux kernel 2.6.33. Closes: #566632. + * Correct variable use in hwup-ccw-group script. Closes: #566635. -- Frans Pop f...@debian.org Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:50:24 +0200 diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/scripts/hardware/hwup-ccw-group b/etc/sysconfig/scripts

Bug#566632: sysconfig-hardware: Fails to bring up ctc network interface with kernel 2.6.33-rc5

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
in sysfs for CTC network devices in Linux +kernel 2.6.33. Closes: #566632. + + -- Frans Pop f...@debian.org Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:50:24 +0200 + sysconfig (0.0.9+nmu1) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/scripts/hardware/hwup-ccw-group b/etc/sysconfig

Bug#566629: sysconfig-hardware: Inconsistency for module ctc versus ctcm

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
in Linux kernel 2.6.33. Closes: #566632. * Correct variable use in hwup-ccw-group script. Closes: #566635. + * Also set buffer and protocol options both for the (old) ctc module and +the (current) ctcm modules. Closes: #566629. -- Frans Pop f...@debian.org Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:50:24

Bug#579625: partman-base: partman/alignment should also be a regular question

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
Package: partman-base A new template partman/alignment has been added which is currently only preseedable. During a discussion [1] it was suggested that the question should also be asked during interactive installs (at medium and/or low priority and only for relevant disk labels). The

Re: r62959 - in trunk/packages/partman/partman-base: . debian init.d

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
Colin Watson wrote: I agree that it would make sense to ask this at (probably) medium priority, although I'm not sure when I'll have time to make this change. Perhaps somebody could file a reminder bug? #579625 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: squeeze installer: no keyboard after first kernel boot

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 26 April 2010, Florian Weimer wrote: Now I tried: 1dae5d9f29de2a3dd7a367d442921991 debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Still no luck. OK. That excludes a known issue. It could still be a missing kernel module, but that seems unlikely. Not sure what else it could be though. AFAIK USB

Re: squeeze installer: no keyboard after first kernel boot

2010-04-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 26 April 2010, Florian Weimer wrote: I've got the second system on which the squeeze installer does not work. This time it's a system with a Asus P6X58D-E board. The kernel appears to boot normally, but the USB keyboard is not recognized, key presses have no effect. Beta1 image or

Re: No daily image builds since March 22nd

2010-04-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 23 April 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:11:54PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:58:45AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 19 April 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: BTW, we also need a new location for the log files. The old location [1

Re: No daily image builds since March 22nd

2010-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 19 April 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: BTW, we also need a new location for the log files. The old location [1] no longer works. [1] http://farbror.acc.umu.se/cdimage-log/ Of course, yes. I'll get that sorted too. Any progress? I notice that cdbuilder.d.o does have a webserver

Re: Launching a Debian Xen Guest using a nfs://.../preseed.cfg fails -- Does required nfs:// support exist?

2010-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 April 2010, you wrote: install-extra=preseed/url=http://127.0.0.1/preseed.cfg; Not very encouraging from my end ...  What am I doing wrong now? I would guess the guest does not have access to the localhost address of the host. But I know little to nothing about Xen, so I may be

Re: Launching a Debian Xen Guest using a nfs://.../preseed.cfg fails -- Does required nfs:// support exist?

2010-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 April 2010, Ben DJ wrote: still exhibits the same preseed.cfg-not-found behavior, dropping me into the manual installer. Check the system log. Use the Start a debug shell option to investigate. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Launching a Debian Xen Guest using a nfs://.../preseed.cfg fails -- Does required nfs:// support exist?

2010-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 April 2010, Ben DJ wrote: Could you, perhaps, expound a bit more ? As I'd admitted up-front -- Debain noob. I did not mean for you to use the 'BOOT_DEBUG=3' option. What I meant is that, when you get dropped into the manual installer, to use the go back option to go to the

Re: Launching a Debian Xen Guest using a nfs://.../preseed.cfg fails -- Does required nfs:// support exist?

2010-04-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 April 2010, Ben DJ wrote: Reading @ (are there better / more recent docs?), http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-d...@lists.debian.org/msg136362. html suggests, ... You can pass a NFS path in the form of nfs://$host/$path/$file and network-preseed will mount the NFS share

Re: Launching a Debian Xen Guest using a nfs://.../preseed.cfg fails -- Does required nfs:// support exist?

2010-04-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 April 2010, Ben DJ wrote: It it was never implemented, what was patched? See the full bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/345654#35 It was intended for a fairly specific use case for the MIPS architecture which apparently did not work out. AFAIK we don't have NFS support in any

Re: r62959 - in trunk/packages/partman/partman-base: . debian init.d

2010-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@alioth.debian.org): Allow preseeding partman/alignment to cylinder, minimal, or optimal; cylinder restores old alignment behaviour for the benefit of those with crotchety BIOSes, while optimal is the default.

Re: r62959 - in trunk/packages/partman/partman-base: . debian init.d

2010-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: You rarely ought to need to touch it and in this case it being available by preseeding or low priority looks to be the sanest way to go. Agreed. But I see no reason why this should be available through preseeding only. This type of question is

Re: Release a beta/prerelease version?

2010-04-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 19 April 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Maybe a first start would be to reinstate g-i builds ASAP. That's already been done weeks ago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: No daily image builds since March 22nd

2010-04-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 April 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: It looks like the daily image builds stopped on March 22nd due problems with ftpmaster machine, but were not resumed after they were fixed, see, for example http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/ Are there

Re: No daily image builds since March 22nd

2010-04-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 April 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: It looks like the daily image builds stopped on March 22nd due problems with ftpmaster machine, but were not resumed after they were fixed, see, for example http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily

Re: No daily image builds since March 22nd

2010-04-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 April 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: It looks like the daily image builds stopped on March 22nd due problems with ftpmaster machine, but were not resumed after they were fixed, see, for example http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/ Are there

Re: No daily image builds since March 22nd

2010-04-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 April 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: It looks like the daily image builds stopped on March 22nd due problems with ftpmaster machine, but were not resumed after they were fixed, see, for example http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily

Re: D-I Manual: error with multiple arch= arguments

2010-04-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 April 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: I translated the new section about partitioning options in ../using-d-i/modules/partman.xml and found two errors: For example phrase arch=arm, mipselemphasisext2r0/emphasis does not work, since arm and mipsel have to be separated by an

Re: Unable to access downloads

2010-04-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 16 April 2010, Diana Allen wrote: SOLUTION: I need a site address where I can download the non-free packages for transfer to CD. I can't seem to find this on the Debian site. You're looking for http://packages.debian.org: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sl-modem Cheers,

Re: Etch Nonsense why Scrub Etch from the net?

2010-04-16 Thread Frans Pop
You could keep me as a supporter if you put the Etch biniaries back up, but since you have done such a good job SRUBBING the internet of Etch, I am doubting you will. First of all Etch is still available normally from mirrors as oldstable, for example:

Re: Unable to access downloads

2010-04-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 16 April 2010, Diana Allen wrote: SOLUTION: I need a site address where I can download the non-free packages for transfer to CD. I can't seem to find this on the Debian site. You're looking for http://packages.debian.org: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sl-modem Cheers,

Re: Error while running CD built using Debian-CD: No kernel modules found....

2010-04-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 April 2010, vikram wrote: When i run the CD i get the following error: No kernel modules found. This probably is due to a mismatch between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel available in the archive. Please read the documentation. In this case

Re: Error while trying to make Lenny CD iso image using debian-cd

2010-04-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 April 2010, vikram wrote: The problem is i get the following error when i run  easybuild.sh: dpkg-deb: error reading version number from file /home/user/Mirror/: Is a directory make: *** [/home/user/Mirrir/tmp/lenny/debootstrap] Error 2 No idea. But the cause of the problem is

Bug#571045: syslinux: Incorrect display of boot screen image in D-I

2010-04-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 04/14/2010 02:56 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Can we please get a fix? It's been a while since the very first image seen by people giving a shot to d-i is broken. since the change was done upstream wise on purpose, i think i'm sticking

Re: Bug#571045: syslinux: Incorrect display of boot screen image in D-I

2010-04-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 04/14/2010 02:56 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Can we please get a fix? It's been a while since the very first image seen by people giving a shot to d-i is broken. since the change was done upstream wise on purpose, i think i'm sticking

Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 577451 pkgsel severity 577451 wishlist thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware in question. IMO this belongs in pkgsel, not in

Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
tag 577461 pending thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le Sun 11 Apr 2010 22:58:39 +0200, a écrit : Squeeze apparently needs vga=0 in addition to fb=false, else the kernel switches to graphical mode very early. That being said, it could actually been

Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 April 2010, Frans Pop wrote: The fact that now two parameters are needed is the simple consequence of the fact that one is a kernel parameter (which *must* be passed at boot time) and one is a D-I parameter and the fact that the one does not automatically imply the other

Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 577451 pkgsel severity 577451 wishlist thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware in question. IMO this belongs in pkgsel, not in

Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
tag 577461 pending thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le Sun 11 Apr 2010 22:58:39 +0200, a écrit : Squeeze apparently needs vga=0 in addition to fb=false, else the kernel switches to graphical mode very early. That being said, it could actually been

Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 April 2010, Frans Pop wrote: The fact that now two parameters are needed is the simple consequence of the fact that one is a kernel parameter (which *must* be passed at boot time) and one is a D-I parameter and the fact that the one does not automatically imply the other

Bug#576885: debhelper: Change to act only on relevant packages breaks builds

2010-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 April 2010, Joey Hess wrote: That's few enough to manually review. I found these problems: - partconf (contains workaround for #572077 that can be removed) Updated in SVN. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#576885: debhelper: Change to act only on relevant packages breaks builds

2010-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 April 2010, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: This could of course be fixed with an arch test, but that would mean an extra cost of maintaining that arch test with changes in supported arches in debian/control. Or with a dh_listpackages test. (or a test -d) Right. Have

Bug#576885: debhelper: Change to act only on relevant packages breaks builds

2010-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 April 2010, I wrote: On Thursday 08 April 2010, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: This could of course be fixed with an arch test, but that would mean an extra cost of maintaining that arch test with changes in supported arches in debian/control

Bug#576885: debhelper: Change to act only on relevant packages breaks builds

2010-04-07 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.16 Severity: important Tags: d-i I was happy to see the change to make debhelper only act on packages relevant to the current architecture as it allows to remove a workaround that was needed in netcfg after the switch to dh 7 [1]. However, it turns out that this

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] the state of daily-builds

2010-04-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 April 2010, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I'm not sure if I understand this correctly. But i think it would be very helpfull to debug problems if the build log of failed builds is available somewhere and linked from the daily builds webpage. Please read the daily-build script: if the

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] the state of daily-builds

2010-04-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 April 2010, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I'm not sure if I understand this correctly. But i think it would be very helpfull to debug problems if the build log of failed builds is available somewhere and linked from the daily builds webpage. As an aside, because IIUC the build

Re: outdated CD/pictures dir (was: www-master move: things to do, new status)

2010-04-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 05 April 2010, Simon Paillard wrote: Frans, do you agree on dropping this ? I have absolutely no idea what those files are or may have been used for. I've never worked on that aspect of the CD pages. Josip Rodin or Richard Atterer are more likely to know. It seems to me that most

Re: outdated CD/pictures dir *removed*

2010-04-05 Thread Frans Pop
Simon Paillard wrote: With: div.cdflash { background-color: #DD5050; } It gives http://teubr.eu.org/~spaillar/debian/webwml/english/CD/index.en.html Not beautiful, but a bit less awful.. Why not simply light blue, like the index column on the left? That's at least consistent. And light

Accepted rootskel-gtk 1.19 (source amd64)

2010-04-04 Thread Frans Pop
-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: rootskel-gtk - Additions for graphical installs to skeleton root filesystem (deb (udeb) Closes: 575751 Changes: rootskel-gtk (1.19) unstable; urgency=low . [ Frans Pop ] * Drop dependency on gtk2-engines-udeb and mouse-modules. Leave it to pkg

Accepted debmirror 1:2.4.4 (source all)

2010-04-03 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:14:12 +0100 Source: debmirror Binary: debmirror Architecture: source all Version: 1:2.4.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] the state of daily-builds

2010-04-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 03 April 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: one further thing: As it is now, the helper script will abort in case the build-script doesn't return true. I think that's fine. If individual build targets fail then the build as a whole should still succeed. AFAICT what you do now is consistent

Re: New cdbuilder server improves Debian infrastructure

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010, Frans Pop wrote: [1] I saw your request to add me to a group, but that's all I know. I tried 'ssh cdimage.debian.org', but that does not work. Try ssh cdbuilder.debian.org, I can log there. Thanks Rafael. That worked

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
tag 576206 moreinfo thanks On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz wrote: qemu-system-ppc -m 1024 -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=nomg -cdrom debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso -boot d -nographic does not seem to do anything. Without -nographic a

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek wrote: Changing the -boot d to -boot c gives access to the installed system with full serial support from the quik bootloader so I don't think this is the case. Can you provide the boot log for the installer somehow? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek wrote: I cannot run the installer without graphics. It could be that the installer is actually running but does not print anything on the serial port but I doubt that is the case because with graphics I have to type the name of the image to boot.

Re: the state of daily-builds

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: * Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl) [100331 21:38]: On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: The svn update inside the chroot fails now - nothing to worry, but would be nice if that wouldn't happen. Looks like you currently call

Re: the state of daily-builds

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: * Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl) [100401 15:08]: On Thursday 01 April 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: If the build-only could also be more verbose (i.e. logging during build) I'd appreciate that even more. Would it be OK if you have to set

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
tag 576206 moreinfo thanks On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz wrote: qemu-system-ppc -m 1024 -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=nomg -cdrom debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso -boot d -nographic does not seem to do anything. Without -nographic a

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek wrote: Changing the -boot d to -boot c gives access to the installed system with full serial support from the quik bootloader so I don't think this is the case. Can you provide the boot log for the installer somehow? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek wrote: I cannot run the installer without graphics. It could be that the installer is actually running but does not print anything on the serial port but I doubt that is the case because with graphics I have to type the name of the image to boot.

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] the state of daily-builds

2010-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks for getting amd64 going again so fast. On Thursday 01 April 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: As of now, we can't move the armel builds yet (as we are waiting for the new debian machines to be setup). I hope to not forget to mention it once we have the new machines running. For i386, I don't

Re: New cdbuilder server improves Debian infrastructure

2010-03-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Today, the Debian project administrators are activating a new cdbuilder server. Steve, Could you provide some practical info about this for the rest of the team? I still have access to farbror, but I assume that is is not going to

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Frans Pop
Wouter Verhelst wrote: Discussing problems in public works very well if two people like eachother. If they don't, however, you get two people cursing at eachother. Now there are some people who really don't mind doing that in public; but when things get messy, not being messy out in the open

Re: [rfc] Dropping loop-aes from d-i

2010-03-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Max Vozeler wrote: a couple of factors which make me consider dropping support for loop-aes from d-i (mostly partman-crypto). So what should people now use for encrypted swap without passphrase? IIRC that was one of the main use cases for it. Hmmm. OTOH, I do have

Re: the state of daily-builds

2010-03-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: I started to successfully resurrect the first daily builds. This mail documents what I have done, and what needs to be done. Thanks a lot for this Andi. I'll also document this in our Wiki based on your info. What could be better

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
Sven Mueller wrote: (for example in changing silently to native package format if the orig.tar.gz is missing) That's not true is it? At least, if I use 'debuild' I get a pretty big warning if the orig.tar.gz is missing. snip $ apt-get source acct $ rm acct_6.5.1.orig.tar.gz $ debuild This

Bug#558686: This bug now happens always

2010-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: Since about ten days, I can reproduce always this bug using daily builds of squeeze images. I've also been using simple-cdd to do squeeze images, and the bug begun to appear since last tuesday. So there must be some package migrated

Bug#575947: 60-persistent-input.rules is missing in the udeb

2010-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I just noticed that qcontrol in squeeze d-i doesn't work because /dev/input/by-path/platform-gpio-keys-event doesn't exist. Please include 60-persistent-input.rules in the udev so it's created. I suppose this may be because some of the

Re: Installation report on SunFire T2000

2010-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Jon Ander Ortiz wrote: Image version: http://caesar.acc.umu.se/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso Please try with a daily built image, which uses a later kernel:

FYI: D-I and G-I (!) running on ARM netbook

2010-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
I've managed to get D-I working on a Chinese ARM-based netbook. This was a bit of a challenge as the only boot option available was the one used by the firmware upgrade procedure we got with the netbook, which essentially means I can boot a custom kernel from an external SD card and that's it.

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-29 Thread Frans Pop
Ideally the package manager front-ends would propose for installation to the user all hardware related packages for currently detected hardware in the system, or removal once such hardware is not present (although that might need to be disabled for pluggable hardware). The implementation

Re: [Soc-coordination] Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-29 Thread Frans Pop
Ideally the package manager front-ends would propose for installation to the user all hardware related packages for currently detected hardware in the system, or removal once such hardware is not present (although that might need to be disabled for pluggable hardware). The implementation

Bug#575751: [rootskel-gtk PATCH] Only start X if we're using the GTK frontend.

2010-03-29 Thread Frans Pop
tag 575751 pending thanks On Sunday 28 March 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: Subject: Only start X if we're using the GTK frontend. Also try to not start X clients before the server is ready to accept connections. Thanks. Committed. Will upload once ftp-master is alive again. -- To

Bug#575751: [rootskel-gtk PATCH] Only start X if we're using the GTK frontend.

2010-03-29 Thread Frans Pop
tag 575751 pending thanks On Sunday 28 March 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: Subject: Only start X if we're using the GTK frontend. Also try to not start X clients before the server is ready to accept connections. Thanks. Committed. Will upload once ftp-master is alive again. -- To

Bug#575352: debmirror: spelling mistake in mirror_size

2010-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
tag 575352 pending thanks On Thursday 25 March 2010, Prema wrote: -All numbers reflect the state of te archive per 19 Dec 2009. +All numbers reflect the state of the archive per 19 Dec 2009. Thanks. Will be fixed with the next release. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#569348: example debmirror.conf contains useless $dry_run

2010-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Piotr Lewandowski wrote: In contrast to $dry_run_var, this variable has no effect on debmirror. Please update example accordingly. Thanks for reporting this. I have fixed the problem differently from your suggestion. I think it makes more sense to keep the name in

Bug#574647: Likely solution - quotemeta

2010-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 25 March 2010, David Venz wrote: Tried this out and it appears to fix the problem: sub first_set_with_package { my ($package, $set) = @_; + # Escape any characters that will upset the regex below + $package = quotemeta($package); foreach my $s (sort keys %$set) { if

Re: Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: So how do we get this fixed? If it really is a problem on the buildd, who *can* fix it? Is there a list somewhere of who is responsible for which buildd? I've already provided that info a few times. For the centralized D-I buildds (which

Re: Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: So how do we get this fixed? If it really is a problem on the buildd, who *can* fix it? Is there a list somewhere of who is responsible for which buildd? I've already provided that info a few times. For the centralized D-I buildds (which

Re: Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
(Dropping some CCs.) On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Norberto Feliberty wrote: However maybe that has changed and will test a sid build and see if it can find the network drivers to install. That will only work if you build your own images. If you can do that, great! The fact that the official

Accepted cdebconf-entropy 0.15 (source amd64)

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
System Team debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: cdebconf-gtk-entropy - cdebconf gtk plugin for reading from /dev/random (udeb) cdebconf-newt-entropy - cdebconf newt plugin for reading from /dev/random (udeb) cdebconf-text-entropy - cdebconf text

Accepted kbd-chooser 1.55 (source amd64)

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: kbd-chooser - Detect a keyboard and select layout (udeb) Changes: kbd-chooser (1.55) unstable; urgency=low . * Update isinstallable script for new auto-install framework. Requires preseed (= 1.45). . [ Updated translations ] * Danish (da.po

Accepted localechooser 2.26 (source amd64)

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: localechooser - choose language/country/locale (udeb) Changes: localechooser (2.26) unstable; urgency=low . * Update isinstallable script for new auto-install framework. Requires preseed (= 1.45). . [ Updated translations ] * Amharic (am.po

Accepted preseed 1.45 (source all)

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
System Team debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: env-preseed - debconf preseeding via environment variables (udeb) file-preseed - load debconf preseed file (udeb) initrd-preseed - load debconf preseed file from /preseed.cfg on the initrd (udeb) network

Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Benjamin Cama wrote: I don't know the exact cause of this bug, but there is not enough informations (for me) to try to understand this bug. Could you give at least a dmesg result when in the installer ? And what exact message does it outputs when looking for the

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Robert Lemmen wrote: unless you object soon, i will suggest the removal of these packages from testing. the rationale is (a mixture of these will apply to the package in question) This package should not be removed. The bug is partly theoretical and only affects a

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Robert Lemmen wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:51:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: This package should not be removed. The bug is partly theoretical and only affects a minority of use cases. ok, so you think it should be squeeze-ignore? do you think it should

Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Benjamin Cama wrote: OK. So, if it has not already been told (I didn't see much details about that in this BR) what steps should be taken for powerpc volunteers ? If you are not a Debian Developer I'm afraid you cannot help with this issue. However, there is plenty

Bug#373253: #373253 libgcc_s.so.1 on AMD64 and PowerPC should be provided

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
tags 373253 wontfix thanks Because of the switch from DirectFB to X.Org as backend for the graphical installer I don't think this issue is relevant anymore. But I'm keeping the BR open for now for reference. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: So how do we get this fixed? If it really is a problem on the buildd, who *can* fix it? Is there a list somewhere of who is responsible for which buildd? I've already provided that info a few times. For the centralized D-I buildds (which

Bug#575309: user-setup: Should stop adding first user to device access groups

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The code in user-setup-apply to add the first user to all the groups in passwd/user-default-groups should no longer be needed. I believe it should be dropped for Squeeze, or at least the default groups used should be trimmed down to

Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
(Dropping some CCs.) On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Norberto Feliberty wrote: However maybe that has changed and will test a sid build and see if it can find the network drivers to install. That will only work if you build your own images. If you can do that, great! The fact that the official

Bug#575309: user-setup: Should stop adding first user to device access groups

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: What about (server) systems that don't have consolekit installed? Yes, what about them? On such systems the first user would be left without expected default access to devices. If the local user to have special privileges, one should

[E1000-devel] [PATCH 00/09] net: remove trailing spaces in messages

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
. Shortstat: 56 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 236 deletions(-) Frans Pop (9): net: remove trailing space in messages net/tipc: remove trailing space in messages net/irda: remove trailing space in messages net/ps3_gelic: remove trailing space in messages net/smc91xx: remove

[E1000-devel] [PATCH 8/9] net/intel: remove trailing space in messages

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
Includes one minor indentation fix to placate checkpatch. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net --- drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c |4 ++-- drivers/net/eepro.c|4 ++-- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_82599.c|2 +- drivers/net

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH 00/09] net: remove trailing spaces in messages

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, David Miller wrote: All applied, but I have to make some fixups. For example, GIT warns about trailing whitespace on any lines that you touched so I had to fix those up before putting them into the tree. I did wonder about fixing that or not. But as the surrounding

[PATCH 00/09] net: remove trailing spaces in messages

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
. Shortstat: 56 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 236 deletions(-) Frans Pop (9): net: remove trailing space in messages net/tipc: remove trailing space in messages net/irda: remove trailing space in messages net/ps3_gelic: remove trailing space in messages net/smc91xx: remove

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