Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: If you were to build a netboot-gtk image using DirectFB, and to compare with one using X11, one gets:   DirectFB:  9191 extents written (17 MB)   X11     : 11239 extents written (21 MB) Let's first look at image size in a bit more detail.

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- specific issues/comments

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
In this mail some more specific issues I noticed while testing/reviewing. I'm saving the switch to console-setup for a last separate reply. On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: libx11 Is /usr/share/X11/locale needed? If it is, could some of its contents be excluded because

Bug#551646: installation-reports: [i386] installation failed using netboot

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
screen on PC hangs, the splash screen and the boot prompt does not appear last line of the screen: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default We've had another report of the same issue where the problem was identified. It's a known limitation of syslinux, which is documented in the installation

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- general reflections

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: this is a summary of the needed steps to switch from DirectFB to X11. After some time hacking in the wild, I then looked into providing (possibly) clean patches for each package, which I've just finished. Sorry for the delay in replying.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I've contacted Debian CD Team to look at it. What exactly do you think is wrong here Otavio? * netinst and businesscard images are built daily as squeeze_d-i [1] * the mini.iso images are part of the D-I builds, not debian-cd builds [2] * so

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I've contacted Debian CD Team to look at it. What exactly do you think is wrong here Otavio? * netinst and businesscard images are built daily as squeeze_d-i * so it's completely correct

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Norberto Feliberty wrote: The only problem I encountered was that it could not find the correct kernel to install therefore a kernel had to be manually installed after the installation completed. What is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo for a PS3? Also, what is the

Bug#569193: uw-imapd causes installation to hang

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569193 uw-imapd 8:2007e~dfsg-3.1 retitle 569193 uw-imapd causes installation to hang thanks On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Dario Corsi wrote: Now I created a chroot environment in Lenny and reproduced the issue. Instead, if I try: # aptitude install uw-ipmapd I get: Setting up

Bug#288109: debootstap and symbolc suite names

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I see no reason not to do that; having to go to the website to look up the codename associated with stable gets old for those of us who no longer have a good memory. ;) The only argument against I can think of is that if we ever *do* want to

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 February 2010, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: No, it is not. I was constantly monitoring the log. The last line before that neverending series of echo was the one fetching a package. It did not show me which binary failed. OK. Please try instead adding a line 'set -x' at the top of

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: the debian-installer netboot stops after the message: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default Have you tried enabling logging for your tftp server to see if there are any problems serving the files needed by the installer?

Bug#568975: ([squeeze/lenny][i386][2010-02-04] grub-installer fails, system unbootable)

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 11 February 2010, vincent.mcint...@csiro.au wrote: Should this be reassigned to partman-auto-raid? I would say partman-md (as it will also affect manually created arrays). As p-a-raid depends on partman-md that will work fine

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: There are no such errors (as btw. the rest of my mail does also prove where I'm describing how I got the whole stuff working without that ominous vesamenu.c32 :)). Problem is: it works perfectly here for me using the daily image you

Bug#570326: sysv-rc: Confusing messages regarding init scripts during package upgrade

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
Package: sysv-rc Version: 2.87dsf-8 Severity: minor During an upgrade of rsync I got the following: Setting up rsync (3.0.7-2) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/rsync ... Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/rsync ... /etc/rc1.d/K20rsync

Re: pac207: problem with Trust USB webcam

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 09:57:48 Hans de Goede wrote: On 02/17/2010 01:04 AM, Adam Baker wrote: On Tuesday 16 Feb 2010, Hans de Goede wrote: You need to use libv4l and have your apps patched to use libv4l or use the LD_PRELOAD wrapper. Here is the latest libv4l:

teams.debian.{net,org}

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
What's up with teams.debian.net? Looks like the server is down. Has it been abandoned (if yes, what's happened to the archives there)? Or has it maybe been moved to teams.debian.org, which does exist on liszt but with a home page that does not give any useful info. Is it still possible to

Bug#569193: uw-imapd causes installation to hang

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569193 uw-imapd 8:2007e~dfsg-3.1 retitle 569193 uw-imapd causes installation to hang thanks On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Dario Corsi wrote: Now I created a chroot environment in Lenny and reproduced the issue. Instead, if I try: # aptitude install uw-ipmapd I get: Setting up

Bug#288109: debootstap and symbolc suite names

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I see no reason not to do that; having to go to the website to look up the codename associated with stable gets old for those of us who no longer have a good memory. ;) The only argument against I can think of is that if we ever *do* want to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I've contacted Debian CD Team to look at it. What exactly do you think is wrong here Otavio? * netinst and businesscard images are built daily as squeeze_d-i [1] * the mini.iso images are part of the D-I builds, not debian-cd builds [2] * so

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 February 2010, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: No, it is not. I was constantly monitoring the log. The last line before that neverending series of echo was the one fetching a package. It did not show me which binary failed. OK. Please try instead adding a line 'set -x' at the top of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I've contacted Debian CD Team to look at it. What exactly do you think is wrong here Otavio? * netinst and businesscard images are built daily as squeeze_d-i * so it's completely correct

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: the debian-installer netboot stops after the message: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default Have you tried enabling logging for your tftp server to see if there are any problems serving the files needed by the installer?

Bug#568975: ([squeeze/lenny][i386][2010-02-04] grub-installer fails, system unbootable)

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 11 February 2010, vincent.mcint...@csiro.au wrote: Should this be reassigned to partman-auto-raid? I would say partman-md (as it will also affect manually created arrays). As p-a-raid depends on partman-md that will work fine

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: There are no such errors (as btw. the rest of my mail does also prove where I'm describing how I got the whole stuff working without that ominous vesamenu.c32 :)). Problem is: it works perfectly here for me using the daily image you

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Norberto Feliberty wrote: The only problem I encountered was that it could not find the correct kernel to install therefore a kernel had to be manually installed after the installation completed. What is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo for a PS3? Also, what is the

[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#570326: sysv-rc: Confusing messages regarding init scripts during package upgrade

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
Package: sysv-rc Version: 2.87dsf-8 Severity: minor During an upgrade of rsync I got the following: Setting up rsync (3.0.7-2) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/rsync ... Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/rsync ... /etc/rc1.d/K20rsync

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 February 2010, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: /usr/share/debootstrap/functions: line 745:  7076 Segmentation fault    chroot $TARGET $@ OK, so something is segfaulting. I still cannot reproduce this (tried i386 this time instead of amd64). Also, the lenny1 update was trivial (as well

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: It looks like a mirror issue; I did a successful run here just now, using my local mirror and it went fine. No, it's definitely not a mirror issue. He already tried two different mirrors, including the same one I use. Also, segfaults are

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 February 2010, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Setting -x did not produce any useful result; stdout shows the usual: That's because the debug output gets redirected to the log... ...meanwhile, tailing the log shows a neverending series of these: + echo '' + : Right. That's the debug

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 February 2010, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: /usr/share/debootstrap/functions: line 745:  7076 Segmentation fault    chroot $TARGET $@ OK, so something is segfaulting. I still cannot reproduce this (tried i386 this time instead of amd64). Also, the lenny1 update was trivial (as well

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: It looks like a mirror issue; I did a successful run here just now, using my local mirror and it went fine. No, it's definitely not a mirror issue. He already tried two different mirrors, including the same one I use. Also, segfaults are

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Thanks a lot for looking into this. Enabling library reduction will reduce the image size by ~0.5GB. Eh, 0.5MB rather. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 February 2010, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Setting -x did not produce any useful result; stdout shows the usual: That's because the debug output gets redirected to the log... ...meanwhile, tailing the log shows a neverending series of these: + echo '' + : Right. That's the debug

Re: Looking for access to an s390 (git-core: [FTBFS] t7400-submodule-basic.sh fails)

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
I’m looking for someone who could give access to an s390 or ia64 to track down a test failure in git-core. I can't help you with access to an s390 system, but one option could be for yourself to use the Hercules s/390 emulator and run your own s390 system. Hercules is available as a package

Bug#569719: cdrom: sparc testing 20100208 will not boot after CD install, stuck at openboot.

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569719 linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 1.49 severity 569719 important thanks On Saturday 13 February 2010, James Boughton wrote: Installation from the three CD's for the Feb 8, 2010 build of sparc testing seems to go without a hitch. The problem is that the system will not then boot from

Bug#512740: Sparc disk labels broken on LDOM and Parallel installs

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: 1. dh-di needed for build of partman-base is not pulled in as a result of 'apt-get build-dep debian-installer', probably should be? No: base-installer is a separate source package and thus has its own build deps. I just forgot to include a step

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
tag 569784 unreproducible moreinfo thanks On Sunday 14 February 2010, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Today, while trying to build a clean Lenny chroot using pbuilder, I noticed that debootstrap complained of failure to configure packages, mentioning that it will try 5 times before completely giving

Bug#569763: I cannot install lenny 5.04 mini.iso because of problem configuring DHCP.

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
merge 569763 569761 severity 569763 normal tags 569763 moreinfo thanks On Sunday 14 February 2010, Patrick Naylor wrote: Comments/Problems: The network modem is detected. The DHCP configuration failed. I cannot continue with the installing process. Being loaded at the same hw the lenny 5.03

Bug#569740: debian-installer: keyboard doesn't work

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569740 kernel-wedge force-merge 567431 569740 thanks On Saturday 13 February 2010, Rune Kock wrote: My keyboard is absolutely dead inside the installer. It works fine at the boot menu, and after installation. It is a USB keyboard (MS Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v.1.0) and has

Bug#569719: cdrom: sparc testing 20100208 will not boot after CD install, stuck at openboot.

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569719 linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 1.49 severity 569719 important thanks On Saturday 13 February 2010, James Boughton wrote: Installation from the three CD's for the Feb 8, 2010 build of sparc testing seems to go without a hitch. The problem is that the system will not then boot from

Bug#569107: installation-reports: Problems with md raid metadata but otherwise ok

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569107 partman-md 49 thanks On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Tom Wright wrote: Comments/Problems: It all went smoothly, except that grub2 could not cope with the MD-RAID1 array, as it can't cope with metadata verions other than 0.9. A bit of web-searching led me to bug #554500 so I

Re: Bug#512740: Sparc disk labels broken on LDOM and Parallel installs

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: 1. dh-di needed for build of partman-base is not pulled in as a result of 'apt-get build-dep debian-installer', probably should be? No: base-installer is a separate source package and thus has its own build deps. I just forgot to include a step

Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
tag 569784 unreproducible moreinfo thanks On Sunday 14 February 2010, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Today, while trying to build a clean Lenny chroot using pbuilder, I noticed that debootstrap complained of failure to configure packages, mentioning that it will try 5 times before completely giving

Bug#569763: I cannot install lenny 5.04 mini.iso because of problem configuring DHCP.

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
merge 569763 569761 severity 569763 normal tags 569763 moreinfo thanks On Sunday 14 February 2010, Patrick Naylor wrote: Comments/Problems: The network modem is detected. The DHCP configuration failed. I cannot continue with the installing process. Being loaded at the same hw the lenny 5.03

Bug#569740: debian-installer: keyboard doesn't work

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569740 kernel-wedge force-merge 567431 569740 thanks On Saturday 13 February 2010, Rune Kock wrote: My keyboard is absolutely dead inside the installer. It works fine at the boot menu, and after installation. It is a USB keyboard (MS Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v.1.0) and has

Re: Bug#552700: Add dfbinfo into libdirectfb-udeb

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Fathi Boudra wrote: dfbinfo can be found in libdirectfb-bin-udeb package. Ah right, and I see it's been there for some time. Looking at the changelog I don't see a BR referenced, but it looks as if it was discussed [1]. In retrospect having it in a separate udeb is

Re: Bug#552700: Add dfbinfo into libdirectfb-udeb

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 552700 reassign 552700 rootskel-gtk thanks Thinking again I'm reopening this as, if we do want dfbinfo available for save-logs, we could anna-install the -bin udeb. The most logical place to do so would be from a script included in rootskel-gtk based on which frontend is being used.

Re: Boot problem in squeeze, hang after Booting the kernel

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 February 2010, Lars Segerlund wrote: I have a Sony Vaio TX3 ( VGN-TX3XT ) , which runs a on an intel celeron ULW, and has a i945g graphics chip. I have reinstalled with the squeeze install cd, but cannot boot the kernels on the machine. So the installer boots and works

Bug#569107: installation-reports: Problems with md raid metadata but otherwise ok

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569107 partman-md 49 thanks On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Tom Wright wrote: Comments/Problems: It all went smoothly, except that grub2 could not cope with the MD-RAID1 array, as it can't cope with metadata verions other than 0.9. A bit of web-searching led me to bug #554500 so I

Re: edos analysis for debian-installer

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Ralf Treinen wrote: That is interesting. Do you mean that packages in installer contain more dependencies than in unstable? No, they are not explicit anywhere. Is there any documentation where these additional dependencies come from (by hand from the mainatiner,

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I've tried another approach, see attached patch. I think just excluding them in the file list is acceptable, especially as a temporary solution. But IMHO the patch is more complicated than it needs to be. I don't think it needs to be optional

Bug#512740: Sparc disk labels broken on LDOM and Parallel installs

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: 1. dh-di needed for build of partman-base is not pulled in as a result of 'apt-get build-dep debian-installer', probably should be? No: base-installer is a separate source package and thus has its own build deps. I just forgot to include a step

Bug#569763: I cannot install lenny 5.04 mini.iso because of problem configuring DHCP.

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
merge 569763 569761 severity 569763 normal tags 569763 moreinfo thanks On Sunday 14 February 2010, Patrick Naylor wrote: Comments/Problems: The network modem is detected. The DHCP configuration failed. I cannot continue with the installing process. Being loaded at the same hw the lenny 5.03

Bug#569719: cdrom: sparc testing 20100208 will not boot after CD install, stuck at openboot.

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569719 linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 1.49 severity 569719 important thanks On Saturday 13 February 2010, James Boughton wrote: Installation from the three CD's for the Feb 8, 2010 build of sparc testing seems to go without a hitch. The problem is that the system will not then boot from

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Thanks a lot for this Cyril. I'll have a close look tomorrow and reply in detail then. Sorry for the delay. I have been looking at this, but haven't had time yet to write things up. Another delay

Bug#569577: Improve udeb dependencies

2010-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
Source: debian-edu-install Version: 1.506 Please change the dependencies listed below. The first is mostly cleanup and general consistency, but the second is important for the switch from kbd-chooser to console-setup. Neither of the changes will have any functional impact. *

Bug#569577: Improve udeb dependencies

2010-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 February 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: When is this switch supposed to happy? I would like to delay this switch (in our package) until we released the first pointrelease, 5.0.4+edu1, which is supposed to happen in mid March 2010. (We currently still refrain from changes in our trunk

Re: netboot (small CDs) for Debian Installer

2010-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 February 2010, Lechat wrote: Having one multi-boot DVD with all versions of the network installer would be great ! We already have that, it's called the multi-arch CDs [1]. Using a DVD for that would just result in a huge amount of unused space. It's currently not possible to

Re: debian installer

2010-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 February 2010, Lechat wrote: Would it be possible to extend it with a simulation mode, that would ask all the questions at once but without really installing the packages, and then make an easily reusable install config file from this? I don't want to take the time to explain the

Bug#569193: tasksel hangs during mail server installation

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Could you try again using current installer image. The cause of your problem may have been fixed in version 2007e~dfsg-3.1 of the uw-imap package. Note that the new version of that package only migrated to testing yesterday. So it is not yet

Bug#569193: tasksel hangs during mail server installation

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569193 installation-reports tag 569193 unreproducible thanks On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Dario Corsi wrote: When I install the proposed Mail Server tasksel hangs on 96% (configuring uw-imapd). I cannot reproduce this. Exactly what installation image were you using and when did

Bug#569351: linux-2.6: Please support newer Areca controllers

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 February 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: Perhaps it is not included in the appropriate d-i package? arcmsr has been included in scsi-extra-modules since Nov 2006, if available for an architecture. For amd64: $ dpkg -c scsi-extra-modules-2.6.30-2-amd64-di_1.61_amd64.udeb | grep arcmsr

Bug#568975: ([squeeze/lenny][i386][2010-02-04] grub-installer fails, system unbootable)

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 568975 partman-md 49 thanks On Thursday 11 February 2010, vincent.mcint...@csiro.au wrote: Should this be reassigned to partman-auto-raid? I would say partman-md (as it will also affect manually created arrays). As p-a-raid depends on partman-md that will work fine. We'll possibly

Re: [RFH] Errata and announcement help need

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: - Country names not alphabetically sorted in the Choose mirror step. Only for English! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#568975: ([squeeze/lenny][i386][2010-02-04] grub-installer fails, system unbootable)

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 568975 partman-md 49 thanks On Thursday 11 February 2010, vincent.mcint...@csiro.au wrote: Should this be reassigned to partman-auto-raid? I would say partman-md (as it will also affect manually created arrays). As p-a-raid depends on partman-md that will work fine. We'll possibly

[RFC] Dealing with mdadm superblock metadata default change

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
This seems to be causing some problems. For compatibility with Lenny (using Squeeze installer to install Lenny, #568975) I suggest we simply force the metadata version to 0.90. It's the simplest way to avoid problems and it's what users expect for Lenny anyway. For Squeeze I wonder what the

Re: Customized d-i

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Xavier Oswald wrote: I need to customize d-i: - change the d-i start picture (klowner.png) That can be done at CD creation time. - presseed auto-partitionning, user creation and apt mirror Can be done by including a preseed.cfg file on the CD. See appendix in

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
OK, I'm convinced. Sorry if I seemed negative about this, but I really thought there could be no way you were seeing this with a regular image as we're supposed to be only including characters needed by supported languages in the unifont included in the installer. However, it turns out that

Bug#569193: tasksel hangs during mail server installation

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Could you try again using current installer image. The cause of your problem may have been fixed in version 2007e~dfsg-3.1 of the uw-imap package. Note that the new version of that package only migrated to testing yesterday. So it is not yet

Bug#569193: tasksel hangs during mail server installation

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569193 installation-reports tag 569193 unreproducible thanks On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Dario Corsi wrote: When I install the proposed Mail Server tasksel hangs on 96% (configuring uw-imapd). I cannot reproduce this. Exactly what installation image were you using and when did

Re: [RFC] Dealing with mdadm superblock metadata default change

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks for the reply. On Thursday 11 February 2010, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl [2010.02.12.0427 +1300]: 1) offer the choice to users I see from the Lenny mdadm man page that there are 4 (!) different metadata versions: 0.90, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2

Re: edos analysis for debian-installer

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Ralf, On Friday 12 February 2010, Ralf Treinen wrote: I have just enabled daily (from now on) runs of the edos installability analysis of debian-installer: http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/installer.php Nice idea and thanks for thinking of it. Does this make sense? I have to

Re: Bug#569351: linux-2.6: Please support newer Areca controllers

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 February 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: Perhaps it is not included in the appropriate d-i package? arcmsr has been included in scsi-extra-modules since Nov 2006, if available for an architecture. For amd64: $ dpkg -c scsi-extra-modules-2.6.30-2-amd64-di_1.61_amd64.udeb | grep arcmsr

Bug#569351: linux-2.6: Please support newer Areca controllers

2010-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 February 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: Perhaps it is not included in the appropriate d-i package? arcmsr has been included in scsi-extra-modules since Nov 2006, if available for an architecture. For amd64: $ dpkg -c scsi-extra-modules-2.6.30-2-amd64-di_1.61_amd64.udeb | grep arcmsr

Accepted choose-mirror 2.33 (source all amd64)

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: choose-mirror - Choose mirror to install from (menu item) (udeb) choose-mirror-bin - Choose mirror to install from (program) (udeb) Closes: 569199 Changes: choose-mirror (2.33) unstable; urgency=low . * Correctly move progress bar

Bug#569121: tasksel: busybox is not included in base list

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569121 simple-cdd thanks On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Prema wrote: I created a squeeze image using simple-cdd (without passing any profile option)..and i expected that to install atleast a base system. But the installation stopped in the middle throwing an error Package busybox is

Bug#569199: Countries no longer sorted by name but by country code

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: In the past, the list of countries (for choosing a mirror) was in alphabetical order, which made it easy to find things. Now, the list is sorted by country code, which makes it difficult to find countries like Spain, United Kingdom and

Bug#569121: tasksel: busybox is not included in base list

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569121 simple-cdd thanks On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Prema wrote: I created a squeeze image using simple-cdd (without passing any profile option)..and i expected that to install atleast a base system. But the installation stopped in the middle throwing an error Package busybox is

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: I happened to run /bin/sh in the partition to recover, in which th_TH locale is set by default, and Thai messages are just displayed perfectly, even in full-screen dialogs, thanks to the font and terminal support. So, Thai can

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
(Please reply only to the mailing list.) On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: I realize that limitation. And I proposed it because I've tried it on the very terminal provided by Squeeze d-i daily built image, in rescue mode. It already works out of the box with the

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Loïc Minier wrote: Wouldn't pango's pango-thai-lang.so module be required for Thai support in g-i (directfb or xorg based)? Currently, it's not included in the pango udeb, we would need libthai and libdatrie udebs to include this module. As the directfb

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: For sure, I've tried it again by choosing to run a shell under d-i environment (BusyBox), then mount my /home partition and cat some Thai text files. And it works. So you only mounted /home? You did not first chroot into the root

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: For sure, I've tried it again by choosing to run a shell under d-i environment (BusyBox), then mount my /home partition and cat some Thai text files. And it works. Ah. Wait a second. Did you do this using a *graphical* installer

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: It's the *normal* installer. OK. I just wanted to make sure. Then please send the files I asked for in my other mail. TTF? I think directfb uses bitmap font. And if it's the TTF used in G-I, I as the font maintainer know well

Re: x86 EFI handling

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Colin Watson wrote: Does anyone object to the following plan: Sounds sane to me, especially as you seem to plan to follow through and really get x86 EFI support working. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#569199: Countries no longer sorted by name but by country code

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: In the past, the list of countries (for choosing a mirror) was in alphabetical order, which made it easy to find things. Now, the list is sorted by country code, which makes it difficult to find countries like Spain, United Kingdom and

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: this is a summary of the needed steps to switch from DirectFB to X11. After some time hacking in the wild, I then looked into providing (possibly) clean patches for each package, which I've just

Re: Bug#569222: risky use of mount from a random partition

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Colin Watson wrote: Frankly, every time I've tried to add a feature to d-i of late that involved using some non-trivial amount of extra space, I've had to wade through so many objections about breaking floppy support or old architectures that I simply gave up.  

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: You can find the pool at: http://people.debian.org/~kibi/udebs-v1/ Thanks. I was going to ask for that. Only i386 should do fine for the time being. I think my next moves are going to be: - Tweaking lowmem case for X (should be easy

Accepted debtree 1.0.5 (source all)

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:49:44 +0100 Source: debtree Binary: debtree Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description

Bug#512740: Sparc disk labels broken on LDOM and Parallel installs

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:04:05PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: My main concern is whether it affects installer in any adverse way, so if you could arrange for an installer image to be built with the modified parted, we could do some

Bug#564441: new version of the proposed patch

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Fred wrote: Here is my small remarks/questions : 0004-Fix-some-l10n-issues-more-remaining.patch * what does mean ':sl3:' in debconf templates ? It's a D-I specific comment that allows us to split PO files into 5 different levels so translators can concentrate on

Bug#560414: lintian: Don't warn about length of short description of text templates

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
tag 560414 patch thanks Attached a patch that implements this. It changes the name of the local variable (template) 'type' which currently shadows the higher level (package) 'type' variable. Cheers, FJP --- checks/debconf.orig 2010-01-31 10:02:32.0 +0100 +++ checks/debconf 2010-02-09

Re: r62202 - trunk/packages/cdebconf/debian

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: The best alternative is to try to convince the s390 buildd admin to allow rootskel-gtk to build for s390 (good luck with that). Limiting the arches for cdebconf-gtk would

Re: Bug#512740: Sparc disk labels broken on LDOM and Parallel installs

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:04:05PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: My main concern is whether it affects installer in any adverse way, so if you could arrange for an installer image to be built with the modified parted, we could do some

Re: r62202 - trunk/packages/cdebconf/debian

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: To avoid problems in next migration I'm making the depends [!s390] but I want to try to get rootskel-gtk built in s390 since it has no technical reason to not do that. This format is not (yet) allowed by policy: rootskel-gtk (=0.05) [!s390]

Re: r62202 - trunk/packages/cdebconf/debian

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Cyril, So you're subscribed to d-boot now? :-) On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl (09/02/2010): This format is not (yet) allowed by policy: rootskel-gtk (=0.05) [!s390] (except for build dependencies) AFAICT, it just works, and not only

Bug#564441: new version of the proposed patch

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Fred wrote: Here is my small remarks/questions : 0004-Fix-some-l10n-issues-more-remaining.patch * what does mean ':sl3:' in debconf templates ? It's a D-I specific comment that allows us to split PO files into 5 different levels so translators can concentrate on

Re: r62202 - trunk/packages/cdebconf/debian

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: This format is not (yet) allowed by policy: rootskel-gtk (=0.05) [!s390] I've fixed that in SVN (untested). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [RFH] Errata and announcement help need

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
One thing I did not list in my mail to d-d-a is the addition of the help function which is already in use for some dialogs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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