Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
tag 568292 patch thanks On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: The package should be reworked so that it works together with netcfg if it is included in the initrd, but should also work correctly when netcfg gets installed later by anna. The dependency on netcfg should

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Or if the dependency is required for menu ordering, then there should be an alternative udeb whose only function is to queue auto-install for images that don't have netcfg. Hmmm. I think it could even pull in both auto-install and ai-choosers

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Or if the dependency is required for menu ordering, then there should be an alternative udeb whose only function is to queue auto-install for images that don't have netcfg. Hmmm. I think

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Or if the dependency is required for menu ordering, then there should be an alternative udeb whose only function is to queue auto-install

Bug#564441: new version of the proposed patch

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Fred, It took a bit of time, but I think you'll see why. I do really like the new functionality. I think we'll need to discuss the details of the user interface a bit more, but the concept definitely works. My compliments for your work. Attached a patch series, mostly on top of your

Bug#562051: Partman hanging on 52%, Polish language on MD devices

2010-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 562051 partman-md tag 562051 unreproducible moreinfo thanks I've tried to reproduce this with both a daily image and a Lenny image. I've not used the identical disk layout, but I did create 3 RAID devices over 2 disks. On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Marcin Owsiany wrote: This is the

Bug#562051: Partman hanging on 52%, Polish language on MD devices

2010-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Marcin Owsiany wrote: It would be awesome if you could update the bug with short instructions on what to look for if someone can reproduce it. Just a couple of sentences or so. Simplest thing is to add a line 'set -x' in /lib/partman/lib/base.sh. That will give a

Re: [RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2010-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: D-I now always installs Recommends by default, except when base-installer/install-recommends is preseeded to false. However, there are a few specific cases where we want to force installing or not installing Recommends with specific packages

Bug#562051: Partman hanging on 52%, Polish language on MD devices

2010-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 562051 partman-md tag 562051 unreproducible moreinfo thanks I've tried to reproduce this with both a daily image and a Lenny image. I've not used the identical disk layout, but I did create 3 RAID devices over 2 disks. On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Marcin Owsiany wrote: This is the

Bug#562051: Partman hanging on 52%, Polish language on MD devices

2010-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Marcin Owsiany wrote: It would be awesome if you could update the bug with short instructions on what to look for if someone can reproduce it. Just a couple of sentences or so. Simplest thing is to add a line 'set -x' in /lib/partman/lib/base.sh. That will give a

Re: Dinstall status

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
Joerg, On Sunday 20 December 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: If you are one of the majority of people that have no access to Debians ftp-master host, but still do want to know in which state our main archive update, the dinstall run, is: http://ftp-master.debian.org/dinstall.status to the rescue.

Re: Debian 5 Floppy

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Manuel Navarrete Hidalgo wrote: I am looking for Debian download format floppy disk, but i can not find. Installation from floppy is no longer supported because current Debian kernel images no longer fit on on a single floppy. You'll have to use some other

Re: [RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: So, well, I answered Joss that, yes, ext4 will be available in D-I as an option so that might answer his concerns. But, still, I felt the duty to mention his concerns. And reiserfs will not be dropped. It's still available for selection for

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 01 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I.e, multiple IP addresses should be comma-separated. This also goes for ntp-servers, which probably should not have quotes as it's similar to dns. Fixed both issues; I can't test it now

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 31 January 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Having all leases in the file would mostly be an aid for troubleshooting. It's not a huge issue for me though. To it to concatenate them is a simgle line change

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: Your suggestion makes the code much nicer to read, indeed, however I did test it inside of busybox' shell and it worked. Has it failed for you? I tried the commands I showed in an earlier mail in D-I debug shell. Maybe the configs are

Re: [RFH] Errata and announcement help need

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: Current issues: - sparc images are broken It's not the images that are broken, but the installation of the silo bootloader to the target system. So the reboot fails. Should be fixed when D-I switches to .32. Details in #565639. -- To

Accepted partman-partitioning 64lenny1 (source amd64)

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-partitioning - Partitioning operations for partman (udeb) Changes: partman-partitioning (64lenny1) stable; urgency=low . * Fix display of 'BIOS boot area' option for gpt partitions. Checksums-Sha1

Accepted debmirror 1:2.4.2 (source all)

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:21:46 +0100 Source: debmirror Binary: debmirror Architecture: source all Version: 1:2.4.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 567590 partman-partitioning 64 fixed 567590 71 tag 567590 pending thanks On Saturday 30 January 2010, Zachary Palmer wrote: I witnessed the same confusion myself; in retrospect, I should've mentioned it. I simply assumed that it was a graphical glitch of some kind. I was unable to

Bug#567858: reiser4progs: please drop the udebs

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
Source: reiser4progs Version: 1.0.7-5 Severity: minor Tags: d-i Please drop the udebs from reiser4progs. There seems to be no chance that reiser4 will ever be included in Debian kernels and supported in Debian Installer. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#567862: Overrides: please change priority for mkreiserfs-udeb to optional

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
Package: ftp.debian.org Tags: d-i The current override says standard, but that's not needed as the udeb will get pulled in by partman-reiserfs if it's needed. TIA, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#567866: reiserfsprogs: Minor improvements for the udebs

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
Source: reiserfsprogs Version: 1:3.6.21-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch d-i Please consider the following patch for reiserfsprogs-udeb. The added dependency ensures that mkreiserfs will always be available if the other tools get installed. The added menu item number allows users to manually

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 31 January 2010, Luk Claes wrote: Otavio Salvador wrote: Also, if I run netcfg multiple times with dhcp3, I get multiple leases in the leases file. You seem to overwrite the existing file. Not sure if that needs fixing or not. I think it is not worth. syslog now has the gotten

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 567590 partman-partitioning 64 fixed 567590 71 tag 567590 pending thanks On Saturday 30 January 2010, Zachary Palmer wrote: I witnessed the same confusion myself; in retrospect, I should've mentioned it. I simply assumed that it was a graphical glitch of some kind. I was unable to

Re: [RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
(Please reply to the d-boot list.) Hello Felix, On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: What do people think of degrading reiserfs support to optional, i.e. only usable by specifically selecting partman-reiserfs in anna? The rationale would be that its popularity has decreased (AFAIK

Re: [RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: What do people think of degrading reiserfs support to optional, i.e. only usable by specifically selecting partman-reiserfs in anna? I've also filed a BR (#567858) to request dropping the reiser4 udebs. I don't see support for that happening

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
Another issue. The Depends: for netcfg in debian/control now has: dhcp3-client-udeb (= 3.1.0-2) [kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64] According to policy this is only allowed for build dependencies, not for regular ones. Or am I missing something? If I'm right the dependency should be added

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 31 January 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: Probably worth adding/fixing for udhcpc is: - missing option host-name I've added it but I can't test it right now. Please see if it works for you. - missing option domain-name-servers - missing option dhcp-server-identifier - strange

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I.e, multiple IP addresses should be comma-separated. This also goes for ntp-servers, which probably should not have quotes as it's similar to dns. Fixed both issues; I can't test it now so if you have time do a last check. This is not

[SRM] Update of partman partitioning

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
I've just uploaded a new version of partman-partitioning (64lenny1) with a minor fix for a display issue for gpt disk labels in D-I. Please accept. TIA, FJP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [SRM] Update of partman partitioning

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 31 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: I've just uploaded a new version of partman-partitioning (64lenny1) with a minor fix for a display issue for gpt disk labels in D-I. Oops. Forgot the bug closure. It's for #567590. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: also, just so you know: i'll be buying at least one of these to give to anyone willing to port debian onto it (they're that cheap, duh). it already has some sort of random linux distro on it but it would be nice to have it done as a proper debian HOWTO etc.

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 567590 partman-base 128lenny1 retitle 567590 Strange bootable flag behavior with gpt disk label; RAID fails thanks On Saturday 30 January 2010, Zachary Palmer wrote: Here's the interesting bit.  I sped through the menus and discovered that the RAID system was quite happy to create a

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote:   │         Bootable flag:    off                                    │   │         off                                                      │ Note the extra line with 'off' below the 'Bootable flag' line. That could be caused by bootable flag

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Toggling Bootable flag does not work (it remains 'off'), but toggling the line below changes it from 'off' to 'on'. Toggling the bootable flag still does not have any effect. It should be supported

Bug#564441: new version of the proposed patch

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Fred wrote: I've updated my patch to follow suggestions from F. Pop, and tested it at my level. Perhaps some enhancements could be added for a better usability. Thanks Fred. I've taken a first look at the patch and will review it more thoroughly over the next

Update of D-I Internals

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
Yesterday I've committed a fairly large update to the D-I Internals document. It now reflects the current development version for Squeeze instead of lagging at Etch. I've also started its transformation towards a more general developers reference by integrating the menu-item-numbers and

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 567590 partman-base 128lenny1 retitle 567590 Strange bootable flag behavior with gpt disk label; RAID fails thanks On Saturday 30 January 2010, Zachary Palmer wrote: Here's the interesting bit.  I sped through the menus and discovered that the RAID system was quite happy to create a

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote:   │         Bootable flag:    off                                    │   │         off                                                      │ Note the extra line with 'off' below the 'Bootable flag' line. That could be caused by bootable flag

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Toggling Bootable flag does not work (it remains 'off'), but toggling the line below changes it from 'off' to 'on'. Toggling the bootable flag still does not have any effect. It should be supported

Bug#564441: new version of the proposed patch

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Fred wrote: I've updated my patch to follow suggestions from F. Pop, and tested it at my level. Perhaps some enhancements could be added for a better usability. Thanks Fred. I've taken a first look at the patch and will review it more thoroughly over the next

Re: unused and removable partman templates

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
I've checked only by grepping, nothing fancy. On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Joey Hess wrote: AFAICS, the following templates are all not used anywhere: partman-jfs/check_failed partman-reiserfs/check_failed partman-ext3/check_failed partman-ext2r0/check_failed partman-xfs/check_failed

[RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
What do people think of degrading reiserfs support to optional, i.e. only usable by specifically selecting partman-reiserfs in anna? The rationale would be that its popularity has decreased (AFAIK), upstream development is not very active and that more (and better?) alternatives are available

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Rainer Koenig wrote: Frans Pop schrieb: - install build dependencies - build a netboot image using: make reallyclean; fakeroot make build_netboot At this point I fail. The build process wants to install packages like acpi-modules-2.6.26-2-686-di

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: It was a long time since I last looked at it; I've looked again and I found that the script was not being set as executable. I've fixed it for next busybox' upload. Thanks for the fixes. I'll give it a go. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I built a netboot image without dhcp3-udeb to test udhcpc, but it failed miserably as it did not manage to get a lease during netcfg. How well was this tested? Works OK now. Nice. Now it has one. /var/lib/udhcp/udhcpc.leases. udhcpc

Daily Debian Installer builds

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
FYI I've taken over the daily builds of Debian Installer for s390 as lophos has been down for well over a month now. If the service on lophos is ever reinstated, or if someone wants to set up (and manage) the builds on a regular buildd I'll be happy to stop them again. The link on the D-I

Accepted choose-mirror 2.32 (source all amd64)

2010-01-29 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: 502245 Changes: choose-mirror (2.32) unstable; urgency=low . * Improve generation

Accepted localechooser 2.24 (source amd64)

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: localechooser - choose language/country/locale (udeb) Changes: localechooser (2.24) unstable; urgency=low . * Use Norwegian Bokmaal country names if no iso-codes translation is available for Northern Sami. * Correct display of translation

Bug#567431: Installation Report

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 567431 kernel-wedge 2.62 tags 567431 pending thanks On Friday 29 January 2010, boice...@msu.edu wrote: Comments/Problems: Using the text installer, USB Keyboard did not work even with BIOS legacy emulation enabled once I passed the Install menu choice and was on the language screen.

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 containing only libgcc_s.so.1. In case we do decide on inclusion in gcc, here is an updated patch for 4.4 and the additional patch for 4.5. Changes: - added libgcc[246] udebs

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 containing only libgcc_s.so.1. In case we do decide on inclusion in gcc, here is an updated patch for 4.4 and the additional patch for 4.5. Changes: - added libgcc[246] udebs

Bug#567431: Installation Report

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 567431 kernel-wedge 2.62 tags 567431 pending thanks On Friday 29 January 2010, boice...@msu.edu wrote: Comments/Problems: Using the text installer, USB Keyboard did not work even with BIOS legacy emulation enabled once I passed the Install menu choice and was on the language screen.

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 containing only libgcc_s.so.1. In case we do decide on inclusion in gcc, here is an updated patch for 4.4 and the additional patch for 4.5. Changes: - added libgcc[246] udebs

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: Since the interface name can be used to decide whether to activate vlan support, no new debconf questions (like netcfg/enable_vlan or something) are needed, IMHO. Doesn't that already answer your question about the user interface? :-) One request:

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:35:47PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote: 2. Install vlan package into installer environment. Only the vconfig binary (9kb) is really needed. But it needs libc6. Is this an issue? Not needed: | config VCONFIG |

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: But at that time the interface chosen interface is not known. So deducing from chosen interface name (as outlined above) is not possible and this method would only work with preseeding or if additional questions are asked. No. The sequence should

Daily Debian Installer builds

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
FYI I've taken over the daily builds of Debian Installer for s390 as lophos has been down for well over a month now. If the service on lophos is ever reinstated, or if someone wants to set up (and manage) the builds on a regular buildd I'll be happy to stop them again. The link on the D-I

Re: [RFT]: Debian Installer - Pre-Alpha1 images ready for testing

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: - So, the first line is localized (german translation, correct) - The second chapter is NOT LOCALIZED (is in english !) - The third chapter is localized (german translation, correct) - The last line is NOT LOCALIZED (is in english !) You're

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: This is why my original proposal was to decide from the value of netcfg/chosen_interface whether to load/configure all the vlan stuff. So you would *always* show vlan interfaces, even for regular users on normal systems? I don't think I like that

Bug#559815: gcc warnings about array bounds in Hercules

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
Just happened to be looking at the BTS... Thorsten Glaser wrote: You might want to have a look at all these gcc warnings about array accesses being below/above array bounds, though. There may be more security issues hiding. These warnings have been fixed in the upcoming upstream release.

Bug#565639: SunBlade 1000 installation report - boot fails after installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 565639 linux-2.6 2.6.30-8 severity 565639 serious affects 565639 debian-installer On Sunday 24 January 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: Adding kernel team for comment: it looks like the value returned by uname -m has changed from 'sparc64' in kernel 2.6.26 to 'sparc' in 2.6.30 (and,

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: On 27.01.2010 23:26, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered

Bug#567337: Regression: '::' prefix for targets no longer works

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
Package: dosfstools Version: 3.0.8-1 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: Breaks Debian Installer With the new version we're getting the following errors during builds of images for D-I. On i386: mcopy -i./tmp/hd-media/boot.img ./tmp/hd-media/vmlinuz ::linux Cannot initialize '::' On

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: On 27.01.2010 23:26, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Geek87 wrote: Thanks! So it's impossible to have it work with tasksel. And for the base system? Does someone have an idea? That's a question that's probably better asked on the debian-user list. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#565639: SunBlade 1000 installation report - boot fails after installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 565639 linux-2.6 2.6.30-8 severity 565639 serious affects 565639 debian-installer On Sunday 24 January 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: Adding kernel team for comment: it looks like the value returned by uname -m has changed from 'sparc64' in kernel 2.6.26 to 'sparc' in 2.6.30 (and,

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Rainer Koenig wrote: Would be nice to figure out the why behind this problem. My guess at the moment is that it is related to a) the CPU which is a new AMD dual core athlon b) the 2.6.26-2-486 kernel that is used during the installation So I think there is a sort

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: On 27.01.2010 23:26, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Since 2 or 3 days, I'm having build failures on my local daily build for i386. The IA64 buildd has a similar error: mkfs.msdos -i deb1 -n Debian Inst -C ./tmp/cdrom/boot.img 32768 mkfs.msdos 3.0.8 (23 Jan 2010) mmd -i./tmp/cdrom/boot.img

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 28 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Since 2 or 3 days, I'm having build failures on my local daily build for i386. The IA64 buildd has a similar error: mkfs.msdos -i deb1 -n Debian Inst -C ./tmp/cdrom/boot.img 32768

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: This can not be replaced by the generic netcfg with netcfg/use_dhcp set to false or netcfg/disable_dhcp set to true? In theory that could maybe be done (but see below). Also note that setting an arch-dependent default while still fully supporting

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Joey Hess wrote: From 7:51 am timestamp, I assume Christian needed to get to work and didn't have time. It also said for the last few days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, you wrote: a) can I build a 32bit install image on a Debian amd64 system? Only if you create an i386 chroot (using debootstrap). b) is there a bit of documentation for those things? Websites, books or whatever. Wouldn't mind reading some stuff to get deeper into

Re: Bug#565639: SunBlade 1000 installation report - boot fails after installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 565639 linux-2.6 2.6.30-8 severity 565639 serious affects 565639 debian-installer On Sunday 24 January 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: Adding kernel team for comment: it looks like the value returned by uname -m has changed from 'sparc64' in kernel 2.6.26 to 'sparc' in 2.6.30 (and,

Bug#559815: gcc warnings about array bounds in Hercules

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
Just happened to be looking at the BTS... Thorsten Glaser wrote: You might want to have a look at all these gcc warnings about array accesses being below/above array bounds, though. There may be more security issues hiding. These warnings have been fixed in the upcoming upstream release.

Bug#567337: Regression: '::' prefix for targets no longer works

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
Package: dosfstools Version: 3.0.8-1 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: Breaks Debian Installer With the new version we're getting the following errors during builds of images for D-I. On i386: mcopy -i./tmp/hd-media/boot.img ./tmp/hd-media/vmlinuz ::linux Cannot initialize '::' On

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: On 27.01.2010 23:26, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered

Bug#566649: s390-tools: New upstream version 1.8.3 available

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Frans Pop wrote: I've packaged the new upstream version. Most debian/patches could be refreshed or updated without too many problems. I've also updated the packaging and fixed some BRs. I found I'd missed updating the files to be installed. I've now updated that too and made some other

Bug#566649: s390-tools: New upstream version 1.8.3 available

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Frans Pop wrote: I've packaged the new upstream version. Most debian/patches could be refreshed or updated without too many problems. I've also updated the packaging and fixed some BRs. I found I'd missed updating the files to be installed. I've now updated that too and made some other

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Source: gcc-4.4 Version: 1:4.4.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i patch X-Debbugs-CC: debian-b...@lists.debian.org Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 containing only libgcc_s.so.1. That file is needed for the (directfb based) graphical installer because of

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks a lot for the quick reply. On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: The patch itself looks ok, some other questions: - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered that. It's an option

Bug#562192: access to hppa machine to work on Bug #562192

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
xavier grave wrote: I'm trying to help on the packaging of polyorb (I'm not a Debian Developer) and I would like to work on bug 562192. The test suite driver fail on hppa with a nasty Segmentation fault. It's very likely that this is an hppa issue and not an issue in your package. However, it

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Source: gcc-4.4 Version: 1:4.4.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i patch X-Debbugs-CC: debian-b...@lists.debian.org Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 containing only libgcc_s.so.1. That file is needed for the (directfb based) graphical installer because of

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks a lot for the quick reply. On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: The patch itself looks ok, some other questions: - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered that. It's an option

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Geek87 wrote: I also would like to have it working similarly for the tasks: for example if I have a task Mail server installed depending on Sendmail and that the new version of this task now depends on Postfix, I would like Sendmail to be automatically removed and

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: I am wondering what netcfg-static is good for. Looks like it is an (outdated) subset of the more generic netcfg. No. It's used for s390: installer/build/pkg-lists/netboot/s390.cfg:1:netcfg-static

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: In the meantime this is correct. DHCP can be used on s390 with some constraints, but it needs to be disabled by default. Is it useful in practice though? I rather doubt anyone would want to set up an s390 box using DHCP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Source: gcc-4.4 Version: 1:4.4.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i patch X-Debbugs-CC: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 containing only libgcc_s.so.1. That file is needed for the (directfb based) graphical installer because of

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
-- Forwarded Message -- From: Matthias Klose d...@debian.org On 27.01.2010 21:03, Frans Pop wrote: Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 containing only libgcc_s.so.1. That file is needed for the (directfb based) graphical installer because

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks a lot for the quick reply. On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: The patch itself looks ok, some other questions: - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered that. It's an option

Re: Spam cleaning in list archives: one last effort needed

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Christian Perrier wrote: The remaining months, that should be targeted by anybody but me, Frans Pop, Holger Wansing and Lee Winter, are: * March 1999 to May 2000 * October 2000 to July 2002 * May and June 2004 I just see that as of yesterday the whole archive has now been scanned

Re: access to hppa machine to work on Bug #562192

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
xavier grave wrote: I'm trying to help on the packaging of polyorb (I'm not a Debian Developer) and I would like to work on bug 562192. The test suite driver fail on hppa with a nasty Segmentation fault. It's very likely that this is an hppa issue and not an issue in your package. However, it

netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-26 Thread Frans Pop
I've just tried running the SVN version of netcfg which includes the following change: [ Otavio Salvador ] * Add support for udhcpc. This was based on Luk Claes but changed to avoid dropping support for dhclient, dhclient3 and pump for now. I built a netboot image without dhcp3-udeb

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2010-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
Given that, what are the guidelines for when to file the initial bug report directly with upstream vs. when to file a bug report with Debian? It's mostly a question of what's most effective. The kernel team is already drowned in bug reports and has very little manpower to deal with relatively

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2010-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
Given that, what are the guidelines for when to file the initial bug report directly with upstream vs. when to file a bug report with Debian? It's mostly a question of what's most effective. The kernel team is already drowned in bug reports and has very little manpower to deal with relatively

Re: Spam cleaning in list archives: one last effort needed

2010-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
Christian Perrier wrote: If you're interested in statistics, you can look [2] to learn that our list is by far the one that got most cleaning. Here's a little overview of the lists with the most removed posts, including the ratio of deleted spam over reviewed posts. As you can see we have a

Bug#566642: s390-tools: Document 'optional' option in zipl.conf man page

2010-01-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: s390-tools Version: 1.6.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The 'optional' option is currently undocumented. Please find attached a proposed patch. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: s390 Kernel: Linux

Bug#566675: lstape: fails with dash as default shell due to bashisms

2010-01-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: s390-tools Version: 1.6.2-1 Severity: important $ sudo lstape /sbin/lstape: 30: Syntax error: ( unexpected Line 30 contains: function RequireArgument() { And 'function' is a bashism. Changing the shebang to /bin/bash fixed the problem. Other scripts in the package may well have the

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