Bug#243857: Patch has been available in Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
tags 243857 + pending thanks On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joshua Kwan wrote: Looks like this bug hasn't seen action for quite a while. It seems like in the meantime, Ubuntu has fixed this bug. Check out this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18656164/cdrom-detect-better-flow.patch Thanks for

Bug#243857: Patch has been available in Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Joshua, On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joshua Kwan wrote: Looks like this bug hasn't seen action for quite a while. It seems like in the meantime, Ubuntu has fixed this bug. Check out this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18656164/cdrom-detect-better-flow.patch Thanks for the pointer. I

Bug#243857: Patch has been available in Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joshua Kwan wrote: Looks like this bug hasn't seen action for quite a while. It seems like in the meantime, Ubuntu has fixed this bug. Check out this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18656164/cdrom-detect-better

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Further testing of this fix proved that it is insufficient. hw-detect call check-missing-firmware, which look on several devices (disk, USB sticks, floppies) for firmware, but fail to look on the CD itself. This, I must admit, is very sad.

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: On Dienstag, 16. März 2010, Frans Pop wrote: An additional issue with non-free firmware is that including it in the way you propose would (I think) mean it will get loaded without any prompting of the user, which may in some cases violate

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Actually, something causes main-menu to crash if I adjust mountmedia to return CD devices too, so I suspect it is better to adjust check-missing-firmware to also look in /cdrom/firmware/ for debs. Probably because the CD is already mounted

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Reading Wouter's post in this thread just now I realize I made a fairly stupid mistake when writing my mail. Frans Pop wrote: This seems to be what the RT has been focussing on after Sarge. [...] s/Sarge/Etch/ During the Sarge release these two sides were in balance. After that, for Sarge

Bug#574096: installation problem report

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Paul Jurczak wrote: Comments/Problems: I'm experimenting with various distributions and I successfully installed Ubuntu, Puppy, Fedora from USB Flash to USB Flash. Debian is the first distro, where I had to go USB CD to USB Flash route. Debian supports all kinds of

Bug#574096: installation problem report

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Please always reply to the BTS, not to the person responding. On Tuesday 16 March 2010, you wrote: Thank you for quick response. Do you mean that copying hd-media/boot.img.gz and .iso image to USB Flash will result in different installation behavior than preparing USB Flash with LiveUSB

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Further testing of this fix proved that it is insufficient. hw-detect call check-missing-firmware, which look on several devices (disk, USB sticks, floppies) for firmware, but fail to look on the CD itself. This, I must admit, is very sad.

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: On Dienstag, 16. März 2010, Frans Pop wrote: An additional issue with non-free firmware is that including it in the way you propose would (I think) mean it will get loaded without any prompting of the user, which may in some cases violate

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Actually, something causes main-menu to crash if I adjust mountmedia to return CD devices too, so I suspect it is better to adjust check-missing-firmware to also look in /cdrom/firmware/ for debs. Probably because the CD is already mounted

Re: Installer fails due to invalid signatures

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 573791 installation-reports tag 573791 unreproducible needinfo thanks On Tuesday 16 March 2010, steve clark wrote: I sent a report to the debian bug reporting system (bug number 573791) but it seems to not have been taken serious, being shuffled between responsible owners. I see it

Bug#573791: apt-get update in Debian 5.04 (lenny) failing since updates of 2010-03-11

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Please note this log is taken just now using: debian 5.04 netinst business card image I have just tried with the same image (for i386), using ftp.nl.d.o as mirror without any problems. My log looks similar to you, except that I get good signatures... From my log: Mar 16 17:41:08

Bug#574158: firmware licenses never displayed

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: 3. Provide some way for firmware debs to communicate to d-i that they    have a license the user needs to see, and have check-missing-firmware    display these licenses before the firmware is ever used. This is the option that I have had in the back

Bug#243857: Patch has been available in Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
tags 243857 + pending thanks On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joshua Kwan wrote: Looks like this bug hasn't seen action for quite a while. It seems like in the meantime, Ubuntu has fixed this bug. Check out this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18656164/cdrom-detect-better-flow.patch Thanks for

Re: Problem with local repository

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Hugo Alberto Perlin wrote: I'm trying to install Debian using the NetInst CD and a local repository created using the apt-mirror app. The installation with the local repository make the downloads of the first part well. But in the second part, when it need 5 files, it

Bug#243857: Patch has been available in Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Joshua, On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joshua Kwan wrote: Looks like this bug hasn't seen action for quite a while. It seems like in the meantime, Ubuntu has fixed this bug. Check out this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18656164/cdrom-detect-better-flow.patch Thanks for the pointer. I

Bug#243857: Patch has been available in Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joshua Kwan wrote: Looks like this bug hasn't seen action for quite a while. It seems like in the meantime, Ubuntu has fixed this bug. Check out this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18656164/cdrom-detect-better

Re: PA8800/8900 status HPPA for Squeeze

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Carlos O'Donell wrote: My *top* priorities are: - glibc regressions. - vfork bug.Carlos O'Donell wrote: I think it's time for another huge thank you to Carlos for his continued work that allows hppa to remain alive. So Carlos: muchas gracias (Not meaning to dismiss all the excellent work of

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: That source package does not contain all available firmware, FWIW. You're missing at least zd1211-firmware and atmel-firmware. debian-cd has a list in tasks/firmware. Btw, tasks/firmware refer to the non-existing package

Re: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: From a current point of view squeeze will release with kernel 2.6.32 This is not very good, since .32 is skipped by -rt people, so us who need realtime kernel, won't be able just to add a patch to distribution kernel, but instead will have to use different

Bug#573946: apt: Dutch program translation update

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
Package: apt Version:0.7.25.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch, l10n Attached an update for the Dutch translation of apt. Please include in your next upload. TIA apt_0.7.25.3_nl.po.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bug#573987: console-setup

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
Package: console-setup Severity: minor Currently when selecting a layout for a country the Other choice is sorted alphabetically. This means that for Dutch it's the last option listed while for USA it's the first. It would be better to nave this not sorted and instead always have it listed as

Bug#571939: Acknowledgement ([sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude)

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 March 2010, Daniel Burrows wrote: Hm, the threadall backtraces look identical. Is there another page? Ugh, must have made a mistake. Will get a new trace. BTW, if you're talking about the mouse having problems because of the terminal state: usually holding down Shift

Bug#571939: Acknowledgement ([sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude)

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 March 2010, Daniel Burrows wrote: Hm, the threadall backtraces look identical. Is there another page? Shift did work... I've cleaned out the remnants of the frontend. Thread 12 (Thread 0xf3dddb70 (LWP 1516)): #0 0xf7837acc in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from

Bug#573946: apt: Dutch program translation update

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 March 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Thanks, Frans. Resyncing the file with the current POT file in teh debian-sid branch in bzr gives one untranslated string. Would you mind completing it? Attached. nl.po.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Question for all candidates: Care of Core infrastructure

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
Marc Haber wrote: In the last years I have seen a really disturbing development in Debian: New developers are very interested in bringing new packages into Debian, but care for our core infrastructure (dpkg, apt) has a little bit diminished. Good question and quite true. IMO it's worth

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
Margarita Manterola wrote: I think that most of the frustration comes from the fact that the release team is lacking manpower. The job of the release team is very stressful and very rarely do the RM and RA feel that their work is appreciated. I disagree. I think the main problem is that

Re: how to set title in installer interface

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 15 March 2010, kin boster wrote: Template: my_test/title Should be: debian-installer/my_title/title Or rather: debian-installer/my_test-udeb/title (Or, in general: debian-installer/name of udeb/title) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: That source package does not contain all available firmware, FWIW. You're missing at least zd1211-firmware and atmel-firmware. debian-cd has a list in tasks/firmware. Btw, tasks/firmware refer to the non-existing package

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:16:40PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: It'd be quite weird to have a keyboard layout configured in d-i, and ignored when switching VTs to get to a console, IMO... Unfortunately this is inevitable. 'loadkeys' and

Re: Towards X11-based d-i: v2, final report

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
Sorry for not replying sooner. If there had been anything really urgent I would have commented, but there wasn't. I did look at the new image and udebs earlier, but did not get around to doing a full review until now. The difference in image size between version 1 and 2 is about 400kB

Re: Towards X11-based d-i: v2, final report

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 March 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: In the end I used libnettle, statically linked (that's amd64 this time, but you'll see the huge overhead of linking statically): | Installed-Size: [-2204-] {+2208+} libmatrixssl's headers were a mess, nettle is much cleaner, and directly

Bug#573987: console-setup

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
Package: console-setup Severity: minor Currently when selecting a layout for a country the Other choice is sorted alphabetically. This means that for Dutch it's the last option listed while for USA it's the first. It would be better to nave this not sorted and instead always have it listed as

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:22:54AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Besides that it offers choices for keymaps that are not even available This does happen. At least, with only console-setup-pc-ekmap loaded I see Sun dead keys listed for Dutch (hmmm

Re: Bug#573891: kFreeBSD partitioning fails

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Miroslav Kure wrote: No clue on tty4 at this stage. However, when I go back to the main That's normal. stderr often stays buffered until you exit a component (return to the main menu). menu and select to partition disks again, nothing happens (I am So that's not

Bug#573818: 'man debtree' typos: allready, occurence x 2, and seperation

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
tags 573818 pending thanks On Sunday 14 March 2010, A. Costa wrote: Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/debtree.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Thanks a lot. Committed for the next release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#573878: netcfg: hurd-i386 Fixes

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
tag 573878 pending thanks On Sunday 14 March 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Here is some fixes for netcfg on hurd-i386. Committed. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#573878: netcfg: hurd-i386 Fixes

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Please also add hurd-i386 to the netcfg binary package architecture list. Done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#573891: kFreeBSD partitioning fails

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Miroslav Kure wrote: No clue on tty4 at this stage. However, when I go back to the main That's normal. stderr often stays buffered until you exit a component (return to the main menu). menu and select to partition disks again, nothing happens (I am So that's not

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Clint Adams wrote: Okay, so when there is a mysterious release team meeting in Cambridge, and there is no discussion or planning of it on debian-release [...] Clint, Although to some level I agree with you [1], I wonder if you could explain one thing. That meeting

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl [2010-03-14 16:09:34 CET]: [1] I think release management for (old)stable is being handled quite well ATM. While this might be true and valid for stable, I am not too convinced that the last point release

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 08:15:53AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: D-I does not follow Recommends during base-installer (as discussed last month). This means that currently console-setup gets installed without kbd and console-tools. This is wrong

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Anton Zinoviev, le Sun 14 Mar 2010 12:39:08 +0200, a écrit : In the past c-s used strong dependency but I changed it to only recommends because of request by porters working on architectures which do not have kbd or console-tools (i.e. BSD).

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: I am realy surprised by all of this. What was causing kbd or console-tools to be installed in the past (before console-setup)? We used to explicitly install 'console-tools console-data console-common'. Probably exactly because Recommends were not

Bug#573878: netcfg: hurd-i386 Fixes

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
tag 573878 pending thanks On Sunday 14 March 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Here is some fixes for netcfg on hurd-i386. Committed. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#573878: netcfg: hurd-i386 Fixes

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Please also add hurd-i386 to the netcfg binary package architecture list. Done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#573891: kFreeBSD partitioning fails

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Miroslav Kure wrote: No clue on tty4 at this stage. However, when I go back to the main That's normal. stderr often stays buffered until you exit a component (return to the main menu). menu and select to partition disks again, nothing happens (I am So that's not

Re: how to set title in installer interface

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 March 2010, kin boster wrote: Template: my_test/title Should be: debian-installer/my_title/title -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Accepted partman-target 66 (source all)

2010-03-13 Thread Frans Pop
-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-target - Provides partman with ability to prepare /target (udeb) Closes: 573252 Changes: partman-target (66) unstable; urgency=low . * No longer create /cdrom compatibility symlink. Closes: #573252. With thanks to Maximilian Attems

Accepted pkgsel 0.28 (source all)

2010-03-13 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:29:49 +0100 Source: pkgsel Binary: pkgsel Architecture: source all Version: 0.28 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f

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

2010-03-13 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Martin, On Saturday 13 February 2010, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl [2010.02.12.1238 +1300]: but I think we should make 0.9 the default for squeeze and move to 1.1 only afterwards, once grub-pc knows how to deal with it. Do you want to do

Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-13 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Anton, D-I does not follow Recommends during base-installer (as discussed last month). This means that currently console-setup gets installed without kbd and console-tools. Would it be better in your opinion to force installation of Recommends for console-setup? What exactly is the

Accepted apt-setup 1:0.45 (source all)

2010-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: apt-cdrom-setup - set up a CD in sources.list (udeb) apt-mirror-setup - set up a mirror in sources.list (udeb) apt-setup-udeb - Configure apt (udeb) Changes: apt-setup (1:0.45) unstable; urgency=low . * There's no need

Accepted base-installer 1.106 (source all amd64)

2010-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: base-installer - base system installation framework (udeb) bootstrap-base - Install the base system (udeb) Changes: base-installer (1.106) unstable; urgency=low . * Define the mount point for apt-cdrom in target as /media/cdrom

Bug#571939: [sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude

2010-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:54:31PM +0100, Frans Pop f...@debian.org was heard to say: aptitude runs fine on my sparc64 box for upgrading and installing packages, but segfaults always when I quit the application. Does this happen just

Bug#571939: [sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude

2010-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: It's a box I don't boot that often but I've never seen the segfaults before, certainly not with 0.4.11. I noticed it after the last upgrade. Just got another segfault; this time after the second go for the purge of a single package (with the download

Bug#571939: [sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude

2010-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
One more clue. After the segfault I get a shell prompt. But the screen is not cleared and the mouse is in a weird state. Seems as if the mouse is still half captured. Any button action results in output at the prompt; 'reset' clears it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I don't think it particularly matters if there's a stray /media/cdrom. I could always plug in a usb cd drive. OK. Let's give it a try as it is now then. I will uploaded base-installer and apt-setup to start with. Colin, At the risk of invoking your

Re: initrd.img - creating a init ramdisk by hand

2010-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Richard Lamboj wrote: i need to create an init ramdisk for booting over the network. I'am working on an Project to manage Servers, Vservers, Clients and Services over the Network and one part is an init ramdisk wich will install disk images on the clients to place

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I don't think it particularly matters if there's a stray /media/cdrom. I could always plug in a usb cd drive. OK. Let's give it a try as it is now then. I will uploaded base-installer and apt-setup to start with. Colin, At the risk of invoking your

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote: applications that still rely on a toplevel /cdrom are likely very buggy and should be kicked. nuke etch compatibility link. Except that D-I itself still uses it :-/ We'll need to change that first... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
tag 573252 pending thanks On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote: applications that still rely on a toplevel /cdrom are likely very buggy and should be kicked. nuke etch compatibility link. Except that D-I itself still uses

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: /cdrom was only obsoleted in etch by a combination of prayer and wishful thinking. apt-cdrom still relied on it until very recently, when Michael Vogt did some work on it. Hmm. It could be that back then only the automatic unmounting was fixed. I'll

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Colin Watson wrote: If you don't bind-mount /target/cdrom in base-installer, how do you ensure that we use the same CD for base installation as was used to boot the installer? You cannot ensure that even if you do bind mount it as the BIOS' idea of what is the first

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: No, we no longer bind mount /target/cdrom. We used to bind mount it permanently, but that was changed with the reintroduction of multi-cd support. Instead we always leave it up to apt-cdrom to mount/umount the CD as (and only as long as) needed. Oh

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: No, we no longer bind mount /target/cdrom. We used to bind mount it permanently, but that was changed with the reintroduction of multi-cd support. Instead we always leave it up to apt-cdrom to mount/umount

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: No, we no longer bind mount /target/cdrom. We used to bind mount it permanently, but that was changed with the reintroduction of multi-cd support. Instead we

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.preinst has: if [ -d /cdrom ]; then

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. /var/lib/dpkg/info/base

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. Duh. I looked at the code earlier today. It's base-installer of course

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. So after today's changes

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote: applications that still rely on a toplevel /cdrom are likely very buggy and should be kicked. nuke etch compatibility link. Except that D-I itself still uses it :-/ We'll need to change that first... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
tag 573252 pending thanks On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote: applications that still rely on a toplevel /cdrom are likely very buggy and should be kicked. nuke etch compatibility link. Except that D-I itself still uses

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

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: To try and make sure I wasn't missing any occurrences, I've patched lintian and sent the preliminary patch as a bugreport against lintian: #573399. Feel free to voice in, improve the patch, etc. :) The background to this is that until Lenny

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: /cdrom was only obsoleted in etch by a combination of prayer and wishful thinking. apt-cdrom still relied on it until very recently, when Michael Vogt did some work on it. Hmm. It could be that back then only the automatic unmounting was fixed. I'll

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Colin Watson wrote: If you don't bind-mount /target/cdrom in base-installer, how do you ensure that we use the same CD for base installation as was used to boot the installer? You cannot ensure that even if you do bind mount it as the BIOS' idea of what is the first

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: No, we no longer bind mount /target/cdrom. We used to bind mount it permanently, but that was changed with the reintroduction of multi-cd support. Instead we always leave it up to apt-cdrom to mount/umount the CD as (and only as long as) needed. Oh

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: No, we no longer bind mount /target/cdrom. We used to bind mount it permanently, but that was changed with the reintroduction of multi-cd support. Instead we always leave it up to apt-cdrom to mount/umount

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: No, we no longer bind mount /target/cdrom. We used to bind mount it permanently, but that was changed with the reintroduction of multi-cd support. Instead we

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.preinst has: if [ -d /cdrom ]; then

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. /var/lib/dpkg/info/base

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. Duh. I looked at the code earlier today. It's base-installer of course

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. So after today's changes

Bug#550961: small patch ... actually

2010-03-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 March 2010, Pietro Abate wrote: setting APT_CONFIG is the way to go. No need to modify debtree... APT_CONFIG=apt.conf apt-get update APT_CONFIG=apt.conf debtree dpkg Thanks for your info. I think we should keep the BR open until this has been documented, for example in a

Bug#573355: hercules: Update of documentation

2010-03-10 Thread Frans Pop
Package: hercules Version: 3.06-1.3 Severity: wishlist The herculeans have released 3.07. It would be great to have that in Squeeze. I would suggest updating some of the documentation. The giving_s_390_a_try.html is outdated; I'd drop it and instead add the following to the README.Debian.

Re: spi_s3c64xx.c - plat/spi.h: No such file or directory

2010-03-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 March 2010, jassi brar wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: When building with an SMDK6410 config with CONFIG_SPI_S3C64XX=m I get the following compilation error: CC [M]  drivers/spi/spi_s3c64xx.o drivers/spi/spi_s3c64xx.c:31:22

Re: spi_s3c64xx.c - plat/spi.h: No such file or directory

2010-03-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, jassi brar wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2010, jassi brar wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: When building with an SMDK6410 config with CONFIG_SPI_S3C64XX=m

Re: spi_s3c64xx.c - plat/spi.h: No such file or directory

2010-03-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, jassi brar wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, jassi brar wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2010, jassi brar wrote: On Wed, Mar 10

Re: spi_s3c64xx.c - plat/spi.h: No such file or directory

2010-03-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, jassi brar wrote: Then you need patches from Grant Likely's tree. The driver now includes a new header plat/s3c64xxx-spi.h instead Check http://git.secretlab.ca/?p=linux-2.6.git;a=summary branch 'next' or 'next-spi' Yep, that does work! Thanks a lot for your

Re: testing firmware image out of date

2010-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: The firmware bundle at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/testing/c urrent/ contains firmware files from lenny. I'm fairly sure that testing did not have such old versions of when the file was built in February, so is it

Accepted partman-crypto 42 (source all amd64)

2010-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-crypto - Add to partman support for block device encryption (udeb) partman-crypto-dm - Add to partman support for dm-crypt encryption (udeb) partman-crypto-loop - Add to partman support for loop-AES

Re: Missing loop-aes-modules-${current:kernel}-amd64-di?

2010-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Also: Is there any way to make sure there's no (kernel) version mismatch between *-modules packages in the future? That still stands. Problem is that if we ask to remove the loop-aes udebs for .30 for unstable (which is the only real option

Re: Missing loop-aes-modules-${current:kernel}-amd64-di?

2010-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Using my d-i usb stick, I was hoping to recover from it by mounting the crypted lvm through cryptsetup luksOpen … (which a quick google suggests), but unfortunately I end up with cryptsetup telling me to check for missing aes support in the

Re: Missing loop-aes-modules-${current:kernel}-amd64-di?

2010-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Using my d-i usb stick, I was hoping to recover from it by mounting the crypted lvm through cryptsetup luksOpen … (which a quick google suggests), but unfortunately I end up with cryptsetup telling

Re: [PATCH] Switch grub-installer to grub-probe

2010-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Colin Watson wrote: Indeed, what he said.  grub-probe is in grub-common exactly so that both grub-legacy and grub2 can use it, and note that there's a bit of code in my patch to handle the different partition number offset. As long as there won't be regressions for

Re: Missing loop-aes-modules-${current:kernel}-amd64-di?

2010-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Using my d-i usb stick, I was hoping to recover from it by mounting the crypted lvm through cryptsetup luksOpen … (which a quick google suggests), but unfortunately I end up with cryptsetup telling me to check for missing aes support in the

Re: Missing loop-aes-modules-${current:kernel}-amd64-di?

2010-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: The outcome was quite surprising, but explained a lot: cryptsetup wasn't actually installed on the target system… Did you install the system using a daily image? If so, that's what you get from using udebs from unstable ;-) Fixed. -- To

Multipath support in Squeeze

2010-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Guido, What's the status of multipath support in Squeeze? Especially given the switch to grub2. Could you perhaps update the wiki page [1]? It currently refers to loads of closed bug reports, which only makes one wonder. If possible, please clarify the status both for Lenny and for Squeeze.

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