[D-I] Kernel/module udebs status - massbuild script update

2007-07-05 Thread Frans Pop
(Reply-to set to debian-boot list) kernel udeb status == Because I had to test the changes below anyway, I have done what I guess will be my last massbuild and upload of kernel/module udebs. All arches are now at 2.6.21-2, with the following exceptions: - sparc: at 2.6.20

[D-I] Updating kernel udebs to 2.6.20

2007-04-26 Thread Frans Pop
Hello D-I porters, Most architectures should now be able to switch to 2.6.20 for D-I (except for arm, hppa and m68k). i386 and amd64 have already been switched. Over the past two weeks Joey has done the needed work for i386 and amd64 (and necessary updates in kernel-wedge), but we've waited

Re: Update of AMD64 port page for Etch

2007-04-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 March 2007 00:36, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So we have an linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64 and amd64-libs packages on i386. The default gcc version supports building 64 bit binaries, I suggest you change gcc-3.4 by toolchain. Anyway, the limits are outdated by now. I think the current

Update of AMD64 port page for Etch

2007-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I've made some changes to the general port page and the AMD64 page in preparation for Etch. These changes will become active when Etch is released, but can be previewed at: http://www.debian.lichtenheld.net/ports/ http://www.debian.lichtenheld.net/ports/amd64/ Please compare these pages

D-I RC2 images available for testing

2007-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
(BCC to d-ports) For all architectures, except for m68k, installer and CD/DVD images of what is going to be D-I RC2 are now available for testing. RC2 is scheduled to be the D-I release shipped with Etch. Netboot, floppy and hd-media images are available from:

D-I RC2 - Revisited

2007-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
Hi all, As you've probably noticed, what's intended to be the final kernel for Etch has been uploaded yesterday. I'm currently building and uploading the kernel udebs for all arches (except arm and m68k for which images are not yet available). I'll also upload new loop-aes module udebs for

Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-25 Thread Frans Pop
(BCCed to d-ports) Hello, We received a BR that the list of porters for PowerPC on the Organization webpage [1] was outdated. However, this seems to be true for most ports. Please reply to debian-www@lists.debian.org with an updated list of active porters for your port after discussing

[D-I] Please update kernel udebs to 2.6.18-6

2006-11-25 Thread Frans Pop
We are ready to make the switch to 2.6.18 for Debian Installer. For most architectures the 2.6.18-6 (ABI -3) should now be available in unstable. Please update the kernel udebs for your architecture ASAP. Cheers, FJP pgp5StV8F21tW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: install: choose kernel

2006-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:00, Douglas Tutty wrote: I'm at the point of choosing which kernel to install: linux-image-2.6-amd64-generic linux-image-2.6.17-2amd64 linux-image-2.6-amd64 There is absolutely no difference :-) In fact the only real kernel image package in

Debian Installer - Call for testing *this week*

2006-10-17 Thread Frans Pop
than English, consider installing in that language; note that one last round of translation updates is still planned, but reports of issues are still appreciated TIA, Frans Pop [1]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#di-partition [2]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual

D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

2006-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
Things are finally starting to come together for RC1. - We've found a good work-around for the bug in g-i where selected lines in multi-select lists would not be shown. We need new versions of some gtk packages for that, but these have now been uploaded. Thanks especially to Loïc Minier for

[D-I] Switching initrd filesystem (was: mass kernel udeb update and preparations for RC1)

2006-09-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 22 September 2006 16:39, Grant Grundler wrote: I didn't see anything for parisc (HPPA). I don't know of any problems with initramfs on parisc. but I don't expect any surprises from the kernel on that. Maybe I was not clear enough on this. The original text was: * type of initrd used

Re: [D-I] mass kernel udeb update and preparations for RC1

2006-09-22 Thread Frans Pop
actually read the mail? Is it useful that I send such mails at all? On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:28, Frans Pop wrote: Dear (d-i) porters, First mass upload of kernel udebs = Today I have uploaded kernel udeb updates to 2.6.17-9 _for all arches_

D-I Manual - Major commits to prepare for addition of AMD64 variant

2006-08-07 Thread Frans Pop
Hello all, Today I have made a few fairly big commits (touching many files at least) to prepare for the addition of a new variant of the manual for the AMD64 architecture (closing #305977). No real changes have been made yet. Today's commits were just laying the groundwork and have made the

Sarge 3.1r3 preparation - Needed work for Debian Installer update

2006-08-04 Thread Frans Pop
This mail is intended for AMD64 Sarge ftp-masters. I have today uploaded debian-installer (20050317sarge1) to stable. This upload of the installer is intended to be released with Sarge 3.1r3 and is required to keep some installation methods working. The reason some installation methods will no

Re: D-I Beta 3 - release update - please test

2006-07-31 Thread Frans Pop
://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-arch/current/images/ Known issues: - S/390 Beta 3 candidate images are broken; will be fixed with next upload - Lowmem settings in Beta 3 images are not yet correct; see below On Monday 24 July 2006 11:52, Frans Pop wrote: One important TODO item

Re: 3.1r3 lkdi status

2006-07-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 July 2006 21:00, dann frazier wrote: Here's the status of the lkdi rebuilds for 3.1r3. Thanks Dann. l-k-di-amd64-2.6: build available in gluck:~dannf/3.1r3-lkdi-rebuilds amd64 guys: should i upload this somewhere? They should preferably end up in:

D-I Beta 3 - release planning

2006-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
(Please reply only to debian-boot; reply-to set accordingly; add other recipients only selectively) Now that linux-2.6.16 has safely landed in testing a few days ago, we can really start working on the Beta 3 release of D-I. In fact, the migration of most udebs to testing is already in

D-I Beta 3 preparation - please update 2.6.16 kernel udebs

2006-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
(Please reply only to d-boot; Reply-to set accordingly) The latest upload of linux-2.6.16 is now (after today's mirror sync) available for all architectures except arm. As there were important changes, we should rebuild the kernel udebs against 2.6.16-17 before starting the builds of

Debian Installer - Etch Beta 3 release

2006-06-22 Thread Frans Pop
(Please reply only to d-boot and optionally the relevant port list.) Hello d-i porters, Now that 2.6.16-15 kernels have been uploaded to unstable (using a linux-2.6.16 source package), we can start thinking about the Etch Beta 3 release of D-I. Currently all architectures, except for arm,

Daily builds for AMD64 have been broken for a while

2006-06-18 Thread Frans Pop
JFYI As a result of #374228 we've discovered that the debian-cd build machine has not been syncing the daily built d-i images for some time. The result of this was that for a while daily netinst and businesscard images have been built using outdated initrds in combination with newer udebs

Re: Dropping the amd64-generic flavour

2006-06-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 June 2006 00:42, Frederik Schueler wrote: -generic is odd and too long. I am considering to change the naming scheme completely, and call the flavours 2.6.x-y-amd64 and 2.6.x-y-em64t respectively. So what do you choose if you need a kernel that supports both? Both are

Re: sarge3 kernel build r3

2006-06-08 Thread Frans Pop
(Also replying to other mails about Sarge support in Etch installer) On Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:42, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ment that when you select sarge in choose-mirror in expert mode you get the inofficial list and if you choose etch/etch+1/sid

Re: sarge3 kernel build r3

2006-06-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 June 2006 13:33, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: - increasing differences between the Sarge 2.6.8 and current kernels; That is a reason for. Only if we _would_ include some backports repository that is known to have a current backported kernel and all other packages needed with

Re: sarge3 kernel build r3

2006-06-07 Thread Frans Pop
(Removed irrelevant CCs for this question) On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:11, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: If possibly it would be nice to have different mirror lists for sarge and etch/sid in choose-mirror. This is not really a problem. choose-mirror for Sarge will remain unchanged and thus

Re: sarge3 kernel build r3

2006-06-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 21:32, dann frazier wrote: I don't think its very likely that amd64/sarge will be added to debian.org, I did not mean to imply that of course. but this is a good question for the amd64.debian.net maintainers. The main reason we need to know is that the d-i source

Debian Installer daily builds use offial mirrors for AMD64

2006-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
Today a new version of choose-mirror was uploaded that contains an updated mirrorlist and also has the normal mirrors as default for AMD64 instead of amd64.debian.net. As AMD64 is not yet installable from testing, this may break network based installations. Installations (in expert mode) of

Re: [D-I] Preparing for update in stable

2006-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
, Frans Pop wrote: In more detail: 1) Upload new i386 kernel udebs for both 2.4 and 2.6 to s-p-u (I've already prepared a set) 2) Get these acked by SRM so they actually show up in s-p-u; s-p-u already has debian-installer sections, I'm not sure if the acceptance queue and approval stuff

Fwd: support for Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X

2006-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
(resending because of error in list address; reply-to set to include original recipients) Hello, We have received two requests for the inclusion of mpt* modules for AMD64 in Debian Installer. The first is listed below, the second is #367634. AFAICT mpt* modules should be included in the

Re: amd64 CD builds

2006-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 08 April 2006 18:31, Steve McIntyre wrote: At the moment the regular CD builds for amd64 are still using the separate amd64 archive from ftbfs.debian.net. As amd64 is about to hit testing in the mainr archive Real Soon Now, I'm planning on moving the CD builds over to use the

Fwd: [D-I] Post-release notes

2006-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
(This was supposed to be BCC'ed to d-ports...) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [D-I] Post-release notes Date: Saturday 18 March 2006 03:25 From: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org As the last action for the Beta 2 release, the links for the daily

Re: Etch amd64 dvds

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:36, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:42:43PM +0100, linuxdvds.de wrote: Hello, I think something must be wrong with the etch amd64 dvds under http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/ Have not tried to install with these

D-I Etch Beta2 - Status update (4)

2006-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
I am very happy to announce that the debian-installer images targeted for Beta2 are now in testing (except AMD64) and that daily (etch_d-i) netinst and buisinesscard CD images using them are now available from [1]. These images use the 2.6.15-7 kernel. Note: full CD images are not yet

Re: D-I Etch Beta2 - Status update (4)

2006-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
(already sent to d-boot) On Tuesday 07 March 2006 13:52, Frans Pop wrote: I am very happy to announce that the debian-installer images targeted for Beta2 are now in testing (except AMD64) and that daily (etch_d-i) netinst and buisinesscard CD images using them are now available from [1

D-I Etch Beta2 - Status update (3)

2006-03-02 Thread Frans Pop
I've made a complete mess of CD images for Beta2 so far as the result of a wrong assumption. This means, as some installation reports and comments have shown, that CD images linked from [1] have been broken since last Friday. The good news is that there are now good Beta2 netinst and

Propagation of packages and udebs for D-I Beta2

2006-02-24 Thread Frans Pop
migrations should also happen for AMD64. TIA, Frans Pop pgpwlcsSmqebG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#335653: Install failure with Etch 24-Oct-2005 snapshot

2005-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 335653 debian-cd severity 335653 important retitle 335653 Several required packages missing on amd64 20051024 daily thanks On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:20, Anthony Lau wrote: Attached is /var/log/messages with set -x in debootstrap. Thanks very much! This makes the issue a lot

Re: Bug#332772: debian-installer: FTBFS on amd64: Error: unknown architecture 'amd64'

2005-10-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 08 October 2005 15:40, Kurt Roeckx wrote: d-i is failing to build on amd64 with the following error: Language: en Architecture: amd64 Info: creating temporary profiled .xml file... Error: unknown architecture 'amd64' The building of the manual was just taken out of the build of

Re: SATA install - AMD64 - success story

2005-07-26 Thread Frans Pop
unknown 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 808627e2unknown unknown 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 TIA, Frans Pop pgpxryjuyeyqY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] add amd64 to release-notes

2005-06-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 09 June 2005 13:59, Frederik Schueler wrote: please find attached a patch adding the amd64 architecture to the english release notes. I have one major problem with the patch, even after the reworking already done by Frank. You have disabled the whole chapter on upgrading, but

Re: [PATCH] add amd64 to release-notes

2005-06-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 12 June 2005 20:41, Frederik Schueler wrote: I'll send another diff based on all these changes ASAP. That's not needed. I have the patch almost ready and will send it to you for review this evening. There are some other technical changes I made as well. Also, I'm working on some

Re: [PATCH] add amd64 to release-notes

2005-06-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 12 June 2005 20:49, Frans Pop wrote: That's not needed. I have the patch almost ready and will send it to you for review this evening. There are some other technical changes I made as well. Here's the proposed patch. Please check carefully. The diff is against revision 1.56

Fwd: Bug#305238: Installation report: AMD AThlonXP 1800+ / Abit KR7A-RAID133 (with Highpoint Raid controller)

2005-05-19 Thread Frans Pop
This installation report has not yet had a reply. As most of the issues seem amd64 kernel related, could someone from the AMD64 team please answer this report? TIA, Frans Pop -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Bug#305238: Installation report: AMD AThlonXP 1800+ / Abit KR7A

Re: Bug#305238: Fwd: Bug#305238: Installation report: AMD AThlonXP 1800+ / Abit KR7A-RAID133 (with Highpoint Raid controller)

2005-05-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:06, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 07:23:44PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: This installation report has not yet had a reply. As most of the issues seem amd64 kernel related, could someone from the AMD64 team please answer this report? Athlon XP = k7

Sarge Release Notes - Architecture specific news?

2005-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
(Resending to arch lists.) If there is any architecture specific news that you'd like to have included in the Release Notes (like new subarchs supported or dropped), please send a proposed text to the d-doc mailing list (CC your architecture list) before the end of this week. Cheers, Frans