Bug#97414: package sgml-data is needed to build boot floppies

2001-05-14 Thread Matt Kraai
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:39:21PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: I made a woody chroot and was having difficulty building the documentation. It turns out the package sgml-data wasn't installed. It used to be pulled in by at least debiandoc-sgml but in woody and sid debiandoc-sgml no longer

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-14 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Bug 3: fd0 device problems For APUS /dev/fd0 is unable to load the rescue floppy disk. I think it defaults to the Amiga floppy formats. I must erase it and recreate it with 'mknod fd0 b 2 28' that is the same of /dev/fd0u1440 in a standard installation. After this change the

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-14 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:50:40AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: hi, Bug 3: fd0 device problems For APUS /dev/fd0 is unable to load the rescue floppy disk. I think it defaults to the Amiga floppy formats. I must erase it and recreate it with 'mknod fd0 b 2 28' that is the same of

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-14 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:38:07PM +0200, Giorgio Terzi wrote: Hello Sven, In first i wish to thank you for your help and for your last e-mail. :))) But let's speak about job. The second goal is reached! Now is possible to load install Rescue Driver images from floppies,

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Michael Stone | On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:08:17PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | |talk rather obsolete, but debatable | |talkd not very secure for baseline | | I want those. They are very useful, and afaik, there are no security | problems with talkd. | |

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:05:03PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: I don't know if it is possible to enable such a per subarch warning (altough it may be common the the m68K/amiga folk). Floppys on m68k are completely useless AFAIK. Since Amigalilo is not supported by Debian, who needs floppies

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-14 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:21:46PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:38:07PM +0200, Giorgio Terzi wrote: Bug 1: dbootstrap The APUS rescue image is MSDOS formatted but in file choose_medium.c from line 34 the code is so: #if cpu(sparc) || #cpu(powerpc) const

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.2

2001-05-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you going to tag debian_version_2_3_2? New busybox got uploaded that fixed cp, mv, and has a proper version number. Yes, sure. Will do. I can build i386. I won't be able to finish it until probably late tonight. Should I just upload it to my

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-14 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Mon May 14 08:15:50 PDT 2001 Log Message: Ethan Benson: PowerMac documentation corrections Files: changed:Tag: potato changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by aph

2001-05-14 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Mon May 14 08:16:07 PDT 2001 Log Message: Ethan Benson: PowerMac documentation corrections Files: changed:Tag: potato partitioning.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#97414: problem with debiandoc-sgml

2001-05-14 Thread Matt Kraai
reassign 97414 debiandoc-sgml retitle 97414 should depend on sgml-data merge 97297 97414 thanks The debiandoc DTD references a number of files of entity definitions which are provided by sgml-data. It should depend on sgml-data so that these files are sure to be present. Matt P.S. The merge

Processed: problem with debiandoc-sgml

2001-05-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 97414 debiandoc-sgml Bug#97414: package sgml-data is needed to build boot floppies Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppies' to `debiandoc-sgml'. retitle 97414 should depend on sgml-data Bug#97414: package sgml-data is needed to build boot

Re: Bug#97414: package sgml-data is needed to build boot floppies

2001-05-14 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:27:09AM -0700, David Whedon wrote: Could you post the error message? Hopefully that would indicate which package must have a dependency on sgml-data. [snip errors] OK, looks like the problem is that debiandoc.dtd refers to some files of entities that are

Re: powerpc woody bf installation status

2001-05-14 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:00:34PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:18:06AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: I'm building a new one now. Rather then waiting for 0.52 to stabalize, I'm backporting the critical bugfixes into 0.51. Is that 0.51-3? You havn't picked up the

2.2.25 compact install

2001-05-14 Thread Francis Larson
I have been trying the 2.2.25 version on a Dell Optiplex GXi. This is an all IDE box with 3com network card. The install went flawlessly till the module configuration. DHCP had worked and the base package had been downloaded. I got the message that No modules were found in

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

2001-05-14 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Mon May 14 12:26:06 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Japanese update by Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED], Closes: #97474 Files: changed:apt-setup.templates.ja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-05-14 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Mon May 14 12:26:06 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Japanese update by Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED], Closes: #97474 Files: changed:changelog templates.ja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Michael Stone | On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:16:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | IMHO, a system without talk and talkd is too limited. Have it only | listen on loopback, if security is the problem. | | That's YHO. I obviously disagree. :) :) | I haven't used talk in years, and you

Re: powerpc woody bf installation status

2001-05-14 Thread Erik Andersen
On Mon May 14, 2001 at 05:00:34PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: I built my own from 0.51-1 source last week and found zcat didn't work if you fed it input in stdin - just gave a usage msg. Havn't checked if that is fixed in cvs yet, or if it was a local problem. That is fixed in 0.51-3.

Re: powerpc woody bf installation status

2001-05-14 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:35:20PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Mon May 14, 2001 at 05:00:34PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: Currently using a 0.50 build with the md5sum fix in it, but in that sed doesn't work, sed -n '/^[Mm][Dd]5[Ss][Uu][Mm]/,/^[^ ]/p' $reldest only spits out the

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-05-14 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Mon May 14 13:07:13 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Patch from Richard Hirst [EMAIL PROTECTED] to use a regex, rather than a slow for loop, to determine if a user exists. The old code was unnacceptably slow. Closes: #89325

cvs commit to base-config/debian by op

2001-05-14 Thread op
Repository: base-config/debian who:op time: Mon May 14 13:49:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: Updated German Translation Files: changed:templates.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to base-config by op

2001-05-14 Thread op
Repository: base-config who:op time: Mon May 14 13:36:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: Updated the German translation. Files: changed:apt-setup.templates.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.2.25 idepci booted

2001-05-14 Thread Carlos Valdivia Yagüe
Hi, I've booted with the idepci version of 2.2.25 bootdisks. I haven't finished a complete install but I found these issues: - depmod -a works fine (Anyway, just af_packet loaded). - There is an empty modules.dep under /lib/modules/2.2.17 (kernel was 2.2.19). - `Configure keyboard' shows

Obsolete mirror list in debian install

2001-05-14 Thread Tomas Ogren
Hello. I think the install program for potato should sync the mirror list against a current one instead of what it's using right now.. Example: dogbert.bizit.net doesn't run a mirror anymore (not included in the mirror list[0] in unstable) but it's used in the potato install.. But our mirror

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DC-390U3 is the scsi controler. I am not quite sur ehow to load a module with the install disks. I tried building the drivers-1 disk and load the module from the menu and it said that it cannot mount the disk. Please read the manual. Quoting

reiserfs+woody

2001-05-14 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
reiserfs eneabled installer for woody is still a possibility. since it looks like that 2.2.19 (or a variant thereof) shall be the default kernel for at least one reiserfs supported architecture, it will be ultimately up to the kernel maintainer as to which route to go: 1) yet-another-flavor 2)

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to check and see if some of the uglier cruft in base-config can be removed for the woody boot-floppies. Can anyone verify: - If LANG is set, will it be properly set to a ll_LL form? Base-config had some code to deal

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
David Whedon wrote: - From my TODO: * Aph can add dboostrap_settings info that says where they got base.tgz from. This might be able to be used to tell where the archive they used is. Updating that thought to the present, if debootstrap downloads packages from the net,

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread David Whedon
Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:46:20PM -0400 wrote: David Whedon wrote: - From my TODO: * Aph can add dboostrap_settings info that says where they got base.tgz from. This might be able to be used to tell where the archive they used is. Updating that thought to the present,

Re: tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

2001-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: We have package sets. Here's an example: /usr/share/package-sets/progeny/xemacs.contents /usr/share/package-sets/progeny/xemacs.description $ cat /usr/share/package-sets/progeny/xemacs.contents xemacs21 xemacs21-bin xemacs21-mule xemacs21-supportel

Re: reiserfs+woody

2001-05-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:46:30PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: i was kind of hoping to see the 2.4.x kernel be the default across the board, so this would be a moot point. (Personally, I'd be interested in seeing a 2.4.x flavour. I say this in brackets because it's probably way more

kernel-image-di going away

2001-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
It looks like the standard kernel-image packages (or at least the i386 one and one/enough on other architectures) will soon have all the modules d-i needs, and the right stuff compiled in. So the kernel-image-di will probably be going away soon. Good news since it means someone who knows what

Re: tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

2001-05-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:02:53PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: For comparison, using task- packages, if I remove the core packages from a task from woody, I can just also remove the task- from woody. In a sense, doing it programmatically is cleaner and less work in the

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
David Whedon wrote: http://debian.gnaps.com/debian/ I say in theory because last time I tried debootstrap exited with an error (even though the install appeared to work) so the variable wasn't written, but it probably does work. Oh, is that the form debootstrap uses? Not particularly good

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:42:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: David Whedon wrote: http://debian.gnaps.com/debian/ I say in theory because last time I tried debootstrap exited with an error (even though the install appeared to work) so the variable wasn't written, but it probably does work.

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread David Whedon
Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:42:15PM -0400 wrote: David Whedon wrote: http://debian.gnaps.com/debian/ I say in theory because last time I tried debootstrap exited with an error (even though the install appeared to work) so the variable wasn't written, but it probably does work. Oh, is

Request

2001-05-14 Thread Martin Popovici
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Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: Oh, is that the form debootstrap uses? Not particularly good on my end, but I can parse it if necessary, I suppose. FWIW, debootstrap dumps the settings it used to $TARGET/etc/apt/sources.list, too. Oh, hmm. That would be great except I suppose you append to the

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
David Whedon wrote: Not particularly good on my end, but I can parse it if necessary, I suppose. I do have host and path available separately without effort, you want DEBIAN_MIRROR_HOSTNAME and DEBIAN_MIRROR_PATH ? I would prefer that if it is truely no additional effort. -- see shy

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:27:11AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: Oh, is that the form debootstrap uses? Not particularly good on my end, but I can parse it if necessary, I suppose. FWIW, debootstrap dumps the settings it used to $TARGET/etc/apt/sources.list, too. Oh,

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

2001-05-14 Thread peter karlsson
Joey Hess: Well the form I want it in is the correct form. ll is not a valid language code setting, ll_LL is. It is indeed valid to specify a language code without a qualifier, for my LANG setting, I always use sv, whereas I have sv_SE.ISO8859-1 set for my LC_ALL. When it comes to the

Re: tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

2001-05-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:05:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: - With package sets, it is delivered ... ? In a package called package-sets-progeny, and manipulated via binaries in the packages pkgset-tools and pkgset-tools-gnome. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-14 Thread Mark Eichin
what's the alternative, voting? :-) (seriously, I use talk regularly - securely even: two people ssh to a common machine, and run talk there :-) I'd probably be happy with any equivalent user-to-user real-time messaging tool, but write is kind of gross, and everything else seems to try to be

Bug#97414: package sgml-data is needed to build boot floppies

2001-05-14 Thread David Whedon
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-05-13 Severity: serious I made a woody chroot and was having difficulty building the documentation. It turns out the package sgml-data wasn't installed. It used to be pulled in by at least debiandoc-sgml but in woody and sid debiandoc-sgml no

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:08:17PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: |talk rather obsolete, but debatable |talkd not very secure for baseline I want those. They are very useful, and afaik, there are no security problems with talkd. This is about you, it's about the

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread sharkey
That is not right. Please understand, I cannot see the hard drives because the scsi controler is not being loaded on boot. That means that Configure Device Driver Modules will not work. I have no drives at this time. What chip is on that card? The DC390W/U/F use Symbios 53c8xx chips

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread Brian Schramm
LSI Logic Symbios pci scsi bios. I think that is what you are looking for. Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian www.linuxexpert.org On Mon, 14 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is not right. Please understand, I cannot see the hard

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, is there anyone building or has a set of 2.4 kernel disks? Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian www.linuxexpert.org On Mon, 14 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LSI Logic Symbios pci scsi bios. I think that is what you are looking

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread Brian Schramm
That is not right. Please understand, I cannot see the hard drives because the scsi controler is not being loaded on boot. That means that Configure Device Driver Modules will not work. I have no drives at this time. Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread sharkey
I haven't tried the latest disks yet, but... I have a problem. I need to reconize the tekram scsi controler card Which Tekram scsi controller? (There's more than one incompatible kind.) I just tried your boot disks and I still cannot see the drives. Which module did you insert? What

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread Brian Schramm
DC-390U3 is the scsi controler. I am not quite sur ehow to load a module with the install disks. I tried building the drivers-1 disk and load the module from the menu and it said that it cannot mount the disk. Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread Brian Schramm
I have a problem. I need to reconize the tekram scsi controler card on install because that is where my drives are. I just tried your boot disks and I still cannot see the drives. Is there a way to do this? If not is there a way I can build my own disks so I can see them? Thanks Brian

Re: Debian help

2001-05-14 Thread Iñigo Lekanda Irabien
Hello Alex, I don't know solution (more about David Whedom's solution). I find one workaround: Get the first CD of Potato (f.example: 2.2r3). Install the system from this CD. Add to APT the CD's of woody. Run: "apt-cdrom add" This with all you have of woody. Now upgrade your