Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:34:24PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Stephen R Marenka wrote: The problem seems to be that hwclock.sh is a conffile and wants to prompt the user about whether to override the existing file. Unfortunately, we're running in non-interactive mode so the STDIN prompt

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:49:52AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: This was a fresh install on a newly formatted partition. The symptom to this failure shows up when the following repeat (from debootstrap/woody) fails 20 times (because powerpc-utils hasn't configured). Perhaps that is also a

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:02:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:49:52AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: This was a fresh install on a newly formatted partition. The symptom to this failure shows up when the following repeat (from debootstrap/woody) fails 20 times

Re: libutf8, bogl, bgf fonts and tools vs boot-floppies

2001-05-28 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Mon, 28 May 2001 02:12:55 +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:00:16AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: I have asked before, but never received a satisfactory answer, what you should do if you want a standard UTF-8 locale. Probably there should be something like

Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

2001-05-28 Thread Richard Hirst
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:04:05PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:54:50PM +0100 wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke debotstrap we communicate with in through

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't hate me. I did this in perhaps not the brightest way - bterm (33K) is now always included. That makes no sense, but I didn't want to figure out how to conditionally extract a package, since I need to run. Probably the best way is

Re: kernel for woody

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: we have a 2.2.x kernel for about half the architectures, and a 2.4.x kernel for the rest. are we going to have a 2.4.x kernel for all our architectures when the woody floppies are released? Nope, I don't think so. I mean, I'm leaving the option

Re: MacOS floppy creation

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Regarding the licensing for a little frob thingie on the CD to make things easier, I recommend you simply place whatever AppleScript snippets under the public domain, it's very simple and small and easy. Regarding putting things on the CDs at all, please take it up with the Debian-CD group. I

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Regarding Anthony Towns' attempt to get sound configuration to be an optional part of the installation process (I think it falls under base-config or tasksel or whatever, clearly), I applaud this effort. Even if it's only sucessful for 60% of users, I think it's worthwhile (so long as it is

Vmware and framebuffer flavors

2001-05-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
When trying to boot compact or idepci set under vmware, the kernel says: VFS: Insert root floppy to be loaded [...] and press ENTER VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) RAMDISK: Compressed image found on block 0 [now a 2 minute or so pause] probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration

boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I am preparing boot-floppies 2.3.4 for release. This version should be nominally installable, or at least, get beyond the blocker bugs in 2.3.3, such as busybox issues causing failed download of base. There are still *plenty* of problem in boot-floppies making it not production ready,

Re: MacOS floppy creation

2001-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:19:20PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Regarding the licensing for a little frob thingie on the CD to make things easier, I recommend you simply place whatever AppleScript snippets under the public domain, it's very simple and small and easy. now that i think about

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:aph time: Mon May 28 15:53:52 PDT 2001 Log Message: ignorable Files: changed:.cvsignore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Regarding Anthony Towns' attempt to get sound configuration to be an optional part of the installation process (I think it falls under base-config or tasksel or whatever, clearly), I applaud this effort. Mind you, obviously, this should not be triggered unless the user

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:27:21 PDT 2001 Log Message: kill the 'official_debian' config var, it was unused (I grepped to be sure); add OFFIALWEBBUILD for the purposes for web documentation building (no one should really set that true, see the comments

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:27:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: document the distro people need to be running to build this stuff with Files: changed:README -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

cvs commit to tasksel by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:37:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: stop shipping upstream changelog Files: removed:ChangeLog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:37:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: stop shipping upstream changelog Files: changed:rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:39:04 PDT 2001 Log Message: 1.4 version changes by Adam, give credit to Joey Hess where due Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dbootstrap's zh_CN.po encoding

2001-05-28 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks like something's wrong with the chineese po file. Can someone more competent look at it? The following is a snippet from 'make ../all.utf' in boot-floppies/utilities/bogl iconv -f `grep -a '^Content-Type:' zh_CN.po | sed -e

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:48:03 PDT 2001 Log Message: generalize the description so it doesn't mention task packages Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:49:39 PDT 2001 Log Message: more changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh

2001-05-28 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel/debian who:joeyh time: Mon May 28 17:25:47 PDT 2001 Log Message: added one more task (I thought I committed this last night, oops!) Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

2001-05-28 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel/tasks who:joeyh time: Mon May 28 17:25:47 PDT 2001 Log Message: added one more task (I thought I committed this last night, oops!) Files: added: unix-server -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 18:03:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: reburn Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 18:10:30 PDT 2001 Log Message: start 1.5 Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dbootstrap.sgml patch: brownbag oldworld nvsetenv info

2001-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
this patch corrects the shell command necessary to set the OpenFirmware boot-device variable on oldworlds. note that this command may not render all oldworlds bootable, and it may not work with the ofpath in potato. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ Index: dbootstrap.sgml

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 19:16:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: some changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:26:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: anXious doesn't exist in woody AFAICT. I think it's now handled by xserver-xfree86 postinst or debconf or whatever it is that runs there. Hmm, this is a bit disturbing since base-config still calls anXious. Well, only if it

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 20:06:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: i386 depends on zlib-bin Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:36:34PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:00:24PM -0400 wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:43:46PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I am preparing boot-floppies 2.3.4 for release. This version should be nominally installable, or at least, get

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Mon May 28 21:41:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: stomp useless divergance Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo wrote: anXious doesn't exist in woody AFAICT. I think it's now handled by xserver-xfree86 postinst or debconf or whatever it is that runs there. Hmm, this is a bit disturbing since base-config still calls anXious. Well, only if it

Re: boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Boot-floppies 2.3.4 is tagged and building for i386. Please do email this list if you are building 2.3.4 for non-i386 architectures. Please do check unstable for your arch has the newest tasksel, base-config, and busybox -- you may have to port it for your arch. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL

porting 2.3.4 boot-floppies

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Also, do reply to this message if you are building 2.3.4 for non-i386 -- I want to keep some tabs on this. I do have sparc and powerpc I can do porting work but I would prefer to be able to focus on overall quality and i386 only. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by dwhedon

2001-05-28 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Mon May 28 22:35:05 PDT 2001 Log Message: * put slink back in * clean up the handling of the volatile testing/stable codenames. Now there is one define that needs to change once woody is released and the dialog

Re: MacOS floppy creation

2001-05-28 Thread Chris Tillman
Regarding the licensing for a little frob thingie on the CD to make things easier, I recommend you simply place whatever AppleScript snippets under the public domain, it's very simple and small and easy. Regarding putting things on the CDs at all, please take it up with the Debian-CD