Re: busybox bloat

2001-09-05 Thread Clint Adams
True. But -v is specified by SuS and is in the Austin Draft. Incidentally, the command type is also specified by the two documents. `type' is X/Open, no? Perhaps Debian policy should be revised to require support for SuS instead of POSIX. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Patch] Install Manual Touch-up: refreshed

2001-09-05 Thread Chris Tillman
Attached is a patch for some touch-up on the woody install manual. This revision includes changes per E Benson on the list. Notable changes: Removed reference to install.txt for powermac (incorporated content into the manual in hardware and rescue-boot). install.txt for powermac itself should

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-05 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:48:13 -0600 Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, since we have to mount the target fs, we already have to pay most of the price for ext2 anyways (the size of mkfs.ext2 and the size of the kernel ext2 code). So switching to minixfs isn't going to save us all

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:48:13PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Tue Sep 04, 2001 at 04:18:42PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: yup but again i still need busybox reduction since none of this reiser stuff is on the powerpc disks, and i still have a problem with space there. Hmm. Then

Re: fixing bad English in dbootstrap?

2001-09-05 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:28:31PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: Also, grep -A1 msgid\ \C\ *.po shows some inconsistency. Does anyone remember what those were supposed to be used for? Setting locale in installed system? Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by aph

2001-09-05 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:aph time: Wed Sep 5 01:25:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: only include reiserprogs stuff on the reiserfs flavor; this may help with the 1.2MB images Files: changed:EXTRACT_LIST_i386 SMALL_BASE_LIST_i386 added:

Re: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs

2001-09-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:07:08AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Do I need to translate anything in boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs directory? (I'm interested in Croatian translation... hr, hr_HR) There doesn't seem to be anything in the README file in there. Please read

mklibs.py

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
it doesn't seem to work on the chrp root image: [...] I: library reduction pass 727 570 symbols, 1 unresolved I: library reduction pass 728 570 symbols, 1 unresolved I: library reduction pass 729 570 symbols, 1 unresolved I: library reduction pass 730 570 symbols, 1 unresolved I: library

Re: [Patch] Install Manual Touch-up: refreshed

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:49:10PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: + p +Nubus systems are not currently supported by debian/powerpc. The +monolithic Linux/PPC kernel architecture does not have support for +these machines; instead, one must use the MkLinux Mach microkernel, +which Debian does

Re: busybox reduction on ppc (was Re: build failure on ia32)

2001-09-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Adam Di Carlo wrote on Wed Sep 05, 2001 um 04:30:30AM: Have you tried mklibs.py ? Does it work? Does it do a better job? If so, we should enable it, possibly for all arches. Works flawless on i386. BTW: If nobody objects, I will enable the parted stuff in the

Re: mklibs.py

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:24:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: it doesn't seem to work on the chrp root image: same for pmac i fiddled around a bit, but i can't tell whats going on. (and i don't speak python in the least). [...] I: library reduction pass 727 570 symbols, 1 unresolved I:

Re: mklibs.py

2001-09-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:24:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: it doesn't seem to work on the chrp root image: [...] I: library reduction pass 727 570 symbols, 1 unresolved I: library reduction pass 728 570 symbols, 1 unresolved I: library reduction pass 729 570 symbols, 1 unresolved

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by joey

2001-09-05 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:joey time: Wed Sep 5 11:14:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: Fixed thinko. When the build fails in the middle, a softlink is left over, thus ``test -f'' will return false, so the softlink will be created again, which will fail itself so the

Make money at home with your PC

2001-09-05 Thread David
I'll make you a promise. READ THIS E-MAIL TO THE END! - follow what it says to the letter - and you will not worry whether a RECESSION is coming or not, who is President, or whether you keep your current job or not. Yes, I know what you are thinking. I never responded to one of these

Re: fixing bad English in dbootstrap?

2001-09-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:40:33AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Would anyone mind if I changed the dbootstrap sources in order to fix broken English? I'm referring to weird stuff like make the device by hand, Bootstrap And Root Must Be on The Same Disk, Basedebs, Can't mkdir, Can't copy.

Re: fixing bad English in dbootstrap?

2001-09-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:21:13AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Well, the documentation build for hr and probably other outdated languages is broken, since there are 272 KB of diffs... :( No, it's not broken, it builds properly. Ahem, Joey freaked me out with some error message yesterday.

Re: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs

2001-09-05 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:16:38AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:07:08AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Do I need to translate anything in boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs directory? (I'm interested in Croatian translation... hr, hr_HR) There doesn't

Language chooser - the story continues...

2001-09-05 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi! The status is that we need a locale for i18n bf. Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS posted a locale definition that should be both usable and small. (attached) However I seem to lack the knowledge needed to compile it: porridge@menel:~$ LANG=C localedef -i c-utf8-in C-at-UTF8

mklibs.py, unresolved symbol

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
the last unresolvable symbol for the powerpc root disks is: calling readelf -s /var/tmp/boot-floppies/root-tmp-14083/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0-so-stripped Still need: atexit 570 symbols, 1 unresolved -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

2001-09-05 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Wed Sep 5 21:50:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: I really should release this.. Files: changed:apt-setup.8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-09-05 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Wed Sep 5 21:50:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: I really should release this.. Files: changed:changelog added: templates.ko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debootstrap not working in boot floppies 3.0.13

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:32:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:05:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: sounds like an excellent reason debootstrap should NOT include non-free in the list of Packages files it requires. Ethan, take a pill already. You don't have to