Re: Bug#182041: PIC library has bad name

2003-02-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
mklibs fails to find the PIC library for reduction since it's called libnewt-utf8_pic.a while mklibs expects it to simply be libnewt_pic.a We're using newt debian-installer so it'd be nice if this were fixed so we could save some bytes on the boot media. :-) I have a few

Re: soname versions in library udebs

2003-02-27 Thread Sebastian Ley
* Sebastian Ley wrote: As for now no udebs actually have their soname number as part of the package name. It is libc-udeb, discover-udeb... Hm, no one talking to me, so I just reply myself...: What actually happens if there is an ABI change in one of the library udebs? Let us say a new

udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
[I have set Mail-Followup-To; please To/CC me on replies.] Hi guys, Over here at Progeny we're wondering about the feasibility of using udebs in resource-constrained environments for more than just installation. How feasible would it be to use udebs as real packages? I note that udpkg appears

Bug#182642: boot-floppies: boottime keymap makes 88 key adb keyboard unusable on oldworld powermac

2003-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Lee Adamson [Wed, Feb 26 2003, 06:47:31PM]: When the box reboots after initial base system install, a boottime keymap is loaded that seems to cause my old 88 key adb keyboard to be mapped wrong (using the qwerty/us keymap). The solution I have found is to use the shell on

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Martin Sjögren
tor 2003-02-27 klockan 17.34 skrev Branden Robinson: [I have set Mail-Followup-To; please To/CC me on replies. How feasible would it be to use udebs as real packages? I note that udpkg appears to support maintainer scripts, though I don't know it supports them as comprehensively as regular

Re: Bug#182642: boot-floppies: boottime keymap makes 88 key adb keyboard unusable on oldworld powermac

2003-02-27 Thread B. Lee Adamson Jr.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:36:08PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: When the box reboots after initial base system install, a boottime keymap is loaded that seems to cause my old 88 key adb keyboard to be mapped wrong (using the qwerty/us keymap). Could anyone prove this and tell the exact reason

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:56:09PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: I'm not quite sure what it is you are asking. Are you asking for how nifty things you can do with udpkg? Right now, udpkg only calls /.../package.config configure /.../package.postinst configure and that's it. I don't see how

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Has anyone looked at the ipkg (sp?) format used on Compaq iPaqs? Its an cut-down dpkg format for embedded use. (I've just heard of it, not investigated it. A comparison by someone who knows both, and the debate over dpkg v2, would be nice). Regards, Alastair On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 17:56,

Sarge-i386-businesscard.iso

2003-02-27 Thread Hank
Hi! I was trying out the Sarge-i386-businesscard.iso (40MB iso image). http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso What's the gluck stand for? Good Luck? I burned the iso image and booted into the install process with this CD, but did not succeed

m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-02-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right now, since debian-installer depends on DevFS quite a lot, while DevFS will only be

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Glenn McGrath
On 27 Feb 2003 18:56:09 +0100 Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another approach we're thinking about is regular dpkg support for directory exclusion during package unpack, for things like documentation and localization files. Of course, that's more an issue for debian-dpkg... :)

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: Another approach we're thinking about is regular dpkg support for directory exclusion during package unpack, for things like documentation and localization files. Of course, that's more an issue for debian-dpkg... :) Please Progeny guys, make everyone's day and do

patch to create slang1a-utf8-udeb

2003-02-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. I was sort of annoyed by nano not working in debian-installer. The result is the attached patch, which changes this. As I'm just a random user of nano in debian-installer initrd, you probably want to wait what someone of the debian-installer team has to say about this. Especially, I don't know

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn McGrath wrote: udebs are a technical solution to a social problem Not entirely. I avoided some picky policy stuff with udebs, but as much of the idea was to make sure that the stuff used by the installer did not bloat the main packages lists, and to make sure nobody would install it by

Bug#182436: marked as done (some small problems with debian-installer)

2003-02-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:44:13 -0800 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#182436: some small problems with debian-installer has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the