[PATCH] Fix error handling in build/tftpboot.sh

2003-11-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Hello All, this patch fixes some error handling in build/tftpboot.sh Thiemo Index: build/tftpboot.sh === RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/build/tftpboot.sh,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -a -d -u -p -r1.1 tftpboot.sh

Templates polishing first round status

2003-11-13 Thread Christian Perrier
This all started like a part time work for helping improve the user interface of the Debian installer. Very quickly, as most people in the d-i team were very responsive and showed interest in this work, I turned this into a systematic work of proofreading all templates for all d-i packages which

Bug#220509: also in 'sarge-i386-businescard.iso' (11 Nov 2003)

2003-11-13 Thread Paul Schulz
The problem also occurs in the 'sarge-i386-businesscard.iso' (11 Nov 2003). When installing modules for networking (lot of modules are tried) the dialog pops for manual entry of module parameters, for almost every module. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

[PATCH] Improve error handling in rootskel/src/sbin/init

2003-11-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Hello All, this patch improves the error handling in rootskel/src/sbin/init. It is particularily useful to catch misconfigured customized kernels. Thiemo Index: rootskel/src/sbin/init === RCS file:

Bug#192305: q to end, b for begin ambiguous

2003-11-13 Thread Martin Sjögren
ons 2003-11-12 klockan 00.33 skrev Denis Barbier: * Prompt is: q to quit select, b for back, n for next page How about b to back up? It would be either that or b for previous page IMHO. /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key:

Bug#220550: base-installer: should take into account that deboostrap is not idempotent

2003-11-13 Thread Sebastian Ley
Package: base-installer Severity: important Tags: d-i Debootstrap is not idempotent, it will fail if told to bootstrap a partition where already an instalation of linux resides. Base-installer should be aware of the fact and try to rule out problems before debootstrap runs. Idea: Try to detect

Re: [PATCH] mips/mipsel subarchitecture support in kernel-installer

2003-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:42:44AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: this patch adds mips/mipsel subarchitecture kernel selection to kernel-installer. retry that with utils/ddetect/archdetect* bastian -- We have phasers, I vote we blast 'em! -- Bailey, The Corbomite Maneuver,

Re: Some ways to save space on the floppies

2003-11-13 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:13:44 +1100 Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pipe-progress is the only non-busybox binary in bootfloppy-initrd, pipe-progress is very simple and could easily assimilated by busybox. Having only one binary in the first initrd would open the possibility of

[PATCH] Set priorities for libdebconfclient0, libdebconfclient-dev

2003-11-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Hello All, dpkg-buildpackage warns about missing Priority: fields in the control file. I guessed priority optional is ok for libdebconfclient0 and libdebconfclient-dev. Thiemo Index: tools/cdebconf/debian/control === RCS file:

fd install pb per daily 003-11-13

2003-11-13 Thread guran
Hi ftp.se.debian.org bootfloppy-image.img13-Nov-2003 00:49 1.4M floppy-image.img13-Nov-2003 00:50 1.4M No fine md5sum on server. I have added dmesg from Mdk to give data on my box. Tried both sarge and sid via net but got stopped at an automatic load of cfdisk. I don't want to

Re: [cdebconf] Drop unsupported frontends

2003-11-13 Thread Martin Sjögren
tor 2003-11-13 klockan 00.24 skrev Denis Barbier: Only text and newt frontends are in a good shape, so why do we build other udebs? Hysterical raisins, I guess. They should be removed. If someone wants to play with the other frontends, they can compile locally. /Martin -- Martin Sjögren

Re: Bug#220484: speedtouch: Provide a udeb for debian-installer

2003-11-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, Mario Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WIBNI one could install Debian via an USB ADSL connection? Maybe. But this does not requires an .udeb, only that you install the needed regular .deb packages after you installed the base system. Actually, a few weeks ago I killed ppp.udeb because

Re: [PATCH] mips/mipsel subarchitecture support in kernel-installer

2003-11-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:42:44AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: this patch adds mips/mipsel subarchitecture kernel selection to kernel-installer. retry that with utils/ddetect/archdetect* Any reason why archdetect isn't just a shellscript? Thiemo -- To

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-13 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:17:45PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Then how do you know it is a bug in mklibs and it is not actually a missing symbol? Which was the real reason it failed in every testcase I got my hand

Processed: generic problem, not kbd-chooser

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 219290 usb-discover Bug#219290: [d-i] No USB keyboard after reboot Bug reassigned from package `kbd-chooser' to `usb-discover'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system

[PATCH] Fix base-installer FTBFS

2003-11-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Hello All, di_log isn't defined (anymore?), and base-installer depends already on libdebian-installer4-dev (= 0.17) anyway. Thiemo Index: tools/base-installer/run-debootstrap.c === RCS file:

Processed: make the user aware about debconf priority

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 220124 cdebconf-priority Bug#220124: kbd-chooser: do not make keyboard selection dependent on language Bug#220476: kbd-chooser: make keyboard layout choosable on default priority Bug reassigned from package `kbd-chooser' to `cdebconf-priority'.

Re: Bug#220484: speedtouch: Provide a udeb for debian-installer

2003-11-13 Thread Pierre Machard
Hi Marco, On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:59:02AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 13, Mario Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WIBNI one could install Debian via an USB ADSL connection? Maybe. But this does not requires an .udeb, only that you install the needed regular .deb packages after you

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:17:45PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Then how do you know it is a bug in mklibs and it is not actually a missing symbol? Which was the

Bug#220503: tag 220503 pending

2003-11-13 Thread Matt Kraai
tag 220503 pending thanks This is fixed in CVS. -- Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Processed: tag 220503 pending

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tag 220503 pending Bug#220503: kbd-chooser doesn't build on powerpc (undefined reference to `substr') There were no tags set. Tags added: pending thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system

Re: Bug#220484: speedtouch: Provide a udeb for debian-installer

2003-11-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, Pierre Machard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should not we add a note in the Debian-installer FAQ or inside the install manual about drivers that required external frimware ? The drivers I packaged have this documented in README.Debian, I do not think there is any use in duplicating this

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:20:28AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: Please see attached patch. this patch violates against the exception usage guidelines, if you don't want to see a backtrace, catch the exception and print the error message. Catch an

Re: Bug#220518: installation-reports: routing broken with netboot via PXE install

2003-11-13 Thread Joe Nahmias
Glenn McGrath wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:27:43 -0500 Joe Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone seen this before or have any clue what the problem could be?? There was a bug with busybox relating to round-robin dns http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2003-October/009579.html The bug

Bug#220518: Info received (was Bug#220518: installation-reports: routing broken with netboot via PXE install)

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Debian Testing Group [EMAIL

Re: [cdebconf] Backing up can't work if seen questions are skipped

2003-11-13 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:21:17AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: Due to your last change in database.c, setting debconf/showold to true does nothing, DEBCONF_SHOWOLD must be used instead. Why should we call dpkg-reconfigure when debconf/showold could be easily set up? Well, same thing, and yes,

dhcp clients

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
I noticed that while the cdrom install pulls in dhcp-client-udeb and uses it for dhcp, the floppy net install does not have a dhcp client listed, so it falls back to using udhcp, from busybox-cvs-udeb. This does not seem like a good idea, it puts us in the position of supporting more than one

Re: network install from floppies

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Thanks for the report. sylvain ferriol wrote: - the list of network module should be in an alphabetic order Done. - can not find cs89x0 module in the list I will include this module in the next build of the nic-extra-modules package from linux-kernel-di. If I remember to upload that change

Re: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
I attach some annotated lists: - netinst-udebs: udebs that should go on all netinst cds - netinst-udebs-i386: additional udebs that should go on i386 netinst cds - exclude-udebs: udebs that have no reason to go on any cd - exclude-udebs-i386: udebs that have no reason to go on any i386 cd

Re: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd

2003-11-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
I attach some annotated lists: - netinst-udebs: udebs that should go on all netinst cds - netinst-udebs-i386: additional udebs that should go on i386 netinst cds - exclude-udebs: udebs that have no reason to go on any cd - exclude-udebs-i386: udebs that have no reason to go on any

Re: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 13.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 05:57: - I don't know what these would be used for in d-i either, but choose not to keep them on the CD. partconf-mkfstab This one creates the fstab. Since petter removed fstab creation from autopartkit it is the only udeb providing

Re: dhcp clients

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 13.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 05:39: I noticed that while the cdrom install pulls in dhcp-client-udeb and uses it for dhcp, the floppy net install does not have a dhcp client listed, so it falls back to using udhcp, from busybox-cvs-udeb. This does not seem like a good idea, it

Installer beta

2003-11-13 Thread Chris Housley
Hi, Major newbie here, so please forgive lack of everything. Been running debian for about a year, mostly for VMWare with several Windoze clients. The install back then took about two days. This one took about one hour. Much better. Just one suggesting from a newbie point of view. It would

Re: Some ways to save space on the floppies

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn McGrath wrote: Comparing static uClibc busybox against shared library reduced glibc. busybox-static-uclibc 144276 (80525) Total Shared (glibc) 727476 (343009) Total Static (uclibc) 144276 (80525) Uncompressed saving 583 kB Compressed saving 262 kB Moving to uclibc

Re: installing with sarge-i386-businesscard.iso

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Ley wrote: Debootstrap does such kind of things if it runs on a partition that already has an installation. Did yo format the / partition? However we should definitly do something about this in base-installer. I recall some discussions about this, but I can't remeber the details

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Denis Barbier wrote: For (b), where should cfdisk be displayed? Certainly not on the same window. So when scripts or programs are displaying something, they have to be directed elsewere. Maybe the newt frontend could run cfdisk on another console, switch to this console and display a

Re: Bug#220135: netcfg fails with two via-rhine cards and dhcp server on eth1

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 12.11.2003 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 00:57: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Philip Martin wrote: I just tried the new beta ISO images and the problem still occurs. The appropriate ethernet module gets loaded (via-rhine) but Configure the network using dhcp fails. Looking in syslog I

Re: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: not to keep them on the CD. partconf-mkfstab This one creates the fstab. Since petter removed fstab creation from autopartkit it is the only udeb providing created-fstab. Include it or you won't be able to install any bootloader. Ok I missed that virtual

Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration

2003-11-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, If we do reorder the questions to -IP address -Netmask [guessed from ip address] -Gateway [guessed from previous answers] -DNS servers -Machine name -Domain name Then it may also be possible to retrieve Machine and domain name from DNS, if present. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To

Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration

2003-11-13 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:58:42PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: Hi, If we do reorder the questions to -IP address -Netmask [guessed from ip address] -Gateway [guessed from previous answers] -DNS servers -Machine name -Domain name Then it may also be possible to retrieve Machine

linux-kernel-di_0.14_source+i386+alpha+m68k.changes ACCEPTED

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.14_i386.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di/brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.14_i386.udeb brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-generic-di_0.14_alpha.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di/brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-generic-di_0.14_alpha.udeb

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 12.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 01:55: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Why not merge dhcp and static? Try dhcp for some time or until the user hits abort. If dhcp finds any data seed it into debconf and jump to the final summary/acknowldege request in dhcp-static. Buttons there

Boot prompt parameters

2003-11-13 Thread Geert Stappers
Hello DIST, Which environment variables can be set the bootprompt? I want full debug information for the Sparc over here. DEBCONF_PRIORITY=high DEB_DEBUG=5 ??? ( it is hard to find back ) Geert Stappers ( now in the same room as Stonehead ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#184857: marked as done (Extraneous prompts)

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:36:11 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line fixed but bug was not closed 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 case it is now your

Bug#218342: palo-installer: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-13 Thread Christian Perrier
(Adding Uploaders and last Uploader to CCTollef, I'll stop bugging you for other modules.. :-)) Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: palo-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i See #218273 (lilo-installer) for details Are there plans for fixing this bug (thus

Bug#218273: lilo-installer: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-13 Thread Christian Perrier
(Adding people listed as Uploaders to CC field) Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: lilo-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i This bug report is similar to #218208 and #218209 (consistency among boot loaders installers). Do you have plans for fixing this bug

Re: Bug#218208: Properly tag Bug#218208: aboot-installer: Debconf templates polishing)

2003-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:43:43PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: tags 218208 d-i thanks This BR was mistakenly not tagged as belonging to the debian installer. Thus, it is highly probable that noone noticed it, which should explain why it hasn't been fixed already.. :-)

Bug#218207: marked as done (floppy-retriever: Debconf templates polishing)

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:39:59 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#218207: floppy-retriever: Debconf templates polishing 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

Re: dhcp clients

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I suggest to only use dhcp-client-udeb if it's available on all arches. At least we should standardize on one dhcp client if there is no good reason for keeping different clients for different arches. dhcp-client is available on all architectures. I do not know if it

Re: Install report

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn McGrath wrote: I had two network cards, one was an ISA card, which prevented dhcp from working, powered down pulled out the ISA card. If this is the problem that two NICs can stop network setup from working, that is a known problem in the beta and is fixed in the daily builds. Loaded

Re: Boot prompt parameters

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: Hello DIST, Which environment variables can be set the bootprompt? I want full debug information for the Sparc over here. DEBCONF_PRIORITY=high DEB_DEBUG=5 ??? ( it is hard to find back ) Geert Stappers ( now in the same room as Stonehead )

Re: Installer beta

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Housley wrote: Major newbie here, so please forgive lack of everything. Been running debian for about a year, mostly for VMWare with several Windoze clients. The install back then took about two days. This one took about one hour. Much better. With vmware, you picked our best

Re: Boot prompt parameters

2003-11-13 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:42:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: Hello DIST, Which environment variables can be set the bootprompt? I want full debug information for the Sparc over here. DEBCONF_PRIORITY=high DEB_DEBUG=5 ??? ( it is hard to find back ) DEBCONF_DEBUG=5

Re: [PATCH] Fix error handling in build/tftpboot.sh

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Thiemo Seufer wrote: this patch fixes some error handling in build/tftpboot.sh Committed, thank you. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#220135: netcfg fails with two via-rhine cards and dhcp server on eth1

2003-11-13 Thread Philip Martin
Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for this report. I hope this will help us track down the problem. could you please test the following: 1. If the af_packet kernel module is loaded. It is needed for dhcp and should be loaded automatically. No, it's not loaded. After

Re: [PATCH] Fix base-installer FTBFS

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Thiemo Seufer wrote: di_log isn't defined (anymore?), and base-installer depends already on libdebian-installer4-dev (= 0.17) anyway. di_log is not present in the unreleased libdebian-installer 0.17.cvs. This is distinct from version 0.17, which in in the archive and which base-installer

Re: dhcp clients

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 13.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:48: I will at least switch all i386 images that need a dhcp client over to dhcp-client-udeb. If someone can tell me what is the right dhcp client for powerpc, it is still using both udhcp and pump right now and I'd like to fix that. I think we can

Re: [PATCH] Fix base-installer FTBFS

2003-11-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Joey Hess wrote: Thiemo Seufer wrote: di_log isn't defined (anymore?), and base-installer depends already on libdebian-installer4-dev (= 0.17) anyway. di_log is not present in the unreleased libdebian-installer 0.17.cvs. I doubt that, since I use current CVS sources and it built on mips

Bug#220640: d-i on Ultra sparc 5

2003-11-13 Thread Geert Stappers
Package: debian-installer INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: self compiled CVS version 13 november 2003 uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.21-sparc64-udeb #2 Thu Aug 7 21:50:19 EDT 2003 sparc64 unknown Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:34:41 +0100 Method: boot net Machine: Sun Ultra 5 Processor:

rootskel_0.51_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: rootskel-bootfloppy_0.51_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_0.51_i386.udeb rootskel-locale_0.51_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-locale_0.51_i386.udeb rootskel_0.51.dsc to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_0.51.dsc rootskel_0.51.tar.gz to

rootskel override disparity

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Installer
There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the override file for the following file(s): rootskel-bootfloppy_0.51_i386.udeb: package says priority is extra, override says standard. Either the package or the override file is incorrect. If you think the override is correct

Bug#192305: q to end, b for begin ambiguous

2003-11-13 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:16:51AM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote: ons 2003-11-12 klockan 00.33 skrev Denis Barbier: * Prompt is: q to quit select, b for back, n for next page How about b to back up? It would be either that or b for previous page IMHO. That's fine with me, I just

Re: Processed: make the user aware about debconf priority

2003-11-13 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:48:13AM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 220124 cdebconf-priority Bug#220124: kbd-chooser: do not make keyboard selection dependent on language Bug#220476: kbd-chooser: make keyboard layout choosable on

[cdebconf] Drop dpkg-reconfigure

2003-11-13 Thread Denis Barbier
It does not seem to be used anymore, so it could be dropped from cdebconf-udeb. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#213689: marked as done (does not let me back out)

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:43:26 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line fixed in current netcfg 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 case it is now your

Bug#213014: marked as done (netcfg-dhcp: XB-Installed-Menu-Item numbers conflict)

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:57:22 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line solved by joeyhs menu-item renumbering 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 case it is now

Bug#220651: debian-installer wrong keyboard map for English(Australia)

2003-11-13 Thread Brian May
Package: debian-installer Version: beta-1 Severity: normal Hello, I set at the menu English(Australia), and for some reason it selected DVORAK keyboard mapping. As QWERTY is used by majority of computers in Australia, I consider this... errr cbjrbk.bc.by^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h

Processed: Reassign bugs from cdebconf-slang-udeb to cdebconf

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 183541 cdebconf Bug#183541: cdebconf/slang: wrong display range with long lists Bug reassigned from package `cdebconf-slang-udeb' to `cdebconf'. reassign 184581 cdebconf Bug#184581: cdebconf/slang: Clears screen when skipping questions Bug

INSTALL REPORT: LWN

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Linux Weekly News has a segment on the beta in their most recent weekly edition. It's generally positive, they apparently did a CD install and aside from the standard dhcp annoyance, it Just Worked. Most of their complaints are about base-config, but not all: However, the user is still expected

Re: Templates polishing first round status

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
I have penciled in the string freeze in my calendar to end about 1 week before we release beta 2. I'd like to allow enough time in the string freeze for complete new translations to be done in that time, but I don't know how much time it typically takes to translate all of d-i to a new language.

Re: [PATCH] Improve error handling in rootskel/src/sbin/init

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Thiemo Seufer wrote: this patch improves the error handling in rootskel/src/sbin/init. It is particularily useful to catch misconfigured customized kernels. Couldn't we get much the same effect by making the shell script set -e? I assume that most of the possible failure modes print out some

Re: Second stage console problem

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Kenshi Muto wrote: How do you think about following flowchart, Joey? n check tty - serial. 2nd stage as current LANG (*1) | y v y check fb0(*2) - run bogl-term as LANG(*3) | n v y acceptable LANG without bogl-bterm?(*4) -

Bug#220652: remove udhcp from busybox-cvs-udeb

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Package: busybox-cvs-udeb Severity: normal d-i is using dhcp-client and pump for its dhcp support right now, so the udhcp in the busybox udeb is not needed. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [PATCH] Fix base-installer FTBFS

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Thiemo Seufer wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Thiemo Seufer wrote: di_log isn't defined (anymore?), and base-installer depends already on libdebian-installer4-dev (= 0.17) anyway. di_log is not present in the unreleased libdebian-installer 0.17.cvs. I doubt that, since I use current CVS

libdebian-install.so.4 missing

2003-11-13 Thread Craig Ruefenacht
Howdy, I just tried installing sarge on a Intel P4, using an ISO I downloaded from ftp.hsn.hu, dated November 2, 2003, and I ran into a problem. I got the same error messages as a few others have posted the past couple of weeks. When identifying my keyboard, I got a segmentation fault error.

Re: dhcp clients

2003-11-13 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:39:02 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that while the cdrom install pulls in dhcp-client-udeb and uses it for dhcp, the floppy net install does not have a dhcp client listed, so it falls back to using udhcp, from busybox-cvs-udeb. This does not seem

Re: Some ways to save space on the floppies

2003-11-13 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:37:45 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glenn McGrath wrote: uClibc can be a shared library, but i didnt consider that in this comparison. Any reason why not? It would still be bigger than busybox compiled statically against uclibc. I just attempted to

Re: [PATCH] Improve error handling in rootskel/src/sbin/init

2003-11-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Joey Hess wrote: Thiemo Seufer wrote: this patch improves the error handling in rootskel/src/sbin/init. It is particularily useful to catch misconfigured customized kernels. Couldn't we get much the same effect by making the shell script set -e? I assume that most of the possible

fd install pb per 03-11-13-1309

2003-11-13 Thread guran
Hi ftp.se.debian.org bootfloppy-image.img13-Nov-2003 13:09 floppy-image.img13-Nov-2003 13:14 still stuck in cfdisk and partition of hard disk. Ctrl-Alt-F4 gives: -- FSET partitioner/disc seen fals -- 0 false -- SET partitioner/disc false -- 0 value set -- Input high partition/disc

Bug#192305: q to end, b for begin ambiguous

2003-11-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Martin [ISO-8859-1] Sjögren wrote: ons 2003-11-12 klockan 00.33 skrev Denis Barbier: * Prompt is: q to quit select, b for back, n for next page How about b to back up? It would be either that or b for previous page IMHO. Or to be consistent also n to go to

Re: [PATCH] Fix base-installer FTBFS

2003-11-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Joey Hess wrote: Thiemo Seufer wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Thiemo Seufer wrote: di_log isn't defined (anymore?), and base-installer depends already on libdebian-installer4-dev (= 0.17) anyway. di_log is not present in the unreleased libdebian-installer 0.17.cvs. I doubt that,

Re: libdebian-install.so.4 missing

2003-11-13 Thread Sebastian Ley
Am Do, den 13.11.2003 schrieb Craig Ruefenacht um 23:38: Howdy, I just tried installing sarge on a Intel P4, using an ISO I downloaded from ftp.hsn.hu, dated November 2, 2003, and I ran into a problem. This is hopelessly outdated, a lot has happened since then. I even do not know if the

Re: [PATCH] Fix base-installer FTBFS

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Thiemo Seufer wrote: This can never work. It would effectively mean to stop further development of d-i over the lifetime of sarge, since there has to be a critical fixes only source tree for the stable release. I strongly recommend to create a sarge branch. This leaves HEAD unimpeded and

rootskel override disparity

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Installer
There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the override file for the following file(s): rootskel-bootfloppy_0.52_i386.udeb: package says priority is extra, override says standard. Either the package or the override file is incorrect. If you think the override is correct

rootskel_0.52_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: rootskel-bootfloppy_0.52_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_0.52_i386.udeb rootskel-locale_0.52_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-locale_0.52_i386.udeb rootskel_0.52.dsc to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_0.52.dsc rootskel_0.52.tar.gz to

Bug#219928: reassigning to brltty

2003-11-13 Thread Blars Blarson
unmerge 219928 reassign 219928 brltty tags 219928 - unreproducible tags 219928 - help thanks brltty is the only udeb refering to timeout_yet, so the problem is there. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With

Processed: reassigning to brltty

2003-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unmerge 219928 Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc Bug#211092: mklibs can't handle noweak symbols Disconnected #219928 from all other report(s). reassign 219928 brltty Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc Bug

Re: Second stage console problem

2003-11-13 Thread Miroslav Kure
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:05:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Kenshi Muto wrote: How do you think about following flowchart, Joey? n check tty - serial. 2nd stage as current LANG (*1) | y v y check fb0(*2) - run bogl-term as LANG(*3) | n v

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: We are using these features, current isolinux setup allows the user to select to boot the net initrd or the cdrom initrd. I don't know if this is wanted, this must be decided by the debian-installer guys, if we want to offer just the posibility to boot the cdrom