On Friday 08 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
I plan to commit this cuple of packages tomorrow, if noone objects, to
address the laptop-detect issue.
This changes laptop-detect from a dependency, on tasksel, to a
recommendation and let d-i to install it. This way we avoid the
changing
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Friday 08 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
1) You did not answer my question whether laptop-detect really supports
sparc. If it does not, we should not install it there (and
laptop-detect should not be built for sparc).
It does, if kernel
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The resulting udeb is approximately 3KiB. I have put some screenshots
online here [0].
What are its dependencies? Please show the output of debc (of dpkg -I) for
the udeb.
I've checked it and it does not include other dependencies.
Some comments on the
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Friday 08 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
I plan to commit this cuple of packages tomorrow, if noone objects, to
address the laptop-detect issue.
This changes laptop-detect from a dependency, on tasksel, to a
recommendation and let d-i to install
Otavio Salvador wrote:
2. Moves all patches from the .diff.gz to debian/patches and quilt.
Please talk to Aurelien and get those applied to avoid diverting from
him as soon as possible.
Sure. although these are fairly trivial patches which are already present
in the Debian diff -- I
Otavio Salvador wrote:
- I wonder if the CPU type could not be determined based
on /proc/cpuinfo
I think it's useful to avoid questions to users and then or we're
conservative and choose one generic flavour or we try to detect it.
Thinking about it more, I guess I would prefer it detect
Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dear friends,
This series of patches enhances cpuburn to support a hardware burn-in stage
in D-I.
Neat idea.
...
1. Updates cpuburn packaging to be more accomodating to another binary
package.
2. Moves all patches from the .diff.gz to
On Friday 08 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
1) You did not answer my question whether laptop-detect really supports
sparc. If it does not, we should not install it there (and
laptop-detect should not be built for sparc).
It does, if kernel does.
Currently laptop-detect checks
Otavio Salvador wrote:
+ apt-install laptop-detect || true
If apt-install fails here, the script should be allowed to fail.
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Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It could be safer to have it listed after Finish install and thus only
executable if selected from the menu (i.e. have a menu number greater
than 9 (see [1]).
I agree, yes. Is the target filesystems still mounted then?
Frans idea is to have it
Dear friends,
This series of patches enhances cpuburn to support a hardware burn-in stage
in D-I.
These sorts of tests are useful when you have built a new machine and you
wish to test the stability of the system, or you are experimenting with
overclocking and/or esoteric cooling solutions.
On Friday 08 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The resulting udeb is approximately 3KiB. I have put some screenshots
online here [0].
What are its dependencies? Please show the output of debc (of dpkg -I)
for the udeb.
I've checked it and it
maximilian attems wrote:
transmission is an easy and fast lightweight BitTorrent client.
gnome-btdownload lacks many features in comparison.
Another reason to consider this change would be that transmission
doesn't include an init script, which bittorrent does (by default it
does nothing,
Frans Pop wrote:
Have you ever actually _seen_ someone with a sparc laptop?
No. However, I have seen someone with a mips laptop. IIRC they got a
week's battery life running Debian. There are also plenty of things in
the laptop to pda spectrum using arm. mips, mipsel, arm, armel, armeb
should all
for the first install in IMAC G5 MAC OS 10.4 I wrote install64.
the first install it is very good until install yaboot; a message had
been screening failed to install boot loader; I have go on
finishing install, and was going to re-start to MacOS X 10.4.
I would want install other time
Frans Pop wrote:
Hi, thanks for your comments.
I have the following questions that I'd like to see answered to so we
can form a more informed opinion on this.
Are all x86 processor types supported?
So, this question really has two answers. As the answer filters down into
some of your other
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
debian-cd only currently includes laptop-detect due to it being a
tasksel dependency. Changes will be needed to avoid it falling off of
CDs if this dependency is removed.
Yes, I already mentioned that myself in the previous thread that led up to
these
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Otavio Salvador wrote:
+apt-install laptop-detect || true
If apt-install fails here, the script should be allowed to fail.
Ack.
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Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Otavio Salvador wrote:
- I wonder if the CPU type could not be determined based
on /proc/cpuinfo
I think it's useful to avoid questions to users and then or we're
conservative and choose one generic flavour or we try to detect it.
Thinking about it
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On Friday 08 February 2008, Chris Lamb wrote:
These sorts of tests are useful when you have built a new machine and you
wish to test the stability of the system, or you are experimenting with
overclocking and/or esoteric cooling solutions.
The basic idea is that shortcomings in the cooling,
Hello,
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:17:27 +0100 Tim Richardson wrote:
in most systems, and if you are not installing over serial console, the
easiest method is to switch to the second virtual console by pressing
Left Alt-F2[18] (on a Mac keyboard, Option-F2). Use Left Alt-F1 to
switch back to
On Saturday 09 February 2008, Holger Wansing wrote:
In the graphical installer, whe don't have such footline at all.
But it would be much easier there, because of higher resolution and
thus beeing able to display more characters on one line. So:
You may not believe this, but we have actually
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 01:15:30 +0100 Frans Pop wrote:
You may not believe this, but we have actually come up with that idea
ourselves in the past, but no one has implemented it yet.
Indeed, I believed that this is not really a new idea, but a
forgotten feature.
Please provide a patch.
Please
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:55:15 +0100 Holger Wansing wrote:
In the graphical installer, whe don't have such footline at all.
But it would be much easier there, because of higher resolution and
thus beeing able to display more characters on one line. So:
Tab moves between items; Space selects;
On Friday 08 February 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
Frans Pop wrote:
Have you ever actually _seen_ someone with a sparc laptop?
No. However, I have seen someone with a mips laptop. IIRC they got a
week's battery life running Debian. There are also plenty of things in
the laptop to pda spectrum
Package: debian-installer
Version: etch
Severity: normal
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When installing Etch, I choose my keyboard (French then Canadian), i
cannot use the REAL French Canadian (Canadian Multilingual Standart)
one, it only has the Legacy French Canadian one.
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On Friday 08 February 2008, Chris Lamb wrote:
No, in the sense that the latest CPU on that list is a K7, which is quite
old.
I see. Also from the fact that it supports memory testing up to a whopping
64MB...
I ran some of the tests on my dual-core x86_64 box, and with just 1 process
running
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Hello RM team and Jeroen,
RM team, please add a block for etch-support source package and add
following hints:
unblock console-data/2:1.05-1
unblock e2fsprogs/1.40.5-2
unblock nbd/1:2.9.9-6
unblock xfsprogs/2.9.5-1
Jeroen, please sync following
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Hello RM team,
Please consider all packages that builds udebs as frozen. We're
handling the beta1 releasing and would be better to be conservative
from now on.
So do not unblock packages that builds udebs without explicit approval
from me.
Thanks
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