Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
In the Debian Edu project, we generate our own CDs with adjustment to the installer and provided packages. We have also included some non-free firmware deb packages in the naive hope that d-i would use them when needed. This has proven to not work, as d-i do not look for firmware packages in

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 08:15:53AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: D-I does not follow Recommends during base-installer (as discussed last month). This means that currently console-setup gets installed without kbd and console-tools. This is wrong. Console-setup can not configure the console

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le Sun 14 Mar 2010 12:39:08 +0200, a écrit : In the past c-s used strong dependency but I changed it to only recommends because of request by porters working on architectures which do not have kbd or console-tools (i.e. BSD). The dependency could be dropped on those archs

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 08:15:53AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: D-I does not follow Recommends during base-installer (as discussed last month). This means that currently console-setup gets installed without kbd and console-tools. This is wrong.

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Anton Zinoviev, le Sun 14 Mar 2010 12:39:08 +0200, a écrit : In the past c-s used strong dependency but I changed it to only recommends because of request by porters working on architectures which do not have kbd or console-tools (i.e. BSD).

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:39:20PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Partly. It depends on how APT is configured. And at that point in the installation it's configured not to install Recommends by default. After base-installer we _do_ install Recommends by default. We can also use a parameter when

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:31:04PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: and the installer should force the installation of keyboard-configuration instead of console-setup). Only on the architectures without working kbd (the BSD and the Hurd architectures). Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#573878: netcfg: hurd-i386 Fixes

2010-03-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: netcfg Version: 1.52 Severity: important Tags: patch Hello, Here is some fixes for netcfg on hurd-i386. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: I am realy surprised by all of this. What was causing kbd or console-tools to be installed in the past (before console-setup)? We used to explicitly install 'console-tools console-data console-common'. Probably exactly because Recommends were not

Bug#573878: netcfg: hurd-i386 Fixes

2010-03-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Please also add hurd-i386 to the netcfg binary package architecture list. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Should D-I install console-setup with kbd and console-tools or not?

2010-03-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Sun 14 Mar 2010 18:46:14 +0100, a écrit : Does that mean console-setup itself is essentially useless on kfreebsd and hurd? The Hurd console directly understands xkb keymaps and loads fonts itself. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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Bug#573878: netcfg: hurd-i386 Fixes

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
tag 573878 pending thanks On Sunday 14 March 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Here is some fixes for netcfg on hurd-i386. Committed. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#573878: netcfg: hurd-i386 Fixes

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Please also add hurd-i386 to the netcfg binary package architecture list. Done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#573891: kFreeBSD partitioning fails

2010-03-14 Thread Miroslav Kure
Package: partman-base Hi, I wanted to install kFreeBSD variant of Debian squeeze from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-i386/daily/monolithic/mini.iso downloaded today (2010-03-14). All went well until manual partitioning: - /dev/hda1 primary ntfs 26GB - free space 3GB When I

Bug#573891: kFreeBSD partitioning fails

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Miroslav Kure wrote: No clue on tty4 at this stage. However, when I go back to the main That's normal. stderr often stays buffered until you exit a component (return to the main menu). menu and select to partition disks again, nothing happens (I am So that's not

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Should this be the default behaviour of debian-cd, or should hw-detect be changed to look for firmware packages where debian-cd put them when firmware debs is in the package list? The problem with making hw-detect look in pool/ is that it does not know what debs

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] The problem with making hw-detect look in pool/ is that it does not know what debs contain firmware. It assumes there will not be too many debs in the places it looks, and so it examines them all, unpacking them to find ones that contain the firmware files. If it also looked in

how to set title in installer interface

2010-03-14 Thread kin boster
hi all: I create a udeb package to add a user interface in debian installer based lenny. When run to my add interface the title line display two exclamation mark( ! ), not a title, and syslog display: Mar 15 02:59:13 main-menu[1079]: WARNING **: Unable to set title for

Re: how to set title in installer interface

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 March 2010, kin boster wrote: Template: my_test/title Should be: debian-installer/my_title/title -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: