Re: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Switching d-i to kbd for squeeze?

2009-01-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
pkg-kbd-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kbd-devel Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry , alast...@sceal.ie http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman

Bug#388464: debian-installer: ~2.6.17-2 amd64 kernel appears to be missing lvm-mod

2006-09-25 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Frans Pop wrote: reassign 388464 debian-installer tags 388464 + unreproducible thanks On Wednesday 20 September 2006 16:34, Alastair McKinstry wrote: Installing a Dell 1950 Server (x86_64), LVM support is broken as there is no LVM support in the kernel (-8 or -9, I believe), and no LVM

Bug#388464: debian-installer: ~2.6.17-2 amd64 kernel appears to be missing lvm-mod

2006-09-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: debian-installer Version: Daily build 20060920 Severity: normal Installing a Dell 1950 Server (x86_64), LVM support is broken as there is no LVM support in the kernel (-8 or -9, I believe), and no LVM modules available. This worked with the i386 installer of the same build (20060920)

Re: Bug#379938: Crashes with libnewt0.52 (0.52.2-5.1) if libfribidi0 not installed

2006-07-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Andree Leidenfrost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: libnewt0.52 Version: 0.52.2-5.1 Severity: important Dear Alistair, In version 0.52.2-5.1, the crashes in case libfribidi0 is not installed have returned. I am attaching a full backtrace of a

Re: Debian mactel linux support?

2006-06-29 Thread Alastair McKinstry
with. I've been waiting for DSL to work at home (which it now does, yay!) before joining in again. So I'll give it a try. Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libnewt transition from 0.51 to 0.52

2006-03-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
on libnewt0.52 instead. It would be appreciated if you could rebuild your package accordingly. Maintainers with packages depending on libnewt0.51, according to whodepends: John Lines [EMAIL PROTECTED] (plptools) Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] (libnewt-dev libnewt0.52 newt-tcl python-newt whiptail

Bug#284454: partman loops on Go back with preseed file

2004-12-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: partman Severity: normal Given a pre-seed file (see attached), partman presented a list of filesystems to create, which I wanted to edit. So instead of creating the filesystems, I selected Go Back or No. Both threw loops: selecting No throws you back to the same Write changes

Bug#284455: debian-installer: linux26 fails to detect CD-ROM on Dell PowerEdge 750

2004-12-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal On a Dell PowerEdge 750, normal d-i installs fine, but 2.6 install via 'linus26' fails to detect the CD-ROM. CD-ROM works fine when 2.6 installed later; modules lists and PCI output attached below. Regards Alastair McKinstry -- System Information

Proposed changes to console-data

2004-10-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
keymap. Closes: #275273. * Added Lithuanian keymap to console-keymaps-at, console-keymaps-acorn for debian-installer. Closes: #275087. * Fixed dangling symlink in console-keymaps-at; thanks to Recai Oktas. Closes: #262693. -- Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:34

Re: Bug#276752: Urgent patch for kbd-chooser

2004-10-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
-Original Message- From: Christian Perrier[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18/10/04 22:40:17 To: Alastair McKinstry[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Recai Oktas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED], Denis Barbier[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Bug#276752: Urgent patch for kbd-chooser

2004-10-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
-Original Message- From: Christian Perrier[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18/10/04 22:40:17 To: Alastair McKinstry[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Recai Oktas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED], Denis Barbier[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Bug#274364: #274364: please confirm that this bug is fixed

2004-10-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I am clearing old bugs, and it appears that one you submitted, #274364, about USB keyboard not working, has been fixed. Can you please confirm this? Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#276752: Urgent patch for kbd-chooser

2004-10-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Luan, 2004-10-18 at 23:41 +0300, Recai Oktas wrote: Small rearrangement of the patch. Tested successfully for Turkish and this time Latvian under Vmware. Sorry for my aesthetics obsessions :-) Regards, Patch looks good to me; Should work with Lithuanian, which was broke due to

newt and slang issues

2004-09-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I've uploaded to sid packages to fix the slang crashes (patch thanks to Bastian) and the newt Bulgarian translation. (don't know what your FTBFS issue was - I couldn't reproduce). I will upload the slang change to testing-proposed-updates as soon as the sid package is accepted into the

Re: newt and slang issues

2004-09-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
I will upload the slang change to testing-proposed-updates as soon as the sid package is accepted into the archive; is the newt translation significant enough for t-p-u ? Please upload to unstable only; the release team can push the package to testing from there once it's built on all archs.

Re: New d-i devcamp?

2004-07-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
also sprach Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.07.26.2352 +0200]: OK. 5 people confirmed their interest in a d-i devcamp. Please add me to the list of interested parties. Ditto. Regards Alastair McKinstry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:55:39AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: I think some of the stuff in console-cyrillic should be merged into console-common post-sarge; console-common is due for a rewrite: mostly to debconf' the font, etc. settings, but also make it more robust. I see that many

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, Sorry I'm a bit late to the thread; I think a bit of reorganisation of console-* would be a good idea, post sarge. (Note, with a freeze planned for July 31, I'm working towards fixing bugs on console-* packages before then; no disruptive stuff right now). I've posted some notes on plans I

Re: keyboard autodetection

2004-07-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, * Is there a way to autodetect (based on hardware IDs) the keyboard type (eg., when you install Debian, you have to select keyboard layout and country/ type). Hmm. What you're asking, I think, is whether the hardware ID implies a layout. (It's not really autodetection;

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
D Domh, 2004-06-27 ag 11:29 -0500, scrobh Steve Langasek: On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 04:35:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i I booted today's sid_d-i build from a usb stick. At the language chooser, I chose the nice new Arabic choice, and

Bug#244978: refile under hotplug

2004-06-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
refile 244978 hotplug thanks Refiling this bug under hotplug, as it appears to be the package still in need of work. This bug no longer involves usb-disover thanks Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Review of arcboot-installer template wanted

2004-06-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
(${arootlun})partition(${arootpart}) setenv OSLoader arcboot setenv OSLoadFilename Linux . You will only need to do this once. Afterwards, type boot or reboot the system to proceed. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#244978: is usbutils ever needed?

2004-06-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
, or will hotplug suffice? Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#244886: kbd-chooser: can't select keymap on sparc64 netboot 20040411 image

2004-06-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, Can you please confirm whether or not you still see this problem? I do not have access to a sparc machine and cannot debug this without help Regards Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#250548: Default keyboard for Netherlands should be 'US American'

2004-05-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
D Domh, 2004-05-23 ag 20:47 +0200, scrobh Frans Pop: Package: kbd-chooser Version: 0.50 Please change the default keyboard for nl_NL installations from 'Dutch' to 'US American'? Rationale: Most PC's (at a guess: over 90%) in the Netherlands are equipped with a US keyboard. Dutch

Bug#249164: installation report on DECstation (mipsel)

2004-05-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
D Domh, 2004-05-16 ag 16:24 +0100, scrobh Martin Michlmayr: * Karsten Merker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-15 16:17]: Keyboard selection: [E] Kbd-Chooser only presents PC keymaps by default. Pressing ESC brings one back to the main menu.

Bug#243623: #243623: Tottasten is not a german word

2004-05-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi Dennis, Can you respond to this bug report about the German translation of console-data? Thanks, Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#244886: kbd-chooser: can't select keymap on sparc64 netboot 20040411 image

2004-04-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: kbd-chooser Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hi, I tried 20040411 netboot sparc64 image today, and I used expert DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low. I selected fr_FR, then France. In kbd-chooser, I had this choice : Sun keyboard Usb keyboard I selected Sun keyboard but I didn't have the choice to

Re: Full Debian install impressions and facts

2004-04-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 18.IV.2004 at 13:27 (-0500) Branden Robinson wrote: The main challenge here, as I understand it, is that d-i basically uses console-data's paradigm for keyboard description. So what we need is a gigantic mapping table in xserver-xfree86.config to translate console-data keyboard

Bug#243059: #243059: back button behavior in kbd-chooser

2004-04-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
choose-keymap goes to choose-arch, as expected, and back again goes to main-menu. This is all as expected, and this hasn't changed in months; maybe a bug in main-menu that was fixed? - Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90

Re: Automated xkb/kde/fonts configuration after install

2004-04-15 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Thursday 15 April 2004 02:54, Denis Barbier wrote: As you chose el_GR.UTF-8 as the default locale, you have to find a way to provide a working UTF-8 console. If jfbterm works for 2nd stage, it could also be used when installation is over, couldn't it? I thought about it, but IIRC I read

Bug#243846: (no subject)

2004-04-15 Thread Alastair McKinstry
So the stopping and starting of PCMCIA isn't always safe either, after all. I still wonder what's so unsafe about not stopping PCMCIA during upgrades. Important devices would disappear during the upgrade: eg. networking, or even worse, storage: e.g I have a Compact Flash PCMCIA holder: my CF

Bug#242007: countrychooser: Translate the list of country names

2004-04-04 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: countrychooser Version: 0.013 Severity: normal Please translate the short list of country names, as well as the full country names list. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers experimental APT policy: (990, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')

[l10n]; change to console-data po files

2004-04-04 Thread Alastair McKinstry
to commit? Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent

Bug#241838: kbd-chooser: Need non-UTF8 keymap for Turkish

2004-04-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: kbd-chooser Version: 0.47 Severity: normal For Turkish, we want the trqu UTF8 keymap for the first stage of the install, with a non-UTF-8 keymap trq on the second stage. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers experimental APT policy: (990,

Bug#241838: d-i Turkish keyboard issues

2004-04-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
, Alastair McKinstry --

Re: Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
D Domh, 2004-04-04 ag 04:17 +0800, scrobh Tetralet: My original question is: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country, Even though it will hurt some people, like people who living in Taiwan? And I think your answer is YES. People who install Debian via

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
being neutral. FJP Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent

speakup and debian-installer

2004-04-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
in d-i)? Does it make more sense just to not offer speakup in kbd-chooser, or ship a speakup-variant of d-i with speakup kernel and keymap? Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New alioth repository for console-data, console-common

2004-04-01 Thread Alastair McKinstry
agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach

Bug#241231: DECstation 5000/133 (mipsel) install with some problems

2004-03-31 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi Martin, Package: installation-reports I first chose the language, but it didn't ask me for the country but instead dropped me into main menu on Select a keyboard layout. Maybe this was because of 32 MB memory only, but I didn't get a message about low-mem installs. Select a keyboard

Bug#241231: DECstation 5000/133 (mipsel) install with some problems

2004-03-31 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:21:49PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily r3k-kn02/boot.img snapshot, 200 Select a keyboard layout: doesn't do anything (I didn't have a keyboard conncted, but anyway). This is the major problem we have on

[l10n] Updated iso-codes 3166 and 639 lists

2004-03-30 Thread Alastair McKinstry
: https://alioth.debian.org/scm/controller.php?group_id=1438 Any translator who wants CVS access please contact me. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He

Bug#238364: bug #238264: arcboot installation on mips

2004-03-30 Thread Alastair McKinstry
/arcboot.postinst to see what fails. -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Shlomi Loubaton did some work on BIDI (BI-DIrectional langauges support) for Debian Installer. He hacked the slang libraries so that some handling of BIDI is added to it. This will probably need adding the libfribidi0 library to Debian Installer. Thus a libfribidi0-udeb package will probably

Bug#232085: Please retest

2004-03-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
(more comments printed in the logs); using export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug debuild -uc -us in kbd-chooser. -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must

Bug#239035: mac/ADB keymaps inappropriate for powerpc

2004-03-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi Colin, Thanks for your report. Looking at your patch, you removed mac_kbd.c from powerpc. I'd prefer to do the following: check in mac-kbd.c: fd = open(/proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes, O_RDONLY); if ((fd 0) || (read(fd,c, 1) != 1)) { di_info

Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Am Sath, 2004-03-20 ag 12:36, scrobh Martin Michlmayr: * Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-20 07:27]: kbd-chooser in d-i _should_ autodetect serial consoles and put this option on the menu. Could you please send me a copy of the install log; it should list whether serial

[i18n] String Changes in iso-codes

2004-03-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
present on alioth, and for any translator who wants commit rights, please email me with your alioth (debian) username. -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own

Re: Bug#238973: iso-codes: Official name for TW is Taiwan, Province of China

2004-03-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Kingdom in the next release, as per usability report. If you still want Taiwan to be changed, say so, and I will release with that change. -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He

Bug#233856: should be a way to disable usb-discover at boot prompt, for bad hardware that hangs kernel

2004-03-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
; ie what USB modules do you need? -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he

Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
on the menu. Could you please send me a copy of the install log; it should list whether serial console was detected or not. On the SWARM, what device is used as console (during install)? /dev/console? /dev/ttyS1? Thiemo -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG

Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
on the menu. Could you please send me a copy of the install log; it should list whether serial console was detected or not. On the SWARM, what device is used as console (during install)? /dev/console? /dev/ttyS1? Thiemo -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG

Re: Bug#234513: debian-installer: segfault when starting kbd-chooser

2004-03-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach

Re: IA64 install experience (HP zx6000)

2004-03-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
be run before keyboard input is required. What USB modules are required under woody for the keyboard to operate on the zx6000? -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make

Re: base-config, kbd and console-tools

2004-02-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
things up, people have something else to use) Denis -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he

[l10n] Translation needed for console-data

2004-02-26 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, In the next upload of console-data I am including a French Atari keymap. This means one more entry that requires translation. Can translators please provide a translation for French (Atari) for console-data/debian-installer? Thanks, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

[i18n]: For translators: iso-3166-udeb has changed

2004-02-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself

Re: Up/Down/PgDn/PgUp not working anymore in cdebconf?

2004-02-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:18:07AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: With a 20040212 netinst ISO image, the direction keys do not work anymore for moving around d-i menus. I saw this one too. I also got left with a half finished configure once I'd finished following the first reboot. It took

Re: Up/Down/PgDn/PgUp not working anymore in cdebconf?

2004-02-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Quoting Alastair McKinstry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (I'm working on broken i18n in newt/whiptail at the moment). Support for BIDI languages�? I've got no news from BIDI languages people, either Arabic or Hebrew I'm starting to worry whether we will succeed in getting a fully functional d-i

Bug#232397: use menutest in bterm-unifont instead.

2004-02-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
. -- Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent

Bug#229761: #229761: Bad keymaps in installer

2004-01-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, Thanks for testing the keyboards in debian-installer. In what way do you believe these keymaps are bad? Lithuanian Latvian Japanese (106 key) Macedonian Dutch Is this in the install stage, or later? If so, which kernel, etc. did you use? Thanks, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself

Bug#225897: kbd-chooser: German translation uses wrong encoding

2004-01-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, The current version of kbd-chooser appears to be correct Unicode. Could you please check and confirm that this bug can be closed? Sln agus Beannacht, Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#219290: [d-i] No USB keyboard after reboot

2003-12-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
and the 2MB limit on isofs) , hence discover is not an option at this point. However, it would be better if the list of USB modules was taken from the maintained discover[2] package automatically rather than built by hand. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Should we really use countries in languagechooser

2003-12-25 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Happy Holidays! On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 09:09, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Anmar Oueja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please change it as you see fit. As a matter of fact. in the languagechoose.l10n I put in choose Arabic to begin installer (Arab World in arabic of course to direct it to all

Re: BIDI Status in Debina Installer

2003-12-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 20:38, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Anmar Oueja] Hello All: I would like to know the status of adding BIDI support to the Debian Text-based interface installer. I suspect the important bug is URL: http://bugs.debian.org/212962 , and no one have added any info to

Re: cdebconf menu location

2003-12-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
the string freeze, though, and for people with better English than me (eg Christian Perrier :-)) Slán agus Beannacht, - Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Language choser is also keyboard choser ??

2003-12-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
. The default choice of keyboard is taken from the languagechooser. Regards, Alastair McKinstry If you agree with that proposal i can try to submit a patch. Ciao -- Daniele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Fixed in NMU of lvmcfg 0.10

2003-12-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
: 0.10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lvmcfg - Configure the Logical Volume Manager (udeb) Closes: 219471 Changes: lvmcfg (0.10) unstable; urgency=low . * Verok Istvan

Re: why is dvorak the default keyboard for English locales?

2003-12-11 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 20:06, Joey Hess wrote: I see that even with the latest kbd-chooser, if I pick American English in languagechooser, it defaults to a dvorak keyboard. At least it asks me about it now at high priority, but surely the American English keyboard would be a much better

Re: updated lithuanian .po files

2003-12-11 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 21:32, Kstutis Bilinas wrote: Hi, In attachement there are some updated lithuanian (lt_LT) .po files for d-i. Thanks, Committed. Thank you for your contribution to Debian. Sln agus Beannacht - Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Hungarian l10n of d-i

2003-12-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
. Thank you for your contribution to Debian. - Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: choose-mirror country codes

2003-12-04 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:03, Denis Barbier wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:39:40PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 21:52, Joey Hess wrote: [...] All well and good, but when I run choose-mirror in en_US, I see US. What needs to be done for me to see any

Re: choose-mirror country codes

2003-12-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 21:52, Joey Hess wrote: Alastair McKinstry wrote: The countrycodes are used to provide a more neutral and defined identity of country than English name. It is easy to confuse English name for country with translated name leading to bugs you won't see those bugs

Re: base-config 2.0

2003-12-01 Thread Alastair McKinstry
I hope to finish this up so it uses the cdebconf db for the rest of the stuff in installer-integration, and take it further so it uss any additonal d-i stuff it can to avoid more questions. I still need to work out how to get the equivlant of dbootstrap_setting's KEYBD and SERIALCONSOLE from d-i

Re: Default bootloader

2003-11-26 Thread Alastair McKinstry
[Geert Stappers] Add missing serial line (detection) support to the list. Are you talking about the missing serial line support in grub-installer, or some feature of the grub boot loader? The first should be easily fixable. At least we use grub with serial console here at the university, and

Re: Localizing New Debian Installer to Arabic

2003-11-25 Thread Alastair McKinstry
the localised files ? The most useful ones to start with are main-menu, cdebconf and the languagechooser.l10n. Do you have Cvs access in Debian? if not, the easiest way to submit the files is just to send them to me. Beannacht, Alastair McKinstry Anmar Alastair McKinstry wrote: On Thu, 2003-11

Re: Re: Status of IPv6 in d-i?

2003-11-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
list, though. -ipv6: Isn't it better to say if the IP starts with 0xf, or is ::1 it's *not* globally addressable? I think so. Beannacht, Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/utils/debian by mckinstry

2003-11-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Am Son, den 16.11.2003 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 12:38: Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/utils/debian In directory gluck:/tmp/cvs-serv16371/debian Modified Files: changelog control rules Log Message: Add di-utils-devicefiles package to provide the devicefiles needed

Re: Status of IPv6 in d-i?

2003-11-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, A friend of mine, who is quite the IPv6 adopter commented to me today that a (much) earlier version of d-i that he tried out some months ago had IPv6 support, but that it had seemed to have gone away in the newer releases. Are there any plans for the installer to work with IPv6 for the sarge

Re: Localizing New Debian Installer to Arabic

2003-11-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
with CVS: see http://cvs.debian.org/ , checkout with root debian-boot. You can see the status of translations at http://people.debian.org/~tsauter/d-i/translations.html Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

boot-floppies ; new release for 3.0r2 ?

2003-11-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
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Bug#221186: keymap problem fixed

2003-11-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
the documentation is checked to note the change in syntax. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]

2003-11-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
A report that was forwarded to me; I am updating the ports-status page with details on submitting reports the offical way. -- Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even

Asking the priority question; was Re: Bug#221186: keymap problem fixed

2003-11-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 21:24, Denis Barbier wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:30:16AM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: Hi, The dvorak keymap bug is now fixed in daily builds. It is possible to work around it in two ways: (1) Set DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium on the boot line, to get

Bug#220117: Installation report

2003-11-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
this clearer). The default keyboard is the same as it was for woody; whar is the best default keyboard for Dutch language users ? Note, a different choice may be selected for Dutch Belgian speakers. Regards, Alastair McKinstry Wilmer van der Gaast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Second stage console problem

2003-11-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
entering accents in UTF-8 locales is broken. While this does not affect d-i at the moment (no dialogs that want arbitrary text), it means most users will not want UTF-8 locales on the console. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

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

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

Re: updated lithuanian .po files

2003-11-09 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 00:04, Kstutis Bilinas wrote: Hi, In attachement there are some updated lithuanian (lt_LT) .po files for d-i. Could someone commit them for me? Thanks, Committed. Thanks for your contribution to Debian. Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: setting /etc/modules in d-i / base-config?

2003-11-09 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:59, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Alastair McKinstry] Do we (expect to) prime the /etc/modules on /target in d-i, in general, eg. for network interfaces, or should kbd-chooser add the USB modules if it spots a USB keyboard? My plan is to leave this to the HW

Bug#219765: Languagechooser 1.03 dies on mipsel

2003-11-08 Thread Alastair McKinstry
actually goes: echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8 if [ $? ] ; then ... Could you please test this on mipsel? I can't log into a mipsel box at the moment. if this fails, try the variant if `echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8 ` ; then ... Regards, Alastair McKinstry The echo and grep processes

Re: bogl-bterm: font reloading

2003-11-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
[Daniel Jacobowitz] Can you just restart bterm? Yes, I realize that's got some issues since you're running inside of it. But it's really not set up to re-parse the font. I would rather not restart debian-installer and main-menu, and it seem to be a requirement to be able to restart bterm.

Committed Russian translations to debian-installer

2003-11-04 Thread Alastair McKinstry
tags 219089 pending tags 219091 pending tags 219092 pending tags 219093 pending tags 219094 pending tags 219095 pending thanks I've committed your Russian translations to the debian-installer CVS. Thank you for your contribution to Debian. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bosnian translation - remaining two d-i files

2003-11-04 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 19:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alastair, here are base-config and silo-installer po files, btw, I just found out, while reading through this list about: http://people.debian.org/~barbier/d-i/l10n/bs and found in status.utf8.txt file new untranslated and some fuzzy

[patch]: fdisk-udeb needs reduced .mo files for l10n

2003-11-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: util-linux Version: 2.11-4 Tags: patch, d-i The fdisk-udeb for debian-installer requires cut-down versions of the .mo files for localisation. The following patch produces these. Regards, Alastair diff rules.orig rules 38a39,41 CFDISK_PO_DIR=cfdisk-po

Bug#215404: di_check_dir() missing

2003-11-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:34, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Richard Hirst] debug builds of kbd-chooser call di_check_dir() but versions of libdebian-installer beyond 0.15 do not provide it. Checking d-i/doc/libdi-changes.txt, I do not find that function mentioned at all. I'm not sure what

Re: [WOODY] Need sugestion for Floppy-Install

2003-11-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
over net stage: irda from one laptop to another. Again, not tested since around March/April, but should work. Needs documentation, though. - Alastair McKinstry Christian Leber -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est

Re: Bosnian translation update files

2003-11-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 18:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the languagelist and languagelist.l10n files updated for bosnian translation. Safir Secerovic P.S. Please CC when replying Done. Thanks for your contribution to Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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