Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of August for the removal of the package unless there's significant progress to fixing the issue. I still feel this is an overreaction as only the original reporter has ever seen

Re: Thoughts about network-console

2010-08-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 05 August 2010, Thibaut Girka wrote: Did you actually check this? The password templates are of type 'password' and thus the value should be in /var/lib/cdebconf/passwords.dat (and thus encoded) instead of in plain text in questions.dat. Well, you can still db_get the

Re: Thoughts about network-console

2010-08-05 Thread Frans Pop
(No need to CC on replies: I read the list.) On Thursday 05 August 2010, Thibaut Girka wrote: If you're talking about user-setup, they are cleared, that the first thing I've checked (better done that checking network-console, it seems) before sending this mail. With user-setup the passwords

Re: Thoughts about network-console

2010-08-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Thibaut Girka wrote: He starts the installation in front of the computer, sets a password, that happen to be its daily-use one. That's not very smart, is it? Then, an untrustworthy colleague goes to the computer, and just reads /var/lib/cdebconf/questions.dat:

Re: Spam cleaning effort: July 2010

2010-08-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 01 August 2010, Lee Winter wrote: It means that we probably need a few more DD's to look at signalled spam for the debian-boot mailing list through I disagree. I believe the above fact indicates that we need a better communication mechanism for reviewers, rather than more

Bug#590993: installation-reports: netboot install report broken mirror if installation CD is used as mirror

2010-07-30 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 590993 debian-cd severity 590993 normal thanks Since you are trying something that's not really supported, this is certainly *not* a grave issue. After all, a CD image is not a mirror even if both contain a repository. It is correct that the error occurs because CD images have

Re: Preseeding Automated PXE Boot

2010-07-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 July 2010, Ed Kohlwey wrote: If I run this command from another machine on the LAN I get output from grep showing Codename:squeeze, so its clear to me there's something misconfigured or broken in d-i. That's the wrong assumption. Assume there's something wrong in your setup

Re: Installer Translation Status

2010-07-20 Thread Frans Pop
Basing on debcommit seems the only correct option to me. Possibly a fallback to stripped epoch could be used to cover current cases. Actually, the best solution is probably to simply rename the tags in SVN to include the epoch using 'svn mv'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Installer Translation Status

2010-07-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 19 July 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: The packages I released were tagged with the attached script, contributed by Joey back in.a long time ago..:-) Apparently, it does strip the epoch when

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: 3. The 686 flavour is considered unsuitable for some AMD K7 processors Problem 3 appears to be due to a workaround for an incorrect kernel configuration.  The comment on this exclusion is 'May not have SSE support', but this has never been a

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: +   if grep -q '^flags.*\blm\b' $CPUINFO; then Has this been tested with busybox shell? Does busybox' grep understand '\b'? I don't recall us using it anywhere else in D-I. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 23:11 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: + if grep -q '^flags.*\blm\b' $CPUINFO; then Has this been tested with busybox shell? Does busybox' grep understand '\b'? I don't recall

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I eagerly await Bills view on the proposed change for popularity-contest, which I believe i a better place to implement the change. No, it is not reasonable to ask packages to change functionally correct and policy-compliant dependencies

Re: SVN problem: committing a file named s...@latin

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 July 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: I need to add such a file, but svn add apparently chokes on it: bubu...@mykerinos:~/src/debian/debian-installer/installer/build/needed-c haracters LC_ALL=C svn add s...@latin svn: warning: 'sr' not found

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
(Daniel: sorry for the private duplicate of this mail; no need to CC me.) On Saturday 17 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 13:35+0200, Frans Pop wrote: So: as the reported issue is already fixed in current daily built D-I images and as the Recommends in popcon

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 21:40+0200, Frans Pop wrote: I'm not sure what image was used by the bug reporter, but I assume a current D-I alpha 1 image. The alpha1 images date from mid Februari. These received a refresh a few days ago: http

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: So if I had used the one from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-amd64/current/ images/netboot/ it would have worked? No. Those are *not* daily built images. Follow the relevant links from the page I referred to! For

Re: D-I Manual - String freeze / Call to update translations (deadline: May 17)

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 April 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: Add 2010 to the copyright hint on the first side of the manual? Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 the Debian Installer team Done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: D-I Manual - String freeze / Call to update translations (deadline: May 17)

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 01 May 2010, Miroslav Kure wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:13:56AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: It's time for another upload of the Installation Guide. Hi Frans, please consider applying the attached patch (or something along the lines), which IMO greatly clarifies the IP adresses

Bug#579954: installation-guide: Add link from accessibility section to boot screen section

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
tag 579954 pending thanks On Sunday 02 May 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: It has been reported that it would be useful to add a link from the accessibility to the boot screen section, as the attached patch does, since the latter describes precisely how keypresses work there. I've added the

Bug#580508: installation-guide: Fix brltty driver/table code URL

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
tag 580508 pending thanks On Thursday 06 May 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: The chapter numbers of the brltty manual have unfortunately changed. The attached patch points at its index instead of directly to a chapter number. Updated. I've used a different patch as IMO the text where the URLs

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: From the looks of it, exim4 is installed because of a Recommends: by the cron package: Recommends: exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent, lockfile-progs How exactly did you determine this? I doubt it is cron as Recommends are not

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I suspect the change you propose can not be implemented by debian-installer, but instead would have to be done by changing cron or any other package pulling in the mta package.  At least the way d-i is designed at the moment. And on what do

Re: Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
(Replying to list only.) On Friday 16 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Please make some effort to understand how things work before making wild guesses. I've spent an effort over several years to understand how d-i is working, but thank you for voicing your concern. For your

Re: Add partman-btrfs to *next* D-I release?

2010-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 July 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: OK, I'll add them to the packages_list file after we're done with the beta1 release preparation. Why wait? This way, trnaslators can work on them and, if we happen to release a beta2, or rc1, these packages will at least have some

Re: Add partman-btrfs to *next* D-I release?

2010-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 July 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): On Wednesday 14 July 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: OK, I'll add them to the packages_list file after we're done with the beta1 release preparation. Why wait? Essentially to have time to cook

Re: I am deeply disappointed

2010-07-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 July 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: That was something I was looking forward to fixing in the coming weeks. This is just a rant, no useful information. Actually, it was a compliment disguised as a joke! I had to read it twice myself to get it

Re: I am deeply disappointed

2010-07-12 Thread Frans Pop
Dear Stephen, On Monday 12 July 2010, Stephen Gran wrote: Here's a nickel, kid, buy yourself a sense of humor. The entire message was surrounded by giant blinking sarcasm tags. Actually no, it wasn't. The only really clear clue was the last line. The message was fairly long and especially

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 09 July 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: What I've done for now is drop the -486 kernel flavour from the m-a netinst. From a test build I've just done, everything fits on a single CD again, even with firmware included. If people want to install from a netinst onto a pre-686 machine then

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 09 July 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: True. Any better suggestions? No. Not without doing substantial work on this, which I've already indicated I'm not going to do this release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 09 July 2010, Ian Campbell wrote: In light of Frans' concern perhaps consider dropping 686 instead of 486? I think that will result in 686-bigmem being installed on systems which would have previously got 686 (I can confirm if necessary). This isn't necessarily a bad thing -- it

Bug#583388: Non-US keyboard problem with graphical installer

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: 5. Fix for real:    Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard-configuration.config, and add the    following line in ask_debconf(), right before the if part, once all    choices have been merged together:       choices=`echo $choices | sed 's/,$//'`

Bug#583388: Non-US keyboard problem with graphical installer

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl (06/07/2010): The proposed fix could well be OK, but maybe the code can be fixed a bit earlier so the trailing comma is avoided in the first place? Whatever unbreaks g-i. Not really. There's also such things

Re: Bug#586404: udev-udeb: Very slow installation in Squeeze caused by udevadm settle

2010-07-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 04 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Looks so, I never expected that the two packages could get out of sync. Is there some way to get the udevadm settle command work also with older udevd versions? Can the protocol be changed? This is a D-I release management problem and

Bug#587493: choose-mirror: Strange wget error message in the installation log

2010-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 June 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: In Debian Edu, we automatically search for error: in the installation log to detect errors during installation. Then it seems you need to make an exception for this error. When PXE installing, I get this one: Jun 28 23:18:29

Bug#587493: choose-mirror: Strange wget error message in the installation log

2010-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 June 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Frans Pop] So, one wget results in a 404. As choose-mirror tries various possible suites and codenames and wgets are used for other purposes as well, a 404 is always a possibility. Sure, but all the URLs listed in the log are working

Bug#587493: choose-mirror: Strange wget error message in the installation log

2010-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 June 2010, Frans Pop wrote: NACK. The errors are too useful to suppress. I disagree.  The error in question is almost useless.  There is no way to see which URL was missing, and the message show up in the wrong location in the log.  A useful error message would make

Re: Skipping base-install and others at stage 5

2010-06-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 28 June 2010, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: So, I would like to skip at stage 5, the following modules: - base-installer - user-setup - apt-setup - pkgsel Is that possible?. Create a custom udeb that runs before base-installer, does the rsync and provides the udebs you want to

Bug#586428: Please clear the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br [2010-06-19 12:35]: The following patch, which clears the cache after debootstrap and then again at the end (after kernel/extra packages), works for me.  OK to apply? Conceptually it is OK but

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 19 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I see no reason for leaving .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives on a fresh installation, so let's run apt-get clean before reboot. This has been suggested and discussed before. IIRC (but I may be mistaken) Joey has always been against it.

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Frans Pop wrote: The main reason IIRC is that leaving the packages makes it unnecessary to download them again if part of e.g. tasksel fails for whatever reason and the user has to install some packages manually [...]. Note that the above argument is only really valid

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Any disk space savings are IMO illusionary as the cache will fill up again anyway during later updates and any system that does not have sufficient disk space to hold a decent package cache will also have serious problems during later stable updates. I

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Maybe, for more corner cases where keepign the cache would be good, could we have a low priority option (or a preseed-only choice) to *not* clean the cache? I don't think it has anything to do with user choice or preseeding. Making this a

Bug#586428: Please clear the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: If you are *very* short of disk space, doing it twice might make sense. Nonsense. If you're that short on diskspace you have a totally unusable system anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#586434: Let's clean the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [1] Checking installation of packages using apt-install is much harder to do as there are many different calls and failure may be expected in some cases. It also gains much less as their total size is much less. I believe it would not be

Bug#586428: Please clear the apt cache

2010-06-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 19 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote:  cleanup () { +   rm -f /target/var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb 2/dev/null || true rm -f $KERNEL_LIST $KERNEL_LIST.unfiltered  } Shouldn't this call 'apt-get cleanup' in /target instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm afraid I don't have any good ideas. Is this particular image supposed to contain a complete base system or just enough to fetch the remainder of the base system from the net? The netinsts are meant to have the base system, yes. I can't see

Re: stable d-i update for 5.0.5

2010-06-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 June 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Perhaps the firmware loading changes in hw-detect? No way. That's nowhere near stable material. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Spam cleaning effort: May 2010

2010-06-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 04 June 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: I marked 20. Maybe I'm too strict -- which ones aren't spam? All are. Your list helped me spotting two spams I initially missed...Thanks for taking care to send your list. This is the second time you've missed spams others have found. IMO

Re: Spam cleaning effort: May 2010

2010-06-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 05 June 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: This is the second time you've missed spams others have found. As you seem to question the care I used for this work, could I mention that, well, two other people also missed two spams before I did. Maybe not the same ones, but still.. What

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-31 Thread Frans Pop
Detect device driver media from hardware manufacturer I find Frans' version more newbie-friendly but further from the original idea of driver injection disks (which is maybe described in some manufacturer documentation...or some Ubuntu documentation). media is less precise than disks but

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: _Description: Detect hardware manufacturer driver injection disks 1) Phrasing is convoluted. 2) IIUC they are not necessarily disks? 3) What exactly is injection here? So maybe: Detect device driver media from hardware manufacturer -- To

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Detect device driver media from hardware manufacturer I like that onethough it brings back wording to any kind of driver disk while the original idea was very special things embarked in the devices itself and was fitting something

Bug#583733: tasksel: please install kde-config-tablet if a tablet is found

2010-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Sune Vuorela wrote: Please install kde-config-tablet if a tablett (wacom-like)_is found and the user is installing kde task. Why not always, so that a wacom tablet that's plugged in later can still be configured? I guess that could be done. it was just 'why

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#583767: Add udeb

2010-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org): I don't know if all udebs are automatically included in d-i, but if they are, I doubt d-i people will like the additional 1.3MB uncompressed. They aren't automatically included. But udebs we don't

Re: [SOLVED] Unbootable after kernel upgrade: Lilo can't load kernel

2010-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 505609 reassign 505609 linux-2.6 affects 505609 lilo thanks Stephen Powell wrote: The real question is, Why didn't the map installer get run during the kernel upgrade? [...] So is this a bug in the kernel maintainer scripts? Or is it a feature? I don't know. I'll leave that up to

Re: [RFC] Dealing with mdadm superblock metadata default change

2010-05-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 28 May 2010, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl [2010.03.14.0811 +0100]: Yes, I think it should be in mdadm. It should be as easy as reverting http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commitdiff;h=7d5c3964 ccfa ace123f7b75e15d38c2650e013d8

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 29 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: I replaced OEM by hardware in an attempt to unjargonize. And thereby losing information. Well, then define OEM in this contextThis acronym is used  in each and every possible situation and nearly means nothing nowadays. So ? I dont'

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Maybe use hardware vendor instead of OEM. Using just hardware does lose information as the essence is that the drivers are provided by the vendor, not by the distro. Or maybe better hardware manufacturer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: this OS release: we never talk like this in other parts of D-I. If we want to avoid branding (this release of Debian), we could at least use this release of the operating system). My first question would be: do the disks actually work with

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Because the question is where?. The lilo approach is inside the filesystem, which can break. The grub approach is right after MBR, which needs room there. grub (legacy) can be installed in any partition. IIUC grub2 is limited to being installed

Re: Localization status for Debian Installer (May 24th update)

2010-05-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 24 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: 3 languages were complete before sibyl-installer re-addition Sibyl installer strings can be recovered using msgcat from an older version of the PO file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Localization status for Debian Installer (May 24th update)

2010-05-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 24 May 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 24 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: 3 languages were complete before sibyl-installer re-addition Sibyl installer strings can be recovered using msgcat from an older version of the PO file. Done from revision 59835 for the following

Re: No install guide for armel for stable

2010-05-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 24 May 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I noticed that http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ refers to the arm install guide and release notes rather than to that of armel. Since are is deprecated, I wanted to change the links to armel but then I noticed is that there's no install guide for

Re: No install guide for armel for stable

2010-05-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 24 May 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Is it possible to change the lenny arm guide so it points to the armel images? No. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] the state of daily-builds

2010-05-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 15 May 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: I also fixed hppa today Great, but seems to have a similar problem as ppc had: not built since initial run. Ping. hppa is still not being built automatically. TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] the state of daily-builds

2010-05-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 21 May 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 15 May 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: I also fixed hppa today Great, but seems to have a similar problem as ppc had: not built since initial run. Ping. hppa is still not being built automatically

Re: No push permission for tasksel?

2010-05-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 21 May 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: Unfortunately I still get the same error. I even 'rm -rf' the whole directory and started from scratch, but I still get the same error. Give it some time... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#582223: partman - Wants to overwrite swap partition/lv

2010-05-19 Thread Frans Pop
severity 582223 normal tags 582223 wontfix thanks On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: partman wants to overwrite the swap partitions on a already setup machine. As swap partition can contain hibernation data, this is an data-destroying operation. Doing any system install while the

Bug#581873: [languagechooser] unable to select language more than once

2010-05-19 Thread Frans Pop
*Exactly* when did you do this? I suspect it was after the step of loading additional components? Before that point changing the language should work fine. After that point the language setting *is* changed, but you get English because other translations have been deleted to save memory.

Re: new udeb btrfs-tools-udeb

2010-05-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Joey Hess wrote: Please provide references as new udebs are only allowed with approval of the debian-installer team. I'm not aware of any such policy; there's no mention of such a requirement in the developers reference or debian policy manual.

Re: Package-Type not included in udebs

2010-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org): To the d-i team: you can start converting your packages to use the official name now. Any objections for me to do this in SVN? Apart from changelog documentation, is there anything else that

Bug#581873: [languagechooser] unable to select language more than once

2010-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 May 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: The earliest possibility to reach the main menu in standard priority is when network configuration via DHCP fails or if I abort it before it succeeds. I would say it is during keyboard selection (if you ignore the localechooser dialogs). And you

Re: D-I Manual - Released; string freeze end

2010-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 April 2010, Frans Pop wrote: It's time for another upload of the Installation Guide. The new release has been uploaded. The following translations have been disabled as they are incomplete: Korean, Portuguese (BR), Spanish, Swedish. Thanks to all translators for their work

Bug#581873: [languagechooser] unable to select language more than once

2010-05-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 581873 2.09 localechooser block 581873 by 470258 thanks On Sunday 16 May 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: If I remember now, that I wanted to do an italian installation (for example, every other choice does the same), and I go back to the change language step as soon as I can access the

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] the state of daily-builds

2010-05-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 May 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: I also fixed hppa today Great, but seems to have a similar problem as ppc had: not built since initial run. TIA, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#580978: installation-reports: fails to see NIC firmware drivers on USB stick

2010-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 10 May 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 10 May 2010, Bonno Bloksma wrote: I have an ext2 formatted usb stick The installation guide specifies that the stick should be *FAT* (or VFAT) formatted. ext2 may work with some installation methods, but not with all. It is also important

Re: Multiple preseed files

2010-05-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 May 2010, Henning Sprang wrote: I'm desperately trying to use something that I couldn't find being documented anywhere but a changelog entry that makes me believe it exists: Using multiple preseed files on a custom CD install - with the purpose of having a generic one for all

Re: Broken d-i daily builds for hppa

2010-05-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 May 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: it seems like d-i daily builds are quite broken: | make[2]: `sources.list.udeb' is up to date. | util/get-packages: line 138: 7733 Segmentation fault $APT_GET | update Failed to update the Packages file. […] I suspect this was from a log

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] the state of daily-builds

2010-05-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 03 April 2010, Andreas Barth wrote: I just reenabled powerpc btw Does not seem to have been built since 3 Apr. Forgot to enable in crontab? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

i386 buildd needs updating

2010-05-09 Thread Frans Pop
CD builds are failing because (moved) win32-loader files are missing. buildd needs update to latest version. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Multiple preseed files

2010-05-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 May 2010, Henning Sprang wrote: O.k., I think that'll serve me to dowhat I want! One other thing that I don't find being documented anywhere is the use of scripting inside a preseed file. Seems like it's Perl? No, shell script. No perl (or anything else) in the D-I environment.

Bug#579995: Partitioning failure in Squeeze install

2010-05-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 03 May 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 03 May 2010, Terry Stroup wrote: On completing the partitioning, I get the following error:   File system has an incompatible feature enabled.  Compatible   features are has_journal, dir_index, filetype, sparse_super   and large_file

[SRM] Please accept choose-mirror 2.28lenny6

2010-05-08 Thread Frans Pop
I've just uploaded an updated version of choose-mirror. There's only a fix of a minor bug from the previous release, but the upload also contains an updated mirror list. Note that this update means debian-installer should also be updated before the next point release. Are there any plans for

Re: D-I Manual - String freeze / Call to update translations (deadline: May 17)

2010-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 April 2010, Frans Pop wrote: It's time for another upload of the Installation Guide. As we're getting closer to the Squeeze release I will drop incomplete translations this time. Most translations need updates. The deadline for translation updates is in two weeks: Monday May 17

Bug#580265: Failed netinst

2010-05-05 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 580265 linux-2.6 2.6.32-9 thanks On Tuesday 04 May 2010, Gmail Notifier wrote: 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f0] (rev 06)         Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0037]         Kernel driver in use: e1000e

Re: To translate or not to translate?

2010-05-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 04 May 2010, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: The d-i manual in file preseed.po has several msgids like these: msgid debian-installer/framebuffer msgid language msgid debian-installer/language msgid country msgid debian-installer/country None of those should be translated. If indeed

Bug#579995: Partitioning failure in Squeeze install

2010-05-03 Thread Frans Pop
tag 579995 moreinfo thanks On Monday 03 May 2010, Terry Stroup wrote: On completing the partitioning, I get the following error:   File system has an incompatible feature enabled.  Compatible   features are has_journal, dir_index, filetype, sparse_super   and large_file.  Use tune2fs or

Re: timezone in squeeze installer

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 02 May 2010, Cesare Leonardi wrote: 3) The system mumble a bit then show what i've attached. Here normally i choose what the installer propose: United States en_US.UTF-8. That is correct. If you were installing in expert mode, you would have the option to select it_IT.UTF-8 as extra

Re: Installation on PowerBook G3

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 01 May 2010, Stefano Canepa wrote: I have an old Apple PowerBook G3 (prism/bronze) and I'm trying to install Debian on it. I'm using a netinst CD dated 20100201. I tryed many times but installer stops installing base system, every time at a different percentage but when it

Re: timezone in squeeze installer

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 02 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: You can at least run the installer up to the partitioning step...up to the moment where file systems are written on disk. But you won't reach the timezone selection step as it happens after this. Not correct. TZ selection (clock setup) happens

Re: Spam cleaning effort: April 2010

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 02 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: We're now in May, so it's time for our tireless reviewers to work on April 2010 archives. Should be easy: I found only 2 spams. You've missed 1... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#579948: SunBlade 1000 installation report - fails to mount root partition on /target

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 579948 partman-base severity 579948 serious thanks On Sunday 02 May 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: Comments/Problems: The display of partition sizes appears to be all screwed up (see the first attached screenshot). Possibly a regression in libparted for sparc disklabel. Please send the

Bug#579948: SunBlade 1000 installation report - fails to mount root partition on /target

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 579948 libparted0debian1 2.2-5 tags 579948 d-i affects 579948 partman-base thanks On Sunday 02 May 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:57:48PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8864 cylinders

Re: timezone in squeeze installer

2010-05-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 01 May 2010, Xavier Chantry wrote: I wanted to use an english locale/language with my timezone (Europe/Paris UTC+1 or 2) but that was not possible. After selecting english (or was it american?), I only had a very restricted list of timezones, with no obvious way around. So I had to

Re: timezone in squeeze installer

2010-05-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 01 May 2010, Xavier Chantry wrote: And unfortunately I cannot reinstall on the qnap, I've already a fully working and configured system that is in use. and I cannot just ran the installer again there, I would need to re-flash it and probably lose everything. If you abort the

D-I Manual - String freeze / Call to update translations (deadline: May 17)

2010-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
It's time for another upload of the Installation Guide. As we're getting closer to the Squeeze release I will drop incomplete translations this time. Most translations need updates. The deadline for translation updates is in two weeks: ***Monday May 17***. Status info can be found at:

Bug#579625: partman-base: partman/alignment should also be a regular question

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
Package: partman-base A new template partman/alignment has been added which is currently only preseedable. During a discussion [1] it was suggested that the question should also be asked during interactive installs (at medium and/or low priority and only for relevant disk labels). The

Re: r62959 - in trunk/packages/partman/partman-base: . debian init.d

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
Colin Watson wrote: I agree that it would make sense to ask this at (probably) medium priority, although I'm not sure when I'll have time to make this change. Perhaps somebody could file a reminder bug? #579625 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: squeeze installer: no keyboard after first kernel boot

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 26 April 2010, Florian Weimer wrote: Now I tried: 1dae5d9f29de2a3dd7a367d442921991 debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Still no luck. OK. That excludes a known issue. It could still be a missing kernel module, but that seems unlikely. Not sure what else it could be though. AFAIK USB

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