Clean method to include udebs from proposed-updates

2009-11-07 Thread Frans Pop
I've committed a change that should make stable updates (and also uploads to testing) easier. From the SVN commit: snip For builds targeted at testing or stable, set USE_PROPOSED_UPDATES in debian/rules to include udebs from the corresponding proposed-updates suite. For details see build/README.

Bug#552787: #552787 [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily

2009-11-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 06 November 2009, vincent.mcint...@csiro.au wrote: I want to install lenny with the 'squeeze' installer. Are you saying all I need to preseed is suite=lenny on the boot line? Yep. BUT I doubt anyone has tested that the squeeze installer really still is compatible with lenny. The

Re: [RFC] localechooser: template changes

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: The existing templates for the four main questions in localechooser all have problems: they cause Lintian warnings and don't really help the user with what he's doing. Below a proposed patch to improve them. The patch also includes the changes

Re: question re netcfg/dhcp_timeout

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 06 November 2009, Vincent McIntyre wrote: I noticed a small discrepancy in the type for this question. packages/netcfg/debian/netcfg-dhcp.template says: Template: netcfg/dhcp_timeout Type: text Description: for internal use; can be preseeded Timeout for trying DHCP

Bug#518808: [PATCH] d-i manual: document booting from DOS

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Samuel and Holger, Sorry for not looking at this BR earlier, but somehow I don't think booting from DOS is the highest priority we have. I've looked at the patch from Holger (as that's the most extensive of the two), but have some problems with it. My comments below. Cheers, FJP On Saturday

Bug#532437: debian-installer: documentation 4.3.2.2: s/vmlinuz/linux/?

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
tag 532437 pending thanks On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en says under 4.3.2.2. Adding the installer image that the name of the kernel file is vmlinuz. However,

Bug#532440: documentation: 4.3.3.: mention that bootable flag should be set?

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
tag 532440 pending thanks On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: but when I tried to boot from the usb stick I got the error message no bootable partition found. I ran cfdisk and noticed that indeed bootable flag indeed is not set. Shouldn't the manual mention that? I've added a

Bug#548534: installation-guide: “Copying the files — the easy way” should explicitly exclude netboot

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
tag 548534 pending thanks On Saturday 26 September 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: A colleague wanted to install Debian by starting the debian installer from a USB stick. Reading sections install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml and install-methods/downloading-files.xml, he went for the second

Bug#331523: Link goes to non-related site

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 October 2009, Alex Brotman wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch01s02.html.en contains a link to Kernel Traffic which actually goes to a website having nothing to do with kernels. The installation guides for other architectures have the same 'broken' link.

Bug#553306: clarify use of mirror/udeb/suite

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 October 2009, Vincent McIntyre wrote: In relation to #552787, I've attempted to improve the relevant text in the preseeding appendix of the manual. It's a bit wordier (sorry translators). The parameter classnamemirror/udeb/suite/classname determines the suite +for additional

Bug#552787: #552787 [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 06 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Found the problem, which is documented but it's somewhat difficult to parse. This change in my preseed file fixed the issue: - d-i mirror/udeb/suite string lenny + d-i mirror/udeb/suite string testing This is not a bug. If you

Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
First of all, sorry for the late reply. On Tuesday 13 January 2009, M.-A. DARCHE wrote: The problem now is that I cannot recover/restore my USB stick to its previous state. Before me installing the Debian installer on it, the USB capacity (size) was 2Gb and now when I open the USB device with

Bug#552787: #552787 [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 06 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Actually, I suspect that you had an old daily image (which is based on *unstable*) that still used the 2.6.31-1 kernel while the udebs for that kernel no longer existed in unstable because they had been updated to 2.6.31-2. Eh, we don't have udebs

Re: [RFC] localechooser: template changes

2009-11-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Well, OK, I'm not entirely convinced but I apparently can't propose a sufficiently correct alternative to makje you change your mind..:-) Here's an alternative I could live with: The country selected here will be used for example to

Bug#554493: booting the stable installer via pxe leeds to a black screen

2009-11-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Maelvon HAWK wrote: Wanted to install a stable Debian version on a Vaio (PCG-GRT816S) with XPE and a netboot, I've been faced to a similar bug as #497212! The screen turn black! When exactly does it turn black? After you boot the installer from the syslinux

Re: [RFC] localechooser: template changes

2009-11-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 03 November 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): I'd just recommend Please select which is the style we generally push in dle reviews (avoid imperative form). Using the imperative form is wrong in the *short* description (which

Bug#534413: hw-detect: should not rely on testing for /proc/bus/usb

2009-11-03 Thread Frans Pop
tag 534413 pending thanks On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote: In hw-detect.sh there are two locations where the script checks if /sys/bus/usb exists, but usbfs will no longer be available in kernel 2.6.31, so another method will need to be found. Actually, we use /proc/bus/usb in one

Bug#553678: locales: Language soup in Nowegian locale

2009-11-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 November 2009, Frode Severin Hatlevik wrote: 2009/11/2 Clint Adams sch...@debian.org: On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:05:52PM +0100, Frode Severin Hatlevik wrote: The problem: When I install Debian and choose Norwegian locale I get a language soup of Norwegian, Sweedish, Danish and

Re: [RFC] localechooser: template changes

2009-11-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 November 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: --- a/packages/localechooser/debian/localechooser.templates-in +++ b/packages/localechooser/debian/localechooser.templates-in @@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ Template: debian-installer/locale Type: select Choices: ${LOCALELIST} # :sl2:

Re: Installation Guide: please commit pending changes

2009-11-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: I'm currently preparing the patches to drop the arches alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide. The plan is to update both the English version and all translations. The changes are not huge, but they affect a fairly large number of files

[RFC] localechooser: template changes

2009-11-01 Thread Frans Pop
incomplete). Test images (i386) this time that use the new templates and include the change for #552560 (use expert mode!) are available at: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/madduck/ Cheers, FJP commit 330cff17ef17481bc98d8b80656f12984017e10a Author: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Date: Sun Nov 1 17:19

Re: FTBFS of netcfg on s390 after debhelper v7 conversion

2009-11-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: I've just tried building netcfg on s390, but that fails with: dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 's390' does not appear in package's architecture list (i386 sparc alpha m68k arm armel armeb powerpc mips mipsel hppa ia64

Bug#316006: localechooser: Should be enabled for s390

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
tag 316006 pending thanks This was indirectly implemented for Lenny (or maybe even earlier): tzsetup depends on localechooser, so users get asked to select a country before that point. However, I think it's time to just include localechooser in the s390 initrds so that the selected country

Bug#552584: file-in-usr-local /usr/local/etc

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The reason for adding a symlink /usr/local/etc/ - /etc/ can be found in this mail: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/10/msg00111.html. I.e, it avoids noise that may confuse users. I don't see anything in that email tht

Bug#552584: file-in-usr-local /usr/local/etc

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
No longer really relevant, but just for completeness. On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I don't think so. A udeb can usually ignore bits about policy that talk about packaging details. However, when it comes to stuff on the disk that is going to outlast the

Bug#552278: reopen-console-linux: needs update for 2.6.32

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: While testing 2.6.32-rc5 on my Sun Ultra 10 (sparc), I noticed the following change in the boot messages: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 -console handover: boot [earlyprom0] - real [tty0] +console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled Just

Bug#552584: file-in-usr-local /usr/local/etc

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: No part of a udeb ever ends up on the disk. Udebs only life in the installer intrds and in the ramdisk set up by the initrd. I don't think the FHS should apply to the ramdisk environment of the installer. Well, I think it's good to follow

Re: howto interact with HW-detection of installer

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Geronimo Ma. Hernandez wrote: There are several ways to get info about hardware: - files in /sys or /proc - utilities like lspci, lsusb, dmidecode (not all available in D-I) I see. So I have to do the detection on myself and add the tools I need for that to

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 552560 thanks On Wednesday 28 October 2009, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl [2009.10.27.2305 +0100]: You can choose en_GB if you install in expert mode (or with priority=medium). I don't think we want to set defaults for unofficial languages

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: No, I can *add* the en_GB locale later. I cannot chose it as system default, and I tried expert mode. Sorry, you are correct. Reopening. A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first ask which extra locales to install

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: - write an en_CH locale and convince glibc maintainers to include it in locales That is very much the least preferred solution, and, even if it were accepted in libc, I would be in favor of excluding it (at least from the shortlist for

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: That's actually quite simple to implement and even simplifies the code quite a bit. Martin, Christian: please give this image a try. http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/madduck/ Eh, sorry. This is broken. Please ignore for now

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: No, I can *add* the en_GB locale later. I cannot chose it as system default, and I tried expert mode. Sorry, you are correct. Reopening. A possible solution could be to invert the two expert

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first ask which extra locales to install and then offer to select a default from the selected locales. That's actually quite simple

FTBFS of netcfg on s390 after debhelper v7 conversion

2009-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
I've just tried building netcfg on s390, but that fails with: dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 's390' does not appear in package's architecture list (i386 sparc alpha m68k arm armel armeb powerpc mips mipsel hppa ia64 amd64 lpia kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64)

Re: howto interact with HW-detection of installer

2009-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
The debian-boot list is more appropriate for this question. Please reply to that list and not to debian-cd. On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Geronimo Ma. Hernandez wrote: I read the wiki of DebianInstaller and DebianCustomCD, as well as debian installer internals, but I stil didn't get rid of how

[RFC] Changing localechooser to arch=any?

2009-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
Damn, it looked like such a nice idea. Today I committed a change to set a different menu item number for localechooser for s390 so that it gets run after network-console instead of when we only have the text frontend available. This worked great, but only now do I realize that localechooser

Bug#552584: file-in-usr-local /usr/local/etc

2009-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Justification: The package installs a file in /usr/local/... which is not allowed. As this is a udeb I think this can be ignored. The reason for adding a symlink /usr/local/etc/ - /etc/ can be found in this mail:

Bug#552700: installation-report: dfbinfo has changed location no longer available

2009-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
Package: installation-report Version: 2.38 The utility dfbinfo used to be included in the libdirectfb udeb in /usr/lib/libdirectfb-*/bin/. In Lenny the utility has been split out into a separate package libdirectfb-bin and moved to /usr/bin, and as a result of that is no longer included in the

Bug#552563: auto-create preseed.cfg file

2009-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, martin f krafft wrote: Since debconf-get-selections is not the appropriate way to create preseed.cfg files, but d-i should know what keys to save (or not to save), why not extend d-i so that it automatically drops a preseed.cfg file into /root (next to the

Bug#552576: live-installer: should have a Standards-Version field

2009-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: The live-installer source package not only has a udeb, but also a deb. This means that it must also have a Standards-Version field in debian/control. Only source packages that have *only* udebs are allowed to omit that field. When this is fixed

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-27 Thread Frans Pop
Ian Campbell wrote: Is there a way to contact the build machine maintainers? Other than hoping they read this thread? The overview shows who they are. Ping on IRC, private mail, ... Note that the powerpc issue is not for the buildd admin (although it's possible that needs updating too). --

Installation Guide: please commit pending changes

2009-10-27 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I'm currently preparing the patches to drop the arches alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide. The plan is to update both the English version and all translations. The changes are not huge, but they affect a fairly large number of files. If you have pending changes, then please commit

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The second category is named error and the tags listed can not be Looks like it's named nowayout. overridden. Those are tags corresponding to packaging errors serious enough to mark a package unfit for the archive and should never happen.

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Now, in this case there is no need to move it, as looking at http://lintian.debian.org/tags/no-standards-version-field.html shows that we do not see any of the D-I packages, so I assume lintian is detecting it properly and we do not need to move

Bug#552576: live-installer: should have a Standards-Version field

2009-10-27 Thread Frans Pop
Package: live-installer Version: 13 Severity: serious The live-installer source package not only has a udeb, but also a deb. This means that it must also have a Standards-Version field in debian/control. Only source packages that have *only* udebs are allowed to omit that field. -- To

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks for making an effort to look into this. On Monday 26 October 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: Thanks. I still cannot reproduce so I am somewhat clutching at straws. I compared the logs for a local (successful) i386 run of the daily-build script vs. the logs from

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 26 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: If you cannot reproduce it with an up-to-date sid build environment then it's quite possible that the buildds are simply outdated. apt and dpkg are not really relevant here. More relevant are versions of mklibs itself and packages like binutils

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 26 October 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: I tried downgrading binutils, as you suggested in your next mail, to 2.19.91.20091006-1 from testing and still saw no issues. Hmmm. Another option is that it's due to a libc version skew. During a build libc6 is copied from the host system

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 26 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: After updating the system the problem disappears. So, that confirms the reason is outdated buildd environments after an API change in libc (2.9 - 2.10). The first 2.10 upload was 18 Okt, so the problem should be only about a week old. s/API/ABI

Bug#552497: hw-detect: file conflict with udev-udeb for /lib/udev/firmware.agent

2009-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
Package: hw-detect Version: 1.73 Severity: serious During a D-I build on armel I noticed the following: Unpacking udev-udeb (from udebs/udev-udeb.udeb) ... dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite '/lib/udev/firmware.agent', which is also in package

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: I was unable to reproduce in an uptodate i386 sid chroot. I'm not sure which environment these builds occur, maybe it's a testing thing? No, daily images get build in a sid environment. powerpc is failing differently with         E: Couldn't

FYI: build overview graphs reset

2009-10-25 Thread Frans Pop
I have just committed two changes to the daily-build-aggregator script [1]: 1) drop alpha and remove commented entry for m68k; 2) one-time rename old statistics file in order to reset them. Dropping alpha could possibly have been postponed for some time, but it made sense to do it now because of

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: I only checked the first failure for each arch but this same failure seems to have effected mips (build_r4k-ip22_cdrom), s390 (build_generic) and armel (uild_iop32x_netboot_glantank). For mips and mipsel there's a much bigger problem: there have

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Frans Pop wrote: For mips and mipsel there's a much bigger problem: there have not been any builds at all since early July. It looks as if some of the central D-I buildds are simply not being managed. Wrong, ssh is/was broken on mips* so

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 25 October 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Frans Pop wrote: For mips and mipsel there's a much bigger problem: there have not been any builds at all since early July. It looks as if some of the central D-I buildds are simply not being

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Wrong, ssh is/was broken on mips* so the results did not get uploaded, but the builds were not interrupted. I guess you're referring to #538313? That bug was fixed on Okt 5, but the current situation, 20 days later, is that we still don't have daily

Re: Possible typo in Debian Installation Guide (C.1 section)

2009-10-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Holger Wansing wrote: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Without additional information I see no reason to change the current text. In what circumstances would it be better to use a swap file over a swap partition and why? Maybe only change the text a bit

Re: Bug#551959: netboot: fails to set user and passwords on installation

2009-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: CD team, this bug apparently confirms that weekly builds of Debian testing images are broken (maybe some of them only, I'm not sure). You guys probably know more than me about this, but isn't there something we could do to redirect our

Bug#552278: reopen-console-linux: needs update for 2.6.32

2009-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: rootskel Version: 1.81 Severity: important Currently reopen-console-linux has the following code: # If the kernel emitted a handover message, then it's the one console=$(dmesg -s 65535 | sed -n -e 's/.*\] console handover: boot \[.*\] - real \[\(.*\)\]$/\1/p') While

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Links to current images are available from: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Cheers, FJP Hmmm... If I follow that link, then click on • netinst ... and businesscard ... CD

Re: Possible typo in Debian Installation Guide (C.1 section)

2009-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 19 October 2009, Maximiliano Curia wrote: El 19/10/2009 a las 13:57 escribiste: Hi, in lenny installation guide C.1 [1] we can read : By putting swap on a separate partition, Linux can make much more efficient use of it. It is possible to force Linux to use a regular file as

Bug#552067: Install process forgets the CD if left alone for long time

2009-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 23 October 2009, Alex Andryushkin wrote: If install goes quickly, then it appears to be OK. However, if there is large file system is being created (e.g. took 1/2 hour to create encrypted one), or I just leave install unattended for some time, then install process forgets that CD is

Re: di-netboot-assistant update for experimental

2009-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 16 October 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: I have finally resolved and merged a bunch of patch I had for di-netboot-assistant. Please mark the changelog as UNRELEASED when you start on a new version to make it clear to others using the SVN repo that there are changes that have not been

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
Looks to me that the general state of builds is rather pathetic ATM: Sorry. I should have just written Looks like there are quite a few problems with builds ATM. Does not change the facts or the likelyhood of a successful upload/release any time soon though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 October 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I have just given a try, and during the installation, there is an error message about security.debian.org not having support for kfreebsd. The installation continues anyway, but it may confuse our users. Any opinion on that? Simple. Get the

Bug#530909: Wrong message about device being busy

2009-10-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 October 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: [1] #345251, #377391, #382689, #470374 I'm surprised these bug reports are so old. Obviously this is not a new issue, but I'm pretty sure that it occurs much more often now than it did in the past. I cannot remember running into the

Re: [RFC] Dropping architectures alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide

2009-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Brian Szymanski wrote: Maybe I'm just sad that alpha is being dropped for squeeze, but... It strikes me that not having install docs will be a major hindrance to any revival of the alpha port, as it will discourage potential new developers from ever trying debian

Re: [RFC] Dropping architectures alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide

2009-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Brian Szymanski wrote: As far as the burden on translators goes, is there a priority ranking system for what needs to be done? Seems like that could help here... Sorry, I misread that comment. Yes

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: Let me see if I've got this right... The installer being based on (e.g.) Sid/unstable means that the active components of the installer CDs (the parts that do the installing, not the parts that will be installed) come from the current

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Note that we don't really use the D-I images for unstable on the mirrors. (With one exception: the sid_d-i daily built CD images; but those are only used during a *very* short window for pre-release testing, and recently that has just been skipped

[RFC] Dropping architectures alpha and m68k from the Installation Guide

2009-10-13 Thread Frans Pop
Now that we have two architectures that are no longer official release architectures I've been wondering if we should remove any architecture- specific text for them from the Installation Guide. m68k was dropped as a release architecture for Etch, and alpha is being dropped for Squeeze. For

Bug#530909: Wrong message about device being busy

2009-10-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 October 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I reported this issue in May and it's still there. Other people have seen it too. It doesn't matter whether you install to SATA, USB or MMC. This error doesn't show up all the time, but it shows up quite regularly. This is definitely a

Bug#471505: vga16fb framebuffer doesn't work on HP Compaq 2510p notebook

2009-10-10 Thread Frans Pop
tag 471505 pending thanks On Friday 09 October 2009, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Any news on this bug? Lenny has been released long time ago, and squeeze is not frozen yet so fixing it now won't be risky. Also see the related Ubuntu bug:

Re: Create new dialogs/packages for the D-I using the new GUI-Interface

2009-10-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 10 October 2009, Tatsu wrote: i'am searching for a HowTo or a reference manual which describe the way to create a new installer package (udeb?) with support for the new GUI-Interface included. That question does not really make sense. The graphical installer is supported by

Bug#550509: Squeeze installation fails - no kernel modules found

2009-10-10 Thread Frans Pop
Please reply to the BR, even if it is closed. On Saturday 10 October 2009, you wrote: One question: where can i find actual versions of vmlinuz and initrd.gz? From the daily build D-I images on [1]. The raw installer images for all installation methods can be found under other images. Do I

Re: Problem with Debian 503

2009-10-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 05 October 2009, fserra...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried to install with Debian-503-amd64-DVD-1, and during console-data instalation, it tried to use busybox; but busybox is not in the 1º DVD. Can any help me, please? According to this search [1] the package _is_ included on DVD 1,

Re: Log from the October 5th 2009 D-I team meeting

2009-10-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: The meeting still happened (thanks to Luk and Otavio) and as usual, the logs are available from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings Not Found The requested URL /debian-boot.2009-10-05-20.07.log.html was not found on this

[!!!] D-I SVN repository available - update

2009-09-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote: It still means that the cleanup will take quite a bit longer than the planned 4 hours. I'm leaving the current dump+load stage running while I catch some sleep (after more than an hour it's now at revision 12875 out of 55900). alioth is still

Re: [!!!] D-I SVN repository available again - cleanup successful

2009-09-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote: I'm going to have another try at the cleanup [1] of the D-I SVN repository tonight. This means that starting 22:00 UTC committing changes to the Debian Installer subversion repository will not be possible. I expect the repository to be available

[!!!] D-I SVN repository not available starting 22:00 UTC today

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I'm going to have another try at the cleanup [1] of the D-I SVN repository tonight. This means that starting 22:00 UTC committing changes to the Debian Installer subversion repository will not be possible. I expect the repository to be available again about 4 hours later, but please wait

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 September 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): - partman components are very tightly coupled Very frequently changes, such as adding ext4 support, requires making related changes to multiple components. Being able to do so in a single branch

Bug#548369: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 548369 upgrade-reports thanks Please keep me in CC when replying! On Friday 25 September 2009, Hodge, Robert L wrote: Description: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Upgraded lenny on s390 to squeeze on s390, and upon rebooted received the following messages.

Re: [!!!] D-I SVN repository not available starting 22:00 UTC today

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote: I'm going to have another try at the cleanup [1] of the D-I SVN repository tonight. This means that starting 22:00 UTC committing changes to the Debian Installer subversion repository will not be possible. I expect the repository to be available

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-24 Thread Frans Pop
Let me start with a request to other team members: PLEASE join this discussion. Think about how *you* use the repository; consider whether you are confortable with git or not; think about the issues raised both by Joey and me; and *give your opinion*. I hate the fact that this looks to be

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-21 Thread Frans Pop
Given the team meeting this evening I guess this is my last chance to comment. The main reason I haven't so far is that I find myself simply caring less and less, but well. I really have only one argument against the switch to git: the splitting of the repository into multiple separate

Bug#546834: debootstrap fails when invoked from lh_build

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 546834 util-linux 2.16-3 severity 546834 serious affects 546834 debootstrap tags 546834 d-i thanks On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Tak Auyeung wrote: lh_build failed and stopped in debootstrap phase. lh_build is set up to use sid for both bootstrap and chroot. Attached please find a

Re: Debian-installer use of initrd (was Re: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y)

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: Is installation from floppies still supported? If so, can they be converted to using initramfs? Actually, I don't see how this can work today since ext2 is a module... Has anyone tested that these work in lenny? There are no floppy

Re: Debian-installer use of initrd (was Re: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y)

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Lee Winter wrote: So why can't all of the the lenny/squeeze installations be done with the kernel from etch or even sarge? This would seem to be completely within the jurisdiction of the installer team. Am I missing something? 1) Because it still needs to be

Re: Debian-installer use of initrd (was Re: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y)

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
(No need to CC me on replies.) On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Lee Winter wrote: Nah. The whole point is to support legacy systems that are capable of _running_ the newest software, but whose peripheral suite is not adequte to _bootstrap_ the larger images. is it your belief that the

Bug#541831: installation-reports: Sunfire T2000 success (one minor issue)

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
user debian-boot@lists.debian.org usertags 541831 sparc tags 541831 moreinfo thanks Hi Stephen, On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 17 August 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: It sounds like the rsc console is something different, which could explain what you saw. Maybe we

Bug#541831: installation-reports: Sunfire T2000 success (one minor issue)

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Yep, I know about that post, but I'm not sure whether that's related or not. AFAIK that issue was about having no console output at all, not about incorrect configuration of the installed system. Well, the second part of the mail is this issue

Bug#541831: installation-reports: Sunfire T2000 success (one minor issue)

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: FWIW, I've been pointed at http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2009/04/msg00024.html . The follow up suggests it may already have some fixes in? It's possible I may not have gotten the r1 image, although I thought I was using the latest

Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

2009-09-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: I contacted the listmasters on IRC, and they removed the messages. Excellent! Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debmirror (was: d-i git repo: sample conversion)

2009-09-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: One issue I had with debmirror in the past (with nobody to complain to ;-)) Hmmm? Never heard of the BTS? ;-) was that I wanted a partial mirror of main+contrib of testing but just main/debian-installer of sid. I wanted this so that I can

Bug#545584: installation-guide: Typo in command name, kbdconfig should be kbd-config.

2009-09-08 Thread Frans Pop
tags 545584 pending thanks On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: Chapter 6.3.1.3. Choosing a Keyboard (run kbdconfig as root after you have completed the installation). Fixed for original and translations. Thanks Tapio! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

2009-09-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: The command I use is pbuilder create --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --basetgz base.tgz I do not know how it translats in term of debootstrap. That's not even very relevant. Just try creating a standard chroot: # debootstrap sid target

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 September 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Have you made some progress here? During the team meeting today, there is a rough consensus that we should move on but all of us agreed that you could have interesting comments and, even if they aren't as polished as you would like to, it

Re: debmirror (was: d-i git repo: sample conversion)

2009-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Lee Winter wrote: [1] Which now supports mirroring everything needed to to create CD images using debian-cd, including (released) D-I images and the docs and tools directories :-) Would you please describe what is left that the new version of debmirror will

Bug#545047: tasksel: iamerican and ibritish are no longer standard, readjust language tasks as needed.

2009-09-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 05 September 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: A compromise seems to be adding an english task with iamerican so that *all* en_* installs have iamerican, ispell and d-c (en_GB would then have ibritish and iamerican). Another option would be dropping the british task and use iamerican

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