Re: Streamlining d-i releases

2023-04-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16829 March 1977, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I put SSH trigger into the room, instead of sudo. You supply the version on the ssh cmdline, and if that exists in unstable, a copy-installer is run with that version. That looks very good to me, thanks! Could even be extended to have source and

Re: Streamlining d-i releases

2023-04-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16824 March 1977, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I realize that getting a sudo line on fasolo would mean increasing the security risks quite a bunch for a limited gain. Since we already have a mechanism to trigger changes in the archive via release team access, that is

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20210731

2021-07-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16211 March 1977, Cyril Brulebois wrote: FTP Masters, please sync the installer from sid to testing, as it seems to be Installed for all release architectures (9 total): dak copy-installer 20210731 $ dak copy-installer 20210731 Will copy installer version 20210731 from suite unstable

Re: Finding a tentative bullseye release date

2021-07-18 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16197 March 1977, Paul Gevers wrote: Albeit there is some progress, we think it better for the people involved to now say that we will *not* release on July 31. Unfortunately, that means that we have to start looking for a new date again. Assuming what we'll learn in the upcoming week or

Re: 10.7 planning

2020-10-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15937 March 1977, Adam D. Barratt wrote: In an attempt to be slightly more efficient than usual at planning a point release... it's about a month since 10.6, so let's start looking at dates for 10.7. - November 21st - November 28th - December 5th Right now they all look good for me. --

Re: Scheduling 10.2

2019-10-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15562 March 1977, Adam D. Barratt wrote: - November 9th - November 16th - November 23rd All work for me. -- bye, Joerg

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20190410

2019-04-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15369 March 1977, Cyril Brulebois wrote: FTPmasters, please sync the installer from sid to testing: dak copy-installer 20190410 [ master ] dak@fasolo:/srv/ftp.debian.org/web$ dak copy-installer 20190410 Will copy installer version 20190410 from suite unstable to testing. Architectures to

Re: Scheduling 9.9

2019-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15351 March 1977, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: - April 27 Wfm. -- bye, Joerg

Tiny tiny rescue mode

2019-03-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi with a UHD screen resolution on a thinkpad, using "Debian GNU/Linux buster-DI-alpha5 "Buster" - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20190126-00:15" and trying the rescue mode after dracut killed my initrd, I got *tiny* fonts. Appears like 4pt or so sized. (The usual tiny size if something

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20190118

2019-01-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15287 March 1977, Cyril Brulebois wrote: FTPmasters, please sync the installer from sid to testing: dak copy-installer 20190118 [ ] dak@fasolo:~$ dak copy-installer 20190118 Will copy installer version 20190118 from suite unstable to testing. Architectures to copy: i386, amd64, mipsel,

Re: Scheduling 9.7

2019-01-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15286 March 1977, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: - Feb 9 - Feb 16 Can deal with both. -- bye, Joerg

Re: Scheduling 9.5

2018-06-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15077 March 1977, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> - July 7th >> - July 14th >> Are people available for either or both of those dates? > The 7th is looking like the favourite so far (although would mean > freezing next weekend), but we still need an ftp-master (N)ACK on > either / both date. No way

Re: Scheduling 9.5

2018-05-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15037 March 1977, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > - May 26th (meaning freeze this coming weekend, which might be a big > ask) No. > - Jun 2nd (which may require an unusual SRM) Possible. > - Jun 9th (getting quite a way out of cadence, but maybe that can't be >helped) Possible. --

Re: Scheduling final Jessie point release, 8.11

2018-05-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15037 March 1977, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > - 23rd Jun Ok. > - 7th July No. -- bye, Joerg

Re: Scheduling 9.4

2018-02-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14944 March 1977, Julien Cristau wrote: > we shipped 9.3 a couple of months ago, so we're overdue for 9.4. > Can you please let us know your availability on the following: > - March 3 > - March 10 Can do. > - March 17 Not very good > - March 24 > - March 31 No way. -- bye, Joerg

Re: Salsa

2018-01-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14930 March 1977, Chris Boot wrote: > - I (bootc) am listed as an Owner because I created the team. I can't > demote myself. I'm happy to be demoted, but it might be best to do > that after I've migrated the remaining users. JFTR, yes you can, but only if other Owners exist. -- bye,

Re: Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

2017-06-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14717 March 1977, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Can't help but wonder why not just remove the "extra" (and mentioning it > as deprecated in upgrade notes) rather than explicitly documenting it as > deprecated. I guess keeping it around is useful to avoid people > mass-bug-filing RC-bugs for all

Re: Scheduling 9.1, maybe 8.9

2017-06-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14714 March 1977, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > A month or so from 9.0 bring us to about 15th July. How would any of these > suit? Is 8.9 at the same time feasible? > 8/9 July (probably a bit soon) > 15/16 July Both of them don't work for me. > 22/23 July That I could do. -- bye, Joerg

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20170407

2017-04-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14636 March 1977, Cyril Brulebois wrote: [ ] dak@fasolo:~$ dak copy-installer 20170407 Will copy installer version 20170407 from suite unstable to testing. Architectures to copy: i386, amd64, mipsel, ppc64el, mips, s390x, armel, armhf, powerpc, arm64, mips64el, hurd-i386 Architectures to

Re: 8.8 planning

2017-03-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14611 March 1977, Julien Cristau wrote: > * April 8-9 No > * April 15-16 Possible > * April 22-23 Ok > * April 29-30 Ok > * May 6-7 No. -- bye, Joerg

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20170112

2017-01-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14550 March 1977, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > FTPmasters, please sync the installer from sid to testing: > dak copy-installer 20170112 dak copy-installer 20170112 Will copy installer version 20170112 from suite unstable to testing. Architectures to copy: i386, amd64, mipsel, ppc64el, mips,

Re: 8.7 planning

2016-12-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14526 March 1977, Julien Cristau wrote: > Jan 7th/8th > Jan 14th/15th Should work. > Jan 21st/22nd > Jan 28th/29th - Cambridge BSP, probably not ideal > Feb 4th/5th - FOSDEM, probably not great either > Feb 11th/12th None of them for me. -- bye, Joerg

Bug#845401: debian-installer: auto=true not working

2016-11-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14500 March 1977, Andrey Yarkov wrote: > I added the following to kernel parameters on Jessie-8.6.0 official > installation DVD-1 > auto=true url=http://my.ip.addr.ess/preseed.cfg > but I got asked keyboard or locale related questions anyway. As expected, happens to network boot installs

Re: 8.5 and 7.11 planning

2016-05-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14307 March 1977, Julien Cristau wrote: > with wheezy EOL, we should get a final point release out. In order to > avoid version skew, it'd be good to have a jessie point release around > the same time, so if that works for everyone let's do them both on the > same Saturday again. > June

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20160106

2016-01-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14179 March 1977, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > FTPmasters, please sync the installer from sid to testing: > dak copy-installer 20160106 Done -- bye, Joerg [...] While Debian is certainly about beer, and in some cases may even be about free beer, Debian is mainly about free speech.

Re: 8.2 and 7.9 planning

2015-08-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14037 March 1977, Adam D. Barratt wrote: We're somewhat overdue for both 8.2 and 7.9 now (in that order). Some potential September dates: 5/6th - okay for me 12/13th - the 12th doesn't work for me until at least mid-afternoon 19th/20th - looks okay 26th/27th - looks okay All dates do

Re: 8.1 (and maybe 7.9) planning

2015-05-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13951 March 1977, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Based on received responses and the current date, I'm proposing June 6th for 8.1 (and then looking at other dates for 7.9). Does that still work for people? Sounds ok to me. Start at 10 UTC or earlier/later? I was assuming either 8ish UTC

Re: 8.1 (and maybe 7.9) planning

2015-05-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13947 March 1977, Adam D. Barratt wrote: As seems to have become the norm, now that Jessie's out it's time to start planning for the first point release. We're also a little overdue for 7.9 as Jessie work took precedence; 7.9 really wants to take place after 8.1, as we have some

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20140802

2014-08-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13656 March 1977, Cyril Brulebois wrote: please sync the installer from sid to testing: dak copy-installer 20140802 Thanks for your time. Done, next dinstall pushes it to the mirrors. -- bye, Joerg [...] could be redistributed free (as in free bear) [...] signature.asc Description:

Re: HTTPS metadata in Mirrors.masterlist?

2014-02-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13484 March 1977, Colin Watson wrote: Would it be possible, then, to add Archive-https: /debian/ to the Site: mirrors.kernel.org stanza in Mirrors.masterlist, and perhaps start maintaining Archive-https fields for other mirrors willing to participate? That would at least get a minimal

Re: Next (old)stable point releases

2013-08-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Am 19.08.2013 15:55, schrieb Julien Cristau: we should start thinking about dates for the 7.2 and 6.0.8 point releases. Which week-ends in the coming months would work for ftpmaster, press and cd? (We'd need one date for stable and another later for oldstable.) We COULD do both at once, at

Re: installer location on mirrors

2012-05-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
non-free included. debian should provide this on the archive level too (read: non-free udeb Packages/Sources indicies), regardless if the official debian images are using it yet or ever. On 12854 March 1977, Holger Levsen wrote: On Montag, 21. Mai 2012, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Thats not a new thing

Re: installer location on mirrors

2012-05-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12853 March 1977, Joey Hess wrote: Joerg Jaspert wrote: I understand it right that doing it this way (ie. current symlink stays around), it won't break anything, so we can just do it for all suites?! It appears that debmirror will be broken, if it helps. :/ Urgs. I can't find anything

Re: installer location on mirrors

2012-05-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I also take it we don't need/want the main/contrib/non-free in installer/, as our d-i will always be main/ only. What about firmware stuff? Thats not a new thing - and still we dont have any such image in Debian. Does firmware stuff itself need a whole image? Is anyone working on it (to be

Bug#638682: Higher severity

2012-05-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
severity 638682 important thanks Hi, at some point in the future we want to change to only use the new InRelease file. Which debootstrap currently does not support. This is not RC, so i set it to important only, but if we can have debootstrap additionally deal with InRelease short after wheezy,

installer location on mirrors

2012-05-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi a recent thread on the -dak list pointed me back to a topic that I want to have fixed for some time now, which is the location of the installer stuff... (Actually quite some more, but the important part for the boot/release list is this). I don't think the installer images should be in

Re: installer location on mirrors

2012-05-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12851 March 1977, Joey Hess wrote: I don't think the installer images should be in dists/ as they are now, but get their own location, installer/. For various reasons, including the - wth was it added there in the first place, - currently an installer update move from one suite to another

Bug#657830: New win32-loader-pxe.exe on the mirrors network

2012-02-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12762 March 1977, Didier Raboud wrote: Not necessarily. I think there are basically three options to solve that bug: a) include the PXE option in the default win32-loader.exe (bumping its size from 918K to 1.2M). This puts the PXE choice in the way of default usage: right after the

Bug#657830: New win32-loader-pxe.exe on the mirrors network

2012-02-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
FYI, here's what I proposed to solve #657830 . This would imply a new win32-loader-pxe.exe executable available from the mirrors network. As far as I can see, this should work as is with the current auto-byhand win32-loader script. If you have concerns regarding this strategy, please rise

MD5SUMS - SHA256SUMS file

2011-12-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
reassign 622941 debian-installer thanks Heyho, thats a question for the d-i people. If they provide us with a SHA256SUMS file in addition to a MD5SUMS file, we can include that into our Release files too. -- bye, Joerg Mal verlierst Du und mal gewinnen die anderen: Immer im Wechsel! -- To

Lintian autorejects

2011-09-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Heyho, this weekend I added two more lintian rejects: udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball This is fatal, not overridable. A udeb shouldn't use anything else than gzip currently. bad-perm-for-file-in-etc-sudoers.d This one can be overriden if need be, but as a wrong permission of a sudoers file can

d-i decruft in sid

2011-03-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Heyho we just noticed that the dists/sid dir is getting unreasonably large, its at 11gigabyte right now. Most of that due to a huge number of d-i versions we have. Can we decruft some of them? The more the better. Below is a list of the current ones, please tell me which of them I should leave

Re: d-i location on mirrors

2011-03-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
If you don't have anything, I would want to change the stuff during the meeting next week. I think the idea is nice but as Martin suggested I prefer installer over d-i since d-i is meanless for new users. The installer/ is already sold, so fine. Leaves only debian-cd to verify it doesn't

d-i location on mirrors

2011-03-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Heyho, todays Squeeze Point Release made on thing obvious: The location of the installer files on the mirrors in dists/ is somewhat crap. What happens at point release time (provided a d-i update is included) is that the mirror sync goes and deletes the installer files from the proposed-updates

Re: d-i location on mirrors

2011-03-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
What I want to do now is to go and put all the installer-* directories into /d-i/ on our mirrors. The directories in dists/$SUITE would only contain symlinks for their version over to the ones in /d-i/. Do all the official Debian mirrors support symlinks? Otherwise they would be lost with

Re: d-i location on mirrors

2011-03-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12424 March 1977, Joey Hess wrote: If you don't have anything, I would want to change the stuff during the meeting next week. debmirror will probably use the symlinks, and store the files where they are now. So it works, which is good. -- bye, Joerg Oh, so they have internet on computers

Re: d-i location on mirrors

2011-03-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
What I want to do now is to go and put all the installer-* directories into /d-i/ on our mirrors. How about installer/*/ instead? Not everyone knows what d-i stands for. Fine. -- bye, Joerg maxx Aqua mach mal man brain Aquariophile maxx: schon probiert das gibts ned -- To

Re: Mirroring win32-loader.exe in debian/tools/ [dak patch]

2011-01-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12364 March 1977, Didier Raboud wrote: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/odyx-guest/dak.git;a=commit;h=fa17934bcca12a557d29ebd6710ec6084773255d Please review, cheers, I did. Have some changes, the commit log says: win32-loader autobyhand fix dak.conf by closing }; the entry.

Re: Mirroring win32-loader.exe in debian/tools/

2011-01-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
So please take a look below for the background, but in short form this would be: what about mirroring the win32-loader.exe Windows™ executable (from the win32- loader package) in our mirrors pool for the all the poor remaining Windows users out there to have a clearly defined place to

Re: Copy of installer into squeeze

2010-10-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Please copy installer 20101020 into squeeze. The squeeze installer current is a symlink going to sid/current which points at whatever you uploaded last. Do you want me to change that in preparation of the upcoming release, so that squeeze gets a direct copy of the installer and the current

Re: Copy of installer into squeeze

2010-10-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12276 March 1977, Otavio Salvador wrote: Please copy installer 20101020 into squeeze. The squeeze installer current is a symlink going to sid/current which points at whatever you uploaded last. Do you want me to change that in preparation of the upcoming release, so that squeeze gets a direct

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11916 March 1977, Frans Pop wrote: Looks like it's named nowayout. Thats just because I didnt copy the very latest version of it over to ries. Done now. overridden. Those are tags corresponding to packaging errors serious enough to mark a package unfit for the archive and should never

Bug#515132: debian-installer: source for version of dhcp3-client-udeb used in D-I not in archive

2009-02-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I tried rmadison, but that is/was broken: $ rmadison dhcp3 Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/bin/dak, line 248, in ? main() File /usr/local/bin/dak, line 243, in main module.main() File /srv/ftp.debian.org/dak/dak/ls.py, line 90, in main projectB =

Bug#490899: user-setup-udeb: way to (easily) *not* create a user, but do the root password setup

2008-07-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: user-setup-udeb Severity: wishlist Hi Would be nice if there is an easy way to skip creation of an user account but still do the rest of the task user-setup-udeb usually does. IE, when I entered the root password and then leave the username blank (login name), it currently displays a

Re: partman-{lvm,crypto,auto-lvm,auto-crypto} override disparity

2007-12-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
partman-lvm_57_all.udeb: package says priority is optional, override says standard. partman-crypto_25_amd64.udeb: package says priority is optional, override says standard. partman-auto-lvm_24_all.udeb: package says priority is optional, override says standard.

Bug#414448: #414448: partman-crypto: allow to use unencrytped swap

2007-11-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11219 March 1977, Max Vozeler wrote: I feel that this is too dangerous an option to allow without requiring the user to jump through hoops to configure it themselves. So we are going the gnome way of thinking users are dumb idiots and we need to take every option away from them? There

rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi following Frans request: rdate is in NEW and has a udeb added. Accept/Reject? http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/rdate.html has the details. -- bye Joerg exa yes, I'm annoying. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#414448: partman-crypto: allow to use unencrytped swap

2007-03-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: partman-crypto Severity: normal 23:14:11 Ganneff yeah. i only hate that crap you have unencrypted swap, not continuing if you setup something else with crypto. you should be able to get around that some way. 23:14:53 Ganneff (i know why i want unencrypted swap for now (testing

Re: Why was there no real mediation attempt tried ?

2006-06-18 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10689 March 1977, Sven Luther wrote: Note: Thats from me as a DD, not including any random position I may have at random places. IOW: Thats *MY* personal thing. Disclaimer: This kind of social mess can only be solved in full transparency and disclosure, thus public reply on the list.

Bug#253736: discover1: Tries to remove /media/cdrom0 which fails in d-i - cd is mounted there

2004-06-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: discover1 Version: 1.5-12 Severity: important Hi discover1 has this change in its changelog for 1.5-10: - Change default CD-ROM mountpoint base to /media (Closes: #245898) Since then it breaks d-i cdroms, because they are mounted in /media and discover tries to remove the directories

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Culd someone explain why is there a root shell prompt for the Linux kernel: Press ENTER to obtain a shell (waits 5 seconds) 1.- an explanation on why this is shipped by default (to add it to the Securing Debian Manual Where is