Bug#465122: dd uses a lot of memory

2008-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-10 14:55]: Since dd is run with ibs= the full image size, quite a lot of ram is needed to run flash-kernel. I just had it die when running it from within d-i without swap mounted. I think that using a smaller input buffer size

Bug#465122: dd uses a lot of memory

2008-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-10 17:22]: Do you have a patch? :) Not yet. Do you remember why it uses ibs? Here's what svn log says, but I really don't understand dd very well. This was based on a comment on a mailing list or something. It does makes

Bug#465122: dd uses a lot of memory

2008-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-10 17:58]: It does makes sense that a larger buffer size than the default 512 bytes (not 1 byte AFAIK) would speed it up somewhat, by saving syscall overhead. If there's a common divisor, like a block size, and it's

Bug#464928: needs to support grub2

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: os-prober Severity: normal Support needs to be written to parse the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file of grub2.. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386

Bug#464938: d-i on i386 with 16 MiB RAM (using swap)

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Tomas Tintera wrote: 1. We need ide/ide-core.ko, ide/ide-disk.ko and ide/ide-generic.ko modules on 2nd (root) floppy (in initrd) in order to get HDDs work. The space for it can be made by bzipping 2nd floppy's initrd instead of gzipping it. Also the following lines must be added to

Bug#464966: 915resolution is obsolete

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: discover-data Version: 2.2008.01.12 Severity: normal discover-pkginstall wants to install 915resolution for my video card. This package is obsolete with the X server for this card; I don't need it. Suggest removing it from the package list, at least for this card and others that are

Bug#464968: add support for non-free firmware packages

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: discover-data Version: 2.2008.01.12 Severity: normal There are several firmware packages in non-free. I suspect there will be more soon, given all the ethernet driver firmware that has been removed from the kernel lately. These packages are low-hanging fruit that it would be easy for

non-free firmware

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
I suggest that for the next beta we focus on dealing with non-free firmware better in d-i. An increasing number of machines are difficult to install with d-i, or don't have all hardware working fully post-install due to non-free firmware issues. There are clearly two parts to the problem;

Re: [RFC] laptop-detect being installed just on useful architectures

2008-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: + apt-install laptop-detect || true If apt-install fails here, the script should be allowed to fail. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#463844: [tasksel] gnome-desktop: s/gnome-btdownload/transmission-gtk/

2008-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: transmission is an easy and fast lightweight BitTorrent client. gnome-btdownload lacks many features in comparison. Another reason to consider this change would be that transmission doesn't include an init script, which bittorrent does (by default it does nothing,

Re: [RFC] laptop-detect being installed just on useful architectures

2008-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Have you ever actually _seen_ someone with a sparc laptop? No. However, I have seen someone with a mips laptop. IIRC they got a week's battery life running Debian. There are also plenty of things in the laptop to pda spectrum using arm. mips, mipsel, arm, armel, armeb should all

Re: Installation on NSLU2 does not complete (initramfs nslu2 hook requires user interaction)

2008-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Gordon Farquharson wrote: Attached is a patch to the nslu2-utils initramfs nslu2 hook that updates the nslu2-utils package to work with Krzysztof's driver. I have also taken the liberty of adding some logic to the initramfs local-top nslu2 script to remove the module loading message that only

Re: Installation on NSLU2 does not complete (initramfs nslu2 hook requires user interaction)

2008-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-02 16:16]: I've uploaded with this patch. Is ixp4xx_eth built into the 2.6.24 kernels in unstable? No, it's a module. So something still needs to be done to get udev to load it? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: We have 2.6.22 as a safe bed on lenny now and their udebs are there too however since EtchAndHalf intends to release with 2.6.24 and it has been uploaded to sid already I'm considering a better option to us to release with it. linux-2.6 has been built

Re: Changing of tasksel from arch all to arch any

2008-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: Today while talking about the removal of laptop-detect from tasksel depends list, specially for s390, Why is s390 so special, and why do the s390 porters get away with setting dependencies of important prority packages not-for-us, without talking to anyone? Those are the

Bug#391356: tasksel failure druing debconf-apt-progress line 158, STDIN line 532.

2008-01-23 Thread Joey Hess
David Ayers wrote: Package: tasksel Version: 2.71 Followup-For: Bug #391356 Why did you post this as a followup to bug #391356? Please don't do that, you've now cluttered up an unrelated bug report with your unrelated mail, and you've hidden your problem away inside this other bug report where

Bug#461110: please include packages from Priority: important

2008-01-17 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan wrote: Please move packages from Priority: important to tasksel so that user has the option to de-select them. Why? There should be nothing in important that a user should want to de-select, by definition. Also, there are things in important that are necessary for d-i and tasksel

Bug#461110: please include packages from Priority: important

2008-01-17 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan wrote: Also, there are things in important that are necessary for d-i and tasksel to work *at all*, including aptitude, What's wrong with 'apt-install aptitude'? It's not in the patch you sent.. (It would also need to install tasksel.) debian-archive-keyring, and gnupg

Bug#460389: choose-mirror: FTBFS: 14:52:33 ERROR 404: Not Found.

2008-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: There really hasn't been any relevant change in choose-mirror that could explain that. Yes there was; I uploaded 2.20 from a clean vcs checkout, which is not usual (I had to replace my hard drive recently). But that said, Joey has made uploaded a change that may well fix

Bug#460353: linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6: FTBFS: unmet b-dep linux-image-2.6.22-3-486

2008-01-12 Thread Joey Hess
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on i386. Btw, should I report build failures of linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6 and linux-modules-di-i386-2.6, or you don't care about them? I don't mind reporting them when they occur, but if that's just

no /etc/environment

2008-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
I installed sid (armel) to a thecus, and the installed system has no /etc/environment, which isn't really a problem, except: Jan 11 21:54:43 turtle sshd[17587]: pam_env(ssh:setcred): Unable to open env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory So, localechooser used to create it .. what

Bug#458154: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: So the question still is _why_ ssh drops the connection in your case. Some crappy routers and firewalls do this to TCP connections that pass through them. Also, the solution you propose is on the _client_ side, so is not something we can fix in the installer. The only thing

Bug#449292: followup

2008-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
The version of udev that supports the rtc symlink is 116. No, it does not make sense to try to modprobe rtc-dev and only make the symlink if the modprobe succeeds. rtc-dev is built into the kernel on the nslu2 and some other hardware. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#459664: host.conf: multi on appears to be default

2008-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
Vincent McIntyre wrote: Package: base-config Version: 2.73 Chosen at random, I assume? Not even present in etch, version number never distributed in debian, and never had anything to do with /etc/host.conf. On examining all the hosts I have currently installed with etch, I found all of them

Re: Showing apt progress info in apt-setup?

2008-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Wasn't this change intended to show time remaining in the progress bar? Only if used with a version of apt or aptitude that communicates it for update. Apt doesn't (#448908); aptitude has other bugs (#448958) that don't make it a good idea to use it here. Also, if I select

Bug#458916: critical graphical bug during execution of tasksel

2008-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 05:23:24PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote: Err, how so? Surely this is #430545 (xresprobe breaks display at the middle of installation). I'd forgotten about that one. Yes, could very well be. I

Re: How to preconfigure debconf values?

2007-12-23 Thread Joey Hess
tzdata 2007b-1 (in etch) does not use debconf. (BTW, several people in this thread have seemed to not be aware that debconf-set-selections automatically sets the seen flag of preseeded values.) -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#451380: tasksel-data: Please stop installing acpi-support and hibernate (in the laptop/desktop task)

2007-12-23 Thread Joey Hess
Per Olofsson wrote: So perhaps we should simply standardise on pm-utils. According to the Ubuntu wiki page, acpi-support still needs to be around to send key events (for IBM/Lenovo laptops which sends key events through ACPI, I presume). What we can do then is to replace hibernate with

Re: [RFC] Alternative solution (was: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian)

2007-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: As I was extremely tired last night I decided to quit the discussion until after some sleep. On Monday 17 December 2007, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Because a dpkg-reconfigure needs to ask the question even if a keymap is installed. if [ ! -e /etc

Re: [RFC] Alternative solution - take 2

2007-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Joey Hess wrote: preseed's own base-installer script uses debconf-set-selections. OK. That works, although we need to set the value too as otherwise there isn't a question to set the seen flag for. So the patch becomes: +# Avoid displaying

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Log: After recent changes in apt-install, we need to tell console-data not to display its keymap/policy question when it is being installed during a D-I installation. console-data (= 2:1.04-2) will check for the existence of the file

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: See #456029 and especially #452331. Both BRs were discussed on the list and I did ask for alternative suggestions. I had hoped for a reaction from either you or Colin to my proposal. However, Christian did not leave very much time before applying my patch which probably

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: We are talking about a debconf setting in the _installed_ system after all, and one that should _only_ be valid while D-I is running. preseeding console-data/keymap/policy seen should work ok. If console-common is later dpkg-reconfigured, the seen flag will be ignored.

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Because a dpkg-reconfigure needs to ask the question even if a keymap is installed. if [ ! -e /etc/whatever_file ] || [ $1 = reconfigure ]; then # ask question fi I decided on /tmp as the file really _is_ a temporary file: exists only for the duration of the

Bug#455980: anna: Complains dependency is not available even when already installed

2007-12-12 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: anna should probably check the status of a package before looking for it in the repository. anna does of course consider package status: for (node = (*packages)-list.head; node; node = node-next) { package = node-data;

Re: Installation on NSLU2 does not complete (initramfs nslu2 hook requires user interaction)

2007-12-12 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-03 00:12]: nslu2-utils is version 0.10+r71-13, but I don't see any changes to the initramfs hook that should cause this problem. I am using a DFSG image that does not contain the NPE-B firmware. I guess the best way

Bug#454493: Display PCI slot for nics, if available

2007-12-09 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: eth0: foo bar description, eth0: mac address: xxx:xxx... [slot 1] That would be one way to do it without modifying debconf. You could also get rid of the eth0: prefix if you wanted to by using Choices-C. I'm probably just being thick, but what exactly are you proposing

Bug#454493: Display PCI slot for nics, if available

2007-12-06 Thread Joey Hess
dann frazier wrote: * Modify cdebconf to support multi-line choice fields. Make each interface choice be a multi-lined option that includes things like vendor, model, mac, slot. eth0: foo bar description, eth0: mac address: xxx:xxx... [slot 1] That would be one way to do it without

Bug#453661: auto-install: Falling back to the package description

2007-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: Package: auto-install Version: 1.2 Severity: normal Hello, In the install log are many lines like: Nov 16 16:33:27 main-menu[1139]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for auto-install Nov 16 16:38:50 main-menu[1139]: INFO: Falling back to the

Re: Unable to build kernel udeb

2007-11-25 Thread Joey Hess
hasan murad wrote: I am trying to build Build images with a custom kernel $dpkg-buildpackage it gets following error debian/nic-extra-modules-2.6.8.18-386-di lib/modules/2.6.18.8-2-386/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko debian/irda-modules-2.6.8.18-386-di

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-25 Thread Joey Hess
Josef Wolf wrote: d-i anna/choose_modules ppp-udeb That's not formatted correctly. d-i anna/choose_modules string ppp-udeb -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#452388: Standard system is confusing

2007-11-24 Thread Joey Hess
Eddy Petrișor wrote: -Description: Standard system +Description: Command-line environment I agree with Robert; I have been asked quite a few times by friends (while installing, what is the difference between standard and desktop system). This change would make it a lot clearer what's

Re: git mirror of the d-i svn repo

2007-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: You should probably change that to be a bare repository. There is no need to keep all files checked out. git-svn fetch fails on a bare repo. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [RFC] No longer create full set of static devices during install

2007-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: We could probably make the debootstrap udeb arch all by moving pkgdetails to base-installer and passing '--arch $(udpkg --print-architecture)', but I'm not sure that's worth it. It _would_ be handy if debootstrap could quickly be updated for breakage w/o needing it to be

Bug#450777: tasksel: Tasksel uninstalls packages without asking

2007-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: There is no way to start aptitude interactively and at the same time tell it to remove some tasks, so tasksel has to run aptitude twice when you tell it to do both things. Seems this is no longer true, so I'll implement that. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description

Bug#450777: tasksel: Tasksel uninstalls packages without asking

2007-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Nis Martensen wrote: Tasksel had Print Server, File Server, and Mail server selected. Since there was no such task that I was looking for, I deselected the above I'm not sure why it wasn't clear to you that it had these selected since it detected you already had those tasks installed, and that

Re: [RFC] Loading of IDE modules by hw-detect

2007-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: The patch may well introduce regressions, probably mainly in arches other than i386/amd64. The most likely regression looks to be ide-floppy, which AFAICS is not autoloadable by udev. Richard Hirst at one point had ia64 hardware that used ide-floppy (see #215455). Rather than

git mirror of the d-i svn repo

2007-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
I've set up a git mirror of the svn repo, this is updated whenever a commit is made: git://git.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i.git Total size of a checkout of all of d-i's history is about 400 mb. The git-svn run to create this took 2+ days on a 2.3 ghz Xeon. This looks basically nothing like real switch

Re: [RFC] No longer create full set of static devices during install

2007-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: The create_devices function in base-installer has been simplified a lot because it no longer actually has to create any device nodes anymore. It now takes care of the bind mount to /target/dev and does some apt-install calls for RAID, LVM and crypto installs. (Suggestions

Bug#449292: clock-setup: finish-install script is confusing and possibly broken

2007-11-04 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: # XXX This won't be needed once a new udev that handles the # symlink gets into Debian. if [ -e /dev/rtc0 ]; then ln -sf rtc0 /dev/rtc fi If rtc-dev is now a generic driver,

Re: r50018 - in trunk/packages/debian-installer-utils: . debian

2007-11-03 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: apt-install: support CD/DVD changing by using debconf-apt-progress if multiple CDs are defined in sources.list. Isn't debconf-apt-progress used unconditionally now? +config=$(chroot /target debconf-apt-progress --config | sed s/$/;/) +in-target sh -c $config

[PATCH] cancellable apt-setup with progress display

2007-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
the progress bar. + * Allow the progress bar to be canceled (needs debconf 1.5.17 for proper +operation). + * 50mirror: Call choose-mirror -n to avoid trashing the progress bar. + + -- Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:33:10 -0400 + apt-setup (1:0.31) unstable; urgency=low

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: It's logical from the installer's pov, but not from a _user's_ pov. How the hell is he supposed to guess that he will be asked about additional CDs later when confronted with a question about a network mirror? If I (as a newbie) were confronted by that question I would

Re: (summary?) Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: Frans' proposal adds an extra question when doing CD installs, to prompt users whether they want to use another CD or not. This, even if they did choose a network mirror before. It asks for all the CDs first, there's no path through the install that asks about a

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Praveen A wrote: I think even now if you select a mirror and installing from CD it downloads even those packages in the CD, correct me if I am wrong here. Incorrect. (As is much of the rest of your mail. Please lose the chip on your shoulder if you'd like to influence me *at *all*.) -- see

Re: (summary?) Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 01 November 2007, Joey Hess wrote: If you're not on broadband and you choose to use a mirror, it takes half an hour or more just to download the Packages file. Apt can estimate this reaonably well so you shouldn't even need to wait, you can just see

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: If you have both CDs and a mirror in your sources list and a package is available from both and the version of the package on both is the same, apt(itude) will always take the package from the CD. Yes, he wasn't saying this, but the opposite, AIUI. -- see shy jo

Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: This basically means that the current time-out is just too long for practical use as is. An alternative option could be to make it possible to cancel the action, just like we do for looking for a DHCP server. Yep, all network-facing progress bars in d-i need a cancel

Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
block 448871 436497 thanks The clock-setup progress bar cannot safely be made cancelable until this bug in newt is fixed. To make the progress bar cancelable, clock-setup would need to use PROGRESS INFO or PROGRESS_STEP periodically to poll for a return code indicating cancel was hit. But both of

Re: (summary?) Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: I don't feel this will be too hard to implement, but obviously there's no point on blocking your changes on it. With the debconf-apt-progress from debconf 1.5.17, if the progresscancel capb is set in d-i, hitting cancel on the progress bar will send first a SIGINT

Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Thomas wrote: Using ntp to set the time should be a short operation. If it takes a long time, the validity of the time that results is in question -- by virtue of the process[*] being used. Careful, you're confusing SNTP and NTP. You're also oversimplifying. NTP is very good at

Re: (summary?) Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try this: debconf-apt-progress aptitude update You can't use apt-get because it doesn't output the timing info to the status-fd, but happily aptitude works. And for results that best mimic d-i, you should add a new mirror

Re: (summary?) Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
+to specify how it should advance the progress bar. + * Allow the progress bar to be canceled (needs debconf 1.5.17 for proper +operation). + + -- Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:17:18 -0400 + apt-setup (1:0.30) unstable; urgency=low [ Frans Pop ] Index: apt-setup

Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Thomas wrote: Ahhh... So the installer time-setter uses rdate, not NTP? A wise choice, now that I think about it. Much lighter weight protocol, and the client is much *much* smaller. Infact, rdate doesn't even use SNTP. rdate, as used by the installer, uses SNTP. The point

Re: apt-setup cansel support (was: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation)

2007-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 02 November 2007, Joey Hess wrote: Here'a an attempt at cancelable progress bars for apt-setup. If apt's bug gets fixed the progress bar will also include download speed and time estimates. The behavior when cancel is pressed could be improved, it currently

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: OK, but in your proposal the option to scan additional CDs is _not asked at all_ if they choose to use a mirror. A significant difference I'd say. Asking the CD question in expert mode if a mirror has been configured is not significantly different than allowing lilo to be

Bug#448325: Incorrect installation order on NSLU2 with main-menu_1.22

2007-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Gordon Farquharson wrote: Oct 27 06:56:31 main-menu[2481]: INFO: Menu item 'nobootloader' selected Oct 27 06:56:46 main-menu[2481]: INFO: Menu item 'finish-install' selected finish-install depends on bootable-system, which is provided by both nobootloader and by flash-kernel-installer.

Re: r49909 - trunk/packages/tzsetup/debian

2007-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: Log: * Change tzsetup-udeb.install to avoid .svn dirs on post-base-installer.d. If you're building direct from svn, set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=.svn and it will automatically avoid this problem in all cases. Or just svn export and build from the export.. -- see shy jo

Re: Automatic processing of d-i byhand uploads

2007-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: To get it working for d-i uploads, I need a very reliable script that will be invoked as: Well, I stopped when I discovered the tar on ries is still apparently vulnerable to #439335. I don't feel it's possible to make a very reliable script with an insecure tar.. (Does dak

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Works fine inside D-I too. One nitpick: should the new option be listed in the SYNOPSIS of the manpage? That's currently only listing the more important options. Otherwise, please upload. Done. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
I wonder if you've considered the wrinkle of anna-install being run when a CD other than the boot CD is in the drive? anna-install is rarely called after base-installer, but it can happen. Maybe cdrom-retreiver should store a volume ID of the CD and check that ID and handling a media change. --

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: +db_input high apt-setup/cdrom/set-first || true +db_go || exit 10 +db_get apt-setup/cdrom/set-first If this generator ran after the 50mirror generator it could check to see if network sources were enabled in sources.list. If they are, and a DVD is available, there's probably

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: My thought was that the user should first be allowed to load additional CD/DVDs or not and based on that we _could_ change the defaults/priority for using a mirror. OTOH, as you've argued yourself in the past, having additional CDs available does not guarantee that all

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: I beg to disagree. As argued above, loading multiple CDs in no way conflicts with using a mirror. IMO we have to always ask both questions. Neither does installing lilo to one disk and grub to another, but d-i does not prompt the user to choose if they want to use lilo, and

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: I miss the why. Right now I have the unplesant feeling it is apt-cdrom add re-invented. Someone willing to enlighten me? The sole use-case for multiple CDs in d-i is a scenario where the user is not connected to (or chooses not to use) a fast network and is going to select

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: When base-config was integrated into D-I, we had find a way to make tasksel install from CD images for hd-media installations. This was solved by bind mounting the CD into target and telling apt-cdrom not to mount/unmount CDs. In the patch for apt-setup this is reverted:

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 25 October 2007, Frans Pop wrote: The prompt for CD changing works during pkgsel, but apparently not for a normal apt-install. During initial tests, installation of grub failed because CD2 was still mounted and I never got the prompt to change CDs. This is

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: What's the reason we made apt-install non-interactive? Was it just that we did not have the passthrough frontend at the time? If so, I guess we should probably just make apt-install interactive in all cases. Both that we lacked working passthrough, and that none of these

Re: Strange installation order

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 23:02]: Suggest you try a custom installer with Etch's main-menu to see if that fixes it. If it does, a serious BR against main-menu would be in order. I copied th etch main-menu binary to the image and saw the same

Re: Strange installation order

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
I was reviewing #62 and it explains at least part of the behavior. main-menu would defer running localechooser until it was run to satisfy a dependency, in the case where the boot image didn't have localechooser on it. This was because localechooser was downloaded and added to the top of the

Bug#448036: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Memory savings]

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Starting system log daemon Starting kernel log daemon Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. Starting periodic command scheduler: crond. Below are the last few messages in syslog. I ran out of time before I was able to fully

Re: [RFC] Support for using multiple CDs during installation

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: + in-target sh -c $config debconf-apt-progress --logstderr -- apt-get -o APT::Install-Recommends=false -y --no-remove install $packages || ERRCODE=$? This resets the progress bar to 0, advances it to 100, and then STOPs it, which is not desirable if there is already

Re: Strange installation order

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: Do you intend to upload 1.22 in the near future? If the DIRMs don't mind, I think it's in an uploadable state. I didn't know for sure of any instances of the bug still left in the wild, so didn't upload it. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#389430: override suite for udebs

2007-10-24 Thread Joey Hess
dann frazier wrote: The Packages file isn't being overwritten; its being appended to. Ah, sorry for missing that point. The name mirror/udeb/override_suite is easily confused with mirror/udeb/suite, especially since both are basically used to override the udeb suite.

Bug#447326: updated patch

2007-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
dann frazier wrote: +Template: pkgsel/progress/fallback +Type: text +_Description: Running ${SCRIPT}... Index: debian/postinst This will very briefly display Running popcon, followed by popularity-contest asking if you want to participate. I can envision a user wondering if it already

Bug#389430: override suite for udebs

2007-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
How is setting mirror/udeb/override_suite any different than setting the existing mirror/udeb/suite? dann frazier wrote: + for suite in $codename $override_suite; do + fetch dists/$suite/Release $Release || exit $? + fetch dists/$suite/$pkgfile $Packages || continue

Bug#389430: override suite for udebs

2007-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How is setting mirror/udeb/override_suite any different than setting the existing mirror/udeb/suite? I think Dann's idea is to get both and validate them. Why? Apt already validates all Release files it uses. d-i can only use

Bug#389430: override suite for udebs

2007-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
dann frazier wrote: I want to use the udeb in the primary suite if there is no corresponding udeb in the override_suite. The override_suite only includes udebs that require customization. Does that answer your question? No, because I don't see how it works. Like I said, it downloads the

Bug#447326: pkgsel: add support for pre-hooks

2007-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
dann frazier wrote: This patch adds an /usr/lib/pre-pkgsel.d/ directory where hooks can be added in a run-parts fashion. popcon handling has been factored out into its own script in this directory. My main motivation for this patch is that I wanted the ability to install a package

Bug#447071: patches

2007-10-19 Thread Joey Hess
dann frazier wrote: OK. Just for my benefit, what's the difference? I assume the 'echo -n' above my change should get changed as well? It's not POSIX and is grandfathered in in policy. So don't worry about it, really.. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#447071: patches

2007-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
dann frazier wrote: + # If DHCP provides multiple servers, ignore all but the first + dhcp_ntp=`echo $RET | cut -d' ' -f1` Please quote $RET here to make it less easy for a rogue NTP server to (accidentially) root d-i. :-) Index: dhclient-script

Re: [RFC] Support column alignment in (multi)select debconf questions

2007-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: I agree with Otavio that using a tab as column separator is not a good idea, but for a completely different reason. I can imagine you'd have a case where you'd want a string including columns to be translated. If you use a tab, this is almost guaranteed to result in broken

Bug#446838: Current daily builds have kernel 2.6.21 but udebs for 2.6.22

2007-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:51:38PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: normal The current daily builds (10/15/2007) have the 2.6.21 kernel in vmlinuz and the initrd, but the udebs for 2.6.22. For which architecture? This is going to

Bug#445157: debootstrap - hardcoded value of TARGET in second-stage prevents creation of a foreign chroot

2007-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: OK. I've done the doclifter thing and updated the XML, generated a new manpage and compared it with the old. I'm assuming you don't want the build-dependency on docbook-xsl so I've included a patch to create a README that documents how to use xsltproc to generate the

Re: no dhcpclient

2007-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Micha Beyer wrote: the debianinstaller mean I have no dhcpclient (no dhclient or pump) in the netinstallimage for i386 (lenny). What's the problem with the dailybuildimage? You're using a testing_d-i image, which uses etch's d-i still. Download a sid_d-i image instead. Any of the links on

Re: [RFC] Support column alignment in (multi)select debconf questions

2007-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: This isn't accurate enough, I'm sorry. I think that any char we choose as a separator needs to have a way to be escaped. A tab *means* advance to the next column. Therefore, it would do exactly what it's intended to do, therefore there is no point in escaping it. -- see

Bug#442436: debian-installer: sets up firewire as eth0

2007-10-10 Thread Joey Hess
Jerry Quinn wrote: Right now it's Linux cerberus 2.6.22-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 23:43:59 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux but I had 2.6.21 installed by the installer (from aptitude): ii linux-image-2.6.21-2-amd64 2.6.21-6Linux 2.6.21 image on AMD64 What is the output of: ls -l

Bug#445592: tasksel: Please update Traditional Chinese desktop task

2007-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Lee wrote: -kde-i18n-zhtw Why installs this kde message on GNOME desktop? Because these tasks are also used to localise the kde-desktop, until someone splits them. +icedove-locale-zh-tw New package for icedove's zh-tw translation. icedove is not installed by any desktop tasks, so I

Bug#402482: testcases of busybox gzip misbehaving

2007-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Denys Vlasenko wrote: Please send testcases where GNU gzip works and busybox gzip doesnt - to me. I will try to fix those. It's easy enough to reproduce for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~echo foo | gzip test.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~echo bar | gzip test.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~gunzip test.gz foo bar

Re: elilo-installer copyright status

2007-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Rock wrote: Hello, I hope I'm contacting the right folks! I'm trying to find out the copyright status of the elilo-installer package to see if it qualifies as free software or not. Below is a bit of a description and I was advised by debian-legal to ask the package maintainers. Hope

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