Bug#857345: jessie-pu: package debootstrap/1.0.72

2017-03-10 Thread Neil Williams
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: jessie User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu The fix for https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757819 needs to be available in jessie to solve problems with using --foreign with any Stretch bootstrap operation.

Bug#793119: Debian Installer doesn't let me configure locale en_US + time zone UTC

2016-06-28 Thread Neil Williams
also be possible to access using a preseed file with something like: d-i time/zone choice UTC e.g. in configure clock, you'll see Set the clock using NTP? then Select your timezone. This will offer the default as the zone appropriate for your choice of language and locale, with the additional option of UTC. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp9SoSE1aVvG.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#801392: debian-installer: xkb-keymap select us

2016-06-28 Thread Neil Williams
APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: sys

Bug#826189: debian-installer: unable to set up advanced network connections from installer

2016-06-28 Thread Neil Williams
or NFS or similar which would be able to make the network connection and then do a manual install onto the media, e.g. using debootstrap. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpMFPQkoAECN.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#782305: Merging

2016-06-28 Thread Neil Williams
components, so this bug can't be merged with 550962 without losing visibility of either in the respective components. Assigning the same tag as 550962. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpwTM3UT9q9p.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#782305: Merging

2016-06-28 Thread Neil Williams
forcemerge 550962 782305 thanks Merging with the existing bug on this topic: kbd-chooser: please let Bépo keyboard layout available when choosing kbd layout related to: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ConsoleLayout -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

Bug#780118: Unable to install to Plain machine

2016-06-28 Thread Neil Williams
o reproduce this since filing the report? How was the install run - netinst/CD/DVD, architecture, stable or testing, version, what kind of machine? ('Plain' doesn't mean a lot.) Numerous other tests and installs have successfully happened since the bug report, so there is presumably something a

Bug#780811: debian-installer: Netinst throws error when MATE is selected in "Software, selection"

2016-06-28 Thread Neil Williams
limit should be and the MATE task is by no means "all" the packages available. Using Guided partitioning to use the entire disk instead of selecting a separate /home partition is the simplest option to ensure that the install works on small systems. Alternatively, you can manually tweaking the

Bug#777526: debian-installer: when installing xfce system only, quodlibet installed and gstreamer pulse module not

2016-06-28 Thread Neil Williams
3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpFWok_7cGcl.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2014-12-03 Thread Neil Williams
extracted from the linux-image package. The modules.tgz would also be handy... -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpp1B9A5S0K6.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Neil Williams
where possible to avoid accidental harm. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpZ8LdChvbJN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Neil Williams
stable release. I'd support XFCE4 as the default Graphical Desktop Environment and possibly putting GNOME (and KDE) as alternative options. That way, GNOME and KDE (as explicit options) should only show up in the list if using a medium which can provide that amount of packages. -- Neil

Bug#654317: Needs creation of /usr/share/man/man1

2012-03-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:58:38 + Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:08:26AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Neil Williams wrote: Emdebian doesn't include manpages and some packages (and some udebs apparently) don't expect this directory to not exist. I'd

Bug#654317: Needs creation of /usr/share/man/man1

2012-03-11 Thread Neil Williams
), then the network mirror needs to be specified manually as: mirror hostname: www.emdebian.org, Debian archive mirror directory: /grip HTH -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpmWUUaS4OiO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#654317: Needs creation of /usr/share/man/man1

2012-03-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:25:20 -0300 Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:22, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: Once it fails, get to the install menu and select Execute a shell then create a single directory: mkdir /target/usr/share/man/man1

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Williams
from Debian is only suitable for what Debian normally does with busybox - which explicitly does *not* include handling passwords, shadow or otherwise. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpasXOgQEtp9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:15:57 + Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 21:06, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: ... I cannot recommend any embedded system should use any version of busybox built by Debian for d-i without *also* installing and using

Re: Bug#466857: udhcp: long term mass bug filing for cross build support

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Williams
with #465290, but I leave the last word to Neil ;-) Merged. Thanks for the reminder, Luca. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpMsCi6tcTlC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#480899: reopen

2009-07-06 Thread Neil Williams
),-] libslang2 (= 2.0.7-1), libtextwrap1, debconf Installed-Size: [-512-] {+440+} Version: [-0.143-] {+0.143+nmu1+} Patch attached. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ diff -Nru cdebconf-0.143/debian

Re: strap1: an alternative to debootstrap

2009-06-22 Thread Neil Williams
on the build system, it could still be of some use. I'm not sure whether -boot actually need multiple repository support though - comments from -boot? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp1et8I4kqUI.pgp

Bug#517114: more info

2009-02-25 Thread Neil Williams
, dropped from the final release code due to a regression related to DHCP. It would be a significant enhancement to Emdebian if the prompt could be reinstated for Debian 5.0.1. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms

Emdebian and D-I keys

2008-12-21 Thread Neil Williams
to rebuild all d-i images for Emdebian merely to add a single public key. (I do have some preseeding config that will make the repository available by default.) Is there something I've missed that makes it easier to supply the key some other way? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data

Bug#502244: LANGUAGE=se:nb:no:nn:da:sv ?

2008-10-28 Thread Neil Williams
/ cs.po CVS de.po fr.po it.po ja.po ka.po nl.po POTFILES.in pt.po ru.po sv.po templates.pot uk.po Testing with those languages shows that the fallback mechanism does work - at least outside D-I. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Bug#484700: New options in busybox 1.11.2

2008-09-07 Thread Neil Williams
) Builtin version of 'printf' (ASH_BUILTIN_PRINTF) [Y/n/?] (NEW) Build BusyBox as a position independent executable (PIE) [N/y/?] (NEW) So far, Emdebian is taking the defaults for these options but our testing is far from exhaustive. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org

Bug#480899: cdebconf: Needs a package split for gtk frontend to allow installation without X

2008-05-12 Thread Neil Williams
Package: cdebconf Version: 0.130 Severity: normal In order for cdebconf to replace debconf, cdebconf would need to be installable in a basic Debian environment where gtk+ would be unavailable. Installing cdebconf instead of debconf in such a situation brings in intolerable numbers of

Bug#465290: busybox: long term mass bug filing for cross build support

2008-02-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.1.3-5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: crossbuilt In line with the other cross-building support bugs: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/11/msg00116.html This patch is necessary to allow busybox to cross-build in Debian,

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

2007-10-16 Thread Neil Williams
for upload to Emdebian tonight but I would like to have this fixed before the next round of debconf translations require an upload to Debian (at least two weeks). -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

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

2007-10-16 Thread Neil Williams
the manpage changes - I think it makes for a slightly better manpage due to the whitespace and bold improvements. YMMV. HTH. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ --- debootstrap.old/debootstrap +++ debootstrap

Bug#326243: Emdebian fix

2007-10-16 Thread Neil Williams
) oldconfig + CC=$(CC) $(MAKE) -C $(CURDIR)/$(DIR) cp $(DIR)/docs/BusyBox.1 $(DIR)/docs/busybox.1 touch $@ More testing needed but these changes are likely to be filed as a separate cross-build bug in due course. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

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

2007-10-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:21:37 -0400 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-10-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:21:37 -0400 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-10-06 Thread Neil Williams
the manpage? So we can commit it. Unfortunately not - debootstrap contains no source for the manpage and I cannot even begin to edit groff/whatever. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpamGv1azkiQ.pgp

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

2007-10-03 Thread Neil Williams
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.3 Severity: wishlist Emdebian is building a root filesystem that is created using debootstrap using the --foreign option. This is then copied to an embedded device for testing. Unfortunately, debootstrap --second-stage assumes that the TARGET is / which is

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

2007-10-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:41:10 -0300 Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a cleaner way of achieving the same result, maybe debootstrap could support / as a default and allow an override on the command line? Hello Neil, Yes, I think