Bug#831003: support gzip'd kernel image

2016-07-13 Thread dann frazier
an/changelog flash-kernel-3.68/debian/changelog --- flash-kernel-3.67/debian/changelog 2016-06-20 00:20:31.0 -0600 +++ flash-kernel-3.68/debian/changelog 2016-07-13 09:33:53.714642651 -0600 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +flash-kernel (3.68) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Add support for gzip-compre

Bug#776782: x86/mac: false warning about being in EFI mode

2015-02-01 Thread dann frazier
Package: partman-efi Version: 62 Severity: normal Tags: d-i patch If you boot an x86/mac in legacy BIOS mode with a pre-existing non-UEFI OS installed, you will get the following warning: This machine's firmware has started the installer in UEFI mode but it looks like there may be existing

Re: libdebian-installer_0.99_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2015-01-30 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 07:15:32AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org (2015-01-30): Quoting dann frazier (da...@dannf.org): On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 07:01:32AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Unless I'm wrong, the released changelog hasn't been pushed

Re: libdebian-installer_0.99_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2015-01-29 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 07:01:32AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Changes: libdebian-installer (0.99) unstable; urgency=medium . * Replace NULL terminator for the arm map_hardware table, accidentally dropped in 0.92 (Closes: #776488). Hello Dann, hey Christian!

Bug#776488: regression: arm map_hardware[] not NULL terminated

2015-01-28 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 06:10:49PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: dann frazier da...@debian.org (2015-01-28): Package: libdebian-installer4 Version: 0.98 Severity: serious Tags: d-i patch The map_hardware[] table in src/system/subarch-arm-linux.c is no longer NULL terminated. I

Bug#776488: regression: arm map_hardware[] not NULL terminated

2015-01-28 Thread dann frazier
Package: libdebian-installer4 Version: 0.98 Severity: serious Tags: d-i patch The map_hardware[] table in src/system/subarch-arm-linux.c is no longer NULL terminated. I believe this could lead to a segfault on armel/armhf platforms, resulting in a failed install. This bug was introduced back in

Re: [RFC] flash-kernel hook to prepend to boot script

2014-06-05 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 08:43:02AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 11:40 -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:50:37AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 16:30 -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:35:18AM -0600, dann frazier

Re: [RFC] flash-kernel hook to prepend to boot script

2014-06-05 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 03:13:33PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 08:43:02AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 11:40 -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:50:37AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 16:30 -0600, dann frazier

Re: [RFC] flash-kernel hook to prepend to boot script

2014-06-04 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:50:37AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 16:30 -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:35:18AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:54:31AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 14:59 -0600, dann frazier

[PATCH 3/3] Add support for prepending arbitrary u-boot commands to a bootscript

2014-05-29 Thread dann frazier
Allow packages to drop in files containing U-Boot commands to be executed by a platform's bootscript before starting the OS. These files should be dropped in /usr/share/flash-kernel/ubootenv.d. Users can add additional stubs, or override stubs provided by packages, by adding files to

[PATCH 2/3] Add kernel commandline configuration support

2014-05-29 Thread dann frazier
/etc/default/flash-kernel is added with a LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE variable that can optional be used in u-boot bootscripts. This command line is generated using the distribution default (defaults for Debian and Ubuntu are provided), and will incorporate any user-provided commandline arguments

[PATCH 0/3] flash-kernel u-boot command/console support

2014-05-29 Thread dann frazier
Here's a patch series that implements the aforementioned changes for making it possible to have packages prepend u-boot commands to the boot.scr, and a special case for managing the kernel cmdline. I'd appreciate reviews, and any +/-1s for pushing these changes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

[PATCH 1/3] Generate flash-kernel-installer.postinst based on a template

2014-05-29 Thread dann frazier
This is a no-op preparatory commit, intended to make it easier to review future commits. f-k-i.postinst becomes f-k-i.postinst.in, which is now used to generate the former using cat as a placeholder. --- debian/flash-kernel-installer.postinst| 114 --

Re: [RFC] flash-kernel hook to prepend to boot script

2014-05-28 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:35:18AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:54:31AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 14:59 -0600, dann frazier wrote: hey, A couple of projects we're working on at work require some tweaking of u-boot settings

Re: [RFC] flash-kernel hook to prepend to boot script

2014-05-27 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:54:31AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 14:59 -0600, dann frazier wrote: hey, A couple of projects we're working on at work require some tweaking of u-boot settings. These requirements can be summed up by: A) Maintain the console= setting

[RFC] flash-kernel hook to prepend to boot script

2014-05-21 Thread dann frazier
hey, A couple of projects we're working on at work require some tweaking of u-boot settings. These requirements can be summed up by: A) Maintain the console= setting, and ideally all userargs (the cmdline args after --) after install. This seems like standard Debian functionality that

getty and hw flow control

2014-05-12 Thread dann frazier
hey, I'm working on enabling a platform that I'm told will be using hardware flow control on the serial console. To prepare for this, I've put together this patch to detect the crtscts setting on the console, and set the -h flag for the getty. It works, but I'd appreciate a review by someone who

Re: getty and hw flow control

2014-05-12 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 03:15:51AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: dann frazier, le Mon 12 May 2014 18:56:04 -0600, a écrit : I'm working on enabling a platform that I'm told will be using hardware flow control on the serial console. To prepare for this, I've put together this patch

Re: netcfg_1.114_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2014-02-13 Thread dann frazier
- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:02:28 -0700 Source: netcfg Binary: netcfg netcfg-static Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.114 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org Changed-By: dann frazier da

Re: archdetect guessing on arm* != armel

2014-01-03 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:52:38PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: Hi, In 2010[0,1] support was added to archdetect for guessing the subarch on armel platforms by looking at the running kernel versions suffix, this was useful because some armel kernel flavours supported multiple boards and it

Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-17 Thread dann frazier
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 03:14:04PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 11:32 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 01:41 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:28 -0800, dann frazier wrote: Security update has been uploaded. I'll post

Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-17 Thread dann frazier
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:12:18PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 13:33 -0800, dann frazier wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 03:14:04PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 11:32 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 01:41 +, Ben

Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-14 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:34:51PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 15:18 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 12.02.2013 02:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: One or other of us will then need to merge the squeeze-security branch into squeeze and upload -48 in time for the point

Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-13 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:34:51PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 15:18 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 12.02.2013 02:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: One or other of us will then need to merge the squeeze-security branch into squeeze and upload -48 in time for the point

Re: 6.0.7 planning

2013-02-11 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 03:41:03AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 16:25 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, We're somewhat overdue with the next Squeeze point release (6.0.7) and it'd be good to get it done before the wheezy release, so that we can pull in some upgrade

Bug#687160: patch review

2012-10-09 Thread dann frazier
hey Dmitrijs! I prepared a similar fix for this a couple of weeks ago that has been in testing at a customer site. Looks like we crossed paths, but our fixes are very similar. My patch has been working well for my test case, and I've verified yours does too. However, I've a question on your patch

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-24 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:54:00PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 09:01 +0900, dann frazier wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 05:39:21PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Thanks for the upload; the builds seem to be going well. There don't seem to be any new d-i changes

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-23 Thread dann frazier
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 05:39:21PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 11:30 -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Hi, ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side We still need a press officer for somewhen in the evening to send out the

Bug#671881: Don't abort on grub-probe failures

2012-05-07 Thread dann frazier
if this is a regression w/ grub-probe or not, but seems like a good change either way. Please review :) commit 12acca65e63727fd678494fd1685e77045112b5b Author: dann frazier da...@debian.org Date: Mon May 7 12:30:10 2012 -0700 Don't abort due to set -e on grub-probe errors diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian

Bug#610377: [PATCH] Allow mounting a logical volume as /boot

2012-03-28 Thread dann frazier
tags 610377 + patch thanks The current code allows you to boot from a logical volume, but only if /boot is on the / filesystem. This change permits having /boot on its own logical volume. Signed-off-by: dann frazier da...@debian.org --- lib/auto-lvm.sh |8 ++-- 1 files changed, 6

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

2012-03-05 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 12:29:58PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 29.02.2012 17:20, dann frazier wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:20:32PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Feel free to go ahead with the kernel upload, so we can get it chucked at the buildds. [...] Ack. Unfortunately

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

2012-02-29 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:20:32PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 27.02.2012 01:12, dann frazier wrote: Ok - sounds like no DSA, but maybe an upload via o-p-u. My vote is to do no kernel upload if the release gets scheduled for the first weekend in march - that's one week out, and I'll have

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

2012-02-27 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:12:11PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: Hi, On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:44:46PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Assuming the technical side still works, I do worry a little that a new DSA three weeks after the announced EOL for security support might confuse people.

Bug#630424: Maybe a Problem with tip22

2011-07-05 Thread dann frazier
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:35:28PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 02:39:05AM -0700, Edwin Kwan wrote: Hi Guido, Your package tested out OK. I only have an Indy. So I only tried tip22. Thanks for testing! I've uploaded a new version to unstable. I'm not

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2011-05-24 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:59:35AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Daily build aggregator (debian-boot@lists.debian.org): Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * FAILED BUILD: hppa May 19 06:00 didaily@c3700 build_cdrom

Bug#622187: [ia64] CDROM drive not detected

2011-04-11 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:20:35AM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2011 19:54:28 dann frazier wrote: [...] The ia64 cdrom flavor is missing the pata_cmd64x driver, which is needed to access the optical drive on various models of HP Itanium systems

Bug#622187: [ia64] CDROM drive not detected

2011-04-10 Thread dann frazier
: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash commit 0c87c0d120f32c863e8ee63cf37c61241f759a13 Author: dann frazier dannf@zx6000.dannf Date: Sun Apr 10 12:42:53 2011 -0600 Add pata-modules to cdrom config for ia64. diff --git a/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/ia64.cfg b/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/ia64.cfg index 084a0a7

Bug#599417: also affects ia64

2011-04-10 Thread dann frazier
Note that ia64 also suffers from this artificial restriction because the elilo.efi bootloader does not read files from the /boot directory. Rather, these files are read from a separate disk partition - the EFI partition - that is not mounted by the OS by default. The EFI partition is updated by a

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2011-03-07 Thread dann frazier
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 05:32:49PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting dann frazier (da...@dannf.org): And how about hppa builds? IIRC, hppa is now only supported in unstable, so that may explain why D-I daily builds are no longer run. Am I right? oops - powered down my

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2011-03-04 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:51:08AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Daily build aggregator (debian-boot@lists.debian.org): Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * FAILED BUILD: armel Mar 03 23:16 joey@box

Re: debian-installer daily builds on hppa buildd

2010-12-20 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:12:26PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 06:14:16PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: [ Sorry to those that receive this mail twice. I messed up the recipient list the first time. ] Hi Dann Excerpts from Andreas Barth's message of Mit Nov 10

Re: debian-installer daily builds on hppa buildd

2010-12-17 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 06:14:16PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: [ Sorry to those that receive this mail twice. I messed up the recipient list the first time. ] Hi Dann Excerpts from Andreas Barth's message of Mit Nov 10 22:51:05 +0100 2010: * dann frazier (da...@debian.org) [101110 22

scheduling 2.6.26-26

2010-11-19 Thread dann frazier
In order to get the kernel/d-i stack squared away for 5.0.7, I'd like to go ahead and upload 2.6.26-26 tomorrow. I had planned to push the changes in the lenny branch via security (w/ several other queued security fixes), but I'll need a little more time to get the security upload ready. Let me

Re: debian-installer daily builds on hppa buildd

2010-11-10 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:26:45PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi Since June there are no more daily builds for hppa. As I just found out the buildd building these images (lafayette) is dead. Are there any plans to setup the daily builds on another buildd? See

J5600 for developers/testers

2010-11-01 Thread dann frazier
hey, If you live in europe and are interested in a J5600 for parisc-linux development or testing, please contact me off-list with a blurb about what you would plan to do with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

stable d-i update for 5.0.5

2010-06-14 Thread dann frazier
hey, I'd like to update d-i for 5.0.5 as it includes a new nic driver (be2net), and fixes several boot issues. I plan to prepare an upload of linux-kernel-di-* and d-i once the latest kernel upload has been built everywhere. Are there any additional changes that should go in? -- dann frazier

Re: lkdi / etch

2010-03-02 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:50:18AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 25 February 2010, dann frazier wrote: fyi, I'm planning to upload a new set of linux-kernel-di packages for the upcoming etch point release, mainly to fix a regression on s390 (#562525). Ack. Let me/us know when

lkdi / etch

2010-02-24 Thread dann frazier
fyi, I'm planning to upload a new set of linux-kernel-di packages for the upcoming etch point release, mainly to fix a regression on s390 (#562525). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2010-01-19 Thread dann frazier
against 2.6.26-21. Once accepted, I can go ahead and refresh d-i. Please let me know if there's any other pending d-i changes for stable that I should wait for. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2010-01-11 Thread dann frazier
. mayr had the same failure. The buildd admin is looking at it, but we're not sure what the problem is. Do you have a guess as to what is causing it? -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2009-12-29 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:52:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: As all packages needed to build D-I were now available, I have uploaded for both stable and oldstable. An accept is not needed; apparently D-I gets an automatic accept due to by-hand processing of the image tarballs. For oldstable

Re: [(old)stable] D-I kernel updates

2009-12-17 Thread dann frazier
there. The bits in o-p-u are candidates for the next oldstable release, though I believe they add no additional hardware support. Feel free to resync them though. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [OSRM] D-I kernel updates

2009-12-17 Thread dann frazier
. After that I will upload debian-installer for both stable and oldstable. Cheers, FJP -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem

2009-08-30 Thread dann frazier
). -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#446416: Bug does no longer exist, imho

2009-08-09 Thread dann frazier
...@mykerinos:/etc/whereami# tasksel --test debconf-apt-progress -- aptitude -q -y install hello So, it seems that things are OK as of now... Thanks Christian. Looks like this is resolved, feel free to close. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [stable] Adding bnx2x driver in 5.0.3

2009-08-08 Thread dann frazier
that a security update would force us to do a complete rebuild. If we have a target date in mind I could work up a schedule (w/ buffer room) to make sure that all the pieces are in place ahead of time. Thanks Luk. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

[stable] Adding bnx2x driver in 5.0.3

2009-07-26 Thread dann frazier
the firmware-bnx2x package - Update kernel-wedge/stable to include bnx2x if available (are there space issues here?) - Update d-i in 5.0.3 to incorporate this driver -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Next point release and the Installer

2009-06-23 Thread dann frazier
Here's some draft text: The debian installer has been rebuilt to use the updated kernel packages in 5.0.2. This resolves issues with: - installation on s390 G5 systems - installation on IBM summit-based i386 systems The installer also includes an updated cdebconf package with resolves several

Re: Upcoming Lenny Point Release

2009-06-20 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: dann frazier wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:25:00PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Hi there, we intend to do a Lenny Point Release on Saturday, June 20th. We will clear stable NEW in the coming days and then declare the point

Re: Upcoming Lenny Point Release

2009-06-08 Thread dann frazier
at it and prepare the packages during this week. If d-i does respin, it would be cool if we could include an updated lkdi-s390, which would make the fix for #511334 available at install time. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-24 Thread dann frazier
in the last Millenium and the successors will be available for at least 10 years at the release of Squeeze. I actively use a VIA C3 (no-cmov) for a number of services, so would prefer not to lose that support. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

5.0.1 kernel upload, ABI change

2009-03-22 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:47:35PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: hey, The first lenny update is scheduled for early April, so I wanted to start coordinating the kernel update. Security The lenny-security branch is currently caught up on security issues, so I'd like to release a DSA

linux-2.6 upload planned

2009-01-09 Thread dann frazier
triage -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: linux-2.6 upload planned

2009-01-09 Thread dann frazier
) - several other fixes of = important severity from Moritz's recent bug triage Are XVR drivers (#508108) going to be included? If not, please, reconsider as they've been successfully tried and tested in several different kernel builds and on different HW. Thanks. Yep! -- dann frazier

Re: linux-2.6 upload planned

2009-01-09 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:06:20AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting dann frazier (da...@debian.org): hey, I wanted to give -release -boot a heads up that the kernel team is looking to do a linux-2.6 upload to sid tomorrow. As discussed on the d-i channel, delays in the d-i

Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-05 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 01:54:20PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, The Debian-CD Team has prepared a testing set of images[1] of RC1 for us to give it a try. If all goes well we should release Debian Installer RC1 in Monday. 1.

Bug#496598: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#496598: fix for #494466 causes netinst to fail)

2008-08-26 Thread dann frazier
. Cheers, FJP Indeed it did, thanks Frans! -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#496598: fix for #494466 causes netinst to fail

2008-08-25 Thread dann frazier
/driver-policy doesn't exist Aug 25 23:14:35 main-menu[1006]: (process:506): + return 10 Aug 25 23:14:35 main-menu[1006]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#492899: partman-crypto: cancel button unusable on Erasing data screen

2008-07-30 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:58:38AM +0200, J?r?my Bobbio wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:03:34PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: I wonder if there's a way to split the cancel checking and the progress checking? [???] It might be, but I am not inclined to do this kind of changes that tend

Bug#492899: screenshot

2008-07-29 Thread dann frazier
http://free.linux.hp.com/~dannf/bugs/492899/no-can-cancel.png -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#492899: partman-crypto: cancel button unusable on Erasing data screen

2008-07-29 Thread dann frazier
Package: partman-crypto Version: 33 Severity: normal When doing an LVM+crypto install, I am presented with a Erasing data screen with a Cancel button. It doesn't seem to be possible to use the cancel button - it is not highlighted, and pressing tab doesn't cause it to be. -- System Information:

Bug#492899: partman-crypto: cancel button unusable on Erasing data screen

2008-07-29 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:42:59AM +0200, J?r?my Bobbio wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:47:59AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: When doing an LVM+crypto install, I am presented with a Erasing data screen with a Cancel button. It doesn't seem to be possible to use the cancel button

Re: Please review announcement of upcoming release of Debian 4.0r4 etch-and-a-half

2008-07-26 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:24:20PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! Attached you'll find the current draft for the announcement of etch-and-a-half. Please review it; current schedule for it to be send out is tomorrow. I'll make the most up to date version available at

Bug#490542: k7 transitition

2008-07-16 Thread dann frazier
this means a 686 kernel would not be safe on a family 6 cpu. [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html#i386-and-x86_002d64-Options [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5119933postcount=32 -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

2.6.24 upload for d-i

2008-05-07 Thread dann frazier
know if any other changes are necessary. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/05/msg00062.html -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.24 upload for d-i

2008-05-07 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:14:14PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:56:06PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: Beta 2 of d-i will be using 2.6.24[1], the current version of which is missing a couple of stable updates (including a handful of security issues). Not necessary

Re: 2.6.24 upload for d-i

2008-05-07 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 09:06:01AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:14:14PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:56:06PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: Beta 2 of d-i will be using 2.6.24[1], the current version of which is missing a couple of stable

Bug#470707: rx2200?

2008-03-19 Thread dann frazier
hey Peter! I've been asking around for access to an rx2200 to debug this, but I'm told that no such model exists :) Can you doublecheck and/or provide a full boot log? It should print the model number out when ACPI is initialized. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: D-I Etch+1/2 CD images (was: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection)

2008-02-07 Thread dann frazier
for etchnhalf will be netinst cds. These cds will be limited to i386, amd64, and other archs for which a need is demonstrated. It sounds good to me - an additional benefit is that it reduces the number of images we need to test. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-05 Thread dann frazier
by 2.6.22, and then the follow-on beta would add support for the remaining hardware (that supported by 2.6.24 but not 2.6.22). Unless someone sees a problem with this, it seems fine to me. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-05 Thread dann frazier
.) Because of mirror space issues _and_ because of required preparations on the debian-cd side this _really_ needs to be discussed with Sledge urgently. I'll reply to this on debian-cd only -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-01-31 Thread dann frazier
for tomorrow or so. Awesome. Is there anything special we need to add to deal with etch 1/2 kernel metapackages? We were talking about using a name like linux-image-2.6-686-etchnhalf. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2007-12-31 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:15:01PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah. Options here would be: 1) big hammer - write a modprobe wrapper that cleans unused/unloadable modules after every load 2) smaller hammer - write a modprobe wrapper

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

2007-12-31 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:43:15AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: imo, the best and more widly solution would be the 2. That shouldn't be too hard and would allow us to reduce the memory footprint not only on your user case but in general usage too

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

2007-12-27 Thread dann frazier
(Good discussion so far, sorry for the late response..) On Sunday 09 December 2007, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 07 December 2007, dann frazier wrote: Understood. Note that this implementation doesn't *require* the module, it just takes advantage of it if its available. And, if other non

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

2007-12-27 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:09:38PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1] Of course, acpiphp has module dependencies, and if these aren't cleaned up after a failed load, memory will still be lost to those modules It means that we'd need to find

Re: etch+1/2 D-I options (was: Meeting for etch and a half)

2007-12-13 Thread dann frazier
are not affected by changes in the Lenny archive. Thanks a lot for the analysis. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-12-06 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:34:25AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007, dann frazier wrote: This patch to hw-detect adds slot information, if available, to the network device name. Its not uncommon for HP (or our customers) to have systems with many network devices

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

2007-12-05 Thread dann frazier
in sysfs + + -- dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:02:24 -0700 + hw-detect (1.58) unstable; urgency=low * Install acpi-support-base, needed now to get power button shutdowns to Index: hw-detect/sysfs-update-devnames.sh

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

2007-12-05 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:03:41PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently this patch only attempts to load the acpiphp driver - it should probably try and load others as well (e.g. pciehp shchp, and the future possible pci_slot). Why acpihp

Bug#453749: Fix serial console detection on ia64

2007-12-03 Thread dann frazier
Thanks for your responses. As I was writing this report, I began to wonder why exactly the proc trick doesn't work on some ia64 configs - I'm investigating this now. If I can find a workable solution there, we may be able to forego these changes - if not, I'll regenerate new patches based on your

Bug#453749: simpler solution

2007-12-03 Thread dann frazier
@@ +rootskel (1.58) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Create more serial device files in the ramdisk before calling +busybox init, in case they are needed for a serial console. +Closes: #453749. + + -- dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:25:03 -0700 + rootskel (1.57) unstable; urgency

Bug#453749: patches

2007-11-30 Thread dann frazier
: Use serial-console-info tool if /proc console +detection is being stubborn. + + -- dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:32:24 -0700 + finish-install (2.13) unstable; urgency=low * 90console: avoid duplication of values on /etc/securetty. Index: finish-install/finish

Bug#453749: Fix serial console detection on ia64

2007-11-30 Thread dann frazier
/ an MP for one [3] https://launchpad.net/bugs/48752 -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[stable] another linux-2.6 before 4.0r2

2007-11-27 Thread dann frazier
. No ABI change is planned, so a d-i respin shouldn't be necessary - but I'll leave it up to the d-i team to make that call. I should also point out that sarge has a number of issues piling up as well, but it would save a lot of effort to do it after 3.1r6 *hint* :) -- dann frazier

Re: Meeting for etch and a half

2007-11-06 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:51:59PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:36:20PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:14:06PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: Would someone please post irc logs for those of us who can't make that date? Yes, we

Bug#389430: Updated patch; make mirror/udeb/suite support multiple suites

2007-11-02 Thread dann frazier
+the last one, not necessarily the one with the greatest version. + + -- dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:41:47 -0600 + net-retriever (1.18) unstable; urgency=low * Use /etc/udebs-source as the default release from which to fetch udebs. Index: net-retriever

Bug#389430: Updated patch; make mirror/udeb/suite support multiple suites

2007-11-02 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 02:04:28AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 03 November 2007, dann frazier wrote: Here's an updated patch that implements Joey's suggestion of extending mirror/udeb/suite to support multiple suites. Again I've omitted the indention of the inner loop to make

Re: Meeting for etch and a half

2007-10-31 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:36:20PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:14:06PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: Would someone please post irc logs for those of us who can't make that date? Yes, we will. Here ya go: http://meetbot.debian.net/meetbot/debian-release

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