Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Just looked at the screen shots. In http://lml.bas.bg/~anton/partman/screenshots/2.png there's an English localization error: Choose is an irregular verb, so the heading should say Please choose what to do with the chosen partition (not 'choosed', which isn't a word). While you're at it, Copy

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 6.XII.2003 at 15:39 Joey Hess wrote: Anton Zinoviev wrote: The idea is that this script has to do the translation alone. In can do it using debconf, gettext or by some other means. One script can output many menu items and this makes imposible to assign to each of them some debconf

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-07 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-06 15:58]: | On 5.XII.2003 at 22:55 Thorsten Sauter wrote: | | ... but what's your plan for archs/subarchs which are currently not | supported by libparted? | | They have to use some more traditional. Which architectures are not | supported by

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-07 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: No, I didn't know. Let we take some decision before it is too late. We have two options: 1. `choices' uses debconf to translate some string and prints it 2. `choices' registers new questions, db_subst in them the variable parts and prints the names of the

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-06 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 5.XII.2003 at 12:09 Joey Hess wrote: One thing it does not seem to consider is that some would like to keep a record of how they partitioned one machine and use it to automate partitioning on others. This seams to be a nice feature to ask from the automatic partitioner. On the first

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-06 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 5.XII.2003 at 22:55 Thorsten Sauter wrote: ... but what's your plan for archs/subarchs which are currently not supported by libparted? They have to use some more traditional. Which architectures are not supported by libparted? Btw, are there any screenshots available? (I'm to lazy to

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-06 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: The idea is that this script has to do the translation alone. In can do it using debconf, gettext or by some other means. One script can output many menu items and this makes imposible to assign to each of them some debconf template. Consider the choices script that

Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! At http://lml.bas.bg/~anton/partman you can find the first components and the documentation of a new partitioner for the Debian installer. Currently the following things should be fixed: 1. Anna doesn't want to unpack the udebs automatically. I have no idea what caused this. In order to

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: At http://lml.bas.bg/~anton/partman you can find the first components and the documentation of a new partitioner for the Debian installer. Nice paper, good job. Making the operation of the partitioner extensible by other udebs is spot on! (btw, s/choosed/chosen/) One

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-05 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-05 14:23]: | At http://lml.bas.bg/~anton/partman you can find the first components | and the documentation of a new partitioner for the Debian installer. wow. nice work. ... but what's your plan for archs/subarchs which are currently not supported by