Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is someone still working on this? Would a gparted-like partitioner be useful for post-etch? (That's basically a lot of GTK programming, i could work on it too) Another solution is to use gparted and the C++ libraries which go with

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 22:55, Eddy Petrișor wrote: Is either that or having a great installer which sucks just because we have a _really_ crappy partitioner. And I don't think anybody can argue, while being serious, that we didn't have lots of reports complaining about the partitioner

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:55:03PM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote: AFAIR, the reason why C++ is not supported in D-I is because the maintainer of libc++ didn't answer to the request to create udebs... and not having libc++ in D-I just because the maintainer didn't created udebs is another proof

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:09:35AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: For your information: it was exactly mails like this that got Sven's commit rights revoked. Please don't follow his example. Ah, ok, nice to get this finally in written. So finally, i was right when i claimed that my commit rights

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 18 October 2006 22:55, Eddy Petrișor wrote: Is either that or having a great installer which sucks just because we have a _really_ crappy partitioner. And I don't think anybody can argue, while being serious, that we didn't have lots of reports complaining about

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 19 October 2006 15:44, Eddy Petrișor wrote: True, this was not constructive... but honestly I didn't saw my remark as crapping on things; I call this crapping on things: Is either that or having a great installer which sucks just because we have a _really_ crappy partitioner.

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 19 October 2006 15:44, Eddy Petrișor wrote: True, this was not constructive... but honestly I didn't saw my remark as crapping on things; I call this crapping on things: Is either that or having a great installer which sucks just because we have a _really_ crappy

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:08:52PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Sure, creation was requested, but the request to create the udebs was done by Sven without the agreement from the rest of the d-i team and even while he knew that people were in general opposed to the idea. Just to make things

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 19 October 2006 16:20, Eddy Petrișor wrote: OK, I see your point, still I am entitled to an opinion which is based on the experiences I tried with newbies in Debian. Yes, you are, but only if you express it in a positive, or at least constructive, way. Did you let them read the

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-19 Thread Eddy Petrișor
OK, I see your point, still I am entitled to an opinion which is based on the experiences I tried with newbies in Debian. Yes, you are, but only if you express it in a positive, or at least constructive, way. k Did you let them read the installation guide? No, for two reasons, one,

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Julien Goodwin wrote: D-I pre-RC1 test (2006-10-17) These are my notes/ideas after having done a test installation using the graphical d-i. (Under a VMware install using my ISP mirror) I'm not subscribed to the list so please cc me on anything you'd like my comment on. I'm happy to test any

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 11:06, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: -- D-I needs a password widget (er, seems to have one, the crypto lvm just doesn't use it) DEBCONF protocol allows PASSWORD questions, and the GTK frontend implements them. Maybe the crypto lvm is asking passwords using STRING

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 11:06, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: -- For single checkbox option pages (eg Really use block device encryption) should have a yes/no or more gnome-style (use encryption/cancel) I agree, and this is something was already ewquested some times ago too, i'll open a

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Julien Goodwin
On 18/10/2006 7:06 PM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Julien Goodwin wrote: D-I pre-RC1 test (2006-10-17) These are my notes/ideas after having done a test installation using the graphical d-i. (Under a VMware install using my ISP mirror) I'm not subscribed to the list so please cc me on

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
David Härdeman wrote: On Wed, October 18, 2006 11:06, Attilio Fiandrotti said: Julien Goodwin wrote: -- D-I needs a password widget (er, seems to have one, the crypto lvm just doesn't use it) DEBCONF protocol allows PASSWORD questions, and the GTK frontend implements them. Maybe the crypto

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 11:38, Julien Goodwin wrote: -- D-I needs a password widget (er, seems to have one, the crypto lvm just doesn't use it) DEBCONF protocol allows PASSWORD questions, and the GTK frontend implements them. Maybe the crypto lvm is asking passwords using STRING

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 11:06 Wed 18 Oct , Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Sub-optimality of standard partitioner is something i've heard many people complaining about. I know xavier oswald once started porting gparted from c++ to plain c: i checked out the svn repo some times ago and found a lot of code was

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, October 18, 2006 11:06, Attilio Fiandrotti said: Julien Goodwin wrote: -- D-I needs a password widget (er, seems to have one, the crypto lvm just doesn't use it) DEBCONF protocol allows PASSWORD questions, and the GTK frontend implements them. Maybe the crypto lvm is asking

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:06:08AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: -- *Useless* with the current partitioner Sub-optimality of standard partitioner is something i've heard many people complaining about. I know xavier oswald once started porting gparted from c++ to plain c: i checked out

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:06:08AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: -- *Useless* with the current partitioner Sub-optimality of standard partitioner is something i've heard many people complaining about. I know xavier oswald once started porting

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:06:08AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: -- *Useless* with the current partitioner Sub-optimality of standard partitioner is something i've heard many people complaining about. I know xavier oswald

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:38:50 +1000 Julien Goodwin wrote: -- A double-click on an entry in the list view doesn't execute the option Uhm, this looks like the solved bug #382357 and merged ones: did you use a recent image for testing? Nightly as downloaded on 2006-10-17 from:

Re: Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:49:00PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:06:08AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: -- *Useless* with the current partitioner Sub-optimality of standard partitioner is something i've heard many

Graphical D-I test install

2006-10-17 Thread Julien Goodwin
D-I pre-RC1 test (2006-10-17) These are my notes/ideas after having done a test installation using the graphical d-i. (Under a VMware install using my ISP mirror) I'm not subscribed to the list so please cc me on anything you'd like my comment on. I'm happy to test any betas etc to see how