Re: release status update

2004-07-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:11:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I've submitted what I hope will be the final debian-installer build to the autobuilders, but it seems that recent dependency breakage in newt will cause some of the builds to fail. I hope I can ask the autobuilders to retry, but this

discover on powerbook [was: Re: release status update]

2004-04-25 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il dom, 2004-04-25 alle 00:13, Petter Reinholdtsen ha scritto: [Giuseppe Sacco] A second problem I understand only now is that the powerpc discover we have in testing now is broken: every time I switch on my laptop (powerbook g4, 15, 867Mhz) it hangs when discover run and probe for

Re: release status update

2004-04-24 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: - qlogicisp driver doesn't work right with many (most?) SCSI cards; bug #238593 et al. - both the de4x5 and the tulip drivers fail to work with many DECChip-based ethernet cards in the 2.4.2x series alpha kernels; bug #228654. Both of these sound like reasonable

Re: release status update

2004-04-24 Thread elijah wright
- both the de4x5 and the tulip drivers fail to work with many DECChip-based ethernet cards in the 2.4.2x series alpha kernels; bug #228654. Both of these sound like reasonable candidates for errata if they're not fixed, and not release blockers. Do you want them in the errata? does

Re: release status update

2004-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 12:54:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: - qlogicisp driver doesn't work right with many (most?) SCSI cards; bug #238593 et al. - both the de4x5 and the tulip drivers fail to work with many DECChip-based ethernet cards in the 2.4.2x series alpha

Re: release status update

2004-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 12:16:44PM -0500, elijah wright wrote: - both the de4x5 and the tulip drivers fail to work with many DECChip-based ethernet cards in the 2.4.2x series alpha kernels; bug #228654. Both of these sound like reasonable candidates for errata if they're not

Re: release status update

2004-04-24 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il gio, 2004-04-22 alle 18:55, Joey Hess ha scritto: [...] - powerpc: need list of working subarches (oldworld?) I would like to have powerpc release only after having kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-* version 2.4.25-8 in testing because of #245012. A second problem I understand only now is

Re: release status update

2004-04-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Giuseppe Sacco] A second problem I understand only now is that the powerpc discover we have in testing now is broken: every time I switch on my laptop (powerbook g4, 15, 867Mhz) it hangs when discover run and probe for parallel port devices. This means that I have to press the keyboard

Re: release status update

2004-04-24 Thread Joey Hess
Giuseppe Sacco wrote: I would like to have powerpc release only after having kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-* version 2.4.25-8 in testing because of #245012. If I'm expanding yuor wildcard correctly, they seem to go in tonight/tomorrow. Anyway, you have several days to get them in, but this does

Re: release status update

2004-04-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 22:15]: was loaded since it has a different sub-architecture (however, iirc, delo-installer is also loaded on Cobalt, so I assume sub-arch handling is broken). Argh, not again. libdebian-installer 0.22 went into the archive today with some fixes

Re: release status update

2004-04-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* tbm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-23 01:43]: - arm: ? arm/netwinder most definitely works. It worked recently and there is It works; the only problem I had was that the wrong kernel was installed. For some reason, debian-installer/kernel/subarchitecture was not set. Unfortunately,

Re: release status update

2004-04-23 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * tbm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-23 01:43]: - arm: ? arm/netwinder most definitely works. It worked recently and there is It works; the only problem I had was that the wrong kernel was installed. For some reason,

Re: release status update

2004-04-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-23 16:32]: Does archdetect show the correct output for netwinder? Yes. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: release status update

2004-04-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 22:15]: Argh, not again. libdebian-installer 0.22 went into the archive today with some fixes for subarch handling, in particular #243692. Was that version on your image? I tried it with 0.22 now and still see the same... it's quite strange. Just for

Re: release status update

2004-04-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:55:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I'm trying to track status of various architectures at the top of TODO, here is what I have so far. - ia64: There is a devpts/sysvinit/glibc file conflict of some sort that breaks debootstrap. Need a bug #.

Re: release status update

2004-04-22 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:55:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: - m68k: need list of working subarches mac and amiga are fully supported. I hope to have support for the rest in the next couple of weeks or so, but if they aren't ready for release, so be it. -- Stephen R. Marenka If

Re: release status update

2004-04-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 12:55]: - mipsel: looks good I just did a successful installation on a DECstation 5000/133 via the serial console. Everything worked fine, apart from one thing: both colo-installer and delo-installer got loaded, and colo-installer was executed

Re: release status update

2004-04-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 12:55]: I'm trying to track status of various architectures at the top of TODO, here is what I have so far. - arm: ? arm/netwinder most definitely works. It worked recently and there is afaict nothing that broke it in the meantime. arm/bast

Re: release status update

2004-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: I just did a successful installation on a DECstation 5000/133 via the serial console. Everything worked fine, apart from one thing: both colo-installer and delo-installer got loaded, and colo-installer was executed instead of delo-installer. I have no idea why

Re: release status update

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:29:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: 3. at least one successful installation report per boot method I have not had time to track installation reports. Could someone take a pass through the list of recent reports and post a summary to the list please? My vague

Re: release status update

2004-03-09 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:29:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: [...] The string freeze has not quite started, since a few strings were changed today. Hopefully we've seen the last of that I also just rewrote most of the strings for the cdebconf text frontend. They should certainly be reviewed by a

Re: release status update

2004-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: chrp, chrp-rs6k and prep will be working this time around, i think everything is there, but i need to fiddle the build system for it still to build the initrd images, but i do this already by hand, and everything is in place for it. This would use the powerpc netboot

Re: release status update (grub notes)

2004-03-09 Thread Walter Tautz
- lowmem package must enter archive - Check archive for udebs that need to be built on various arches; make sure everything is up-to-date. Also, make sure that eg, appropriate kernel debs have entered the archive on each architecture. one thing I noticed with a recent daily build