Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:01:34PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, because it did not work, since there was no kernel support, and > > d-i handles home made kernels very badly, at least it did last time i > > tried. > > > beta2

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, because it did not work, since there was no kernel support, and > d-i handles home made kernels very badly, at least it did last time i > tried. > beta2 if or when it is released for powerpc should work just fine on > prep, on ch

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:51:55PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:30:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > What hardware is it, > > The box says "Power Macintosh 8500/120". > > > and were do you live ? > > Strabourg, France. Not so far :-) Mmm, i guess we have even meet

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-06 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:30:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > What hardware is it, The box says "Power Macintosh 8500/120". > and were do you live ? Strabourg, France. Not so far :-) > Also, maybe some situation where we (me or one of the other powerpc d-i > guys) build it for you, and you tes

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:30:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > old world pmac and miboot booting is definitively not supported yet. > > > Someone with knowledge of

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > old world pmac and miboot booting is definitively not supported yet. > > Someone with knowledge of that and access to hardware should work on it. > > I've got no knowl

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-06 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > old world pmac and miboot booting is definitively not supported yet. > Someone with knowledge of that and access to hardware should work on it. I've got no knowledge (yet) but I do have the hardware, an oldworld pmac, somewhere, and I

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:29:27AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I will test the powerpc images on my powerbook until the end of this > > week. IMHO Sven has to decide about the powerpc freeze date, because > > most of the work on powerpc has to be done on non-pmac subarches

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I will test the powerpc images on my powerbook until the end of this > week. IMHO Sven has to decide about the powerpc freeze date, because > most of the work on powerpc has to be done on non-pmac subarches. He > will probably the one doing this work. > I will be able to w

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 01.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:56: > Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > | So my new plan is, as soon as i386 is releasable, to work to migrate the > > | current set of debian-installer udebs and images to testing. AJ has > > | agreed to do this without the usual testing delay stuff, all in

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-04 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... > 2004-01-08 2004-01-08 Joey gives the word to start the freeze > 2004-01-08 2004-01-09 unstable keeps updating w/ new uploads > 2004-01-08 2004-01-10 testing doesn't > ... > 2004-01-08 2004-01

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:59:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Almost but not quite what I intend. I want to do this one architecture > at a time, starting with i386. So testing/main/debian-installer will > look like this: > binary-alpha -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-alpha > bi

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > At the moment, testing's d-i is a symlink to unstable's. What will happen > when Joey gives the word is that symlink will be replaced by a proper > directory which will mirror the current contents of unstable's d-i, > but will not be auotmatically updated in any way - IOW, it

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:35:16PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > So my new plan is, as soon as i386 is releasable, to work to migrate the > current set of debian-installer udebs and images to testing. AJ has > agreed to do this without the usual testing delay stuff, all in one > lump. Please make sur

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
Thorsten Sauter wrote: > | > 2. I'm unable to debootstrap any distribution. isn't this an known bug > | >busybox? > | > | No, if it's the bug I'm thinking of, it is fixed in debootstrap-udeb in > | incoming. Hard to tell with no details. > > it always say: invalid release file (or something l

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-01 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi Joey, * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-01 20:56]: [...] | | > 2. I'm unable to debootstrap any distribution. isn't this an known bug | >busybox? | | No, if it's the bug I'm thinking of, it is fixed in debootstrap-udeb in | incoming. Hard to tell with no details. it always say: i

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
Thorsten Sauter wrote: > maybe you can delay this process a little bit. alioth is currently down, Alioth may be up today or tomorrow, it has hardware problems. I am releasing some last minute stuff without it and will commit later. > and I have reinstalled my hppa machine this morging. > I think

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-01 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hello Joeyh, * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-01 05:35]: | Happy New Year, everyone! | | I have not managed to download the ISO yet (phone troubles), but I am | fairly sure that the New Years Eve ISO images will fix nearly all the | outstanding showstoppers for i386. There are one or two

beta 2 plans

2004-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
Happy New Year, everyone! I have not managed to download the ISO yet (phone troubles), but I am fairly sure that the New Years Eve ISO images will fix nearly all the outstanding showstoppers for i386. There are one or two more important but not essential things pending[1], and they will make it in