Re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 2 [rfc patch]

2013-04-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 02:51:07PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcint...@csiro.au (08/04/2013): May I remind people about #696877 (when installing from USB stick, grub writes the MBR to the wrong device - the USB stick). I think this problem has been around in

Re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 2 [rfc patch]

2013-04-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:16:54AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: Hokay. Below is a very rough patch. v2 has a couple of the rough edges knocked off... diff --git a/debian/grub-installer.templates b/debian/grub-installer.templates index 888a656..ad840ce 100644 ---

re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 2

2013-04-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
(please cc: me, not subscribed) May I remind people about #696877 (when installing from USB stick, grub writes the MBR to the wrong device - the USB stick). I think this problem has been around in some form or other in squeeze (eg #666974) and possibly before and I really think it needs fixing.

Re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 2

2013-04-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcint...@csiro.au (08/04/2013): May I remind people about #696877 (when installing from USB stick, grub writes the MBR to the wrong device - the USB stick). I think this problem has been around in some form or other in squeeze (eg #666974) and possibly before and I

Re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 2

2013-04-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 21:57:57 +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: I have looked into this myself but the grub-installer code is too complex for me to debug, it needs someone more familiar with all the corner cases in the code. It rather needs someone willing to familiarize themselves with the

Re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 2

2013-04-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 02:51:07PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcint...@csiro.au (08/04/2013): May I remind people about #696877 (when installing from USB stick, grub writes the MBR to the wrong device - the USB stick). I think this problem has been around in

Re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 2

2013-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-07 13:23, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hello folks, here's another set of queries. Please hurry those into testing: - apt-setup/1:0.79 l10n + apt-setup/multiarch unbreakage. Even if AFAICT it's undocumented, keeping nonworking cruft looks like a bad idea since we