Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-18 Thread Eric Pozharski
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:19:03AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: *SKIP* OTOH, aren't most of these choosing lilo over grub only doing so by habit ? OTOH, aren't most of theses choosing emacs over vim only doing so by habit? -- Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination -- To

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 18 juin 2008 à 09:52 +0300, Eric Pozharski a écrit : On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:19:03AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: OTOH, aren't most of these choosing lilo over grub only doing so by habit ? OTOH, aren't most of theses choosing emacs over vim only doing so by habit? The day

Bug#486815: tasksel: use brasero for cd burning

2008-06-18 Thread maximilian attems
Package: tasksel Version: 2.74.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch both latest releases of fedora and ubuntu ship with brasero. it is much user friendlier then gnome-baker. it has active dev. althought not yet as feature complete as k3b it's main feature is the neat integration into the gnome

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:28:36PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 18 juin 2008 à 09:52 +0300, Eric Pozharski a écrit : On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:19:03AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: OTOH, aren't most of these choosing lilo over grub only doing so by habit ? OTOH, aren't

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:49:40PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:28:36PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 18 juin 2008 à 09:52 +0300, Eric Pozharski a écrit : On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:19:03AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: OTOH, aren't most of these choosing

Bug#486815: tasksel: use brasero for cd burning

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: both latest releases of fedora and ubuntu ship with brasero. it is much user friendlier then gnome-baker. it has active dev. althought not yet as feature complete as k3b it's main feature is the neat integration into the gnome desktop. I'm merging this bug #484121

Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Because we're running at critical priority, the country mirror list is never actually displayed and thus mirror/http/mirror never gets a value; it does have a default value: ftp.debian.org Does the code not still ask the question despite it not being displayed? Running at

Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-18 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Joey, I was hoping you'd take a look at this. Thanks! On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Because we're running at critical priority, the country mirror list is never actually displayed and thus mirror/http/mirror never gets a value; it does have a default

Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I guess that using the default (which it in fact does) is not the same as using the first value that is highlighted in the list if the default is not included in the list. When the question is shown the user explicitly selects the non-default value,

Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-18 Thread Frans Pop
(Maybe I should wait a bit before sending...) On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I suspect that in other cases where we use choices generated at runtime we either (1) don't have a default value in the template or (2) do set a valid default from the generated choices before db_input.

cloning 486558 ..., reassign -1 to cdebconf

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 clone 486558 -1 retitle -1 different behavior from debconf when noninteractively asking a select question with a default not in the select list reassign -1 cdebconf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Processed: cloning 486558 ..., reassign -1 to cdebconf

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 clone 486558 -1 Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install Bug 486558 cloned as bug 486892. retitle -1 different behavior from

Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Well, what I see in questions.dat is that no value is assigned when running at critical prio. I guess that using the default (which it in fact does) is not the same as using the first value that is highlighted in the list if the default is not included in the list. When

Re: Bug#486549: The single partition present on a CMS minidisk is not supported (s390/s390x only)

2008-06-18 Thread Stephen Powell
To be honest: that is not very likely. Especially not in this case. Suppose we push them all upstream and only one upstream actually picks it up and we implement that. That would still leave us nowhere... I see what you mean. It's double or nothing. Without mke2fs support for respecting

Bug#486558: setting package to choose-mirror choose-mirror-bin, tagging 486558

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 # via tagpending # # choose-mirror (2.25) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * ftp.debian.org has been disabled in Mirrors.masterlist. So remove it as #the default. Do not set a default at all, we'll rely on the first mirror #

Processed: setting package to choose-mirror choose-mirror-bin, tagging 486558

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 # via tagpending # # choose-mirror (2.25) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * ftp.debian.org has been disabled in Mirrors.masterlist. So remove it as #the default. Do not set a

Re: Bug#486549: The single partition present on a CMS minidisk is not supported (s390/s390x only)

2008-06-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Stephen Powell wrote: I currently have a Debian GNU/Linux system running in a virtual machine under z/VM that uses CMS minidisks. But I had to install to cdl disks and then use the installer as a rescue floppy to copy the data to CMS minidisks. Another problem is

Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: So I'm very much leaning toward dropping the default, and letting Agreed. cdebconf default to the first mirror in the select list. And possibly improving the sorting of the select list if necessary. I've never really looked at sort order. I know

Processed: Re: Bug#480755: IRC followup

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 480755 tasksel Bug#480755: compiz should bring libgl1-mesa-dri|nvidia|fglrx|... whatever needed to get 3D Bug reassigned from package `compiz' to `tasksel'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian

Bug#486907: pass default_desktop parameter to win32-loader

2008-06-18 Thread Robert Millan
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please make desktop selection in win32-loader explicit by passing it the default_desktop parameter. Attached patch doesn't change current behaviour, but has two advantages: - Makes it obvious what change would be required for

Processing of console-setup_1.25_i386.changes

2008-06-18 Thread Archive Administrator
console-setup_1.25_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: console-setup_1.25.dsc console-setup_1.25.tar.gz console-setup_1.25_all.deb console-setup-mini_1.25_all.deb bdf2psf_1.25_all.deb console-setup-udeb_1.25_all.udeb

Re: Bug#480755: IRC followup

2008-06-18 Thread Robert Millan
reassign 480755 tasksel thanks Tasksel maintainers: I think libgl1-mesa-dri is very needed in the desktop task; it is a common problem that X users don't get DRI support by default, and run into issues that are not trivial to track down. See the bug log for more details. On Wed, May 14, 2008

console-setup_1.25_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: bdf2psf_1.25_all.deb to pool/main/c/console-setup/bdf2psf_1.25_all.deb console-setup-amiga-ekmap_1.25_all.udeb to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-amiga-ekmap_1.25_all.udeb console-setup-ataritt-ekmap_1.25_all.udeb to

Bug#486090: marked as done (console-setup: [INTL:pt] Updated Portuguese translation for debconf messages)

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:32:06 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#486090: fixed in console-setup 1.25 has caused the Debian Bug report #486090, regarding console-setup: [INTL:pt] Updated Portuguese translation for debconf messages to be marked as done.

Processed: setting package to tasksel tasksel-data, tagging 485934, tagging 485655

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 # via tagpending # # tasksel (2.75) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * Portuguese updated. Closes: #485934 # * kde-desktop: include kdesuso. Closes: #485655 package tasksel

Bug#485457: marked as done (console-setup: [INTL:de] updated German debconf translation)

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:32:06 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#485457: fixed in console-setup 1.25 has caused the Debian Bug report #485457, regarding console-setup: [INTL:de] updated German debconf translation to be marked as done. This means that you

Bug#485655: setting package to tasksel tasksel-data, tagging 485934, tagging 485655

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 # via tagpending # # tasksel (2.75) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * Portuguese updated. Closes: #485934 # * kde-desktop: include kdesuso. Closes: #485655 package tasksel tasksel-data tags 485934 + pending tags 485655 + pending

Bug#485779: marked as done (console-setup: [INTL:vi] Vietnamese debconf templates translation)

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:32:06 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#485779: fixed in console-setup 1.25 has caused the Debian Bug report #485779, regarding console-setup: [INTL:vi] Vietnamese debconf templates translation to be marked as done. This means

Bug#339326: installation-reports: standard installation procedure fails

2008-06-18 Thread Werner Rossnagel
Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #339326 -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: 2.6.24-1-486 Date: 2008-06-16 Machine: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo pa 2548 (Laptop) Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred # /etc/fstab: static file system

Bug#479208: debian-installer: text frontend isn't localized

2008-06-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le Sat 03 May 2008 21:55:39 +0100, a écrit : On Saturday 03 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: When booting the installer (today's daily build of x86 mini.iso) with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text , the language selection is reduced to C and English. Is there a reason for

Bug#486926: Installed system does not have correct permissions on directories

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: live-installer Severity: normal Version: 5 After installation via live-installer, permisions on directories are all 0755. This is especially noticable on /tmp, /var/mail, /etc/ssl/private, etc. Regards, -- Chris Lamb, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-06-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 12:38:56 +0200, a écrit : On Sunday 04 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: About the dark theme, it would probably be useful to make the text lightwhite (CGA color 0x15), not only white/grey (CGA color 0x7)? Please submit a patch. Would it be ok to make

Processed: severity of 481464 is normal, merging 481464 480755

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 severity 481464 normal Bug#481464: tasksel: please add libgl1-mesa-dri to the desktop task Severity set to `normal' from `wishlist' merge 481464 480755 Bug#480755: compiz should

Bug#486182: Installed system does not have functioning networking

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
There are other base-install.d hooks that configure things that could also be important, and could potentially be overwritten. I found: console-setup-udeb: /etc/default/console-setup rootskel: /etc/udev/rules.d/ files (netwinder only) There could be others now or later. Suggest the attached

Processed: setting package to live-installer, tagging 486184

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 # via tagpending # # live-installer (6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * Bail-out much earlier if a filesystem image cannot be found (Chris Lamb) #Closes: #486184 # package

Bug#486184: setting package to live-installer, tagging 486184

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 # via tagpending # # live-installer (6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * Bail-out much earlier if a filesystem image cannot be found (Chris Lamb) #Closes: #486184 # package live-installer tags 486184 + pending -- To

Bug#486926: Installed system does not have correct permissions on directories

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Lamb wrote: Package: live-installer Severity: normal Version: 5 After installation via live-installer, permisions on directories are all 0755. This is especially noticable on /tmp, /var/mail, /etc/ssl/private, etc. If that's the case, the bug should probably be RC; a system with such

Processed: severity of 486926 is serious

2008-06-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 severity 486926 serious Bug#486926: Installed system does not have correct permissions on directories Severity set to `serious' from `normal' End of message, stopping processing

Bug#486926: Installed system does not have correct permissions on directories

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Lamb
Joey Hess wrote: The thing to do seems to be to use tar instead. I cannot test the attached patch easily, since I have no live CDs to use it with. Just tried it here. Whilst the files are copied with the correct permissions (yay), something seems to block the filename output from tar,

Bug#486926: Installed system does not have correct permissions on directories

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Lamb wrote: Just tried it here. Whilst the files are copied with the correct permissions (yay), something seems to block the filename output from tar, causing the progress bar to sit at 2% until very near the end - it then shoots up quite quickly. Right, I guess I'd need to use a read