Re: slashdotted

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
and chose Finish ... and that seemed like more the right thing. Definitely confusing, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#238208: yaboot-installer: looks for archdetect in wrong place

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:39:21PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:31:31PM +, Colin Watson wrote: yaboot-installer looks for archdetect in /usr/bin, when it's actually in /bin. As a result, you need to manually edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/yaboot-installer.isinstallable

Bug#238144: installation-reports: a few problems on powerpc (AlBook), mostly successful

2004-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:58:38PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20030413, http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/ I retested with the 20030418 businesscard image, installing from unstable in order

Bug#239035: kbd-chooser: mac/ADB keymaps inappropriate for powerpc

2004-03-20 Thread Colin Watson
/bus/usb/devices -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i - priority changes

2004-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
, debootstrap-udeb, libblkid1-udeb, libc-udeb: pulled in via dependencies. yaboot-installer should be standard, I think, otherwise nobootloader wins because it's standard. All other bootloaders are standard. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

[d-i] Please change yaboot-installer priority to standard

2004-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
-installer's Priority: to standard so that this happens? Every other udeb that Provides: bootable-system is Priority: standard, so this is consistent. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: beta 3 update

2004-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
(haven't tested this yet, will do so tonight) * updated yaboot-installer * a fix to kbd-chooser (#239035); if somebody could ack my proposed fix I'd be grateful -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [i18n] String Changes in iso-codes

2004-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
body somewhere, and no matter what we do somebody will disagree. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: svn update

2004-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
to the lots of files moving. The assertion failure sometimes seems to be really obscure code for I want to delete this directory but it isn't empty. I've never seen this from subversion before in over a year of operation (but I don't use svnserve much). -- Colin Watson

Re: beta 3 update

2004-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
uploaded yaboot-installer 0.0.15, which powerpc will need for the beta3 update (sorry, Joey); mips people will need to upload arcboot-installer and delo-installer. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#239035: mac/ADB keymaps inappropriate for powerpc

2004-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

svn:ignore

2004-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
noisy. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#174410: questionable interpretation of install pseudo-package

2004-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
...) The installation-reports and upgrade-reports pseudo-packages should remain. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#174410: questionable interpretation of install pseudo-package

2004-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
to, to get install removed from that list? Me, conveniently. Done. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#174410: questionable interpretation of install pseudo-package

2004-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:34:11AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:56:47PM +, Colin Watson wrote: So, could you please remove the install and installation pseudo-packages, and change the description of the boot-floppy pseudo-package to read something like

Re: Bug#174410: questionable interpretation of install pseudo-package

2004-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[removing ftpmaster@; they'll be getting this via the BTS anyway] On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:34:11AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:56:47PM +, Colin Watson wrote: So, could you please remove the install and installation pseudo-packages, and change the description

Bug#239892: Acknowledgement (Debian Installer Bug report)

2004-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:28:59PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: The kernel image installed seems to have been a -k7 image, which is odd, since its a p3 If you switch to tty2, what does /proc/cpuinfo say? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
that the yaboot-installer bug was about? No. This sounds like the usb-discover bug that joeyh fixed in usb-discover 0.10. Subsequent nightlies shouldn't suffer from this. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#239926: install report

2004-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
use a businesscard image instead then the installer will ask you this question. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#240109: Further info

2004-03-26 Thread Colin Watson
its cookies instead. That's a bug too - I'm not quite sure where this happens. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Arch-dependent extra packages for debian-cd

2004-03-26 Thread Colin Watson
and yaboot, say. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
-ignore. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

powerpc beta3 update installation report

2004-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
to base-installer. Since I was installing from testing, I think that's sufficient. kbd-chooser didn't do anything, and hasn't done on powerpc for a while; this was probably #240171, fixed in kbd-chooser 0.47, but I haven't tested that version yet. -- Colin Watson

Bug#240797: powerpc beta3 update installation report

2004-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
to base-installer. Since I was installing from testing, I think that's sufficient. kbd-chooser didn't do anything, and hasn't done on powerpc for a while; this was probably #240171, fixed in kbd-chooser 0.47, but I haven't tested that version yet. -- Colin Watson

Re: powerpc beta3 update installation report

2004-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Sorry for this duplicate; I meant to send it to the BTS, but hadn't had enough caffeine yet. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Release update

2004-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
as possible to avoid repeatedly breaking old d-i images, which is a perpetual problem. You'll have to check with aj. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim cannot find gnutls

2004-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
a version of debootstrap that fixes this. Alternatively, might you be using an HTTP proxy that is giving you old data? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
autobuilds. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml/ch2.en.shtml -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: goals for next release

2004-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
down and read Joshua Kwan's os-prober spec, really, but it ought to be trivial to wire into yaboot-installer once something has previously determined that MacOS X is on /dev/hda13 or whatever. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
try to argue your case with the debootstrap maintainer, but we have to draw a line somewhere or else we'll never release, and we can't fix everything. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#238228: FTBFS: setgid DEBIAN directory

2004-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
in which you unpack the source package is setgid. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#242144: installation-reports: OldWorld PowerMac install (sarge) dies trying to install bootloader

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
-installer udeb is not even supposed to be installable on oldworld systems. What does 'archdetect' say on your system? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#241817: install: does not create yaboot partition

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
from the yaboot-howto) other yaboot-using subarches. I propose partman-newworld, since fdisk calls the partition NewWorld bootblock. I'm working on it now. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#242438: installation-reports (PowerPC Installation)

2004-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
does the installed yaboot not work? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
current disk. As such, I haven't uploaded it to unstable yet. This was my first exposure to partman's internals, so I'd appreciate it if a partman expert (Anton?) could look it over for any glaring errors. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
[No need to send me a private copy, thanks; I read debian-boot.] On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:11:27PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:32, Colin Watson wrote: I've checked in partman-newworld, which wraps up the method for creating the special Apple_Bootstrap

Bug#242021: back to main menu after reading net-drivers.floppy (2004-04-04, oldworld ppc, netinstall with floppies)

2004-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
. (a) They do, it's in Filename:; (b) .udebs are in main/debian-installer/binary-*/Packages rather than main/binary-*/Packages. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:37:49AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On 7.IV.2004 Colin Watson wrote: This was my first exposure to partman's internals, so I'd appreciate it if a partman expert (Anton?) could look it over for any glaring errors. It is not dangerous, but it won/t work properly

Re: dselect-beginner.txt

2002-09-04 Thread Colin Watson
to all packages, while if you're in a conflict resolution display then it applies only to packages in that display. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
with the man pages from base packages. Do you think it's worth me making an upload to stable with just this change, to see if it'll be let into 3.0r1? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Is Sarge bootable?

2002-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
i try to install it using dselect of the Potato, i recive an error (100, internal error). Try upgrading to woody (see http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/releasenotes) and then to sarge, perhaps? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: coding style

2002-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
prevailing style is necessary for sanity. I'd guess most proficient developers would have had the same experience. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug in debian-non-US?

2002-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
alongside /debian-non-US, and you should use that instead. After installation you'll be able to install non-US packages. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Partition size

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:16:11AM +, Chris Lale wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:10:00PM +, Chris Lale wrote: I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th May 2002 section 6.4) that partitions greater than about 6Gb should be avoided. Does anyone know

Re: CVS location for dselect documentation for beginners

2002-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
pending, and thus displayed separately by pkgreport.cgi: #155374. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [important] CVS-generated email shouldn't go here

2002-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
sent to one mailing list. debian-boot-cvs, by analogy with debbugs and www? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [important] CVS-generated email shouldn't go here

2002-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:10:47PM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: debian-boot-cvs, by analogy with debbugs and www? No -- again, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Managed by the PTS system. So ... asking as a BTS admin, where should bug reports for the d-i packages

Re: [important] CVS-generated email shouldn't go here

2002-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:01:40AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:10:47PM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: debian-boot-cvs, by analogy with debbugs and www? No -- again, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Managed by the PTS system. So

Re: [important] CVS-generated email shouldn't go here

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:18:08AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:01:40AM +, Colin Watson ?crivait: Raphael, you'd have to add support for a debian-installer_cvs pseudo-source-package to the PTS manually, I suppose. Would it work? How? What would the web pages

Re: Bug#174410: questionable interpretation of install pseudo-package

2002-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
/installation regarding boot-floppies were reassigned to the package of that name, and the boot-floppies developers agree not to brush off bugs filed there with won't happen in boot-floppies (and to reassign bugs to install/installation as appropriate)? -- Colin Watson

Re: Bug#174410: questionable interpretation of install pseudo-package

2002-12-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 03:40:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:14:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: It does seem that a pseudo-package for the debian-installer would be useful; however, I don't see why the existing 'install' etc. pseudo-packages aren't good enough

Re: debian-installer bugs page

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
://bugs.qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/base.cgi OK, please tell me how to list the packages that form part of debian-installer and I'll do it. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: debian-installer bugs page

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:07:42PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:52:15PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: There is a nice page of bugs in the base system[1]. It would be helpful to have a similar page for the bugs in debian-installer. Could someone please create

Re: debian-installer bugs page

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:26:39PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: s?n 2003-01-19 klockan 19.07 skrev Colin Watson: OK, please tell me how to list the packages that form part of debian-installer and I'll do it. What's wrong with the stuff in /org/bugs.qa.debian.org/data/lists? No way to keep

Re: debian-installer bugs page

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:29:11PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:07:42PM +, Colin Watson wrote: OK, please tell me how to list the packages that form part of debian-installer wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/debian-installer/binary-i386

Re: debian-installer bugs page

2003-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
suspect doogie's database scripts are buggy ...) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#178615: rootskel: Package should not be platform-dependent

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
suspect the package should be changed to arch: all. the templates are arch specific. Then it's not a bug at all and should be closed, rather than being tagged wontfix. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sarge-i386-businesscard.iso

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
composers: this one's Christoph Willibald Gluck. Others in the same naming scheme include debussy, faure, lully, rameau, and saens. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: PDF Doc

2003-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:00:40AM +0800, Lim Seow Keang wrote: Is there a pdf file for Installation Manual for Intel x86 and others .. ? You'll find all the links you need here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Review language list in d-i

2003-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
;langcode;countrycode;langlist English (USA);en_US;en;US; English (United Kingdom);en_UK;en;UK; This should be en_GB;en;GB;. Catalan;ca_ES;ca;ES;ca:es Capitalize the final es? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Review language list in d-i

2003-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:14:48PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:34:43AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:41:45AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Catalan;ca_ES;ca;ES;ca:es Capitalize the final es? No, the last one is es the language

Re: Review language list in d-i

2003-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
, either. Better to just pick a UTF-8 locale appropriate to the user's language. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#185420: boot-floppies - bad kernel choice

2003-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
to a mailing list that you read. It would be helpful to at least provide an alternative address. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processed: Reassigning and merging with cdebconf bug

2003-03-26 Thread Colin Watson
] The notforwardeds are unnecessary, and there really isn't much point marking bugs as forwarded to the address that's already listed as the maintainer for the assigned package. I'd just drop these four lines. merge 186413 182357 Yes, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Missing CPAN Bundle

2003-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
?word=CPAN.pmsearchmode=searchfilescase=sensitiveversion=unstablearch=i386 Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Registered senders

2003-06-03 Thread Colin Watson
your needs: Please remove Scott More from the debian-boot mailing list. It seems at least equally plausible that he received a spam forging [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the sender address, and is not on the list at all. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/ddetect by pere

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
working on something in C that preserves return codes while logging output. Probably something along the lines of: /usr/bin/log_output 'shell command here' How about some variant on: ((echo hello world; false; echo $? 3) | logger) 31 ... and then look at the output? ? -- Colin Watson

Bug#205153: modconf: 0.2.44, missing some functions (ie: write_it_down)

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
maintainer is still Eduard Bloch, but you can always reach the maintainer of a package by emailing packagename@debian.org. packagename@packages.debian.org, that is ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[d-i]: cdebconf safe to install? (newbie question)

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
directory.) The cdebconf package description has a warning that it will break debconf if installed on a live system; per the fix for #83318, is this still true, or can I go ahead and install it? If it will still break, I'll put together a chroot. Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Re: [d-i]: cdebconf safe to install? (newbie question)

2002-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 05:32:12PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Colin Watson | The cdebconf package description has a warning that it will break | debconf if installed on a live system; per the fix for #83318, is this | still true, or can I go ahead and install it? If it will still break

Re: Bug#126030: b-f bug maint and reassigning to install-doc

2002-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
reassign 126030 boot-floppies thanks On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where does milo come from, anyway? #126030 isn't assigned to anyone at the moment because there is no milo package ... is it hardwired

ethdetect missing Depends: line

2002-07-29 Thread Colin Watson
/$(PACKAGE).substvars \ -n$(PACKAGE)_$(VERSION)_$(ARCH).udeb ) ; ) $(foreach PACKAGE, $(PACKAGES), \ (cd debian ; \ -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

udpkg and new maintainer scripts

2002-07-31 Thread Colin Watson
debconf-loadtemplates if there is a templates file. + * Add menutest and isinstallable to list of maintainer scripts (cjwatson) -- Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:40:11 +0200 -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Processed: reassign 156748 to boot-floppies

2002-08-15 Thread Colin Watson
'. This, by the way, is because it looks very like the same problem reported on i386 recently, and there seemed to be a pattern developing - I didn't think it was actually a bug in libc6. Feel free to send it off elsewhere if I'm wrong. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debootstrap problem...with woody non-US

2002-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
of the archive - that only includes packages which can't be exported from the US for one reason or another, and therefore have to be mirrored from elsewhere. Just use 'http://plat.debian.or.jp/debian'. Regards, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: timeline for beta 4

2004-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
is that the existing C version is hard to develop, out of sync with all the other *-installer packages, and I want to add os-prober support to it and don't really want to reboot twice in order to test anything. :) If it looks at all painful I'll work on a branch. -- Colin Watson

Re: Need help for SVN pseudo-URLs

2004-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:04:30PM +0200, VEROK Istvan wrote: I use unstable, the SVN in woody probably doesn't do this, as the patch for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] handling was added to the Subversion code itself in November 2003, IIRC. There isn't a subversion in woody, so that's OK. -- Colin

Re: d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75

2004-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
*, not *yaboot-installer*? I thought you meant the latter. In that case, yes, debootstrap always installs yaboot on powerpc. yaboot-installer needs to be fixed to apt-install it before beta4 (so that we don't break beta4 testing), then debootstrap can stop installing it. -- Colin Watson

Bug#243253: Package: installation-reports

2004-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
in. partman-auto doesn't know to do this yet. More current daily builds will let you do it manually if you load the partman-newworld module (this module should soon be loaded automatically, but I don't think it is yet). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: partman-newworld override disparity

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
to standard. The installer should try to load it by default on powerpc now that Anton's looked over it for sanity. (partman-newworld takes care not to be installed on powerpc machines where it isn't applicable.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#242489: Apr 11 09:52:19 (none) user.info kbd-chooser[357]: INFO: choose_keymap: keymap =

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
keymaps really used on oldworld pmacs, and if not, get ride of them. If they are fix their brokeness. The Macintosh keymaps should definitely not be used on any powerpc systems. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#242489: Apr 11 09:52:19 (none) user.info kbd-chooser[357]: INFO: choose_keymap: keymap =

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:47:59AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:44:03AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: The Macintosh keymaps should definitely not be used on any powerpc systems. Ok, so we should remove those, right ? And have only the macintosh-usb keymaps proposed

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
and on the existing code in boot-floppies, and punt it over to you for testing. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#243669: yaboot-installer: yaboot asks for Apple_bootstrap partition even on non pmac hardware.

2004-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
-installer. It's only supposed to pass the subarchitecture check on chrp, not chrp_pegasos too. 2) do the Apple_bootstrap check on newworld pmac hardware only. This should be fixed in yaboot-installer, yes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#233864: man-db error on debian-installer beta3

2004-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
'chroot /target dpkg --configure man-db', and send the output to this bug report? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Who do you have to sleep with / bribe / shoot to get an answer about RAID support

2004-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
Mark and Elijah, please take this argument of yours to private e-mail. I for one am not in the least interested and am finding it rather distracting. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: kernel modules from other subarchs

2004-04-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:44:30PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: I continue to see kernel module udebs from other subarchs installed on the ramdisk when installer components get loaded. Sounds like #240373 to me? anna's fixed in trunk. -- Colin Watson

Re: Removing boot loaders from debootstrap?

2004-04-15 Thread Colin Watson
debootstrap is updated, so that the currently released beta doesn't get broken by the removal. (On powerpc, yaboot-installer's now fixed for this, post-beta3, but there's no quik-installer yet so that has to stay where it is.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#212981: unifont.bgf architecture dependent?

2004-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:21:19AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: Is unifont.bgf architecture-independent or not? If it is, I'll move it to /usr/share, otherwise to /usr/lib. It depends on what templates are present in the image, so it's architecture-dependent. -- Colin Watson

Bug#244076: os-prober: linux-distro probe broken on hppa, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390

2004-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
maybe looking for the kernel instead, which is harder. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netbooting imac, docs not ok..

2004-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
. Apparently the 2.6 packages in preparation have smaller kernels, or there's powerpc-small. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unsupported subarch powerpc/iseries - as400

2004-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
. Please send patches; I'd be happy to review and commit them. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#239794: ddetect: new subarch powerpc/iseries

2004-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
. Applied to the upcoming 0.85, thanks. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-18 Thread Colin Watson
effecting others. You can also build a monolithic image, and again since it's Priority: standard you shouldn't need any changes to pull in partman-newworld. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-18 Thread Colin Watson
to the start of the build log as it's unpacking udebs. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#244539: installation-reports

2004-04-18 Thread Colin Watson
, with the exception of raw1394, are built directly into the current installer kernel. Is raw1394 needed? If so, I'll gladly add it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#244589: busybox-cvs: 'cp -a' from cramfs breaks

2004-04-18 Thread Colin Watson
, where zero-length files and empty directories + have the same inode number. Only make hardlinks if st_nlink 1. + + -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:03:51 +0100 + busybox-cvs (20040408-1) unstable; urgency=low * New CVS version only in patch2: unchanged: --- busybox-cvs

Re: debian-installer on a G5 Part II

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
/syslog)? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#244539: firewire not supported

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:07:56AM +0200, jp moins wrote: De : Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:53:23PM +0200, JP Moins wrote: Load installer modules: [ E ] - sbp2 ieee1394 ohci1394 raw1394 (?) missing to make external [...] I like my OS X.3 machine; I

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