Re: Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)

2012-09-17 Thread Joey Hess
Sorina - Gabriela Sandu wrote: For that matter, I would like to propose a patch to add support for netcfg to write a Network Manager config file and modify the finish-install script so that it copies to target either the nm-config file or a full /e/n/i config, according to a reasonable default

Re: Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)

2012-09-17 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Potkin wrote: I realise a default is only a default and the selection can be changed, but I'm puzzled by the third option. Why treat a wireless install differently from a wired install? It would expected that a user who has chosen not to use a wired connection would still want

Re: Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)

2012-09-17 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: I notice this links network-manager to libuuid. Which is an amazingly Of couse I meant it links netcfg to libuuid.. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-17 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Owlett wrote: Should one not be able to switch out of the installation process and into a browser (2 are already included) to search out answers? One should, but as d-i on the live CD is currently implemented, one cannot. d-i runs as a fullscreen window, and I couldn't see any

Re: Amending task-xfce-desktop (was: Bug#686468: [wheezy] [amd64] [daily 20120831] Fujitsu Lifebook AH532 installation report)

2012-09-02 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten Merker wrote: A possible solution would be to add a recommends on gstreamer0.10-alsa to task-xfce-desktop, so that it gets pulled in during the system installation while not fiddling with the xfce4-mixer dependencies which are correct from the package point of view. What do you

Bug#686097: understanding/contributing to partman-btrfs

2012-08-30 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Pocock wrote: I've described such a solution in the bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686097 If you think it is sensible (or if something looks obviously silly), could you comment on it? I will hopefully have more time next week to play with it, but

Re: Upcoming d-i beta2, round 2

2012-08-25 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: please find below a number of unblock/unblock-udeb requests I'm mostly OK with as far as d-i is concerned. I added some comments so that one can grasp what impact this or that change has; some of them are marked “KiBi-upload”s, basically due to some needed, tiny fix-ups

Bug#685756: apt-xapian-index makes 256 MB RAM laptop very unresponsive

2012-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
Bertil wrote: (i) Debian installer: In the installer task (Debian Desktop), one can consider to exclude the package as default. This is difficult to do while aptitude Recommends it. Although the installer has stopped using aptitude in some places, it seems likely to remain installed by

Re: [EFI] allow use of elilo on amd64/i386 EFI machines?

2012-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: As I've just blogged, I've got a second alpha CD released with EFI support, this time using grub-efi by default. The first release used elilo only, but I think grub is preferred. So, my question is: should we follow existing x86 convention and allow users a choice of

Re: [EFI] libdebian-installer: add efi subarch for amd64 and i386

2012-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Looking through the Ubuntu version of debian-installer, I can see that Colin and I independently came up with nigh-on exactly the same way to deal with EFI systems, using a subarch to identify them. We've differed very slightly in terms of the the source code in

Bug#684128: PATCH: choice of binary or decimal disk storage units is runtime-configurable

2012-08-09 Thread Joey Hess
ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: +decimal_units=(1 1000 100 10 1) # (10^3)^{0,1,2,3,4} I hate to bring this news, but this cannot be used in the installer, because shell arrays are a bashism, and the installer uses busybox sh. joey@gnu:~busybox sh BusyBox v1.20.2 (Debian

Bug#684128: src:debian-installer: allow use of binary units in disk partitioner

2012-08-07 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: This issue will have to be worked on for jessie, not for wheezy. Hopefully someone will come with a patch (I somehow doubt it as I think that only incredibly picky people really do care about differencesbetween MB and MiB..but, who knows?). The difference between

Re: xfce as default desktop?

2012-08-02 Thread Joey Hess
Fabian Greffrath wrote: I have just seen that as per commit 2a962cc6 tasksel now install xfce as default desktop instead of gnome. has this been discussed somewhere? The commit text suggests that it has not... :/ I'm offline so cannot find urls, but I belive this has been discussed plenty of

Re: Tasks and CD sizes again

2012-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm thinking we should possibly drop one of these deps in the loop between task-$DESKTOP-desktop and task-desktop. Joey, what do you think? I think that the dependencies need to remain circular, and as tasksel has no maintainer scripts, it avoids the well-known problems

Bug#637684: /target/etc/fstab stopped containing /proc

2012-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
As /proc is mounted by boot scripts now, partman was changed to not put it in fstab, but this broke grub-installer, which relied on mount /proc working. I've fixed this in grub-installer. (That doesn't explain the 2011 reports of proc mounting problems, which well predate that change, but since

Bug#613430: debian-installer will not install grub bootloader on kfreebsd-amd64 system w/ a ZFS partition

2012-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steven Chamberlain wrote: It could be that grub-installer tries to mount with '-t proc' instead of '-t linprocfs' on GNU/kFreeBSD. It did. Fixed in git. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#667703: Mostly solved (was Re: Filed (Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)))

2012-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
Filipus Klutiero wrote: I tested d-i last week and accidentally installled GNOME. This allowed me to confirm that GNOME does not pull Synaptic in testing. gnome-core depends on nautilus, which recommends synaptic. Unless such recommends are being skipped by something, it should be installed.

Re: git for beginners: checkout d-i git repo

2012-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
Holger Wansing wrote: As a first step to this, I tried to checkout the git tree: following http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut part Checkout over ssh, for developers it works so far until it came to the line with mr -p checkout Output is:

Bug#667703: Mostly solved (was Re: Filed (Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)))

2012-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
Per Olofsson wrote: 2012-07-21 18:37, Joey Hess skrev: gnome-core depends on nautilus, which recommends synaptic. Unless such recommends are being skipped by something, it should be installed. nautilus (3.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=low ... - Drop Recommends on synaptic and app

Bug#655841: data point

2012-07-15 Thread Joey Hess
As another data point, I am in an airport (CLT) and had to remove gnash since it failed to display the thing needed to get on free wifi. Of course without flash the site lets you right through. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Tasksel status

2012-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: And I committed in three specific branches (people/bubulle/bug-###) those where I think a review is wished. Merged those I feel comfortable with. I was not convinced by the flash thread that lightspark will be an overall improvement. -- see shy jo -- To

d-i skills exchange session tomorrow

2012-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
Since it only just went on the schedule, and I don't want those who requested it to miss it. Also, other people with d-i skills should come.. Noon tomorrow in the small talk room. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#681347: pkgsel: bussiness card and netinstall, Can't exec aptitude after Select Install Software

2012-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
reassign 681347 ftp.debian.org VastOne wrote: Package: pkgsel Severity: serious Tags: d-i Can't exec aptitude: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/debconf-apt- progress line 130. STDIN line 2. aptitude's priority was downgraded to optional, but d-i still uses it to install security

Re: d-i skills exchange session tomorrow

2012-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
Philipp Kern wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:40:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Since it only just went on the schedule, and I don't want those who requested it to miss it. Also, other people with d-i skills should come.. Noon tomorrow in the small talk room. Will the slot remain

Re: (forw) Switch to graphical installer by default?

2012-07-08 Thread Joey Hess
Samuel Thibault wrote: Well, I guess at least for speech synthesis some people may find it easier to use. speakup still has issues with questions with a lot of choices: the language question, for instance, is a pain to listen to. What lanaguages does speakup support? We could make

Bug#571204: tasksel: Does not install network management software for LXDE

2012-07-08 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Baumann wrote: i don't know why tasksel uses lxde-core, but, if you would depend on lxde instead, you would get network-manager-gnome that the lxde maintainers in debian recommend for their users. Package: lxde Source: lxde-metapackages Version: 2 Installed-Size: 26 Maintainer: Debian

Bug#680519: please do depend on gdm3 for lxde-desktop

2012-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Baumann wrote: i don't think that the the installer (via tasksel) should use anything different than what we do with the live systems. That's backwards really. The live CDs should not be diverging from the tasks. lightdm is relatively buggy, does not reasonably support autologin yet,

Re: 20120708001451.gm4...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org

2012-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: It is not clear to me how accessible the initial splash screen --- the one with currently contain the choice between default, graphical, and advanced installation options --- is. *If* that screen is accessible It's not. Does occur to me that syslinux could be

Bug#680678: task-ssh-server: depend on 'ssh' instead of 'openssh-server'

2012-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Bib wrote: 'task-ssh-server' currently depends on 'openssh-server'; IMHO, it wouldn't be wrong to depend on 'ssh' instead. 'ssh' depends on 'openssh-server' and 'openssh-client' (while 'openssh-client' is a dependency of 'openssh-server', so it's pulled by 'task-ssh-server' too).

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-29 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:11:48PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: Thus, I think we should consider removing browser-plugin-gnash from the desktop task (and the gnome metapackage). I agree with that. I only suggested the inclusion of lightspark because it made more sense

Bug#679275: debian-installer: Debian installer fails when defining 10 or more partitions

2012-06-29 Thread Joey Hess
Carsten Klein wrote: the debian installer will fail to install the system with 10 or more partitions defined during the manual partitioning process. This is due to the fact that the hard coded regexp for finding the first partition in the system will fail to return a single line, e.g.

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/show_essids, updated. 1.65-150-ga603dff

2012-06-29 Thread Joey Hess
Justin B Rye wrote: People may well think in terms of the answer they give here being the wireless network. However, saying the wireless network (ESSID) implies that the ESSID is the network - which is logically equivalent, I suppose, but I'd still prefer to avoid it. I agree, I'd just drop

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/show_essids, updated. 1.65-150-ga603dff

2012-06-27 Thread Joey Hess
Justin B Rye wrote: But I suspect the best solution is: Select desired network name (ESSID) for connection attempt. Suggestion: Select the wireless network name (ESSID) to use during this installation process. It's not really relevant that it will attempt to connect to it and has a

Bug#673548: FWD: Re: Bug#673548: installation-reports: Wheezy's installer does't install KDE

2012-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
- Forwarded message from ibsdeb ibs...@gmail.com - Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:26:45 -0300 From: ibsdeb ibs...@gmail.com To: Joey Hess jo...@debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#673548: installation-reports: Wheezy's installer does't install KDE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US

Bug#653840: rootskel-bootfloppy: depends on unavailable klibc-utils-floppy-udeb on ia64

2012-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Philipp Kern wrote: And what about floppy-retriever? It was renamed to media-retriever in 2008. Perhaps a RM bug was forgotten to be filed? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#678611: debian-installer: Add more early/late hooks

2012-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Dehennin wrote: As I setup a preseed configuration based on hands-off[1], I get troubles configuration d-i mirror/ and d-i apt-setup/localX depending on the network configuration. I'm using a full CD, so adding entries to sources.list is optional, but if the network is up, I would

Bug#673548: installation-reports: Wheezy's installer does't install KDE

2012-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Ibsen Morem wrote: Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_alpha1/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-a1-i386-kde-CD-1.template 11-May-2012 18:49 -- also happended with debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso from 22-Jun-2012 This CD image is known to not currently contain all of

Bug#678642: FWD: installation fails

2012-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
- Forwarded message from Michele Manfrin ymic...@yahoo.it - Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:13:37 +0100 (BST) From: Michele Manfrin ymic...@yahoo.it To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: installation fails X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.118.349524 Reply-To:

Re: debconf patch : Follow database files symlinks

2012-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Regis Boudin wrote: NB : I am definitely not a perl person, so I would strongly recommend someone with more experience reviews the patch before actually applying it. That put me off, for a while, but I've applied it now. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: tasksel upload

2012-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: Is there anything that speaks against an upload of tasksel? It works fine in my tests. This heuristic is just asking for trouble. # Exclude packages starting with lib $package !~ /^lib/ Only other concerning thing

Re: Mount options for procfs

2012-06-13 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Hutchings wrote: Since linux version 3.2.20-1, it is possible to set a 'hidepid' mount option on procfs, which restricts the visibility of unprivileged users to see other users' processes. initscripts correctly applies this option if present in /etc/fstab. Should d-i allow procfs

Re: Tweaking tasks

2012-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Following up from the thread about lack of space... A couple of weeks back I rewrote the task support in debian-cd to deal with the change from tasks-in-Packages to task meta-packages. After a lot of local testing, today is the first time the weeklies have been built

Re: Debian the FSF Secure Boot petition

2012-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Dear d-i hackers, I've been contacted by Paul Wise about FSF campaign on secure boot [1] (thanks Paul!). As observed by various commenters over the net, it is indeed striking that no FOSS distros is in there. I plan to contact the FSF asking that Debian is listed as

Re: Tweaking tasks

2012-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: No, not yet at least. To be honest, I've had a lot of pressure to just add all the Recommends anyway recently to match what people would install by default. That's what I've done so far. It's complicated. Sometimes we drop a package from a direct Recommends in a task-*

Bug#675144: Australia/Victoria or Australia/Melbourne missing in wheezy timezone prompt

2012-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
Trent W. Buck wrote: When PXE-booting wheezy d-i[1], the timezone prompt lists Australian timezones but does not list either Victoria or Melbourne in the list. Yes, we have an unreleased upload adding Victoria. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: d-i testing with qemu

2012-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Philipp Kern wrote: Hi, I built d-i with build_netboot and try running it with qemu/kvm: kvm -hda hd_img.qcow2 -tftp dest/netboot -bootp /pxelinux.0 -boot n However it still tells me that it can't find a CDROM drive. Is this known breakage or does someone know a workaround so that I can

Re: d-i testing with qemu

2012-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Philipp Kern wrote: Joey, am Sun, May 27, 2012 at 05:28:50PM -0400 hast du folgendes geschrieben: Philipp Kern wrote: I built d-i with build_netboot and try running it with qemu/kvm: kvm -hda hd_img.qcow2 -tftp dest/netboot -bootp /pxelinux.0 -boot n However it still tells me

Bug#638682: Higher severity

2012-05-22 Thread Joey Hess
Mehdi Dogguy wrote: The patch can make use of gpg to extract the signed data from the InRelease file. I'm not sure it is necessary since the rest works just fine if given an InRelease file instead of a Release file. I kept that part commented in the patch and leave this decision to the

Re: installer location on mirrors

2012-05-20 Thread Joey Hess
Joerg Jaspert wrote: I understand it right that doing it this way (ie. current symlink stays around), it won't break anything, so we can just do it for all suites?! It appears that debmirror will be broken, if it helps. :/ I can't find anything that will break in debian-cd. -- see shy jo

Re: installer location on mirrors

2012-05-19 Thread Joey Hess
Joerg Jaspert wrote: I don't think the installer images should be in dists/ as they are now, but get their own location, installer/. For various reasons, including the - wth was it added there in the first place, - currently an installer update move from one suite to another means real

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
While this has been an interesting thread, it may be predicated on a false premise. I examined the latest weekly CD build, and the reason no desktop tasks at all (even lxde or xfce) appear on their respective CDs is because debian-cd is simply not including tasksel's new task-* packages, at all.

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Indeed, I have seen that pattern before, although I think it was because people are used to get CDs, not DVDs (ie, just a matter of habit). Another reason is that it's more likely for a throwaway USB key to be in the 1-2 gb range than the 5 gb range.

Re: debhelper + udeb + xz

2012-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Philipp Kern wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:45:03AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Philipp Kern wrote: So now to the question: What's the policy for dpkg(-deb) feature use in debhelper? Would it be feasible to add '-z1', '-Zxz', '-Sextreme' to the dpkg-deb arguments for udebs within

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: supporting only the smaller/lighter desktop environments is exactly what comes out of accepting that the first two options just won't be acceptable. Changing compression is only putting off the inevitable. There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to get

Re: Bootloader udeb selection for specific platform

2012-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Gerhard Pircher wrote: Hi, I'm looking into building a custom Debian install CD for a non-supported PowerPC platform. The platform doesn't work with any of the available bootloaders in Debian. Therefore I would like to create my own bootloader udeb package. While I can use one of the

Bug#659208: Bug#668860: /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90bsd-distro: gawk: not found

2012-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Nobuhiro Ban wrote: /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90bsd-distro: 17: /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90bsd-distro: gawk: not found Found unknown Linux distribution on /dev/sda2 done My debian selected mawk for awk. d-i doesn't have gawk either. I don't speak awk well enough to know if busybox awk

Re: Skip one udeb step on d-i

2012-04-18 Thread Joey Hess
Félix Arreola Rodríguez wrote: But I include my custom udeb (called installfest) with a menu item number of 7000, depends on apt-setup-udeb and provides pkgsel. This with the propose of skipping pkgsel. I always skip pkgsel and tasksel even on my own debian installs. It's not pkgsel fault, I

Bug#472704: I face same issue W: Failure while configuring base packages.

2012-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
This bug report remains open only as a request for debootstrap to somehow extract and print the actual error message from debootstrap.log when the installation of a package fails. Ideally that would be done in a form that prevents users from filing bug reports on debootstrap for random transient

Bug#668139: falls over a missing directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount

2012-04-10 Thread Joey Hess
martin f krafft wrote: I don't know what os-prober does, but # os-prober ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error ls: reading directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Input/output error ls:

Bug#620309: debian-installer: same problem on squeeze

2012-04-10 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard Kuemel wrote: bernhard@b:~/di/debian-installer-20110106+squeeze4/build$ fakeroot make Take a look at debian/rules for some variables you need to set to build for squeeze, like: USE_UDEBS_FROM=squeeze -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#668001: debootstrap: cant install systemd instead of sysvinit

2012-04-10 Thread Joey Hess
shawn wrote: Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.39 Severity: normal Tags: d-i if you use debootstrap unstable foo --include=systemd-sysv --exclude=sysvinit the install fails dpkg: regarding .../systemd-sysv_44-1_i386.deb containing systemd-sysv: systemd-sysv conflicts with sysvinit

Re: building gnupg-udeb with enable-minimal

2012-04-08 Thread Joey Hess
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: GnuPG has for a while now the configure switch --enable-minimal, which builds a gnupg with as few options enabled as possible. I was wondering if using this configure switch for the gnupg-udeb would make sense for you - I remember that size was an issue, not sure

Bug#667703: Please remove synaptic entirely from task-desktop

2012-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: OK, so long for not pulling synaptic through the gnome task...and not moving it to the desktop task That leaves us with the decision of either adding synaptic to the KDE taskor leave it up to KDE maintainers to do it in one of their metapackages. (and same

Bug#667703: gnome, size for Xfce

2012-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Filipus Klutiero wrote: Josselin, why would the gnome metapackage already pull synaptic? I don't see any direct relation. This is what happens on my testing/unstable mix: nautilus recommends synaptic. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#667703: Please remove synaptic entirely from task-desktop

2012-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: It should be the role of metapackages to handle which packages are installed onto which desktop environment. This actually depends how close a given desktop environment's definition of desktop environment is to common user expectation of a linux desktop. For example,

Re: debconf not recognizing template pattern from custom udeb

2012-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
Ryan Braun [ADS] wrote: Here is the templates control file from the udeb. Template: debian-installer/scripted-partitioning/title Type: text Description: Partition automatically via a shell script Template: scripted-partitioning/script Type: text Description: What script do you

Bug#665852: UI still refers to volatile.debian.org

2012-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Philipp Kern wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:14:10AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: If I'm correct there is no more volatile at all. There's still the $codename-updates suite. I personally don't care if it's not deactivatable in d-i, but given that security updates are, it probably

Bug#665852: UI still refers to volatile.debian.org

2012-03-26 Thread Joey Hess
Package: apt-setup Severity: normal VOL_HOST still appears as volatile.debian.org in the UI, but that is thuroughly dead now. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#665638: prevent debootstrap vom needing SHA256sums

2012-03-24 Thread Joey Hess
Mario Koppensteiner wrote: I have an issue with debootstrap. I debugged the issue and I found the following: The Problem is in the file /usr/share/debootstrap/functions line 634 Here is the code of the line 628 to 634 $PKGDETAILS PKGS $m $pkgdest $@ | ( leftover=

Re: cdebconf 0.159

2012-03-18 Thread Joey Hess
Regis Boudin wrote: Perhaps it's time to get some wide testing? This could be done by temporarily making debconf default DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF=1 Sounds like an idea. the various scripts will probably need an additional check for cdbconf's existence, though, since it caused me trouble I was

Re: cdebconf 0.159

2012-03-18 Thread Joey Hess
Regis Boudin wrote: That's a bit odd, the initial setup and conversion is done in the config script, and I would have expected debconf to have already run it before. Unless I got it wrong with my almost empty postinst. FWIW, I saw the same thing; debconf was using dialog and cdebconf

Re: cdebconf 0.159

2012-03-16 Thread Joey Hess
Regis Boudin wrote: Hi everyone ! That's it, after a month of testing on my main machine, I uploaded cdebconf 0.159. Although some features are still missing, it should actually be usable. Well, I've been using it on my main machine for a month with 2 daily updates, and a few

Bug#283600: RC2 succeeded; unhelpful error message

2012-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: The main trick will be telling the difference between a retrieval failure and some other kind. base-installer already knows about the specific names of debootstrap errors, so it doesn't seem out of the question for it to handle some of them differently. Do you think it

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Add the mount option 'discard' for ext4 filesystems so, during partitioning, TRIM can be activated for SSDs in the installed system. I had the impression that there was going to be some sort of automatic detection in the kernel of appropriate devices and that trim

Bug#654317: Needs creation of /usr/share/man/man1

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: Emdebian doesn't include manpages and some packages (and some udebs apparently) don't expect this directory to not exist. I'd be very surprised if any udebs know anything at all about /usr/share/man. However, there are numerous postinsts, starting with bash, that run

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Floris Bos / Maxnet wrote: In addition to that, it would also be nice if the -E discard option is passed to mkfs.ext4, so that it TRIMs the entire disk partition prior to creating the file system structures. -E discard is the default, according to mkfs.ext4(8) -- see shy jo signature.asc

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Miguel Figueiredo wrote: On 12-03-2012 04:55, Joey Hess wrote: I had the impression that there was going to be some sort of automatic detection in the kernel of appropriate devices and that trim would be automatically enabled for them. Is it not going to play out that way? Just adds

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Floris Bos / Maxnet wrote: Hmm, and to make things more complicated. The RELEASE-NOTES that come with the e2fsprogs source say that the default is what you put in mke2fs.conf That's for an older version. int discard = 1;/* attempt to discard device before fs creation */

Bug#663540: finds MSDOS when there is none

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Tokarev wrote: So a more naive approach at determining the filesystem type is to check first 512 bytes, and if MS-DOS signature is found there, report that it is MS-DOS. This is, apparently, what os-prober is currently doing. os-prober does not look at fragile magic numbers in

Bug#663600: grub-mount regressions in os-prober

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Package: os-prober Version: 1.49 Severity: normal A while ago, os-prober was made to try to mount filesystems with grub-mount. This means that $type cannot be used to test the filesystem type. Various commits have been made since to let through $type=fuse|fuseblk in various tests. But, I've

Bug#663540: finds MSDOS when there is none

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Samuel Thibault wrote: Mmm, why not looking for io.sys at the root? In all the versions of DOS that I know there has to be one for the partition to be bootable. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO.SYS , some of the DOS clones did not use io.sys, which may be why I don't remember it

Bug#663600: Bug#663540: finds MSDOS when there is none

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: How about, if grub-mount is used, we use grub-probe to find out which GRUB filesystem driver is in use, and stash that somewhere so that individual tests can get at it? That ought to be just as reliable as the existing OS filesystem type checks. Yes please. I've CCed the

Re: seeding debconf values

2012-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
Marcus Möller wrote: Hi all. I stumbled about the following paragraph in the documenation [1]: 'For debconf variables (templates) used in the installer itself, the owner should be set to “d-i”; to preseed variables used in the installed system, the name of the package that contains the

Re: My cdebconf is escaped !

2012-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Regis Boudin wrote: * ejabberd. During postinst, cdebconf seems to wait indefinitely on the read() in confmodule.c, line 109. The problem only occurs if invoke-rc.d ejabberd start is called during the postinst script, though. Sounds like the typical problem of a daemon inheriting the

Bug#657389: Tasksel is to blame

2012-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
2001 From: Joey Hess j...@kitenet.net Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:26:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Use dpkg-query to list packages, rather than parsing the status file. Closes: #657389 --- debian/changelog |4 tasksel.pl | 10 -- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions

Bug#655841: Please remove Gnash from default Debian install, as it crashes

2012-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Alexey Eromenko wrote: Default Debian-6 KDE installs gnash, an extremely unstable component, that constantly crashes KDE Konqueror, when user accesses any flash-enabled website (such as www.amd.com). Wouldn't that be a bug in konqueror-nsplugins? No plugin should be able to crash the browser

Bug#655841: Please remove Gnash from default Debian install, as it crashes

2012-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Gilbert wrote: lightspark is an alternative. Of course, it's also experimental, but who knows, it may be a bit more stable/complet at this point? I haven't really looked into it. Just something worth considering... The end game, which I am increasingly sure will happen by the next

Bug#652987: FWD: Bug#652987: the cdrom path is not disabled in sources.list

2012-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Forwarding to live team for your help. Does it make sense to always disable the CD in sources.list for live systems? If live systems contain some sort of package archive at all, and it's not complete, should they put not_complete into /cdrom/.disk/cd_type ? - Forwarded message from

Bug#655198: live-installer does not remove live packages in the installed system

2012-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Rui Miguel P. Bernardo wrote: I've noticed that debian-installer-launcher was not removed in the installed system, as were not removed also live-config, live-boot and others. Related to this is the search for /cdrom/live/filesystem.packages-remove file. I suppose the /cdrom is not mounted

Re: log-output command in os-prober

2012-01-10 Thread Joey Hess
Eldar Yusupov wrote: I could not find os-prober development mailing, so I could not find any other way to find the answer other to ask you in personal by e-mail. I've CCed our mailing list. I've been reading os-prober source and found the following piece of code: log_output () {         if

Re: Please fix the SCM urls in the Alioth's project page

2012-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Hi fellow developers, It would be nice if this was fixed: https://alioth.debian.org/scm/?group_id=30260 indicates that the SCM for the Debian-installer project is GIT but the git repo (git clone http://git.debian.org/git/d-i/d-i.git for anonymous

Bug#654309: daily debian installer doesn't boot

2012-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Daily images don't boot on amd64 and i386. After pressing enter to start the installation process the screen starts flickering and on the screen keeps appearing just the following line. INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8) Printscreen:

Bug#653513: debian-installer: build/README lies, code says: USE_UDEBS_FROM ?= unstable

2011-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: Daily builds are defined nowhere, so it can't be concluded whether running “make build_something” under build/ is considered a daily build. (Or maybe the intent was to document that daily builds are the reasons for the default's being unstable. I guess it can be

Bug#653840: rootskel-bootfloppy: depends on unavailable klibc-utils-floppy-udeb on ia64

2011-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: rootskel-bootfloppy/ia64 unsatisfiable Depends: klibc-utils-floppy-udeb (= 1.5-2) This is not a new dependency, it's from 2008 and klibc-utils-floppy-udeb is not built on ia64. But why are you trying to use boot floppies, let alone on ia64 anyway? -- see shy jo

Bug#653669: Installation failed with BTRFS

2011-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Miguel Figueiredo wrote: i tried to install the businesscard image and also failed while using btrfs. The installation log was full of btrfs kernel errors, these errors repeated itself until installation fails reporting no space left on device. I trimmed the 22 MB log, with the first 2000

Re: Adding ISO-search support to the CD (netinst) images?

2011-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Evgeni Golov wrote: How to use: boot as cdrom OR grub2: loopback loop /debian-7.0-amd64-NETINST-findiso.iso set root=(loop) linux /install.amd/vmlinux findiso initrd /install.amd/initrd.gz boot OR kvm: kvm -kernel dest/cdrom/vmlinuz -initrd dest/cdrom/initrd.gz \ -append

Bug#653840: rootskel-bootfloppy: depends on unavailable klibc-utils-floppy-udeb on ia64

2011-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: I'm not, I'm just looking at grep-excuses, which suggests either klibc-utils-floppy-udeb should exist on ia64 or rootskel-bootfloppy should be killed there. Quite likely rooskel-bootfloppy and klibc-utils-floppy-udeb should be killed *everywhere*. It's not like the kernel

Bug#650859: typical weekend after black friday install, 2011 edition

2011-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: The graphics worked ok with stable's kernel; however when I upgraded the kernel to 3.1.4-1 to try to get wifi working (which it did seem to), it turned the display off as soon as the kernel did a mode switch on boot. Do you have the dmesg from that kernel

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: I'm inclined to follow this advice and would indeed propose that the atomic partman-auto recipe is kept, however without a separate /usr partition (discussions on -devel and the current practice convinced me that a separate /usr is seomthing that probably belongs to

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: There isn't. There's just a broad consensus among those who are talking about changing things. Yes. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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