Bug#484366: also affects real hardware

2008-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
FWIW, I'm seeing this bug with beta2 on real (arm (ADS Bitsy G5)) hardware, not just qemu. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: No floppy images to install Lenny

2008-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
Arturo Moral wrote: Hello there, I'm trying to get floppy images to install lenny but there's no images available. You can find cdrom, hd-media and netboot in oficial mirrors, but no floppy images. Neither lenny beta 2, weekly or daily images. Please, inform where to find it or if install

FWD: Peter Van Eynde: wireless in 2.6.26 considered bad for europeans

2008-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
Looks like we might have to deal with this for 2.6.26, maybe by setting the region based on locale? (Kernel boot options would work, but very hard to remember.) - Forwarded message from Planet Debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Planet Debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008

Bug#493139: iso-scan: Allow using shell patterns to select ISO images

2008-07-31 Thread Joey Hess
Recai Oktaş wrote: The following patch allows one to select ISO images in iso-scan. With this patch grub configurations as exampled below can be used to perform an i386 or amd64 hd-media installation: iso-scan already checks what architecture the iso is for. Why do you need a second,

reassign 492937 to apt-setup

2008-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 reassign 492937 apt-setup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please review announcement of upcoming release of Debian 4.0r4 etch-and-a-half

2008-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
I'm sorry that this is late, but the announcement has a rather disturbing number of problems. I'd suggest at least the following changes: New CD and DVD images containing updated packages and the regular installation media accompanied with the package archive respectively will be available

Re: devfs style names

2008-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Tim Dijkstra wrote: In previous releases d-i used devfs style device node names, is it true that you have moved away from that? That would simplify the uswsusp maitainer script... Yes, it's been a long time since d-i used devfs style names. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

more upx problems

2008-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
The hd-media image no longer boots on my main test box (HP thin client). Immediate reboot after syslinux finishes loading the initrd and kernel. Netboot still works ok. I turned off upx, and that fixed the issue. And yeah, we're upxing this image too, it's built by the same code path that builds

massbuild needed

2008-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
I'm uploading kernel-wedge 2.47 and linux-kernel-di-i386 to fix bug #490562. Can someone please massbuild for all other arches? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#491712: firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect (was: installation-reports: HP lenovo R61i laptop)

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: No. With '-1' you don't get trailing slashes for directories. FWIW, that's a busyboxism. I'd use find. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#492077: debian-installer: avoid searching for libgcc_s.so

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
John Reiser wrote: Many executables used by the installer depend on libgcc_s.so. Searching for this library (by ld-linux.so just after execve) takes more than 1% of install time. The search tries: 2375 open(/lib/tls/libgcc_s.so.1, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 2373

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
There is already discussion about how to speed up partman elsewhere in the BTS. Minor shell efficiency tricks are not going to help much. It forks *thousands* of processes per menu. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#492077: debian-installer: avoid searching for libgcc_s.so

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~time perl -e 'for (1..16625) { open(IN, /no/file) }' 0.03user 0.03system 0:00.06elapsed 96%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k So for a typical install on modern hardware, these 16 thousand extra syscalls use less than 0.1 second. I don't have

Bug#492246: setting package to archdetect hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect, tagging 492246, tagging 491712

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 # via tagpending # # hw-detect (1.65) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * ethdetect: Some modules do not request firmware until their interface #has been brought up. So up and down every interface so missing firmware #can be

Bug#492249: setting package to archdetect hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect, tagging 492249

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 # via tagpending # # hw-detect (1.65) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * check-missing-firmware: Check that debs are the right architecture before #trying to use them. Closes: #492249 # package archdetect hw-detect ethdetect

Bug#492248: setting package to archdetect hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect, tagging 492248

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 # via tagpending # # hw-detect (1.65) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * post-base-installer: If dpkg fails to install a firmware package, likely #because it has dependencies outside base, remove it rather than leaving #the

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
John Reiser wrote: First, avoid searching for cat every time. The default search tries: /usr/local/sbin/cat /usr/local/bin/cat /usr/sbin/cat /usr/bin/cat /sbin/cat before finding /bin/cat. Instead: use 'which' or 'type' to do the search once, assign the result to a local

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
John Reiser wrote: The benchmark code and measurements [snipped] are not a good comparison with the actual environment of low-memory mode. In particular, the use of swap space is likely in low memory mode, but almost certainly not present in the measurements reported above. Any actual use of

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
John Reiser wrote: Partman runs very slowly. It reflects poorly on debian-installer. Humans percieve interactive things as slow if they take longer than approximatly 0.1 seconds to respond. Increasing the speed of partman by less than 50% is not going to yield a difference that is percievable

Bug#491712: firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect (was: installation-reports: HP lenovo R61i laptop)

2008-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Wild guess after having a look at the log: is the firmware only requested when trying to brought the interface up? If you still have access to the necessary hardware, can you look how far I am from what is really happening? Hardware is not mine and already in production

Bug#491712: firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect (was: installation-reports: HP lenovo R61i laptop)

2008-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: Hardware is not mine and already in production unfortunatly. It'll be a week or two until I can even boot a test image on it. This patch will up and then down every interface. That seems safe enough to do, especially since netcfg also ups and downs all interfaces when doing

Bug#491712: firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect (was: installation-reports: HP lenovo R61i laptop)

2008-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Joey Hess wrote: +lsifaces () { + sed -e s/lo:// /proc/net/dev | grep [a-z0-9]*:[ ]*[0-9]* | sed s/:.*//; s/^ *// +} Use 'ls /sys/class/net/' instead? That would probably be a good idea if someone wants to do it.. above code was already

Bug#491712: firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect (was: installation-reports: HP lenovo R61i laptop)

2008-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: You change has not yet be committed though, so this could be taken along. It would just be: ls -1 /sys/class/net | grep -v ^lo$ I like keeping bugfixes separate from potential bug introduction. :-) And your code needs to grep out 'lo/' -- see shy jo signature.asc

Bug#491712: firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect (was: installation-reports: HP lenovo R61i laptop)

2008-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Also, there's more /proc/net/dev parsing scattered throughout hw-detect, it should probably all be changed together. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

string change

2008-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
network-console.templates: This password is used only by the Debian installer, and will be discarded once you finished the installation. s/finished/finish/.. think we can make this change and force unfuzzy? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#491263: network-console, etch netinst, openssh

2008-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
) @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ network-console (1.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Change the health LED to solid blue on the HP mv2120 to indicate when the installer is ready for ssh connections. + [ Joey Hess ] + * Install ssh keys before ssh is installed, to allow it to check

Bug#485000: setting package to tasksel tasksel-data, tagging 485000, tagging 491669

2008-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 # via tagpending # # tasksel (2.75) unstable; urgency=low # # * kde-destkop: Add kpowersave, a recommends of kdeutils. Closes: #491669 # * print-server, desktop: remove foomatic-db-{engine,hpijs,gutenprint}, #which cups

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-07-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: It's also annoying for people using automated testing setups as they'd have random beeps coming out of their test systems, but I'll let Joey comment on that. I don't actually have any test systems that boot to syslinux on real hardware, so no beeps. Trust me, the noise of

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-07-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: I could see myself agreeing if you can come up with an implementation that only includes the beep for official builds (i.e. the addition of the beep is triggered by something in debian/rules). I don't feel that making daily builds diverge here (or in any way that is not

Bug#491077: setting package to tasksel tasksel-data, tagging 491077

2008-07-16 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.33 # via tagpending # # tasksel (2.75) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * finnish: Remove libenchant-voikko, add voikko-fi. Closes: #491077 package tasksel tasksel-data tags 491077 + pending -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: apt-get update misspell

2008-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
[debian-boot is not the right list for this.. debian-user is] Dave Rave wrote: when running apt-get update, and its reading the files, it says file rred instead of file read Its been that way for a while now. maybe whoever updated the updater didn't speaka d'englishe. rred is a form of

Re: i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Or is there a way I can do this myself using qemu? In that case I could probably do it myself. You can use something like -serial telnet:5000,server,nowait , and then telnet localhost 5000 to see the serial console. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

reassign 490287 to debian-installer-manual

2008-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.33 reassign 490287 debian-installer-manual -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Owen wrote: I see that d-i is now using the vesamenu for i386 netboot and has dropped the serial pxelinux configuration. If I were to produce a clean patch to re-enable production of a serial config might it be included for lenny? I take it the vesamenu config does not work over a

Bug#490205: please add ttf-liberation to the desktop task

2008-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Shachar Or wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 22:07, Joey Hess wrote: Fabian Greffrath wrote: please add the ttf-liberation font package to the desktop task. I believe that nearly everybody out there installing a desktop system would like to have the free variants of the three infamous MS

Bug#490205: please add ttf-liberation to the desktop task

2008-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Shachar Or wrote: If it is appropriate that some package will be part of a task, it seems right to make it part of the task and not via another package's dependency upon it. Because if that other package stops being dependant upon it or is excluded from the task, package 'foo' should still

Bug#490287: No root file system

2008-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Jon Ander Ortiz wrote: This works with the lenny installer = versions but not with the etch, as i was answered in this list a few days ago, the partman-auto/disk is only optional since lenny installer. It should be conditionalised in the menu to only be uncommented on etch then. However,

Bug#490287: No root file system

2008-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: What menu? Uncommented how, where? s/menu/manual/g The problem here is that some users are using the wrong documentation or preseed examples for the release they are using. The manual is correct. Anyway, that wasn't the problem here as Geert was using daily build +

Bug#490205: please add ttf-liberation to the desktop task

2008-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
Fabian Greffrath wrote: please add the ttf-liberation font package to the desktop task. I believe that nearly everybody out there installing a desktop system would like to have the free variants of the three infamous MS fonts installed by default. ttf-liberation is already a dependency of

Re: How to preseed the d-i question whether to use a mirror?

2008-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
Shachar Or wrote: Hello! I've this: ### Mirror settings # If you select ftp, the mirror/country string does not need to be set. #d-i mirror/protocol string ftp d-i mirror/country string enter information manually d-i mirror/http/hostname string mirror.isoc.org.il d-i

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: The 'terminal' plugin, which is required to open a shell, is not available. Please load it from the main menu in 'Loading additional components'. The 'cdebconf-gtk-terminal' module, which is required to open a shell, is not available. Please load it from the main menu

Re: i386 floppy status

2008-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: 1) Loading root floppy seems fragile Have you tried qemu? I never had this kind of apparently unreproducible problem when developing the root loppy loader in qemu. qemu works where Virtualbox fails, so

Re: i386 floppy status

2008-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Confirmed. Turns out this is related to the XEN patches that are included in Debian's 2.6.25 kernel (and have been accepted upstream for 2.6.26). I have compiled and successfully booted a 486 kernel from the Debian source package with the following patches [1] disabled:

Re: i386 floppy status

2008-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: 1) Loading root floppy seems fragile Have you tried qemu? I never had this kind of apparently unreproducible problem when developing the root loppy loader in qemu. 4) Missing items in root floppy (load-floppy?) First of all I am confused. The floppy-ng target currently

Re: Bug#487764 closed by Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#487764: fixed in udev 0.124-1)

2008-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
MD, Thanks for fixing this so quickly. udev is already frozen as part of the base freeze. Do you hope to get a freeze exception for this new upstream release? If not, before the next d-i release, I'd like to upload a modified version of 0.114 to t-p-u, that drops firmware.agent from the udeb, so

Re: RFS: di-netboot-assistant (ITP #489812)

2008-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Franklin PIAT wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package di-netboot-assistant. (I am CCing debian-boot in case someone has some interest in it) This looks like some nice work. I wonder if it would make sense for it to be maintained inside the d-i project? It's tightly related to d-i,

Re: daily build for Sparc

2008-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: With http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/mini.iso I get these errors: Your imagename `install' and arguments `' have either wrong syntax, or describe a label which is not present in silo.conf Based on qemu's man page, I think that qemu-system-sparc

Re: [RFC] Allow cancelation of NTP synchronisation

2008-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Jérémy Bobbio wrote: The first patch is against rdate, and adds, when -vv is specified on the command-line, the output of single dot (.) for each NTP query sent. The second patch modifies clock-setup to use these dots in order to step the progress bar on each of these dots. In case of a

Re: New kernel-wedge uploaded, time to upload linux-{kernel,modules}-di

2008-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: Nope. You blocked it already for 3 months. This seems to imply that: - linux-2.6 has been ready to migrate to testing for 3 months. IIRC I check its excuses fairly regularly and until recently it's had RC bugs keeping it out. - d-i somehow blocked the kernel from

Re: [RFC] Allow cancelation of NTP synchronisation

2008-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Jérémy Bobbio wrote: However, what about #436497? Until that's fixed, any use of PROGRESS commands while the clock could potentially be moved backwards can cause newt to hang. Hmm, looks like there's a new newt upstream that fixes this. As PROGRESS is only sent when a '.' is received,

Re: i386 floppy status

2008-07-05 Thread Joey Hess
Holger Wansing wrote: I tested this file on my good old i486 machine with floppy drive. Result: Loading linux.ready Probing EDD (edd=off to disable) ... ok[This is only displayed very short time] Then the machine reboots. This has something

i386 floppy status

2008-07-04 Thread Joey Hess
I can build floppies with the 2.6.25 images, but in qemu I see this: Booting from floppy... Boot error I've backtracked this to a specific change in a recent version of dosfstools, and filed an RC bug. However, immediatly upon loading linux, a fixed image crashes qemu spectacularly: qemu:

Bug#489103: rootskel: FTBFS: open3: exec of /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 [..] failed at /usr/bin/klcc line 138

2008-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: open3: exec of /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 -D__KLIBC__=1 -D__KLIBC_MINOR__=5 -D_BITSIZE=32 -fno-stack-protector -mregparm=3 -D_REGPARM=3 -m32 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KLIBC__=1 -D__KLIBC_MINOR__=5 -D_BITSIZE=32 -I/usr/lib/klibc/include/arch/i386

Bug#488424: should delete cached files that don't verify

2008-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: What about something like the attached (untested) patch? It ensures that both the Release and Release.gpg files are always downloaded. That's perfectly reasonable. I think it's ok to not cache these even if they are good, because it prevents running debootstrap later with

Bug#488424: should delete cached files that don't verify

2008-06-28 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.9 Severity: normal If a Release file fails to verify because it is out of sync with the Release.gpg on one mirror, debootstrap will cache the file, and reuse it if it's run a second time, with a different mirror. Result is that the second mirror also appears to

[RFC] in-d-i upgrades

2008-06-28 Thread Joey Hess
I've been working on a fix for bug #479431, and before I apply it to d-i, I want to make you aware of it, since it can have repercussions to DSAs and release management. To summarize the problem for non-d-i developers: If a user is installing from a CD or mirror, debootstrap is used to

Bug#479431: [PATCH] now tested

2008-06-28 Thread Joey Hess
Attached patchset is tested, and worked ok for upgrading a beta2 netinst system to current testing. I want to let the security and release teams know about this change before applying it. -- see shy jo From f799c15bb58a2f1a4d895710e481f8d97afc2fcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL

Bug#479431: pkgsel: Upgrade packages if (security) updates are available

2008-06-27 Thread Joey Hess
. -- see shy jo From b5394c7afb10b58a523203459041f2531dd911d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:06:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fixes from fjp review --- packages/pkgsel/debian/changelog |6 +++--- packages/pkgsel/debian/postinst |2 +- 2 files

changes to my git repository

2008-06-27 Thread Joey Hess
I've regnerated my d-i.git repository, and all sha1s have changed, so if you've cloned from it, you'll have to re-clone. Sorry about that, but the following enhancements seemed worthwhile: - Now you can clone my repository and quickly start using git-svn fetch, rebase, and dcommit yourself,

Bug#479431: pkgsel: Upgrade packages if (security) updates are available

2008-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
I can't test this path set right now, but I think it should work. -- see shy jo From 6ad146f53afb3c4df08a218a698162f4b65769ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:47:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Move redundant error handling code into a function

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:54:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: Is the purpose of tasksel to include firefox or a browser ? The only reason to include a browser other than the default gnome/kde browser is to include a browser that people prefer over

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Hommey wrote: The fact is users don't *always* have to set this, because far from all websites require it. If so many users were impacted, we would be drowned under piles of bug reports about this issue, yet, there is only a few of them (only one, iirc). A few user reports of sites that

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
I'm not suprised that these sites are known. My point is that our users devote a significant amount of traffic (I generally only picked on message from each thread) to figuring out how to work around them. Mike Hommey wrote: even bother? And again, how is this even relevant as to whether

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Hommey wrote: Is the purpose of tasksel to include firefox or a browser ? The only reason to include a browser other than the default gnome/kde browser is to include a browser that people prefer over those. My impression is that firefox is currently that browser. -- see shy jo

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Hommey wrote: We have plenty other browsers that are not Firefox and don't try to claim to be Firefox... Tasksel does not include those other web browsers in the desktop task. If iceweasel is not intended to be the closet approximation of firefox that debian can provide, there's really no

Bug#479431: pkgsel: Upgrade packages if (security) updates are available

2008-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
I think that we need to sort this out before lenny. I'm beginning to doubt that the apt and aptitude bugfixes that would allow cancellable progress bars are going to happen anytime soon. I'm inclined to go ahead and handle the upgrade as best we currently can, even if it's imperfect. Closing a

Bug#484121: setting package to tasksel tasksel-data, tagging 467324, tagging 484121

2008-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 # via tagpending # # tasksel (2.75) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * gnome-desktop: Make gnome the Key package for this task. Needs #meta-gnome2 2.22.2~2, which syncs gnome to the past contents of the task. #Thanks to

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: # May not get installed unless forced, if some other browser satisfies the # dependency, so force it. epiphany-browser This comment, and bug #370098 still seem to apply. g-d-e depends on: epiphany-browser (= 2.22.2) | gnome-www-browser,

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: diff --git a/packages/hw-detect/debian/hw-detect.templates b/packages/hw-detect/debian/hw-detect.templates index 5301467..cf31ef3 100644 --- a/packages/hw-detect/debian/hw-detect.templates +++ b/packages/hw-detect/debian/hw-detect.templates @@ -67,9 +67,20 @@

Bug#486892: different behavior from debconf when noninteractively asking a select question with a default not in the select list

2008-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Question: what does debconf do if there has never been a db_input? I.e. if you do just 'db_subst' directly followed by 'db_get'. In this case behavior of debconf and cdebconf are the same, you'll get the Default, and if there's no Default, you'll get . Similarly, you can

Bug#487452: installation-report: d-i lenny beta 2 nslu2 armel

2008-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 23 June 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I don't know if this is a kernel or a hardware bug. I do wonder if d-i should trust the ID_TYPE at all. We don't, at least not entirely. See list-devices which has a few exceptions. Maybe another one should be added? I have a

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 23 juin 2008 à 11:50 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : If you use gnome, it will always be pulled by epiphany-extensions anyway. It seemed to me that epiphany-extensions depends on epiphany-gecko, but that epiphany-browser was not pulled

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe Checking for firmware... ? Checking and installing needed firmware? I don't like the needing for some reason. Also, checking for? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: d-i uses bootloaders

2008-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
A new one to add to list: ixp4xx-microcode [armel] -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
and provide it this way as a fallback. I anticipate we'll create and distribute images containing debs of all the relevant firmware from non-free. TBD -- see shy jo From d4e4660e415a02944d98395e8547ebcca1b141b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 23 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Here's an initial attempt at support for loading missing firmware from removable media. Completly untested. 0001: How do you know which version of the udev script you get? I was assuming we're remove it from udev-udeb. Putting

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: 0003: Having the two loops looks broken In so far that the second loop is likely to copy files that were already installed in the first loop. If you're referring to the two loops in post-base-installer (and not in check-missing-firmware), it's true that the firmware from debs

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 22:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : The current version can be found there: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/meta-gnome2/debian/control.in?op=filerev=0sc=0 I have just uploaded meta-gnome2 2.22.2~2 to NEW (because of

Bug#487433: tar creation support for live-installer

2008-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Package: busybox-udeb Severity: normal Tar creation support should be enabled in the udeb. A test build on amd64 shows this uses about 4k (should be smaller on i386): -rwxr-xr-x 1 joey joey 233K Jun 21 15:47 busybox* -rwxr-xr-x 1 joey joey 237K Jun 21 15:49 busybox.tar-c* Reason:

Re: d-i uses bootloaders

2008-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Adeodato Simó wrote: yaird Another one missing. This breaks a small corner of d-i's UI. If yaird is not going to be added back to testing (and looking at the BTS, I doubt it will), we should modify d-i to not offer it as an option. vmelilo: m68k-only, not in testing. Of course it's fine if

Re: non-free firmware

2008-06-20 Thread Joey Hess
As a followup to this old post of mine (that AFAIK no progress has been made on), here's a new idea, to handle the case of firmware needed early in d-i. hw-detect could be made smart about detecting when a module it's loading needs firmware. This is pretty easy to do by modifiying

Re: Failing daily builds?

2008-06-20 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: Command failed with status 134 : mklibs-readelf --print-rpath ./tmp/netboot/tree/usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi I'm seeing this too, but it doesn't cause my d-i build to fail. mklibs -L ./tmp/netboot/tree/usr/lib -L ./tmp/netboot/udeblibs -v -d ./tmp/netboot/tree/lib

Re: non-free firmware

2008-06-20 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Then the module would still fail to initialize[1] -- and hw-detect can notice this file, and prompt the user for firmware, and then remove and reload the module if it's provided. Possibly something like 'udevtrigger --retry-failed' might work too. Just tried this,

Bug#486892: setting package to cdebconf-gtk-udeb cdebconf-slang-udeb cdebconf-text-udeb cdebconf cdebconf-udeb cdebconf-newt-udeb libdebconfclient0-dev cdebconf-priority libdebconfclient0 libdebconfcl

2008-06-20 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 # via tagpending # # cdebconf (0.132) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * Handle the special case of a noninteractive select with no (or a bad) #default the same as debconf does; when such a question is asked, #set the value

Re: [PATCH] floppies - generic removable media

2008-06-20 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: - That floppy://foo.cfg still works when preseeding. - That /floppy/foo.cfg still works when preseeding. - That save-logs still finds and mounts a real floppy, and writes the logs it it. These still work. - Loading multiple driver floppies, including trying to load them

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

2008-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
a fully working apt, which implies a working dpkg, which implies a working tar.. -- see shy jo From bf5104387f5a22c3119bd9d9dcc0d1adf0762f03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:16:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Copy files using tar, avoids permissions

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

2008-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Lamb wrote: tags 486926 + patch thanks Chris Lamb wrote: I tried a few fd/fifo redirection tricks, but couldn't get the right combination..any ideas? Got it, hurrah. Updated and tested patch attached. Huh, it looks like I was at least on the right track with my patch.. +

Bug#247744: Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Guess this makes the earlier cloned bug to debconf more severe. Properly fixing it is going to be tricky. Debconf does it by having a whole class of noninteractive question elements, that are always created for questions that are not displayed. So it's a simple matter of having

Bug#247744: Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
2e86f33f8439682894441139873cd917ede4736b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:40:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] noninteractive select handling * Add a separate queue for noninteractive questions, so that things can be done when these questions would be displayed. This is a bit

Bug#486182: setting package to live-installer, tagging 486182

2008-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.30 # via tagpending # # live-installer (6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * Run base-install.d hooks after copying in the live system, to avoid #overwriting any files created by them. Closes: #486182 # package live-installer

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

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

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

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 #

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#486182: Installed system does not have functioning networking

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
changeset. -- see shy jo From 00b406284bb77a34da1f29805c0336ecac33b490 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:26:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] redefine base-install.d hooks live-installer needs these hooks to run after the live system is copied in. base

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
, since I have no live CDs to use it with. Can someone please give it a try? -- see shy jo From 8b0ed77c1eeb00076ce97e553d1ed21a9ad39ba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:16:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Copy files using tar, avoids permissions problems

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

2008-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
jo From 0b30e08a28fb8bceed82bf01c8c2f18eedf30687 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:16:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Copy files using tar, avoids permissions problems and other nonsense I suggest getting rid of this mkdir/rm/cp nonsense and just pipe

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