Bug#807168: debian-installer-netboot-images: required resources not declared as build-dependencies (fetches via network)

2015-12-06 Thread Philipp Kern
fy the build-time relationships (including any > > implied relationships). > > I can only interpret above as disallowing fetching resources over the > network using wget. Is it legal to build a unique arch:all package per architecture? Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#806341: zipl-installer: Using standard device names can result in a non-bootable system

2016-01-06 Thread Philipp Kern
Thanks! Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#808041: s390-zfcp: Install Debian on FC-attached SCSI devices on s390

2016-01-06 Thread Philipp Kern
Control: tag -1 + pending On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 23:59:21 +0100 Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > ... > > > > Is there a way I could test FCP installation? As far as I understand > > there

Fwd: Bug#809788: Does not appear relevant to Debian

2016-01-05 Thread Philipp Kern
There is nothing to add to Lennart's reply, which didn't go to the list. Closing the bug report, as there's nothing that affects Debian at this point. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern --- Begin Message --- The package is a Ubuntu version, and does not even exist in Debian. The -signed package

Bug#808041: s390-zfcp: Install Debian on FC-attached SCSI devices on s390 (patches)

2015-12-18 Thread Philipp Kern
ommits can just be based on your work. (I hope to have some more time over the holidays to review, but as said I can't test it.) Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/s390-zfcp.git signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#808041: s390-zfcp: Install Debian on FC-attached SCSI devices on s390

2015-12-18 Thread Philipp Kern
to partition/segment than DASD-based storage…) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#825931: s390-netdevice virtio interface choice misleading

2016-06-19 Thread Philipp Kern
work interfaces will be available while you'd need to also configure CTC/QETH/IUCV devices? Is such a thing even possible? If not could we simply skip that prompt if we see a regular one because then we know it's VirtIO/PCI/other? Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Bug#813506: zipl-installer: set up re-IPL to boot newly installed Debian/Linux

2016-02-06 Thread Philipp Kern
+1,3 @@ > +#!/bin/sh -e > + > +in-target chreipl /boot || true Did you test that /usr/sbin is in PATH? For zipl we specify /sbin explicitly. (And yes, those might well be different execution environments...) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: s390-zfcp: Not sure I want to send translators on this bunch of cryptic strings to translate

2016-02-09 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2016-02-09 07:41, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 07:22:19AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: As a consequence, I'm highly tempted to mark all these strings as "non translatable". Indeed they are. Just do it. Sounds good to me. Sorry for the hassle. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: s390-zfcp: Not sure I want to send translators on this bunch of cryptic strings to translate

2016-02-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 07:06:51PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org): > > On 2016-02-09 07:41, Bastian Blank wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 07:22:19AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > >>As a consequence, I'm highly tem

Re: [RFC] screen/tmux support for network-console

2016-02-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2016-02-19 17:00, Roger Shimizu wrote: I have a new idea on d-i/network-console: multi-console support (screen/tmux). To be honest: This would be incredibly exciting for serial console as well. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#815916: patch update

2016-02-27 Thread Philipp Kern
tch again, could that be? % diff /tmp/0001-parted_devices-Add-disk-label-type-to-device-directo.patch-* 4c4 < Subject: [PATCH] parted_devices: Add disk label type to device directory --- > Subject: [PATCHv2] parted_devices: Add disk label type to device directory Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Bug#813506: zipl-installer: set up re-IPL to boot newly installed Debian/Linux

2016-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
th the patch above if you like > that approach more and keep the zipl logging idenntifier. Let's go with this, that's reasonably straightforward. (Another alternative might have been a trap, but even that would need a set +e.) Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Bug#807168: debian-installer-netboot-images: required resources not declared as build-dependencies (fetches via network)

2016-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
ages. YMMV I guess it's clear that the current state for both the netboot images and debian-installer itself is suboptimal. But it's not unheard of that certain packages need to ignore the rules for a while to eventually become compliant. (Which might mean RC bug and *-ignore tags.) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#666399: s390-dasd fails to work with >20 devices visible (mostly in LPAR mode)

2016-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
> What do you think? it'd be nice to see that in the installation manual, I think, so that it's at least documented. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Re: Merging libnss-dns-udeb and libnss-files-udeb back into libc6-udeb

2016-03-13 Thread Philipp Kern
b, and none of them has a versioned > dependency. None of the udeb have a dependency on libnss-files-udeb. > > Any opinion on that? It sounds like a good idea to me. :) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#433568: [PATCH 1/3] Add vlan support.

2016-03-30 Thread Philipp Kern
tatic int nc_wi_wireless_options(const struct netcfg_interface *interface, > FILE *fd) > { > /* > @@ -271,7 +286,10 @@ int netcfg_write_interface(const struct netcfg_interface > *interface) > di_debug("Writing static IPv6 stanza for %s", interface-

Bug#433568: [PATCH] Add vlan support, based on YunQiang Su patch and Phillip Kern's rewrite, with own additions. Closes: #433568

2016-04-10 Thread Philipp Kern
p(interface->name); > +netcfg_interface_up(interface); > > if (iw_scan(wfd, interface->name, iw_get_kernel_we_version(), > _list) >= 0 ) { > @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ int netcfg_wireless_show_essids(struct debconfclient > *client, struct netcfg_inte > } > > iw_set_basic_config(wfd, interface->name, ); > -interface_down(interface->name); > +netcfg_interface_down(interface); > > di_info("Network chosen: %s. Proceeding to connect.", interface->essid); > > diff --git a/write_interface.c b/write_interface.c > index 2ab1a34..e768002 100644 > --- a/write_interface.c > +++ b/write_interface.c > @@ -44,6 +44,20 @@ static int nc_wi_loopback(const struct netcfg_interface > *interface, FILE *fd) > return 1; > } > > +/* Write VLAN settings, such as: vlan_raw_device eth0 > +*/ > +static int nc_wi_vlan(const struct netcfg_interface *interface, FILE *fd) > +{ > + int rv; > + rv = 1; > + if (interface && interface->parentif && > + (fprintf(fd, "\tvlan_raw_device %s\n", interface->parentif) < 0)) { > + rv = 0; > + } > + return rv; > +} Would it make sense to have network-manager support as well? It should be fairly simple and along these lines: [vlan] parent=%parentif% id=%vlanid% > + > + > static int nc_wi_wireless_options(const struct netcfg_interface *interface, > FILE *fd) > { > /* > @@ -271,7 +285,10 @@ int netcfg_write_interface(const struct netcfg_interface > *interface) > di_debug("Writing static IPv6 stanza for %s", interface->name); > rv = nc_wi_static_ipv6(interface, fd); > } > - > + if (rv && interface && interface->parentif) { > + di_debug("Writing VLAN: %s", interface->name); > + rv = nc_wi_vlan(interface, fd); > + } > if (rv && interface && is_wireless_iface(interface->name)) { > di_debug("Writing wireless options for %s", interface->name); > rv = nc_wi_wireless_options(interface, fd); > -- > 2.7.4 > Otherwise this looks pretty good to me at this point. Much thanks for doing the effort. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: btrfs subvolume naming scheme

2016-04-27 Thread Philipp Kern
these discussions Philipp Kern

Bug#822416: Install LVM with Free PE, partman-?????

2016-04-27 Thread Philipp Kern
and needs to resort to not so simple and potentially destructive tooling to rectify the situation. That's not really simple either, right? Not really arguing for one way or another, but one sysadmin's KISS is another user's WTF. :) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: joining the team

2016-04-23 Thread Philipp Kern
This doesn't work out-of-the-box on > Jessie, because the feature depends on a named subvolume. But right now it installs into "@", no? > I'd also like to discuss whether the default subvolume naming scheme > should follow Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, or something else. What scheme are they using? Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Bug#433568: [PATCH] Add vlan support, based on YunQiang Su patch and Philipp Kern's rewrite, with own additions. Closes: #433568

2016-04-23 Thread Philipp Kern
n.type == VLAN) { > +nm_write_vlan_specific_options(config_file, ); > +} > #ifdef WIRELESS > else { > nm_write_wireless_specific_options(config_file, ); > @@ -420,6 +441,15 @@ static void nm_get_ipv6(struct netcfg_interface *niface, > nm_ipvX *ipv6) > > } > > +static void nm_get_vlan(struct netcfg_interface *niface, nm_connection > *connection, nm_vlan *nmvlan) > +{ > +if (niface->vlanid > 0) { > + connection->type = VLAN; > + nmvlan->id = niface->vlanid; > + nmvlan->parent = niface->parentif; > +} > +} > + > /* Extract all configs for a wireless interface, from both global netcfg > * values and other resources. */ > #ifdef WIRELESS > @@ -444,6 +474,7 @@ static void nm_get_wired_config(struct netcfg_interface > *niface, struct nm_confi > nm_get_wired_specific_options(niface, &(nmconf->wired)); > nm_get_ipv4(niface, &(nmconf->ipv4)); > nm_get_ipv6(niface, &(nmconf->ipv6)); > +nm_get_vlan(niface, &(nmconf->connection), &(nmconf->vlan)); > } > > /* Getting configurations for NM relies on netcfrg global variables. */ Would this also need to write out wired_specific_options for the parentif? (The only one being the MAC address...) I'm not sure if it'd need to be a separate file then. Probably? |: Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Re: Trying to resume monthly(ish) d-i releases

2016-05-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2016-05-06 00:25, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I've been away from Debian and d-i duties for a while, but I'd like to get back to trying to release d-i every month or so. Is there a current d-i release playbook somewhere? Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Bug#787279: d-i screen blanking (more info)

2016-05-10 Thread Philipp Kern
set when dpms=false is specified. While completely true for automated installs, people might end up with idling installers on some machines, no? But I guess the alternative of not blanking when it's actively doing something is not very compelling either… Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#787279: d-i screen blanking (more info)

2016-05-11 Thread Philipp Kern
ly not LED. I'm totally fine with blanking measured in hours and that seems like a good workaround. I also like the dimming idea. It sounds to me like there could be some filter be applied to the output of X... Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

2016-05-01 Thread Philipp Kern
t not at all detrimental. I'd, however, put an emphasis on turning it on when the terminal is a serial or remote console. Although it might not matter too much to have it always on… Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#771699: Provide A Preseed Option For Ignoring The Valid-Until Field of InRelease Files

2016-04-17 Thread Philipp Kern
or implementation? Mostly "we take (working) patches"? Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

2016-04-17 Thread Philipp Kern
mainframe does not contain a HTTP client, but an FTP client. Now, one can also upload the installer via the 3270, but that's a lot slower and harder to automate.[*] I would not be surprised if people who run an FTP server today would continue to do so. The expectation should be that it's not nece

Re: does anybody remember which debian release was it that asked for the MAC ID details at the end ?

2016-07-25 Thread Philipp Kern
. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#831693: debian-installer: installer tries to connect to the Internet when it shouldn't

2016-07-18 Thread Philipp Kern
m the fine documentation[1]: # Select which update services to use; define the mirrors to be used. # Values shown below are the normal defaults. #d-i apt-setup/services-select multiselect security, updates #d-i apt-setup/security_host string security.debian.org Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs04.html.en signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-10 Thread Philipp Kern
need to install to keep track of new major kernel versions in backports? Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Re: preseed repo key

2016-07-11 Thread Philipp Kern
-keys --keyserver keys.gnupg.net E1F958385BFE2B6E There is a key property on the repository preseed where you can specify a URL: d-i apt-setup/local0/key string [...] You could specify a keyserver there using HTTP, but any HTTP server should do. (And HTTPS in testing.) Kind regards Philipp

Re: preseed repo key

2016-08-07 Thread Philipp Kern
r, as this is HTTP, it might not be advisable to do this over the internet. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#833737: tasksel: s390x should be a server architecture

2016-08-08 Thread Philipp Kern
egards and thanks Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-04 Thread Philipp Kern
You know there are patches around for that. * X drivers I don't see backports for them. Would it also mean X proper or "just" drivers? Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#851774: Stop using apt-key add to add keys in generators/60local

2017-01-21 Thread Philipp Kern
if the file is armored or not? I think `apt-key add' just dealt with whatever it got and put the key into the keyring using gpg's --import function. So it's a little unfortunate that we'd now need to know the format of what we need to put into the fragment directory. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#476388: partman-auto-crypto: Allow preseeding of the skip_erase flag

2017-01-29 Thread Philipp Kern
not introduce a translatable string, so I'd be hopeful that we could still merge this for stretch. I tested the possible paths through this in qemu and the patch only triggers if the option is explicitly set to false. Kind regards Philipp Kern diff --git a/autopartition-crypto b/autopa

Bug#851537: Please support preseeding an empty domain to prevent prompting

2017-01-29 Thread Philipp Kern
ompt for one. Unfortunately I can't reproduce this. Could you provide a syslog of an installation where that's happening? And probably /var/lib/cdebconf/questions.dat as well. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#851537: Please support preseeding an empty domain to prevent prompting

2017-01-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On 01/29/2017 11:15 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 01/16/2017 01:18 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: >> netcfg supports preseeding the domain via netcfg/get_domain, but >> providing an empty values results in the installer still prompting. >> Please consider providing a way to preseed

Bug#855035: debian-installer: https does not work with stretch rc2 installer

2017-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
elling debootstrap to pull them in upon initial installation, assuming the media has it, seems feasible to me. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#855035: debian-installer: https does not work with stretch rc2 installer

2017-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
pecifically? I'm not sure what the netinst list is but forcd1's header tells me it's specifically not for netinst/businesscard. I fear we also need it there given the fix will be in bootstrap-base. Does that mean that we actually need to propagate dependencies there somehow? Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-12 Thread Philipp Kern
ugh what happens then if you try to interact with the actual installation from multiple terminals. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#838919: Swap file

2016-10-04 Thread Philipp Kern
ritten at install time probably don't matter much. Also it doesn't work on btrfs. But I do wonder if there are other real-world drawbacks these days with swap files, given that the kernel should know the block list on disk and the penalty should hence be small... Kind regards and thanks Philipp

Bug#837649: debootstrap: Add support for Packages.xz

2016-10-04 Thread Philipp Kern
gt; [1] > https://github.com/aburch/debootstrap/commit/1689d645aacb0bc3f9edb86526f67e776469942a Thanks. That looked sane to me. I pushed the change to the repository. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: uefi netinst broken on 8.6.0+testing due to missing nls_ascii.ko

2016-10-09 Thread Philipp Kern
nls_ascii into fat-modules). Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] https://bugs.debian.org/839552 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#822941: debian-installer: cannot boot installed on

2016-08-24 Thread Philipp Kern
about this behavior? Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Bug#742671: seeding base-installer/debootstrap_script with an absolute path emits a warning, and just a codename results in an error

2016-10-27 Thread Philipp Kern
airly straightforward. I just applied the change to git and it should be in the next upload. (Currently we're in the middle of a release, though.) Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#840248: debian-installer: Add btrfs subvolume setting for snapshot

2016-10-30 Thread Philipp Kern
at I just encountered this myself: rescue(-mode) will need a fix in this case because by default it mounts the top-level, which means that the actual chroot is one level down. Although I guess setting the default subvolume id to the one of whatever you call @rootfs should also fix this. Kind regards Phi

Bug#825931: s390-netdevice virtio interface choice misleading

2016-10-23 Thread Philipp Kern
ill present IUCV support, hence I actually need some input as to why you think it's broken. And possibly a way of checking if there actually is a possibility of using IUCV for the VM in question. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#826844: netcfg ignoring BOOTF= in kernel cmdline

2016-10-23 Thread Philipp Kern
lso prepends a hardware type. (That's its defined interface.) Completely from memory you might want to try 01-0c-c4-7a-8e-ad-4a for the BOOTIF. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#835499: netcfg: Does not allow for pointopoint addresses, not even in export mode

2016-10-23 Thread Philipp Kern
previous bullet point already alludes to that. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#815916: Followup

2016-10-23 Thread Philipp Kern
debian-installer release, I'll wait with the upload and then push the fix to partman-partitioning after the new partman-base is in the archive. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Location of the /usr/lib/ssl/certs symlink in the installer environment

2016-11-23 Thread Philipp Kern
this symlink should live in the installer environment? Should it be libssl1.1-udeb or ca-certificates-udeb (which does not exist yet, I just filed a bug with a patch to create it)? Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#845456: Please add a udeb to ca-certificates

2016-11-23 Thread Philipp Kern
. Not having the certificates available blocked inclusion of a HTTPS-capable wget altogether. Kind regards and thanks for considering the patch Philipp Kern diff -Naur ca-certificates-20161102/debian/ca-certificates.dirs ca-certificates-20161102.udebed/debian/ca-certificates.dirs --- ca-certificates-20161102

Re: Location of the /usr/lib/ssl/certs symlink in the installer environment

2016-11-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On 11/23/2016 06:43 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 05:20:15PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >> when trying to add HTTPS support to the installer I noticed that openssl >> seems to read /usr/lib/ssl/certs by default, rather than /etc/ssl/certs. >> In Debian prope

Re: On uploads and responsibilities

2016-11-22 Thread Philipp Kern
On 20.11.2016 04:37, Tianon Gravi wrote: > On 19 November 2016 at 16:08, Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: >> I saw the followup thread between Tianon and Philip and thought that a >> proper patch had been identified. Otherwise I would've went, mea >> culpa'ed a

Re: Bug#845456: Please add a udeb to ca-certificates

2016-11-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On 11/23/2016 05:17 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > In an effort to make HTTPS usable in the installer (e.g. to fetch > preseed, authorized_keys files, or packages) ca-certificates needs to > add a udeb with the certificates. The result has to be usable by > openssl, which requires that

Bug#842040: Please add https support

2016-11-18 Thread Philipp Kern
r, this image is really > quite a special case and I don't want to block https support because > of it. I can always exclude wget-udeb from this particular image. So how do we move forward here? Exclude wget-udeb from the orion5x-qnap image and otherwise include it by default? Kind regards a

Bug#842040: Please add https support

2016-11-18 Thread Philipp Kern
link for your patches to busybox wget to add SSL > support? That sounds like it'd substantially decrease size compared to > including GNU wget and supporting libraries. Unfortunately matrixssl isn't even in Debian at this point. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: On uploads and responsibilities

2016-11-19 Thread Philipp Kern
it and do a smoke run of d-i to ensure that it's not totally broken. Philip, is that something that would be possible? (And of course briefly testing that myself rather than just build testing. There isn't really any excuse to make here.) Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#842040: Please add https support

2016-11-20 Thread Philipp Kern
e'd also need a ca-certificates-udeb. I can take a look at that but I somewhat fear that it won't be that much smaller than the regular one (maybe ~150k udeb size). Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern [1] We extended d-i to download image files of system installs. [2] Thinking of preseed/url across th

Bug#842040: Please add https support

2016-11-20 Thread Philipp Kern
do the PEM cpio dance if ca-certificates-udeb would be part of the image. We don't need to add an internal CA or something like that. I understand the bit about paying the price, which is why I tried to address that in my reply as well. Recent discussions on -devel showed that there's a general inte

Bug#842040: Please add https support

2016-11-20 Thread Philipp Kern
it from the source package in unstable, you need to do it from the VCS. It boils down to the question if it's useful beyond just us. :) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#842040: Please add https support

2016-10-26 Thread Philipp Kern
shouldn't be very controversial. Adding wget-udeb to pkg-lists/base ends up with this: $ lsinitrd dest/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz | grep wget -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 409016 Sep 26 15:11 usr/bin/wget So that seems to have the desired result. I did not try out the resulting

Bug#825931: s390-netdevice virtio interface choice misleading

2016-10-26 Thread Philipp Kern
eful. Did the kernel start off not offering all devices in sysfs because LPARs can have a huge amount of them? Or did it always rely on blacklisting in this case? I suppose that the original reason was that you actually had to enter device numbers because it couldn't probe, but then on the other ha

Re: Next d-i release

2016-10-26 Thread Philipp Kern
ntal and sid now, so I feel quite safe about it, but it'd be >> probably useful to have it for testing in d-i sooner than later. > ACK, thanks. It migrated on its own already. It'd also be nice if zipl-installer could still make it. #840230 is pretty nasty. Kind regards Philipp Kern signat

Bug#840230: When installing to rootfs on LVM, an empty subvol= is appended to rootflags

2016-10-09 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: zipl-installer Version: 0.0.33 Severity: serious zipl-installer 0.0.33 breaks installation for normal non-btrfs root filesystems. (initramfs) cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/mapper/vg-root rootflags=subvol= BOOT_IMAGE=0 The empty subvol= makes mount barf as it's not a valid ext4 flag.

Bug#842040: Please add https support

2016-12-08 Thread Philipp Kern
ok to commit and push? Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: SV: debian-installer manual: call to update translations

2016-12-10 Thread Philipp Kern
pdated. It seems that it requires to be able to rebuild the manual itself as well. Apparently we are talking about the cron job scripts on [1], which haven't been touched for years. Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/scripts/manual-daily/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#836016: netcfg: Drop unnecessary loopback config in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-12-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On 12/30/2016 12:19 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > it needs to, yes. Otherwise you end up with the interface being > unmanaged from n-m, despite the n-m snippet having been written. I > suppose what we could do is just empty it out. At least trying that out > was successful for me. I

Bug#840248: debian-installer: Add btrfs subvolume setting for snapshot

2017-01-03 Thread Philipp Kern
triggered by passing "rescue/enable=true" on the kernel command-line. d-i ships with boot menu items that do this. Kind regards Philipp Kern [0] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/rescue.git/tree/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#836016: netcfg: Drop unnecessary loopback config in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-12-29 Thread Philipp Kern
I guess we could pre-configure systemd-networkd in some way, but right now there's no package to check for. (Which is how we determine if network-manager configuration needs to be written out.) Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Failure of D-I manual builds on dillon (and subsequently on the website?)

2016-12-30 Thread Philipp Kern
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/ are fine. ...this isn't true. Traditionally additional build dependencies are listed in [0] (patch to be sent to debian-admin@lists.d.o), because we can't simply install packages from a build process. They have to be installed by DSA. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: shebang preseed

2016-12-20 Thread Philipp Kern
ncountered? If I understand you correctly it told you that the file was corrupt. Your proposal would just re-enforce that notion, at the expense of everyone needing to change their files? :) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Bug#488386: please provide an udeb for laptop-detect

2016-12-24 Thread Philipp Kern
rsions to testing. The release team has historically asked for some updates not to be released from NEW, but that was mostly to avoid uncoordinated transitions. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#749991: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

2017-03-26 Thread Philipp Kern
main archive. We'd need to trigger builds whenever testing changes and then auto-upload a corresponding build. It's both a technical and political problem to make that happen. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#749991: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

2017-03-27 Thread Philipp Kern
and/or help test one. Well, if you have ideas that work within the current framework, we can see about that. Thanks for the offer. :) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#857064: debian-installer: Can't list partition types in fdisk

2017-04-09 Thread Philipp Kern
e could also ponder adding CONFIG_LESS=y in some minimal build flavor.) Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: partman-auto-crypto_25_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2017-04-02 Thread Philipp Kern
mention it either. I don't mind adding a hunk like this: # When disk encryption is enabled, skip wiping the partitions # beforehand. #d-i partman-auto-crypto/erase_disks boolean false Do you think there should be more, like an example recipe? Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] https://www.debian.o

Bug#859889: installation-reports: successful install on s390x, but no tasksel

2017-04-08 Thread Philipp Kern
I wasn't sure how to tell if reportbug already attached information. At least d-i's syslog is attached to this mail. syslog.gz Description: application/gzip

Re: Bug#858943: unblock: systemd/232-22

2017-04-09 Thread Philipp Kern
hether this could be annoying in d-i, > it seems to me that's just fixing a move which hadn't happened with the > net.ifnames transition, for specific hardware? FWIW, I have tested this on an installation and haven't seen any problems. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#856060: Please don't use obsolete libsysfs-dev any more

2017-04-09 Thread Philipp Kern
wheezy. Unfortunately for this and s390-netdevice there's no upstream to work with. > Thank you for considering! > > > [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/ This link is broken. > [2] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/gudev/

Bug#860833: 50mounted-tests hangs at dmsetup when using biosgrub partition on a left over fat32 partition

2017-04-21 Thread Philipp Kern
On 04/20/2017 08:34 PM, Marga Manterola wrote: >> After a lot of debugging with Philipp Kern, we were able to find out > that dmsetup was hanging on a udev cookie semaphore. The udev outside > of the chroot is compiled udev_sync, and it doesn't have dmsetup rules, > so it

Bug#860809: installation-reports: ipv6 SLAAC autoconf not working with stretch's network install

2017-04-21 Thread Philipp Kern
ful to see "ip -6 route" and "ip route". Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#860467: apt-setup https protocol support in generators/91security for security mirror

2017-04-18 Thread Philipp Kern
h accepts an arbitrary URL). Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: partman-auto-crypto_25_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2017-04-08 Thread Philipp Kern
On 04/02/2017 09:03 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> (2017-04-02): >> What do you want to see where? Another hunk to [1]? That doesn't seem to >> feature crypto at all yet. installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt >> doesn't mention it

Bug#859889: installation-reports: successful install on s390x, but no tasksel

2017-04-08 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: IPL from CMS Image version: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/s390x/daily/ 2017-04-08 00:01 Date: Machine: IBM 2964 (z13) Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please

Bug#698528: debian-installer: BusyBox's wget doesn't preseed from HTTPS

2017-08-10 Thread Philipp Kern
e so. > > (Indeed, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to justify removing > *non*-HTTP support!) > >> Marga's been looking into this lately, see #802591 & #802596. > > These have now been closed :) Yup, and should have fixed this issue with them. Explicitly addin

Bug#868869: debian-installer should not recommend to change password periodically (and more)

2017-07-25 Thread Philipp Kern
e mitigating controls. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#868681: installation-reports: UEFI on HP z240 fails; needs hard-coded EFI path

2017-07-23 Thread Philipp Kern
e is broken. Do you use the current UEFI BIOS? If not, I'd at least try to upgrade it. Also the installer's syslog (/var/log/installer/syslog* on the installed system) would be helpful to see. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#868869: debian-installer should not recommend to change password periodically (and more)

2017-07-23 Thread Philipp Kern
on. And change it to make brute force attacks harder. Of course in any kind of company context I would despise *rules* (which this comment is not - it's just a suggestion) because they lower security. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#860809: installation-reports: ipv6 SLAAC autoconf not working with stretch's network install

2017-04-24 Thread Philipp Kern
f:fe14:24ee/64 scope global dynamic valid_lft 2591868sec preferred_lft 604668sec Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Run debootstrap twice

2017-08-16 Thread Philipp Kern
to state why this should work in the first place. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#841842: debian-installer: should use EXT4's native file-system-level encryption

2017-06-25 Thread Philipp Kern
ks or not. (And I tried to confirm both questions, but encryption didn't work with loop filesystems because of the blocksize, unfortunately.) Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#863565: default install of 'sudo'

2017-05-28 Thread Philipp Kern
t.) Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#877012: apt-setup: debian sources.list entries should have signed-by options pointing to specific keys

2017-10-15 Thread Philipp Kern
uration, I think. This mechanism loses the key agility we have with debian-archive-keyring and the reference of a file updatable by a package instead of a single key but that's maybe fair in the context of local configuration[*]. Kind regards Philipp Kern [*] But nevertheless I guess also invent

Bug#875308: linklocal ipv6 addresses in debian-installer netcfg

2017-09-10 Thread Philipp Kern
gt; > I suggest the debian installer should be able to deal with link local ipv6 > addresses. You redacted your link-local address to be dead:beef::. I suppose what you actually mean is one with a fe80:: prefix? (I.e. it'd have been more helpful to redact the MAC/actual address.) Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Let's talk about conflicts and omissions in the udeb distribution

2017-10-12 Thread Philipp Kern
perplexed that libkmod2-udeb does not ship shared library and thus system one is used which is built differently. (all of udeb is build without hardening, but deb library is built with hardening) Maybe you should file bugs and/or discuss this on -boot. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: isc-dhcpd vs udhcpd

2017-10-23 Thread Philipp Kern
consistency. :/ Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Bug#879662: apt: debian-installer FTBFS: E: Method copy has died unexpectedly!

2017-10-24 Thread Philipp Kern
could install a SIGSYS signal handler to print which syscall was blocked, but did not find anything yet. Does a seccomp kill land in dmesg? Kind regards Philipp Kern

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