On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 12:42:11PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> If there is somebody who's ignoring things, that would be yourself,
> given this change has been not only been explicitly requested, but even
> provided _BY_ the CTTE, as you would have easily found out if you
> actually went and
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:29:55AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Daniel Richard G.]
Yes, I see that... what is it now, the --no-recommends switch is broken?
Nope. Your installation simply used version 0.26, which is one
version before the change was introduced.
I eagerly await
Dear Debian boot,
It is now possible to set up Debian system without a root password.
On such system sudo must be used instead of su.
What is the canonical way to detect such situation ?
My purpose is to change su-to-root to automatically default to sudo mode
on such system.
Cheers,
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Bill.
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:31:08PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
Bill Allombert wrote:
Dear Debian boot,
It is now possible to set up Debian system without a root password.
On such system sudo must be used instead of su.
What is the canonical way to detect such situation ?
My purpose
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Bill Allombert (bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr):
Dear Debian boot,
It is now possible to set up Debian system without a root password.
On such system sudo must be used instead of su.
What is the canonical
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:08:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:10:46PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
I'd say that reading the value of passwd/root-login debconf template
is the safest way. If you get false, then the system is a sudo-only
system.
I assume
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:38:50PM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote:
Second: this release contains ALL binary firmware blobs shipped
upstream, even those we kept pruning since the day Herbert Xu removed
them the first time in 2004.
Initially, we wanted to wait for a positive GR vote outcome
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 08:52:15AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
There won't be any GR, there will be a new pet proposal until forever, and
endless discussions as we start recalling the DPL, and bashing on the
secretary and what not.
In the absence of GR, the current situation is that sourceless
close 368487
merge 368487 368408
quit
Somehow I missed 368408.
Sorry for the duplicated report.
Cheers,
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On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:48:30AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 09:09, Sven Luther wrote:
It is scheduled for release during may, which may or not be delayed a
bit. This is way this is an important point to get feedaback from the
release team and from the gtk-gnome team
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
With Beta 2 we have lost the option to (easily) install without using a
network connection. There have been several comments about this.
Please keep in mind that there is a distinction between having no
network connection and no
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:20:03PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote:
Bill Allombert wrote:
This has some consequences:
1) Debian menu is translated, since update-menus was ran under
proper locales! This is very nice ! Thanks to everybody involved!
Is this _really_ a good thing?
It is!
2
Package: base-config
Version: 2.24
Severity: normal
Hello, apparently base-config set up LANG in /etc/environment only at the end.
This might cause some shells to not have a proper LANG because they are
started earlier (for example if you press F2 and log in).
Ideally, /etc/environment could be
Hello Debian-installer team,
During the baseconfig part of the install, locales are set up,
while root has C locale by default (but the user account has
correct locales).
This has some consequences:
1) Debian menu is translated, since update-menus was ran under
proper locales! This is very nice
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
If you choose main-menu: Launch a shell, you get a shell with broken
readline: using the left arrow key lead to a broken display.
Apparently, the shell under Alt-F2 does not have this problem, so I
suspect a bad tty setting.
Long life debian-installer!
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
(From Pierre Machard on irc)
Hello dream-installer Team,
/etc/hosts in the debian-installer environnement is not correct
after network configuration is complete (manual).
it read:
127.0.0.1 localhost pingo
10.10.0.17 pingo.miss-knife.net pingo
From
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Hello debian-installer team,
During the base system install, I get a menu asking me to choose
a kernel (2.4.25 or 2.6.5).
I don't install on a bootable media so I technically don't need a kernel.
Unfortunately I was forced to install one, so I picked
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Bill Allombert wrote:
Hello Debian-installer team,
After testing beta 1 and beta 2, I tried beta 3, with the
same goal in mind: install Debian in a file using a loop
device.
As far as I could see, all beta detected
Hello Debian-installer team,
After testing beta 1 and beta 2, I tried beta 3, with the
same goal in mind: install Debian in a file using a loop
device.
As far as I could see, all beta detected the hardware of
the box fine.
beta 1 and 2 lacked the minimal support to create loop device,
but the
Geert Stappers wrote:
We, debian installer system team, have seen this before.
At http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200311/msg00925.html
is a patch submitted.
Reading this link, I see that
so far. All of those suposedly mklibs weak symbols bugs disapeared
when
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/USR3/src/P/ppp/ppp-2.4.2+20031127$head -3 debian/ppp-udeb.postinst
#!/bin/sh -e
echo $0 DISABLED ; exit 0
Oh, I well-know that. I use a modified version. My problem is I cannot
manage to properly load the udeb in d-i.
After udpkg -i
Hello d-i developers,
There have been some work toward pppoe support in d-i.
I tried to test the ppp postinst script, but apparently I was not
skilled to even manage to run it.
So is there a d-i image with updated ppp-udeb and pppoe modules that I
could test ?
Cheers, [please CC me]
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Bill.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:44:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Package: netcfg
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i
The current order is not really natural :
I would like to propose this change;
-IP address
-Netmask
-Gateway
-DNS servers
-Machine name
-Domain name
Bill, feel free
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:47:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Bill Allombert wrote:
I have entered `net' at boot prompt.
Why did you do that, instead of just hitting enter? It apparently booted
you up in low priority mode, which explains most of the following:
The help screen [F3] says
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:17:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Bill Allombert wrote:
The help screen [F3] says that 'net' is good for a network install, and
I wanted to test network install.
IIRC, The help screens are from the boot-floppies and basically useless.
I suppose it is a bug worth
Dear D-I developers,
I have tested the debian-install first beta.
I have used the sarge-i386-businesscard.iso.
I have a IDE disk a IDE CDROM an windbond-840 ethernet card and
a SCSI card (aic7xx) with nothing attached.
Here my experience:
I have entered `net' at boot prompt.
The `Choose
Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
i got some problems installing from a USB CDROM/Floppy Drive,
Do you know if your USB devices work with a stock 2.4 kernel ?
It seems the current support for USB Mass storage in 2.4 kernels
needs a bit of screwdriving for a lot of hardware. This mean adding entries
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