mklibs -l option (force libs)

2008-11-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
the point. Do you remember what the option is needed for? My assumption above might be plain wrong. I ran into the fact that it won't work with a foo.so file, because foo.so does not match so_pattern. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#484366: rootskel: cttyhack requires the serial console to be /dev/ttyS0

2008-06-04 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:21:41PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: I tried to install Debian on Versatile/PB using qemu and the armel installer (Lenny beta 1). It is quickly stuck complaining cttyhack: '/dev/ttyS0': No such file or device. What

Bug#484366: rootskel: cttyhack requires the serial console to be /dev/ttyS0

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Package: rootskel Version: 1.62 Severity: normal I tried to install Debian on Versatile/PB using qemu and the armel installer (Lenny beta 1). It is quickly stuck complaining cttyhack: '/dev/ttyS0': No such file or device. That's because the serial port on Versatile is named ttyAMA0. I ran qemu

Bug#469070: mklibs and libthread_db

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
in the application. Any thoughts on applying the patch? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc dlopening libgcc on arm

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
throw, not just when an exception is thrown. Note, that was exceptions, not threads. This code is in libc and libpthread. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#410065: installation-report: d-i rc1, NSLU2: minor network-console and boot issues

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
on no packages. Versions of packages installation-report recommends: ii pciutils 1:2.2.4~pre4-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii reportbug 3.31 reports bugs in the Debian distrib -- no debconf information -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#397091: debootstrap-udeb: Depends on libgcc_s.so.1 on MIPS

2006-11-04 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Package: debootstrap-udeb Version: 0.3.3 Severity: important The version of debootstrap-udeb in the archive depends on libgcc_s.so.1. This library is not included in debian-installer; as a result, d-i does not work on MIPS. I'm not sure how this happened; maybe it was built with a transient GCC

Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
to use this approach for strace recently, and there were missing symbols in libc.so.6). If someone more familiar with d-i than I am can confirm that the udeb will be useful, I can try to get GDB to build one, but it seems like a very strange package to have a udeb. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery

Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
image would e.g. change the required bits of libraries. Hoping for feedback. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#385919: RFA: bogl -- Ben's Own Graphics Library - graphical terminal

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the bogl package. The package description is: Ben's Own Graphics Library is a small framebuffer library, including basic widgets, support for text in multiple languages, and mouse handling. . This package contains bterm, a UTF-enabled

Re: Bug#359062: debian-installer: bterm is not (yet) accessible for brltty

2006-03-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
of the current malloc()). Sounds plausible... Unfortunately, I am no longer able to maintain bogl or bterm; I was hoping for someone to adopt it, but he hasn't had time either. Don't suppose someone on the CC list wants to fix this bug and adopt a needy package? -- Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: Bug#277092: amd64-libs: Removing package fails and breaks system

2004-10-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
to talk to Matthias about that. I'm trying to upload the amd64-libs fix. I'm having a fistfight with the upload queue, which insists that its checksum is wrong. -- Daniel Jacobowitz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#237075: Bug not related to Sparc64... Maybe related to Creator?

2004-05-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
console so the option devfs=mount was needed. Not so in Jeff Bailey's build. bterm keeps on segfaulting with this image too. then you indeed found a bug in bterm I think this is the same as 245620. It's a kernel bug, not bterm. -- Daniel Jacobowitz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: bogl_write_font failed

2004-03-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
a fix now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bterm font reloading patch

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
stage. Does this need to rewrite by sed or another tool? I've changed it to use pidof instead in CVS. I'll upload it once the freeze is over. Let me try to take care of it tonight. Importing NMUs into my CVS is a nuisance. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software

Re: Processed: bterm font problem

2004-01-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
a graphical installer is available. This bug will be as easily and more usefully fixed in main-menu. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Bug#221538: bogl-bterm-udeb: var/lib/dpkg/info/bogl-bterm-udeb.md5sums unwanted

2004-01-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
maintainers, kindly do not do so and then upload an NMU nine minutes later. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bogl-bterm: font reloading

2003-11-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Can you just restart bterm? Yes, I realize that's got some issues since you're running inside of it. But it's really not set up to re-parse the font. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Processed: reassign 215160 to bogl-bterm

2003-10-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
a machine with working framebuffer right now. 2.6 ate my aty128fb. I applied the optimization patches because they looked sane and I was told they worked. Is there anyone who can debug this or do they have to be reverted? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Always use UTF-8 when running base-config?

2003-10-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:05:51PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:31:13PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: I applied Alan Cox's patches to bogl-0.1.12 and found that bogl-bterm-udeb's bterm scrolled much faster. I have forwarded the patches to Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: Processed: reassign

2002-03-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bug#134014: bterm causes split screen

2002-03-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
this. If we're going to have a new bterm anyway, I would be inclined to put the patch from #138653 in too. It does make the dialog boxes look quite a lot prettier. Yeah, I intend to. Thanks. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software

Re: Bug#137734: Missing filesystems for 2.4 kernel on testing cds

2002-03-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
. As soon as I can build kernel packages again, I'll upload 2.4.18. This bug was stunningly timely, in that I'd forgotten again that newpmac existed... must have grabbed the wrong source tree. I'm having some trouble with depmod right now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon

Re: Floppy boot for powerpc: add video=ofonly?

2002-02-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
a good idea. Go ahead; I don't remember any reason not to do this. (that's why I put the spaces in there in the first place!) -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

3.0.19 install issues

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
on? -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

More 3.0.19 woes

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
... and I thought I was done... Base-config somehow got run a second time, after a number of packages had configured. I didn't see any errors, but some (like exim) just never came up. Pretty good otherwise! -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista

One last issue

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Interestingly, the installer also decided to remove PCMCIA support. I don't know why; the module loaded just fine, and it seems to work. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: powerpc b-f build compiles the kernel

2002-01-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
/powerpc/config.prep .config # Build floppy-sized kernel boot image make oldconfig make zImage cp ./arch/ppc/boot/zImage $top/bootprep.bin -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Bug#122738: boot-floppies can't handle devfs

2001-12-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
persuade you to at least fix the /proc/partitions bug and see what happens? It's not like this bug is a surprise; I remember hearing about it six or more months ago. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux

Bug#122738: boot-floppies can't handle devfs

2001-12-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:17:33PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm pretty strongly opposed to this idea. Why? Because devfs is a useful feature, and I get the impression from debian-powerpc that many people are using it on PowerPC. I'm

Re: .config for boot-floppy-hfs.img

2001-09-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
/ppc/ after you build. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .config for boot-floppy-hfs.img

2001-09-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:20:08AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11-Sep-2001 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Damien Morel wrote: Hi, do some of you know where can I find the .config file used to generate the kernel on powerpc's boot-floppy

Re: mklibs.py, unresolved symbol

2001-09-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
: objcopy -j .interp -O binary /bin/ls foo cat foo (being aware that foo will be a null, rather than newline, terminated string). ld-linux.so.2 is standard on some architectures, and ld.so.1 is standard on others. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University

Re: .config for boot-floppy-hfs.img

2001-09-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
-floppy-hfs.img to be exact). Thanks in advance. In the kernel-patch-2.2.19-powerpc or kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac packages. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
these exceed the size of lilo and whatever else x86-only things we need, that's all. hfsutils is quite big. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:13:14PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: Hmm. Then something must be eating up all that space -- powerpc binaries are not that much bigger then x86 binaries... Is library reduction not working

Re: boot-floppies 3.0.13

2001-08-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
to that, I'm building boot-floppies 3.0.13 now. Below is the changelogs. Quick turn-around, but how can that hurt, eh? Mmkay. Please don't build PowerPC until after dinstall tomorrow, I've uploaded fixed kernels, pcmcia and all. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University

Re: boot-floppies_3.0.12_i386.changes INSTALLED

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:14:51PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Woah. OK, I've been letting this slide a little bit, but are you telling me that we need a new 2.2.19 kernel for the version of boot-floppies now in the archive? What must I do

Re: boot-floppies_3.0.12_i386.changes INSTALLED

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:32:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:22:31AM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:43:09PM -0400, Debian Installer wrote: * Ethan Benson - PowerMac uses linux (read i386) keycodes now, use i386 keymaps

Re: boot-floppies_3.0.12_i386.changes INSTALLED

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:10:15PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:46:28PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: As I said, please do bring this sort of thing to the attention of someone who can do something about it. I'm sorry for not following -boot religiously while

Re: pcmcia modules for powerpc not available

2001-08-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:19:43AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not in unstable or testing. Eek. How'd that happen?? I would guess pcmcic-cs was forced from unstable into testing, causing the older pcmcia-modules dpeneding on the older

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
done, but that just a lazy programmers attitude. :) I'm sure we can find things to add. We're an industrious bunch that way :) -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: libm on root-filesystem?

2001-08-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
. I know Lineo has one (is it free?), and MontaVista has one too (which is, I believe, supposed to be free but not released yet - I'll see if I can make headway on this on Monday). -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software

Re: problem with dhcp-client

2001-07-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
2132 and fix pump so it works... What exaxtly is the problem with pump that caused us to switch? -Erik Please, do that. We had no good reason aside from a few it doesn't work for me reports, as I recall. Using an obsolete version of dhcp-client deliberately is just bad news. -- Daniel

Bug#104798: Build failure on hppa (at least)

2001-07-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
directory `/archive': Permission denied [ -d /archive/debian/download ] || mkdir -p /archive/debian/download mkdir: cannot create directory `/archive': Permission denied Can we stop boot-floppies from being picked up by autobuilders somehow? PLEASE? -- Daniel Jacobowitz

Bug#104798: Build failure on hppa (at least)

2001-07-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
still needed real root to create images. The build daemons mostly use fakeroot now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
of any scsi disk. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Dan hasn't uploaded a new version yet? I also filed a bug with a patch because powerpc-utils doesn't build on woody. If you forward me these bugs I'll try to deal with them this weekend; the BTS is still not spooling. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
/yesno_current.png Comments? I think it's a good idea. Do we have any serious space issues with this? I don't remember any. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-06-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
to support the 32 bit CHRP/PReP machines. I'll have one for testing in a few days, with luck. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Systems with no floppy

2001-06-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
it to Zip? I'm pretty sure you'll have the same problems booting a ZIP as booting a CD. The HFS floppy image only works because floppies aren't expected to provide their own drivers. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-05-29 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:47:19AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:54:29PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: Probably the best way is to leave it in EXTRACT, but not SMALL_BASE_LIST, and conditionally copy it. Does that make sense? [...] Someone can fix

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
what's at fault and fix it or where should I file a bug? Huh? Read the powerpc-utils postinst. All I call is update-rc.d and #DEBHELPER#... no debconf at all. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security

Re: woody bf-utf8 (Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support)

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
appreciate it if someone would make boot floppies use libbogl0 and bogl-bterm instead. Every patch that goes in to bogl in this archive runs a high risk of being lost. I'm not set up to build boot floppies right now, but since no one else has done this, I guess I'll try to do it tomorrow. -- Daniel

Re: libutf8, bogl, bgf fonts and tools vs boot-floppies

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:28:10PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We need to have the stuff in subject included in bf bould process somehow. The question is: how? AFAIK bterm has its own package (bogl-bterm), as does bdf fonts' source. (Now we

Re: woody bf-utf8 (Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support)

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:22:52PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 04:32:00PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: As I said on this list several times, I would appreciate it if someone would make boot floppies use libbogl0 and bogl-bterm instead. Every patch that goes

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
this, or I will on Tuesday. Hopefully I didn't break too much. Yes, we now need libbogl-dev from sid rather than woody (tomorrow's sid, even) - but only if LANGUAGE_CHOOSER is on, otherwise any libbogl-dev/bogl-bterm at all will do. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux

Re: removing bogl from bf CVS module

2001-05-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
could move my local CVS tree to cvs.d.o, certainly, if people want me to. Do you want to tackle making woody b-f build with my packages? Mostly boxes.c got gutted; that wants to stay in b-f and link to -lbogl. I'd rather not give others commit access, though... -- Daniel Jacobowitz

Bug#94458: depmod after drivers installation fails because directory is incorrect

2001-04-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
package. Are you absolutely sure you have a bootdisk and rootdisk from the same build? The 2.2.23 I uploaded had a /target/lib/modules/2.2.19: block/ fs/ ipv4/ ipv6/ misc/ net/ pcmcia/ scsi/ usb/ I'm betting you used an out-of-date mirror for a network install. -- Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
. drow is trying to fix that in the r3 boot floppies. ARGS. Is he "trying to fix this" or did he "actually fix this"? Drow, it would be a good time to appear now... :) Fixed. I just booted the same floppies I put in Incoming half an hour ago and got a good way into an

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
? You should have read the whole post. It clearly says otherwise. As Ethan pointed out, no, it didn't. You nowhere said what you were doing, and everything I've seen posted before this was using 2.2.16. I'd appreciate it if you could explain what you did to fix the problem. -- Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
it should be out this time tomorrow. "Note that this link used to point to a 2.2.17 based floppy I built a while ago that really wasn't all that useful." My impression was that the 2.2.17 floppy had the input problems, and had been downgraded back to a 2.2.16 based one. Oops. Sorry.

Re: patch to fix debootstrap invocation on local archive

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ld be nice... -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team "I am croutons!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Boot floppies 2.2.23

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Is there anything else holding up 2.2.23? Can I tag it, or do you want to? -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team "I am croutons!" -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: 2.2r3 and boot-floppies

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
. the other issue is the boot-floppies are broken since the root disk prompt won't accept enter (or anything) to continue. Working on it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team

Re: powerpc boot-floppies

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
it worthy of potato update. Sorry about dropping the ball on this. I've got it almost prepared; I'm testing now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team "I am cro

Bug#48778: powermac bf issues (was Re: Bug#48778: Feature has been implemented)

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
needs to run it in order to get a bootable system. I hope so, also. I've not got time for woody boot floppies right now, but after 2.2r3 goes out the door I'll take a look at it, hopefully. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software

Re: [PATCH] nearly successful powerpc build

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
# to build the boot-floppies. It has to be an absolute PATH or else # the basedisks.sh script will fail. -ftp_archive := /archive/debian +ftp_archive := /space/james/archive/debian Careful of including this with submitted patches! If you feel like adding a config.local, more power to

Re: 2.2r3 and boot-floppies

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:50:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:04:53PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: Under what conditions does this happen? AFAIK (based on ramblings from benh on #mklinux) it seems to affect the recent iMac keyboards. for some reason

Re: [PATCH] nearly successful powerpc build

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
patch package it'll take me weeks to figure out why boot floppies are still crashing. D'OH! This should teach me to submit patches after midnight. Sheesh. At least I remembered to delete it out of the other patch ... ... I think I'll be adding a config.local now. Thanks! -- Daniel

Re: PPC boot-floppy building

2001-04-12 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
doing anything upstream either.) The proper fix would be to finish with our conversion to PC keycodes; 2.2.19 should have everything necessary, as should our 2.2.18 packages. Then we can lose those keymaps entirely. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
floppies? This might be an easy, general fix we can do for all arches. Definitely! But the only times we've tried to address this are when I need to get potato b-f's out, and I'm not about to try that in potato. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista

Re: boot-floppies progress

2001-03-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
further. 2.2.19pre17 is a significant security upgrade. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team "I am croutons!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
y done two installs. ~:^) But there are two images called driver-1.bin and driver-2.bin which one might guess have drivers on them. Never used those either. You've probably done either network or CD installs. They both use rescue.bin; they don't require it be on a floppy, that's all. -- Daniel

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
. New World macs don't have a floppy drive. You mean the boot CD only works on New World. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Request for addition: USB mass storage support

2001-02-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
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Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
back. Thanks. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dhclient and kernel-image-di

2001-02-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
with CONFIG_FILTER on. It will include a packet-socket.udeb, unless someone comes up with a better name. Perhaps prefix these with something indicating that they are kernel modules? Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS

Re: installer serious oversight or on purpose?

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
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Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
scheme. PPC (mostly) has no legacy ISA or such; everything should show up in the kernel's PCI probes. That should make things much nicer. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU

Re: initrd build problems

2001-02-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
filesystem overhead and a size-dependent one, I'd imagine; just making a ramdisk the size of the contents really shouldn't work. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux

Re: No Keyboard when booting the powerPC bootdisk

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
I'm trying to find a fix for this. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: bogl forked (was Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen)

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:54:38PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:27:51PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for not being clear - yes, I know that bterm has the same bug

Re: bogl forked (was Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen)

2001-01-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:27:51PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for not being clear - yes, I know that bterm has the same bug. I'd appreciate it if someone on this list would look into using the bogl and bterm in that package, so that we

Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
tion. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL

Re: Thoughts on the installer (early)

2001-01-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
this. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL

Re: Thoughts on the installer (early)

2001-01-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
, but it's not going on a floppy. This will. I admit I'd rather have a less hokey widget set, but the other advantage of BOGL is a compact utf8 and i18n library; does GTK have something similar? Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: comments on cdebconf

2001-01-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
n VC. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL

graphical frontend committed (preliminary)

2000-12-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
, since probing the serial ports is the only really time consuming bit. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University

Re: BOGL based frontend for cdebconf

2000-12-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:22:45PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Daniel Jacobowitz | I've begun designing a BOGL based frontend for cdebconf. With the risk of sounding stupid: what is BOGL? neither apt-cache, dict or apropos knows about it. I'll fix that shortly :) BOGL is Ben's

BOGL based frontend for cdebconf

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
it for the main archive? Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL

Re: [VA-Debian] Comments from a first-time Debian install.....

2000-12-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
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Re: Boot floppies 2.2.19

2000-11-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
working on fixing PowerPC boot-floppies bugs? I did fix a few of them. The majority of others I am willing to let slide in favor of debian-installer; they'd require major rework. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: [patch] dbootstrap documentation

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
and will (well, mostly did). Is there any reason for me not to just tag a 2.2.19 and upload for powerpc? All my changes are architecture-specific. In fact, if no one objects in the next few hours, I'll do that. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel

Re: One or two floppies (was: first weekly debian-installer status report)

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
downloading everything ?? Probably... Similarly, we can probably manage a disk with enough drivers to access a CD and run a retriever. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU

Re: first weekly debian-installer status report

2000-11-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
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Re: debian-installer main menu almost done

2000-10-28 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
, I agree that it's a little optimistic, but let's see what we can do... I will try to get PowerPC support up and running in the near future. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian

Re: Why .udeb won't work.

2000-10-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
bian/rules? Edit the files list in place? Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL

Re: busybox in main

2000-10-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
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Re: busybox in main

2000-10-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
there will be a seperate area to put installer specific modules. Did you read Joey's original message? He said that he had settled the details with ftpadmin! Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002

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