Bug#996934: install failure without /etc/flash-kernel/machine pre-existing

2021-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.104 Severity: normal I have some image building scripts that installed flash-kernel in a chroot (on unrelated hardware; user mode qemu), then configured /etc/flash-kernel/machine, then ran flash-kernel. That used to work (in 2018), and now fails: Creating config

Bug#939071: 6.4 Load Missing Firmware should mention unpacking zip/tar

2019-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
Source: installation-guide Severity: normal I recently had cause to re-read https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch06s04.en.html and tried to follow the instructions, and I ended up with a firmware.zip on a FAT filesystem, which d-i is not able to find firmware in. The instructions

Bug#939070: removing gnome desktop in tasksel has little or no effect

2019-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
Package: tasksel Version: 3.54 Severity: normal I accidentially installed debian 10.0 with gnome rather than xfce, so after the installation, I re-ran tasksel, unselected gnome, and selected xfce. I then rebooted, and it still booted up to gdm3 and on login it defaulted to gnome shell. Tasksel

Bug#889904: /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs versioning

2018-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Right, in theory the dtbs are independant from the kernel, but real life > is different. That's why the linux image packages ship their matchin > device trees. I don't know your setup, but it would be easiest to use > these. If you don't provide your own dtb and just use

Bug#889904: /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs versioning

2018-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.90 Severity: normal There's a good chance that the devicetree file for one version of the kernel will not work with another version. I suspect this was the case, and confirmed it today when my cubietruck failed to boot with mismatched versions. So, it would be

Bug#885659: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics not installed

2017-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
Package: tasksel Version: 3.42 Severity: normal An install from netinst of Debian 9.3 on a Lenovo Yoga 710 did not install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, so it was not possible to configure some things like tap-to-click. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable

Bug#881969: making bootable SD cards

2017-11-17 Thread Joey Hess
Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > u-boot-install --board=Cubietruck --device=/dev/mmcblk0 > > u-boot is where the information such as > supported boot media and device offsets generally comes from, as it > sometimes changes changes between different versions of u-boot Verison specificity is another

Bug#881969: making bootable SD cards

2017-11-17 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten Merker wrote: > to use d-i/flash-kernel on the target device, one obviously needs > to already have put a u-boot onto the device in some form (such > as preinstalled in the d-i SD card images), otherwise one > couldn't have booted it Not necessarily, see for example /target in d-i when

Bug#881969: making bootable SD cards

2017-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.87 Severity: normal Therefore you usually have to setup an SD card with the appropriate u-boot version for your particular device (see below) as a prerequisite for installing Debian. If you use the pre-made SD card images with the installer, this step is

Bug#795231: fails on cubietruck with FAT /boot

2015-08-12 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Campbell wrote: The cubietruck u-boot is more than capable of booting from an ext filesystem, so you should just do that, in fact everything should work in this mode out of the box, how did you end up with a FAT /boot? Haven't upgraded from default uboot yet, which does't even support

Bug#795231: fails on cubietruck with FAT /boot

2015-08-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.36 Severity: normal A few places in flash-kernel try to ln -s, and this fails if /boot is a FAT filesystem. It should be possible to fall back to cp in this case. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#770658: fails to debootstrap debian on fedora: Failure trying to run: chroot /debian mount -t proc proc /proc

2014-11-22 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.64 Severity: normal W: Failure trying to run: chroot /debian mount -t proc proc /proc This is because mount is in a different location in fedora than in debian. On Debian, it's in /bin/mount, while on fedora, /usr/bin/mount. And, on fedora, root's default path

Bug#770214: source tarball should not be compressed with xz

2014-11-19 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.64 Severity: normal xz is not a common format, and this makes it unncessarily difficult to install debootstrap from source on unfamiliar linux systems. The space savings are miniscule. Please switch to a tar.gz. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description:

Bug#770217: cannot be run from source on !debian

2014-11-19 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.64 Severity: normal make devices.tar.gz runs MAKEDEV, so the instructions to run debootstrap from source don't work on !debian. setup_devices contains old code to bind mount /dev when it's managed by devfs. Updating that code to check for /dev managed by udev

Re: d-i talk at Cambridge mini-DebConf

2014-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: Joey, I can't really convey this by email, but the last slide was received with warm applause. Thank you so much, for everything. I caught this email yesterday while having lunch with my Mom and Sis and was proud to show them the last slide. They kindly didn't mention the

on my retirement from Debian

2014-11-07 Thread Joey Hess
Since I'm leaving Debian, I won't be involved in d-i any longer. I haven't had time or bandwidth to do much for years, so no great loss. ;) I will remove myself from the couple of packages I'm still listed in Uploaders. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00174.html I look forward

Re: default DE requalification: quality of task

2014-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Borowski wrote: However, I kind of fail to see the point of giving two whole points for something as minor as the tasksel task. These points are not added up to get some kind of an overall score. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
Mario Castelán Castro wrote: Otherwise, is it possible to cram a complete Debian installer into a initrd?. That's exactly what the d-i netboot image is. The https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Remote page you linked to seems exactly right. The netboot image doesn't include network-console

Re: Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure base-files before /etc/passwd has the usual users in a Debian system

2014-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: Instead, the work of debootstrap is precisely to guess the right order in which packages should be configured so that everything work. In other words, essential packages should not get in the business of breaking dependency cycles, because that's debootstrap job. This

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-21 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Borowski wrote: * powerpc in qemu (using an existing system on real metal, d-i on qemu) What specific real metal did you use to test gnome on powerpc? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#765976: tzsetup: please don't offer time zone selection for Germany

2014-10-21 Thread Joey Hess
Most countries have only one timezone, and for those the country-zone mapping is stored in the tzmap file (automatically generated from zone.tab), and no question is asked. Some countries have multiple timezones listed in zone.tab, but these are only of historical interest (ie, to get the correct

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-21 Thread Joey Hess
Dude, if you thinkn that posting offtopic stuff to a bug report is the way to convince people of something, you might want to think again. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Borowski wrote: I have tried Gnome3 on: * an armhf laptop, Omega OAN133, with: * framebuffer * proprietary Mali drivers * an armhf desktop, hardkernel Odroid U2 (also Mali) * powerpc in qemu (using an existing system on real metal, d-i on qemu) What was the result of all these

Re: Bug#725714: Partial fix using hw-setup for the missing firmware problem in d-i?

2014-10-15 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Here is another draft, this time also providing the module name. I dropped the code looking in /proc/modules, as three ways to find firmware seem a bit too much. Looking at dmesg might fail if something is spamming it and the message drops out of the ring buffer.

Bug#764982: apt-setup-udeb: Backports via d-i, but not by default

2014-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: Ah, yes. I remember having wondered about that when installing jessie on a new machine. I'm not particularly happy about being able to pull packages from backports without any kind of manual action. apt won't install newer versions from backports unless the user

Bug#764001: installation-reports: I cannot proceed from tasksel if I select all four desktop environments

2014-10-08 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Skardal wrote: If I select all four (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, MATE) desktop environments during tasksel I'm unable to continue without an error. Tasks should all be co-installable, so it would be useful to know what the error message is. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#764277: Graphical DE task don't install any DE

2014-10-08 Thread Joey Hess
Baptiste Jammet wrote: Testing debian-jessie-DI-b2-kfreebsd-amd64-netinst.iso under qemu-kvm, if I only choose Graphical desktop environment, d-i doesn't install any DE, just something like desktop-base. It seems that I have to choose explicitly. (Tested 2 times) Oct 6 17:03:32 in-target:

Bug#764505: kFreeBSD-amd64: Beta installer 2 seems to work

2014-10-08 Thread Joey Hess
Steven Chamberlain wrote: I noticed there was an option to install GNOME, even though it is not available for kFreeBSD jessie. I think tasksel is already supposed to hide uninstallable tasks, and indeed, meta-gnome-desktop should be uninstallable in testing: Tasksel hides tasks that are

Bug#762342: task-cinnamon-desktop: Please turn on display of Cinnamon desktop task

2014-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Armstrong wrote: Both Mate and Cinnamon feature the traditional panel and menu design that GNOME 2 did, so share more in common in design than they do with gnome-shell But then there's gnome 3 fallback mode. What perplexes me is why Mate, which is a throwback desktop based on an aging

Bug#762478: redundant desktop selection

2014-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le lundi, 22 septembre 2014 14.31:19, vous avez écrit : tasksel allows selecting the desktop now, so the selection in win32-loader is unncessary (the list there is also incomplete). Thanks for the heads'up, patch in the pipes. I think that

Bug#762342: task-cinnamon-desktop: Please turn on display of Cinnamon desktop task

2014-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Armstrong wrote: Please turn on display of the Cinnamon desktop task. I have tested building Jessie live images with Cinnamon included and it seems to already provide a usable desktop. It would be useful for testers to be able to see Cinnamon so they can try it and help shake out any

Bug#762614: stop preseeding desktop

2014-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
place. -- see shy jo From 742e335531a1ed27757db3b3ce95bc330e7d51f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess j...@kitenet.net Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:59:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] remove desktop=xfce preseeding Moved to tasksel 3.27. --- build/boot/hurd/grub-hurd-cdrom.cfg | 2 +- build

Bug#762614: stop preseeding desktop

2014-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
Steven Chamberlain wrote: Agreed, although we should try evaluate if XFCE is still the best default for these (and perhaps find something that caters to other situations where GNOME isn't viable) As far as I'm concerned, this decision is up to the porters for an architecture. If there is more

Re: Bug#762614: stop preseeding desktop

2014-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
Hendrik Boom wrote: After all this time (what is it? over a year now?) I thought the new Gnome might have improved and become viable. I tried it last weekend. It still isn't viable. I can't even figure out how to log out. Given that Debian has already shipped a stable release with Gnome 3,

Bug#762614: stop preseeding desktop

2014-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 16:04, Joey Hess wrote: There is also the potential for tasksel to look at properties of the system and fall back to eg, a lighter desktop, or a configuration that works better on a tablet. My changes to tasksel support such things, but it would be up

Bug#762478: dedundant desktop selection

2014-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
Package: win32-loader Version: 0.7.5 Severity: normal tasksel allows selecting the desktop now, so the selection in win32-loader is unncessary (the list there is also incomplete). I think that default_desktop=xfce might still be passed for kfreebsd installs, to override the current default of

Re: new tasksel

2014-09-17 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Goirand wrote: Does OpenStack Proxy Node have a clear meaning to openstack users? If the purpose is for it to be the node that controls the other nodes and has a management interface, that does not seem clear from that description. Then maybe rename it as OpenStack controller

Re: default desktop: availability on all arches

2014-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Borowski wrote: I think the DebianDesktop requalification table lacks an important row: the availability of the desktop environment in question on all Debian architectures. While that can be a minor consideration (it would be nicest to be consistent if possible), we've had different

Re: new tasksel

2014-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Steven Chamberlain wrote: Init system? ... sysvinit ... upstart ... OpenRC Note that my email was meant to alert people who need to do work to do it, not to solicit way-down-the-slippery-slope suggestions that can be rejected out of hand by looking at the description of TASKsel. -- see shy

Re: new tasksel

2014-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Goirand wrote: I've attached the diff for adding OpenStack tasks. As you can see, it's simply using the meta packages that we have already. Does OpenStack Proxy Node have a clear meaning to openstack users? If the purpose is for it to be the node that controls the other nodes and has a

Re: new tasksel

2014-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Is there any scope/space for this: essentially only a tiny step up from what you'd get by installing using a netinst without a mirror? Un-select everything in tasksel. (Also, this thread is not about random suggestions or user support.) -- see shy jo

Re: Using machine-readable copyright files in D-I packages

2014-09-07 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: Fixing this should be easyas long as one *does* find copyrights in the files provided by a given package. For instance: bubulle@sesostris:~/src/debian/debian-installer/trunk/packages/partman-efi(master) $ licensecheck -r --copyright *

new tasksel

2014-09-07 Thread Joey Hess
I have made some significant changes to tasksel, that will need changes elsewhere. I plan to upload this to unstable pretty soon, feedback permitting. Some of the more popular desktop environments are individually selectable in tasksel, in a little sub-menu. (Of course that's displayed

Bug#758116: popcon

2014-09-07 Thread Joey Hess
There is going to be a limited amount of space in tasksel for blends, given current debconf UI constraints. I think that using popcon as a rough pass to select the blends makes rather a lot of sense. The Debian Pure Blends effort has been around for several releases and been publicised. The

Re: accessibility of jessie desktops

2014-09-06 Thread Joey Hess
MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: - XFCE is not at all so far, mainly due to openbox and not link on GTK or Nt toolkits. I'm rather confused by this, since openbox is not the window manager of xfce (it's used by lxde actually), and since xfce uses gtk extensively. When I select Enable assitive

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] systemd/logind integration of desktop environments

2014-09-06 Thread Joey Hess
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On ven., 2014-09-05 at 16:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: As part of the process described on this wiki page -- https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Requalification/Jessie We're requesting some information from each desktop team, as well as the systemd maintainers

Bug#712696: tasksel: Task for cinnamon

2014-09-06 Thread Joey Hess
Some things that seem to be missing from the cinnamon task that are included in other desktop tasks: * package management (eg synaptic) * printer configuration? (system-config-printer) * network-manager I have not looked at cinnamon in detail, this is just looking at what's in the other tasks

accessibility of jessie desktops

2014-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
Accessibility is probably the most important issue to consider when choosing the default desktop for jessie. So, the tasksel maintainers request a short report from the accessibility team: Please rank the degree of the accessibility of each desktop from -1 to +1. For more on the process we're

i18n and l10n of desktop environments

2014-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
In the discussion about whether jessie should default to installing gnome or xfce (or whatever), the question was raised that some might be better translated than others. So, this has been included as a criteria on this wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Requalification/Jessie I

Re: kbd-chooser in the attic?

2014-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Hey folks, At KiBi's suggestion, I've been looking at kbd-chooser to add support for arm64 and ppc64el, but I've hit a weird issue - the git repo I'm working on isn't there. From discussion on #debian-boot, KiBi points out that it's been moved to the attic and marked

Re: Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-19 Thread Joey Hess
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Now, the ideal would be to use syslinux' ifcpu/ifcpu64 c32 modules to determine the menu order depending on the machine (see [0]): no 64 bit option on 32 bit machines, hidden or down the menu 32 bit option on 64 bit-capable machines. This used to be the case via

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
user-setup-apply is run in finish-install, so it can check if systemd is installed or not. The only downsides I see: * Still need to add the groups in non-systemd installations, eg freebsd, so this will be an point of difference that will need testing. * If a user chooses to remove systemd

Bug#757819: qemu-debootstrap fails on systemd-sysv issue

2014-08-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.60 Severity: normal After a foreign deboostrap, the second stage failed: dpkg: regarding .../systemd-sysv_208-7_armhf.deb containing systemd-sysv, pre-dependency problem: systemd-sysv pre-depends on systemd systemd is unpacked, but has never been configured.

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-07 Thread Joey Hess
Jordi Mallach wrote: Accessibility Hardware: GNOME 3.12 will be one of the few desktop environments to support HiDPI displays, now very common on some laptop models. Lack of support for HiDPI means non-technical users will get an unreadable desktop by default, and no hints on how to fix

Re: Bug#712696: debian-installer: Add Cinnamon and Mate as alternative DEs.

2014-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm not sure we want to support every desktop environment out there… but I guess tasks might not hurt, so punting that to tasksel. And adding debian-cd@ to the loop, to get some feelings about whether new images would sound like a vaguely sane idea (I'm really not sure).

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: I wasn't suggesting a requirement; I was suggesting that if systemd becomes the default, there will likely be advantages to switching d-i to use the same init that installed Debian systems do. It's possible I suppose, but since d-i doesn't currently use Debian's init

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes quiet, which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages. Note that the hiding of systemd messages is unintentional, and can make debugging a system that fails

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: Do you mean the options used within d-i itself, or on the installed system? The latter; d-i does not run with systemd. If you mean the latter, that configuration is owned by the grub-common package, not by d-i. grub-installer configures the grub menu file to include

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: The latter; d-i does not run with systemd. If Debian ends up adopting systemd as the default, that seems likely to change. Seems unlikely; I doubt that the Linux kernel will ever require systemd to boot an embedded system such as d-i. Given that the resulting

Bug#733179: debootstrap should abort if the keyring is missing, not just warn

2013-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
Making debootstrap fail by default on missing keyring is not going to somehow make all the people who are using it insecurely learn about the WoT and get a verified keyring. The actual effect is it'll make a lot of documentation and probably quite a lot of scripts obsolete/broken for a while,

Bug#732551: make --foreign / qemu-user-static easier

2013-12-19 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Campbell wrote: That would get you the foreign binary of qemu-user-static, wouldn't it? What is needed is to copy /usr/bin/qemu-$ARCH-static from the host environment. Yes, but then nothing will upgrade it, which is important since user mode qemu often has missing syscalls that get added

Bug#732551: make --foreign / qemu-user-static easier

2013-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.55 Severity: wishlist If debootstrap installed qemu-user-static into the chroot when --foreign was used, it could then immediately chroot in and run commands (assuming the host system has binfmt-support installed). This would allow debootstrap to go ahead and

Bug#732551: make --foreign / qemu-user-static easier

2013-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:08:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: If debootstrap installed qemu-user-static into the chroot when --foreign was used, it could then immediately chroot in and run commands (assuming the host system has binfmt-support installed). qemu

Bug#732255: sources.list not set up when doing --foreign and then second stage install

2013-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.55 Severity: normal Normally debootstrap makes a sources.list with either the mirror used for intallation, or a default mirror. However, when --foreign is used and debootstrap is then started inside the bootstrapped system to handle the second stage install, this

Bug#728359: debian-installer: Install bootloader earlier?

2013-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: Hence CC'ing Joey in order to get his input here. Joey, do you remember why bootloaders are only installed after apt-setup and the like and not just after base-installer? I bet there is a reason..:-) The only reason I can think of is that it helps prevent accidentially

Re: RFC: removing Mirrors.masterlist from .gitignore in choose-mirror

2013-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: [ Side notes: 1. It's a serious bug to depend on the network; 2. It's also not deterministic to allow failure in doing so. ] Have you ever looked at the debian-installer source package's network use? I'm just saying. If I were throwing arbitrary rules out there,

Bug#718855: [Pkg-xfce-devel] network-manager-gnome - full gnome recommends chain

2013-10-10 Thread Joey Hess
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Or tasksel could stop installing recommends, like it was done before, and people involved in the various tasks can handle the list explicitly. This thread seems to have gone off on a tangent after the correct fix has already been indentified and committed by Emilio. --

Bug#718855: network-manager-gnome - full gnome recommends chain

2013-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
network-manager-gnome recommnds gnome-bluetooth recommends gnome-control-center recommends gnome-session Not sure what to do about this. gnome-bluetooth seems to have that recommends because its control panel was moved into gnome-control-center and is presumably used by its UI. Perhaps

Bug#721869: install appropriate linux-headers

2013-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
Bjørn Mork wrote: Really? I seriously doubt that. It's about as good as making it easier for the users to replace the default libc or init system with a non- Debian package. I have never needed to replace libc in order to make my laptop's wifi work. -- see shy jo signature.asc

Re: Bug#721869: install appropriate linux-headers

2013-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
Bjørn Mork wrote: Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Bjørn Mork wrote: Really? I seriously doubt that. It's about as good as making it easier for the users to replace the default libc or init system with a non- Debian package. I have never needed to replace libc in order to make

Bug#721869: install appropriate linux-headers

2013-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: I managed to compiled because I joyfully discovered that default Ubuntu installations do install gcc and linux-headers unconditionally. Noticing a this laptop worked for me on Ubuntu page that treated installing necessary out of kernel modules as (rightly) no big deal,

installation reports and wiki

2013-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
Recently buying a laptop, I found https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn a rather useful resource. Rather than filing a successful installation report, it seemed better to add a page there (and file individual bugs for minor issues encountered with the install). Seems that this would be a

Re: loop-mounted ISO images

2013-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: Is there some boot parameter that can be given to the Debian installer initrd to make it understand that it's running from a loop-mounted ISO image file rather than a plain block device? This is a well established feature in some distributions; for example, in

Bug#721869: install appropriate linux-headers

2013-09-04 Thread Joey Hess
Package: base-installer Severity: normal The CD images include linux-headers packages, but d-i does not install these by default. I think that it should, so that if the user needs to build out of tree kernel modules they don't need to jump through the additional hoops of learning that Debian has

Re: status of d-i development -- call for help?

2013-08-16 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: OK, let's throw out a few ideas in the wild. Bug triaging could be a good start. Holger did a lot of work recently with installation reports and confirmed me that he will continue after DebConf. Some progress could be made by looking at bugs already assigned to

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2013-08-13 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: (Sorry, I'm new to all this) do you mean (1) the regular linux image packages are getting a signature added, and we're using those like we do today, or (2) that we'll have additional linux image packages with the signatures to be used instead of the usual linux image

Re: Move desktop type selection from kernel parameter to debconf question?

2013-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: At the moment one can choose which of kde, gnome, lxde,xfce (and others?) should be installed using the desktop= kernel option to d-i, or by preseeding the tasksel/desktop debconf value. But I've seen requests for a normal debconf question instead, and

Bug#432309: should check Release signature by default?

2013-06-29 Thread Joey Hess
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: So I suggest that it should be changed the follwing way,... that if no --keyring is given, neither debian-archive-keyring is installed (and usable)... debootstrap should fail (unless --no-check-gpg is given). I don't think this will break a lot, as most

Bug#432309: should check Release signature by default?

2013-06-29 Thread Joey Hess
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I don't see why this should cause a problem... AFAIU, right now it must have already hardcoded the default keyring for the distro it was built for, right? i.e. on Debian /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg So if such keyring was specified during

Bug#714107: deboostrap gpg fatal error 'Bad address' with wheezy and sid on QNAP

2013-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
virtualdj wrote: gpg: fatal: can't disable core dumps: Bad address [/share/HDA_DATA/debootstrap] # uname -a Linux NAS 2.6.33.2 #1 SMP Fri Mar 2 04:25:15 CST 2012 i686 unknown This seems to be setrlimit(2) failing. Possibly an incompatability with the kernel version? There does not seem to be

Re: Bug report on cdebconf: dpkg-preconfigure crashes with exit status 139

2013-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
Alexandre Rebert wrote: We found a crash in dpkg-preconfigure contained in the cdebconf package. You are being contacted because your are listed as one of the maintainer of cdebconf. We are planning to submit the bug to the Debian bug tracking system in two weeks. We wanted to give you a

Bug#694886: debootstrap: Creates available file w/o Description fields

2013-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Perhaps now, very early in the jessie release cycle, is a good time to fix it. I am not sure what is needed, otherwise I would provide a patch myself. My preferred fix would be to create an empty available file. However, I don't understand commit

Re: ZFS support in partman-target

2013-05-22 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: In the absence of complaints, I've done that: - base-installer: branched zol from master, and reset master to where it was before the buggy merge. Thanks for your work. But, it is not necessary or a good idea to ever modify the history of published git repositories.

Re: ZFS support in partman-target

2013-05-22 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: Thanks for those (and sorry for the IRC bit, that came out in the wrong way). grub-installer wants something similar (it was only seen / mentioned on IRC, not in any mail IIRC). Will do once I'm done with real life things, if you don't beat me to it. Done. -- see shy

Bug#708771: debootstrap: pkgdetails.c is missing

2013-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Kurt Roeckx wrote: Trying to run debootstrap on a system without perl, I get the following error: E: No pkgdetails available; either install perl, or build pkgdetails.c from source But I can't find pkgdetails.c It's in the bootstrap-base udeb. Normally only used in d-i. -- see shy jo

Bug#707137: pu: package tasksel/3.14.1

2013-05-07 Thread Joey Hess
server task +to be selected by default on systems with a desktop. + + -- Joey Hess jo...@debian.org Tue, 07 May 2013 13:57:43 -0400 + tasksel (3.14+nmu2) unstable; urgency=low * Downgrade network-manager-gnome from Depends to Recommends. It's diff --git a/tests/server b/tests/server index

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-26 Thread Joey Hess
Vincent McIntyre wrote: I found the string, in po/sublevel1, here's the templates.po #. Type: select #. Choices #: ../choose-mirror-bin.templates.http-in:2001 #: ../choose-mirror-bin.templates.ftp.sel-in:2001 msgid enter information manually msgstr Is it the case that I need to a) give

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-25 Thread Joey Hess
Vincent McIntyre wrote: It's entirely possible this patch is not the full resolution of the various issues people have reported but I'm posting it to get feedback on the approach and get some help with correctly integrating it into d-i. This adds a new translatable template, which it is far

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-25 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Do you know how the problem can be triggerd. As far as I remember only some installation from USB are affected and I don't know if the difference between those affected and those unaffected has ever been identified. If I know that I'm testing the right test case, I'm

tasksel arch any? (Re: Bug#697890: iwconfig not in /sbin)

2013-03-07 Thread Joey Hess
My concerns with going arch any would be that it becomes slower to make a tasksel change for some pressing concern, and this magnifies any installation breakage, or blockage caused by task dependencies. The same reason we keep debootstrap arch all. Also every divergence between architectures

Re: tasksel arch any? (Re: Bug#697890: iwconfig not in /sbin)

2013-03-07 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: Indeed, when committing these changes, I thought that, because that arch-dependent packages are added to Recommends and not Depend, it would not be a problem. Apparently it is. This is what slightly puzzles me, indeed. network-manager is currently listed in Depends.

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Bdale Garbee wrote: Sure seems like d-i is something we should build using the components of the release it will be contained in and not unstable... but I haven't tried to think hard about what that might imply that's problematic. And I certainly don't think this is something we should even

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 07:52:13AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: consider such a misfeature to be in critical need of a fix (iirc steve puts a local copy of the 'to be used' syslinux version to be used by debian-cd for release images manually on the local fs; not sure

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Bdale Garbee wrote: patch d-i to build successfully against the syslinux in sid syslinux is GPL'd, so this would result in shipping d-i images in wheezy which contain a GPL'd binary for which there is no source in wheezy. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: Joey Hess jo...@debian.org (07/02/2013): This can be done easily, just upload d-i to t-p-u. d-i uploads are already built with udebs from testing, for similar reasons. There seems to be an unholy fear of using t-p-u for anything these days, which I don't really

Bug#700026: maybe should have a Build-Depends: syslinux

2013-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: in [1] it was mentioned that d-i embeds syslinux on some architectures, but the current version does not include syslinux in its Build-Using field. It might be helpful to include it there to ensure we always keep the source for the embedded version around. d-i

Re: [Debconf-devel] Bug#679327: debian-installer: misleading man-db title for grub prompts

2012-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: So, finally tracked it down, confirming my initial suspicion: the triggers are doing that. Basically, we have debconf in target setting titles through the frontend script, even when maintainer scripts are called with the “triggered” action. I'm suggesting the

Bug#694310: debootstrap: test-exec function does not work on android

2012-11-26 Thread Joey Hess
Shawn Landden wrote: Please accept this patch making the test-exec function work on Android. It is against current git HEAD. Does Android really not have a /bin/sh? This would seem to also make the debootstap script not executable since it starts with #!/bin/sh. -- see shy jo, whose Android

Bug#694310: debootstrap: test-exec function does not work on android

2012-11-26 Thread Joey Hess
Shawn Landden wrote: here is a lighter-weight patch I've applied this, but I still wonder how the debootstrap script itself runs if there's no /bin/sh. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: building and testing d-i with jenkins

2012-11-17 Thread Joey Hess
Holger Levsen wrote: as you might have seen, I'm running certain d-i jobs on http://jenkins.debian.net/ There are three views showing d-i related jobs, which are http://jenkins.debian.net/view/d-i_packages/ http://jenkins.debian.net/view/d-i_manual/

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