Some reflections on the future of partman [was: Partman]

2004-07-20 Thread Anton Zinoviev
eleased YaST as free software (GPL). 4. The fourth approach is described in the second half of the following, but now it seams to me fantastic: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/08/msg00015.html I hope it would be possible to adapt partman to any of these approaches provided it were

Re: Partman

2004-07-20 Thread Anton Zinoviev
aving this one would make a lot of people's lives > easier. One requirement (in my opinion) for the recipes is that their name will say enough to the people who install Debian. What is the purpose of a server with big /var? (http, squid, mail?, news, what else?) (#251415) By the way why do you think that the "multi-user" recipe is not properly named? (#251414) Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partman-efi

2004-07-20 Thread Anton Zinoviev
th bootable flag set. Does this mean that in principle the users should be able to create EFI partition without partman-efi? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some reflections on the future of partman [was: Partman]

2004-07-21 Thread Anton Zinoviev
can do for Debian and more). I don't know the principles of YaST so I can not say whether we can add to debconf the features that YaST has. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#260512: swap is turned OFF after disk formatting!

2004-07-21 Thread Anton Zinoviev
t's sure caused a lot of trouble. Because active swap means the kernel uses the disk. Consequently no editing of the partition table is allowed. Or you mean that partman should enable the swap when it finishes? This is possible. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Speed measurements of partman [was: Some reflections on the future of partman]

2004-07-21 Thread Anton Zinoviev
tive_partition/75divider/choices: 3,4ms or 0,1% Inside active_partition/66change_flags/choices: 2,3ms or 0,1% Inside active_partition/98chs/choices: 2,2ms or 0,1% Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Partition type selection with sarge installer

2004-07-21 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ting it as ext3 and copying the files went well, Hm, this seams to be a bug. Probably you didn't make changes in the partitions? In this case the installer doesn't write the partition table and hence the types of the partitions do not change. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Partition type selection with sarge installer

2004-07-22 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ck on. In this way partman will think that the partition table is changed and will write it to the disk. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#260512: swap is turned OFF after disk formatting!

2004-07-23 Thread Anton Zinoviev
I would fix it. > This has caused a delay in the d-i release schedule, and I'm rather > annoyed by it. Sory about this. I only want to say that most likely both problems are not caused by my recent changes in partman. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Bug#260512: swap is turned OFF after disk formatting!

2004-07-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
#x27;ll be able to include the new partman in the > next release, since we still seem to be finding new bugs in it. I hoped (and I still hope) that the present partman is in the most bug-free state it has ever had. :-( Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Main Screen of Partman

2004-07-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! I documented the history of the changes in the main screen of partman. http://lml.bas.bg/~anton/partman/interface We have to choose something. Comments? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
more > easily shared. I agree. There is no reason why console-cyrillic is not used for Arabic, Greek and Hebrew even now - this would give better support for these languages. For the Latin languages the benefit will be smaller - they will become independent from the coding system - UTF-8 o

Re: The Main Screen of Partman

2004-07-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
more stable (immutable) before the release of sarge. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partman/partconf and S/390; is this a "wishlist" bug for partman?

2004-07-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ted supports s390. There is already an open bug for this in parted (#190040). I think that your remarks will be usefull for the maintainers of parted so feel free to submit them either as a comment to #190040 or as a new bug-report. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
На 26 юли 2004 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov написа: > Anton Zinoviev написав: > > > > Another difference (that made console-cyrillyc the best choice for the > > Cyrillic languages) are the debconf questions during the installation. > > > Oops, now there is no such que

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
loadkeys should work with use X keymaps. This is great! Do you know who will work for this and how it will be implemented? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Caps Lock toggles.) Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
iate. Only font setup with no-keyboard setup is not enough - if the keyboard is not qwerty then only console-data can setup it. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#262868: no 'FREE SPACE' in newly initialized disklabel

2004-08-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ted the disk label of sda before the run of debian-installer? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: D-I impressions

2004-08-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
tead of a 255 head one which is the standard thing to do. I think this has happened to other users also but the reason is unknown. In order to make the situation more clear it will be helpful if you can post the contents of the directory /var/log of the installer. In the installed system you can find it saved in /var/log/debian-installer. Thanks for you for your suggestions. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#262868: no 'FREE SPACE' in newly initialized disklabel

2004-08-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 07:23:51AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:28:40PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > This means that parted doesn't recognise the disk label of sda. > > /var/log/partman can say whether this is the same bug as #249371 or > >

A serious problem with partman/parted [was: D-I impressions]

2004-08-06 Thread Anton Zinoviev
parted/2004-08/msg00001.html Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#265029: [Section 3.5.1.1] fips+defrag are not necessary

2004-08-11 Thread Anton Zinoviev
never used fips). Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rc2..

2004-08-11 Thread Anton Zinoviev
trings such as "IDE0 primary Hitachi " and the only difference was one digit. Maybe this confused some of our users. Now partman adds to the device line notes such as "sda" and "hdc" and we have no more reports of this bug. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#265194: resizing needs to be mentioned more in the partitioning utility

2004-08-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
s 0.4.4). Has anyone else? > Reliably? Unreliably? After applying Windows XP service pack 2? ;) I know nothing about ntfs. :( Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Need a way for repeated choices in "select" questions

2004-08-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
es for hda5 and hdc5 will be equal as well as the lines for the free spaces. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#265286: Need a way for repeated choices in "select" questions

2004-08-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ol. > Have you considered just bringing the "hda" down to the free space > line? This is not necessarily unique, but hda-1, hda-2 are possible. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#239300: Is the bug still there? [was: sun sparcstation lx partition problem]

2004-08-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
documented in the ERRATA. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#250893: forgets settings on cancel

2004-08-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
t; sid. Do you think that this bug is still there? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#258834: failed installation on Compaq Presario 1260 laptop

2004-08-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
. Anton Zinoviev On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:26:08PM -0400, Kevin Murphy wrote: > > Both auto- and manual partitioning failed in the same way. After choosing to > write the partition table, I get this message: > > | [!!] Partition disks | > Failed to create a file system >

Bug#265194: resizing needs to be mentioned more in the partitioning utility

2004-08-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
n d-i, granted the ntfsresize utility is sitting there begging to be used > for this purpose? No. However I think there are some efforts to add to parted support to resize ntfs by external library (as this is done with reiserfs). Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#259914: Bug#257260: NO Detect CD with sarge-sparc-netinst.iso on SUN Ultra60

2004-08-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! I don't know much about sparcs and I don't know how to deal with this bug. Please preserve CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anton Zinoviev On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:29:46AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Debian-installer-version: sarge-sparc-

Bug#265194: resizing needs to be mentioned more in the partitioning utility

2004-08-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:01PM -0700, Dustin Harriman wrote: > > Then apparently cfdisk can delete and recreate the partition around the > smaller NTFS data, but I don't know the args. Me too. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Bug#259868: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#259831: Debian Installer - Installation report)

2004-08-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
2 GB as 2000 MB? In partman 2 GB=20 B, not 2147483648 B (=2 GiB, but look at #235335). I found a bug in the rounding of the visualisation of the sizes. It is possible in some cases that partman shows a but smaller sizes but it should create the partitions with the requested size. An

Bug#265194: resizing needs to be mentioned more in the partitioning utility

2004-08-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
wishlist bug report against ntfsresize for making an udeb. If we have such a package in 20 days and there are no too much unknown bugs in partman there will be chances to make the necessary changes in partman before rc3 (provided that there will be rc3 at all). Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBS

Bug#259868: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#259831: Debian Installer - Installation report)

2004-08-20 Thread Anton Zinoviev
r the sizes of the modern storage devices. If you are interested you can look at the functions longint2human and human2longint in definitions.sh from the package "partman". Anton Zinoviev P.S. I already fixed the bug in the visualisation of the sizes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Bug#259914: reassign 259914 to debian-installer

2004-08-25 Thread Anton Zinoviev
reassign 259914 debian-installer thanks I don't understand this bug and I don't know what to do with it, so I am reassigning it to debian-installer. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some ways to save space on the floppies

2003-11-18 Thread Anton Zinoviev
By the way, why (most of) the components of the installer are not compiled with -Os? Sometimes this makes great difference of sizes. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What about gettext-udeb?

2003-12-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
o make the necessary patches or at least fill wishlist bug reports against gettext and libparted? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What about gettext-udeb?

2003-12-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
issues longer messages. For example if the user tries to copy the contents of some ext2 partition into a smaller or if the user tries to format some too large partition using fat16. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
2. 4. Add support for reiserfs. I expect this to be trivial provided we have udeb for libreiserfs0.3-0. 5. Add international support. 6. See how the partitioner works on slow machines. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-06 Thread Anton Zinoviev
his be because of the priority of the udebs? anna does not > automatically install packages below standard priority. No. I tried both with standard priority and with udeb_include. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-06 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ble? (I'm to lazy to create my own > :-)) http://lml.bas.bg/~anton/partman/screenshots Legend: White smiling face: format new partition Black smiling face: use the existing data Scull and crossbones: format partition containing some data Forked lightning: bootable partition Anton Zino

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 6.XII.2003 at 15:39 Joey Hess wrote: > Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > The idea is that this script has to do the translation alone. In can > > do it using debconf, gettext or by some other means. One script can > > output many menu items and this makes imposible to assign to

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-15 Thread Anton Zinoviev
se) 9 : ko (Hangul,Korean) 10 : mk (Makedonski,Macedonian) 11 : pl (Polski,Polish) 12 : ru (Russkii,Russian) 13 : sr (Srpski,Serbian) 14 : th (Thai) 15 : uk (Ukrajins'ka,Ukrainian) Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The partitioner and the debconf priority

2003-12-15 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ioning'. If the results are satisfactory then the user only has to press and the installation continues. MEDIUM PRIORITY The installers main-menu is shown. The main partitioning menu is also shown. The user will be shown some warnings issued by parted. LOW PRIORITY Like with med

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-17 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 15.XII.2003 18:14 Christian Perrier wrote: > > I don't really understand your point finally. You seem to put some > irony, but I'm afraid I don't catch it Sorry, that was only a joke. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: The partitioner and the debconf priority

2003-12-17 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 16.XII.2003 16:32 Joey Hess wrote: > > Is partman-auto written yet? Not yet. partman-ext3 is ready, now I am struggling for i18n. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
not in disk order" but has no problems. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does cfdisk only still speak english? Locales package is missing.

2003-12-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ck test how performs the udeb-version of cfdisk. This at first glance works fine: LANG=C.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=de However here some strings are missing and cfdisk is mostly useless: LANG=C.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=fr I don't know how to correct this but probably someone on debian-i18n will know. Anton Zino

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
as subdirectory for the documentation. 2. subdirectory in `tools' for each package and directory `doc/partman' for the documentation. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-04 Thread Anton Zinoviev
nary package (for example glibc) then the udeb will be freezed and the non-udeb package will not be freezed. What will happen with the source package that produces both? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does cfdisk only still speak english? Locales package is missing.

2004-01-04 Thread Anton Zinoviev
nit" instead of "Unité de disque", "[" instead of "[Étiq.]", "[Amor" instead of "[Amorçable]", etc. On the other hand the German umlauts are showed. I don't know what makes the difference. Maybe there is some bug in the locale C.UTF

Partman added to d-i repository

2004-01-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
t link /var pointing to /usr/var or /usr/local pointing to /home/misc/local. - Add support for ReiserFS. For best support an udeb for libreiserfs is required. - Improve the text in the template files. - LVM, software RAID, encrypted file systems... Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

2004-01-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
not possible. Unfortunately this means that we can not show progress bar to the user. I have to investigate when parted fails to create file systems. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

2004-01-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
template. Yes it should be. I did it in this way because cdebconf (or rather only the newt-frontend) generated segmentation fault with boolean template. I will see if this bug is still here and I will submit it. In the past the newt frontend was much more unstable than now. Anton Zinoviev

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

2004-01-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
sarge. On the other hand we can build install-images with partman even before its inclusion in sarge. Provided unstable is frozen this probably means that the packages should be uploaded to experimental? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

2004-01-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 9.I.2004 at 9:12 Steve Langasek wrote: > > Since it's a new package it can't break the existing d-i freeze, so > uploading partman to unstable should be ok. Todays unstable will be tomorows testing for non-i386. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: contrib d-i modules?

2004-01-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
pply the installer with additional modules. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

2004-01-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
hange `_Default' to `Default'. The scripts replace this text by some number; it was marked as translatable due to oversight. BTW, it is very nice to see my English corrected. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partman (and ext3)

2004-01-16 Thread Anton Zinoviev
he upload is to use parted and show progress bars whenever possible and mkfs.* as fallback when parted fails to format some partition. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partman (and ext3)

2004-01-17 Thread Anton Zinoviev
libparted doesn't support ext3 hence the solution is to format the file system as ext2 and convert latter to ext3 using tune2fs. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntfs resize and gtk frontends

2004-01-20 Thread Anton Zinoviev
requests full support for ntfs). On 19.I.2004 at 17:52 Steve Langasek wrote: > > Depending on the robustness of the ntfsresize commandline interface, > perhaps this can be included as a lower-priority udeb that libparted > (partman?) can interface with iff it's available?

Re: partman-target_5_i386.changes REJECTED

2004-01-22 Thread Anton Zinoviev
do this: 1. Change UNRELEASED to unstable. 2. Build the packages. 3. Add new UNRELEASED version. 4. cvs commit Is that correct? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits about countrychooser and languagechooser

2004-01-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
locale in SUPPORTED.) If someone chooses Bulgaria but Turkish language (there is no locale tr_BG) then the environment variables should be set as follows: LANG=bg_BG (the default for Bulgaria) LANGUAGES=tr Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Bits about countrychooser and languagechooser

2004-01-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
alid locale. It is more important to satisfy the country part of the locale than the language part. This means that we need a default locale for each country. (Hm, again default for Belgium and Switzerland.) LC_* must always be unset despite that in RedHat LC_ALL=$LANG. Anton Zinoviev -

Re: Bits about countrychooser and languagechooser

2004-01-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
The idea is that the currency, the default paper-format, the format for mail-addresses, phone numbers and the default measurement units depend on the country, all other depends on the language. (For ru_RU and de_DE some of these are equivalent, but I listed all variables for completeness.) An

Re: Changelogs, the 2nd

2004-01-30 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 29.I.2004 at 22:48 Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > > partman-ext3 (6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > > * New unreleased version. > * Translations > - Bart Cornelis > - Updated Dutch (nl.po) translation > * Claus Hindsgaul > - Updated Danish translation (da.po) > * Nikolai Prokos

Re: Countrychooser changes

2004-02-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 6.II.2004 at 15:19 Joey Hess wrote: > > There are also problems with the current use of non-breaking spaces > to indent and serial consoles.. Why? I mean what is the difference between serial console and the usual text console with no fb? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Change bterm-unifont udeb priority to standard

2004-02-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ke the task-lists of tasksel. We are trying to make an universal installer for all cases but this is not possible. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switch to partman?

2004-02-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
partitions for existing file systems. A progress bar is in my wishlist but difficult to implement because any script should be able to dismiss the progress bar at any time and show a debconf question or message. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Prepared file system for machines with little RAM ?

2004-02-16 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ting the live file system. 3. We boot the other computer and configure it to use the file system exported file system. What do you think? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: release status

2004-02-25 Thread Anton Zinoviev
n an important partition because of this bug. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: release status

2004-02-25 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ink your recent set of changes addressed many of my UI > issues, I have not had a chance to test them yet. I will be glad to see any suggestions. > > 2. Fix #220281. Once I wiped out the data in an important partition > >because of this bug. > > Well does partman avoid thi

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
could do this automatically). Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changelogs & translations, once again....

2004-02-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
> > * Translations updated: > - Russian (ru.po) by Nikolai Prokoschenko from the Russian L10n Team > > Or should I just skip the mentioning of the name, if translation team > field is set, as it is then clear, that a team made this possible? Lets Christian decide about this. :-)

Re: Changelogs & translations, once again....

2004-02-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
using LINE=`grep "; urgency=" "$CHANGELOG" | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 | sed 's/:.*//g'` instead of LINE=`grep "; urgency=" "$CHANGELOG" | grep -n "$RELEASE" | head -n 1 | sed 's/:.*//g'` What about po-files translated by a team w

Re: Precision needed to translate po-debconf strings in French and probably other languages

2004-02-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 26.II.2004 at 8:13 Pierre Machard wrote: > > Does on/off means that a device or a setting is available or does it mean > anything else? It is used in the following context: Bootable flag: on or Bootable flag: off Probably instead of on/off one can use set/unset. Anton

Bug#235194: multiple partitions on one mount point

2004-02-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
point. Partman will refuse to commit this setting to the disk. It is more difficult to refuse it immediately and probably it doesn't worth the extra work to implement this. Anton Zinoviev P.S. By the way, the partitioning schemes in partman-auto are only examples. This package

Re: partman review

2004-02-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
t; * After setting up 3 1 gb ext2 partitions (/, /usr, /home), and 128 mb swap, > and letting partman format them, it blue-screened. ps shows > finish.d/90aptinstall_basicfiles is running. The load average is 0.08, and > this is a fast p4. I waited for 5 minutes, and nothing. I am a

Re: partman review

2004-02-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Nobody. :-) I will hide this menu item. It exists to allow non-interactive installs of a group of computers where the partitioning scheme copies the hand-made partitioning on the first computer. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partman review

2004-02-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
to format even ext2. That's why now partman tries to use mkfs.ext2 if parted fails to format a partition. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partman review

2004-02-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
on with cdebconf; done > 2.1 gb of swap space? My. Ok, I guess that makes sense that that's what > it is though it seems a trifle huge. The upper bound of the swap space is four times the RAM. You have large enough hard disk so the size of the swap space reaches this upper bound. A

Re: partman review

2004-02-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
5th primary partition. You must be able to create 5th logical partition if the 4th was also logical. > If you don't mind, I will individual bug reports on the problems I > found, so we can keep track of their status. OK. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partman review

2004-02-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
cfilesystems. All of them had to be installed without standard priority. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-02-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
m yet). For example this is the scheme I usualy use: Minimal Typical Maximal / 300Mb 3Gb 7Gb /home 100Mb 10Gb1000Gb swap 100%400%2Gb /usr/local --> /home/local /opt --> /home/opt /var/www -> /home/www /var/mail -> /home/mail Anton Zinoviev -- To U

Re: partman review

2004-02-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
rograms. Acording to the log file you send the server has finished 8. from the scenario only once and then never reaches again 1. The client waits for it. This means that the problem is somewhere between 9. and 13. Anton Zinoviev #!/bin/sh [ ! -f infifo ] || rm infifo [ ! -f outfifo ] || rm

Re: partman review

2004-03-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
splays the menu iff debconf priority is high. This is a very nice idea. I intended to play with the files default and priority in the menu directories. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200312/msg00670.html Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
ust fine and is more flexible WRT resizing. I can remember the installer of Red Hat saying that the swap must be always at least as much as the available RAM even if there is enough RAM. Without swap the performance of the system would be degraded. Do you know if this is true? Anton Zinoviev -- T

Default partition table type for non i386?

2004-03-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
, gpt, mac, dvh, msdos, pc98, sun and amiga. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#235923: Autopartitioning the whole disk always creates msdos partition table

2004-03-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Package: partman-auto Severity: important When the user requests autopartitioning of the whole drive, partman-auto creates msdos partition table even on non-i386 architectures. Instead it had to discover the default partition table type for the architecture. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#236069: partman - errors when reusing existing ext3

2004-03-04 Thread Anton Zinoviev
r hdb8 I selected the default option presented: 'Use existing' > > However, after installation there was no entry in fstab for a swap partition > (and of course no swap mounted). I can not reproduce this. It is already fixed in CVS or probably a newer version of partconf

Re: partman xfs and grub install hang

2004-03-04 Thread Anton Zinoviev
nton, could > you help me do that, I don't know partman well enough yet.. The script finish.d/proper_mountpoints from partman-target shows how the mountpoints can be analysed. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partman : please review templates changes before commiting them

2004-03-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
e translators are going to work on this wrong template before you or someone else manages to improve it. You did so much work to improve the templates of partman that apparently now I am less careful. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partman review

2004-03-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
= fgetc(outfifo))) {} I have defined `c' as char, but it should be int instead. > So, i suppose this does make it happy for you ? What should we debug in > order to get it working ? I am twice happy -- because now the problem is resolved. :-)) Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#235376: copying disk leads to error about resize

2004-03-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
s before beta3. So we have two options: 1. remove from partman the menu item for copying. 2. keep this bug and go with it (it can be documented) How we will proceed? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
400%512Mb = I was thinking also for a partitioning scheme that tries to follow the recommendations in "Securing Debian Manual", but as Falk Hueffner pointed, more advanced partitioning schemes are used by people who do this stuff manual

Re: partman review

2004-03-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 5.III.2004 at 16:19 Sven Luther wrote: > > Can you then upload a fixed version as soon as possible, so that we can > further test debian-installer on powerpc ? Done. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Bug#236330: partman - blocks on s390

2004-03-06 Thread Anton Zinoviev
rently unsupported are s390 and the atari subarch of m68k. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#236330: partman - blocks on s390

2004-03-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
e pegasos os. Also, pegasos 1 cannot yet boot from > ext2 partitions, so and affs partition is needed Yes, for example the new partman-palo package is for the palo-boot partitions on hppa. >(but libparted cannot yet format those, need to fix that). For partman the kernel-modules for affs and

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