Re: Praise + possible bugs

2003-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
to 1.3.22) Maintainer: Joey Hess 10 days old (needed 10 days) debconf (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) is buggy! (1 0) Not considered (#223039 doesn't look like it should stay serious, really ...) -- Colin Watson

Re: Time to remove boot-floppies from unstable?

2003-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
. Fixing that would be up to the stable release manager (and I have no idea why it hasn't been done already - perhaps the right people simply haven't noticed). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#224469: Time to remove boot-floppies from unstable?

2003-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
in the stable release. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#224996: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:31:31AM +0100, Edoardo Panfili wrote: I can't use ALT+f1 on the powerbook, if I use an external apple keyboard on USB all goes well. Have you tried Alt-Fn-F1 (pressed in that order)? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#226213: businesscard installation report + full desktop install

2004-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
it's morally in about the same position even if it happens to be luckier. A new kdebase is the biggest problem here, but it's stuck behind lm-sensors. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: English localization

2004-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
for the British. Left it as-is. Most of us use disk too for computer-related subjects, in my experience. There are a few holdouts but they generally use programme and so on as well (the convention is definitely program for computer-related, programme for everything else). -- Colin Watson

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
} packages $PACKAGE_COUNT) Hm. Aren't you missing at least one layer of quoting there? $(...) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: beta 2 and beyond

2004-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
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Re: beta 2 and beyond

2004-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. :) (I haven't heard a projected date either, but my strong impression is that a lot of things are falling into place, so we should be able to work something out soon - perhaps once the reaction to d-i beta2 is clear.) -- Colin Watson

Re: Bug#228850: Package: installation-reports

2004-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
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Re: ddetect_0.62.beta2.1_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
eventually. Once I upload madison-lite to unstable I plan to ask the admins to install it on gluck, at which point an appropriate /etc/madison-lite/config can be written. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#225704: Bug#229306: ftp.debian.org: Remove boot-floppies

2004-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
to woody-proposed-updates (which I guess would mean a new version number, which would mean a rebuild on all architectures, which would mean great pain)? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Testing cdebootstrap and debootstrap

2004-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:18:27PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: nvi standard, installer do we need that or should nano supperseed it? I'd be very surprised to encounter a Unix system without vi. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Testing cdebootstrap and debootstrap

2004-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:12:08PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:02:52PM +, Colin Watson wrote: I'd be very surprised to encounter a Unix system without vi. vi-clone. Yeah, whatever, near enough. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: D-I and UTF-8

2004-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
the default in advance of good software support for it. Red Hat's premature decision caused *lots* of problems. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#231083: installation-reports: sarge i386 beta2, success but severe glitches

2004-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
the description could have gone missing unless debconf is buggy, and I've never seen this bug. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installer builds for non x86 archs. - Was Re: Daily builds may go away

2004-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
or Sparc. Is anyone working on supporting the NuBus PPC Macs? How about SGI Indy or Sparc? I have netboot images for Sparc, but I'm waiting for exim4*. Once exim4* are in unstable, I will publish my images. exim4 has been in unstable for ages. -- Colin Watson

Bug#231083: Additional Info for mandb Issue

2004-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
, does the lack of an extended description in the screenshot in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231083#msg19 make any sense to you? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#231083: Additional Info for mandb Issue

2004-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:00:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Colin Watson wrote: I think this must be a bug in debconf. Joey, does the lack of an extended description in the screenshot in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231083#msg19 make any sense to you? Yes, that's

Bug#69620: Is section 1.7 still required?

2000-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
perhaps be rephrased? (And, from reportbug's listing, 'manual' seemed to be the appropriate pseudo-package, but there are no bugs filed against that ...) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- System Information Debian Release: woody Architecture: i38

Re: Installing from scratch with debs

2001-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
ame daemon is already running outside. They try to bind their TCP socket(s), fail, and die. Fortunately most postinsts don't consider this a fatal error. I believe that Henrique Holschuh is working on this as part of his invoke-rc.d proposal; have a look back through the archives of -devel and -policy.

Bug#87191: base: package modutils_2.3.11-13_i386 in pool is incorrect

2001-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple problems on woody-sarge upgrade path

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
that time. Nada, zip, zilch. I've responded to two of your queries myself. Don't know about others. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: man-db.2.3.20-18 corrupt deb file during base installation

2003-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
? Is debootstrap perhaps getting md5sums from stable's main Packages file, but downloading some of the packages themselves from security.debian.org? Just random late-night hypothesizing, feel free to ignore me ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: We received your mail

2003-08-23 Thread Colin Watson
Windows virus. It's all over the place at the moment. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2

2003-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
boot-floppies | 3.0.23 | unstable | source Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#212072: RAV AntiVirus scan results

2003-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
bug #212072. We have a hard enough time keeping up with viruses as it is ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I cannot install mysql package on Debian woody r3.01

2003-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
appropriate for debian-user; moving thread.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#215620: install: 'enter information manually' after selecting http doesn't work

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
checked) with a specifically helpful error message, shouldn't it? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#215421: slovenian PO-file translation for aboot-installer package

2003-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
somebody on debian-boot look at this? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: daily builds and keysigning

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
.changes to admin for the admin to sign and then upload automatically model seems to work pretty well for the buildds. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: prerequisites for debian-installer image upload

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
a freshly installed powerpc system, so I've been playing build-monkey for Joey's fixes on IRC today. The situation's improving. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: prerequisites for debian-installer image upload

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:25:02PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:24:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: debian-powerpc: My plan is to only have the debian-installer package list i386 and powerpc as its architectures at first, and add more architectures later

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
the top-level image at http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/ AKA the Oct 8th build right now. What degree of workingness is involved in those right now? A complete end-to-end install? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: doc/TODO up-to-date

2003-11-03 Thread Colin Watson
then get the exit status on stdout. Generalizing a bit: to_syslog () { return $((($@; echo $? 3) | logger) 31) } This works for me in my tests using bash, anyway. Somebody might want to check that the $(.) construction works in dash. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15] install report 2003-11-05

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
Ctrl and Alt.) pbbuttonsd lets you configure 'kbdmode = fkeysfirst' to use the function-key meanings by default and have Fn activate the magic things like brightness and volume instead, which is less annoying. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
reassign the pseudo-package installation-reports to debian-boot. If this is the general opinion of d-i folks, then ftpmaster are the people to ask. (I thought sending it to -testing was originally deliberate, though.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:35:49PM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:15:01AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: probably someone should reassign the pseudo-package installation-reports to debian-boot. If this is the general opinion of d-i folks

Bug#219765: Languagechooser 1.03 dies on mipsel

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#218208: Properly tag Bug#218208: aboot-installer: Debconf templates polishing)

2003-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
-installer usual maintainer(s) could you please have a look at it? It hasn't been fixed because there is no package called aboot-installer, so it was only forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc'ing debian-boot. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: can't choose packages sarge installer daily build

2003-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
sorry it does not fit onto your hard disk anymore. I suppose there is not much you can do about it. According to the Installed-Size: fields, base is more like 86Mb. I'd be astonished if it was over 256Mb. Perhaps something else is going on? -- Colin Watson

Bug#221213: partconf: Uninstallable due to broken depends

2003-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
library udebs should Provide the name of the original library. Then we will be able to use shlibs to resolve dependencies also for udebs. That'll only do you any good if udpkg implements versioned provides. I haven't checked, but since dpkg doesn't implement them ... -- Colin Watson

Re: plans for d-i string freeze

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
a few more things that weren't following this rule, but it's not the first time this has happened. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: base-config CVS relocated

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
as if they are then you can hardly expect priority service. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#267309: sarge install powerpc

2004-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
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Re: Bug#263573: xserver-xfree86: on alpha depends on read-edid which isn't there

2004-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
, xserver-xfree86 *doesn't* depend on read-edid, because the package does not exist for the alpha architecture. Sounds like an entirely different problem, then, not one to do with debian-installer. The error displayed when read-edid doesn't exist is harmless. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Bug#269042: 269042 Addendum: how to preserve Tru64 prepartitioning from the installer?

2004-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
for the moment to avoid confusion. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fate of kernel-image-2.4.xx-bf2.4

2004-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
| source The actual disks-* directories in stable are 3.0.23, so the new source needs to be pushed into stable before being removed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#269081: loop with back button

2004-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
of debconf_go() was compared against 10 to detect backup, but debconf_go() actually returns 30 for backup. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#269336: Installation report Sarge RC1

2004-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
back and forward Going back drops debconf priority (successful menu items after the back-up gradually raise it again); this could easily have led to confusion. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6 override disparity

2004-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
. Huh, i wonder what should happen for these ones ? Colin, i suppose you set the priority of those, any hint on the correct priority ? No, I didn't set those; have a look at the changelog entry for kernel-wedge 1.23. I'd be inclined to have the override changed. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: How to install without parted?

2004-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
of debootstrap on whatever you used is out of date with respect to the archive. That shouldn't happen at release time. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#269935: Processed: d-i

2004-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
Bug reassigned from package `partman-reiserfs' to `debian-installer'. Why is this not a partman bug? I think Martin and I simply collided when reassigning from non-existent packages. Reassigning back. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-Installer release candidate 1

2004-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
to rootskel to fix this; can you test it? (Failing that, I'll test it myself when my amd64 system arrives next week.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:00:17PM +0200, siward wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2004 17:43, Colin Watson wrote: The standard procedure is to run the installer up to the point where it starts the partitioner (by which point it still hasn't written anything to the disks), then switch

Re: status of d-i 2.4.27/2.6.8 kernel transition

2004-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
special work of mine to sync with kernel updates, I'd better be taught about it. It does. There are plenty of examples in the d-i repository. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: HELP: Failed powerpc autobuild upload again, p.d.o is rejecting my rsync.

2004-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
from remote host people.debian.org: Connection reset by peer If rsync-over-ssh gets ECONNRESET, there is no good reason to suspect that scp (i.e. rcp-over-ssh) wouldn't. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#271309: debian-installer: No 2.6 SCSI module .udebs in PowerPC CD images

2004-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
are the symptoms of your problem, and exactly what image are you using? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#271419: mesh SCSI driver should be loaded by default on OldWorld Powermac

2004-09-13 Thread Colin Watson
. Does it show up in the mac-io bus? Send me a tarball of /proc/device-tree if you aren't sure. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#271419: mesh SCSI driver should be loaded by default on OldWorld Powermac

2004-09-13 Thread Colin Watson
/pci/mac- io/mesh/compatible mesh^@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ A fix to autodetect this hardware is in my local tree now waiting for the Subversion repository to come back up. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#271840: Registration

2004-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
behaved this way; we've never done the one runlevel for console, another for X, thing. Perhaps in your previous installation you didn't install a display manager and used startx instead, or perhaps you customized /etc/inittab. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Bug#272141: discover1-data: add sata_nv PCI ids

2004-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
Package: discover1-data Version: 1.2004.08.11 Severity: wishlist Hi, This patch adds support for all the PCI ids that the sata_nv driver in the current kernel claims to support. http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/discover1-data.sata_nv.diff Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Re: including a frontend (e.g. text)

2004-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
-text-udeb. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
a bit weird since it hasn't in fact been shown to the user. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building Custom Installer for Foreign Architecture

2004-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
initrd. Now, I understand to use the Reiser4 (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/debian-installer/mkreiser4-udeb) my custom kernel udebs, I must build a custom installer? What are the tools which don't work with foreign binary objects? mklibs would be the really big one, I'd say. -- Colin

Re: Where to put prospective d-i packages?

2004-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
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Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:02:59PM +0200, Jö Fahlke wrote: Am Mi, 22. Sep 2004, 21:49:30 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: debconf/frontend doesn't have a default, so I'd be inclined to just debconf-get it and see if it's non-empty. Testing the 'seen' flag seems a bit weird since it hasn't

Re: No HFS driver, and change install priority menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
.] We're killing root-2; it wasn't a good idea to introduce it without good support for loading it, and everything fits on root and net-drivers if you juggle things around a bit. Commits will come after the archive cron.daily run today. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6 override disparity

2004-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
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Re: No HFS driver, and change install priority menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:19:20PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:13 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:50:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: ROOT-2) The root-2 floppy is a bunch of udebs for all the components that wouldn't fit on root

Bug#273384: kbd-chooser: Is not run again after backing out

2004-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
names, and just save the canonical keyboard architecture name in the debconf database. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of graphical installer

2004-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
system without it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#276071: languagechooser: Change Hebrew default locale to UTF-8

2004-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
and can only look at the pretty glyphs). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#276100: grub installs to wrong drive or is configured incorrectly

2004-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
. Debian has done this approximately forever, as far as I know. can it be avoided or are other packages now going to depend on standard packages being installed? If they do, they must declare appropriate dependencies. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#251089: debian-installer: installer hangs on dual G5 while loading module for inexistant floppy

2004-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
recently sorted out.) You read some discussions about code which hasn't even made it into unstable, let alone d-i, yet. The -power4 target isn't currently safe for G5 systems. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to create partial mirror of debian for testing d-i?

2004-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
/mirror/debian --nosource --passive \ --host=ftp.fi.debian.org --dist=sarge --arch=i386 \ --section=main,contrib,non-free --progress You want to add the main/debian-installer section. Dunno about installer-i386 etc. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#220949: Installer overwrites user data without warning

2004-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
filesystems per partman are ext2, swap, and FAT. I don't think we want to be that restrictive, and I don't think partman-basicfilesystems should have to have knowledge of ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, or whatever either. Maybe partman-target or something? -- Colin Watson

Re: Suggestions for udeb development?

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
. If you have CD-RWs, this works out well. Does that help? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sparc64 cdrom netboot install

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
this be due to the fact that the eject-udeb templates weren't in UTF-8? If so, this was just fixed by Colin. Normally if templates aren't in UTF-8 then the build process just fails. I suppose anything's possible, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sparc64 cdrom netboot install

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:29:44AM -0300, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:39:37PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: Could this be due to the fact that the eject-udeb templates weren't in UTF-8? If so, this was just fixed by Colin

Re: telnet, ftp, and ssl

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
to depend on telnet-ssl then that isn't allowed. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4 kernels

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
walk /dev/discs. If it does, would the init script be able to detect that and mount it on boot? Yes. i386 doesn't need devfs=mount any more, for instance. Somebody should still test that removing it works for sparc, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#251474: ipv6 networking on sarge beta 4 rejects ssh login if using Allowusers in ssh

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
, the default. Install ssh. In my case stable versin of ssh. Could you please clarify exactly which version of ssh is involved here? Use 'dpkg -l ssh'. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#251089: debian-installer: installer hangs on dual G5 while loading module for inexistant floppy

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
reassign 251089 hw-detect tags 251089 pending thanks On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:25:35PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:29:23PM +0200, Michal wrote: Using: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/20040525/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso to install sarge

Re: m68k cdrom build failure

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:48:57AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: It seems to be eject-udeb. I'd file a bug, but I'm not sure what to say. You should now just need to arrange for 2.0.13deb-5.1 to be built on m68k. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

2004-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
of updates, I'm afraid. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

2004-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
weekly, since at the moment it takes a lot of resources to generate them (although this is being worked on). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: m68k vs. d-i tc1 -- bummer, help needed

2004-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
-o loop sudo cp sudo umount gzip Ideas welcome. Do you have enough space and kernel support to use cramfs as a workaround? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#252107: 2004-05-30 fails with 2.6 kernel on PowerBook G4 (2.4 works fine)

2004-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
been that stupid netcfg thing. We'll have to pull 2.6 from powerpc rc1 if this can't be resolved. :( -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#252107: 2004-05-30 fails with 2.6 kernel on PowerBook G4 (2.4 works fine)

2004-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:43:39PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040601 20:25]: Um. This was bug #244589, and was fixed in busybox-cvs ages ago ... Aargh. WHY did that version of busybox-cvs-udeb never make it into testing? I guess it must have been

Bug#252426: ppc cd images missing oldworld mac boot floppies

2004-06-03 Thread Colin Watson
seem to create a yaboot bootstrap partition. Well, you wouldn't expect it to. yaboot is newworld only. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#252425: man-db causes install to fail

2004-06-03 Thread Colin Watson
, and instead of the workaround you describe above insert 'set -x' at the top of /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst? That should output a complete trace to syslog, I think, and I'd like to see that. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Problems with /etc/network/interfaces not being written

2004-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
at boot. The right modules on the other hand are loaded. Now my question: Is that a general problem or is something broken on amd64? I haven't seen this problem on powerpc. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#253102: Installation on a recent ibook G4 (Beta 4)

2004-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
this was to explicitly boot with hd:4,/vmlinux root=/dev/hda4 ro video=ofonly That's been fixed post-beta4. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#253069: debian-installer TC1 successful installation on Apple Powerbook G4

2004-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
are explicitly mounted would help. Conclusion: Great work, you guys. :-) Cool. Thanks for testing! -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#253102: Installation on a recent ibook G4 (Beta 4)

2004-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:10:47PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:50:07PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Could you please retest with TC1? I still have a (yet unused) data exchange partition (to/from MacOSX) which I can temporarily borrow for it[1]. Which bug/problem

Bug#252180: fixed in discover1 1.5-12

2004-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/build_cdrom_el-torito.log, d-i builds still seem to be broken with 1.5-12. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Excluding udebs from powerpc businesscard/netinst

2004-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:26:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: We could do with cutting down the size of the powerpc CDs a bit. Here's a first stab at an exclude-udebs-powerpc, which may help. For what it's worth, some quick calculations suggest that this will save about 11MB from powerpc

Bug#253159: no subject

2004-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
try that. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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