Re: installation report

2003-12-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [during installation of a new Debian system - select All packages] No conversation at all should occur while files are being installed on-disk. On the other hand, no daemons or so should be started without confirmation. A security risk. Do

Re: /etc/mailname

2003-12-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Falk Hueffner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A few days ago I installed a Debian system (V3.0r1). When emacs is invoked it says No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default... and waits for 3 seconds. Of course this is very undesirable. Something is broken. Yes, and

Re: home page

2003-12-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, June Hiraki wrote: I have a home page, and you had better take your home page off my computer before I call the Better Business Bureau! Who the hell do you think you are, installing this shit operating system on my computer without even asking me first? You'd better

Bug#234136: autopartkit: Using /media/cdrom instead of /cdrom

2004-02-21 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: autopartkit Version: 0.79 I have been asked to add /media in base-files to follow the FHS standard, which I have just done, but of course adding /media will not make our system more FHS compliant unless we actually use /media/cdrom instead of /cdrom and such. I believe this patch is the

Re: Question for the boot floppies team.

2000-08-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:55:52PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Does it really make sense to ship disk images for 5 1/4in floppies? Whoever takes them from CD has certainly a CD reader... Would not be enough to leave them on ftp.debian.org

Bug#62475: Problems with UK currency symbol

2000-09-11 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 62475 boot-floppies retitle 62475 boot floppies lack a way to set default locale severity 62475 normal thanks If you set the locale to something like "en_GB" (for example, by putting LANG=en_GB in /etc/environment, you will be able to produce the UK currency symbol. -- To

Bug#72327: boot-floppies: doesn't install .bash_logout for root (fwd)

2000-09-25 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 72327 bash retitle 72327 /etc/skel/.bash_logout should not exist thanks I also wonder why do we need .bash_profile and .bashrc in /etc/skel at all. Policy says /etc/skel should be as empty as we can make it. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:20:02 +0200

Re: Bug#72327: boot-floppies: doesn't install .bash_logout for root (fwd)

2000-09-28 Thread Santiago Vila
Are you sure? $ tar ztvf base2_2.tgz | awk '$6 == "./root/" ' drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2000-07-05 19:47:09 ./root/ maybe this changed. At least a have some slink boxes where 700 was the default. Indeed, this changed, and that's not good. Why was this gratuitous

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

2001-01-05 Thread Santiago Vila
Anthony Towns wrote: If you want minimal, just install the "important" packages. If you want _really_ minimal, just install the "required" packages. Before telling people to do this could you please fix all the wrong priorities in testing and unstable? [ Or at least the ones regarding standard

Re: [patch] kernel.sh

2001-04-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, James D Strandboge wrote: [...] FIX: I simply added the '--no-name' flag to gzip and the scripts works fine. Hmm, is this not what --stdout is for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#210007: The package description does not follow Debian policy

2003-09-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Package: modconf Version: 0.2.44 Severity: important Justification: section 2.3.3 Your package does not comply with the policy as it does not provide a proper extended descrition. Policy section 2.3.3 states: The description

Bug#219464: libdebian-installer: Patch for GNU/Hurd

2003-11-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: libdebian-installer Version: 0.17 This package does not compile under GNU/Hurd because there is no PATH_MAX there. The following patch makes it to compile: diff -ru libdebian-installer-0.17.orig/src/system/dpkg.c libdebian-installer-0.17/src/system/dpkg.c ---

Arch: all udebs generated by binary-arch targets

2003-12-03 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. While compiling packages for GNU/K*BSD systems I noticed that there are a number of packages (in debian-installer, I think) which generate Arch: all packages in their binary-arch targets. Could someone please care about this, or do you want detailed bug reports about all of them? Thanks.

Bug#223087: cdrom-detect: should use binary-indep, not binary-arch

2003-12-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: cdrom-detect Version: 0.38 Tags: patch The udeb produced by this source package is Architecture: all, so it should be generated by the binary-indep target, not by binary-arch. Patch follows: diff -ru cdrom-detect-0.38.orig/debian/rules cdrom-detect-0.38/debian/rules ---

Bug#223086: baseconfig-udeb: should create the .udeb in binary-indep

2003-12-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: baseconfig-udeb Version: 0.020 Tags: patch The udeb produced by the source is Architecture: all, so it should be generated by the binary-indep target, not by binary-arch. Patch follows: diff -ru baseconfig-udeb-0.020.orig/debian/rules baseconfig-udeb-0.020/debian/rules ---

Bug#223088: prebaseconfig: should use binary-indep, not binary-arch

2003-12-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: prebaseconfig Version: 0.42 Tags: patch The udeb produced by this source package is Architecture: all, so it should be generated in the binary-indep target, not in binary-arch. Patch follows: diff -ru prebaseconfig-0.42.orig/debian/rules prebaseconfig-0.42/debian/rules ---

Bug#223090: iso-scan: should use binary-indep, not binary-arch

2003-12-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: iso-scan Version: 0.06 Tags: patch The udebs produced by this source package are both Architecture: all, so they should be generated in the binary-indep target, not in binary-arch. Patch follows: diff -ru iso-scan-0.06.orig/debian/rules iso-scan-0.06/debian/rules ---

Bug#223092: userdevfs: binary-arch target should not do anything

2003-12-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: userdevfs Version: 0.03 Tags: patch This package produces an udeb which is Arch: all, so invoking binary-arch should not do anything (currently, binary-arch depends on binary-indep, which is wrong). [ While we are at it, the comment saying this builds a .udeb would fit much better in

Re: installation report

2003-12-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got a new machine and installed Debian (identified as 3.0r1). Everything went fairly smoothly. [Layout microflaw in Choose the Language: For German, de- should be de -.] [Got ext2 - no choice offered?] The default kernel for Debian 3.0

Re: installation report

2003-12-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is undesirable to run inappropriate services. It is a security risk and takes time at boot and shutdown. The number of daemons is really not very high, so the installation script is allowed to, and indeed should, tell me for each one what it is

Bug#263575

2004-09-02 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 263575 debian-installer retitle 263575 Some LANG values are dangerous (?) thanks [ Forgot to Cc: control last time, sorry ]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#251969: aboot-installer: should generate udeb in binary-arch

2004-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: aboot-installer Version: 0.0.10 Tags: patch The debian/control file for this package says Architecture: alpha, so the binary should be generated by debian/rules binary-arch target, not by binary-indep as it currently happens. Patch follows: diff -ru

Re: do we need termwrap?

2001-05-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: Could base-files (the package) as has been sugested by some here, be the right place for it? If base-files is not the right place... where do we put it? debianutils? [ Don't know exactly what termwrap does, but currently base-files does

Re: Bug#102080: /boot permissions root.disk 2775 why?

2001-06-24 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. I've received a bug report requesting /boot to be made root.root and mode 755 in base-files. This is currently root.disk and mode 2775. Does anybody remember the reason for the current permissions? (If not, I'll change them as suggested). Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

/initrd

2001-06-27 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. I've been suggested to remove the /initrd directory from base-files, which I will probably do unless somebody tells me it is required in some way. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install report, using latest CVS floppies

2001-11-26 Thread Santiago Vila
Jordi: First error seems to be in recode. It's not translating capitalized characters like Ó to ibmpc, Try using 850 instead of ibmpc. I believe ibmpc was an alias for codepage 437 (which does not have accented uppercase letters). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: boot-floppies: debootstrap failure due to install-info problem

2001-11-29 Thread Santiago Vila
Karsten Merker wrote: I have just tried the current boot-floppies cvs on mipsel (DECstation). Installation works for the most part, but debootstrap fails when configuring the packages for the base system. dpkg outputs Processing was halted because there were to many errors. I believe it is a

Re: Bug#175687: link the Debian FAQ from the default /etc/motd

2003-01-15 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 175687 boot-floppies thanks On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Josip Rodin wrote: Package: base-files Severity: wishlist - Forwarded message from Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To Whom It May Concern: I am writing in regard of Debian FAQ to the addresses that are

Bug#144564: Should not we deprecate Packages in favour of Packages.gz?

2002-04-25 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.22-2002-04-03 A Release file created by hand made the boot floppies to complain in this way: no entry for main/binary-i386/Packages but there was an entry for main/binary-i386/Packages.gz. apt-ftparchive(1) is quite complex and not very easy to understand.

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: 2.- someone to step up an explain how to disable this behavior Maybe something like this: 1. In /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf, set: DELAY=0 2. Then regenerate your ramdisk image, for example: cd /boot mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.4.18-k7

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Now that I think of it this might be an issue with self-installed kernels. I'm going to document this behavior in the Manual, commit the changes and close the bug. Of course, woody does *not* install 2.4 kernels IIRC. The default install does not,

RE: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernelboots?

2002-05-01 Thread Santiago Vila
Howland, Curtis wrote: Where might one find documentation on this bf2.4 kernel? See dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4 as I said... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#146479: `defaults' keyword in /etc/fstab is often useless

2002-05-10 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.22 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I wish the /etc/fstab file to fit in 80 columns if possible, so that it is more readable in console. It usually does not because the installation program seems to think defaults is a required option, but in fact this keyword

Re: System Halded

2002-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila
The problem I have is that booting with loadlin from a small Dos partition the system hangs message: Uncompressing Linux Invalid compressed format ERR=1 -- SYSTEM HALTED Also with a initrd.img

Re: Bug#498010: /selinux directory should be created by base-files package

2008-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 498010 debian-installer retitle 498010 mount point /selinux does not exist thanks On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Juha Heinanen wrote: Package: base-files Version: 4.0.5 (lenny) When I install Debian Lenny using image

diff is now diffutils

2009-08-28 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. The diff binary package has been renamed diffutils. The diff package is now dummy and depends on diffutils, so nothing should break because of this change. However, you might want to adjust debootstrap and similar tools so that they don't install obsolete dummy packages. Thanks. -- To

Re: diff is now diffutils

2009-09-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] I think diff should Pre-Depend on diffutils, as we've done in the past for other Essential package transitions. Agreed. Fixed in 1:2.8.1-17. Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#407063: wine in desktop task?

2007-01-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Robert Millan wrote: That's good enough for a power user. But think of Joe user who just got Debian preinstalled on his laptop because he wanted to save $100 in license fees. He has no idea what wine is, but if he can just click on setup.exe and it works, he will never

Re: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu

2007-03-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Eddy Petrior wrote: Also note that will have to change the sources *after* you installed sarge and that would mean extra traffic (if you prefer to install a full desktop task, the sarge packages will be downloaded, then the new ones will too). Changing before will probably

Re: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu

2007-03-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Uwe Dippel wrote: Be fscking intelligent and *leave* a download for everyone to pick it up, before you replace it. Leave older versions in separate directories and just change the link to it. Be fscking intelligent and try this: wget

Re: Bug#418688: d-i: Points to Sarge in sources.list

2007-04-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 11 April 2007 14:01, Luis Matos wrote: Why the installer does not has only the version-codename in the sources.list? The Etch installer _does_ only put code names in the sources.list. I'm very glad to hear that. I wonder, while we are at

Re: Bug#418688: d-i: Points to Sarge in sources.list

2007-04-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 11 April 2007 13:37, Santiago Vila wrote: /cdrom/dists# ls -l total 2 dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 2007-04-07 13:29 etch lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root4 2007-04-07 13:29 frozen - etch lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root4 2007-04-07 13:29 stable

Re: Installing Debian from a minimal initial cd

2007-05-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 2 May 2007, bruno steckelberg wrote: I've tried to install debian from a minimal initial cd, but I got no driver supor for my SATA HD. the installing program stopped in the instruction: module sd_mod for SCSI disk support. Does this kind of installation support SATA HD's or not?

Re: Bug#263575: base-files: LANG=C for some languages when root login from console

2004-08-05 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 263575 debian-installer retitle 263575 Some LANG values are dangerous (?) thanks On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Kenshi Muto wrote: Package: base-files Version: 3.0.15 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Hi, d-i writes LANG which is chosen by user on /etc/environment. This is generally good,

Re: Bug#444232: base-files: /var/tmp was 755 after a fresh install but should be 1777.

2007-09-27 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 444232 debian-installer thanks On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Dieter Brüggemann wrote: Package: base-files Version: 4 Severity: normal /var/tmp was 755 after a fresh install but should be 1777. It took me one day to find out why alt gr was not working within a freenx session. This is

Bug#524877: installation-guide: Creating multiarch USB stick

2009-04-20 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: installation-guide Version: 20081208 Severity: wishlist Is there a way to put debian-501-amd64-i386-powerpc-netinst.iso or later inside an USB stick so that the USB stick may be used to install either Debian/i386 or Debian/amd64? If so, it would be great if the install guide explains

Bug#401426: partconf: useless defaults word in /etc/fstab

2006-12-03 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: partconf Version: 1.19 Severity: wishlist The defaults word in /etc/fstab exist so that one has something to write as a 4th field, but it's really useless if there are more options. In such cases it may be removed safely. In most cases, removing this extra word makes fstab more

Bug#401429: debian-installer: kernel-image-* is obsolete

2006-12-03 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: debian-installer Version: 20061102 Severity: minor Tested debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso today. When a menu asks the user to choose among available kernels, the following package was one of them: kernel-image-2.6-powerpc but this package, while it would work, is obsolete in etch,

Bug#401432: debian-installer: security.debian.org should not be mandatory in expert mode

2006-12-03 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: debian-installer Version: 20061102 [ I'm not sure this is the right package, please reassign as appropriate ]. In sarge, the user had the choice of adding a security.debian.org line to /etc/apt/sources.list or not. This seems to be no longer the case in etch, not even in expert mode. I

Bug#401435: debian-installer: sometimes net install does not work because of networking change in Linux 2.6.17 or later

2006-12-03 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: debian-installer Version: 20061102 Severity: important This is really a feature more than a bug, but the adverse effects are so devastating that it would be nice to have a workaround in debian-installer, or have it properly documented in the install manual. It seems there is a buggy

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 Santiago Vila
reassign 766459 debootstrap retitle 766459 debootstrap: should not try to configure base-files before /etc/passwd has the usual users in a Debian system thanks [ Retitled because the predependency on awk in the subject is quite old and most probably has nothing to do with this ]. On Thu, 23

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 Santiago Vila
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:08:50PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: for the avoidance of doubt: I have used debootstrap 1.0.48+deb7u1... Ok, so the problem is that in wheezy, deboostrap is no longer able to create a chroot of jessie or sid. IMHO, this is definitely worthy to be fixed in a point

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 Santiago Vila
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:11:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: 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

Re: Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
I'm going to reply to Julien first, then to Michael. On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:35:14 +, Michael Tautschnig wrote: I agree this should be fixed in base-files. Bugs should be fixed where they are. If base-files, or any other package, essential or

Re: Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: In principle, every essential package may depend on any other, and the set of real dependencies may change over time, so it's natural that debootstrap needs minor adjustments from time to time. So would you expect some sort of versioned

Re: Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: I'm hoping this is not going to be too philosophical, so I'll enlist the facts first (please let me know if I got any of them wrong): debootstrap'ing a system fails, because - chown root:root ... won't work when invoked from base-files'

Re: Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: + [ ! -f /usr/info/dir ] + [ ! -f /usr/share/info/dir ] + install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/info.dir /usr/share/info/dir + [ ! -f /usr/share/info/dir ] + cp -p /usr/share/base-files/info.dir /usr/share/info/dir + chmod 644

Re: Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
For the record, base-files postinst had three lines like this chown root:root whatever I've dropped all of them in base-files_7.10. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Then maybe take the first sentence in 3.8 Essential packages instead: Essential is defined as the minimal set of functionality that must be available and usable on the system at all times, even when packages are in the Unpacked state. If not

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-28 Thread Santiago Vila
[ Trimming Cc list completely. After this email there is little more I have to say about this ]. On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Admittedly, all that *I* want is a working debootstrap, so I'm also ok just having the changes in base-files for now (or maybe also in debootstrap).

Re: Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-04 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 767999 debootstrap thanks People who do not understand the essential flag keep filing bugs against base-files. Kind debootstrap maintainers: I think it's about time that you make an upload for stable fixing this. I've heard that the fix is already in git, so apparently it's just a

Re: Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-05 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 767999 debootstrap thanks Adam Borowski, STOP this insanity! STOP IT! (And you should really read the full logs for Bug#766459 to understand this instead of killing the messenger The guilty party for this bug is either base-files or base-passwd. Wrong. It's debootstrap

Bug#767999:

2014-11-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Adam Borowski wrote: How do you propose changing debootstrap on already burned CDs? I don't. Instead, those having a buggy version of debootstrap in a burned CD should better try to find a non buggy version on Internet. Proposing that we should make the entire Debian

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:04:55AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: On Mittwoch, 5. November 2014, Santiago Vila wrote: Adam Borowski, STOP this insanity! STOP IT! It seems to me that you are quite upset about this bug, yet I fail to see why, really. Yes, I am upset, because I've explained

Bug#766459: please don't upload this to wheezy

2014-11-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 06:05:59AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: For reasons I explained in #767999, hacking debootstrap to configure base-passwd and base-files in a specific order is neither sufficient nor necessary. It does work around the problem for those running debootstrap from fully

Bug#767999: problem with debootstrap in wheezy

2014-11-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Note: dpkg 1.17.21 has migrated to testing, and, as a result, the current debootstrap in wheezy is now unable to create chroots for both jessie and sid (previously it was only sid and jessie still worked). As of today, in jessie we still have base-files 7.6. So, as I suspected, the recent

Bug#767999: debootstrap/base-passwd: #767999 and #766459 should really be fixed in base-passwd

2014-11-06 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 02:06:07PM +, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [ BCC'ing Santiago, Holger, Adam, Cyril ] Hi all, I'm refraining from quoting the preceding mails as most of you will have those in their inbox, and I'd rather summarise the situation right here: At least Santiago's and

Bug#767999: debootstrap/base-passwd: #767999 and #766459 should really be fixed in base-passwd

2014-11-06 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:44:40PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: B) If base-passwd violates policy, then base-passwd is buggy. I say it is, but since the only consumer that matters is base-files, it might be safer to change the latter. The only consumer that matters? What do you mean?

Re: base system size

2014-11-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 02:48:12AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Now that perl is out of the base system again, I've had a look at the figures of a base system install. We're ~80Mib bigger, from 277MiB to 360MiB: - aptitude is not installed by default any more - -18MiB - grub got 12MiB

Re: base system size

2014-11-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:13:52PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Santiago Vila, le Sat 29 Nov 2014 10:49:43 +0100, a écrit : Maybe wget is too bloated for the base system? Having a wget available has been quite convenient to me several times to easily transfer a file. We could however

Bug#524877: installation-guide: Creating multiarch USB stick

2015-05-05 Thread Santiago Vila
For the record: I managed to do this a long time ago. Maybe starting with Debian 6.0, which is the release where multi-arch netinst CD image was only for amd64 and i386 (i.e. no more powerpc). I agree that the wiki seems a good place to document this, if I find the time. Thanks. -- To

Re: purging packages

2015-09-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 09:24:41AM +0100, Alfred Hanny wrote: > Why is it, that if i purge unwanted packages (like zeitgeist), apt > starts removing my whole gnome desktop? > This stupid behaviour cost me a whole day of re-installing my system. Please try debian-user, this list (debian-boot) is

Bug#799293: tasksel: Extra directory tasks/po/INTER in source package

2015-09-17 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: tasksel Version: 3.33 The source for this package contains an extra directory "tasks/po/INTER" which apparently is just an old copy of "tasks/po". Suggested fix: git rm tasks/po/INTER/* Thanks. P.S. Discovered by accident. I was trying to understand why this package does currently

Bug#806218: base-installer: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (Directory nonexistent)

2015-11-25 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:base-installer Version: 1.157 User: sanv...@debian.org Usertags: binary-indep Severity: important Dear maintainer: I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" (i.e. only architecture-independent packages), and it failed:

Bug#805994: apt-setup: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

2015-11-24 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:apt-setup Version: 1:0.102 User: sanv...@debian.org Usertags: binary-indep Severity: important Dear maintainer: I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" (i.e. only architecture-independent packages), and it failed:

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

2016-09-08 Thread Santiago Vila
Is this an issue at all considering the changes in debootstrap version 1.0.82 regarding devices.tar.gz? Thanks.

Bug#837060: debootstrap: Do not install packages of Priority:required for buildd variant

2016-09-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 07:40:15PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > | Setting up perl-base (5.22.2-5) ... > | dpkg: error: --install needs at least one package archive file argument > ` > > Looking at the code in scripts/sid, it is "x_core_install mawk" which > fails here. The reason is that

Bug#839747: debian-installer-netboot-images: FTBFS in testing (no properly formatted SHA256 checksum lines found)

2016-10-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 12:22:31AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> (2016-10-04): > > I am aware that this is the same version in jessie, but if it's not > > appropriate for stretch, then we might better have this package > &

Bug#839747: debian-installer-netboot-images: FTBFS in testing (no properly formatted SHA256 checksum lines found)

2016-10-04 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:debian-installer-netboot-images Version: 20150422+deb8u4.b1 Severity: serious Dear maintainer: I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" (which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it) but it failed:

Re: Bug#835516: General: Incorrect permissions on /bin for Debian Jessie

2016-08-27 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 835516 debian-installer thanks I think this is a bug in debian-installer, because debootstrap is apparently not affected by the umask setting (be it 002 or 022). Reassigning accordingly. Dear d-i people: Short summary: New systems installed from Debian 8 netinst image have /bin with

Re: Bug#835516: General: Incorrect permissions on /bin for Debian Jessie

2016-08-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 04:50:27PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > El sábado 27 de agosto del 2016 a las 20:50:28 +0200, > Santiago Vila escribió: > > Reading the message by Adam carefully, this is a bug in sed. > > > > I would hope the release managers would allow this to

Bug#835516: General: Incorrect permissions on /bin for Debian Jessie

2016-08-27 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 835516 sed thanks Oops. Not. Reading the message by Adam carefully, this is a bug in sed. I would hope the release managers would allow this to be fixed in a point release. Thanks.

Re: Bug#835516: General: Incorrect permissions on /bin for Debian Jessie

2016-08-27 Thread Santiago Vila
> I did not know this Lintian tool used internally to verify the packages > automatically. That's interesting. In the thread mentioned by Adam, Yves > said that Lintian is used on testing and unstable, but he was not sure > if it is also used to stable. Do you know if that's the case? The

Bug#850232: installation-guide: FTBFS randomly (ERROR: xref linking to appendix-gpl has no generated link text.)

2017-01-05 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:installation-guide Version: 20161031 Severity: important Dear maintainer: I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" (which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it) but it failed:

Bug#850232: installation-guide: FTBFS randomly (ERROR: xref linking to appendix-gpl has no generated link text.)

2017-01-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:55:38AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Control: tags -1 + pending > > Hello, > > Santiago Vila, on Sat 07 Jan 2017 23:37:03 +0100, wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 11:20:35PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > >

Bug#850232: installation-guide: FTBFS randomly (ERROR: xref linking to appendix-gpl has no generated link text.)

2017-01-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 11:20:35PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Could you also post build logs which are successful? Ok, all the build logs I have, same place as before: https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/installation-guide/ As usual, if you find a fix please consider uploading

Bug#858104: win32-loader: FTBFS (error parsing Built-Using field)

2017-03-18 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:win32-loader Version: 0.8.1 Severity: serious Dear maintainer: I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" but it failed: [...] debian/rules build-indep /bin/sh: 1: test:

Bug#902226: debian-installer-netboot-images: FTBFS in stretch, even when allowing network access

2018-06-23 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:debian-installer-netboot-images Version: 20170615+deb9u3 Tags: ftbfs Dear Debian Installer people: Even when we allow network access in the autobuilder, building this package no longer works since version 20170615+deb9u1.

Bug#917491: debian-installer-netboot-images: FTBFS (BAD signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (8/jessie) ")

2018-12-27 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:debian-installer-netboot-images Version: 20170615+deb9u5 Severity: serious Tags: ftbfs Dear maintainer: I tried to build this package in buster but it failed: [...] debian/rules build-indep dh

Bug#837060: debootstrap: Do not install packages of Priority:required for buildd variant

2023-11-05 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello Luca. Thanks a lot for implementing this! I'm going to answer to an old message of yours, because I think that things have changed a little bit since then. El 18/10/23 a las 19:17, Luca Boccassi escribió: We can do an upload, but note that it won't have any effect on package builds,

Bug#837060: debootstrap: Do not install packages of Priority:required for buildd variant

2023-10-30 Thread Santiago Vila
El 30/10/23 a las 21:16, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues escribió: Quoting Luca Boccassi (2023-10-18 19:17:40) We can do an upload, but note that it won't have any effect on package builds, given the buildds use stable/oldstable actually we forgot something here. The upload *does* have an

Bug#837060: debootstrap: Do not install packages of Priority:required for buildd variant

2023-09-28 Thread Santiago Vila
El 28/9/23 a las 11:50, Julien Cristau escribió: I still think that is absolutely the wrong thing to do, and makes debootstrap more fragile for no good reason. Julien, I believe you are mixing two different things here. (A) What this bug is really about. (B) What the effect of the bug is.

Bug#837060: debootstrap: Do not install packages of Priority:required for buildd variant

2023-10-12 Thread Santiago Vila
El 10/10/23 a las 13:46, Luca Boccassi escribió: Given the list of affected packages is short (and it's all about tzdata IIRC), how about we wait until that list is down to zero (and if you have time, maybe you could help with that?), and then merge this change? That way we don't add

Bug#837060: Undeclared dependencies on tzdata

2022-11-22 Thread Santiago Vila
[ Adding 837...@bugs.debian.org and the submitter to Cc for the reasons explained below ]. El 22/11/22 a las 13:09, Guillem Jover escribió: So it seems to me we have a bunch of packages that are prio:required but not Essential (some have switched to Protected:yes), that should get their

Bug#1031828: debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output

2023-02-23 Thread Santiago Vila
severity 1031828 normal tags 1031828 - patch retitle 1031828 debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output thanks El 24/2/23 a las 0:12, Luca Boccassi escribió: Please see: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2022/09/msg5.html Ok, did read, but also too long, and that

Bug#1031828: debootstrap: The buildd profile does not enable usr-merge by default on bookworm and later

2023-02-23 Thread Santiago Vila
El 23/2/23 a las 22:26, Luca Boccassi escribió: On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 at 20:50, Santiago Vila wrote: The buildds already did the switch several months ago. Wait, what? Specific changes were made to debootstrap in order to allow the buildd machines to stay un-merged, as the CTTE wanted, Can

Bug#1031828: debootstrap: The buildd profile does not enable usr-merge by default on bookworm and later

2023-02-23 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.128+nmu2 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear maintainer: Because Debian has decided that bookworm will have usr-merge by default even for building packages, I would expect usr-merge to be enabled by default in all cases, including when using the buildd

Bug#1031828: debootstrap: The buildd profile does not enable usr-merge by default on bookworm and later

2023-02-23 Thread Santiago Vila
El 23/2/23 a las 21:38, Luca Boccassi escribió: It's too soon for this. I think the right time will be the first point release of Bookworm - at that point we can get the buildds to switch too. But the release should be built in the current default as per CTTE's instructions. The buildds

Bug#1032219: apt-setup: Regression in a string which was correctly translated (es.po)

2023-03-01 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: apt-setup Version: 1:0.177 Tags: patch Hello. After trying debian-installer alpha2 today I've noticed there is an error in debian/po/es.po for the string "release updates", introduced in commit 11c8e244 dated 2023-02-07. Apparently, somebody has misinterpreted it as if "release" acted

Bug#1068935: debootstrap: Creating buildd chroots of trixie/sid from bookworm

2024-04-13 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:debootstrap Version: 1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1 Dear maintainer: Please make debootstrap in bookworm to follow the same rules as debootstrap in trixie/sid when creating a buildd chroot of trixie/sid (i.e. install only build-essential packages). Rationale and full explanation here:

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