Re: Upcoming stable point release (7.2)

2013-09-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam D. Barratt (2013-09-22): > The next point release for "wheezy" (7.2) is scheduled for Saturday > October 12th. Stable NEW will be frozen during the preceding weekend. So there's a new linux kernel for that one: http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/linux-kernel-update-for-wheezy-3251-1.html

broken kfreebsd cdimage building

2013-09-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Robert, so you broke cdimage building for kfreebsd-*: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer.git;a=commitdiff;h=c5a8de108e7828cc3e2694309cbb045eb8db521c http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer.git;a=commitdiff;h=c5a8de108e7828cc3e2694309cbb045eb8db521c

Re: broken kfreebsd cdimage building

2013-09-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Robert Millan (2013-09-26): > > so you broke cdimage building for kfreebsd-*: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer.git;a=commitdiff;h=c5a8de108e7828cc3e2694309cbb045eb8db521c > > > > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer.git;a=commitdiff;h=c5a8de108e7

Re: broken kfreebsd cdimage building

2013-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Robert Millan (2013-09-28): > Here, attached patch should get jessie builds working again. Would you > be kind enough to commit it? Steve (from debian-cd@) is likely the one who's going to check it. I wonder, however, if the -boot/-cd changes are actually correct. When removing kfreebsd 8 suppor

Re: Bug#332227: partconf: Exclude CD/DVD drives from partition search

2013-10-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Milan Kupcevic (2013-05-02): > Hi Cyril, > > Patch [0] supplied by Frank Fegert fixes this bug. Can we push partconf > 1.41 with this fix in Wheezy r1? It will allow installation of Debian on > VIOS virtual drives in LPAR's of IBM Power machines. > > Milan > > [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/h

2 debian-installer uploads this week?!

2013-10-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi folks, you aren't crazy (or maybe you are, given the mailing lists you're reading, but that's another topic), I'm considering 2 uploads this week! d-i → sid = It's been a while since I've been wanting to upload d-i to unstable, but I failed to look into it until now. I thought it woul

Re: 2 debian-installer uploads this week?!

2013-10-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ Dropping -cd@ from cc. ] Christian PERRIER (2013-10-09): > I'm all for this. I did my best (and worst) to upload nearly any > pending change from our git trees, in order to give things a chance to > get tested as early as possible. That had the disadvantage to lead to > some breakagesbut al

Fwd: Status of the first post-wheezy upload to sid

2013-10-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ng at two uploads before actually building cdimages, depending on how quickly we can find obvious bugs. Mraw, KiBi. --- Begin Message --- Cyril Brulebois (2013-10-13): > I think that the above confirms your thoughts, so I'll probably proceed > with a d-i upload to unstable later today

More frequent debian-installer uploads and CD releases?

2013-10-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi folks, lemme grab my beautiful d-i hat: U+1F3A9 Background == During the wheezy release cycle, the following debian-installer versions were uploaded (to unstable for most; to wheezy below the dotted line): version used in 20120327

Re: Changes for d-i, tasksel and d-cd

2013-10-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Steve! Steve McIntyre (2013-10-31): > First of all, we spoke about switching to using the graphical > installer by default back last year at DC12. But we never actually > made the change then. I think it's time now, what do you guys think? That's something I stumbled upon again very recently,

Re: Changes for d-i, tasksel and d-cd

2013-11-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luca Capello (2013-11-01): > IMHO there should be a DE with the basic needs (music&pictures, office, > Internet life), I do not know how much that would take with Xfce. Then, > one possibility would be to check what Grml (Bcc:ing Michael Prokop) > provides that d-i does not, I usually have a Grml

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2013-12-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Source: debian-installer Version: 20131014 Severity: serious Justification: FTBFS Hi people, (-sparc, -cd, genisoimage maintainers x-d-cc'd) debian-installer 20131014 FTBFS'd on the buildd with: | […] | install -m 644 ./tmp/miniiso/boot_screens/notsupported.txt ./tmp/miniiso/cd_tree/boot | inst

Building d-i using wheezy-backports bits

2014-01-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi folks, as mentioned earlier this month, I had a little proof of concept for Paris Mini-DebConf 2014[1]. I've polished a few things, so here we go. 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/01/msg00239.html [ I've set reply-to: -boot@ for a few questions I'd like answers to / comments on;

Re: Bug#673644: Message at end of successful install talks about floppies (should be updated)

2014-03-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Christian PERRIER (2014-03-02): > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > > > _Description: Installation complete > > Installation is complete, so it is time to boot into your new system. > > - Make sure to remove the installation media (CD-ROM, floppies), so that

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

2014-03-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: reassign -1 src:tasksel Steven Chamberlain (2014-02-02): > Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > > Re: Processed: closed by spam, thus reopening > > The bug wasn't closed by spam, but by Ben Hutchings who said: > > We do not have packages of these, and probably never will. This is not > > a bug i

Getting ready for d-i jessie alpha 1

2014-03-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi folks, I've just added a few hints (reproduced below) for a bunch of d-i related packages; debian-installer should be mostly in shape, I {think,hope}, so if nothing breaks too badly during the britney run, I'll probably look into building and uploading debian-installer this sunday. Then maybe m

Re: Getting ready for d-i jessie alpha 1

2014-03-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2014-03-15): > I've just added a few hints (reproduced below) for a bunch of d-i > related packages; debian-installer should be mostly in shape, I > {think,hope}, so if nothing breaks too badly during the britney > run, I'll probably look into buildin

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20140316

2014-03-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Ansgar Burchardt (2014-03-17): > Cyril Brulebois writes: > > please sync the installer from sid to testing: > > > > dak copy-installer 20140316 > > Done. thanks, Ansgar. CD team: please build jessie images at your earliest convenience. :-) Mraw, KiBi.

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Alpha 1 release

2014-03-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andreas Cadhalpun (2014-03-19): > Hi, > > On 19.03.2014 02:42, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >Behavorial changes in this release > >== > > > > * Xfce is the default desktop environment for the time being. Quoting > >tasksel&

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Alpha 1 release

2014-03-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andreas Cadhalpun (2014-03-19): > Thanks, I found it there. > It would have been great, if Kibi's announcement had mentioned this link > instead of [2], which just links to the daily builds [3]. > > 2: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer > 3: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-bu

Re: Bug#742127: Alternative desktop environments->GNOME is empty

2014-03-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andreas Cadhalpun (2014-03-19): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > It is not possible to install GNOME with jessie alpha 1 netinst [1]: > Advanced options->Alternative desktop environments->GNOME is empty except > for the 'Back' option. So the netboot mini.i

Final steps for Jessie Beta 1

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi people, two parts in this mail: information for everyone, and action for debian-cd@ at the end. Bits of infomation: --- Thanks to Colin's last parted upload, partitioning is in a much better shape now. I've successfully tested the following things using an i386 netinstall ima

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2014-08-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings (2013-08-13): > Colin Watson and Stefano Rivera talked about how Ubuntu had implemented > Secure Boot and what they believed were the requirements. > > Apparently, the Secure Boot spec requires each stage of the boot code > to validate signatures only until ExitBootServices

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

2014-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ Adding -accessibility@ and -cd@ to the loop. ] Steve McIntyre (2014-08-17): > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 01:25:28PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >Control: tag -1 confirmed > >> Another issue is that it requires much more memory, but that IMO is not a > >> block

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

2014-08-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud (2014-08-19): > While I don't have a definitive opinion on the ordering of the menu > choices, I definitively think amd64 should be picked by default on amd64 > architectures. Especially since multiarch, there's no good reason left > for installing i386 on amd64-capable mac

Re: Bug#742485: debian-installer: debian-testing-amd64-gnome-CD1.iso installs XFCE

2014-08-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Fabian, Fabian Rodriguez (2014-08-19): > Package: debian-installer > Followup-For: Bug #742485 > > Dear Maintainer, > > I tested installing from debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso obtained at > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/, > expecting the Gnome desktop to be inst

Re: Bug#742485: debian-installer: debian-testing-amd64-gnome-CD1.iso installs XFCE

2014-08-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2014-08-19): > Hi Fabian, > > Fabian Rodriguez (2014-08-19): > > Package: debian-installer > > Followup-For: Bug #742485 > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I tested installing from debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso obtained at > &

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

2014-08-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2014-08-19): > or do we split things even more? That menu is already too long, and > causes scrolling for people to see the lower options (if they realise > such a thing is possible!). How about we split things up some more, > assuming we can get the auto-detect to work: > > #if (

Debian installer and CD BoF: my views for jessie

2014-08-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, since Steve asked me whether I had some stuff to share for the upcoming Debian installer and CD BoF at DebConf, here are a few things dug from my d-i todo list (without any kind of prioritization). In brackets, the status/impact for jessie. Since it's almost 6am locally, I hope you won't hate

Re: Debian installer and CD BoF: my views for jessie

2014-08-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain (2014-08-25): > On 25/08/14 04:55, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > * Architecture support: my own, limited testing made me discover how > >badly broken d-i on GNU/kFreeBSD was, and I shared my concerns some > >days ago with BSD people and the release

Bug#759406: Image sizes and concatenation

2014-08-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Josh Triplett (2014-08-31): > I was the person at that DebConf session who suggested concatenatable > images. And in particular, if you want to handle media of power-of-two > sizes (1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB), you can provide concatenatable images > of power-of-two sizes after the first: 1GB, 1GB,

Re: Question about custom Debian image

2014-09-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Robert, Robert Yannetta (2014-09-09): > Can you tell me whom I need to speak to about getting custom work > done? I need a custom image of debian-7.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso with > special Broadcom 57766-A1 ethernet drivers preinstalled. The standard > image doesn’t even see the ethernet port exis

(Almost) Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi people, as you might have seen, a number of uploads happened lately and the d-i BoF notes from DebConf kindly provided by Steve (thanks!) reminded me about uploading d-i more often. So I think I'll try and achieve that as soon as linux 3.16 reaches testing (it was just uploaded to unstable, and

Please ignore some warnings in jenkins

2014-09-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Holger, could you please tweak the debian-installer jenkins job to ignore some warnings? https://jenkins.debian.net/view/d-i_packages/job/d-i_build_debian-installer/ I've just pushed a patch to deal with the job server warnings, as proposed in: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/06/

Re: 7.7 planning

2014-09-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam D. Barratt (2014-09-20): > We're (over)due another wheezy point release; this time, 7.7. I > propose we go for one of: > > 11/12 October > 18/19 October > 25/26 October As far as rebuilding/testing d-i is concerned, any of those should be just fine. Reminds me I have some pending p-u. ;-)

Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2014-09-10): > as you might have seen, a number of uploads happened lately and the d-i > BoF notes from DebConf kindly provided by Steve (thanks!) reminded me > about uploading d-i more often. So I think I'll try and achieve that as > soon as linux 3.16 reache

Re: build interval for the "weekly" CDs (was: [RFC] d-i hd-media support for armhf)

2014-09-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Karsten Merker (2014-09-27): > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:17:23AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > I have started working on implementing hd-media support for the > > armhf platform in debian-installer. > [snip] > > Attached is a first preliminary attempt at an implementation. > > The long lis

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ian Campbell (2014-09-28): > Should we do anything about #762007 (user-params breakage due to > kernel changes) or can it wait? I might be mistaken but I think it can wait a bit until we agree on a solution and have some time to get it tested. > WRT #762618 (empty grub.cfg in x86 mini.iso, used

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ debian-release@: see last paragraph. ] Cyril Brulebois (2014-09-26): > Cyril Brulebois (2014-09-10): > > as you might have seen, a number of uploads happened lately and the > > d-i BoF notes from DebConf kindly provided by Steve (thanks!) > > reminded me about uploading

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Aurelien Jarno (2014-09-30): > It might be interesting to also unblock netcfg 1.122 if we want to > have a working d-i beta2 on s390x (and maybe on other architectures). > The recent uploads have been built with gcc-4.9 instead of gcc-4.8, > which triggers a bug that have been hidden for years. I

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2014-09-29): > Besides partman-efi (uploaded today to drop armhf) decruft happened a few minutes ago, unblock-udeb in place. > brltty (stuck because of llvm/clang issues) llvm/clang got either fixed or worked around, and brltty built. It reached testing in the mea

D-I Jessie Beta 2 on its way; udeb freeze lifted

2014-10-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Jessie Beta 2 images have been built and look good to me, so I've therefore lifted the udeb freeze. The release announce should be published somewhen this sunday. debian-cd people: as mentioned on IRC, feel free to sign and put images into place. systemd/dbus people: your packages should be

Bug#765555: cdimage.debian.org: debian-testing-i386-lxde-CD DL via Jigdo does not boot, "no Kernel found"

2014-10-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: block -1 by 765458 David Burke (2014-10-16): > Package: cdimage.debian.org > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > >* What led up to the situation? >* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effect

Re: Debian testing installation failed in i386 (686-pae) - "No installable kernel was found in ther defined APT sources."

2014-10-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vochor (2014-10-16): > Hi, > > I am trying to install Debian testing in my laptop with no success. The > installation reports the next message in the base system installation stage: > "No installable kernel was found in ther defined APT sources." > > I have no idea what the problem is. But, I ca

Bug#765555: Bug#765458: apt: broken cdrom support, breaking installation from weekly ISO images

2014-10-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2014-10-16): > I've tweaked bits and pieces locally to use apt 1.0.9.3 at the > appropriate time and I can confirm that the easy/usual one-CD case is > fixed, thanks! It'd be nice to see what happens with several CDs but > that's not going to be m

Re: New Mirror Site in VietNam

2014-10-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Hoàng Nguyễn Trọng (2014-10-24): > Hello, > > Please add our's mirror site in database, thank you. > > Site: mirrors.vinahost.vn > Backports packages, over HTTP: debian-backports/ > CD/DVD images, over HTTP: debian-cd/ > Backports mirror is updated from: ftp.jaist.ac.jp > CD/DVD image mirro

Re: Debian Testing CDs Automatic Signing Key is not available from usual places

2014-11-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, Erkki Lintunen (2014-11-02): > I couldn't find the "Debian Testing CDs Automatic Signing Key > " (Key fingerprint = F41D 3034 2F35 4669 > 5F65 C669 4246 8F40 09EA 8AC3) from keyservers or from > keyring.debian.org. The key's information is listed on the web-page > "Verifying authenticity

Matthew calling for feedback

2014-11-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, just noticed this call: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/532291014304604160 pointing to this spec: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec/ Unfortunately I'm very low on free time right now, but if someone fancies discussing that with him, please keep debian-boot@ i

Re: [summary] Re: Bug#758234: transitive dependencies

2014-11-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Charles, first of all, thanks for trying to get this sorted out! Charles Plessy (2014-11-17): > [CCed all people who expressed themselves in #758234 (forgive me if I > forgot some), and debian-boot and debian-cd (there is a question for > you)] I must admit I'm busy with work-related topics

Bug#769589: debian-cd: Please improve .disk/cd_type for non-complete builds

2014-11-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2014-11-18): > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 07:05:34AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >[Steve McIntyre] > >> Interesting change; I'd be tempted to refactor things slightly in > >> the code, but that's a secondary thing. I'm more curious: what are > >> the ramifications for d-i? Hav

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2014-12-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Added debian-cd@. Karsten Merker (2014-12-23): > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 07:28:45PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 03:10:37PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > On 2014-12-03, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > > several armhf systems do not have u-boot (or another firmware)

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Karsten Merker (2015-01-02): > > (Do your patches end up adding the correct Built-Using on u-boot?) > > No, they don't, but d-i does not do that for similar components > on other platforms (syslinux/isolinux/grub) as well. Probably we > should do that, but then it would have to be done for all >

Re: debian-cd in Git

2015-01-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2015-01-03): > On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 03:46:18PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > >On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 23:56 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> > >> How do you mean? We're building jessie stuff every day from git > >> master. Is there something in particular that's broken for you?

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi folks, Karsten Merker (2015-01-02): > Ok, I'll change the wording for V4. My intention was to provide a > generic README that works regardless of which compression options > one chooses in the makefile, so that switching from .gz to .xz > would be simple without having to think of updating doc

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20150107 & hint it into testing

2015-01-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ansgar Burchardt (2015-01-07): > Cyril Brulebois writes: > > dak copy-installer 20150107 > > Done. Thanks, Ansgar. Release team, I've gone ahead and hinted debian-installer myself, so that Steve (cc'd through debian-cd@) can trigger a build after the 1000 britney an

Re: ipw2x00 with WPA

2015-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, "François P. Rotzinger" (2015-01-15): > I installed Jessie (Gnome, amd64) on a "why!" laptop (W650SZ-i7). It > exhibits an Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 Wifi card. Thus, I installed the > iwlwifi-2030.6.ucode firmware in /lib/firmware (and the Realtek firmware). > Wifi connections can be est

Re: Jigdo is NOT an option

2015-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello Heiko, Heiko Schroeder (2015-01-22): > Hi Steve, > > > > >I've not seen many reports of problems with cdimage.debian.org - what > Although www.debian.org is reachable cdimage.debian.org is not. There is > no chance to install the i386-jigdo-file an I need a full installation for > tomorr

Bug#776317: Jessie RC1 amd64 mini image missing efi bootloader

2015-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Jack, and thanks for your report. Jack Truong (2015-01-26): > Package: cdimage.debian.org > > Apologies if this is the wrong package. This might be, but don't worry, we'll sort it out. > I'm using the jessie rc1 amd64 mini.iso and the EFI partition doesn't seem > to have anything in it. It

Re: i386 EFI (and Mac builds)

2015-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2015-01-31): > So, I've spent a lot of time hacking on things to get i386 and mixed > amd64/i386 systems working with EFI in d-i, debian-cd, grub etc. Great. > As an explanation: turning on i386 EFI is an easy thing, but it will > cause some older x86 Macs to stop being able to b

Bug#777712: i386 kernel list out of date

2015-02-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2015-02-12): > Again, curious why you're looking at 3.1.13... Possibly because that's what's in stable and could be assumed to be used on the build machine. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian-7.8.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso.torrent is not available in bttracker.debian.org

2015-02-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
advocatux (2015-02-25): > Hi, I hope 'debian-cd' is the right mailing list to ask about a Debian > torrent tracker problem. If not, please direct me to the right place. I think it's fine but I've close to no knowledge about the bittorrent side. > debian-7.8.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso.torrent is n

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