Re: arm64 live image working pretty well (Was: arm64 live image online!)

2024-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
then we'll need to find some native arm64 hardware to use. There's time to make that happen, we just need to justify the money and setup effort to get that done. If we're hoping to generate a complete set of arm64 live images to match amd4, thet's going to need a big machine of

Bug#1080207: lxde and lxqt bookworm live images fail to install without network

2024-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 10:20:37PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: >> Hello Steve, list, >> >> On 31/08/2024 19:47, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > Found in testing of the 12.7.0 live images. >> > >> > Doing a live installation using calamares from eithe

Re: Planning for 12.8 and 12.9

2024-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
usual couple of hours, as we've just >been reminded… Agreed - 4 Jan is a bit too optimistic for my taste. >> 11 January > >That should work. Should work for me too. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < slad

Re: Planning for 12.7 and 12.8

2024-09-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
I.. er think I know how this happened. Sorry. > >I'll start again with a fresh mail. And could we also talk about future releases, not starting with 12.7...? :-P -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Weekly ARM64 live image not yet available

2024-09-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
release. >Unfortunately, the ISO file is not available, even though it was generated. >Is that file still available and could it (manually?) be transferred to the >web page, to allow for some tests to be run on it? Sorry, no - it was cleaned up. :-/ I'm just about to trigger a new buil

Bug#1080207: Acknowledgement (lxde and lxqt bookworm live images fail to install without network)

2024-08-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Testing shows that there is no sign of this issue in the equivalent 11.11 live images. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Das Mohapatra

Bug#1080207: lxde and lxqt bookworm live images fail to install without network

2024-08-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-l...@lists.debian.org Found in testing of the 12.7.0 live images. Doing a live installation using calamares from either of these images fails if no network is available. Running /usr/sbin/bootloader-config fails to install the

Re: weekly live build ISOs missing for 8/12/24 cycle

2024-08-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
here is (from my point of view) no direct reason to enforce a >re-trigger now. The cause has been fixed, so a new run will be OK, next >Monday. Lovely, thanks for checking! :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: https:

Re: Contacting Debian CD team

2024-07-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 01:10:12AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >Am Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 10:54:26PM +0100 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > >> > - My very personal (not DPL related) hope is that we will see some >> >installer featuring Debian Pure Blends. What chances do you

Re: Request: more images in the weekly build -> arm64

2024-07-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 03:07:22PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey Roland, > >On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 12:27:31PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: >> >>On 23/06/2024 22:33, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> Hey Roland! >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 11:39:05A

Re: Friendly ping: Nearly reproducible Bookworm 12.6 live images

2024-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
>> This should do the trick: >> https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/live-setup/-/merge_requests/6 > >Have you found the time to look at this? Just merged now, apologies for keeping you waiting. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Chan

Re: Contacting Debian CD team

2024-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
get this happen? Hmmm. We have history here... :-) What exactly are you hoping to see? A separate set of installer image(s) with all the Blends included? Just the normal installer images but with the blends version of tasksel included? The latter would be very easy, the former much more effort for not so much gain (IMHO). > - Can I do anything for you? I'm good, thanks. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty

Bug#1076265: SHA256SUM ERROR

2024-07-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
um than the one >privided in the list of sha256sums in the same directory. I've just tested this right now and don't see any problem. Can you demonstrate exactly what you're getting please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "F

Bug#1075848: Debian 12.6: jigdo-ing fails as some packages are broken on cdimage.debian.org

2024-07-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 09:07:00PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>Please fix the broken packages on cdimage.debian.org > >Thanks for reporting, looking at this now. Having written a script to fully check the snapshot bits for 12.6, I found some more files int snapsho that w

Bug#1075848: Debian 12.6: jigdo-ing fails as some packages are broken on cdimage.debian.org

2024-07-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
-3+b2_amd64.deb >575632b72bcc8cc5cf3b6f9e977a23febfa433e17d096b15513744709729 >*de/termshark_2.4.0-1+b6_amd64.deb > >Please fix the broken packages on cdimage.debian.org Thanks for reporting, looking at this now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

Re: Nearly reproducible Bookworm 12.6 live images

2024-07-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
f live images (12.6.1 or >12.7.0) will be fully reproducible. Awesome stuff! :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich

Re: Debian 11.9.0 with patch

2024-07-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
/ installer images including security fixes; we expect that security updates will be pulled in by machines during the installation process. But: we just published 11.10.0 this weekend anyway, which will likely include whatever other fixes you're looking for. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambr

Re: Request: more images in the weekly build -> arm64

2024-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Roland, On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 12:27:31PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: > >On 23/06/2024 22:33, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey Roland! >> >> On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 11:39:05AM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: >> > >> > Since the Minidebconf in Hambur

Re: Planning for 12.7/11.11

2024-06-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
non-critical DSAs off the table during the freeze period would be > required Apologies, I'm away that weekend. > - Saturday 31st August: it's later than ideal, leaving a gap before LTS > starts work, but that may be unavoidable. That works for me, so far. -- Steve McIntyre,

Re: Request: more images in the weekly build -> arm64

2024-06-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
one image >at first (e.g. the gnome image) and then set up the openQA testing chain, >before progressing to other variants. Sure, that would make sense. Building a full set of arm64 images probably isn't feasible unless we do something to make the builds much faster. -- Steve McInty

Re: Latest Testing netinstaller not booting

2024-06-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
ld : >https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/20240606-7/amd64/iso-cd/. ACK, thanks for reporting! We found this in CI too (https://openqa.debian.net/tests/269776#step/_boot_to_debianinstaller/5) and people are working on a fix now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Planning for 12.6/11.10

2024-05-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
t; > Saturday 15th June > Saturday 22nd June > Saturday 29th June Any of those are feasible for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray

Bug#1069682: debian-cd DVD source run failing

2024-04-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org As a reminder for me: the latest weekly build failed, looks like source packages no longer fit??? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone

Re: Re-planning for 12.6

2024-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 05:41:13PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 10:58:41PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hiya! >> >> Not wanting to pester *too* much, but where are we up to? >> > >Right now I can still have 27th April on the cards

Re: Re-planning for 12.6

2024-04-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hiya! Not wanting to pester *too* much, but where are we up to? On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 10:53:49PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 01:07:27PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: >>Hi, >> >>As we had to postpone 12.6, let's look at alternative dates. >>

Re: Re-planning for 12.6

2024-04-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
oesn't work for me; long weekend in the UK > Works for me. >May 11th >- Should work for me Nope, already booked for that Saturday. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead

Re: Upcoming stable point release (12.6)

2024-03-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
d-updates will be frozen during the preceeding weekend. > >Due to recent events, the point release has been postponed. A new date >will be announced when possible. ACK, thanks for the update -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait:

Re: Where to download cd iso?

2024-03-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
single CD these days. >The smallest granularity seems to be the ~4.5 GB sized DVD images which >are available via Jigdo download: > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-dvd/ >21 pieces. Yup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einva

Re: Jigdo files wrong?

2024-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Marcelo, On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 12:25:49PM -0300, Marcelo B. wrote: >Hi guys, there seem to be a problem with AMD64's jigdo files of the weekly >builds: they're all the same at 120 bytes in size. ACK, thanks for reporting. I'll take a look. -- Steve Mc

Re: Planning for 12.6

2024-02-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 06:04:17PM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >Hi, > >12.6 should be around 10th April, so please indicate availability for: > >7 April >13 April >20 April Any of those should work for me, assuming (re Adam) that you mean 6 April and not 7 April

Bug#1059858: debian-cd: Missing firmware packages due to usr-move

2024-01-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
ossibly, this is >not the only issue. Are you able to drive this forward from here? Already fixed in git, along with another usr-merge issue I found. The next regular build should be fine. Hmm, why didn't this get tagged as "pending" already when I pushed?? -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Re: Planning for 12.5/11.9

2023-12-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
> Saturday 3rd February (preferred for cadence) > Saturday 10th February > Saturday 17th February Any of those *should* be OK for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.

Re: Problem with jigdo files

2023-12-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
k this user to share more details of exactly what they're seeing please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant, now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross

Re: Problem with jigdo files

2023-12-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
;amd64. He asked for an alternative download of the ISO but IIRC we do >not provide torrents for these.Maybe you can check if there's a >problem with DVD17. >Attached is the german email of the person who reported this problem: *which* DVD 17, please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge,

Bug#1057844: bookworm live images: d-i speech installation not loading sof firmware

2023-12-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 05:06:47PM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: >On 09/12/2023 15:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Package: cdimage.debian.org >> Severity: important >> Tags: a11y >> >> Testing the gnome live image for the 12.3 release... >> >> Running

Bug#1057844: bookworm live images: d-i speech installation not loading sof firmware

2023-12-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: important Tags: a11y Testing the gnome live image for the 12.3 release... Running d-i from that image complained early on about missing Intel SOF firmware. Later on, the same image finds and loads intel wifi firmware just fine. Checking on the image, all the

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
That's cdrom-checker: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdrom-checker -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

Re: Debian qcow2 image username and password

2023-11-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
cloud-init to set up authentication via SSH key - see https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/#What_is_the_default_user_name_on_the_Debian_cloud_images.3F -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "... the premise [is] that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It'

Re: Planning for 12.3

2023-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 11:28:21AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Argh, forgot to respond to this. :-( > >On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 06:59:03PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >>Hi, >> >>The next point release for bookworm should be around the end of November >>2023.

Re: Planning for 12.3

2023-10-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
Both of those currently look feasible for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion,

Re: Typo on https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/

2023-10-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
n November [1] and we may have some free stuff... [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2023/MiniDebConfCambridge -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

Re: question about weekly builds

2023-10-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
uilds are: * for testing of the installer * to allow people to install a clean new version of testing -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me

Re: Enabling arm64 live image builds

2023-09-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
pflash,readonly=true \ > -drive file=/tmp/AAVMF_VARS.fd,format=raw,if=pflash \ > -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 > >Click on View -> serial0 to follow the boot process, and switch back to >ramfb after gdm has started. OK. However, do

Re: Debian 9 live-cd standards iso missing

2023-08-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
; live images for stretch. We switched to a different build setup and it was left out. It was re-added for buster. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt

Re: 11.8/12.2 planning

2023-08-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
indicate your availability for those three. 23rd and 7th are fine, 30th may be more awkward for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead

Re: Debian ISO Testing

2023-07-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
t community no longer meets regularly to >test stuff...and thus the community disperses and fades away over time. FOSS >to me is all about community so I would hope that openQA works alongside the >ISO testers rather than replace us. This is slightly off-topic but AI is >doing a lot of damage to corporate tech and I hope that the FOSS projects >don't fall victim to it too. ACK. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"

Re: Push in git repo missing?

2023-07-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 10:53:15AM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: >Hello Debian-cd Team, > >now that 12.1 has been released, is a push to the git repository at Salsa >missing? >The file `available/CONF.sh.bookworm_release` still mentions 12.0.0 Pushed now, thanks for the prod... --

Bug#1032071: ARM firmware packages included in amd64 installation images

2023-07-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
dy #1035382 open on the live side, let's bump the severity on that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Why do people find DNS so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.” -– Jeff Waugh (https://twitter.com/jdub)

Bug#1032071: ARM firmware packages included in amd64 installation images

2023-07-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
shouldn't necessarily be installed on an amd64 host. Or is this coming from live images? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Changing random stuff until your program works is bad coding practice, but if you do it fast enough it’s Machine Learning.” -- https://twitter.com/manisha72617183

Bug#1032071: ARM firmware packages included in amd64 installation images

2023-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
they be downloaded from a mirror like other ordinary packages when >needed ? I'm not currently filtering by build type, so I'm leaving these in. >Note: it also includes firmware-linux-nonfree which is a meta-package not >containing any firmware file. That's been fixe

Re: 11.8/12.2 planning

2023-06-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
; 7 Oct > >I should be able to make any of those work for the installer team, and >optionally for the images team. 23rd and 7th are fine, 30th may be more awkward for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working is pe

Re: 11.8 planning

2023-06-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
obably September, then 11.9+12.3 Novemberish. >> > >Yes, I had forgotten about the transition to oldstable candece. I was going >to suggest, though, that 11.8 gets pushed back to cadence with 12.2 and we >just do 12.1 on its own first. How does that sound? WFM. -- Steve McIntyre,

Re: 11.8 planning

2023-06-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
ined. > >Two months from 29th April is around the 1st July, so I propose: > >1st July >8th July >15th July at a push > > >1: a shame that joke hasn't worked for some years now 1st July is out for me, but I can do the others fine. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK

Re: 12.1 planning

2023-06-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
r to get 11.8 done earlier and leave more time for 12.1 to mature. All of those work for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant, now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross

Re: Bug#1036371: debian-installer: Blu-ray double-level iso is too large to burn to DLBD disk

2023-05-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
hem. >The files I was talking about are the 2023-05-15 build, and I must have munged >them by putting them on USB sticks, In the always-check-again department, over >and out. > >On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 2:54 AM Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Hi Bud, > >On Sat, May 20, 2023

Re: Bug#1036371: debian-installer: Blu-ray double-level iso is too large to burn to DLBD disk

2023-05-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
actly what size your images are coming out as, please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andrew Cater wrote: >On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 03:03:40PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> I had been thinking about doing similar for installer images too, but >> with other work going on too I think it got too late in the cycle to >> make that change. My plan is there

Re: 11.7 planning + bookworm planning

2023-04-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 09:13:40PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: >Hi all, > >Let's book June 10 as the bookworm release date. A more formal announcement >will follow. \o/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain wor

Re: 11.7 planning + bookworm planning

2023-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
d-i >Luna - 10, 17, 24CD testing >elbrus- 10, 24release team >adsb - 10, 17, 24release team Sledge - 10, 17, 24images team -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there?

Re: 11.7 planning + bookworm planning

2023-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
gt;not want to block on press availability, although it would be real great if >we had them. Unfortunately, the other person on the images team who has the knowledge to do a release (Andy) is also away - we're on the same vacation! May 27 and June 3 are both out for that reason. -- Stev

Re: .zsync files for the weekly live images

2023-04-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
d. >Reasons: >* The package zsync was orphaned for 1.5 years ago >* The package zsync does not support https for the URL with the .zsync file >* Minor reason: The live-build-binary script could generate the images with >the correct filename part, but the extension (.hy

Re: 11.7 planning + bookworm planning

2023-03-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
eekends in >a row? Definitely *not* two weekends on the run, please! >On 17-03-2023 15:59, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:26:00AM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: >> > So, shall we add availability for May too? 6th, 13th, 20th (Ascension >> > weekend), and 27th

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

2023-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey again, On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 03:36:53PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>As you can see, this affects many teams: >>* live-setup: a MR to generate all live images for Bookworm [A2] So, after some delay from me and some further delays from various Debian machines com

Re: 11.7 planning + bookworm planning

2023-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
nt to provide more details). > >So, shall we add availability for May too? 6th, 13th, 20th (Ascension >weekend), and 27th (coincides with DebianReunionHamburg)? I could do the 6th and 13th, but I'm away on vacation 20th and 27th (and 3rd June). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: 11.7 planning

2023-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
re 1st (probably too >soon), 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th. I think I'm clear for any of: 8th 22nd 29th -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: https://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ks to hard links. But of course that will only work for files and won't work for directories. Probably best not to worry about the FAQ tarball here, to be honest. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

Bug#1031696: Also affects bookworm

2023-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
#x27;s fine. But it still breaks other useful features, at least: * BIOS boot * image checksums and those are important for me and a lot our users. Seriously, just using DD or similar gives people a verifiable, known-good copy of our installer image that will boot on as many machines as possible a

Re: "up to 300 mb in size"

2023-03-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 05:23:29AM -0500, nick black wrote: >Steve McIntyre left as an exercise for the reader: >> Yup, we know. Things are growing over time. >> In fact, the bookworm release will be bigger again due to including >> firmware too. > >my sincere apol

Re: "up to 300 mb in size"

2023-03-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
thought i'd let y'all know! Yup, we know. Things are growing over time. In fact, the bookworm release will be bigger again due to including firmware too. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Arguing that you don't care about the right

Bug#1031424: add config option to control mixed-mode EFI on x86

2023-02-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.36 Severity: normal [ Reminder for me ] I've added support for mixed-mode EFI stuff on amd64 builds. Add an option to enable/disable it, so that local hack builds don't need both amd64 and i386 d-i builds to function. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.6

Re: Weekly testing is same as a week ago, it seems

2023-02-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
possible bug… That's exactly the fix I just came up with independently, so I've just pushed it now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped." -― Andy Weir, "The Martian"

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

2023-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
er: A minor fix [A3] No idea about that, leaving for somebody else. >* live-installer: A better user experience after the installer is finished >[A4] Merred just now. >* live-build: Various installer improvements, including off-line installation >[A5] Not sure who might review th

Bug#1024346: cdrom: debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso boots to Grub CLI on Dell Optiplex 5090

2022-11-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 03:28:28AM +, r...@tekhax.io wrote: > >That seems to have been the problem. Thanks! Awesome, thanks for confirming. I've just pushed a fix to the debian-cd build scripts which should fix this for future builds. -- Steve McIntyre, Ca

Bug#1024346: cdrom: debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso boots to Grub CLI on Dell Optiplex 5090

2022-11-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
le then you should find that the Debian installer will work just fine. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead

Bug#1024346: cdrom: debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso boots to Grub CLI on Dell Optiplex 5090

2022-11-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
ioned a different way to force writing data, using the "oflag=sync" option to dd. Using that with "bs=4M" should also give good performance when writing out an image to a USB stick. Could you possibly retry this and check if it works for you please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridg

Re: 11.6 planning

2022-11-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
. I'm away on a work trip on the 1st and 2nd, due back home sometime on the 3rd. I could do a release, but I'd be starting later than normal. Maybe Andy could start it and I'd catch up with him when I'm back. I'm busy on the evening of the 10th, but we can work around that if

Re: échec installation debian

2022-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Re-adding a CC to the debian-cd list ] Maybe you'd get better help on the debian-user-french mailing list. On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 01:45:00PM +0100, Rima AOUADENE wrote: >Hi!  >I have a Mac Os, I don't arrive to install debian!  > >Le mar. 8 nov. 2022 à 15:02, S

Re: échec installation debian

2022-11-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
xact image are you using? (URL will help) * how are you trying to boot the system? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -- Bertrand Russell

Re: CDimages go 2 NET INSTALLERS

2022-11-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:07:23AM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > >On Tue, 1 Nov 2022, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >[..] >> The netinstall image *is* a CD image. For example, from >> >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ : >> >

Re: CDimages go 2 NET INSTALLERS

2022-10-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
either an Internet connection or some other Debian CD/DVD images. >Do you even link bro? Can you translate that to English please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Issue with preseeded install - cannot skip apt media scanning

2022-10-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
p/cdrom/set-failed should be sufficient: > >### Description: Scan extra installation media? ># An attempt to configure apt to install additional packages from the ># media failed. ># . ># Please check that the media has been inserted correctly. ># d-i apt-setup/cdrom/set-fail

Bug#1021702: debian-cd: Take constraints into account while building the cd packages pool

2022-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
>the network. If network is available, I guess that python3-unicodedata2 >will be fetched from a remote package repository, so no problem for most >users. ACK. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"

Re: sha512sum-error at debian-live-11.5.0-amd64-gnome.iso

2022-10-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
from the system, letting Wget finish the work. > >We did not explore what exactly causes the oversize of the download result. >The situation of two simultanously working wgets on the same file is ill >enough to serve as explanation. > > >Have a nice day :) > >Thomas > > -

Bug#1017540: cdimage.debian.org: i386 DVD 1 iso fails to install - md5 file integrity

2022-08-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
k that the image is written correctly by doing a checksum readback from the USB stick afterwards? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth

Bug#1016954: cdimage.debian.org: Installing from live system sets up LUKS1 partitions instead of LUKS2

2022-08-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
gt;unexpected >considering the announcement of using LUKS2 by default already in >Buster [2]. >(There are some other inconsistencies as well; for example the LVM >option.) ACK. The live installer (Calamares) does things quite differently to d-i, and we cna't always guarantee that t

Re: Time to drop win32-loader ?

2022-08-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
;s byhand handling upon uploads; but is manually > moved by ftp-master on migrations and release days) > >(I orphaned win32-loader back in September, and it still doesn't have an >official maintainer; but I'd be happy to work towards ditching it away :-P) Let'

Re: [debian...@casulana.debian.org: testingcds 3sidamd64 (amd64 dvd) has failed; log included]

2022-08-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
and ensure it doesn't break anything else. > >I have created a merge request to make it easier to review the code if >anyone wants to do it: >https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/merge_requests/26 I can have a look, but not *right* now I'm afraid - swamped with ot

Re: [debian...@casulana.debian.org: testingcds 3sidamd64 (amd64 dvd) has failed; log included]

2022-08-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Raphael On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 09:00:59AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >On lun., 08 août 2022, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> This weekly DVD run just tooke ~15h to run compared to the normal ~30m >> or so. Checking the stuff in the log here, I'm thinking that thi

Re: [debian...@casulana.debian.org: testingcds 3sidamd64 (amd64 dvd) has failed; log included]

2022-08-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 07:56:49PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey Raphaël! > >This weekly DVD run just tooke ~15h to run compared to the normal ~30m >or so. Checking the stuff in the log here, I'm thinking that this >"Deep recursion on subroutine" message is very

Re: [debian...@casulana.debian.org: testingcds 3sidamd64 (amd64 dvd) has failed; log included]

2022-08-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 07:56:49PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey Raphaël! > >This weekly DVD run just tooke ~15h to run compared to the normal ~30m >or so. Checking the stuff in the log here, I'm thinking that this >"Deep recursion on subroutine" message is very

[debian...@casulana.debian.org: testingcds 3sidamd64 (amd64 dvd) has failed; log included]

2022-08-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
ed make[1]: *** [Makefile:484: image-trees] Error 137 make[1]: Leaving directory '/srv/cdbuilder.debian.org/git/setup/bookworm/debian-cd' - End forwarded message - -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < Aardvark> I dislike C++

Re: buster EOL (10.13) and 11.5 planning

2022-07-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
d 11.5) and any opinions on whether we should >do them at the same time or separately. Happy to do a double release on 20/08 or 10/09, or a single release or 03/09. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Why do people find DNS so difficult?

Re: New unofficial Debian 11.4 release torrent files not registered in the bittorent tracker

2022-07-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
>however the official ones are[3]. Hmmm, looks like the tracker didn't pick up on those on when I released them. Oh, hmmm. I've just fixed a typo and re-prodded the seeders now. Looks like that's fixed it. Thanks for reporting! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#1013432: debian-cd: UEFI boot uses black text on dark blue background

2022-06-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
e now (which was not the case for e.g. >the netinst-11 images). > >As a local hack, I've replaced: >selected_item_color = "black" >with >selected_item_color = "white" > >in boot/grub/theme/1 inside my netinst image. Aha! Thanks for reporting this, I

Re: 11.4 planning

2022-06-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
me pressure it's easier to cope with a single release rather than two. * We have some secure-boot related updates that have not yet filtered through for buster and bullseye. We're working on stuff for bullseye now, but buster may take a little bit longer yet. I'd

Bug#1011343: WISHLIST: Offical ALL-IN-ONE images?

2022-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
m/libburnia/libisoburn/raw/branch/master/test/merge_debian_isos.sig >for checking by gpg --verify. Cool. :-) That might be a useful thing to include in a package. What do you think? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "

Bug#1011343: WISHLIST: Offical ALL-IN-ONE images?

2022-05-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Thomas! On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 12:03:23PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> youre initial guess is correct. We don't generate the .iso files >> at all for the larger images [1]. This means we also don't have >> torrent files for them [2

Bug#1011261: The digest algorithm in SHA512SUMS.sign is SHA256

2022-05-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
;its digest algorithm. Although SHA256 is pretty safe, it's seem strange that >sign a SHA512SUMS with SHA256. I think it's better to sign SHA512SUMS with >SHA512. Maybe. It's not really a priority to change anything here right now, I'll be honest... -- Steve McIntyre, C

Bug#1011343: WISHLIST: Offical ALL-IN-ONE images?

2022-05-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
, and co-funder of libjte, which is >now back in the hands of Steve McIntyre from whose genisoimage code it >got large parts of its entrails.) > >I was possibly wrong with guessing that the ISO is dumped into /dev/null, >although debian-cd seems to be smart enough to read the various chec

Re: iso image for PPC G4 700MHz

2022-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
d be better asking the porters on the powerpc list, we've not maintained official CD releases for old powerpc images for some time. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

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