Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
kernel branches (KAISER) was sufficiently different from that used upstream, that i386 support has not been added to it. As a result, stretch:i386 is still vulnerable when running the default (4.9-based) kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes i

Bug#968803: debian-cd : please include base packages from 'unreleased' on debian-ports architectures

2020-08-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
Those would then be usable by both X and Wayland servers and should be able to handle suspend and resume gracefully. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The Peter principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

Re: Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
and what's speaking > against > doing that? If it's about CPU time, then maybe it should obey the > parallelization setting of the build process. [...] The general way to communicate this is by wrapping the build in "taskset", and pigz will surely follow that. Ben. -- Ben

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
that you are likely to end up doing most of the work, and only you can decide how much time to spend on it. > => Question: what to advertise/communicate on? One-shot only is probably >a good rule of thumb? [...] I think what you're proposing is to announce this as a one-off, and not to

Re: Planning for d-i Stretch Alpha 9

2016-11-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
be an ABI bump in the next upload to unstable (probably within the next week). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Lowery's Law:  If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Improving firmware reporting

2016-05-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 21:43 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (2016-05-22): > > > > All the binary packages built from firmware-nonfree get it > > automatically, but I forgot there were so many other firmware packages. > > Maybe

Re: Improving firmware reporting

2016-05-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 21:11 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> (2016-05-22): > > > > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (2016-05-22): > > > > > > That information already exists in DEP-11 metadata that APT will &

Re: Improving firmware reporting

2016-05-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
ds network access), and will need updating > from time to time (ideally once before every release, but I'll probably > add a cron job on d-i.debian.org to get notifications). [...] Please use the existing index which will stay up-to-date. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who kn

Re: 8.4 and 7.10 planning

2016-02-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
slip to the next point release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian images on Oracle Compute Cloud Service

2016-01-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
package that decompresses vmlinuz at kernel installation time? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false.

Bug#808958: Update kernel package selection for i386 in stretch

2015-12-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
rom: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:32:42 + Subject: [PATCH] Add 686 kernels to replace 586 for i386 CDs --- Makefile | 3 +++ debian/changelog | 3 +++ tools/generate_di+k_list | 4 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+) d

Re: Bug#808874: debian-installer: FTBFS on i386: 586 vs. 686

2015-12-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 03:30 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (2015-12-24): > > I already updated base-installer for this, and I think the only other > > change needed was in build/config/i386.cfg.  I've pushed a change to > > t

Re: Preparing d-i Stretch Alpha 4

2015-10-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
session worker > > > process > > > > > > I'm about to try other desktops. > > > > XFCE and KDE both seem to work fine. \o/ > > As does Gnome on real hardware. Sigh at YA place where Gnome looks to > be failing in VM installations. :-( This pro

Re: Summary of the Debian CD BoF at DC15

2015-09-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 13:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > If users are stuck booting off smaller media, then I'd recommend using > the netinst to boot and then add more package sources later. [...] One of the reasons cited to keep CDs has been computers that can't boot from USB (even

Bug#783316: Architecture list in README.{html,txt} is long outdated

2015-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: normal According to README.txt: Debian is available for various kinds of computers (architectures), like IBM-compatible PCs (i386), Compaq's Alpha, Sun's Sparc, Motorola/IBM's PowerPC, and (Strong)ARM processors. Check the ports page for more

Bug#777711: ARM and MIPS kernel lists out of date

2015-02-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.13 Severity: important Tags: patch tools/generate_d-i+k_list has outdated lists of kernel packages for armhf, mips and mipsel. - There are new flavours for all of these in jessie, and MIPS kernels now boot using an initramfs - The mipsel/loongson-2f and

Bug#777712: i386 kernel list out of date

2015-02-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.13 Severity: serious As the 486 kernel flavour was renamed to 586, linux-image-586 needs to be included on CD#1 and so should linux-headers-586. There is an option to exclude the 486 flavour, and I wasn't sure whether this should cover 586 as well or whether it

Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode - PLEASE REVIEW

2014-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
) + return 1; Should be return 0? + else + return 1; [...] Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein signature.asc

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2014-08-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
, no progress has been made on the above steps or any alternate approach. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
CD (rather than 2+ CDs or downloads) then Xfce would probably be the right default DE for that single CD. I do not support making it the default in general, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. signature.asc Description

Secure Boot meeting at DebConf

2013-08-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
https://penta.debconf.org/penta/schedule/dc13/event/1039.en.html Colin Watson will be present and can talk about how Ubuntu has implemented this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2013-08-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
for signing and add linux-image-signed packages with the Debian-signed kernel images. This is because some quirks in the kernel should be run before calling ExitBootServices(). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. signature.asc

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2013-08-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
(whatever name it gets) to the unsigned version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
picture of which chips this needs to be done for. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Preparation for d-i beta 1

2012-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
or whether this should be left until we have other substantial changes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ

Bug#622622: Priority of i386 kernel flavours

2012-06-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 05:31 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please can this be fixed in a stable point release, not just in wheezy? Sorry, I see this was supposed to be fixed in 6.0.2 (and cdimage-search confirms that). I've been misled by http://bugs.debian.org/678236#37 where someone tested 6.0.1

Re: Upcoming stable point release

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
in 2.6.32-40 (currently in stable-proposed-updates). I can probably make an upload this weekend, but cannot promise that a further upload will not be needed. We need some testing of the isci driver (added in 2.6.32-40) and more generally regression testing. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt

Bug#648690: Package lists include removed and transitional Linux kernel packages

2011-11-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.7 Severity: important Tags: patch Please make the following changes to tools/generate_di+k_list and tasks/wheezy/interesting-fromcd23: 1. Remove linux-image-686; this is a transitional metapackage not needed in new installations. 2. Remove *-modules-*; these

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#646019: general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 17:39 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 646019 cdimage.debian.org WTF? Isn't this a kernel driver bug? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything

Bug#622622: closed by Steve McIntyre 93...@debian.org (Bug#622622: fixed in debian-cd 3.1.7)

2011-07-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
a separate bug for required changes for wheezy, if you prefer. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[PATCH] Specify policy for use of revision IDs in version numbers

2011-04-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
in ordering + versions and it tends to result in very long version + numbers and filenames. This information may be recorded + in the changelog instead. + /p + /sect1 + /sect sect id=maintainer -- 1.7.4.4 -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled

Bug#622622: Priority of i386 kernel flavours

2011-04-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
branch of debian-cd so that 6.0.2 should be correct. Thanks. You'll also want to put linux-image-686-pae on CD 1 (in place of linux-image-686) in future releases. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
in a distributed VCS). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Question about the version of debian

2011-04-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 09:19 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 13 avril 2011 à 14:02 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:47 +0800, YANG,Chao wrote: dpkg --print-architecture shows i386. However, uname -a shows x86-64 what does this mean

Re: Question about the version of debian

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
this is a bug in the configuration of the CD/DVD creation: the amd64 flavour is on DVD 1 but the 686-bigmem flavour is on DVD 2. The latter definitely should be on DVD 1 (and CD 1 or 2, rather than CD 10!). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse

Bug#622622: Priority of i386 kernel flavours

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
, and should ideally be on CD 1 or 2 (but I realise that there is tough competition for CD 1). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#619691: Provide lists of CD etc. contents

2011-03-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Richard Atterer no longer maintains Jigdo or the search engine for files on Debian CDs. Please provide content lists in some form that can be linked from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianCDContents (now deleted; all links were dead) and

Bug#614583: debian-cd: Boot prompt for powerpc does not make install64 sufficiently prominent

2011-03-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
, or enter +'help' for help. --- END --- -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Meeting(s) at FOSDEM

2009-02-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
missing that you would like to discuss? Then: when and where would be a good time to meet up? Hello? Anyone? Friday or Saturday evening in the centre, or perhaps lunch-time in/near ULB. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email