Steven Chamberlain wrote:
I'm merging this with an older bug report about the same issue. I'm
reopening that and tagging as 'squeeze' because I think it maybe should
be addressed in a future point release of Squeeze.
How do you know that Squeeze users are not depending on preseed files
with
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Joey Hess]
In the case of Debian Edu configuration scripts, this bug meant
that a password containing a # character would be truncated
AFAIK, a crypted password string will not contain a `#`.
Also, d-i's password preseeding does not involve debconf's
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Hi, Joey.
We are discussing to finally move comm...@skolelinux.no to
URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-edu-commits ,
as the mailman server currently hosting commits@ is going to die.
Can you add me as a list admin and send me the
Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Dienstag, 16. März 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
An additional issue with non-free firmware is that including it in the
way you propose would (I think) mean it will get loaded without any
prompting of the user, which may in
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Should this be the default behaviour of debian-cd, or should hw-detect
be changed to look for firmware packages where debian-cd put them when
firmware debs is in the package list?
The problem with making hw-detect look in pool/ is that it does not know
what debs
Otavio Salvador wrote:
I think that we could drop it for:
- ia64
- hppa
- sparc
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/30/HNsparclaptop_1.html
- s390
- others?
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Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Hi.
I'm told that tasksel is uninstallable on s390, and this make it hard
to get the debian-edu package propagated into testing. The reason is
said to be that tasksel depend on tasksel-data, which depend on
laptop-detect, and laptop-detect is missing on s390. Do
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Thank you for that clue.
I've combined parts from the powernowd init.d script and the
cpufreq-detect.sh script into one init.d script loadcpufreq included
in the debian-edu-config package, and written a cfengine rule to get
cpufrequtils to turn on ondemand CPU
Package: debian-edu-profile-udeb
Severity: normal
Tag: d-i
We're renumbering all installer-menu-items in udebs, and this udeb contains
a installer-menu-item. Please multiple the current number (in your control
file) by 100. This needs to be done ASAP; the package will appear far too
early in the
Package: debian-edu-install-udeb
Severity: normal
We're renumbering all installer-menu-items in udebs, and this udeb contains
a installer-menu-item. Please multiple the current number (in your control
file) by 100. This needs to be done ASAP; the package will appear far too
early in the d-i menu
Package: debian-edu-install-udeb
Severity: normal
prebaseconfig has been renamed to finish-install. Please change the
dependency to use the new package name.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
tags 356709 moreinfo
thanks
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:25:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
base-config is a dummy transitional package that can safely be removed
from unstable now. Thanks.
** debian-edu-install has an unsatisfied dependency on i386: base-config
Ralf Gesellensetter wrote:
Does this mean, d-i comes with ntfsresize version 1.11.2 or later? Or is it
an
own implementation?
Whatever version is in the version of debian you're using.
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RalfGesellensetter wrote:
1. Give Debian-Installer the feature to shrink ntfs partitions within
manually partitioning: What is needed in terms of work
It's mostly a matter of
a) selecting the ntfs or other partitoion you want to resize
b) hitting enter on the line for size
c) entering the
Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
Hmm, does that mean that your contract now is ended ?
No, I have a few days..
If so I hope you still will be able to help out a bit. As you may know,
I've been working a bit with getting support for 2.6 kernel and gnome
into Debian-edu. I guess 2.4 and KDE will
As I'm wrapping up my 1 year contract with SLX Debian Labs to work on
debian-edu, I felt I should try to summarise what I've done during this
year on the job, how well I've managed to meet the goals laid out in my
contract and task list, and what areas I've fallen short on, as well as
imparting
+ Done this week
* Wrote a proposal for hosting for my d-i test lab and
circulated it to a few parties since I will not be able to
host it at my house soon.
* Work on making d-i work better with forcedeth controllers
+ Done last week
* Kept working on sarge security issues.
* Set up cobalt raq for automated d-i install tests for mipsel.
* Worked on getting lessdisks into sarge; sent in some patches.
* Also some lessdisks patches to make
Apologies for the third summary covering two weeks in a row. I will get
back to proper weekly summaries ASAP.
+ Done in the past two weeks.
* wrote patch to add bug dependency info to debian BTS
* released d-i rc3 (most of the effort went here)
Missed sending in last week's report due to travel and subsequent
exhaustion, so here's a two-week report.
* Attended the release team meeting in Vancouver. Please see the
summary of results of the meeting for details
This report covers the past two weeks. I did not have time to prepare a
report last week, because my home server lost 1/3 of its lvm array on
Monday and I was busy backing up what I could before the disk fully died
and reinstalling it. Now I'm using lvm over raid 5 for that system..
So, done in
+ Done this week
* slept! :-)
* Worked on getting uploads done for many translation fixes in
d-i.
* Kept working on testing security updates.
* Fixed broken desktop task on full CD by excluding more new
Andreas Schuldei wrote:
i tried to cvs2svn the webmin-ldap-skolelinux cvs repository into
the debian-edu repository on svn.debian.org.
I tried several differnt approaches, but everything i and people
on #debian-devel came up with failed untill now.
svnadmin load
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Wouldn't it be possible to keep the old archive around read-only for a
limited time (except for the downtime this weekend, off course), so that
unfulfilled commits was not completely lost. I believe (but have not
tested) that it is possible to generate a cvs diff
Done this week:
- Got my automated test network back in operation (offline due to
houseguests).
- Some work on adding powerpc box to test network. Still waiting for
some firmware updates.
- More work on sarge security fixes and checking new holes; made another
semi-weekly report to
Georg Damm wrote:
Is it planned to build an image with 2.6 kernel? I don't worry about
partitioning the disk myself, but I don't have a clue how to build
the image.
It would be nice to have a linux26 option on the sarge CD, but I left it
out before because adding the kernel package plus
Halvor Borgen wrote:
Well, I'm just going to attend this gathering, but I would like that someone
would give demos on cerebrum, kerberos, nagios and such. As far as I know,
there is going to be a sysadmin-course of some sort, related to
administrating Skolelinux, so I hope some of this is
Done last week:
- Spent more time than usual dealing with new security holes, about 1.5
days total spent on security this week. Mostly because there were
more new holes than usual.
- Sent in another report to the release team about unfixed security holes
in sarge. We're getting much
Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote:
too much sport will kill you :) How about these alternatives for
trimming:
Well FWIW it should be fixed again since this morning. It seems that
changes to the debian-edu package's Makefile broke assumptions the CD
build system was using to generate wantedpkglist.txt.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Log:
Fix call to makefile to build sarge cds. I don't think the old version
matched builder's installed
Done last week:
- Final d-i translation uploads and other last minute fixes.
- Obtained a HP proliant server with remote management features to use as
a d-i and debian-edu automated test platform. Upgraded it to iLO 1.63A.
- Added support for HP iLO (Integrated Lights Out) to the d-i
Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote:
Am Montag, 18. Oktober 2004 19:33 schrieb Joey Hess:
- Fixed languagechooser cyrillic issue.
Hi,
this means there is russian schools testing skolelinux? how about a
russian plone site? or is the syncing issue to be solved first?
Well this is just for the first
Done last week:
- Work on partman-auto-lvm. Maybe one day this will be a viable
replacement for autopartkit, though not yet.
- Fixed languagechooser cyrillic issue.
- Continuing work on sarge security.
- Worked on processing old installation reports, and pinging reporters
(300 pings
Done last week:
- Made the installer skip autopartkit on standalone profile installs.
- Worked with Finnarne on #274742.
- Uploaded all the d-i udebs after the string freeze, and began the build
process for the next release.
- Dealt with various problems that were breaking the d-i initrd
Done last week:
- Prepared d-i tc2 release
- Worked with James Troup and the release managers on udeb source
propigation to sarge.
- Work on ntfs resize support and raid5.
- Work on lowmem installs.
- Fixed autopartkit crash.
Plans for this week:
- Fix debian-edu bugs 274742
(Why are different parts of this thread cc'd to -devel and -release and
the bug at seeming random?)
Steve Langasek wrote:
It's clear that it would be an RC bug for an arch: powerpc package to
depend on an arch: i386 package, because this would make the package
uninstallable. Is it an RC bug
Done last week:
- Wrote framework for automated install testing in bochs. (incomplete)
- came up with timeline for the next 2 d-i releases
- d-i meeting at Oldenburg, discussed release plans and schedule for
sarge, and plans for after sarge release
(minutes posted to debian-boot mailing
Joey Hess wrote:
This should have been fixed in my debian-cd merge yesterday. CDs I've
built at home work for me (tested very slowly and labouriously at 1/10th
normal speed in qemu). I haven't tried the auto built CDs yet but they
should be fixed the same way.
I think we'll have working sarge
Done last week:
- Fix ACPI fan support in d-i for 2.6 kernels.
- Continued working on updating d-i to the 2.6.8 and 2.4.27 kernels.
- Modified many parts of d-i to better support preseeding.
- Contacted Christian Kuelker about debian-edu website setup. (Haven't
heard back yet.)
-
Knut Yrvin wrote:
I'we heard it was broken in the weekend. Is it installable now? We gonna
test it in Akershus City Council :-)
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-sarge/
The 2.4.28 kernel in sarge has some oops problems with some computers.
Unfortunatly that includes mine, so I can't tell if the
This report covers two weeks. The first week was spent in Oxford at the
small conference hosted by Canonical software. The second week was spent
mostly sick at home with post-convention flu, which is why I didn't get the
report in last week..
Done week before last:
- Attended Canonical
Sent early since I'll be traveling on Monday.
Done last week:
- Processed all of the 2004 DSAs to find which are not yet fixed in sarge,
worked with others to check the 2003, 2002 DSAs.
Made sure fixes were in process or had bugs, let the release and
security teams know.
(This took
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
The release of Sarge is getting closer, and I'm looking at
URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/sl-packages.txt to
check which packages we need to get into debian. There is still quite
a lot of packages in need of an upload.
I'm worried that it may
Done last week:
- managed release of d-i release candidate 1
- coordination
- image builds
- web site updates
- archive updates
- tagging release
- release announcement
- list of release critical bugs in debian-edu is now generated daily
Andreas Schuldei wrote:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040805 19:08]:
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Date: 04/08/05 11:06:20
Modified:build/CD buglist.html
Log:
automatic commit after build
Also, the code that builds it is not working on developer, so I need to
do a bit more work before it's more than an empty page.
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Work done last week:
- Continued work toward d-i release. (Due very soon now.)
- Sanity checked and expanded the sarge installation manual.
- Rewrote the installation howto and incorporated it into the manual.
Plans for this week:
- I do hope to finally release d-i this week. :-) It's been
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Do you btw, know which file systems in the 2.6 kernel now supports
online resizing (ie resize/extend without umount)? I know it is
supported by reiserfs, and suspect it is supported by xfs, but is it
supported by ext3 or anyof the others?
reiserfs supports growing
We're still having much trouble getting the education-* packages into
testing. The next release of tasksel will have some features that could
let us use it instead of task packages, and avoid these problems.
Here's how it could work:
- debian-edu installations install a education-tasks
Work done last week:
- d-i irc meeting[1] decided how the next d-i release should be done
- Worked with finnarne on the sarge CD, now it's close to a trouble
free install.
- Set up apt repository for testing security project on alioth.
- Worked with pere on building the sarge CDs
Work done last week:
- Merged many skolelinux changes into debian-cd, added a debian-edu branch
to debian-cd cvs containing the rest of the changes, and a build structure
to debian-edu cvs to build CDs. Switched it to only build the first
binary CD. Build mails are now sent to the
Andreas Schuldei wrote:
what is the prefered way to make changes to the sarge cd only?
do we allready have an infrastructure to feed changes only to it
and not to the woody configuration?
i dont know the buildsystems, i guess you are in a better
position to recomment something (or come up
Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
And since this server is an HP with a SmartArray SCSI controller, I've
feed HP with info about the simple workaround needed to fix
installation on this card. I'm told by the
see http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=789
I managed to file the bug wrongly in
I've made a small debian-edu branch in debian-cd CVS that holds just the
changes needed to build debian-ed CDs. It's a small diff and I have
plans to make it smaller by, eg, adding an option to debian-cd to limit
the kernels on the CD to only the ones used by d-i, and another to drop
the 2.6
Things accomplished this last week:
- Sent the testing security updates proposal to several people
and incorporated their comments into it.
- Caught up on everything that happened in d-i and debian-edu
while I was away.
- Tried to maintain d-i's
My second monthly report on skolelinux work. This report actually covers
the last week of May, as my last monthly report was on May 24th.
This month has been marked by lots of meetings and discussion with other
people about both debian-edu and d-i topics. Most of this was at
DebConf4, where we
Ralf wrote:
This sounds really interesting, however sarge seems to be of special
interest to the workstations (and LTSP, of course). Could one get the
same result by changing the sources in /etc/apt and upgrading (dsl
provided)?
Upgrades from skolelinux to debian-edu/sarge are a whole
At last I have a working debian-edu sarge CD. There are no known
problems with the first stage (d-i) install. The second stage has a few
known problems:
- Asks a few too many questions, including time zone, about a
second CD, and exim configuration.
- Takes a long time
This is a combined report of work accomplished and things done at
DebConf4 over the last 2 weeks. Actually most of the report covers the
first week; I have spent most of the last week being in transit, sick,
or both.
- Various work on d-i release. Test candidate 1 was done during
Work accomplished this week:
- Get d-i close to ready for the rc1 release.
Involved coming up with a timeline, coordinating branching and
testing, propigation to testing, etc, with the help of the
d-i team.
- Set up a local apt repository on
I'm supposed to do monthly reports as well as weekly ones, and I find to
my suprise that a month has rolled by since I began to work on
skolelinux, so here goes.
This was my first month with the project, so it involved a certian
amount of learning about things and familiarisaton with the code,
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
How is the background and foreground colour selected? I got the logo
displayed by reducing the colour count to 16, but the foreground and
background is blue and red respectively.
This is the reason for the #rrggbb=i options of ppmtolss16. Color 7 is
used for the
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
I've tried (and succeded) to replace the boot logo used on the
skolelinux / debian-edu CD. I was able to replace it, but it do not
look to good. I suspect this is related to the warning message
reported when converting from PNG to SLL16:
/usr/bin/ppmtolss16:
My second weekly report[1]. Besides the usual d-i work, here is what I've been
doing for debian-edu this week:
- I've taken over the job of sarge CD building for debian-edu from Petter.
- Modified debian-edu-install to work with sarge's base-config, and
fixed up base-config more to support
: 241373
Changes:
debian-edu (0.769) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Joey Hess
- gen-control: Use | between alternates in generated control file
if the alternates are both available.
- Depend on discover | discover1, for sarge's discover transition.
* Rene Engelhard
- fix myspell
-edu-install debian-edu-profile-udeb
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.626
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Edu Developers debian-edu@lists.debian.org
Changed-By: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
debian-edu-install - Override base-config to install Skolelinux
Andreas Metzler wrote:
The debian-edu sourcepackage generates 23 metapackages which only
consist of dependencies. The dependencies are generated semi
automatically by the script gen-control. - It basically takes a task
file that lists packages that should be depended on, checks which ones
are
I've recently begun working on skolelinux, with a rather large task list
(http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/prosjektet/avtaler/work-joey-hess.txt)
that includes sending weekly reports of what I've done to this list. This
is my first weekly report.
Most of the last week was spent coordinating
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