Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-11-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:44:29PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: - Allow us to fix detection problems without to need a kernel upload; As the modules checks against it own table, this is a noop. - Allow by arch specific modules; The modules may specify that also. - Allow by kernel

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:57:30AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alle 14:18, sabato 29 ottobre 2005, hai scritto: Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is also a proposal that at install time scans

Re: x86 kernel flavours was: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-31 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:31:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:57:34PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: Speaking of kernel flavours (we weren't, but what the hey); is the plan still to reduce all of the x86 flavours down to two: generic x86 and generic x86-smp? Still?

Re: x86 kernel flavours was: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:03:46AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:31:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:57:34PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: Speaking of kernel flavours (we weren't, but what the hey); is the plan still to reduce all of the x86

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
Eddy Petrişor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/31/05, Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are not using discover2 yet, but discover1, and i thought the way to the future was to use hotplug only, as ubuntu did ? In installer itself, for sure. But discover2 has some important

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-31 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 10/31/05, Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are not using discover2 yet, but discover1, and i thought the way to the future was to use hotplug only, as ubuntu did ? In installer itself, for sure. But discover2 has some important feature that cannot be satisfied by hotplug or

Re: x86 kernel flavours was: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-31 Thread Horms
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:03:46AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:31:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:57:34PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: Speaking of kernel flavours (we weren't, but what the hey); is the plan still to reduce all of the x86

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 14:18, sabato 29 ottobre 2005, hai scritto: Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is also a proposal that at install time scans through external modules to find those needed by the host system I will be happier

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:57:30AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alle 14:18, sabato 29 ottobre 2005, hai scritto: Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is also a proposal that at install time scans through external modules to find

x86 kernel flavours was: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-30 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:46:30 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: As said, i think that the only way to solve this for debian-installer would be to follow up with my plan, and mandate a policy of all packaged modules to provide .debs and

Re: x86 kernel flavours was: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:57:34PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:46:30 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: As said, i think that the only way to solve this for debian-installer would be to follow up with my

Re: x86 kernel flavours was: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:57:34PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:46:30 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: As said, i think that the only way to solve this for debian-installer would be to follow up with my plan,

Re: x86 kernel flavours was: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-30 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Anand Kumria wrote: I can recall quite a number of incident where i've moved a disk from an athlon k6 to k7 (and vice versa) and found random failures until I picked the right kernel package. Hu? Running a k6 kernel on a k7 shouldn't be a problem. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-29 Thread Sven Luther
Hello all, Well, as you may have noticed, we uploaded 2.6.14-1 to unstable yesterday, we needed 6 hours from when i was made aware of the upstream release and the moment it entered NEW, and missed dinstall only by a couple of hours, so the packages are now in incoming and not unstable, we should

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-29 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Sven Luther wrote: but alpha, hppa and arm all three had commits fixing the FTBFS a few hours after the upload, so as soon as we get confirmation of the build success, we can do -2. Confirmed for alpha, 2.6.14-2 builds fine. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-29 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 08:06, sabato 29 ottobre 2005, Sven Luther ha scritto: Hello all, Well, as you may have noticed, we uploaded 2.6.14-1 to unstable yesterday, Really Good Job, it's nearly incredible fast! Ok, let's finish with the next things to work on : - clear the external module situation.

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-29 Thread Horms
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 09:42:58AM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: * Sven Luther wrote: but alpha, hppa and arm all three had commits fixing the FTBFS a few hours after the upload, so as soon as we get confirmation of the build success, we can do -2. Confirmed for alpha, 2.6.14-2 builds

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is also a proposal that at install time scans through external modules to find those needed by the host system I will be happier :-) That can be one area where discover2 can work. It has some good and flexible enough database for it. We only

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-29 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 14:18, sabato 29 ottobre 2005, hai scritto: Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is also a proposal that at install time scans through external modules to find those needed by the host system I will be happier :-) That can be one area where discover2 can work. It has some

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-10-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alle 14:18, sabato 29 ottobre 2005, hai scritto: Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is also a proposal that at install time scans through external modules to find those needed by the host system I will be happier :-) That can be one