Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-08-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ben, for the record, this workaround works for me: build a custom udeb and put the following into a file in /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/$some_filename # work around # 587887 grep -v cdrom /target/etc/fstab /target/etc/fstab.new mv /target/etc/fstab /target/etc/fstab.bak mv

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-08-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 3. Juli 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: Well, then its easy: don't create this useless entry. ok, I'm now using a post-base-installer hook in d-i to remove the cdrom entry from /etc/fstab and voila, an inserted CDROM still pops up in KDE, yay. But I still wonder why this

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-08-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, and I can still not preseed that warning away, that no bootloader has been detected... (Which is bad, as the .32-bpo is installed as part of the base system when this has been upgraded by d-i, but before the bootloader installation...) cheers, Holger signature.asc

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-08-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:45:30PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Samstag, 3. Juli 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: Well, then its easy: don't create this useless entry. ok, I'm now using a post-base-installer hook in d-i to remove the cdrom entry from /etc/fstab and voila, an inserted

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-08-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ben, On Donnerstag, 26. August 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: It may complain about an ATAPI floppy, but not one handled by a platform floppy driver. As for /media/cdrom, its device should be specified as /dev/cdrom or similar. with the lenny installer, /dev/scd0 shall be mounted at

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-08-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:40:02PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Ben, On Donnerstag, 26. August 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: It may complain about an ATAPI floppy, but not one handled by a platform floppy driver. As for /media/cdrom, its device should be specified as /dev/cdrom or

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-08-26 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 26. August 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: with the lenny installer, /dev/scd0 shall be mounted at /media/cdrom0 (using a vmware scsi CD-ROM drive..) And that needs to be fixed. does the fix work with the kernels in lenny? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-08-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 20:07 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Donnerstag, 26. August 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: with the lenny installer, /dev/scd0 shall be mounted at /media/cdrom0 (using a vmware scsi CD-ROM drive..) And that needs to be fixed. does the fix work with the kernels in

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-08-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 18:59 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, and I can still not preseed that warning away, that no bootloader has been detected... (Which is bad, as the .32-bpo is installed as part of the base system when this has been upgraded by d-i, but before the bootloader

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ben, On Freitag, 2. Juli 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: [/var/log/installer] We can't use this test. Older installations don't have such a directory. I dont understand. Every lenny (at least) installation done with d-i has this directory?! How are older installations relevant? cheers,

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-07-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:54:12 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: How are older installations relevant? How are they not? Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-07-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 12:54 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Ben, On Freitag, 2. Juli 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: [/var/log/installer] We can't use this test. Older installations don't have such a directory. I dont understand. Every lenny (at least) installation done with d-i has this

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 3. Juli 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:54:12 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: How are older installations relevant? How are they not? Well, first I'm fairly very sure that even etch also created /var/log/installer... in that sense I dont think it matters,

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-07-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 11:12:19AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: h01ger hi. i'm using .32.bpo on lenny, together with linux-base. so far so good, works great. but i have an issue with automated installs (with d-i and preseeding): linux-base informs me that /etc/fstab contains an entry

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-07-02 Thread Holger Levsen
package: linux-base version: 2.6.32-15 severity: wishlist tags: patch Hi, first of all: thank you all for maintaining linux-2.6 - you're doing an awesome job! h01ger hi. i'm using .32.bpo on lenny, together with linux-base. so far so good, works great. but i have an issue with automated

Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

2010-07-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 11:12 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: [...] h01ger bwh, i wonder if your test fails as there were already .26 packages installed... h01ger ha! if /var/log/installer doesnt exist, its a fresh install. bingo see attached patch We can't use this test. Older installations