Bug#67888: boot-floppies: netwinder/arm port shouldn't ask about maintaining 2.0 compatability
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A Severity: wishlist The debian installer for potato worked just fine on the netwinder, one I convinced it to tftp boot the provided netwinder-rescue image. One hitch though -- the question about maintaining 2.0 compatability for the ext2 fs should be removed and forced to "yes". Answering "no" causes the netwinder's firmware (which is just a stripped down linux kernel) to be unable to read the filesystem -- so it is unable to boot the system. Not that big a deal though. -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux dillweed 2.2.17pre11 #2 Thu Jul 13 12:29:36 MDT 2000 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: potato release notes missing
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:10:16PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> The file
>
> /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/doc/release-notes.en.html
>
> Is missing from both mirrors I tested (saens and one of http.us). aj on irc told
> me to email you.
>
> (that file is referenced from
> /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/doc/ )
I know. It's partially fixed in CVS already (index.en.html.m4).
For boot-floppies/documentation people: I'm not sure how to set up m4 to
make two different links, depending on what kind of install is done. If it's
a web build, the link should point to release-notes/ [1], but if
it's an FTP build, the link should point to ../../../upgrade-${arch}/[2]
[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/${arch}/release-notes/
[2] http://ftp.debian.org/dists/potato/main/upgrade-${arch}/
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Re: potato release notes missing
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:47:15PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/doc/release-notes.en.html
> >
> > (that file is referenced from
> > /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/doc/ )
>
> I know. It's partially fixed in CVS already (index.en.html.m4).
>
> For boot-floppies/documentation people: I'm not sure how to set up m4 to
> make two different links, depending on what kind of install is done. If it's
> a web build, the link should point to release-notes/ [1], but if
> it's an FTP build, the link should point to ../../../upgrade-${arch}/[2]
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/${arch}/release-notes/
> [2] http://ftp.debian.org/dists/potato/main/upgrade-${arch}/
Never mind, I figured it out :)
This worked:
define(relnotes,
ifelse(OFFICIAL,[true],[release-notes/],[../../../upgrade-ARCHITECTURE/]))
Release Notes
BTW we _really_ should get some way of making index.en.html out of SGML...
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Bug#67900: doc: "FIXME" text remains (because not labeled "FIXME")
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16 Section 5.3.2 of the English i386 installation instructions at .../frozen/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/doc/ch-install-methods.en.html contains text that probably should be deleted: 5.3.2 Sources and Installation Stages Needs expert review. The following table indicates (It looks like the "Needs expert review." part wasn't labeled with "FIXME" and was missed in cleanup.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#67900: doc: "FIXME" text remains (because not labeled "FIXME")
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 09:42:08AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Section 5.3.2 of the English i386 installation instructions at > .../frozen/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/doc/ch-install-methods.en.html > contains text that probably should be deleted: > >5.3.2 Sources and Installation Stages > >Needs expert review. > >The following table indicates > > (It looks like the "Needs expert review." part wasn't labeled > with "FIXME" and was missed in cleanup.) Actually, it is labeled with FIXME, but it doesn't matter, since our defaults.ent file still has: Someone (hi Adam :) needs to rebuild the docs with that turned off... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Processed: Re: Bug#67898: doc: missing target of Release Notes link
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 67898 boot-floppies Bug#67898: doc: missing target of Release Notes link Bug reassigned from package `disks' to `boot-floppies'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Documentation from programmer's perspective
Apart from the `README-Overview' file, is there anything which documents any of the mechanisms or interfaces of boot-floppies? Unfortunately, I need to delve into pretty much every part of it, to do esoteric installer things for ARM... c. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Documentation from programmer's perspective
> Apart from the `README-Overview' file, is there anything which documents any > of the mechanisms or interfaces of boot-floppies? Unfortunately, I need to > delve into pretty much every part of it, to do esoteric installer things for > ARM... not really; most of it is just "tribal knowledge" at this point. :-( what exactly are you trying to do? randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#67913: Handling of non-English characters screwed up
Package: base Severity: important The input and output of characters not in the traditional US-English alphabet either does not work at all or not correctly. Not at all is it consistent across packages. Although this bug report is mostly about special German letters, I believe that other languages may be broken as well. The problem became apparent on a machine I cleanly installed from the official potato test-cycle-2 cds. Even though I had selected de-latin1-nodeadkeys for my keymap, the umlaut and s-sharp keys did not work as expected: 1) At the login prompt they are displayed correctly for some reason. 2) At the bash prompt the umlaut keys would do nothing or "beep". S-sharp acted somehow like cursor-up. 3) In emacs they work, but are displayed as another symbol. 4) If I save a file in emacs and display it, say, using less, all letters show up correctly. A helpful member of debian-user pointed out to me that I could create ~/.inputrc and put appropriate commands in there to make bash display all characters. Why isn't this file created automatically by the installation system? Bash now does at the prompt, but if I 'touch file_with_an_umlaut', ls displays only '?' instead of the umlaut in the file listing... A recent upgrade to test-cycle-3 didn't change anything. Same for an upgrade of the console-* packages to woody. I never had such problems with earlier debian releases, also, when I boot the install CD and open a shell from there everything works. Please get back to me if you need more information or versions of other packages. I don't know which are relevant. :( Christian $ uname -a Linux jesus 2.2.15 #2 Tue Jul 25 00:59:33 CEST 2000 i686 unknown $ dpkg -s console-tools console-tools-libs console-data bash | egrep "Package:|Version:" Package: console-tools Version: 1:0.2.3-14 Package: console-tools-libs Version: 1:0.2.3-14 Package: console-data Version: 1999.08.29-12.1 Package: bash Version: 2.03-6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
