Re: Jumbo patch for documentation

[Eric VB]

Thank you Marc,

I didn't see any patch related to English files though.

I'll commit the French files.

Might any German maitainer commit the other ones ? All my traffic goes thru
cell phone these days and I can't even think about the bill at the end of
month.

Cheers,

Eric.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:37:46PM +0100, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> Here is my jumbo patch for documentation. It isn't that big. However
> because it fixes a few space problems in tt tables, I send it attached,
> compressed with gzip.
> 
> - table issue (English, German, French)
> - table issue for German accentuations CH/DE (German)
> - small fix to French hardware display
> - using the new additional-lilo-image; entity in German too.
> 
> The patch is relative to current CVS (or today's).
> 



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cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/corba by zw

[zw]

Repository: debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/corba
who:zw
time:   Thu Feb 22 01:22:39 PST 2001


Log Message:

First compilable and runnable version of dcf-text doing nothing. Great
copy-n-paste coder me. Haha..


Files:

changed:.cvsignore Makefile dcf-text.c dcf-textimpl.c


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Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/corba by zw

[zhaoway]

"Randolph Chung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> you may want to read the debconf spec :)

Sure. ;)

> string is one line, text is multiline.

Yeah. I guessed. ;) But it makes less sense in a GUI editor because
the editor will probably wanna take over the newline-care. ;)

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cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/corba by zw

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Repository: debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/corba
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Log Message:

Maybe use gnorba instead of name-server, maybe


Files:

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Extended floppy : summary

[Thierry Laronde]

I come back to the subject I have launched.

To summarize, we can use more "space" on a high density double sided floppy,
by using uncommon format.

There are two problems :

1) Because these formats are unusual, the BIOS doesn't automagically
recognize them, and try to access them as normal 1.44 Mb floppies -> you
need a bootloader to manage the format, and dd'ing Linux can not work

2) There are safe formats (that can be used everywhere, and that are not
dangerous for the hardware), and more cutting edges ones. I list only safe
ones :
- 1680 Kb (21 sectors of 512b) : safe, work with Lilo, could work
  with a modified GRUB
- 1760 Kb (11 sectors of 1Kb) : safe, but at the moment, no
  bootloader designed for that
- Mixed Size Sectors : some safe, but not bootable, the more interesting
  format is the one derived from 2m, because the first track is a
  standard one (18 sectors of 512b). So if a stage1_5 can be put
  here in order to recognize the information and to drive the
  floppy, 1840 Kb can be used

At the moment, at least 1680 Kb can be used. But I will work for some
support for 2m with GRUB, allowing 1840 Kb.

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Re: Extended floppy : summary

[Edward Betts]

Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) Because these formats are unusual, the BIOS doesn't automagically
> recognize them, and try to access them as normal 1.44 Mb floppies -> you
> need a bootloader to manage the format, and dd'ing Linux can not work

I might be wrong, but I do not think that normal floppy are in size 1.44Mb,
they are 1.40Mb.

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cvs commit to modconf/debian by joey

[joey]

Repository: modconf/debian
who:joey
time:   Thu Feb 22 06:06:15 PST 2001


Log Message:

  * Rewrote some module finding and naming code so modconf will work with
Linux 2.4.x as well.  (closes: Bug#78924)
  * Added support for LC_MESSAGES in addition to LANG (closes: Bug#71875)
  * Applied patch from Peter Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to not truncate long
modules names (caused problems with similar prefixes, like with alsa)
(closes: Bug#63804)
  * Updated German translation (Joey)
  * Updated Croatian translation (Josip Rodin)
  * Updated French translation (Roland Mas)
  * Updated Japanese translation (Junichi Uekawa)
  * Updated Italian translation (Marco d'Itri, Eugenia Franzoni)
  * Updated Swedish translation (Mattias Wadenstein)

Files:

changed:changelog mkkerneldesc.pl


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Repository: modconf
who:joey
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Log Message:

  * Rewrote some module finding and naming code so modconf will work with
Linux 2.4.x as well.  (closes: Bug#78924)
  * Added support for LC_MESSAGES in addition to LANG (closes: Bug#71875)
  * Applied patch from Peter Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to not truncate long
modules names (caused problems with similar prefixes, like with alsa)
(closes: Bug#63804)
  * Updated German translation (Joey)
  * Updated Croatian translation (Josip Rodin)
  * Updated French translation (Roland Mas)
  * Updated Japanese translation (Junichi Uekawa)
  * Updated Italian translation (Marco d'Itri, Eugenia Franzoni)
  * Updated Swedish translation (Mattias Wadenstein)

Files:

changed:modconf


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cvs commit to modconf/template by joey

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Repository: modconf/template
who:joey
time:   Thu Feb 22 06:06:15 PST 2001


Log Message:

  * Rewrote some module finding and naming code so modconf will work with
Linux 2.4.x as well.  (closes: Bug#78924)
  * Added support for LC_MESSAGES in addition to LANG (closes: Bug#71875)
  * Applied patch from Peter Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to not truncate long
modules names (caused problems with similar prefixes, like with alsa)
(closes: Bug#63804)
  * Updated German translation (Joey)
  * Updated Croatian translation (Josip Rodin)
  * Updated French translation (Roland Mas)
  * Updated Japanese translation (Junichi Uekawa)
  * Updated Italian translation (Marco d'Itri, Eugenia Franzoni)
  * Updated Swedish translation (Mattias Wadenstein)

Files:

changed:eval_C.fixed eval_de.fixed eval_fr.fixed eval_hr.fixed eval_it.fixed 
eval_ja.fixed eval_sv.fixed


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cvs commit to modconf/modules by joey

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Repository: modconf/modules
who:joey
time:   Thu Feb 22 06:06:15 PST 2001


Log Message:

  * Rewrote some module finding and naming code so modconf will work with
Linux 2.4.x as well.  (closes: Bug#78924)
  * Added support for LC_MESSAGES in addition to LANG (closes: Bug#71875)
  * Applied patch from Peter Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to not truncate long
modules names (caused problems with similar prefixes, like with alsa)
(closes: Bug#63804)
  * Updated German translation (Joey)
  * Updated Croatian translation (Josip Rodin)
  * Updated French translation (Roland Mas)
  * Updated Japanese translation (Junichi Uekawa)
  * Updated Italian translation (Marco d'Itri, Eugenia Franzoni)
  * Updated Swedish translation (Mattias Wadenstein)

Files:

changed:util


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Re: [salimma1@yahoo.co.uk: Re: Request for addition: USB mass storage support]

[Eric VB]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:37:57AM +, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote:
> -- Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> Hi
> > 
> > I think what Eric means is that you have a hard
> > disk, you can put the
> > rescue.bin and root.bin etc into a DOS directory,
> > along with loadlin
> > and the complete base_2.2.tgz (or whatever the file
> > is called). The
> > simple .bat file (which you can find in the debian
> > archives) will then
> > boot you into Linux, and you have immediate access
> > to root.bin and can
> > merrily install ...  (you have to boot into plain

Absolutely. Loadlin loads the linux kernel into memory, there's a temporary
root partition created, from which the disks are partitioned, etc ... Then the base 
system is installed onto the real root partition.

That's how I install Debian on my laptop, which has no floppies and, for some
misterious, refuse to boot from Debian CD's. I was thus in the same situation
as Michel.

I installed Potato and then upgraded to Woody.

> Well, that at least does not work . For some reason
> LILO doesn't load at all - froze after 'Uncompressing
> Linux'.

LILO doesn't play here. It's loadlin.

IMHO, if the system freezes while uncompressing the kernel using loadlin, it
will also freeze using the boot-floppies, but I may be wrong of course.


> > DOS first (or Windows
> > 9x command line as it is now known))
> > Read the install manual, it will give you more
> > details on this
> > method - which is far easier than using floppy disks
> > in my opinion 
> > and should be highlighted more - If you do not
> > already have some kind of
> > DOS/Windows partition then my suggestion is of
> > little help...

Absolutely. Installing from Hard Disk is far easier than writing and playing DJ with 
12 (!)
floppies.


> 
> I still have a WinMe partition which I plan to remove.
> But the idea occur that I can boot using a custom boot
> disk (the rescue/root combo won't work - see below),
> use it to put a root image on the to-be-swap
> partition, boot using the rescue disk pointing to that
> said partition, and let the drum rolls...
> > 
> > Of course, to use the USB floppy, you may need to
> > download a 
> > new kernel, I believe the complete 2.2.18 has all
> > the USB stuff
> > backported into it
> Nah, the USB floppy cannot be coerced to work unless
> both SCSI and USB Mass Storage are compiled as modules
> (weird, that). And since modules are loaded *from* the
> root disk, obviously that precludes loading root from
> that floppy. Bugger.
> 
> Let's hope the Debian Installer project will produce:
> 1. Rescue/InitRD in one floppy like other distros, or
> 2. A mini rescue/initrd in conjunction with normal
> floppies, for extreme cases like mine. Will actually
> volunteer to do this, once I get through reading all
> those Debian docs, start an attempt at package
> maintenance and try my luck at the new maintainers
> queue :p
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michel Salim
> Best of luck with the Woody floppies!
> 
> 
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
> or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
> 
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cvs commit to modconf by joey

[joey]

Repository: modconf
who:joey
time:   Thu Feb 22 06:26:09 PST 2001


Log Message:

Ouchi, fixed small mistake

Files:

changed:modconf


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cvs commit to modconf/debian by joey

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Repository: modconf/debian
who:joey
time:   Thu Feb 22 06:26:09 PST 2001


Log Message:

Ouchi, fixed small mistake

Files:

changed:changelog


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Re: Extended floppy : summary

[List]

You want to put MORE data on a disk? It usualy takes me a 10 pack to get
on or two I can boot from, and even then they only last a few hours...  I
think this just asking for trouble.  :-)
tim...

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Thierry Laronde wrote:

> I come back to the subject I have launched.
> 
> To summarize, we can use more "space" on a high density double sided floppy,
> by using uncommon format.
> 
> There are two problems :
> 
> 1) Because these formats are unusual, the BIOS doesn't automagically
> recognize them, and try to access them as normal 1.44 Mb floppies -> you
> need a bootloader to manage the format, and dd'ing Linux can not work
> 
> 2) There are safe formats (that can be used everywhere, and that are not
> dangerous for the hardware), and more cutting edges ones. I list only safe
> ones :
>   - 1680 Kb (21 sectors of 512b) : safe, work with Lilo, could work
> with a modified GRUB
>   - 1760 Kb (11 sectors of 1Kb) : safe, but at the moment, no
> bootloader designed for that
>   - Mixed Size Sectors : some safe, but not bootable, the more interesting
> format is the one derived from 2m, because the first track is a
> standard one (18 sectors of 512b). So if a stage1_5 can be put
> here in order to recognize the information and to drive the
> floppy, 1840 Kb can be used
> 
> At the moment, at least 1680 Kb can be used. But I will work for some
> support for 2m with GRUB, allowing 1840 Kb.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
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> http://www.cri74.org
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Bug#63804: modconf 0.2.31 fixes this

[Martin Schulze]

This bug has been fixed with the upload of modconf 0.2.31
to master.  If you need to optain the fixed package
before it has been installed in the archive, please fetch the files
from http://incoming.debian.org/ .

 modconf (0.2.31) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Rewrote some module finding and naming code so modconf will work with
 Linux 2.4.x as well.  (closes: Bug#78924)
   * Added support for LC_MESSAGES in addition to LANG (closes: Bug#71875)
   * Applied patch from Peter Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to not truncate long
 modules names (caused problems with similar prefixes, like with alsa)
 (closes: Bug#63804)
   * Updated German translation (Joey)
   * Updated Croatian translation (Josip Rodin)
   * Updated French translation (Roland Mas)
   * Updated Japanese translation (Junichi Uekawa)
   * Updated Italian translation (Marco d'Itri, Eugenia Franzoni)
   * Updated Swedish translation (Mattias Wadenstein)
Files: 
 e12065358b8e89f826a8e28755a851fd 516 base optional modconf_0.2.31.dsc
 f11cce10dff2175d9bd761f3f26d9744 101500 base optional modconf_0.2.31.tar.gz
 c83ce5b25e10d94bf8c95ddd8b819abe 243386 base optional modconf_0.2.31_all.deb

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Bug#71875: modconf 0.2.31 fixes this

[Martin Schulze]

This bug has been fixed with the upload of modconf 0.2.31
to master.  If you need to optain the fixed package
before it has been installed in the archive, please fetch the files
from http://incoming.debian.org/ .

 modconf (0.2.31) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Rewrote some module finding and naming code so modconf will work with
 Linux 2.4.x as well.  (closes: Bug#78924)
   * Added support for LC_MESSAGES in addition to LANG (closes: Bug#71875)
   * Applied patch from Peter Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to not truncate long
 modules names (caused problems with similar prefixes, like with alsa)
 (closes: Bug#63804)
   * Updated German translation (Joey)
   * Updated Croatian translation (Josip Rodin)
   * Updated French translation (Roland Mas)
   * Updated Japanese translation (Junichi Uekawa)
   * Updated Italian translation (Marco d'Itri, Eugenia Franzoni)
   * Updated Swedish translation (Mattias Wadenstein)
Files: 
 e12065358b8e89f826a8e28755a851fd 516 base optional modconf_0.2.31.dsc
 f11cce10dff2175d9bd761f3f26d9744 101500 base optional modconf_0.2.31.tar.gz
 c83ce5b25e10d94bf8c95ddd8b819abe 243386 base optional modconf_0.2.31_all.deb

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Bug#78924: modconf 0.2.31 fixes this

[Martin Schulze]

This bug has been fixed with the upload of modconf 0.2.31
to master.  If you need to optain the fixed package
before it has been installed in the archive, please fetch the files
from http://incoming.debian.org/ .

 modconf (0.2.31) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Rewrote some module finding and naming code so modconf will work with
 Linux 2.4.x as well.  (closes: Bug#78924)
   * Added support for LC_MESSAGES in addition to LANG (closes: Bug#71875)
   * Applied patch from Peter Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to not truncate long
 modules names (caused problems with similar prefixes, like with alsa)
 (closes: Bug#63804)
   * Updated German translation (Joey)
   * Updated Croatian translation (Josip Rodin)
   * Updated French translation (Roland Mas)
   * Updated Japanese translation (Junichi Uekawa)
   * Updated Italian translation (Marco d'Itri, Eugenia Franzoni)
   * Updated Swedish translation (Mattias Wadenstein)
Files: 
 e12065358b8e89f826a8e28755a851fd 516 base optional modconf_0.2.31.dsc
 f11cce10dff2175d9bd761f3f26d9744 101500 base optional modconf_0.2.31.tar.gz
 c83ce5b25e10d94bf8c95ddd8b819abe 243386 base optional modconf_0.2.31_all.deb

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Please cancel doubled subscrpition. Re: cvs commit to modconf/debian by joey

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Re: Extended floppy : summary

[Petr Čech]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:22:40AM -0700 , Edward Betts wrote:
> Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 1) Because these formats are unusual, the BIOS doesn't automagically
> > recognize them, and try to access them as normal 1.44 Mb floppies -> you
> > need a bootloader to manage the format, and dd'ing Linux can not work
> 
> I might be wrong, but I do not think that normal floppy are in size 1.44Mb,
> they are 1.40Mb.

on Apple I think. PCs use 1.44MB

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Re: [mi] Re: debian-installer and devfs (fwd)

[Andrew Clausen]

Luciano Baretta Mandryk wrote:
> > I've been playing with devfs.  I'm considering it on the install system for the
> 
> do things like libparted work with devfs?

I haven't tried out devfs.  Parted operates on block devices (or ANY
file), so in that sense, there is no problem.  However, libparted
does probing for devices in /proc/partitions, which is useful for
things like GUI installers, and lazy people who don't provide device
names for Parted...  I don't know if that works with devfs (I believe
it does)

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modconf_0.2.31_all.changes INSTALLED

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  to pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.31.dsc
modconf_0.2.31.tar.gz
  to pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.31.tar.gz
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Version: 0.2.26.14
Severity: wishlist
Linux peter 2.2.14 #1 SMP Mon May 8 09:49:28 MDT 2000 i586 unknown

I installed alsa-driver. There are two drivers in there that have very
long identical prefixes (17 characters):

bash-2.04$ ls /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/snd-card-opt*
/lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/snd-card-opti92x-ad1848.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/snd-card-opti92x-cs4231.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/snd-card-opti93x.o
bash-2.04$ 

When using modconf and whiptail, I found out whiptail creates
two columns from the tag and titles of all the menu options. It makes
the first column equal to the longest of the tags.
There must be a space at the beginning of the title (or whiptail does
not work). However one can see that if two menu items have the same
prefix then the tag will allow both names (by glob) to be passed to
the modprobe.

I have no solution of course. I thought you might use the first column
for tag and title and the second column only for + or -. Then you
would have to snip off the comment from the tag returned by
whiptail. Or else whiptail might be improved.

Ciao, Peter Muir

Attached: My patch simply removes the truncation of the tag. I also
shorten one of the messages because it gets chopped off.

cd /home/muirp/debian/
cvs rdiff -r debian_version_0_2_26_14 -r debian_version_0_2_26_14_1 debian/modconf
cvs rdiff: Diffing debian/modconf
cvs rdiff: Diffing debian/modconf/debian
Index: debian/modconf/debian/changelog
diff -c debian/modconf/debian/changelog:1.1.1.1 debian/modconf/debian/changelog:1.2
*** debian/modconf/debian/changelog:1.1.1.1 Sun Apr 23 13:33:01 2000
--- debian/modconf/debian/changelog Tue May  9 00:11:07 2000
***
*** 1,3 
--- 1,9 
+ modconf (0.2.26.14.1) unstable; urgency=low
+ 
+   * Because of long module names, do not truncate.
+ 
+  -- Peter Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Mon,  8 May 2000 13:04:45 -0600
+ 
  modconf (0.2.26.14) frozen unstable; urgency=low
  
* Thanks to Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for pointing out a serious
cvs rdiff: Diffing debian/modconf/modules
Index: debian/modconf/modules/util
diff -c debian/modconf/modules/util:1.1.1.1 debian/modconf/modules/util:1.2
*** debian/modconf/modules/util:1.1.1.1 Sun Apr 23 14:12:21 2000
--- debian/modconf/modules/util Tue May  9 00:13:27 2000
***
*** 139,145 
fi
  
echo -n \"
!   echo -n $module |$sed -e 's/^\(...\).*$/\1/'
echo -n \" \"$selected" "
module_summary $module
echo \" \\
--- 139,145 
fi
  
echo -n \"
!   echo -n $module
echo -n \" \"$selected" "
module_summary $module
echo \" \\
cvs rdiff: Diffing debian/modconf/template
Index: debian/modconf/template/eval_C.fixed
diff -c debian/modconf/template/eval_C.fixed:1.1.1.1 
debian/modconf/template/eval_C.fixed:1.2
*** debian/modconf/template/eval_C.fixed:1.1.1.1Sat Jan 29 14:21:55 2000
--- debian/modconf/template/eval_C.fixedTue May  9 00:13:43 2000
***
*** 1,5 
  # Descriptions must nor exceed a line!
! # Descriptions must not exeed 55 characters!
  # substitute `+', `-' and `,' in module names with `_'
  
  msg_Something_went_wrong="Something went wrong. You might want to write down the 
error messages
--- 1,5 
  # Descriptions must nor exceed a line!
! # Descriptions must not exeed 50 characters!
  # substitute `+', `-' and `,

Bug#71875: marked as done (modconf doesn't honor locale properly)

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Package: modconf
Version: 0.2.26.14
Severity: wishlist

modconf uses LANG for dialog language selection,
even if LC_MESSAGES is set to a different value.

The language could be parsed out of the output of
/usr/bin/locale, though I don't know if that's
available to the boot-floppies.

Regards

Christian


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Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux jesus 2.2.17 #2 SMP Mon Sep 4 18:40:42 CEST 2000 i686

Versions of packages modconf depends on:
ii  modutils  2.3.11-8   Linux module utilities.   
ii  whiptail  0.50-7 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
modconf, which has been installed in the Debian FTP archive:

modconf_0.2.31_all.deb
  to pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.31_all.deb
modconf_0.2.31.dsc
  to pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.31.dsc
modconf_0.2.31.tar.gz
  to pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.31.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

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Hash: SHA1

Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:21:51 +0100
Source: modconf
Binary: modconf
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.2.31
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Boot Floppies team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: 
 modconf- Device Driver Configuration
Closes: 63804 71875 78924
Changes: 
 modconf (0.2.31) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Rewrote some module finding and naming code so modconf will work with
 Linux 2.4.x as well.  (closes: Bug#78924)
   * Added support for LC_MESSAGES in addition to LANG (closes: Bug#71875)
   * Applied patch from Peter Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to not truncate long
 modules names (caused problems with similar prefixes, like with alsa)
 (closes: Bug#63804)
   * Updated German translation (Joey)
   * Update

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by rb

[rb]

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po
who:rb
time:   Thu Feb 22 14:05:52 PST 2001


Log Message:

updated german po file


Files:

changed:de.po


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libc6 calls to sfdisk

[rob21]

Just wondering if boot-floppies cut down version of libc6 is
missing any parts needed by sfdisk.

How would you find this out. Get sfdisk to drop core, then
debug it ? I know you can look at the source, but must be an
easier way.

Rob.


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help boot-floopies for woody?

[Eric Schwartz]

A friend forwarded me a request for help to get boot-floppies ready for
woody.  Unfortunately, the request was older than the most recent
archives of this list on my mail->news gateway, so I'm not sure what's
been taken.

I'd like to do whatever I can to help get boot-floppies ready for woody,
so if someone can let me know what needs doing, I'll just go ahead and
jump in feet-first.

-=Eric


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mklibs.sh unhappy

[David Whedon]

mklibs.sh isn't working at the moment.  

My machine is current unstable and mklibs.sh is current boot-floppies.
If this is already fixed and I'm missing something obvious, I'd like to know.
Otherwise this will be a good opportunity to see how the voodoo works.

So far I've done this to get it part of the way there, but maybe I need to do
more:
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/mklibs.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 mklibs.sh
--- mklibs.sh   2001/01/22 03:16:49 1.13
+++ mklibs.sh   2001/02/23 07:12:24
@@ -521,7 +521,8 @@
 return 0
   fi
   if [ "x$1" = "xlibc-2.1.2.so" -o "x$1" = "xlibc-2.1.3.so" \
-   -o "x$1" = "xlibc-2.2.so" -o "x$1" = "xlibc-2.2.1.so" ] ; then
+   -o "x$1" = "xlibc-2.2.so" -o "x$1" = "xlibc-2.2.1.so" \
+   -o "x$1" = "xlibc-2.2.2.so" ] ; then
 # Order does matter! First init, then lib, then fini!
 echo `find-files $src_path libc_pic/soinit.o libc_pic.a libc_pic/sofini.o
libc_pic/interp.o`
 return 0
ruff:rootdisk$ 


I always end up with death that looks something like this.  The symbol changes
depending on what exe I am reducing for, that GLIBC_2.1 is suspicious.


++ sed -e 's/::*/:/g' -e 's/^://' -e 's/:$//' -e 's/:/ -L/g'
++ cat /tmp/,mklibs.26275/lib-dependencies
++ sed 's/^/-l/'
+ gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -shared -Wl,-soname=libc-2.2.2.so
-u__libc_start_main -uprintf -o /tmp/,mklibs.26275/lib-so
/usr/lib/libc_pic/soinit.o /usr/lib/libc_pic.a /usr/lib/libc_pic/sofini.o -Llib/
-L/lib -L/usr/lib
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/,mklibs.26275/lib-so: undefined versioned symbol name
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
+ echo /home/davidw/bin/mklibs.sh: install-small-lib: gcc or objcopy failed.
/home/davidw/bin/mklibs.sh: install-small-lib: gcc or objcopy failed.
+ exit 1
+ rm -fr /tmp/,mklibs.26275
make: *** [libs] Error 1
ruff:hello$ 

David


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Bug#87191: base: package modutils_2.3.11-13_i386 in pool is incorrect

[Vislobokov Victor]

Package: base
Version: 20010223
Severity: grave

Package modutils_2.3.11-13_i386.deb in pool is incorrect. There is
no modprobe, lsmod, rmmod, insmod utilities into this package. 
Installation of the package can make your system unuseable! 
Please remove it from ftp.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux server 2.2.18 #1 Mon Jan 22 16:55:13 YEKT 2001 i686 unknown



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