Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - final patch

[David]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 at 15:54, Holger Wansing  wrote:
>
>
> The corresponding patch is attached.
> I will apply it shortly.

Hi,

For the benefit of a new contributor who would
like to be more helpful to this team in future,
can you please advise:
1) where can be the master files be found.
2) what commands should be used to generate
the patch before it is emailed to the list.

Thanks.

Bug#940028: launching d-i on multiple consoles doesn't play well with preseeding

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Sergio,

Sergio Gelato  (2019-09-11):
> This seems to be new behaviour since stretch, introduced in version 1.128 of
> package rootskel.

From the rest of your mail I'm assuming you meant buster here.

> I suspect that the two debian-installer instances are racing each
> other. To confirm this, I unpacked initrd.gz, made a simple change to
> sbin/reopen-console (adding inittab entries only for cons in
> $preferred instead of for cons in $consoles), repacked, and run an
> installation again with much better results (no more questions from
> localechooser).
> 
> I do appreciate that for interactive d-i use it's nice to have it show
> up on all consoles; but not at the expense of breaking fully automated
> installation.

Agreed. You're not the only one reporting such issues, and I'd really
like feature authors to fix the regression they introduced. That's not
the first time steal-ctty appears in bug report.


Cheers,
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Bug#935973: Acknowledgement (debian-installer: cryptsetup-initramfs will not be installed even when using full-disk encryption.)

[Mad Horse]

This issue is confirmed to exist in the testing weekly build generated
on Sep. 2nd 2019.

Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - final patch

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, 15. September 2019 schrieb David:
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 at 15:54, Holger Wansing  wrote:
> >
> >
> > The corresponding patch is attached.
> > I will apply it shortly.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> For the benefit of a new contributor who would
> like to be more helpful to this team in future,
> can you please advise:
> 1) where can be the master files be found.
> 2) what commands should be used to generate
> the patch before it is emailed to the list.

1) For the debian-installer packages, the "master files" live in the
debian directory of the respective package and are named 
.templates.
Find the packages under https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team

2) That's git basics. For a first start:
git clone  (url can be found on the packages' page at Salsa, see above.
Then make your modifications, and then 
git diff


The more advanced way is to create merge requests:
see https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/gitlab-basics/add-merge-request.html


Holger 
 
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Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - final patch

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 9/15/19 7:54 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:

As far as I can tell "installation media" is the most commonly used term
(Eg: RedHat, SUSE, Microsoft, Apple).  While it might not be the ideal
term, it's worth mentioning that idiosyncratic documentation may also
have a "risk" of this kind.  My vote is for "installation media" because
I've never seen any of the proposed alternatives in print.  It
definitely needs "installation" for precision, because there are many
types of media, and "media" is a generic and neutral term.


That's a good argument IMHO, not mentioned before.

And given that most people were fine with this term in the first run
(except of Ben), and there is no perfect choice in this case anyway,
I will move back to "installation media" and to Justins review from
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/09/msg00082.html


But "media" is a plural word, it should be "medium". It's a Latin word.

Adrian

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Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - final patch

[Justin B Rye]

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>> I will move back to "installation media" and to Justins review from
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/09/msg00082.html
> 
> But "media" is a plural word, it should be "medium". It's a Latin word.

Like "agenda"?  It doesn't matter whether it was plural in Latin; it
only matters how it behaves in modern English.  But as it happens, the
patch doesn't use "media" to refer to a singular CD - it uses "some
media" and "an item of media", the way English-speakers normally do.

(There's a different sense of "media" that *is* colloquially used as a
singular: "the Meejuh is full of fake news".  But that has nothing to
do with CDs.)
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sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package