Bug#235371: xen package

[Adam Heath]

merge 235731 214581
thanks

I have a package(s) all ready to go.



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Re: Your translation in debian-installer

[Adam Heath]

yOn Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Dennis Stampfer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> you are receiving this mail, because you translated file(s) in a package
> which is used by debian-installer. However, your translation is not
> up-to-date anymore.

Er, dpkg has a package used by d-i?  If you're talking about debootstrap,
that's not d-i.

This automatic email sucks.


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Re: Bug#149974: debootstrap should download aptitude

[Adam Heath]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:

> tag 149974 - patch
> thanks
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 04:02:11PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote:
> > The new base-config package in sid depends on aptitude, so debootstrap
> > should download it.
>
> Bleh. Guys, please file the bug on debootstrap *before* adding new
> dependencies to base packages and breaking it completely.
>
> Joey, are you sure it wouldn't have been better to make base-config use
> aptitude if present, and file a wishlist bug on debootstrap to ensure
> its presence on normal installs?
>
> -dpkg guys, cc'ed so we don't get the same thing happening with the
> presumably forthcoming dselect package. -boot guys, cc'ed in the probably
> vain hope that anyone else likely to do this in future will notice too.

We've done it correctly.  dpkg 1.10 predepends on dselect.  dselect 1.10
replaces dpkg (<< 1.10).  This will ensure upgrades, and no loss of
functionality.

I assume this is what you were talking about dselect.


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Re: serial install working

[Adam Heath]

On 8 Nov 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

>
> I just completed my first serial console install of debian over the
> network, using d-i.  Even base-config is wrapped correctly now.
> Though, we need to fix the default inittab so it spawns a getty on the
> serial port, at least if console points to /dev/ttyS*.

I'll be sending an announcment about how this serial console install was
accomplished this weekend.


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Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

[Adam Heath]

On 26 Nov 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> Let's first have a working installer on at least a few arches before
> walking down that road.  However, it is a problem which I was notified
> of a few days ago: d-i relies heavily on devfs and, well, 2.4 doesn't
> work on m68k and it doesn't look like it will in the foreseeable
> future.  So, help with getting this worked out will be appreciated.

devfs support should be removed, in my opinion.  There is still continuing
talk of removing it from the kernel, as distributors(us and the other guys)
have failed to support it.


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Bug#95921: superformat isn't on root.bin or installed by debootstrap

[Adam Heath]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:23:37AM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> > dbootstrap attempts to execute /target/bin/superformat.  debootstrap has not
> > installed the package fdutils where superformat would be found.  One of the
> > following is probably a good idea:
> >
> > 1. have debootstrap install fdutils, but since it is priority optional that
> > probably doesn't make sense unless it is conditional on the --boot-floppies
> > command line switch. Interestingly slink and potato versions of debootstrap
> > install fdutils.
>
> I've added it. I'll look into making debootstrap's base
> [required+optional]+/-[random other stuff] soon, so that it's more
> work-with-able. But for now, just hacking around seems fine.
>
> Unfortunately, fdutils has an interactive install, so you'll need to
> hit enter (assuming you can) to use debootstrap now. :( Someone should
> probably do an NMU, or at least file a bug...
>
> Anyway, debootstrap 0.1.7 is in incoming now, fixing this and a handful
> of other bugs. It kind-of works with sid (assuming you have a mirror
> that's not half out of date like ftp.d.o...), except that the dpkg
> segfault bug has gotten worse, so it doesn't get anywhere at all anymore.
>
> debootstrap sid sid-chroot http://ftp.kernel.org/debian 
>/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody
>
> with dpkg 0.9.2 segfaults at the first attempt to invoke dpkg. :(

I assume you mean 1.9.2.

I see the segfault.  It's stack corruption.  I'll look at it more later
tonight, after I compile a debug version.


I can't duplicate this.  The only suites avaiable to 0.1.7 are slink, potato,
and woody.  There is no sid.

>
> Cheers,
> aj
>
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Bug#95921: superformat isn't on root.bin or installed by debootstrap

[Adam Heath]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:14:17AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Anyway, debootstrap 0.1.7 is in incoming now, fixing this and a handful
> > > of other bugs. It kind-of works with sid (assuming you have a mirror
> > > that's not half out of date like ftp.d.o...), except that the dpkg
> > > segfault bug has gotten worse, so it doesn't get anywhere at all anymore.
> > > debootstrap sid sid-chroot http://ftp.kernel.org/debian 
>/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody
> > I can't duplicate this.  The only suites avaiable to 0.1.7 are slink, potato,
> > and woody.  There is no sid.
>
> So use the command you quoted just above, which'll use the woody script to
> build a sid chroot.

yes, I saw that I could do that, before I hit send on the mail, but sometimes
my fingers do their own thing, and send mails anyways.

To address the problem, dpkg 1.9.4, which was just recently installed, allows
debootstrap to run all the way thru, without having to call dpkg in a loop,
because of segfaults.

Here's to hoping dpkg is finally fixed.



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Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

[Adam Heath]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:

> Joey, you SHOULD quit this project.  You are of no use to it any
> longer, you are publically displaying an absolute intent to force YOUR
> system administration policies down upon ALL of debian's users.

As someone who is not part of this project, you have no foundation to stand
on.  I have seen nothing from Joey that can be taken like this.  Seems like
someone has an agenda that they are trying to push.  Either that, or this is
just pure FUD.


> This VIOLATES Debian's social contract which says Debian's priorities
> are its USERS and Free software.

Again, Joey never said he wouldn't fix the bug.  It just wasn't high priority.
The social contract never states we will fix all bugs the instance BEFORE they
are filed, because we CARE about our users that much.

> The apt cache of packages is VERY useful to many people without your
> obviously unlimited and superior network connection, the existence of
> the apt-move package is an example of this usefulness, yet you INSIST
> and DEMAND that all these files be SILENTLY DESTROYED without ever
> asking the admin if that is what they want.

Joey is on a modem.  Again, he never insisted.  More FUD.

> you have demonstrated a complete and total UNWILLINGNESS to fix this
> flaw. all you do instead is spew endless personal attacks against me,
> sending the worst of which in private mail so as not to completly
> expose what you really are.

No, he has demonstrated a complete and total UNWILLINGNESS to have ANYTHING to
do with you.

> Do everyone a favor and leave this project.

Do everyone a favor and never join.

> As for boot-floppies I think its imperitive that we fork base-config
> and debootstrap as they are far to important to be maintained by
> hostile individuals who DO NOT have Debian users interests in mind.

You are not a maintainer.  Do not start preaching to those who are, like you
are their saviour and god.


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Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

[Adam Heath]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Glenn McGrath wrote:

> Lets all remember that we are all on the same team.

Ethan is not a developer.

>
> To work efficiently as a team we have to be able to trust each other to
> perform our own tasks.

How can we trust someone who isn't one of us?


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Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

[Adam Heath]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:

> please then remove all that i have contributed from this project, all
> of it, revert, remove etc.  also be sure to remove the yaboot package
> from debian as well.  im sure the powerpc people will be happy then.

Sorry, can't do that.  You applied patches, with the understanding that they
would be under the same license of that which you were patching.


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Bug#138468: kaffe: compile problems on some sparcs

[Adam Heath]

tag 138468 + help
thanks

I've looked at this, and kaffe seems to be including several asm/ headers.
It's this that is causing the problems.

I've not yet tried removing these inclusions, and am not certain what kaffe is
expecting to find therein, that it can't find in normal headers.




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Bug#138468: kaffe: compile problems on some sparcs

[Adam Heath]

tag 134868 + help
tag 138468 - help
thanks

I've looked at this, and kaffe seems to be including several asm/ headers.
It's this that is causing the problems.

I've not yet tried removing these inclusions, and am not certain what kaffe is
expecting to find therein, that it can't find in normal headers.




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please symlink base#_#.tgz

[Adam Heath]

package: ftp.debian.org

I'd like to see a symlink base.tgz -> base#_#.tgz, in all disks-/, in
all dists.  This would make it easier to download, without having to know
ahead of time what the numbers will be.

Also, since boot-floppies have been removed from woody(because of Joey's
modular installer), this doesn't affect woody, but only previous
distributions.

For the boot-floppies team: Any future bf scripts, in addition to having a
version number embedded inside a filename, could we have a symlink without the
version number in it?

btw, this little symlink is needed so that I can patch buildd-setup-chroot, so
that it no longer needs a local mirror copy(it does glob, which doesn't work
remotely over http).

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Re: Debian Boot CVS: aph

[Adam Heath]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Joey Hess wrote:

> > the apt-get way of downloading is *not* going to work for us.  It
> > refuses to download Required packages that are already installed.  Feh!!!
> 
> Have you tried setting Dir::State::status to point to an empty file or
> something?

Fyi, apt is perfectly capable of doing this.

..
STATUS=$DPKG/status
..
:> $STATUS
..

This is from my apt-get based baseX_X.tgz builder.  It's not quite ready
yet(apt gets an internal error very near the end)

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