Tasks policy

2001-05-05 Thread Anthony Towns
(Cc'ed to debian-boot) (First in porbably a series of policy changes needed for woody...) So, here's the deal. We need to get a proper policy for tasks fairly soon. tasksel in sid supports a "Task:" header for packages so we can be a little more flexible than having every task- depend on everyt

Re: Full install from cd achieved (RFC)

2001-05-05 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> > I have removed fdutils because the interactive setup it has was breaking the > > install, as aj had noticed when building debootstrap 0.1.7, has anybody > > noticed the maintainer about this? shall I do it? > yes, please file a serious bug against fdutils. It is preventing us from making > a

Re: Full install from cd achieved (RFC)

2001-05-05 Thread David Whedon
Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:49:06PM +0200 wrote: > Hi! > > Yesterday I made my first complete install of debian woody using the new > boot floppies, yippee! I'm glad to hear it. > RFC 1 (termwrap): > > I have used termwrap, rescued it from our scripts/basedisks/Attic, I have > asked before about th

Re: nightly boot-floppies build

2001-05-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Matt Kraai | It appears that the debian-installer has a nightly build. Would | it be possible for something similar to be setup for the woody | (and perhaps even potato) boot-floppies? This would make it a lot | easier for testers. If my box has decided to stop arguing mount loopback fs-es

Full install from cd achieved (RFC)

2001-05-05 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! Yesterday I made my first complete install of debian woody using the new boot floppies, well, my customiced version of them, so, I'd like you to comment the changes I have done fot achieving this and if you agree with them I'll do my first commit to our cvs. Well, I have done this on a galic

Re: a cvs floppy test to install a woody cd by a BF newbie (report)

2001-05-05 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> Debconf should fall back to dialog when it determines slang is not going > to work. Yes, it does I realised later when instead of trying to fullfill his needs I just let it continue :-) > Anyway, it is basically a bug in debconf that it half-defaults[1] to the > slang frontend. The slang front

Re: libc reduction and powerpc/apus woody boot floppies.

2001-05-05 Thread Giorgio Terzi
Hello Sven, these are the informations you've asked me taken from the linux installation i used for boot-floppy building: # dpkg -l 'libc6*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=b