Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:46:13AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Here's a provisional list of packages which are standard or higher and > should not be: > fingerd not very secure for baseline > ftpd not very secure for baseline > talk rather obsolete, but debatable >

cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

2001-05-17 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel/tasks who:joeyh time: Thu May 17 19:38:05 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added, includes (another) description of the file format and some guidelines. Files: added: README -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

cvs commit to tasksel by joeyh

2001-05-17 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel who:joeyh time: Thu May 17 19:37:40 PDT 2001 Log Message: ignore upper-case files Files: changed:makedesc.pl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#97755: PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Should we not wait until we have a working system before we > write this down in stone? It seems likely that we shall have design > tweaks as we work through implementing this, and once the design and > the interfaces have stabilized would be the time to propos

Re: Bug#97755: PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:18:17PM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > Since the task wouldn't actually be installed in any permanent sense > (there's no task package to install), upgrading a task would probably > just consist of selecting it again with tasksel. Well, it depends how/if you wan

cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

2001-05-17 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel/tasks who:joeyh time: Thu May 17 19:02:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: My changes: * Added support for task description files. * Read in /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc as a task description file. * Added makedesc.pl, a program to generate a task descri

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh

2001-05-17 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel/debian who:joeyh time: Thu May 17 19:02:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: My changes: * Added support for task description files. * Read in /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc as a task description file. * Added makedesc.pl, a program to generate a task descr

cvs commit to tasksel by joeyh

2001-05-17 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel who:joeyh time: Thu May 17 19:02:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: My changes: * Added support for task description files. * Read in /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc as a task description file. * Added makedesc.pl, a program to generate a task description

cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

2001-05-17 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel/tasks who:joeyh time: Thu May 17 18:58:19 PDT 2001 Log Message: Directory /cvs/debian-boot/tasksel/tasks added to the repository Files: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Processing of boot-floppies_2.3.3_sparc.changes

2001-05-17 Thread James Troup
boot-floppies_2.3.3_sparc.changes uploaded successfully to auric.debian.org along with the files: boot-floppies_2.3.3.dsc boot-floppies_2.3.3.tar.gz boot-floppies_2.3.3_all.deb bf-archive-install_2.3.3_sparc.sh bf-common_2.3.3_sparc.tar.gz bf-doc_2.3.3_sparc.tar.gz bf-images-1.44_2.3

cvs commit to boot-floppies by bcollins

2001-05-17 Thread bcollins
Repository: boot-floppies who:bcollins time: Thu May 17 18:48:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove references to silo_proto stuff Files: changed:Makefile rescue.sh rootdisk.sh removed:silo_proto.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by bcollins

2001-05-17 Thread bcollins
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:bcollins time: Thu May 17 18:48:16 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove references to silo_proto stuff Files: changed:sparc.rules sparc.vars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by bcollins

2001-05-17 Thread bcollins
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:bcollins time: Thu May 17 18:48:16 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove references to silo_proto stuff Files: changed:bootconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by bcollins

2001-05-17 Thread bcollins
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:bcollins time: Thu May 17 18:48:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove references to silo_proto stuff Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-17 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Thu May 17 17:41:59 PDT 2001 Log Message: updated. Files: changed:TODO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by bcollins

2001-05-17 Thread bcollins
Repository: boot-floppies who:bcollins time: Thu May 17 17:05:27 PDT 2001 Log Message: Fix edit symlink to point to nano-tiny, not ae Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by bcollins

2001-05-17 Thread bcollins
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:bcollins time: Thu May 17 17:05:27 PDT 2001 Log Message: Fix edit symlink to point to nano-tiny, not ae Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-17 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu May 17 16:47:50 PDT 2001 Log Message: reburn 2.3.3 Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by bcollins

2001-05-17 Thread bcollins
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:bcollins time: Thu May 17 16:36:44 PDT 2001 Log Message: update Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#97755: [PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Should we not wait until we have a working system before we write this down in stone? It seems likely that we shall have design tweaks as we work through implementing this, and once the design and the interfaces have stabilized would be the time to propose this as policy. This is

cvs commit to boot-floppies by bcollins

2001-05-17 Thread bcollins
Repository: boot-floppies who:bcollins time: Thu May 17 16:29:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: Convert sun4u image back to 1440k, removing sys_map.gz and config.gz from the image Fix rootdisk.sh so that there is not a duplicate libnewt Files: changed:Makefile release.sh rescue.

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by bcollins

2001-05-17 Thread bcollins
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:bcollins time: Thu May 17 16:29:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: Convert sun4u image back to 1440k, removing sys_map.gz and config.gz from the image Fix rootdisk.sh so that there is not a duplicate libnewt Files: changed:sparc.rules sparc.vars

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-17 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu May 17 16:26:53 PDT 2001 Log Message: um, David Weldon's source upload was funky, I'm bumping the version and doing another one (no content changes) Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-17 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Thu May 17 16:21:13 PDT 2001 Log Message: ignorable Files: changed:.cvsignore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-17 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu May 17 15:53:50 PDT 2001 Log Message: start 2.3.3 Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#97755: PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
[Sorry if I'm talking nonsense here; I've only recently started reading debian-policy again, so I may be further out of touch than I think.] On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:46:48PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Rather than having task packages any more, individual packages that > > belong to a ta

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-17 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Thu May 17 14:25:40 PDT 2001 Log Message: and more typos. Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-17 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Thu May 17 14:23:14 PDT 2001 Log Message: more typos ... Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerpc woody bf installation status

2001-05-17 Thread Matt Kraai
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > Well actually I meant "chroot /target" or "chroot target" gives me the > error: > > chroot: USER=root: No such file or directory > > I tried using the chroot that was installed with base and it worked > fine. :-( It looks to

Re: powerpc woody bf installation status

2001-05-17 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:00:35PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:41:09PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:31:03PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > It appears that sed.c was in an indeterminate state when the > > > sed fix backport occurred. The

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Duncan Gibb
On 17-May-01, Alan Buxey wrote: AB> How much fits onto one 880K formatted disk, i cant recall, AB> its been so longis it 856k? I think it depends which filesystem you use, and whether you have many small files verses few big ones. For a disk mostly filled with one large file (like a kernel

Bug#97755 acknowledged by developer ([AMENDMENT 17/05/2001] eliminating task packages; new task system)

2001-05-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #97755: [PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system, which was filed against the debian-policy package. It has been marked as closed by one of the developers, namely Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You should be hearing from th

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by dwhedon

2001-05-17 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:dwhedon time: Thu May 17 11:01:16 PDT 2001 Log Message: appears as though a bit of text got lost, and we were missing some ref id's. that broke the build Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: woody boot floppies woes

2001-05-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Once I get the sgml fixed shall I just move the tag?? Sure... can you message me on IRC? I'm 'aph' on #debian-boot. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by dwhedon

2001-05-17 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:dwhedon time: Thu May 17 09:30:17 PDT 2001 Log Message: typos, still doesn't build but I'll have to deal with it later. Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: woody boot floppies woes

2001-05-17 Thread David Whedon
Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:50:35AM -0400 wrote: > David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We really need to build a new version from cvs. Adam is going to tag the cvs > > tree for 2.3.2. This should happen soon, I'm not sure what we are waiting on. > > Whatever it is we probably shouldn't b

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
Alan Buxey wrote: > > I already considered all this and am now at 848 K. How much space exactly > > do we have? > > well, if we need the following > > s:startup-sequence - a few bytes... > libs:ppc.library (for powerup - not needed for A1200, but for a3k/a4k > a1200 has t

Re: woody boot floppies woes

2001-05-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We really need to build a new version from cvs. Adam is going to tag the cvs > tree for 2.3.2. This should happen soon, I'm not sure what we are waiting on. > Whatever it is we probably shouldn't be waiting on it. Once it is tagged I'll > build a new

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-17 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu May 17 07:43:34 PDT 2001 Log Message: reburn the date -- I AM TAGGING SOURCES NOW Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > We could make one floppy with just the kernel on it and another one which > boots, copies everything to RAM: and... you get the idea. yes, that may have to be the way disk1:bootstrap -k disk2:vmlinux.gztype-stuff alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote: > > I don't think this is feasible as some people won't have anything connected > > to their AGA output. Right now all the Amiga framebuffer devices are in. > > agreed - a lot of people either dont have a monitor that can 'do' the AGA > modes (even the 29.x

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > BTW if we could use bzip2, we'd be all set already: this is a weakness of 'bootstrap', yes? alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > You mean our test ramdisk.image.gz ? I asked eons ago if we should convert it > to ext2, if it's still Minix we should do that now. We could use it as a > rescue or other fancy stuff with a current glibc etc. yep, dropping minix will cleave a small lump off the kernel. > I already cons

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > I don't think this is feasible as some people won't have anything connected > to their AGA output. Right now all the Amiga framebuffer devices are in. agreed - a lot of people either dont have a monitor that can 'do' the AGA modes (even the 29.xHz VGA thing) , others dont have scan-double

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > I already considered all this and am now at 848 K. How much space exactly > > > do we have? > > > > IIRC you have 837 kB free on an OFS-formatted floppy. Since we all use FFS

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > I already considered all this and am now at 848 K. How much space exactly > > do we have? > > IIRC you have 837 kB free on an OFS-formatted floppy. Since we all use FFS > these days it (at least the kernel) should fit. A

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > I already considered all this and am now at 848 K. How much space exactly do > we have? IIRC you have 837 kB free on an OFS-formatted floppy. Since we all use FFS these days it (at least the kernel) should fit. And don't use DC-FFS since it will waste^

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sven LUTHER wrote: > But, we definitively need 2 batches of kernels, since i suppose some guys > would want the networking stuff also. They can use the non floppy version > though. Can't they use the modules? I'd really like to have a single .config, otherwise maintenance is a nightmare. >

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
Alan Buxey wrote: >>>Do we need Minix fs support yet? >>> >>Not for installation. > > the ramdisk image no longer uses MiniFS? if so minifs could be dropped > ages ago. You mean our test ramdisk.image.gz ? I asked eons ago if we should convert it to ext2, if it's still Minix we should do th

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > The only problem is that people might not have enough memory for both RAM: and > > kernel/ramdisk. > > huh, how much is this ? i guess most apus users have at least 8MB by now, is > t

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:01:33PM +0200, Giorgio Terzi wrote: > Hello Sven > > ... > > what program are you using on the floppy disk ? I suppose that if it is the > > same as the one you use normally, it would be dependent on warp-up. But i > > guess warp-up is not in rom, so did you put it on t

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote: > > > Well, we could split the kernel in 2 and join it in ram: before launching it. > > > Or we could try for a less than 880Ko modular kernel, but i have not big hopes > > > on this one. M

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:04:51AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > hi, > > > Well, we could split the kernel in 2 and join it in ram: before launching it. > > Or we could try for a less than 880Ko modular kernel, but i have not big hopes > > on this one. Michel Daenzer is the apus kernel package maint

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > Yep, you can remove OCS/ECS support, but it'll save only a few bytes, I guess. dont A3k PowerUP owners have to have ECS - if they dont have GFX card? (are there any such people?) alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:28:01PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > I am trying to understand why... > > > > For an 880k floppy the space problem makes impossible to do it. > > > > But i wish to be contraddicted... :)) > >

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:58:06PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > I am trying to understand why... > > > For an 880k floppy the space problem makes impossible to do it. > > > But i wish to be contraddicted... :)) > > > > Well, we could split the kernel in 2 and join it

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote: > > > Do we need Minix fs support yet? > > > > Not for installation. > > the ramdisk image no longer uses MiniFS? if so minifs could be dropped > ages ago. Hmm... I don't know. Someone should check this. > I guess we also dont need OCS gfx support...as Po

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > > Do we need Minix fs support yet? > > Not for installation. the ramdisk image no longer uses MiniFS? if so minifs could be dropped ages ago. I guess we also dont need OCS gfx support...as PowerPC cards only work on ECS and AGA systems. On this line of thought...sound isnt essential, n

Re: Bug#97755: [PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:43:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > After a lot of discussion, AJ and I have settled on a compromise that is > acceptable to both of us about what to do to fix Debian's broken[1] task > system. Dusk. A siren squealing in the distance, maybe police, maybe ambulance, it's

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > You don't need fbcon-cfb24 and fbcon-cf32 since no one wants to run an > > install console in those depths anyway. I don't think you need it for > > half-supported gfx cards with amiboot -v, only depth 16. > > Will this pre