possibly working basedebs support

Ok, This patch appears to work for me. A few things still need to be fixed, but I'm posting this here now because it's my first patch for b-f that is somewhat intrusive, so if I have the totally wrong approach or anything, I'd like to know, before I finish shaking out any bugs. I still need to

cramfs initrd corruption ?

I'm building kernels from SGI CVS (to get latest XFS code), and making initrd images (using initrd-tools and make-kpkg --initrd). I can't get the cramfs root to mount correctly. 1/ there is (IMHO) a serious bug in drivers/block/rd.c, in function identify_ramdisk_image : it will refuse to use any

busybox dpkg rewrite

There are a few known bugs noted at the top of the file, so treat this with caution, but it should be starting to be useable. Its a drop in replacement to the existing dpkg.c in busybox cvs. http://people.debian.org/~bug1/busybox_patches/dpkg.c.0712a.bb If anyone is into hashtables and hashing

Re: YA b-f report

Ethan Benson wrote: > its of course rather pointless for woody but when woody becomes stable > it will become correct. It's quite possible that some old and seldom released packages will have a security fix done by the security team that will hit the security archive before a fix hits stable, and

cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

Repository: tasksel/tasks who:joeyh time: Wed Jul 11 20:46:03 PDT 2001 Log Message: update to new tcl Files: changed:tcltk-dev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 104333 debian-cd Bug#104333: 2.2r3 PowerPC CD1 does not auto boot on Powerbook G4 Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppies' to `debian-cd'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (admini

Re: base-8 disk

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:16:53PM -0600, A. Roubicek wrote: > > Thank you Matt! I had set a "/" partition too small for the base system... > > (I followed the instructions in the installation website, but I guess one > > has to play with dimensions a lit

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Processed: Re: Bug#104333: 2.2r3 PowerPC CD1 does not auto boot on Powerbook G4

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 104333 boot-floppies Bug#104333: 2.2r3 PowerPC CD1 does not auto boot on Powerbook G4 Bug reassigned from package `debian/powerpc_potato cd 1' to `boot-floppies'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance.

boot-floppies_3.0.7_powerpc.changes INSTALLED

Installing: bf-misc_3.0.7_powerpc.tar.gz byhand bf-archive-install_3.0.7_powerpc.sh byhand bf-doc_3.0.7_powerpc.tar.gz byhand bf-arch_3.0.7_powerpc.tar.gz byhand install-doc_3.0.7_powerpc.deb to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/install-doc_3.0.7_powerpc.deb Changes: boot-floppies (3.0.7) unstable; urg

Re: base-8 disk

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:16:53PM -0600, A. Roubicek wrote: > Thank you Matt! I had set a "/" partition too small for the base system... > (I followed the instructions in the installation website, but I guess one > has to play with dimensions a little...are there examples of partition > tables on

Re: dhcp-client uselessness on powerpc

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 07:15:04PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:14:34PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:08:37PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:01:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > another problem with dhcp-c