Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Sam Hartman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If you were annoyed that it took too long to deal with translation > NMUs then you probably should have asked for permission to make > arbitrary 0-day NMUs for translation purposes. Hmmm, wel I think I did ask. At least, I announced all NMU's and took th

Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:03:55AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > > Drawbacks I see at the moment (Christian will most probably see thousands > > > > more ;)): > > > Another point that needs to be considered is version control between releases: > > > the stable distribution needs different tran

Bug#230630: SCSI HD, installation with bootfloppy and usb flash stick, i386

2004-06-04 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 04:54:09PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > The evms module in the installer does not work. > > Yeah, evms support in debian-installer is not very well > tested/developed at all. LVM will work, though. I am interested in getting it working, but d-i development seems ra

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Re: Bug#244451: Installation Report; Failed

2004-06-04 Thread Stephen T. Bellis
That's strange. Can you send us enough info about this service partitionso we can try to set one up, and perhaps reprocude the bug? Thepartition layout, partition type, and the first several kilobytes ofsuch a partition might suffice to do it.   It's listed as a compaq service partition in c

Take 3: sparc64 CDs work?

2004-06-04 Thread Joshua Kwan
Folks, Thanks to some surprising sleuth work by Boris Gontar we might have a workaround for the dastardly initrd bug affecting certain sparc64 machines. So, without further ado: * http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-06-04/cdrom-mini.iso (4.7M) * http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/d

Bug#244451: Installation Report; Failed

2004-06-04 Thread Joey Hess
Stephen T. Bellis wrote: > I figured out that this problem is caused by the service partition on the > hard drive. > > I don't know why but if there is no service partition everything goes fine. > Having the service partition causes d-i to not be able to detect the cdrom. That's strange. Can you

Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:46:33PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > Drawbacks I see at the moment (Christian will most probably see thousands > > > more ;)): > > Another point that needs to be considered is version control between releases: > > the stable distribution

Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:46:33PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Drawbacks I see at the moment (Christian will most probably see thousands > > more ;)): > Another point that needs to be considered is version control between releases: > the stable distribution needs different translations from testi

Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 June 2004 23:32, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:29:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Drawbacks I see at the moment (Christian will most probably see thousands > more ;)): > Another point that needs to be cons

Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:29:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [Actually, this has been causing me to conclude that we probably need a > mechanism whereby translators can cause new translations to appear > outside of the structure of the "package" itself. This seems to me like an interestin

Re: [manual, l10n] Automatic build for all languages comming soon...

2004-06-04 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 June 2004 06:58, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm going to run the script manually over the next couple of weeks to > > further test it. If it proves stable, I will put it in a cron job that I > > w

Bug#244451: Installation Report; Failed

2004-06-04 Thread Stephen T. Bellis
I figured out that this problem is caused by the service partition on the hard drive. I don't know why but if there is no service partition everything goes fine. Having the service partition causes d-i to not be able to detect the cdrom. - Original Message - From: "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread Sam Hartman
I fail to see the problem here. The shadow package has needed a lot of translation work. You've done that work, you've done the NMUs. Everyone is happy. If you were annoyed that it took too long to deal with translation NMUs then you probably should have asked for permission to make arbitrary 0-

Bug#252696: installation-reports

2004-06-04 Thread Boris Gontar
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Official NetInst Snapshot sparc Binary-1 (20040530) uname -a: Date: June 4, 2004 Method: boot from CD Machine: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-IIe) Processor:SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe Memory:1280Mb Root Device: IDE Root Size/par

Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Well, no, if you tell a package maintainer that it "has been decided" that > you're going to use infrastructure that the maintainer refuses to rely on, > that is most certainly a takeover. Hmmm, the point that you don't want to use the Alioth infr

Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread kcr
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Karl and Sam, > > During Debconf4, there has been some discussions within the d-i team > and some maintainers of Custom Debian Distributions (mostly > Skolelinux) about the status of the Debian package for shadow. > > As you have obviously no

Bug#250735: bug dbootstrap

2004-06-04 Thread Paulo Palmeira
Package: boot-floppies Version: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 "Woody" - Official i386 Binary-1 CD flavor:ide-pci architecture: i386 model: memory:256MB scsi: nome cd-rom: ATAPI SANSUNG see> n

Bug#252672: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-04 Thread Vanderziel, Justin
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official NetInst Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20040315)uname -a: - Date: April 24, 2004 Method: Boot and install directly from CD Machine: Homebuilt w Matsonic MS7016S mb Processor: Celeron 366 Memory: 256Mb Roo

minor documentation problem

2004-06-04 Thread Ross Boylan
I just got debian-installer from svn, and notice that the README at the top recommends reading README and goals.txt in installer/doc. In fact, both are in installer/doc/historic. It's also not clear to me if the material in the historic subdirectory is obsolete, or partially out of date, as well

Problems with /etc/network/interfaces not being written

2004-06-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, on amd64 several people have experienced the problem that after install + first boot the network isn't working anymore. The /etc/network/interfaces file is not written during installation so no network is started at boot. The right modules on the other hand are loaded. Now my question: Is t

Re: Wish-list: improve instalation manual for non technical people

2004-06-04 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:58:31AM +0200, Miguel Frasson wrote: > Tha manual is written in such way that it seems to say: "beginners > should avoid Debian" or "are not good enough to install Debian." Thank you for your suggestions. I've been in the process of reworking the installation manual and

Re: Problems compiling debian-installer

2004-06-04 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Frank Kirschner wrote: > Hi, > > I want to compile the latest debian-installer, but have problems with > dependencies: Is this from the SVN repository? [snip] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > netcfg-static: Depends: libiw27 (>= 26+27pre10) > zipl-installer: Depends: base-i

ide-cd error in d-i for 2.4.26-sparc64 kernel (sarge-sparc-businesscard / 20040603)

2004-06-04 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
After successful booting from image: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/20040603/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso I am unable to load ide-cd.o module for 2.4.26-sparc64 kernel. The message is: # modprobe ide-cd Using /lib/modules/2.4.26-sparc64/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o insmod:

ide-cd error in d-i for sparc64 (sarge-sparc-businesscard / 20040603)

2004-06-04 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
After successful booting from image: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/20040603/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso I am unable to load ide-cd.o module for 2.4.26-sparc64 kernel. The message is: # modprobe ide-cd Using /lib/modules/2.4.26-sparc64/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o insmod

Problems compiling debian-installer

2004-06-04 Thread Frank Kirschner
Hi, I want to compile the latest debian-installer, but have problems with dependencies: # make build_generic (set -e; \ echo "# This file is automatically generated, edit sources.list.udeb.local instead."; \ if [ "x" != "x" ]; then \

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Bug#252615: base-config contains .svn directory

2004-06-04 Thread Stuart . Auchterlonie
Package: base-config Version: 2.25 Base Config contains the following .svn directory. /usr/lib/base-config/menu/.svn/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Wish-list: improve instalation manual for non technical people

2004-06-04 Thread Miguel Frasson
Dear Debian boot people I would like to try out Debian, but I don't have enough knoledge to even read that i386 installation manual and I doubt that many people have. The installation manual could include tips for non experts. It starts in actually knowing that one is using i386. Not everybody k

Processed: tags - pending

2004-06-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 247734 - pending Bug#247734: debian-installer: incorrect /etc/hosts localhost line Tags were: pending Tags removed: pending > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (ad

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Bug#252588: install: Installation fails on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: install Severity: important The bug report is related to the following ISO images: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/20040602/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/tc1/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso http://cdimage.

Re: Processing of ddetect_0.100_i386.changes

2004-06-04 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Quoting Archive Administrator ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > ddetect_0.100_i386.changes couldn't be processed for 48 hours and is now deleted > > All files it mentions are also removed: > > ddetect_0.100.dsc, ddetect_0.100.tar.gz, hw-detect_0.100_all.ude

Processed: reassign 252552 to libdebian-installer4, severity of 252552 is grave, merging 252552 250299

2004-06-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.7.95.1 > reassign 252552 libdebian-installer4 Bug#252552: libdebian-installer.so.4: version `LIBDI_4.3' not found Bug reassigned from package `cdebootstrap' to `libdebian-installer4'. > sev

Bug#248627: Debian Installer version 4 - Installation report

2004-06-04 Thread Per Olofsson
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 19:18 -0400, Nicholas Breen wrote: > I've got an RBEM56G-100, which I assume is similar. I've discovered > that it doesn't work if the "xircom_tulip_cb" module is loaded, but does > work if only the "xircom_cb" module is loaded. He did say earlier that he had a 16-bit (non