BTS wars (was: Re: Bug#406114: Processed: reopening 406114)

2007-01-09 Thread Christian Perrier
> reopen 406114 > thanks Guys, I'm not sure whether that BTS war is leading us anywhere. Please send me to hell if I'm wrong but I feel like a rampant conflict between Geert and Frans (and this for a quite long time). You guys have made visible effort to keep it at an acceptable level and both o

Bug#406290: installation-guide: [patch] update info about mouse configuration

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
Package: installation-guide Version: 20060726 Tags: patch Anders Lennartsson brought it to my attention that the information about gpm in the installation guide is terribly out-of-date. I think the following is a lot more helpful. Thanks, Peter, with "gpm co-maintainer" hat Index: manual/en/ap

Bug#406114: Processed: reopening 406114

2007-01-09 Thread Geert Stappers
# Op 09-01-2007 om 19:09 schreef Frans Pop: # > close 406114 # > thanks # > # > > Bug#406114: Installer netinst needs ping and better ifconfig # > > Bug reopened, originator not changed. # > # > There is absolutely no reason why this BR should remain open! As I said, # > it's a duplicate and ha

Processed: Re: Bug#406114: Processed: reopening 406114

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Op 09-01-2007 om 19:09 schreef Frans Pop: > # > close 406114 > # > thanks > # > > # > > Bug#406114: Installer netinst needs ping and better ifconfig > # > > Bug reopened, originator not changed. > # > > # > There is absolutely no reason why this BR sh

Bug#405484: Further progress

2007-01-09 Thread Chris Carr
Ok, refined the problem a lot, but still not quite there: 1. Choose expert mode install 2. Go through language, keyboard, cd detection, load installer components, detect and configure network 3. Switch to console on F2 and type these three commands: 3.1 modprobe dm-mod 3.2 udpkg -i /cdrom/p

Re: Bug#403639: Fix committed in svn repo

2007-01-09 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Loïc Minier wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Just wanted to say the patch was eventually committed to gnome svn [1]: i tried a backport to our 2.8.20 but was unable to due to that complex set of patches already present :( Would be possible building an experimental 2-8-20

Re: XF86Config mentioned in installation guide to etch

2007-01-09 Thread Anders Lennartsson
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:19:37 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 07:40, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > > I just noted that the configuration file for X is called XF86Config or > > XF86Config at some places in the sources for the installation guide to > > etch. For instance the english

Re: Bug#403639: Fix committed in svn repo

2007-01-09 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Just wanted to say the patch was eventually committed to gnome svn [1]: > i tried a backport to our 2.8.20 but was unable to due to that complex > set of patches already present :( > Would be possible building an experimental 2-8-20 udeb with this

Bug#406108: marked as done (Busybox ifconfig should allow setting the MAC address)

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:32:37 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#406108: Busybox ifconfig should allow setting the MAC address has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If thi

Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-09 Thread Alex Owen
At the risk of repeating myself a normal deb that had a gui/text-ui to create a preseed file might be the way to go. This preseed-generator could then be installed in the livecd and could append the generated preseed to the normal d-i initramfs and use kexec to bootinto d-i ... That way we have:

Bug#406114: Processed: reopening 406114

2007-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
close 406114 thanks > Bug#406114: Installer netinst needs ping and better ifconfig > Bug reopened, originator not changed. There is absolutely no reason why this BR should remain open! As I said, it's a duplicate and has absolutely no value by itself. pgpMnAQOvE6ld.pgp Description: PGP signat

Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Alex Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the risk of repeating myself a normal deb that had a gui/text-ui to > create a preseed file might be the way to go. > > This preseed-generator could then be installed in the livecd and could > append the generated preseed to the normal d-i initramfs and

Processed: Re: Processed: reopening 406114

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > close 406114 Bug#406114: d-i: having a tool like ping 'close' is deprecated; see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing. Bug closed, send any further explanations to Claus Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > thanks Stopping processing here. Please con

Bug#406114: d-i: having a tool like "ping"

2007-01-09 Thread Geert Stappers
reassign 406114 installation-guide thanks Op 09-01-2007 om 10:12 schreef Frans Pop: > On Monday 08 January 2007 20:09, Claus Fischer wrote: > > Also, busybox' ping should be enabled on the debian network > > installer, to allow a user to check whether the right > > interface is up on a multihome

Bug#406108: Bug#406114: d-i: having a tool like "ping"

2007-01-09 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 09-01-2007 om 15:49 schreef Claus Fischer: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:12:59AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > > No, it should not. Memory is valuable in the installer environment and > > > having ping does not add anything. As Geert already explained, you can > > > use wget instead for basic c

Processed: Re: Bug#406114: d-i: having a tool like "ping"

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 406114 installation-guide Bug#406114: d-i: having a tool like ping Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `installation-guide'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking s

Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
Marco Amadori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ubiquity approach could be surely be faster than d-i/g-i but I do not > think we want to support a different way of installing debian besides than > the official one. Indeed. The d-i/g-i is far better and easier to maintain since it won't differ t

Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-09 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 16:31, martedì 9 gennaio 2007, hai scritto: > Marco Amadori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alle 15:41, lunedì 8 gennaio 2007, Steve McIntyre ha scritto: > >> There are several possible ways to do this now; the easiest may be to > >> use the hooks in the latest debian-cd version in svn to add

ppp_2.4.4rel-5 patch

2007-01-09 Thread Eddy Petrişor
Package: ppp Tags: patch d-i Severity: important Hello, Attached is a patch that closes a few open issues with the ppp-udeb. The most important are #402450 (not bringing up the interface after install and not saving a correspondent section in the target /etc/network/interfaces) and the handling

Processed: retitle 406114 to d-i: having a tool like ping

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 406114 d-i: having a tool like ping Bug#406114: Installer netinst needs ping and better ifconfig Changed Bug title. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator

Processed: reopening 406114

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 406114 Bug#406114: Installer netinst needs ping and better ifconfig Bug reopened, originator not changed. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administr

Bug#406108: Busybox ifconfig should allow setting the MAC address

2007-01-09 Thread Miroslav Kure
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:12:59AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > ifconfig is likely to disappear in the installer in favor of the 'ip' set > of commands. AFAICT the ip commands don't have an option to set a MAC > address. Not sure what the correct solution for this would be. ip supports changing

Bug#406108: Busybox ifconfig should allow setting the MAC address

2007-01-09 Thread Claus Fischer
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:37:36PM +0100, Claus Fischer wrote: : On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:12:59AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: : : No, it should not. Memory is valuable in the installer environment and : : having ping does not add anything. As Geert already explained, you can : : use wget instead fo

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Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
Marco Amadori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alle 15:41, lunedì 8 gennaio 2007, Steve McIntyre ha scritto: > >> There are several possible ways to do this now; the easiest may be to >> use the hooks in the latest debian-cd version in svn to add files to >> the temporary disc trees at various points

Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-09 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 15:41, lunedì 8 gennaio 2007, Steve McIntyre ha scritto: There are several possible ways to do this now; the easiest may be to use the hooks in the latest debian-cd version in svn to add files to the temporary disc trees at various points. I wouldn't recommend trying

Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-09 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 15:41, lunedì 8 gennaio 2007, Steve McIntyre ha scritto: > There are several possible ways to do this now; the easiest may be to > use the hooks in the latest debian-cd version in svn to add files to > the temporary disc trees at various points. I wouldn't recommend > trying to re-implement t

Bug#406108: Busybox ifconfig should allow setting the MAC address

2007-01-09 Thread Claus Fischer
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:12:59AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: : No, it should not. Memory is valuable in the installer environment and : having ping does not add anything. As Geert already explained, you can : use wget instead for basic connection testing. Not if the next router doesn't run any TCP

Bug#406120: THX: Re: Bug#406120: installation-reports

2007-01-09 Thread Manuel Becker
just getting back to you how i managed to start xserver: Following your advise I installed xserver-xorg-input-all and ...-video-all. When launching "xorg -configure" i still have trouble since my touchpad cannot be found. I also corrected the xorg.conf where my graphics was detected as "apm" (!).

Bug#406177: marked as done (probably a general problem concerning latest X-Version)

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 9 Jan 2007 03:29:09 -0800 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#406177: probably a general problem concerning latest X-Version has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If thi

Bug#406177: probably a general problem concerning latest X-Version

2007-01-09 Thread Eddy Petrișor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: xserver-xorg, installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: fails a successful install on a new system Peter Mattern wrote: > Within the last months I could install several different etch-Versions > (beta, RC1) on both a desktop system

Bug#406108: Busybox ifconfig should allow setting the MAC address

2007-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 January 2007 20:09, Claus Fischer wrote: > I recently used the debian-netinst installer with busybox > to rescue a botched system, and I got into trouble since > busybox' ifconfig command would not let me set the > MAC address of my ethernet card. > > My cable modem only accepts packet

Processed: Re: Bug#406112: Installer rescue mode lacks md devices

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 406112 rescue Bug#406112: Installer rescue mode lacks md devices Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `rescue'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system

Re: XF86Config mentioned in installation guide to etch

2007-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 January 2007 07:40, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > I just noted that the configuration file for X is called XF86Config or > XF86Config at some places in the sources for the installation guide to > etch. For instance the english version (and others in xml-format) has > this wording in trun

Re: Consider including new dmidecode version 2.8-3 into etch

2007-01-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steve Langasek] > Well, as dmidecode 2.8-3 was just reported to FTBFS on ia64, this > one doesn't seem to be a candidate. Please let us know when you > have another upload that works on ia64 if you want it to be > considered. A new version 2.8-4 fixing the bug was just uploaded. Thanks goes to

Bug#406114: marked as done (Installer netinst needs ping and better ifconfig)

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#406120: marked as done (installation-reports)

2007-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: g-i wiki is painfully outdated

2007-01-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/8/07, Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Op 08-01-2007 om 18:07 schreef Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > Hi, > > This page http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUI is really > outdated and I found it to be immutable. That "immutable" should be read as "you have not yet created an account o