Bug#418382: choose-mirror: Better handling of suite/codename; support oldstable

2007-05-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Introduce two new internal, but translatable debconf templates (rootskel): > - debian-installer/suites: oldstable, stable, testing, unstable > - debian-installer/codenames: sarge, etch, lenny, sid > The second template would of course need to be kept up-to-

Bug#422307: Sparc installation problem.

2007-05-06 Thread Anthony Smith
Hey, I wanted to resurrect my old SPARC to use as a web proxy/ dan's guardian server for my daughter and Debian supports my old box. I tried etch sparc installer on the debian site but I am assuming that the known problem with the esp driver on the cd install is what almost made me quit and

Bug#422075: installation-report: multi-arch chose i386 instead of amd64

2007-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Luca Capello wrote: > the installation on a custom desktop machine was successfull, except > an error in booting the multi-arch CD. > > The error at the initial boot is because the multi-arch booted on i386 > instead of amd64. This resulted in a overall i386 installation (in > expert mode), but w

Bug#422088: [Patch] wish preseed_fetch could distinguish between non-existance of a requested file and other failures to fetch file.

2007-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Owen wrote: > # TODO add progress bar > - if wget -q "$url" -O "$file"; then > + if wget -q "$url" -O "$file" 2>$log ; then > + rm -f $log > return 0 > + elifgrep "server returned error 404" $log >/

Bug#422439: base-config: support installing sarge as oldstable

2007-05-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 06 May 2007 07:39, Christian Perrier wrote: > I just checked out the branches/sarge directory from base-config's SVN > and I'm ready to send the call for translations as well as commit > translation updates as soon as your patch is committed. Attached is a tarbal with the "mini PO files"

Bug#418382: choose-mirror: Better handling of suite/codename; support oldstable

2007-05-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 09 April 2007 16:13, Frans Pop wrote: > I have been thinking that better support for oldstable would be good to > have, even for netboot, floppy installations. This should be > possible... [...] > As the installation is now much more based on codename anyway, maybe we > should ignore the

Bug#422439: base-config: support installing sarge as oldstable

2007-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Joey: if you'd like me to do this as an NMU, that would be fine with me. That'd be fine. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#419947: [newt] Characters in titlebar are sometimes unbalanced

2007-05-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 19 April 2007 00:44, Davide Viti wrote: > The attached patch makes sure characters surrounding the title are > always even (see also #416543). This is really only a very cosmetic issue. I have some reservations about this patch. - Is it really correct to _subtract_ a position to balan

D-I web interface (was: debian-installer plans for the lenny cycle)

2007-05-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:10, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > I would like to know if there is interest enough in this frontend to be > considered a goal for Lenny, and if somone's willing to work on the > authentication/security part. I think you will at least need to kick this off yourself. I wou

Re: Some ideas regarding hardware detection and the installation system

2007-05-06 Thread Frans Pop
In general it is a setup I would support, but only for things that are rock solid. I mean only when you can be 100% sure that all (or at least a vast majority) owners of the hardware will want that feature _and_ that the feature will really work on all hardware it is installed on. On Saturday 2

Processed: Re: Bug#422271: [parisc] missing ethtool

2007-05-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 422271 netinst not usable on B2000 because etho works not properly Bug#422271: [parisc] missing ethtool Changed Bug title to netinst not usable on B2000 because etho works not properly from [parisc] missing ethtool. > thanks Stopping processin

Bug#422271: [parisc] missing ethtool

2007-05-06 Thread Geert Stappers
retitle 422271 netinst not usable on B2000 because etho works not properly thanks Op 06-05-2007 om 14:50 schreef Silvio Wanka: > BTW, I forgot to send a meaningfully subject with the error report. > Now it is "missing ethtool" but this is not the real problem it should > be "netinst not usable on

Bug#422439: base-config: support installing sarge as oldstable

2007-05-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 06 May 2007 07:39, Christian Perrier wrote: > I just checked out the branches/sarge directory from base-config's SVN > and I'm ready to send the call for translations as well as commit > translation updates as soon as your patch is committed. I've thought about it a bit more and would pr

Bug#422271: [parisc] missing ethtool

2007-05-06 Thread Silvio Wanka
Geert Stappers schrieb: retitle 422271 [parisc] missing ethtool thanks Perhaps at the side of switch, assuming it is "configurable switch" to which you have access to? Yep, it is an manageable switch. BTW, I forgot to send a meaningfully subject with the error report. Now it is "missing ethto

Bug#422271: [parisc] missing ethtool

2007-05-06 Thread Geert Stappers
retitle 422271 [parisc] missing ethtool thanks Op 04-05-2007 om 18:09 schreef Wanka, Silvio: ~ wget is not able to get data from eth0. I think the hardware is > wrong configured, the switch shows: > Port Mode: 100 FD, Flow Control: Disabled > > IMO on HP-UX it must be configured to use 100 FD.

Processed: Re: Bug#422271: [parisc] missing ethtool

2007-05-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 422271 [parisc] missing ethtool Bug#422271: Changed Bug title to [parisc] missing ethtool from . > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bug