Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:14:40AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: >The rdate in etch does not recognize a "-n" option. When was it added? In 1:1.1.2-1 which is in testing. Version 1:1.1.2-3 should be backported to stable once it hit testing. Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal signat

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
The rdate in etch does not recognize a "-n" option. When was it added? Rick On Jul 21, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Joey Hess wrote: I just remembered/realised that rdate can use ntp servers via rdate -n. Spiffy. No more issues finding a server then. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

2007-07-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 21 July 2007 22:12, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The trick of course will be how to get users to actually use the option... The people who want it will notice that it's there and cease using Fedora CDs. The rest won't use it no matter what you do. > Note that we only very

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:00:16PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >On Saturday 21 July 2007 20:30, Joey Hess wrote: >>Frans Pop wrote: >>>- I just tried rdate on i386 and sparc64. On i386 it works fine, but >>>on sparc it fails with a "bus error". Does it work on other >>>architectures. especially arm? >>

Bug#255439: marked as done (d-i report)

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#434158: partman-crypto: due to popular demand: root on loop-aes

2007-07-21 Thread Nemui Ailin
Package: partman-crypto Severity: wishlist As you are probably aware, loop-aes is faster and more secure than cryptsetup. crypto needs to be done using newt ("install", not installgui). this is documented somewhere on the d-i website. Unfortunately, the debian-installer doesn't want to let you

Bug#247484: thoughts on date setting

2007-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
Two other things about running rdate: 1. It would be best to run it only once. Maybe twice if we have to; 3 and 4 times are right out. Slow. 2. It would be best if d-i could run rdate before partman, assuring that the disks are formatted with the time set correctly. We could move tzsetup

Bug#434027: partman-crypto: loop-aes fails with "not supported by kernel"

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 22 July 2007 00:33, you wrote: > It looks like "loop" is currently not modprobed separately, but pulled > in when the loop-$cipher modules are loaded. Not quite correct. It is listed as a separate module in /lib/partman/ciphers/$type/$cipher/module files, and thus loaded separately. The

Bug#434027: partman-crypto: loop-aes fails with "not supported by kernel"

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 18:07, Frans Pop wrote: > I think the current code is already smart enough that it will not try > setting up crypto support more than once. It looks like "loop" is currently not modprobed separately, but pulled in when the loop-$cipher modules are loaded. This makes it a

Re: Bug#247484: thoughts on date setting

2007-07-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 21 July 2007 23:15, Joey Hess wrote: >> * clock obviously not set correctly >> >> This can be identified in various ways, but if the clock is clearly not >> set right (ie, 1970, or < d-i image build date) then it should be ok >> for d-i to run rd

Bug#247484: thoughts on date setting

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 23:15, Joey Hess wrote: > * clock obviously not set correctly > > This can be identified in various ways, but if the clock is clearly not > set right (ie, 1970, or < d-i image build date) then it should be ok > for d-i to run rdate and hwclock to set it. If we can get a da

Bug#247484: thoughts on date setting

2007-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
Leaving aside issues of UTC detection, timezone detection, etc by using rdate, here are some thoughts on when d-i should set the date. Some different scenarios: * clock obviously not set correctly This can be identified in various ways, but if the clock is clearly not set right (ie, 1970, or < d

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 19:47, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > rdate is in NEW and has a udeb added. Accept/Reject? Please accept. Thanks. pgpTnOFpWBGTM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#201214: MOUSE

2007-07-21 Thread Everette
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libd-i updates

2007-07-21 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks As I have a bit more free time now, I'm going back to do the following changes on libd-i: - Split libd-i-packages. - Drop hash table. B-Trees are not really worser to use. - Drop memory chunk allocator (may increase memory usage). - Completely drop use of mapped memory in structures. - R

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-21 19:47]: > following Frans request: > rdate is in NEW and has a udeb added. Accept/Reject? FWIW, I'd like to see d-i using rdate to set the time. Unfortunately, I probably won't have any time personally to work on this though. -- Martin Michlmayr ht

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 20:10, Frans Pop wrote: > As rdate only depends on libc, the dependencies are correct for current > D-I as they are. However, I'd like to check with Anibal that he did use > the correct magic in debian/rules to ensure dependencies stay correct > in the future. I'll send a s

Bug#411446: clock-setup will ask..

2007-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
If the system has OS 9 on it, and os-prober notices it, then clock-setup will currently ask whether the clock is set to UTC. Ditto for OS X, or both. The installation report seems to indicate it didn't ask, and set the clock to UTC. The only way that could happen is if os-proper didn't notice the o

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 20:30, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > - I just tried rdate on i386 and sparc64. On i386 it works fine, but > > on sparc it fails with a "bus error". Does it work on other > > architectures. especially arm? > > Sure, it works on arm. rdate is pretty simple, it shoul

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
I just remembered/realised that rdate can use ntp servers via rdate -n. Spiffy. No more issues finding a server then. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > - I just tried rdate on i386 and sparc64. On i386 it works fine, but on > sparc it fails with a "bus error". Does it work on other architectures. > especially arm? Sure, it works on arm. rdate is pretty simple, it should work on all (maintained) arches. If you can find a ser

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 19:47, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > following Frans request: > rdate is in NEW and has a udeb added. Accept/Reject? > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/rdate.html has the details. As rdate only depends on libc, the dependencies are correct for current D-I as they are. Howev

Re: r48410 - trunk/installer/build/boot/x86

2007-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
The patch seems ok, but I've had another thought about something about this I don't much like. So far, we've been able to assume that an expert mode install is identical to a regular priority install, unless the user chooses a non-default answer to a question. This is the first case where choosing

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > following Frans request: > rdate is in NEW and has a udeb added. Accept/Reject? > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/rdate.html has the details. Hmm. People have talked about using rdate before, but I don't know how it would work exactly. What server would rdate be point

rdate udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi following Frans request: rdate is in NEW and has a udeb added. Accept/Reject? http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/rdate.html has the details. -- bye Joerg yes, I'm annoying. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#434027: partman-crypto: loop-aes fails with "not supported by kernel"

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 17:44, Frans Pop wrote: > The actual name of the module is loop-aes.ko. I've just verified that > if the regular loop.ko is already loaded, 'modprobe loop-aes' seems to > succeed, but does not do anything. modprobe can be made to fail by using the --first-time option: # m

Bug#345419: some kind of merge

2007-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
This 'anna' bugreport has in http://bugs.debian.org/345408 a libdebian-installer brother -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#434027: Acknowledgement (partman-crypto: loop-aes fails with "not supported by kernel")

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
Well spotted that this is the issue! On Saturday 21 July 2007 15:30, Nemui Ailin wrote: > by the way, the problem with this encryption is that d-i loads the > wrong loop module Well, at the time iso-scan mounts the CD image, the loop-aes module is not yet available, so "wrong" is a relative term

Bug#345408: some kind of merge

2007-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
This libdebian-installer BR became also http://bugs.debian.org/345419 a bugreport agianst the package 'anna' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#379972: explaining the title

2007-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
This bugreport, http://bugs.debian.org/379972 "don't default to attach the log files" is a wishlist item to not include by default several files. There is the technical reason for messages becoming too big. For me is the human factor more important. Those long installation reports provide me

Re: Server for automatic install, ideas for a name

2007-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 07-07-2007 om 18:15 schreef Geert Stappers: > Op 07-07-2007 om 16:27 schreef Frans Pop: > > > > I also wonder if there is not a more descriptive name than Babelobox. > > pronounce it as "ba be lo box" > > > After all, "babel" has a strong association with languages/translations > > and what

Processed: retitle and a note

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # back to original name > retitle 334994 debian-installer/function=rescue Bug#334994: make preseeding modules to install work better Changed Bug title to `debian-installer/function=rescue' from `make preseeding modules to install work better'. > thank

Bug#334994: retitle and a note

2007-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
# back to original name retitle 334994 debian-installer/function=rescue thanks FYI: The "Phil Hands auto install" introduced "Class" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Processed: tagging 283521

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Processed: reassign 416208 to linux-2.6

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Bug#283521: updated patch

2007-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
Attached an updated patch. Cheers Geert Stappers Index: installer/build/boot/x86/f2.txt === --- installer/build/boot/x86/f2.txt (revision 48523) +++ installer/build/boot/x86/f2.txt (working copy) @@ -7,17 +7,17 @@ disk space

Bug#434027: Acknowledgement (partman-crypto: loop-aes fails with "not supported by kernel")

2007-07-21 Thread Nemui Ailin
by the way, the problem with this encryption is that d-i loads the wrong loop module I guess such a bug might not be noticed when the installation is not done from an usb media with an iso image that needs to be mounted with loop it can easily be remedied by unloading the wrong loop mod

Bug#348435: marked as done (d-i: Could not stat /dev/ide/host-1/bus1/target/lun0/part1)

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#304973: marked as done (Compaq Computer Corporation Netelligent Integrated 10/100 TX UTP)

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#283286: marked as done (ASUS AP140R-E1)

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 13:29, Russell Coker wrote: > I advocate doing what is done in Fedora, you get a boot prompt from the > CD and then you can type "memtest" and press ENTER if you want to test > the memory. OK. I'm aware of how to run memtest. It was not clear from your report if you maybe

Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

2007-07-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 21 July 2007 20:13, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 21 July 2007 05:50, Russell Coker wrote: > > It's recommended that you run memtest before installing a machine to > > ensure that it will work well. > > Exactly who should run memtest? The user (manually) or the inst

Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 05:50, Russell Coker wrote: > It's recommended that you run memtest before installing a machine to > ensure that it will work well. Exactly who should run memtest? The user (manually) or the installer (automatically, by default)? If the last, how exactly should it be run

Re: r48410 - trunk/installer/build/boot/x86

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 23:54, Frans Pop wrote: > > Also, unlike the expert boot turning it back on, even choosing to > > boot in recovery mode in grub won't avoid the quiet mode. > > After looking at menu.lst, I see that for grub this could be fixed by > only setting the quiet option in "# defop

Bug#339876: base-installer turbo charged

2007-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
Currently, july 2007, base-installer is debootstrap, kernel-install and some extras. Having kernel-install spilt-off from base-installer will make it more easy to tune the remaining base-installer. Replacing the debootstrap part, which is the time costly part during installation, with untarring

Bug#434040: libdebian-installer: type declaration conflict

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 434040 linux-libc-dev tags 434040 d-i thanks On Saturday 21 July 2007 07:47, Frans Pop wrote: > While compiling kbd-chooser on sparc64, I got the following errors. > Looks like there's some conflict with linux-libc-dev (2.6.22-1)? > In file included from /usr/include/debian-installer/typ

Processed: Re: Bug#434040: libdebian-installer: type declaration conflict

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 434040 linux-libc-dev Bug#434040: libdebian-installer: type declaration conflict Bug reassigned from package `libdebian-installer' to `linux-libc-dev'. > tags 434040 d-i Bug#434040: libdebian-installer: type declaration conflict There were no

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Julien Louis
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:19:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > This issue will be further discussed during a Debian Installer team > meeting on Wednesday next week. You can expect some decision from the > team about whether the udebs can stay or not after that. There is a new upstream release of g

Processed: Tagging 339876 wontfix

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # There is still insufficient rationale for this request > # Reasons given by Joey Hess are still valid > # Not closing, but tagging "won't fix" > tags 339876 + wontfix Bug#339876: Please split kernel-install from base-install There were no tags set. Ta

Re: [RFR] Restructuring of kernel selection in base-installer

2007-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20-07-2007 om 08:19 schreef Frans Pop: > This change also prepares the way to support preseeding. > Up till now users were basically unable to preseed which kernel to use. > This patch makes that possible in the most natural way: using the > base-installer/kernel/image template. Preseeding "none

Re: [RFR] Restructuring of kernel selection in base-installer

2007-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20-07-2007 om 08:19 schreef Frans Pop: > > The old mechanism to set default kernels in templates-arch per kernel > major version has IMO become completely redundant. In practice it was no > longer being used at all and we have an excellent and much more flexible > kernel selection mechanism tha

Bug#432339: marked as done (localechooser: shows empty country "list" after selecting Vietnamese)

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: retitle 339876 to Please split kernel-install from base-install

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: retitle 339876 to Please split kernel-install from base-install.

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localechooser_1.41_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2007-07-21 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: localechooser_1.41.dsc to pool/main/l/localechooser/localechooser_1.41.dsc localechooser_1.41.tar.gz to pool/main/l/localechooser/localechooser_1.41.tar.gz localechooser_1.41_all.udeb to pool/main/l/localechooser/localechooser_1.41_all.udeb Override entries for your package: loca

Processing of localechooser_1.41_i386.changes

2007-07-21 Thread Archive Administrator
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