Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Now that everybody has had a chance to take a look at the patches and try > out the test images (ahem...) we should decide how to use the new options Ahem, as you say...:-) I was planning to do such testing next week-end as I had no opportunity to do it

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread peter green
The i386/amd64/powerpc DVD is more problematic as having all desktops will completely fill the DVD leaving no room for other packages with a high popcon score. Proposal is therefore to drop powerpc support from this DVD. With only i386 and amd64 there is still room for the top ~2600 packages o

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, [My two cents tips below] On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 23:32 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Now that everybody has had a chance to take a look at the patches and try > out the test images (ahem...) we should decide how to use the new options > and what it will mean for the images we make available for

[RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
Now that everybody has had a chance to take a look at the patches and try out the test images (ahem...) we should decide how to use the new options and what it will mean for the images we make available for Lenny. Everything in this mail is a proposal (i.e. open for discussion), loosely based o

Re: [RFR/RFC] Multi-desktop CDs for lenny - take 2

2008-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > - for light CD: separate rescue submenu on first isolinux screen > > That's sensible. (even though a little,bit inconsistent with DVD) Yes, but really a lot more logical for the light CD. And changing it for other CD images too would mean t

Bug#507148: marked as done ([sparc] build d-i kernel-images with version -11)

2008-12-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 3 Dec 2008 21:16:49 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Re: Bug#507148: [sparc] build d-i kernel-images with version -11 has caused the Debian Bug report #507148, regarding [sparc] build d-i kernel-images with version -11 to be marked as done. This

Re: Multi-desktop CDs for lenny: root device does not exist

2008-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Holger Wansing wrote: > You are indeed right. > I've done a test install with a rc1 netinst cd, and had the same > problem! Although it worked the first time I tried the rc1 > installation. Just to make sure... I hope you have not been selecting this option for driver

Re: Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > But why magic constants? Why not a simple union of the two structs? > The original "paranoia" isn't any better in this respect. Or do we > try to avoid the need to recompile if the struct is later extended? > That sounds silly... Maybe I'll l

Re: Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-12-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Don't you risk overflowing the buffer by not using a union of the two >> structs? Or are both guarranteed to never grow above 256 bytes? > > The original code looks to have included a "paranoia" field

Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Don't you risk overflowing the buffer by not using a union of the two > structs? Or are both guarranteed to never grow above 256 bytes? The original code looks to have included a "paranoia" field in struct u of 3 times the size of serial_stru

Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-12-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:50:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > As we are not interested in the settings of the serial line or by the > state of the VT, we can just omit the struct declarations and be fine > with a dummy buffer. Don't you risk overflowin

Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-12-03 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:50:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Someone who can actually write in C please check the code and let me know > if anything can be removed or is missing. I may well have added unneeded > includes for example and I have no idea what the original sprintf > statements were

Re: Please unblock openssh 1:5.1p1-4

2008-12-03 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > If it's still feasible to do so, please unblock openssh 1:5.1p1-4; it > fixes an interoperability problem with NetScreen devices reported by a > number of Debian users. CCing debian-boot since it deli

Bug#507653: installation-reports: partitioner shows warning: 'The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md0'

2008-12-03 Thread Jack Douglas
Package: installation-reports Boot method: flash Image version: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-armel/current/images/iop32x/netboot/n2100.bin Date: 20 Nov 2008 Machine: Thecus n2100 Partitions: thecus-spare:~# df -Tl FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available U

Please unblock openssh 1:5.1p1-4

2008-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
Hi, If it's still feasible to do so, please unblock openssh 1:5.1p1-4; it fixes an interoperability problem with NetScreen devices reported by a number of Debian users. CCing debian-boot since it delivers udebs. openssh (1:5.1p1-4) unstable; urgency=low * ssh-copy-id: Strip trailing colons fro

Re: [RFR/RFC] Multi-desktop CDs for lenny - take 2

2008-12-03 Thread Praveen A
2008/12/2 Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > BTW, I'm wondering whether "light" is misleading (<> netinst). maybe > "lightx", "lightX" or something else. "lightde", "lightDE" ? - Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you