Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])

2009-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > 2. Can console-setup-udeb expect that /proc/bus/usb is mounted? Is > > there some dependency about this? > > For 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 you can't depend on it being mounted. See > usb-kbd.c in kbd-chooser; again

nano migration

2009-06-29 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Would it be acceptable to allow nano into testing finally? It has been waiting for 84 days for the maintainer to request migration to testing. BTW, has there been any progress towards automatic udeb migration? Even just an automatic "ping, nano has been waiting for 10 days" to -boot, -re

Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])

2009-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > I have some questions: > 1. Can console-setup-udeb expect that /proc is mounted? Is there some > dependency about this? /proc is guaranteed to be mounted in D-I. > 2. Can console-setup-udeb expect that /proc/bus/usb is mounted? Is > there some depen

Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])

2009-06-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 07:32:39PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > Should I add one additional question or preseeding is enough? > > No, you need to implement automatic detection for this case. > > Please see kbd-chooser.c. It's not all that hard to find the code, nor > should it be all that har

Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])

2009-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:03:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:55:28PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > > > But I think i

Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])

2009-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:03:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:55:28PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > > But I think it is preferable to configure the keyboard of the >

Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])

2009-06-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:03:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:55:28PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > But I think it is preferable to configure the keyboard of the host > > > even if its keyboard is not used during the i

Kenshi Muto: i386/amd64 d-i images for Lenny, kernel version 2.6.30 + firmware

2009-06-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
> For those who would like to use Linux kernel 2.6.30 for installing > Debian Lenny, [here it is][2]. Enjoy. Very interesting. I added support to a number of new ARM devices to squeeze and it would be great to provide a 2.6.30 based lenny installer. Can you describe what's needed to create such

Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])

2009-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:55:28PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > But I think it is preferable to configure the keyboard of the host > > even if its keyboard is not used during the installation. > > I wrote this about installs on serial console, not

Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])

2009-06-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:55:28PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > But I think it is preferable to configure the keyboard of the host even > if its keyboard is not used during the installation. I wrote this about installs on serial console, not about UML installs. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUB

Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])

2009-06-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Console-setup changed a lot since the long mail of Frans Pop. I will make an upload as soon as the current package migrates to testing. In the following I am summarizing some of the changes. On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:59:02PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Size impact > --- 1. T

Re: Online help

2009-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:09:44PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Here's an initial draft of a patch for this, tested interactively using > the changes to src/test/help.templates included in the patch. It was > surprisingly easy! I've only done the newt interface so far, not the GTK > interface; plea

Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long]

2009-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 June 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 03:05:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Sunday 28 June 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I think we should stop asking this question entirely. Hardly anyone > > > really needs anything other than pc105, except for the Brazilian >

Re: [D-I] Please test Debian Installer with console-setup

2009-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:12:19PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:35:44PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Anton Zinoviev, le Sat 27 Jun 2009 18:52:34 +0300, a écrit : > > > This was because setfont can not load compressed fonts without gzip. I > > > changed console-set

Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long]

2009-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 03:05:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 28 June 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > > I think we should stop asking this question entirely. Hardly anyone > > really needs anything other than pc105, except for the Brazilian and > > Japanese cases that can be derived automatica

Re: Little preseed questions

2009-06-29 Thread MaTa
Thanks again 2009/6/29 Matthew Palmer > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:13:41AM +0200, MaTa wrote: > > Hello > > > > Please, I need some (little) help in some preseeds. I'm searching for > this > > questions in documentation and I havn't found anything. Would you say if > > exist some preseed (or pre

Re: [!!!] D-I SVN repository not available Monday June 29 from 07:00 UTC

2009-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday June 29 committing changes to the Debian Installer > > subversion repository will not be possible from around 07:00 UTC for > > maintenance. I expect the repository to be available again around > > 12:

Re: Little preseed questions

2009-06-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:13:41AM +0200, MaTa wrote: > Hello > > Please, I need some (little) help in some preseeds. I'm searching for this > questions in documentation and I havn't found anything. Would you say if > exist some preseed (or preseeds) to get: > > a) Save the installationlog lo

Re: Reducing the complication of choices in console-setup udeb config: first thought

2009-06-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Perrier, le Mon 29 Jun 2009 06:58:21 +0200, a écrit : > My point was *not* about showing a different list to users depending > on the language they selected. > > It was just about building *one* list that would offer users all > "reasonable" choices. Ah. I'm still afraid that's not very

Re: [!!!] D-I SVN repository not available Monday June 29 from 07:00 UTC

2009-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 26 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday June 29 committing changes to the Debian Installer subversion > repository will not be possible from around 07:00 UTC for maintenance. > I expect the repository to be available again around 12:00 UTC at he > latest, but please wait for the announ

Re: Reducing the complication of choices in console-setup udeb config: first thought

2009-06-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > I'd even say, one language/country, one layout. Note for instance > french, for which there are a lot of layouts, from BE, CA, CH, FR, > ... But there is little chance getting wrong when taking the country > into account too. That's why I proposed