Bug#553309: (no subject)

2009-10-29 Thread vincent.mcint...@csiro.au
retitle 553309 partman-auto-raid: clarify how to set up lvm+raid thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#553306: clarify use of mirror/udeb/suite

2009-10-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-guide Severity: wishlist Tags: patch In relation to #552787, I've attempted to improve the relevant text in the preseeding appendix of the manual. It's a bit wordier (sorry translators). Cheers Vince Index: trunk/manual/en/appendix/preseed.xml ===

Re: Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > > Martin, Christian: please give this image a try. > > http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/madduck/ > > New (and working) version uploaded. Ah, this is an amd64 image..:-)...and my only currently working emulation setup is x86-based only (VirtualBox-OS

Bug#552787: ([i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily)

2009-10-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Found the problem, which is documented but it's somewhat difficult to parse. This change in my preseed file fixed the issue: - d-i mirror/udeb/suite string lenny + d-i mirror/udeb/suite string testing Cheers Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Problem with the port of Debian/kfreeBSD Installer

2009-10-29 Thread Luca Favatella
On 29/10/2009, antonandr...@fmi.uni-sofia.bg wrote: > Hi, Luca > > I have posted before in this mailing list the exact image that worked for > me: 12.09.2009 Sorry, I missed it. Thanks for the reminder. > Seems like VirtualBox is not causing the problem this time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problem with the port of Debian/kfreeBSD Installer

2009-10-29 Thread Luca Favatella
On 29/10/2009, Luca Favatella wrote: > On 29/10/2009, antonandr...@fmi.uni-sofia.bg > wrote: [...] >> I have experienced a problem with the debian installer for >> Debian/kfreeBSD > [...] >> It all worked well until it reached "apt-get config" -> "Select and >> Install >> software" and then freez

Re: Problem with the port of Debian/kfreeBSD Installer

2009-10-29 Thread Luca Favatella
On 29/10/2009, antonandr...@fmi.uni-sofia.bg wrote: > Hello, Hi. > I have experienced a problem with the debian installer for Debian/kfreeBSD [...] > It all worked well until it reached "apt-get config" -> "Select and Install > software" and then freezed at 1% for a long time and it does nothin

Problem with the port of Debian/kfreeBSD Installer

2009-10-29 Thread antonandreev
Hello, I have experienced a problem with the debian installer for Debian/kfreeBSD The install process is from a mounted ISO file and it is a network install. I think I have used this build: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-i386/20091028-11:20/monolithic/mini.iso System is 7.2-1-486 I

Bug#553195: os-prober-1.35

2009-10-29 Thread BandiPat
Package: os-prober Version: 1.35 There seems to be a problem with this version detecting Windows partitions that are mounted on a system. I have tried this version then reverted back to the 1.29 version which works correcting in finding the Windows partition. I noticed in the bug-reports th

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first > > ask which extra locales to install and then offer to select a default > > from the selected locales. > > That's actually quite

Bug#552563: auto-create preseed.cfg file

2009-10-29 Thread Philip Hands
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:08:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Holger Levsen [2009.10.28.1121 +0100]: > > On Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > > > Since debconf-get-selections is not the appropriate way to create > > > preseed.cfg files, > > > > why not? because

Re: howto interact with HW-detection of installer

2009-10-29 Thread Geronimo Ma. Hernandez
Hello, > debootstrap can be tuned. To see how, read the bootstrap-base.postinst > script and find the function install_base_system(). There you can see > exactly how D-I calls debootstrap. Hm, I did not find a script with such name or similar name. I checked out debian-cd from svn, extracted iso

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > > No, I can *add* the en_GB locale later. I cannot chose it as system > > > default, and I tried expert mode. > > > > Sorry, you are correct. Reopening. > > A possible solution could be to invert the t

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > That's actually quite simple to implement and even simplifies the code > quite a bit. > > Martin, Christian: please give this image a try. > http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/madduck/ Eh, sorry. This is broken. Please ignore for now. -- To UN

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > - write an en_CH locale and convince glibc maintainers to include it > in locales That is very much the least preferred solution, and, even if it were accepted in libc, I would be in favor of excluding it (at least from the shortlist for

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.29.1015 +0100]: > A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first ask > which extra locales to install and then offer to select a default from the > selected locales. This is precisely what locales' postinst will do. -- .''`. martin f.

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > No, I can *add* the en_GB locale later. I cannot chose it as system > > default, and I tried expert mode. > > Sorry, you are correct. Reopening. A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first ask which extra locales to inst

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 552560 thanks On Wednesday 28 October 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.27.2305 +0100]: > > You can choose en_GB if you install in expert mode (or with > > priority=medium). I don't think we want to set defaults for unofficial > > languages. The number of possib

Processed: Re: Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reopen 552560 Bug #552560 {Done: Frans Pop } [localechooser] Should off all possible locales when language_country does not fit an existing locale > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Re: howto interact with HW-detection of installer

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Geronimo Ma. Hernandez wrote: > > There are several ways to get info about hardware: > > - files in /sys or /proc > > - utilities like lspci, lsusb, dmidecode (not all available in D-I) > > I see. So I have to do the detection on myself and add the tools I need > for th

Processing of linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6_1.17_multi.changes

2009-10-29 Thread Archive Administrator
linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6_1.17_multi.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: loop-modules-2.6.30-2-4kc-malta-di_1.17_mips.udeb isofs-modules-2.6.30-2-4kc-malta-di_1.17_mips.udeb reiserfs-modules-2.6.30-2-4kc-malta-di_1.17_mips.udeb cdrom-core-modules-2.6.30-2-4kc-mal

Processing of localechooser_2.16_amd64.changes

2009-10-29 Thread Archive Administrator
localechooser_2.16_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: localechooser_2.16.dsc localechooser_2.16.tar.gz localechooser_2.16_amd64.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon (running on host ries.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-r

Bug#552584: file-in-usr-local /usr/local/etc

2009-10-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Manoj, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > On Wed, Oct 28 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> Justification: The package installs a file in /usr/local/... which is >>> not allowed. >> >> As this is a udeb I think t

Bug#552576: live-installer: should have a Standards-Version field

2009-10-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
Frans Pop wrote: > When this is fixed the current Lintian override should be removed as well. done. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -

Bug#552584: file-in-usr-local /usr/local/etc

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > No part of a udeb ever ends up on the disk. Udebs only "life" in the > installer intrds and in the ramdisk set up by the initrd. I don't think > the FHS should apply to the ramdisk environment of the installer. Well, I think it's good to foll

Bug#552278: reopen-console-linux: needs update for 2.6.32

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > While testing 2.6.32-rc5 on my Sun Ultra 10 (sparc), I noticed the > following change in the boot messages: > Console: colour dummy device 80x25 > -console handover: boot [earlyprom0] -> real [tty0] > +console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled Just

Bug#553039: installation-reports: "fails to send

2009-10-29 Thread CRC Badlab
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: DVD Image version: Binary-1 20090905-08:48 Date: Machine: IBM Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [

Bug#534412: marked as done (kbd-chooser: relies on usbfs, but that is being obsoleted)

2009-10-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:55:22 + with message-id and subject line Bug#534412: fixed in kbd-chooser 1.49 has caused the Debian Bug report #534412, regarding kbd-chooser: relies on usbfs, but that is being obsoleted to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem

Bug#316006: marked as done (localechooser: Should be enabled for s390)

2009-10-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:56:56 + with message-id and subject line Bug#316006: fixed in localechooser 2.15 has caused the Debian Bug report #316006, regarding localechooser: Should be enabled for s390 to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt

Bug#552584: file-in-usr-local /usr/local/etc

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
No longer really relevant, but just for completeness. On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I don't think so. A udeb can usually ignore bits about policy > that talk about packaging details. However, when it comes to stuff on > the disk that is going to outlast the ins

Bug#552584: file-in-usr-local /usr/local/etc

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > The reason for adding a symlink /usr/local/etc/ -> /etc/ can be found > > in this mail: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/10/msg00111.html. I.e, it > > avoids noise that may confuse users. > > I don't see anything in that

Processed: Bug#316006: localechooser: Should be enabled for s390

2009-10-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 316006 pending Bug #316006 [localechooser] localechooser: Should be enabled for s390 Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator,

Bug#316006: localechooser: Should be enabled for s390

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
tag 316006 pending thanks This was indirectly implemented for Lenny (or maybe even earlier): tzsetup depends on localechooser, so users get asked to select a country before that point. However, I think it's time to just include localechooser in the s390 initrds so that the selected country can

Bug#552563: auto-create preseed.cfg file

2009-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Holger Levsen [2009.10.28.1121 +0100]: > On Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > > Since debconf-get-selections is not the appropriate way to create > > preseed.cfg files, > > why not? because you think it's hackish, suboptimal or..? So says the documentation. -- .