Migration hint needed for wireless-tools

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
Please force migration of wireless-tools to testing. We need to do another upload of debian-installer to fix an issue with syslinux menus on x86, but it FTBFS on amd64 because: The following packages have unmet dependencies: netcfg: Depends: libiw30-udeb (>= 30~pre1) but it is not installab

Re: About ignoring problems instead of fixing them

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I've already committed a proper fix in D-I for this a bit earlier [2] > and therefore reverted this nonsense. After testing if my fix is correct > I'll also upload D-I again as otherwise 'alpha1' images would also be > broken. The last CD build fail

Bug#447755: Minidisk support

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, Stephen Powell wrote: > Do you want me to use the production (Lenny) installer? Or do you want > me to use the "daily build" from Squeeze to do the installs? The Squeeze installer would be best as that has up-to-date kernel and libparted. Unfortunately the "official

Bug#447755: CMS minidisk label format

2009-12-24 Thread Stephen Powell
Just for grins, I thought I'd give you the full mapping of the CMS volume label. This is in s390 assembler language format: ADTIDENT DSCL4LABEL IDENTIFIER ("CMS1") ADTIDDSCL6VOLUME IDENTIFIER (VOLSER) ADTVER DSCL2VERSION LEVEL ADTDBSIZ DSF

Re: About ignoring problems instead of fixing them

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > I would > > really *really* like to see d-i properly integrated into the archive > > and uploaded periodically so it can migrate to testing, as we've > > discussed in the past many times. The current situation is a train > > wreck. And you simply

Re: About ignoring problems instead of fixing them

2009-12-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:33:03PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >From farbror (CD build server): > >--- tools/boot/squeeze/boot-x86 (revision 1964) >+++ tools/boot/squeeze/boot-x86 (working copy) >@@ -230,7 +230,8 @@ >boot$N/isolinux/win32-loader.ini boot$N/ >fi > >-

Bug#447755: Minidisk support (was: Installation Question)

2009-12-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-24 at 14:34:26 -0500, Frans Pop wrote: > I would really like to know *exactly* what devices exist in Debian > Installer when you get to the partman stage. The /var/log/partman log file > as it is at the point after partman has initialized itself would also be > useful. > > I guess yo

Re: About ignoring problems instead of fixing them

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, you wrote: > I saw that the graphical images weren't available any more so I > disabled them. Problem is that you did not disable them. You only silently ignored a failure, with the result that you were creating broken images. If I had not accidentally caught that n

About ignoring problems instead of fixing them

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
From farbror (CD build server): --- tools/boot/squeeze/boot-x86 (revision 1964) +++ tools/boot/squeeze/boot-x86 (working copy) @@ -230,7 +230,8 @@ boot$N/isolinux/win32-loader.ini boot$N/ fi - if [ -e boot$N/isolinux/f3.txt.withgtk ]; then + + if [ 0 =

Bug#447755: Minidisk support (was: Installation Question)

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2009-12-24 at 10:56:59 -0500, Frans Pop wrote: > > To start with: > > - What device name does such a partition have? > > - How could it be distinguished from a partitionable dasd? > > The definitive documentation for this is in > "Device Driv

Bug#447755: Minidisk support (was: Installation Question)

2009-12-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-24 at 10:56:59 -0500, Frans Pop wrote: > Please send the replies for these questions to the BR instead of the list! Replying to the bug report, per your request. On 2009-12-24 at 10:56:59 -0500, Frans Pop wrote: > If you can provide me with *exact* info I need and if you can reply > q

Bug#447755: Minidisk support (was: Installation Question)

2009-12-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-24 at 12:32:18 -0500, Frans Pop wrote: > The output of the following command would be useful as well: > # parted /dev/ print bash: parted: command not found Of course, I wasn't running D-I at the time, I was running the installed system. Do I have to run D-I? Or is there a package th

Bug#257285: 83 - 38 is DDD

2009-12-24 Thread Thissen
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Bug#309333: RR is 92 - 47

2009-12-24 Thread Manglona
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[(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
As all packages needed to build D-I were now available, I have uploaded for both stable and oldstable. An accept is not needed; apparently D-I gets an automatic accept due to by-hand processing of the image tarballs. For oldstable (20070308etch6) all arches have been built successfully. For sta

Bug#562398: anna: fails if multiple versions of a udeb in Packages file

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > So the error is probably the result of anna trying to install the same > package twice. The exit code of anna was 8, which matches an error during unpack or configure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Bug#562398: anna: fails if multiple versions of a udeb in Packages file

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: anna Severity: serious Yesterday I uploaded some packages, including base-installer and hw-detect. Today during a test install from a local build this resulted in: Failed to load installer component loading base-installer failed for unknown reasons. Aborting.

Bug#374334: "failed to determine the codename for this release"

2009-12-24 Thread Sergei Sadovski
I tried to reproduce it again, no chance; got experience and do not do without thinking now. Regards your questions > Did you actually get the error "failed to determine the codename for this release" Yes, I got this error. > Did you perhaps use expert mode and select "choose-mirror" as an opti

Bug#562294: cdebconf-entropy: FTBFS: strutl.h:13:37: error: debian-installer/macros.h: No such file or directory

2009-12-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Source: cdebconf-entropy Version: 0.12 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20091213 qa-ftbfs Justification: FTBFS on amd64 Hi, During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on amd64. Relevant part: > gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I. -fPIC -o text-plu