Re: [RFC] Draft of announcement and errata, last chance of change

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 20 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > The Debian Installer Team[1] is pleased to announce the Debian Installer > 6.0 Alpha1. This is our first release since Lenny and brings a lot of > new features and improvements. Better: This first release since Lenny brings a lot of new featur

[RFC] Draft of announcement and errata, last chance of change

2010-02-19 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello folks, Please look at errata draft at http://people.debian.org/~otavio/d-i/errata.en.html and bellow goes the announcement mail. Please give suggestions/fixes. --- [ Most of this announcement has been taken from Frans Pop p

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i: test images available

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
Quoting Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (t...@debian.org): > One small problem, though, is that if a line is ended with > combining character, that combining character will not > shown. But this is not so serious, and may be > bterm's (or newt's) problem, not d-i's by itself. That's certainly a bug that

Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
Package: xulrunner Version: 1.9.1.8-2 Severity: important Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-CC: task...@packages.debian.org I was very surprised when I upgraded a KDE system to find that xulrunner tried to pull in all sorts of GNOME packages. It was quite a bit of work to unselect everything that got pulled i

Bug#498731: debootstrap: Move setup_devices to second_stage (or hurd-i386 fails)

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
I will of course also change the call to setup_devices in first_stage_install() for all other scripts. Note that the change is backwards compatible, so custom scripts that use the old call will not break. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Bug#498731: debootstrap: Move setup_devices to second_stage (or hurd-i386 fails)

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 February 2010, Michael Banck wrote: > I will NMU debootstrap in the next days with the proposed patch if I > don't hear anything back. I think I'd prefer the attached patch as it makes the exception much clearer. Also, this patch will work for all hurd-* arches and not just hurd-i38

RE: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-19 Thread Norberto Feliberty
-Original Message- From: Otavio Salvador Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:07 AM To: thegame4121...@msn.com Cc: geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com; julianhernan...@gmail.com; fabian...@gmail.com; geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Sub

Re: Status of g-i / showing x11 based g-i prototype at CeBIT

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 February 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Short version: > May / should we show kibi's prototype of an x11 based installer at the > upcoming CeBIT? I don't see why not. BUT... Please don't make a big deal out of it! From a user perspective there is nothing new as the X-base

Re: Limiting non-build-time relationships to a set of architectures?

2010-02-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! [ CCing #400322 for the additional data. ] On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 20:25:11 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Frans Pop (09/02/2010): > > On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Frans Pop (09/02/2010): > > > > This format is not (yet) allowed by policy: rootskel-gtk > > > > (>

Status of g-i / showing x11 based g-i prototype at CeBIT

2010-02-19 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Short version: May / should we show kibi's prototype of an x11 based installer at the upcoming CeBIT? Long version: A couple of days ago we got to know that Debian may be present again at this years CeBIT (taking place in 10 days). We got to know it quite short handed, and needed to su

Bug#498731: debootstrap: Move setup_devices to second_stage (or hurd-i386 fails)

2010-02-19 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:52:31PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > > right now, cross-debootstrapping a hurd-i386 system (from i386, e.g.) > > > fails (silently) in f

Bug#570430: marked as done (debian installer network config fails on PS3)

2010-02-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:22:26 -0200 with message-id and subject line Re: Bug#570430: debian installer network config fails on PS3 has caused the Debian Bug report #570430, regarding debian installer network config fails on PS3 to be marked as done. This means that you claim that th

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-19 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote: > > Thank you very much. If you are the peeson who is making this all possible > can you notify us when the changes have been committed into the netboot and > the cd and dvd images so that we can test to see that the cd drive and >

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:52:42 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Julien Cristau, le Fri 19 Feb 2010 11:38:22 +0100, a écrit : > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:27:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Julien Cristau, le Fri 19 Feb 2010 11:16:43 +0100, a écrit : > > > > All X needs is an SHA1 impleme

Bug#498731: debootstrap: Move setup_devices to second_stage (or hurd-i386 fails)

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:52:31PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > right now, cross-debootstrapping a hurd-i386 system (from i386, e.g.) > > fails (silently) in first stage after extracting packages. > > > > This is because debootstr

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Julien Cristau, le Fri 19 Feb 2010 11:38:22 +0100, a écrit : > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:27:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Julien Cristau, le Fri 19 Feb 2010 11:16:43 +0100, a écrit : > > > All X needs is an SHA1 implementation, which is likely a very small part > > > of libgcrypt. > > > >

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:27:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Julien Cristau, le Fri 19 Feb 2010 11:16:43 +0100, a écrit : > > All X needs is an SHA1 implementation, which is likely a very small part > > of libgcrypt. > > Mmm, why does it need it? (I guess the whole authentication mechanisms

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:16:43AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > All X needs is an SHA1 implementation, which is likely a very small part > of libgcrypt. Hmm, it is used by the Render extension, how important is this extension? gtk seems to use it, but I can run all the basic gnome programs while

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- specific issues/comments

2010-02-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 07:47:29 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > In this mail some more specific issues I noticed while testing/reviewing. > > I'm saving the switch to console-setup for a last separate reply. > > On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > libx11 > > Is /usr/share/X11/lo

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Julien Cristau, le Fri 19 Feb 2010 11:16:43 +0100, a écrit : > All X needs is an SHA1 implementation, which is likely a very small part > of libgcrypt. Mmm, why does it need it? (I guess the whole authentication mechanisms could just be disabled). Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boo

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-19 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi Frans, thanks for your feedback on this. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 07:46:37 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > How image size could be reduced > --- > In general: many small savings can add up to a significant reduction. > > * try to avoid some dependencies altogether > Two

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- general reflections

2010-02-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 07:44:34 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >  - Even if someone steps in to fix some bugs (I heard somebody has > >    started to publish some patches recently), it might lead to a > > Is that true? Are there patches and do they

Processed: Re: Bug#570486: Configuration /var with noexec option breaks base system installation

2010-02-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 570486 partman-base Bug #570486 [installation-reports] Configuration /var with noexec option breaks base system installation Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'partman-base'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please

Bug#570486: Configuration /var with noexec option breaks base system installation

2010-02-19 Thread Benoit GUERIN
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Lenny netinstall v5.0.3 : http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/i386/iso-cd/debian-503-i386-netinst.iso Date: Tue, Sep 29 2009 09:30:00 +0200 Machine: x86 mono-cpu virtual machine on an