Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-13 at 10:26pm, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Dom 13 May 2012 21:40:10 Marco d'Itri escribió: > [snip] > > Does anybody actually know that people routinely try to install desktop > > systems with only a CD and no networking, and why? > > What is the use case for this? Chea

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Joey Hess, le Sun 13 May 2012 20:39:20 -0400, a écrit : > Neil Williams wrote: > > "supporting only the smaller/lighter desktop environments" is exactly > > what comes out of accepting that the first two options just won't be > > acceptable. Changing compression is only putting off the inev

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Dom 13 May 2012 21:40:10 Marco d'Itri escribió: [snip] > Does anybody actually know that people routinely try to install desktop > systems with only a CD and no networking, and why? > What is the use case for this? Cheap DVD readers have been around for > over 10 years now. Actually, I was goin

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2012-05-13 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * OLD BUILD:armel May 08 08:10 buildd@ancina build_iop32x_netboot http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/build_iop32x_netboot.log * OLD BUILD:armel May 08 08:13 buildd@ancina

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, Neil Williams wrote: > I'd support XFCE4 as the default Graphical Desktop Environment and > possibly putting GNOME (and KDE) as alternative options. What is the point of providing a default which is not what people usually want? Just document that a normal desktop install will require

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: > "supporting only the smaller/lighter desktop environments" is exactly > what comes out of accepting that the first two options just won't be > acceptable. Changing compression is only putting off the inevitable. > There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to ge

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:36:09 -0400 Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > Remembering the fun that we had during the Squeeze release with trying > > to make single-CD installations work well, it's time to consider what > > we're goi

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey folks, > > Remembering the fun that we had during the Squeeze release with trying > to make single-CD installations work well, it's time to consider what > we're going to *claim* to support in Wheezy. We've had a history of > supporting

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
2012/5/13 Robert Millan : > 2012/5/13 Ben Hutchings : >>>  * Re-enable ZFS on kfreebsd-i386. >>>  * Allow stripped ZFS for root filesystem. >> >> Presumably 'striped' not 'stripped'. > > Yep.  Btw, root on mirrored ZFS is supported too (but not on RAID-Z). Sorry, I meant /boot. root file system i

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
2012/5/13 Ben Hutchings : >>  * Re-enable ZFS on kfreebsd-i386. >>  * Allow stripped ZFS for root filesystem. > > Presumably 'striped' not 'stripped'. Yep. Btw, root on mirrored ZFS is supported too (but not on RAID-Z). -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.de

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
2012/5/13 Cyril Brulebois : > kFreeBSD Specific > - >  * Kernel updated to version 8.3. >  * Option to use new 9.0 kernel during install. >  * Detect LVM devices. LVM detection is still not complete, we still need to figure out where to put the command to load LVM support in runtim

Re: debhelper + udeb + xz

2012-05-13 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:19:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:45:03AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > So now to the question: What's the policy for dpkg(-deb) feature use in > > > > debhelper? Would it be feasible to

Re: debhelper + udeb + xz

2012-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Philipp Kern wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:45:03AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Philipp Kern wrote: > > > So now to the question: What's the policy for dpkg(-deb) feature use in > > > debhelper? Would it be feasible to add '-z1', '-Zxz', '-Sextreme' to the > > > dpkg-deb arguments for udebs w

Bug#671884: marked as done (kfreebsd "panic: page fault" on installer image)

2012-05-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 13 May 2012 17:20:09 +0100 with message-id <4fafdf39.9050...@debianpt.org> and subject line Re: Bug#671884: kfreebsd "panic: page fault" on installer image has caused the Debian Bug report #671884, regarding kfreebsd "panic: page fault" on installer image to be marked as don

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 15:55 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha > release of the installer for Debian Wheezy. > > > Improvements in this release of the installer > = I assume these will al

Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian Wheezy. Improvements in this release of the installer = Network configuration - * Add WPA support to installer (#327309). * Im

Bug#584752: same for keymap selection

2012-05-13 Thread Adam Borowski
Same for the keymap selection screen: if you select a wrong one, the button doesn't work. (Also, it's strange that typing "po" selects "Persian" instead of "Polish" -- one would expect that if a prefix search doesn't work, it'd go to "O" instead). -- “This is gonna be as easy as cheating on a

Bug#671884: kfreebsd "panic: page fault" on installer image

2012-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Steven, Steven Chamberlain (13/05/2012): > Hi Miguel, > > Which kernel did you choose? Do both kfreebsd-8 and kfreebsd-9 have > this problem? > > And which version of VirtualBox was this? I believe a bug in vbox 3.2 > leads to regular panics of kfreebsd-9. vbox 4.x or kfreebsd-8 are okay.

Re: [DRAFT] Debian Installer Wheezy Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 21:50:44 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > * Linux kernel installation fails on old x86 processors (earlier >than 686, or 686 without PAE) (#672611). Should just be 686 without PAE I think, older CPUs would get the 486 flavour, not 686. Cheers, Julien signature.asc D

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:06:25AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Also if udeb:s are going to be using xz then it makes even more sense to use > it for everything. µdebs won't use the xz default, though. (The compression for them will be handled in debhelper.) With the compression scheme I posted