Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/07/2013 08:12 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: This list is getting longer with each email. Seeing that syslinux 5 has been in sid for less then 10 days, I'm worried what other issues might show up. apart from the two obvious things (debian-installer and debian-cd) that do need to be updated to

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.02.2013 08:06, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 02/07/2013 07:55 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> I think it is obvious by now that reverting to syslinux 4 from wheezy is >> the only sensible way forward at this point in the release. > > 'obvious'? Imho, yes. But then, it's not up to me to decide. >

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
sorry, forgot to put in the links to the patches.. On 02/07/2013 08:06 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: * patch applied against debian-installer to include the additionally required .c32 modules when using vesamenu.c32 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699742#30 * patch ap

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/07/2013 07:55 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: I think it is obvious by now that reverting to syslinux 4 from wheezy is the only sensible way forward at this point in the release. 'obvious'? it requires two straight forward things, that, again, as said, are required to be applied for jessie any

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.02.2013 07:58, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 02/07/2013 07:45 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Well, VBOX is pretty popular, so shipping an installer which doesn't >> work for such an environment is certainly a no-go. > > again, the syslinux in sid would not be in wheezy. making it a > *temporary*

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/07/2013 07:45 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Well, VBOX is pretty popular, so shipping an installer which doesn't work for such an environment is certainly a no-go. again, the syslinux in sid would not be in wheezy. making it a *temporary* problem until vbox has been fixed in debian (which i'm

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/07/2013 07:35 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: This makes me wonder what other components are also buggy somehow and needs to be updated? first, this is a specific bug in vbox that was fixed some time ago but didn't make it into debian yet (because it lags a significant amount of upstream rel

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.02.2013 07:30, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 02/06/2013 11:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Unfortunately the second patch doesn't work either. See [1]. > > that is incorrect; the patch works, it's just the old vbox version in > current debian testing/sid which has a bug (try the image on real

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Tokarev
07.02.2013 10:30, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/06/2013 11:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Unfortunately the second patch doesn't work either. See [1]. that is incorrect; the patch works, it's just the old vbox version in current debian testing/sid which has a bug (try the image on real hardware or

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/06/2013 11:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Unfortunately the second patch doesn't work either. See [1]. that is incorrect; the patch works, it's just the old vbox version in current debian testing/sid which has a bug (try the image on real hardware or any other virtualization and it works).

Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting nick black (nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com): > Hello! > > Last summer, I was hoping to add ZFS support to the Debian installer. After > playing around with partman a week or two, I ended up developing an entirely > new application, growlight [0]. It is currently used in the SprezzOS > installe

rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-06 Thread nick black
Hello! Last summer, I was hoping to add ZFS support to the Debian installer. After playing around with partman a week or two, I ended up developing an entirely new application, growlight [0]. It is currently used in the SprezzOS installer [1], and has been used by a small, ZoL-intensive user base

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Bdale Garbee (06/02/2013): >> I personally consider this a regrettable situation, and hope that for >> jessie and beyond we can work out how to do this better. It is >> unacceptable to me to "freeze" anything in sid for more than a week or >> two at a time. Holding d-

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bdale Garbee (06/02/2013): > I personally consider this a regrettable situation, and hope that for > jessie and beyond we can work out how to do this better. It is > unacceptable to me to "freeze" anything in sid for more than a week or > two at a time. Holding d-i's build dependencies static in

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 06.02.2013 23:22, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 06 Feb 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Don Armstrong writes: >> >>> Assuming that the patch for #699742[0] fixes this issue with DI RC >>> releases being installed, is there still an outstanding issue for the >>> CTTE? >> >> Earlier in this thread,

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Bdale Garbee writes: > I personally consider this a regrettable situation, and hope that for > jessie and beyond we can work out how to do this better. It is > unacceptable to me to "freeze" anything in sid for more than a week or > two at a time. Holding d-i's build dependencies static in unst

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
Russ Allbery writes: > In practice, at least for the last couple of release cycles, we freeze > unstable for non-leaf packages during the release freeze because otherwise > it's too difficult with our current infrastructure to finish the > release. I personally consider this a regrettable situat

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > > > Assuming that the patch for #699742[0] fixes this issue with DI RC > > releases being installed, is there still an outstanding issue for the > > CTTE? > > Earlier in this thread, there had been a couple of reports that fix di

Bug#699742: syslinux 5.x support

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 06.02.2013 17:48, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi, > > On 06.02.2013 16:36, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> On 02/05/2013 09:33 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >>> I tried this patch against cc123e0 from debian-installer git. >>> Unfortunately the problem is still the same. >> >> indeed; only the first part of the

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong writes: > Assuming that the patch for #699742[0] fixes this issue with DI RC > releases being installed, is there still an outstanding issue for the > CTTE? Earlier in this thread, there had been a couple of reports that fix didn't work. I haven't looked further, though. > [I can

Re: [d-i manual] Deactivate translations?

2013-02-06 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 06:38:08PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > ca > > > catalan hasn't receive any updates since the release of Squeeze / > > > AND catalan is an xml based translation, what means that the translation > > > stays > > > the same even if there

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013, Julien Cristau wrote: > - the latest of these uploads breaks the installer, making it > impossible to build and upload the planned wheezy release > candidate, since build-dependencies are fetched from unstable > - when asked to revert this change, the syslinux maintainer r

POSTA CERTIFICATA: Fwd: Photos

2013-02-06 Thread Per conto di: marco.salom...@pec.it
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Re: [d-i manual] Deactivate translations?

2013-02-06 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 06:38:08PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > ca > > catalan hasn't receive any updates since the release of Squeeze / > > AND catalan is an xml based translation, what means that the translation > > stays > > the same even if there are changings in en! > > 52 files

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 02/06/2013 10:38 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 02/06/2013 12:55 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> Is it the intention of the Release Managers not to accept a newer >> version of syslinux into wheezy? [That is, if the CTTE were to decide >> to require some "fix" to d-i, we'd also have to override the

Bug#699742: syslinux 5.x support

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, On 06.02.2013 16:36, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 02/05/2013 09:33 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> I tried this patch against cc123e0 from debian-installer git. >> Unfortunately the problem is still the same. > > indeed; only the first part of the patch was attached; here's the > complete one. I

Bug#694928: asks for confirmation on config-file change on /etc/default/rcS, while file didn't change

2013-02-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 04:59:04PM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 23:47:37 + > Roger Leigh wrote: > > Please don't apply it just yet--we'll presumably need to get > > approval from the release team to change this in initscripts > > at the same time. I'll have a patch fo

Bug#694928: asks for confirmation on config-file change on /etc/default/rcS, while file didn't change

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Stapelberg
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 23:47:37 + Roger Leigh wrote: > Please don't apply it just yet--we'll presumably need to get > approval from the release team to change this in initscripts > at the same time. I'll have a patch for initscripts shortly; > might be a bit later in the week to allow for compreh

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/06/2013 12:55 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: Is it the intention of the Release Managers not to accept a newer version of syslinux into wheezy? [That is, if the CTTE were to decide to require some "fix" to d-i, we'd also have to override the RMs?] jftr, i never did nor intended to ask for havin

Bug#699742: syslinux 5.x support

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/05/2013 09:33 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: I tried this patch against cc123e0 from debian-installer git. Unfortunately the problem is still the same. indeed; only the first part of the patch was attached; here's the complete one. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012

live-installer important bugfix for Italian support

2013-02-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
(Keep me on CC, I'm not on debian-boot) Hello, I just debugged an issue where live-installer would not work when you opted for an Italian installation. The commit below has my explanation of the problem and a tested fix. That said I'm not very familiar with the internals of main-menu and this int

installing on mdraid imsm arrays

2013-02-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 08/13/2012 01:17 PM, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: At work, we're using mainly supermicro servers, and they have support in the BIOS for Intel Matrix raid (imsm), which is a form of sataraid/fakeraid. > [...] I now have a version of the wheezy installer that succesfully installs and boots d

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 05.02.2013 23:55, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2013, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Daniel Baumann (05/02/2013): > or: > > * apply the following tested and working patch from #699742 in > debian-installer, […] Except that this “tested and working patch” doesn't fix anything. Same is