Bug#752009: debian-installer: Use -perm /0111 in Makefile as + is deprecated

2014-06-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Philip Mu?kovac (yo...@gmx.net): > Package: debian-installer > Version: 20140316 > Severity: serious > Tags: d-i patch > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) > > The makefile currently uses -perm +0111 to find files which have to be be > processed

Bug#752009: debian-installer: Use -perm /0111 in Makefile as + is deprecated

2014-06-18 Thread Philip Mu?kovac
Package: debian-installer Version: 20140316 Severity: serious Tags: d-i patch Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) The makefile currently uses -perm +0111 to find files which have to be be processed by mklibs which is deprecated. findutils 4.5 from experi

Bug#752002: cdebconf: Please run maintainer scripts in correct selinux context

2014-06-18 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Package: cdebconf Version: 0.191 Severity: wishlist Hi, Since 1.17.0, dpkg is trying to run the maintainer scripts in a different context based on the file context and fallback on "dpkg_script_t". OTHO, a maintainer script run by dpkg-reconfigure is never transitioned out of the "dpkg_t" context

Re: Bug#751704: sunxi MMC boot SPL vs. GPT partition (Re: Bug#751704: partman-base 173: partman overwrites parts of u-boot)

2014-06-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:18:57AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Do you therefore disagree with my analysis that there is no such thing > as a >2TB MMC card and therefore no reason to use GPT on such a thing? There probably isn't yet, but I suspect at some point there will be. I am mainly complain

Bug#698392: FWIW -- experiencing the same while booting off the installation USB stick (through loopback to .iso) with wheezy 7.5

2014-06-18 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
same stick but loaded not from iso menuentry "Debian Testing (Squeeze, 8~x, 20140618) netinstall amd64" { linux /boot/iso/debian-testing-amd64/linux vga=normal -- initrd /boot/iso/debian-testing-amd64/initrd.gz } worked fine. If you are keen on trying to recreate similar 'bo

Re: Mount NTFS filesystem

2014-06-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 08:17:21 -0700, Jack Bates wrote: > In the Debian Installer Rescue mode, how do I mount an NTFS filesystem? Boot with "priority=low" on the command line. When loading the installer components select ntfs-modules. Skip ahead to "Detect disks". mount -tntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Bug#751973: installation-reports: AMD K6 III+ rig: Debian-7.5.0-i386 fails to install

2014-06-18 Thread Louis Povse
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? See my thread here:http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=115191 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was eff

Re: Bug#751704: sunxi MMC boot SPL vs. GPT partition (Re: Bug#751704: partman-base 173: partman overwrites parts of u-boot)

2014-06-18 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 11:49 +0200, gianluca wrote: > On 06/18/2014 09:43 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > One *really* ugly thing we could do is create a fake partition in > > whichever entry happens to overlap the SPL entry point whose GUID etc > > happen to look like a valid SPL + branch instruction t

Re: Bug#751704: sunxi MMC boot SPL vs. GPT partition (Re: Bug#751704: partman-base 173: partman overwrites parts of u-boot)

2014-06-18 Thread gianluca
On 06/18/2014 09:43 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: One *really* ugly thing we could do is create a fake partition in whichever entry happens to overlap the SPL entry point whose GUID etc happen to look like a valid SPL + branch instruction to the full SPL at a safer location. Really ugly, yukk... Ugl

Bug#751704: sunxi MMC boot SPL vs. GPT partition (Re: Bug#751704: partman-base 173: partman overwrites parts of u-boot)

2014-06-18 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 08:43 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I suppose it is possible that something somewhere is wanting to zero the > GPT even in msdos mode (as you say below, perhaps to wipe any remains of > a GPT). I think it is parted doing this in ped_disk_clobber which is called from various bi

Bug#751704: sunxi MMC boot SPL vs. GPT partition (Re: Bug#751704: partman-base 173: partman overwrites parts of u-boot)

2014-06-18 Thread Ian Campbell
(seems like I didn't actually CC linux-sunxi when I said I would, oh well, I may post a summary to that list later) On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 19:44 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > Unfortunately the problematic part in this case is the SPL which > is the only part of u-boot that cannot be relocated bec

Re: Bug#751704: sunxi MMC boot SPL vs. GPT partition (Re: Bug#751704: partman-base 173: partman overwrites parts of u-boot)

2014-06-18 Thread gianluca
On 06/17/2014 04:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:20:38AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: CCing the linux-sunxi group. It sure would be nice if CPU makers would stop putting their boot code where the GPT goes. Do none of them EVER think their device will want to use a disk