Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-10-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 03/10/2023 19.30, Bastian Blank wrote: thread. Or freak out because meta packages remain uninstallable in backports for days. ... plus gcc or we change how backports works. If uninstallable packages in backports are a problem, perhaps backports needs something like britney to migrate pac

Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-09-24 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 25/09/2023 00.50, Bastian Blank wrote: Already built modules remain until someone deletes it. So you can also switch back to the still installed older kernel version and it will have the still working module available. This is what I expect not to work. Assume I have Linux 6.6 and a third-

Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-09-24 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 24/09/2023 15.01, Bastian Blank wrote: ## Kernel modules will be signed with an ephemeral key The modules will not longer be signed using the Secure Boot CA like the EFI kernel image itself. Instead a key will be created during the build and thrown away after. Do I correctly assume that ch

Re: Moving firmware packages from non-free to non-free-firmware

2023-01-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 17/01/2023 21.49, Cyril Brulebois wrote: - firmware-nvidia-gsp, firmware-nvidia-tesla-gsp, and nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-support, from nvidia-graphics-drivers* source packages; it's been a while since my X days, but I don't think firmware packages would be useful on their own, one

Bug#926699: Transition to usrmerge has started

2022-09-19 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 19/09/2022 12.07, Marco d'Itri wrote: The main issue can only be fixed in the libc packages (which would be wonderful, because then we could stop creating the biarch links and directories on all systems). on amd64: # apt-file search -x '^/lib32' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u lib32ncurses6 lib32nc

Bug#926699: Transition to usrmerge has started

2022-09-19 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Shouldn't that fail in such a broken environment? # apt-get install --reinstall usr-is-merged Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/4732 B of ar

Bug#926699: Transition to usrmerge has started

2022-09-19 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Control: severity -1 grave # for producing a partially merged-/usr system Hi Luca, #926699 is still reproducible in a merged-/usr environment: (in an amd64 pbuilder chroot) # ls -lad /lib{,32,64,x32} lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 19 00:35 /lib -> usr/lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 19 00:35

Re: Bug#822678: jessie-pu: package partman-ext3/86~deb8u1

2017-07-31 Thread Andreas Beckmann
jessie now has partman-ext3 84+deb8u1 with the proposed fix. Andreas

Bug#810582: [partman-base] hangs when reformatting existing fs

2016-04-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 02:21:48 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > I guess it should run mkfs.ext4 in non-interactive "yes, really do it and > > don't ask me any questions" mode or something like that. > > That's unfortunately a known issue but noone has taken the time to fix > it yet… :( > > Pos

Bug#703146: apt: BADSIG AED4B06F473041FA Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze)?

2013-03-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Control: found -1 1.0.44 Control: severity serious I hit this bug yesterday ... and think that this should be RC if debootstrap/wheezy cannot produce a working chroot environment. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-09-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-08-26 20:10, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Actually, thinking again about it, for space reasons we only include the > debconf-selectable layouts in the udebs anyway, so that will actually be > a wontfix. That's OK, but it needs to be documented in the installation manual. Andreas -- To UNS

Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-08-09 13:44, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andreas Beckmann, le Thu 09 Aug 2012 13:32:25 +0200, a écrit : >> and the >> db_input call (which is not presented to the user because I preseeded a >> value there) followed by db_go seems to reset it to the default value "us&

Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, I've been debugging a bit further. The following is a sketched flow how the keyboard settings move within debconf: preseeded: d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select de d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string de d-i keyboard-configuration/variantcode string nodeadkeys db_ge

Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-07-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: console-setup-udeb Version: 1.81 Severity: important Hi, I couldn't find a way to preseed keyboard configuration to use layout=de and variant=nodeadkeys. I tried a wide variation of settings, tried to understand keyboard-configuration.config ... to no success. As I couldn't find a curren

Bug#682656: debian-installer-netboot-images: file conflicts between debian-installer-{6, 7}.0-netboot-

2012-07-24 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Source: debian-installer-netboot-images Version: 20120712 Severity: serious Justification: file overwrite conflicts Hi, debian-installer-6.0-netboot- and debian-installer-7.0-netboot- are not co-installable because they ship the same files, but don#t have corresponding conflicts. Since they alre

Bug#672160: console-setup: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2012-05-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-05-09 17:58, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > I don't know how I can fix this. There is no way to tell whether a file > in /etc/console-setup has been created by console-setup or it is some > unrelated font or keyboard file put there by the admin. (The file names [...] OK, that sounds difficul

Bug#672160: console-setup: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2012-05-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: console-setup Version: 1.76 Severity: important User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package left unowned files on the system after purge, which is a violation of policy 6.8 (or 10.8): http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

Bug#612631: debian-installer: error in example-preseed.txt

2011-02-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debian-installer Version: 20110106 Severity: normal Tags: d-i squeeze sid There is an error in http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt #d-i localechooser/supported-locales en_US.UTF-8, nl_NL.UTF-8 is missing a question type and probably should be #d-i localechooser/s

Bug#507544: debian-installer: errors in example-preseed.txt

2008-12-02 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi, the example-preseed.txt as found today (2008-12-02) in http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/example-preseed.txt (linked from http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/apb.html.en ) contains at least 2 errors: -d-i clock-setup/ntp-server ntp.ex

Bug#465236: base-installer: make kernel-img.conf/do_symlinks configurable and preseedable

2008-02-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debian-installer Version: svn-r51292 Severity: wishlist Hi, please add support for a configurable and preseedable do_symlinks setting in kernel-img.conf. I'd like to turn this off because I don't need these links. They are not used if they are in / and if I enable link_in_boot I get two

Bug#465235: grub-installer: kernel-img.conf hooks should call /usr/sbin/update-grub

2008-02-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debian-installer Version: svn-r51292 Severity: normal Hi, according to the grub documentation [1][2] you should call update-grub with the full path (/usr/sbin/update-grub). But the installer creates a kernel-img.conf that calls it without path: postinst_hook = update-grub postrm_

Bug#459612: debian-installer: bad interaction with not-empty /etc/apt/sources.list.d

2008-01-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debian-installer Version: svn r50786 Severity: normal Hi, debian-installer has bad interations with /etc/apt/sources.list.d when building e.g. the netboot installer (didn't try the other ones because I don't need them). I have no /etc/apt/sources.list, but several /etc/apt/sources.list.