Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#474651: debootstrap: W: Failure trying to run: chroot /sid

2008-04-18 Thread Anthony Towns
reopen 474651 thanks On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:06:48PM +0200, Peter Walser wrote: > It is reproducable and it's just whith: > $ fakeroot -s fakechroot.save \ > fakechroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot \ > sid /sid http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ Turns out it's reproducible with ]

Re: Automatic processing of d-i byhand uploads

2007-10-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:49:32AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > To get it working for d-i uploads, I need a very reliable script that > > will be invoked as: > Well, I stopped when I discovered the tar on ries is still apparently > vulnerable to #4393

Re: Automatic processing of d-i byhand uploads

2007-10-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:51:38AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > What's required, from d-i uploads side, to it be used? anything > special or just a normal upload? Nothing beyond what's already done -- have the section be "raw-installer" have the filename include the source version and architect

Automatic processing of d-i byhand uploads

2007-10-26 Thread Anthony Towns
Hey *, I spoke to Colin at debconf about getting automatic processing of d-i byhand uploads happening -- rather than needing an ftpmaster to unpack the installer-* stuff directly. The dak-side implementation is pretty much done now, and works for tags uploads (filling out the "Tag:" fields in Pack

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 02:48:59AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > [...] [The DPL] clearly mentioned that the only way to solve this > was going through the TC (of which as i was told 3 members are already against > me even without considering the issues) or a GR. The only other *possible* ways you ca

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: debian-installer, powerpc issues]

2006-06-16 Thread Anthony Towns
For reference, here's the mail I sent to Sven regarding his complaints on the way d-i has been handled. I think it's been referred to indirectly enough that nothing's served by not having it available for public review. - Forwarded message from Anthony Towns - From

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:50:50PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Friday 16 June 2006 15:33, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:24:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > There is *NO* technical reason which warrant his action, and the only > >

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:24:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > There is *NO* technical reason which warrant his action, and the only reason > he does it is to humiliate and punish me. You're the only one here who thinks that's a punishment, let alone "humiliating". If you would like to setup your

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:38:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > I think that the situation with my commit access to the d-i svn repo is > getting burdersome and over ridiculous. Sven, you've already ignored my recommendation on how to deal with this, and the question remains before the technical co

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-15 Thread Anthony Towns
Frans and Colin dropped from Cc's, -boot and -powerpc Bcc'ed only; please avoid crossposting. On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:14:39AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:38:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > As I suspect you're all already aware, on 27th

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:25:32PM +0200, Xavier Oswald wrote: > In any case working with less tension should be done. > But do you think, it's interesting for Sven to work in this way. What's "interesting for Sven" isn't really a consideration, what's reasonable and efficient is. Once this has be

Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Anthony Towns
this a bit more. I expect we'll shortly need to look seriously into getting a few more people actively working on maintaining the powerpc port as well; at the moment we seem to be relying on Sven to do everything, and that's not really ideal. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns, Debian Project Leader signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#248399: dhcp-found dns servers not placed in resolv.conf after default install

2004-05-11 Thread Anthony Towns
t is to replace dhcp-client, why isn't it just being called dhcp-client, with dhcp2-client kept around if it's really needed?) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail pref

Re: Removing boot loaders from debootstrap?

2004-04-06 Thread Anthony Towns
gt; d-i's task to install them. What was the conclusion of this discussion? Whatever d-i needs is basically fine. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred.

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-02 Thread Anthony Towns
er/binary-alpha > binary-arm -> ../../../sid/main/debian-installer/binary-arm That's quite plausible, but I can't imagine it being done with symlinks. It's easy to update (u)debs in testing to unstable on a per-arch basis. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-01 Thread Anthony Towns
robably best and easiest for the moment. Hope that's clear to everyone. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we can.

Re: fixing the base-installer progress bars

2003-12-31 Thread Anthony Towns
t; args combine to form a format string. The info arguments are then > substituted in turn into the %s tokens in the string to form the warning > message. Note that the formats are just there for convenience; d-i is expected not to end up using any of them, afaik. Cheers, aj -- Anthony T

Re: Bug#221907: no need to always install pcmcia-cs for d-i

2003-12-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:30:24PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Mon, den 22.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 07:59: > > Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Yes, that is the answer I want. How about pcmcia-cs? > > Same story, hw-detect apt-installs it if it sees that the machine h

Re: Bug#221907: no need to always install pcmcia-cs for d-i

2003-12-21 Thread Anthony Towns
7;s postinst installs grub package > (run 'apt-install grub' internally). > (Is this answer you want? I'm afraid I misunderstood your request) Yes, that is the answer I want. How about pcmcia-cs? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.or

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-04 Thread Anthony Towns
ating more and more of > what debootstrap does, if this were done in d-i and not in debootstrap. Another option would be to provide a separate "debootstrap_dload" script that can get a Release file, or Packages file, or .deb, or URL for you in the same way debootstrap does. But agai

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:19:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:08:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > It seems to me that since debootstrap already knows how to download > > > dists/$SUITE/Release, and in fact does so,

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-02 Thread Anthony Towns
le before installing) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we can. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
dump http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/Release | ] grep -i Codename: ] Codename: sarge ] $ lynx -dump http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release | ] grep -i Suite: ] Suite: testing If the CDs don't already have those fields, it should be trivial to add them, afaics. Cheers, aj --

Re: Integrating the debian-installer into the archive

2003-10-06 Thread Anthony Towns
and cd images onto cdimage.d.o. (A concern with the installer stuff is that its source isn't self contained so the .dsc and .debs can get updated, without the disk images being updated too, which can be bad in various ways. Moving that problem outside of the archive proper can give you

Re: Integrating the debian-installer into the archive

2003-10-05 Thread Anthony Towns
m not entirely clear on what you're saying, btw - the language barrier and all. Please include examples of what you're talking about, and consider attaching or linking to the scripts you're talking about. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.or

Re: Integrating the debian-installer into the archive

2003-10-04 Thread Anthony Towns
ftp site, and (b) what scripts you have that can conceivably be run a little bit more automatically. (If you're already at that point, just start talking specifics) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for a

Re: Integrating the debian-installer into the archive

2003-10-03 Thread Anthony Towns
work out how to automate the builds yourselves, and tell everyone else. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review!

Bug#155374: pending meaning change

2003-07-24 Thread Anthony Towns
g has been changed to: ] pending ] A solution to this bug has been found and an upload will be ] made soon. The (release critical) bugs above have been tagged pending for over a month, so by the new definition the tag appears to not apply to the above bugs. -

Re: Making netinst CDs Not Suck

2003-04-04 Thread Anthony Towns
rom the network", might be worthwhile. > > not meant to change depending on the architecture (like you suggest for > > the keymaps). Also, we already need to be able to have arch-specific overrides for things like gcc-2.96 on ia64 for woody -- it ought to be standard on ia64 since g

Re: Chaos and Damnation!

2003-04-04 Thread Anthony Towns
t;1.44MB images, if necessary, the latter's likely to be fairly unusual, so doesn't have to be completely internationalised if necessary. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save my

Chaos and Damnation!

2003-04-04 Thread Anthony Towns
ELinux to boot -- and thus the size doesn't matter much. Having internationalised CD images and netinst images that are limited to 2.88MB, and an uninternationalised floppy image that's limited to 1.44MB could be workable. -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Release Manager pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#175187: This bug should be fixed on boot-floppies side

2003-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
"base" isn't really great, but it's what we've got. Seems to make the most sense to add "eject" to base on all arches. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG

Re: Bug#174410: questionable interpretation of "install" pseudo-package

2002-12-26 Thread Anthony Towns
> install/installation as appropriate)? Honestly, I don't think the boot-floppies guys will or should agree to that. The priority for d-i is still to make things work roughly as well as b-f's, not to make sure random annoyances from b-f's don't show up again. Cheers, aj

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-04 Thread Anthony Towns
way. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.'' msg24112/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debootstrap question

2002-11-13 Thread Anthony Towns
sy way to do it through debootstrap. > pass the --components flag to debootstrap. This shouldn't work -- non-US has a separate Release file, and usually needs a separate URL. If it does work, let me know, and we'll see about fixing that... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns

Re: Debian-Installer Alpha Release

2002-10-10 Thread Anthony Towns
(cf Debian) and "section" (cf admin/utils/etc). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.'' msg22670/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian-Installer Alpha Release

2002-10-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:16:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > So, I think y'all are far enough along that you can probably come up with > something like this by the end of the week without any major problems. > Remember: it's alpha, it doesn't have to be good, and

Debian-Installer Alpha Release

2002-10-07 Thread Anthony Towns
lems. Remember: it's alpha, it doesn't have to be good, and it doesn't have to be automated or repeatable. Yet, anyway :) Once you have, dump them in ~/public_html/ on auric, and we can start thinking about where we're going next. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROT

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > - dak needs to stop unaccepting new udebs. This should be fixed now, anyway. > - a bunch of full-sized udebs needs to be created (more on this below) That's such a contradiction in terms, btw :) Cheers, aj -- An

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:28:12PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000 > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like: > > libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb > > udpkg,

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-26 Thread Anthony Towns
bc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb udpkg, cdebconf, anna *-retriever and any dependencies they have /lib/modules//** ? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.'' msg21596/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-07-29

2002-07-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:48:30AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Anthony Towns has written some things [...] More of a segue than a reply, but hey. Kibozing on irc shows up some remarks like: aj wants to be able to autobuild on other arches, so we'll be able to build pp

Re: d-i udebs up-to-dateness of archive

2002-07-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 02:34:51PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > udeb version in cvs version in sid needs upload Tangentially, wouldn't it be helpful to have parted and/or cfdisk udebs so that, at worst, you can switch to VC2 and run them from the shell? Cheers, aj --

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:46:37PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > b-f's as a fallback doesn't work, it's too thorougly unmaintainable. Or > > installation system needs _major_ work, easy solutions like

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-24 Thread Anthony Towns
were saying for woody. b-f's as a fallback doesn't work, it's too thorougly unmaintainable. Or installation system needs _major_ work, easy solutions like "just fall back to boot-floppies" *don't* work. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <ht

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:22:34PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote on Tue Jul 23, 2002 um 08:33:55PM: > > We won't be freezing until we have a satisfactory and functioning > > installer. > Nice. I have seen how motivation disappears when you are waiting lon

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-23 Thread Anthony Towns
has seen the way b-f's work a few times now, so don't expect anyone to believe your claims until you /have/ proved them. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``I

Re: woody install: NFS hangs

2002-07-18 Thread Anthony Towns
ga > Beeing precise: you have problems with _your_ broken VGA emulation. Eduard, we have the privelege of trying to support every computer no matter how broken or prorietry it is. It's not his fault that our software doesn't work on some laptop, it's ours. Cheers, aj -

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:24:11PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Why not? It works. Knock yourself out. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 06:03:38PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Anthony Towns wrote on Tue Jul 16, 2002 um 01:39:21AM: > > > We can stick with boot-floppies for Woody+1 and release Debian-4.0 with > > > DI ;) > > No, no we can't. > You like &qu

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:58:03PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > We can stick with boot-floppies for Woody+1 and release Debian-4.0 with > DI ;) No, no we can't. Cheers, aj (Joke you say? Like in an egg? Funny? Yes, they are runny if you don't boil them.) -- Anthony Towns &

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-15 Thread Anthony Towns
gram for a > debian-installer based release? I'm expecting some working installation systems (PGI, d-i, whatever) within a couple of months... (i386 only, and other limitations, sure, but working nevertheless) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.

Re: Bug#149974: debootstrap should download aptitude

2002-06-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 02:12:10PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 12:56:38PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > I've pondered with the code a bit, and I think this is an overkill to &

Re: i18n second stage...

2002-06-15 Thread Anthony Towns
e on the debian ftp server. > Not without good reason, and not if there is a consensus against or > significant controversy around it. apt-i18n fails on at least 2 counts. And not when it involves an essential package. mutt-ja is a different matter to apt-i18n. Cheers, aj -- Anthony

Re: Bug#149974: debootstrap should download aptitude

2002-06-14 Thread Anthony Towns
ckages need to a new debootstrap. Please file a bug against debootstrap either before or at least concurrent with the upload. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred

Re: Bug#149974: debootstrap should download aptitude

2002-06-14 Thread Anthony Towns
ngs into debootstrap, and I think at that point we'll start regretting having base-config play too heavily with installing packages like this. For reference, I don't expect to be doing any debootstrap uploads 'til after woody's released. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL

Re: Bug#149974: debootstrap should download aptitude

2002-06-14 Thread Anthony Towns
y forthcoming dselect package. -boot guys, cc'ed in the probably vain hope that anyone else likely to do this in future will notice too. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail pre

Re: i18n second stage...

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony Towns
es is obviously one step away from being a racist anyway" isn't helpful. Yeesh. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'&#x

Re: i18n second stage...

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony Towns
e early in the release cycle and demonstrate some patience and some skill. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!''

Re: "Invalid Release file, no main components"

2002-05-15 Thread Anthony Towns
(The format of katie.conf changed, and a few of the girls didn't get updated to match. Should be fixed "now", ie, in the next mirror pulse.) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save

b-f 3.0.23

2002-05-13 Thread Anthony Towns
if all architectures could sync on 3.0.23 reasonably quickly, but any that don't will just stick with 3.0.22. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail pref

Post-woody

2002-04-11 Thread Anthony Towns
ander off for four to six months like usually happens :) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http:/

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread Anthony Towns
hey're still theoretical in that case. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http://www.angr

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread Anthony Towns
lity > release release according to aj's tentative schedule, rather than a > minimally-tested release (possibly much) later. Worst case, if people do find a bunch of systems where this doesn't work, we revert the change. There's no reason that should delay anything. Cheers,

Re: Bug#141763: boot-floppies: Nano breaks lines when editing sources.list by hand.

2002-04-08 Thread Anthony Towns
finished still works, doesn't it? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http://www.angryflower

Bug#141490: "Testing" base floppies 4.4.2002 don't work

2002-04-06 Thread Anthony Towns
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.22 Severity: serious (severity justification: so aph can spot it easily :) Lorenzo, I'm forwarding this to the debian bug tracking system so it gets tracked properly rather than lost in the mailing list archives. - Forwarded message from "Lorenzo J. Lucch

Re: "Testing" base floppies 4.4.2002 don't work

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony Towns
s are correct, but I can't see any reason for floppy_merge to not be coping correctly. md5sums should be: 103560e946ea5318825f6f753bad87b8 base14-1.bin 0fd2d0119c6123af89aa2b5208510dee base14-10.bin 3c999cab208357d41a3856c74d53b419 base14-20.bin Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:45:21AM -0800, Jim Westveer wrote: > On Friday 05 April 2002 01:00, Anthony Towns wrote: > > GUYS, _STOP IT_. > > NOW IS _NOT_ THE TIME TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE WAY THE INSTALL WORKS. > I am not suggesting changing anything in how the install > wor

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:00:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > 2.4 is not the default kernel for woody installs, 2.2 is. Oh, and is already clear to everyone involved, this is for i386. Other ports obviously have 2.4 kernels as default. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony Towns
right now: make sparc and alpha boot-floppies work, and make sure that all the successful installs we've seen so far weren't a collective fantasy. debian-cd has exactly one goal right now: make sure we're ready to produce official CDs that include the entire archive and let you get

Bug#141106: woody base-1.bin sayes "wrong disk"

2002-04-04 Thread Anthony Towns
actually try these disks, so if you could send a report if they actually turn out to work, that'd be helpful. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred.

Bug#141106: woody base-1.bin sayes "wrong disk"

2002-04-04 Thread Anthony Towns
bah. Obviously I didn't read the bit that says "base14", not "base". They'll be fixed with the next mirror pulse. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mai

boot-floppies 3.0.22

2002-04-02 Thread Anthony Towns
ce you can would be a damn fine start. [EMAIL PROTECTED], and #debian-boot on Open Projects are where y'all should've been hanging out for the past four months fixing this. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak fo

Re: 3.0.22 plan, translations (b-f bugs dropping like flies.)

2002-04-02 Thread Anthony Towns
put them up somewhere useful, and encourage Japanese people to use them, if you like. Or make sure the next boot-floppies don't limit available languages due to disk space. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for a

Re: Malformed Release File

2002-03-20 Thread Anthony Towns
roken. If some fail, but others work, you've got a partial mirror (by someone using Joey's scripts...). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Debian: giving you the

Re: Bug#137089: [sparc/sun4cdm] Failure while unpacking required packages

2002-03-14 Thread Anthony Towns
reassign 137089 boot-floppies tag 137089 - help thanks installer.log is handled by boot-floppies, not debootstrap. Apparently /var/log/messages is copied to /target/var/log/installer.log in {reboot,halt}_system.c. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.o

Re: localising base-config - end game

2002-03-06 Thread Anthony Towns
> + argv[8] = NULL; > + } > + else { > +#endif > + argv[1] = "--boot-floppies"; > + argv[2] = "--arch"; > + argv[3] = ARCHNAME; > + argv[4] = "woody"; > + argv[5] = "/target"; > + argv[6] = source; > +

Re: debootstrap NMU 0.1.16.3

2002-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
te if it's worthwhile. But you didn't, so I couldn't. NMUs are great, but for them to work, you need to go out of your way to make sure the maintainer's in the loop. -boot put back in the cc's, because I suspect other boot-floppies hackers will want to NMU debootstrap in the

New basedebs available next pulse

2002-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Hi guys, New basedeb sets will be available after the next pulse, and should include pppoeconf, etc. Additionally the 1.44 and 1.2 floppy images for i386 might have some chance of working this time. It'd be nice if someone were to test it. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Checking successful downloads broken

2002-03-03 Thread Anthony Towns
[4]), argv[5])) + { exit(0); + } else { + exit(1); + } } else { fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s pkg mirror packages_file\n", argv[0]); fprintf(stderr, " or: %s WGET%% low high end reason\n", argv[0]); Seems like it should work. Chee

debootstrap NMU 0.1.16.3

2002-03-03 Thread Anthony Towns
andom additions. * added pppoeconf to the packages list, better choice for DSL users Yeesh. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> We came. We Saw. We Conferenced. http://linux.conf.au/ ``Debian: giving you the power to shoot yourself in ea

Re: Bug#134478: debootstrap: ipchains installed on arches using 2.4 kernel

2002-03-03 Thread Anthony Towns
ot convinced this is the right solution. debootstrap should come > with sane defaults. I agree. If we're going to specify what should go in base somewhere, it should be in *one* place, not separate places. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.a

Re: alpha and sparc boot-floppies

2002-02-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:22:12PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Anthony Towns wrote on Thu Feb 28, 2002 um 06:00:31PM: > > ] woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.19-2002-02-07 > > Be aware that if alpha and sparc boot-floppies aren't uploaded in a timely > > fa

alpha and sparc boot-floppies

2002-02-27 Thread Anthony Towns
shion (and 3.0.19 hasn't been), then any bugfixes y'all may need before release just plain won't be happening. Please upload and test new boot-floppies _right now_. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> We came. We Saw. We C

Bug#132350: basedebs.tgz not gzipped

2002-02-06 Thread Anthony Towns
t; If you verify it's OK, could you just send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. The daffodils are coming. Are

Re: m68k basedebs.tgz broken

2002-02-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:02:28AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020202 11:58]: > > > The installer (from 3.0.18-2001-12-21) doesn't seem to cope > > > (there's an error flashing on the main screen but no details >

Re: m68k basedebs.tgz broken

2002-02-01 Thread Anthony Towns
n screen but no details logged on console #3). I've no idea what dbootstrap expects here. debootstrap expects either /path/to/foo.tar or /path/to/foo.tgz. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself

Re: Woody installation problems

2002-01-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 08:52:04AM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:18:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >> TMPCOMPONENTS="$(sed -n 's/Components: *//p' $reldest)" > >> However (*2) the Release file for woody contains: &

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:59:52PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> kernel-image-2.4.17-bf2.4 > >> pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-bf2.4 > > So are these an official part of boot-floppies? Should they be being > > (co?)maintain

Re: Woody installation problems

2002-01-27 Thread Anthony Towns
e: i386 You're looking at dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release; you should be looking at dists/woody/Release (which is what debootstrap's looking at). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save

basedebs

2002-01-27 Thread Anthony Towns
In theory, basedebs should appear in woody/main/disks-*/base-images-current/ after today's mirror pulse. However, exactly when that'll happen is up for some debate, so give it a couple of days. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.o

Re: Bug#130482: 3.0.19 show-stoppers

2002-01-24 Thread Anthony Towns
this hack. If this is your attitude to the package, then you shouldn't be NMUing the package. Either get it right, or don't do it at all. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG sign

Bug#118997: Related issue to 118997

2002-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
ine probably shouldn't appear for PCMCIA cards. (auto means "configure this interface at bootup", whereas PCMCIA cards are only configured when the card's inserted) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't sp

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
2.20* packages > pcmcia-cs (library reduction fails with 3.1.22-0.1potato) These need to be built properly on various arches. Hrm. I guess the out of date i386 ones (-2.4.14-i386, -2.4.13-386 and -2.2.0-ext3) aren't needed. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <htt

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:46:10PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Yes. After commiting, these will be build: vanilla, safe, idepci, > compact, bf2.4. Sounds pretty good to me, then. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don'

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-16 Thread Anthony Towns
lavours and nothing else would be fairly simple and elegant, if it can be done without too much hassle. In any case, assuming we're keeping all the 2.2 flavours we currently have except for ext3 and reiser, I think that sounds pretty good, and I can't see how it'd cause probl

Re: [d-i]: debootstrap udeb?

2002-01-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:26:38AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Have you or anybody else looked into making an udeb of debootstrap for > installing the base system using debian-installer? Not afaik. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.a

Re: packages required in installation (Re: apt-utils in debootstrap)

2002-01-01 Thread Anthony Towns
and run "debootstrap --print-debs woody" to get a list of packages debootstrap expects on the first CD. If those packages aren't on the first CD, it's a bug in the CD. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.hu

Re: [again] basedebs.tgz: Supported or not?

2001-11-21 Thread Anthony Towns
h a network connection and a floppy at one end, but no network at the other. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. "Security here. Yes, maam. Yes. Groucho gla

Re: aptitude rather than dselect for Woody, Please?

2001-11-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:25:20PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > Is there any way the list for each release could get automatically > exported into a flat file somewhere in the debootstrap package, say $ /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch alpha --print-debs woody woody-i386 Cheers, aj -- A

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