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

2013-02-08 Thread Bdale Garbee
Joey Hess writes: > Bdale Garbee wrote: >> patch d-i to build successfully against the syslinux in sid > > syslinux is GPL'd, so this would result in shipping d-i images in wheezy > which contain a GPL'd binary for which there is no source in wheezy. My unstate

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

Bug#514016: options for fixing

2009-02-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 18:20 +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > just as an exercise what might be done to fix this: > It would seem that the options are > - not fix it (for now), > - find something in current tar that works (I didn't), > - switch off tar, > - try to do something with tar > (new upst

Re: Removal from Uploaders fields for Debian Installer

2008-03-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:25 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > This mail is to check if you have any objection to being removed as uploader I have no objection. Go for it! Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#352610: Please create a udeb for ntpdate

2006-07-15 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 23:53 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I should also point out that the ntpdate program is deprecated upstream, > is no longer maintained, and no bugs are being fixed for it. I've been telling people that for years, but upstream still hasn't made it go away... and even if

Re: status of d-i 2.4.27/2.6.8 kernel transition

2004-09-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thibaut VARENE) writes: >> What this means is probably that nobody has been doing hppa d-i work in >> ages. I just got poked about this by joeyh on IRC, and I'm updating d-i to use 2.4.27 instead of 2.4.25 on hppa right now. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Fixed in NMU of palo-installer 0.0.4

2004-06-08 Thread Bdale Garbee
: source hppa Version: 0.0.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: palo-installer - Install PALO on a hard disk (udeb) Closes: 249536 Changes: palo-installer (0.0.4) unstable;

Bug#247322: testing 02May04 businesscard.iso hppa install on C360 workstation.

2004-05-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Tom Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-04 07:21]: >> Install base system: >> Unable to install the selected kernel. >> An error was returned while trying to install the kernel into the target >> system.

ia64 and hppa progress report

2004-04-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
I've spent essentially all of today playing with d-i for hppa and ia64. More than a bit of that was getting local source checkouts and learning how to build images, and setting up target systems. Thanks to #debian-boot for helping me get up to speed so quickly! On hppa, a local build of a netb

Bug#244736: recipe support for hppa and ia64

2004-04-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: partman-auto Several architectures supported by Debian require special partitions to support bootloading. The current partman-auto code doesn't have any obvious hooks for supporting this. I'm working on hppa today, and what it wants to have is something like: whatsizety

Bug#232415: mkinitrd fails on cciss drive hardware

2004-03-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bdale, aj -- please see bug #232415. Apparently a deboostrapped system > does not have the device nodes needed for cciss drive controllers > (/dev/ssicc/discn/partn). Is this a makedev bug, or a debootstrap bug? > It doesn't seem likely that it's a d-i bug.

Re: debian-installer - using devfs in the installed system

2003-02-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian Blank) writes: > we discuss some time about using devfs in the installed system to avoid > mapping the devices which may break things. s390 currently uses devfs > and don't have any problems with it. > devfs is available after the feature freeze of linux 2.6 so it seems

Re: Default disk partition table type?

2002-12-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petter Reinholdtsen) writes: > [Bdale Garbee] >> No. Any new ia64 installation should use GPT, not FAT-style MSDOS labels. > > Do you know what parted calls these disk labels? I do not. It calls them "GPT" in both the mklabel command and in the displ

Re: Default disk partition table type?

2002-12-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petter Reinholdtsen) writes: > OK. Is this a good approximation? > > #elif defined(ia64) > # define DISK_LABEL "msdos" No. Any new ia64 installation should use GPT, not FAT-style MSDOS labels. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Bug#172580: busybox-cvs_0.60.99.cvs20021210-1(unstable/ia64): FTBFS: redefinition of `struct sysinfo'

2002-12-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: busybox-cvs Version: 0.60.99.cvs20021210-1 Severity: important This package fails on the ia64 autobuilder as shown below. Bdale | Automatic build of busybox-cvs_0.60.99.cvs20021210-1 on caballero by sbuild/ia64 |1.169 | Build started at 20021210-2306 [...] | gcc -I./include -Wall -Ws

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2002-03-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
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Re: using ancient kernels

2002-02-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eduard Bloch) writes: > hppa: > kver:= 2.4.9 We also have 2.4.16 and 2.4.17 packages available for hppa, and the kernel guys are mostly done with a merge to 2.4.18 modulo making it actually work. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject