Bug#572869: installation-reports: PowerMac G5 installation report: ofpath doesn't work in the absence of /proc/scsi/scsi

2010-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-powerpc64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- G. Branden Robinson| Free Software D

Re: [RFC] Remove massbuild bashisms

2007-08-28 Thread Branden Robinson
s such inside a variable for use in a later parameter expansion would probably require a clever eval trick. Sorry for leading you astray with my first response. -- G. Branden Robinson| Never attribute to conspiracy that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be

Re: [RFC] Remove massbuild bashisms

2007-08-28 Thread Branden Robinson
x27;s no opposition, I'll > commit it in a few days. [...] > + BDEP_SOURCE_PREFIX=$(echo "$BDEP_SOURCE" | head -c 1) That's a really expensive way of doing that. I recommend POSIX parameter expansion, which will avoid forks and pipes. BDEP_SOURCE_PREFIX=${BDEP_SOURCE#?

Re: Bug#230832: xserver-xfree86: XkbVariant was fi, kb not working in X

2004-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
TIONS="$RET" 243 244 exec 4>"$DEXCONFTMPDIR/InputDeviceKeyboard" 245 cat >&4 <&4 256 fi 257 if [ -n "$XKB_OPTIONS" ]; then 258 printf "\tOption\t\t\"XkbOptions\"\t\"$XKB_OPTIONS\"\n" >&4

Re: Bug#275492: xserver-xfree86: [debconf] suboptimal driver suggested for Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device rev 2

2004-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
Integrated Graphics Device rev 2 (8086:3582 suggests vesa, should be i810) reassign -1 discover1-data thanks On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:41:19AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > tag 275492 -moreinfo > thanks > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:09:27AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > &

Re: Processed: reassign 265082 to xserver-xfree86

2004-10-25 Thread Branden Robinson
that in the future, even if it seems like it makes the mail too large. 50 kB (kilobytes) of configuration and log data is typical. Only if the included information greatly exceeds this amount (more than 100 kB) should you consider omitting it; instead, put it up on the World Wide Web somewhere and pr

Bug#257478: about your Debian installation report

2004-10-14 Thread Branden Robinson
out of me -- if it has been either fixed or turned off, I don't think anyone else will suffer the confusion I did. -- G. Branden Robinson| To stay young requires unceasing Debian GNU/Linux | cultivation of the ability to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fresh installation: Keymap broken under X

2004-09-28 Thread Branden Robinson
is whatever the value for a typical US PC keyboard is, leave the question priority at medium. * Otherwise, kick the priority up to high. It makes the install more interactive, which people don't like, but only for people'd who likely be even more annoyed by a wrong keymap the first t

Bug#255439: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
propose an empty monitor lines. I have a DVI > connected LCD flat panel, and comenting out the monitor frequencies works > best. Cloning a bug for this. d-i guys, I'm done with this bug (#255439) if you want to close it. -- G. Branden Robinson| "There i

Re: Bug#263573: xserver-xfree86: on alpha depends on read-edid which isn't there

2004-09-01 Thread Branden Robinson
de" video driver to work with 3Dfx Interactive's Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 cards. Users of other video cards need not install libglide2. (Please ignore the Version: header above.) -- G. Branden Robinson|Beware of and eschew pompous Debian GNU/Linux

Bug#255439: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-08-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:41:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 07:31:23PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > There's the problem. "radeon" is not a legal valu

Bug#257595: Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4

2004-07-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:09:56PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > * ugh, this is distressing. d-i created a swap partition but did not > > construct /etc/fstab such that it would

Bug#259525: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-07-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:12:33AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > [ cloned bug to discover1-data ] > > Am Mit, den 14.07.2004 um 11:45 Uhr -0500 schrieb Branden Robinson: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > There's the prob

Bug#255439: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-07-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:05:51PM -0300, Cristian Escalante wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > > > The XFree86 X server used the driver it was told to

Re: Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:22:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > The debconf reorg is scheduled, but I *don't* have plans to introduce a > > spurious dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid. > > Have you considered doing

Bug#255439: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-07-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:05:51PM -0300, Cristian Escalante wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > The XFree86 X server used the driver it was told to use. > > > > There are only two ways you can tell the XFree86 X server whi

Re: Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-12 Thread Branden Robinson
s dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid. I thought it was agreed a long time ago that it really was the installer's job to get hardware autodetection tools onto the system. Has that thinking changed? If so, why? Should Debian's kernel-image packages s

Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4

2004-07-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:58:11AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:50:16AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 03:39:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm aiming to create a new webpage like: > > http://people.debian.org/

Re: Processed: reassign 257302 to xserver-xfree86

2004-07-10 Thread Branden Robinson
rmation greatly exceeds this amount (more than 100 kB) should you consider omitting it; instead, put it up on the World Wide Web somewhere and provide URLs to it in your report, or in subsequent followup by mailing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Thank you! -- G. Branden Robinson|W

Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4

2004-07-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 03:39:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [...] > > /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 311578126 @ 2018 > > (148.6G) Linux native [...] > > The install boot lo

Re: Pre-seeding XFree settings for keyboard in Debian Installer

2004-07-08 Thread Branden Robinson
ot in whatever you'd like to do. -- G. Branden Robinson| If the jury can count higher than Debian GNU/Linux | two, the case will fail. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Tom Lane, on Forgent's claim of http://people.debian.org/~branden/

Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-07-08 Thread Branden Robinson
ing. Discover-data maintainers, If discover-data doesn't actually report "apm" as the XFree86 4.x X server driver for the ATI Radeon Mobility U1 (that's "Class 0300: 1002:4336"), then this must have been user error. Martin, Please keep the above mechanism in mind f

Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4

2004-07-03 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20040621 sarge daily build, from cdimage.d.o uname -a: Linux sisyphus 2.4.25-powerpc-smp #1 SMP mer avr 14 16:31:15 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: 2004-06-21 Method: How did you install? burned CD-R

Bug#250915: installation-report

2004-05-29 Thread Branden Robinson
; > There are some cards which are no longer supported in 4.x, but I don't > know if the S3 Trio is one of them. I'm CCing the debian-x list for > more comments. Can you please send the XFree86 logs from 3.3.6? Please see: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status29.htm

Re: Processed: reassign 251020 to xserver-xfree86

2004-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
ree86 packages cats /proc/bus/usb/devices, but the xserver-xfree86.config script does invoke discover, so that accounts for the behavior seen. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Bug#243233: installation report (d-i 20040408)

2004-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
It could be done, but I haven't thought carefully about a design for it yet. I'm a little uncomfortable with launching a potentially machine-locking program like the XFree86 X server in the midst of an install. It's a lot nicer to wait until after the machine is installed to do suc

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#245504: Close bug? (was: Dell GX270 installation report)

2004-05-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:01:38AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 05:07:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > >This is almost as bad as just dumping a bug in someone else's lap > >with no explanation all. PLEASE STOP DOING THIS. I've asked

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#245504: Close bug? (was: Dell GX270 installation report)

2004-05-10 Thread Branden Robinson
a coherent case for why there is an XFree86 bug here, please take the time to actually document it instead of cloning bugs and reassigning all over the place. Otherwise, please close the bug. Thanks. -- G. Branden Robinson| The software said it required Debian GN

Re: Full Debian install impressions and facts

2004-04-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:16:40AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > >On 18.IV.2004 at 13:27 (-0500) Branden Robinson wrote: > >> > >> The main challenge here, as I understand it, is that d-i basically uses > >> console-data's paradigm for keybo

Re: Full Debian install impressions and facts

2004-04-18 Thread Branden Robinson
at we need is a gigantic mapping table in xserver-xfree86.config to translate console-data keyboard descriptions into XKB Rules/Model/Layout(/Variant?) tuples. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Ab abusu ad usum no

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:49:27PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm just a naïve gaijin[1], but I'm not sure you're right about that. > > Written zh_CN and zh_TW look very similar to Western eyes. I've see

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-05 Thread Branden Robinson
time into euphemisms for either unificiation or independence, and then become political footballs. [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China -- G. Branden Robinson|I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, Debian GNU/Linux |and say that if God really existed,

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:16:00AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:19:57AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > 2-clause BSD, as used by the NetBSD Foundation, would be good, too. > > Er. Be careful with this statement. The Foundation's policy has varie

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:57:21AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:27:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > IMO we should do a clean-room implementation anyway. 1) Past > > experiences with Apple have not been very fruitful, just ask the Linux >

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
se is non-exclusive. > > Well, i ask, because apple may be more inclined to use a licence they > have experience with. 2-clause BSD, as used by the NetBSD Foundation, would be good, too. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
What's "safer" from a legal perspective is a clean-room reimplementation. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | If encryption is outlawed, only [EMAIL PROTECTED] | outlaws will @goH7Ok=http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
t relevant to d-i. I will observe that if the people who claim you're infringing their copyrights publicly admit that they can't susbtantiate their claim, there's probably not much to worry about. But I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. --

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
recognize droit d'auteur, which -- rightly or wrongly -- imposes further restrictions on what end-users can do with the works of others. [1] It's worth noting that every session of Congress since _Feist_ was decided has seen bills introduced that attempt to extend copyright to mere collectio

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:38:27PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:53:49PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:56:25AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:26:20AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > You don't need permission to reverse-engineer anything. > > > > If we're going to talk to Apple, we should ask them to release the bo

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:03:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:10:36PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:05:48PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > > Hacker #2 affirms that he has never looked at the existing boot >

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:53:49PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Worse case scenario, this could be clean-room reimplemented. > > Before doing that, somebody ought to approach Apple and ask explicit > permission t

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
w to hand-code 1kB worth of assembly (or possibly compilable C code) to create a functionally-identical boot sector from the plain English description. -- G. Branden Robinson| Religion is excellent stuff for Debian GNU/Linux | keeping common people quiet

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
Ignorance is not precedent. When we learn that non-free stuff is in main, our Social Contract obliges us to act on it, not immediately grandfather what we have found into our definition of "Free Software". -- G. Branden Robinson|Computer security is like an on

Re: Bug#236777: xserver-xfree86: Pre&post install script mistake (warning, not error, it work)

2004-03-27 Thread Branden Robinson
e the XFree86 X server and "nv" driver for this card. Reassigning. -- G. Branden Robinson|The errors of great men are Debian GNU/Linux |venerable because they are more [EMAIL PROTECTED] |fruitful than the truths of little http://people

Re: kernel 2.2 packages cleanup

2004-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
ernel 2.2. > > > > > > The security team has already stated that they will not support three > > > major versions of the kernel in Debian 3.1. > > > > I'm sorry, I missed that statement, where did it occur? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-deve

Re: Processed: clone to X

2004-03-22 Thread Branden Robinson
free86 > Bug#238777: defaults to vesa, not savage for S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/MX-MV > Bug reassigned from package `xserver-xfree86' to `xserver-xfree86'. I think you meant to reassign -2 there, not -1 (again). If someone from d-i could give this bug (#238778) a quick briefing

Re: Bug#234812: 234812 xserver-xfree86: configure script hangs

2004-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
ks as a discover bug (I will report it), but why does discover > scans for serial ports? I have 'disable serial' in my /etc/discover.conf. No need to report another bug; with this message, I am reassigning this one to discover. Thanks for following up! -- G. Branden Robinson

Bug#229333: Small typo in lib/core.c give segfault

2004-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ge); > } > -(*status)->message = _discover_xmalloc(strlen(message)); > +(*status)->message = _discover_xmalloc(strlen(message)+1); > strcpy((*status)->message, message); > } > > This is reported as Debian bug #229333. Please apply upstream as > well. :)

Re: discover Debian package maintainer

2004-01-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:11:58PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Branden Robinson um 16:17: > I did not know whom to personally contact. So I decided to send this > mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the hope that > the relevant peopl

Re: discover Debian package maintainer

2004-01-21 Thread Branden Robinson
guys terribly to do this as a pre-approved NMU? We can merge the changes back into our SVN repo. Once LinuxWorld is off our plate, let's see if we can't keep pace with your needs vis a vis Discover 2, and re-evaluate the maintainership issue in 4 weeks or so. Does that sound reas

Re: plans for discover transition (was: plans for d-i string freeze) [progeny.com #2385]

2003-12-08 Thread Branden Robinson
s .xls file works fine with the version of Gnumeric in Debian testing. Consequently, I do not feel that the file qualifies as being in a "proprietary data format" per Debian Policy. If you disagree, please make a case for your position. :) -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encryp

directed RFA: discover (1.x)

2003-12-08 Thread Branden Robinson
inent questions to the discover-workers list. Please CC discover-workers when discussing Discover 2.x-related issues that *are* relevant to debian-boot. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9

Re: Bug#209240: NMU proposal for discover (i18n issues)

2003-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
[Please CC me on replies.] On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:38:20PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Branden Robinson] > > Please feel free to go ahead. > > > > Progeny is concentrating on Discover 2.x: > > This sounds very good. When will this result in replies rega

Re: Bug#209240: NMU proposal for discover (i18n issues)

2003-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
ttp://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200311/msg00766.html -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9 E25B 3D37 068C | 72E8 0F42 191A 9C0B CBFB -- To

new website for Discover hardware detection suite

2003-11-11 Thread Branden Robinson
t;interesting stuff" happens behind a curtain, so we're excited to pull back that curtain, reveal the workbench, and let the community see how we really work on Discover (mistakes and all!). Discover was developed primarily by Branden Robinson, Eric Gillespie, Josh Bressers, and John Dai

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
ring whether I should > be glad of receiving none.. :-) I haven't taken the opportunity to properly review it yet. You hit a lot of pet peeves I share with Joey Hess, though, so you're off to a good start. -- G. Branden Robinson| Eternal vig

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-29 Thread Branden Robinson
of my side WRT xserver-xfree86.config. Someone do this please? :) -- G. Branden Robinson| The noble soul has reverence for Debian GNU/Linux | itself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: keyboard & mouse problem

2003-06-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:21:24PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > If you need more help with X, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-x is not a user support list. Please direct users to debian-user only. -- G. Branden Robinson|Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Li

Re: Discover 1.5-2 pre-release available

2003-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:46:48AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > tis 2003-03-25 klockan 20.46 skrev Branden Robinson: > > > I notice that your discover-data package on > > > hackers.progeny.com/~branden/discover2 also contain the *.lst files, is > > > that for b

Re: Discover 1.5-2 pre-release available

2003-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
need in the Discover department, and we'll try to accomodate you. Also, be sure to tell us when you don't need Discover 1.x anymore -- it will then be safe to push Discover 2.x to Debian unstable. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Discover 1.5-2 pre-release available

2003-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:46:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I notice that your discover-data package on > > hackers.progeny.com/~branden/discover2 also contain the *.lst files, is > > that for backwards compatability and are actually not used? > > Yes, the

Re: Discover 1.5-2 pre-release available

2003-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
x27;t need Discover 1.x anymore. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9 E25B 3D37 068C | 72E8 0F42 191A 9C0B CBFB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Discover 1.5-2 pre-release available

2003-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
reak out of the loop after detecting the first CPU. (Closes: #160658) - Thanks to Thomas Poindessous for this patch. * debian/discover.templates: - Mention that the link manipulation is only done "if possible". * debian/rules: remove special handling of the linuxrc script,

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:45:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > Another approach we're thinking about is regular dpkg support for > > directory exclusion during package unpack, for things like documentation > > and localization files. Of course

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
ave different names and don't > follow policy more than they like... Yes. I was just wondering what udpkg's capabilities are. Thanks for the feedback! -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux S

udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
things like documentation and localization files. Of course, that's more an issue for debian-dpkg... :) Anyway, I thought you guys might have the best insights into udebs since you use them the most. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux for blinds

2002-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
ution more accessible to the blind and visually impaired". Your meaning is clear from context, but in English "blinds" are appurtenances attached to physical windows. -- G. Branden Robinson|I'm sorry if the following sounds Debian GNU/Linux

Re: cdebconf and debian-installer compile

2002-07-25 Thread Branden Robinson
.x kernel module names. So ... > > 2.4. We should get around that somehow -- Branden, got any idea how > to? The only solutions for discover 1.x are kludges. The proper solution is to port PGI to discover 2.x, once it's packaged. :) http://hackers.progeny.com/discover/status/ -- Br

Re: PGI installer [Was: Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody]

2002-04-16 Thread Branden Robinson
in installer ;-) > But now I really need some good advice in the first place. > Any comments are welcomed. I welcome further feedback, especially once you've had a chance to evaluate it. Thanks a lot for giving PGI a look! -- G. Branden Robinson|

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Branden Robinson
r anymore. (PGI does not, however, support floppy-disk-based installs.) There's more information about PGI at <http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/>. -- G. Branden Robinson| One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux |

feedback wanted alternative Debian installation system

2002-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
it. Until PGI gets its own BTS page, please feel free to mail me privately with feedback. -- G. Branden Robinson|Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux |sex was dirty. I said, "It is if [EMAIL PROTECTED] |you&

installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-10 Thread Branden Robinson
guys have. Document feedback should go to debian-powerpc; advice for the boot-floppies team should probably go to debian-boot. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/Linux |soul, then believe; if you wish

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-19 Thread Branden Robinson
at the cost of speaking only PCI, USB, and PCMCIA. I just uploaded 1.1-2 which removes some obsolete build-depends that were causing gratuitous build-failures. -- G. Branden Robinson|One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux |bell

Re: discover override disparity

2001-08-28 Thread Branden Robinson
admin until and unless the boot-floppies guys decide it's essential for the installer. debian-boot folks, do you guys have an opinion? -- G. Branden Robinson| Software engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux | computer scien

Re: discover override disparity

2001-08-25 Thread Branden Robinson
admin until and unless the boot-floppies guys decide it's essential for the installer. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux |thinking, they'll love you; but if [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: experiences: installing new testing system from network

2001-08-05 Thread Branden Robinson
esting. It did change for 4.1.0. The non-free mga_hal_drv.o is no longer required to drive the G450 for basic operations, but either Xv or dual-head operation is unavailable without it (I forget which). -- G. Branden Robinson|You can have my PGP passphrase when D

Re: cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

2001-07-19 Thread Branden Robinson
. Any Russians want to test this task and see if it works? You might want to take both. There should be no overlap between the fonts in a -75dpi and a -misc package. (See Policy 12.8.5.) -- G. Branden Robinson| If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
base-config still calls anXious. > Well, only if it is installed.. Anyway, if anXious is going away, I'm > not sure what we will do for letting the user pick the other things > anXios prompted for: window manager, fonts, and terminal emulator. AnXious doesn't have to go away, it

Re: tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

2001-05-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:05:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > - With package sets, it is delivered ... ? In a package called package-sets-progeny, and manipulated via binaries in the packages pkgset-tools and pkgset-tools-gnome. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me

Re: tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

2001-05-12 Thread Branden Robinson
des XEmacs as well as an updated version of the Gnus news reader that is newer than the version included with XEmacs. You can override the contents (off the top of my head, not sure about the description) by creating a file in, e.g., /etc/package-sets/xemacs.contents . -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Busybox vi

2001-05-03 Thread Branden Robinson
`sh' platform. Did you mean sparc? SuperH. -- G. Branden Robinson |The only way to get rid of a temptation Debian GNU/Linux|is to yield to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Oscar Wilde http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | PGP signature

Re: Link cfdisk with libncurses instead of slang?

2001-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
If so, making a program on them depend on ncurses would completly > screw us. What *is it* with you slang bigots? :-P Slang was fine when ncurses wasn't maintained, but ncurses has been well maintained for at LEAST the past couple of years. -- G. Branden Robinson | If

Re: Why ".udeb" won't work.

2000-10-26 Thread Branden Robinson
one that I've wanted for a long time. I want to be able to build extra .debs without being required to ship them. For instance: xlibs-dbg xserver-xfree86-dbg -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked like Debian GNU/Linux| in a spotlight. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Jim Morrison http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | PGP signature

Re: Red Hat installer via CVS ?

2000-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
ny, there weren't any manifest license incompatibility problems because it didn't link against any GPL'ed code. We eventually gave up on Lizard for technical reasons. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux| If God had intended for man to go about [EMAIL P

Re: Netscape in DEbian 2.2

2000-10-17 Thread Branden Robinson
... apt-get remove xfonts-100dpi Nothing should depend on it. -- G. Branden Robinson |I must despise the world which does not Debian GNU/Linux|know that music is a higher revelation [EMAIL PROTECTED] |than all wisdom and philosoph

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-07 Thread Branden Robinson
ult in psychosis. > Consider also that we could detect automatically the monitor model and video > frequencies with read-edid, which can be found at: > > http://web.onetel.net.uk/~elephant/john/programs/linux/read-edid/ Thanks for pointing this out; I will check into it. -- G. Branden Robin

Re: NMI loops during install on intel VLB system

2000-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
only cards in the system are a Promise > EIDE2300+ floppy/hard disk controller and an STB Sprint 1.1 Trident-based > video card. The BIOS is an Award 2C4I9S23. You probably want to talk to some kernel wizards about this problem. Be sure you provide the kernel version (I think we used 2.2.17

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
for a fork between Progeny's X packages and Debian's. If Dexter doesn't find /var/state/discover/video, it prompts the user for the server (or server+driver) to use, which isn't really worse than the present way of doing things. -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are doing, Debian GNU/Linux| emacs is always overkill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Stephen J. Carpenter http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | PGP signature

Re: Which task package installs gpm?

2000-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
`/usr/lib/X11/'. Files within a package should, however, make reference to these directories, rather than their X11R6-named counterparts `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/', and `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/', if the resources being referred to have not

Re: Which task package installs gpm?

2000-09-21 Thread Branden Robinson
tely perfect configuration tool in every single package. We're learning this in a hurry at Progeny. -- G. Branden Robinson | Optimists believe we live in the best of Debian GNU/Linux| all possible worlds. Pessimists are [EMAIL PROTECTED] | afr

Re: Which task package installs gpm?

2000-09-20 Thread Branden Robinson
ication, but I forget if my post > was to -devel, -boot, or -policy. Anyway, I got a confusing mishmash of > answers, and in the end did not enable tasksel -s. > > If people think that's wrong, there may be time to fix it for r1. Well, if my opinion counts, please do re-enable

Re: boot floppies and 2.4.x kernels

2000-09-06 Thread Branden Robinson
jor 180 by Linus. -- G. Branden Robinson |The only way to get rid of a temptation Debian GNU/Linux|is to yield to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Oscar Wilde http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | PGP signature

Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-02 Thread Branden Robinson
E controller card, > > say for ATA/66 or ATA/100. > > Several of the new Asus MB's actually have four IDE devices built in. That's intriguing -- by "devices" I presume you mean "channels"? (Two devices to a channel). Are the 3rd and 4th channels onl

Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-02 Thread Branden Robinson
possible if he's got a 3rd-party IDE controller card, say for ATA/66 or ATA/100. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny that Debian GNU/Linux| reading it will cause an aneurysm. This [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is not that .sig. ht

Re: regarding xviddetect

2000-08-21 Thread Branden Robinson
oodoo[12] card), libglide2 *has* to be installed. Likewise, we're going to have to figure out what to do about the agpgart kernel module, and require that for i810 boards and possibly some others. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny that Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
bly some things we (Progeny) will do that Debian doesn't want to fool with. We can of course set up our own CVS repository if need be, but this seems a good way to do development out in the open. -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked like Debian G