mklibs -l option (force libs)

2008-11-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
an't figure out the point. Do you remember what the option is needed for? My assumption above might be plain wrong. I ran into the fact that it won't work with a "foo.so" file, because foo.so does not match so_pattern. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#484366: rootskel: cttyhack requires the serial console to be /dev/ttyS0

2008-06-04 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:21:41PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I tried to install Debian on Versatile/PB using qemu and the armel > > installer (Lenny beta 1). It is quickly stuck complaining > > "cttyhack: '/dev

Bug#484366: rootskel: cttyhack requires the serial console to be /dev/ttyS0

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Package: rootskel Version: 1.62 Severity: normal I tried to install Debian on Versatile/PB using qemu and the armel installer (Lenny beta 1). It is quickly stuck complaining "cttyhack: '/dev/ttyS0': No such file or device". That's because the serial port on Versatile is named ttyAMA0. I ran qem

Bug#469070: mklibs and libthread_db

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
defined in the application. Any thoughts on applying the patch? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc dlopening libgcc on arm

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
functions are called around functions that might throw, not just when an exception is thrown. Note, that was exceptions, not threads. This code is in libc and libpthread. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#410065: installation-report: d-i rc1, NSLU2: minor network-console and boot issues

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: arm (armv5tel) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-ixp4xx Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) installation-report depends on no packages. Versions of packages installation-report recommends: ii pciutils 1:2.2.4~pre4-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii reportbug 3.31 reports bugs in the Debian distrib -- no debconf information -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397091: debootstrap-udeb: Depends on libgcc_s.so.1 on MIPS

2006-11-04 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Package: debootstrap-udeb Version: 0.3.3 Severity: important The version of debootstrap-udeb in the archive depends on libgcc_s.so.1. This library is not included in debian-installer; as a result, d-i does not work on MIPS. I'm not sure how this happened; maybe it was built with a transient GCC

Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
it as part of a d-i image would e.g. change the required bits of libraries. Hoping for feedback. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
does what you describe (since I tried to use this approach for strace recently, and there were missing symbols in libc.so.6). If someone more familiar with d-i than I am can confirm that the udeb will be useful, I can try to get GDB to build one, but it seems like a very strange package to have

Bug#385919: RFA: bogl -- Ben's Own Graphics Library - graphical terminal

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the bogl package. The package description is: Ben's Own Graphics Library is a small framebuffer library, including basic widgets, support for text in multiple languages, and mouse handling. . This package contains bterm, a UTF-enabled f

Re: Bug#359062: debian-installer: bterm is not (yet) accessible for brltty

2006-03-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
() > then mmap() instead of the current malloc()). Sounds plausible... Unfortunately, I am no longer able to maintain bogl or bterm; I was hoping for someone to adopt it, but he hasn't had time either. Don't suppose someone on the CC list wants to fix this bug and adopt a needy pack

Re: Bug#277092: amd64-libs: Removing package fails and breaks system

2004-10-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
b64stdc++6 to libs and giving both lib64stdc++6 and lib64gcc1 > priority 'optional' should fix this. You'll have to talk to Matthias about that. I'm trying to upload the amd64-libs fix. I'm having a fistfight with the upload queue, which insists that its checksum is

Re: Bug#237075: Bug not related to Sparc64... Maybe related to Creator?

2004-05-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
unable to open initial console" > > so the option "devfs=mount" was needed. Not so in Jeff Bailey's build. > > > > bterm keeps on segfaulting with this image too. > > then you indeed found a bug in bterm I think this is the same as 245620. It's a ker

Re: bogl_write_font failed

2004-03-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
negative on ia64. I'll upload a fix now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bterm font reloading patch

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
> > > And I noticed > > - - bterm-unifont uses awk for HUP signal, but awk doesn't exist on 1st > > stage. Does this need to rewrite by sed or another tool? > > I've changed it to use pidof instead in CVS. I'll upload it once > the freeze is over.

Re: Processed: bterm font problem

2004-01-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
graphical installer after a graphical installer is available. This "bug" will be as easily and more usefully fixed in main-menu. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Bug#221538: bogl-bterm-udeb: var/lib/dpkg/info/bogl-bterm-udeb.md5sums unwanted

2004-01-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ou are going to make a pretense of warning maintainers, kindly do not do so and then upload an NMU nine minutes later. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bogl-bterm: font reloading

2003-11-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Can you just restart bterm? Yes, I realize that's got some issues since you're running inside of it. But it's really not set up to re-parse the font. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Processed: reassign 215160 to bogl-bterm

2003-10-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
'. I don't even have a machine with working framebuffer right now. 2.6 ate my aty128fb. I applied the optimization patches because they looked sane and I was told they worked. Is there anyone who can debug this or do they have to be reverted? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software

Re: Always use UTF-8 when running base-config?

2003-10-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
the > > patches to Daniel Jacobowitz. Anyone else who wants them, let me know. > > Any progress on this? Dan? > > Where can I find those patches, Edmund? I'll upload it to unstable today after some local testing. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software

Re: Uploading a new version of bogl?

2003-03-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
necessary. As I recall it was used in order to support UTF-8, right? But Linux kernels as of 2.4.x have native UTF-8 support on the console; is it inadequate? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Processed: reassign

2002-03-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t; quit > Stopping processing here. > > Please contact me if you need assistance. > > Debian bug tracking system administrator > (administrator, Debian Bugs database) > > -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software

Re: Bug#134014: bterm causes split screen

2002-03-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
m to come in for the next build to fix this. > > If we're going to have a new bterm anyway, I would be inclined to put > the patch from #138653 in too. It does make the dialog boxes look quite > a lot prettier. Yeah, I intend to. Thanks. -- Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: Bug#137734: Missing filesystems for 2.4 kernel on testing cds

2002-03-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
si built in. ] OK. As soon as I can build kernel packages again, I'll upload 2.4.18. This bug was stunningly timely, in that I'd forgotten again that newpmac existed... must have grabbed the wrong source tree. I'm having some trouble with depmod right now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: Floppy boot for powerpc: add video=ofonly?

2002-02-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ent. Many systems would be enabled > for floppy usage that otherwise wouldn't work. Sounds like a good idea. Go ahead; I don't remember any reason not to do this. (that's why I put the spaces in there in the first place!) -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Me

Re: 3.0.19 install issues

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:21:41PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:07:35PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > - Mount Previously Initialized Partition failed to mount the FAT32 > > filesystem. The error was "No such file or direct

Re: 3.0.19 install issues

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:46:21PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:07:35PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I just ran through a clean Woody installation on 3.0.19; here's my > > observations from it. Hope these are useful. Please CC me on

One last issue

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Interestingly, the installer also decided to remove PCMCIA support. I don't know why; the module loaded just fine, and it seems to work. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -

More 3.0.19 woes

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
... and I thought I was done... Base-config somehow got run a second time, after a number of packages had configured. I didn't see any errors, but some (like exim) just never came up. Pretty good otherwise! -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University Monta

3.0.19 install issues

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
; that's just personal preference for organization. Any of these I should file particular bug reports on? -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerpc b-f build compiles the kernel

2002-01-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
# This image is <=1440 KB and is suitable for floppy booting. > sed 's:# CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not set:CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y\ > CONFIG_CMDLINE="root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1":' \ > $builddir/usr/src/kernel-patches/powerpc/config.prep > .config > > # Build flopp

Bug#122738: boot-floppies can't handle devfs

2001-12-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:17:33PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm pretty strongly opposed to this idea. > > Why? Because devfs is a useful feature, and I get the impression from debian-powerpc that many people

Bug#122738: boot-floppies can't handle devfs

2001-12-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
even if it isn't mounted. I'm pretty strongly opposed to this idea. Could I persuade you to at least fix the /proc/partitions bug and see what happens? It's not like this bug is a surprise; I remember hearing about it six or more months ago. -- Daniel Jacob

Re: .config for boot-floppy-hfs.img

2001-09-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
floppies need. It'll appear under arch/ppc/ after you build. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .config for boot-floppy-hfs.img

2001-09-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:20:08AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 11-Sep-2001 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Damien Morel wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> do some of you know where can I find the .config fi

Re: MontaVista library optimizer

2001-09-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
IC archive. Fixing that shouldn't be terribly difficult, though. It's also a little shy on documentation, but works very well. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSU

Re: mklibs.py, unresolved symbol

2001-09-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
You probably want to check by architecture what to use instead of hardcoding 2.2.3... It's not much work - just: objcopy -j .interp -O binary /bin/ls foo cat foo (being aware that foo will be a null, rather than newline, terminated string). ld-li

Re: .config for boot-floppy-hfs.img

2001-09-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
25/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img > to be exact). > > Thanks in advance. In the kernel-patch-2.2.19-powerpc or kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac packages. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linu

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:13:14PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > Hmm. Then something must be eating up all that space -- powerpc > > > binaries are not that much bigger then x86 binaries... Is librar

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ls. We have hfsutils and yaboot and quik; I guess these exceed the size of lilo and whatever else x86-only things we need, that's all. hfsutils is quite big. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linu

Re: boot-floppies 3.0.13

2001-08-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ed. > > Due to that, I'm building boot-floppies 3.0.13 now. Below is the > changelogs. > > Quick turn-around, but how can that hurt, eh? Mmkay. Please don't build PowerPC until after dinstall tomorrow, I've uploaded fixed kernels, pcmcia and all. -- Daniel Jacobow

Re: boot-floppies_3.0.12_i386.changes INSTALLED

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:10:15PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:46:28PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > As I said, please do bring this sort of thing to the attention of > > someone who can do something about it. I'm sorry for not following &

Re: boot-floppies_3.0.12_i386.changes INSTALLED

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:32:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:22:31AM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:43:09PM -0400, Debian Installer wrote: > > > * Ethan Benson > > > - PowerMac uses linux (read i

Re: boot-floppies_3.0.12_i386.changes INSTALLED

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:14:51PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Woah. OK, I've been letting this slide a little bit, but are you > > telling me that we need a new 2.2.19 kernel for the version of > > boot

Re: pcmcia modules for powerpc not available

2001-08-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:19:43AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's not in unstable or testing. Eek. How'd that happen?? > > I would guess pcmcic-cs was forced from unstable into testing, causing > the

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
n in python). It's quite complete (and strips out unneeded versions, IIRC). > Currently the root.bin fits, so unless someone adds more the jobs > done, but that just a lazy programmers attitude. :) I'm sure we can find things to add. We're an industrious bunch that way :) -- Da

Re: libm on root-filesystem?

2001-08-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
hell is just not the language for such stuff. Does that > look like a good idea? Would add another build dependency, but we have > a gazillion already ;) Rather than writing Yet Another library optimizer, which I see you and Goswin have done, I think we should investigat

Re: problem with dhcp-client

2001-07-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
good reason aside from a few "it doesn't work for me" reports, as I recall. Using an obsolete version of dhcp-client deliberately is just bad news. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#104798: Build failure on hppa (at least)

2001-07-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
d. It has some rather specialized build dependencies, and last I checked still needed real root to create images. The build daemons mostly use fakeroot now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Develop

Bug#104798: Build failure on hppa (at least)

2001-07-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
d > mkdir: cannot create directory `/archive': Permission denied > [ -d /archive/debian/download ] || mkdir -p /archive/debian/download > mkdir: cannot create directory `/archive': Permission denied Can we stop boot-floppies from being picked up by autobuilders

Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
heck for > scsi systems. Indeed, it's not at all true for SCSI. We should try not to complain about booting off of any scsi disk. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t; maintains powerpc-utils now but its still showing up as belonging to espy > > I suppose that means Dan hasn't uploaded a new version yet? I also filed > a bug with a patch because powerpc-utils doesn't build on woody. If you forward me these bugs I'll try to deal with them t

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
~dwhedon/yesno_proposed.png > > for reference this is what the box looks like now: > http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/yesno_current.png > > > Comments? "I think it's a good idea". Do we have any serious space issues with this? I don't remember any. -- Daniel J

Re: dbootstrap/powermac.c

2001-06-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
int in keeping it? Nope. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Systems with no floppy

2001-06-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Would this ZIP disk be unbootable on OldWorld PowerMac, just as the CD > is? > > I don't suppose there's a way to just take the HFSimage and burn it to > Zip? I'm pretty sure you'll have the same problems booting a ZIP as booting a CD. The HFS floppy image only work

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-06-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
know about the 64 bit line yet, but we certainly intend to support the 32 bit CHRP/PReP machines. I'll have one for testing in a few days, with luck. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-05-29 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:47:19AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:54:29PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > Probably the best way is to leave it in EXTRACT, but not > > SMALL_BASE_LIST, and conditionally copy it. Does that make sense? >

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
nally copy it. Does that make sense? Someone can fix this, or I will on Tuesday. Hopefully I didn't break too much. Yes, we now need libbogl-dev from sid rather than woody (tomorrow's sid, even) - but only if LANGUAGE_CHOOSER is on, otherwise any libbogl-dev/bogl-bterm at all will do. --

Re: woody bf-utf8 (Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support)

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:22:52PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 04:32:00PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > As I said on this list several times, I would appreciate it if someone > > would make boot floppies use libbogl0 and bogl-bterm instead. Every >

Re: libutf8, bogl, bgf fonts and tools vs boot-floppies

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:28:10PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > We need to have the stuff in subject included in bf bould > > > process somehow. The question is: how? AFAIK bterm has its own > > >

Re: woody bf-utf8 (Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support)

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
to build boot floppies right now, but since no one else has done this, I guess I'll try to do it tomorrow. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
do I figure out what's at fault and fix it or where should I file a > bug? Huh? Read the powerpc-utils postinst. All I call is update-rc.d and #DEBHELPER#... no debconf at all. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software

Re: libutf8, bogl, bgf fonts and tools vs boot-floppies

2001-05-24 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
n" during build? > > Or should we require the source of the package somewhere and > build necessary things on b-f build time? > > In the former case, i'd say we need a binary package for bgf > fonts, right? (I can adopt bf-utf-source and make its source

Re: removing bogl from bf CVS module

2001-05-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
er > module, Dan? Well, I could move my local CVS tree to cvs.d.o, certainly, if people want me to. Do you want to tackle making woody b-f build with my packages? Mostly boxes.c got gutted; that wants to stay in b-f and link to -lbogl. I'd rather not give others commit access, t

Bug#94458: depmod after drivers installation fails because directory is incorrect

2001-04-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ing you used an out-of-date mirror for a network install. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ded back to a 2.2.16 based one. Oops. Sorry. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
n bug in the keyboard layer? > You should have read the whole post. It clearly says otherwise. As Ethan pointed out, no, it didn't. You nowhere said what you were doing, and everything I've seen posted before this was using 2.2.16. I'd appreciate it if you could explain

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ould be a good time to appear now... :) Fixed. I just booted the same floppies I put in Incoming half an hour ago and got a good way into an install. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Tea

Boot floppies 2.2.23

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Is there anything else holding up 2.2.23? Can I tag it, or do you want to? -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team "I am croutons!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: patch to fix debootstrap invocation on local archive

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
loppies"? That can be extended later to have P: lines for > percentages or whatever too, if desired. P: would be nice... -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team

Re: [PATCH] nearly successful powerpc build

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
> D'OH! This should teach me to submit patches after midnight. Sheesh. At > least I remembered to delete it out of the other patch ... > > ... I think I'll be adding a config.local now. Thanks! -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: 2.2r3 and boot-floppies

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:50:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:04:53PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > Under what conditions does this happen? > > AFAIK (based on ramblings from benh on #mklinux) it seems to affect > the recent i

Re: [PATCH] nearly successful powerpc build

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
will fail. > -ftp_archive := /archive/debian > +ftp_archive := /space/james/archive/debian Careful of including this with submitted patches! If you feel like adding a config.local, more power to you... please... -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vist

Bug#48778: powermac bf issues (was Re: Bug#48778: Feature has been implemented)

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
anyone else wants to try it out i would be happy to > explain how mkofboot works and how dbootstrap needs to run it in order > to get a bootable system. I hope so, also. I've not got time for woody boot floppies right now, but after 2.2r3 goes out the door I'll take a look at it, ho

Re: powerpc boot-floppies

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
CVS which I think makes it > worthy of potato update. Sorry about dropping the ball on this. I've got it almost prepared; I'm testing now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team

Re: 2.2r3 and boot-floppies

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
my occasional role as a kernel hacker, use it constantly. I can build new kernels without it if necessary, though. > the other issue is the boot-floppies are broken since the root disk > prompt won't accept enter (or anything) to continue. Working on it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: PPC boot-floppy building

2001-04-12 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
It doesn't look like he's doing anything upstream either.) The proper fix would be to finish with our conversion to PC keycodes; 2.2.19 should have everything necessary, as should our 2.2.18 packages. Then we can lose those keymaps entirely. -- Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
27;linux' files lying around, in the case that the user is installing by > a method other than floppies? This might be an easy, general fix we > can do for all arches. Definitely! But the only times we've tried to address this are when I need to get potato b-f's out, and I'

Re: Bugs report

2001-03-24 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
s the keyboard issue. I don't have time to test it. I may be able to write it if someone else can test it though. I'll try to mail it in a day or two. > i really really hope some *any* fix to this can be found for r3, its > getting quite old answering the `the boot disk asks f

Re: boot-floppies progress

2001-03-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
pies. I would really rather someone fix this, even at the cost of delaying boot floppies further. 2.2.19pre17 is a significant security upgrade. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ver used > those either. You've probably done either network or CD installs. They both use rescue.bin; they don't require it be on a floppy, that's all. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
would save alot of hassle. i386 generally can not do that. PowerPC theoretically could... if I could talk the driver into giving me that information. Suggestions welcome :) -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ture at all. New World macs don't have a floppy drive. You mean the boot CD only works on New World. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Request for addition: USB mass storage support

2001-02-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ous. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
he preinst (?)! > > been on a road a lot this last few weeks. will fix on tuesday when i get > back. Thanks. Dan /----\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU

Re: dhclient and kernel-image-di

2001-02-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
et me modulize it, so it just makes the kernel bigger? > > Fraid so. > > I'm building kernel-image-di with CONFIG_FILTER on. It will include a > packet-socket.udeb, unless someone comes up with a better name. Perhaps prefix these with something indicating that they are kernel modu

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:34:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > 2.4.1 kernel.org does not build on PPC. Sigh. > > 2.4.0 is ok, right? I guess I'll hold off of 2.4.1 for now.. Not sure. > > Other architectures will want a radically s

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
sovers, other architectures are on their own, and someone will have to >work on it. Other architectures will want a radically simplified detection scheme. PPC (mostly) has no legacy ISA or such; everything should show up in the kernel's PCI probes. That should make things much nicer. Dan

Re: installer serious oversight or on purpose?

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t or ybin before rebooting (see the installation instructions, this is underdocumented). Dan /----\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__

Re: initrd build problems

2001-02-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
> On reflection, I suspect this is ext2fs overhead. The fuzz factor at > home is 127, not 122, probably because I added some more udebs in.. Almost certainly. There's both a fixed filesystem overhead and a size-dependent one, I'd imagine; just making a ramdisk the size of the co

Re: No Keyboard when booting the powerPC bootdisk

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
modules of Debian 2.2r2. See the archives of debian-powerpc. I'm trying to find a fix for this. Dan /----\ /----\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__

Re: bogl forked (was Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen)

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:54:38PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:27:51PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Sorry for

Re: bogl forked (was Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen)

2001-01-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:27:51PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sorry for not being clear - yes, I know that bterm has the same bug. > > I'd appreciate it if someone on this list would look into using the > > bo

Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen

2001-01-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
;d appreciate it if someone on this list would look into using the bogl and bterm in that package, so that we can scrap the one in debian-boot CVS; having both makes me nervous about lost work. Dan /--------\ /----\ | Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
l in CVS? It should work fine, although you'll have to fiddle a little to do the font reduction. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Develo

Re: Thoughts on the installer (early)

2001-01-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
and i18n gtkfb would not be an option at all - we need to support this. Dan /--------\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon U

Re: Thoughts on the installer (early)

2001-01-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
y widget set, but the other advantage of BOGL is a compact utf8 and i18n library; does GTK have something similar? Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: comments on cdebconf

2001-01-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t a shot, though. I'm also considering making it run on its own VC. Dan /--------\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon Univer

graphical frontend committed (preliminary)

2000-12-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
eeling the need to put up a progress bar, since probing the serial ports is the only really time consuming bit. Dan /\ /--------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Devel

Re: PowerPC boot disk with USB support????

2000-12-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t; with USB support? That disk does have USB support enabled. Do the boot messages say anything useful? Dan /\ /--------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer

  1   2   >