Bug#847267: Updating the discover-data Uploaders list

2016-12-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: discover-data Version: 2.2013.01.11 Followup-For: Bug #847267 Please also remove myself from the uploaders list. I have not done any work on the package in recent years. Thanks, Gaudenz -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing

Bug#848424: Please remove me from uploaders

2016-12-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: discover Version: 2.1.2-7 Severity: wishlist Please remove my name from the uploaders filed. I haven't done any work on this package for years. As I have been removed from the pkg-discover alioth group I cannot do this myself. Thanks, Gaudenz -- System Information: Debian Release: stret

Bug#799976: wish: support passwd/root-login=false AND passwd/make-user=false

2015-09-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Lennart Sorensen writes: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Package: debian-installer >> Severity: wishlist >> >> On some system that I preseed-install, I don't want any root password >> set nor do I want a normal user account. I get access to the system via >

Bug#799976: wish: support passwd/root-login=false AND passwd/make-user=false

2015-09-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Simon Josefsson writes: >> Simon Josefsson writes: >> >> > Package: debian-installer >> > Severity: wishlist >> > >> > On some system that I preseed-install, I don't want any root >> > password set nor do I want a normal user account. I get access to >> > the system via SSH, using a public-key

Re: Installationsproblem on a nvidia system

2014-12-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thomas Thomas Schler writes: > Hi Geert and Gaudenz, > > thank you very much for answering. I apologize for not having written my text > in english. I was on a debian web page written in excellent german when I got > the hint to write an installation report to debian-boot@lists.debian.org.

Re: Installationsproblem

2014-12-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thomas The language on the debian-boot mailinglist is english. Most people here don't understand German. You might have more luck with your questions by either reposting your mail to debian-user-ger...@lists.debian.org, our German support mailinglist or to ask your question here in English. G

Bug#768657: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#768657: sysvinit: Please provide xen virtual console in inittab

2014-12-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Samuel Thibault writes: > What is new here is that sysvinit-core can now get initially installed > not from d-i. And thus the tuning usually done by d-i can't work. > > Also, we probably have to think about ping-pong scenarii: install > sysvinit-core, then switch back to systemd, purge sysvinit-c

Bug#761815: wow, huh

2014-12-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
b mass storage devices. I raised the severity of the bug to serious as I think this should be RC, but if members more involved with d-i than I am currently disagree, feel free to downgrade again. Gaudenz From ec9b2cc840412863499c10854926f7328d6c9cc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gaudenz Stein

Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[ CCing debian-ker...@lists.debian.org for some more insights ] Teemu Ikonen writes: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > > Hi, > > I recently installed jessie on a 2007 intel Macbook by booting d-i > from a USB drive. Getting the installer to start required quite a bit > of hand

Re: add net-retriever/localrepo?

2014-03-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Wouter Verhelst writes: > Hi, > > I've been thinking it might be nice to extend net-retriever so it checks > the "net-retriever/localrepo" template. This would never be shown (only > used for preseeding), and would work similar to the "localudebs" > directory. > > This could be used for more ea

Re: HTTPS metadata in Mirrors.masterlist?

2014-02-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Colin Watson writes: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:22:26PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> On 11.02.14 15:56, Colin Watson wrote: >> >All I have left to say is that the admins in question are my customers, >> >> so, the company is not your customer, but its admins are? > > Oh, whatever.

Re: net-retriever: handy debug hack to pull in development udeb's at runtime

2014-01-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Ian Campbell writes: > Package: net-retriever > Version: 1.37 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 22:23 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Ian Campbell (2014-01-22): >> > I finally got fed up of rebuilding the initrd to include new versions of >> > udebs I was hacking on,

Bug#725642: installation-reports: Installer creates over-small root partition when automatically sizing separate partitions

2014-01-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Rudy Godoy writes: > Package: installation-reports > Followup-For: Bug #725642 > > > Today, a 10GB partition for root is really small. Take in count that / will > hold > /var/lib and /var/log along with /usr. For a standard desktop install it > takes > almost 6GB of space, leaving 4GB for othe

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Michael Gilbert writes: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Michael Gilbert (2014-01-03): >>> It is often far more ideal when the TC chooses to not act. TC action >>> means that the project is somehow dysfunctional. >>> >>> init-select is a very simple technical soluti

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Michael Gilbert writes: > Hi :) > > The TC init discussion has diverged significantly from Debian's usual > ideals of freedom and meritocracy, so I decided to do something about > it. > > So, today I wrote init-select. It's a small tool that empowers users > to freely and simply choose amon

Bug#722898: benchmarks

2013-09-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thiemo Nagel writes: > Hello Gaudenz, > > thank you for your email! > > Any reason why you choose 512k? If I understand your benchmarks right, >> doubling this to 1M yelds about another 27% gain. > > > I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I've re-run the benchmarks. After > removing O_SYNC, t

Bug#722898: benchmarks

2013-09-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thiemo Thanks for working on this. Thiemo Nagel writes: > Hello Ben, > > thanks for your input! I'm attaching a series of patches to wrap up what > we've discussed so far, more details are in the commit messages quoted > below. > > I've tested the patches by running blockdev-wipe, they are

Bug#711586: installation-reports: successful install on thinkpad x230

2013-06-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
reassign 711586 netcfg retritle 711586 Does not copy wireless configuration for network-manager tags 711586 +patch thanks Julien Cristau writes: > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 17:49:11 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >> Julien Cristau writes: >> > UEFI boot went fine after

Bug#711586: installation-reports: successful install on thinkpad x230

2013-06-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Julien Cristau writes: > UEFI boot went fine after disabling secure boot. Installer unnecessarily > warned about missing iwlwifi firmware, but IIRC that's getting fixed. > Installed on a WPA network, everything went smoothly. I thought netcfg > would write out the network config for network

Re: task-desktop: default desktop environment for Jessie

2013-06-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Michael Gilbert writes: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Michael Gilbert (31/05/2013): >>> It would probably be good to get that discussion started early during >>> this cycle to reduce the surprise factor. >>> >>> Since it was rather difficult to fit gnome onto 1 cd

Re: ZFS support in partman-target

2013-05-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Turbo Fredriksson writes: > On May 21, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> How about applying as member of the "d-i" team on Alioth, if you >> already have an Alioth account? Or applying for such account if you >> don't. Then push your proposed changes to the "master" branches of the

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Vince Vincent McIntyre writes: >> Sadly, this issue will probably be in wheezy as nobody digged enough >> to tackle this down and we get rid of it before the last version of >> D-I is released. > > > Please see my working (for me), tested, waiting-for-review patch [1] > sent to the -boot li

Bug#701823: installation-report: Encrypted LVM assisted install failed on Lenovo T430s

2013-03-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Raphaël Walther writes: > Hi Gaudenz, > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:24:17PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: >> Raphaël Walther writes: >> >> > I reproduce the same issue on the same computer with the new >> > motherboard. I tried to encrypt a partition and i

Bug#701823: installation-report: Encrypted LVM assisted install failed on Lenovo T430s

2013-03-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Raphael Raphaël Walther writes: > I reproduce the same issue on the same computer with the new > motherboard. I tried to encrypt a partition and it failed again at the > same step. Can you please post the logs of this attempt. Without any logs it's hard to tell why it failed. The logs you p

Bug#702527: installation-reports: No CpuFrequencyScaling with Wheezy RC1

2013-03-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 22:42 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: >> Christian PERRIER writes: >> >> > Quoting cl (topolm5...@mail.ru): >> >> Package: installation-reports >> >> Severity: normal >> >> >> >

Bug#702527: installation-reports: No CpuFrequencyScaling with Wheezy RC1

2013-03-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Christian PERRIER writes: > Quoting cl (topolm5...@mail.ru): >> Package: installation-reports >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I have downloaded debian-wheezy-live-rc1-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso and >> installed. >> After the installation I was wondering why my cpu fan was constan

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2013-02-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Hector Hector Oron writes: > Hello, > > 2013/2/3 Gaudenz Steinlin : > >> It seems that the build deamon (ancina) that was building the d-i images >> for armel is currently down. Do you have any updates on what's happening >> or could you please move the b

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2013-02-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Dear armel buildd maintainers It seems that the build deamon (ancina) that was building the d-i images for armel is currently down. Do you have any updates on what's happening or could you please move the build to another host if the failure is expected to last longer. The last d-i build happene

Bug#696732: installation-guide: Section 6.3.5.1. Configuring apt: Removal of references to 'volatile'

2012-12-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Brian Potkin (26/12/2012): >> I originally submitted this patch in >> >>http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/10/msg00444.html >> >> Mentions of "volatile" remain in Section B.4.9. > > Oops, thanks for insisting. :) > > I'm adding debian-release@ to the loop. >

Bug#695403: installation-guide: Please point out the limitations of firmware detection

2012-12-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Brian Potkin writes: > > + > + > +The routines used to detect missing firmware can only be of help for > +modules loaded after &d-i; has started. This implies that the > +capabilities of some devices, the graphics card, for example, are no > +different at the end of the installation from wh

Re: Continuous Integration of the Debian Installer?

2012-11-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Luca Favatella writes: > Hello, > > Is there a Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure in place for > testing the Debian Installer (d-i)? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration > IIRC once upon a time joeyh was running automated tests on a bunch of different machines. Some vi

Bug#687687: Installation was mostly successfully on Acer Aspire One D150

2012-09-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Brian Potkin writes: > says for "select": > >> Holds one of a finite number of possible values. These >> values must be specified in a field named Choices:. >> Separate the possible values with commas and spaces, like >> this: Choices: yes, no, maybe > > The values in the te

Re: Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)

2012-09-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I'll try to explain some of the decision as I have been working with Sorina on this patch. Joey Hess writes: > Sorina - Gabriela Sandu wrote: >> For that matter, I would like to propose a patch to add support for >> netcfg to write a Network Manager config file and modify the >> finish-inst

Bug#433568: Bug #433568 add vlan support

2012-09-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Aron Aron Xu writes: > I'm sending a reminder on this issue, it would be best if d-i can > support VLAN using expert mode of installation, configuring VLAN using > iproute2 during installation is much more annoying comparing to > configure it within d-i. A reminder is nice and if you are lu

Re: Installation-guide cleanup

2012-09-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Karsten Merker writes: > If there are no objections, I would start working on the > installation guide and remove (and in some cases replace) several > outdated parts. Due to limited time available on my side this > will probably have to be done bit by bit during the next weeks. > If possib

Bug#685414: installation-reports: Hangs while searching drives on a Mac Mini G4 (PowerPC)

2012-08-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Gunnar Gunnar Wolf writes: > I just tried with the daily image for today, and got exactly the same > results :( Not good :-( Which daily image did you use exactly. You may need to use a netboot image to really get the latest mountmedia. I'm not sure how the daily cdroms images are currentl

Bug#682608: /etc/network/interfaces permissions

2012-08-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
chuck adams writes: > Here is a working system, i.e. WiFi interface working, > and /etc/network/interfaces permissions > > adams@debian:~$ ls -l /etc/network/interfaces > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 293 Jun 13 22:26 /etc/network/interfaces > > and contents of file are: > >

Re: Beta2 preparation: proposed unblock for netcfg(?)

2012-08-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Cyril Brulebois writes: > Hi Gaudenz, > > Gaudenz Steinlin (27/08/2012): >> Just as an additional data point. I have been using all these changes >> since they were commited in all my tests and don't know of any >> unresolved problems. I also reviewed a

Bug#682608: Fix

2012-08-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi chuck adams writes: > Using the suggested comment that /etc/network/interfaces needed lines > commented out, I went to a working system and compared the interfaces > file. > > In the installation using the wireless interface the interfaces > file contained a serious security violation as sho

Re: Beta2 preparation: proposed unblock for netcfg(?)

2012-08-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Christian PERRIER (25/08/2012): >> netcfg is a bit more tricky than other packages I proposed. >> >> testing has 1.81, unstable now has 1.89. >> >> Changes summary: >> >> * List available ESSIDs: I tested this change myself and...it's >> working as expected >> >>

Re: [EFI] grub-installer: use grub-efi for EFI machines

2012-08-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Steve Steve McIntyre writes: > Hi, > > Reasonably simple changes here, again heavily inspired by Ubuntu > code. One extra issue I found - it looks like /sys and /proc need to > be mounted in /target when we run the postinst, otherwise we'll fail > to drive efibootmgr. I've added code to do t

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/check_netmask, updated. 1.65-230-gf3a76bc

2012-08-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Sorina Sandu] >> The following commit has been merged in the people/sorina/check_netmask >> branch: >> commit f3a76bc12e46edb09637000d1fc31f03c4208cdd >> Author: Sorina Sandu >> Date: Sun Aug 19 19:36:01 2012 +0300 >> >> /0 and /32 masks are not valid > > A

Re: installing on mdraid imsm arrays

2012-08-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > At work, we're using mainly supermicro servers, and they have support in > the BIOS for Intel Matrix raid (imsm), which is a form of > sataraid/fakeraid. So I have been looking at installing debian on such a > "raid" system. d-i supports dmraid somewhat, n

Bug#683773: btrfs-write-performance rechecked, downgrading the severity to 'wishlist'

2012-08-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Andreas Andreas Glaeser writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > To check if btrfs is really slow I tried the following: > - -# aptitude install btrfs-tools > - -created a btrfs-partition as /dev/sdb14 with gparted and aligned it to > sector, not to > mbr, because the

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/coding_style, created. 1.65-204-g6652eb1

2012-07-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Philipp Kern writes: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 02:54:55PM +0300, Sorina - Gabriela Sandu wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: >> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:54:37PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> >> FWIW: If you want to push those changes into wheezy at some po

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/coding_style, created. 1.65-204-g6652eb1

2012-07-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Philipp Kern writes: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:54:37PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> FWIW: If you want to push those changes into wheezy at some point, >> that's a bit unnice to the ones who get to review the changes, be >> it on the debian-boot@ or on the debian-release@ sides… The i

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

2012-07-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > Le mardi, 24 juillet 2012 13.17:10, Andreas Beckmann a écrit : >> debian-installer-6.0-netboot- and >> debian-installer-7.0-netboot- are not co-installable because they >> ship the same files, but don#t have corresponding conflicts. > > Indeed, thanks for your repor

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/show_essids, updated. 1.65-150-ga603dff

2012-06-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Joey Hess writes: > Justin B Rye wrote: >> But I suspect the best solution is: >> >> Select desired network name (ESSID) for connection attempt. > > Suggestion: > > Select the wireless network name (ESSID) to use during this > installation process. > > It's not really relevant that it wil

Re: current rules for template changes (was Re: d-i: Plans for beta 1?)

2012-06-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Christian PERRIER writes: > Quoting Gaudenz Steinlin (gaud...@debian.org): > > Please remember that these changes have to be documented in the > release notes, too Do you mean the release notes or the installation guide? I have a patch for the installation guide ready doc

current rules for template changes (was Re: d-i: Plans for beta 1?)

2012-06-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Christian PERRIER writes: > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): >> Christian PERRIER (11/06/2012): >> > It's likely that a mass upload is needed for l10n purposes. Also, I >> > think that a beta is the moment where I should decide about which >> > languages I drop >> > (http://www.pe

Re: Debian & the FSF Secure Boot petition

2012-06-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > Dear d-i hackers, I've been contacted by Paul Wise about FSF campaign on > "secure boot" [1] (thanks Paul!). As observed by various commenters over > the net, it is indeed striking that no FOSS distros is in there. I plan > to contact the FSF asking that Debian i

Re: GSoC project

2012-04-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Sorina On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:32:11 -0400, Sorina - Gabriela Sandu wrote: > Hello! > > Hope you don't mind, I took some time to dig into d-i internals, > getting used with the code and the build system. > > I took a look at bug #610752 [0] and made a first attempt of > a patch. I posted th

Re: GSoC project

2012-03-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Sorina Please keep the CC to the debian-boot@lists.debian.org mailinglist. This is the mailinglist for debian-installer development. On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:12:41 -0400, Sorina - Gabriela Sandu wrote: > Hello! > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: >

Re: GSoC project

2012-03-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Sorina On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:41:33 +0200, Sorina - Gabriela Sandu wrote: > Hello! > > I am Sorina Sandu, I am currently a second year bachelors Computer Science > student at Politehnica University of Bucharest. I have looked through Debian > Development section and I particulary enjoyed ho

Re: summer of code: debian installer project

2012-03-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Richard On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:32:38 +, Richard Kenyon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a CS student and user of Debian and I'd like to take part in the > summer of code. > This project looks both interesting and at about the right level of > difficulty for me. > > I don't really mind what tools I

Re: GSoC Project Idea: WPA2 support for the debian installer

2012-03-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
axLinke > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:32:08 +0100 > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > > Hi Max > > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:39:40 +0100, Max Linke > > wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Yeah I'm interested. Can you give a more det

Re: GSoC Project Idea: WPA2 support for the debian installer

2012-03-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
eone who would like to fill this role? Also feel free to improve the project description on the wiki page. Best, Gaudenz [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2012/Projects#Improve_debian-installer_network_setup > > best, > Max > > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:45:14 +0100 &

Re: GSoC Project Idea: WPA2 support for the debian installer

2012-03-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:17:48 +0100, Max Linke wrote: > Hello > > I would like to know if it is a appropriate project for GSoC > to add WPA2 support for the debian installer. As others already said, basic WPA2 support ist available in the installer. Although the user interface and the featur

Re: [pkg-wpa-devel] libnl3 soname change

2011-12-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:16:08 +0100, Heiko Stübner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag 15 Dezember 2011, 22:13:43 schrieb Stefan Lippers-Hollmann: > > Hi > > > > On Thursday 15 December 2011, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Heiko Stübner wrote: > > > > So the question would be on how to proceed to get thi

WPA bloat

2011-12-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 23:45:04 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > there's connectivity. On the other hand we added a bloated wpa > supplicant with crypto libs without any effort to get it trimmed (yet), That's simply wrong. I spent quite some time at Debconf trying to trim down the size of the WPA suppor

Bug#646699: btrfs: Installer offers BTRFS an optional filesystem

2011-10-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:21:33 +0530, Christian PERRIER wrote: > severity 646699 important > reassign 646699 partman-btrfs > retitle 646699 Please make partman-btrfs optional as BTRFS is too unstable > thanks > > Quoting Gergely Nagy (alger...@balabit.hu): > > reassign 646699 debian-installer > >

Re: Problems with d-i on self-made (debian-cd/easy-build.sh) Debian images

2011-10-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
e don't match your reported error is expected. Gaudenz > > Thx for any hint > Mario > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: h

Re: Problems with d-i on self-made (debian-cd/easy-build.sh) Debian images

2011-10-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Mario On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:45:36 +0200, Mario Fux wrote: Non-text part: Multipart/Mixed > Good morning > > And then trying to install I got the following error message in qemu and > virtualbox: > Error message: > "" > Error: Load installer components from CD: > No kernel modules w

Re: Resync netcfg in D-I git?

2011-08-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Christian Excerpts from Christian PERRIER's message of 2011-08-05 09:54:11 +0200: > Hello Gaudenz, > > As it seems, D-I git is not synced with uploaded netcfg. I wanted to > do an l10n upload (many translation teams have now translated the new > WPA templates) but I indeed can't. > > Would yo

Re: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb

2011-07-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I've now uploaded the package. Please see the attached NMU patch. Gaudenz Excerpts from Gaudenz Steinlin's message of 2011-07-30 04:08:32 +0200: > Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-30 01:44:07 +0200: > > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:25:00 AM Gaudenz Steinl

Re: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb

2011-07-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-30 01:44:07 +0200: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:25:00 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-27 13:30:37 +0200: > > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:43:02 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >

Re: Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb

2011-07-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-27 13:30:37 +0200: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:43:02 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > OK. How do you feel about me NMUing wpa_supplicant to add the udeb? I > > added an updated patch for the udeb to this mail. If you are

Bug#635962: Please provide udeb package of libnl3 for debian-installer

2011-07-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Source: libnl3 Version: 3.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i To add WPA wireless configuration support in d-i we need wpa_supplicant and thus libnl3 (wpa_supplicant is goning to be converted to libnl3 soon). For this we need an udeb version of libnl3. We are currently at Debconf working on a patch

Re: Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb

2011-07-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-26 15:14:11 +0200: > Hi, > > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:34:27 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > > > > Has there been any solution for the netcfg integration already, > > > > > > > see &

Re: Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb

2011-07-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi So I actually made some progress today. Here's my status report. Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-24 00:58:08 +0200: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:02:48 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > > > nl80211 is the way forward. It would requ

Re: Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb

2011-07-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I'm picking up the task to integrate WPA support into debian-installer. My goal is to have this finished by the end of Debconf. Is anyone of you also going to attend Debconf? > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 04:39:44 Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > > > > diff -urN wpasupplicant-0.6.10.orig/debian/con

Re: Preparation of fixes to 6.0.1

2011-03-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Adam D. Barratt's message of 2011-03-06 16:20:51 +0100: > > - console-setup > > Looks okay, other than the version number should be 1.68+squeeze1. > Fixed in unstable but not migrated to testing yet; could we unblock it? I prepared a squeeze branch for this and pushed it to the rep

Re: Move g_ether detection from hw-detect.sh to ethdetect.sh?

2011-02-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Otavio Salvador's message of 2011-02-15 00:38:32 +0100: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 21:15, Thibaut Girka wrote: > > I was wondering why g_ether (USB gadget module) detection/loading is > > done in hw-detect.sh, and whether ethdetect.sh would be better suited > > for that. > ... > > I

Re: Preparation of fixes to 6.0.1

2011-02-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Excerpts from Otavio Salvador's message of 2011-02-14 16:47:00 +0100: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 14:51, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > IMHO console-setup should be uploaded as well to fix #610843. AFAIR it > > was agreed that this is 6.0.1 material when the bug first appeared.

Re: Preparation of fixes to 6.0.1

2011-02-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Otavio Salvador's message of 2011-02-12 23:46:07 +0100: > Hello folks, > > I have prepare some branches that has what I am intending to upload to > stable-proposed-updates. The modules I have changed are the following: > > grub-installer > linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 > tasksel > cdebc

Bug#612516: Installation Report Debian Installer 6.0 Release Candidate 1 release

2011-02-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Christian PERRIER's message of Mit Feb 09 06:50:26 +0100 2011: > > Another option is to suggest that the quiet option passed to the > kernel doesn't suppress messages related to video mode in case the > video mode doesn't exist. This would then be a kernel bug. > > Anyone with an ad

Bug#610843: debian-installer: keyboard selection does not work with graphical installer

2011-01-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Ronny Standtke's message of Son Jan 23 10:16:15 +0100 2011: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > I used the "Graphical install" option. > In the step "Select a language" I chose "German - Deutsch". > In the step "Select

Re: SPARC daily d-i builds

2011-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Excerpts from Axel Beckert's message of Mit Jan 12 10:47:19 +0100 2011: > So how much disk space is needed for building the daily images, why > does it have to be on a buildd (i.e. does it suffice to throw hardware > at it) and how new/fast does the sparc to be? The d-i team would like to have

Re: SPARC daily d-i builds

2011-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Philipp Kern's message of Mit Jan 12 02:46:24 +0100 2011: > Hi, > > am Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:53:59AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > > Gaudenz Steinlin (11/01/2011): > > > As all my attempts to find someone willing to setup d-i daily buil

Re: Recurrent "old builds" for D-I

2011-01-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Gaudenz Steinlin's message of Don Jan 06 23:50:50 +0100 2011: > Excerpts from Christian PERRIER's message of Don Jan 06 07:01:07 +0100 2011: > > Quoting Daily build aggregator (debian-boot@lists.debian.org): > > > Debian installer build overview > > > --- >

SPARC daily d-i builds

2011-01-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi As all my attempts to find someone willing to setup d-i daily builds on a sparc buildd [1] failed. I'm going to give up now and will not bother you again until some steps up to do the necessary work or provide me with buildd access. I added the following note to the d-i daily builds overview pa

Re: Recurrent "old builds" for D-I

2011-01-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Otavio Salvador's message of Don Jan 06 12:32:20 +0100 2011: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 04:01, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Goal: stop having a daily mail about failed builds asthis just > > makes everybody ignore them after a few days. > > We might try to have this mail reversed

Re: Recurrent "old builds" for D-I

2011-01-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Christian PERRIER's message of Don Jan 06 07:01:07 +0100 2011: > Quoting Daily build aggregator (debian-boot@lists.debian.org): > > Debian installer build overview > > --- > > > > Failed or old builds: > > > > * OLD BUILD:mipsel Dec 09 00:12 bui...@re

Bug#607927: powerpc squeeze CD image fails

2010-12-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: debian-cd Severity: serious Hi The creation of the powerpc CD Image currently fails. genoisoimage aborts with a stack trace as can be seen in this log: http://cdbuilder.debian.org/cdimage-log/Csqueezepowerpc Is anyone with access to the build host able to investigate this? AFAICT the f

Re: squeeze build problems

2010-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Miguel Figueiredo's message of Don Dez 23 13:21:59 +0100 2010: > I've followed the same procedure and fails the same way. > Having a look on sources.list.udeb i changed sources.list.udeb.local to: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main/debian-installer > > which seems to

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Old kernels used for sparc daily builds

2010-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
rwarded message from Gaudenz Steinlin --- From: Gaudenz Steinlin To: stappers Cc: debian-boot , sparc Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:03:32 +0100 Subject: Re: Fwd: Old kernels used for sparc daily builds Hi Geert Excerpts from Gaudenz Steinlin's message of Mit Nov 10 22:43:37 +0100 2010: > Hi

No d-i daily images built for mipsel since 12/09

2010-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi mipsel buildd maintainers Since 12/09 the debian-installer daily images for mipsel are no longer autobuilt (at least there are no new builds pushed to d-i.debian.org). The builds used to be built on rem. See http://lists.debian.org/20100331165134.ga19...@mails.so.argh.org for more information

Re: debian-installer daily builds on hppa buildd

2010-12-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from dann frazier's message of Mon Dez 20 23:11:16 +0100 2010: > > In progress. I have builds going on a system at home & am working on > > getting the ssh key setup now. > > ... and done. Thanks to everyone involved! Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail agai

Bug#332227: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Frank Fegert's message of Die Dez 14 19:34:12 +0100 2010: > Hello, > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:22:37AM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > > I just made 2 unofficial CDs available[1]. Each has a sha512sum > > signed by my GPG key[2]. > > > > One includes yaboot_1.3.13a-1squeeze1 and

Re: Bug#606441: unblock: yaboot/1.3.13a-1squeeze1

2010-12-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Mehdi Dogguy's message of Fre Dez 10 22:52:34 +0100 2010: > On 12/09/2010 10:27 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > I sponsored an uploaded of yaboot to testing-proposed-updates with the > > following changes to fix RC bugs: > > > > yaboo

Re: pre-upload approval for yaboot (t-p-u) and yaboot-installer

2010-12-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi release team Per request from Neil on IRC I give you a debdiff for the two packages. After reading the last release update I was under the impression that you want to generate the debdiff yourself anyway..., sorry. Gaudenz yaboot: diff -u yaboot-1.3.13a/debian/changelog yaboot-1.3.13a/debian/

Re: debian-installer daily builds on hppa buildd

2010-12-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[ Sorry to those that receive this mail twice. I messed up the recipient list the first time. ] Hi Dann Excerpts from Andreas Barth's message of Mit Nov 10 22:51:05 +0100 2010: > * dann frazier (da...@debian.org) [101110 22:46]: > > I'd be glad to set this up on one of the hppa buildds (peri or >

Re: Fwd: Old kernels used for sparc daily builds

2010-12-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Geert Excerpts from Gaudenz Steinlin's message of Mit Nov 10 22:43:37 +0100 2010: > Hi Geert > > You used to build the sparc daily images for d-i. But these images are > no longer built since June. Are you still intending to provide daily > d-i images for sparc or should someone else take over

Re: debian-installer daily builds on hppa buildd

2010-12-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Dann Excerpts from Andreas Barth's message of Mit Nov 10 22:51:05 +0100 2010: > * dann frazier (da...@debian.org) [101110 22:46]: > > I'd be glad to set this up on one of the hppa buildds (peri or > > penalosa) if DSA (CC'd) is ok with it. However, the above e-mail > > suggests we need to have

pre-upload approval for yaboot (t-p-u) and yaboot-installer

2010-12-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi release team I ask you for pre approval of a yaboot (Powerpc Bootloader) upload to testing-proposed-updates. The package in unstable unfortunately contains a new upstream version and is therefore not suitable for squeeze. The upload would fix the following RC bugs: #572869 [S|+|=♔] [yaboot]

Bug#605932: drives seem to be detected in undefined order

2010-12-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
severity 605932 grave Thanks Hi Excerpts from Milan Kupcevic's message of Sam Dez 04 20:53:48 +0100 2010: > forcemerge 572925 605932 > thanks > > On 12/04/2010 10:00 AM, Risto Suominen wrote: > > After manually editing /etc/yaboot.conf, I was facing another problem > > on boot: the disk drives s

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

2010-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Alexander Reichle-Schmehl's message of Mit Dez 01 12:04:46 +0100 2010: > Hi Gaudenz! > > Am 01.12.2010 11:57, schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin: > > >> I booted from usb stick (which was presented as /dev/sda) on a hardware > >> raid (/dev/sdb). After th

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

2010-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
reassign 605562 grub-installer forcemerge 568529 605562 Thanks Excerpts from Alexander Reichle-Schmehl's message of Mit Dez 01 11:05:01 +0100 2010: > Boot method: USB stick > Image version: beta1 AMD64 > Date: 2010-11-29 > Install boot loader:[E] > Overall install:[E] > > Comments/P

Re: Bug#562398: anna: fails if multiple versions of a udeb in Packages file

2010-11-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
severity 562398 important Thanks Hi It also seems quite risky to introduce this change now (see below for my test results). As this bug is only triggered in very rare circumstances and as far as I understand these circumstances can't happen in a stable release, I don't think this issue is really

Re: Encripting Issue result on many, many hours installing...

2010-11-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Excerpts from Raymundo Dionicio Flores Siordia's message of Fre Nov 26 19:24:26 +0100 2010: > Dear debian-boot team: > > Could the instaler warn me that encripting my disk will render my 1Tb > machine useless about 8 hours?. > > Maybe could offer to bypass the default pre-cleaning. > Maybe c

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