Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:32:29 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Did you have something specific in mind? Nope. Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:57:31 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > I'm not sure; for instance consider the case of data which changes with > the distro over time; let's say linaro-image-tools depends on that data > and combines the data + 1 hwpack + 1 rootfs to create an image. Then > the data changes,

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:54:38 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > > I ask mostly from a position of ignorance, but is the information in > > this database related to the information linaro-media-create keeps about > > each board? If so, could it be share

Bug#321109: [PATCH] grub-installer password confirmation

2008-04-28 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:48 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Good. I've committed the patch now with a few minor modifications. > Great, thanks. > Yes. Both preseeding of an encrypted password and of plaintext passwords are > possible and thus both should be tested. For plaintext passwords it could >

Bug#321109: [PATCH] grub-installer password confirmation

2008-04-25 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:08 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Please do test it with preseeding too, both for clear text and encrypted. > Note that you can also preseed by passing = at the boot > prompt. You don't need to use a preconfiguration file. Hi, I tested yesterday with preseeding the grub-inst

Bug#321109: [PATCH] grub-installer password confirmation

2008-04-17 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:08 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 17 April 2008, James Westby wrote: > > That's just because it follows the code that was there before, I'd > > be happy to test it if you think that it would be necessary. > > Nope. The current c

Bug#321109: [PATCH] grub-installer password confirmation

2008-04-17 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:58 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > After a quick glance a couple of things look wrong. > Hi, Thanks for the review. > You read password-crypted to see if it is preseeded. This value presumably > already _is_ encrypted, but you still pass it through 'password --md5'. > The

Bug#321109: [PATCH] grub-installer password confirmation

2008-04-17 Thread James Westby
from trunk: - Run grub in the chroot for password encryption. + [ James Westby ] + * Confirm the GRUB password after entry (LP: #42019). Note that +grub-installer/password-again must now be preseeded in addition to +grub-installer/password, and that grub-installer/password-crypted now

Re: Add a standardized comment to udeb packages description?

2007-04-14 Thread James Westby
case lets strip the warning off the packages that already have it. Thanks, James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#392080: Swap check fails for swap-on-LVM-on-crypto

2006-10-12 Thread James Westby
llows me to configure in the LVM on crypt case that the auto installer creates (as long as I didn't make a transcription error). Apologies for the ugly code, James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&

Bug#392285: partman-crypto: Fails to cause cryptomount to be loaded

2006-10-10 Thread James Westby
Package: partman-crypto Severity: normal Hi, I was installing in a VM, and did manual partitioning to try loop-aes. I had the first partition for / unencrypted, then two partitions, a random key for swap, and a GPG encrypted key for /home. I used twofish128 for minimum impact while testing. The

Re: Bug#381875: loop-AES key generation requires tiresome typing

2006-10-10 Thread James Westby
> > On (10/10/06 22:02), Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 21:39, James Westby wrote: > > > > 4) Make d-i harder to use. > > > > > > Let's take that as a compliment rather than a serious suggestion :-) > > > > Most de

Bug#392080: Swap check fails for swap-on-LVM-on-crypto

2006-10-10 Thread James Westby
he previous one that also starts at 0 (possibly just the previous). If it starts later, look for the second starting at 0 going backwards. It all sounds a little hackish though. Do you know if there is any other way to get this info? James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- ht

Bug#381875: loop-AES key generation requires tiresome typing

2006-10-10 Thread James Westby
On (10/10/06 23:55), Max Vozeler wrote: > Hi James, > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:39:07PM +0100, James Westby wrote: > > 1) Make a game that involves typing, > > > > I was reminded of a game called Daley Thompson's Decathlon, which > > involved bashng t

Bug#392248: partman-crypto: Fails to load modules for manual dm-crypt

2006-10-10 Thread James Westby
Package: partman-crypto Severity: normal Hello again, I used manual partitioning, and created one large dm-crypt partiton, and when I went to configure it I got An Error occured while configuring encrypted volumes The configuration has been aborted. The log said Check kernel for support

Bug#381875: loop-AES key generation requires tiresome typing

2006-10-10 Thread James Westby
On (10/10/06 16:33), Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2006, at 3:39 PM, James Westby wrote: > > >I had a couple of idea while I was typing to generate keys in this > >fashion. Here they are in no particular order. > > > >1) Make a game that involves typ

Bug#392221: partman-auto-crypto

2006-10-10 Thread James Westby
Package: partman-auto-crypto Severity: wishlist Hi, Please consider this the lowest severity bug report from me, it is just a suggestion. Could support be added for just crypto setup without LVM, using loop-aes. Perhaps waiting until after #381895 is fixed, so that the root partition can be encr

Bug#381875: loop-AES key generation requires tiresome typing

2006-10-10 Thread James Westby
ade harder, so that more key presses are required before partman-crypto is reached, and so increasing the entropy in the pool without the user realising it is for encryption. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edC

Bug#385629: debian-installer: Encrypted filesystem setup and swap

2006-10-10 Thread James Westby
On (10/10/06 09:19), Max Vozeler wrote: > Hi James, Hi Max, > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:59:55PM +0100, James Westby wrote: > > I am playing around with the installer and I believe I have hit this > > problem. > > > > If I select automatically set up

Bug#385629: debian-installer: Encrypted filesystem setup and swap

2006-10-09 Thread James Westby
..", is there a way to do this? It was annoying having to restart the installer every time I wanted to try something different. Could you point me to the apprpriate package for this, I'm not sure it is partman-crypto] -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://james