Re: Fwd: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: debian-installer: call to update translations - Greek

2017-11-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi all, Apologies for the delay, it's a very busy period. Regarding bootloader, there is actually a translation for that "εκκινητής συστήματος", which is a common term even between amongst other Other OSes. It's up to the translator, most people I know will definitely make the connection with "boo

Bug#606621: Acknowledgement (mklibs-readelf: segfaults on static objects)

2010-12-11 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
large? It was a total of 3 ifs added and mostly tab fixes, but sure, I've got no problem how you actually fix it, as long as it stops segfaulting :) Konstantinos On 11 December 2010 15:06, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrot

Bug#606621: Acknowledgement (mklibs-readelf: segfaults on static objects)

2010-12-10 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Followup email: It appears that the same segfault appeared with two other command line options, --print-symbols-provided and --print-symbols-undefined (on the same file, /sbin/ldconfig.real. I attach the complete patch (tested to work properly throughout the whole d-i image build process). Konst

Bug#606621: Acknowledgement (mklibs-readelf: segfaults on static objects)

2010-12-10 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Oh, I seem to have forgotten one debug line, please remove the following line: std::cout << "process_dynamics: section = " << std::hex << section << "\n"; Thanks Konstantinos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Bug#606621: mklibs-readelf: segfaults on static objects

2010-12-10 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Source: mklibs Version: 0.1.30 Severity: important Tags: patch This was originally found on armhf (a new port on debian-ports.org), when doing d-i work, but was also reproduced on amd64 and Ubuntu armel -which I guess uses the same source. You can easily check it by doing: $ mklibs-readelf -n /

Bug#605013: netcfg: Please add armhf support

2010-11-26 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Source: netcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, The armhf port has reached a very good state (at 87%) at debian-ports.org, and I'm now mass-filing bug reports to packages for armhf support. Most packages just have to add armhf in the architecture field. The complete list is in http://wiki.debia

Bug#604688: xview: Please add armhf support

2010-11-23 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
already working on it :) On 23 November 2010 19:43, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Konstantinos Margaritis (mar...@genesi-usa.com): > > Source: kbd-chooser > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > Hi, > > > > The armhf port has reached a v

Bug#604688: xview: Please add armhf support

2010-11-23 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Source: kbd-chooser Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, The armhf port has reached a very good state (at 87%) at debian-ports.org, and I'm now mass-filing bug reports to packages for armhf support. Most packages just have to add armhf in the architecture field. The complete list is in http://wiki.

Open debconf db without locking it (was Re: Keyboard preseed for X)

2005-01-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎÏÎ 18 ÏÎÏÎÎÏ 2005 00:06, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > ...I will do the upload later today... or at least I would like to, but I've reached a part I can't go further. I need to open the debconf db, without locking it just to read a value. As it is it reads the value ok

Re: Keyboard preseed for X

2005-01-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
e to the keyboard setup for X > > instead. The debconf question is answered like this on my new > > install: > > Kostas (Konstantinos Margaritis, l-c maintainer) plans to do > exactly this. As Otavio mentioned, look at these days discussions > in the archive. Ok, I have fin

Re: Bug#288701: Selected keymap not used for gdm, gnome or kde

2005-01-06 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÎ 06 ÎÎÎ 2005 21:19, Sven Luther wrote: > Actually, i think that localization-config was fixed to preseed the > value, but mark it as unseen, thus allowing the user to override > it. Not ideal, but the best that can be done, since i hear that > there is no way to exactly map the console keyboa

Re: Bug#288701: Selected keymap not used for gdm, gnome or kde

2005-01-06 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÎ 06 ÎÎÎ 2005 19:13, Christian Perrier wrote: > No. Running l-c is already done in d-i.but indeed, l-c does not > choose the X keyboard based on the console keyboard chosen. So, in > this bug report, the user who choosed a Dvorak keyboard just ends > up with a US oneeven if (s)he uses

Re: Desktop task broken on !(i386/powerpc)

2005-01-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 05 ÎÎÎ 2005 16:07, Sven Luther wrote: > [ ] Simple Desktop (No gnome or KDE) > [ ] Gnome Desktop > [ ] KDE Desktop > (both of these would enable the simple desktop stuff) > ... load of server tasks ... FWIW, this is exactly the way Mandrake does this and it's quite successful

Re: Tasksel: how to create custom tasks?

2004-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 22 ÎÎÎ 2004 11:08, Christian Perrier wrote: > (please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC'ed to answers as I'm > currently out of access to my Debian mail) [snip] > How can I really build my own custom task? I had the same problem and no matter what I did with tasksel and its tasks it did not work

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

2004-12-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
tags 230832 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks > On Sunday 19 December 2004 13:37, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > Tapio, > > regarding the XkbVariant misconfiguration, could you re-do the > > installation steps and please give us the following info right > > before

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

2004-12-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÏ 19 ÎÎÎ 2004 12:29, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > l-c does set the XkbVariant but only for the locales that support > it, and fi_FI does not support it as I just checked now. I just > tried l-c with fi_FI and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the only locales in there) and > XkbVariant

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

2004-12-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
reassign 230832 debconf tags 230832 + patch thanks On ÎÏÏ 19 ÎÎÎ 2004 13:09, Sven Luther wrote: > A -u --unseen flag would be welcome indeed. Done. Please include the patch attached to debconf-set-selections. This will allow the extra flag to be used in l-c. It seems to work for me... Konstanti

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

2004-12-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÏ 19 ÎÎÎ 2004 12:42, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 12:32:29PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On ?? 19 ?? 2004 12:13, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Well, i think the main problem would be : 1) to higher the > > > priority of keymap

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

2004-12-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÏ 19 ÎÎÎ 2004 12:13, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, i think the main problem would be : 1) to higher the priority > of keymap question in X, and 2) make localization-config only > provide the default, but not mark the question as seen or > something. hm, i don't set the question as seen, which i

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

2004-12-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÏ 19 ÎÎÎ 2004 11:23, Christian Perrier wrote: > > The problem is that XkbVariant was set instead of XkbLayout. > > Well read, Denis. According to what I read in localization-config > (l-c) files, it is not supposed to set XkbVariant for Finnish and > certainly not to "fi". > > So, this may fin

Re: debconf: country code in a base-config script

2004-11-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 05 ÎÎÎ 2004 21:36, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > However in my case I need the country code for a script that simply > needs a country code and not much more. No extra logic is involved > besides maintaining a list of valid country codes. > > I also don't like the dependency on perl. So far I have

Re: debconf: country code in a base-config script

2004-11-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
First I would suggest for localization stuff to use the appropriate package, localization-config. It offers the framework to do package configuration based on the locale info, without so much as changing base-config itself. There are some example scripts there that you could use as base. What in

Bug#276752: Urgent patch for kbd-chooser

2004-10-18 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Monday 18 October 2004 20:48, Recai Oktas wrote: > * The workaround I proposed should not affect the languages using > iso-8859-1/15 and utf-8, because this workaround means to return > temporarily back to the old behaviour (the one before applying > the patch to fix the keyboard freezes).

Bug#277073: Install localization-config by default for powerpc to handle subarchs

2004-10-18 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Package: languagechooser Version: 1.39 Severity: normal Tags: patch This patch should enable installation of localization-config for LANG != en_US (so that en_GB, en_AU, en_IE are handled) or by default if arch is "powerpc", so that the X kbd configuration of the subarchs is handled correctly. --

Re: Bug#250789: patch: do not reset console font

2004-09-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:55:16 +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Have you really seen this patch? It is *removes* code that sets ISO-8859-1 > font. You're right. My apologies. Still, I think that actually setting the console to the original setting (assuming it's possible

Bug#250789: patch: do not reset console font

2004-09-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎ 28 ÎÎÏ 2004 16:45, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > I propose attached patch to fix this problem. It removes console > resetting code from termwrap. I am sure that the only effect from > using this patch is that console after termwrap will be with > settings used during second stage (state su

Bug#250789: patch: do not reset console font

2004-09-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎ 28 ÎÎÏ 2004 16:45, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > I propose attached patch to fix this problem. It removes console > resetting code from termwrap. I am sure that the only effect from > using this patch is that console after termwrap will be with > settings used during second stage (state su

Greek (el) UTF-8 console keymap

2004-09-26 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
(cc'ing the -boot list maybe someone else knows a solution) Hi Alastair, With the valuable help of Anton Zinoviev, I managed to produce a keymap for Greek that output in UTF-8 mode. It seems to work fine, and would like to commit it to the console-data packages and have filed a bug report with

libapt-pkg-perl and libconfig-inifiles-perl perl dependency problems

2004-09-25 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi guys, As it was discussed with Joey and other developers at the Oldenburg meeting, if Debian is going to offer automated localization (at least for X) in the form of the localization-config package, then its dependency upon perl has to be removed. During the past few days here, I rewro

Bug#273262: base-config: Enable termwrap console support for Greek after 1st boot [patch]

2004-09-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Patch forgotten sorry. Konstantinos --- --- /usr/sbin/termwrap 2004-09-13 03:25:58.0 +0300 @@ -347,15 +355,17 @@ # Enable UTF-8 in console case $TERMINAL in console) - try_load_fb -

Bug#273262: base-config: Enable termwrap console support for Greek after 1st boot [patch]

2004-09-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Package: base-config Version: 2.45 Severity: normal Tags: patch This change in termwrap is needed to enable Greek support after 1st boot. Konstantinos -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux margkab1.easyvserver.net 2.4.25-1um #1 Mon Feb 23 16:21:27 GMT 2004 i6

/etc/init.d/console-screen.sh does not run on 1st boot

2004-09-23 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi, Joey and I tried testing greek support here in Oldenburg, and since console-* packages seem to support greek quite well right now, I suggested we try dumping use of jfbterm for 2nd stage. Unfortunately, it does not work, it does not set the font at 1st boot (just after d-i reboots the sy

Bug#272325: Bug#272328: acknowledged by developer (broken images)

2004-09-23 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 20 ÎÎÏ 2004 01:20, Joey Hess wrote: > > > You tested known broken images. Please retry. > > Actually, AFAIK the breakage Bastian is referring to did not get > into any CD images for i386, since I built fixed initrds before the > CDs built. > > Also, it did not manifest anything like the prob

Re: Two Macedonias

2004-09-23 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Since, my comments displeased some people who were brave enough to accuse me of 'selling my country', I hereby denounce all 'authority' with regards to such matters. Feel free to decide whatever you like, I prefer to spend my time in some actually useful area, for example, complete the greek su

Re: Two Macedonias

2004-09-23 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÎ 23 ÎÎÏ 2004 11:44, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > 2) use the names 'Republic Macedonia' and 'Greek Macedonia'. > > > > I like that one, but, as Steve Langasek said, in the namespace of > > autonomous territories, there is no collision at all. > > Well, in my opinion, if we decide changing F

Re: Two Macedonias

2004-09-23 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÎ 23 ÎÎÏ 2004 10:39, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > siward wrote: > > I think the people of Greek Macedonia have a different objection > > : they were always called Macedonia, > > and now another region is trying to take their name away from > > them, which is offensive. > > This makes me laugh. I w

Bug#272328: acknowledged by developer (broken images)

2004-09-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
A bug report should not be closed, unless the bug itself is fixed. A bug itself being known does not really mean anything, other than an indication that a problem exists. I advise you to reconsider reopening them. In any case, I will test again tomorrow and the next days, and if the problem p

Bug#272330: Unable to change debconf priority

2004-09-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Package: cdebconf-priority Severity: important As a follow-up to #272325 (inability to change language in businesscard 20040918 image, linux26 profile), i tried to change the debconf priority. I could not, apparently the priority of the change debconf priority question is too low... -- System Inf

Bug#272325: Unable to change language

2004-09-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Package: languagechooser Severity: important Using 20040918 sid businesscard image, linux26 profile, Once I choose English, if immediately after I want to change language, I cannot, it keeps presenting me with the list of countries for english. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT pre

Bug#272328: Installation starts with red background

2004-09-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Package: installation-reports Severity: minor Using sid businesscard 20040918, linux26 profile. Background is red. The strange thing is that if I change VC and then back to the installer VC, the background is blue. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (50

Bug#271147: termwrap doesn't work correctly with KOI8-U and serial console

2004-09-12 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÎ 11 ÎÎÏ 2004 21:24, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > Ognyan Kulev ÑÐÐ: > > Package: base-config > > Version: 2.44 > > Tags: d-i > > > > When termwrap is invoked for KOI8-U environment and terminal is > > serial console, /usr/bin/cyr is executed. However, this command > > has no sense for s

Re: Missing some options in Tasksel

2004-09-09 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14: > A minimal graphic environment task, which loads the x-window-system package, > and maybe a few other stuff that are needed, would be a very welcome addition > to the plain desktop task, and i seriously don't think that having two tasks > that deal with X is so much o

Faulty disk, probably offline for a couple of days.

2004-09-08 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My laptop's disk has become faulty -or so does SMART tell me- and I have to go and get a new one tomorrow. I have a backup and i don't expect the restore to take more than 2-3 days, but still, it means I can't work on localization-config or my other

Re: Bug#261476: languagechooser entry for bulgarian

2004-09-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
ve someone in the team > who takes care of this and follows everything properly (please do > not misunderstand meI do not say that no-one cares about > cyrillic languages). So, all decisions about Greek input/output are > Konstantinos Margaritis only. I will revert all changes suppos

Re: Localization-config uploaded, 2 strings for translation

2004-09-06 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 06 ÎÎÏ 2004 10:14, Javier FernÃndez-Sanguino PeÃa wrote: > You mean install time here I guess yes my mistake. > There are several situations which might cam around that make it > useful being in localization-config: > > 1.- The sysadmin has not defined a language on installation and

Re: Localization-config uploaded, 2 strings for translation

2004-09-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
(CCing d-boot as I want to make sure I have not misunderstood anything) On ÎÎÏ 06 ÎÎÏ 2004 01:00, Javier FernÃndez-Sanguino PeÃa wrote: > Ah, I see, I thought there was one script per language but, > actually, you execute the $release script with the language as a > parameter. Yes, it's better t

Localization-config uploaded, 2 strings for translation

2004-08-31 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I strongly believe that l-c has come to a point that is almost production-ready (reasons are given below) and can be included in Debian. It has been uploaded today to the Debian archive so that anyone can test. Debconf preseeding works as

Re: List of possible XkbModel entries per locale

2004-08-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
(Sorry for posting to all these lists, but not everybody is subscribed to i18n as Jonas suggested. Your replies, though should only be directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], you don't have to cc me). Ok, this is the current list with all the feedback I have had so far. 'bg_BG' => { LAYOUT => 'us,bg', X

Re: Can't access Alioth SVN repositories

2004-08-23 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎ 24 ÎÏÎ 2004 08:28, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Andre Luis Lopes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Also, I can't log in to shell.alioth.debian.org using my > > username/password anymore. Prior to the recent Alioth problems I > > was able to log in to this machine just fine. > > > > How should I

Re: localization-config uploaded (former locale-config-skolelinux)

2004-08-20 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÎ 19 ÎÏÎ 2004 18:07, Kenshi Muto wrote: > I checked out from anonymous CVS and found my previous report was > already merged, thanks! :-) I still have a few more changes to upload, but I'm not at home right now, I'm in Athens to watch the Olympics and I can't use CVS because of the restrict

Bug#266075: Bug#266102: Bug#266075: some localization issues

2004-08-20 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 20 ÎÏÎ 2004 12:38, Joey Hess wrote: > > But, I guess that default KDE sessions use the configured > > language as a default and not English, and then do not prompt the > > user about the language, is it? > > In my experience it has an annoying prompt for language still. It does, but I thoug

Re: localization-config uploaded (former locale-config-skolelinux)

2004-08-18 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 18 ÎÏÎ 2004 09:20, Christian Perrier wrote: > It would be far better. I'm pretty sure that the message I > forwarded to my fellow french colleagues will trigger answer like > "why doesn't he use the settings from console-data". because there is no 1-1 mapping unfortunately, as i said in my

List of possible XkbModel entries per locale

2004-08-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi, I'd like to make a complete list of every X keyboard config for each locale. I'm certain I miss many entries, but I would appreciate it if you sent me feedback to make sure that all locales have the correct config. Here is the list so far (borrowed and slightly changed from the Skolelinux):

Re: localization-config uploaded (former locale-config-skolelinux)

2004-08-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎ 17 ÎÏÎ 2004 23:21, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Konstantinos Margaritis] > > > Why don't we just use UTF-8? I've been using for Greek for more > > than a year and it's been much easier (and Greek is a difficult > > case anyway). And it solves all thes

Re: localization-config uploaded (former locale-config-skolelinux)

2004-08-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎ 17 ÎÏÎ 2004 06:47, Kenshi Muto wrote: > Hi, Hi Kenshi, > That's interesting. Good job, Konstantinos. Thanks though the great work was already done by the Skolelinux guys :-) > I tested this in Japanese. > > 1. update-locale-config uses "ja_JP", but Japanese locale has > always encoding

Re: localization-config uploaded (former locale-config-skolelinux)

2004-08-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎ 17 ÎÏÎ 2004 09:14, Christian Perrier wrote: > All this goes furtherÂ: why do we keep these locales if they are > not consistent? Why don't we just use UTF-8? I've been using for Greek for more than a year and it's been much easier (and Greek is a difficult case anyway). And it solves all

Re: localization-config uploaded (former locale-config-skolelinux)

2004-08-16 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 16 ÎÏÎ 2004 14:47, Christian Perrier wrote: > These two locales are here because one most often uses the > ISO-8859-1 charset and the other one used ISO-8859-15. Ok, this one i knew so far. > Keeping these locales is indeed only a matter of backward > compatibility...and I'm even not sure

Re: Bug#266075: some localization issues

2004-08-16 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 16 ÎÏÎ 2004 20:45, Christian Perrier wrote: > This could me solved by using the localization-config package > recently uploaded by Konstantinos, I guess. Kostas, what do you > think of it? it should be fairly easy to write a script that handles the locale environment of gdm. But i don't re

Re: localization-config uploaded (former locale-config-skolelinux)

2004-08-16 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 16 ÎÏÎ 2004 13:06, Frans Pop wrote: > - The test is for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > However, d-i currently does not (yet) set the locale to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], but to nl_NL. Do the tests still work in that case? > I think the same goes for other euro countries. Hm, i copied the values from the

localization-config uploaded (former locale-config-skolelinux)

2004-08-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have just uploaded to ftp-master the localization-config package, which is an slightly redesigned version of locale-config-skolelinux, so that it is able to work with sarge as well as woody (and of course future releases). For those

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

2004-07-10 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I have now finished the infrastructure using version maps, but before I upload I would like to describe the process, for feedback, comments etc. Basically the dir structure is this: /conffiles.d: sarge/ woody/ xfree86-kbd.preinst ispell.prein

DONATION: Old world PowerMac-clone (upgraded to G3)

2004-07-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (I am sending this to -boot per tbm's suggestion). Hi, Since I am in the process of moving out to my own flat, I'm trying to figure out what I actually need to take with me... So I have this old-world PowerMac clone (Umax Apus 2000, same as an Sup

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

2004-06-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 30 ÎÎÏÎ 2004 01:39, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Well, sure, you can keep adding new options all the time, but it > will be a maintenence problem keeping it correct and up to date. True, but this applies for everything, and maintaining will be easy for older releases, only the latest will

is /etc/debian_version trustworthy?

2004-06-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
(For those who don't follow the thread about preseeding X debconf values, I need a way to support both woody, sarge and future releases and I need a way to know the current release) Can I count on /etc/debian_version holding specific and well known values? (aside from the case a stupid user cha

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

2004-06-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 30 ÎÎÏÎ 2004 00:39, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Not sure if it is a good idea to hardcode in the names of debian > releases like that. The package should work also after sarge is > released, and a new version is being developed. There is no reason why it should not work, after all, I can

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

2004-06-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎ 29 ÎÎÏÎ 2004 17:34, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > ok, how about spliting the conffiles to two dirs, for woody/sarge, > or with a suffix in the filename (eg. kde2.woody, kde3.sarge). Ok, here is what i have now: conffiles.d/: sarge woody conffiles.d/sarge: ispell.preinst x

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

2004-06-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎ 29 ÎÎÏÎ 2004 14:12, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Konstantinos Margaritis] > > > * of all the conffiles.d, we only need xfree86-kbd, and probably > > kde(but updated for kde 3) > > If possible, make sure the package work in Woody as well as in > Sarge/Sid.

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

2004-06-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
uot;xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model" and > > > "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout" with > > > appropriate values, depending on the chosen keyboard layout > > > during the kbd-chooser step in d-i. > > > > Konsta

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

2004-06-27 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
uot;xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model" and > > > "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout" with > > > appropriate values, depending on the chosen keyboard layout > > > during the kbd-chooser step in d-i. > > > > Konsta

Bug#251974: Progress bars should include a Cancel

2004-05-31 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Package: cdebconf Severity: minor When in a progress bar, say while downloading packages from a network, if my connection to the mirror becomes very slow and i decide to cancel the download and choose another mirror, I cannot because I cannot stop the process. A cancel button should be available

OT: colo sounds like...

2004-04-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
If there are any Greek cobalt users, they will laugh at the name of the new bootloader... Colo sounds the same as 'ass' in Greek! Irrelevant I know, but I thought it was funny :-) Konstantinos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Automated xkb/kde/fonts configuration after install

2004-04-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 15 April 2004 14:50, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > >>Anyway you may have a look at > >> packages/languagechooser/languagelist > >> packages/languagechooser/prebaseconfig > >>there have been recent changes abo

Re: Automated xkb/kde/fonts configuration after install

2004-04-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 15 April 2004 02:54, Denis Barbier wrote: > As you chose el_GR.UTF-8 as the default locale, you have to find > a way to provide a working UTF-8 console. If jfbterm works for 2nd > stage, it could also be used when installation is over, couldn't > it? I thought about it, but IIRC I rea

Re: Automated xkb/kde/fonts configuration after install

2004-04-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 15 April 2004 02:40, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm sure there is such a package somewhere, but I doubt we want to > use such a package as part of the stock debian install. In > particular, we should stay away from modifying other package's > config files, and preseeding debconf questions feels

Re: Who do you have to sleep with / bribe / shoot to get an answer about RAID support

2004-04-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 15 April 2004 00:03, Mark Demma wrote: > Or doesn't work, as the case may be. I'm just making a request, > something that I really think should have been included ages ago if > Debian wants to be seriously considered beyond hobbyists. No need > to get into a snit and make personal att

Automated xkb/kde/fonts configuration after install

2004-04-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi, I have successfully installed Debian totally localized in the Greek language. I just selected 'greek' task and everything went smoothly. There are some visual artifacts in the console, mainly because of UTF-8 mode, but these are getting fewer and tasksel is still 1.47 in the last netinst c

Re: [i18n] String Changes in iso-codes

2004-04-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
flag in Red Hat Linux 8.0" about a year ago. In that case, > many Taiwan users boycotted Red Hat and chose some other > distributions, for good. Please don't let that happen to Debian. > > Again, I don't mind using ISO 3166 in d-i as long as you allow > overrides. >

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:26, Colin Watson wrote: > This seems like a good idea; but where? I don't think it's a good > idea to force an extra note unconditionally, and I can't see any > hooks for displaying help text. Well, imho, the technical knowledge level of the average mac user is far b

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:32, Colin Watson wrote: > I've checked in partman-newworld, which wraps up the method for > creating the special Apple_Bootstrap partition you need to boot > newworld PowerMac systems. I've tested it somewhat, although not > exactly with a straight-through install or a

English string in partman-target

2004-04-06 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi, I'm not sure about the correctness of the following string in partman-target: "Partitioning a hard drive consists of logically dividing it to create the space needed to install your new Debian system. You need to choose which partition(s) will be used for the installation of Debian." I'm

Re: 2nd stage stats page shows missing translations

2004-04-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Monday 05 April 2004 11:00, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On 2004-04-05 09:55, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > Hi, > > is it my idea, or is the 2nd stage translations status page > > broken? In http://people.debian.org/~seppy/d-i/2nd-stage/ it > > report

2nd stage stats page shows missing translations

2004-04-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi, is it my idea, or is the 2nd stage translations status page broken? In http://people.debian.org/~seppy/d-i/2nd-stage/ it reports some translations (namely from the packages shadow, pcmcia-cs and newt) as missing (I can only speak for the greek language, but perhaps there are similar cases wi

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sunday 04 April 2004 16:06, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Well, it's only particularly crazy Greek governments which care; > most Greeks accept that Macedonia (the country) is *not* making > territorial claims on Greece Macedonia, and there are lots of other > situations in the world where a country

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sunday 04 April 2004 10:38, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Agreed the "official short names" are ugly ; > (http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code >-lists/list-en1.html) eg. "LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC", > "LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA" for those countries normally called

Re: Update to Debian Installer translators documentation

2004-03-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Monday 29 March 2004 08:37, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Konstantinos Margaritis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > > I'd like to suggest a few changes to doc/translations.txt, wrt to > > the suggested packages for translation: > > Fine. I'll change it.

Re: Some issues with UTF-8 locale

2004-03-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sunday 28 March 2004 23:58, Joey Hess wrote: > Unfortunatly tasksel uses slang, not newt, so this patch is not > going to fix it.. Yes I understand that now, having looked at the code myself. Still the point remains that UTF-8 breaks some things, some more than others. The biggest problem with

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

2004-03-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sunday 28 March 2004 23:32, Rick Thomas wrote: > It's still possible to use quik or miboot to get a completely > "macOS free" machine, but we can leave that as an exercise for the > serious hackers. Actually on some old powermac clones (like mine, a Umax C500 with a lot of gadgets, like G3, et

Re: Update to Debian Installer translators documentation

2004-03-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi, I'd like to suggest a few changes to doc/translations.txt, wrt to the suggested packages for translation: From the file: > Important > - > debconf man-db console-common netbase ifupdown console-data adduser > setserial bsdmainutils lilo netkit-inetd Note: at least on my system, I

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sunday 28 March 2004 18:37, Joey Hess wrote: > I don't understand how that could be significant either. What did > you see? It loaded the exim4 debconf screen (which it didn't before) and it allowed me to complete the installation. There was no loop. Konstantinos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Some issues with UTF-8 locale [UPDATE]

2004-03-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Saturday 27 March 2004 18:52, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > The programs that are affected are base-config: [text cut] and exim4-config: http://people.debian.org/~markos/d-i/exim4.png [no bug reports filed yet, it's definately the effect of #232426] > I think that some of t

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Saturday 27 March 2004 22:31, Joey Hess wrote: > Yes, it was the MTA config item. I don't see the significance of a > colon, it's just another character. Found it!!! I used MTA in parenthesis to explain the greek translation like that: "text (MTA)" Apparently perl didn't like that and it cause

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-27 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Friday 05 March 2004 21:20, Joey Hess wrote: > I can reproduce this bug doing an install in greek. Moreover, I can > reproduce it with the teletype debconf frontend, so it's not a > problem with whiptail. It seems that this one menu item for MTA > configuration must be mangled somehow in debconf

Re: Some issues with UTF-8 locale

2004-03-27 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Saturday 27 March 2004 18:52, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > The patch in #232426, fixes the effect in #238765, but it still > looks like the screen is too wide (goes outside the screen bounds). I meant to write it fixes the effect in #234529. I have to stop working... Konsta

tasks overrides update

2004-03-27 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Another thing, please, what do I have to do to have the task overrides list updated? I have setup a 'greek' task in tasksel that doesn't work because tasksel doesn't find any available packages (#235433, #238765). This is since Jan 28, 2 months ago. Whom do I have to beg for this? (I have an

Some issues with UTF-8 locale

2004-03-27 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
First, are there any other languages that use UTF-8 by default besides Greek? Looking at I noticed that UTF-8 produces some strange problems in the appearance of some -not all- screens, esp. in the 2nd stage installation. The programs that are affected are base-config: http://people.debian.org

Bug#237387: Selected installation language should be set as system-wide default

2004-03-12 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Friday 12 March 2004 10:10, Christian Perrier wrote: > As Debian Installer uses the debian-installer/locale value for > storing the user choices besides debian-installer/country and > debian-installer/language, I hereby suggest that locales uses this > value as a default. I second this! > For

Re: broken greek translation causes infinite loop

2004-03-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Friday 05 March 2004 21:04, Joey Hess wrote: > I noticed that installing d-i from a usb stick in greek leads to an > infinite loop; iso-scan is run over and over. Looks like iso-scan > and load-iso have identical menu texts in greek (one is obviously > wrong, but I don't read greek). main-menu r

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 04 March 2004 03:16, Joey Hess wrote: > Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Well the grep output is coming from part of base-config, but I > can't understand why that would happen. Are you using the > debian-installer netinst CD? Yes, even the latest 20040303 sid netins

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sunday 29 February 2004 19:26, Joey Hess wrote: > I can't reproduce this. What does your /etc/inittab look like? > Do you have an /etc/inittab.real? > > /usr/lib/base-config/menu/finish is responsible for replacing the > inittab with one that does not use base-config. Add debugging > commands to

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-02-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Package: base-config Version: 2.13 Severity: normal after successfully installing and configuring the system with base-config, instead of letting me login to the system, base-config restarts and makes me answer the same questions all over. Konstantinos -- System Information: Debian Release: test

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