Bug#745082: fakechroot: chfn in a fakechroot environment

2015-10-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
24 20:04:16.0 + +++ fakechroot-2.17.2/debian/changelog 2015-10-18 03:51:18.0 + @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +fakechroot (2.17.2-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add empty audit_log_acct_message (closes: #745082). + + -- Michael Gilbert Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:

Bug#797340: choose-mirror: use httpredir.debian.org by default

2015-08-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > I have seen issues with this. It might be good for the general case of > apt where you see what the failure is and can retry if needed. But in > the US it caused me some aborted installations because there was some > mirror in the rotation that

Bug#797340: choose-mirror: use httpredir.debian.org by default

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: choose-mirror severity: wishlist version: 2.65 This article [0] had some extensive complaints about Debian, one of which is that the installer has too many screens (apparently 20 in their case). Setting a default mirror without user intervention would nicely save 3 of those steps, and ht

Bug#788173: rescue-mode: kfreebsd rescue fails with can't create /dev/md

2015-06-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: rescue-mode version: 1.51 severity: important x-debbugs-cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org Adding the line "set kFreeBSD.rescue/enable=true" in a grub entry and booting the kfreebsd installer fails when executing rescue-mode. The error is: mkdir: can't create directory '/dev/md': Operation

Re: Bug#778492: unblock: ndisc6/1.0.1-2

2015-04-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: tag -1 - moreinfo On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Thanks for trying, but no, that's not sufficient. I really would > like having a real use case where the bug gets reproduced without > “cheating” (for the lack of a better wording), so that we can actually > chec

Re: Bug#778492: unblock: ndisc6/1.0.1-2

2015-03-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: tag -1 - moreinfo On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > It would be nice to compare what happens when one installs gnome/jessie > vs. gnome/sid. I really wouldn't want this conflict to trigger having > rdnssd installed and network-manager/gnome not… Everything seems

Re: Hints for d-i jessie RC2, part 1

2015-03-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi people, > > here's a first round of unblock/unblock-udeb hints for the upcoming d-i > jessie RC2. Don't hesitate to ask questions if anything looks fishy. Cyril, Would it be possible also to unblock ndisc6 in time for RC2? I saw no prob

Re: Bug#778492: unblock: ndisc6/1.0.1-2

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> It would be nice to compare what happens when one installs gnome/jessie >> vs. gnome/sid. I really wouldn't want this conflict to trigger having >> rdnssd installed and network-manager/gnome not… > > After a su

Re: Bug#778492: unblock: ndisc6/1.0.1-2

2015-02-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
> It would be nice to compare what happens when one installs gnome/jessie > vs. gnome/sid. I really wouldn't want this conflict to trigger having > rdnssd installed and network-manager/gnome not… After a successful jessie gnome install over ipv6 $ dpkg -l | grep rdnssd $ dpkg -l | grep network-ma

Bug#779466: unblock: e2fsprogs/1.42.12-1.1

2015-02-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
-maintainer upload by the Security Team. + * Fix CVE-2015-1572: incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0247 (closes: #778948). + + -- Michael Gilbert Sun, 22 Feb 2015 01:50:57 + + e2fsprogs (1.42.12-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream version diff -Nru e2fsprogs-1.42.12/debian/patches/CVE-2015-1572

Bug#778734: unblock: bind9/9.9.5.dfsg-9

2015-02-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
using DNSSEC (closes: #778733). + + -- Michael Gilbert Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:42:21 + + bind9 (1:9.9.5.dfsg-8) unstable; urgency=medium * Launch rndc command in the background in networking scripts to avoid a only in patch2: unchanged: --- bind9-9.9.5.dfsg.orig/lib/dns/zone.c +++ bind9

Bug#778492: unblock: ndisc6/1.0.1-2

2015-02-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
ian/changelog +++ ndisc6-1.0.1/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +ndisc6 (1.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * QA upload. + * Set maintainer to the Debian QA Group (see #713004). + * Add conflicts between rdnssd and network-manager (closes: #740998). + + -- Michael Gilbert Sat, 14 Feb 2015 01:16

Bug#778366: unblock: kfreebsd-10/10.1~svn274115-2

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
Package: release.debian.org User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Severity: normal x-debbugs-cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Please consider unblocking kfreebsd-10. It fixes 2 security issues: https://security-tracker.debian.org/kfreebsd-10 unblock kfreebsd-10/10.1~svn2

Bug#778364: unblock: glibc/2.19-15

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
Package: release.debian.org User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Severity: normal x-debbugs-cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Please consider unblocking glibc. It fixes 5 security issues: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/glibc unblock glibc/2.19

Bug#778351: unblock: isc-dhcp/4.3.1-6

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
regression in error handling for the server's init script +(closes: #775834). +- Thanks to François-Régis Vuillemin. + + -- Michael Gilbert Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:13:19 + + isc-dhcp (4.3.1-5) unstable; urgency=medium * Dynamically link against system bind libraries. diff --git a/d

Bug#776186: busybox: CVE-2014-9645

2015-01-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> I uploaded an nmu fixing this issue to delayed/15. Please let me know >> if I can shorten or if you want to do a maintainer upload instead. >> See proposed patch attached. > > NACK, it won't make it into testing this way. Ok, cancelled.

Bug#776186: busybox: CVE-2014-9645

2015-01-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
accepts paths as modules (closes: #776186). + + -- Michael Gilbert Mon, 26 Jan 2015 03:18:37 + + busybox (1:1.22.0-14) medium; urgency=low * one more attempt to fix the glibc build-depend for #769190, now diff -Nru busybox-1.22.0/debian/patches/CVE-2014-9645.patch busybox-1.22.0/debian

unblock: bind9/1:9.9.5.dfsg-8

2015-01-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
Package: release.debian.org User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Severity: normal Please unblock bind9. It fixes an issue where a hang in named could bring down the entire network #760555. This only touches files in the bind9 binary package, so nothing in the udebs has

unblock: bind9/1:9.9.5.dfsg-8

2015-01-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
Please unblock bind9. It fixes an issue where a hang in named could bring down the entire network #760555. The changes only affect the bind9 binary package, so nothing in the udebs has chaned. unblock bind9/1:9.9.5.dfsg-8 unblock-udeb bind9/1:9.9.5.dfsg-8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bo

Re: Bug#762762: Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind

2014-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 31/10/14 10:44, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Is it on kfreebsd, or on linux kernel too? I wonder maybe we should >> switch to isc-dhcp on all variants/arches, and ditch udhcpc... > > Linux d-i only uses udhcpc at the moment. (Ubuntu use

Re: Bug#762762: Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind (was: Bug#762762: nmu fixing bind issues)

2014-10-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 00:52, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> Michael Gilbert wrote: >> > Would it be ok to stage the changes in unstable to make it somewhat >> > easy for porters to test? >> >> I don't particularl

Re: Bug#762762: Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind (was: Bug#762762: nmu fixing bind issues)

2014-10-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 00:52, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> Michael Gilbert wrote: >> > Would it be ok to stage the changes in unstable to make it somewhat >> > easy for porters to test? >> >> I don't particularl

Re: Bug#762762: Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind (was: Bug#762762: nmu fixing bind issues)

2014-10-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I'm not going to go through building this on a kfreebsd porterbox to try > and figure out how isc-dhcp would look if rebuilt against such packages, > but that looks a saner base for porters to build upon. > > That doesn't make the timing issu

Re: Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind (was: Bug#762762: nmu fixing bind issues)

2014-10-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Gilbert (2014-10-05): >> Dear hurd and kfreebsd porters. I plan to upload the attached patch, >> which along with the previous upload introduces a bind udeb, which >> will be dynamically linked by the dhcp udeb

Re: Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind (was: Bug#762762: nmu fixing bind issues)

2014-10-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Disable parallel build. Closes: #762766 + * Set -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks. Closes: #750760 + * Fix dependencies for libbind-export-udeb. Closes: #762762 + * Don't install configuration files to /usr. Closes: #762948 + + -- Michael Gilbert

Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind (was: Bug#762762: nmu fixing bind issues)

2014-10-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> I've uploaded an nmu fixing the issues revealed by the previous nmu to >> delayed/5. Please let me know if I should delay longer. See attached >> patch. > > The udeb handling is crazy. Please clearly describe what is actually wrong and I'

Re: new tasksel

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Joey Hess wrote: > I have made some significant changes to tasksel, that will need changes > elsewhere. I plan to upload this to unstable pretty soon, feedback permitting. [...] >│[*] Desktop environment │ >│

Bug#760778: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#760778: xfce4-session: Please depend on gnome-orca

2014-09-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
>> > > I sympathise with a11y, but forcing gnome-orca on everyone won't >> > > happen. >> > >> > Well, that is actually precisely our goal: to have gnome-orca installed >> > on all systems, ready to be started in case one needs it. >> >> Then it's unrelated to Xfce, and you want to include that in

Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Steven Chamberlain (2014-08-20): >> On 14/08/14 18:32, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> > Now, I think there are several questions to answer: >> > 1. What were the reasons for having arch-dependent dhcp clients? >> >> I'd speculate because udhcpc

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > The better question is whether the xfce switch had or has any > influence on slowing the general debian growth rate [0]? Is the > slight downtick over the last few months due to the default desktop, > or some other change that

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Joey Hess wrote: >> Hardware: GNOME 3.12 will be one of the few desktop environments to support >> HiDPI displays, now very common on some laptop models. Lack of support for >> HiDPI means non-technical users will get an unreadable desktop by default, >> and >> no

Bug#734324: debootstrap: unavoidable keyring warning in second-stage

2014-01-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: debootstrap version: 1.0.56 severity: normal The second stage always presents the keyring warning. This, I think, is unnecessary since all of the package verification is done during the first stage. One may think that this could be worked around by using "--keyring /debian-archive-keyri

Re: init-select

2014-01-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Now, I certainly don't want all that weight solely on my shoulders, so > I would very much prefer this choice to be team-maintained, and I > think the installer/boot team has the expertise and clout to make the > right cho

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > 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 >&

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: >On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Anyway, not going to play on words because there are so many efforts >> wasted with this topic already. Again, my position on the topic: "No, this >> doesn

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Gilbert (2014-01-03): >> 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 &

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
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 solu

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Or how would you ensure that > while the user can easily switch the init system, when doing so half of > the daemons installed won't start because they don't support the > alternative. And if he switches back, the other half does not start >

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Gilbert (2014-01-02): >> So, I suppose this isn't immediately obvious, but there is another >> solved problem here. >> >> Say the TC ultimately does not choose systemd as the default, and

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:43 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi, > > On 03.01.2014 10:16, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >> Michael Gilbert writes: >>> >>> So, today I wrote init-select. It's a small tool that empowers users >>> to freely and sim

Re: init-select

2014-01-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Even if what's happening on tech-ctte isn't exactly ideal, I don't think > letting users choose their init system is a service to them. Editing a > kernel command line is enough for those who want to play. Others don't > need to bother. So,

init-select

2014-01-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
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 among all of the available init systems. It also

Bug#721869: install appropriate linux-headers

2013-09-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes: >> On 5 September 2013 20:58, Bjørn Mork wrote: >>> Christian PERRIER writes: >>> Quoting Bjørn Mork (bj...@mork.no): So, it's probably less overkill than it may seem at first glance to imagine that inst

Re: task-desktop: default desktop environment for Jessie

2013-05-31 Thread Michael Gilbert
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 in

Re: task-desktop: default desktop environment for Jessie

2013-05-31 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > There's no final decision, it simply never was discussed at all. 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 in wheezy

Bug#693839: debian-installer: kernel install fails on armel buffalo linkstation pro, missing uboot-mkimage

2013-03-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: tag -1 -patch On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: >> Since the release is getting close, I've gone ahead with an nmu adding >> u-boot-tools as a "real" dependency. Uploaded to delayed/5 to give >> you a chance to do a maintainer upload if desired. Please see >> attach

Bug#693839: debian-installer: kernel install fails on armel buffalo linkstation pro, missing uboot-mkimage

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: tag -1 patch On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> I disagree. flash-kernel maintains a database with information about >> each device, including a list of required packages. It will install >> those required packa

Bug#693839: debian-installer: kernel install fails on armel buffalo linkstation pro, missing uboot-mkimage

2013-03-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I disagree. flash-kernel maintains a database with information about > each device, including a list of required packages. It will install > those required packages. u-boot-tools is listed for the Linkstation, > so the real question is why it's not being installed. Loo

Re: Please lift udeb-block from isc-dhcp

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > Please remove the udeb-block from isc-dhcp so wheezy can get the RC > bug fixes uploaded to tpu a couple weeks ago. Sorry, wrong terminology. Please consider approving a udeb-unblock for isc-dhcp. Thanks, Mike -- To

Please lift udeb-block from isc-dhcp

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, Please remove the udeb-block from isc-dhcp so wheezy can get the RC bug fixes uploaded to tpu a couple weeks ago. Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Bug#642031: should debootstrap workaround libc6 kernel uname parsing bug

2013-02-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
Joey Hess wrote: > I'm unsure about trying to work around this in debootstrap, despite > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debootstrap/+bug/802985 having > a LD_PRELOAD hack to do so. There is also setarch or uname26: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c See

Re: netinst + uefi (was Re: netinst install-time compilation of network drier)

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Keith Moyer wrote: > On 11/24/2012 4:53 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> No, you're doing the right thing. dd to the raw device is the >> right way to use the image, I was just checking that was what >> you'd done. Hmmm. Another machine that doesn't like the UEFI stuff

Re: Trying to install Wheezy on an Asus Zenbook UX32VD

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote: >> That is grub bug #661789. > > Looks like it is. Anyone knows a workaround? Yes. Take a look at the merged bug reports. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Trying to install Wheezy on an Asus Zenbook UX32VD

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote: > Now I'm trying with the disk1 iso copied to another USB disk. This time it > manages to complete the installation without any issues, but fails to boot. > After grub, I do get the following at bootup: > Loading Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 ... > L

Re: Trying to install Wheezy on an Asus Zenbook UX32VD

2012-11-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use the latest beta of the Wheezy installer to get an OS on my > new Zenbook. I also have a zenbook, so I ran into similar issues, but this was before EFI support was added. > I did this by DD'ing the netboot iso

Bug#680084: nmu

2012-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 16:57:30 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > >> Hi, I've uploaded an nmu fixing this issue to delayed/7. The extra >> time is to give you a chance to do a maintainer upload instead. >&

Bug#680084: nmu

2012-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I've uploaded an nmu fixing this issue to delayed/7. The extra time is to give you a chance to do a maintainer upload instead. Please see attached patch. Best wishes, Mike os-prober.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#690594: tasksel: execution aborted due to compilation errors

2012-10-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Gilbert (25/10/2012): >> I've uploaded an nmu fixing this issue to delayed/7. The extra time >> is in case you want to do a maintainer upload instead. See attached >> patch. > > The chang

Bug#680084: os-prober: postinst script gets stuck

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
> Maybe some information about the disk layout helps, too: > > /dev/sda is the only disk installed. > > /dev/sda1 /boot ext4 > /dev/sda2 encrypted physical volume for lvm2: > > /dev/mapper/pv00physical volume > /dev/mapper/vg00-root / fi

Bug#690594: tasksel: execution aborted due to compilation errors

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: tag -1 patch Hi, I've uploaded an nmu fixing this issue to delayed/7. The extra time is in case you want to do a maintainer upload instead. See attached patch. Best wishes, Mike tasksel.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#680084: os-prober: postinst script gets stuck

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
> I see processes such as: > "grub-mount /dev/mapper/vg1-SomeLogicalVolume /var/lib/os-prober/mount" Can you all see if you have anything in common with these vg partitions? Also, can you analyze the output from manually running the seemingly hanging process? # grub-mount /dev/mapper/vg Also,

Bug#685499: closed by Michael Gilbert (Re: Bug#685499: debian-installer: Include firmware-linux)

2012-08-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM, borish wrote: > Well, I know how to solve my problem, but this doesn't help the > unexperienced user who might ditch Debian if wifi doesn't work and install > Ubuntu instead. Ubuntu supports non-free firmware during install. Presumably inexperienced (but proactive

Re: [pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#685268: unblock: isc-dhcp/4.2.4-1

2012-08-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Anyway, it was close. > > “close” isn't exactly “well before” as you previously claimed. Wording mistake. Sorry. > I don't see any reasons why the version currently sitting in testing > would not be the version in wheezy. Which should a

Re: [pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#685268: unblock: isc-dhcp/4.2.4-1

2012-08-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Gilbert (18/08/2012): >> Andrew hasn't yet made it clear which version he's been planning to >> support in wheezy [0], but he did upload this one well before the >> freeze. > > Nice try: > [

unblock: isc-dhcp/4.2.4-1

2012-08-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
Package: release.debian.org User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Severity: normal Please unblock package isc-dhcp Andrew hasn't yet made it clear which version he's been planning to support in wheezy [0], but he did upload this one well before the freeze. Unfortunately

Bug#684968: debian-installer: requests non-free firmware for a device that works just as well without it

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> This recently came up on the fsf-collab list. Here are my thoughts on >> appropriate wording: >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/fsf-collab-discuss/2012-August/000200.html >> >> Obviously that's rather long given character cons

Bug#684968: debian-installer: requests non-free firmware for a device that works just as well without it

2012-08-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Stefan Nagy wrote: > Debian (installer) should enable users to make a decision here. Instead > right now it seems like the safe way in each and every case is to > install proprietary firmware – and everyone who decides not to install > it is on his/her own. > > This

Bug#684946: debian-installer: CD install iso does not install ndiswrapper correctly.

2012-08-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:06 PM, zac newton wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Version: debian-6.0.5-i386-cd1.iso > Severity: important > > The cd iso installer does not install ndiswrapper correctly. One problem > (there > may be more) is that the ndiswrapper.ko file is not installed. The probl

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey folks, > > Remembering the fun that we had during the Squeeze release with trying > to make single-CD installations work well, it's time to consider what > we're going to *claim* to support in Wheezy. We've had a history of > supporting

Bug#649146:

2012-04-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
forcemerge 650234 649146 reassign 650234 eglibc retitle 650234 eglibc: libc-2.11.x.so segfaults when used with ld-2.13.so thanks Hi, this seems more of an eglibc issue, so I am reassigning. Daniel Kahn Gillmor did a lot of useful tinkering in http://bugs.debian.org/650234. Thanks, Mike -- To

Bug#269656: Bug#618920: debootstrap: needs more robust download error handling

2012-03-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > I've committed my improved version, which you're welcome to review: Cool! Thanks for looking into this. This problem has reared its head on me too many times to count over the past few years ;) Thanks again! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#655841: Please remove Gnash from default Debian install, as it crashes

2012-01-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> gnash is not only installed with KDE, from what I see as its >> installation is triggerred by the desktop task, that's common to KDE >> and GNOME, at least. >> >> It is triggerred by "browser-plugin-gnash". >> >> What do you suggest as alte

Re: daily build 12/12/11 amd64

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:45 AM, richard wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:01:38 -0500 > Michael Gilbert wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Richard wrote: >> > Hi >> > I used the daily build 12/12/11 for a clean install on a amd64 machine, >> >

Re: daily build 12/12/11 amd64

2011-12-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Richard wrote: > Hi > I used the daily build 12/12/11 for a clean install on a amd64 machine, > the network dchp problem is fixed, but the graphical install still freezes on > the first page, >  or could be no response to mouse or keyboard. Hi, I'm still having tr

Bug#649146: debootstrap: bootstrapping squeeze with the fakechroot variant leads to nested fakeroot usage

2011-11-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > package: debootstrap > version: 1.0.37 > severity: important > > Hi, > > debootstrapping squeeze with the fakechroot variant leads to a nested > usage of fakeroot. It may be that the fix for #588773 wasn't quit

Bug#649146: debootstrap: bootstrapping squeeze with the fakechroot variant leads to nested fakeroot usage

2011-11-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: debootstrap version: 1.0.37 severity: important Hi, debootstrapping squeeze with the fakechroot variant leads to a nested usage of fakeroot. For example $ fakeroot fakechroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot squeeze --verbose ./squeeze-fakechroot [...] I: Extracting xz-utils.

Re: Debian testing netinst checksums do not match!

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:11:18 +0200 Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > Hi, > I've just downloaded the debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso file from > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ > > The checksums in MD5SUMS.small and SHA512SUMS.small do not match with > the

Bug#617943: debian-installer: isolated "make build_netboot" fails due to missing 2.6.32 modules

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
Otavio Salvador wrote: > The installer itself, sometimes, need modifications or fixes to be able to > handle newer kernel versions so the version that is hard-coded on those is > the version that is supported by the installer. It is not only a matter of > recompile installer against the new kernel

Bug#642183: debian-installer: hybrid iso sizing issue for unstable build

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: debian-installer version: 20110106 severity: important tags: patch d-i fails to build unstable x86 netboot images (see below), which will become a problem as d-i development moves forward with newer kernels/packages coming in from unstable. I've attached a patch that fixes this by using

Bug#617943: debian-installer: isolated "make build_netboot" fails due to missing 2.6.32 modules

2011-07-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
retitle 617943 debian-installer: should dynamically populate KERNELIMAGEVERSION thanks On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > By default the building system gets the udebs from unstable. This is > configurated on debian/rules using the building system variable (that > you ought

Re: d-i fails at base install

2011-04-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
Ernest Sales wrote: > I tried a netinst for testing build 24-04-2011, MD5 OK, but it fails at the > 'install base system' step. I couldn't investigate further as I am in a > hurry, but an older build netinst is working fine. It's not going to work without a newer >= 1.116 base-installer. Try t

Bug#620569: usbkey install wheezy i386 doesn't work

2011-04-09 Thread Michael Gilbert
Lorenzo Bernardi wrote: > On 04/07/2011 01:36 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > >> There is no guarantee that the testing installer will work at any given > >> time. You can try the testing snapshot release, which has certain known > >> problems already, h

Bug#620569: usbkey install wheezy i386 doesn't work

2011-04-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
> There is no guarantee that the testing installer will work at any given > time. You can try the testing snapshot release, which has certain known > problems already, has been tested, and is known to work: That should say "certain known problems already *fixed*". -- To UNS

Bug#620569: usbkey install wheezy i386 doesn't work

2011-04-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
Lorenzo Bernardi wrote: > Dear Stefano, > > Lorenzo, > > could you kindly provide us the detailed URLs where did you download > > vmlinuz, initrd.gz > > and iso file? > > > > Bye > > Stefano > > > > > > The url for the downloads are: > > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-m

Bug#618927: busybox-udeb: provide seq

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: busybox-udeb version: 1.18.4-1 severity: normal It would be nice if busybox-udeb provided seq for use in d-i scripts. See bug #618920 for one particular case where I would like to use it. That code of course could be rewritten to avoid the use of seq, but its so much cleaner with it. Th

Bug#618920: debootstrap: needs more robust download error handling

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
I probably should have mentioned that these errors are much more likely within d-i for some reason. The best way to reproduce this is to do an installation up through partitioning, then do: $ debootstrap wheezy /target/wheezy-chroot http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110318T093210Z At l

Bug#618920: debootstrap: needs more robust download error handling

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: debootstrap version: 1.0.28 severity: important tags: patch debootstrap's current download error handling isn't very robust. It declares success just for the presence of a downloaded file, which may be a partial download, or one for which the checksum doesn't match. Eventually those cond

Bug#618839: debootstrap-udeb: restore stable/testing/unstable scripts

2011-03-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
/changelog 2011-03-18 16:25:11.0 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +debootstrap (1.0.28gilbert1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Don't remove convienience links in debootstrab-udeb. + + -- Michael Gilbert Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:24:43 -0400 + debootstrap (1.0.28) unstable; urgency=low [ Miguel Figue

Bug#617943: debian-installer: isolated "make build_netboot" fails due to missing 2.6.32 modules

2011-03-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: debian-installer version: 20110106 severity: important d-i's "make build_netboot" currently fails due to absent 2.6.32 module udebs. Strangely enough, the netboot build seems to go fine when using "debuild" instead of the isolated "make build_netboot". Thanks for looking into this. Best

Bug#617204: installation-report: /usr/sbin/debootstrap reports "sha1sum: not found"

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:25:14 -0500 Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 19:17 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): > >>> Package: installation-reports > >>> Version: 2.44 > >>> Severity: gra

Bug#615926: busybox-udeb: missing shaXYZsum binaries

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
found 615926 1:1.17.1-8 notfound 615926 1:1.17.1-10 thanks On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:17:18 -0400 Joey Hess wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > On Tue, March 1, 2011 05:21, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > package: busybox-udeb > > > version: 1:1.17.1-10 > > > severi

Bug#615926: busybox-udeb: missing shaXYZsum binaries

2011-02-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: busybox-udeb version: 1:1.17.1-10 severity: grave Hi, testing is currently uninstallable since debootstrap (as of 1.0.28) no longer uses md5 for integrity checks. It can make use of various shaXYZsum instead. I think providing sha1sum should be sufficient, but it may make sense to provi

Bug#614511: debootstrap: can't cope with md5-less release files

2011-02-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: debootstrap version: 1.0.26 severity: serious this is already in discussion on -devel, but i figure its worth a bug report for tracking purposes. sid and wheezy can't be bootstrapped anymore since their release files lack md5sums. best wishes, mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#493065: debootstrap fakechroot variant fails

2010-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
forcemerge 493065 588773 retitle 493065 debootstrap fakechroot variant fails due to missing PATH tag 493065 patch thanks this fails because chroot is in /usr/sbin, which isn't in PATH for normal users by default anymore. i've attached a preliminary patch that fixes this in debootstrap, but i wonde

Bug#558016: debian-installer: UTC question is unnecessary when using NTP

2009-11-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:39:41 +0100 Frans Pop wrote: > reassign 558016 clock-setup > thanks > > On Wednesday 25 November 2009, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > suppose that at the beginning of the installation the user says "yes" to > > whether they want their clock

Bug#558016: debian-installer: UTC question is unnecessary when using NTP

2009-11-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: debian-installer severity: normal suppose that at the beginning of the installation the user says "yes" to whether they want their clock to be autamically configured with NTP, then (ideally) they should never have to worry about the clock ever again. however, as the installer finishes up

Bug#517018: debian-installer: no-root option in expert installer exposes locally exploitable security flaw

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:12:52 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > > since there is no root password set up during installation, a local > > attacker can simply boot into the root account (without being prompted > > for a password) via single user mode ("single" kernel option). > > Have you tested that th

Bug#517018: debian-installer: no-root option in expert installer exposes locally exploitable security flaw

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: debian-installer severity: important tags: security there is now an option in the expert mode of the debian-installer that allows the user to install their system without a root account (replacing it with sudo priviledges for the default user). this exposes a loophole that enables local a

Bug#382889: for users that install a lot of systems

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On 4/15/07, Geert Stappers wrote: For those users there is "preseeding". See the preseeding section in the manual for details. ok, so if that's the case, why can't the prompts be upfront and store the user choices to the preseed file? mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#382889: closed by Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Closing bug as we don't intend to change the order of questions)

2007-04-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
i just did a new install. the order of operations (for a non-expert install) is as follows (with time into install and user prompts noted): minuteoperation 0config local/language (prompt) 0load d

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