Bug#514016: options for fixing

On 2009-02-06 09:57:36.00 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > > What would dpkg do with the symlinks in the the unpack phase? > > > > I have not tested it, but I would venture the same thing (calling tar, > > ergo having the

Bug#514016: options for fixing

d chroot option to tar (see patch). > This is a root only option. Yes. It was my impression that (c)debootstrap are supposed to be called by root. At least I always used to call them as root when I was a developer. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ --

Bug#514016: options for fixing

probably better solution. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ reverted: diff -u tar-1.20/src/list.c tar-1.20/src/list.c --- tar-1.20/src/list.c +++ tar-1.20/src/list.c @@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ name_gather (); open_archive (ACCESS_READ); + if (chroot_optio

Bug#497110: partman-dmraid: obsolete component; should not be included in Lenny

val from unstable. The unstable removal is done, so IIUIC the package should be on its way out of testing as well. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OK to lower priority of mpack?

Hi, #416569 asks for lowering the priority of mpack from standard to optional. If you don't have any objections, we'd do this now instead of waiting post-lenny... Comments? Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#472997: provide all guided recepies using free space instead of full disk

Package: partman-auto Version: 75 Severity: wishlist Hi, thanks for the installer. I just used lenny Beta 1 and it worked well for me! One thing I would like to have had was all "Guided" recipies (crypt, lvm) in a variant that only uses the free space instead of the full disk. Kind regar

Re: Forward: The 'udebn' problem

Jared Rhine wrote: > Any response would be appreciated. Is this a bug or not? Does this > issue not hit anyone else when building from a fresh CVS? This is not strictly a bug, but a build-dependence on sed/unstable. However, I'd say a space instead of \n would do as well in most cases. Cheers

Re: d-i debcamp in Oldenburg 2003-09-25 to 2003-09-28

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Thomas Viehmann - ? I'm very sorry to have accepted in the meantime another invitation to a summer camp, so I cannot visit this. :( Cheers T. P.S.: It would have been Bonn, Germany. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debconf vs. graphical installer

Sebastian Ley wrote: >>>I like sebastians proposal of having frontends in librarys for every >>configuration udeb. > > The more I think of it, the more I start to dislike it ;-) Imagine how > much work it really is to do such a thing. There must be > #udebs x #frontends of custom widgets. If a ch

Re: New d-i debcamp in a few months?

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Petter Reinholdtsen] > One initial idea is to arrange it from Monday 2003-10-27 to Friday > 2003-10-31 at http://www.einschlingen.de/>. To get this location > we need to make a quick decision, but I guess we need to give everyone > some days to get back from debcamp/d

Removal of user mount hack / root requirement for building debianinstaller

Hi. In I suggested a patch to make use of syslinux's new capability to write to unmounted images in order to be able to build as normal user. A oneliner to allow older sed versions to be used (seperate module names by " "

Re: Debian Installer building (getting rid of user-mount hack andtypo)

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Where is this patch? Is it commited? Sorry, I forgot to attach it. (Luckily only the diff was in /tmp, not the files...) Thus, I don't think it's commited. Cheers T. --- build/Makefile~ Sat Jun 14 17:18:20 2003 +++ build/Makefile Sat Jun 14 17:20:46 2003 @@

Debian Installer building (getting rid of user-mount hack and typo)

Hi. Recently, an updated syslinux got uploaded. It does not insist on mounting images anymore. I've created a patch eliminating USER_MOUNT_HACK from the $(IMAGE) target in d-i/build/arch/linux-i386. (But not from the clean target, this might be added now or later.) While testing (with "fakeroot ma

Re: Suggestions needed for gtk frontend for cdebconf

Bastian Blank wrote: >>Against X: >>- larger than libdirectfb (is this true?) [Some numbers which may or may not be applicable.] IMHO really one would have to compare libdirectfb+gtk+2.0-directfb with X-Server+X-Client lib+Toolkit. Cheers T. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Suggestions needed for gtk frontend for cdebconf

My apologies for writing German. Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Sebastian Ley wrote: > > >>libdirectfb does not support vt switching, so I searched for a possibility >>to use a graphical terminal. There are terminal widgets for gtk (vte, zvt) >>but they require the X targe

Re: Suggestions needed for gtk frontend for cdebconf

Sebastian Ley wrote: > libdirectfb does not support vt switching, so I searched for a possibility > to use a graphical terminal. There are terminal widgets for gtk (vte, zvt) > but they require the X target of gtk, so they will only work with an X > server. 1. zvt ist kleiner (ist ja auch erklärt

Re: Building d-i as a package

Alastair McKinstry wrote: > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 08:12, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >>And I am fairly sure the buildd is compiling as a normal user and not >>root. This will at the moment make it impossible to build the boot >>floppies. I suspect this package will fail to build on all platforms

Re: Woody boot-floppies use flawed kernels

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Thomas Viehmann] > >>For installation at least, a local root hole is completely >>irrelevant. (There is no root password and no users.) >>The only thing that needs to be ensured is that the installed kernel >>is not vulnerable. Th

Re: Woody boot-floppies use flawed kernels

HI Jonathan, Jonathan Quick wrote: > Is there any intention to release a new version of the Woody boot-floppies > based on the kernel-image-2.2.25 and kernel-image-2.4.20-1 kernels which > include the ptrace security hole fix ( see DSA-270 for example.) Obviously > this would require similar p

Re: Building d-i as a package

Alastair McKinstry wrote: > The plan would be that debuild in ./debian-installer/build builds > debian-installer-$(ARCH)_$(VERSION)_all.deb, that puts the images and > associated documentation into a place suitable for an archive, > eg. /var/www/debian/dists/$(DIST)/main/disks-$(ARCH)/$(VERSION)/.

Re: partitioner_0.01_i386.changes REJECTED

James Troup wrote: > Debian Installer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Rejected: partitioner_0.01_i386.udeb: architecture part of filename >> (i386) does not match package architecture in the udeb >> (all). > Wow, good effort. I never expected anyone to trip _that_ > rejection. ;)

Re: Bug#179000: Handling kernel modules of different kernel versionsin anna & d-i

Hi. Martin Sjögren wrote: > Any comments on this? IMHO the *.menutest scripts seem to be suited ideally for that. Cheers T. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Sorry (Re: lib*.so.* -Frage)

Sorry. This was a mispost. Cheers T. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lib*.so.* -Frage

Hallo. Frederik wrote: Zu den *.so*-Dateien: Solange die Debian-Pakete gleich heißen, werden die Pakete und damit auch die darin enthaltenen Dateien (in denen, die nicht *-dev heißen, so.x.y.z und so.x) ersetzt. Die Idee dabei ist, daß alle so.x.*.* für andere Programme kompatibel sind ("die ABIs

Re: trying to install but can't recognize the disk....

Walter Tautz wrote: > the system came preinstalled > with redhat 8.0 and I do have a copy of the kernel-config file > for the running kernel so if I knew how to build a different install disk... If you want to equip a boot disk with another kernel, Chapter 10.3 of the Debian Installation Guide [0]

Re: 'net' boot floppy is full and unable to build.

Hi. At least on my recent builds, there is libbogl included, which probably should be removed along with the bogl frontend. (Approx. 100k in tree, removing it solves the problem for me). Quoting Martin Sjögren: > This is because the last upload of cdebconf was broken and included the > bogl front

Re: Prompt: 1 - 19, default=Detect a keyboard and select layout>

> kbd-chooser's postinst exited with status 256 ... > There's no message anywhere I can see to tell me what's wrong. > > FWIW manual selection does not work either. > FWIW I have bootkbd=qwerty/us on the kernel commandline. kbd-chooser is failing? (Don't know why though.) Cheers T. pgp0.pg

Re: [OT] installation documentation

Chris Tillman wrote: >>Might be nice to add sth like : >>"To create a swap partition, you need to create a partition with the >>name "swap" AND the type "Apple_UNIX_SRV2". > I don't really read French; but this doesn't do it? No. It does not mention the type Apple_UNIX_SRV2. (I guess that's why Fa

Re: rfc: A guide for packaging library udebs

Cardenas wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:57:04PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: [...] >>what would go wrong unless one does the right thing.) In this particular case, >>it might be interesting to know what the advantage of a subdirectory for each >>udeb library over

Re: rfc: A guide for packaging library udebs

Hi. I don't know if how general the audience you're aiming at is. I'm not an expert, but rather a casual user who recently built a library udeb for his private purposes (it was slang1a for nano, I used libpango and others as examples and it worked in the end). Most of the problems I ran into are c

Compiling udebs and creating cdrom images

Hi. As you probably have noticed, I'm trying out debian-installer in funny ways. This time I wanted to do was compile a cdrom image, however I failed and have some questions. If you can spare a little time, I'd really appreciate you help. - Are the pkglists in cvs up to date? They seem to inclu

patch to create slang1a-utf8-udeb

-f +# udeb adaptation by Thomas Viehmann # Made with the aid of dh_make, by Craig Small # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. GNU copyright 1997 by Joey Hess. # This version is for a hypothetical package that builds an @@ -19,6 +20,10 @@ LIBSLANG=slang1 LIBSLANG_UTF8=slang1a

Bug#182357: choose-mirror fails when called for the second time

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Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time

Martin Sjögren wrote: >>One gets invalid packages files every so often (e.g. during mirror update). >>However, probably whishlist is better. > Well, even if the Packages files aren't verified for integrity right > now, they will be as soon as Release file support is added (which is > waiting for th

Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time

Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:13:20PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > The Packages file lists packages that have not been mirrored yet? If > so, how would downloading it again help? If the Packages gets updated after the packages. The downloaded Packages file can list

Bug#182357: choose-mirror: Error message for failure

Package: choose-mirror Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-24 Severity: Normal I get this /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:16 (fronten d_add): /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:16 (frontend_add): Assertion failed: q->next == NULL c

Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time

Martin Sjögren wrote: > Just correcting the speeling :) Please excuse my lack of attention. > First I thought you meant the Packages files that are downloaded and > parsed, but then I guess you meant the actual packages? :) No. I meant the Packages file. > PS: Why maintonly? As both Matt and you

Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time

[Sorry, forgot the bug cc in my first post.] Matt Kraai wrote: [anna reloading package files] > What problem this fix? One gets invalid packages files every so often (e.g. during mirror update). However, probably whishlist is better. Cheers Thomas pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#180032: choose-mirror: Error message for failure

Hi. Martin Sjögren wrote: > I don't see how these bug reports are related at all. Isn't this more of > a cdebconf issue? It fails and everything goes boom. I think you should > report this on cdebconf instead. Like the submitter, I had a problem with the download mirror and tried to change it. >Fr

Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time

Package: anna Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-24 Severity: whishlist I think it would often be preferable if anna (i.e. menu option Load installer modules) would reload package files if called for the second time. (However, please feel free to close this bug if you disagree.) Cheers Thomas pgp0

Bug#180032: choose-mirror: Error message for failure

Followup-For: Bug #180032 Package: choose-mirror Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-24 Maybe it's nice to see the actual error message. I get the following. After that, the mirror's name is the empty string. Cheers Thomas ... 49. Turkey 50. Ukraine 51. United States 52. enter information manual

Bug#182344: di-utils-fake-mkfs: Dependency on partitioned-harddrives is probably incorrect

Package: di-utils-fake-mkfs Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-24 Severity: minor Perhaps di-utils-fake-mkfs should provide partitioned-harddrives or something like that.Otherwise I will get what's shown below, which looks wrong to me. When I've make filesystems already, I've probably also partitioned

Re: Running debian-installer within bochs and uml

Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:21:12PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Would you please file a bug report for each problem against the > appropriate package? You can assign them to the install > pseudo-package if you don't know which package is responsible?

Running debian-installer within bochs and uml

Hi. Because I don't have a cdrw burner nor a desire to reboot my computer with the debian-installer mirror for installing, I've been trying to run debian-installer within a bochs simulation session and uml. Bochs is somewhat slow, but the alternative plex86 doesn't seem to support networking. user

Re: Building floppy images without having to mount the image

Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Perhaps someone knows another tools. Syslinux' main advantage is > in my eyes that it exists and works. I think it was neighter made for > this usage (but for beeing able to create such disks from DOS, when > I didn't misread anything), nor optimal for the usage. (Do we re

Re: Building floppy images without having to mount the image

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Thomas Viehmann] > Yes, please. I really would like to build d-i floppies without being > root. :) Matt Kraai noted that the config-stuff isn't needed with the sid mtools (for them, -i option can be used to specify an image, the no vfat isn't nece

Re: Building floppy images without having to mount the image

Matt Kraai wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:29:24AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Yes. I'd prefer to teach syslinux to use mtools, though, rather > than use ldlinux.sys and ldlinux.bss directly. Well, probably one would need better mtools before that. Also I always wondered

Building floppy images without having to mount the image

Hi again. Maybe this is more productive than the last question. Is avoiding to be root or modify fstab in order to do make floppy_images something you could care about? If it is, I have created together the following patch that does just that. Note that you need ldlinux.sys and ldlinux.bss from th

Building install floppies

Hello. Sorry if this is just noise, but I tried to build install disks and got the below after "make build". The result in "make floppy_image" is what can be predicted from the output. I have read all the docs in doc/ and the build/README, but will confess that I've more or less have just added th