Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-24 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Frederic Bonnard wrote: >> Could you take a try the D-I for stretch alpha-7, which don't start >> screen by default? >> It's located under: >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/stretch_di_alpha7/ > > Already tried and the issue doesn't appear on this one. > FTR,

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-24 Thread Frederic Bonnard
> Could you take a try the D-I for stretch alpha-7, which don't start > screen by default? > It's located under: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/stretch_di_alpha7/ Already tried and the issue doesn't appear on this one. FTR, here are the tests ran on the isos on ppc64el : http://ftp.unicamp.b

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-24 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Frederic Bonnard wrote: > Hi Roger/all, > I see that on some daily isos > ( http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/current/) > screen seems to be activated by default. I'd like to know if there is a way > to disable it as this was discussed.

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-24 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Hi Roger/all, I see that on some daily isos ( http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/current/) screen seems to be activated by default. I'd like to know if there is a way to disable it as this was discussed. This question is related to : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:03 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > Rick Thomas writes: > >> On Aug 14, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> >>> Also, I'm not sure whether we have any input methods which might be >>> confused by ^A being “eaten” by screen. Does anyone know? >> >> Yes… That’s a proble

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Ben, and thanks for your input. Ben Hutchings (2016-08-15): > I think that all builds of the installer should provide the same > functionality so far as possible ACK, looks good to me. > and that the options to switch to a > shell and to view the log are im

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 04:37 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Roger, > > > Roger Shimizu (2016-08-08): > > > > Dear KiBi, > > > > Sorry for not being able to reply earlier. > > You feedback keeps me thinking a fix. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > >

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > During RFC stage of adding screen-udeb, firstly I though it's not > > necessary for normal PC, which is not exact the same with "everyone" > > you mentioned but should be close to, however a few feedbacks > > convinced me that normal PC still need screen-udeb [0][1][

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-15 Thread Philip Hands
Rick Thomas writes: > On Aug 14, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> Also, I'm not sure whether we have any input methods which might be >> confused by ^A being “eaten” by screen. Does anyone know? > > Yes… That’s a problem if you’re used to using “screen” as a terminal > emulator to a

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 14, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Also, I'm not sure whether we have any input methods which might be > confused by ^A being “eaten” by screen. Does anyone know? Yes… That’s a problem if you’re used to using “screen” as a terminal emulator to access the serial port on the t

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Roger, Roger Shimizu (2016-08-08): > Dear KiBi, > > Sorry for not being able to reply earlier. > You feedback keeps me thinking a fix. > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > I still disagree with the UI changes it imposes on everyone, for the > > reasons I've alr

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 7, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > I think the solution below is a middle ground, which I guess it can be > accepted by everyone. > - Keep screen-udeb in "common" for everyone, but don't start it > automatically on i386/amd64. > - Create a new "MEDIUM_SUPPORTED" or new folder

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-08-07 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear KiBi, Sorry for not being able to reply earlier. You feedback keeps me thinking a fix. On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > I still disagree with the UI changes it imposes on everyone, for the > reasons I've already given. During RFC stage of adding screen-udeb, first

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-07-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Roger, Roger Shimizu (2016-07-05): > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > So I've just checked: what started as "screen support would be nice > > to have in some particular situation, on an opt-in basis" became > > "let's use screen unconditionally", adding an extra line

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-07-04 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear KiBi, Thanks for your feedback! On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois (2016-07-04): >> Cyril Brulebois (2016-07-04): >> > Roger Shimizu (2016-07-04): >> > > For the change I mentioned yesterday, I already tested on: >> > > - armel/kirkwood >> > > - am

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-07-04 Thread Philip Hands
Cyril Brulebois writes: ... > Even if the release announce is not ready yet, the image build has > finished and testing shows no major regressions, so we're going to > publish this set of images as Stretch Alpha 7. I've lifted the udeb > freeze some time ago; and you can feel free to push changes

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-07-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2016-07-04): > Cyril Brulebois (2016-07-04): > > Roger Shimizu (2016-07-04): > > > For the change I mentioned yesterday, I already tested on: > > > - armel/kirkwood > > > - amd64 > > > and they're working as expected. > > > > > > So I just pushed the commit to add screen supp

Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

2016-07-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2016-07-04): > Roger Shimizu (2016-07-04): > > For the change I mentioned yesterday, I already tested on: > > - armel/kirkwood > > - amd64 > > and they're working as expected. > > > > So I just pushed the commit to add screen support. > > > > I hope all ARCHs still (daily) bu

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-07-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Roger Shimizu (2016-07-04): > For the change I mentioned yesterday, I already tested on: > - armel/kirkwood > - amd64 > and they're working as expected. > > So I just pushed the commit to add screen support. > > I hope all ARCHs still (daily) build fine when I get up tomorrow morning. > If not

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-07-03 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear KiBi, Thanks for your reply! On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Roger Shimizu (2016-07-03): >> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> > Please don't. We want to avoid pushing changes which aren't relevant to >> > the release being prepare

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-07-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Roger Shimizu (2016-07-03): > On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Please don't. We want to avoid pushing changes which aren't relevant to > > the release being prepared, in case we need to do some fixup before > > uploading and building again. > > It's lucky that I d

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-07-03 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Roger Shimizu (2016-07-03): >> I saw it's already reached archive, so I thought it's done. >> OK. Understand. > > That's one part. Then images are built on pettersson, tested, and > eventually signed and published. We're not there yet. > >

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-07-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Roger Shimizu (2016-07-03): > I saw it's already reached archive, so I thought it's done. > OK. Understand. That's one part. Then images are built on pettersson, tested, and eventually signed and published. We're not there yet. > I just prepared the commit to support screen: > - > https://anons

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-07-02 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear KiBi, Thanks for your prompting reply! On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 6:12 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Roger, > > Roger Shimizu (2016-07-03): >> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> > Having checked with -release already, I'm freezing udebs right away. >> >> I think the

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-07-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Roger, Roger Shimizu (2016-07-03): > On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Having checked with -release already, I'm freezing udebs right away. > > I think the monthly release is done, so could you un-freeze the udebs? > I see ncurses is still pending to testing [0]: >

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-07-02 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear KiBi, On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Having checked with -release already, I'm freezing udebs right away. I think the monthly release is done, so could you un-freeze the udebs? I see ncurses is still pending to testing [0]: - 11 days old (needed 10 days) - Not tou

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Nicholas D Steeves (2016-06-28): > Could someone please tell me what the deadline is for adding expanded > partman-btrfs functionality? My proposal is in a thread on > debian-boot@lists.debian.org, subject: "Re: btrfs subvolume naming > scheme". A résumé of the read is: add the volume-manag

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Karsten Merker (2016-06-29): > I have in the meantime run further tests with u-boot > 2016.03+dfsg1-6 (including going through a full installation > process with a locally-built d-i) on an Olimex A20-Lime1 and on > an Olimex A20-SOM-EVB - none of them shows any freezes, > so I think we are clear t

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-28 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 24 June 2016 at 18:22, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > I've just checked with Ben, it seems we could be getting a 4.6 kernel > suitable for testing (no regressions reported from previous version + > mips* FTBFS fix) shortly. We could think about urgenting it into testing > and releasing a new

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Karsten Merker (2016-06-28): > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 09:49:02AM +0200, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On 2016-06-27, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Vagrant Cascadian (2016-06-27): > > >> On 2016-06-27, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > >> > for some reasons I failed at double checking when u-boot is used

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-06-27, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > [ Unknown signature status ] > Vagrant Cascadian (2016-06-27): >> On 2016-06-27, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> > for some reasons I failed at double checking when u-boot is used; it's >> > needed at build time for debian-installer, so we'd need the u-boot fix >

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vagrant Cascadian (2016-06-27): > On 2016-06-27, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > for some reasons I failed at double checking when u-boot is used; it's > > needed at build time for debian-installer, so we'd need the u-boot fix > > before uploading src:debian-installer. > > > > Do you have any time fram

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-27 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-06-27, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois (2016-06-27): >> FWIW I'm going to upload debian-installer very shortly; it'd be nice if >> u-boot could be uploaded while src:debian-installer is getting built, >> urgented, and dak copy-installer'd into testing; so that it has a chance >> t

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi again, Cyril Brulebois (2016-06-27): > FWIW I'm going to upload debian-installer very shortly; it'd be nice if > u-boot could be uploaded while src:debian-installer is getting built, > urgented, and dak copy-installer'd into testing; so that it has a chance > to reach testing before we start b

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Vagrant, Karsten, Cyril Brulebois (2016-06-25): > Vagrant Cascadian (2016-06-25): > > On 2016-06-25, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Karsten Merker (2016-06-25): > > >> on armhf we currently face some u-boot-related problems. U-Boot > > >> 2016.03 (in unstable and testing) causes kernel hangs

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vagrant Cascadian (2016-06-25): > On 2016-06-25, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Karsten Merker (2016-06-25): > >> on armhf we currently face some u-boot-related problems. U-Boot > >> 2016.03 (in unstable and testing) causes kernel hangs under certain > >> conditions on a number of sunxi platforms.

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-06-25, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Karsten Merker (2016-06-25): >> on armhf we currently face some u-boot-related problems. U-Boot >> 2016.03 (in unstable and testing) causes kernel hangs under certain >> conditions on a number of sunxi platforms. These issues are fixed in >> u-boot v2016.0

Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Trimming cc a bit.) Karsten Merker (2016-06-25): > on armhf we currently face some u-boot-related problems. U-Boot > 2016.03 (in unstable and testing) causes kernel hangs under certain > conditions on a number of sunxi platforms. These issues are fixed in > u-boot v2016.05 (latest official rele

Next d-i alpha release: late June

2016-06-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, I've just checked with Ben, it seems we could be getting a 4.6 kernel suitable for testing (no regressions reported from previous version + mips* FTBFS fix) shortly. We could think about urgenting it into testing and releasing a new d-i early in the week, which seems OK on the -cd side too. G