* "Chris Tillman"
| > sure. Note that this is part of the ?consistency and polish? thing,
| > it's not needed for d-i to actually be able to do it's work. It's
| > needed in order not to confuse the user.
|
| My .02: By definition the installer is most new users' first contact
| with Debian.
Denis Barbier wrote:
> Consider the cvs/pserver template from cvs.templates:
> Template: cvs/pserver
> Type: boolean
> Default: false
> Description: Should the CVS pserver be enabled?
> [...]
>CVS pserver will be installed in inetd, using tcpd wrappers if you answer
>"yes" to thi
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit:
> The units we are working with in debian-installer are udebs (really
> policy (why would we want docs and man pages on the installation
> media?).
Ah good. I forgot about udebs.
> The maintainer might have to maintain both utf8 and non-ut
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:42:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * (Denis Barbier)
>
> | I do not understand your answer, sorry.
>
> ok, we'll try again. :)
>
> | Consider the cvs/pserver template from cvs.templates:
> | Template: cvs/pserver
> | Type: boolean
> | Default: false
> |
* Philip Blundell
(please respect my mail-followup-to)
| On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 12:39, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > * Junichi Uekawa
| > | Last time I looked, there is no charset signifier in
| > | debconf templates, how does one know if the template is in
| > | utf-8 or euc-jp?
| >
| > You don'
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 12:39, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Junichi Uekawa
> | Last time I looked, there is no charset signifier in
> | debconf templates, how does one know if the template is in
> | utf-8 or euc-jp?
>
> You don't need to do that if we decide that everything is utf8. And
> since d-i
* (Denis Barbier)
| I do not understand your answer, sorry.
ok, we'll try again. :)
| Consider the cvs/pserver template from cvs.templates:
| Template: cvs/pserver
| Type: boolean
| Default: false
| Description: Should the CVS pserver be enabled?
| [...]
|CVS pserver will be inst
* Junichi Uekawa
| Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit:
|
| > | Are you saying that every debconf template file should be in UTF-8?
| > | How do you propose to accomplish the transition ?
| >
| > Every debconf template which is used in d-i, yes. Why not? It
| > shouldn't b
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit:
> | Are you saying that every debconf template file should be in UTF-8?
> | How do you propose to accomplish the transition ?
>
> Every debconf template which is used in d-i, yes. Why not? It
> shouldn't be that many templates. The other
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:14:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:06:26PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> [...]
> > In order to avoid this annoyance, I suggested to only accept i18n-ed
> > frontends.
>
> This suggestion does only make sense for interactive frontends, of co
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:06:26PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
[...]
> In order to avoid this annoyance, I suggested to only accept i18n-ed
> frontends.
This suggestion does only make sense for interactive frontends, of course.
Denis
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On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:14:26PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * (Denis Barbier)
>
> | On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:29:35PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | [...]
> | > Right now there is a ncurses and a slang frontend, I am not sure of
> | > the state of those, but it should be possible to l
* (Denis Barbier)
| On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:29:35PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| [...]
| > Right now there is a ncurses and a slang frontend, I am not sure of
| > the state of those, but it should be possible to link the better of
| > them against something-utf8 or create a newt-utf8 front
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:29:35PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
[...]
> Right now there is a ncurses and a slang frontend, I am not sure of
> the state of those, but it should be possible to link the better of
> them against something-utf8 or create a newt-utf8 frontend.
It would also be desirab
* Junichi Uekawa
| On 27 May 2002 13:29:35 +0200
| Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > The charset in the templates are undefined, but if we decide that we
| > want it to be UTF-8 then that won't be a problem. (Just a small
| > policy decision.) The frontend would have to know ho
On 27 May 2002 13:29:35 +0200
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The charset in the templates are undefined, but if we decide that we
> want it to be UTF-8 then that won't be a problem. (Just a small
> policy decision.) The frontend would have to know how to convert it
> into somethin
* Junichi Uekawa
| Last time I checked (which is a long long time ago), debconf had a
| design problem with utf-8 (the debconf templates are not in utf-8,
| and it is not automatically obvious which character code they are in).
| Does cdebconf inherit the same problem? Does it convert to utf-8
* Joey Hess
| Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > | As you may or may not know, I will no longer have a "position of
| > | responsibility" in the installation system after Woody. Joey Hess has
| > | volunteer for this position, or at least he did about 18 months ago.
| > | I assume he's still for it --
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit:
> | I've had zero look at debian-installer.
> | I wonder if it would have CJK support.
> | Proper CJK support is a very difficult thing to achieve...
>
> It uses cdebconf as the frontend, and if somebody makes sure the bogl
> frontend is ac
* "Christian T. Steigies"
| On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:31:32AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| >
| > I think we should move to debian-installer, even though it will take
| > longer time to work out. People want to do some new development, d-i
| > is getting closer to working (as in actually be
* Junichi Uekawa
| On 23 May 2002 10:31:32 +0200
| Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > I think we should move to debian-installer, even though it will take
| > longer time to work out. People want to do some new development, d-i
| > is getting closer to working (as in actually bei
On 23 May 2002 10:31:32 +0200
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think we should move to debian-installer, even though it will take
> longer time to work out. People want to do some new development, d-i
> is getting closer to working (as in actually being able to install
> systems in
Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | As you may or may not know, I will no longer have a "position of
> | responsibility" in the installation system after Woody. Joey Hess has
> | volunteer for this position, or at least he did about 18 months ago.
> | I assume he's still for it -- hopefully the folks on t
* Adam Di Carlo
| Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > I just wanted to give y'all a heads up that I'd like you all to stick
| > around post woody, and keep/start working on CDs and installation stuff
| > for the next release. This doesn't change a
Hi guys,
I just wanted to give y'all a heads up that I'd like you all to stick
around post woody, and keep/start working on CDs and installation stuff
for the next release. This doesn't change anything about debian-installer,
it'd just be helpful if you don't all w
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