Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:19:21PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:47:37PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > Yes, and having the auto-partitioner understand to create an f0 > > partition for hppa, and a small efi boot partition for ia64, etc, would > > be very nice. I just hav

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:47:37PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:37:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:53:22PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > > To fix this issue, I'd need to expose a new flag through the parted i/f, > > > so you could "set pal

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:37:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:53:22PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > To fix this issue, I'd need to expose a new flag through the parted i/f, > > so you could "set palo on", or similar. For msdos tables it would know > > Adding a flag i

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:53:22PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:51:08AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:41:49AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:38:11AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 a

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:51:08AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:41:49AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:38:11AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > >> Make it depend on "parti

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:57:19AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:52:51PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > >> If parted-udeb is unusable on a particular platform, I'd take it it was > >> never built/uploaded for that platform at all...? > > Nope, it's > > > > Architectu

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:41:49AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:38:11AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > >> Make it depend on "partitioning-program", and make both fdisk-udeb and > > >> parted-udeb "Pr

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-01 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi, * Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-01 16:38]: | On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:31:48PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: | > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:01:49AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: | > > On New World PowerPC systems, we use mac-fdisk. On PREP PowerPC | > > systems, we use fdisk. | >

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-01 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:31:48PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:01:49AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > On New World PowerPC systems, we use mac-fdisk. On PREP PowerPC > > systems, we use fdisk. > > OK, so it's a subarchitecture problem, not an architecture problem

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:01:49AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On New World PowerPC systems, we use mac-fdisk. On PREP PowerPC > systems, we use fdisk. OK, so it's a subarchitecture problem, not an architecture problem. That was what I asked about four mails ago. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: h

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-01 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:56:39PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:28:37PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > Because it can't use just any partioning program, it uses a > > particular one (or, actually, a particular one, two, or three) > > depending on the architecture.

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:56:39PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > If parted is not (for our purposes) usable on hppa, we do not build it for > hppa. (That should be quite easy to change.) Likewise, we only build the > other udebs for the platform we intend it to be used on. parted is used fo

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-01 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:28:37PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: Because it can't use just any partioning program, it uses a particular one (or, actually, a particular one, two, or three) depending on the architecture. If we depend on a virtual partitioning-program package,

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:28:37PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > Because it can't use just any partioning program, it uses a > particular one (or, actually, a particular one, two, or three) > depending on the architecture. If we depend on a virtual > partitioning-program package, it could install par

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:22:47AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:22:21PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > >> Well, if it isn't usable (remember, it's an udeb, so we're only talking in > >> the d-i context here) for hppa, hppa should not be in the list of > >> architectur

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:22:21PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: >> Well, if it isn't usable (remember, it's an udeb, so we're only talking in >> the d-i context here) for hppa, hppa should not be in the list of >> architectures for that package, IMO. > OK. partitioner still needs to Depend on the part

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:38:11AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > >> Make it depend on "partitioning-program", and make both fdisk-udeb and > >> parted-udeb "Provide[s]:" that. Should solve the problem. > > No, it won't. anna coul

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:57:19AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:52:51PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > >> If parted-udeb is unusable on a particular platform, I'd take it it was > >> never built/uploaded for that platform at all...? > > Nope, it's > > > > Architectu

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:52:51PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: >> If parted-udeb is unusable on a particular platform, I'd take it it was >> never built/uploaded for that platform at all...? > Nope, it's > > Architecture: any > > so it's built for hppa even though it doesn't fully work there. Well

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:38:11AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > >> Make it depend on "partitioning-program", and make both fdisk-udeb and > >> parted-udeb "Provide[s]:" that. Should solve the problem. > > No, it won't. anna coul

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:02:09PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:09:25PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:59:05PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > > For hppa I need fdisk-udeb pulled in when d-i runs. parted cannot be > > > used to partition for h

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: >> Make it depend on "partitioning-program", and make both fdisk-udeb and >> parted-udeb "Provide[s]:" that. Should solve the problem. > No, it won't. anna could still install just parted-udeb since > that would satisfy the dependency. I

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:07:08AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:09:25PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > I think the Depends field for partitioner should be > > > > Depends: cdebconf-udeb, fdisk-udeb, hw-detect-full > > > > on hppa and left as > > > > Depends: cd

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:09:25PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > I think the Depends field for partitioner should be > > Depends: cdebconf-udeb, fdisk-udeb, hw-detect-full > > on hppa and left as > > Depends: cdebconf-udeb, parted-udeb, hw-detect-full > > on other architectures. I'm not sure ho

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Hirst
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:09:25PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:59:05PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > For hppa I need fdisk-udeb pulled in when d-i runs. parted cannot be > > used to partition for hppa because we need a partition for palo of type > > 'f0', and parted d

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Hirst
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:07:37PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:59:05PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > Hi, > > For hppa I need fdisk-udeb pulled in when d-i runs. parted cannot be > > used to partition for hppa because we need a partition for palo of type > > 'f0',

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:59:05PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > For hppa I need fdisk-udeb pulled in when d-i runs. parted cannot be > used to partition for hppa because we need a partition for palo of type > 'f0', and parted doesn't let you specify partition types (didn't last > time I looked

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-09-30 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:59:05PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > Hi, > For hppa I need fdisk-udeb pulled in when d-i runs. parted cannot be > used to partition for hppa because we need a partition for palo of type > 'f0', and parted doesn't let you specify partition types (didn't last > time I l