Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 18:09: > Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I have indeed a running script so that updated PO files are available > > online (and then translators can grab them, not all translators want to > > learn CVS and checkout a local copy of

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have indeed a running script so that updated PO files are available > online (and then translators can grab them, not all translators want to > learn CVS and checkout a local copy of the whole debian-installer), but > there are no automatic commits. >

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:04:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > [...] > > If you're going to change cdebconf -- which this would require -- it > > would be more general to add a 'cancel' button to progress bars, and > > arrange for it to somehow do somethin

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:04:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: [...] > If you're going to change cdebconf -- which this would require -- it > would be more general to add a 'cancel' button to progress bars, and > arrange for it to somehow do something useful. It seems doable, but how can scripts be to

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:01:34AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:02:12PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Fre, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 06:44: > > > I second your plans. Of course, I hope you'll try to keep as much as > > > possible of the template

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:02:12PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Fre, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 06:44: > > I second your plans. Of course, I hope you'll try to keep as much as > > possible of the templates tanslations while merging the > > packages. There is a lot of work in

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:14:28AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > PS: I think 5 seconds is ample time for dhcp to respond the first time around. > > It usually takes 7.5 seconds to obtain a lease for my laptop. > > -- > Matt Kraai

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 06:44: > I second your plans. Of course, I hope you'll try to keep as much as > possible of the templates tanslations while merging the > packages. There is a lot of work in them, though the polishing > stuff will fuzzy some strings. atm there are

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As the discussion about this seems to be over, I will start to try to > implement some of the ideas discussed. I plan to do the following: Looks fine to me and for sure closer from "usual" way to configure network stuff. I second your plans. Of cou

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:14:28AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > PS: I think 5 seconds is ample time for dhcp to respond the first time around. It usually takes 7.5 seconds to obtain a lease for my laptop. -- Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 12.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 01:55: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Why not merge dhcp and static? > > > > Try dhcp for some time or until the user hits abort. > > If dhcp finds any data seed it into debconf and jump to the final > > summary/acknowldege request in dhcp-static. But

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-12 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi all, * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-11 23:37]: | How's this for an idea for dhcp. If priority is high, then run dhcp, but | in the background, and only for 30 seconds (or some better chosen time | that is long enough for most dhcp servers to reply, and short enough to | not annoy peo

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:37:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > How's this for an idea for dhcp. If priority is high, then run dhcp, but > in the background, and only for 30 seconds (or some better chosen time > that is long enough for most dhcp servers to reply, and short enough to > not annoy people

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Ley wrote: > Hm, another idea: > Start netcfg, with dhcp probing in the background while in the > foreground presenting a select question with: > > "Trying to automatically configure the network..." > "Abort network configuration" > "Configure network manually" > > We would need then a

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-11 Thread Glenn McGrath
Im not sure how the current debian-installer net config co-operates with the post install net config, so i may be stating the obvious... busybox has an ifupdown applet, so debian-installer could generate an /etc/network/interfaces file, run 'ifup -a', and if the network doesnt come up repeat the p

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-11 Thread Sebastian Ley
Am Di, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 23:37: > How's this for an idea for dhcp. If priority is high, then run dhcp, but > in the background, and only for 30 seconds (or some better chosen time > that is long enough for most dhcp servers to reply, and short enough to > not annoy people with no

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Why not merge dhcp and static? > > Try dhcp for some time or until the user hits abort. > If dhcp finds any data seed it into debconf and jump to the final > summary/acknowldege request in dhcp-static. Buttons there would be > . > > I realy don't like two programs

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How's this for an idea for dhcp. If priority is high, then run dhcp, but > in the background, and only for 30 seconds (or some better chosen time > that is long enough for most dhcp servers to reply, and short enough to > not annoy people with no dhcp). >