Re: Things we need from sid

2002-02-02 Thread Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 01 February 2002 23:52, Herbert Xu wrote: > J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running some new quite expensive servers. Dual processor, 1GB RAM, > > and not to forget a few ultra-fast-wide-narrow,bla.bla scsi-3 disks.

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-02-02 Thread Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 01 February 2002 23:52, Herbert Xu wrote: > J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running some new quite expensive servers. Dual processor, 1GB RAM, > > and not to forget a few ultra-fast-wide-narrow,bla.bla scsi-3 disks.

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-02-01 Thread Herbert Xu
J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running some new quite expensive servers. Dual processor, 1GB RAM, and > not to forget a few ultra-fast-wide-narrow,bla.bla scsi-3 disks. And oh, it's > the Mylex AcceleRAID adapter, and oh I can't install with a 2.2 kernel, since > there

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-02-01 Thread Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 January 2002 09:59, Herbert Xu wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be happy to do so if someone can show me why we really need 2.4 > boot floppies on i386. So far, the only reasons I've seen are: > > 1. Support

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-27 Thread Gordon Tyler
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:37:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:59:52PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > I would be happy to do so if someone can show me why we really need 2.4 > > boot floppies on i386. So far, the only reasons I've seen are: > > 1. Support for new hardwa

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:59:52PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> kernel-image-2.4.17-bf2.4 > >> pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-bf2.4 > > So are these an official part of boot-floppies? Should they be being > > (co?)maintained by Herbert to keep them in sync with t

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Herbert Xu wrote on Fri Jan 25, 2002 um 08:42:47AM: > > kernel-image-2.4.x series for unuseable for most people. YOU KNOW THIS. > > Manoj tries to do the best job - he often fixed the bugs quickly when I > > reported something (and you often ignored this fixes). > > More FUD. I know,

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:55:50PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > > A 2.4 kernel is only an apt-get install away so this has no place when > > > > > > Blah. You should know better than me that this is not true. > > > > Please give details. > > Please? You have to a) install, b) change fstab

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:42:29PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Not providing an Ext3 option as-default would damage Debian's reputation. If we are worried about reputations, the best thing to do is to get a release out the door with updated versions of common user packages. Users who want a re

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Herbert Xu wrote on Fri Jan 25, 2002 um 07:25:13AM: > > - This are patches > > - ide patched kernel is reported to hang on some new chipsets while IDE > >detection > > Please give specific details rather than vague recollections. Both people were newbies - and how should a newbi

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-24 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:25:13AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > > > IMHO reiserfs simply isn't viable anymore. So I don't really care please explain - how is it ``not viable anymore''? replaced by ext3? the only thing ext3 has is journalling. reiserfs brings a lot more to the table than sim

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:42:29PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > Without initrd, you can include only so many hardware drivers. And for all > > of the important drivers that I can think of (such as NetGear FA311TX, > > AICRAID, Promise Ultra IDE etc.), the support is already in at least one of

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Herbert Xu wrote on Thu Jan 24, 2002 um 07:59:52PM: > > So are these an official part of boot-floppies? Should they be being > > (co?)maintained by Herbert to keep them in sync with the other kernels? No. I allow to update the package and NMU if I do not respond for >=2 days, but Herbe

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-24 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:59:52PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > I would be happy to do so if someone can show me why we really need 2.4 > boot floppies on i386. So far, the only reasons I've seen are: [...] 4. Better network card autodetection support Its network card was an ISA NE2000 clone. Us

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> kernel-image-2.4.17-bf2.4 >> pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-bf2.4 > So are these an official part of boot-floppies? Should they be being > (co?)maintained by Herbert to keep them in sync with the other kernels? I would be happy to do so if someone can show

Re: Things we need from sid

2002-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:59:10AM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Here's the list of packages we need from woody to _build_ successfully. > Probably more are needed to make the resulting b-f work correctly. > > kernel-image-2.4.17-bf2.4 > pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-bf2.4 So are these an official part