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= New stuff =
* win32-loader has been added to daily CD images and is now used for
autorun too;
* multipath-udeb and libaio1-udeb have been introduced but are being
excluded from CD builds since they're not being used yet;
* dhcp-client-udeb
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:00:08PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> When I use mklibs-copy rather than mklibs to produce the initrd it
> works. Maybe waldi can give some help as to how to track this down.
The symbol-version-problem #433874. Currently only binNMUs can
workaround it.
Bastian
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* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-03 15:42]:
> When I replace libdl.so.2, ld.so.1 and libc.so.6 in the initrd with a
> version from May, the initrd will start correctly. (I will get
> "relocation error: version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6"
> messages later on, obviously,
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-02 20:09]:
> Now, the daily image didn't work on a Cobalt (nothing happens after
> "Freeing unused kernel memory") but I believe that's a different
> problem.
When I replace libdl.so.2, ld.so.1 and libc.so.6 in the initrd with a
version from May, the
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-31 14:06]:
> > * mips and mipsel builds are still broken.
>
> I built daily images on mipsel today and they built just fine. Maybe
> Thiemo can enable his images again.
Done for mipsel, on my mips build machine "make" fails
* Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-31 14:06]:
> * mips and mipsel builds are still broken.
I built daily images on mipsel today and they built just fine. Maybe
Thiemo can enable his images again.
Now, the daily image didn't work on a Cobalt (nothing happens after
"Freeing unused kern
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 03:09:21AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> A few other things that need doing:
> [...]
> - Both for stable and oldstable there will be new D-I images with the next
> point release. These are currently in (oldstable-)proposed-updates.
> [...]
> - update the images at [4], at
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New stuff
- -
* New virtual package 'keyboard-setup' has been introduced to allow
easy testing of console-setup. Previously, auto-install forced
kbd-chooser to get in the image.
* Default to not using a mirror if the user selected to
Not so important, just to let you know what happend.
Op 31-07-2007 om 20:11 schreef Geert Stappers:
>
>
> Euh, I don't know how to say this,
> but E-mails from Jeremy don't make it into my E-mail inbox.
>
>
> I suspect it is are the no ASCII characters in J.r.my.
>
>
> The thing I would lik
On Friday 10 August 2007, you wrote:
> Thanks. Uploaded.
A few other things that need doing:
- The upload of apt-setup is just one. There are many udebs with pending
uploads currently. I used to go through them periodically and do mass
uploads (after checking for potential problems and if nee
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> New stuff
>> -
>> * volatile support has been added.
>
> Not until someone actually uploads apt-setup...
>
> Note that this also means that Otavio's reply to #436220 was incorrect:
> current images do _not_ support unselec
I'm no longer subscribed to debian-boot, but for now I will occasionally
browse the list archive. (Also explains my breaking the thread.)
Note that if my help/knowledge is needed for anything I'm perfectly willing
to answer questions. Please mail me privately.
Otavio Salvador wrote:
> New stuff
New stuff
-
* volatile support has been added.
* g-i use dejavu for rendering Georgian text. Bug #435970 has been
reported asking for udeb removal.
* weekly builds has been enabled again and are now using sid
installer.
* partman now uses relatime mount option by default.
Res
Op 30-07-2007 om 19:03 schreef Otavio Salvador:
>
> First we'd like to say thank you to Frans Pop by his work as Debian Installer
> Release Manager and we (Jeremy, Joey and Otavio) are starting to work as a
> team
> to manage the next Debian Installer release.
Cool!
It is good to see that d-i n
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First we'd like to say thank you to Frans Pop by his work as Debian Installer
Release Manager and we (Jeremy, Joey and Otavio) are starting to work as a team
to manage the next Debian Installer release.
It won't be an easy task and we'll do mistakes,
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:03:19AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> No need to CC me on such requests. I will see them on d-release.
>
> I'll answer when I get to that list (just got home and looks like the HD
> of one of my servers is dead).
It's not needed anymore, we've uploaded the old versions to
Hi,
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 00:43, A Mennucc1 wrote:
- snip -
>
> I went to the above page to download the beta-1 to try it ,
> but the links are broken
>
> the whole
>
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/
>
> is non-existent
Here is the link
http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~seb
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:19:24PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> In case you've not heard of it, debian-installer is the next-generation
> Debian installation system that is targeted to be the installer for
> sarge. Its home page: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer
> This is a periodic status
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I would be willing to help with the sparc port. I have a sparc lx, sparc 5, and
>ultra 5 in my house that are doing nothing. I would be more than happy to help
>out in testing the sparc ports of d-i. If there are other people working on
Am Fre, den 12.12.2003 schrieb Paul Telford um 21:24:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Something I'd like to try is getting separate pairs of d-i developers
> > and porters together in one place, and see if and see if such small
> > teams they can make some real progress. I encourage
Quoting Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> We're not doing so well on ports. There has been some activity on the
> ia64 and hppa ports since beta 1, and I hope to see one or both included
> in beta 2, but both need more testing. Of course powerpc continues to be
> supported. The mips port more or le
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
> Something I'd like to try is getting separate pairs of d-i developers
> and porters together in one place, and see if and see if such small
> teams they can make some real progress. I encourage any porter or d-i
> developer who is interested in this idea to
> But there has been only some activity on sparc, mipsel, alpha, m69k
> (amiga), and s390; and little or progress on hppa, arm, various m68k
> subarches, and many less common powerpc subarches; and many of these
> architectures are nowhere near working.
FYI, after I fix some SILO issues this weeke
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:52:56PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Joey Hess]
> > [1] Here are the real numbers, courtesy of Denis Barbier
> [...]
> > 48% nb
> [...]
> > 4% no
>
> Where did the 'no' entry come from?
base-config
These stats cover base-config and everything under d
[Joey Hess]
> [1] Here are the real numbers, courtesy of Denis Barbier
[...]
> 48% nb
[...]
> 4% no
Where did the 'no' entry come from? Norwegian Bokmål use code 'nb'
within d-i, and I am unable to find any file names no.po in the d-i
CVS.
(We still have to use 'no' in the installed sys
fre 2003-12-12 klockan 15.33 skrev Nathanael Nerode:
> Before the string freeze, I *strongly* suggest that anyone who isn't very
> sure of their command of English submit their template files to
> debian-l10n-english for review. I keep seeing little grammar and spelling
> errors, which really need
Joey wrote:
>We're doing pretty well on translations already. 4 languages are more
>than 90% done, 4 more are over 50% done[1]. An upcoming "string freeze",
>scheduled for the 14th through 21st, should provide the chance for lots
>of languages to get 100% up-to-date against a stationary target. Any
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:51:07AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> in beta 2, but both need more testing. Of course powerpc continues to be
> supported.
Once the powerpc packages sitting in the NEW queue without any feedback
at all from the ftp-masters since more than a month (almost three weeks
prior
In case you've not heard of it, debian-installer is the next-generation
Debian installation system that is targeted to be the installer for
sarge. Its home page: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer
This is a periodic status report.
The first beta release back on November 9th was rather su
ons 2003-02-26 klockan 15.08 skrev Martin Quinson:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > * Larry Gilbert
> >
> > | Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > | > Also, having somebody with a good touch for English to go
> > | > through the templates would be nice.
> > |
> >
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Larry Gilbert
>
> | Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | > Also, having somebody with a good touch for English to go
> | > through the templates would be nice.
> |
> | I wouldn't mind helping with this, but I can't seem to figure out
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Larry Gilbert
>
> | Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | > Also, having somebody with a good touch for English to go
> | > through the templates would be nice.
> |
> | I wouldn't mind helping with this, but I can't seem to figure out
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:35:04 +1100
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The code is small, but as it needs libgcrypt (which needs opencdk and
> zlib) it makes it a 350kB binary, 171kB gzip'ed, which is pretty big
> for our purposes.
To be more specific, compiling statically against libopenc
On 21 Feb 2003 16:30:02 +0100
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> optimally, what I'd like
> is getting anna to support gpg and verify the full integrity of the
> install. One would then only have to trust the integrity of the
> initial boot media; a compromised mirror would be detected
lör 2003-02-22 klockan 02.49 skrev John Summerfield:
> On 21 Feb 2003, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
> > - - automated installs and testing. If somebody could give automated
> > installations and how to get those working better a shot, it'd be
> > cool. Getting the report tool (which should fill
On 21 Feb 2003, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> - - automated installs and testing. If somebody could give automated
> installations and how to get those working better a shot, it'd be
> cool. Getting the report tool (which should fill out the report
> template available at http://raw.no/d-i/repo
* Larry Gilbert
| Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > Also, having somebody with a good touch for English to go
| > through the templates would be nice.
|
| I wouldn't mind helping with this, but I can't seem to figure out how
| to check out debian-installer from the CVS server (using
| -d:pserver:[E
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Since the last status report, almost three months have passed, we have
had a quite successful alpha release and much has changed.
Debian-installer is still able to install Debian, so that hasn't
changed. :) The goals set in the last status report befo
On Fri Nov 22, 2002 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> and PowerPC. Bdale started on ia64 last night. I've played around
> with getting it up and running on BSD, but no luck so far, busybox
> seems to be fairly Linux-centric. It is not a high priority, but if
> somebody picks it up, i
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A lot has happened in the last month; the full size of the diff is
roughly 5500 lines. Martin has done some good work on main-menu and
anna, fixing bugs and trying to stabilize them somewhat. Bdale just
started work on ia64 and Bastian is doing some
Tollef Fog Heen (2002-10-14 16:52:28 +0200) :
[...]
> The debian-cd team has been busy with integrating d-i into their
> build scripts, and things are forming up. We actually have bootable
> (but not installable) CD images. Great work by the CD team.
>
> So what happens next?
[...]
> - CD ima
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A bit late this month, sorry about that.
Previous TODO list looked somewhat like:
- - partitioning/mkfs/mount stuff needs to be finished up.
- - dak needs to stop unaccepting new udebs.
- - prebaseconfig needs to stop using grub directly and depend
* Junichi Uekawa wrote:
| It might be nice to automate the not-yet-uploaded package
| detection, and compile them all, and other thing...
I'm not sure. I don't like «build all packages and upload» is a good
idea. However, if somebody extends uptodatecheck.sh with a --build I
wouldn't mindt.
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 10:02]:
> Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > It might be nice to automate the not-yet-uploaded package
> > detection, and compile them all, and other thing...
> >
> > find -type d -name debian | while read A; do
> > (
> > cd $(dirname $A);
> > debuil
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> It might be nice to automate the not-yet-uploaded package
> detection, and compile them all, and other thing...
>
> find -type d -name debian | while read A; do
> (
> cd $(dirname $A);
> debuild-pbuilder;
> )
> done
Note that build/Makefile already
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit:
> | Absolutely... I had to cd into each of several dirs containing source
> | for udebs and run dpkg-buildpackage in each one. I'd like to see a
> | situation under which I would type make -once-, and it builds all the
> | udebs.
>
> Why?
* Jim Lynch
| Absolutely... I had to cd into each of several dirs containing source
| for udebs and run dpkg-buildpackage in each one. I'd like to see a
| situation under which I would type make -once-, and it builds all the
| udebs.
Why? (as in, I think that is a silly idea.)
| Yes, I unders
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:00:18AM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
> On 30 Aug 2002 17:05:52 +0200
> Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > * Jim Lynch
> >
> > | Over the past few days, I tried to build debian-installer, and
> > | subtracting some minor frustrations that could have been clear
On 30 Aug 2002 17:05:52 +0200
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Jim Lynch
>
> | Over the past few days, I tried to build debian-installer, and
> | subtracting some minor frustrations that could have been cleared up
> | in the docs, it was pretty easy to build, if tedious: essential
* Jim Lynch
| Over the past few days, I tried to build debian-installer, and
| subtracting some minor frustrations that could have been cleared up
| in the docs, it was pretty easy to build, if tedious: essentially, I
| had to run a build process much more than once.
You shouldn't. Can you tel
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> - dak needs to stop unaccepting new udebs.
This should be fixed now, anyway.
> - a bunch of full-sized udebs needs to be created (more on this below)
That's such a contradiction in terms, btw :)
Cheers,
aj
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:09:22 -0400
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 05:42:30PM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:46:41 -0400
> > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I am in complete agreement that we would not want to include EVMS
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:28:12PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000
> Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like:
> >
> > libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb
> > udpkg, cdebconf, anna
> > *-ret
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:28:12PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000
> Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like:
> > libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb
> > udpkg, cdebconf, anna
> > *-retriever a
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:28:12 +0900
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000
> Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like:
> >
> > libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb
> > udpkg, cdebconf, anna
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like:
>
> libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb
> udpkg, cdebconf, anna
> *-retriever and any dependencies they have
> /lib/modules//**
It could b
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whether there's any point to all that's another matter. You're only
> buying yourself a smaller "rootfs", and you're only doing it by giving
> yourself less ways of accessing the first set of udebs you want to
> install
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:45:03PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> I was kind of thinking of "udebootstrap", but that might be a bit more
> tricky.
I've been kind-of thinking about that too, although I don't think it'd
remotely resemble debootstrap on the implementation side.
A "udebootstrap" wo
* Wartan Hachaturow
| On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
|
| > - - prebaseconfig needs to stop using grub directly and depend on
| > {grub,lilo}-installer instead.
|
| Uhm. Shouldn't it depend on something like boot-installer, which would
| be provided by all bo
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> - - prebaseconfig needs to stop using grub directly and depend on
> {grub,lilo}-installer instead.
Uhm. Shouldn't it depend on something like boot-installer, which would
be provided by all boot loaders installer packages? Alpha
On 26 Aug 2002 00:39:06 +0200
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> It is difficult to reduce a library if you don't know what functions
> in it will be used. Since additional modules could be dropped onto
> install media at any time, it is very difficult to guarantee that a
>
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Second status report, about a month has passed since the last one.
The todo list for d-i looked like this a month ago:
- - unbreak cdebconf
- - partitioner
- - multiple arch support
cdebconf has been unbroken. It works like a charm now, thanks a
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 05:42:30PM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:46:41 -0400
> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am in complete agreement that we would not want to include EVMS, XFS
> > or similar in our default kernel unless (or until) they are part of the
> > of
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:46:41 -0400
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:09:08AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
> > #include
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote on Mon Jul 29, 2002 um 09:00:42AM:
> >
> > > What is the basis for your objection? Are you going to try to stop
[Ob-CC: Cc'd just FYI. "d-i" refers to the next generation Debian
Installer, which you may view at http://cvs.debian.org/ and discuss in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; also archived there - http.]
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am in complete agreement that we would not want to include EVMS
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:09:08AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> Matt Zimmerman wrote on Mon Jul 29, 2002 um 09:00:42AM:
>
> > What is the basis for your objection? Are you going to try to stop someone
> > else from doing this development?
>
> Pretty simple. The same reason as for n
#include
Matt Zimmerman wrote on Mon Jul 29, 2002 um 09:00:42AM:
> > I object. EVMS is nice and it is the future. But currently, I miss some
> > features and the guys are preparing a new version with major changes.
> >
> > Lvm10 is known to be stable enough, EVMS is not (yet).
>
> What is the
Taral wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:44:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Taral wrote:
> > > It's not the pretty frontend that I have a problem with, it's the
> > > overhead. I want a system that does a bare minimal install from network
> > > that I can fit on a single floppy.
> >
> > That is
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:44:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Taral wrote:
> > It's not the pretty frontend that I have a problem with, it's the
> > overhead. I want a system that does a bare minimal install from network
> > that I can fit on a single floppy.
>
> That is a design goal of debian-in
Taral wrote:
> It's not the pretty frontend that I have a problem with, it's the
> overhead. I want a system that does a bare minimal install from network
> that I can fit on a single floppy.
That is a design goal of debian-installer.
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:22:53AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> d-i will have pretty frontends, but it will also have CLI and slang
> frontends, so if the frontend is what you have a problem with, please
> rather contribute to d-i. :)
It's not the pretty frontend that I have a problem with, it
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:26:51AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> Karl M. Hegbloom wrote on Sun Jul 28, 2002 um 11:01:42PM:
> > Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > [...], we need some more partition tools; there has been some
> > > discussion on debian-boot regarding
* "Christian T. Steigies"
| On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:48:30AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
|
| > So, to round this up, the current issue list is:
| > - - unbreak cdebconf
| > - - partitioner
| > - - multiple arch support
| >
| > Comments, help and code is, as always, welcome.
|
| Can you g
* Taral
| On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:48:30AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > So, to round this up, the current issue list is:
| > - unbreak cdebconf
| > - partitioner
| > - multiple arch support
| >
| > Comments, help and code is, as always, welcome.
|
| Meanwhile I'm still working on my min
#include
Eduard Bloch wrote on Mon Jul 29, 2002 um 08:25:23AM:
> #include
> Tollef Fog Heen wrote on Mon Jul 29, 2002 um 04:48:30AM:
> > So, to round this up, the current issue list is:
> > - - unbreak cdebconf
> > - - partitioner
> > - - multiple arch support
>
> My first and not complete draf
#include
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote on Sun Jul 28, 2002 um 11:01:42PM:
> Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [...], we need some more partition tools; there has been some
> > discussion on debian-boot regarding it but no final decision has
> > been reached, though several solutions hav
#include
Tollef Fog Heen wrote on Mon Jul 29, 2002 um 04:48:30AM:
> So, to round this up, the current issue list is:
> - - unbreak cdebconf
> - - partitioner
> - - multiple arch support
My first and not complete draft of the partitioner UI is attached. Use
glade to view.
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...], we need some more partition tools; there has been some
> discussion on debian-boot regarding it but no final decision has
> been reached, though several solutions have been presented.
I wonder if the partition tools can do EVMS, or if a plugin
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you give us a kickstart on how to use it, how to build it, what has to
> be done for other arches?
I will only comment very partially on "what has to be done for other arches".
For i386, we have lilo-installer and grub
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:48:30AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> So, to round this up, the current issue list is:
> - unbreak cdebconf
> - partitioner
> - multiple arch support
>
> Comments, help and code is, as always, welcome.
Meanwhile I'm still working on my mini-installer for experts. It
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:48:30AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> Anthony Towns has written some things [...]
More of a segue than a reply, but hey. Kibozing on irc shows up some
remarks like:
aj wants to be able to autobuild on other arches, so we'll
be able to build ppc images o
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This is the first status report for debian-installer (d-i). I will
try to post those statuses about once a month.
d-i was supposed to be the installer for woody. We thought that woody
was to release earlier than it did and so we decided to go with
"KORN Andras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I couldn't find anything under /proc that referenced old device names. This
$ cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.12 2000/10/18
drive name: hdc
...
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:54:11 +0200
"KORN Andras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:24:08AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
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> > It turns out that even if you compile with devfs, there are places
where
> > the old style device names are still used (/proc/partitions i think
was
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:24:08AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> It turns out that even if you compile with devfs, there are places where
> the old style device names are still used (/proc/partitions i think was
> what anoyed me), for me this ruined devfs's elegence.
Ummm...
% cat /proc/partiti
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the real installed system should not use devfs nor require it.
I will note only that all the kernels Herbert is producing have devfs
built in, and leave it at that.
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On 20 Oct 2001 09:36:14 +0200
"Stefan Nobis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:50:42PM -0700, Rob Bos wrote:
> > > > - /dev is 3k bigger
> > >
> > > How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfs
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:50:42PM -0700, Rob Bos wrote:
> > > - /dev is 3k bigger
> >
> > How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfsd in the
> > bootfloppies?
>
> the real installed system should not use devfs nor re
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:23:46AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > BTW: libdetect0 has no udeb. ethdetect is uninstallable
>
> are we still using libdetect? i was told that it is very i386 specific
> and may not work well at all on other archs.
discover 1.0 is pretty portable, at the cost of sp
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:11:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> We strip modules as much as is possible. I have never heard of stripping
> the kernel itself.
Stripping all symbols is highly likely to break the kernel. However, GCC
generates a .ident field in object files, which seems to be unnecess
Joerg Friedrich wrote:
> The last days I played around with d-i. I realized that net-i1440-image doesn't fit
>on one
> single floppy. Another aproach to reduce the size is to build a
> kernel-image designed for the debian-installer with a reduced
> feature-set. I managed to build one that is abou
> BTW: libdetect0 has no udeb. ethdetect is uninstallable
are we still using libdetect? i was told that it is very i386 specific
and may not work well at all on other archs.
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:08:12PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:45:38 -0400
> "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > 107548: /sbin/dhclient
> 18472: /sbin/udhcpc
>
> As much as i like dhclient, it is big.
>
> udhcp client is packaged as udhcpc its homepa
On Don, Okt 18, 2001 at 09:25:33 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> The first big stumbling block that the system has *exploded* in size.
> We're about 233K too big (and we used to be several hundred K under the
> max size..) I am contacting the worst offenders and trying to get it
> back to something that
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:50:42PM -0700, Rob Bos wrote:
> > - /dev is 3k bigger
>
> How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfsd in the
> bootfloppies?
the real installed system should not use devfs nor require it.
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On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 04:08:12PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:45:38 -0400
> "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > 107548: /sbin/dhclient
> 18472: /sbin/udhcpc
>
> As much as i like dhclient, it is big.
>
> udhcp client is packaged as udhcpc its homepag
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:45:38 -0400
"Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 107548: /sbin/dhclient
18472: /sbin/udhcpc
As much as i like dhclient, it is big.
udhcp client is packaged as udhcpc its homepagepage is at
http://opensource.lineo.com/udhcp/
Failing to obtain an IP is a
Erm, it's been so long that I forgot. We do use devfs. We still have to
provide a number of compatability links in /dev, since a lot of stuff,
expecially libraries, doesn't support the devfs names yet. Everything
we're foing for d-i should use the devfs names, if possible.
joey@silk:~/tmp/tmp.new
> The first big stumbling block that the system has *exploded* in size.
Here are some handy figures about what's changed. I ran
build/treecompare twice, to compare the current tree with how it looked
back on 2001-09-05, and then to compare that tree with how it looked all
the way back on 2001-02-
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:04:08AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Rob Bos wrote:
> > > - /dev is 3k bigger
> >
> > How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfsd in the
> > bootfloppies?
>
> If it wasn't for that 33k binary plus config files, I'd say go for it,
> but w
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