Re: modutils-udeb

2001-02-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joey Hess wrote: > I wish the dpkg people would at least _consider_ including it, or speak > on the issue at all. Nobody replied to my mail to debian-dpkg about it. This is the first time I've ever heard of it actually... I've been asking for a script like that for a while even. Wiche

Re: modutils udeb

2001-02-06 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
"Eray Ozkural (exa)" wrote: > I'll apply it and then post the new diff against the BTS. No need, it applies to the new one with no problems. Saving the mail instead of cut&paste worked better. -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http

Re: modutils udeb

2001-02-06 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Hi David, David Whedon wrote: > > Ug, there are two potential problems I see. > 1. The patch I made was against 2.4.1-1, not 2.4.1-2, a solutions to that is to > adjust the patch manually, or manually apply the parts that need help, and then > be kind enough to post a new diff (one against 2.4.1

Re: modutils udeb

2001-02-06 Thread David Whedon
Ug, there are two potential problems I see. 1. The patch I made was against 2.4.1-1, not 2.4.1-2, a solutions to that is to adjust the patch manually, or manually apply the parts that need help, and then be kind enough to post a new diff (one against 2.4.1-2) to the BTS. 2. cutting and pasting p

Re: modutils udeb

2001-02-06 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
David Whedon wrote: > > Currently a patch exists in the BTS, look for bugs against modutils. > The patch didn't apply cleanly for me. Do you have any suggestions what might have gone wrong? I tried to apply the patch to latest modutils debian source. What do I apply that patch to? orion:debian

Re: modutils udeb

2001-02-03 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
David Whedon wrote: > > Currently a patch exists in the BTS, look for bugs against modutils. Thanks, I'm having a look at it now. -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: modutils udeb

2001-02-03 Thread David Whedon
Currently a patch exists in the BTS, look for bugs against modutils. -David Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:16:06AM +0200 wrote: > Where is it? Do I have to build it, because it doesn't seem to be > available in debian-installer/ ? > > Thanks, > > -- > Eray (exa) Ozkural > Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent Un

modutils udeb

2001-02-02 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Where is it? Do I have to build it, because it doesn't seem to be available in debian-installer/ ? Thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: modutils-udeb

2001-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Andersen wrote: > On Wed Jan 31, 2001 at 11:19:01PM -0800, David Whedon wrote: > > all fixed, I should learn to read the build depends (didn't have the pic > > libraries installed) > > Actually, dpkg-buildpackge is the one that really needs to > learn how to read build depends... Until it

Re: modutils-udeb

2001-02-01 Thread Erik Andersen
On Wed Jan 31, 2001 at 11:19:01PM -0800, David Whedon wrote: > all fixed, I should learn to read the build depends (didn't have the pic > libraries installed) Actually, dpkg-buildpackge is the one that really needs to learn how to read build depends... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen email: [EMA

Re: modutils-udeb

2001-01-31 Thread David Whedon
for reference, this is my most recent one: > > System stats > > > > Installed udebs: anna main-menu cdebconf-udeb udpkg busybox-udeb ash-udeb > > choose-mirror wget-retriever niccfg-manual netcfg-static netkit-tiny-udeb > > nic-modules-2.4.0-di isa-pnp-modu

Re: modutils-udeb

2001-01-31 Thread Joey Hess
irror wget-retriever niccfg-manual netcfg-static netkit-tiny-udeb > nic-modules-2.4.0-di isa-pnp-modules-2.4.0-di modutils-udeb > Total system size: 2.3M > Compresses to: 830k > Single Floppy kernel must be less than: ~570k 2.3M is HUGE. Does mklibs say it is making "small lib from

Re: Bug#83608: [PATCH]: modutils-udeb for debian-installer

2001-01-29 Thread David Whedon
aintainer: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.7.0) Standards-Version: 3.2.0 Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org/ Origin: debian @@ -15,3 +16,11 @@ These utilities are intended to make a Linux modular kernel manageable for all users, administr

Re: Bug#83608: [PATCH]: modutils-udeb for debian-installer

2001-01-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously David Whedon wrote: > We're really strapped for space trying to fit all on a single floppy. We > have to carefully consider the 10k that using modprobe will cost us. Is it > possible for you to elaborate on why you don't want us to use insmod. We > really only need it to insmod a nic

Re: Bug#83608: [PATCH]: modutils-udeb for debian-installer

2001-01-27 Thread David Whedon
We're really strapped for space trying to fit all on a single floppy. We have to carefully consider the 10k that using modprobe will cost us. Is it possible for you to elaborate on why you don't want us to use insmod. We really only need it to insmod a nic module, and after that we can grab any

Re: Bug#83608: [PATCH]: modutils-udeb for debian-installer

2001-01-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously David Whedon wrote: > Here's a patch to make a udeb of modutils for debian-installer. It is still > possible that we will use busybox 'insmod', however busybox 'insmod' doesn't > currently support all our targetted archs. In its current form this udeb > contains only the insmod binary

[PATCH]: modutils-udeb for debian-installer

2001-01-25 Thread David Whedon
l users, administrators and distribution maintainers. + +Package: modutils-udeb +Section: debian-installer +Architecture: any +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} +Description: Linux module utilities for debian-installer. + modutils-udeb is a minimal package used by debian-installer. + This package cont