udpkg wierdness

2001-02-08 Thread Glenn McGrath
I tried udpkg -r findutils and the following are the changes it made to /var/lib/dpkg/status Its it supposed to work on post-installed systems ? --- status Thu Feb 8 18:07:05 2001 +++ status.udpkgThu Feb 8 18:06:50 2001 @@ -10943,7 +10943,7 @@ base Gnome library functions. Pa

Re: udpkg wierdness

2001-02-08 Thread exa
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:55:11PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > I tried udpkg -r findutils and the following are the changes it made to > /var/lib/dpkg/status > > Its it supposed to work on post-installed systems ? > I guess not, it screwed my system too. Gotta run it only within a chroot env.

Re: Debian Floppies/ReiserFS

2001-02-08 Thread Marc A . Volovic
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:45:07AM +0100, Dermot McGahon wrote: > > I would be very interested in the current state of play with regard to > Debian and Reiser ? What can be done at the moment ? Are your patches > the only ones ? Are they ready for production machines ??? Thanks for the VERY long

Re: Debian Floppies/ReiserFS

2001-02-08 Thread Marc A . Volovic
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:30:05PM +0200, Marc A . Volovic wrote: > > http://www.bard.org.il/~marc/linux/rfs/ > Also, I would like as much feedback as possible about this set of diskettes. It is ANYTHING but final, I will work more on it. However, my time is very limited. PLEASE help with com

Re: udpkg wierdness

2001-02-08 Thread Glenn McGrath
"Eray Ozkural (exa)" wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:55:11PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > I tried udpkg -r findutils and the following are the changes it made to > > /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > > Its it supposed to work on post-installed systems ? > > > > I guess not, it screwed my syste

Re: udpkg wierdness

2001-02-08 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Glenn McGrath wrote: > > I think the problem is in status_merge or status_read which effects all > functions provided by udpkg. > Looks like a bug to me. Have any intentions to trace the bug and fix it? ;) Regards, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [E

Re: French installation document corrections

2001-02-08 Thread Eric VB
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:31:30AM -0800, David Whedon wrote: > Marc, > > The new patch worked flawlessly. I committed everything except fr.BUGS. I > wasn't sure what to do about fr.BUGS. If this file is part of boot-floppies CVS tree, I should correct it. Is it so ? What's the exact location

Re: French installation document corrections

2001-02-08 Thread David Whedon
I never committed fr.BUGS, there is no need to actually commit it, just to fix the problems. I didn't fix any of them either. This message outlines the problems: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0102/msg00165.html And yes, these are problems with boot-floppies CVS. -David Thu, Feb 08, 2001

Re: udpkg in busybox

2001-02-08 Thread Erik Andersen
On Wed Feb 07, 2001 at 11:10:32PM -0800, David Whedon wrote: > That's very cool, the space savings look great. > > Would busybox upstream want to include udpkg? It's quite debian-specific. Just > curious how that would be best handled. Since busybox upstream is me, I'm happy to include debian

Re: French installation document corrections

2001-02-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Eric VB wrote: > If this file is part of boot-floppies CVS tree, I should correct it. Is > it so ? What's the exact location of the file ? Sorry, I wasn't clear enough: fr.BUGS is a BUGS file, basically it contains my remarks of the bugs I have seen with the printed version

Debian Boot CVS: joeyh

2001-02-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/02/08 09:01:06 Modified files: main-menu/debian: changelog Log message: * Really allow retrying of failed menu entries. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: udpkg in busybox

2001-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn McGrath wrote: > The other thing is that the "official" udpkg will probably want to stay > standalone, so changes to debian cvs udpkg may have to be manually fixed > in busybox cvs as well to keep things in sync. Thats no big deal though > i can do that. I don't see why this would be necess

Re: udpkg in busybox

2001-02-08 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Erik Andersen wrote: > > Since busybox upstream is me, I'm happy to include debian specific stuff. > The only concern I have is what happens when someone tries to use udpkg > on their desktop... Wouldn't it be good to separate udpkg data from dpkg data? So even if a user uses it (he might want t

Re: udpkg in busybox

2001-02-08 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Feb 08, 2001 at 10:21:36PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Erik Andersen wrote: > > > > Since busybox upstream is me, I'm happy to include debian specific stuff. > > The only concern I have is what happens when someone tries to use udpkg > > on their desktop... > > Wouldn't it be good

Re: Debian Floppies/ReiserFS

2001-02-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:30:05PM +0200, Marc A . Volovic wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:45:07AM +0100, Dermot McGahon wrote: > > > > I would be very interested in the current state of play with regard to > > Debian and Reiser ? What can be done at the moment ? Are your patches > > the only

Re: udpkg in busybox

2001-02-08 Thread Glenn McGrath
Erik Andersen wrote: > > On Thu Feb 08, 2001 at 10:21:36PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > Erik Andersen wrote: > > > > > > Since busybox upstream is me, I'm happy to include debian specific stuff. > > > The only concern I have is what happens when someone tries to use udpkg > > > on their d

Re: udpkg wierdness

2001-02-08 Thread Glenn McGrath
"Eray Ozkural (exa)" wrote: > > Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > > I think the problem is in status_merge or status_read which effects all > > functions provided by udpkg. > > > > Looks like a bug to me. Have any intentions to trace the bug and fix it? ;) > Yes, im on the job again now. Glenn --

Re: Debian Boot CVS: tausq

2001-02-08 Thread Randolph Chung
> > Log message: > > Initial import of new modconf development branch > > Randolph, can you explain what thisi s for, who might be using it? I'm experimenting with better modconf support for woody b-f. On the road right now; more details when I get back... randolph -- Debian Developer <[EM

Re: udpkg wierdness

2001-02-08 Thread Glenn McGrath
Glenn McGrath wrote: > > "Eray Ozkural (exa)" wrote: > > > > Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > > > > I think the problem is in status_merge or status_read which effects all > > > functions provided by udpkg. > > > > > > > Looks like a bug to me. Have any intentions to trace the bug and fix it? ;) > > >

Re: udpkg wierdness

2001-02-08 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Feb 09, 2001 at 03:32:48PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Its a mongrel of a bug, data is going into the structs correctly and > comming out changed... > > Im gunna start rewriting big chunks soon ! When things get changed behind your back, that usually means memory corruption. I sugges

Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-02-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: dwhedon 01/02/08 21:44:47 Modified files: rootskel/debian: changelog rules rootskel/src/etc: inittab rootskel/src/etc/init.d: rcS Log message: put the 'null' back in inittab, it allows rc

Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-02-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
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Bug#85344: installer ignores port when installing over network

2001-02-08 Thread Mark Willey
Package: installation Version: ? debian 2.2r2 idepci images I set up a debian mirror locally and was having a hard time installing from it as I had the httpd bound to port 8080, and the port 8080 specified in the installer. It turns out that the installer uses port 80 even when told to use port

Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-02-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: dwhedon 01/02/08 23:13:50 Modified files: libd-i : Makefile d-i.c libd-i/debian : changelog control rules Added files: libd-i/debian : dirs libd-i.postinst Log message: now we'r

Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-02-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: dwhedon 01/02/08 23:31:25 debian-installer/rootskel/src/var Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/rootskel/src/var In directory klecker:/tmp/cvs-serv1255/var Log Message: Directory /cvs/debian-boot/debian-in

Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-02-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: dwhedon 01/02/08 23:31:35 debian-installer/rootskel/src/var/log Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/rootskel/src/var/log In directory klecker:/tmp/cvs-serv1275/log Log Message: Directory /cvs/debian-boot/d

Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-02-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: dwhedon 01/02/08 23:35:17 Modified files: libd-i : Makefile Log message: now it actually works! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-02-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: dwhedon 01/02/08 23:43:00 Added files: rootskel/src/var/log: messages Log message: place holder so 'tail' isn't sad when we boot up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: udpkg wierdness

2001-02-08 Thread Glenn McGrath
Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Package: libmysqlclient9 > Package: giflib3g > Package: gdict > Package: libpgsql2 Now i see the conection, they are all both real and virtual packages, i.e. each of the package names above are also in the Provides section of another package. Is that ok according to