Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:34:24PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > The problem seems to be that hwclock.sh is a conffile and wants to > > prompt the user about whether to override the existing file. > > Unfortunately, we're running in non-interactive mode so the STDIN prompt

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:49:52AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > This was a fresh install on a newly formatted partition. The symptom to > this failure shows up when the following repeat (from debootstrap/woody) > fails 20 times (because powerpc-utils hasn't configured). Perhaps that > is also

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:02:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:49:52AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > This was a fresh install on a newly formatted partition. The symptom to > > this failure shows up when the following repeat (from debootstrap/woody) > > fails 20

Re: libutf8, bogl, bgf fonts and tools vs boot-floppies

2001-05-28 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Mon, 28 May 2001 02:12:55 +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:00:16AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > I have asked before, but never received a satisfactory answer, what > > you should do if you want a "standard" UTF-8 locale. Probably there > > should be something

Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

2001-05-28 Thread Richard Hirst
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:04:05PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:54:50PM +0100 wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > > I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke > > > debotstrap we communicate with in t

Bug#98439: fixed in cvs

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I can't think of any good reason for modules.tgz not to exist at this > point. Nope, definitely should be a condition which would stop the script. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't hate me. > > I did this in perhaps not the brightest way - bterm (33K) is now always > included. That makes no sense, but I didn't want to figure out how to > conditionally extract a package, since I need to run. > > Probably the bes

Re: kernel for woody

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we have a 2.2.x kernel for about half the architectures, and a 2.4.x > kernel for the rest. are we going to have a 2.4.x kernel for all our > architectures when the woody floppies are released? Nope, I don't think so. I mean, I'm leaving the

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:aph time: Mon May 28 15:13:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix bad linebreaks splitting wide characters Files: changed:zh_CN.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: MacOS floppy creation

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Regarding the licensing for a little frob thingie on the CD to make things easier, I recommend you simply place whatever AppleScript snippets under the public domain, it's very simple and small and easy. Regarding putting things on the CDs at all, please take it up with the Debian-CD group. I a

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Regarding Anthony Towns' attempt to get sound configuration to be an optional part of the installation process (I think it falls under base-config or tasksel or whatever, clearly), I applaud this effort. Even if it's only sucessful for 60% of users, I think it's worthwhile (so long as it is cou

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/bogl by edmundo

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
All these changes were rather rendered moot, this directory has been removed from CVS. I believe this stuff is now in the bogl package in unstable/testing. Can you make sure these changes propogated there as needs be, either by filing a bug report, patches, whatever? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PRO

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-05-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:36:35PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Well, my hope was that we actually remove LANGUAGE_CHOOSER -- forcing > it to be on *all* the time... > > How far are we from that? No idea. Basically we need to make a set and see how it works. I built bf with LC turned on last

Vmware and framebuffer flavors

2001-05-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
When trying to boot compact or idepci set under vmware, the kernel says: VFS: Insert root floppy to be loaded [...] and press ENTER VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) RAMDISK: Compressed image found on block 0 [now a 2 minute or so pause] probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration

boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I am preparing boot-floppies 2.3.4 for release. This version should be nominally installable, or at least, get beyond the blocker bugs in 2.3.3, such as busybox issues causing failed download of base. There are still *plenty* of problem in boot-floppies making it not production ready, including

Re: MacOS floppy creation

2001-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:19:20PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Regarding the licensing for a little frob thingie on the CD to make > things easier, I recommend you simply place whatever AppleScript > snippets under the public domain, it's very simple and small and easy. now that i think abou

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:aph time: Mon May 28 15:53:52 PDT 2001 Log Message: ignorable Files: changed:.cvsignore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Regarding Anthony Towns' attempt to get sound configuration to be an > optional part of the installation process (I think it falls under > base-config or tasksel or whatever, clearly), I applaud this effort. > > Mind you, obviously, this should not be triggered unless the us

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:27:21 PDT 2001 Log Message: kill the 'official_debian' config var, it was unused (I grepped to be sure); add OFFIALWEBBUILD for the purposes for web documentation building (no one should really set that true, see the comments i

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:27:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: document the distro people need to be running to build this stuff with Files: changed:README -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

cvs commit to tasksel by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:37:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: stop shipping upstream changelog Files: removed:ChangeLog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:37:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: stop shipping upstream changelog Files: changed:rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:39:04 PDT 2001 Log Message: 1.4 version changes by Adam, give credit to Joey Hess where due Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: dbootstrap's zh_CN.po encoding

2001-05-28 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Looks like something's wrong with the chineese po file. Can > someone more competent look at it? The following is a snippet > from 'make ../all.utf' in boot-floppies/utilities/bogl > > iconv -f "`grep -a '^"Content-Type:' zh_CN.po | sed -e >'s/^.*charset=\\

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:48:03 PDT 2001 Log Message: generalize the description so it doesn't mention task packages Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 16:49:39 PDT 2001 Log Message: more changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh

2001-05-28 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel/debian who:joeyh time: Mon May 28 17:25:47 PDT 2001 Log Message: added one more task (I thought I committed this last night, oops!) Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

2001-05-28 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel/tasks who:joeyh time: Mon May 28 17:25:47 PDT 2001 Log Message: added one more task (I thought I committed this last night, oops!) Files: added: unix-server -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 18:00:26 PDT 2001 Log Message: accomodate change from non-native to native pkg Files: changed:rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 18:03:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: reburn Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to tasksel/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: tasksel/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 18:10:30 PDT 2001 Log Message: start 1.5 Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dbootstrap.sgml patch: brownbag oldworld nvsetenv info

2001-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
this patch corrects the shell command necessary to set the OpenFirmware boot-device variable on oldworlds. note that this command may not render all oldworlds bootable, and it may not work with the ofpath in potato. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ Index: dbootstrap.sgml

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Mon May 28 19:14:36 PDT 2001 Log Message: rework OFFICIALWEBBUILD handling Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 19:16:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: some changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:26:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > anXious doesn't exist in woody AFAICT. > > > > I think it's now handled by xserver-xfree86 postinst or debconf or > > whatever it is that runs there. > > Hmm, this is a bit disturbing since base-config still calls anXious. > Well,

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Mon May 28 19:53:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix for libc6 in powerpc -- 2.2.3 Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:43:46PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I am preparing boot-floppies 2.3.4 for release. This version should > be nominally installable, or at least, get beyond the blocker bugs in > 2.3.3, such as busybox issues causing failed download of base. I notice in the dist se

Bug#99079: confusing messages

2001-05-28 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:35:06AM +0200, Marcello Nuccio wrote: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: 2.3.3 > Severity: normal > > (sorry for my broken english, please ask if it's not clear) > > During the installation, a few warnings informs the user that empty > files /etc/ld.so.conf, lilo.con

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 20:06:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: i386 depends on zlib-bin Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 20:07:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: my recent changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-28 Thread David Whedon
Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:00:24PM -0400 wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:43:46PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > I am preparing boot-floppies 2.3.4 for release. This version should > > be nominally installable, or at least, get beyond the blocker bugs in > > 2.3.3, such as busybox issues ca

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Randolph Chung
> AnXious doesn't have to go away, it can just stop sweating the X server > issue. anXious has been removed from woody for some time already. i thought dexter already does everything that anXious did? randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/ PGP signature

Re: boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:36:34PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:00:24PM -0400 wrote: > > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:43:46PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > > > I am preparing boot-floppies 2.3.4 for release. This version should > > > be nominally installable, or at le

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/it by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/it who:aph time: Mon May 28 21:15:27 PDT 2001 Log Message: do a changequote in here to prevent m4 expansion Files: changed:f9.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Mon May 28 21:24:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove obsolete references to BASE_TGZ Files: changed:Makefile README-Users.pl.m4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Mon May 28 21:25:04 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix typos Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Mon May 28 21:26:36 PDT 2001 Log Message: use 'mkdir -p' where sensible to do so; m4 processing of i386 syslinux rescue messages will fail if they are messed Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/it by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/it who:aph time: Mon May 28 21:39:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: my fix here fixed nothing; just kill the lone backtick, damned if I can get m4 to ignore it Files: changed:f9.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-28 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Mon May 28 21:41:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: stomp useless divergance Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > anXious doesn't exist in woody AFAICT. > > > > I think it's now handled by xserver-xfree86 postinst or debconf or > > whatever it is that runs there. > > Hmm, this is a bit disturbing since base-config still calls anXious. > Wel

Re: boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Boot-floppies 2.3.4 is tagged and building for i386. Please do email this list if you are building 2.3.4 for non-i386 architectures. Please do check unstable for your arch has the newest tasksel, base-config, and busybox -- you may have to port it for your arch. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECT

porting 2.3.4 boot-floppies

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Also, do reply to this message if you are building 2.3.4 for non-i386 -- I want to keep some tabs on this. I do have sparc and powerpc I can do porting work but I would prefer to be able to focus on overall quality and i386 only. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onshored.com/> --

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by dwhedon

2001-05-28 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Mon May 28 22:35:05 PDT 2001 Log Message: * put slink back in * clean up the handling of the volatile testing/stable codenames. Now there is one define that needs to change once woody is released and the dialog plu

Re: MacOS floppy creation

2001-05-28 Thread Chris Tillman
> > Regarding the licensing for a little frob thingie on the CD to make > things easier, I recommend you simply place whatever AppleScript > snippets under the public domain, it's very simple and small and easy. > > Regarding putting things on the CDs at all, please take it up with the > Debian-C

Re: woody b-f seems quite usable

2001-05-28 Thread konstantin cherkasoff
Hi. EGE> Or are you seeing no borders at all, Yes. No borders. EGE> and the text on a button (e.g. EGE> "Ok") is duplicated briefly when you select the button? Hm, what meen "duplicated briefly"? -- konstantin cherkasoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: MacOS floppy creation

2001-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:07:52PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Since boot-floppies are EOL, it probably doesn't make sense to pursue this > any further. OTOH, will we have the same problem in DI? Will there still be > binary format boot floppy images? yes, you have to boot somehow. and bootabl

Re: dbootstrap's zh_CN.po encoding

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I think I caused the problem -- the bad lines show they were committed by me when trying to commit. Well, I have fixes for that... wonder why we didn't hit this problem before? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Bug#99079: confusing messages

2001-05-28 Thread Marcello Nuccio
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.3.3 Severity: normal (sorry for my broken english, please ask if it's not clear) During the installation, a few warnings informs the user that empty files /etc/ld.so.conf, lilo.conf and exim.conf were created. >From the messages, it's not clear if this is a pro

Bug#99120: driver floppies for alpha system

2001-05-28 Thread Hiroki Tamakoshi
Package: boot-floppy Version: 2.2r3 I'm trying to install the Debian system to our alpha system. Boot floppies are downloaded from http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r3/main/disks-alpha/current/images-1.44/. Booting from the rescue floppy, and subsequent operations are successful. Bu