Re: Conflict in debian-installer/tools/base-installer/debian/

2003-10-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 27.10.2003 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen um 23:44: > Please clean up the conflict you commited, and make it a habit to use > 'cvs diff -u' before you commit: Done, sorry about that gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-28 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:56:03PM +0100, Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > > > >>I suspect base-config to automatically answer yes to the "Do you want to > >>delete any previously downloaded package files?" It probably happened > >>when during a debian installai

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-28 Thread Bernhard Kuemel
Andrew Pollock wrote: base-config runs apt-get autoclean. Well, thanks for making that clear. I'd like to have the option to skip that. I had packages from releases other than that defined in the current sources.list and would have liked to keep them. It's a bit late now, but it's probably a goo

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-28 Thread Bernhard Kuemel
Bernhard Kuemel wrote: A suggested solution is a caching http proxy but that would disable smart cache purging with apt-get autoclean. However, apt-get autoclean is somewhat limited, as apt-get update runs out of memory with too much data (e.g. stable+testing+unstable), but that bug will hopeful

Re: review of mrvn build tree, part 1

2003-10-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:28:51AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > network/linux- (amiga, atari, ...) > > > network/initrd-.gz > > > hd-media/linux- > > > hd-media/initrd-.gz > > For hd-media, the bootfloppy currently looks for a file named initrd.gz > > on the disk, so it would be

A patch for modconf to support 2.6 kernels

2003-10-28 Thread Rimas Kudelis
Hello, AFAIK, modconf does not yet work with 2.6 kernels (with .ko suffix for kernel module filename) well, so i've attempted to patch it. The lame results of that attempt *should* be attached to this mail (buggy evolution doesn't show me attachments i'm sending) :). Generally, i've simply greppe

Re: review of mrvn build tree, part 1

2003-10-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:28:51AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > network/linux- (amiga, atari, ...) > > > > network/initrd-.gz > > > > hd-media/linux- > > > > hd-media/initrd-.gz > > > > For hd-media, the bootfloppy currently looks f

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > Andrew Pollock wrote: > >>>base-config runs apt-get autoclean. > >> > >>Well, thanks for making that clear. I'd like to have the option > >>to skip that. I had packages from releases other than that > >>defined in the current sources.list and would have liked to keep > >

anna_0.040_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-10-28 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: anna_0.040.dsc to pool/main/a/anna/anna_0.040.dsc anna_0.040.tar.gz to pool/main/a/anna/anna_0.040.tar.gz anna_0.040_i386.udeb to pool/main/a/anna/anna_0.040_i386.udeb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your contribution to Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

cdrom-detect_0.33_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-10-28 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: cdrom-detect_0.33.dsc to pool/main/c/cdrom-detect/cdrom-detect_0.33.dsc cdrom-detect_0.33.tar.gz to pool/main/c/cdrom-detect/cdrom-detect_0.33.tar.gz cdrom-detect_0.33_all.udeb to pool/main/c/cdrom-detect/cdrom-detect_0.33_all.udeb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for yo

cdrom-checker_0.13_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-10-28 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: cdrom-checker_0.13.dsc to pool/main/c/cdrom-checker/cdrom-checker_0.13.dsc cdrom-checker_0.13.tar.gz to pool/main/c/cdrom-checker/cdrom-checker_0.13.tar.gz cdrom-checker_0.13_i386.udeb to pool/main/c/cdrom-checker/cdrom-checker_0.13_i386.udeb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank

partconf_0.11_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-10-28 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: partconf-find-partitions_0.11_i386.udeb to pool/main/p/partconf/partconf-find-partitions_0.11_i386.udeb partconf-mkfstab_0.11_i386.udeb to pool/main/p/partconf/partconf-mkfstab_0.11_i386.udeb partconf_0.11.dsc to pool/main/p/partconf/partconf_0.11.dsc partconf_0.11.tar.gz to pool

Bug#217503: Evil autopartkit should _NEVER_ _NEVER_ try to overwrite an unknown partition table

2003-10-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 25.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:29: > Package: autopartkit > Version: 0.62 > Severity: critical > Justification: causes serious data loss > > Ok, i am trying to make debian-installer work on the pegasos, and to my > surprise, yesterday, autopartkit without really giving me the cho

Bug#199918: marked as done (partkit is confused about /var and /tmp)

2003-10-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#216046: marked as done (partconf: Partition changes above partition 9 applied incorrectly)

2003-10-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#214232: marked as done (partconf: Doesn't care which partition I want to format/mount)

2003-10-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#217503: Evil autopartkit should _NEVER_ _NEVER_ try to overwrite an unknown partition table

2003-10-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:55:35PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Sam, den 25.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:29: > > Package: autopartkit > > Version: 0.62 > > Severity: critical > > Justification: causes serious data loss > > > > Ok, i am trying to make debian-installer work on the pegaso

Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-28 Thread Christian Perrier
During the recent months, I have been mostly involved in the work of translation debconf templates to french. During this work, I very often found templates which seemd to be inconsistent with some unwritten (or written, but in several documents or mailing lists messages) rules. This often lead m

Bug#214384: slovenian PO-file translation for base-installer

2003-10-28 Thread Jure Cuhalev
Package: base-installer Severity: wishlist Followup-For: Bug #214384 This is new/fixed slovenian translation of po-file for base-installer package. regards Jure Cuhalev [EMAIL PROTECTED] # translation of sl.po to Slovenian # Slovenian messages for debian-installer. # Copyright (C) 2003 Softwar

Bug#218021: slovenian PO-file translation for cdrom-detect

2003-10-28 Thread Jure Cuhalev
Package: cdrom-detect Severity: wishlist This is new/fixed slovenian translation of po-file for cdrom-detect package. regards Jure Cuhalev [EMAIL PROTECTED] # translation of sl.po to Slovenian # Slovenian messages for debian-installer. # Copyright (C) 2003 Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

Bug#218025: slovenian PO-file translation for ddetect

2003-10-28 Thread Jure Cuhalev
Package: ddetect Severity: wishlist This is new/fixed slovenian translation of po-file for ddetect. regards Jure Cuhalev [EMAIL PROTECTED] # translation of sl.po to Slovenian # Slovenian messages for debian-installer. # Copyright (C) 2003 Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # This file is di

Bug#218027: slovenian PO-file translation for grub-installer

2003-10-28 Thread Jure Cuhalev
Package: grub-installer Severity: wishlist This is new/fixed slovenian translation of po-file for grub-installer. regards Jure Cuhalev [EMAIL PROTECTED] # translation of sl.po to Slovenian # Slovenian messages for debian-installer. # Copyright (C) 2003 Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # T

Bug#218028: slovenian PO-file translation for lvmcfg

2003-10-28 Thread Jure Cuhalev
Package: lvmcfg Severity: wishlist This is new/fixed slovenian translation of po-file for lvmcfg regards Jure Cuhalev [EMAIL PROTECTED] # translation of sl.po to Slovenian # Slovenian messages for debian-installer. # Copyright (C) 2003 Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # This file is distr

Bug#218029: slovenian PO-file translation for lilo-installer

2003-10-28 Thread Jure Cuhalev
Package: lilo-installer Severity: wishlist This is new/fixed slovenian translation of po-file for lilo-installer regards Jure Cuhalev [EMAIL PROTECTED] # translation of sl.po to Slovenian # Slovenian messages for debian-installer. # Copyright (C) 2003 Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # Th

Bug#218029: slovenian PO-file translation for lilo-installer

2003-10-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:15, Jure Cuhalev wrote: > Package: lilo-installer > Severity: wishlist > > > This is new/fixed slovenian translation of po-file for lilo-installer > > regards > > Jure Cuhalev > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Committed Slovenian translations to CVS. Thanks for your contribution

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [much good stuff snipped] > Templates text should not make reference to widgets belonging to some > debconf interfaces. Sentences like "I you answer Yes..." have no > meaning for users of graphical interfaces which use checkboxes for > boolean questi

Re: discover2 packages for debian-installer

2003-10-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gaudenz Steinlin] > Since I didn't hear anything from progeny I have made discover2 packages > for testing. You can download them at > http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/discover2/ Good work. Sorry it took so long before I found time to test it. Here is the initial test report: When I try

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:11:13PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > There used to be, somewhere, a guideline that told maintainers to let > themselves be inspired by the descriptions in the kernel source's > "make fooconfig", especially with regard to telling the user what the > conservative defaul

Re: discover2 packages for debian-installer

2003-10-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 29.10.2003 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen um 00:05: > [Gaudenz Steinlin] > > Since I didn't hear anything from progeny I have made discover2 packages > > for testing. You can download them at > > http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/discover2/ > > Good work. Sorry it took so long befor

GRUB floppy scripts

2003-10-28 Thread Dan Weber
A few days ago I realized that you could not make a boot disk with a debian kernel because of the large initrd. Well I have a solution to that if you use grub. Basically it makes grub floppy with a menu that will be installed on to a disk. Using update-grub or something to generate the main menu

Re: GRUB floppy scripts

2003-10-28 Thread Dan Weber
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:38:46PM -0500, Dan Weber wrote: > A few days ago I realized that you could not make a boot disk with a debian > kernel because of the large initrd. Well I have a solution to that if you use > grub. Basically it makes grub floppy with a menu that will be installed on to

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:11:13PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: >> especially with regard to telling the user what the conservative >> default choice is. Many of the kernel option descriptions do indeed >> say "If unsure, answer No" or the like. Or do

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:14:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Aha! I got a working kernel. I guess I know more than I think I do :) > > > > Here is the diff for

Re: Bug#217503: Evil autopartkit should _NEVER_ _NEVER_ try to overwrite an unknown partition table

2003-10-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:18:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:55:35PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I still think that the real problem is in the modularity of > debian-installer. It is all nice to have a bunch of modules be used and > have each provide a menu entry,

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 03:52:27AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > That would be a horrible sentence to put into a debconf > description. Of course it would, and I would never recommend doing so. > > The default choice should always be what the user wants if they are > > unsure. > > I'm afraid

Re: GRUB floppy scripts

2003-10-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few days ago I realized that you could not make a boot disk with a > debian kernel because of the large initrd. Well I have a solution > to that if you use grub. Basically it makes grub floppy with a menu > that will be installed on to a disk. Using upd

Re: powerpc d-i build

2003-10-28 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-28 05:27]: | modules and we cannot put all modules into one initrd? How many different modules threre are? I think for the view of maintainance, it would be easier to create, provide and support only one initrd for all sub-archs. For i386, there