Bug#493865: cttyhack does not handle other serial devices than ttySn (was: Bug booting from console)

2008-08-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Bad news is that we probably have to modify > /lib/debian-installer/init-udev-devices to create a file for every > misc. serial line device. I think someone should look into the option of starting udevd _before_ we run init (as also suggested by

Bug#494293: A bit more info...

2008-08-09 Thread Henk Koster
I used the very same amd64-netinst.iso dated 6 August 2008 to install on a newly built desktop computer, just a straight-forward install with Desktop and Standard tasks. Towards the end the installer installed "grub"... the old Grub (as I could verify after the successful reboot). Emboldened by th

Bug#494293: ...and finally.

2008-08-09 Thread Henk Koster
I've started the install-CD in rescue mode, opened a shell in a chroot, and did an "apt-get purge" to get rid of grub-pc in preparation of replacing it with the old grub package. Bit then, unlike the previous time, I checked and saw that /boot/grub was still full of files left there, including grub

Re: openssh 1:5.1p1-2 in lenny?

2008-08-09 Thread Luk Claes
Colin Watson wrote: Hi, I've had a lot of requests for OpenSSH 4.9 or better in lenny, since it adds the much-clamoured-for ChrootDirectory feature. I'd taken a while to upgrade to this since I was trying to stabilise all the vulnerable-key-checking code first. I did finally manage to upload to

Bug#494466: [patch, RFC] Allow to select driver inclusion policy for initramfs-tools

2008-08-09 Thread Frans Pop
Package: base-installer Version: 1.93 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch With the default initrd now being over 6 GB on amd64 and the fact that lilo has structural problems with large initrds, I think that implementing something like the attached patch for Lenny is almost unavoidable. It is also n

Bug#494466: [patch, RFC] Allow to select driver inclusion policy for initramfs-tools

2008-08-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 August 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > With the default initrd now being over 6 GB on amd64 and the fact that That should have been MB. Still insane. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Processing of debian-installer-utils_1.63_i386.changes

2008-08-09 Thread Archive Administrator
debian-installer-utils_1.63_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: debian-installer-utils_1.63.dsc debian-installer-utils_1.63.tar.gz di-utils-shell_1.63_all.udeb di-utils-reboot_1.63_all.udeb di-utils-exit-installer_1.63_all.udeb di-utils-terminfo_1.63_al

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-08-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > Attached patch makes it generate the x86 variant dynamicaly at build > time, as requested by Jérémy on IRC. This patch gets a huge NACK from me. 1) The use-case is insufficiently clear The reason _why_ a separate partition is required at all ha

debian-installer-utils_1.63_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2008-08-09 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: debian-installer-utils_1.63.dsc to pool/main/d/debian-installer-utils/debian-installer-utils_1.63.dsc debian-installer-utils_1.63.tar.gz to pool/main/d/debian-installer-utils/debian-installer-utils_1.63.tar.gz di-utils-exit-installer_1.63_all.udeb to pool/main/d/debian-installer-ut

Re: openssh 1:5.1p1-2 in lenny?

2008-08-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As the package contains udebs I'm Cc-ing debian-boot: would it be ok > to unblock openssh? No objection - -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - - E-mail: [EM

Processed (with 10 errors): Unarchiving archived bugs affecting unstable or testing

2008-08-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for controlbugs.debian.org: > unarchive 99400 Unarchived Bug 99400 > unarchive 144876 Unarchived Bug 144876 > unarchive 148123 Unarchived Bug 148123 > unarchive 148150 Unarchived Bug 148150 > unarchive 190630 Unarchived Bug 190630 > unarchive 235611 Unarchived Bug 235611 > unar

Processing of mdcfg_1.27+nmu1_i386.changes

2008-08-09 Thread Archive Administrator
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mdcfg_1.27+nmu1_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2008-08-09 Thread Debian Installer
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Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-08-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:17:34PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > 1) The use-case is insufficiently clear > > The reason _why_ a separate partition is required at all has (at least for > me) not been sufficiently explained. So far my impression is that all > this is just one huge ugly hack needed

Bug#494361: marked as done (win32-loader: [INTL:zh_TW] Updated Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) translation)

2008-08-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:32:57 +0800 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Re: Bug#494361: Acknowledgement (win32-loader: [INTL:zh_TW] Updated Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) translation) has caused the Debian Bug report #494361, regarding win32-loader: [INTL:zh_TW] Upda

Bug#494466: [patch, RFC] Allow to select driver inclusion policy for initramfs-tools

2008-08-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-09 19:53]: > With the default initrd now being over 6 GB on amd64 and the fact > that lilo has structural problems with large initrds, I think that > implementing something like the attached patch for Lenny is almost > unavoidable. Nice patch. I wouldn't c

Processing of cdebconf-terminal_0.1_i386.changes

2008-08-09 Thread Archive Administrator
cdebconf-terminal_0.1_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: cdebconf-terminal_0.1.dsc cdebconf-terminal_0.1.tar.gz cdebconf-gtk-terminal_0.1_i386.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject