Re: [RFC] lenny-support udeb

2009-11-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 15 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I've cobbled together a first attempt at a lenny-support udeb. The udeb is now in the archive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [RFC] lenny-support udeb

2009-11-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frans Pop [2009-11-21 10:39]: > > I've cobbled together a first attempt at a lenny-support udeb. > > The udeb is now in the archive. FWIW, I tested it yesterday and it worked well. But this was on a headless ARM box, so some of your scripts didn't apply. However, I verified that for example

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-21 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.10lenny1 Severity: minor debootstrap(8) reads: --cut-- --exclude=alpha,beta Comma separated list of packages which will be removed from download and extract lists. WARNING: you can and probably will

Re: [RFC] Alternative implementation for tzsetup (was: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup)

2009-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > P.S. > > How about changing "Choose language" to "Change localization" as menu item > for localechooser? > > A downside could be that that could be difficult to translate for some > languages. Maybe "Choose system language"? Indeed, localizatio

Re: r61376 - trunk/packages/choose-mirror

2009-11-21 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:46:18PM +, Frans Pop wrote: > Coding style improvements for if/else statements > [...] > - if (strcasecmp(protocol, "http") == 0) { > + if (strcasecmp(protocol, "http") == 0) > return mirrors_http; > - } I am still far from being a huge fan

Re: r61385 - in trunk/packages/choose-mirror: . debian

2009-11-21 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:46:45PM +, Frans Pop wrote: > Log: > Rewrite release (suite) selection > […] > + /* Initialize releases; also ensures NULL termination for .name */ That comment is misleading, I'd say. If I understood correctly, NULL as releases[x].name means that x is the last s

Re: [RFC] Alternative implementation for tzsetup (was: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup)

2009-11-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Otavio Salvador [2009-11-21 10:01]: > Indeed, localization is too techinical IMO. Agreed. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Processed: severity of 538086 is important

2009-11-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # backporting is not RC > severity 538086 important Bug #538086 [user-setup] user-setup: Lenny version is incompatible with Squeeze/Sid Severity set to 'important' from 'grave' > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if yo

Re: [RFC] Alternative implementation for tzsetup (was: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup)

2009-11-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > > P.S. > > > > How about changing "Choose language" to "Change localization" as menu > > item for localechooser? > > > > A downside could be that that could be difficult to translate for some

Re: [RFC] lenny-support udeb

2009-11-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 November 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Do you know if there's a good reason > against moving apt-setup's generators/60local to > /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d (well, maybe copying rather than moving > since apt-setup regenerates sources.list)? Correct, it would have to be copied-

Re: r61376 - trunk/packages/choose-mirror

2009-11-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 20 November 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > I am still far from being a huge fan of such changes: forgetting to add > brackets back when changing the conditional block is something that > happens. And then, after loosing 30 minutes and some > head-banging-against-the-next-wall, you find your

Bug#557296: debootstrap: Use dpkg-deb instead of ar when available

2009-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
tag 557296 wonfix thanks Hello Guillem, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > Here's two patches to use dpkg-deb if available instead of manually > handling the deb files with ar. This will make the code future-proof > in case the format would change, say new compression forma

Bug#557296: debootstrap: Use dpkg-deb instead of ar when available

2009-11-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: > In my opinion debootstrap shouldn't work differently inside of Debian > so I think we shouldn't use dpkg-deb for this. Even though it would > make our life easier giving us "new features" for free it also makes > much more difficult to spot pos

Processed: tagging 557296

2009-11-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 557296 wontfix Bug #557296 [debootstrap] debootstrap: Use dpkg-deb instead of ar when available Added tag(s) wontfix. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administr

Re: Log from the November 16th 2009 D-I team meeting

2009-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 16 November 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: >> The attendance was low (Otavio, Marc Hymers, "blindvt"...mostly >> lurking, and me) but we could put in light the current blockers for the >> release: mips kernel udebs that need NEW

Bug#557387: debian-installer: graphical installer doesn't start

2009-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Package: libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 Version: 2.18.3-1 Severity: important Tags: d-i Hello, We found that graphical installer is not working with current GTK version. The failure is bellow: , | (:813): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assetion | `cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (

Bug#557296: debootstrap: Use dpkg-deb instead of ar when available

2009-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 21 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> In my opinion debootstrap shouldn't work differently inside of Debian >> so I think we shouldn't use dpkg-deb for this. Even though it would >> make our life easier giving us "new features"

Processed: tagging 468624

2009-11-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # doesn't affect etch or lenny > tags 468624 squeeze sid Bug #468624 {Done: Stefano Zacchiroli } [discover-data] python-xml removal: please drop/replace (build) dependencies Added tag(s) sid and squeeze. > End of message, stopping processing here

Processed (with 1 errors): Re: Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 557322 Improve manpage to explain that --exclude doesn't Bug #557322 [debootstrap] --exclude='ing essential packages Changed Bug title to 'Improve manpage to explain that --exclude doesn't' from '--exclude='ing essential packages' > affec

Processed: retitle 557322 to manpage: mention that dependency resolution can readd excluded packages

2009-11-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 557322 manpage: mention that dependency resolution can readd excluded > packages Bug #557322 [debootstrap] Improve manpage to explain that --exclude doesn't Changed Bug title to 'manpage: mention that dependency resolution can readd excl

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
retitle 557322 Improve manpage to explain that --exclude doesn't affects dependency resolution thanks On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > --cut-- >       --exclude=alpha,beta >              Comma separated list of packages  which  will  be  removed  from >              download

Re: cd erasing during install

2009-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Mike On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Mike Lupanov wrote: > Hello. > > The installation disk (CD-RW) has been erased during the installation > Debian GNU/Linux testing "Squeeze" - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST > Binary-1 20091116-21:53 > After starting the installation screen turns off and

Bug#556906: Net-install (i386, build of November 8) fails on Dell Optiplex 360

2009-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:42 AM, jim wrote: > [1] The USB keyboard is detected correctly in the BIOS and in the initial >    boot menu, but becomes unavailable when the `Choose a Language' menu >    is presented. The installation can go no further. > >    Tried booting with acpi=off but th

Processing of linux-kernel-di-mipsel-2.6_1.16_multi.changes

2009-11-21 Thread Archive Administrator
linux-kernel-di-mipsel-2.6_1.16_multi.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: kernel-image-2.6.30-2-r5k-cobalt-di_1.16_mipsel.udeb nic-shared-modules-2.6.30-2-r5k-cobalt-di_1.16_mipsel.udeb ppp-modules-2.6.30-2-r5k-cobalt-di_1.16_mipsel.udeb loop-modules-2.6.30-2-r5

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (21 Nov 2009)

2009-11-21 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/logs/en.log === It is possible to use R

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-21 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> "OS" == Otavio Salvador writes: OS> retitle 557322 Improve manpage to explain that --exclude doesn't OS> affects dependency resolution thanks [...] IS> However, it seems that it doesn't allow, say, initscripts & co. to IS> be excluded: >> # debootstrap --verbose --variant=minbase \

Bug#557296: debootstrap: Use dpkg-deb instead of ar when available

2009-11-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 18:48:51 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Saturday 21 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> In my opinion debootstrap shouldn't work differently inside of Debian > >> so I think we shouldn't use dpkg-deb for th