Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-27 Thread Geek87
Hi all! I'm new on the list so I hope my question is not stupid and I'm asking it in the good list. I have Sid installed on my computer and I would like to know how to keep my base system (~prequired, ~pimportant, ~pstandard) always clean and up to date automatically: if package A is no longer ne

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Geek87 wrote: > I also would like to have it working similarly for the tasks: for > example if I have a task "Mail server" installed depending on Sendmail > and that the new version of this task now depends on Postfix, I would > like Sendmail to be automatically remove

Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello, I am wondering what netcfg-static is good for. Looks like it is an (outdated) subset of the more generic netcfg. Unfortunately, even the common code of the two programs seem to have diverged over time (no wonder, duplicated code almost always suffers from this disease). Given that the netc

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > I am wondering what netcfg-static is good for. Looks like it is an > (outdated) subset of the more generic netcfg. No. It's used for s390: installer/build/pkg-lists/netboot/s390.cfg:1:netcfg-static installer/build/pkg-lists/generic/s390.cfg:3:netcf

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote: > I am wondering what netcfg-static is good for. It is used for s390. > Given that the netcfg/disable_dhcp option exists, is netcfg-static really > needed? In the meantime this is correct. DHCP can be used on s390 with some constraints,

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: > In the meantime this is correct. DHCP can be used on s390 with some > constraints, but it needs to be disabled by default. Is it useful in practice though? I rather doubt anyone would want to set up an s390 box using DHCP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:42:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: > > In the meantime this is correct. DHCP can be used on s390 with some > > constraints, but it needs to be disabled by default. > Is it useful in practice though? I rather doubt anyone w

unused and removable partman templates

2010-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
AFAICS, the following templates are all not used anywhere: partman-jfs/check_failed partman-reiserfs/check_failed partman-ext3/check_failed partman-ext2r0/check_failed partman-xfs/check_failed Meanwhile, partman-basicfilesystems/check_failed is generic template that could take the place of any of

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Source: gcc-4.4 Version: 1:4.4.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i patch X-Debbugs-CC: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 containing only libgcc_s.so.1. That file is needed for the (directfb based) graphical installer because of pthread_can

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
-- Forwarded Message -- From: Matthias Klose On 27.01.2010 21:03, Frans Pop wrote: > Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 > containing only libgcc_s.so.1. That file is needed for the (directfb > based) graphical installer because of pthread_cancel().

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks a lot for the quick reply. On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > The patch itself looks ok, some other questions: > > - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, > build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered that. It's an optio

Re: Spam cleaning in list archives: one last effort needed

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Christian Perrier wrote: > The remaining months, that should be targeted by anybody but > me, Frans Pop, Holger Wansing and Lee Winter, are: > * March 1999 to May 2000 > * October 2000 to July 2002 > * May and June 2004 I just see that as of yesterday the whole archive has now been scanned by at

Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Since 2 or 3 days, I'm having build failures on my local daily build for i386. They are restricted to hd-media target only: .../... rm -rf ./tmp/hd-media/syslinux/* mkdir -p ./tmp/hd-media/syslinux TYPE=standard INCLUDE_GTK= DESKTOP=