Bug#570486: Configuration /var with noexec option breaks base system installation

2010-04-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Benoit GUERIN writes: > During partitions configuration, I choosed to create a dedicated > partition for /var and to configure it with options noatime and > noexec. > > Afterward, the installation process failed on the step "base system > installation" saying the it could not install base system.

Bug#571074: wlan0: link is not ready

2010-04-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Boris Popov writes: > Feb 24 17:01:03 kernel: [ 134.218025] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: > link is not ready > Feb 24 17:01:04 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 > port 67 interval 6 > Feb 24 17:01:10 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 > port 67 interval 13 > Feb 2

Bug#570486: Configuration /var with noexec option breaks base system installation

2010-04-15 Thread Joey Hess
Allowing users to install a system with a noexec /var strikes me as a bad idea, because such a system will require a knowledgeable admin to intervene to allow it to upgrade, or install new packages. I think that partman should prevent the user from foot-shooting of this magnitude. It should ensure

Bug#570486: Configuration /var with noexec option breaks base system installation

2010-04-15 Thread Benoit GUERIN
2010/4/15 Joey Hess > Allowing users to install a system with a noexec /var strikes me as a > bad idea, because such a system will require a knowledgeable admin to > intervene to allow it to upgrade, or install new packages. > > I think that partman should prevent the user from foot-shooting of t

Bug#570486: Configuration /var with noexec option breaks base system installation

2010-04-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Joey Hess [100415 19:21]: > I think that partman should prevent the user from foot-shooting of this > magnitude. It should ensure that at least / /usr /tmp /var are not > noexec. (/tmp due to #223683) I don't think /tmp should be forced to be non-noexec. People getting some nasty warnings when

Processing of discover_2.1.2-4_i386.changes

2010-04-15 Thread Archive Administrator
discover_2.1.2-4_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: discover_2.1.2-4.dsc discover_2.1.2-4.diff.gz discover_2.1.2-4_i386.deb libdiscover2_2.1.2-4_i386.deb libdiscover-dev_2.1.2-4_i386.deb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon (running on host ries

Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

2010-04-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] > debconf passthrough should work with in-target used like that. Good. Then I guess the patch will work. :) > But, discover-pkginstall needs to use the debconf-apt-progress > command when it runs aptitude to install packages. Tested fix for discover was just uploaded. :) Happy hack

discover_2.1.2-4_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2010-04-15 Thread Archive Administrator
Accepted: discover_2.1.2-4.diff.gz to main/d/discover/discover_2.1.2-4.diff.gz discover_2.1.2-4.dsc to main/d/discover/discover_2.1.2-4.dsc discover_2.1.2-4_i386.deb to main/d/discover/discover_2.1.2-4_i386.deb libdiscover-dev_2.1.2-4_i386.deb to main/d/discover/libdiscover-dev_2.1.2-4_i

Re: Mismatch between d-i's kernel and kernel in local mirror

2010-04-15 Thread Lucas Brasilino
Hi > I am trying to build a Debian(Squeeze) install CD with custom d-i. I checked > out d-i source from > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk > I placed the installer/build/dest/cdrom into the local mirror's > /dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/images/cdrom directory. > > I've used easy-b

Bug#447755: Support for CMS formatted disks in parted

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
Well, it took me a *long* time. And I had to have help from a real C programmer. Someone who knew what they were doing (i.e. someone proficient in C) could have easily done it in an afternoon, I'm sure. But I have managed to add support for CMS formatted disks to parted. This will go a long way

Re: Mismatch between d-i's kernel and kernel in local mirror

2010-04-15 Thread vikram
Hi, Thanks a lot for your reply. > Well, did you push kernel 2.6.32-3-486 udeb's to your repository (in > main/debian-installer section) ? I did, i have placed kernel-image-2.6.32-3-486-di_1.87_i386.udeb inĀ  /dists/squeeze/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/ alond with all the other udebs from

Re: Mismatch between d-i's kernel and kernel in local mirror

2010-04-15 Thread vikram
hi, fixed it :) I has initially checked code from svn based on installer/build/README "If you are using testing or unstable, check out a copy of the installer using the command "svn co svn://svn.d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk/installer" " as I am building d-i on Squeeze, but then i ended u