Bug#722898: benchmarks

2013-09-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thiemo Thanks for working on this. Thiemo Nagel writes: > Hello Ben, > > thanks for your input! I'm attaching a series of patches to wrap up what > we've discussed so far, more details are in the commit messages quoted > below. > > I've tested the patches by running blockdev-wipe, they are

Bug#723216: arcboot-installer link with -L/usr/lib

2013-09-17 Thread YunQiang Su
Package: arcboot-installer Version: 1.21 X-Debbugs-CC: wzss...@gmail.com This package has one or more -L/usr/lib in its build system, which will make it ftbfs if there is libraries under /usr/lib, while is not the default architecture, mips* for example. On mips* systems, /usr/lib is defined as p

Bug#723263: colo-installer link with -L/usr/lib

2013-09-17 Thread YunQiang Su
Package: colo-installer Version: 1.25 X-Debbugs-CC: wzss...@gmail.com This package has one or more -L/usr/lib in its build system, which will make it ftbfs if there is libraries under /usr/lib, while is not the default architecture, mips* for example. On mips* systems, /usr/lib is defined as plac

Bug#723297: elilo-installer link with -L/usr/lib

2013-09-17 Thread YunQiang Su
Package: elilo-installer Version: 1.23 X-Debbugs-CC: wzss...@gmail.com This package has one or more -L/usr/lib in its build system, which will make it ftbfs if there is libraries under /usr/lib, while is not the default architecture, mips* for example. On mips* systems, /usr/lib is defined as pla

Bug#723307: flash-kernel link with -L/usr/lib

2013-09-17 Thread YunQiang Su
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.11 X-Debbugs-CC: wzss...@gmail.com This package has one or more -L/usr/lib in its build system, which will make it ftbfs if there is libraries under /usr/lib, while is not the default architecture, mips* for example. On mips* systems, /usr/lib is defined as place

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2013-09-17 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 17/09/13 00:15, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The "Err" issue while downloading some files ("21: Is a directory") only > appears on kfreebsd AFAICT, so might be an arch-specific issue. I saw it happen on Linux i386 too. I now realise the buildd log URIs are not valid for very long (could /daily/ be

Bug#722898: benchmarks

2013-09-17 Thread Thiemo Nagel
Hello Gaudenz, thank you for your email! Any reason why you choose 512k? If I understand your benchmarks right, > doubling this to 1M yelds about another 27% gain. I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I've re-run the benchmarks. After removing O_SYNC, the performance was identical for block size

Bug#723566: mdcfg: Set guaranteed resync speed to zero to accelerate install

2013-09-17 Thread Thiemo Nagel
Package: mdcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i patch Hello, from benchmarks in bug #722898 it has emerged that blockdev-wipe is approx. 20% faster when the guaranteed md resync speed [*] is zero, meaning that userspace I/O will always be scheduled ahead of resync I/O. The default setting enforces 10

Bug#722898: separate bug for raid speed limit

2013-09-17 Thread Thiemo Nagel
The issue of the raid speed limit is now tracked in bug #723566. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOGcq_58haAa82Lpp+AEYH=pwhtx81mlh65gpmjjxunyufr...@ma

Bug#723141: installation-reports: wheezy /w desktop installs ok, gdm starts on reboot, X fails on login

2013-09-17 Thread Cobra
On Sep 16, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The default installation should have left you using nouveau already. > What did you change when you "configured X with the nouveau driver"? I added the attached files to /usr/share/X11. 50-layout.conf Description: Binary data 30-monito

Bug#722898: benchmarks

2013-09-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thiemo Nagel writes: > Hello Gaudenz, > > thank you for your email! > > Any reason why you choose 512k? If I understand your benchmarks right, >> doubling this to 1M yelds about another 27% gain. > > > I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I've re-run the benchmarks. After > removing O_SYNC, t

Bug#722898: benchmarks

2013-09-17 Thread Thiemo Nagel
> If we are changing this anyway, maybe it's a good time to also make the > template partman-crypto/progress/erase a bit more explicit about > canceling. I fully agree! > It currently reads: "Erasing data on ${DEVICE}". Maybe something like > "Erasing data on ${DEVICE}. To continue without ereasi

Re: Weekly build status

2013-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:02:48PM +0200, Andrey Gursky wrote: >Hi! > >> Are you aware the automatic building of the weekly build is failing for some >> architectures (amd64, i386, kFreeBSD/i386, kFreeBSD/amd64) from three weeks >> ago? >> >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Just seen this thread, apologies for delayed responses ] On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:40:54PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > >On Jul 5, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Brian wrote: > >>Well wouldn't documentation for Jigdo template be in Jigdo package? > >The jigdo template is a lot lower level than I was hoping f

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2013-09-17 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * FAILED BUILD: amd64 Sep 18 00:02 buildd@barber build_cdrom_isolinux http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/build_cdrom_isolinux.log * FAILED BUILD: amd64 Sep 18 00:03 buildd@barber b

Re: Weekly build status

2013-09-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve McIntyre (st...@einval.com): > CCing the debian-boot list where people are likely to know more. I > *think* this is a know bug in the build scripts that has been causing > a lot of failing builds lately. KiBi? Yes, there is a thread in debian-boot about the daily builds failures. C

Bug#722898: benchmarks

2013-09-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
(let's drop CC: I believe that all participants to this discussion are subscribed to debian-boot, that receves the bug contributions for D-I packages) Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com): > > It currently reads: "Erasing data on ${DEVICE}". Maybe something like > > "Erasing data on ${DE