Re: Grub-legacy graphics issue

2015-01-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
jnq...@gmail.com wrote: > >>From within command mode of the running copy of grub-legacy I have tried >setting 'terminal graphics', which did nothing, and I have tried >'testvbe 0x143' (since 800x600x32 mode worked perfectly for me with a >grub2 based image in the same VM), which just results in a l

Bug#661501: debootstrap: Missing keyring file should abort with error

2015-01-15 Thread jnqnfe
Updated 1.0.67 based patch attached. I am not currently particularly familiar with the debootstrap codebase, however this certainly seems like a condition that should result in an error to me. commit 8e084dc9b0c6d6ee02668e3581e55bbe3047a4d1 Author: jnqnfe Date: Thu Jan 15 18:05:20 2015 +

Bug#775444: Issue warning if falling back to sha1

2015-01-15 Thread jnqnfe
Package: debootstrap Tags: security patch Patch attached to output warning if falling back to sha1. commit 0911f1a8ba757a013e4c97e017634eb0ab746997 Author: jnqnfe Date: Thu Jan 15 19:22:17 2015 + Issue warning if having to fall back to sha1 diff --git a/debootstrap b/debootstrap index

Bug#775449: Provide sha size param instead of using environmental variable

2015-01-15 Thread jnqnfe
Package: debootstrap Tags: security patch I am not comfortable with allowing a SHA_SIZE environmental variable, defined at some point prior to running debootstrap, to dictate the security of checksum verification performed by debootstrap. I would much prefer to see the default overridden only by a

Re: Grub-legacy graphics issue

2015-01-15 Thread jnqnfe
Ok, if that's the general feeling on grub legacy now (I'm relatively new to the Linux world), and recognising your status in the Debian community (thus respecting highly your opinion on this matter), I will ignore supporting it further and push for removal from live-build. Thanks. On 15/01/2015 12

Bug#775454: Allow user blocking of https fallback

2015-01-15 Thread jnqnfe
Package: debootstrap Severity: important Tags: security patch In the event of a GPG keyring not being found, debootstrap may fallback to the alternative security of an https mirror. Users lacking the requisite GPG keyring file (or perhaps just making a typo in their parameters) may not necessaril

Bug#775449: Provide sha size param instead of using environmental variable

2015-01-15 Thread jnqnfe
Additional patch attached to update the manpages with regard to the new param introduced in the previously supplied patch. commit 30a65d578daecbc58fe8159572d7c0da9af2ecee Author: jnqnfe Date: Fri Jan 16 04:49:43 2015 + Update manpage with new --sha-size parameter diff --git a/debootstr

Bug#775454: Allow user blocking of https fallback

2015-01-15 Thread jnqnfe
Additional patch attached to update the manpages with regard to the new param introduced in the previously supplied patch. I believe I may have misread the code slightly when composing the initial bug report. I believe now that the matter only arises when the dist script tries to set the keyring f

Bug#775474: Issue helpful error if user specified keyring not found

2015-01-15 Thread jnqnfe
Package: debootstrap Tags: patch Patch attached to cause a helpful error to be issued to the user in the event that they should specify a keyring file via the --keyring parameter, but should the specified keyring file not be found (for example should the user have made a typo). From a reading of t