Re: RFC: Switching guided partitioning to LVM by default?

2017-08-06 Thread Joel Rees
2017/08/06 5:07 "Cyril Brulebois" : > > Hi, > > While preparing some slides for my “News from the Debian Installer” talk > at DebConf17, it occured to me that we might want to reconsider the > default here: > > Guided - use a whole disk > Guided - use a whole disk with LVM > Guided - us

Bug#839595: flash-kernel: Please add support for SolidRun Clearfog

2017-08-06 Thread Josua Mayer
Hi Vagrant, thanks for the reply. On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:56:35 -0400 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On a related note, nobody has requested the clearfog target be enabled > in the u-boot packages in Debian: > > https://wiki.debian.org/U-boot/ > > If someone can offer to regularly test that, I'd be ha

Re: RFC: Switching guided partitioning to LVM by default?

2017-08-06 Thread Philip Hands
Geert Stappers writes: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 04:06:49PM -0400, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Hi, >> >> While preparing some slides for my ???News from the Debian Installer??? talk >> at DebConf17, it occured to me that we might want to reconsider the >> default here: >> >> Guided - use a wh

Bug#871033: newt: please add a libnewt0.52-udeb package

2017-08-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Source: newt Version: 0.52.20-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, debian-installer used to re-link all the libraries going into the initrd in order to strip unneeded symbols, using mklibs. That is the reason why libnewt0.52-pic was needed. Unfortunately it was subject to regular bre

Re: Use better compression for udebs?

2017-08-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2017-07-31 05:29, Niels Thykier wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:44:30 +0300 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Package: debhelper > > Version: 10.2.5 > > Severity: normal > > > > Following up on an observation I made in #868674: > > > > udebs are currently compressed with "xz -1 -extreme", > > while norm

Bug#871045: src:debian-installer: should d-i use the busybox provided kmod binaries?

2017-08-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: src:debian-installer Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I just realized that busybox also provides the kmod related binaries (lsmod, depmod, insmod, modinfo, modprobe, rmmod). I wonder if we should use that instead of the binaries from kmod. I don't really have any opinion pro or con b

Re: Bug#870628: Please warn about slow starts on USB

2017-08-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 08/03/2017 02:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 07:55:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: The gtk initrd is like 38MB, at USB 1.0 speed (1.5Mbps) that's almost two minutes yes. I however wonder how old a computer needs to be to be only 1.0... And how could a 64bit machin