Re: busybox in main

2000-10-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
s no idea whatsoever if or when there will be a > seperate area to put installer specific modules. Did you read Joey's original message? He said that he had settled the details with ftpadmin! Dan /\ /--------\ | Daniel Jacob

Re: Why ".udeb" won't work.

2000-10-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
> * reproducability by autobuilders Do it during debian/rules? Edit the files list in place? Dan /----\ /----\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carne

Re: busybox in main

2000-10-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
tall? I'd guess that would have to stay byhand then... Dan /--------\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University

Re: debian-installer main menu almost done

2000-10-28 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ll see where we are and > how many people are contributing code by the end of November. Well, I agree that it's a little optimistic, but let's see what we can do... I will try to get PowerPC support up and running in the near future. Dan /----\ /--

Re: first weekly debian-installer status report

2000-11-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Aren't we sticking with slang's pic library? Dan /----\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | |

Re: One or two floppies (was: first weekly debian-installer status report)

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
l > activate the NIC and start downloading everything ?? Probably... Similarly, we can probably manage a disk with enough drivers to access a CD and run a retriever. Dan /\ /--------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class

Re: [patch] dbootstrap documentation

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
All my changes are architecture-specific. In fact, if no one objects in the next few hours, I'll do that. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Li

Boot floppies 2.2.19

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
he base tarball - adbmouse and friends no longer work with the new kernels. * Build with packages from proposed-updates: - ncurses 5.0-6.0potato1 - modutils 2.3.11-13.1 - dpkg 1.6.15.2 (sparc only) - kernel 2.2.18pre21 / pcmcia 3.1.22-0.1* (all relevant flavors) -- Da

Re: Boot floppies 2.2.19

2000-11-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
> oversight? Or are the bugs still extant? Is anyone working on fixing > PowerPC boot-floppies bugs? I did fix a few of them. The majority of others I am willing to let slide in favor of debian-installer; they'd require major rework. Dan /--------\ /

Re: Boot floppies 2.2.19

2000-11-28 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:09:35AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:29:52PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Daniel, thanks a lot for being so responsive and active, although I > > >

Re: [VA-Debian] Comments from a first-time Debian install.....

2000-12-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
n't think that we touch it any other time. Dan /\ /--------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL

Re: debian-installer demo system, take 2

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
ly, the cleverness of selecting the abbreviations will really fry us later, I think. Could we go back to just numbering the options? Seeing "a, b, b, q, v, w, c, x, y, z, 1" as consecutive options just rings badly. Dan /\ /---

BOGL based frontend for cdebconf

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
f I packaged it for the main archive? Dan /\ /----\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: BOGL based frontend for cdebconf

2000-12-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:22:45PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Daniel Jacobowitz > > | I've begun designing a BOGL based frontend for cdebconf. > > With the risk of sounding stupid: what is BOGL? neither apt-cache, > dict or apropos knows about it. I'll

Re: BOGL based frontend for cdebconf

2000-12-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:42:46PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Daniel Jacobowitz > > | BOGL is Ben's Own Graphics Library, a toolkit Ben Pfaff wrote for > | graphical installation on the old boot-floppies; the main customer > | right now is bterm, which uses it for

Re: PowerPC boot disk with USB support????

2000-12-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t; with USB support? That disk does have USB support enabled. Do the boot messages say anything useful? Dan /\ /--------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer

graphical frontend committed (preliminary)

2000-12-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
eeling the need to put up a progress bar, since probing the serial ports is the only really time consuming bit. Dan /\ /--------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Devel

Re: comments on cdebconf

2001-01-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t a shot, though. I'm also considering making it run on its own VC. Dan /--------\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon Univer

Re: Thoughts on the installer (early)

2001-01-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
y widget set, but the other advantage of BOGL is a compact utf8 and i18n library; does GTK have something similar? Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: Thoughts on the installer (early)

2001-01-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
and i18n gtkfb would not be an option at all - we need to support this. Dan /--------\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon U

Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
l in CVS? It should work fine, although you'll have to fiddle a little to do the font reduction. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Develo

Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen

2001-01-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
;d appreciate it if someone on this list would look into using the bogl and bterm in that package, so that we can scrap the one in debian-boot CVS; having both makes me nervous about lost work. Dan /--------\ /----\ | Daniel Jacobowitz

Re: bogl forked (was Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen)

2001-01-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:27:51PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sorry for not being clear - yes, I know that bterm has the same bug. > > I'd appreciate it if someone on this list would look into using the > > bo

Re: bogl forked (was Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen)

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:54:38PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:27:51PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Sorry for

Re: No Keyboard when booting the powerPC bootdisk

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
modules of Debian 2.2r2. See the archives of debian-powerpc. I'm trying to find a fix for this. Dan /----\ /----\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__

Re: initrd build problems

2001-02-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
> On reflection, I suspect this is ext2fs overhead. The fuzz factor at > home is 127, not 122, probably because I added some more udebs in.. Almost certainly. There's both a fixed filesystem overhead and a size-dependent one, I'd imagine; just making a ramdisk the size of the co

Re: installer serious oversight or on purpose?

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t or ybin before rebooting (see the installation instructions, this is underdocumented). Dan /----\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
sovers, other architectures are on their own, and someone will have to >work on it. Other architectures will want a radically simplified detection scheme. PPC (mostly) has no legacy ISA or such; everything should show up in the kernel's PCI probes. That should make things much nicer. Dan

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:34:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > 2.4.1 kernel.org does not build on PPC. Sigh. > > 2.4.0 is ok, right? I guess I'll hold off of 2.4.1 for now.. Not sure. > > Other architectures will want a radically s

Re: dhclient and kernel-image-di

2001-02-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
et me modulize it, so it just makes the kernel bigger? > > Fraid so. > > I'm building kernel-image-di with CONFIG_FILTER on. It will include a > packet-socket.udeb, unless someone comes up with a better name. Perhaps prefix these with something indicating that they are kernel modu

mklibs -l option (force libs)

2008-11-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
an't figure out the point. Do you remember what the option is needed for? My assumption above might be plain wrong. I ran into the fact that it won't work with a "foo.so" file, because foo.so does not match so_pattern. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#469070: mklibs and libthread_db

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
defined in the application. Any thoughts on applying the patch? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#385919: RFA: bogl -- Ben's Own Graphics Library - graphical terminal

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the bogl package. The package description is: Ben's Own Graphics Library is a small framebuffer library, including basic widgets, support for text in multiple languages, and mouse handling. . This package contains bterm, a UTF-enabled f

Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
does what you describe (since I tried to use this approach for strace recently, and there were missing symbols in libc.so.6). If someone more familiar with d-i than I am can confirm that the udeb will be useful, I can try to get GDB to build one, but it seems like a very strange package to have

Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
it as part of a d-i image would e.g. change the required bits of libraries. Hoping for feedback. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397091: debootstrap-udeb: Depends on libgcc_s.so.1 on MIPS

2006-11-04 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Package: debootstrap-udeb Version: 0.3.3 Severity: important The version of debootstrap-udeb in the archive depends on libgcc_s.so.1. This library is not included in debian-installer; as a result, d-i does not work on MIPS. I'm not sure how this happened; maybe it was built with a transient GCC

Re: libc dlopening libgcc on arm

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
functions are called around functions that might throw, not just when an exception is thrown. Note, that was exceptions, not threads. This code is in libc and libpthread. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#359062: debian-installer: bterm is not (yet) accessible for brltty

2006-03-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
() > then mmap() instead of the current malloc()). Sounds plausible... Unfortunately, I am no longer able to maintain bogl or bterm; I was hoping for someone to adopt it, but he hasn't had time either. Don't suppose someone on the CC list wants to fix this bug and adopt a needy pack

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