Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
ges; could you (and/or debian-cd) address this? Specifically: 1) Would you want the default CD/DVD image to use a GNOME even if GNOME was unable to fit on a single image? 2) Would the GNOME team consider a less-complete DE for cases where image size is a restriction? -- Don Armstrong

Please add a d-i.debian.org pseudo package

2014-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
is mainly so that I know that the psuedopackage will be used; they don't have to yet be filed in the BTS... a few links to messages on -boot which are bugs which would have been filed is good enough.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Some pirates achieved imm

Re: Please add a d-i.debian.org pseudo package

2014-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
d there: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/scripts/testing-summary/gen-summary?r1=69167&r2=69316 > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/09/msg00406.html Awesome; this is exactly what I wanted to see. I'll create this package shortly. -- D

Re: Bug#761450: Please add a d-i.debian.org pseudo package

2014-09-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > d-i.debian.org -- Issues regarding the d-i.debian.org service and general > Debian Installer tasks. The pseudopackage has now been added. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com It was a very familiar voice. [.

Re: Need known bug list for Debian Linux

2014-10-20 Thread Don Armstrong
ich are fixed or absent in the version that you searched for. All of that said, Debian 5.0 (Lenny) has been EOLed for well over three years now, and likely has known remote root exploits. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com [I]t's true that some of the most ter

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
d --exclude to (c)debootstrap. This sounds like #668001. Try applying the patch there, and see if that works. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall Find thy body by the wall! -- Matthew Arnold -- To UNSU

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
t refuses. I forget the error. The error would be useful to know. Most likely one or more of them dropped out of the array for some reason and you're booting off of one which has a lower event count and it won't assemble. But it could be any number of things. The output of mdadm --examine

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
and jessie kernels is exposing a firmware bug (or there's a bug in the kernel itself) which is causing this issue. What I'm trying to do is get enough information so that the error is obvious. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com What I can't stand is the feeling that my brain is leaving me for someone more interesting.

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
b with an appropriate rootdelay and get it to boot. (Again, in theory.) -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila -- Mitch Ratcliffe

Re: remove me from this list

2015-01-07 Thread Don Armstrong
hey've done that, it'll disappear.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I leave the show floor, but not before a pack of caffeinated Jolt gum is thrust at me by a hyperactive girl screaming, "Chew more! Do more!" The American will to consume mo

Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-09 Thread Don Armstrong
the bootloader loads it, and the boot mapper interacts with the disks through it. Don Armstrong -- I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P -- Cory Doctorow http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.co

Re: omg! astonishing!

2017-08-21 Thread Don Armstrong
Greetings, This is just something really astonishing, I'm letting you know, you have to take a peek http://opaldentallab.com/resist.php?1FfWRg0ND Sent from my iPhone, Don Armstrong - The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is su

Re: udeb uninstallability trend: worse (+20/-0)

2018-01-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 01 Jan 2018, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 01 Jan 2018, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > udeb uninstallability watcher (2018-01-01): > > > Newly-broken packages in testing > > > multipath-udeb amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 > > >

Re: udeb uninstallability trend: worse (+20/-0)

2018-01-01 Thread Don Armstrong
t the right versions are in unstable, but they're not showing up on the graph. I'll try to track this down today and see what is going on there. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with fre

Bug#410129: installation-guide: minor fix for section 1.1 _What is Debian_

2007-02-16 Thread Don Armstrong
said, there's nothing stoping a concept from having ideals which go along with it. Don Armstrong -- You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge, just close enough to watch other people fall off. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch8.htm http://www

On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2008-12-24 Thread Don Armstrong
Switching from -vote to -boot and -cd. On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > > 1: -vote really is the wrong list to discuss this on; Cc'ing debian-cd > > so knowledgeable people there can tell me I'm on crack. > &

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > > It would be nice if you (or someone else) would then explain[1] > > why having a limited set of d-i images + cd images which contained > > the non-free firmware necessary for cer

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Sure it does; it's a set of the initial media which contains the > > non-free firmware in *addition* to the normal stuff contained on > > the fully DFSG-free media. [You

Re: Bug report #325360 (help against Spamming)

2006-09-17 Thread Don Armstrong
orts. Indeed, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325360 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=63995 for the rationale why they aren't obfuscated currently. Don Armstrong -- Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and t

Bug#431145: BTS abuse (was: #431145 FTBFS: debian-installer fails to build on powerpc in sid)]

2007-07-01 Thread Don Armstrong
This bug's state is now set correctly, and the underlying question of whether the bug was actually fixed or not has been resolved. If you must respond to each other about items unrelated to the status of this bug, please do so privately or using other channels, not via the BTS. Don Arms

Bug#446838: Current daily builds have kernel 2.6.21 but udebs for 2.6.22

2007-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal The current daily builds (10/15/2007) have the 2.6.21 kernel in vmlinuz and the initrd, but the udebs for 2.6.22. [Probably people are already aware of this, but just in case.] Don Armstrong -- Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar

Bug#446838: Current daily builds have kernel 2.6.21 but udebs for 2.6.22

2007-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal The current daily builds (10/15/2007) have the 2.6.21 kernel in vmlinuz and the initrd, but the udebs for 2.6.22. [Probably people are already aware of this, but just in case.] Don Armstrong -- Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar

Re: unblock request: mdadm 2.6.9-3

2009-07-14 Thread Don Armstrong
ch the experimental upload is based on. If you're uploading an unstable version, the experimental uploads should not show up in the changelog unless the unstable version is based upon a version which is in experimental. Don Armstrong -- Information wants to be free to kill a

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
ly later if you actually want it. Don Armstrong -- He was wrong. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so that they don't upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-05 Thread Don Armstrong
. Same > issue, as seen by Michael and myself. Is it the intention of the Release Managers not to accept a newer version of syslinux into wheezy? [That is, if the CTTE were to decide to require some "fix" to d-i, we'd also have to override the RMs?] Don Armstrong -- I now know h

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Don Armstrong
g d-i built with a version of syslinux that isn't being distributed in wheezy, but I think that might need to be discussed and a technical solution fleshed out elsewhere, and probably isn't ripe for a CTTE decision.] Don Armstrong 0: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699742#3

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > > > Assuming that the patch for #699742[0] fixes this issue with DI RC > > releases being installed, is there still an outstanding issue for the > > CTTE? > > Earlier in this thread, there had bee

Bug#657904: Wrong versions fixed in bug 657904

2012-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
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Bug#672160: Wrong versions fixed in bug 672160

2012-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
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Bug#682538: Wrong versions fixed in bug 682538

2012-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
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Bug#687212: Wrong versions fixed in bug 687212

2012-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
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