Matthew Garrett wrote:
Perhaps the easiest solution is to move all kernel packages into non-free.
There are two issues. One is that the firmware doesn't meet the DFSG,
(...)
Upstreams expressed intention to remove all firmware from kernel.
The infrastructure IMHO is not yet completly ready (t
Martin Mares wrote:
Dropping this information in the udeb is if course a good way of saving
space, but the full package should contain everything.
In the future (after Lenny), I would like to solve one more problem:
with the current rate of development of new hardware, the pci.ids file
is getti
Martin Mares wrote:
I think that changing the format of the file (with other suffix) would
also be helpful, i.e. instead of using tab-indent I would explicitly
writing vendor id (ev. other implicit ids) in every line.
In this manner it is easier to grep for hardware, and also to merge
files fr
Ian Campbell wrote:
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:33 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
I just tried it and it looks like the script is already not
dash-ready:
$ dash -x ./easy-build.sh -h
+ set -e
+ export CF=CONF.sh
+ . CONF.sh
.: 1: CONF.sh: not found
I'm no expert but it looks like dash obeys $PATH whe
Bill Allombert wrote:
Dear Debian boot,
It is now possible to set up Debian system without a root password.
On such system sudo must be used instead of su.
What is the canonical way to detect such situation ?
My purpose is to change su-to-root to automatically default to sudo mode
on such syste
Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Don Wright (wdi...@wricomp.net):
Today I see this storm is still present. Does it need additional
follow up with listmasters or should it be marked manually like the
rest?
I'd say "mark it manually". Apparently, that
Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting William Pitcock (neno...@dereferenced.org):
lilo is due for removal anyway due to being unmaintained upstream and
the widespread availability of alternatives.
I think that last part is debatable.
I do not have time t
William Pitcock wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:26 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting William Pitcock (neno...@dereferenced.org):
lilo is due for removal anyway due to being unmaintained upstream and
the widespread
Stephen Gran wrote:
This one time, at band camp, William Pitcock said:
The only way it is feasible to do so is to drop all of the Debian
patches. Without this, upstream is not cooperative with us.
Why is this?
I think because of William Pitcock with:
- his very strong words,
- his attitude:
Nenolod: sorry for the other mail.
William Pitcock wrote:
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:06 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, William Pitcock
wrote:
Lilo upstream is dead (no release in quite a while), but the lilo
maintainer has also been seen as saying in various maili
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Giacomo Catenazzi, le Wed 08 Apr 2009 19:47:55 +0200, a écrit :
Samuel Thibault wrote:
I installed grub (and Debian). Trying the Windows hidden partition
(to install windows), grub stopped working (it was rescue mode, but
without capability to rescue something). Also resc
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
Does grub use the unallocated disk space near the MBR?
Yes. As far as I know, even grub2 does so, but pls. correct me.
So next question: why does windoze installation write to these block
(but not to MBR)? Ah, ok the &q
Frans Pop wrote:
This oneliner change would fix the issue as well:
+++ b/packages/base-installer/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ install_base_system () {
# so make a backup to be restored later
copied_fstab=true
cp /target/etc/fsta
On 02/03/2013 10:53 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 02/03/2013 10:44 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> Now please explain how exactly syslinux-themes-debian is involved
>> here.
>
> it's a bug in your config, you need more files present on the media, as
> the link to the corresponding commit in live-bu
On 02/04/2013 08:40 AM, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> On 02/03/2013 10:53 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
>> On 02/03/2013 10:44 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>>> Now please explain how exactly syslinux-themes-debian is involved
>>> here.
>>
>> it's a bug in you
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