Bug#762222: Support multiple mirrors

2014-09-19 Thread Josh Triplett
packages and a local mirror for a few modified packages. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)

Bug#768062: Does not take already-selected alternate dependencies into account

2014-11-04 Thread Josh Triplett
pam-systemd's dependency. In addition to figuring that out automatically, debootstrap should at least have produced that result if given --exclude=systemd-shim, since no dependency requires debootstrap to add that back in. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid AP

Bug#762222: Support multiple mirrors

2019-04-23 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 09:06:12AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote... > > > debootstrap currently only supports a single mirror. For testing > > initial install scenarios with modified packages, it would help greatly > > to have support for an add

Bug#931911: user-setup: Fails to present no-root-password_first-user-sudoer option as a reasonable choice

2019-07-12 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:11:09 +0200 Philip Hands wrote: > I've just pushed a branch to salsa: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/user-setup/tree/bug-931911-empty-root-password-OK > > that is an attempt to make this better. Comments welcome. That looks like an improvement. But coul

Bug#948110: Please provide options to exclude files from installed image

2020-01-03 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.116 Severity: wishlist Please consider providing options to exclude files from the installed image using --path-exclude (and keep them that way via dpkg configuration in the bootstrapped system). That would make it easier to install a small system image that (for

Bug#926216: debootstrap: Add dpkgopt

2020-01-03 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 12:52:25 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hideki Yamane (2019-04-02): > > package: debootstrap > > severity: wishlist > > > > mmdebstrap has aptopt and dpkgopt option to manage apt and dpkg via > > passing some options to it, put conf file to > > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99mmdebst

Bug#980127: busybox-static: Please enable the "hush" applet

2021-01-14 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: busybox-static Version: 1:1.30.1-6 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@joshtriplett.org For busybox-static, I'd love to have the "hush" applet available. It's a more feature-complete shell, including features such as brace expansion. Please consider enabling CONFIG_HUSH and CONFIG_HUSH

Bug#963580: Please provide an alias (s=) for https URLs

2020-06-23 Thread Josh Triplett
nt, this makes it easy to redirect requests from the Debian installer to a preseed file, so that preseeds can become as simple as `s=example.org` . - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, &#

Bug#796603: keyboard-configuration: Has init script in runlevel S but no matching service file

2015-10-10 Thread Josh Triplett
AFAIK does not handle all cases). Any case of mounting /usr that the initrd *doesn't* handle should get filed as a bug against initramfs-tools. - Josh Triplett

Bug#796603: keyboard-configuration: Has init script in runlevel S but no matching service file

2015-10-10 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:20:11AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2015-10-10 at 15:05 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 10:59:23 -0300 Felipe Sateler > > wrote: > > > On IRC it was pointed out that --save is not necessary under systemd: > >

Bug#805928: Please don't ship init scripts for other packages

2015-11-23 Thread Josh Triplett
at all on systems that don't have console-setup installed. For example, could they live in a package that console-setup and console-setup-mini depend on, rather than keyboard-configuration? - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT p

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-19 Thread Josh Triplett
o boot so fast that a splash screen would simply be an unnecessary flicker. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140120010744.GA5693@leaf

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:28:58AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: > > If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that > > the default kernel command line includes "quiet", which hides most > > kernel messages and systemd message

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 01:19:25PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: > > Do you mean the options used within d-i itself, or on the installed > > system? > > The latter; d-i does not run with systemd. If Debian ends up adopting systemd as the default, that s

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 06:05:23PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: > > > The latter; d-i does not run with systemd. > > > > If Debian ends up adopting systemd as the default, that seems likely to > > change. > > Seems unlikely; I doubt tha

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:12:21PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi Josh, > > On 20.01.2014 02:07, Josh Triplett wrote: > >If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that > >the default kernel command line includes "quiet", which hides most

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:43:02AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: > > Quietness on success has some significant advantages to justify not > > disabling it > > Is quietness of success actually intended to be a default property of > systemd? If a lot of

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:43:41PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > On 21.01.2014 03:35, Josh Triplett wrote: > > If splash were a non-default boot option, and plymouth did nothing > > unless the kernel command line had that option, that seems entirely > > reasonable. Very

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:34:18AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi Joey, > > On 20.01.2014 16:28, Joey Hess wrote: > >Josh Triplett wrote: > >>If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that > >>the default kernel command line includes &qu

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
g as gdm and X don't need clamav-daemon. > >> > >>How can I achieve that? > >>Currently it seems as if multi-user.target waits for exim4.service, > >>which starts only after clamav-daemon.service is ready. > > > >Ieally, by uninstalling exim4 and clama

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 04:28:27AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > On 22.01.2014 03:05, Josh Triplett wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:53:51AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > >>And yes, the latter option would be easier for the user, but > >>probably mor

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 08:20:18AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Josh Triplett (2014-01-21): > > In that case, to clarify further: I don't have any objection to > > installing plymouth as long as the "splash" option is *not* included by > > default. It

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:59:21AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > On 22.01.2014 17:50, Josh Triplett wrote: > >I don't know what isn't working there; you might try the systemd IRC > >channel or mailing list, to see if they know what's going on. > > I just tr

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-02-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:28:58AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: > > If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that > > the default kernel command line includes "quiet", which hides most > > kernel messages and systemd message

Bug#626217: Default /etc/kernel-img.conf should have do_symlinks=no; nothing needs those links now

2014-02-25 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:10:42PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 16:18 +0300, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > Ben Hutchings (2011-05-16): > > > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:17 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > Packag

Bug#626217: Default /etc/kernel-img.conf should have do_symlinks=no; nothing needs those links now

2014-02-25 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:45:29PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 09:30 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:10:42PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 16:18 +0300, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > Hi Ben,

Bug#842040: https support: pending?

2017-01-10 Thread Josh Triplett
Bug 842040 got tagged pending on 2016-12-10. Did the support get committed? I'd love to see this available in stretch, particularly for https preseed support. - Josh Triplett

Bug#842040: https support: pending?

2017-01-10 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:23:23AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Bug 842040 got tagged pending on 2016-12-10. Did the support get > committed? I'd love to see this available in stretch, particularly for > https preseed support. Just did some digging, and it looks like this works i

Bug#850800: Set User-Agent for wget, for preseed flexibility

2017-01-10 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: di-utils Severity: wishlist The attached patch sets a User-Agent for wget (compatible with both busybox wget and GNU wget), which allows a site to detect d-i, and (for example) redirect to a preseed file to avoid having to enter a longer URL on the d-i command line. - Josh Triplett

Bug#850802: Add s= as a command-line alias for url=https://

2017-01-10 Thread Josh Triplett
te preseed/https_url, which assumes https:// instead; this shortens the kernel command-line parameter to s=example.org . - Josh Triplett >From b5b7f25edb3a4d127cf2d0a86bd8cc5ca1c5198e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:46:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add s= as a

Bug#851514: Installer using virtio disk or CD-ROM fails to find itself

2017-01-15 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal An installation on a virtual machine booting the installer from a virtio disk or CDROM drive results in a "Detect and mount CD-ROM" failure ("No common CD-ROM drive was detected.") after the language prompts. To reproduce this, try the following: qe

Bug#851526: Please provide command-line option to disable ipv6

2017-01-15 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist netcfg provides an option to completely disable all automatic configuration, but no option to disable ipv6 autoconfig (SLAAC) while leaving DHCP enabled. Putting ipv6.disable=1 on the kernel command line will cause netcfg to realize the network has no ipv6, but

Bug#385628: debian-installer: Should incite the user to use different password for root and for the initial user

2017-01-15 Thread Josh Triplett
needs to worry about this. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTY

Bug#851537: Please support preseeding an empty domain to prevent prompting

2017-01-15 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist netcfg supports preseeding the domain via netcfg/get_domain, but providing an empty values results in the installer still prompting. Please consider providing a way to preseed an empty domain name, to completely suppress the prompt for one. Thanks, Josh

Bug#851539: Stretch RC1 netinst installer prompts for additional CDs

2017-01-15 Thread Josh Triplett
x27;t asked that question; normally only the full-CD installers ask that. - Josh Triplett

Bug#851539: Stretch RC1 netinst installer prompts for additional CDs

2017-01-15 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 01:13:13AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 04:53:26PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > >Package: installation-reports > >Severity: normal > > > >I tried doing an install with a Stretch RC1 netinst CD. Worked fine, > >

Bug#851539: Stretch RC1 netinst installer prompts for additional CDs

2017-01-16 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:30:03PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:51:43PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 01:13:13AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 04:53:26PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > >

Bug#851539: Stretch RC1 netinst installer prompts for additional CDs

2017-01-18 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 02:53:29PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:24:31AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > >On 01/16/2017 07:56 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> > >> How does it help for the firmware-included images? > >> > >It mak

Bug#852158: Preseeding debconf/priority causes main menu to display

2017-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: main-menu Severity: normal I'd like to use preseeding to pre-answer some questions in the installer, while leaving others for the user to answer, including questions asked with priority "high". Using "auto url=..." sets the priority to critical, so I tried including the following in my p

Bug#261415: network installation always asks for proxy

2017-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:49:59 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Martin Pitt (2004-03-24): > > - network installation always asks for proxy; I know what a proxy is, > > but not all potential users may; would it be possible to try without > > proxy first and ask for proxy settings only if direct co

Bug#852158: Preseeding debconf/priority causes main menu to display

2017-01-23 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 06:46:14PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > Package: main-menu > > Severity: normal > > > > I'd like to use preseeding to pre-answer some questions in the > > installer, while leaving others for the user to answ

Bug#261415: network installation always asks for proxy

2017-01-23 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:33:38AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:49:59 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> Martin Pitt (2004-03-24): > >> > - network installation always asks for proxy; I know what a proxy is, >

Bug#261415: network installation always asks for proxy

2017-01-23 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 09:26:31AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:31:37PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I do think we ought to attempt autodetection for this. As long as a > > means exists for preseeders and expert installs to specify one anyway &g

Bug#852158: Preseeding debconf/priority causes main menu to display

2017-01-23 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 08:16:02PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 06:46:14PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > >> Josh Triplett writes: > >> > Package: main-menu > >> > Severity: normal > >>

Bug#851537: Please support preseeding an empty domain to prevent prompting

2017-01-29 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:28:28PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 01/29/2017 11:15 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 01/16/2017 01:18 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> netcfg supports preseeding the domain via netcfg/get_domain, but > >> providing an empty values results in th

Bug#850802: Add s= as a command-line alias for url=https://

2017-02-03 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 02:46:46AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Josh Triplett (2017-01-10): > > Package: preseed > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > The attached patch adds s= as a command-line alias for url=https:// > > > &

Bug#850802: Add s= as a command-line alias for url=https://

2017-02-04 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 08:16:03AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 02:46:46AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> Josh Triplett (2017-01-10): > >> > Package: preseed > >> > Severity: wishlist > >> &

Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#802591: Please provide libssl udeb as well as the libcrypto udeb

2016-03-18 Thread Josh Triplett
Any update on this bug? I'm quite interested in seeing debian-installer https preseeding support in stretch, and this bug is the first step towards that. - Josh Triplett

Bug#819224: For local repository preseeding, please support inline keys

2016-03-24 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: apt-setup Severity: wishlist apt-setup supports preseeding local repositories, separate from the main Debian repository. The preseeding wants a URL for the repository key. Please consider supporting a key inlined into the preseed file, rather than provided via URL. That would provide an

Status of https preseed support?

2016-05-21 Thread Josh Triplett
ter to preseed an https URL without having to type the full scheme? For instance, instead of "auto url=https://example.org/";, perhaps just "auto s=example.org"? - Josh Triplett

Bug#842040: Please add https support

2016-11-12 Thread Josh Triplett
-Installer > < https://sf.net/projects/debian-reiser4/ > > > No idea if suggestion fulfills bug need - just my 2 cents ;-) Can you provide a link for your patches to busybox wget to add SSL support? That sounds like it'd substantially decrease size compared to including GNU wget and supporting libraries. - Josh Triplett

Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch

2015-05-05 Thread Josh Triplett
t; demote to "optional" Agreed. > - patch: > Does anyone use this w/o having build-essential installed? > -> demote to "optional" I sympathize with wanting patch in standard (it's useful for more than just building software, and diffutils

Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch

2015-05-07 Thread Josh Triplett
has popular alternatives, > >> probably not needed in chroot/container environments either. > >> -> demote to "optional" > >Everything that needs them already depends on them. > >Also, can we finally replace exim with postfix as the def

Bug#722069: 1.97 changelog blank

2013-09-07 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.97 Severity: normal console-setup (1.97) unstable; urgency=low * - -- Christian Perrier Fri, 06 Sep 2013 22:38:19 +0200 A very dashing changelog indeed, but not a very informative one. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot

Bug#497331: console-setup: Please don't use Terminus by default.

2008-08-31 Thread Josh Triplett
t as an option if installed. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CT

Bug#456623: debian-installer: Please offer the option of using an unpartitioned disk as an FS

2007-12-16 Thread Josh Triplett
could live with needing to use expert mode to do this, though I'd prefer to have the option more readily available. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6

Bug#416986: 30 seconds far too long

2007-04-09 Thread Josh Triplett
seconds seems like more than enough time to hit something; certainly far longer than modern BIOSes give you to get into the setup menu, for instance. - Josh Triplett signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#424942: debian-installer: Cannot use entire RAID device rather than partitioning it

2007-05-17 Thread Josh Triplett
the shell, then using the partitioner to create the filesystem and use the partition as /. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linu

Bug#424942: closed by Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Re: Bug#424942: debian-installer: Cannot use entire RAID device rather than partitioning it)

2007-05-19 Thread Josh Triplett
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > On Friday 18 May 2007 01:04, Josh Triplett wrote: >> The partitioner does not allow using an entire RAID device such as >> /dev/md0; it wants to partition the device. I want to use /dev/md0 as >> an LVM container, so I don't wan

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-08-13 Thread Josh Triplett
h $Id: and ends with $ in the worktree file is replaced > with $Id$ upon check-in. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#543268: user-setup: Please provide preseedable passwd/user-extra-groups, to allow preseeding without overriding defaults

2009-08-23 Thread Josh Triplett
ional groups without overriding those supplied by default. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/

Bug#556882: console-setup: Loses "do not change font" configuration in the transition to keyboard-configuration

2009-11-17 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: console-setup Version: 1.47 Severity: normal I had console-setup configured to not change the console font. After upgrading to the new version that uses keyboard-configuration, that information somehow got lost, and my font now changes during the boot process. - Josh Triplett

Bug#523437: console-setup: Console setup does not persist after switching to X and back

2009-04-10 Thread Josh Triplett
- Observe the line-drawing characters surrounding the dialog box. - Switch to X. - Switch back to the console. - Observe the garbage characters that have replaced the line-drawing characters. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500

Bug#535709: console-setup: Uses uudecode during preconfiguration; depends on sharutils insufficient

2009-07-04 Thread Josh Triplett
: stdin: unexpected end of file /tmp/console-setup.config.194661: line 401: uudecode: command not found gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file A depends on sharutils won't make it available during preconfiguration. In fact, to the best of my knowledge neither will a Pre-Depends. - Josh Tri

Bug#538763: Description in netcfg/invalid_hostname does not match the code

2009-07-26 Thread Josh Triplett
x27; from valid_chars. (RFC 1123, and RFC 952 which it references, seem somewhat ambiguous about uppercase characters. RFC 1123 says nothing about them, and RFC 952 says "No distinction is made between upper and lower case.". I'd argue that the code should not permit uppercase

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-15 Thread Josh Triplett
ot; setups, both of which potentially make sense for users of the guided partitioner. Anyone desiring a setup with more separate partitions should have no trouble using the manual partitioner to create whatever custom configuration they desire. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:11:22PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/16/2011 04:46 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > In all of the recent discussions about separate /usr partitions, most > > people seem to acknowledge them as unusual, special-purpose > > configurations, ev

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 04:13:50AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Seems you're as much passionate about this topic as I am! :) > At this point, I don't remotely hope to convince you, but perhaps you > will find some of my points valid. Likewise. :) > On 12/17/2011 02:46 A

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-17 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 05:42:59PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/17/2011 05:12 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > And while we might > > debate the usefulness of a separate /usr back and forth, I think I can > > safely say that it won't become a *recommended* conf

Bug#654872: busybox dd should ignore SIGUSR1

2012-01-06 Thread Josh Triplett
receives SIGUSR1 it terminates. Please consider ignoring SIGUSR1 for compatibility with coreutils dd. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Archit

Bug#408641: Please default to the one-and-only disk; already displayed for confirmation in the next question

2011-02-05 Thread Josh Triplett
changes to the disk. Thus, I think it seems entirely safe to default to the one-and-only disk if no other disk exists, given that the user will still get multiple chances to review and confirm their choice. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT po

Bug#612109: netcfg: Please auto-detect the need for an HTTP proxy

2011-02-05 Thread Josh Triplett
could perhaps embed gtk-webkit. :) - Josh Triplett (Sent as a result of discussions on Joey Hess's Debian Party Line.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architectu

Bug#612115: grub-installer: Please auto-install to the MBR when absolutely safe

2011-02-05 Thread Josh Triplett
the above two points?) Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Loc

Bug#621788: Please support encryption without separate /boot, with encryption support in current GRUB2

2011-04-08 Thread Josh Triplett
at the moment such a setup requires entering the passphrase twice: once for GRUB and once for Linux. I've seen some discussion about passing the passphrase from GRUB to Linux, but such support doesn't exist yet.) Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy

Bug#621791: Please support setting LUKS options for speed/brute-forcing tradeoff

2011-04-08 Thread Josh Triplett
take approximately one second on the current machine. However, LUKS supports configuring the desired number of milliseconds, to trade off between speed and protection from brute-forcing. Please support setting this option when creating an encrypted volume during installation. Thanks, Josh

Bug#625774: Please provide "diff"

2011-05-05 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: busybox-static Severity: wishlist Current busybox-static does not provide the "diff" command. Please consider enabling it. Doing so would make busybox sufficiently capable to run a configure script, which would help when bootstrapping a minimal environment. Thanks, Jos

Bug#626217: Default /etc/kernel-img.conf should have do_symlinks=no; nothing needs those links now

2011-05-09 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: base-installer Severity: normal Now that the various bootloaders have hooks to handle kernel installation, or otherwise automatically handle all kernels via their actual paths, do_symlinks doesn't seem necessary anymore. Please consider defaulting it to "no". - Josh Trip

Bug#626219: Installer could not detect booted USB drive in USB3 port

2011-05-09 Thread Josh Triplett
successfully, but the booted system could not see the drive, so it could not load the rest of the installer components. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimen

Bug#626220: Did not support Intel 82579LM Gigabit Ethernet (needs current e1000e)

2011-05-09 Thread Josh Triplett
this card just fine, but I'd guess the e1000e driver in stable's kernel doesn't. I ended up having to install via wireless. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'

Bug#626219: Installer could not detect booted USB drive in USB3 port

2011-05-15 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:47:58PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 21:38, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I just installed Debian on a Lenovo ThinkPad X220, starting from the > > Debian stable installer.  This laptop has several USB ports, including a > > USB

Re: Bug#254113: New version of ttf-freefont to test

2006-02-15 Thread Josh Triplett
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: >>No spacing problems either with this version or with the current version >>in Debian. > > Interesting .. I have spacing problems (line spacing, and, with Freemono > when printed by means of Mozilla/xprint, also character s

Workaround for ttf-freefont spacing issue (affects graphical debian-installer)

2006-03-12 Thread Josh Triplett
I plan to seek a sponsor for an NMU to the DELAYED queue. I've put source and binaries at http://freedesktop.org/~josh/ttf-freefont-spacing-problem/ . Could a graphical-installer developer please test the udeb with g-i and see if the spacing problem disappears? - Josh Triplett signature.asc

Re: Bug#254113: Workaround for ttf-freefont spacing issue (affects graphical debian-installer)

2006-03-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Davide Viti wrote: > Hi Josh, Hi Davide, > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:06:34PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: >>I've put source and binaries at >>http://freedesktop.org/~josh/ttf-freefont-spacing-problem/ . Could a >>graphical-installer developer please test the u

Re: Workaround for ttf-freefont spacing issue (affects graphical debian-installer)

2006-03-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Josh Triplett wrote: > The attached patch updates my previous workaround for the ttf-freefont > spacing issue, which is currently affecting the graphical > debian-installer. For the benefit of the bug report, here's the patch I forgot to attach. - Josh Triplett diff -Naur ttf-fre

Bug#678726: Please drop cpufrequtils from task-laptop; linux-image now has a sensible default configuration

2012-06-23 Thread Josh Triplett
need cpufrequtils unless they want to put their system into a non-default less energy-efficient configuration. So, please drop cpufrequtils from task-laptop. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable&

Bug#678726: Please drop cpufrequtils from task-laptop; linux-image now has a sensible default configuration

2012-06-24 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 08:16:05AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Josh Triplett (j...@joshtriplett.org): > > Package: tasksel > > Version: 3.09 > > Severity: normal > > > > As of version 3.2.21-1 of the Linux images, the Linux kernel now loads > &

Bug#560696: tasksel: The mail-server task should install dovecot instead of qpopper and uw-imapd

2012-06-24 Thread Josh Triplett
It seems premature to me to declare a Debian-recommended choice in that category. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-am

Bug#678749: task-web-server: Should depend on apache2, not apache2-mpm-prefork

2012-06-24 Thread Josh Triplett
defaults to apache2-mpm-worker. In addition, the apache2 package will transition more nicely to the apache 2.4 packages in the future, which no longer ship separate MPM packages. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'uns

Bug#678756: task-desktop: Please drop kerneloops-applet

2012-06-24 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: tasksel Version: 3.10 Severity: normal kerneloops-applet no longer works due to the site it submits to going away (bug 664715); please drop it from the desktop task. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'uns

Bug#678793: task-desktop: libreoffice-gcj no longer exists

2012-06-24 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: tasksel Version: 3.10 Severity: normal libreoffice-gcj no longer exists; please drop the dependency on it. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: am

Bug#678794: task-desktop, task-print-server: Please depend on printer-driver-all rather than individual printer drivers

2012-06-24 Thread Josh Triplett
available printer drivers. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-24 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: tasksel Version: 3.10 Severity: normal Supporting modern Flash files requires browser-plugin-lightspark, not just browser-plugin-gnash. Please consider depending on both. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Josh Triplett
gnash, but personally I agree the desktop task should not include either. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120627191931.GA24452@leaf