Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ debian-release@: see last paragraph. ] Cyril Brulebois (2014-09-26): > Cyril Brulebois (2014-09-10): > > as you might have seen, a number of uploads happened lately and the > > d-i BoF notes from DebConf kindly provided by Steve (thanks!) > > reminded me about uploading d-i more often. So I th

Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> That sounds better to me too, assuming we can sensibly do a question >> at that point. Is that allowed? I honestly don't know... :-/ > >While isinstallable scripts can t

Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > That sounds better to me too, assuming we can sensibly do a question > at that point. Is that allowed? I honestly don't know... :-/ While isinstallable scripts can talk to debconf, they should not ask questions, as main-menu will ru

Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:14 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:02:12PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >I was thinking more along the lines of a yes/no question which would > >either cause partman-efi.isinstallable to fail or not. Allowing > >selection between the "wants to conv

Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:02:12PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:54 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> > >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM

Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:54 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> If the user wants to cont

Re: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the > >> partition table

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 15:47 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ian Campbell (2014-09-28): > > Should we do anything about #762007 (user-params breakage due to > > kernel changes) or can it wait? > > I might be mistaken but I think it can wait a bit until we agree on a > solution and have some time t

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ian Campbell (2014-09-28): > Should we do anything about #762007 (user-params breakage due to > kernel changes) or can it wait? I might be mistaken but I think it can wait a bit until we agree on a solution and have some time to get it tested. > WRT #762618 (empty grub.cfg in x86 mini.iso, used

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 21:05 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois (2014-09-10): > > as you might have seen, a number of uploads happened lately and the d-i > > BoF notes from DebConf kindly provided by Steve (thanks!) reminded me > > about uploading d-i more often. So I think I'll try an

Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 10:26 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the > >> partition table(s) and

Re: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the >> partition table(s) and starting again with GPT, but I don't think >> we currently