Re: [Question] Integrating the debian installer in live-build - DVD, multi-arch, custom, etc.

2020-04-15 Thread Ian Campbell
I know about it is what I read at https://jonathancarter.org/2019/10/17/calamares-plans-for-debian-11/ via planet Debian some time ago, but maybe it's something to investigate... See also https://packages.debian.org/buster/calamares Ian.

Re: Default security sources are slow very much.

2020-02-06 Thread Ian Campbell
no need to wait for a mirror pulse), but if that doesn't work for a given setup there's no reason not to change to use a mirror, it looks like deb.debian.org supports security so presumably that's a good bet. Ian.

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-23 Thread Ian Campbell
like at least a decade). EC2 uses pvgrub, not pygrub, although AFAICT pvgrub has also never had a problem with partitions. Ian.

Re: Bug#812236: CD-Image does not boot with Libreboot/GRUB

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 13:06 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 23:48 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Getting a bit OT for the bug. > > > In fact, I've seen this exact problem myself on a Libreboot machine > > when trying to install Jessie a few week

Re: Bug#812236: CD-Image does not boot with Libreboot/GRUB

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Campbell
taller by hand that > way. It looks like a (design?) bug that Libreboot won't do normal boot > sector booting like a conventional BIOS. I think for that case you want (or need) to use seabios as your coreboot payload, since it provides the necessary "conventional BIOS" part of the puzzle. Ian.

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Some small improvements

2015-09-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 08:02 +0200, Philipp Hahn wrote: > Please have a look and pick what you like. FYI only this intro mail seems to have made it to the list. Ian. > > Philipp Hahn (4): > Replace previous sym-links > Use only first package candidate > Anchor pa

Re: Suggestions for CD images - following CD talk at Debconf

2015-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 11:34 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 22:26 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > [Off topic for _this_ list: I've got UEFI netboot working wit

Re: Suggestions for CD images - following CD talk at Debconf

2015-08-22 Thread Ian Campbell
is can be avoided (perhaps using some more advanced scripting). I had a brief look at one point and it seemed non-trivial (plus I was worried about breaking existing uses) Ian. > Ubuntu and CentOS 7 appear to use grubnetx64.efi at the moment for > UEFI netboot - on topic for debian-efi?] >

Re: What package is in charge for bugs in netboot/mini.iso ?

2015-08-21 Thread Ian Campbell
a. > > > If not known: Towards which package to report ? Assuming it isn't thought to be a qemu but then against the "debian -installer" package please. I've not heard of it but please check the buglist first (reportbug will prompt you do to so anyway). Cheers, Ian.

Re: Bug#788532: grub-efi-ia32-bin should be shipped on install DVD

2015-06-12 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: reassign -1 debian-cd This is actually the responsibility of the debian-cd package, reassigning. On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 15:17 +0200, Gregor Riepl wrote: > Package: grub-efi-ia32-bin > Version: 2.02~beta2-22 > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > > When installing Debia

Re: Draft for D-I Jessie RC2

2015-03-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 17:10 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:40:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >Ian Campbell (2015-03-26): > >> On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 19:44 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > >> > due to https://bugs.debian.org/773645 off

Bug#781305: unblock: flash-kernel/3.34

2015-03-27 Thread Ian Campbell
+ @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +flash-kernel (3.34) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Update u-boot-tools to Recommends. In practice it is needed on most systems +but having it installed only by flash-kernel-installer means it is missed +in manual configurations. (Closes: #780994) + + -- Ian Campbell

Re: Draft for D-I Jessie RC2

2015-03-26 Thread Ian Campbell
n upload to Jessie soon. I assume a recommends will cause d-cd to do the desired thing? Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1427405940.1320.31.ca...@debian.org

Bug#779616: debian-cd: broken debian-testing-$arch-netinst.iso generation?

2015-03-05 Thread Ian Campbell
vmlinuz downloaded locally but are pulling udebs off the network, which might therefore be newer. Please reread my caveat now though ;-) Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1425568787.25940.233.ca...@debian.org

Bug#776317: Jessie RC1 amd64 mini image missing efi bootloader

2015-02-01 Thread Ian Campbell
tinst images instead, they are more polished and better tested etc (since they share code with the larger ISO images and what have you). At some point it seems like improving mini.iso more for end users would simply be duplicating effort with the CD team. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#776317: Jessie RC1 amd64 mini image missing efi bootloader

2015-01-27 Thread Ian Campbell
> -isohybrid-gpt-basdat > > directly after -e and its argument. I don't suppose I can tempt you into sending a patch against the above git repo, can I? ;-) Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Bug#776317: Jessie RC1 amd64 mini image missing efi bootloader

2015-01-27 Thread Ian Campbell
p /boot/grub /boot/grub /boot/grub/efi.img /boot/grub/font.pf2 /boot/grub/grub.cfg /boot/grub/x86_64-efi /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/acpi.mod [...lots more...] > It'd be nice to start by telling us the full URL to the mini.iso you > downloaded. Yes, please. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 10:41 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2015-01-07, Ian Campbell wrote: > > And therefore aren't they more usefully built along with > > that iso? Otherwise how do you know how big to make the partition to > > contain the iso at d-i build time

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-07 Thread Ian Campbell
ms (syslinux/isolinux/grub) as well. Probably we > > should do that, but then it would have to be done for all > > platforms. Kibi? > > ISTR having proposed a patch to #700026 / #696418, but that wasn't > commented upon. FWIW the patch in #700026 looks good to me as a starting

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 22:13 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 02:51:18PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 10:46:37AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > BTW our kernel now supports the /chosen/stdout-path property in fdt and > &g

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 14:51 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 10:46:37AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 01:59 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > Talking about other compression schemes or providing multiple versions > > of

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 08:59 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2015-01-02, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 13:42 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> On 2014-12-30, Ian Campbell wrote: > > >> I think the difference is one is a set of netboot images,

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-02 Thread Ian Campbell
oard.img.gz > 18552 Wandboard_Quad.img.gz > So around 200M in total? I haven't checked but I would imagine that was an order of magnitude more than d-i produces for any other arch in the d-i builds. I suppose though that it is pretty negligible (even when doubled by the hd-media variant) compared with the full size of a mirror, but it is getting towards 0.5G. I'm not sure who should be consulted about that. If these images were built separately from the main d-i build then we could e.g. mirror them via the debian-cd mechanisms instead of the main mirror, where they would feel like a better fit. (Do your patches end up adding the correct Built-Using on u-boot?) Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1420195597.2030.48.ca...@debian.org

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 13:42 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2014-12-30, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > 0004-Add-SD-card-image-build-support-for-hd-media-builds-.patch > ... > > It seems to be creating a copy of dtbs again, please lets try > > and keep i

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2014-12-30 Thread Ian Campbell
ectories (i.e. things added alongside netboot, hd-media, network-console etc) describing what each one is would help? Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1419953311.13595.190.ca...@debian.org

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: preseed with netboot ISO

2014-12-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 15:18 +0100, Lars-Daniel Weber wrote: > > Gesendet: Freitag, 19. Dezember 2014 um 15:13 Uhr > > Von: "Ian Campbell" > > An: "Lars-Daniel Weber" > > > > In that case I can't explain the difference between the two, sorry

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: preseed with netboot ISO

2014-12-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 15:10 +0100, Lars-Daniel Weber wrote: > > Gesendet: Freitag, 19. Dezember 2014 um 15:01 Uhr > > Von: "Ian Campbell" > > > > TBH you are chopping and changing between so many different scenarios > > that I'm not really sure w

Re: Aw: Re: Re: preseed with netboot ISO

2014-12-19 Thread Ian Campbell
s/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso ? That's the Wheezy image, whereas if you build from git you are picking up the Sid/Jessie version of things, which corresponds to what is under http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/. Perhaps Wheezy didn't sup

Re: Aw: Re: preseed with netboot ISO

2014-12-19 Thread Ian Campbell
.cfg outside initrd without a problem. But building the installer on > my own takes > lots of dependencies... I wonder, what went wrong on the automatic build of > mini.iso :( What do you mean by a outside the initrd? How are you self-building these netboot images? Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1418995678.20028.39.ca...@hellion.org.uk

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Force MKISOFO=xorriso for arm64 too

2014-10-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 10:48 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > --- > Makefile | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 54393a7..5413e87 100755 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ ifndef TASK >

[PATCH] Update header comments in boot-arm64

2014-10-04 Thread Ian Campbell
--- tools/boot/jessie/boot-arm64 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/boot/jessie/boot-arm64 b/tools/boot/jessie/boot-arm64 index 3021467..e67773b 100755 --- a/tools/boot/jessie/boot-arm64 +++ b/tools/boot/jessie/boot-arm64 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ #!/bin/bash -#

[PATCH 2/2] Do not truncate grub.cfg on arm64

2014-10-04 Thread Ian Campbell
The d-i supplied grub.cfg has the correct entries in it already. --- tools/boot/jessie/boot-arm64 | 7 --- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/boot/jessie/boot-arm64 b/tools/boot/jessie/boot-arm64 index 43f290c..3021467 100755 --- a/tools/boot/jessie/boot-arm64 +++ b/tools/boot/

[PATCH 1/2] Force MKISOFO=xorriso for arm64 too

2014-10-04 Thread Ian Campbell
--- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 54393a7..5413e87 100755 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ ifndef TASK TASK=Debian-generic endif ifndef MKISOFS -ifneq (,$(filter i386 amd64,$(ARCHES))) +ifneq (,$(filter i386

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

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

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
ng to replace a system shouldn't be worried about the > installer warning them that they can't boot the (to be replaced) old > system anymore, and can safely ignore that message. I was thinking more along the lines of a yes/no question which would either cause partman-efi.isinst

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 > sol

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
lack > of time and other large ongoing changes: let's see if we can get > debian-cd to cope with latest tasksel changes soon. Should we do anything about #762007 (user-params breakage due to kernel changes) or can it wait? WRT #762618 (empty grub.cfg in x86 mini.iso, used on EFI systems

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

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
t was my initial thought, but then someone pointed out: what > happens to a user who explicitly *wants* to replace their existing > legacy system with a new UEFI one? Is isinstallable allowed to ask debconf question? Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Ian Jackson
appreciate it if the tasksel maintainers would let us know: Do you intend to review (or are you reviewing) the decision taken in July 2012 [1] ? If so, is this discussion here on -devel useful ? If it is useful, what questions should we be focusing on ? Ian. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gi

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Ian Jackson
ht not be able to > have the full GNOME environment, but the computer using the CD would > not be able to use it anyway. Wouldn't such a computer be able to use xfce ? I have a computer from 2003-2005 that seems to be running xfce perfectly happily (and I have reinstalled it recently).

Re: Report from the first tests of d-i beta 1 candidate images

2012-07-17 Thread Ian Campbell
drwxr-xr-x3 root root 16384 Jul 17 15:53 lists drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Jul 17 15:43 mirrors drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Jun 29 14:00 periodic This doesn't seem to be anything Xen specific here. Ian. -- Ian Campbell

Re: [PATCH] support Xen installation from Blu-Ray

2012-04-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 20:15 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:21:09AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >I can't think of any reason not to do this, I assume there is tons of > >room. > > > >I confess I haven't tested the patch since my mirro

[PATCH] support Xen installation from Blu-Ray

2012-04-23 Thread Ian Campbell
dating my mirror now, so I ought to be able to test in a week or so. Thanks, Ian diff --git a/cronjob.weekly b/cronjob.weekly index c9170a0..5d0d400 100755 --- a/cronjob.weekly +++ b/cronjob.weekly @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ if lockfile -r0 $TOPDIR/.debian-cd.lock ; then

Re: Renaming xm-debian.cfg to just debian.cfg

2011-08-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 21:19 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:55:10PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >diff --git a/tools/boot/wheezy/boot-x86 b/tools/boot/wheezy/boot-x86 > >index 1b23b1b..2cc090b 100644 > >--- a/tools/boot/wheezy/boot-x86 > >+++ b

Re: Renaming xm-debian.cfg to just debian.cfg

2011-08-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 11:55 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:26:46PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'd quite like to rename the xm-debian.cfg shipped by d-i to just > >debian.cfg. The "xm" came from the previous Xen tool

Renaming xm-debian.cfg to just debian.cfg

2011-08-15 Thread Ian Campbell
pha/beta release is made there will necessarily be a d-i upload first (with this change)? Patches to both are attached, I can checkin the d-i one myself if debian-cd are happy with the approach. Ian. -- Ian Campbell "It's ten o'clock... Do you know w

[PATCH] s/686-bigmem/686-pae in wheezy exclude-udebs

2011-07-28 Thread Ian Campbell
This appears to have been missed in r2264. --- data/wheezy/exclude-udebs-i386 |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/data/wheezy/exclude-udebs-i386 b/data/wheezy/exclude-udebs-i386 index 893aa34..8602305 100644 --- a/data/wheezy/exclude-udebs-i386 +++ b/data/wh

Bug#622622: Priority of i386 kernel flavours

2011-05-02 Thread Ian Campbell
uild > looks good, and I've back-ported the fix back to the squeeze branch of > debian-cd so that 6.0.2 should be correct. Doest this have an impact (i.e. perhaps make it obsolete) the VARIANT_xen stuff e.g. in tools/generate_di+k_list? I suppose the variant stuff is orthogonal to this

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Enable Xen PVHVM installation from ISO

2011-03-07 Thread Ian Campbell
Does anybody have any comments on this RFC? On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 22:12 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > Hi, > > In the Squeeze release we added support for Xen PV installation from > certain ISO images which have the Xen variant enabled in Debian CD (the > multiarch x86 ISOs) w

[PATCH/RFC] Enable Xen PVHVM installation from ISO

2011-02-20 Thread Ian Campbell
vanced for example. Ian. PS: Is there some trick to quickly testing the isolinux menus? I've been doing: #!/bin/sh set -ex export PATH=util:${PATH}:/usr/sbin:/sbin rm -rf tmp/cdrom_isolinux/cd_info tmp/cdrom_gtk/cd_info make

Re: [RFH] Test of RC1 images prior to announce

2011-01-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:51 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:42:13AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > >On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 17:29 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Please give it a try: > >> > >

Re: [RFH] Test of RC1 images prior to announce

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Campbell
. debian-sq-di-rc1-amd64-i386-powerpc-netinst.iso is missing the i386 and amd64 di kernel modules. This has happened before on and off and AFAIK is simply due to the overall size of the stuff on the CD so I'm not sure what to suggest. debian-sq-di-rc1-i386-amd64-source-DVD-1.iso works fine unde

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 10:39 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:52:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >I just checked debian-testing-amd64-i386-powerpc-netinst.iso vs > >firmware-testing-amd64-i386-powerpc-netinst.iso from > >http://cdimage.debian.org

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 11:12 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:49:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 10:43 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:05:47AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> >On Wed, 20

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 10:43 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:05:47AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 00:32 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 09:26:38AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> >After strug

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 00:32 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 09:26:38AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >After struggling for a bit due to CONF.sh overwriting my settings (I've > >figured out about DEBIAN_CD_CONF_SOURCED now!) I managed to do a sid m-a >

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 13:51 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 12:50 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:35:23PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > >On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:23 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jul 08,

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Campbell
stems which would have previously got 686 (I can confirm if necessary). This isn't necessarily a bad thing -- it enables NX support for one thing which is generally desirable. FWIW RHEL 6 (the beta at least) ships with only a PAE (aka 686-bigmem) kernel, I guess things are heading that way ge

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 12:50 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:35:23PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:23 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> >I don't t

[PATCH] Do not set VARIANTS in CONF.sh by default

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Campbell
ages # Extra variants to enable. See docs/README.variants for more information. -export VARIANTS= +#export VARIANTS= # We don't want certain packages to take up space on CD1... #export EXCLUDE1=exclude -- Ian Campbell Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. -- Russian Pro

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:23 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >I don't think libuuid-perl really needs perl and I have filed #588427 to > >that effect. > > Cool. It's tagged as pending already in

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 12:45 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:49:52AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 07:16:59AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> > >>Hardlinks are used in preference to symlinks since these are expec

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Campbell
I guess maybe this was selected from popcon to fill the slack left by things which were bumped? > (Looking at the log files make_disc_tree.log and sort_deps.i386.log > for this info...) Thanks for the pointer. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Pendulum - Plastic World (feat. Fats & TC)

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 01:16 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:36AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:46 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> the multi-arch DVD. > > > >Another random thought, would we be better off enabli

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:46 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > the multi-arch DVD. Another random thought, would we be better off enabling the xen variant on the m-a DVD rather than CD? Ian. -- -- Ian Campbell "Pull the trigger and you're garbage." -- Lady Bl

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Campbell
system but is on the CD as well. Similarly nothing seems to pull in binutils or doc-linux-text deliberately. (I'm picking on these packages because they are the largest components under pool/main/*) I have a feeling I'm misunderstanding the technical definition of base system. I thought i

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Campbell
ort hardlinks but not symlinks so that's another argument for hardlinks. If we think isolinux would be a problem then we could restrict this to files under install.*/xen/. Ian. --- Subject: boot-x86: detect duplicates in the extra images used for installation Several files included under inst

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Campbell
m:516338 > i386:main:linux-headers-2.6-686-bigmem:2930 Is this list part of the output somewhere when I do a local build either with easy-build.sh or by replicating the invocation from debian-cd-setup SVN? On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 21:51 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > One thing to note is that the amd64

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:49 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Ian Campbell writes: > > > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:12 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > >> Ian Campbell writes: > >> > >>> Another option might be to combine gtk/initrd.gz and xen/initrd.

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:12 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Ian Campbell writes: > > > Another option might be to combine gtk/initrd.gz and xen/initrd.gz so > > that the overhead is only the kernel udebs and not duplicating all the > > other stuff. > > I probably m

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 15:17 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > The Lenny multi arch netinst amd64+i3486+powerpc was 472M which left > around 178M spare so I wonder where that space has gone. > [...] > I'll take a look at the non-package content of the DVD next since > there seems to

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-25 Thread Ian Campbell
586 class machines are likely to be a dying breed and there are other images which contain that kernel for those occasions. (although I guess the same rationale could be applied to having i386 at all when amd64 is on the image too ;-) ) Does anyone else have an opinion? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Curr

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-25 Thread Ian Campbell
since there seems to ~50M accounted there. Is there any indication of by how much we are currently overflowing? Is it simply the total of: > i386:main:linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem:27213342 > i386:main:linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem:3036 > i386:main:linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem:516338

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Campbell
hings... I'm afraid I don't have any good ideas. Is this particular image supposed to contain a complete base system or just enough to fetch the remainder of the base system from the net? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Disfear - The Horns * SynrG notes that the number of configu

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Ian Campbell
-i daily CD builds. > > Indeed; you're right. I was confusing both. Thanks :-) Please can somebody confirm which multi-arch netinst images I should be testing to ensure I am testing this alpha1 release? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Iron Monkey - OMI Bozu (Wisdom Of Choking) Pe

Re: No daily builds since the 26th?

2009-11-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 03:41 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 08:50:45AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > >There doesn't seem to have been a daily build since Monday. > >http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/build-logs.html suggests they aren't > >

No daily builds since the 26th?

2009-10-31 Thread Ian Campbell
There doesn't seem to have been a daily build since Monday. http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/build-logs.html suggests they aren't being attempted and failing but rather just aren't happening. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Bus error -- driver executed. signature.asc Description: This

Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]

2009-10-25 Thread Ian Campbell
27;s a testing thing? I'm installing a squeeze VM now to check. powerpc is failing differently with E: Couldn't find package firewire-core-modules-2.6.30-1-powerpc-di or E: Couldn't find package floppy-modules-2.6.30-1-powerpc64-di depending on the flavour. Ian. -

Build error in current svn

2009-08-23 Thread Ian Campbell
sed for Lenny and earlier */ console-data console-common console-tools console-cyrillic console-terminus -# Used for Squeeze and onwards +/* Used for Squeeze and onwards */ console-setup pcmcia-cs pcmciautils -- Ian Campbell The trouble with being punctual is that nobody

Re: Fix error message from tools/sort_deps

2009-08-23 Thread Ian Campbell
to do this but the patch below seems like as good a place as any. Ian. diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index e8f92a7..8bb72b2 100755 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ $(ADIR)/status: @echo "Generating a fake status file for apt-get and apt-cache..."

Re: Install from ISO for Xen guest

2009-08-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 16:42 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I will follow up shortly with a short series of patches which > > introduces image "variants" to debian-cd and adds the Xen variant as an > > option for i386 and a

Re: Install from ISO for Xen guest

2009-08-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 11:16 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > The amd64 netboot-xen which is already committed has the same problem -- > I'll fix that right away. My mistake, it really is cdrom_gtk and netboot-gtk... Ian. -- Ian Campbell BOFH excuse #420: Feature was not

Re: Install from ISO for Xen guest

2009-08-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 11:32 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > diff --git a/installer/build/boot/x86/xen/xm-debian.cfg > > b/installer/build/boot/x86/xen/xm-debian.cfg index d1d78e7..7c3ff51 > > 100644 > > --- a/installer/build

Re: Install from ISO for Xen guest

2009-08-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 20:21 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Below is a patch for debian-installer to build cdrom-xen variants for > > i386 and amd64. If nobody objects I would like to commit this to the > > d-i repository. > >

Re: Fix error message from tools/sort_deps

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 19:41 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > So it's not quite as simple as I thought, this patch just leads to > > other error messages later on. > > Suggest you compare commit r1911 which did the same f

Re: Fix error message from tools/sort_deps

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
uot;Conflicts") or - ($type eq "Breaks")) { + ($type eq "Breaks") or + ($type eq "Enhances")) { $$i++; while ($lines->[$$i] =~ m/^\s{4}/) {

[PATCH v2 3/4] Add support for producing disks with (optional) extra variants.

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
This patch just adds the generic support code: * CONF.sh: Add $(VARIANTS) configuration variable. * eash-build.sh: Add command line parameter to enable variants. * Makefile: Define VARIANT_xxx when preprocessing package list. * boot/?/common.sh: Add a function fo

[PATCH v2 1/4] boot-x86: move creation of install.bat out of extra_image

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
There is currently only a single caller but soon I will be adding another which does not want install.bat created. The final output is unchanged after this change. --- tools/boot/squeeze/boot-x86 |5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/boot/squeeze/boot-

[PATCH v2 4/4] Add a Xen variant on i386 and amd64.

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
i386 Xen guests require a PAE (686-bigmem) kernel in order to run. Therefore this variant includes the relevant installer kernel and ramdisk in install.386/xen as well as suitable kernel udebs and proper debs for the installed system. amd64 Xen has no similar requirement but we include the kernels

Fix error message from tools/sort_deps

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
ends|Replaces|Conflicts|Breaks"; + my $types = "(?:Pre)?Depends|Suggests|Recommends|Replaces|Conflicts|Breaks|Enhances"; my (@dep, @rec, @sug); my ($type, $or, $elt); -- Ian Campbell There is no delight the equal of dread. As long as it is som

Re: Fix error message from tools/sort_deps

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
So it's not quite as simple as I thought, this patch just leads to other error messages later on. On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:09 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > It seems that "apt-cache depends" recently (as of 0.7.22) started > including Enhances lines in its output. Leading to:

[PATCH v2 2/4] easy-build.sh: use getopts instead of rolling our own option parsing.

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
--- easy-build.sh | 32 +++- 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/easy-build.sh b/easy-build.sh index a0de9d0..b6ce3be 100755 --- a/easy-build.sh +++ b/easy-build.sh @@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ set -e ## See also CONF.sh for the meaning of variables u

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add support for producing disks with (optional) extra variants.

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 16:13 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > This patch just adds the generic support code: > >* CONF.sh: Add $(VARIANTS) configuration variable. > >* eash-build.sh: Add command line paramet

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add support for producing disks with (optional) extra variants.

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 16:08 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > (No need to CC me on replies.) Sorry about that. > On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > show_usage() { > > - echo "Usage: $(basename $0) [-d gnome|kde|lxde|xfce|light|all] > > BC|NETINST|CD

Re: [PATCH 2/4] easy-build.sh: use getopts instead of rolling our own option parsing.

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:45 +0100, 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 > > + exp

Re: [PATCH 2/4] easy-build.sh: use getopts instead of rolling our own option parsing.

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
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 loo

Re: [PATCH 2/4] easy-build.sh: use getopts instead of rolling our own option parsing.

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 14:05 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > +while getopts d:h OPT ; do > > Is getopts also supported in dash? I believe so. I just tried it and it looks like the script is already not dash-ready: $ dash -x ./easy-build

Re: [PATCH 1/4] boot-x86: move creation of install.bat out of extra_image

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:33 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > There is currently only a single caller but soon I will be adding > > another which does not want install.bat created. > > --- > > tools/boot/squeeze/boot-x86 |5

boot powerpc and x86 fixes

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
makes sense if we never expect either of those comment out thing to return. Ian. diff --git a/tools/boot/squeeze/boot-powerpc b/tools/boot/squeeze/boot-powerpc index 213028a..25c74b6 100755 --- a/tools/boot/squeeze/boot-powerpc +++ b/tools/boot/squeeze/boot-powerpc @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ if [ -n &q

Re: Install from ISO for Xen guest

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 07:39 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I will follow up shortly with[...]a patch to the nightly cron jobs > which enables this variant for the i386+amd64+powerpc multiarch > netinst image. Here it is. Is this sufficient to ensure this variant is enabled in the actual

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