Bug#907805: syslinux.efi uses the TFTP server IP for the HTTP domain

2018-09-07 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 03, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > This still seems to be the case, since the pxe_dns function in efi/pxe.c > in the current HEAD > (http://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/blob/HEAD:/efi/pxe.c, lines 38-49) will > `return 0` in all cases. Yes, it is even worse than this: even if I pass to syslinux in

Bug#907814: Absolute PXE paths do not work

2018-09-02 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: pxelinux Version: 3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4 Severity: normal With this configuration: dhcp-option=option:bootfile-name,/pxelinux/lpxelinux.0 dhcp-option-force=209,/syslinux.cfg I expected that pxelinux would try to download /syslinux.cfg and not /pxelinux//syslinux.cfg: dnsma

Bug#907805: syslinux.efi uses the TFTP server IP for the HTTP domain

2018-09-02 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: syslinux-efi Version: 3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4 Severity: important When providing to syslinux.efi an http URL in option 67: dhcp-option=option:bootfile-name,http://pxe.example.net/EFI/SYSLINUX/syslinux.efi then it will try to download the modules like ldlinux.e64, the config

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-13 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 12, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> changes, isn't a point of argumentation (see my previous mail). All of > >> the packages must be taken from stable, unchanged, and if some are taken > >> from backports, this must be explicit, and the image shouldn't be called > >> "stable Debian". Official,

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-12 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 12, Thomas Goirand wrote: > changes, isn't a point of argumentation (see my previous mail). All of > the packages must be taken from stable, unchanged, and if some are taken > from backports, this must be explicit, and the image shouldn't be called > "stable Debian". Official, yes, but not

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-10 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 10, Richard Hartmann wrote: > with my trademark hat on: We asked waldi & zobel to bounce this > request off of debian-cloud and debian-cd prior to granting the right > to use the Debian name. We are looking for rough consensus as defined > in RFC7282 that these images are close enough to D

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there? (reloaded)

2014-09-08 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 09, Paul Wise wrote: > Isn't tasksel for people with no expectations? People who know > something about the technology they are looking for will install the > relevant packages instead of following tasksel recommendations. Tasksel is not about recommendations: its purpose is to easily inst

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 08, Joey Hess wrote: > I recently spent some time installing community computer labs in rural > Brazil. Internet bandwidth was nearly nonexistant[1], so if you were I am sure that we could have a great competition for finding potential users with even crappier connectivity and even more o

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Marco d';Itri
On May 14, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > It is my impression from my visits in the Fall (although I do not have > any hard data to support it) that in India and Indonesia network access > is generally so slow that even if computers have DVD drives the common > media downloaded and used is CD. This

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Marco d';Itri
On May 14, Neil Williams wrote: > I'd support XFCE4 as the default Graphical Desktop Environment and > possibly putting GNOME (and KDE) as alternative options. What is the point of providing a default which is not what people usually want? Just document that a normal desktop install will require

new mirror

2000-08-15 Thread Marco d';Itri
Server name is ftp3.linux.it AKA ftp.it.debian.org, managed by the Italian Linux Society, plenty of bandwidth. Methods: rsync ftp3.linux.it::debian-cd ftp://ftp3.linux.it/pub/cd-images/ http://ftp3.linux.it/cd-images/ i386 only. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]