Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:33:56 + Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this next attempted build fails, I'm going to abandon the sparc > images altogether, and recommend that woody r2 does not include sparc > CDs. Does anybody actually care in the SLIGHTEST about supporting > sparc CDs?

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:50:17AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: >On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:33:56 + >Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If this next attempted build fails, I'm going to abandon the sparc >> images altogether, and recommend that woody r2 does not include sparc >> CDs. Doe

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Brian Teeman
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:33:56 + > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If this next attempted build fails, I'm going to abandon the sparc > > images altogether, and recommend that woody r2 does not include sparc > > CDs. Does anybody actua

Re: jigdo

2003-12-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:52:19AM +, Philip Hands wrote: > Assertion failed: oldAreaEnd == start > You have found a bug in jigdo-file. The generated .template file is > very likely broken! To help me find the bug, please rerun the > command as follows: > [previous-command] --report

net inst cd images are gone..

2003-12-02 Thread Myke Welch
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Re: jigdo

2003-12-02 Thread Philip Hands
At Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:06:40 +0100, Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:52:19AM +, Philip Hands wrote: > > Assertion failed: oldAreaEnd == start > > You have found a bug in jigdo-file. The generated .template file is > > very likely broken! To help me

Re: jigdo

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:58:45PM +, Philip Hands wrote: > >While we're on the subject, I've since realised that the thing that >was taking most of the time when generating the images was jigdo, >since a run using jigdo takes over 2 hours per CD on open, whereas >just producing ISO images take

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:52:41AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >> >The path to isofs.b needs to be absolute on the build machine (not >> >relative to the CD root). The "..." is literal, it means use isofs.b to >> >boot any sort of sparc (sun4c,sun4m,sun4d,sun4u). >> >> Some warning of these changes

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
> For now I'm going to leave the sparc images as they are. If there's no > way to test, then I'm going to wait until the boot-sparc script is > known to work. I'll work on the easier architectures first. I know they wont work, because isofs.b doesn't work like cd.b did, and you used a mkisofs that

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >> For now I'm going to leave the sparc images as they are. If there's no >> way to test, then I'm going to wait until the boot-sparc script is >> known to work. I'll work on the easier architectures first. > >I know they wont work, becau

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Strange jigdo-area

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Siegmar
Hi all, http://non-us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/ looks strange. What is 3.3_r2 ? :-) And http://non-us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/ doesn't contain much files. Bye, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:57:46PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > >> For now I'm going to leave the sparc images as they are. If there's no > >> way to test, then I'm going to wait until the boot-sparc script is > >> known to work. I'll

Bad links

2003-12-02 Thread F. Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Perhaps you'd like to know most of the links at this URL are 404s: http://debian.org/CD/netinst/ I was looking for the official unstable CD images. Thanks for any info on this. - -- Fabián A. Rodríguez S. - Montreal, QC, Canada http://www.Fabia

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:51:52PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:57:46PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >> >> For now I'm going to leave the sparc images as they are. If there's no >> >> way to test, then I'm goin

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
> Some consistency of the changes might not hurt. The fact that the > debian-cd code in both woody _and_ unstable still depends on very > specific behaviour of old versions of silo and mkisofs is a bit of a > problem here: Each release the debian-cd code changes because the dist changes. That has

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread jballagh
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >>On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:57:46PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> A mirror is a mirror. It's getting ludicrous to expect people >> to set up a completely separate woody-only mirror to build CDs. All >> the other architectures work

Re: net inst cd images are gone..

2003-12-02 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> all the net inst cd images are gone. what gives? If you are talking from gluck, I believe this is good, in fact, the ony cd images that we may want to have restored are beta1 images, and only if we can check the md5sums from good known sources, the rest of the images I can generate them as soon

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:56:43PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >> Thanks very much for the support, Ben. I've been working hard trying >> to get some sparc CDs created, and I didn't think asking for some help >> to get this job done was particularly out of order. Apparently I was >> wrong. I hope you

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
> Can I ask one favour for in future, though - if any more changes are > made in future to core tools like silo, mkisofs etc. that will affect > CD/DVD image generation, can you please give us just a little bit of > warning? At the moment, without the information about the new isofs.b > you gave me

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:33:56 + Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this next attempted build fails, I'm going to abandon the sparc > images altogether, and recommend that woody r2 does not include sparc > CDs. Does anybody actually care in the SLIGHTEST about supporting > sparc CDs?

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:50:17AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: >On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:33:56 + >Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If this next attempted build fails, I'm going to abandon the sparc >> images altogether, and recommend that woody r2 does not include sparc >> CDs. Doe

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Brian Teeman
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:33:56 + > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If this next attempted build fails, I'm going to abandon the sparc > > images altogether, and recommend that woody r2 does not include sparc > > CDs. Does anybody actua

Re: jigdo

2003-12-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:52:19AM +, Philip Hands wrote: > Assertion failed: oldAreaEnd == start > You have found a bug in jigdo-file. The generated .template file is > very likely broken! To help me find the bug, please rerun the > command as follows: > [previous-command] --report

net inst cd images are gone..

2003-12-02 Thread Myke Welch
all the net inst cd images are gone. what gives? /* * Myke Welch * * Tech Admin * * Office of the Registrar* * Room 115 Chubb Hall* * Ohio University* * Athens, Ohio 45701 * * Voice 740.593.4187 * *

Re: jigdo

2003-12-02 Thread Philip Hands
At Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:06:40 +0100, Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:52:19AM +, Philip Hands wrote: > > Assertion failed: oldAreaEnd == start > > You have found a bug in jigdo-file. The generated .template file is > > very likely broken! To help me

Re: jigdo

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:58:45PM +, Philip Hands wrote: > >While we're on the subject, I've since realised that the thing that >was taking most of the time when generating the images was jigdo, >since a run using jigdo takes over 2 hours per CD on open, whereas >just producing ISO images take

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:52:41AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >> >The path to isofs.b needs to be absolute on the build machine (not >> >relative to the CD root). The "..." is literal, it means use isofs.b to >> >boot any sort of sparc (sun4c,sun4m,sun4d,sun4u). >> >> Some warning of these changes

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
> For now I'm going to leave the sparc images as they are. If there's no > way to test, then I'm going to wait until the boot-sparc script is > known to work. I'll work on the easier architectures first. I know they wont work, because isofs.b doesn't work like cd.b did, and you used a mkisofs that

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >> For now I'm going to leave the sparc images as they are. If there's no >> way to test, then I'm going to wait until the boot-sparc script is >> known to work. I'll work on the easier architectures first. > >I know they wont work, becau

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2003-12-02 Thread John Traill
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Strange jigdo-area

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Siegmar
Hi all, http://non-us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/ looks strange. What is 3.3_r2 ? :-) And http://non-us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/ doesn't contain much files. Bye, Oliver

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:57:46PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > >> For now I'm going to leave the sparc images as they are. If there's no > >> way to test, then I'm going to wait until the boot-sparc script is > >> known to work. I'll

Bad links

2003-12-02 Thread F. Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Perhaps you'd like to know most of the links at this URL are 404s: http://debian.org/CD/netinst/ I was looking for the official unstable CD images. Thanks for any info on this. - -- Fabián A. Rodríguez S. - Montreal, QC, Canada http://www.FabianR

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:51:52PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:57:46PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >> >> For now I'm going to leave the sparc images as they are. If there's no >> >> way to test, then I'm goin

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
> Some consistency of the changes might not hurt. The fact that the > debian-cd code in both woody _and_ unstable still depends on very > specific behaviour of old versions of silo and mkisofs is a bit of a > problem here: Each release the debian-cd code changes because the dist changes. That has

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread jballagh
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >>On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:57:46PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> A mirror is a mirror. It's getting ludicrous to expect people >> to set up a completely separate woody-only mirror to build CDs. All >> the other architectures work

Re: net inst cd images are gone..

2003-12-02 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> all the net inst cd images are gone. what gives? If you are talking from gluck, I believe this is good, in fact, the ony cd images that we may want to have restored are beta1 images, and only if we can check the md5sums from good known sources, the rest of the images I can generate them as soon

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:56:43PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >> Thanks very much for the support, Ben. I've been working hard trying >> to get some sparc CDs created, and I didn't think asking for some help >> to get this job done was particularly out of order. Apparently I was >> wrong. I hope you

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
> Can I ask one favour for in future, though - if any more changes are > made in future to core tools like silo, mkisofs etc. that will affect > CD/DVD image generation, can you please give us just a little bit of > warning? At the moment, without the information about the new isofs.b > you gave me