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and extracted with dpkg-source. In other words, on my machine at least,
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On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:39:39 -0500 (EST), Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On 25.12.2012 15:55, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> (1) Official Debian version numbers are not normally assigned until
>> the release becomes the stable release.
>
> I haven't checked when previous release n
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alternatives that I haven't thought of. What are your
thoughts?
P.S. For this initial post I have CC-ed debian-boot and debian-devel, as
there may be interested parties on that list that are not subscribed
to debian-kernel, but it is my intention that the discussion take place
on debian-ke
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movies were being shown back-to-back-to-back. Isn't that an amazing
co-incidence? Or was it? ;-)
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:40:31 -0400 (EDT), Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote:
>> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> Search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
>>> extension of .txt
>>> for the k
here is the money going to come from?
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:10:56 -0400 (EDT), Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> I haven't been following this thread closely; so if this idea has been
>> mentioned before, please excuse the duplicate. I actually tried to
>> enable popcon on my servers, b
for external e-mail in order to work. The MTA (exim4) on all
my machines is configured for local mail only. If the delivery mechanism
were, say, a "batch" ftp transfer, I could probably enable popcon.
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> Care to share a reference to the bug you reported?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589452
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aps it would be worthwhile to file a bug report. Otherwise, it's a
waste of time.
Stephen Powell wrote:
> The intel driver supports both KMS and UMS.
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> That's no longer correct.
> http://ikibiki.org/blog/2010/07/04/We_need_you_redux/
Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:24:56 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-07-12 21:09 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> If nouveau set KMS by default, as the intel driver does, but did not
>> *require* KMS, I would agree. But the last time I checked, using the nouveau
>> driver *
irtual consoles (1-6). Because of that, I still use nv. That's
the *only* reason that I still use nv. There is no bug number here because
I'm sure that upstream would consider this a feature and not a bug. In other
words, they would consider operation of the driver with KMS off an e
ernel image.
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:16:58AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Currently, hook scripts invoked by a stock kernel maintainer script
>> or a maintainer script from a kernel image package created by make-kpkg
>> pass these exact same arguments.
>
> no.
>Fr
if
you're going to drop support for it in Squeeze, then yes,
a warning message is necessary. Both the kernel maintainer scripts
*and* "update-initramfs -u" *must* issue a warning message if they
find "do_bootloader = yes" specified in /etc/kernel
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:39:58 -0400 (EDT), Vincent Danjean wrote:
> On 07/06/2010 17:37, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> But for a kernel install or reconfigure, it is the responsibility of the
>> kernel maintainer scripts to invoke the bootloader. See also, for example,
>> linu
kernel maintainer scripts to invoke the bootloader. See also, for example,
linux-image-2.6.26-2-s390.postinst, where zipl is assigned as the bootloader
on line 38. This really is an "open and shut case", if only I can the kernel
people to actually look at it! Please l
o from the Debian installer menu
that's their call, as far as I am concerned. I just don't want to see
lilo removed from the distribution.
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ase critical bugs. If you simply don't want to be a Debian
package maintainer for lilo anymore, why not ask for volunteers to
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some way. We lilo users
are very grateful to you for your willingness to take over.
By the way, did anyone ever find out what happened to John Coffman?
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g the Lenny environment" will work in Squeeze or Sid also,
provided that you use only official stock Debian kernels. If you use
custom kernels in Squeeze or later, you *must* use hook scripts to ensure
that any post-installation activities, such as the creation of an initial
On Sat, 29 May 2010 14:40:41 -0400 (EDT), Andreas Barth wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:52 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
>>> After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty
>>> much been determined that kernel
On Sat, 29 May 2010 10:51:10 -0400 (EDT), Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:42:34 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> You're missing the point. The main selling point to management
>> is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software
>&g
On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:44:11 -0400 (EDT), Peter Samuelson wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> It *does* recognize lilo and has special logic to patch lilo after
>> the restore so that the machine will boot.
>
> So can this software be fooled into thinking it is dealing wit
On Tue, 25 May 2010 13:12:27 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> No software is entirely without cost ...
>> volunteers work on whatever they like ...
>> your specific requirements may differ from their goals ...
>> volunteers are ra
On Wed, 26 May 2010 00:23:04 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 05/26/2010 03:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> That works for now; but if a package upgrade for extlinux is ever
>> downloaded, I'm afraid that new versions of the hook scripts will
>> be cop
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:38 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ... I installed the mbr package ...
>
> The extlinux package itself also contains an mbr.bin, which you can use
> (it's strong point is probably EBIOS support).
So it does. W
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:03:17 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> You're missing the point. The main selling point to management
>> is that Linux is free.
>
> No software is entirely without cost. Free Software is no except
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:51:11 -0400 (EDT), Mark
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote:
>>> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be
>>>
On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be
>> used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment
>> to oppose further deployments of Linux, ...
>
> What about th
cause there is no maintainer to download
a new upstream version, is not a reasonable request in my humble
opinion. Get a maintainer for it, fix the known bugs, and *then*
ask the users to test it.
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Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
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>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
>> the master boot record and outside of a partition ...
>
> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
Well, I tried ex
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:55 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>> On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>> Stephen Powell writes:
>>>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:01:30 -0400 (EDT), Edward Allcutt wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> To the best of my knowledge, lilo is the *only* bootloader which supports
>> setting an initial text video mode *and* does not use any sectors outside
>> the m
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>>
>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
>> the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup
>> software that my employer uses. Th
about Jordi Mallach and Colin Watson? The package page for grub-pc
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/grub-pc
lists them as maintainers too. Have they disappeared as well? Or are
they no longer maintainers for this package? In which case their names
should
On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:11:30 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
> "Stephen Powell" wrote:
>> (blah blah blah blah)
>
> Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
> lilo upstream, it's going away.
>
> William
I do understa
All I
can do is to appeal in the name of reason that it not be dropped.
Also, please excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is this
"payload size" to which you refer? Is that the same thing as the
size of the kernel? Or is it something else?
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Well shut my mouth! I did some testing this past
weekend, as I said I would, and results are better
than expected. First, leaving things the way I had
them configured (X pointing to /dev/gpmdata and gpm
pointing to /dev/psaux, I unplugged the PS/2 mouse
from the mouse port. The mouse became dead
Since my initial post I have done some research on the
subject of mouse support in the Linux kernel. I can
see now why my suggestion was met with such strong
opposition: it goes counter to the direction the
kernel has been going since 2.5. With such a sweeping
redesign of mouse support since 2.4,
> With current kernels, if you use /dev/input/mice,
the
> port can be shared
> by gpm and X at the same time, and all mice you
connect
> (no matter what)
> show up in that device.
Thanks for the update on mouse sharing in newer
kernels. I didn't realize that this support had been
added. That doe
Per the suggestion of Jérémy Bobbio when he closed Bug
# 481514 against installation-reports, I am posting
this item to the debian-devel mailing list.
The Debian installer needs some improvement when it
comes to mouse configuration. Currently, if the user
requests a "standard system" and a "deskt
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