Re: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, dann frazier wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:53:43AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Finally I created the etch-support udeb which does two things: > > 1) add an early base-installer hook script that sets the 'altmeta' > >template > > 2) add an partman init.d hook s

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-05 16:43]: > d-i itself isn't receiving deeply changes latelly (except latest Frans > partman improvements but that has been very well test by him, as > usual) and other minor things. I guess we could do another in begin of > April or so, dunno for sur

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-05 Thread Otavio Salvador
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given we're doing a beta based on 2.6.22 now, how quickly could we get > another beta based on 2.6.24 out? Can you be done relatively quickly > after the beta based on 2.6.22? I guess we can. d-i itself isn't receiving deeply changes latelly (excep

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-05 01:13]: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 05:23:14PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > As suggested by Frans, with many good points, we'll release with > > 2.6.22 but just after it, we'll start to work to release another beta > > with 2.6.24 kernel. > > This

Re: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-05 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:53:43AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Finally I created the etch-support udeb which does two things: > 1) add an early base-installer hook script that sets the 'altmeta' >template > 2) add an partman init.d hook script that changes the default >inode_size from 256 to

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-05 Thread dann frazier
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 05:23:14PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > As suggested by Frans, with many good points, we'll release with > 2.6.22 but just after it, we'll start to work to release another beta > with 2.6.24 kernel. This should allow us to install a etchnhalf 2.6.24 on hardware supported

Re: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Sorry for the long explanation below, but I really want people to understand > what is happening and why so we are agreed on this implementation and don't > have nasty surprises after the point release. Your mail (which I read carefully) requires ACK fr

D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 03 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > I have been quite disappointed that there was no real follow-up to my > mails, which now leaves us in the situation that there is basically no > support yet to select the correct kernel for etch+1/2. Being the sucker that I am, I did start to look int

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-03 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With all comments that has been sent to this thread, I've changed the timeline to the following: +--+---+ | Date | What happens | +---

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 01 February 2008, dann frazier wrote: > Is there anything special we need to add to deal with etch 1/2 > kernel metapackages? We were talking about using a name like > linux-image-2.6-686-etchnhalf. As I explained in my mails re etch+1/2 some time back [1] , D-I simply will not install

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Otavio Salvador
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Otavio Salvador wrote: >>We have 2.6.22 as a safe bed on lenny now and their udebs are there >>too however since EtchAndHalf intends to release with 2.6.24 and it >>has been uploaded to sid already I'm considering a better option to >>us to r

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi, On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:51:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > It's far to early to switch d-i to 2.6.24, especially since it drops > support for most of /proc/acpi, including the parts used by > laptop-detect. I still think this switch was an extremely premature and really, really bad idea.

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:51:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > It's far to early to switch d-i to 2.6.24, especially since it drops > support for most of /proc/acpi, including the parts used by > laptop-detect. I suspect you already know this, but for the record, that's not an intrinsic property of

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: >We have 2.6.22 as a safe bed on lenny now and their udebs are there >too however since EtchAndHalf intends to release with 2.6.24 and it >has been uploaded to sid already I'm considering a better option to >us to release with it. > >linux-2.6 has been bu

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-01-31 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:04:23PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > - kernel to release > >We have 2.6.22 as a safe bed on lenny now and their udebs are there >too however since EtchAndHalf intends to release with 2.6.24 and it >has been uploaded to sid already I'm considering a better

Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-01-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ Reply-To adjusted to debian-boot so we can keep this discussion in a single mailing list ] Hello folks, I've been working at migrations of packages for lenny and I think we're more or less fine to define a timeline to the end of Febuary for the r