Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, am a bit in a hurry, so sorry for beeing short. have three things to say... 1. I've build new images.. Lenny Live RC1, available at: http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/5.0_rc1/ 2. The size issues are not fixed in a good way (need to have a really good look at all these things after lenny

Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Daniel Baumann (10/02/2009): >Differencies between beta2 and rc1 are: >- laptop task is not pulled in by default anymore I can't tell about this one, >- instead of installing both 486 and 686 kernel flavours on > gnome-desktop and kde-desktop images, i've only included 486 >

Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: >in addition to the cd images, there will be one 'new' dvd image that >contains *all* the other flavours (standard,rescue,*-desktop) and >where one can select at boot time in the syslinux menu which system >to boot. this image will also contain debian-installer

Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cyril Brulebois wrote: >>- instead of installing both 486 and 686 kernel flavours on >> gnome-desktop and kde-desktop images, i've only included 486 >> (saves about 25mb) > > but that one looks very fine to me. for the sake of completeness: we've agreed to install 686 intead of both

Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread E.J. Zufelt
Good morning, Would it be possible to include gnome-accessibility on the DVD, as size will likely not be a restraint? Thanks, Everett On 10-Feb-09, at 6:30 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: in addition to the cd images, there will be one 'new' dvd image that contains

Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
E.J. Zufelt wrote: > Would it be possible to include gnome-accessibility on the DVD, as size > will likely not be a restraint? first i *personally* think it's nice to have the exact same cd images combined on a dvd (that's just me, though), so that one can take either the cds or the dvd, and it's

Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread E.J. Zufelt
Good morning, This would be excellent, it might also be nice to see if it can go onto the DVD with the live installer (assuming this is a GUI application) so that accessibility bugs can be filed against the installer application. This would go a long way to making Debian a more likely ch

Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: >- the amd64 gnome-desktop image is still about 10mb too big, the only > sane way i can think of, rather than excluding even more packages, > is to just not include /var/lib/apt/lists anymore. this saves > just about 10mb and should make the amd64 gnome-desk

Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread Marco Amadori
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, 11:30:33, Daniel Baumann wrote: > i forgot to mention that in agreement with otavio, this image will *not* > contain live-installer. this is because we are not confident that it was > tested enough. therefore, i will build the same dvd image twice, once as > an officia

Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
Marco Amadori wrote: > I use it in production to send preconfigured debian servers around the world > with success, however I agree too with your decision, better to have it off > official images. it works well for me too, but there are at least two details i'm aware of, that are ugly: the timez

Re: [PATCH] do not eject USB flash drives

2009-02-10 Thread Ronny Standtke
> > Does not seem to work. Example with a little stupid nonsense script: > > it does, you just took a bad example that hits a cornercase. I think I choose a rather good example. There were three syntax issues in the example: 1) unsafe $blah instead of ${blah} 2) == instead of = (bashism) 3) a mis

Re: [PATCH] do not eject USB flash drives

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ronny Standtke wrote: > 1) unsafe $blah instead of ${blah} this is not a syntax error, it's just bad style. > 2) == instead of = (bashism) this is not a syntax error, it's just a bashism. > 3) a missing whitespace (which was my most frequent error when I started > writing shell scripts because