Re: Status of gfxboot

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
d, given the amount of effort required to write a theme from scratch, I'd be surprised if it weren't), please make sure that you share gfxboot-theme-ubuntu's revision control history. I can provide you with a git mirror of the bzr branch; just

Bug#588306: live-initramfs: Unreachable code in do_netmount

2010-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
! -z "${FTPFS}" ] then if do_netmount That function then contains code guarded by this conditional: if [ -z "${NETBOOT}" ] && [ -z "${FETCH}" ] && \ [ -z "${HTTPFS}" ] && [ -z "${FTPFS}&q

Bug#588307: live-initramfs: Unreachable code in Arguments

2010-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
matched. The second is therefore unreachable code. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Bug#603974: Info provided, help needed!

2011-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
ink it would be release-critical even if I did; this sort of problem is often a boot race and likely only affects the console, not X.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] >From 8fd2fdf36ca109c85ed9f5113a497e9cec91e910 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2

Re: Bug#603974: Info provided, help needed!

2011-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:36:58AM +0100, Marco Amadori wrote: > In data Wednesday 26 January 2011 02:43:12, Colin Watson ha scritto: > > Please review and comment. I can go ahead and push these patches to > > master if people like them. > > Your patches are working on my te

Bug#604783: needs to have entries for regular installer

2011-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
installer to be dropped from squeeze. What needs to change to make sure live-installer is still included on the images? Is it just a matter of not uploading a change you've made, or does something need to be reverted? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org

Bug#604783: needs to have entries for regular installer

2011-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
's not clear that we have time to change this, particularly since your proposed patch is against partman-target and thus would affect (and need to be tested with) installation modes other than live-installer. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To

Bug#626900: live-build: add support for Ubuntu oneiric

2011-05-16 Thread Colin Watson
Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a16-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch oneiric The obvious six-monthly release bump. Patch attached. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Bug#626905: live-build: incorrectly documents that -m == --mirror-bootstrap

2011-05-16 Thread Colin Watson
. The attached patch corrects this. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From 68e7bb22ecb1b76d3a84c9ad0cc4587a10ab9f2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:50:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix documentation of -m

Bug#626900: live-build: add support for Ubuntu oneiric

2011-05-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:00:18PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 05/16/2011 11:34 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > >The obvious six-monthly release bump. > > this was already done in git some time ago, uploading today or tomorrow. > > http://live.debian.net/gitweb?p=live-bui

Bug#626940: live-build: support installing tasks using apt-get

2011-05-16 Thread Colin Watson
we need more interactivity; for simply installing packages that contain a given entry in their Task field, apt-get is more lightweight. The attached patch adds support for this to live-build, and makes it the default for Ubuntu. Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Bug#627183: live-build: minimal hook doesn't seem appropriate for Ubuntu

2011-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
to match a task name, and since hooks get a stripped environment I wasn't able to check LB_MODE in the hook itself either. Would something like the attached patch be agreeable to you, or would you prefer some different approach? Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Bug#627183: live-build: minimal hook doesn't seem appropriate for Ubuntu

2011-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:47:51PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 05/18/2011 03:43 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > >it would be quite a hassle for us to rename our existing task now. > > it's not nice to rename it for debian too; however.. > > >There doesn't se

Bug#627332: update mlocate database?

2011-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
27;d appreciate some guidance on this, as I haven't quite got a feel yet for what you consider to be good practice in live-build. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From bca7bc8bf750ed00b85edfa228405dde89cbaee8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Col

Bug#627332: update mlocate database?

2011-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:01:22PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > Colin Watson wrote (19 May 2011 16:04:17 GMT) : > > Do you think that it would be OK to do this by default (see attached > > patch), or do you want it to be more configurable? > > I'm no live-build maintainer,

Bug#627406: duplicate deconfiguration in lb_binary if build-with-chroot is false

2011-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
patch fixes this. (The builder that builds Ubuntu live filesystems always does so in a current chroot matching the release it's building, so there's no point in using another nested chroot in our case.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ub

Bug#627439: handling Ubuntu's multiple manifest scheme

2011-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
y. I'm reluctant to take this approach because it would carry risk of archive skew and/or simple coding errors resulting in filesystem.manifest-desktop not matching what apt would have installed at that point in a hypothetical two-stage installation; but it's an option if you think this just

Bug#627665: option to remove kernel+initrd from compressed filesystem

2011-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
adds 'lb config --binary-remove-linux true'. Feel free to rename the option if some other name would fit better, though. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From dfaac39fe91755c5cfc7e34b85d52633df5bfd0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From:

Bug#627677: alternative initramfs compressor

2011-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
hanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From 71d20b7f5a057c0e234fc1080d61a8840d9e0ad6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:43:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add --initramfs-compression option. --- functions/defaults.sh

Bug#627665: option to remove kernel+initrd from compressed filesystem

2011-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:19:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > The attached patch adds 'lb config --binary-remove-linux true'. Feel > free to rename the option if some other name would fit better, though. I realised that making this work involved moving lb_binary_li

Bug#627716: update apt-xapian-index

2011-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
apian-index, and that's quite prominent in our UI these days so it'll be fairly obvious if the index isn't up to date. Could we just update this as a hack, along the lines of the attached patch? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] &g

Bug#627677: alternative initramfs compressor

2011-05-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:41:44PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > Colin Watson wrote (23 May 2011 14:47:18 GMT) : > > + # We probably ought to use COMPRESS= in a temporary file in > > + # /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ instead, but it's hard to > > +

Bug#627887: add support for jasper initramfs system

2011-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
s point of view, I think it basically counts as a new initramfs system, with the wrinkles that there shouldn't be a boot=jasper parameter (it extends the default boot=local instead) and I don't think it needs to do the user creation bits. Patch attached. What do you think? Thank

Bug#627887: add support for jasper initramfs system

2011-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:01:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > The Ubuntu ARM team wrote a system called jasper whose job is to help > with booting preinstalled ext2/ext3 ARM images: > > Description: Configure a preinstalled ext2/3 system image > Jasper is a tool to configure pr

Bug#627902: ext2/ext3 case in lb_binary_rootfs fails with --build-with-chroot false

2011-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
': No such file or directory expr: non-integer argument genext2fs: too few blocks. Note: options have changed, see --help or the man page. Patch attached to make it run du on the right path. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ub

Bug#627887: add support for jasper initramfs system

2011-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:32:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Oliver suggested that it would be better to use '--initramfs none > --packages jasper', or similar. This still needs parts of this patch, > though, as there are too many places that only ever expect LB_INITRAMF

Bug#629533: use mkfs.ext2/mkfs.ext3 instead of genext2fs

2011-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
f the filesystem it's creating. On my 2GB test filesystem, it runs out of memory even on my fairly well-provisioned laptop; on an ARM build machine, I expect that using it would be thoroughly infeasible. The attached patch converts live-build to use mkfs.ext2/mkfs.ext3 instead. Thanks, -- Co

Bug#627887: add support for jasper initramfs system

2011-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:10:18AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 06/07/2011 03:39 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > This should make '--initramfs none' generally > > work more consistently, mostly by filling in a few entries in case > > statements. > > applied

Bug#629637: add option to create swap file in image

2011-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
ached. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From 5ae2040d7c8470d7488993e0069d827e56aa8be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:30:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add --swap-file-path and --swap-file-size options. --- f

Bug#627439: handling Ubuntu's multiple manifest scheme

2011-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 05:25:45PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > live-build doesn't currently support this kind of two-stage installation > except by means of local hooks, and as explained in > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627332#25 I would like > to find

Bug#630032: correct default powerpc kernel flavours for Ubuntu

2011-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
werpc, powerpc-smp, and powerpc64-smp. livecd-rootfs uses powerpc and powerpc64-smp by default, which I think is reasonable. Patch attached. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From 8039e96eca5429d18811acec25e91d3fce8b572a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Fro

Bug#630043: use dpkg --force-unsafe-io if available

2011-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
able. Patch attached. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From b94c12fdc9a2a19b52317181316c5fe0f5b7584e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:57:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Use dpkg --force-unsafe-io

Bug#630080: some Ubuntu mirror defaults are incorrect

2011-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
estricted deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates main restricted The attached patch fixes the defaults. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From 179b4f3635e9922783773b3e378fd61a28efbb0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Fri, 10

Bug#630088: hook to remove GNOME icon cache

2011-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
e attached hook can be set up to remove them. Feel free to rename it - I wasn't sure what kind of namespacing you wanted to use. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From 82775076288542fa9258b079fdc75479b3a735ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

Bug#630089: timestamped build logs?

2011-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
. We did this in livecd-rootfs a while back and it was quite helpful. For example, perhaps the lb wrapper script could (be configured to) print the current time before starting a command? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#630043: use dpkg --force-unsafe-io if available

2011-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 01:36:18PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 06/10/2011 05:02 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > >The --force-unsafe-io option was introduced in dpkg 1.15.8.6 (see > >#584254). It's useful for cases where it doesn't matter if unpacked > >files are

Bug#630043: use dpkg --force-unsafe-io if available

2011-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 01:51:33PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 06/11/2011 01:45 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > >That will break Ubuntu maverick and earlier; not that I'm going to be > >using live-build for those, but I believe Cody Somerville does. > > cody doesn'

Bug#630350: divert flash-kernel aside while building the chroot

2011-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
ing a FLASH_KERNEL_SKIP=1 environment variable, but that's difficult to support in live-build because of the way the Chroot function cleans the environment, and in any case a diversion is much neater.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.

Bug#627665: option to remove kernel+initrd from compressed filesystem

2011-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
squashfs isn't being used.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From a6a3be14ab3238f515af2928006a446e14d44fdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:36:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Pass -wildcards to mksquashfs if

Ubuntu live filesystem builds moved to live-build

2011-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
for hooks. Right now, the only hook script I'm using is one to remove icon-theme.cache from Kubuntu images. If you have any questions about the Ubuntu integration here, please ask. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- T

Bug#630464: --architectures armel fails unconditionally

2011-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
do this if --linux-flavours wasn't passed. Patch attached. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] >From 7a59a2f54831167f6b352cd616cf51ed4d652bd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:02:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Ma

Re: Ubuntu live filesystem builds moved to live-build

2011-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:52:19AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 06/14/2011 12:38 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > I've moved Ubuntu's live filesystem build process over from our original > > custom shell script in livecd-rootfs to the newer live-build system from > &g

Bug#630604: LB_PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREAS default handling is wrong

2011-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
whether LB_PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREAS is already set. Patch attached. (Or is --parent-archive-areas deprecated? I notice that it isn't documented. But then, why does the LB_MODE=progress case do LB_PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREAS="${LB_PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREAS:-main}"?) Thanks, -

Bug#631281: add hook to remove .pyc files

2011-06-22 Thread Colin Watson
hooks('/usr/share/python3/runtime.d/*.rtinstall', 'rtinstall', python, '', version) run_hooks('/usr/share/python3/runtime.d/*.rtupdate', 'pre-rtupdate', python, python)

Bug#630089: timestamped build logs?

2012-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 01:39:44PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 06/10/2011 07:27 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > >For example, perhaps the lb wrapper script could (be configured to) > >print the current time before starting a command? > > patch welcome :) Sorry for the d

Bug#630089: timestamped build logs?

2012-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:56:48PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 01/12/2012 06:14 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > Echo_verbose "%s: Running %s" "$(date -R)" "${COMMAND} ${@}" > > this will produce rather longish-imho-not-eye-friendly messages in th

Re: Questions regarding diversion of flash-kernel while building chroot

2012-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
cutable and thus most likely cause the build to > fail if flash-kernel is called. I've filed bug #661871 in Debian BTS > regarding this. IMO this bug should be closed as invalid. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#685534: live-build: chroot hooks broken

2012-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
t;${_HOOK}".chroot chroot/root/lb_chroot_hooks Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Bug#685534: live-build: chroot hooks broken

2012-08-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 06:33:30PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > LB_CHROOT_HOOKS doesn't work, because lb_chroot_hooks looks for the > wrong file names. Here's a patch. It was actually more broken than I thought. Wildcard expansion inside quotes isn't going to work; it

Bug#685669: live-build: wrong default for LB_PARENT_MIRROR_BINARY_VOLATILE with LB_MODE=ubuntu

2012-08-23 Thread Colin Watson
T_MIRROR_BINARY}}" ;; *) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists

Bug#685675: live-build: minimal and standard are not valid debootstrap variants

2012-08-23 Thread Colin Watson
;; + + standard) + ;; + + *) + DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTIONS="${DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTIONS} --variant=${LB_BOOTSTRAP_FLAVOUR}" + ;; + esac fi ;; esac Thanks, -- Colin Watso

Re: Livecd-rootfs

2013-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
powerpc -i ext3 livecd.sh is no longer supported. Use the method outlined in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-June/033458.html. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Bug#1091366: debian-installer: No graphical mode in sid

2024-12-25 Thread Colin Watson
um + + * Fix detection of whether debconf is installed (closes: #1091366). + + -- Colin Watson Wed, 25 Dec 2024 23:26:21 + + cdebconf (0.275) unstable; urgency=medium [ Gioele Barabucci ] diff --git a/src/client/confmodule.in b/src/client/confmodule.in index 3efc6a5a..26ef5a1a 100644 ---