Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-09 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:21:05AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > + uuid="$(PATH="/lib/udev:$PATH" vol_id -u $fs)" > + if [ "$uuid" ]; then > + printf "# %s\n" "$(mapdevfs $fs)" > + printf "%-15s %-15s %-7s %-15s %-7s %s\n" "UUID=$uuid" > "${mp

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:44:05AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: >> I've attached a patch which implements persistent device names in >> partman by checking for devices which are mounted under /target and >> which have a suitable link in /dev/disk/by-id/

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
Oh, at least one additional thing that's likely needed in this scenario is the attached patch to make busybox's mkswap generate UUIDs. * util-linux/mkswap.c: Set UUIDs on version 1 swap areas. * util-linux/Makefile.in: mkswap needs uuid/uuid.h from e2fsprogs. * e2fsprogs/Makefile.in: Build l

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:44:05AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: > I've attached a patch which implements persistent device names in > partman by checking for devices which are mounted under /target and > which have a suitable link in /dev/disk/by-id/* I've attached the Ubuntu patch for the same

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:03:35PM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:55:45AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already > > does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from > > them but

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:09:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I don't believe this should be changed for etch at this point in the release > process, and that's speaking as someone who's run into this problem myself > with SCSI device renumbering -- it's awkward and annoying to have to > man

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:09:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:44:05AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: I've attached a patch which implements persistent device names in partman by checking for devices which are mounted under /target and which have a suitable link in /de

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:44:05AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: > >initramfs-tools already supports using /dev/disk/by-* entries in fstab. As > >for the installer, I'm not sure that looking at Ubuntu will help since > >they use something different than d-i for the regular installs (and I > >don't k

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:18:19PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: On Wed, March 7, 2007 13:55, Otavio Salvador said: I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from them but we would also need RM and Frans ap

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, March 7, 2007 13:55, Otavio Salvador said: > I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already > does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from > them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :( initramfs-tools already supports using /dev/disk/b

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:55:45AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > > With USB, you can't just boot a rescue system and repair a broken install > > from there, because /dev/sda will still be your USB drive. > > > > Of course, there are lots of hacks you can do to workaround that, but if > > we g

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:55:45AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> > >> > With USB, you can't just boot a rescue system and repair a broken install >> > from there, because /dev/sda will still be your USB drive. >> > >> > Of course, there a

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:33:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > >> > >> > On Mar 06, "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:33:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) write

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: >> >> > On Mar 06, "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> I urge you to reconsider severity of this probl

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > On Mar 06, "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another > >> situation > >> that makes it much wo

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-06 Thread Otavio Salvador
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Mar 06, "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation >> that makes it much worse: > The correct solution is to make d-i use labels in fstab and to find the > ro