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| mpt | Interesting, no bugs have ever been reported about Ubiquity | 10:27 |
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| mpt | https://launchpad.net/products/ubiquity/+bugs :-) | 10:27 |
| mpt | Perhaps bugs from /distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity will need to be registered there once popular derivatives are using Ubiquity | 10:31 |
| siretart | all ubiquity bugs are ubuntu specific. there are no ubiuity upstream bugs ;) | 12:15 |
| cjwatson | mpt: I have enough trouble managing them in one place without managing them in two ;-) the product/distro separation is often a pain | 12:23 |
| cjwatson | I'd love to have bugs (optionally) transparently gatewayed from one to the other | 12:24 |
| cjwatson | mpt: (also, I only bothered to create the ubiquity product relatively recently, IIRC) | 12:24 |
| cjwatson | when I needed a directory on the supermirror | 12:24 |
| cjwatson | ahh, that's better. The version of ubiquity in bzr now supports just 'ubiquity --debug' (and sudos or whatever for itself) rather than needing 'gksudo env UBIQUITY_DEBUG=1 ubiquity' or 'kdesu --nonewdcop env UBIQUITY_DEBUG=1 ubiquity' depending on the frontend | 12:26 |
| cjwatson | main push for that was so that I could also support 'ubiquity --new-partitioner' | 12:27 |
| mpt | cjwatson, yeah, the idea was to prevent upstream from getting pestered with bug reports about distro-specific customizations | 12:49 |
| mpt | Ubiquity (and Upstart, I guess) are unusual cases where Ubuntu == upstream | 12:49 |
| cjwatson | hence (optionally) | 12:51 |
| mpt | right | 12:52 |
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| mpt | Reported "Handle a distribution being its own upstream for a package" <https://launchpad.net/bugs/76416> | 01:43 |
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| cjwatson | mpt: thanks | 02:25 |
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| mark | expert_recipe is a bitch | 04:54 |
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| tepsipakki | whee | 05:15 |
| cjwatson | tepsipakki: how much free space is there on the disk? | 05:15 |
| cjwatson | it's possible it's a 64-bit arithmetic issue | 05:15 |
| tepsipakki | nope, it's a laptop, cfdisk says ~32GB | 05:16 |
| tepsipakki | partman-auto: Expert recipe too large (2200008150 > 32003) | 05:16 |
| tepsipakki | that first figure puzzles me | 05:16 |
| tepsipakki | calculating the miminal sizes gives me 9650 | 05:17 |
| tepsipakki | s/miminal/minimal/ | 05:17 |
| tepsipakki | oops | 05:18 |
| tepsipakki | argh | 05:18 |
| tepsipakki | maybe it was just a typo after all.. every entry should end with a dot, right?-) | 05:19 |
| tepsipakki | I've added specifiers for lvmok{ }, and misplaced one | 05:19 |
| cjwatson | ah, that could be it. it's unfortunately very fragile | 05:19 |
| mark | quite! | 05:20 |
| mark | has just cost me another hour to find out that I had a space where it didn't like it | 05:20 |
| cjwatson | the size is in megabytes, so I guess my lack of safe 64-bit arithmetic isn't a big problem | 05:20 |
| cjwatson | won't manifest until 4PB or so | 05:21 |
| tepsipakki | it's also unnecessarily duplicated at places | 05:21 |
| mark | is there a way to ehm, create a partition, format it with filesystem and mount it... *except* if that partition with the correct size already exists? | 05:21 |
| tepsipakki | method{ format } and format{ } etc | 05:21 |
| mark | then it should just keep the data on it | 05:21 |
| cjwatson | it's very much tied to the representation in /var/lib/partman/devices/ | 05:21 |
| cjwatson | mark: I can't think of one. There are several things for which I'd like some kind of conditional syntax in recipes. | 05:22 |
| mark | it's a complicated problem | 05:22 |
| mark | especially with RAID and LVM and all that ;) | 05:22 |
| mark | autoinstallations are a bit scary for our database servers right now | 05:24 |
| tepsipakki | oh, and now that I'm here lets just say that I'll try to fix some of the bugs that are dear to me ;) | 05:24 |
| tepsipakki | in d-i | 05:24 |
| mark | what does edgy support with LVM, in terms of auto partitioning? | 05:25 |
| tepsipakki | hmm, I don't remember anymore.. didn't use edgy much but I recall it did support auto-lvm | 05:27 |
| cjwatson | tepsipakki: please do; http://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallerDevelopment | 05:28 |
| cjwatson | I'm taking on more management responsibility in Canonical, so my time for installer work is going to be reduced (although not eliminated altogether) | 05:28 |
| tepsipakki | yeah, I've been looking at netcfg-mess :) | 05:29 |
| cjwatson | heh, I was just merging that | 05:30 |
| mark | congratulations I guess? ;) | 05:30 |
| cjwatson | what's bugging you about netcfg? | 05:30 |
| cjwatson | mark: maybe ;-) | 05:30 |
| cjwatson | I manage about half the distro team now | 05:31 |
| mark | nice | 05:31 |
| tepsipakki | cjwatson: well, the dhcp/fqdn-stuff | 05:31 |
| mark | yes! :) | 05:31 |
| mark | that sucks a bit | 05:32 |
| cjwatson | hmm, that's not bitten me much | 05:32 |
| cjwatson | but netcfg has been short on maintenance over the last year or so since joshk got busy with school | 05:32 |
| tepsipakki | I get "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx host.domain.domain host.domain" in /etc/hosts, if dhcp gives fqdn as the hostname | 05:32 |
| cjwatson | ah | 05:32 |
| mark | my wishlist: | 05:33 |
| mark | - a way to preseed a "search" line for resolv.conf | 05:33 |
| mark | - a way to use the ip as requested by DHCP configured statically | 05:33 |
| mark | the latter might be a bit dangerous but makes sense in server environments | 05:33 |
| tepsipakki | mark: the latter can be done | 05:34 |
| mark | I am currently doing it | 05:34 |
| mark | in early_command | 05:34 |
| tepsipakki | ah | 05:34 |
| mark | preseeding the ip and then rerunning netcfg | 05:34 |
| tepsipakki | yes | 05:34 |
| cjwatson | a custom dhclient script might be able to do that | 05:34 |
| cjwatson | though it would be a lot more perverse than doing it directly in netcfg | 05:34 |
| mark | # Redo network configuration statically | 05:35 |
| mark | echo d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string $(ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | cut -d ' ' -f 12 | sed 's/addr://' | grep -v 127\.0\.0\.1) > /tmp/st | 05:35 |
| mark | atic_net.cfg | 05:35 |
| mark | debconf-set-selections /tmp/static_net.cfg | 05:35 |
| mark | killall.sh; netcfg; true | 05:35 |
| mark | it's a bit dirty but it seems to work | 05:35 |
| cjwatson | yow | 05:35 |
| cjwatson | but yes, that ought to work ... | 05:35 |
| cjwatson | killall.sh is so badly named it isn't funny | 05:36 |
| mark | agreed :) | 05:36 |
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