[02:53] <mcquaid> cjwatson, are you available?
[09:00] <cjwatson> evand: might be worth investigating why they get torn down in the first place, and whether we can do without that in PARTMAN_NO_COMMIT mode
[09:01] <cjwatson> evand: partman-base/partman
[10:59] <evand> cjwatson: ok, will do
[10:59] <evand> thanks!
[11:00] <cjwatson> the abort function is the one to prod
[11:00] <cjwatson> it also handles errors though, so ...
[11:00] <cjwatson> tricky
[11:00] <evand> ok
[11:01] <evand> by the way, as soon as I get this figured out, I think it'll be ready to merge.  It's the last thing on my list.
[11:07] <cjwatson> neat! I'm at the distro sprint at the moment, so can't really test until next week
[11:08] <evand> cjwatson: 'tis ok, after this I'm going to do as much work I can on m-a itself, so hopefully I'll have a new version of that as well to go with the ubiquity changes for when you get back.
[11:09] <evand> As it is already needed for fixes in the debian-installer portion (ma-ask, mostly)
[03:43] <saispo> hi
[03:45] <saispo> cjwatson: i have an error when debconf switch to partman for partitioning
[03:45] <saispo> i use french for debconf, and when partman is called by the preseed, i have an error and switch directly to english
[03:45] <saispo> and i haven't got the time to catch the error
[03:47] <cjwatson> boot with DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 on the kernel command line and you'll get a full debconf trace in /var/log/syslog
[03:47] <saispo> ok great, thks
[03:53] <saispo> cjwatson: the error code is =! 0 ?
[03:55] <cjwatson> what error code?
[03:56] <cjwatson> I'm sorry, you're being very unclear
[04:10] <saispo> ok excuse me
[04:10] <saispo> for my bad english
[04:10] <saispo> i try to use a preseed file which partition automaticaly the hard drive
[04:10] <saispo> but before partman s launched, i see an error
[04:11] <saispo> but i can't manage to catch it :/
[04:29] <saispo> cjwatson: no parser to verify preseed file ?
[04:41] <cjwatson> not aside from the installer itself
[04:42] <cjwatson> the debconf trace should be sufficient
[04:47] <saispo> k
[04:47] <saispo> my eyes see an error on alib when partman is started
[05:08] <cjwatson> I cannot help you without precise details
[05:08] <cjwatson> I have given you the information necessary to get precise details from the log file
[05:19] <saispo> yes cjwatson
[05:19] <saispo> i'm agree
[05:19] <saispo> excuse me for my bad english
[05:41] <joejaxx> cjwatson: i am trying to build the ubuntu debian-installer from source on feisty but when i go to make an image lets say build_netboot i receive an error after it downloads the udebs
[05:43] <joejaxx> Needed belocs-locales-bin not found (looked in apt.udeb/cache/archives/, debugudebs/)
[05:43] <joejaxx> apparently that is not being pulled
[06:32] <cjwatson> it's not supposed to be - find out why
[06:33] <cjwatson> you need a reasonably consistent host system to build d-i; in particular a system with broken dependencies in the installed set is unlikely to work well
[06:33] <cjwatson> if all else fails, build a chroot with debian-installer's build-dependencies
[08:09] <joejaxx> cjwatson: i was building it inside a chroot with all the correct build dependencies which is why i found that weird
[08:26] <saispo> cjwatson: i'm back, if you want i can try to explain you what i want to do, and what it's my problem
[08:55] <saispo> debian-installer use devfs or udev ?