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| xivulon | Hi all | 10:58 |
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| xivulon | I am ago, one of wubi devs | 10:58 |
| xivulon | hi evand | 11:01 |
| cjwatson | xivulon: I'd love to talk with you at some later point, but it's nearly 11pm and my wife is pestering me to get off the computer :) | 11:44 |
| xivulon | hi colin, 23 here as well | 11:45 |
| xivulon | and wife calling me as well | 11:45 |
| evand | hello xivulon | 11:45 |
| xivulon | I guess we have parallel lives | 11:45 |
| xivulon | hi evan | 11:45 |
| xivulon | I am ago | 11:46 |
| xivulon | colin, evan, whenever you want we can have a chat on that | 11:46 |
| evand | anytime works for me, but if you have any questions you can always just type them here and I'll respond when I can. | 11:46 |
| cjwatson | there's ubuntu-installer@lists.ubuntu.com for less synchronous conversation, too | 11:47 |
| xivulon | whatever you guys prefer | 11:47 |
| xivulon | evan I was also tackling m-a | 11:47 |
| evand | how's that going, by the way? | 11:47 |
| xivulon | I think there is an issue with os-prober | 11:47 |
| xivulon | m-a works if the installation is on a different partition from the one containing windows | 11:48 |
| cjwatson | it's a fairly well-known problem that os-prober doesn't look at mounted partitions, if that's what you mean | 11:48 |
| xivulon | when it's in the windows partition os-probers fails to detect it | 11:48 |
| xivulon | yep that is exactly it | 11:48 |
| xivulon | in our case the windows partition is mounted | 11:48 |
| cjwatson | it's not as trivial to fix as you might think because os-prober needs to skip whatever's mounted on /target during installation | 11:48 |
| cjwatson | but I have been hoping we can get that fixed properly in gutsy, without introducing bugs by forgetting that little wrinkle | 11:49 |
| xivulon | the windows partition is not mounted on target though | 11:49 |
| cjwatson | yes, I know | 11:49 |
| cjwatson | but that's why you can't just make os-prober be happy with mounted partitions, 'cos it'll break other stuff | 11:49 |
| cjwatson | so the fix needs to be aware of that | 11:49 |
| xivulon | where else is os-prober used? | 11:50 |
| cjwatson | d-i and ubiquity | 11:50 |
| xivulon | what I was planning was to patch os-prober on the fly | 11:50 |
| cjwatson | please don't | 11:50 |
| xivulon | without touching the code upstream | 11:50 |
| xivulon | ok I won't | 11:51 |
| cjwatson | no, that's really bad | 11:51 |
| cjwatson | this bug affects regular d-i too | 11:51 |
| cjwatson | there is no reason it shouldn't be fixed properly there | 11:51 |
| xivulon | any suggestion for me in the short term? | 11:51 |
| xivulon | or shall I just leave m-a for the time being? | 11:51 |
| cjwatson | come up with a good fix and send a patch? :-) | 11:51 |
| cjwatson | I'd certainly welcome it and I'd review it | 11:51 |
| xivulon | I'll have a look at it, but not in the coming days | 11:52 |
| cjwatson | sure | 11:52 |
| cjwatson | I'm off work for the next four days anyway | 11:52 |
| cjwatson | speaking of which, night ... :) | 11:52 |
| xivulon | good night colin, nice talking to you | 11:52 |
| evand | goodnight cjwatson | 11:52 |
| cjwatson | ("please don't"> I mean, it's free software and you can do what you like, I'm just recommending against :-)) | 11:53 |
| xivulon | colin I trust your suggestions | 11:53 |
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