[10:58] <xivulon> Hi all
[10:58] <xivulon> I am ago, one of wubi devs
[11:01] <xivulon> hi evand
[11:44] <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 :)
[11:45] <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
[11:46] <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.
[11:47] <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
[11:48] <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
[11:49] <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
[11:50] <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
[11:51] <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
[11:52] <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
[11:53] <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