[07:02] <evand> cjwatson: by the way, your fix worked, thanks!
[09:38] <CIA-19> ubiquity: cjwatson * r2077 ubiquity/ (4 files in 3 dirs): merge from Evan
[09:41] <CIA-19> ubiquity: cjwatson * r2078 ubiquity/ (aclocal.m4 configure configure.ac): bump to 1.5.2
[09:52] <CIA-19> ubiquity: cjwatson * r2079 ubiquity/ (d-i/manifest debian/changelog): * Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup 1.16ubuntu3.
[07:07] <xivulon> Hi cjwatson, hi evand
[07:08] <xivulon> Just wondering if there is anything you may require in the short term re lupin/wubi
[07:40] <evand> xivulon: I don't believe so, but thank you for asking
[07:43] <xivulon> there was one issue I forgot to mention last time
[07:44] <xivulon> we noticed that users do hard boot more often than they should
[07:44] <xivulon> hard boots are not tolerated too well in a nested file system
[07:44] <xivulon> since data loss of the host fs can result in journal corruption
[07:45] <xivulon> I was thinking about mounting all virtual disks with sync
[07:45] <xivulon> and possibly tuning /proc/sys/vm/dirty_* to limit damage
[07:48] <evand> xivulon: I see no reason not to, but cjwatson might want to comment
[07:50] <xivulon> do you know any fs expert? I'd like to ask what parameter values might be reasonable
[07:50] <xivulon> by the way I quickly looked at choices-c but did not find much info
[07:56] <evand> xivulon: http://www.fifi.org/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html#AEN34, see "Localizing the templates file"
[07:57] <evand> I have never done this myself, hwoever
[08:00] <xivulon> Thanks evan
[08:01] <xivulon> What I was thinkig of doing was to extract the localized string from template.dat and set that value
[08:03] <evand> So long as the questions match up, that would be nice
[08:04] <xivulon> So we keep preseed.cfg in english but the localized values are modified during installation
[08:24] <cjwatson> erm, I thought that that value was preseedable in English
[08:24] <cjwatson> regardless of current locale
[08:24] <cjwatson> have you tried just preseeding it in English?
[08:24] <cjwatson> (I could be wrong)
[08:25] <cjwatson> the way you get a localised string at run-time is to use db_metaget whatever/the/template/name/is Description
[08:25] <cjwatson> but I'd honestly rather make that sanely preseedable if it isn't
[08:25] <cjwatson> Choices-C is one of a couple of approaches that can be used to make such things sanely preseedable
[08:26] <cjwatson> it's not the only such approach, although it might be the one that's needed in this case
[08:26] <xivulon> cjwatson, yes we are preseeding it in english
[08:26] <xivulon> d-i netcfg/dhcp_options select Do not configure the network at this time
[08:26] <cjwatson> right, my understanding is that that should work even if you're preseeding a different locale
[08:26] <cjwatson> have you tested that and found that I'm wrong?
[08:27] <xivulon> when I have a different locale I am thrown to interactive mode
[08:27] <cjwatson> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/09/msg00369.html describes the Choices-C facility; you really only need to know about it if you're writing d-i code
[08:27] <cjwatson> ok, I guess I'm wrong
[08:27] <cjwatson> that's a pain in the arse
[08:28] <cjwatson> please file bugs any time you encounter such a problem, and attach the 'preseed' tag to them
[08:28] <cjwatson> I would like to just fix those
[08:28] <xivulon> choices-c would not apply to me but to translators of netcfg, correct?
[08:31] <xivulon> shall I file the bug in https://launchpad.net/netcfg?
[08:33] <cjwatson> it applies to developers of netcfg more than translators of netcfg, but yeah, sort of
[08:33] <cjwatson> no, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg please
[08:33] <cjwatson> argh
[08:35] <xivulon> http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/netcfg/ubuntu/annotate/cjwatson%40canonical.com-20070427142902-4thjrljc5ugswfmo?file_id=x_Arch_Librarian_%3Carch%40canonical.com%3E_Thu_Jul_14_10%3A56%3A59_2005_27164.0
[08:41] <cjwatson> 19:33 <cjwatson> it applies to developers of netcfg more than translators of netcfg, but yeah, sort of
[08:41] <cjwatson> 19:33 <cjwatson> no, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg please
[08:41] <cjwatson> xivulon: ^--
[08:44] <xivulon> cjwatson where do I add the [preseed]  tag in malone? Shall I put it in the summary?
[08:49] <xivulon> cjwatson did you notice my comments about hard-reboot issues in wubi?
[08:54] <xivulon> found
[08:55] <xivulon> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg/+bug/118834
[09:03] <xivulon> have to go, ciao
[11:45] <xivulon> cjwatson, I am testing the localization issue in preseed, but it seems fine on my machine
[12:01] <btm_> where can I configure d-i to not run partman such that I can perform a multi-disk/lvm configuration for a preseed pxe install?