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pipopanyone here familiar with dual boot in Vista?03:18
ion_I’m not quite sure how that’s relevant to the development of Ubuntu.03:18
pipopoh, sorry03:19
bliZZardzpitti: hi..you around?04:46
bliZZardzpitti : apparently just realized that python has an interface(as in inbuilt module) to dbus by which handles to various events can be obtained - this is glorious!04:47
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orbisvicisany reasons for packaging cdemu ?08:37
maxbmercurial in hardy-backports is currently not installable because the arch-any mercurial package has been placed into the archive but the depended-upon arch-all mercurial-common package is missing12:53
maxbhttps://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mercurial/1.0.1-2~hardy1 shows the i386 build as "Successfully built  (NEW)" rather than "Successfully built  (DONE)"12:55
maxbWhat is the correct place to report this?12:55
Hobbseejdong: ^13:03
cjwatsonmaxb: yes, that sort of thing happens sometimes when new packages are added - they need explicit archive admin approval to get into the archive. I've processed it now, thanks.13:03
cjwatsonHobbsee: jdong can't do anything about that13:03
Hobbseeoh, i'ts an archive admin job.13:03
cjwatsonmaxb: (may be an hour or two before the results of my action are visible)13:04
maxbcjwatson: Ah, thanks. I didn't think of it being "NEW" in that sense. But now I realize it is new to hardy, so it all makes sense. Do you think it's worth adding a note to the UbuntuBackports wiki page suggesting people check for this issue and note the need for the NEW-acceptance in the backport bug?13:06
cjwatsonno, not particularly, it's a routine part of archive admin and not something backporters should need to worry about13:07
maxbok13:07
cjwatsonbesides, it takes some time between archive admin processing the backport request itself (and hence the bug) and the binaries appearing for processing13:07
cjwatsonso the bug wouldn't be a very good place for it anyway13:07
cjwatsonI've processed the rest of the archive *-backports queues while I was at it13:08
* ogra sighs ...13:09
ograso if i want proper progress output from dd i have to send a USR1 signal regulary to it ...13:09
lagai read "dd i" as "d-i" and hoped you were working on that LTSP script ;)13:10
ograthats doable by using a shell wrapper around my python gui that execs "watch -n1 -- pkill -USR1 ^dd$" before pening the gui and kills the watch after the gui is closed ...13:11
ograanyone have a more elegant solution ?13:11
ogra*opening13:11
lagacjwatson: thanks for taking care of mercurial, i've had someone report this problem in the mythbuntu forums13:12
lagaogra: why don't you use python to send the signal?13:15
ogralaga, i'm not in my masochistic phase atm :) working on the LTSP udeb somewhat requires you to want to beat up yourself before starting :)13:16
lagaoh, really. :)13:16
ogralaga, i thought about a gtk timeout or so, but thats still massively ugly13:16
ogra(and essentially the same)13:17
ograthough what bothers me is less the pinging in a certain frequency, but that it will affect all dd's that are currnently running13:18
ograhmm13:19
lagawell, did you spawn dd?13:19
stgraberogra: if you start it with subprocess or something similar you can get the pid13:19
stgraberand then send the signal to that pid13:19
ograi need its output, so i use subprocess.Popen13:19
lagait'd be surprised if you can't get the pid with that. or send signal13:19
lagas13:19
ograyou can get the pid ... but in a blocking way afaik ... i.e. after it finished13:20
ograi would need it in advance, establish the pinger and *then* run dd13:20
* laga goes to look at python docs13:21
lagaanything is better than studying. ;)13:21
stgraberlaga: :)13:22
ograheh13:22
stgraberwell, you are actually studying but probably not what you were supposed to study13:22
lagakinda, yes. python won't help me with phonetics. :)13:23
lagathe subprocess docs are surprisingly unhelpful :)13:24
bdrung_cjwatson: Bug #37750 should be an duplicate of Bug #47238 and not the other way round. Do you agree?13:27
ubottuLaunchpad bug 37750 in ubiquity "doesn't ask if BIOS time is in UTC" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/3775013:27
ubottuLaunchpad bug 47238 in ubiquity "add UTC/local time checkbox (dup-of: 37750)" [Wishlist,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/4723813:27
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lagaogra: well, "kill" in the os module might work..13:28
cjwatsonbdrung: why do you feel that the direction matters?13:29
ograthere is some module to use procps i think, i'll look into that13:30
cjwatsonbdrung: and no, I don't agree anyway13:30
lagaogra: also, os.process can return the PID, but subprocess can probably do the same13:31
bdrungthe bug is that you cannot set the hardware clock to UTC or local time while installing. correct?13:31
cjwatsonyes13:31
bdrungso it is a feature request to add an option to do it.13:32
cjwatsonsome bugs are resolved by adding features13:32
cjwatsonin this case I regard it as a bug that the feature is not present13:32
cjwatsonin any case, why would that make the direction of duplication important?13:33
cjwatsonif you don't like the state of 37750, change it, rather than generating lots of confusing mail for little value by switching the duplication around13:33
bdrungok, thats an argument13:34
bdrungis there someone working on this bug?13:34
cjwatsonnot at present13:34
bdrungadding a checkbox is no big work, so someone should do it. have a look at bug #239782.13:38
ubottuLaunchpad bug 239782 in ubuntu "Time zone bug in Ubuntu (dup-of: 37750)" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/23978213:38
ubottuLaunchpad bug 37750 in ubiquity "doesn't ask if BIOS time is in UTC" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/3775013:38
cjwatsonbdrung: thank you for your recommendation, but please bear in mind that we have many many things to do13:40
cjwatsonthe checkbox itself is not difficult but it comes with a requirement to test all the stuff behind it, which is actually rather complex and fragile13:40
cjwatsonif you feel you can tackle it, then you're welcome to send a patch and we'll review it13:41
bdrungcjwatson: i know. if i had more time, i would have a look at it.13:42
cjwatsongoes for so many things :)13:42
bdrungyes. :)13:42
bdrungmy list with things i want to do is very long.13:43
cjwatsonbear that in mind next time you ask why something hasn't been done ;-)13:43
bdrungif it's not done then it is your fault. i you have no time you have to recruit someone to do it. ;)13:45
cjwatsonthank you for your kind remarks13:46
cjwatsonthey are, however, not terribly helpful13:46
bdrungthis is why i add a smiley13:46
cjwatsonthat's not generally much of an excuse13:46
cjwatson"I was only joking"13:46
laga"stop bleeding now, please"13:48
ogralaga, stgraber https://launchpad.net/usb-imagewriter btw ...13:52
stgraberogra: so that's a GUI for dd if=blah.img of=/dev/sdX ? Looks really good13:55
lagaogra: can't you simulate dd's functionality in python?13:55
ograyeah, i was actually expecting it to be a lot more trivial than that bloat it became :)13:55
lagaopen image, open device node, copy 512 byte chunks?13:56
ogralaga, there are several options, yes, but none gives me any info about the current amount of copied data without really heavy hacking13:56
lagawell, count the 512byte chunks? ;)13:56
ograi would need to parse the stream throuh anything ... dd is reliable and proven ... so i decided to keep it as backend13:57
cjwatsonsame reason ubiquity doesn't just call cp -a ...13:57
ograthe only thing bothering me is the missing progress output ...13:57
ograi tried sdd since that has such an option, but thats not much help either13:57
ogra(it drops dots on stderr for every written block13:58
ogra(but does that in one single line which is hard to parse at runtime)13:59
lagais it? can't you just get single bytes from stdin instead of reading the whole line?14:01
cjwatsonI was going to say, what's wrong with .read(1)14:02
lagamost of the programming i've done in the last three months has been in java, so i'm probably spoiled.14:02
cjwatsonstderr is usually unbuffered14:02
ograhmm14:02
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tgm4883_laptopI'm looking at having more options during install for partitioning (more than just guided and manual).  I've tried adding custom recipes in the recipes folder as well as preseeding them, but neither way makes them show up in ubiquity during partitioning.  Could someone at least point me in the right direction?19:55
lagacjwatson: ^^ aren't you the ubiquity guy?19:56
ogralaga, evand is20:13
emgenthello there20:17
ograemgent, hey, something to promote for the netbookers ... https://launchpad.net/usb-imagewriter it needs translators and code contributions (TODO included) :) a package sits in the intrepid NEW queue20:20
ogra(there are screenshots linked from the LP site)20:20
lagatgm4883_laptop: you need to bother evand ;)20:23
tgm4883_laptoplaga, will do, thanks20:23
emgentok nice ogra20:24
emgentogra: py+GTK ?20:25
ograand glade, yes20:25
lagaogra: how did you solve the progress bar20:25
emgentok nice20:26
ograsome shell that should be replaced by python20:26
lagayuck :)20:26
ogralaga, nope, i wrapped a shellscript around it for now so it works for a start ....20:26
lagayeah, still yuck. ;)20:26
ograits one of my hit and run projects that i do for fun ... i have many of these that only last a weekend and produce proof of concept code for others to enhance ;)20:27
ograhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/LightBrowser/ or http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/MightyMailApp are such things :)20:27
lagaogra: nice that you pushed it into intrepid then.20:28
ograwell, it does the job20:28
lagaand thanks for the ltsp-build-client progress bar we stole ;)20:28
ograheh20:28
ografeel free :)20:28
ograbut unlike the two others above i want the usb-imagebuilder to actually be used ... having to tell people who want to install a netbook or mobile device to use dd in a console just feels odd :)20:30
ograhese are typically endusers and should get a gui for the task20:30
ogra*these20:30
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bigonrmadison libtotem-plparser1021:36
bigonlibtotem-plparser10 | 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 |         hardy | amd64, i38621:36
bigonlibtotem-plparser10 | 2.22.3-0ubuntu1 |      intrepid | amd64, i38621:36
bigonlibtotem-plparser10 | 2.22.3-0ubuntu2 | hardy-updates | amd64, i38621:36
bigonthe version in hardy-update is greater than the version in intrepid21:37
Nafalloindeed21:42
geserI guess it gets fixed when totem get updated to 2.23.x21:43
bigonoh right21:47
bigonbtw brasero needs a rebuilt21:47
loolbigon: This happens commonly; some new upstream releases of GNOME updates are first pushed to hardy-updates while we directly jump to the dev release for intrepid22:46

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