[fw: Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten]

[David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>]

I mean't to cc you, Anthony.

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From: David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>
Subject: Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten
To: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:27:12 -0700
Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Mail-Followup-To: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>,
	debian-boot@lists.debian.org

Hi Anthony,

I don't know if you've seen this thread, it started here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0105/msg00719.html

I figure you can provide some input.

Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:35:42AM -0400 wrote:
> David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com> writes:
> 
> > Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote:
> > > 
> > > On "install base" (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it
> > > tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other
> > > things.  I would prefer if we not make the user have to hit return for
> > > that...
> 
> > That's by design, but I'm happy to change it.  debootstrap considers these
> > messages to be warnings, so we were displaying them. 
> 
> Ok -- it's a debootstrap bug then, or 
I don't think it is a debootstrap bug.

> else debootstrap is complaining
> about packages in base which are not as they should be?
Anthony? care to comment?

> 
> > Now those messages will be
> > displayed just like the informational messages. 
> 
> I'm not sure if that's really the right choice -- shouldn't we get it
> fixed in debootstrap instead?
>

It really depends on how we are going to define 'warning'.  As it was ajt had
decided that some messages were warnings but it looked like boot-floppies didn't
want to see them.  It sounds as though debootstrap and boot-floppies have to
agree on what constitutes a warning.

 
> > I considered making the choice
> > of behavior conditional on bootargs.quiet.  Another option would be to change
> > what debootstrap thinks is a warning.  If either of those sound better, speak
> > up.
> 
> Fix debootstrap -- we do need some way of stopping for user notice --
> e.g., disk full.

debootstrap can still send errors, when we get them we bail.  


David

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