Re: status of the base-config removal
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 04:19:33PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:40:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > We now have a working pkgsel and tasksel run in the first stage of the
> > installer. base-config will stop running in the second stage tommorrow.
> > Still todo stuff is below, especially the testing of the tasks.
>
> pkgsel doesn't work for me if I accept the default of not joining the
> popularity contest; cdebconf crashes on the PURGE command it receives by
> passthrough when the popularity-contest package is being purged.
> DEBCONF_DEBUG=20 doesn't give me quite enough information to debug this,
> so I'll need to build a special image with more debugging.
>
> I've fixed most of the other bugs I encountered in new debconf,
> hw-detect, and pkgsel uploads. In pkgsel trunk I've arranged for
> debian-installer/keymap to be propagated, which should fix
> xserver-xorg's keymap detection. However, I have one other issue:
> xserver-xorg seems to get very confused when trying to ask the
> xserver-xorg/config/display/modes question, doubles all the commas in
> the value it presets for that, and then gets confused about the answer I
> provide too and only makes the 640x480 mode available. I haven't
> attempted to debug this yet.
This is an xserver-xorg problem; bug filed with a patch.
I've ported this thread over to the wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerRemoveBaseConfig
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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