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Last bits for the Grml developer meeting
by Michael Prokop 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, some last bits before the official Grml developer meeting takes place on 4th and 5th of november. The developer meeting takes place at Metalab in Vienna, we will start at 10:00 a.m. on 4th in the library of the Metalab. The ones of you who can't make it to Metalab but still want to take part in bug squashing/discussions/testing: feel free to join us on IRC (#grml on freenode). To the ones of you who are in Vienna already on wednesday/3.11 and have nothing planned for the evening yet: We are going together for dinner and some drinks. Please just drop me a note if you want to join us (we'll coordinate the meeting through Mail/SMS/Phone/...). If you have any last-minute problems, questions or emergencies please contact Christian (+43 680 2348846) for everything related to the location (Vienna/Metalab) and for everything else feel free to contact me (+43 664 1646346). Looking forward to the meeting, cu you guys! regards, -mika-

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Remove grml2hd from grml-quickconfig
by Ulrich Dangel 22 Okt '10

22 Okt '10

grml-quickconfig shows grml2hd prominent directly after booting the system though we do not support grml2hd officially. Therefore i suggest to replace grml2hd with grml-debootstrap.

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Developer meeting in November 2010
by Michael Prokop 14 Okt '10

14 Okt '10

Hi, my plan is to release a new stable release of Grml in november -> release 2010.11. I'd love to have a ~2 day developer meeting so we can meet in RL and concentrate on hacking together towards the new release. Thanks to Christian and the guys from Metalab we'd have the opportunity to make the developer meeting at the great hackerspace in vienna known as Metalab (http://metalab.at/) on ~3rd/4th/5th of november. I was thinking of traveling to vienna on 3rd of november and then hacking on Grml in Metalab on 4th and 5th of november. Who of you wants and would be able to join us? Please add your details to this doodle poll: http://doodle.com/iwszvdgw7hd236sx BTW: It would be awesome if we would have some sponsors to be able to pay flights and hotel costs. Does anyone of you have an idea which companies could help us? regards, -mika-

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New Grml developer: Christian Hofstaedtler
by Michael Prokop 12 Okt '10

12 Okt '10

Hi, it's an honor for me to be able to announce a new official Grml developer. Christian Hofstaedtler (AKA ch on IRC) just accepted my offer to join the Grml team as developer. Christian provided not just excellent bugreports but also high quality patches and is known as friendly and helpful user supporter as well. You might also know him from his bugfixes in grml2usb, grml-etc-core, grml-live, grml-terminalserver etc. Actually I can't remember a release where Christian didn't show up as contributor. :) So it was obvious to make Christian an official developer and I'm pleased that Christian joined us. Welcome to the Grml team, Christian! regards, -mika-

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Announce: Expected downtime of grml.org and further services on 2010-09-09
by Michael Prokop 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi, due to a server migration at our provider the grml.org website and a few services will experience an expected downtime, from: 9th of september 2010, 22:00 CEST / 20:00 UTC until 10th of september 2010, 9:00 CEST / 7:00 UTC The affected services will be: http://grml.org/ http://ml.grml.org/ http://deb.grml.org/ http://bts.grml.org/ http://git.grml.org/ http://paste.grml.org/ jabber://jabber.grml.org Please note that mails sent to any grml.org mailaddress will be delayed. *Not* affected are the grml user mailinglist and the following services: http://wiki.grml.org/ http://grml.supersized.org/ http://twitter.grml.org/ http://twitter.com/grmlproject http://identi.ca/grml http://daily.grml.org/ http://planet.grml.org/ #grml IRC channel on freenode Please notice that a mirror of the main website grml.org is available at http://grml.deb.at/grml-www/ and a mirror of the repository (http://deb.grml.org/) is available at http://debian.netcologne.de/www.grml.org/deb.grml.org/ If the downtime will be longer than expected we'll be providing updated information through the available channels (grml user mailinglist, twitter/identi.ca and IRC being #grml on freenode). regards, -mika-

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Re: [Grml-devel] [issue879] grml-live: Couldn't find package xserver-xorg-video-amd
by Tong Sun 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Michael Prokop <bts(a)bts.grml.org> wrote: > > Anyway, as it's a transitional package we shouldn't need I've just > removed it in git of grml-live. > Actually, IMHO, better yet is to remove all xserver-xorg-videos but xserver-xorg-video-all, and all xserver-xorg-inputs except xserver-xorg-input-all. I would think it would be OK, wouldn't it? Thanks

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Working with git and sending in patches
by Tong Sun 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Hi, Just trying to put all jigsaw puzzle together here. Please correct me if I'm wrong. First of all, philosophy for version control with git: . While developing, small/independent commits are good thing, so that it's easy to decouple different changes. . But when integrating something in a main branch, commits should contain all logical/related changes. Steps (using grml-debootstrap as an example): - do initial git pull into grml-debootstrap git pull git://git.grml.org/grml-debootstrap master - Go into grml-debootstrap and start a new branch git checkout -b t/my-working-branch - work on the code, commit, hack, commit, hack, commit -- commit often & commit small - when AOK and need to integrate patches into main branch, squash all patches into one git rebase -i origin/master - send in patches via email (to grml-devel(a)ml.grml.org) git format-patch origin git send-email --to grml-devel(a)ml.grml.org ... Please correct me if anything above is wrong. Now, question, having following the above, I am having problem pulling in the latest master from head: $ git pull [ . . . ] You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you want to merge with, and 'branch.t/apt_cache.merge' in your configuration file does not tell me, either. Please specify which branch you want to use on the command line and try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>'). See git-pull(1) for details. $ git pull git://git.grml.org/grml-debootstrap master >From git://git.grml.org/grml-debootstrap * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD Auto-merging chroot-script CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in chroot-script Auto-merging cmdlineopts.clp CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in cmdlineopts.clp Auto-merging config Auto-merging grml-debootstrap CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in grml-debootstrap Auto-merging grml-debootstrap.8.txt Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. So, - what's the normal steps here to pulling in the latest master from head? - how to solve the above specific problem? I'm thinking just to abandon this directory and pull from git from scratch again. Thanks

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grml-live: ISO_OUTPUT ignored?
by Tong Sun 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

Hi, I have the following in my /etc/grml/grml-live.local ----------------------------------------- grep -1 OUTPUT /etc/grml/grml-live.local # Main output directory OUTPUT="/dev/shm/gl" # mount -o remount,suid,dev,rw /dev/shm # Where do want to find the chroot of the buildprocess files? # CHROOT_OUTPUT="$OUTPUT/grml_chroot" # Where do you want to find the compressed chroot, bootstuff,...? # BUILD_OUTPUT="$OUTPUT/grml_cd" # Where do you want to find the final ISO? ISO_OUTPUT="/lfs/cache12/systems/distros" ----------------------------------------- and I invoked grml-live as % rm /dev/shm/gl/grml_isos/depen64.iso % grml-live -F -a $ARCH -c $CLASSES -g $USE_NAME -v "`date -I`" -i $USE_NAME.iso * Logging actions to logfile /var/log/grml-live.log * Skiping stage 'fai dirinstall' as /dev/shm/gl/grml_chroot exists alr [ ok ] * Skipping stage 'boot' as /dev/shm/gl/grml_cd/boot/isolinux exists al [ ok ] * Skipping stage 'squashfs' as /dev/shm/gl/grml_cd/live exists already [ ok ] Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation 9.81% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 19.63% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 29.41% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 39.23% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 49.01% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 58.83% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 68.61% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 78.43% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 88.22% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 98.00% done, estimate finish Wed Jul 21 11:15:22 2010 Total translation table size: 2048 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 23099 Total directory bytes: 45056 Path table size(bytes): 118 Max brk space used 33000 51021 extents written (99 MB) * Creating hybrid ISO file with manifold method geometry is 204288 sectors (104595456 bytes) in 399 cylinders, 16 heads, 32 sectors per track 0 @0x168: 60 @4 (0x4) - 0x168: 32 (0x20) @ 4 (0x4) - 0x16A: 28 (0x1C) @ 36 (0x24) using 2 blocks, 4 bytes (82 free) using sectors of 2^9 = 512 bytes [ ok ] * Finished execution of stage 'iso build' [ ok ] * Successfully finished execution of grml-live [Wed Jul 21 11:15:23 EDT 2010 - running 3 seconds] [ ok ] However, the iso is still generated at /dev/shm/gl/grml_isos/depen64.iso. Do I need to remove more stage files for ISO_OUTPUT to take effect? Thanks

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[issue] grml-live: grml-live.local ignored
by Tong Sun 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi, I found that the file /etc/grml/grml-live.local is ignored by grml-live $ head /etc/grml/grml-live.local # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT) and UTC=no if not. UTC=yes TIMEZONE=America/Toronto # Which Debian suite to you want to use? SUITE="sid" # Which bootloader do you want to use? Default: isolinux # Supported values: isolinux, grub # BOOT_METHOD='isolinux' . . . # Where do you want to find the final ISO? ISO_OUTPUT="/lfs/cache12/systems/distros" % grml-live -F -a $ARCH -c $CLASSES -o /dev/shm/gl -g $USE_NAME -v "`date -I`" -i $USE_NAME.iso Using configuration files from /etc/grml/fai Calling task_confdir FAI_FLAGS: No monitor daemon defined. FAI_CONFIG_SRC is set to file:///etc/grml/fai/config Using local path /etc/grml/fai/config as config space. Calling task_setup FAI_FLAGS: Calling task_defclass List of all classes: GRMLBASE KERNEL REMOVE_DOCS RELEASE AMD64 Calling task_defvar ++ FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=1 ++ CONSOLEFONT= ++ KEYMAP=us-latin1 ++ UTC=no ++ TIMEZONE=Europe/Vienna ++ ROOTPW=x Calling task_action FAI_ACTION: dirinstall Calling task_dirinstall Installing into directory /dev/shm/gl/grml_chroot Calling task_extrbase Unpacking Debian base archive No base.tgz found. Calling debootstrap. Creating base system using debootstrap version 1.0.22 Calling debootstrap --arch amd64 --exclude=info sid /dev/shm/gl/grml_chroot http://cdn.debian.net/debian . . . >From above log, and where my .iso is generated, I think the file /etc/grml/grml-live.local has no effect to grml-live. Please verify. Thanks tong

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Propose to centralize kernel specification for grml-live
by Tong Sun 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi, Currently, the kernel is specified at multiple places under package_config: $ grep -c linux-image * GRMLBASE:0 GRML_FULL:2 GRML_MEDIUM:2 GRML_POWERPC:0 GRML_SMALL:2 LATEX:0 XORG:0 This, IMHO, creates unnecessary complication for maintenance. I think it is better to centralize kernel specification in one file, say, GRMLBASE, or KERNEL (or whatever). BTW, The following tested fine. $ cat KERNEL PACKAGES aptitude I386 linux-image-2.6.33-grml PACKAGES aptitude AMD64 linux-image-2.6.33-grml64 CLASSES='GRMLBASE,KERNEL,...'

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