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Important things to do before preview release
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Following up on Anthony Town's mail "Chaos and Damnation!"
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200304/msg00067.html
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Here's a list of urgent things we need to do before issuing a preview
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release.
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* Unbreak netinst CDs
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- Implement support in anna for installing different udebs for different
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installation scenarios. [Martin Sjögren]
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- File bugs on ftp.debian.org to clean up udeb priorities.
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- Decent order of menu items. It sucks to have the netcfg stuff appear
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above anna in the menu.
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* Finish partitioning/mkfs/mkswap/mount migration
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- Create libpartconf for partconf and friends. [Martin Sjögren]
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- Implementing fstab hinting in partconf.
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* cdebconf
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- Too long selection lists are cut short in the text frontend, and never
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show up in the newt frontend. This has to be fixed. Probably a buffer
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overflow somewhere. (#188043)
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- Fix the progress bars to play nicer with debootstrap. (#188243)
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- Fix the space mangling. (#185014)
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* Localization
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- We need a proper fix for the newt frontend borders. TERM=xterm is too
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much of a hack! Yes this is a UTF-8 problem. (#187704)
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- We need a way to discover all/most of the glyphs needed by d-i.
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- We need find a way to load the missing glyphs into the linux
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kernel console. (#188147)
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* HW detection
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- We need to start using module names from kernel 2.4 instead of 2.2.
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The fix is probably to migrate all scripts and programs to discover2.
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* Editor
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- We need a working editor to be able to debug the installer.
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Nano needs a slang udeb to work (bugs #177405, #186292).
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[Martin Sjögren has NMUed slang, it'll be in the archive any day now]
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* Give base-installer a progress bar. Needs fixed progress bars.
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* Split off hostname configuration from netcfg.
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* Error handling. We need to make sure the user is told so when
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something goes wrong.
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The old TODO list, out of date (FIXME!)
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Where we are:
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We have a small chrooted system that is being autobuilt daily.
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A few installations have been accomplished using floppy+net and
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CD on i386.
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General things to keep an eye on:
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- All udeb packages should be able to build debug versions if
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DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="debug".
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- Udebs should not include .md5sum files.
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- Make sure all udebs declare dependancies on everything they
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depend on (this includes depending on ash, busybox, etc). The
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dependancy web is pretty spotty right now.
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- Remember to run debconf-updatepo in package's debian/ dir after
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changing original text in English templates so the translations
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get updated and translators can do their work easier.
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- Keep this progress file up-to-date as you complete various parts
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of it.
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Status for different parts of debian-installer. The numbers are
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approximate (as in +/- 50%) and may change in any direction, at any
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time.
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[0%] - Not begun
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- Some kind of a machanism for udebs to declare what parts of
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busybox they need, so we can ensure that all deps are met while
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keeping the busybox footprint small.
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Packages depending on base-installer should use the
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utilities in /target so we can keep busybox's size down.
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- polish everything so it is actually usable
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- translations
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(Waiting until there is i18n and final text to translate,
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and until we have figured out where the translations go.)
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- user documentation
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(Waiting until we have something to document..)
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- GUI frontend to cdebconf. There has been talk about using
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gtk-fb as a frontend to cdebconf, but so far nobody has
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actually gotten anything working well. [Michael Cardenas?]
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some people have talked about using Qtopia as well, but
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AFAIK, no work has been done there.
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[30%] - Might need large rewrites. Current implementation might
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work by accident
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- netcfg [David Whedon]
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Working, pending rewrite for IPv6 and multiple devices
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support.
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- busybox integration [Erik Andersen]
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TODO: seems we need touch, head, sort, and wc back on for
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debootstrap.
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- i18n [Denis Barbier, Tollef Fog Heen]
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Works in cdebconf, we need to make sure all templates
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are in UTF8 and make the frontends handle UTF8 in a
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sane way.
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- disk selector, partitioner [Raphael Hertzog, Raphael Hertzog]
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There are two of them, autopartkit and partkit.
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Autopartkit is a bit more advanced ATM.
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[60%] - Needs some work, but does its grunt work
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- {lilo,grub} installer [Moshe Zadka, Tollef Fog Heen]
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moshez has a preliminary lilo-installer package in
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tools/lilo-installer, and a pre-preliminary grub-installer
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package in grub-installer. lilo-installer seems to
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work. grub-installer seems to work.
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- disk formatter
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Formats disks, turns on swap, etc. mkfs is in udeb
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format, but nothing calls it. swap is not begun.
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- base system installer [Anthony Towns, Tollef Fog Heen]
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debootstrap is stable, and has quite good support in
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base-installer
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- archive setup
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Mostly done, we probably want to separate testing and
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unstable at some point.
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- cdebconf [Randolph Chung]
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In progress, has multiple working database backends
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and one working text-based frontend, with progress on
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a slang frontend. Quite usable by now.
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- design [Joey Hess, debian-boot]
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80% done. Enough to know what the big pieces are
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and how they fit together.
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- install media build system [David Whedon]
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We can build chrootable, library-reduced trees. It
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boots too. CD-ROM build system might some work.
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- dhcp [Matt Kraai]
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We're using dhclient, but should keep an eye on udhcpc,
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which is smaller. We need to decide on one dhcp
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client.
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- floppy retriever [Martin Sjögren]
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Seems to work, at least for the time being.
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[90%] - Single missing important feature or bug.
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- anna (retreiver control program) [Martin Sjögren]
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Works, mostly. Needs support for Releases files.
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Support for signed Release files would be cool, but
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needs gpgv-udeb.
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- main-menu (main menu generator) [Martin Sjögren, Joey Hess]
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- support for multiple provides are missing.
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- what happens when one step fails?
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- choose-mirror [Joey Hess]
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works, needs some polish and merging of ftp/http
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questions.
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[100%] - Those shouldn't need to be touched any more
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(except for wishlist features)
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- udpkg (tiny dpkg clone) [Randolph Chung, Joey Hess]
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May be replaced with busybox dpkg.
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- cd installs
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Works mostly.
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- kernel-package integration [Herbert Xu]
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Udebs are built automatically; this is well in hand.
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- net retriever [Joey Hess]
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Seems to work. FTP support missing.
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- cdrom retriever [Raphael Hertzog]
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Working
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- ethdetect [David Whedon]
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Working
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- library reduction
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mklibs.py works, and is packaged, and used by the
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build process.
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- generate treecompare data for each daily build and put or mail it
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somewhere [Joey Hess]
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http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/debian-installer/
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- post-reboot configuration [Joey Hess]
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base-cofig is stable, though stuff may need to be added to
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it to handle things d-i doesn't bother with. i18n is
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needed.
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Maybe, if somebody picks it up:
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- skinnable/themeable installer
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