Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf

From	Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.boot, linux.debian.ports.arm, linux.debian.devel.release, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf
Date	2019-03-26 21:50 +0100
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On 2019-03-09, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 22:01 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 14:39 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> [...]
>> > > * Rebuild the debian-installer images, pulling in updates from
>> > >   stretch-updates, leaving only armhf netboot targets broken. 
>> > 
>> > Expanding a bit: rebuilding src:debian-installer from the stretch
>> > branch, which has s-p-u enabled, would fetch the fixed kernel and a
>> > couple of its udebs, at build time; the resulting netboot images
>> > wouldn't know about s-p-u though at run time, and would try to load
>> > udebs from stretch.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> Why is that a problem?  The only change made in 4.9.144-3.1 is in the
>> kernel image, and the module udebs don't have versioned dependencies.
>
> However, as an additional data point, the kernel currently sat in NEW
> and destined for stable has an ABI bump. If that's accepted, then I
> assume things will "just work" in the meantime as the old binary
> packages will hang around until they're decrufted, but it's worth
> bearing in mind.

A debian-installer build for stretch-proposed-updates was made, which
may not get merged into stretch before the next point release. For the
time being:

  https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch-proposed-updates/main/installer-armhf/

I've successfully tested version "20170615+deb9u5+b3", as well as at
least one other person. It should continue to work until the next point
release, and I'll do at least some minimal testing of the next point
release on armhf before pushing it to stretch so this doesn't happen
again.

More details in:

  https://bugs.debian.org/924129


live well,
  vagrant

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Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> - 2019-03-07 03:00 +0100
  Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2019-03-07 14:40 +0100
    Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-03-07 23:10 +0100
      Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> - 2019-03-07 23:40 +0100
        Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2019-03-08 00:00 +0100
      Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2019-03-08 00:00 +0100
      Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> - 2019-03-09 12:10 +0100
        Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> - 2019-03-26 21:50 +0100

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