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Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf

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Hi,

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> (2019-03-06):
> Even rebuilding the debian-installer images, while pulling in a
> working kernel that would boot, debian-installer would load .udeb
> modules from stretch, not stretch-updates. This might be ok for
> hd-media targets or targets that do not load module .udeb files from
> the network, but netboot targets are not likely to work at all.

To clarify, from an earlier IRC conversations (#-boot yesterday,
#-kernel a couple of days ago): we're mostly considering rebuilding
src:debian-installer, not respinning ISO images (those don't seem to
be in widespread use in the arm* world).

> So some of the options at the moment appear to be:
> 
> * Wait for another point release, rebuild debian-installer, leaving
>   debian-installer on armhf broken until then. How long till the next
>   point release?

This wasn't confirmed yet but April 27 seems to be the front runner at
this stage.

> * 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. Even if we were to have some kind of support for
loading udebs from stretch and from s-p-u (backports support patches
could help), that would only be an option until a new linux is accepted
into s-p-u.

Finally, for completeness, there's no specific suppport regarding
stretch-updates; we pull stuff from a given suite and optionally from
$suite-p-u; of course, we could still switch from s-p-u to s-u for one
particular upload…

> * Another point release with the kernel update sooner than planned,
>   and rebuild debian-installer images.

This was brought up on #-kernel and it didn't spark joy (lots of teams
need to be around for a point release)…


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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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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