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Bug#1068898: Reinstate OpenRD netboot images for bookworm

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Hi Martin,

(Replying as much as braindumping to avoid rediscovering this next time
around.)

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> (2024-04-13):
> I'm sorry to be that guy who shows up every few years to waste
> everyone's time... but... I was updating my Kirkwood pages for
> bookworm and noticed that the OpenRD images are gone.
> 
> Now you may remember that we had the same situation for bullseye
> (#934072) and Cyril kindly restored the netboot images:
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/3ef30be60ab128f53a0cd16e6c1e91a3123988b4
> 
> I guess this change never got committed to master/main because
> bullseye was going to be the last release for armel.

Well, Rick explicitly said he was happy with bullseye or bookworm, so
one of them got implemented…

> But armel is still in bookworm and Rick confirmed he's running
> bookworm on his OpenRD, so I see no reason why d-i wouldn't work if
> we apply the same patch to the bookworm d-i.
> 
> Honestly, I'm not sure if it's worth it as Rick is probably the one
> Debian on OpenRD left, but since bookworm will probably be the last
> release of armel (or not?) it would be nice if the installer was
> working on OpenRD.
> 
> Cyril or Vagrant, can you easily apply the patch above and generate a
> test image for Rick?

I don't mind doing that again, but what's the game plan here? If systems
are already installed and working fine, then d-i is irrelevant. For any
new systems people might want to deploy, installing bullseye then
upgrading to bookworm already works?

We don't have anything to support for armel at the moment (as far as
master and testing/unstable are concerned), hence the current “let it
die altogether” plan from a d-i perspective:
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2024/03/msg00016.html

I'm not sure we should be encouraging new installations of 32-bit
hardware at this stage (look at what's happening for i386…). I don't
remember seeing a decision regarding armel's being a release arch for
trixie, but kernel support is gone already (same thread):
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2024/01/msg00008.html

So OpenRD has no future in trixie as far as I understand. At least that
would mean not having to do that again again, if we were to enable
OpenRD images again for bookworm.


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

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Bug#1068898: Reinstate OpenRD netboot images for bookworm Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> - 2024-04-13 06:40 +0200
  Bug#1068898: Reinstate OpenRD netboot images for bookworm Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-04-13 08:30 +0200
    Bug#1068898: Reinstate OpenRD netboot images for bookworm Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> - 2024-04-13 08:40 +0200

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