Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:34:02AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>> >   - the kernel modules in a separate archive, of which there would be one by
>> >     kernel version (upstream+abi), so as to keep d-i images alive even when
>> >     new kernel versions are pushed in the archive. Further separation into
>> >     flavours may help low memory systems on arches with a lot of flavours.
>> 
>> The biggest problem here is that will looks like we'll support all
>> those combinations regarting security and also bug fixing and this
>> won't be true... that can be used if it stay just as a sid resource...
>
> Since the problem of moving versions only appears during the development phase
> of a release, not once it is released, this is indeed no problem at all.
>
> Please go ahead and try to do a beta3 netboot install right now, it will have
> trouble since we can't have 2.6.15 or whatever it was, and 2.6.17 kernel
> modules in the archive at the same time. Not easily anyway.

Yes. I know it'll fail.

I see the problem you're trying to address ... I just not sure if it's
the right way to solve it.

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