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

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 03:11:08PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> 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.

Do you see another way ? I mean, sure doing nothing and ignoring the issue is
another way to address the issue, but somehow that is not very satisfying.

Friendly,

Sven Luther