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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