Christian Perrier wrote: > So, for morons like myself, what should be used for testing the d-i ? > I want to test the very most recent stuff, that is a CVS image. I > basically need a CD image which can be booted from a VMWare virtual > machine. > > Would "apt-get install debian-installer" be enough ? > > Up to now, I have used the daily builds of sarge netinst image, but > this image is 10 days minimum older than a CVS snapshot, which does > not allow easy testing of translations or english templates > modifications. I'm not sure why you think the cd builds have more than 2 days lag. They're built every day. > I have tried to use Goswin's build script from the "mrvn" branch. I > have grabbed this branch and then copied the build directory into a > main d-i CVS snapshot. This seems to work but the build is of course > quite long.... > > A few hints would help : I'm kinda lost.. :-) This does not supplant the daily builds. I see it like this: last known working cd build: For those who need it to just work. images in the official archive: For those who hope we might actually ship this as part of debian sometime. daily cd builds: For those who need to test the latest stuff with minimal pain and only 1 to 2 days lag. daily builds: For those who need to see the latest stuff with only 1 day lag. build/ directory manual build: For those who need it absolute bleeding edge. mrvn branch manual build: Even more bleeding edge. After we start to freeze the installer, this will change to be as follows: last known working cd build: CD image of the images in the official archive. For broad testing, should always work. images in the official archive: Moving into the testing distribution, for broad testing, should always work. daily cd builds: For those who need to test the latest stuff with minimal pain and only 1 to 2 days lag. daily builds: For those who need to see the latest stuff with only 1 day lag. build/ directory manual build: For those who need it absolute bleeding edge. (Probably including the mrvn directory at this point.) -- see shy jo
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