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Re: creating kernel udebs from kernel-source



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On Tuesday 30 November 2004 17:35, Joey Hess wrote:
>  - It can take a long time to update d-i to a new kernel version on all
>    arches. (Granted, part of this time is spent updating the udebs.)
>    So we often find ourselves updated to 2.4.28 on i386, while hppa is
>    still at 2.4.27, and so on. It's useful to be able to remove the i386
>    2.4.27 udebs at this point, to avoid them shipping on the CD images
>    and increasing the installer's memory and bandwidth requirements
>    (from Packages file entries). If i386 and hppa or other arches had
>    udebs built from the same kernel-source then we'd not be able to
>    remove them until all arches were updated.

Hmm. Could we not be a little bit smarter and include only those udebs
on a CD for which we have kernels on the CD?
I would guess we should be able to automate that in some way.

IMHO it would be good if we could leave the 'old' version of udebs on the
mirrors a bit longer than currently.
That would also reduce the amount of installation failures by people who
use a installer version that uses the previous version of the kernel.
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