Bug#645765: please consider allowing to load installer components from a different mirror
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:28:54PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2011-10-18, Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > when entities deploy Debian via network install, point releases can
> > pose challenges. For example, a site I consult for has a mirror which
> > is rsynced daily, but the installation server is not updated
> > automatically with the latest initrd and kernel files.
>
> There are debian-installer-6.0-netboot-* packages for this in squeeze
> now, FWIW. It helps in quite a bunch of cases, just maybe not in yours.
> (The install server needs to run on squeeze.) ;-)
The install server in question is an ancient CentOS for historic
reasons.
> > [1] I don't have the slightest idea why this issue has only surfaced
> > after 6.0.3
>
> It certainly happens for new kernel ABIs. But yeah, point releases
> regularly break d-i netboot images because of the way they work.
> Basically whenever we respin the kernel udebs and then d-i to
> incorporate new security updates / other misc bugfixes. I wonder what
> was different here if it didn't happen with .1 or .2 (which both had
> non-ABI breaking d-i kernel updates). Do you have some sort of
> failure message?
I don't remember exactly, the symptom was that the mptsas driver
didn't load (and also wasn't loadable manually), leaving the system
diskless.
Greetings
Marc
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