Re: Other images (netboot, USB stick, etc.) for rc1
Hi,
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> (Adding debian-cd@ to the loop, keeping some quote levels to ease
> catching up.)
>
> Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> (26/12/2012):
> > Hi,
> >
> > Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Yeah, using the “current” symlink means that at least when a new
> > > debian-installer upload happens, the previous release points to d-i
> > > images that will (or only might) be the basis for the next release.
> > >
> > > In webwml, images.data has:
> > > | <define-tag other-images>
> > > | <images-list url="http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-@ARCH@/current/images/"; arch="<strip-arches "<devel-images-arches />" "source" />" />
> > > | </define-tag>
> > >
> > > If that's easy to do, I'd propose setting a new variable which would
> > > be holding up the d-i version used for the last release, which we
> > > would update at each release. Otherwise, hardcoding the date in that
> > > other-images tag would be an option (even if slightly more awful).
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > What's the exact way of identifying the correct date?
> > Accordingly to the file timestamps on
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/i386/iso-cd/
> > beta4 images were build on 17. Nov 2012, but on
> > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/
> > there is no 20121117, so that would not work automatically I think.
>
> Having a few days of offset is totally normal: once a given version of
> d-i is uploaded, buildds need to get to work, packages uploaded from
> there to the archive, and then some coordination with ftpmasters is
> required to copy that version of the installer into testing location,
> so that debian-cd can start building images.
>
> That's why I was proposing keeping the version of the installer in a
> variable and using that to identify the correct directory.
>
> > Thus hand-made things would be required (meaning including the correct
> > dated link in beta-release announcements. Ok, that would be possible).
> >
> >
> > IMHO it would be the best thing to do, to store the images in
> > question under the
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/ path, isn't it?
> > Let's say in
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/i386/other-images.
>
> debian-cd@, what do you think?
Since there is no interest on debian-cd,
a patch to link to the right images for rc1:
Index: devel/debian-installer/images.data
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/images.data,v
retrieving revision 1.108
diff -u -r1.108 images.data
--- devel/debian-installer/images.data 17 Feb 2013 14:33:14 -0000 1.108
+++ devel/debian-installer/images.data 18 Feb 2013 22:24:17 -0000
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
</define-tag>
<define-tag other-images>
-<images-list url="http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-@ARCH@/current/images/"; arch="<strip-arches "<devel-images-arches />" "source" />" />
+<images-list url="http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-@ARCH@/20130211/images/"; arch="<strip-arches "<devel-images-arches />" "source" />" />
</define-tag>
But - hey, the images in the 20130211/ directory are dated 14.02.2013,
which is currently identically with the ones in current/, so there's
probably something wrong with that at all?
Holger
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