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Bug#766960: debian-installer-netboot-images: Please provide packages for Debian 8



Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> (2014-10-27):
> Le lundi, 27 octobre 2014, 09.56:38 Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit :
> > Source: debian-installer-netboot-images
> > Version: 20130613+deb7u2.b3
> > Severity: important
> > User: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: debian-edu
> > 
> > Hi.  Will there be netboot images for Debian Jessie (version 8)
> > available?
> 
> We should be doing this soon, indeed.
> 
> The following diff would be mostly what's needed:
> 
> --- a/debian/rules
> +++ b/debian/rules
> @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
>  #!/usr/bin/make -f
>  
> -export MAJOR_VERSION=7.0
> -export DISTRIBUTION=wheezy
> +export MAJOR_VERSION=8.0
> +export DISTRIBUTION=jessie
>  export MIRROR=http://http.debian.net/debian
>  export VERSION=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Version: //p')
>  
>  # Don't forget to recreate debian/control after editing these lines: $ 
> debian/rules debian/control
> -SUPPORTED_ARCHITECTURES = amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 
> kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc sparc
> +SUPPORTED_ARCHITECTURES = amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 kfreebsd-amd64 
> kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el sparc
>  UNSUPPORTED_ARCHITECTURES = hurd-i386 s390 s390x
>  
>  %:
> 
> I'm having currently two problems with this:
> 
> * http.debian.net redirection for installer-arm64; aka  accessing
>   "debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-arm64/20141002/images/SHA256SUMS"
>   through http.debian.net sometimes fails, bug is there :
>   https://github.com/rgeissert/http-redirector/issues/54
>   This is easily circumvented by using a fixed mirror.

Why is the current mirror pointing to a *.debian.net service in the
first place…

> * kfreebsd-amd64's images fetching logic fails because there is no un-
>   numbered /netboot/ directory under which we could automagically take
>   "netboot.tar.gz" as for other architectures. I think this should be
>   fixed in the installer through providing a symlink towards the default
>   version but can't really find where this should go.

There's only a single version now. Not sure having to care about a
symlink in debian-installer is worth it. Won't stop you from looking
into it though.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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