Bug#766960: debian-installer-netboot-images: Please provide packages for Debian 8
Le lundi, 27 octobre 2014, 11.23:23 Cyril Brulebois a écrit :
> > * 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.
The current logic in d-i-n-i is to fetch …/netboot/netboot.tar.gz and
…/netboot/gtk/netboot.tar.gz for all architectures. On those where it
fails, it will download …/MANIFEST and try downloading everything which
is under …/netboot/ and use that in the package.
The problem with kfreebsd's numbered directories is that it forces d-i-
n-i to add this kernel version number in its logic, for no good reason.
That's why I'd prefer to have kfreebsd's either have a /netboot/ symlink
pointing to the preferred numbered /netboot-$n/ directory or (given it
currently only has one version, which is likely to be jessie's state),
rename that directory to be un-numbered. As far as I understood, the
latter is a matter of renaming some files in build/config/kfreebsd-*/ .
Opinions?
Cheers,
OdyX
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