Hi, Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> (2015-10-05): > Does anyone test d-i for stable-proposed-updates? If so, how? > It seems rather difficult currently. Around p-u time, when d-i's been built (uploaded or binNMUd) against p-u. > You could build the d-i jessie branch from Git, or get release-candidate > stable-p-u images from > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-proposed-updates/main/installer-amd64/current/images/ > > but choose-mirror will default to installing jessie. To override it, > you may need to use preseed/early_command or execute in a shell: > > sed -i 's/$/-proposed-updates/' /etc/default-release > > If you don't do that, the installer may fetch some of its udebs from > stable, rather than newer ones in stable-p-u. (Or otherwise you could > build a custom d-i image having all the latest udebs from stable-p-u, > but I've become tired of that). Depending on particular changes I'd like to check (e.g. grub-installer), I indeed end up building an image with debian-cd. > Next, it would be nice to test that the base system in stable-p-u is > still installable. d-i's debootstrap can't seem to do this as it > doesn't recognise "-proposed-updates" suites, so would need a patch to > add those. I tried that but ran into some other issue next. You've mentioned this in your follow-up mail, which I'm quoting to reply directly in a single mail: > Oops, of course it doesn't make sense to do that. stable-p-u contains > the updated packages and not the whole archive. > > I can't think of an obvious way to make anna (udeb fetcher) and > d-i debootstrap use stable-p-u in addition to stable. You're missing net-retriever in this picture. You might find the following somewhat helpful: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2014/01/msg00026.html BTW, back to the original topic: I don't expect the base system to become uninstallable over night in p-u. We have release managers and debian-boot@ (well me) looking over changes affecting the installation process in stable, and I don't recall many booboos in this area. (That said, yes, testing more is better than testing less.) Mraw, KiBi.
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