On 03/14/2017 10:34 PM, Nye Liu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 08:39:31PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 11:36 -0700, Nye Liu wrote: >>> The only apparent solution is to have the kernel maintainers coordinate >>> with the d-i maintainers so that whatever kernel is used in d-i is NOT >>> removed from the package repository and its mirrors. >> The kernel maintainers already coordinate with the d-i maintainers, >> thanks. We don't remove any packages; that happens automatically. > Is there a mechanism to insure that when packages are removed from a repo > are reflected in netboot.tar.gz? > > IOW: Is there a way to guarantee that > (dist)/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz does not > contain a kernel that has no modules package IN THAT SAME mirror? > > Or maybe even an automated way to update netboot.tar.gz every time a > dists linux-image-(arch).deb is updated, a new netboot.tar.gz can be > created from (dist)/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz? Unfortunately such a mechanism does not currently exist. You can try to peruse the daily builds hosted on https://d-i.debian.org for this. They are rebuilt daily and should be able to install testing. It's mostly driven by some complexity in ensuring consistency. There is currently not a single continuous build and upload process that deals with new source uploads to the main archive. We'd need to trigger builds whenever testing changes and then auto-upload a corresponding build. It's both a technical and political problem to make that happen. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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