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Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release



Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2018-12-17):
> But... The problem you're most likely seeing is caused by a simple
> fact. The *netboot* image ends up downloading significant chunks of
> the installer and the base system at runtime from the suite it
> targets. For buster, that is still very much a moving target and it's
> likely to already have incompatibilities with the released 20181206
> netboot image.
> 
> Netboot images are *only* useful and safe when they exactly match the
> state of the Debian release they're targeting. That's either a stable
> release, or within a couple of days of the build happening if you're
> looking at testing.
> 
> For any other purposes, IMHO you're massively better off using a
> _netinst_ image instead. Or install stable and upgrade.

What Steve says is particularly true when there's a difference in major
libc version (2.27 vs. 2.28; the latter has just migrated to testing
right after the general block-udeb in britney was lifted).


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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