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Bug#920353: debian-installer configuration on alpha (and others)



Le vendredi 25 janvier à 12h 46mn 02s (+0100), John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
> On 1/24/19 4:53 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > I just never bothered tracking down the problem since I just used the standard
> > installer. If your particular changes makes the installer work on Debian Ports
> > architectures in expert mode, I am happy to commit the change for all ports
> > architectures.
> 
> I have committed the changes for all architectures in Debian Ports:
> 
> > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/commit/c36cade1787ebe8cf4438dce7227cac20c887d32
> > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/commit/8c9f81fc412abcef3a8a6fa11d0a7ed2dfd26ff4
> 
> Thanks for spotting this!
> 
> Adrian
> 
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Hi Adrian,

Thank you for your quick answer.

As you note, including debian-ports-archive-keyring-udeb and
setting DEBIAN_RELEASE = unstable benefits to all ports architecture.
Including pata-modules-${kernel:Version} is alpha-specific instead
('qemu-system-alpha-specific' in fact).

Here are some details missing in the original bug report :

At runtime, choose-mirror-bin checks the availability of 
the selected mirror and of the required 'suite' on it. 
The suite is taken from the file /etc/default-release 
(if not preseeded in debconf variable 'mirror/suite').

At build time, the content of the variable DEBIAN_RELEASE
is written into /etc/default-release.

Unfortunately, the cd images from 2019-01-25 have 'buster'
in /etc/default-release.

Actually I tested with a (home made) netboot image in qemu
emulation. I wasn't able to test the cd images with qemu-system-alpha 
precisely because of the missing cdrom driver in initrd.gz :
it boots but cannot mount the cdrom image afterwards.

Sorry for this late reply, and thank you for your work on the
ports architectures !

Regards,
JH Chatenet


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