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Bug#367515: Bug#749991: debian-installer: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package



On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 15:56 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Philipp Wollschlegel <philipp.wollschlegel@adfinis-sygroup.ch> (2019-10-28):
> > On 28.10.19 15:11, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2019-10-27 at 20:18 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > > > Bugreport against kernel version mismatch, when using outdated or broken 
> > > > netboot images:
> > 
> > This isn't a package / message  problem, this is a process problem.
> > 
> > The netboot image is not built at the same time as the rest of the
> > distribution. I.e. the kernel in the main distro changes and the netboot
> > image still uses the old one.
> > 
> > Even when using a direct url to the netboot image, the netboot image
> > will fail, using the same package mirror, the netboot image came from.
> 
> That's not true for stable or oldstable. Also, we ship netboot images in
> packages, use that and be happy?
> 
> If users are tracking testing or unstable, well, yes; those
> distributions are WIP.

I think that's reasonable for unstable, but this really shouldn't
happen in testing (and I didn't realise it did).

Ben.

> But the script you quoted seems to be about buster, so using d-i-n-i
> packages should be a no-brainer.
> 
>   https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-installer-netboot-images
> 
> 
> Cheers,
-- 
Ben Hutchings
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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