Hi all,
Le lundi, 27 octobre 2014, 11.57:33 Cyril Brulebois a écrit :
> Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> (2014-10-27):
> > Le lundi, 27 octobre 2014, 11.23:23 Cyril Brulebois a écrit :
> > > > * kfreebsd-amd64's images fetching logic fails because there is
> > > > no un-numbered /netboot/ directory under which we could
> > > > automagically
> > > > take "netboot.tar.gz" as for other architectures. I think this
> > > > should be fixed in the installer through providing a symlink
> > > > towards the default version but can't really find where this
> > > > should go.
> > >
> > > There's only a single version now. Not sure having to care about a
> > > symlink in debian-installer is worth it. Won't stop you from
> > > looking
> > > into it though.
> >
> > The current logic in d-i-n-i is to fetch …/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
> > and …/netboot/gtk/netboot.tar.gz for all architectures. On those
> > where it fails, it will download …/MANIFEST and try downloading
> > everything which is under …/netboot/ and use that in the package.
> >
> > The problem with kfreebsd's numbered directories is that it forces
> > d-i- n-i to add this kernel version number in its logic, for no
> > good reason. That's why I'd prefer to have kfreebsd's either have a
> > /netboot/ symlink pointing to the preferred numbered /netboot-$n/
> > directory or (given it currently only has one version, which is
> > likely to be jessie's state), rename that directory to be
> > un-numbered. As far as I understood, the latter is a matter of
> > renaming some files in build/config/kfreebsd-*/ .
>
> I understand the reasoning but I am not keen on moving files around at
> this very late stage; if adding a symlink works, this would probably
> be better.
I've given more thought to this, and I think we should get d-i-n-i
through NEW rather sooner than later (all binary package names get
changed). Also, this change is jessie-specific (as d-i-n-i downloads the
netboot images from testing), so I've gone ahead and implemented a
workaround in d-i-n-i directly.
Unless there are objections, I will upload this later today towards NEW.
> Otherwise, maybe move back files under an unversioned directory and
> keep a symlink from the versioned directory. Not sure how
> {well,badly} tftp servers deal with symlinks anyway…
Afaik, the tftp servers are not involved here, we're talking about the
layout on mirrors.
Cheers,
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