(Adding debian-cd@ to the loop, keeping some quote levels to ease catching up.) Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> (26/12/2012): > Hi, > > Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote: > > Yeah, using the “current” symlink means that at least when a new > > debian-installer upload happens, the previous release points to d-i > > images that will (or only might) be the basis for the next release. > > > > In webwml, images.data has: > > | <define-tag other-images> > > | <images-list url="http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-@ARCH@/current/images/"; arch="<strip-arches "<devel-images-arches />" "source" />" /> > > | </define-tag> > > > > If that's easy to do, I'd propose setting a new variable which would > > be holding up the d-i version used for the last release, which we > > would update at each release. Otherwise, hardcoding the date in that > > other-images tag would be an option (even if slightly more awful). > > > > What do you think? > > What's the exact way of identifying the correct date? > Accordingly to the file timestamps on > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/i386/iso-cd/ > beta4 images were build on 17. Nov 2012, but on > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/ > there is no 20121117, so that would not work automatically I think. Having a few days of offset is totally normal: once a given version of d-i is uploaded, buildds need to get to work, packages uploaded from there to the archive, and then some coordination with ftpmasters is required to copy that version of the installer into testing location, so that debian-cd can start building images. That's why I was proposing keeping the version of the installer in a variable and using that to identify the correct directory. > Thus hand-made things would be required (meaning including the correct > dated link in beta-release announcements. Ok, that would be possible). > > > IMHO it would be the best thing to do, to store the images in > question under the > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/ path, isn't it? > Let's say in > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/i386/other-images. debian-cd@, what do you think? Mraw, KiBi.
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