Bug#779616: debian-cd: broken debian-testing-$arch-netinst.iso generation?
On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 06:51:46PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> (2015-03-05):
>>
>> I think the ABI only guarantees you can load old modules into a newer
>> vmlinuz. In particular I think it doesn't guarantee that you can load
>> newer modules into an older vmlinuz (even if the ABI is the same).
>>
>> The ABI is there to stop your existing modules from breaking when you
>> update the kernel.
>>
>> IOW it is permissible for a module to gain a dependency on a new symbol
>> provided by a newer vmlinuz.
Right, that helps explain. Thanks Ian!
>> This is why local netboot pxe infra sometimes breaks -- they have a
>> vmlinuz downloaded locally but are pulling udebs off the network, which
>> might therefore be newer.
>>
>> Please reread my caveat now though ;-)
>
>Why do I forget about this all the time? :(
>
>Thinking a bit more about this: I think having weekly testing with
>everything from testing makes the most sense.
OK... Are we going to do more frequent d-i uploads to make sure that
works, though? It looks like the changes for (daily) builds are going
to force quite a lot of work on us here. I'm quite prepared to help
with that when I'm back (and have more time!) in a week or so...
>We could have a separate, not-labelled-testing but rather “daily” or
>bleeding-edge or something in that spirit (but neither experimental nor
>sid) that picks d-i on d-i.d.o and udebs from sid. I'm not sure it would
>be reasonable to expect such a build on a daily basis (maybe by reducing
>the generated images to the bare minimum?), but then we would have a
>clear winner as far as the name goes…
Right.
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