Bug#779616: debian-cd: broken debian-testing-$arch-netinst.iso generation?
Hi KiBi,
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 05:25:11AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Package: debian-cd
>Severity: important
>
>Hi,
>
>it's been reported to me that debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso[1] was
>broken, in that it features d-i using an “old” kernel (3.16.7-ckt4-3),
>but kernel udebs apparently from sid, as can be seen in the list
>file[2]: they're at version 3.16.7-ckt7-1.
>
> 1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
> 2. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/list-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.list.gz
>
>Given the kernel ABI hadn't been bumped, one might argue that the udebs
>should still work and not break due to some unknown symbols, but that's
>another topic. I really don't expect us to fetch bits from unstable in
>testing images.
Hmmm. That's very odd. The weekly builds are currently set up to use
daily d-i builds rather than what's in the archive, and they've been
that way for a long time. As such, we also use sid udebs for
debian-installer, as that should match what we'll be getting from the
daily d-i builds which are built using sid. Are you sure that the
kernel there is old? If so, that's the bug I think. It's difficult for
me to check exactly right now what that kernel version is.
We've been using the daily d-i builds for a long time, to guard
against exactly this kind of breakage with kernel version
mismatches. Has something changed?
>I find the doc in the parent directory[3] quite confusing anyway:
>| These images are produced every week, normally on a Monday, but this may
>| vary. They include:
>| * The latest debian-installer build (currently the "sid" daily builds of the installer)
>
> 3. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/
>
>It's either a daily build (from d-i.debian.org), or d-i from sid.
ACK. That's old wording, and has always been confusing. Given we don't
tend to upload to the archive like normal packages anyway, it's best
to just remove the "sid" mention altogether I think. Ditto the
mentions of sid etc. in the daily-builds area coule do with fixing up
I think?
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