On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 02:46:47PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > No, that's the contrary: the set of packages included in the netinst > image is a coherent view at some point. The daily images have not been > tested so they might break, but the released images (be the actual > 2-year-period release, or the snapshot I publish from times to time) > have been tested, so the base system included in it *is* installable. Point. I was mostly thinking WRT conflicts between what's on the ISO vs what's in the archive, like the glibc versioning problem from January's image, but now I see that that's less of a problem than I'd thought it'd be in the general case. > The mini.iso image, however, *completely* depends on the archive state > at the time you run it. There is thus zero guarantee whether it's > installable at all or not. FWIW, I do most (all) of my installs over PXE (=> no local repo) or by strapping and it's always worked for me on release arches, so that's probably coloured my thinking here. Now I think about it, x32 was a touch broken once or twice… > So you here mean the initial base system installation? With netinst it > shouldn't actually be needed to enable unreleased, it should be already > finding everything it needs inside the netinst iso for installing the > base system. Exactly, that's the magic I was referring to. It finds packages from entirely unrelated suites for the file:// archive, but not a remote one; this alone is weird, but I understand why it would be desired. One solution would be to always enable unreleased for hurd (or, going by the check in apt-setup/50mirror[1], all ports arches? a glance at the archive[2] says most of them have *something* there) in the debootstrap script, similar to what I sent before. This would make netboot more semantically sound, but more importantly fix plain straps and the mini iso. > Of course, for mini.iso it's a completely different story, enabling > unreleased could be useful there, help welcome on this. If you think the script's a good place for it, I'll whip something up and send it to debian-boot@, with your blessing. наб [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/apt-setup/-/blob/584e84b5a1d6e71ecb94e503a1a8e546048d215b/generators/50mirror#L28-45 [2]: http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/unreleased/
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