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Re: Fixing stretch debian-installer on armhf



On 2019-03-07, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 14:39 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> [...]
>> > * Rebuild the debian-installer images, pulling in updates from
>> >   stretch-updates, leaving only armhf netboot targets broken. 
>> 
>> Expanding a bit: rebuilding src:debian-installer from the stretch
>> branch, which has s-p-u enabled, would fetch the fixed kernel and a
>> couple of its udebs, at build time; the resulting netboot images
>> wouldn't know about s-p-u though at run time, and would try to load
>> udebs from stretch.
> [...]
>
> Why is that a problem?  The only change made in 4.9.144-3.1 is in the
> kernel image, and the module udebs don't have versioned dependencies.

If that's indeed the case, then that does seem like the best
approach. Happy to test images to confirm.


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