On 1/27/19 15:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/27/19 1:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:@Adrian:choose-mirror seems to have regressed in some way that it doesn't work anymore even with the correct mirror data.But the corresponding file hasn't been touched since 2017 (see [1]). Why did it then work with older images (tested working both in normal and expert installation mode with the images from 2018-05-18 for both powerpc and ppc64 during development of my recent patches for d-i/grub-installer)?Just have a look at the log file entry when the step to add the mirror fails. It says that the distribution "sid" cannot be found in the release file. It might just be a matter of updating the regular expression which checks the release name. I recommend always checking the log file when a step fails while running debian-installer. It's much better than just guessing ;-).
I now used the latest ISO (from today 2019-01-27) and tried an installation and apart from the GRUB installation that won't work without merging some small patches first ;-), it worked through without an issue. I didn't notice the problems Rick had with the ISO from 2019-01-24. One thing I wondered about, as the `choose-mirror` binary on the ISO from today (in `pool-powerpc/main/c/choose-mirror/choose-mirror-bin_2.96_powerpc.udeb`) has a timestamp from 2019-01-05 - so most likely is the same as on the ISO from 2019-01-24: How long can it take to update the "InRelease"/"Release" files ([1], [2]) when new package versions are included into the Debian ports archive and how is this done? Can it happen that this file is empty for a short amount of time? [1]: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/sid/InRelease [2]: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/sid/Release Cheers, Frank