Bug#326646: installation: netinstall is broken for "workstation"

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:02:59PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 05 September 2005 19:59, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Do we have any recomendation on how to solve this ?
> 
> Sure. "Do not select the desktop task on powerpc; it is temporarily 
> broken."
> 
> Alternatively. "Install at medium priority and when asked, do not add 
> security.debian.org to your sources list."

Actually, the ideal is to :

  1) install without the desktop task.
  2) once the install is finished, comment out security from /etc/apt/sources.list
  3) apt-get update
  4) tasksel and chose the dekstop task.
  5) uncoment security from the sources.list
  6) apt-get update
  7) apt-get upgrade

This will get you all security upgrades except KDE, and will auto-upgrade even
it if it is fixed.

Alternatively, you can also take the list of packages where there is a
security warning that failed, and remove them, in order to not have
security-holed packages installed on the machine.

Now, the real question, is where to we put this information in order for the
users wanting to do a sarge install on powerpc to be aware of it ? 

On the security.debian.org web page ? Maybe a real advisory should be sent out
about this even ? Or on the main debian web page ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther