On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 23:54:18 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Questions: > A. if we build a debian-installer package against the old linux kernel > ABI, and then images with that debian-installer, will the installer > be able to install a kernel with the old ABI to begin with, *and* a > kernel with the new ABI in a few days when it reaches testing? Or > will the images be broken when that happens? (added debian-kernel to > Cc accordingly). > The netboot and businesscard at least will be broken, AIUI, because they get udebs from the network and those need to match the d-i kernel. OTOH they'll probably be broken by non-ABI-changing kernel changes anyway, so maybe that doesn't matter. For the other images I don't believe there should be a problem, as they already include the appropriate module udebs and install the final kernel through the linux-image-foo metapackages. Cheers, Julien
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