Hey, On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 07:24:42PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 6. Juli 2010, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > > I'm not sure I'll be able to attend our meeting today. > > Me neither :/ > > > So, I ask you to > > address the possibility of using the Testing suite for our software > > structure in DC10. The reason is that backporting things from experimental > > to stable has been a painful task with no success so far. > > I've been thinking about this and hope I have a sensible proposal how to > implement this: we use snapshot.debian.org. That is, we install lenny, > then run our customisation script from within d-i, after the installation. > There the lenny sources.list entries are replaced with ones like the following > and fai does it task as usual. > > deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20090612T214502Z/ squeeze main > deb-src http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20090612T214502Z/ squeeze > main > > I suggest to choose 4th of July as the date, or maybe 15th of July. > But thats a minor detail :) We just need to agree on something. > > How does that sound?
Sounds great. I admit was thinking about how to avoid an eventual broken Testing and forgot to consider snapshot.d.o - that's just perfect :) I prefer to work on 4/July snapshot because I intend to build backports this week so in that way I can use a chroot from this date. Just to confirm, we're going to use amd64 only, right? > (We need to install lenny and then upgrade to that squeeze snapshot, as > installing with squeeze and then downgrading is not really supported.) > > > As an compensation for probably not attending the meeting I hereby volunteer > to implement this and provide working usb stick images until Sunday > afternoon. I'll also do this (if this is the agreed plan) shall I attend ;-) :) cheers, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .''`. Tiago Bortoletto Vaz GPG : 1024D/A504FECA : :' : http://tiagovaz.org XMPP : tiago at jabber.org `. `' tiago at {tiagovaz,debian}.org IRC : tiago at OFTC `- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal OS http://www.debian.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
