On Thursday 07 March 2019 08:39:19 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> (2019-03-06): > > Even rebuilding the debian-installer images, while pulling in a > > working kernel that would boot, debian-installer would load .udeb > > modules from stretch, not stretch-updates. This might be ok for > > hd-media targets or targets that do not load module .udeb files from > > the network, but netboot targets are not likely to work at all. > > To clarify, from an earlier IRC conversations (#-boot yesterday, > #-kernel a couple of days ago): we're mostly considering rebuilding > src:debian-installer, not respinning ISO images (those don't seem to > be in widespread use in the arm* world). > However, for rpi 3b's that can't be convinced to boot from spinning rust, I have 2 of those, u-sd images that can be dd'd to a 32GB card, and actually occupy only 2 or 3 GB at download time, because they've had the unused space removed, then restored at first boot might be quite popular. Its the only way I have to update my pi's. Once up and running, synaptic works well. A similar situation also exists for the rock64's, which are 20x faster than a pi and a full arm64 arch. They are 20x faster because the internal usb port the rpi uses is not part of the data path in the rock64's.
> > So some of the options at the moment appear to be: > > > > * Wait for another point release, rebuild debian-installer, leaving > > debian-installer on armhf broken until then. How long till the > > next point release? > > This wasn't confirmed yet but April 27 seems to be the front runner at > this stage. > > > * 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. Even if we were to have some kind of support for > loading udebs from stretch and from s-p-u (backports support patches > could help), that would only be an option until a new linux is > accepted into s-p-u. > > Finally, for completeness, there's no specific suppport regarding > stretch-updates; we pull stuff from a given suite and optionally from > $suite-p-u; of course, we could still switch from s-p-u to s-u for one > particular upload… > > > * Another point release with the kernel update sooner than planned, > > and rebuild debian-installer images. > > This was brought up on #-kernel and it didn't spark joy (lots of teams > need to be around for a point release)… > > > Cheers, Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
