Philip Hands, le mar. 23 janv. 2024 17:52:57 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> writes: > > > Philip Hands, le mar. 23 janv. 2024 16:27:12 +0100, a ecrit: > >> Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> writes: > >> > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > The CI on salsa doesn't manage to build the debian-installer package > >> > because the signed linux 6.6.13 package is not available yet. > >> > >> Is the thing you want to: > >> a) be able to build d-i on salsa even when we're in version skew, > >> or > >> b) do you want to be able to test with the latest version, whether it is > >> signed or not? > > > > b) > > > > Normally the bump in debian-installer comes about the same time as the > > linux upload. But there is the period between the linux upload and the > > linux-signed upload during which we don't really know whether we want to > > bump or not. Adding the alternative between non-signed and signed as I > > proposed would allow to be fine with either, while making sure it's the > > signed version which is used on buildds. > > Ah, fair enough. > > I guess in that case I'll need to adjust what I'm doing to detect the > available versions of kernel that I'm looking for in that patch. > > If you're only worried about builds on salsa-CI, same approach as used > in my MR ought to work,
Indeed. It however doesn't fix the build on my laptop without some change :) > and then one could perhaps control which kernel > is selected via variables, or perhaps defaulting to the unsigned kernel > (if available) would work for my use-case too, in which case I could > just add that as a feature. > > The MR's here BTW: https://deb.li/3hHY2 > > BTW would it actually cause you a problem for the build to work, despite > the kernel being unavailable (e.g. by falling back to the previous > version)? For me it's fine for CI to fall back to the previous kernel for most jobs of the pipeline. I guess we'd still want a build job in the pipeline that sticks with the requested version, so that we notice in case that's not working, without breaking the entire CI pipeline. Samuel
