I'd already done the upload when I received this mail, but yes, I think the build-installer package deserves more discussion than its received. I tried to trigger this on debian-boot, but mostly got little reply.
First, Is the build-installer route the way to go, as in should we use a package of some form to get d-i built, or should we use some other mechanism? If we go for some other mechanism, we need to go the following: - be capable of automatically triggering builds on each arch frequently, if not daily. (I was anticipating every 2-3 days) - Have somewhere to store these images. - Do so quickly. We need a lot of testing to be done for d-i to release in sarge. In retrospect I should have put build-installer into "experimental" rather than "unstable", as it is _expected_ to have a lot of breakage at this stage (Do experimental packages get autobuilt the same as unstable?). It is expected to prompt discussion about what we expect to be in dists/sarge/main/disks-* when we release sarge. Other than the images themselves (and documentation, etc.) later I feel that the files in /usr/share/doc/, diskusage-*.txt and missing.txt , which show which files are missing (due to breakage in the build process), and the size of the various modules,etc on the target images are important: we need those to properly decide what goes in net, cdrom, cdrom144, netboot, etc. The build process in build-installer needs work, too. But I have taken the attitude that we need to get things built as soon as possible to get a full list of whats broken, and the work that needs doing, hence releasing build-installer with a "0.0.001" version, and lots of caveats. So in short, I expect, and welcome, reports on things to be fixed in build-installer. On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 23:47, Martin Sjögren wrote: > sön 2003-04-06 klockan 00.40 skrev Debian Boot CVS Master: > > Repository: debian-installer/build/debian > > who: mckinstry > > time: Sat Apr 5 15:40:41 MST 2003 > > Log Message: > > Prepare for upload > > I talked to elmo about build-installer today and he thought the packages > looked weird. I think we need to think this through and discuss it with > the ftp-master team before doing anything drastic. > > > /M -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
