On 18 February 2014 16:36, Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/17/2014 10:38 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Question: how can I reconcile the above datum with, "because there's >> currently no debian-installer in jessie"?
> Finally, on the matter of finding snapshots of old installer images that > might work, there is a *slim* chance that might work, but I give it poor > odds. A netinst not only depends on the packages within the netinst > itself working, but also on the software selected during installation > being installable on a given day. With multiple transitions in progress > at this development stage, you can't always depend on that, so a netinst > image built in December and working in December may not still work today. It is very unlikely that this will work. Installer depends on special installer packages - udebs. These are built from normal source packages. These packages are updated as new revisions of packages migrate into testing. A particular version of the package is hardcoded into the installer. The installer is not in the archive so its dependencies cannot be tracked by the archive. Even when the installer is released and present in the archive the archive still does not track the installer dependencies. Because of this even released testing installer images are often broken. Well, most of the time in my experience. The required packages are simply deleted from the debian archive during a package update. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caomqctrp2lasj7tmsqxepf9xf2ng4oxhduc3j-xq6bfjobo...@mail.gmail.com
