Bug#1036828: debian-cd: wrong firmware archives built and published for D-I releases?

2024-02-24 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1036828 X-Debbugs-Cc: k...@debian.org On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 11:01:31 +, I wrote: > Should this bug be closed? (the logic to skip the experimental/sid firmware > image build during non-testing builds is in place for both bookworm and > trixie) Nope, it looks like I've

Bug#1036828: debian-cd: wrong firmware archives built and published for D-I releases?

2024-02-24 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1036828 X-Debbugs-Cc: k...@debian.org Hi Cyril, Should this bug be closed? (the logic to skip the experimental/sid firmware image build during non-testing builds is in place for both bookworm and trixie) Regards, James

Bug#994274: syslinux: FTBFS with gnu-efi 3.0.13

2023-04-05 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #994274 X-Debbugs-Cc: lu...@schwaighofer.name, pk...@debian.org, timo.lindf...@iki.fi Hi Lukas, Philipp, Timo, Does reverting the removal[1] of 'efisetjmp.h' from 'efi.h' in src:gnu-efi produce successful results? That occurred between gnu-efi versions 3.0.9 and 3.0.13 if I

Bug#1005886: debian-cd: bookworm net-install CD hangs on "Detecting Network Hardware"

2023-03-22 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1005886 X-Debbugs-Cc: powe...@gmail.com Control: reassign -1 cdimage.debian.org Control: retitle -1 cdimage.debian.org: bookworm net-install CD hangs on "Detecting Network Hardware" Sorry (both to you Tony, and also the Debian CD team) for confusion and wasting time - I

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-14 Thread James Addison
Package: debian-cd Followup-For: Bug #1031696 On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:04:28 +, James Addison wrote: > I haven't (have not) been able to install Debian from FAT32-based media > created > using file-copy from either of these two approaches. > In both cases d-i integrity checks

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-14 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1031696 On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 01:04:26 +, James Addison wrote: > I've been able to build local NETINST ISO images successfully using the merged > changes (thanks, Steve), and was also able to file-copy them to a FAT32 > filesystem and successfully boot from that in

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-12 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1031696 Control: tags -1 - moreinfo I've been able to build local NETINST ISO images successfully using the merged changes (thanks, Steve), and was also able to file-copy them to a FAT32 filesystem and successfully boot from that into Debian Installer using QEMU. Building

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-12 Thread James Addison
Package: debian-cd Followup-For: Bug #1031696 > >Thinking aloud: as an alternative, would adding the '-f' flag to MKISOFS > >achieve the desired result for both documentation and firmware files, without > >requiring any other changes? > No, then I expect we'll simply end up with duplicate copies

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-12 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1031696 Thinking aloud: as an alternative, would adding the '-f' flag to MKISOFS achieve the desired result for both documentation and firmware files, without requiring any other changes? (I'll mention as context that there are symlinks in the debian-faq tarball that is used

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-12 Thread James Addison
Package: debian-cd Followup-For: Bug #1031696 X-Debbugs-Cc: scdbac...@gmx.net Please find below a proposed update to the commit message under discussion: nonfree-firmware: when creating on-disc firmware links, use the same link creation logic as archive-area links This changeset

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-11 Thread James Addison
Package: debian-cd Followup-For: Bug #1031696 Thank you again Thomas. I've opened a merge request at https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/merge_requests/30 My Debian mirror is still under construction, hence the 'draft' status for the merge request (to indicate that I'm not certain

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-11 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1031696 On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:10:22 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > ifneq (,$(filter i386 amd64 arm64 hppa,$(ARCHES))) > Surely i386, amd64, and arm64 get their published Debian ISOs made > by xorriso. I think your expectation is correct there, yes: looking further into the

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-11 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1031696 On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 12:16:47 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > This could be achieved by a bunch of hard links instead of the symbolic > links. In /firmware of firmware-bookworm-DI-alpha1-amd64-netinst.iso > i see only symbolic links to data files. So replacing symlinks by

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-11 Thread James Addison
Package: debian-cd Followup-For: Bug #1031696 Hi Pete - could you check my understanding of your paragraph: > In short, if this issue is left unaddressed, bookworm will be > introducing a *regression* compared to bullseye, in that it will no > longer be possible to perform a Debian

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-11 Thread James Addison
Package: debian-cd Followup-For: Bug #1031696 On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:31:50 +, Pete wrote: > Just going to add, in case you wonder why it shouldn't be up to the > software that is mounting the ISO to sort out symbolic links and just > duplicate content, that neither Windows File Explorer

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-11 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1031696 X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@akeo.ie Control: reassign -1 debian-cd Control: tags -1 moreinfo I forgot to mention: thanks, Pete, for testing this UEFI file transposition support with bookworm's d-i alpha 2. We're all volunteers and I'm no expert with the CD image build process,

Bug#1005886: cdimage.debian.org: bookworm net-install CD hangs on "Detecting Network Hardware"

2023-03-11 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1005886 Control: reassign -1 debian-cd Control: retitle -1 debian-cd: bookworm net-install CD hangs on "Detecting Network Hardware"

Bug#1031696: Use of symbolic links in non-free ISO images breaks file system transposition support

2023-03-10 Thread James Addison
Package: cdimage.debian.org Followup-For: Bug #1031696 X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@akeo.ie My best guess at the moment is that the relevant section of the CD image preparation scripts is: