Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 01:44:48PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >On 08/13/2018 01:57 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 10:56:59AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >>> => Question: should we restrict architectures we build images for? >> >> Probably. I'm only thinking x86, arm64

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On 08/13/2018 01:57 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 10:56:59AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> => Question: should we restrict architectures we build images for? > > Probably. I'm only thinking x86, arm64 and maybe armhf. Wait for > people to ask for others and add on a

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2018-08-13): > Can we also add the patches for choose-mirror and net-retriever to support > Debian Ports at some point? We have lots of users that are confused that > debian-installer does not provide a mirror list from where they can choose > but rather have to type in

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/02/2018 10:56 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > It's been a while since my first proof of concept (demonstrated at the 2014 > mini-DebConf in Paris), but I think I've managed to reach a point where I'm > rather content and ready to get bits and

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Apologies for taking a while to get back to you here... :-/ Also adding a CC to the -kernel list. On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 10:56:59AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >This is a long read… I've highlighted “to do”-like items with an arrow >(=>). ACK! >debian-installer > > >First

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Thanks for your comments. I really should have thought about putting the kernel team in copy but it's been a long write-up… Ben Hutchings (2018-08-03): > This looks rather inefficient. Maybe not a big deal for the small > number of udebs though. That's correct on both count: inefficient

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 10:56 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: [...] > debian-installer > [...] > net-retriever > - [...] > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/net-retriever/commit/09535b0613a85e02d511b92b60683b20405b6d42 This looks rather inefficient. Maybe not

Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, It's been a while since my first proof of concept (demonstrated at the 2014 mini-DebConf in Paris), but I think I've managed to reach a point where I'm rather content and ready to get bits and pieces merged where they belong. That doesn't mean I have everything figured out, that's why I'm