Public bug reported: Binary package hint: debian-installer
I am filling the bug against package debian-installer, as I have no name/category to describe the way daily builts are run and how new data (.iso, packages...) is uploaded to ftp servers. Any help on those topics (or on methodology, conventions, best practices, advices) welcome, I am willing to (at least try to ) submit 5 bugs a day !!! RELEASE: maverick ARCHITECTURE: i386 and amd64 TYPE OF INSTALL: alternate, hd-media PROBLEM: On Maverick the current version of Debian-installer is not synchronized with latest .iso on cdimage.ubuntu.com This makes life painful for users who want to test the latest .iso without actually burning a CD-ROM. (those users would use the "hd-media" installer) DETAILS: as of today (23 June 2010) current .iso version is 20100623 but there is no alternate .iso there, the latest available alternate image is the one of yesterday (ftp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily/20100622/maverick-alternate-amd64.iso) ====================================================================== $ lftp -e 'dir;quit' ftp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily cd ok, cwd=/cdimage/daily drwxrwxr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Jun 22 06:41 20100622 drwxrwxr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Jun 23 06:38 20100623 lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 1000 8 Jun 23 06:38 current -> 20100623 drwxrwxr-x 2 1000 1000 4096 Mar 18 2009 jigit $ lftp -e 'dir *-alternate-amd64.iso;quit' ftp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily/current cd ok, cwd=/cdimage/daily/current $ lftp -e 'dir *-alternate-amd64.iso;quit' ftp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily/20100622 cd ok, cwd=/cdimage/daily/20100622 -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 753039360 Jun 22 06:35 maverick-alternate-amd64.iso ====================================================================== However the current version version of debian-installer for maverick is 20100211ubuntu9 (dated 22 june). So, for "hd-media" we are talking about: ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/installer-amd64/20100211ubuntu9/images/hd-media/vmlinuz and ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/installer-amd64/20100211ubuntu9/images/hd-media/initrd.gz ====================================================================== $ lftp -e 'dir;quit' ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/installer-amd64 d ok, cwd=/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/installer-amd64 drwxr-sr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Jun 11 13:03 20100211ubuntu7 drwxr-sr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Jun 17 13:03 20100211ubuntu8 drwxr-sr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Jun 22 12:03 20100211ubuntu9 drwxr-sr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Jun 01 13:03 alpha-1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 1000 15 Jun 22 12:03 current -> 20100211ubuntu9 ====================================================================== Unfortunately, careful analysis of latest (and only) available alternate-amd64 .iso shows that it uses kernel 2.6.35-4-generic while latest debian-installer vmlinuz and initrd.gz uses kernel 2.6.35-5-generic ====================================================================== $ zcat /cdrom/install/initrd.gz | cpio -it | grep modules.dep ====================================================================== So, in order to test latest .iso (22 June 2010) you need the debian-installer of 17 June 2010 instead of the latest one. RECOMMENDATION: Could we have better synchronization between cdimage.ubuntu.com daily and debian-intaller on ftp.ubuntu.com ? ** Affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- kernel version mismatch between debian-installer and CD-ROM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597734 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
