Re: Trixie

Philip Hands <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:56:02 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.cd
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hans Eisenrieder <[email protected]> writes:

> Dear team,
>
> The firmware:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
> repeatedly asks whether the operating system should be installed without a
> kernel.

Are you talking about this screen?

  https://openqa.debian.net/tests/337708#step/kernel_mismatch/2

If so, you are seeing something that has become a traditional aspect of
the test images when there is a kernel upgrade.

If you download a new version, it should work again (at least until the
version of the kernel that's in the archive gets updated, at which point
that image will have the same problem -- the kernel version in the image
needs to match the kernel version, and hence the modules, in the archive).

Cheers, Phil.

P.S. BTW I'm curious. Is there a reason we do things this way?

(If I ever knew the reason, I'm afraid I've since forgotten it).

I know that it is possible to detect that we have kernel version skew at
image build time, because I have code in branch2repo that detects this
and then proceeds to build a working mini-ISO image regardless.

Could we not do something like that for the dailies too? (I'm happy to
insert the code I've got if it'll do the job, or come up with something
similar).

If not, could we not at least desist from publishing known-broken images?

It seems to me that the goodwill of people like Hans, who are willing to
test things for us and are well enough motivated to report problems, is
a scarce resource which we squander at our peril.
-- 
Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

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