Re: Trixie

Philip Hands <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Dec 2024 21:21:34 +0100

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

Philip Hands <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

I actually got the details wrong there.

It is correct that the detection happens in pipelines launched by repos
that make use of branch2repo, but the bit that does the work is actually
in debian-installer's debian/salsa-ci.yml:

  https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/blob/master/debian/salsa-ci.yml?ref_type=heads#L61

We could just make a similar check in debian-cd, and bail-out when the
configured ABI does not match the available one. That would at least
reduce the chances that people get to download images that are bound to
fail.

The code refered to above does better than that, by fixing the problem
for the build so that people still get to test the mini-ISO that's being
built for them by the pipeline.

I beleive Roland has something that similarly works around the problem
in his live-image building setup.

If we wanted to keep building working images during periods of
kernel-skew, I'd imagine that one of these approaches might well provide
inspiration.

Cheers, Phil.
-- 
Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

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