Re: Updated installation images 2019-01-20

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:09:29AM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> Dear Adrian,
> 
> On 1/21/19 00:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > On 1/20/19 9:40 PM, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > > Thank you!  I'll give the Alpha version a try in the next few days.
> > > Waiting on a 4.18 kernel build: should be done in the next 24 hours
> > > or so.
> > 
> > The klibc package included in the current images is affected by a
> > serious bug which breaks the boot on nearly all architecture [1].
> > 
> > I will therefore have to build new images once the new klibc package
> > has been synced on the FTP mirrors.
> 
> I did not yet check the ISO for Alpha, but what kernel version and type
> (non-MP/MP) does it include actually?
> 
> Because we had that problem with non-MP kernels not working on many - if
> not all - Alpha machines earlier. And although it was actually fixed by
> Michael, the fix is only included since Linux v5.0-rc1 according to the
> tagging as I understand it, see [1] for details.
> 
> [1]:
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ab7d47bcbf0144a8cb81536c2cead4cde18acfe
> 
> So maybe it'd be better to delay the rebuild until after Linux 5.0
> reaches unstable?

We should get that backported to the stable series.

I've added a comment to:
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/79

Cheers
Michael.