Re: systemd woes continue

On 7/17/19 15:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 7/17/19 3:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>>>>> debian-installer doesn't use fdisk (anymore), it uses partman. Did you try any of
>>>>> the recent installation images, see [1]. Please note these images are currently
>>>>> shipped without proprietary firmware.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, that's a problem for any Alpha with a Qlogic SCSI controller.
>>
>> If you want to use e100 (e.g. DE602) and tg3 (e.g. DEGXA) driven NICs
>> during installation, these should be added here, too.
>
> What do you mean by adding them? The drivers? Or the firmware? If the
> firmware is not packaged, someone needs to add them to one of the
> firmware packages.

I just wanted to "add" these NICs to the list of hardware that needs
firmware to work correctly on Alpha, i.e. like:

```
Yeah, that's a problem for any Alpha with a Qlogic SCSI controller...

...and a e100 or tg3 driven NIC.
```

>
>> To sum things up: what Adrian intends to do for Alpha - pre-include the
>> firmware on the installer discs - seems to be the only way to get this
>> problem fixed w/o manual intervention during installation.
>
> It's also the standard way how it's done. debian-cd (the software used to
> build the CD images) supports adding firmware packages. But the problem
> is that firmware packages are usually part of the non-free suite which is
> not available in Debian Ports but on the main Debian repositories only.
>
> However, the main repositories and the Debian Ports repositories are
> separate mirrors and currently, debian-cd does not support more than
> one mirror during CD image build.

Ok, could it work when using the CDN (deb.debian.org) as described on
[2]? Or does this just redirect to the actual ports mirror for ports
architectures?

[2]: https://www.ports.debian.org/mirrors

>
> So, while I can enable to include firmware during image build, debian-cd
> is unable to find the firmware packages as they are not part of the Debian
> Ports mirror
>
> I hope that clarifies the problem.
>
>>> It's on my TODO list. It's just not trivial since I need to modify debian-cd
>>> to be able to merge the contrib and non-free repositories from the main
>>> FTP servers during CD image build.
>>
>> JH Chatenet once created a debootstrap "addon" (see [1] for details)
>> that merges "unstable" and "unreleased" suites, maybe functionality from
>> that addon can be reused here?
>
> That just merges two suites but not two mirrors.

Oh, I see, didn't anticipate that the non-free suite is on different
mirrors. But see above.

Cheers,
Frank