On 28/10/14 08:07, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le lundi, 27 octobre 2014, 11.57:33 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : >> I understand the reasoning but I am not keen on moving files around at >> this very late stage; if adding a symlink works, this would probably >> be better.
Symlink sounds good to me; perhaps there are other tools out there
assuming the versioned or unversioned directory name.
> I've given more thought to this, and I think we should get d-i-n-i
> through NEW rather sooner than later (all binary package names get
> changed). Also, this change is jessie-specific (as d-i-n-i downloads the
> netboot images from testing), so I've gone ahead and implemented a
> workaround in d-i-n-i directly.
>
> Unless there are objections, I will upload this later today towards NEW.
No problem; there's no reason we can't do both?
>> Otherwise, maybe move back files under an unversioned directory and
>> keep a symlink from the versioned directory. Not sure how
>> {well,badly} tftp servers deal with symlinks anyway…
I don't expect any issues there. The top-level grub2pxe file is a
symlink anyway and I've used that with various TFTP servers in the past.
> Afaik, the tftp servers are not involved here, we're talking about the
> layout on mirrors.
Because netboot.tar.gz is also what people deploy on TFTP servers for
PXE booting.
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
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