Joey Hess wrote:
>
> At this point the only delay is waiting for the autobuilders, which are
> overloaded from all the other uploads surrounding the sarge release, to
> catch up and build the d-i images. In the past 24 hours, we've gotten
> builds for hppa, ia64, s390, and sparc, plus a manual build for alpha.
> That leaves arm, m68k (building), mips, mipsel, and powerpc. d-i is far
> back in the queue for most of these arches[1] and is even slipping
> further behind on some as more high-urgency package uploads happen.
>
> Since it's looking like it could easily take days for some of these
> buildds to catch up, we may need to do manual builds on some of these
> architectures. It would be nice if we could get all the builds done
> before the next dinstall run. If you do a manual build, please take careto make it
> in an up-to-date and clean sid chroot.
>
> Other than that, we seem to be on track for a release. I'm not aware of
> any showstopper issues, and the current errata list is quite small. Once
> the initrd builds get in and the CDs are built with them, we will have
> one final day for last minute testing before the release. The test
> checklist in installer/doc/checklist is still missing many entries and
> the more complete it is the better I'd feel about calling this release
> rc1 instead of beta5.
>
Over the last couple of weeks, I've submitted three (what I consider to be) serious
bug report for d-i on OldWorld PowerPC machines, along with several more that are more
in the line of annoyances.
Any one of these three bugs will render debian-installer unusable for anyone with
anything but a "plain vanilla" hardware or networking environment who doesn't have
help from a competant System Administrator, or have such skills personally. Since I'm
the only one on this list who cares two figs about OldWorld PowerPC hardware, and I
have UNIX SysAdmin experience going back 25 years (including some pretty unusual
hardware!), I guess it's not a show stopper... Still, there *might* be some folks out
there in the "real world" (TM), who will be disappointed that they can't figure out
how to install the new Debian release on their particular old Macintosh hardware. You
never know!
For reference, here are the bug numbers and a short description of each:
Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken
If you choose to manually configure the network (don't use DHCP) the installer
keeps coming back to the "configure network" step, and if you force it to move
forward, after the reboot, the network is not configured. This seems to be unique to
OldWorld PowerPC hardware (I've tried it on two different types of OldWorld machines
and it breaks identically on both of them. However, it works on a couple of NewWorld
machines I tried it on.) Also, accepting the default of DNSserver==gateway makes it
work OK. Verrry strange!
Bug#262201: PowerMac (OldWorld) - no driver for onboard SCSI
Bug#262865: With two network interfaces after reboot uses the wrong one
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