talking to myself again... > Luk Claes wrote... > > Feel free to test with the version in proposed-updates to really make > > sure it's fixed. > > I'm not completely sure how to do this. From what I can gather from [1] > I need to build my own installer image, which I'll have a go at. > I initially thought would be able to just "patch in" the updated > choose-mirror, but this appears to require building a CD [2]. > Am I on the right track here?
I was able to build a netboot image as per [1]. For anyone who might later care, the steps were: find/build a machine running lenny. svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/branches/d-i/lenny \ debian-installer-lenny cd debian-installer-lenny/installer apt-get build-dep debian-installer # installs a pile of packages dpkg-checkbuilddeps # should return nothing cd build grep DEBIAN_RELEASE config/common # set to 'lenny' grep USE_UDEBS_FROM config/common # ditto # this step is critical cp sources.list.udeb sources.list.udeb.local echo "deb http://apt-proxy:9999/debian lenny-proposed-updates main/debian-installer" \ >> sources.list.udeb.local echo "deb http://apt-proxy:9999/debian lenny-proposed-updates main" \ >> /etc/apt/sources.list echo "deb-src http://apt-proxy:9999/debian lenny-proposed-updates main" \ >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update make reallyclean make build_netboot This produced a tree in dest/ that could copy into the TFTP server tree. grep choose-mirror dest/MANIFEST.udebs showed version 2.28lenny3. yay. Without the sources.list.udeb.local file I kept getting version 2.28lenny1. So it appears the fixed version Otavio uploaded did not make it into 5.0.1? Anyway I was able to install 'etch' with this build of the installer. Thanks for your work, folks. Looking forward to the point release. Cheers Vince [1] wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Build -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org