* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050328 20:35]:
> If I understood the comments in base-installer/kernel/README correct,
> only the architectures with shell scripts that use KERNEL_ABI have this
> problem? If this is true, we only have it on hppa and s390, and in this
> case, I think we should b
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050327 20:35]:
> Or, the generic solution would be to update update the udeb now in a way
> that it always downloads an appropriate meta-package (yes, that would be
> quite many meta-packages), so that we can can update the kernel and just
> update the meta pack
Hi,
just as pre-comment: I know that d-i development is in a quite late
phase, and I don't know enough about d-i to know which ideas are easy
and which ones are bad - so, my questions are real questions, and please
feel free to just cluebat me enough if I'm silly. (And thanks to Frans
and the othe
On Saturday 26 March 2005 11:45, Andreas Barth wrote:
> system 5. remove old udebs:
>breaks businesscard cds the hard way, because they want to retrieve
>them
You are still somewhat confused
Businesscard CD can be broken because it downloads the kernel for the new
system and version
Hi,
one more summarization for me (as one of my mentores told me, in French,
there is a proverb that goes "the night is the best advisor", and I had
some good ideas this night :).
If we do the following, we need to/we break (numbers only for reference):
1. add new normal kernel images:
updat
* Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050325 17:50]:
> Andreas Barth wrote:
> > Ok, summarising this means for me:
> >
> > If we change the abi for d-i, than a lot of work at a lot of places
> > needs to be done. Definitly possible, but not the thing we want to do
> > for each security upgrade.
Andreas Barth wrote:
> Ok, summarising this means for me:
>
> If we change the abi for d-i, than a lot of work at a lot of places
> needs to be done. Definitly possible, but not the thing we want to do
> for each security upgrade. On the other side, as long as we keep the
> old kernel around, an
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050325 17:05]:
> Andreas Barth wrote:
> > [What changes to d-i need to be done for a security upload?]
> Besides building the udebs, if the abi changes we have to update rootskel,
> base-installer, and the debian-installer build system.
>> [...]
> Not quite accura
Andreas Barth wrote:
> [What changes to d-i need to be done for a security upload?]
Besides building the udebs, if the abi changes we have to update rootskel,
base-installer, and the debian-installer build system.
> The d-i changes are only finalized with the next point release - but well,
> that
Hi,
this mail consists of two parts: First, I describe my understanding of how
any kernel upgrade currently works. Please feel free to cluebat me if I
got it wrong. After that, I list some ideas how we can minimize the amount
of work for the security team once sarge is hard frozen, and the roun
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