Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2015-12-07 15:13:51)
> Quoting Ansgar Burchardt (2015-12-07 14:50:32)
> > Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes:
> >> debian-installer-netboot-images currently violates Debian Policy by
> >> fetching debian-installer images over the network during install -
> >> see bug#807168.
> >>
> >> I believe¹ that debian-installer produces those pieces needed by
> >> debian-installer-netboot-images, and suspect that providing in a
> >> binary package the pieces needed for debian-installer-netboot-images
> >> could (at least partially) solve bug#807168.
> >>
> >> This bug marked important (not wishlist) as bug#807168 is RC.
> >
> > I don't think its so easy: d-i-n-i are arch:all packages, but need
> > binaries for all architectures. To get these as build-dependencies we
> > would need cross-arch build-deps which we don't have so far.
> >
> > Alternatively building a subset of arch:all packages on every
> > architecture would also work, but that would require (at least)
> > support for the buildd network building arch:all packages on
> > package-specific architectures ("Build-Architecture-Indep" might find
> > relevant threads).
>
> Sorry, but I don't understand the requirement to change infrastructure.
> I think I understand how such infrastructure change can be beneficial
> for more complex issues, and then also could serve for a more elegant
> solution to this issue, but as I see it debian-installer can (today,
> with current infrastructure) build binary arch-all package
> debian-installer-netboot-parts-amd64 on amd64,
> debian-installer-netboot-parts-arm64 on arm64, and so on.
>
> What am I missing?....and then right when I hit "send", it occured to me: arch-independent packages cannot be built on specific archs only (which is exactly what you already wrote, in slightly different words). I understand the problem now. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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