On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> wrote: > > On 07/04/2016 03:01 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates: > > > > * backports kernel > > * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel > > * X drivers > > * ... (other things that might be needed for consistency) > > > > all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1). > > Why would you call it "Jessie + 1/2"? Wouldn't it be a better idea Well IBM set a precedent for that: OS/2. Accordingly, Jessie BP could be called Jessie/2 ;-)
> to regularly have a "backports installer" netinst image? So when > 8.6 (or 8.7 if it takes longer) comes around, there'll be an image, > part of the point release, that will contain the backports kernel > that's current at that time, plus the installer will enable backports > automatically, plus it will install a preferences.d file that will > enable pulling kernel + X11 drivers from backports. (But not other > things.) > > This could then be a regular part of the released installer images, > and any new major release (e.g. Stretch 9.0) would enable the > preferences.d file + backports automatically, but would still use > the regular kernel at that point (because there'd be no backports > then). > > That way, you'd have a little more work in the installer in creating > an image that uses a backports kernel, but there'd be no need in > having to support a new release in addition to Jessie, because the > installed system would be equivalent to Jessie + upgrade kernel to > backports + remove old kernel package. Which is already something > that people do _now_. > > Regards, > Christian > Good luck! -- Jose R R http://metztli.it --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Try at no charge http://b2evolution.net for http://OpenShift.com PaaS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- from our GitHub http://Nepohualtzintzin.com repository. Cloud the easy way! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
