Package: debian-installer
Version: 20190118
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-CC: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
debian-al...@lists.debian.org, debian-powe...@lists.debian.org
Dear Maintainer,
- The debian installer currently downloads udebs
from the buster/testing suite - which doesn't exist
for alpha and other non released architectures
(powerpc is similar, see [1])
I propose to set
DEBIAN_RELEASE = unstable
in the alpha configuration file.
- It is required to include debian-ports-archive-keyring-udeb
in netboot images to check Release signatures (it shouldn't
hurt in cdrom images too - to build a business-card cdrom or to
download additional udebs)
Including pata-modules-${kernel:Version} would ease testing with
qemu.
Thanks in advance for your comments and for all your work on
the debian-installer.
Regards,
JH Chatenet
[1] : http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/01/msg00083.txt
diff -Naur a/build/config/alpha.cfg b/build/config/alpha.cfg
--- a/build/config/alpha.cfg
+++ b/build/config/alpha.cfg
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
KEYRING = /usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg
+# alpha is presently a non released architecture
+DEBIAN_RELEASE = unstable
+
# include firmware files (qlogic, cciss, radeon)
# EXTRAFILES = `find /lib/firmware/ -type f`
diff -Naur a/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/alpha.cfg b/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/alpha.cfg
--- a/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/alpha.cfg
+++ b/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/alpha.cfg
@@ -16,3 +16,7 @@
# Added optionally as udeb may not yet be available
sata-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
virtio-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
+
+debian-ports-archive-keyring-udeb
+
+pata-modules-${kernel:Version}
diff -Naur a/build/pkg-lists/netboot/alpha.cfg
b/build/pkg-lists/netboot/alpha.cfg
--- a/build/pkg-lists/netboot/alpha.cfg
+++ b/build/pkg-lists/netboot/alpha.cfg
@@ -26,3 +26,5 @@
serial-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
usb-serial-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
uinput-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
+
+debian-ports-archive-keyring-udeb
