I'm trying to get an upload of the debian-installer boot images (everything except CD) into the Debian archive, similar to how the boot-floppies used to go into the archive. I think that this will be increasingly important as we begin to stabalize d-i before release, and now is not too soon to start working on it. I've cc'd debian-cd and debian-powerpc because of some unresolved issues:
debian-powerpc: My plan is to only have the debian-installer package list i386 and powerpc as its architectures at first, and add more architectures later as they are ready. It should be possible to autobuild the images on at least some autobuilders. Last week I asked for my package to be test built on powerpc, and got two failure reports, but no followup. I would like to get in touch with someone who runs the powerpc autobuilder and make sure the package will build there. debian-cd: What kinds of images do you use/need from the debian-installer tree for building CDs on the various architectures? There is both an initrd image, and a CD boot "floppy" image, and I do not want to waste space in the archive with both if they are not both needed on a given architecture. Last week I disabled shipping the initrd image, and this apparently broke CD builds on i386. It looks like the CD for i386 includes both the CD "floppy" and a cdrom.gz that looks like a renamed version of our CD initrd. Surely these are not both necessary? The CD also currently contains the d-i floppy-initrd.gz (in install/), and I do not understand how this can possibly be of use, but my removal of that initrd from the debian-installer daily builds also seemed to break the CD builds. We will also eventually need to figure out if and how CD images should be built against the d-i images that will eventually be in the archive, as opposed to against the daily builds. And all the filenames of the various images d-i produces are due for an overhaul that will break your build scripts. Just a heads up for now on that. -- see shy jo
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