On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 at 12:07, Roland Clobus <rclo...@rclobus.nl> wrote: > On 06/11/2024 11:26, Leandro Doctors wrote:
> > Q2: Is there a way to access the last successful build of the live images? > > Yes, you can ... > * ... use your previously downloaded file, if you still have that > * ... rebuild them using a snapshot, but that is not the easiest way > * ... wait until next Monday, when new images will be generated I meant an *easy* way :-) I guess I'll just have to wait until next Monday... > > Q1: Shouldn't the `*builds` folders be pointers to the last successful > > build of the relevant images? > > That depends on your viewpoint... > The logs and the ISO files belong together. If the ISO files were kept, > but the logs were updated, we would not have detected the breakage. If > we didn't update the logs, because the ISOs were not generated, we could > not do diagnosis. Thanks for the quick response, Roland. I agree with you in that keeping the logs and ISOs in sync makes sense. > I treat the weekly build as one of the early QA methods. If something > breaks, it's good to know about it. > > Note: Even having the ISO files made available, doesn't mean that > everything is guaranteed to work, e.g. for LXDE I've opened #1086075. Sure. But I think that when they are pointed at from https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/, not providing the last successful build (even without any warranty that it fully works, as you very well noted above, of course) simply turns all that into a 404... Anyways, just my opinion. > I'm not sure whether we should keep a backup of the last available > weekly images around, but perhaps the debian-cd team can chime in? What about keeping two folders? * one with the last successful build, and * another one with the last build (no matter whether it is successful or not) * if the last build is successful, you could even use symlinks to save up space... Thanks again, Leandro
