On 1/27/19 15:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/27/19 1:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
@Adrian:
choose-mirror seems to have regressed in some way that it doesn't work anymore
even with
the correct mirror data.
But the corresponding file hasn't been touched since 2017 (see [1]). Why
did it then work with older images (tested working both in normal and
expert installation mode with the images from 2018-05-18 for both
powerpc and ppc64 during development of my recent patches for
d-i/grub-installer)?
Just have a look at the log file entry when the step to add the mirror
fails. It says that the distribution "sid" cannot be found in the release
file. It might just be a matter of updating the regular expression which
checks the release name.
I recommend always checking the log file when a step fails while running
debian-installer. It's much better than just guessing ;-).
I now used the latest ISO (from today 2019-01-27) and tried an
installation and apart from the GRUB installation that won't work
without merging some small patches first ;-), it worked through without
an issue. I didn't notice the problems Rick had with the ISO from
2019-01-24.
One thing I wondered about, as the `choose-mirror` binary on the ISO
from today (in
`pool-powerpc/main/c/choose-mirror/choose-mirror-bin_2.96_powerpc.udeb`)
has a timestamp from 2019-01-05 - so most likely is the same as on the
ISO from 2019-01-24:
How long can it take to update the "InRelease"/"Release" files ([1],
[2]) when new package versions are included into the Debian ports
archive and how is this done? Can it happen that this file is empty for
a short amount of time?
[1]: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/sid/InRelease
[2]: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/sid/Release
Cheers,
Frank
