Hi people, two parts in this mail: information for everyone, and action for debian-cd@ at the end.
Bits of infomation: ------------------- Thanks to Colin's last parted upload, partitioning is in a much better shape now. I've successfully tested the following things using an i386 netinstall image based on jessie + {parted , partman} udebs from sid: (Discs are all 2GB in size.) Single disc: - Blank disc → Encrypted LVM => OK - Prev. setup → Full disc => OK - Prev. setup → Unencrypted LVM => OK - Prev. setup → Encrypted LVM => OK Two blank discs: - Full disc on sda => OK Two blank discs: - Unencrypted LVM on sdb => OK (Had to switch kvm's -hda and -hdb since it can only boot from the first disc AFAICS.) Starting with two blank discs: - Partition created on both, RAID 1 on both device. => OK - Add a full size partition, as ext4, mounted on /. => OK - Installation + reboot => OK From the previous setup: - Both discs added to RAID0 => OK - LVM group added to md0 => OK - LVM volume added => OK - Encrypted partition => OK - Installation itself => KO (rightfully: need unencrypted /boot) Starting again from two blank discs: - Two partitions on both: 500M + the rest => OK - RAID1 for the little partition + /boot (ext4) => OK - RAID1 for the big partition, use as LVM => OK - Create LVM group & volume => OK - Add encryption and use as / => OK - Installation + reboot => OK I didn't do any desktop installation testing though, since I thought it'd make more sense to test final, full images and not just locally built ones. The systemd switch might or might not be uneventful. See this thread for details: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/08/msg00235.html So I've decided to go ahead and get parted + partman-* into testing, using the following hints, which were all successful during tonight's run: | # 2014-08-11; done 2014-08-11 | # jessie beta 1, the parted 3.2 dance: | urgent parted/3.2-4 | unblock-udeb parted/3.2-4 | urgent partman-auto-lvm/54 | unblock-udeb partman-auto-lvm/54 | urgent partman-base/175 | unblock-udeb partman-base/175 | urgent partman-crypto/74 | unblock-udeb partman-crypto/74 | urgent partman-lvm/91 | unblock-udeb partman-lvm/91 | urgent partman-md/69 | unblock-udeb partman-md/69 | urgent partman-zfs/36 | unblock-udeb partman-zfs/36 I didn't notice that netcfg's last bug report was bumped to RC so it didn't migrate yet (but should during noon's run): | # 2014-08-11 | # jessie beta 1, nasty wireless bug: | urgent netcfg/1.118 | unblock-udeb netcfg/1.118 It's not strictly needed but if it can be included, why not. Bits of action: --------------- Steve, feel free to start a build whenever it's convenient for you (after the 1:52 dinstall + mirror pulse of course). As you can see a few lines above, we can wait for netcfg but that's a bug we already had in wheezy, so we can add an errata entry for it; so if you can start a build in the morning I don't see a reason for an extra 12-hour delay. If you're only available in the afternoon or in the evening, we might get netcfg fixed for free, which I'm also OK with. :) Bottom line: Whatever works for you! And thanks for reading this far. Mraw, KiBi.
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