Re: Streamlining d-i releases

[Cyril Brulebois]

(Dropping -cd@ and -release@ — and letting them know via bcc —, that's
probably less interesting for them at this point.)

Joerg Jaspert  (2023-04-10):
> I prepared a little script. Now need a SSH key to allow.

Attached.

> Usage is simple, you MUST supply a version, you CAN supply a source and
> a dest suite. Space seperated. It checks amd64s installer in that suite,
> and if the version directory exists, it calls dak copy-installer on it.

LGTM, thanks!

Out of curiosity, what happens if there's one or more missing builds at
some point? Can copy-installer be called several times? A quick glance
at dak/copy_installer.py suggests that check_architecture() does the
right thing (i.e. detect and skip things that exist already).

It seems what matters is the existence of the relevant directories on the
filesystem, which is likely to have happened by the time buildd.debian.org
shows an Installed state (via scripts/debian/byhand-di, called from
daklib/archive.py) but I haven't seen any logs to about auto-byhand so I'm
not entirely sure about the timings.


(In passing The error message has “${SOURCE}s dir” which could get an
apostrophe or lose an s.)


Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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Bug#1034267: installation-guide: Location of the install logs is "unfindable"

[Karl O. Pinc]

Source: installation-guide
Severity: minor

Hi,

Information on where the debian installer puts the installation logs
after a successfull install is buried in the section 6.3.9. Troubleshooting.

It's pretty hard to find out where the install logs are.  At least if
you're googling about or reading the installation guide.  (The
directory /var/log/installer/ is pretty self-explainatory but you have
to look there.)

I had planned to submit a patch with new index entries "logs,
installation" and "installation logs".  But there is no index.

So I don't know the right way to fix this.  I suppose the section heading
could be changed to "Troubleshooting and Logging".  But that seems
clunky.

Regards,
Karl

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.6
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Re: Ensuring initramfs is compressed with zstd

[Cyril Brulebois]

Emanuele Rocca  (2023-04-04):
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 02:56:59AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I did a test installation with d-i bookworm alpha 2, and I noticed a
> > warning message from update-initramfs during base installation that
> > it was falling back from zstd to gzip compression.
> 
> Just FTR this is still the case with d-i RC1, I suppose Ben's patch
> never made it to base-installer.

Merged in 1.212, just uploaded. (I haven't checked the runtime yet, but
it looks straightforward enough to upload as is.)

Thanks to both of you!


Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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