Netboot is broken on the iso tracker

[Jackson Doak]

 Everyone calm down. My question was answered, we've al llearned
something, and we've got two things for the to-do list.]
1. Make the tracker wait for the images to be ready
2. Make a wiki page

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> Phil,
>
> It's a pretty simple concept.  You mis-remembered Debian instead of Debian
> Installer.  It's not a major mistake, but your extended chain of incorrect
> inferences from that small mistake are all yours.  Don't blame the release
> team.  Your defensive reaction makes it even worse.  Instead of blaming
> everyone else, how about just accepting you screwed up.
>
> Scott K
>
> On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 05:23:38 Phill Whiteside wrote:
>> Heck,
>>
>> I wish you guys on -release would actually get an agreement that could be
>> written into a simple, short, wiki page such as
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Activities/ImageTesting
>> maybe then when we are building https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities
>> you may may contribute so we all all know, instead of screaming when we get
>> some thing wrong :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>> On 13 August 2013 05:10, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:06:26AM +0100, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>> > > the netboot ISO's are a peculiar build, in that they arrive from debian
>> > > until we go debian-freeze. As and when they arrive, it does take a
>> > > little
>> > > while for the ubuntu system to catch up....Colin can explain this in
>> > > much
>> > > more detail. But when I last asked, I was told that they arrive from
>> >
>> > debian
>> >
>> > > and we expect them then appear as they do from 'up-stream'. The netboots
>> > > are not on automated rebuild and simply arrive when upstream (debian)
>> > > approves them.
>> >
>> > None of this is true.  The mini.iso is built from the debian-installer
>> > source package, but that has nothing to do with importing from Debian,
>> > except for the name.  We upload it regularly in Ubuntu, and carry a
>> > massive local delta for it.  The one that's currently in -proposed was
>> > uploaded by me earlier today.
>> >
>> > They're not built daily, they're built every time we upload d-i, which
>> > is fairly often (whenever kernel ABIs change, or when we change other
>> > d-i components, etc).
>> >
>> > ... Adam