Netboot is broken on the iso tracker

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi,

maybe the

*:)*

got filtered out? but not to worry. I'm more interested in having my
mis-conceptions corrected, as without that I will continue to mis-inform
people. He who does not screw up now and again accomplishes nothing :D ....

Regards,

Phill.

On 13 August 2013 05:45, Jackson Doak <noskcaj at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>  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
>



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