Hi Steve, On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:58:08PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > So I've been looking through this code again, and the corresponding > code in apt-setup that uses these values. Last time I played with > apt-setup, I added a table to describe what d-i will do based on the > information in cd_type, to explain exactly what d-i expects: > > # Various different image types look different here: > # > # Image Type cd_type > ################################################### > # netinst "not_complete" > # full CD sets (default desktop) "full_cd" > # desktop-specific CD images "full_cd/single" > # DVD "dvd" > # bluray "bluray" > # multi-arch CD/DVD "not_complete" > # live "live" Thanks for checking the code and providing this table. The Debian Edu BD image (bluray) is generated using COMPLETE=0, see: https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/setup/blob/master/buster/cronjob.weekly#L268 because otherwise it turned out to be too big (~21 GiB). This image is intended for offline installations, no mirror useable. With this setting the Edu image differs from the stock BD/DLBD ones where COMPLETE=0 is missing and the default (COMPLETE=1) takes effect, see: https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/setup/blob/master/buster/cronjob.weekly#L169 > The changes you've imported from the debian-edu fork of debian-cd > clearly don't match up with these, and that's a problem. Agreed; sorry for that. > We'll come back to this again shortly. To help with that, could you > describe exactly what debian-edu is expecting here please, i.e. what > the settings in cd_type mean for the debian-edu installer? I tried to understand the code that is used to write the content, see: https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/blob/master/tools/start_new_disc#L179 If I understood correctly, for all cases with COMPLETE=0 the content of cd_type is 'not_complete'. If the EDU BD image has 'blueray/not_complete' then this content matches the blueray*) case in apt-setup, see: https://sources.debian.org/src/apt-setup/1:0.145/generators/50mirror/#L104 and the image is usable for offline installation. This is the only change that is actually needed for the Edu BD image. Commit https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/commit/15b482d49e642e21e983dba27a47b4fc2d8b90b4 incorrectly altered the setting 'not_complete' to 'cd/not_complete' for netinst, causing this bug. Sorry for not noticing it. > I'm worried that we may not have a clear solution here that can match > the current expectations of both d-i and and the debian-edu setup. Hopefully I managed to clarify the Edu setup intention. Wolfgang
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