Bug#926242: jenkins.debian.org: Please test reproducibility status of Debian Installer images

[Cyril Brulebois]

Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> (2019-04-03):
> Hello,
> 
> Chris Lamb, le mer. 03 avril 2019 05:01:44 -0400, a ecrit:
> > > Does the installer need anything special?  I thought d-i was just like
> > > any other package when it came to regular building it.
> > 
> > For some reason I thought that src:debian-installer was a special-case
> > package (or simply used for its build-depends) and it does not
> > "really" build the images.
> 
> It doesn't build the netinst/CD/DVD iso images indeed (debian-cd handles
> that). But it builds the initrd used there (and the netboot mini.iso).

Right. Check the tarball (!) produced by building src:debian-installer;
that's what gets installed in installer-$arch directories in the
archive; then consumed by debian-cd to produce “full-blown” installation
images.

(You might have seen some special casing in dak; that's us!)


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi at debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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