On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:53:30PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 04:12:27PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I can unfortunately not build updated installer images for Alpha since I > > don't have an Alpha porterbox available where I can build the debian-installer > > package for Alpha. > > > > I do have two AlphaStation 233 sitting in the basement at the university now, > > but I don't have any time and space to set them up to be used as porterboxes. > > > > The only porterbox currently currently available to me is Michael Cree's "electro" > > but the repositories of the chroots there don't include the debian-installer > > component packages, so building d-i fails - at least last time I tried. > > I've carved out a bit of time to deal with getting my PWS back on-line. > The above is the most recent post in the thread, as far as I can tell... > > Michael -- is it a relatively easy thing to do to make the d-i component > packages available on "electro"? I am not exactly sure what the problem is, but reading between the lines I am starting to get the impression that Adrian expected the package cache to be a complete copy of the archive. It is not and it is not intended to be. Approx works by caching only those things that have been previously requested. If I have surmised correctly then one only needs to issue a download request to approx for the missing packages (and it should not matter with that is a .deb or a .udeb) and that should get it into the local cache. > Another option: is the SMP version of the 4.9.0-3 kernel available to > substitute into the existing netinst image? That's for Adrian to answer. I am not familiar with building an installer image. Cheers, Michael.
