create armadaxp netboot directory and move files into it

[mahmoh]

Build Version/Date: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/quantal/main/installer-armhf/20101020ubuntu147/

Environment used for testing: armadaxp1

Summary: create armadaxp netboot directory and move files into it

Steps to Reproduce: download the .../armadaxp/netboot/u* files for install

Expected result: files are preset

Actual result: files are misplaced one level up and the netboot directory is missing

Note:

http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/quantal/main/installer-armhf/current/images/armadaxp/uImage

should be:

http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/quantal/main/installer-armhf/current/images/armadaxp/netboot/uImage

Same goes for the uInitrd.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer - 20101020ubuntu148

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debian-installer (20101020ubuntu148) quantal; urgency=low

  * Fix armadaxp netboot uImage/uInitrd install paths (LP: #1010708)
  * Bring armadaxp and highbank netboot.cfg in line with other arches
 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:41:44 -0600

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Hello MMorana, or anyone else affected,

Accepted debian-installer into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/20101020ubuntu136.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Verified that the armadaxp/netboot bits now live where they should in precise-proposed.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

FWIW, I've also taken the decision to fix precise/main/installer-armhf/current/ to match the layout we've pushed to precise-proposed, so that people don't get terribly confused swapping back and forth between the two.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

This just caused a regression from my perspective, because we had tools that were working against Precise and just broke because the armadaxp netboot images just vanished (from the perspective of the script).

I notice that the server install instructions have already been updated to link to the new location, so perhaps this is not so bad on this occasion. The amount of tooling around armadaxp is currently fairly limited, so it is probably better overall to have Precise's netboot location consistent since it won't be too hard to update things.

But in future, other automated tools (eg. MAAS) will expect to find the netboot images at the same location that they were at release time. Please consider these (and tools used by users that we can't necessarily update) before moving netinst image URLs after release in future.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Moving things post-release is certainly an unprecedented sort of deal, and not something I'd normally do, but in this case, the only "customers" are people who the change was communicated with, and not random third parties with retail hardware. Fixing this now, instead of having two sets of installation instructions for the next five years, seemed the saner route.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Sounds reasonable. Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer - 20101020ubuntu136.1

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debian-installer (20101020ubuntu136.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Use udebs from precise-security, precise-proposed, and precise-updates.
  * Move to 3.2.0-26 kernels.
  * Move armel/omap4 and armhf/omap4 to 3.2.0-1415 kernels.
  * Move armhf/armadaxp to 3.2.0-1604 kernels.

  [ Adam Conrad ]
  * Fix armadaxp netboot uImage/uInitrd install paths (LP: #1010708)
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:53:44 +0100