From b0134496375e4d413352a8a85895054b035fb6d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Prokop Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 17:35:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Support and default to Debian/buster release, update docs accordingly On 2019-02-12 there's the soft-freeze starting for the Buster release. Accordingly default to buster as new default within grml-debootstrap. Closes: grml/grml-debootstrap#117 --- config | 6 +++--- grml-debootstrap | 11 +++++----- grml-debootstrap.8.txt | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ releasetable.txt | 3 ++- 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/config b/config index ba57247..e329353 100644 --- a/config +++ b/config @@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ # BACKPORTREPOS='yes' # Debian release that should be installed. -# Supported values: lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch, sid -# Default: 'stretch' -# RELEASE='stretch' +# Supported values: lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster, sid +# Default: 'buster' +# RELEASE='buster' # Define components that should be used within sources.list. # Default: 'main' diff --git a/grml-debootstrap b/grml-debootstrap index 776825d..32085c1 100755 --- a/grml-debootstrap +++ b/grml-debootstrap @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ MNTPOINT="/mnt/debootstrap.$$" [ -n "$POST_SCRIPTS" ] || POST_SCRIPTS='yes' [ -n "$PRE_SCRIPTS" ] || PRE_SCRIPTS='yes' [ -n "$RECONFIGURE" ] || RECONFIGURE='console-data' -[ -n "$RELEASE" ] || RELEASE='stretch' +[ -n "$RELEASE" ] || RELEASE='buster' [ -n "$RM_APTCACHE" ] || RM_APTCACHE='yes' [ -n "$SCRIPTS" ] || SCRIPTS='no' # deprecated, replaced by POST_SCRIPTS [ -n "$SECURE" ] || SECURE='yes' @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Bootstrap options: -m, --mirror Mirror which should be used for apt-get/aptitude. -i, --iso Mountpoint where a Debian ISO is mounted to, for use instead of fetching packages from a mirror. - -r, --release Release of new Debian system (default: stretch). + -r, --release Release of new Debian system (default: buster). -t, --target Target partition (/dev/...) or directory where the system should be installed to. -p, --mntpoint Mountpoint used for mounting the target system, @@ -759,15 +759,16 @@ prompt_for_bootmanager() # ask for Debian release {{{ prompt_for_release() { - [ -n "$RELEASE" ] && DEFAULT_RELEASE="$RELEASE" || DEFAULT_RELEASE='stretch' + [ -n "$RELEASE" ] && DEFAULT_RELEASE="$RELEASE" || DEFAULT_RELEASE='buster' RELEASE="$(dialog --stdout --title "${PN}" --default-item $DEFAULT_RELEASE --menu \ "Please enter the Debian release you would like to use for installation:" \ - 0 50 5 \ + 0 50 6 \ lenny Debian/5.0 \ squeeze Debian/6.0 \ wheezy Debian/7.0 \ jessie Debian/8.0 \ stretch Debian/9.0 \ + buster Debian/10.0 \ sid Debian/unstable)" [ $? -eq 0 ] || bailout } @@ -1136,7 +1137,7 @@ fi # Support for generic release codenames is unavailable. {{{ if [ "$RELEASE" = "stable" ] || [ "$RELEASE" = "testing" ] ; then eerror "Generic release codenames (stable, testing) are unsupported. \ -Please use specific codenames such as lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie or stretch." ; eend 1 +Please use specific codenames such as stretch or buster." ; eend 1 bailout 1 fi # }}} diff --git a/grml-debootstrap.8.txt b/grml-debootstrap.8.txt index 7fe365c..7d18815 100644 --- a/grml-debootstrap.8.txt +++ b/grml-debootstrap.8.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ want) for installing a plain Debian system very fast and easy. All you have to do is adjust a few variables in the configuration file /etc/debootstrap/config or specify some command line options and invoke grml-debootstrap. If invoked without any configuration modifications or command -line options a dialog based frontend will be available to control some basic +line options a dialog based front end will be available to control some basic configuration options. A plain and base Debian system will be installed on the given device, directory @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Options and environment variables *--backportrepos*:: - Enable Debian's Backports repository (http://backports.debian.org/) via the + Enable Debian's Backports repository via the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list configuration file. This provides the option to install Debian packages from Debian's backports repository. @@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ Options and environment variables *-r*, *--release* _releasename_:: Specify release of new Debian system. Supported releases names: lenny, - squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch and sid. Corresponding with configuration - variable RELEASE. Default release: stretch + squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster and sid. Corresponding with configuration + variable RELEASE. Default release: buster *--remove-configs*:: @@ -269,37 +269,43 @@ Usage examples grml-debootstrap --target /dev/sda1 --grub /dev/sda -Install default Debian release (stretch) on /dev/sda1 and install bootmanager -Grub in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda1 as system partition. +Install default Debian release (buster) on /dev/sda1 and install bootmanager +GRUB in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda1 as system partition. + + grml-debootstrap --release stretch --target /dev/sda1 --grub /dev/sda --hostname foobar --password changeme + +Install Debian release stretch on /dev/sda1 and install bootmanager +GRUB in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda1 as system partition. +Set hostname to 'foobar' and password for user root to 'changeme'. grml-debootstrap --target /dev/sda6 --grub /dev/sda --release sid -Install Debian unstable/sid on /dev/sda6, install bootmanager Grub in MBR +Install Debian unstable/sid on /dev/sda6, install bootmanager GRUB in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda6 as system partition. mount /dev/sda1 /data/chroot grml-debootstrap --target /data/chroot -Install default Debian release (stretch) in directory /data/chroot (without +Install default Debian release (buster) in directory /data/chroot (without any bootloader). grml-debootstrap --target /dev/sda3 --grub /dev/sda --mirror ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/debian -Install default Debian release (stretch) on /dev/sda3 and install bootmanager -Grub in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda3 as system partition. +Install default Debian release (buster) on /dev/sda3 and install bootmanager +GRUB in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda3 as system partition. Use specified mirror instead of the default (http://deb.debian.org/debian) one. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 grml-debootstrap --vmfile --vmsize 3G --target /mnt/sda1/qemu.img -Install default debian release (stretch) in a Virtual Machine file with -3GB disk size (including Grub as bootmanager in MBR of the virtual disk file): +Install default debian release (buster) in a Virtual Machine file with +3GB disk size (including GRUB as bootmanager in MBR of the virtual disk file): mount -o loop /mnt/sda6/debian-CD-1.iso /mnt/iso grml-debootstrap --target /dev/sda1 --grub /dev/sda --iso file:/mnt/iso/debian/ Install Debian on /dev/sda1 using the loopback mounted Debian-ISO -for the base-system and install bootmanager Grub in MBR (master boot record) of +for the base-system and install bootmanager GRUB in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda1 as system partition. Please notice, that the chroot system requires network access for all packages which are not part of the ISO. @@ -368,8 +374,8 @@ Where do you want to install grub to? Usage example: grub=/dev/sda release=... -Specify release of new Debian system. Defaults to Debian stretch. Supported -releases: lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch and sid. Usage example: release=sid +Specify release of new Debian system. Defaults to Debian buster. Supported +releases: lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster and sid. Usage example: release=stretch mirror=... @@ -403,18 +409,27 @@ Supported Releases include::releasetable.txt[] [NOTE] -.lenny/squeeze release +.lenny/squeeze/wheezy release ================================================================================ -[1] Please notice that lenny and squeeze are unsupported releases within Debian nowadays. +[1] Please notice that releases like lenny, squeeze and wheezy are unsupported releases within Debian nowadays. grml-debootstrap can handle the releases but you really should not use them -anymore unless you really know what you are doing. Choose the current Debian -stable version instead. +anymore unless you really know what you are doing. +Choose the current Debian stable version instead. +See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases for the list of supported releases. -Notice that you need to specify a mirror providing the lenny/squeeze releases, the +Notice that you need to specify a mirror providing the lenny and squeeze releases, the default (http://deb.debian.org/debian) doesn't provide it any longer nowadays. Set the mirror to e.g. http://archive.debian.org/debian/ if you don't have your own lenny/squeeze mirror. +Older releases might also fail to install when running on top of recent kernel versions, +throwing segfaults during debootstrap. This can be identified by the following messages inside kernel log (check with 'dmesg'): + + dpkg[...] vsyscall attempted with vsyscall=none ip:[...] + dpkg[...]: segfault at [...] + +To work around this issue boot your system with the kernel boot option 'vsyscall=emulate'. + You also need to specify a filesystem that's supported by lenny, e.g. '--filesystem ext3' since grml-debootstrap's current default (ext4) isn't supported by lenny. diff --git a/releasetable.txt b/releasetable.txt index a535949..63e3d23 100644 --- a/releasetable.txt +++ b/releasetable.txt @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ |Release |Status |lenny |works[1] |squeeze |works[1] -|wheezy |works +|wheezy |works[1] |jessie |works |stretch |works +|buster |works |sid |works[2] |====================== -- 2.1.4