Release criterion proposal: PXE

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 04:39 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > This has been hanging around for a while, but as near as I can find,
> > we
> > haven't actually addressed it in a criterion or a criterion proposal,
> > so
> > here is one!
> > 
> > Proposing a criterion:
> > 
> > * It must be possible to initiate an installation by booting the
> > kernel
> > +initramfs image pair provided for the purpose and supplying a
> > parameter
> > specifying the location of installer images. This applies to remotely
> > initiating such an installation via PXE
> > 
> > This could be at any stage, really, plausibly. The PXE test case is
> > labelled as Alpha, though, so I guess it should be Alpha.
> > 
> > Petr, did we decide something about PXE when we were doing the
> > concordance? I can't quite recall, and can't find it in ticket #151.
> > thanks!
> 
> We already have this in Beta:
> 
> It must be possible to install by booting the installation kernel
> directly, including via PXE, and correctly specifying a remote source
> for the installer itself, using whichever protocols are required to
> work for package retrieval at the current phase (Alpha, Beta, Final).
> This must work if the remote source is not a complete repository but
> contains only the files necessary for the installer itself to run.
> 
> Isn't it basically the same? Do we want to have a simplified version for Alpha?

Huh. Weird. I could swear I searched through all three criteria pages
two or three times and didn't find the string 'PXE'. No idea why. No, I
don't want to duplicate it, consider the proposal withdrawn. Thanks for
catching this.

For the record, the criterion was added on 19 April 2012 by Kamil.
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