Ubuntu on IBM z Systems

  1. Bug #1872941
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 1872941

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: [Bug 1872941] Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 10:20, bugproxy <email address hidden> wrote:
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> ------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2020-04-20 05:02 EDT-------
> I can confirm that virt-manager (1:2.2.1-3ubuntu2) works with http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/focal/main/installer-s390x again. Also tested it with a preseed.cfg which worked as expected.
>
> But as far as I understood Dimitri this will only be available until
> June?
>

/focal/ aka "release" at
http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/focal/main/installer-s390x will remain
available forever, just like
http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/bionic/main/installer-s390x/ , i.e. the
GA release / kernel build, frozen in time.

What is not going to be available are the point releases. I.e.
focal-updates, with newer SRU'ed & hwe kernel.

For bionic, there is bionic-updates at
http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/bionic-updates/main/installer-s390x/
which has d-i rebuilt against point release & hwe kernels, and is the
preferred location to install from as it boots a newer (and CVE
patched kernel). Such builds will not be created for focal-updates.

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Regards,

Dimitri.