[SM-Discuss] ISO TESTING: report on 2.4.29, test2 iso

David Kowis dkowis at shlrm.org
Fri Mar 4 17:32:44 EST 2005


Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> Karsten Behrmann a écrit :
> 
>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:00:36 -0600 (CST)
>> "David Kowis" <dkowis at shlrm.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm trying to do the generated-at-ISO-build-time list for this and other
>>> lists.
>>>
>>> It would appear though, that other people have been modifying the
>>> smgl.install since I declared my intent upon manipulating it. I don't
>>> believe the devfs glitches existed in the installer I'm working off of
>>> (henceforth referred to as "my installer".) In my installer, I've 
>>> also got
>>> the option to select udev or static dev. I don't believe the changes 
>>> will
>>> be merged into my /proj4 branch because most stuff isn't in the
>>> smgl.install anymore. I'm using a copy of the smgl.install that was 
>>> latest
>>> as of 0.9.3, the last "stable" iso that was released.
>>> I believe we're running into the problem of two different lines of
>>> development again...
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, only talking about my branch here, but...
>> I have not made any changes to smgl.install except for emergency fixes 
>> needed
>> to get it roughly running.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I think, some of benoits changes to it were a little 
>> late and
>> thus aren't in your copy yet. But maybe some of them will be irrelevant,
>> and judging from sandalle's report not all of them seem to have been
>> completely wanted.
>>
>> Is your branch running yet?
>> As soon as it works (about as well as the current scripts) I would be 
>> eager
>> to merge it into the ng-ISOs for further testing, so that the scripts can
>> be better tuned to one another.
>>
>> So Far,
>>   Karsten
> 
> 
> Same here. I think there are some misunderstanding. devfs is used in the 
> initrd on all ISO and udev/static are still proposed by the installer 
> for the new installed system.
> 
> For the guided menu, I don't understand. Few things have been changed, 
> nothing really visible. Maybe i forgot to initialize some variables 
> since you can enable/disable guided menu.
> 
> Like Karsten, I'm pretty much waiting on David's work to be our next 
> stable installer. In the meantime, I will use what i've used so far :-)
> 
> And last but not the least, I really appreciate reports from Eric 
> Schabell. All people testing the ISO should report here like he is 
> doing. Thanks Erics for your time and feedback!
> 
> Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru
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I likely misread the issues then. Perhaps in my mind the way something 
looks is different from the way I think it looks. Anyway, thanks for the 
clarification. :)


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