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[Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:59:25 +0100
Eric Schabell <eric AT schabell.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> The results and comments:
Good, we always *love* testing :-)

[snipsnap]
> 3) Not guided thru menu, but just drops thru to next menu item that I
> have to select (which means I can skip one if I want which would pretty
> much bork and install). Used to lead install thru menu items w/o
> stopping in the menu to wait for my enter.
We could change that (back) for the next ISO if it's really wanted, atm we
have someone (David Kowis) who's entirely redoing the menu though, so we
might not want to pour too much energy into the old menu.

> 4) Very confusing for someone to have to run thru sorcery menu to set
> architecture optimizations...
Yeah, we could have that with some easy code (though not really obvious):

(
  . /usr/sbin/sorcery -v >/dev/null
  optimize_architecture
)

for best results, run inside the /mnt/root chroot with a working /dev.

> Final comments:
> 
> Very strange to have an iso running test grimoires (I assume it was
> test, maybe devel?). As soon as I did a scribe add stable and updated my
> gcc and glibc had to both be downgraded... not too much trouble, but why
> are the iso's not done with stable?
We had some patched glibc and gcc pulled into it because of issues
upgrading from the old versions. Other than that, we use stable iirc.
If those spells aren't in stable yet by the next release, I would strongly
urge to put them on "hold" in the installed packages file and document that
verbosely.

Well, that's just my .02$, feel free to comment.
So Far,
  Karsten

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