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[Daniel Goller <dgoller AT satx.rr.com>]

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On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:45:41 +0500
Pol Vinogradov <vin.public AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:46:50 -0800
> Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> 
> > The main issues with stable releases are, IMO:
> > * Not enough people helping to triage bugs
> > * Not enough people fixing stable-rc/stable bugs
> > * Too much attention is spent on test grimoire
> >
> > If we can get more help targetted at making sure bugs are filed
> > against the proper grimoire(s) and fixing the bugs that affect
> > stable-rc/stable before bugs that fix test, this would help.
> >
> > -sandalle
> Maybe good solution would be to create a lightweight grimoire used for 
> ISOs. Benefits are obvious:
> 1. maintainability;
> 2. stable grimoire;
> 3. bugs free;
> 4. less people resources.
> What "lightweight" means? it means grimoire should contain critical 
> software everyone needs. And only one spell for each software classes must 
> present in grimoire. it can be used by regular users/developers above their 
> stable/test/else grimoire for testing or fixing bugs.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> public.

No, we don't need such a grimoire to make another iso. 
I spend my time largely elsewhere, that is keeping me from progressing right 
now.
The current state of my laptop hdd is "Drive not ready for command." galore, 
windows on it is already dead, which is why *IF* i work, it's on swoolley's 
machine.
I can recreate the amd64 iso i built fairly easy, what i need is a newer 
tarball to install, haven't gotten to run chrootgen.sh for that yet.
Once i have an installer to include i will work more on making it scriptable, 
which will be installed via a spell in the end, this way all dependencies for 
the IOS will be installed.
once the spell is installed, it should be a mere 'create_iso' (or something 
similarly named) to create a current iso, how this will be configurable we 
will have to see.
I know there is lot's of talk about super configurable isos.
I will have to see chrootgen.sh in action, and have time and from there it 
shouldn't be much work.
So for now, keep it simple and blame me, since if our test->stable-rc->stable 
cycle works, nothing for iso generation should fail, and so the hold up is me 
not finalizing the scripting for the new iso generation process.

Maybe this sheds some light, or makes everyone go "I knew that.", we will see.

Daniel

And i'd rather not someone else finish it, i'd be allergic to "i had to redo 
it all, it wouldn't have worked", i know it will work, when i am done ;)
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