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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:01:33PM +0200, Arjan Bouter wrote:
> > 
> > I wasn't trying to tell him to work on something other than what he's
> > doing, and that's not where this thread came from.  It started with the
> > perennial comments about distrowatch, and I mentioned they haven't liked
> > listing our package updates and just want ISO releases, which is obviously
> > foreign to how we and other modern distros do things.  Seth asked again 
> > why
> > we don't just put out a new ISO release out with each new tarball, and 
> > here
> > we go again.
> 
> I got that. I've been reading the thread.Just wanted to make sure we were 
> not
> trying to tear flux into pieces by all requesting different things :)

I don't hold flux to change how he's running things.  That's his 
prerogative.  If I want the ISO a special way, I can actually work on 
that myself (the wonders of open source).  So he shouldn't feel any 
direct pressure.  Since I haven't had a lot of time to keep up with 
things other than having used one of his test isos which worked _great_ 
for me (almost all SATA boards do have a PATA emulation mode that works 
just fine, FYI), I was just asking what prevents us from releasing a new 
ISO with each stable grimoire and offered a particular technique that 
could make it rather simple to do in my estimation.

Andrew filled me in on the status on IRC, and flux confirmed, that there 
were some basesystem regressions (and probably long-standing bugs too) 
that make bootstrapping ISOs not work quite right yet.  After November, 
I can contribute some hardware to prometheus runs to help out, although 
prometheus doesn't actually test basesystem (it tests everything above 
it and assumes basesystem works great).  I can modify it to do 
install_root testing of basesystem spells in a separate prometheus 
sandbox, though.  that might be more beneficial.  (I have a few 
political websites running on the hardware I'd be using for testing, and 
after November, they can all come down.)

Seth

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