Everything spin?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue May 8 04:40:01 UTC 2007


On 08.05.2007 01:15, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 03:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> This one seems to be still cat on the wall. Can I get a final word on 
>> whether there would a be a spin of all packages in Fedora 7? I would 
>> prefer this. I have heard of two oppositions so far
>>
>> Mirror space:  I think we can do a torrent only release and let any 
>> mirrors carry it if they want to.
>>
>> Not enough testing:  Since we didn't do such a spin for the test 
>> releases  this can be problematic but I think most of the popular 
>> packages were already tested to a good extent in the other spins. Might 
>> call it a experimental spin for this release if that helps.
>>
>> I would prefer having such a spin for this release since there are folks 
>> around who don't have much of net access and require packages to be 
>> available on the media to be of any use to them.
> 
> With the tools available, anyone can create a spin such as this.  Just
> pointing that out. 

If we want to got that route I'd say we at least need a proper and
well-tested "how to build your own everything spin in less then ten
steps" document.

CU
thl




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