[ANNOUNCE]: IA64 ISOs based on Fedora Core 5
Prarit Bhargava
prarit at sgi.com
Wed Apr 5 10:54:26 UTC 2006
David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 22:25 -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote:
>
>>I assume for the weekly snapshots of rawhide that you'll be putting
>>unique (eg date based) names on the isos so they can be readily
>>identified, else you're going to run into trouble tracking issues
>>across media sets.
>
>
> To be honest, I'm not convinced that weekly ISO builds are particularly
> useful -- we don't do that for rawhide on other architectures either.
> It's probably better just to encourage people to use rsync to keep up
> with rawhide, rather than downloading it all over again each week.
>
Unfortunately, it seems I have users who are unwilling to use yum, etc.,
in the short term. They would prefer weekly snapshots.
>
>> Do these isos correspond with FC5 or a random snapshot?
>
>
> Rawhide for about a week leading up to March 20th was identical to FC5
> in all but the 'fedora-release' package.
>
Yep -- I replaced fedora-release with the FC5 version in the images. I
didn't mention it because I didn't think it was that important :).
> Aside from the updates, the next task is building Extras and Livna for
> IA64, of course...
>
Whaddya think I'm working on? :)
P.
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