RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Andre Robatino]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> disos adds complexity.  A lot of complexity, from the generation side to
> the consumption side.  Where the isos are generated there isn't easy
> access to the old isos, and often rsync is much easier to manage (as
> long as the rsync master isn't being bombarded with tonnes of requests)
> to get an ongoing RC set updated enough to continue tests.

On the consumption side, running the applydeltaiso command is very 
simple - anyone sophisticated enough to be a good tester should be able 
to handle it.  The man page is about 2/3 of a screen.  On the generation 
side, all that's needed is for someone with access to the RC server to 
run the makedeltaiso command once for each ISO.  The number is small 
enough that it can be done manually.  If I wanted to, I could download 
every one of them, generate the diso, then upload them to a file hosting 
service as I did with the 32- and 64-bit DVD images.  It's tedious and 
time-consuming since I have to do the down/uploading, which wouldn't be 
necessary for someone with direct access to the server.

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