From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:24:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: IA64 ISOs based on Fedora Core 5 Message-Id: <1144236255.6227.30.camel@pmac.infradead.org> List-Id: References: <44332325.8050207@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <44332325.8050207@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 06:54 -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > 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. They actually want to _reinstall_ weekly? Or do a full 'upgrade' weekly? Even so, they could quite happily do that from a normal rawhide mirror like everyone else does, rather than using ISO images. That just seems like a gratuitous waste of bandwidth to me -- for rawhide even more so than for the actual releases. > 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 :). The _real_ FC5 version -- doesn't that mean the updates repo is configured to point at a non-existent directory? > > Aside from the updates, the next task is building Extras and Livna for > > IA64, of course... > > Whaddya think I'm working on? :) :) -- dwmw2