From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Nasrat Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:16:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: IA64 ISOs based on Fedora Core 5 Message-Id: <1144239409.12268.34.camel@enki.eridu> 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: > 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. Really having done this for ppc, and also working on anaconda - I'd heartily recommend using NFS and tracking rawhide. With NFS it's trivial to drop in an RHupdates to fix up issues, with isos it becomes much harder. Paul