From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Prarit Bhargava Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:54:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: IA64 ISOs based on Fedora Core 5 Message-Id: <4433A1E2.5060308@sgi.com> 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 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.