[arch-releng] A TODO draft for next installation media.

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:50:17 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I am writing a kind of draft of things that I think that should be
> kept in mind for the next release:
> 
> * Release archiso (2010.02) with the current [core],  the previous 
> intent was for 2009.12. (I guess this will be the last release with 
> mkinitcpio based on klibc)
> * Merge the all pending changes to archiso from Svenstaro [#1]
> * Merge the all pending changes to archiso from me [#2]
> * Make an updated aif package with latest fixes.
> * Make all four hybrid ISO images core-{i686,x86_64} and 
> net-{i686,x86_64} (images for testing)
> * Update the very very old "archiso" package in extra at this point.
> * ISOs should be uploaded after KDE SC 4.4 hits extra to avoid mirror 
> issues.
> * Any other things? Please add it.
> 
> I recently builded an "archiso-2010.02" on i686 without any issues,
> boot fine on KVM in both modes (as disk and as cdrom).
> When all this is done, a branch ""kill-klibc"" can be created in 
> archiso, for working with new mkinitcpio 0.6. (I made some testings 
> here, with a trivial patch [#3] [#4]).
> Also a dual-arch ISO can be started for next archiso release.
> 
> 
> All comments are welcomed. Good luck!
> 
> 
> 
> [#1] http://github.com/Svenstaro/archiso-lglive
> [#2] http://github.com/djgera/archiso/tree/djgera
> [#3] 
> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2010-February/000797.html
> [#4] http://github.com/djgera/archiso/tree/experimental
> 

Thanks for following up.
note that the new images will be isolinux based. not grub.
i don't have much spare time anymore lately so i've been slacking on
this stuff.  luckily a new release should now be much less work then it
was before.
I would like to switch to a more iterative scheme where we continuously
build new "testing" isos (ie a weekly or daily crontab) and recommend
users to try them out. and every once in a while, we could support a
specific version of the iso.

Gerhard and I have already setup a build environment on sigurd, so all
i need to do -i think- is update the chroot and install the latest
archiso from git. or should i wait a bit for all patches being
integrated in archiso git? and get the iso's publicly available. (we
discussed this a few times (mirrors et al) but i forgot the outcome)
note: i'm not interested in investing my time in archiso internals, i
know how to use it to build isos but for making it work I rely on
patches from you guys (actually on Aaron, as only he can merge them in
afaik).

and i need to merge in some patches for aif (such as those from thomas,
but others also) and do a new aif release.

once new iso's are built i expect the community to (also) test them.
Gerhard and I have done a huge amount of test installations the
previous times and I don't want to go through that again.

Dieter