On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:33 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > Great work and good idea with the torrent-only distribution, very > efficient. Thank you. > Also thank you for calling it unofficial. Anything else would just be wrong :) > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159087 > You may want to look into backporting some of the more important fixes > in order to avoid some of the nastier install problems of FC4. While those most certainly are interesting bugs, I currently have no idea where to start looking to fix these. If anyone have directions or even better: patches or rpms then please send them to me. > http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/1398/ > As for the kernel I personally think 1398 is far less problematic for > most folks than 1447. I copied all of the 1398 kernels for you here if > you want to try that instead. Or maybe you should wait for a better new > FC4 update kernel to hit the official tree. I'll have to have a look at these on Monday. All my computers are packed up in boxes ready to be moved to my new house. A recommendation and maybe future dialog with the kernel packager could come in handy here. > Since you will probably be respinning several times as you incorporate > more bug fixes, you may want to use X.Y.Z versioned filenames with a > separate changelog page on your website to explain what changed without > users needing to download the entire torrent to find out. In your > respins try to focus on issues that screw up the install process. All > other bugs in the distribution are easily fixed with up2date or yum > after and far less important. As this was basicly a test to see how much effort this kind of thing would need, I made this first release as simple as possible. Just stock update rpms, nothing fancy yet. My next step is to backtrace the steps I did, and analyze how to best script this. There was a lot of trial-and-error, manual labor and a whole lot of reading code just to understand what the different utils were doing. With good scripts I might also make more than just i386 images if there is enough interest in the current release. Then _IF_ I get too much spare time on my hands I'll attempt to write a script that will generate a full changelog of all changed rpms by parsing the changelog data of the rpms and comparing. Have a good weekend people! -HK -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
