On Mon March 3 2008 15:12:21 Jonathan Dieter wrote: > This is just a heads up to those that are interested that it doesn't > look like we'll be able to get FeaturePresto done in time for Beta > freeze. We haven't moved forward a whole lot from where we were six > months ago when we realized that we were going to miss the F8 Beta > freeze. To quickly recap what's done... > > * the yum-presto plugin works completely fine and has had no reported > fatal (i.e. yum breaks) bugs in the last six months or so. > * The test server has been generating deltarpms for F7 (i386, x86_64) > and F8 (i386) for the last eight or nine months. The only problems > we've hit here have been when the master mirror has had problems. > Approximately 200 people are using yum-presto with F8 and have set > their baseurl to the test server. > > ...and what's not: > > * Build-system integration. I'll be blunt. I just can't do it. It's > not so much programming ability (though I'm definitely not at the > buildsys guys' levels), but that I don't have the resources (time, > ability to test on working buildsystem, etc). > > So I'm going to step back from FeaturePresto. Build-system integration > of presto will require someone who more familiar with the system. > Before Beta freeze, I'll push presto-utils-0.5, which will contain a > daemon that will take xml-rpc input calls to generate deltarpms, and I'm > also going to try to push yum-presto-0.5. I will continue to maintain > the test server as long as my school will pay for it. > > I want to thank Jeremy, Warren, Luke and Mike for the time they've spent > helping me with all this. If there was ever a case of pearls before > swine, this was probably it. > > Jonathan Well its a real sad state of affairs that the fedora decision makers can't see the value in reducing everyones network footprint by default. I guess its just not sexy enuff. ...dex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
