On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:23:25 +0000 dexter <dex.mbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Decision makers can't make people code faster. If you think it's that sexy, offer to help code around the buildsys integration issues. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
