Re: Full, current F18 tree to rsync?

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On 10/26/2012 10:20 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Cole Robinson (crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
>>>> Up until recently this was a full install tree, including the images/
>>>> subdir. This makes it easy to use the tree for PXE (like using
>>>> cobbler import) or URL installs in virt-manager.
>>>>
>>>> Now, though, current trees only have Packages/ repodata/ and drpms/
>>>> subdirs. (occasionally accessing that URL dumps me at a mirror with a
>>>> full install tree, but it was last synced on October 16 so obviously
>>>>
>>>> Is the change intentional? If so, why? And is there some place to
>>>> still rsync a full install tree?
>>>
>>> It's been broken the last few days. See: 
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5377
>>>
>>> The previous issue was fixed, but something further is going on now... 
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the link. I only assumed it wasn't temp brokenness since rawhide
>> trees similarly lack images/:
>>
>> http://mirror.steadfast.net/fedora/development/rawhide/x86_64/os/
>>
>> Anyone know why that is? any recommendations if I want to try pxe booting/URL
>> VM install of rawhide anaconda after F18 GA?
> 
> It has been intentional that rawhide doesn't produce images, because (at
> least in the past), it wasn't even remotely expected to work, so it would generally
> cause a lot of bug reports where the response is 'yes, it's broken, we'll
> get to that later'. So image generation is turned off in rawhide.
> 
> If people want it turned back on, we can do so; it's a script change.
> Obviosly doesn't mean they'll magically start working.
> 

Nah, given that it was turned off deliberately it sounds like it should stay
that way. I was just curious.

Thanks,
Cole

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