Re: Beta, snapshots, and really prerelease software

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Jon Stanley wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Would it be feasible to release the beta software as jigdo files and allow
frequent generation of a media to install at current level?

You can generate your own media with pungi. For detailed instructions
on doing this, see my blog post:

http://jons-thoughts.blogspot.com/2008/05/pungi-and-mock-for-fun-and-profit.html

I'll have to try that, probably in a week or two as other "try that" things get done. Thanks for the thought.

I currently locally store update packages and save some bandwidth that way,
but it's not the optimal solution.

Is that a local mirror that you keep updated via rsync? If so, then
just point pungi there and it will Just Work(TM).

No, it's based on two scripts and NFS. After the first install I set the yum.conf to keep the rpm files, and do an update. Then the first script copies any new rpms to the RPM server and deletes them. For the next upgrade I mount the previous RPM directory and run a script to create symlinks in /var/cache/yum to anything I already have downloaded. Then I upgrade again, save the RPMs, etc.

This came out of the desire to keep old versions of packages handy in case of need, and the complexity of having multiple repos since some machines use livna, or rawhide, or updates-testing, and I don't have to think about configuration.

I did the local mirror for a while, but there was a problem with createrepo, and I decided to simplify. This is easy to use, I can just save the RPM directory to DVD and everything works just as well on a non-networked machine.


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