On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 01:03 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:15:30 -0800, > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > even despite that, public testing of RCs can _sometimes_ be useful, but > > the problem is that if we publicise them any more than they're already > > publicised, the single server on which they're located will bog down and > > stop people who really need them from getting them fast enough. And > > given the time constraints, it's practically impossible to mirror or > > torrent them usefully. > > Would providing detailed documentation for people to build these images > using a small amount of data from releng and the rest from public (or local) > mirrors be worth the effort to set up? This is a higher bar than dealing > with a complete image and there may not be enough people who take advantage > of it to be worth the effort. I am also not sure if the process is repeatable > so as to get bit for bit accuracy from private spins. But it does seem there > should be a way to pull most of the data for the image from mirrors rather > than from releng's server. Jesse could answer that better; I don't know how secret sauce-y the image build process is. It is always worth posting the standard disclaimer we try and attach to all RC-y stuff: the only thing you need the RC builds for is testing the actual DVD/multi-CD composes, basically. If you just want to test the bits, you can use a nightly live image or Rawhide install. If you want to test the install process, you can do a network install from Rawhide, which - as you surmise - gets you all the same bits that are in the RCs, basically. I did do quite a lot of spinning my own *live* builds during the late stage of the release testing process, using the official desktop kickstart and the hourly repositories, which meant I could get what was basically an 'RC' live spin locally quite easily, using cached packages. I didn't try building my own DVD compose, though. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
