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[arch-releng] i'm taking some days off
by Dieter Plaetinck 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi guys, i'm taking some days off: thursday 13 - sunday 16th of august I'll be in France. 17-18 august I have off days but will probably be at home @ dev duties: I only maintain 1 package, and I'm both the upstream and downstream for it so I don't think there are much problems there ;-) (aif) @ releng: with 2009.08 behind us, i don't expect much problems. And there is no problem that Gerhard cannot solve The weekend after it I'll be at froscon in Germany where I will meet some of you guys and drink beer with my buddy Gerhard B. see http://dieter.plaetinck.be/Arch_Linux_2009.08_and_Froscon_2009 for a tiny bit more info Dieter

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[arch-releng] 2009.08 release announcement draft
by Dieter Plaetinck 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hello Arch community, We hereby present you the 2009.08 snapshot images These images are the first fruits of our new arch-releng build environment on the sevenL server. They are built from a current snapshot of core, including kernel 2.6.30.4-1, udev 141-5 and pacman 3.3.0-2. Changes compared to 2009.02: - more up-to-date software (see above) - usage of new AIF installer, which brings: * better disk editor with support for dm_crypt and lvm setups * support for automated installations using config files (deprecates quickinst) * a framework to build your own installation procedures * better date/time setting with ntp support * refactored grub installation routines * usability improvements - aufs instead of unionfs - smarter, faster, better boot device detection (esp. for usb users) <-- can someone phrase this more professionally? < did i forget anything? i probably did. please think long and hard> - bugfixes (xfs freeze, mirror setting, clock correctness, network settings, ...) - and much more... See <wiki page to release info> for a detailed package list. A detailed list of closed tickets: http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=&project=6&due[]=59&due[]=67&due… As you can see, just like with 2009.02 there have been some huge changes. We should be more settled now and hopefully it will be more straightforward to build snapshots in the future. Time will tell ;-). As usual, the images come in iso and img flavors, with grub and isolinux for people <insert link to FS ticket here>whose cd-rom drive doesn't work with grub</a> Due to all mentioned changes, the <a href="http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide">installation guide</a> has also been overhauled. The new guide is for now only available in English but We'll add other versions when we receive translated versions.

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[arch-releng] Last ToDos on 2009.08 final
by Gerhard Brauer 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Hi, current state is: * Isos/Images are built and working, tested * Torrents are working and tested (include webseeds) * The images have started syncing to the mirrors (this process is ugly slow and jumbled, there are very few mirrors which currently have all images) ToDos for us on the switch 2009.02 -> 2009.08: * conclude the Announce draft on 2009.08, make it a final and official announce. * make the announce (today or - from the mirror situation - better Monady?) * switch the "latest" symlink in iso dir from 2009.02 to 2009.08, this have to be reflect on the mirrors also. * After announce and symlink switch: control the Download webpage if all links, text is now for 2009.08. Special: the "ftp.iso/img" is now named "netinstall.iso/img"!!! Also keep an eye on the torrent links. Have I forgot something? Gerhard

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[arch-releng] Build of 2009.08 finished
by Gerhard Brauer 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hi, i have built the 2009.08 images. As mentioned in other mail we should test all images if they boot a last, to avoid build errors. The images could be found in /home/archiso/images. Dieter will test the i686 images (usb+iso). Myself the x86_64 images (usb+iso) After we verified that all are fine we should bring the images to our mirrors ASAP. I also have build the torrent files, i have to verify that these are fine, update the whitelist and test if seeding/tracking is ok. If so, we could use our downloaded images from the tests above as seeds. Gerhard

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[arch-releng] {{Article summary text}} template on mediawiki
by Dieter Plaetinck 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

I'm having problems with the {{Article summary text}} template on our wiki. Try: git clone git://github.com/Dieterbe/aif.git checkout experimental branch install the markdown package from aur. then in the aif directory, run ./make-doc.sh look at docs/official_install_guide_en.html, the part that goes: {{Article summary text| <some text here> }} for some reason, if you put that on the wiki ( http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Official_Arch_Linux_Insta…) the summary (upper right corner) just becomes '{{1}}'. By compressing the text and removing some links I can usually make it work, but of course it would be nice to have the links. And I'm not sure what exactly causes this problem. Does anyone know any inherent limitations of the {{Article summary text}} template or other things i should be aware of? even if i check that the links are in wiki format and don't span multiple lines it doesn't work... Dieter

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[arch-releng] ToDo: 2009.08 Final
by Gerhard Brauer 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi, seems we have (also after the public RC1 test announce) no blockers for final release of 2009.08. We planned this latest on 09. August 2009. To give the mirrors and torrent seeders a chance to relieve our servers, i plan to build the images tomorrow (Saturday, early on my localtime). I keep them in /home/archiso/images. The announce could be made then on Sunday or latest Monday(10. August morning). What we have to do: ------------------------ * Write the announcement(draft) for 2009.08 (Dieter, Aaron ?) * IMHO we should test all images at last if they boot. To speed up this we could split this on several people, maybe we split it for testing: all i686 ISOs: Tester = ??? all x86_64 ISOs: Tester = Gerhard all USB-Images: Tester = ??? If no other testers are available, i try myself to test as many as possible. * Move the images directly after build (and test) to gerolde so the mirror sync could be started. (Aaron ?) * I also could make the *.torrent files according to the last mailed workflow, a admin has to add the hashsums to opentracker whitelist. It would help if archiso group member could edit the opentracker whitelist file, maybe we add a group opentracker or torrent and add %archiso members? (Gerhard ?) * Also the RC1 hashes have to be removed from opentracker whitelist and from public download dir on sigurd. (Gerhard ?) Minor things: ------------------- * Make actual packages of archiso and aif for extra repo according to the state we used on this snapshot. Gerhard

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Re: [arch-releng] New installation guide: translators, start your engines!
by Dieter Plaetinck 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:01:37 -0500 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter(a)plaetinck.be> wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:13:12 -0500 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hmmm I like the idea of having translated guides on the install disk. > >> I mean, what happens if someone cant get on the network but still > >> wants to install with the core CD. They wouldn't be able to read the > >> installation guide > > > > They would still have the english one? > > Is this acceptable? I only speak english, so I'm not sure what kind of > barrier this is. How common is it to have people who know zero english > installing arch and need guidance? My guess is that the amount of people who don't understand english reasonably well is 'quite' to 'very' small. But of course that's not a reason to ignore them. Maybe we should do a poll on AL.org or something? "Is english-only documentation OK for you?" "to measure is to know".. But still, I think having a package that pulls various useful guides from one or more online resources (al.org wiki, al.de wiki,..) and puts it in a "arch-community-doc" package we can install on iso's would be quite useful. If we put it in core then people can install it on their freshly installed system as well. I really don't see much disadvantages here. Dieter

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[arch-releng] New installation guide
by Dieter Plaetinck 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

So, we decided to write the install guide in markdown and keep it in git together with aif. it will be available on the images, as well as on the arch website (we still need to figure out a good way how to do that though. seems like the markdown plugins for our wiki give security problems) Anyway, here is the new version http://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/blob/experimental/doc/official_installation_… (formatted as plaintext, if you want to see it rendered, copy paste it into http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus ) known issues: - id attributes don't work (seems like this is not possible unless you use html in markdown :((. this is needed to make the links from the TOC work) - alignment TOC not correct. Please review this file. One part that is left largely untouched is the explanation for all files & options in the "configure system" section. It seems a bit overkill to me to try to document every option for every file, so I just left it like it was. Dieter

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[arch-releng] Torrent tracker
by Aaron Griffin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

So I setup (with the help of Pierre) a torrent tracker on sigurd, located at tracker.archlinux.org Pierre has pointed his tracker DNS to ours, so it should be our single tracker now. It is setup with a whitelist, so an admin needs to add the torrent hash if new additions are necessary. The torrent hash can be sniffed from a torrent file using `transmissioncli -i FILENAME` As of right now it's tracking whatever the archlinux.de tracker had (archboot ISOs mostly) and the official RC1 ISOs. Let me know if you have any questions or issues. - Aaron PS I'm seeding the RC1 ISOs from home

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[arch-releng] How to create a torrent for the ISO
by Pierre Schmitz 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi engineers, thanks to a new version of mktorrent it is now easy to create webseed enabled torrents. I have updated my wrapper script to use this instead of my evil ktorrent hack. This script can be found at http://git.archlinux.de/archlinux-torrent-utils/plain/mktorrent-archlinux You will need kmtorrent from http://mktorrent.sourceforge.net/; there is also a PKGBUILD. I would suggest to install this on sigurd and also the opentracker on it. This way the releng team can create those torrents right on the server and will also be able to add those to the trackers whitelist. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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