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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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[arch-releng] 2009.08-RC1 snapshot images for public testing
by Gerhard Brauer 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, We're close to releasing new official Arch installation media. The release date is planned latest on 09. August 2009, but we like to have pacman 3.3 on the snapshots if possible. These media will bring *a lot* of new things, so we would like some broader testing. The most important changes since 2009.02: - usage of new AIF installer - better disk editor with support for dm_crypt and lvm setups - support for automated installations (deprecates quickinst) - aufs instead of unionfs - smarter, faster, better boot device detection (esp. for usb users) - better date/time setting - refactored grub installation routines - and more... To test this, you can try many things: - the interactive and automatic procedures. - net & cd-based installations - usb vs cd-rom images, isolinux vs grub. We would like to have the following tested: - time/timezone setting with UTC and localtime - If the boot device gets detected properly during archiso boot hook - grub bootloader installation - If USB images detect the USB controller properly Our bugtracker: http://bugs.archlinux.org/proj6 Mailing list: http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-releng New installation guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Official_Arch_Linux_Insta… You can get the RC's from: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ We currently set up also a torrent tracker. If ready we will also post the torrent file-links here to relieve build.archlinux.org. Happy testing! Archlinux Release Team

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[arch-releng] Make RC images more public?
by Gerhard Brauer 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, according to our time plan we would build the RC images tomorrow. Should we announce these RC images more public than only here on the ML? This means on the bbs. One problem doing this is the download by interested people. We could IMHO not push all this images over our normal mirrors (this would harm them to go out of sync). A alternative is download with torrents (were sigurd could be the tracker and also a feeder). Therefor we could build for the RC-testing only 4 images: core.iso/.img for i686 and x86_64 = 4 images. Public testing may give uns more feedback than we have it with our alpha/beta images (which were very few...) Your opinions? Gerhard

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[arch-releng] squash FS error sometimes on ISOs
by Gerhard Brauer 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, if i build local ISOs here on my machine (x86_64) i sometimes could not boot the ISOs cause the generated squashfs files are corrupted. When building the ISO again it works. I have checked my RAM for several hours without a problem... Have you noticed such errors also on ISO building? The errors: http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/tmp/1.png http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/tmp/2.png If we may have a problem with mksquashfs then we have to recheck all images we build. On sigurd this would be mainly the final images, we have to downlaod them all and test if they boot fine before make the release... Gerhard

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[arch-releng] Additional packages on Live/Install images?
by Gerhard Brauer 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hi, from some requests/mails we should discuss if we add these additional packages to the Live/Install image environment: * rsync * netcfg netcfg could be usefull to setup mainly a wireless internet connection for netinstall users (who not familar with iwconfig or wpa_supplicant). Also a hint on vi: vi in [testing] (050325-1) chnages the behavior of vi more to the basic vi. As vi editor, have we an alternative? vim is too big IMHO (dependencies)... Otherwise IMHO vi 050325-1 is ok... rsync as a rescue, maintenance tool. This package of cource could always be installed via pacman, but one have to establish a internet connection. Both packages don't increase the images size too big, so my opinions were to add them to 2009.08. What do you mean? FYI: I attatch a list of current used packages. Our policy is not to add too many packages, above all when they could be installed easy later via pacman. Currently i686 and x86_64 list don't differ. Gerhard

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[arch-releng] 2009.08 snaphots time plan (FYI)
by Gerhard Brauer 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hi, we currently announced 2009.08-beta1 [1]. Our time plan (if we don't get any showstopper) to RC and final release is: 2009.08-RC on Monday, 3. August 2009 2009.08 Final latest on 9. August 2009 I've build a iso with testing repo enabled to see if we get any problem with packages current in testing but maybe on the release in core/extra - but all seems to work fine. But if you plan other transitions before release date (or if you see anything what could break the images) please hold them back until the release is done. Or leave a reply to us... Open issues for the release which belongs to core/extra packages: ------------- FS#15378 - mkinitcpio does not load usb module Also we wait on initscripts 2009.07-3 (and related packages) enter to core to solve a problem witch hwclock syncing during liveCD shutdown. Regards Gerhard [1] Oh, mail isn't still in mailarchive... See later http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-July/thread.html

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[arch-releng] 2009.08-beta1
by Gerhard Brauer 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hi, we build a new set of ISOs/USB-images for testing by YOU. This is the last set before the RC (and hopefully the Final). Main changes: * New method to detect the boot device with the install medium during boot. This will made the usbdelay parameter obsolete. We also have not not mount each blockdevice to detect the install medium. (Thanks again, Thomas(brain0)) * Grub bootloader setup is refactored so it works with soft raid * Automatic generation of HOOKS in mkinitcpio.conf and correct lines in menu.lst for fancy setups (lvm and dm_crypt, and both) 2009.08-beta1 could be downloaded and tested from here: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ 2009.08-beta1 should fix following reports: FS#15438 - [aif] pacman fails when using a static IP in interactive FS#13610 - Installing from USB flash drive stalls. FS#15725 - _dia_ask_number() & _cli_ask_number() call show_warning with one arg. FS#13237 - Copying manual network configuration to rc.conf FS#15679 - tell user about editing HOOKS in rc.conf and grub kernel line if using dm_crypt FS#15652 - grub install fail on raid1 software raid FS#13079 - USB images - why did we need usbdelay? FS#13053 - Do not mount all filesystem while looking for the ArchISO image FS#10831 - 2008.06-USB boot parameter to specify root directory FS#14587 - Rename FTP install to WEB/NET install And some small fixes and patches that have no corresponding tickets (thanks Matthias Dienstbier!) Open issues for 2009.08-RC can be found here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/roadmap/proj6 Final ToDo things before Release: * pending tickets * Documentation To document the necessary modifications in "Official Installation Guide" during switch to AIF. See: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-July/000568.html Regards and happy testing Archlinux Releng Team

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Re: [arch-releng] 2009.08 alpha2
by Gerhard Brauer 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

Am Donnerstag, den 23.07.2009, 22:24 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae: > Then again, grep is not in > [testing] so maybe that is an old note! We put grep into own repo cause the main mirror on sigurd was (and is) not full synced and we want to get rid off from the grep -w problem. For the alpha2 images grep 2.5.4-3 is available from the main mirror so we could remove this package from own repo.. Short: alpha2 has grep 2.5.4-3 > Allan Gerhard

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[arch-releng] Archiso patch (FS#10831)
by Gerhard Brauer 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

[PATCH] Label creation on ISO and USB images Base modification to enable boot device mounting on Label instead of mounting each blockdevice in archiso hook. Thomas would implement the needed modifications in the hook. We have then also to modify the grub/isolinux cmdline to parse the current LABEL into initrd. Gerhard

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[arch-releng] 2009.08 test plan
by Dieter Plaetinck 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Here is a page that lists in order how you can check certain bugs, so that you can check many things as little testruns as possible. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:testplan Dieter

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