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[arch-releng] Beta2 ISOs uploading
by Aaron Griffin 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/archiso/ Uploading now. If you see the SHA1SUMS file, it will all be complete. I fixed as many bugs as I could, including: * inability to boot USB images: use the rootdelay param. We may need some tweaking before final release here. Ideas welcome * x86_64 images installing i686 systems (whoops) * new mkinitcpio fixes USB keyboard issues Still Pending: * new AIF package. * others?

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[arch-releng] flyspray shows my nickname next to other users' names
by Dieter Plaetinck 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

http://users.edpnet.be/dieter/flyspray.png why does it say "Dieter_be" next to all these people? I have this on every ticket, for every comment :/ Dieter

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[arch-releng] Quick ISO building HOWTO
by Aaron Griffin 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter(a)plaetinck.be> wrote: > Aaron/Gerhard, can you share with us exactly how you build the iso's? So > everyone can do it... > (I would like to document this on the wiki too, I couldn't find a > tutorial/wiki page/manpage) > > What I have: > * git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git > * cd archiso/archiso > * sudo make install > (all of this to be replaced with 'pacman -Sy archiso' when a new archiso > release is done, which is planned after 2009-01 release) > > cd ../configs/install-iso > sudo make all-iso (or ftp-iso, or core-iso) Correct! > questions: > 1) any specific requirements on /etc/pacman.conf? (related to > settings/available repos?) > 2) how do you build iso's with only core or with core+testing available? by > just (un)commenting testing from /etc/pacman.conf? mkarchiso uses your system's pacman.conf, so whatever is enabled there is enabled in the ISO. To build official ISOs we should disable testing before building. > 3) assuming that the relevant repositories are frozen, if I build an iso on > my system, and someone else builds the iso on his system, will the iso's > match perfectly? (eg same md5sums) Well, the md5sums probably won't match. I imagine something injects dates or something of the sort - tar does, I know. > I think it would be useful in the future we build locally first and test it, > and then instead of uploading to gerolde, we can just rebuild it there? Testing is always preferred. Part of the reason I have been uploading them without testing is simply that I have little time at home. It is easy for me to ssh and run "make all" and then scp them, so others can test, but it's hard for me to test remotely.

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[arch-releng] [Installer PATCH] Corrected false mirrorlist generating on ftp install
by Gerhard Brauer 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

From 91ab9cee8da0165119b640b0e54eb78097c57beb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerhard Brauer <gerbra(a)archlinux.de> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:54:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 8/8] Corrected false mirrorlist generating on ftp install On ftp install the seleced mirror has "core" hardcoded in URL instead of $repo, which is the correct syntax when the mirror goes to the pacman.d/mirrorlist file during configuration. This will fix FS#12944 but is only a quick fix. We will handle this better in new installer. Signed-off-by: Gerhard Brauer <gerbra(a)archlinux.de> --- setup | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/setup b/setup index c676396..40d367c 100755 --- a/setup +++ b/setup @@ -1273,7 +1273,8 @@ configure_system() # /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # add installer-selected mirror to the top of the mirrorlist if [ "$MODE" = "ftp" -a "${SYNC_URL}" != "" ]; then - awk "BEGIN { printf(\"# Mirror used during installation\nServer = "${SYNC_URL}"\n\n\") } 1 " "${DESTDIR}/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" > /tmp/inst-mirrorlist + SEL_MIRROR=$(echo "${SYNC_URL}" | sed s/core/\$repo/g) + awk "BEGIN { printf(\"# Mirror used during installation\nServer = "${SEL_MIRROR}"\n\n\") } 1 " "${DESTDIR}/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" > /tmp/inst-mirrorlist mv /tmp/inst-mirrorlist "${DESTDIR}/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" fi -- 1.6.1.1

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[arch-releng] Pending issues for release
by Aaron Griffin 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Just wanted to see what we're still expecting for getting this release out. I have a few changes I just pushed: * More advanced USB delay which should work far better than the crappy rootdelay addition I made * Additional help text added to the grub help menu * Added Release Notes to the grub menu Pending: * Release a new AIF package Any pending bugs? I'm out of here for a few hours, back later to wrap this all up

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[arch-releng] CDs and USB-Image integrity checking
by Grigorios Bouzakis 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Please supply some kind of integrity checking for later releases in order to avoid problems regarding such issues. -- Greg

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Re: [arch-releng] [arch-dev] 2009.01 Alpha ISOs
by Aaron Griffin 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Hugo Doria <hugodoria(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I used this new iso to install on my laptop and it does not create the > devices on /etc/fstab. There is no "/" entry there. When booting i get > a lot of "cant find / in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab" I haven't noticed this, though it has been a few iterations since I fully went through the install. Gerhard, have you experienced this? > * AIF does not works. This is known. I screwed it up when moving files in the package. > * There is no pt_BR keyboard layout on Grub Settings -> Keyboard; Please provide one, I will include it. > * There's only two categories on "Select Packages". Base and > base-devel. And there are some packages with categorie "None"; This is new. I'll look into it

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[arch-releng] [PATCH] Add a sleep period to settle usb drives
by Gerhard Brauer 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Hello, maybe this could help us on the usb images... It's not ideally, but before we have a problem on the 2009.01 usb images? Gerhard A quick fix for 2009.01 on FS#12896. Only work around the problem, does not be a real solution. Signed-off-by: Gerhard Brauer <gerbra(a)archlinux.de> --- archiso/hooks/archiso | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/archiso/hooks/archiso b/archiso/hooks/archiso index f015620..7e4b755 100644 --- a/archiso/hooks/archiso +++ b/archiso/hooks/archiso @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ run_hook () done if [ ${found} -eq 0 ]; then - msg ":: Scanning usb drives..." + msg ":: Waiting and scanning for usb drives..." + # quick fix for FS#12896, we should investgate the udevadm trigger/settle part above! + sleep 8 for usb in /dev/sd[a-z][0-9]; do [ ! -e "${usb}" ] && continue if mount -r -t vfat "${usb}" /bootmnt >/dev/null 2>&1 ||\ -- 1.6.1

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[arch-releng] Bittorrent with webseeds
by Pierre Schmitz 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Hi engineers, while creating a torrent with Ktorrent I noticed an option called webseeds. I have found the following site dealing with this feature: http://getright.com/seedtorrent.html In short: adding several webseed url the client will not only downlaod pieces from other pears but from ordinary http or ftp mirrors. This should increase the initial speed a lot and even if the user cannot use bittorrent due to firewall restriction, he still can download from several mirrors at the same time. I would like to try this out with our new iso; what do you think about it? Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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[arch-releng] ArchISO ftp installation IMG
by Grigorios Bouzakis 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

I made an entry on the flyspray regarding my experiences. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12938 The USB seems fixed in http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/iso/test-usb/archlinux-2009.01-1-ftp-i686… Greg

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