On Saturday, June 18, 2011 05:31:00 PM Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:

Hello

@Dieter: Please ask if you need help for your helper scripts. @Sven: I fews days I will update the wiki. Please check the english grammar. Thanks.

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[archiso] Use dm-snapshot instead of aufs2 (A.K.A. "The Big Commit")

* Use device mapper + snapshot module, instead union layer filesystem. * A block-level approach vs vfs-level. * No more unofficial (Linux) things. * More memory is needed. * Refactor mkarchiso. * Refactor hooks/archiso. * Fix install/archiso_pxe_nbd (due recent change in mkinitcpio-0.6.15 on checked_modules()/all_modules()) [Thanks Dave for the improved workaround] * New configs/releng to build official images. * Works with a Bash script instead of Makefile. (better control and easy to maintain) * Remove configs/syslinux-iso. * Remove archiso2dual script. Integrate functionality in configs/releng. * New configs/baseline to build the most basic live medium or use as template. * New README (draft). [Thanks Dieter for fixing english grammar] --------------

Good Luck.

What does this mean for the general progress for a new release?

On Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:03:11 PM Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:

On 06/18/2011 08:20 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote:

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On Saturday, June 18, 2011 05:31:00 PM Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:

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Hello

@Dieter: Please ask if you need help for your helper scripts. @Sven: I fews days I will update the wiki. Please check the english grammar. Thanks.

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[archiso] Use dm-snapshot instead of aufs2 (A.K.A. "The Big Commit")

* Use device mapper + snapshot module, instead union layer filesystem.

* A block-level approach vs vfs-level. * No more unofficial (Linux) things. * More memory is needed.

* Refactor mkarchiso. * Refactor hooks/archiso. * Fix install/archiso_pxe_nbd

(due recent change in mkinitcpio-0.6.15 on

checked_modules()/all_modules()) [Thanks Dave for the improved workaround] * New configs/releng to build official images.

* Works with a Bash script instead of Makefile.

(better control and easy to maintain)

* Remove configs/syslinux-iso. * Remove archiso2dual script. Integrate functionality in configs/releng. * New configs/baseline to build the most basic live medium or use as template. * New README (draft). [Thanks Dieter for fixing english grammar] --------------

Good Luck.

What does this mean for the general progress for a new release?

There are no releases for archiso. Last release was 0.1 three years ago.

I'm talking about the images found here: http://www.archlinux.org/download/ We're long overdue for a new "snapshot" if you're going to be picky about semantics. This one is over a year old, and I don't know about other folks, but I've noticed it doesn't do so well anymore for setting up Arch installs without at least getting cfdisk updated during the live session. Lets not also forget that there have been a few fundamental changes to various parts of how Arch uses that the "current" image doesn't support that it really needs to. The "automatic network configuration" is broken now that networking in Archlinux has changed how it works, for example. So, I'm asking a simple question, with the dm-snapshot its being merged into the mainline releng, does this mean that we won't have to wait terribly much longer for a new image? Because, frankly, we could have easily soon two snapshots between the current one and the one that's being worked on now to at least keep an Arch system maintainable with official media. It is unfortunate that, because its a little over a year old, I can't rely on Arch's own installation media to aid in fixing issues I can't merely fix in a fallback initramfs boot. Am I making sense, now? I'm not really asking for an ETA. I knwo the rule on that. I'm just asking if this means we're simply going to see an actual snapshot release within the next month or so because of this merge.

On 06/19/2011 01:29 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:31:00 -0300 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:

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@Sven: I fews days I will update the wiki. Please check the english grammar. Thanks. which page are you talking about? This: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:20:33 -0500 Yaro Kasear wrote:

I'm talking about the images found here: http://www.archlinux.org/download/

We're long overdue for a new "snapshot" (...)

The "automatic network configuration" is broken now that networking in Archlinux has changed how it works, for example.

reported bug? provided patch?

So, I'm asking a simple question, with the dm-snapshot its being merged into the mainline releng, does this mean that we won't have to wait terribly much longer for a new image?

nope, nothing to do with it. in fact this is disruptive and may cause some regressions.

Because, frankly, we could have easily soon (...blah blah)

There are way too few contributions, if things go as they are going now, we might see a new release at the end of the year, or next year. If more people in the community would contribute bugfixes the process could go quicker. Dieter