[arch-dev-public] [draft] Install media 2012.08.04 released

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 02:20:41AM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 08/04/2012 01:06 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> > The August snapshot of our live and install media comes with updated
> > packages and the following changes on top of the <a
> > href="https://www.archlinux.org/news/install-media-20120715-released/">previous
> > iso image</a>:
> > <ul>
> > <li>GRUB 2.0 instead of the legacy 0.9 version is available.</li>
> > <li>The <a
> > href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide">Installation
> > Guide</a> can be found at /root/install.txt</li>
> > <li>ZSH with GRML's config is used as interactive shell to provide a
> > user friendly and more convenient environment. This includes completion
> > support for pacstrap, arch-chroot, pacman and most other tools.</li>
> > <li>The network daemon is started by default which will automatically
> > setup your network when dhcp is available.</li>
> > </ul>
> > Note that all these changes only affect the live system and not the
> > base system you install using pacstrap.
> > 
> > ---
> > Any thing I missed here or unclear? Let me know. So far we are ready to
> > go; archiso has been updated and I pushed a package into [extra]. The
> > only thing missing is a small patch for arch-chroot that should be
> > applied: http://paste.xinu.at/ktF/
> > 
> > It's only been 20 days since the last release, but I'd like to move to
> > a schedule where a new iso is released at the beginning (first week) of
> > a month. It's still quite a list of changes; not even mentioned a few
> > changes to archiso and the install scripts.
> > 
> 
> Why not follow the kernel release? The iso is much more useful having
> the latest kernel available.
> 

I've not seen us ever push a .0 kernel into [core] and you'd like to see
it on an ISO? You'll get 3.5 next month.

d