[arch-releng] RC2 ISOs and final release

[Raul Leal]

Installed the RC2 in a virtualbox machine, no showstoppers and all the bugs
(relating to the i686 iso) seem to have been fixed.

Thanks for the reply about hwdetect.


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009 21:36:09 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
> > > I just made a diff between archlinux-2009.02-RC2-core-i686.iso and
> > > archlinux-2009.02-RC2-core-i686.img. The resulting patch is only 1,2MB.
> > > (And yes, using the iso and that patch produces a img with the same
> > > md5sum)
> >
> > Wow this is getting complicated... so are you saying that we should
> > provide xdelta patches from ISO to USB image? What about from ftp ISO
> > to core ISO?
>
> Not really. My intention was just doing it for the testing releases to
> speed
> thing up. This should prevent things like "I have change a line in the
> installer, please download 2GB again and test :-)"
>
> > That seems like a lot more work for smaller benefit. In the future,
> > we're going to have a machine setup for building these and will host
> > the ISOs directly from there, so this transfer back and forth will be
> > nonexistent. Would the xdeltas still be useful at that point?
>
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