[arch-releng] RC2 ISOs and final release

[Alexander De Sousa]

Ok, here are my reports:

Tests: As for other images + manual network configuration.
Machines: As for other images (VirtualBox machines, VMware machines, real
machines).

Images tested (SHA-1 sums verified):

archlinux-2009.02-RC2-core-i686.iso 16A77C07C252A21379D057DEB5D6F4D75039B946
archlinux-2009.02-RC2-core-x86_64.iso
C730DC90FEF25EAA6BDD0A5431BCBB5935B3B613
archlinux-2009.02-RC2-ftp-i686.iso 6ABA5F14B6BAC9E8DD7962EE4544D8F5FBFCA7C5
archlinux-2009.02-RC2-ftp-i686-isolinux.iso
763971A32554ADA562906707BC70E3C5DD45814F
archlinux-2009.02-RC2-ftp-x86_64.iso
3C7D8697AC1CAB71FC23B0060B726EB6CFF67050
archlinux-2009.02-RC2-ftp-x84_64-isolinux.iso
2135A6AEAEE9C359A9D523660BDA767CADACA152

Bugs:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12896 : Couldn't test, it's for USB images.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12949 : Corrected, it was also corrected in
RC1 by the way. (disc capacity)
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13038 : Corrected. (vc/n typo)
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13057 : "Corrected" as grub-gfx is up to date
with patches. (grub-install from outside the installed system)
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13068 : Corrected "long" ago. (updated
grub-gfx for x86_64)
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13070 : Corrected, it was also corrected in
RC1 by the way. (grub-gfx installed instead of grub)
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13101 : Corrected. (timezone not written in
rc.conf)
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13102 : Corrected, /etc/localtime does exist
and no "last mount time is in the future message". ()
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13140 : "Corrected" I guess, it looks good to
me; though I've never used it. (documentation)

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13237 : This one is new:

If you choose to configure network manually (by entering IP, net mask,
broadcast IP, ...) and then you choose to use that settings in the installed
system, the setup script may not update correctly the broadcast IP and even
give an invalid one. This happens when use any IP with at least one of the
bytes different from the default one (e.g. 192.168.8.2, which would give an
incorrect broadcast IP) or with more than 8 digits (e.g. 192.168.0.27, would
give an invalid broadcast IP). I attach a patch to the setup script to solve
it.

Notes:

 - If the release is going to be numbered 2009.02 the isolinux images have
to be rebuilded for consistency, 2009.01 appears in the boot screen.
 - Now in rc.conf if you use local time it appears HARDWARECLOCK="local"
instead of HARDWARECLOCK="localtime". Just if you didn't realized, in case
"localtime" is needed for something. I know rc.sysinit uses it, but it's
always in an "else" branch, so no problems there.
 - In the checksums file core and ftp images (i686 and x86_64) are
duplicated and with different sums. Shall I test the last ones? What have
changed?

-- 
Alexander