[arch-releng] Bittorrent with webseeds

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:52:46 +0100
Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:57:19 +0100
> Gerhard Brauer <gerbra at archlinux.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:20:03 +0100
> > schrieb Gerhard Brauer <gerbra at archlinux.de>:
> > 
> > > Am Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:28:02 -0600
> > > schrieb Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> > > 
> > > > Gerhard, could you possibly build some of the ISOs? Is
> > > > everything in order? I am adding dmraid to the package list
> > > > right now.
> > > > 
> > > > I won't be home until late tonight (now + 6 or 7 hours), and I
> > > > can get to building then - I'm actually building the grub based
> > > > ISOs now (yay ssh and screen).
> > > 
> > > Yes, sure. I build today (Sat.) all i686 ISOs and upload them to 
> > > http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/iso/
> > > I try also building the i686 USB images (never tried this). SO you
> > > could pick up what you need.
> > > I start building the isolinux images when you say: i build grub
> > > ISOs.
> > 
> > OK, I've built the i686 ISOs and uploaded them.
> > From my view this could be the final ISOs (dmraid is added, newest
> > mkinitcpio is on board, they all boot...)
> 
> Hey uhm.. I've just discovered a quite big bug in aif:  it used the
> live pacman at some point instead of the one for the target system
> without doing pacman -Sy first, while pacman -Sy is done (only) for
> the target system.
> 
> Two options:
> 1) we don't rebuild and keep the isos like they are.  aif will break
> during installation in all cases, unless the user intervenes manually
> and does a "pacman -Sy" in a terminal somewhere between configuring
> the network and selecting the packages.  (note that you need a working
> internet connection during installation)
> 2) i've fixed the code, retagged it (2009.01.24) and retested. it
> works now.  if ok for you guys: Aaron, can you update your
> PKGBUILD/the package and can we rebuild the isos? i can even build
> the iso's and upload them if you want (though I'll need an ftp
> account somewhere then)
> 
> Pierre said that he can't fix the torrents until monday evening anyway
> so I guess we can pick option 2.
> 
> There's a quite peculiar reason this issue pops up so late btw:
> I've always been working and testing with an install cd on which I
> installed git and fakeroot myself (pacman -Sy git fakeroot) so I had a
> synced database. now is the first time I am testing with an installcd
> that doesn't have a synced database. :o
> 
> Dieter
> 
> 

Oh btw, the diff is here:
http://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/commit/d9ffd2d3beccc4d768bdcaf7634a7de3f505186b

> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > I have not built the USB images (cause the stopper FS#12896), but
> > I've uploaded a test image for USB which probably have fixed this
> > problem. Myself could not test this.
> > http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/iso/test-usb/archlinux-2009.01-1-ftp-i686.img
> > http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/iso/test-usb/md5sum.txt
> > I also put these links to the bugreport, so that reporting users
> > could test them.
> > 
> > Gerhard
> > 
>