[arch-releng] new release images?

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:55:53 -0600
Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
> <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> > I've been to build.archlinux.org again to check out the state of our
> > chroots, but I wondered: can i safely upgrade all packages
> > (including kernel stuff)? what's the state of archiso? did we do
> > any manual modifications to scripts such as archiso? should I
> > install archiso from git (master) or is there a new package? Maybe
> > we should just put an archiso git checkout in /home/archiso because
> > it will keep on getting improvements anyway.  Anything else I'm
> > forgetting before we can start to actually build images in the
> > chroot?
> 
> When you say "upgrade all packages", do you mean in the chroot or on
> the machine? If possible (and I hope it is possible), the building of
> the image shouldn't depend on the host being -Syu-ed daily as that
> leads to a lot of trouble in a server environment.
> 
> -Dan

All that stuff i mentioned above is about "in the chroot" ;)

Dieter