[arch-releng] automated installation media builds?

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> 1) should we automatically build images all the time and improve
> things gradually instead of releasing every 2 kernel versions?
>
> I think we should.  It would be nice to have "testing" images
> continuously updated, and perhaps a way for users to easily provide
> feedback so we can have an idea on how stable the images are.
> and sometimes we could still build/release "stable" images.
>
> But, IIRC some people (Aaron?) said some mirror admins might not like
> the increased traffic caused by continuously changing images.

I didn't say that :)

But it's probably true. Additionally, if we're putting out testing
images, they shouldn't be on the mirrors unless deemed release
material.

We could probably automate weekly builds and stick them in a dir
(weeklies) on sigurd. As far as I know, that syncing isn't automatic.

> 2) how clean are our chroots at this point?
>   It should be safe to just run '/usr/local/bin/releng-chroots
>   recreate' whenever we want, but afaik we had various patches. are
>   all of these integrated now?

If they are not, let me know. Feel free to send me pull-requests
whenever you need, as I don't regularly check all the misc git repos
we have.