[arch-releng] New install iso, when?

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Dec 7 00:29:25 CET 2010


On 12/05/2010 11:40 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> On 06.12.2010 03:37, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>> On 12/05/2010 10:27 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
>>> On 05.12.2010 18:59, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>>>> On 12/04/2010 05:30 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>>>>> If anyone feels like testing the current state of things, here you go:
>>>>> http://build.archlinux.org/isos/
>>>>> built using the latest archiso-git, and current packages.
>>>>> haven't tested these images myself.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dieter
>>>>>
>>>> One warning: core-dual is>   700MB, should use another profile for
>>>> archiso2dual (-T split).
>>>>
>>> Is this using a lzma compressed squashfs?
>>>
>> No, since lzma is still unsupported officially in Linux. Maybe in
>> 2.6.38...
>>
> Weren't we going to use a patched kernel to enable ugly-code lzma for
> archiso only?
Anyway the gain is small (27M/54M single/dual images) and for now using 
dual iso with -T split is sufficient (is just below 700MB limit).

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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