[arch-releng] dual arch CDs [was: A TODO draft for next installation media]

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Fri Feb 19 06:05:04 EST 2010


Am 19.02.2010 09:23, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
>> I would create all those as squashfs images. After that, we can put
>> them together for different ISOs, like core-i686, core-x86_64,
>> core-any, netinstall-i686, netinstall-x86_64 - all by just modifying
>> the isomounts file and (not) putting the appropriate squashfs images
>> to the disc, no other remastering necessary.
>>
> 
> hmm. you lost me. why would we want this? isn't the point of creating
> dual arch images that you do not need separate arch-specific iso's
> anymore?

People WILL complain about download size. Anyway, my point was to create
a bunch of squashfs images and reuse them for whatever images we may
want to generate.

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