[arch-releng] Status report about building archiso images today

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 14.07.2010 03:11, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
> Since new initscripts and mkinitcpio are in [core] new images can be
> build without doing "git/overlay hacks".

What kind of hacks are you talking about exactly?

> {*} There is a bug in qemu-kvm that ide-cdrom (default used) does not
> work propertly, use instead and scsi-cdrom. [#1]

Are you sure that this only affects the qemu cdrom? Shouldn't we provide
a simple workaround that catches all CD drives, no matter what kind of
weird bugs there might be?

> {***} Additional parameter (vmalloc=) must be passed to kernel on
> machine with more than ~800MB of RAM under 32 bits only, otherwise will
> fail.

This should be fixed in the kernel, but I have no idea if and when a fix
will be written and/or accepted.

> {****} -T basic is how official dual media (2010.05) is build. Now this
> image size is 705MB, a bit larger for CD-ROMs. I guess for next official
> media -T split should be used (currently 637MB).

Can you summarize what exactly -T split does?

Also, there is the overlay: We used to have a separate overlay for each
architecture, is that still necessary? If we add "Architecture = auto"
to pacman.conf and use $arch in mirrorlist (is that already done?), it
seems we can use the same overlay for both architectures.

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