[arch-releng] 2010.03 TODO for installation media.

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 03.03.2010 00:49, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> * Merge pending changes to archiso from me repo [#1]
>   @ archiso2dual tool
>   @ copytoram= option again :)
>   @ misc changes
>
> * Make an updated AIF package with latest fixes.
>
> * TAG archiso.git with "2010.03-1"
>
> * Update the very^N old archiso package in [extra] to "2010.03-1"
>
> * Release archiso (2010.03) with the current [core]
>   @ With current Linux 2.6.32.9. (for now)
>   @ With future Linux 2.6.33 (if moved)
>
> * Take a decision about what isos should be available for download:
>   @ core-dual + netinstall-dual
>   @ core-dual + netinstall-i686($) + netinstall-x86_64($)
>    %  ($) advantage : fit on 200MB mini-cd :)
>   @ all isos or some other combination.
>   @@ These are the sizes: (*-dual.iso are generated by archiso2dual -T
> full)
>    % 652M core-dual | 363M core-i686 | 385M core-x86_64
>    % 220M net-dual  | 153M net-i686  | 163M net-x86_64
>
> * Update wiki articles about installation and archiso.
>
>
> All comments are welcomed. Good luck!
>
>
> [#1] http://github.com/djgera/archiso/tree/djgera
>
I say go for core-dual + netinstall-dual. It makes most sense to me and
would be awesome for what I usually use it for (jumpstart some old
computers that could do i686 at best but also install x86_64 on my
machines). We would be able to cut the netinstall-dual under 200M with
kernel 2.6.34 as we'll get squashfs lzma support.

I'd also like to say that somehow I'm not comfortable with your
archiso2dual script. It is a whole mkarchiso script which violates my
mind model of Don't-Repeat-Yourself. Any chance this could just be a
shell script called by the Makefile? That way, it would be config
specific (as it should) instead of being available system wide.

Good work with the TODO and the ISOs :).

-- Sven-Hendrik