[arch-releng] Please test the recent isos

Thomas Dziedzic gostrc at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 10:38:22 EDT 2011


On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I would like to push out a new official release soon, both archiso and aif are brought up to date and things seem pretty good.
> Official media are pretty much broken because of their outdatedness so it's important to come out with something new soon, and I will be a bit less pedantic in terms of quality control.
>
> Here's how you can help:
> get 2011.08.13 or 2011.08.14 (will start building in a few hours) or later and do an installation with it.
>
> Preferably pick options and features that have no mention yet on http://www.archlinux.org/releng/feedback/ (i.e. if "last success" shows 2011.08.13 or 2011.08.14 for architectures i686 and x86_64, then try a dual image, similarly try to try a filesystem that others haven't tried yet, etc)
>
> There is a bug with 2011.08.13 in that it will solely use the first repository you picked in "Select source", you can ignore that, it's fixed already in git. (if you use these images, make sure your first select item is a [core] repo)
>
> http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/
> http://www.archlinux.org/releng/feedback/
>
> thanks for your help,
> Dieter

I tried the dual image for the netinstall and immediately got a syntax error.
Filed a bug under:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25574
FS#25574 - [aif] 2011.08.14 syntax error in /arch/setup in dual netinstall cd


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