[arch-releng] Reviving archiso releases?

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Jul 27 21:26:00 EDT 2012


On 07/27/2012 09:49 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as I plan a new iso for next week, I was wondering if we should create
> tags for archiso so I can create an actual package to be put into the
> repos. This would simplify the building process and reduces some
> possible issues from e.g. an inconsistent archiso install. (e.g. if you
> just run make install old files wont get removed from the root-image
> directory. Imho the more we can automate and standardize here the
> better.
>
> I guess the easiest way would be to use a versioning scheme like in
> arch-install scripts (every tag increments the version by one) or a date
> based one (e.g. 20120728). We could just tag a new release a few days
> before the new iso gets created and update the package.
>
> So, what do you think about this?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Pierre
>

Oh yes, I want to do this since long time :)

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