[arch-releng] November release

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 10/28/2012 05:22 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have reviewed and tested the latest patches and all looks fine so
> far. There are no big changes which I don't dislike. :-) As discussed
> before, I would like to have a few days between tagging and the actual
> iso release. So how about we tag the current state today, test and
> package it. I was thinking about building the new iso on Thursday and
> announce it on Friday (if we still want to have announcements).
> 
> I guess it then would be best to not commit new changes or put them
> into another branch; we have an unused testing branch atm. Or we
> introduce a new maint branch for releases.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Pierre
> 

User visible changes from archiso POV:

* Introduce cowfile_size= bootparam mainly for persistent COW on VFAT.

* Indirectly with syslinux 4.06 finally fixed a long-standing bug on
VFAT and relative directories. So workaround for syslinux.cfg when
transfering ISO to VFAT is not needed anymore.

* Allow (but not supposed to work propertly) copytoram=n for PXE +
NFS/NBD, needed for lowmem systems (< 512MB).

-- 
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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