Re: Fedora 11 Alpha Status

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:22:47AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>Last night we refreshed the alpha freeze (see koji tag f11-alpha-2).
>This will be the content we're using for the Alpha, provided our testing
>is successful.  Anything else added will only be for critical path
>items, that is the path to install, boot, obtain network, and update.
>If a reasonable workaround is found for a problem in that path, the work
>around will be advertised rather than respinning the Alpha.
>
>Today's rawhide is not functional due to some changes in createrepo/yum.
>Newer builds of these packages have been made and tested and added to
>the new alpha tag, so tomorrow's rawhide is a bit closer to what the
>Alpha will be.
>
>We hope to have the alpha fully composed by midday tomorrow and on its
>way to mirrors for staging.  I'll announce when this happens.  Release
>date is still planned for Tuesday, February 3rd.

Oh, and PowerPC may or may not be available.  The squashfs-tools issue
that was blocking things last week was fixed upstream (awesome) but there
has been little testing done on the results yet.

josh