Re: live CD/DVDs for test releases

[Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to>]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 16:53:40 -0500,
  Jesse Keating <jkeating redhat com> wrote:
> On Sunday 12 November 2006 13:55, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > Telling people how to do their own respins might encourage more testing.
> > Once I found a script to do it, I found that respins aren't all that hard
> > to do. This allows you to test fixes since the last release without doing
> > a lot of work.
> > Personally, I am not likely to do much update testing, but I do keep spare
> > partitions around that makes testing installs relatively safe and painless.
> 
> Help out with pungi (:
> 
> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/pungi for the mercurial repo.  No 
> real "homepage" to speak of yet.  I should fix that.

For right now I have a usable script I got off the net. I'll try to keep
pungi in mind(I bookmarked the page) and try it out eventually. But my free
time is going to take a hit very shortly for about 4 months as I will be moving
to a new house.

I spent a good chunk of this past weekend doing respins and fc6 installs and
managed to find a bug (215231) in the combination of text based installs and
software raid. I suspect that text based installs don't get tested too much any
more.