Unofficial FC4.1 i386 isos

[Hans Kristian Rosbach]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:33 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:

> Great work and good idea with the torrent-only distribution, very 
> efficient.

Thank you.

> Also thank you for calling it unofficial.

Anything else would just be wrong :)

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159087
> You may want to look into backporting some of the more important fixes 
> in order to avoid some of the nastier install problems of FC4.

While those most certainly are interesting bugs, I currently have no
idea where to start looking to fix these.
If anyone have directions or even better: patches or rpms then please
send them to me.

> http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/1398/
> As for the kernel I personally think 1398 is far less problematic for 
> most folks than 1447.  I copied all of the 1398 kernels for you here if 
> you want to try that instead.  Or maybe you should wait for a better new 
> FC4 update kernel to hit the official tree.

I'll have to have a look at these on Monday. All my computers are packed
up in boxes ready to be moved to my new house.

A recommendation and maybe future dialog with the kernel packager could
come in handy here.

> Since you will probably be respinning several times as you incorporate 
> more bug fixes, you may want to use X.Y.Z versioned filenames with a 
> separate changelog page on your website to explain what changed without 
> users needing to download the entire torrent to find out.  In your 
> respins try to focus on issues that screw up the install process.  All 
> other bugs in the distribution are easily fixed with up2date or yum 
> after and far less important.

As this was basicly a test to see how much effort this kind of thing
would need, I made this first release as simple as possible. Just stock
update rpms, nothing fancy yet.

My next step is to backtrace the steps I did, and analyze how to best
script this. There was a lot of trial-and-error, manual labor and
a whole lot of reading code just to understand what the different utils
were doing.

With good scripts I might also make more than just i386 images if there
is enough interest in the current release.

Then _IF_ I get too much spare time on my hands I'll attempt to write
a script that will generate a full changelog of all changed rpms by
parsing the changelog data of the rpms and comparing.

Have a good weekend people!

-HK