RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Bill Davidsen]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 20:32 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> Sounds like another feature request for a QA tool. Not only do we need 
>> something for better management of bodhi/updates-testing packages, but 
>> for Preview/RC images. If there was a way to know a torrent for an RC 
>> was available I'd provide some seeding. I don't think I would be alone. 
>> Such a tool could be extended for release ISOs. Right now I only know 
>> about torrents.fedoraproject.org, which may go down during release day...
> 
> But how do we get the isos to you to seed in the first place?
> 
> 
Since that's not required, the question needs no answer. The idea is to get the 
changed files to the users, then assemble them into the RC candidate at the 
tester's end. Download the changes, including any to the "make an RC" metadata 
file, then run the tool of choice to generate the install media.

The nice thing about this is that it's useful day-to-day, if I need to do an 
install I can build an install ISO which is up-to-date (and has some unique 
release number or date in the metadata), and not do the dance of installing a 
bunch of obsolete packages and then updating them, which beats the network and 
servers a lot more than people who do a lot of installs keeping an rsync 
current. It would also encourage a "standard" full install, dual layer DVD 
burners are standard these days, another reduction in load and bandwidth could 
be had.


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