[gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 x86 maintenance release open beta

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 x86 maintenance release open beta

[Daniel Robbins]

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Hi all,

I've just started uploading a 2-CD 1.4 x86 maintenance release to:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso
http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso.md5

and

http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso
http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso.md5

This is an updated and improved 2-disc Gentoo Linux 1.4 release for x86
(generic) systems, and include stages and pre-built packages. The
significant thing about these 2 ISOs is that they contain *numerous*
fixes (particularly install fixes,) a fully up-to-date rebuild of 1.4,
and improved documentation.

They should be fully uploaded about 5 hours after I send this message
(going to bed while the upload continues :) cd1 is 526692352 bytes; cd2
is 477585408 bytes.

*Please* test them (they should already be significantly better than the
official 1.4 CD set.) Report issues here or at http://bugs.gentoo.org.
Assign bugs directly to me (drobbins@gentoo.org). I will re-assign them
to the appropriate parties as necessary.

Fixes on these CDs as compared to the current 1.4 release:

- Everything built from a 10 Sep 03 Portage snapshot, containing
  hundreds of bug fixes, including those from Gentoo Bug Day 2, as well
  as security fixes in several packages.

- Identical LiveCD runtime as official 1.4 release. This part hasn't
  changed.

- 11 Sep 03 Install docs with numerous fixes, including recent lilo doc
  fix. Also contain small tweaks to the docs to get them
  synced with the new behavior of this beta (I'll hand a diff to the
  docs team for these tweaks so they hit our Web docs before these CDs
  hit our mirrors.) See note on "bindist" below for details.

- PDF documentation at /install.pdf (/mnt/cdrom/install.pdf) as well as
  the standard HTML docs.

- GNOME is now on CD2 (it was mistakenly left off the official 1.4 CD2)

- genkernel 1.8 with various bug fixes

- New packages in GRP:
	screen, joe, vile, nfs-utils, mirrorselect, ufed
	"gtk2" USE var now set for all GRP packages

- New Portage-2.0.49-r4 release. USE="bindist" hack not needed anymore; 
  this is reflected in the on-disc install docs. Countless wacky GRP
  emerge behaviors fixed due to this fix for how Portage calculates
  conditional deps for .tbz2 packages. There should be no more surprise
  situations where emerge wants to merge something from source rather
  than merging the tbz2 as expected, or issues where emerge wants to
  pull in mystery ebuilds like cabextract. 

  Technical summary: Portage now uses the USE settings at the
  time the tbz2 was *compiled* to figure out whether or not to enable/
  disable conditional RDEPENDs. Before, it was using the "live" USE 
  settings, which was incorrect and created the need for the
  USE="bindist" hack. Portage will now correctly use "live" USE for
  ebuilds and "canned" USE for .tbz2s, and will even correctly switch
  back and forth in emerge -k situations where a combination of ebuilds
  and .tbz2s are merged in one go.

- GNOME should now pull in xscreensaver, fixing the GNOME startup
  warning about missing xscreensaver.

These CDs should already be greatly improved over the official 1.4
release CDs (which they will soon replace,) but they still need testing.
We want these CDs to be as refined as possible. All QA testing
appreciated. If you can test them, post here and I'll reply tomorrow
with a list of a bunch of things that need testing.

For this maintenance release, we will not be touching the LiveCD kernel
or LiveCD runtime environment. We hope to be able to have a rebuild of
the LiveCD environment in the maintenance release after this one.

Best Regards,

Daniel


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 x86 maintenance release open beta

[Luke-Jr]

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Torrents are available at:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~luke-jr/torrent/gentoo-20030911/livecd/x86/x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso
http://dev.gentoo.org/~luke-jr/torrent/gentoo-20030911/livecd/x86/x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso
Please continue to seed them after the download completes if you have the 
spare bandwidth.

P.S. Sorry if anyone gets this message twice... KMail is being weird today. :\

On Friday 12 September 2003 03:44 am, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just started uploading a 2-CD 1.4 x86 maintenance release to:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/‾drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso
> http://dev.gentoo.org/‾drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso.md5
>
> and
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/‾drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso
> http://dev.gentoo.org/‾drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso.md5
>
> This is an updated and improved 2-disc Gentoo Linux 1.4 release for x86
> (generic) systems, and include stages and pre-built packages. The
> significant thing about these 2 ISOs is that they contain *numerous*
> fixes (particularly install fixes,) a fully up-to-date rebuild of 1.4,
> and improved documentation.
>
> They should be fully uploaded about 5 hours after I send this message
> (going to bed while the upload continues :) cd1 is 526692352 bytes; cd2
> is 477585408 bytes.
>
> *Please* test them (they should already be significantly better than the
> official 1.4 CD set.) Report issues here or at http://bugs.gentoo.org.
> Assign bugs directly to me (drobbins@gentoo.org). I will re-assign them
> to the appropriate parties as necessary.
>
> Fixes on these CDs as compared to the current 1.4 release:
>
> - Everything built from a 10 Sep 03 Portage snapshot, containing
>   hundreds of bug fixes, including those from Gentoo Bug Day 2, as well
>   as security fixes in several packages.
>
> - Identical LiveCD runtime as official 1.4 release. This part hasn't
>   changed.
>
> - 11 Sep 03 Install docs with numerous fixes, including recent lilo doc
>   fix. Also contain small tweaks to the docs to get them
>   synced with the new behavior of this beta (I'll hand a diff to the
>   docs team for these tweaks so they hit our Web docs before these CDs
>   hit our mirrors.) See note on "bindist" below for details.
>
> - PDF documentation at /install.pdf (/mnt/cdrom/install.pdf) as well as
>   the standard HTML docs.
>
> - GNOME is now on CD2 (it was mistakenly left off the official 1.4 CD2)
>
> - genkernel 1.8 with various bug fixes
>
> - New packages in GRP:
> 	screen, joe, vile, nfs-utils, mirrorselect, ufed
> 	"gtk2" USE var now set for all GRP packages
>
> - New Portage-2.0.49-r4 release. USE="bindist" hack not needed anymore;
>   this is reflected in the on-disc install docs. Countless wacky GRP
>   emerge behaviors fixed due to this fix for how Portage calculates
>   conditional deps for .tbz2 packages. There should be no more surprise
>   situations where emerge wants to merge something from source rather
>   than merging the tbz2 as expected, or issues where emerge wants to
>   pull in mystery ebuilds like cabextract.
>
>   Technical summary: Portage now uses the USE settings at the
>   time the tbz2 was *compiled* to figure out whether or not to enable/
>   disable conditional RDEPENDs. Before, it was using the "live" USE
>   settings, which was incorrect and created the need for the
>   USE="bindist" hack. Portage will now correctly use "live" USE for
>   ebuilds and "canned" USE for .tbz2s, and will even correctly switch
>   back and forth in emerge -k situations where a combination of ebuilds
>   and .tbz2s are merged in one go.
>
> - GNOME should now pull in xscreensaver, fixing the GNOME startup
>   warning about missing xscreensaver.
>
> These CDs should already be greatly improved over the official 1.4
> release CDs (which they will soon replace,) but they still need testing.
> We want these CDs to be as refined as possible. All QA testing
> appreciated. If you can test them, post here and I'll reply tomorrow
> with a list of a bunch of things that need testing.
>
> For this maintenance release, we will not be touching the LiveCD kernel
> or LiveCD runtime environment. We hope to be able to have a rebuild of
> the LiveCD environment in the maintenance release after this one.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Daniel

- -- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 x86 maintenance release open beta

[Erwin]

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On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 11:44, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> Hi all,
[snip]
> These CDs should already be greatly improved over the official 1.4
> release CDs (which they will soon replace,) but they still need testing.
> We want these CDs to be as refined as possible. All QA testing
> appreciated. If you can test them, post here and I'll reply tomorrow
> with a list of a bunch of things that need testing.
ok i've downloaded the 2 cds. what are the things that need to be
tested?

cheers,
-- 
Erwin
GPG Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~erwin/erwin-gpg-publickey.asc

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