From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JI7tQ-0006Bt-Ud for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:37:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3154E0408; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from creativecommunications.com (creativecommunications.com [65.17.124.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAACAE0408 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.178] (unknown [192.168.1.178]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E29868C017 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:37:43 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4798E907.5000408@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:37:43 -0600 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 References: <1201199006.16962.1.camel@workbox.quova.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f25f9786-e092-417f-ba6b-48bc99c91c33 X-Archives-Hash: 1d4a9ec1f6d409832e7cd7dfef756ba9 Michael Marineau wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008 10:23 AM, Chris Gianelloni wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Release Engineering is in the planning stages for 2008.0, so we're >> asking for input from the community on things that they'd like to see >> added/changed/removed from our release media. All requests should be >> something Release Engineering actually can accomplish, like profile >> changes, or changes to the stages or ISO images. We are interested in >> all ideas, though we may only choose a few, as time and mirror space are >> definite considerations. >> >> So, if you'd like to see something changed in Gentoo's releases, come on >> over to the gentoo-releng mailing list and join in the fun! > > I've got one tiny request and a slightly unrelated question. First, > could we add rsync to the minimal install cd images? I tend to find > myself booting to a cd and then copying over an rsync binary. No. See bug #90414 for details. > Second, I saw on the release meeting agenda there was an item about > doing automated internal builds. I missed the meeting and I haven't > seen anyone post a log yet so I don't know what was discussed. I > currently do automated weekly stage{1,2,3} builds for use at the OSL > for x86/amd64 and could easily add ppc64. Would people find it useful > if I started posting those publicly in some semi-official manner? These builds aren't for public consumption. They're for QA purposes. We've already been doing automated weekly stage[1-3] builds for x86/amd64 on poseidon, and I think another arch may have been using my script, as well. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org mailing list