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Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: |
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> I was wondering what is keeping us from releasing a minimal install cd more often than we do now. |
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> Isn't almost everything needed for it already in the stable tree and thus tested? And if so isn't |
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> it possible to fully automate generation of these cd's? |
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Time and sanity. Sure, it can be built pretty quickly, but there's a bit of |
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testing that needs to go into it before it can be released to the mirrors. |
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Release time is hectic enough, and you want us (releng) to do it more often than |
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bi-annually? |
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Also, what's the point? Everything you use to install from the minimal is |
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fetched from the internet. The only thing that an updated minimal would give us |
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is a slightly more hardware support during the install. |
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