Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 planning
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:35:06
Message-Id: 200405031035.03830.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 planning by John Davis
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4 On Sunday 02 May 2004 22:30, John Davis wrote:
5 > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 16:04, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
6 > > Maybe the livecd could be partially updated: new stages and GRP
7 > > packages, but the other parts the same. This would stop most bugs.
8 > >
9 > > Paul
10 >
11 > Paul -
12 > I would like to do that, but the universal LiveCD would have to be
13 > rebuilt and re-uploaded, and they are around 700MB a piece. Perhaps we
14 > could figure out an easier way to do this so that we can save infra
15 > some mirror space. The alternative is that we could drop the
16 > "networkless" install and just keep the minimal LiveCD which just
17 > boots the machine and contains no stages or distfiles.
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19 This was an idea to stop bugs popping up in livecd's. I feel the
20 diskspace issue is a different one. I personally like the networkless
21 cd's as I have good bandwidth and favour uptodateness. Although I like
22 GRP too (saves a whole lot of time).
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24 Paul
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27 Paul de Vrieze
28 Gentoo Developer
29 Mail: pauldv@g.o
30 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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