On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:24:03 +0200 Jelle van der Waa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/13/2011 11:24 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to push out a new official release soon, both archiso and aif > > are brought up to date and things seem pretty good. > > Official media are pretty much broken because of their outdatedness so it's > > important to come out with something new soon, and I will be a bit less > > pedantic in terms of quality control. > > > > Here's how you can help: > > get 2011.08.13 or 2011.08.14 (will start building in a few hours) or later > > and do an installation with it. > > > > Preferably pick options and features that have no mention yet on > > http://www.archlinux.org/releng/feedback/ (i.e. if "last success" shows > > 2011.08.13 or 2011.08.14 for architectures i686 and x86_64, then try a dual > > image, similarly try to try a filesystem that others haven't tried yet, etc) > > > > There is a bug with 2011.08.13 in that it will solely use the first > > repository you picked in "Select source", you can ignore that, it's fixed > > already in git. (if you use these images, make sure your first select item > > is a [core] repo) > > > > http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/ > > http://www.archlinux.org/releng/feedback/ > > > > thanks for your help, > > Dieter > Just tested .14. > > Just a few noticable bugs/ decisions: > -Repo selecting , one feature i like, although it doesn't seem to > remember the repos you selected when you boot into your install and > there is no pacsave. so pacman didn't overwrite it. I added a warning that these settings are not magically transferred yet, and users still need to modify the target pacman.conf > -Groups when installing packages, the groups are really random and don't > really add value. For example gambas, who would really install that, i'm > fine with a selection of groups like > lxde,base,base-devel,gnome,kde,xfce4. But groups xorg-drivers make no sense I think groups have some value, but the package ordering should be better. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22428 > -Packages to install, shows wget and some other packages multiple times > http://ompldr.org/vOXc2Mg , not world shocking but it might be confusing > for new users. Fixed. > -Of course I selected some groups and then pacman couldn't resolve deps > http://ompldr.org/vOXc2NQ weird. after you choose repos and AIF created pacman.conf, AIF does pacman -Sy, before you can do your selections. It looks to me like this is not an aif issue.
