> Hi All, > > I have been agonising over this for a while now and I have convinced > myself on a number of occasions that I should carry on with things as is > but I have reached a point where I would like to ask for your help. > > I keep having to fix the images that we have on the rPath system > sometimes due to me making mistakes and other times due to rPath > back-end changes and my skill level in keeping these things going is > lacking in many ways. I spend many a night trying to figure things out > and I am not getting anywhere. > > I am now formally requesting that we look at an alternative method for > creating the images we need to present to our users.
if we are having to put so much time in fixing previously working builds then i think we should definately move. besides, i seem to do a good enough job at breaking things right? :) > > I do love the things that rPath and rbuild can do but I just don't have > the time any more to put in to this. I was hoping that Stu would be able > to take over this part of our project so that I can free up my time to > concentrate on the mono stuff, but even he is not positive about the > product. > > So I would like to make the following suggestion. > > In recent weeks I have been playing with the Suse Studio and I was able > to create a running JEOS image for vmware xen and an install ISO in > about 20 minutes. I found it easy to understand and very easy to > customise. The image sizes were about 150MB in size. > > Suse studio plan to create a new image marketplace or something similar > in the near future which would make our images searchable. > > I would suggest that we create the images we want and then upload them > to the website and make them available from there. I will even donate my > website bandwidth to support the downloads. I have about 500GB per month > available. my connection here is 100GB per month metered, but i only get to around 7 if i have to download an iso or something. upload speeds wouldn't be the best, but you are welcome to drop stuff here as well. > > Please someone put me out of my misery and give me some advice. > here's my 2 cents. get more sleep! all-in-all though i think it is a good idea to switch over especially if the suse system won't break on us for no reason of ours. hopefully things will stabilize with the rpath system (which i think is an amazing idea) and we can move back to them at some point in the future. > I am probably not making much sense as I have not had much sleep over > the last few days. > > If everyone agrees I will create the images needed and we can then > decide where to host them. it should not take very long to do and as > Andy is on the inside I am sure we will be ok. > > Please let me have your thoughts. > > A very knackered > > Lance > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bongo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/bongo-devel > _______________________________________________ Bongo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/bongo-devel
