Hello Edubuntu users!
As you may know, Thursday 22nd October we are releasing Edubuntu 9.10
Release Candidate. This is a very important milestone, as it will be
very similar to final Edubuntu 9.10 (between them, only very critical
fixes will be accepted).
For the 9.10 release we are having very little coverage of Edubuntu
images and we would need a harder effort for the RC milestone.
To help, you will need an account in the ISO tracker [1]. This blog post
is useful as starting guide:
http://tinyurl.com/yjujh6c
Also, one of the common complains about ISO testing is that, when the
call for testing is done, it takes too long to download the ISOs for
that candidate image.
Preparing today for that moment couldn't be easier:
dl-ubuntu-test-iso is a script, available as part of the
ubuntu-qa-tools, that downloads Ubuntu (+ Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc) ISO
images for testing purposes. The script uses rsync, which means that the
second time you run it, it only downloads the changes to each ISO. So,
if you use it today, and keep running it every day (or every couple of
days), you will be already set up to help when the candidates images for
RC start appearing.
You will need a configuration file to tell the script which images your
interested in. I have prepared a configuration file for Edubuntu, and it
is attached. You will only need to edit it to select which architecture
you're interested in. Save it in you home folder as .dl-ubuntu-test-iso
Once you have save the configuration file get the ubuntu-qa-tools from
its bazaar repository:
$ bzr branch lp:ubuntu-qa-tools
$ ./ubuntu-qa-tools/dl-ubuntu-test-iso/dl-ubuntu-test-iso.py
That will save your Edubuntu testing images at ~/iso. And they will get
updated every time you run the scripts (only if the images have changed).
Testing will be coordinated from Tuesday in #ubuntu-testing and you can
start subscribing to the ISO tracker page, so you can be informed when
the new images start to appear. Any doubts, please, contact me directly.
Thanks and happy testing!
Ara.
[1] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com
# Sample iso.cfg file. The included settings are the default for the
# script
#
# BASEURL
# The server from which to download. This is the cdimage server
# that Canonical operates for Ubuntu development.
BASEURL="rsync://chromium.ubuntu.com/cdimage"
# RELEASES
# Which releases of Ubuntu to target. Hardy and Intrepid are the
# only ones currently supported. Defaults to both.
RELEASES="karmic"
# ARCHS
# Which computer architectures to download. If you only have
# one, you will want to set this variable to that. Default is
# all the Ubuntu release architectures.
ARCHS="i386 amd64"
# FLAVORS
# Which flavors of Ubuntu to download: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.
# The default is all of them.
FLAVORS="edubuntu"
# VARIANTS
# Which variants of each flavor to download: desktop cd, alternative
# cd, server cd, dvd, etc. Default is all of them.
VARIANTS="dvd"
# EXCLUDE
# Which flavors to NOT download. Sometimes it's easier to specify
# "all, except..." and this allows you to do that. See also the
# --exclude option above.
EXCLUDE=""
# OPTS
# What options to give rsync.
OPTS="-zthhP"
# NO_ACT
# If this is set to "yes", then the script won't run rsync, it will
# just do everything else. See also to --no-act option above.
NO_ACT="no"
# VERIFY
# If this is set to "true", then the script will verify the iso's
# md5sum against the downloaded MD5SUMS file.
VERIFY="false"
# BUILD
# Tell the script to download a specific build of the isos rather
# than the current iso
#
# Examples
# BUILD="20080715"
# BUILD=$(date --date="yesterday" +%Y%m%d)
#
BUILD="current"
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