IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

2006-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
As of late last night, there's a couple of things that have changed: 1) The machine doing daily builds is now farbror rather than bla. That won't mean much to most people, as the output will still appear in the same place at cdimage.debian.org. However, farbror is a faster machine tha

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

2006-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:58, Steve McIntyre wrote: > 2) dinstall and the mirror pulse are now happening twice daily, which > means we will get two daily build runs. *Right* now the second > daily build will automatically overwrite the first each day, but > I'm going to change th

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

2006-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:27:03PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:58, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> 2) dinstall and the mirror pulse are now happening twice daily, which >> means we will get two daily build runs. *Right* now the second >> daily build will automatically

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

2006-11-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: 2) dinstall and the mirror pulse are now happening twice daily, which means we will get two daily build runs. *Right* now the second daily build will automatically overwrite the first each day, but I'm going to change the scripts o

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

2006-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:22:58PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > >On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> 2) dinstall and the mirror pulse are now happening twice daily, which >>means we will get two daily build runs. *Right* now the second >>daily build will automatically ove

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

2006-11-23 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 23-11-2006 om 14:42 schreef Steve McIntyre: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:27:03PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > >On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:58, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> I'm going to change the scripts on farbror and bla to keep both, > >> as -1 and -2. The arch-latest links will still

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

2006-11-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 23, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: The system as it's set up now will increment a build number for each build it does, resetting to 1 again as the day changes. Hopefully that will suffice for you...? That will work. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

2006-11-26 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > I'm not so sure that having two builds is really that good an idea. In > almost all cases the images will be virtually identical, especially with > regard to d-i. And as we're only talking about small images, the number > of debs included is relatively small. > However, if t

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

2006-11-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 07:33:11PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > >As to the points about testing the wrong image, the fact is that this is >already often a problem; users download the daily build, burn it to a >CD, and then get distracted for a day before installing it, or sending >in a report. Or user

Automated D-I build from SVN (was: Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup)

2006-11-26 Thread Christian Perrier
> This is something I particularly want for the DebianInstaller. It's much > easier to send someone a regular deb for testing than it is to locally > build a debian installation image containing a fixed d-i udeb. Moreover, > it can take up to three daily cycles for some d-i changes to filte