Thorsten Sauter wrote: > maybe you can delay this process a little bit. alioth is currently down, Alioth may be up today or tomorrow, it has hardware problems. I am releasing some last minute stuff without it and will commit later. > and I have reinstalled my hppa machine this morging. > I think we should beta release as many architectures as possible! Please > create a freeze of the images for one arch and wait some days to freeze > other archs. After this delay we can release two or three archs. Right, the plan is to freeze i386 and let the other arches take some time to catch up before releasing. During that time they won't be frozen of course. > | Of course that leaves the ports. Both powerpc and ia64 have made progress > | in the past couple of days: > | - powerpc daily builds are back > | - powerpc isos being created again > | - powerpc kernel issues partially straightened out > > I have tested the latest images (31.12.2003) from manty's repository. > The cdrom's works well on my iBook2 but I have found two minor problems: > 1. why the DEBCONF_PRIOPRITY is set to "low"? My fault, see below. > 2. I'm unable to debootstrap any distribution. isn't this an known bug > busybox? No, if it's the bug I'm thinking of, it is fixed in debootstrap-udeb in incoming. Hard to tell with no details. > Summary: powerpc images are beta2 ready! :-) > > > manty: please change DEBCONF_PRIORITY to "high" in: > install/powermac/yaboot.conf I see that I made a stupid mistake. I switched expert and install. Boot with expert for the high priority install. This is fixed in debian-cd CVS. :-/ > | So my new plan is, as soon as i386 is releasable, to work to migrate the > | current set of debian-installer udebs and images to testing. AJ has > | agreed to do this without the usual testing delay stuff, all in one > | lump. After that is complete, we will make a "beta2" branch in the CVS > | tree, and open HEAD to development. However, we will *not* upload > | developmental udebs to unstable, because that would make it hard to get > | any fixes into testing -- so anyone who wants to do work in HEAD will > | have to set up their own udeb repository or upload to experimental or > | something. Uploads to unstable will be reserved for changes to fix > | porting problems. Once a port is ready for release, it will be copied to > | testing the same as i386 was. > > please do it for powerpc also. It's very good to hear that powerpc is almost ready. I think it will be ok if it laggs i386 by a few days though in getting frozen and into testing. Let's make sure it's 100% there. And make sure that it works for someone else besides just you. :-) -- see shy jo
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