Re: Updated CD images

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

[ Added cc to debian-cd in case other people have suggestions for this
  too... ]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:08:22PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote:
>At Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:10:00 +0100,
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> >Does cdimage site have a personal folder for this purpose?
>> >Under http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/ seems fit.
>> 
>> Yup, that's exactly where I'm thinking. There's a few ways to go here,
>> depending on what you'd like to do (and amount of work!):
>> 
>>  1. build things as you normally do, let me know when they're ready
>>     and I'll sync into place
>> 
>>  2. build things as you normally do, then you sync them across to
>>     cdimage.debian.org yourself (we'll add you to the debian-cd group)
>> 
>>  3. we add you to the debian-cd group and then you could login to the
>>     CD build machine (pettersson.d.o) to build and publish directly
>>     from there
>> 
>> What do you fancy doing? :-)
>
>:-)
>OK, Plan 2 is best.

Cool, let's go that way then.

>Please count me in debian-cd group and tell me how to rsync files.
>I've already subscribed debian-cd list.

I've put in a ticket for DSA to add you to the debian-cd group. Then
you'll be able to sudo to debian-cd on pettersson.d.o. Make sure your
sudo password is set up in LDAP, if you've not done that before.

>And... what name is best?
>
>- http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/people/kmuto/d-i/ (like debian-installer way, but too deep?)
>- http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/d-i.bpo/ (users may misunderstand this is official work?)
>- http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/d-i.kmuto/ (bit ashamed...)
>- http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/{squeeze,lenny,etch}-bpo/ (it needs to modify the structure of master server)
> ...

How about

  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/backports/{squeeze,lenny,etch}

?

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
 as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead