Re: CD README's
Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:
[...]
> The CD images are a pain to distribute, which means that they take longer to
> get into the hands of the CD vendors. If instead we provide a set of tests
> that prove the validity of a CD image (assuming that they can be written) then
> vendors could make their own images, and would still be confident that the
> images were valid. They could also vary the contents of the images, as long
> as they followed policy enough to satisfy the tests.
I spend some work on a md5sum test against the md5sums file
distributed with the ftp archive, but at release date (even yet), nothing of
this works as true quality test.(*) At the moment I am learning for my
final exam, so I don´t have much time for it.
> If a rescue style disk were built with the CD tests on it, so that vendors
> did not need to have debian installed to run the CD tests, this should allow
> any vendor to verify their images prior to producing thousands of copies of
> them.
This is a good idea.
(*) The md5sums file in addition only listed part of the archive.
Jens
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