[mirror-admin] Fedora 9 bits

[Matt Domsch]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:52:02PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> said:
> > Just for clarity I'm going to post all the sha1s in here.  Release date
> > is May 13, 10am Eastern (1400 UTC).  I'll actually be unlocking things
> > about 40 minutes before that so we can get a number of mirrors with the
> > bitflip at announcement time.  Once again thanks for all the help you
> > folks give us in making Fedora available!
> 
> I was using jigdo to build F9 i386, x86_64, and source ISOs on my home
> mirror (using the expanded tree already synced based off of rawhide),
> and it worked for i386 and source just fine, as well as for x86_64 CDs.
> However, the x86_64 DVD failed; it looks like it wasn't happy with
> repodata/Fedora-9-comps.xml.
> 
> Sure enough, the file from the DVD image is different from the file in
> the exploded tree and the first CD image (and I resynced against a
> Fedora master to make sure).  The difference is that the x86_64 DVD
> comps file does not list mkinitd in the Core group.

There was a 'push the big red panic button' last week Thursday after
it was discovered that the first CD of the CD set contained kernel,
but not mkinitrd (it was on the second CD, having been pushed there
due to size constraints), thus after the kernel package was installed
mkinitrd wouldn't get run, which was pretty bad.  I believe the fix
was to add mkinitrd to the Core group in comps, and the CD ISOs were
respun.  The DVD didn't need to be respun because all the packages
were present on it, being larger.

 
> I checked the SHA1 sum, and it matches the SHA1SUM file in the tree and
> what Jesse listed.

Yep, what Jesse posted is what will be released on Tuesday.  

This might reduce the usefulness of jigdo for this release, but not by
much.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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