[mirror-admin] Fedora 9 bits

[Carlos Carvalho]

Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) wrote on 12 May 2008 10:34:
 >On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 23:30 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
 >> 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.
 >> 
 >
 >Ah, crap.  I forgot about this aspect of the release.  Guess I should
 >have pushed up the respun DVD to match the split CDs.

I didn't understand this. Matt says that only the CDs had to be
changed.

 >So, I'm somewhat at a loss here of what I should do.  I could push up
 >the slightly changed DVD and new SHA1SUM/jigdo files for that changed
 >DVD, but that means the mirrors may be out of sync for the release.

Certainly, we can't download another complete DVD till tomorrow.

 >OR we can have jigdo fail for generating the x86_64 DVD. From the
 >looks of jigdo, the only way to fix this is to push a new DVD or to
 >drop the changed comps file somewhere else and hand edit the DVD
 >jigdo file.

With a new jigdo/template/checksum set we can generate the DVD on
time. Just give precise instructions on what has to be done. It should
not be necessary to do special editing of the jigdo.

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