[mirror-admin] Fedora 9 bits

[J.H.]

I vote delay, changing DVD images mid-cycle is bad.  I would suggest
push till Thursday or Friday and push the changes today.  Most of the
mirrors have everything already so this is a fairly minor change and
should propigate quickly.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:34 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.  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.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
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