[fedora-arm] F17 snapshot images

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:20:17 -0700
Brendan Conoboy <blc at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/30/2012 05:35 PM, "Andy Green (林安廸)" wrote:
> > It's great that you're doing this, but I don't think dding
> > partition + filesystems is a good idea.
> 
> It's definitely tricky to get right.  The number of possible 
> configurations makes it tricky to do an efficient selection of
> images. I may end up doing a combination tegra+omap+etc image to cut
> down the waste.
> 
> > We found that various "8GB" SD cards have different absolute
> > numbers of available sectors, it can lead to eventual filesystem
> > corruption if your image is slightly large than someone else's card.
> 
> Well, the image is being created out of a sparse file with 8000
> 1048576 byte sectors.  If that proves too many it would be little
> trouble to drop it down to 7900 or something.  We'll see how it goes
> in practice.
i think we should only make the image 2 gb  using domething like "dd
if=/dev/zero of/raw/disk bs=1M count=2048" cound could be 2000 also
then it should work everywhere.

> > If someone's going to try this they're probably OK running fdisk and
> > using tarballs.

the idea is to get to a point where its simple to deploy lower the
barrier of entry. 
 
> Yeah, the uboot enabled kernel tarball will probably be the most 
> universally useful. I personally had plenty of trouble marking
> working uboot files so leveraging David Marlin's work on grubby will
> hopefully spare others that trouble.  Meanwhile, a number of people
> have asked for images they can dd, so I'm trying to fulfill both
> needs.
> 
> > I've been using Peter's F17 alpha1 image and following progress with
> > updates, it's been very good.  It's stuck as of last week with
> > gnome-shell problems though.  But generally package completeness has
> > been increasing really well last few weeks, great job.
> 
> What are the gnome-shell problems?  Perhaps they're well known but
> I'm not acquainted with them.  If we're missing a package that will
> help things out let me know and I'll put it in the next snapshot.
> 

there is gnome 3.4.0 in testing on primary now  there is a change it
will get pushed to stable for beta on monday if not its probably 2
weeks away.  What we need to do is come up with a set of F17 beta
deliverables and work really hard in the next 2 weeks to deliver a F17
Beta.

Dennis
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