[ANNOUNCE]: IA64 ISOs based on Fedora Core 5

[Prarit Bhargava]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 22:25 -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> 
>>I assume for the weekly snapshots of rawhide that you'll be putting
>>unique (eg date based) names on the isos so they can be readily
>>identified, else you're going to run into trouble tracking issues
>>across media sets. 
> 
> 
> To be honest, I'm not convinced that weekly ISO builds are particularly
> useful -- we don't do that for rawhide on other architectures either.
> It's probably better just to encourage people to use rsync to keep up
> with rawhide, rather than downloading it all over again each week.
> 

Unfortunately, it seems I have users who are unwilling to use yum, etc., 
in the short term.  They would prefer weekly snapshots.
> 
>> Do these isos correspond with FC5 or a random snapshot?
> 
> 
> Rawhide for about a week leading up to March 20th was identical to FC5
> in all but the 'fedora-release' package. 
> 

Yep -- I replaced fedora-release with the FC5 version in the images.  I 
didn't mention it because I didn't think it was that important :).

> Aside from the updates, the next task is building Extras and Livna for
> IA64, of course...
> 

Whaddya think I'm working on? :)

P.