absence of images/ on 16

[Hongqing Yang]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com>
> To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 3:08:26 AM
> Subject: Re: absence of images/ on 16
> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 14:25 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:49:28AM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 12:19 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > > I've been mirroring 16 trees locally for a while now, and
> > > > > don't
> > > > > recall there being a single day yet that there has been an
> > > > > images/
> > > > > dir with the pxe installable vmlinuz/initrd.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this a failing compose, or has some decision been made to
> > > > > just
> > > > > not create them any more ?
> > > >
> > > > Haven't seen them on 64bit tree neither and was wondering the
> > > > same
> > > > thing.
> > >
> > > Given they aren't being created, I'm curious where the ones in the
> > > -rc's
> > > are being generated from too.
> >
> > Some nightly branched composes were failing due to issues that were
> > also impacting TC/RC composes. However, I think workarounds land for
> > TC/RC earlier than the bodhi karma for the relevant fixes. That
> > might
> > account for some lag.
> 
> Yes, Doug is pulling in fixes to /bleed before they're being pushed
> stable as updates. And also, I think even when fixes have been 'pushed
> to stable', they don't show up in the repos until an F16 tree compose
> is
> done.
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without the images in the repo, we do not have the images in our local mirror,
the test of preupgrade takes very long time, since I have to point the installurl
to http://dl.fp.o.

Hongqing