purpose/description of various linaro snapshot images?

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Peter,

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:04:54PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Hi. On snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/ there are now the
> following different kinds of snapshot image:
> 
> linaro-alip/
> linaro-developer/
> linaro-graphical-engineering/
> linaro-handset-plasma/
> linaro-headless/
> linaro-multimedia-engineering/
> linaro-nano/
> linaro-netbook-efl/

> ...but I can't find anything on the wiki which documents
> what each of these images is actually for, which makes it
> hard to know which one to choose.

The documentation is here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases

There are two images that replace the linaro-headless image, depending on
what you're looking for: the nano image, and the developer image.

> https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/DailyBuilds
> suggests using linaro-headless, but that doesn't seem
> to have built since the 18th February.

Jamie, will you update this wiki page to reflect the current reality?

> > Please note that the headless and netbook-efl images
> > will be replaced by the Nano and Evaluation Ubuntu
> > Desktop builds soon

> but there hasn't been an official announcement that this
> happened -- is linaro-headless now gone, or has it just
> failed to build for the past fortnight?
> (If it has been obsoleted, how about a readme in
> 11.05-daily/linaro-headless/ saying "try $elsewhere
> instead" ?)

Yes, it's gone.  A readme redirect is a good idea, but I think there are
some practical IS considerations that get in the way of doing this right
now.

-- 
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