All,
Our oneiric based images and hwpacks are shaping up in advance of the 11.10 based release. Already you can download from http://snapshots.linaro.org/oneiric.
Some important things you'll want to be aware of.
We'll be upgrading the version of live-build that we use to generate our images very soon. (today? tomorrow?) When we do so, it'll change the format of the root file system tarballs. This unfortunately will also mean you'll need to obtain a latest greatest version of linaro-media-create otherwise linaro-media-create will fail.
The change in format of the tarball also means that the rootfs tarballs will appear to be larger. Don't panic. Once installed with linaro-media-create the installed image sizes are close to what they were in natty. The reason for the extra size is live-build is putting a copy of all the installed .debs into the tarball.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tom Gall tom.gall@linaro.org wrote:
The change in format of the tarball also means that the rootfs tarballs will appear to be larger. Don't panic. Once installed with linaro-media-create the installed image sizes are close to what they were in natty. The reason for the extra size is live-build is putting a copy of all the installed .debs into the tarball.
Is inclusion of .debs a wanted feature or a side-effect from the new live-build version? What's the expected average growth in size of the download artifacts?
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tom Gall tom.gall@linaro.org wrote:
The change in format of the tarball also means that the rootfs tarballs will appear to be larger. Don't panic. Once installed with linaro-media-create the installed image sizes are close to what they were in natty. The reason for the extra size is live-build is putting a copy of all the installed .debs into the tarball.
Is inclusion of .debs a wanted feature or a side-effect from the new live-build version? What's the expected average growth in size of the download artifacts?
There might be a person out there somewhere who requested that feature. Safe to say, I don't think it was anyone from Linaro.
I'm probably going to add a little code to just delete the extra gorp if I can't find an option to outright turn it off. I want to get us up to the newer version sooner rather than later tho and address clean up like this or other bugs in the next week or so. Release early, release often as they say ;-)
-- Alexander Sack Technical Director, Linaro Platform Teams http://www.linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs http://twitter.com/#%21/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog
On 11 October 2011 13:08, Tom Gall tom.gall@linaro.org wrote:
All,
Our oneiric based images and hwpacks are shaping up in advance of the 11.10 based release. Already you can download from http://snapshots.linaro.org/oneiric.
Some important things you'll want to be aware of.
We'll be upgrading the version of live-build that we use to generate our images very soon. (today? tomorrow?) When we do so, it'll change the format of the root file system tarballs. This unfortunately will also mean you'll need to obtain a latest greatest version of linaro-media-create otherwise linaro-media-create will fail.
The latest l-m-c found in Ubuntu 11.10 or we need to use the bzr branch? If using the bzr branch, why not bump the version in the Ubuntu archive?
anmar
Hi Anmar,
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:54 PM, anmar.oueja@linaro.org anmar.oueja@linaro.org wrote:
On 11 October 2011 13:08, Tom Gall tom.gall@linaro.org wrote:
All,
Our oneiric based images and hwpacks are shaping up in advance of the 11.10 based release. Already you can download from http://snapshots.linaro.org/oneiric.
Some important things you'll want to be aware of.
We'll be upgrading the version of live-build that we use to generate our images very soon. (today? tomorrow?) When we do so, it'll change the format of the root file system tarballs. This unfortunately will also mean you'll need to obtain a latest greatest version of linaro-media-create otherwise linaro-media-create will fail.
The latest l-m-c found in Ubuntu 11.10 or we need to use the bzr branch? If using the bzr branch, why not bump the version in the Ubuntu archive?
There will be a newly released version in the PPA that will contain the support. Until that happens bzr will the only option. However we're getting ahead of ourselves as the new formatted images aren't in production yet. This is just a heads up this change is coming very soon.
anmar
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:14:35 -0500, Tom Gall tom.gall@linaro.org wrote:
There will be a newly released version in the PPA that will contain the support. Until that happens bzr will the only option. However we're getting ahead of ourselves as the new formatted images aren't in production yet. This is just a heads up this change is coming very soon.
We could also push that to Ubuntu as a bugfix I think, but we'll be past release by then so it will be an SRU that will take a week or more to complete anyway.
Thanks,
James
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:08:46PM -0500, Tom Gall wrote:
All,
Our oneiric based images and hwpacks are shaping up in advance of the 11.10 based release. Already you can download from http://snapshots.linaro.org/oneiric.
Some important things you'll want to be aware of.
We'll be upgrading the version of live-build that we use to generate our images very soon. (today? tomorrow?) When we do so, it'll change the format of the root file system tarballs. This unfortunately will also mean you'll need to obtain a latest greatest version of linaro-media-create otherwise linaro-media-create will fail.
The change in format of the tarball also means that the rootfs tarballs will appear to be larger. Don't panic. Once installed with linaro-media-create the installed image sizes are close to what they were in natty. The reason for the extra size is live-build is putting a copy of all the installed .debs into the tarball.
Is that the only difference?
The fact that these are just tarballs is a useful rescue for people who want to try out linaro on an unsupported platform.
If inclusion of the .debs is the only change, that's broadly positive since people can reproduce or customise the rootfs more easily if those are captured in the download.
Cheers ---Dave
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