[Voyage-linux] The Road to 0.3

[Edwin Whitelaw]

Punky,

Are you effectively freezing the 0.2 repository, ie. no updating to the 
madwifi-ng package or kernel?

Thx,

Edwin

Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After the WorldCup and the completion of my part time project and 
> studies, I now put my effort back to 0.3 development.  In these few 
> days, something will happen to voyage unstable repository and the 
> existing voyage-current.tar.gz as I will promote the 
> "current/unstable" to Debian etch.
>
> 1. If you are running 0.2 distro and have been pointing the 
> /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable repository, please stop doing so.  
> Voyage unstable repository will include the kernel and some packages 
> built under etch, which makes the package not installable on 0.2 
> (because of package dependencies.)
> 2. voyage-current.tar.gz will be completely Debian etch based.  The 
> first upload of etch based voyage-current.tar.gz would include:
>    - Trimmed etch, of course,
>    - ubuntu kernel 2.6.15, but will update to 2.6.17/18 before 0.3 
> final release.
>    - CF size ~67MB, distro tarball ~27MB.
>    - booted with initrd and grub
>    - newly written installation/updating scripts (Thanks Bill's 
> contribution)
>    - daily build
> 3. voyage-current.iso will be a live CD
>    - casper + squashfs + unionfs
>    - daily build
>    - proposed as a platform for netinst and pxeinstall
>    - ISO size ~32MB.
>
> As there will be a week before I upload the first etch Voyage, there 
> is still time to discuss my "proposal". Please give your feedback or 
> if you feel it uncomfortable, or suggest any other alternatives.
>

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