Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 02:24, Ron Stodden wrote:
>
>>Adam,
>>
>>No good. It cannot be done for two good reasons:
>>
>>1. The components of the beta CDs have been updated offline from Cooker
>>as necessary to provide an installable viable {?} system and so the beta
>>does _NOT_ correspond to Cooker at any time. The diffences are supposed
>>to make their way into Cooker, but this process is overlapped with the
>>normal Cooker updates, so the cooker tree does not meet the basic
>>requirements for beta testing.
>>
>>2. There is no concurrent freeze on the Cooker tree with beta timings.
>> There should be, for the beta test duration. The only people who
>>need beta CDs are those are those who are very first-time PC Linux users
>>or those beta testers withot internet access (none?). In any case, the
>>CDs would be easily construced by existing mandrake users (use mkcd)
>>from the frozen cooker-tree.
Adam responded (in part):
>
> I'm not quite sure what you're saying about freezes, but if you're
> saying Cooker isn't frozen while betas are in development, you're wrong.
> Cooker and the 9.0 betas don't fork; the 9.0 betas are snapshots of
> Cooker. The 9.0 *release* will be a snapshot of Cooker. Cooker is
> currently in freeze for 9.0 release - packages can't be updated, only
> bugfixed - and is planned to go into deep-freeze soonish.
You are totally misinformed here.
1. The betas are PATCHED versions of Cooker.
2. Cooker is not frozen. Beta 3 is out, yet Cooker is still being
updated at a rate of about 20 RPMs every day, and the Change logs tell
why. It's NOT bugfixes.
Really, where have you been?
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
Web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/
