Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
I was wondering what is keeping us from releasing a minimal install cd more often than we do now. Isn't almost everything needed for it already in the stable tree and thus tested? And if so isn't it possible to fully automate generation of these cd's?
Time and sanity. Sure, it can be built pretty quickly, but there's a bit of testing that needs to go into it before it can be released to the mirrors. Release time is hectic enough, and you want us (releng) to do it more often than bi-annually?
Also, what's the point? Everything you use to install from the minimal is fetched from the internet. The only thing that an updated minimal would give us is a slightly more hardware support during the install.
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