All, recently I tried a fresh install of RSEL 7.1. I did not find it a good experience. There were many manual steps involved and I can imagine other people will give up on this experience.
I think one of the main issues is that the images are old (i.e they were made before GA of RSEL 7.1). At the time they were made I did not know where the repos would land. Thus they have incorrect paths for the repos and updating/adding software will result in errors. So, we will need newer images. Making images has for me been an error-prone manual activity. hmm, error-prone is probably exaggerated, but the reproducibility is low. To make this more robust, I'd like to start using Mandar's "RootFS Build Factory" (https://github.com/mndar/rbf). For this to work nicely, we'll need a "core" group in our repo (comps.xml) and of course and idea of what we think is core :) other things on my list of items to change: * EPEL repo is now difficult to find/configure * board specific repos (raspi/odroid/etc) are difficult to find/configure * SRPMS are missing from the repo * patches are difficult to find * updates-testing are difficult to find/configure * updates-testing never make it to regular updates And if we change these things, we should keep in mind that 7.2 is around the corner (Beta started on September 2). Jacco _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
