[oi-dev] oi_148 is pending

[Albert Lee]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Hernan Saltiel <hsaltiel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Albert Lee <trisk at opensolaris.org> wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
>
> Hi, Albert!
>
>>
>> I've spent a large part of the past two days reworking and documenting
>> our release packaging environment and fixing issues with our metadata
>> and external packages that are being imported into this release, and I
>> feel we have a sustainable environment for release management now.
>> I've gotten a tentatively complete set of oi_148 packages created
>> with an entire redistributable cluster this time and imported the
>> SVR4-based consolidations we don't yet have replacements for, instead
>> of including opensolaris.org packages in our incorporations. If this
>> went as planned, our users should no longer need an opensolaris.org
>> publisher configured.
>>
>> I've built a full redistributable cluster (as well as a slim_install
>> metapackage) instead of the weird mini cluster we had for 147. The
>> packages are sitting in /net/infra01/releng/oi/oi_148/repo which still
>> needs to be imported into a clone of the 147 repository. Hopefully we
>> can get some testing done over the weekend.
>
> I'm very interested in the process you followed in order to get this as a
> result. Is there any chance to have access to the documentation you
> followed?
> I'm working in having a server only release, I have several packages
> compiled, but I'm having hard times creating the distro.
> Any help will be very appreciated!
>

http://wiki.openindiana.org/display/oi/Release+Engineering is my
summary of the release process.

-Albert