[OLPC-AU] New image for testing 10.1.3

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Thu Dec 16 21:43:36 EST 2010


On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 13:33 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 03:22:37PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> > Paraguay builds are clearly marked with py at the end of the name,
> > this makes it really easy for us to see who we are testing for and who
> > to talk to about it e.g. os353py.img
> 
> I recommend against a suffix.  OpenFirmware does not have long filename
> support for FAT filesystems.  With an image size variant suffix (-2g),
> and a country suffix, the length of the name before the period exceeds 8
> characters, and this prevents or makes difficult signed installation.
> 
> Australia's au prefix in place of os is how Paraguay should have gone,
> had they thought more about it.
> 

os359au-1-4g.zd didn't quite look right, so I went with au359-1-4g.zd.
In the future "-1-" is going to be used to denote revision level between
releases should there be some tinkering with the activities but no
changes in the install rpms.

Jerry    



More information about the OLPC-AU mailing list