which updates for Om 2008.8 ?

Rod Whitby rod at whitby.id.au
Thu Aug 14 03:04:04 CEST 2008


Holger Freyther wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 23:39:06 Rod Whitby wrote:
> 
>> What I do have a problem with is the current situation where buildhost
>> builds a daily feed of updates WHICH ARE INCOMPATIBLE with the latest
>> Openmoko Om2008.08 released image and which cause major confusion
>> amongst your customer base.
>>
>> http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1809
>>
>> Please fix that ticket.
> 
> You are right, this ticket needs to be fixed and it is on the way. One part of 
> the fix would be to remove the daily feed just now.

Seriously, now that you have graciously provided a temporary correct
daily feed of Om2008.08, I would strongly recommend removing the
incorrect one.  "First, do no harm".

> The invisible part is the consolidation of the build infrastructure. So 
> currently we have buildhost.om.org (probably hosted in germany) and a server 
> in the Taipei office (office). Latency from asia to europe is big and 
> interactive ssh sessions can be funny... the same applies the other way 
> around.. and some more reasons, so we have to decide which server to 
> shutdown...and how to please the related engineers. I'm confident they will 
> sort it out.

Understood.  Thanks for letting us know that a decision has been made
and it's now just a matter of implementation.

-- Rod




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