[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 6.0 beta9 status

[Alex Mandel]

North American mirror is up http://live.osgeo.org/dev/build

On 08/08/2012 08:00 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> After 8 days of restless development we are releasing beta 9 towards
> version 6.0 of OSGeoLive: [1], [2]
> 
> After our last release (beta7) we came across a blocker issue:
> remastersys, our method for creating iso files on all our previous
> releases, proved to be broken for Xubuntu 12.04. The result was to have
> a non-installable iso for beta8.
> After contacting remastersys developers and lots of testing/debugging,
> unfortunately this was not resolved.
> 
> So we had to move to a new method to create our distribution, and what
> better way than the official Ubuntu method for spinoffs [3]. This was
> already planned for OSGeoLive 6.5 but we had to bring it in now.
> 
> We managed to hack the new method [4], [5] to be able to use our current
> installation scripts [6] without major changes, but there have been some
> failures [7] that we need to resolve.
> 
> The result of all this: we are now behind our release schedule [8], but
> we are fighting to make it on time.
> For this we kindly ask all included projects in OSGeoLive to step up,
> test their application on the new iso [1] (as described in quickstart
> documentation [9]) and provide feedback here [7].
> 
> Best regards,
> Angelos
> 
> 
> [1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/6.0/osgeo-live-mini-6.0beta9.iso
> [2] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/6.0/
> [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
> [4]
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/build_chroot.sh
> 
> [5]
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/inchroot.sh
> [6] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin
> [7] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10
> [8]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE#gid=0
> 
> [9] http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/overview/overview.html
>