Vitals

The 0.20-rc branch for this release will be cut on 2008/04/01. The target release date is 2008/04/15.

This release is being shepherded by Elisamuel Resto (ryuji) -- contact him with questions.

Join the #sourcemage-grimoire channel on irc.freenode.net if you want to help or need help.

How to test

  1. Pick some spells from the lists below and put your name in as the volunteer. Optionally add some spells to the extra spells section, with your name as volunteer.
  2. For your spells, search bugzilla for any existing bugs. Decide which are gating and which aren't, and fill out the "Notes" column appropriately. Put an "X" in the "Searched" column so we know someone has done the search.
  3. Get a machine with the current stable on it. Either your regular box, or a vm, or just a chroot. Instructions for getting a chroot/vm image are below.
  4. Cast your spells from stable if you don't have them already. If they won't install, ignore it and keep going.
  5. Get stable-rc on that machine, either via 'scribe add stable-rc' or just using the git branch directly.
  6. Try updating your spells, or if they wouldn't install in stable try casting them directly from -rc.
  7. Note any failures, issues, etc. in the "Notes" column. File bugs as necessary, noting which new issues are gating and which aren't.
  8. Once the spell has cast for you without any gating problems, put an "X" in the "Signed-Off" column (unless otherwise specified this applies to x86).

It's up to you to define "gating" for your spells.

Keeping us informed of what you've found is more important than fixing everything yourself. If you run out of time someone else can pick up for you but only if they can tell what's going on.

Getting the chroot/vm image

If you're already are running stable somewhere, you don't need to wait, just test with that. Otherwise, download the chroot below:

Chroot

Volunteer

Download

stable-0.19

sandalle

http://download.sourcemage.org/image/official/smgl-stable-0.19-basesystem-x86.tar.bz2
http://download.sourcemage.org/image/official/smgl-stable-0.19-basesystem-x86.tar.bz2.sig

stable-0.19

sandalle

http://download.sourcemage.org/image/official/smgl-stable-0.19-basesystem-x86_64.tar.bz2
http://download.sourcemage.org/image/official/smgl-stable-0.19-basesystem-x86_64.tar.bz2.sig

List of Supported Spells

Place an "X" in the signed off column once you have signed off on the spell. If you happen to test a full system-upgrade, feel free to put an "X" and your nick in the "Alt Sign-Off" column for any spells that work for you.

We release once all spells below have:

  1. An "X" in the "Searched" column indicating someone has at least searched bugzilla for known issues, even if they found nothing.
  2. Sign-off by the volunteer owning that spell this release, OR sign-off by someone in the "Alt Sign-Off" column IF there are no gating bugs noted by the owner.

Basesystem Spells

Spell Name

Volunteer

Searched

Sign-Off

Alt Sign-Off

Notes

basesystem

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

bash

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

14388 rare but interesting

binutils

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

bison

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

bzip2

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

console-tools

sandalle

X

14434 Fails without LC_ALL defined

console-data

ryuji

X

X

coreutils

ryuji

X

X

cpio

ryuji

X

X

device-mapper

ryuji

X

X

dhcpcd

ryuji

X

X

dialog

ryuji

X

X

diffutils

ryuji

X

X

e2fsprogs

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

elvis

ryuji

X

X

file

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

findutils

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

flex

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

gawk

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

g++

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

gcc

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

gettext

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

13850 glibc and gettext share locale.alias

glibc

ryuji

X

X

14098 is not common, 14020 is also not common, 13850 glibc and gettext share locale.alias, 14421 emacs installs some files as glibc

gnupg

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

14415 gnupg and gnupg-exp install same FAQ

grep

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

grub

ryuji

X

X

gzip

ryuji

X

X

iana-etc

ryuji

X

X

init.d

ryuji

X

X

installwatch

ryuji

X

X

jed

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

jfsutils

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

kbd

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

less

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

libtool

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

lilo

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

locale

ryuji

X

X

13850 multiple spells owning locale.alias

m4

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

make

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

mktemp

ryuji

X

X

module-init-tools

ryuji

X

X

nano

ryuji

X

X

ncurses

ryuji

X

X

13654 switching to utf8 breaks bash

netconf

ryuji

X

X

net-tools

ryuji

X

X

10746 could be troublesome, but not exactly blocker

patch

ryuji

X

X

perl

ryuji

X

X

14419 lesstif and perl both install shell.3

procps

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

readline

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

reiserfsprogs

ryuji

X

X

sed

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

shadow

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

13505 shadow defaults causing trouble

simpleinit-msb

ryuji

X

X

smgl-archspecs

ryuji

X

X

smgl-fhs

ryuji

X

X

13930 is nasty but rare, 13112 is a long-timer, 13354 is just a sub-bug of that

tar

ryuji

X

X

texinfo

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

udev

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

12700 udev rules optional and 14173 udev missing /lib/udev

unzip

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

util-linux

ryuji

X

X

vim

ryuji

X

X

Bug 14235 tcl update fails to trigger vim

wget

ryuji

X

X

X (lejatorn)

xfsprogs

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

zlib

ryuji

X

X

X (sandalle)

Additional Spells

Spell Name

Volunteer

Searched

Sign-Off

Alt Sign-Off

Notes

pump

ryuji

X

X

php

ryuji

X

X

lighttpd

ryuji

X

X

pure-ftpd

lejatorn

X


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