Re: rpmfusion based spin

Stewart Adam wrote: > > That sounds fine - I think maybe a DVD spin with all the rpmfusion > packages would be useful as well for offline installs. > My experience (with xfce, games and other locale specific spins) is limited to the Live media spins. I haven't looked into Pungi much. If anyone else wants to help by maintaining a dvd spin, I would appreciate that. > > This is thinking way ahead, but while we're on the topic of spins do you > think it's fair to say we should respin once every 2-3 months? That > means we could have (roughly) the gold release + 2 respins along the way > per release of Fedora. Until DRPM support gets into the build infra, I > think this would be a good thing to do since another really annoying > thing for users is having to wait 4 hours for a large DVD iso to > download, then after installing they find they need some 150 updates! Yeah, we should be able to generate images very easily. Testing can be a problem since updates have before introduced regressions that affect the way the installation works (or does not for that matter). I hope others can help with that. > > Just to be on the safe(r?) legal side, maybe we should preinstall > packages from only rpmfusion-free but have the rpmfusion-nonfree repo > enabled. > This is what I am going with as of now. > > freefusion sounds good, but I think the name might be a bit misleading > if we enable or preinstall nonfree packages, or users might ask about a > "nonfreefusion" spin. I looked a while back and realized freefusion.org is unavailable as well. Who wants to name the baby?