[Systers-dev] - Development Image

[Douglas Soares de Andrade]

Jennifer Redman escreveu:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:45 AM, kanika vats<kanika.krikan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Nandeep,
>> Thanks for the suggestion but the above steps are not there in Step by Step
>> System Installation at Systers Wiki as we have been able to setup our system
>> without it.
>>
>
> To further elaborate here - we pretty much go with the default ubuntu
> package configs -- with some minor modifications to main.cf.  But, I'm
> thinking that it would be a good idea to post a sample main.cf and explain
> the directives on the wiki.  If someone wants to work on this that would be
> great!
>
>
>
>> And here is a good news for everyone.I have resolved the
>> postfix,localdomain problem.I eventually found out that there were some
>> permission problems with /etc/aliases.I corrected it and also ran newaliases
>> and the problem was solved :)
>>
>
> Excellent news!!!  Well done.
>
>
>
>> So now the VDI is ready to be used by other people and tested.Can anyone
>> suggest how to make it available to others?It is 5.8 gb in size.
>>
>
> So I'm thinking that this probably isn't 5.8 GB ;>. ?  The last image I made
> was about 512MB.  I recommend .tgz the file and uploading it to a branch on
> launchpad.  This way we can version control the dev image.

I dont think that upload the image to launchpad would be a good idea, 
why not just put in a ftp server ? This is what most linux distros 
distributors do.

Also, could help increase download transfers - as we can do simultaneos 
downloads with wget and similars =)

> It would probably be good to get the image up on a torrent site and the
> Virtualbox pre-configured image site -- maybe after testing.  Can anyone
> help Kanika Vats with this?  She is going to need to start working on her
> GSoC application very soon.
>
> Kanika Vats you should be able to create a branch under systers-dev on
> launchpad.
>
> Let me know if you have an trouble (on list so others can learn too ;>)
>
> This is great news!  Thank you very much for working on the image!

Great work on the image =)