[Planetlab-devel] MyPLC 0.4 Release Candidate 1 (myplc-0_4-rc1)

[Mark Huang]

I branched and tagged myplc-0_4-rc1 (after a few minor fixes and  
faulty builds). It's now available for download. Please test.

http://build.planet-lab.org/build/myplc-0_4-rc1/RPMS/i386/ 
myplc-0.4-1.planetlab.i386.rpm
or
http://boot.planet-lab.org/install-rpms/archive/myplc-0_4-rc1/RPMS/ 
myplc-0.4-1.planetlab.i386.rpm

Please note that this binary RPM was built under Fedora Core 2. I am  
still working on construction of a myplc-devel package that will be  
based on Fedora Core 4, built every night automatically, and used to  
construct future myplc binary RPMs. Please be patient, I am finding  
this task rather difficult to wrap my head around.

For the impatient, the instructions I provided earlier today should  
be enough to get you started with a myplc-devel-like environment. If  
you rebuild this release on your own in this environment, it will be  
non-trivially different than the release that was just built under  
Fedora Core 2. It will probably work; I built an FC4 build  
environment using my own script, built myplc-0_4-rc1 in it, and smoke  
tested the binary; but this should still be considered uncharted  
territory. In particular, for some inexplicable reason, you will  
notice that myplc RPMs built on FC4 are 50-75% larger than those  
built on FC2. I tracked this down to fragmentation while building the  
loopback filesystem, but I have no idea why FC2/4 has anything to do  
with it.

--Mark