[Planetlab-devel] builds and releases

[Thierry Parmentelat]

> I've been having a hard time trying to build a onelab distribution 
> based on the planetlab-4_0-rc1 tag
> It could be that the kernel config file(s) needed for that build have 
> been cvs deleted in the meanwhile: this build is based on a 2.6.12 
> kernel, while the corresponding config files appear to be in the Attic 
> of linux-2.6/configs
oops, looks like either I screwed up, or this was fixed, but that's 
clearly on my end since I can rebuild the vanilla planetlab distro.
> More generally, I was wondering about the update scheme that is 
> currently used on the public PLC. The running code is clearly not the 
> one from 4.0-rc1, and many fixes have been done, I suspect manually.
> So my question is, unless you'd plan on publishing successive release 
> candidates, is it safe for me to assume that rebuilding everything 
> with the latest planetlab-4_0-rc<n> tag, except for new_plc_api and 
> new_plc_www that would be extracted from the HEAD, gives a reasonable 
> approximation of the current state of the PLC deployement ?
This is still something I'd appreciate to hear your feelings about.

-- Thierry