[Grml-devel] First Release Candidate of Grml version 2017.05 available

[Michael Prokop]

* Christoph Biedl [Wed May 10, 2017 at 12:02:21AM +0200]:
> Michael Prokop wrote...
> > * Christoph Biedl [Mon May 08, 2017 at 11:41:26PM +0200]:

> > > So I guess this release will, like Debian, no longer support older i386
> > > CPUs? Then the release notes should mention that on some place. I'll try
> > > to test on K6 and C3 systems these days, this should fail, and hopefully
> > > in a sane way. Also, no worries, they are at least 15 years old now and
> > > demand a tremendous amount of pocket money.

> > Yeah, we don't modify/rebuild Debian's userspace tools and our
> > kernel is based on Debian's. I don't have any such old systems
> > though and don't know which CPUs are exactly unsupported now.
> > So whoever knows what we should write in our release notes, please
> > just create a PR or patch against
> > https://github.com/grml/grml.org/blob/master/changelogs/README-grml-2017.05-rc1/index.html.tt2
> > :)

> Just borrow from the stretch release notes[1]? With some changes and
> also an addition:
[...]

> [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#i386-is-now-almost-i686

Good idea, thx :)

> > > A visual: At least the small i386 image prints a "[ FAIL ] amixer binary
> > > not availble" warning during boot. If it's easy to avoid that, please do
> > > so.

> > amixer is coming from alsa-utils, which would pull in ~8MB of
> > additional disk space usage on grml-small, so probably not worth it.
> > Should we just make it a warning instead of an error message, or do
> > you suggest something else?

> Drop the init script or whatever causes this from -small. If this means
> too much work, rather focus on other issues.

I did take care already: https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/24

regards,
-mika-
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