1.5.0 ISO questions

[Auke Kok]

Terry, everyone,

I got some questions in #lunar but since people might be off to bed by 
now I'll answer them here:

* on the 1.5.0 ISO I see you chose to leave of any cron daemon (like 
hc-cron) and you don't provide metalog source in 
/var/spool/lunar

That was intentionally. hc-cron has bothered me a lot lately (double 
cron runs all the time) and since it is not maintained people should 
choose alternatives for themselves. fcron is a bit more uncommon, and 
vixie seems to be mainstream right now, but I don't want to force people 
into using a specific one, or force others to  remove modules after 
installation.

The same goes for metalog. I and many others don't like the way it logs. 
The alternatives (sysklogd, syslog-ng, even lard) seem to be a bit too 
uncommon to pick (although sysklogd used to be standard throughout). 
Choosing metalog is a choice I let to the user.

* you've also compiled the entire ISO with i686 options. Does that mean 
we no longer support lunar on anything lower than i686 cpus ?

No =^)

Perhaps I never clarified this in the beginning: I intend to release a 
i386/-Os optimized ISO for those who need it "soon". There is no need 
IMO to provide this urgently since we still have 1.4.0 sitting around 
and I want to _rewrite_ parts of the lunar-iso installer to remove the 
presence of duplicate files (IOW remove up to 100mb) from 1.5.0. This 
will probably become "1.5.0-i386" or 1.5.1-i686 and 1.5.1-i386. In the 
same way this ISO can be built for p4, athlon etc. Of course it gets 
interesting when we say amd64.

Perhaps I should rename the iso file lunar-1.5.0-i686.iso. Sounds like a 
good idea to me now ;^)

Hope that answers your questions.

sofar