Running Ubuntu daily builds.

[Nicholas Skaggs]

An excellent question -- and feel free to suggest where the explanation 
for this is lacking ;-)

If you want to monitor the daily changes to ubuntu, you can run the 
development version of ubuntu. Simply install from an iso, or upgrade 
your pre-existing installation to quantal and you'll be running the 
development release. As changes are made, they will land in the archive 
and you can update your system each day to grab the updates.

The other side is testing the daily iso images we build. Because of 
changes in the archive, etc, we want to make sure the image we produce 
is actually installable :-) This is done by using the isotracker and the 
cdimage repository to download the images. It's recommended to use zsync 
to do this and some form of re-writable media. Zsync will only download 
a few MB's a day as they change, sparing the 800 MB+ download, while the 
re-writable media will allow you to update the image to install it on 
your pc. Additionally, have a dedicated hard disk, partition or spare pc 
can help here. If not, a VM also works and I would recommend using a VM 
and testdrive at first to get the hang of how it works. Testdrive sort 
of keeps track of the iso, uses zsync, and sets up Vbox for you, so it's 
a nice way to get your feet wet.

See the quantal builds for today:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/219/builds

If you test them out, be sure and report your results :-)

Nicholas

On 08/08/2012 02:59 PM, John Kim wrote:
> I don't understand how one runs daily builds.  The first thing that 
> springs to my mind is that every day, I will need to download a new 
> iso to run the build of the day. Do I have to pop in a blank disk 
> every time I want to run a daily build?
>
> I'm interested in running daily builds to see the improvements. How 
> must I do on my computer to set this up?  Currently, I run Ubuntu 
> alpha 3.  Thanks.
>
> -- 
> John Kim
> Ubuntu enthusiast
> l <http://epikvision.blogspot.com>ookjohn.com <http://ookjohn.com>
>
>
>

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