openSUSE 11.1 Goes RC2

openSUSE 11.1 Goes RC2

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 by Andreas Jaeger

Yesterday Coolo released openSUSE 11.1 RC2 internally to fix all existing bugs marked as shipstopper.  We use now the SHIP_STOPPER flag in bugzilla to mark bugs as blocking the release (see our wiki for the usage of SHIP_STOPPER) and not anymore BLOCKER (which blocks testing or development).  If you want to search in bugzilla for the currently open SHIP_STOPPERS, you can use this query.

We also found one really annoying bug in our configuration that lead to the following output:

$ rpm -q -queryformat '%{vendor}\n' glibc
openSUSEopenSUSE:11.1 openSUSE:11.1

Therefore, the openSUSE Build Service is currently rebuilding all 11.1 rpm packages with a corrected vendor tag.  Also a couple of packages where checked in to fix bugs so that we soon get RC3.

If RC3 passes all tests, we hope to release it publicly as Goldmaster - the release date is still the 18th of December.

[ Update 9:53 EST: be sure to read the red bolded information directly below --Dietrich ]

Due to the time it takes to release a build publicly, we are not releasing any RCs besides RC1 to the public.

I'm running RC2 on my machines now and I'm quite happy with this release.

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