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The readahead lists need to be updated at regular points in the release process to ensure that they closely match a likely installed system.

The recommended points are:

• Before Beta

• Before ReleaseCandidate

• Before Final Release

This way each test candidate gives the same speed impression as the final release.

Procedure

1. Download appropriate daily Ubuntu Desktop CD image
2. Install in a vmware instance (single CPU, 256MB RAM)
3. Boot installed image with "profile" kernel command-line option.
4. Copy /etc/readahead/boot out and replace the debian/boot.list file in the readahead-list source package with it.
5. Sed out any file with the kernel version number in it.
6. Upload with suitable changelog entry.

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