On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
C. Halstead wrote:
----- "Karanbir Singh" mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Just talking to Lance and Johnny online, and we feel the best way forward might be to add an Media-Updates/ repo on the iso's itself - then list both the local media updates as well as mirror.centos.org updates repo's in the anaconda screen, both disabled.
We feel this gives us the max wins in each direction ( but will slightly increase the data size on the last cd, as packages from cd-1 will move to cd-2 etc.
I will still try and ensure that a minimum install is possible using only cd-1, but cant promise that.
- KB
+1 to this if we can still produce a single-CD minimal install. IMO the value if a one-disc install is higher than the value of a release that contains the initial update set. In a month or two there will be additional updates to apply anyway, so it doesn't seem prudent to sacrifice the one-disc install for the life of the release to gain a (very) small convenience up front. Just my .02
if we can get a few more people voting this way, then I feel we have a decision on this issue.
- KB
I am agreeable to this, but I would actually prefer to simply mimic upstream -- release 5.0 with the same base pacakges as upstream, and provide necessary updates in the updates repo. I don't see a strong reason to spend time modifying the CD images to contain a few package updates that are easily downloaded after install time.
If you proceed with the suggestion you mentioned above, are you implying that the so called "zero day updates" will appear in both the "media-updates" repo on the CD, and in the official updates repo on the FTP & mirrors?
-Jeff