Jeff Sheltren wrote:
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.
"easily downloaded?"
How long since you lived with this? I don't have a choice! [summer@bilby ~]$ ping -c5 -q beta.centos.org ping: unknown host beta.centos.org [summer@bilby ~]$ ping -c5 -q beta.centos.org PING beta.centos.org (72.13.100.148) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- beta.centos.org ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 4 received, 20% packet loss, time 13070ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1073.620/1254.659/1491.147/184.761 ms, pipe 3 [summer@bilby ~]$ [summer@bilby ~]$
some of my systems rarely get software updates because it's too difficult. Software updates are rarely accessible when I install.
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 _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel