On 11/16/2011 05:59 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Rushton Martin wrote:
Only that with fixed point releases you set aside a day or so to download, burn, transport and load. You wouldn't want to be doing that daily on the off chance that something relevant has been added. Horses for courses, the problem won't affect most people as Nataraj said.
So set aside a day and apply all of cr. If you're only going to update once every 6 months it really doesn't matter whether you're applying from an updates repo, or from something that's only released once every 6 months.
The point I think john is trying to make is that you can also just put the updates and CR repos on a DVD (it might not fit) or usb hard drive / key (better idea as this can hold several GB).
Then you can put that on the network and update from there.
It is not any harder than taking a DVD from place to place ... and is actually safer as a DVD upgrade uses Anaconda to calculate the updates and the REPOs use yum ... and yum does updates much better than anaconda if you are staying in a major branch ... ie, the 6.x branch.