Jeff Sheltren wrote: > On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> C. Halstead wrote: >>> ----- "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at 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 at bilby ~]$ ping -c5 -q beta.centos.org ping: unknown host beta.centos.org [summer at 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 at bilby ~]$ [summer at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list