[CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

[Clint Dilks]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Kenneth Porter wrote:
>   
>>> We only have the latest (5.1, 4.6) isos on the tracker now.
>>>       
>> Does it place much load on the tracker to leave the older torrents listed?
>>     
>
> we've just had a long conversation on the list about exactly what a
> centos minor release means, so keeping that in context - why exactly
> would someone want to download 5.0 when 5.0 + updates is 5.1 ?
>
>   
Hi,

The main reason I can think of is Disaster Recovery where for some 
reason you have lost your own copy of the ISO's used to install a system 
and it would be nice to be able to go and download a copy of media you 
have actually used to install a system.

That said its not a big issue as the updated version should work, but I 
have seen a few posts here indicating issues that were resolved by using 
older install media and then updating via yum.