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.