Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:30 AM +0000 Karanbir Singh > <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > >> 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 ? > > In my case the situation is reversed: Why share 5.1 when I already have > a copy of 5.0? because when you yum update, the delta is going to be a lot larger when you install machines with 5.0 - so why not install 5.1 and just get lesser number of updates ? At the moment, if you install 5.0 and run a yum update, you can be downloading upto 1.6 GB of updates.. Not sure if you want to do that. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq