Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:
>Now contribs is back up and the dust is settling, probably quite
>literally,
>how easy would it to build a "refresh" or "maintenace release" of the
>SME
>8.0 ISO?
>
>Earlier in the week I took the plunge to upgrade my only (and live) 7.6
>
>server to SME 8.0. Over all it was a fairly painless process but the
>first
>chance yum had at updating the system it installed a new kernel,
>upgraded
>161 packages, installed 7 new ones and downloaded 254 MB to do so.
>That's
>40% of the size of the full ISO! It also took almost as long to process
>that
>lot as doing the upgrade, probably longer if you take out the time
>taken to
>test the CD during installion.
>
>For some one installing SME 8.0 on a fresh system having all those
>updates
>being applied doesn't create a particulary good impression. Yeah, OK do
>a
>fresh install of Windows and it'll pull umpteen million updates down
>but
>that is Windows, not SME 8.0. B-)
>
>--
>Cheers
>Dave.
>
>
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Think this was discussed before nut can't remember the outcome.
I don't disagree but would be grateful for the devs comments (once Shad has
recovered !!)
B. Rgds
John
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