Am 27.10.2011 18:15, schrieb Pascal Terjan:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:16, Florian Hubold<[email protected]> wrote:
Am 27.10.2011 17:02, schrieb Pascal Terjan:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:47, Florian Hubold<[email protected]> wrote:
Am 27.10.2011 16:02, schrieb Pierre Jarillon:
Mageia 1 is a nice distribution and I install it on more and more PC.
But updating after an install is very long, too much long.
Now, 600 packages must be updated after an install. This shows a good
health
of Mageia but it is too much for users.
My ADSL link is not very fast and a lot of people use a slower link.
A workaround is necessary. There are two path:
1- publish each month a new iso: mageia-1a, mageia-1b, and so on
2- create an iso with updates: mageia-1-upd01, ...
In each case, the sources of packages must be updated.
You will find the volunteers who will join QA team to do
the necessary quality assurance for the additional ISOs?
Each month is not really feasible, as I believe it takes one week of
work to build and test an iso.
Doing it every 3 or 6 months could be a good idea
Well, the second proposal should not really take a whole week to
do, no? Just create an iso from $repo_updates and merge
all those into one if there's enough space on the CD.
First you need to make it fit on the CD (which is unlikely to be easy
given that dependencies got added in updates)
Then you need to test that installation still works fine in different
configurations as some libraries used by the tools got updated
But then, i fail to see the difference between doing a default install,
and installing 600 updates from repos, or downloading an
ISO with those updates.
The difference is between:
- downloading one iso, burning it, installing it, downloading 600
packages then installing it on another computer, downloading 600
packages
- downloading one iso, burning it, installing it then installing it on
another computer
That is clear yes, but i meant for an iso ONLY containing updates,
i.e. no installation medium, only containing update packages.
I know that an updated installation medium would be more useful,
but mostly only to those doing fresh installations in that case.
