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The Friday 2006-10-20 at 13:53 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
[adding the ftp tree as add-on media during install]
> > If so, excellent: this would provide the best of both worlds, in
> > that if the DVD contains the latest version of a package, that
> > local version will be installed (faster and less bandwidth),
> > and if there's an update available on the FTP site, then you
> > get that immediately, without requiring an immediate update
> > cycle.
>
> I agree - but it needs some serious testing,
The feature or use of that I'm most interested in, is during update.
Example: updating from 10.1 to 10.2. There are a bunch of packages that
are not included in the 10.1 dvd and were installed from the ftp tree
during normal system usage. If during the system upgrade only the VDs/DVD
is available, those packages that are not in the new 10.2 DVD will be
removed from the system, and the user will have to reinstall them later
when he discovers that they are missing - this is what happened to me
while going from 9.3 to 10.1
- From what you have already said, I gather it should work.
I'm interested in that, but I'm reluctant to test this with the 10.2 beta
on my working 10.1 install. In order to test this I'd probably have to
install 10.1 in a new partition, add some packages from the ftp, then
upgrade to one of the 10.2 betas. A day or two work, plus the time to
download and burn all the CDs plus the 10.1 remastered DVD. A week at
least. Ough.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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