[Mageia-dev] Updating a new install is too long...

Sat Nov 5 16:24:17 CET 2011

Le jeudi 27 octobre 2011 17:02:53, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
+> >> 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.
+
+> 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
+
+I have just made a mirror for i586 and x86_64 with the updates for core, 
+tainted and nonfree. The size of each branch is now ~ 4.5Go
+
+upd-mga1/
+|-- i586
+|   `-- media
+|       |-- core
+|       |   `-- updates
+|       |       `-- media_info
+|       |-- nonfree
+|       |   `-- updates
+|       |       `-- media_info
+|       `-- tainted
+|           `-- updates
+|               `-- media_info
+`-- x86_64
+    `-- media
+        |-- core
+        |   `-- updates
+        |       `-- media_info
+        |-- nonfree
+        |   `-- updates
+        |       `-- media_info
+        `-- tainted
+            `-- updates
+                `-- media_info
+
+4,4G    upd-mga1/i586/media/core
+206M    upd-mga1/i586/media/nonfree
+59M     upd-mga1/i586/media/tainted
+4,3G    upd-mga1/x86_64/media/core
+229M    upd-mga1/x86_64/media/nonfree
+59M     upd-mga1/x86_64/media/tainted
+
+Then it is too much to be stored in a cheap DVD.
+IMO, when the size of a branch reaches such a size, an updated release should 
+be issued. Remember that a lot of people have a slow link to internet.
+Mandriva did such updated releases which all work better than the original, 
+improving the confidence in the distro.
+Today, a woman who has installed Mageia alone and for the first time, said me 
+that update is so much long that she thought the distro was broken.
+
+------------------notes------------------------
+
+To setup my local mirror I use the script upd-mga1 which is called by crontab 
+# mise à jour des miroirs d'update tous les jours à 5h35
+        35 4 * * * /home/pierre/bin/upd-mga1 2>&1 > /var/log/upd-mga.log
+        35 5 * * * /home/pierre/bin/upd-mdv-2010.2 2>&1 > /var/log/upd-mdv.log
+
+I setup the http server: 
+# ln -s /home/pierre/mga/upd-1/ /var/www/html/upd-mga1
+
+Then I can use as root the script add-medias-mga on each machine to be updated 
+and I unselect the other updates with MCC.
+If the updated machine is not mine, I unselect my mirrors and re-select 
+others.
+
+
+-- 
+Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/
+Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/
+Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie.
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