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

Sun Nov 6 11:49:32 CET 2011

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+Il 06/11/2011 10:19, Wolfgang Bornath ha scritto:
+> 2011/11/6 Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be>:
+>> Op zondag 06 november 2011 08:15:12 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
+>> [...]
+>>> How is a download of a 600MB iso different from installing 600MB of
+>>> updates via net? More, usually you will not need all updates, only
+>>> updates of installed packages.
+>>
+>> because they can be downloaded by someone else and burned and delivered to
+>> someone. or, if you're doing multiple installs, you can save time.
+> <cut>
+> 2. A DVD with updates
+> This DVD may present a benefit for people with small bandwidth or in
+> case of a multiple machine environment. Although, in such a case I'd
+> prefer a local repository with nightly sync. A DVD with all updates is
+> only a snapshot of one moment in the release's life, part of it may be
+> outdated next day or week. So, 2 weeks later we have the same
+> questions as today. I don't think that Mageia should offer this, not
+> talking about the fact that everybody can do this (at the time which
+> suits himself) without much knowledge.
+> 
+> A DVD with updates is a nice idea for a local community where somebody
+> has enough bandwidth to host a local repo (or even mirror) and can
+> hand out update snapshots on request for people with small bandwidth..
+> 
+I think that having something like apt-zip[1] on Mageia (I mean based on
+urpm) could be a good alternative, too.
+Regards,
+
+[1] http://wiki.debian.org/AptZip
+- -- 
+Matteo
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