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

Thu Oct 27 17:11:46 CEST 2011

Pascal Terjan skrev 27.10.2011 18:02:
+> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:47, Florian Hubold<doktor5000 at arcor.de>  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
+>
+
+Yep. I suggested on latest council meeting to maybe release updated
+isos in november/december but we haven't decided if we will do so yet.
+
+This is because of the resources it takes to create and QA the isos,
+and we are already working on creating alpha isos for Mageia 2 too,
+so we would pretty much kill current QA...
+
+So people, if you really want things like this, then _start_ helping!
+Remember, this is a community distro, and if no-one steps up to do
+the work, it wont happend.
+
+--
+Thomas
+