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

Thu Oct 27 18:30:47 CEST 2011

Am 27.10.2011 18:15, schrieb Pascal Terjan:
+> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:16, Florian Hubold<doktor5000 at arcor.de>  wrote:
+>> Am 27.10.2011 17:02, schrieb Pascal Terjan:
+>>> 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
+>>>
+>> 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.
+