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<B>andre999</B>
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<I>Fri Nov 5 02:54:19 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>><i>
</I>><i> Tux99 wrote:
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</I>>><i> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Frank Griffin wrote:
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</I>>>><i> Weak point:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Unless you are prepared to do full intensive QA on the updated distro,
</I>>>><i> the quality of these updated ISOs can be significantly lower than the
</I>>>><i> quality of the original release ISO. Since it will look, for all
</I>>>><i> intents and purposes, like the release ISO, that level of quality will
</I>>>><i> be what people expect of it.
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</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i> Nonsense. The normal updates are not any more unstable than the original
</I>>><i> release, rather the contrary.
</I>>><i>
</I>><i> I suggest you review MDV's release procedures. Full releases and
</I>><i> security updates go through formal QA. Backports are often not even
</I>><i> tested by the person building the rpm.
</I>><i>
</I>Exactly. Even regular (non-security) updates are prone to errors.
><i>
</I>>><i> Of course occasional glitches can happen but they happen equally on the
</I>>><i> original install CDs (as has been proven again and again).
</I>>><i>
</I>><i> And they get addressed through updates which themselves go through QA.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> What difference is there between someone who installs from the original
</I>>><i> release CD and then applies updates vs. installing from a CD where the
</I>>><i> updates are already included?
</I>>><i>
</I>><i> In the first case, you can roll back the update. If all you've got is
</I>><i> two ISOs, and you're unfamiliar enough with CLI rpm to be using ISOs to
</I>><i> begin with, you're screwed unless you reinstall (or kept the old image,
</I>><i> which newbies are unlikely to do).
</I>That's one weakness of update CDs. Newbies are going to assume that
everything on CD/DVD is reliable.
><i>
</I>>><i> I'm all for the idea of updated ISOs that include all updates, too.
</I>Such ISOs will only be up to date the day they are produced. So regular
updates should still be done.
And what do you do if it contains a problematic update ? Recall the CD ?
At least with updates in repository, faulty updates can be withdrawn -
and sometimes are.
- André
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