Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2007, at 4:01 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
>
>> Jeff Sheltren wrote:
>>>
>>> I am agreeable to this, but I would actually
prefer to simply mimic
>>> upstream -- release 5.0 with the same base
pacakges as upstream, and
>>> provide necessary updates in the updates repo.
I don't see a strong
>>> reason to spend time modifying the CD images to
contain a few package
>>> updates that are easily downloaded after
install time.
>>
>> "easily downloaded?"
>>
>> How long since you lived with this? I don't have a
choice!
>> [summer bilby ~]$ ping -c5 -q beta.centos.org
>> ping: unknown host beta.centos.org
>> [summerbilby ~]$ ping -c5 -q beta.centos.org
>> PING beta.centos.org (72.13.100.148) 56(84) bytes
of data.
>>
>>
>> --- beta.centos.org ping statistics ---
>> 5 packets transmitted, 4 received, 20% packet loss,
time 13070ms
>> rtt min/avg/max/mdev =
1073.620/1254.659/1491.147/184.761 ms, pipe 3
>
> Well, actually my Internet connection at home as been
down for a week
> now - yay lazy Caribbean islands!
>
> But back on topic, if connectivity to mirrors is such a
big issue, why
> not mirror the needed packages while you are online and
then point your
> machines to a local mirror?
Through a modem?
>
> It is not like these packages will not be available
when CentOS 5 goes
> public, ti's just a matter of if they'll be on the CD
or not. In my
> opinion, it's not worth the trouble to modify the CDs
and installer, but
> I'm not the one doing the work, so I'll leave that
decision up to the
> centos developers.
_I_ can download the ISOs at work, but not everyone is even
that
well-placed. Keeping up2date is a lot more bother. Laptops,
nt so bad,
but non-portables? My WBEL system hasn't been updated.
--
Cheers
John
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