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

[Florian Hubold]

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.