[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions for the ISO

[Marc Paré]

Le 2010-11-01 06:00, Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
>   Always thinking about slow internet connections, or no connection at
> all (in Ardèche, in Burkina Faso, in Niger etc...)
>
> Three months after the last version of Mandriva has appeared, I have
> downloaded more than 700 Mo of updates (some updates updating previous
> updates)
>
> If someone installs Mageia with a DVD or CD provided by somebody, he
> will get more and more rpms to update as much as time goes on.... (for
> instance if Mageia 2011 appears april 2011, I send a DVD to my friend
> who installs it on his new computer in september 2011 .... and he will
> be asked to update his installed Mageia)
> If he cannot download a CD iso because of his connection, he cannot
> download 700 Mo of updates !!!
>
> It might be useful to provide
>   "updated" DVD iso or CD iso, some time after the release was provided,
> so that those burned DVD or CD can be sent to people with slow internet
> connection, freeing them of huge updates to download !!!
>
> The only solution I have for now with Mandriva  is to keep a copy of
> each dowloaded updated rpm in a folder, and to fill a DVD with those
> rpms (it is a DVD of updates, not an updated DVD...) and to send it.
> My friend copyes those rpms in a specially created folder, and add this
> folder as a source in rpmdrake... (not so easy for a newbie) and he can
> get an up to date working Mandriva immediately...
>
> my 2 pence
>

Actually, good point.

Would there be a better way to do this?

It's a shame that Mandriva/Mageia does not add the updates to the 
official ISO. This would then not be an issue.

Perhaps we could ask for this as a feature?

Are there any devs on the list who could provide some opinion?

Marc