On 2/2/06, Matthias Saou wrote:
In this particular case, just look at the current Extras as Rawhide, and an eventual frozen set of packages as a Fedora Core release. Would seem pretty trivial to me to freeze a set of Extras packages, test release it as CD/DVD a few times, fixing all the major bugs and dependency problems found (in both Extras and this frozen set), then releasing a final media. The ongoing parallel life of Extras continues the whole time, might even benefit from the extra testing, and people with no or slow Internet connections can then have an easier way of installing Extras packages at one point.
I know lots of people that have 28/56k internet connections that I want to give Fedora to, but it's a lot of effort for them to wait for hundreds of MB of updates. Would it be possible to provide updates-released CDs as well, even as part of an automated process? A bonus would be to have a way to install these updates on an already installed system.
n0dalus.