Respins?

Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org
Sun Nov 14 15:41:40 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 16:23 +0100, cjlesh wrote:
> Hey all:
> 
> Is there any chance that the FC3 ISOs could be respun after a certain period of time or a certain number of updates?
> 
> It seems that if this wasn't technically difficult to acheive (I have no idea how the ISOs are built) it would save people time and trouble. 
> 
> After re-installing Windows XP I end up spending a few hours getting all the updates and rebooting. It would be great to avoid this annoyance in Fedora.
> 
> Are there any good reasons why this shouldn't be done?
> 
> -cjl

Has been discussed.  Mainly developer/QA effort, deemed better devoted
to moving on with the next release.  Besides "yum upgrade" is orders of
magnitude better than going through M$ updates with all the recursive
patch dependencies and reboots (admittedly far fewer for w2k or XP than
9x) required.

Phil





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