F17 Beta DVD install options

John Wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Wed Apr 18 03:02:49 UTC 2012


On 04/17/2012 01:43 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:38:17 -0700
> Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R<caf at omen.com>  wrote:
>
>> Why is it that yum update pulls in some 500 MB of updates
>> immediately after installing a brand new DVD?  Why does
>> the install image have to be riddled with stale files?
> This is due to the freeze. Things are frozen while trying to compose
> and test a release. After the release is out, a bunch of things that
> were pending show up.
>
> If we added everything that wanted into the release, we would never
> have a stable image to test.
>
> kevin
>
>
And that's precisely why you should just have a rolling release.

John

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