Re-doing F7

[Karl Larsen]

David Boles wrote:
> on 8/28/2007 9:28 PM, Tim wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 15:21 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there someplace I could d/l all the updates to F7 on a cd-rom iso? 
>>>       
>> I haven't checked on the status of FC7, but prior releases have very
>> quickly ended up with over a gig of updates, sometimes just a few days
>> after release, it seems.  More than could fit on a CD-ROM.
>>     
>
>
> I am *not* a real Fedora person but this is the way that I see Fedora
> working.
>
> Rawhide, the development branch of Fedora, is on going. When the 'time
> comes' there is a freeze, several actually, to stabilize things and then a
> release.
>
> The development goes on, it never really stops.
>
> *No distro* really releases a completely bug-free, try as they might,
> release. During the last freeze and the release many of these bugs are
> fixed. That makes for a flood of updates. I think that is a great system.
>
> Now. Something to think about here. A 700Gig iso of all the *current*
> updates? And I only have installed, and need a 100M package. Do I d/l the
> iso and burn the CD for one package? Or do I - yum update <package>
> hmmm...   8-)
>
>   
    That is not the use I have. I want to not have to yum 2,000 updates 
to F7 that I load tomorrow. How do I do this?



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