On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 21:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:53, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > > Likewise it drives me nuts that people downloading an iso and > > > installing it today still get that $release because no one > > > bothers to roll a new image. Must not be that important > > > after all... > > > > Rerolling an ISO has a number of problems. From increased load on > > mirrors, to issues like the installer needing to be updated for > > each release, additional testing etc. > > I'm not convinced that having people continue to download outdated isos > and then have to pull down a massive amount of updates is really less > load than it would be to let them install something current in the > first place. > > > It's not as simple as 'run some script, and out pops a new iso'. > > Interesting... I always install from the k12ltsp distribution instead > of a straight fedora because it is usually rebuilt with current updates. > And I think that's a one man show. I always assumed the iso build was > scripted. I think the build itself is scriptable, it's the testing that isn't. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
