F7 KDE spin

[Lamont Peterson]

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 05:41am, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 20:06 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> > On 1/9/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Asking them to download 100s of MB during the installation is a
> > > mistake.
> >
> > Then they will have to download the 100s of MB through downloads!
> > In the end, it is the same thing.
>
> -Far- from being the same thing.
> A. Some people get/buy the FC ISO and never use it on-line. Heck, I've
> worked in places that (for security reasons) never Internet connection.
> What-you-have-on-the-ISO-is-what-you-get.
> B. A single ISO can be duplicated over and over again. I can't share a
> yum-cache with my friend.

Yes you can, just copy /var/cache/yum/ to a USB keychain drive (or SD card, 
or ...) or burn it to a disc.  However, because the cache will change almost 
daily, this could get tedious.

Personally, I have local mirrors on my home file server of the updates repos 
for each release I have running.  Every 6 hours, a cron job runs a script 
which syncs me up and then runs createrepo on my copy (that way, it always 
works regardless of the sync status of the mirror I'm pulling from).  My 
machines all use it.

I've also created a "mirrorlist" script on a web server (PHP) for myself that 
will give me just my local mirror when within my network, and get the current 
mirrorlist to pass back when outside of my network.  I then point my 
notebooks' updates repo config to that mirrorlist.  The next step is to 
extend this to also work with the local mirror on the network at my office 
when I'm there.

I haven't tried to do installs with updates, yet, but I'm looking forward to 
doing it.  I expect that I will always use my local mirror.

> C. Single-file FTP/HTTP/BT downloads are faster and more reliable then
> yum. BT handles notoriously bad TCP connections much better then
> FTP/HTTP (...and as a result, yum)

Yes.  Still, I run yum simply because it's easier.  Local mirrors also help.

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