Re-doing F7

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 14:23:42 UTC 2007


On 29/08/2007, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Tim:
> >> 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.
>
>
> Karl Larsen:
> > It would have to be done in a smart way. Delete from the list all
> > the kernel updates but the last for example.
>
> That example wasn't a gig of files including three versions of the same
> thing, etc.  It was how much was downloaded to update one system.  And
> that wasn't a system with everything installed, it had not much more
> than the basic install.
>

The point is that you produce a DVD (since F7 is a DVD)
with the current RPMs from Updates were they supersede
those in Release.  A Fedora 7.1 if you will.

-- 
imalone




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