Why separate GA and updates directories?

Matthew Booth mbooth at redhat.com
Sun Jul 12 07:46:15 UTC 2009


Does anybody know the reason that Fedora separates GA and updates on its 
repositories? In case the question's not clear, I mean this:

GA:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/

Updates:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/11/i386/

Personally, I have never found this distinction useful. In fact it has 
actually caused confusion on several occasions.

So, what's it for, and has simplifying it ever been considered? Sorry if 
this is an FAQ.

Thanks,

Matt
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